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import java.util.regex.Matcher; import java.util.regex.Pattern; public class Example { public static void main(String[] args) { final String regex = "c"; final String string = " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING HENRY the Fourth. (KING HENRY IV:)\n\n\n" + "HENRY,\n" + "Prince of Wales (PRINCE HENRY:) |\n" + " | sons of the King\n" + "JOHN of Lancaster (LANCASTER:) |\n\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND:\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT:\n\n" + "THOMAS PERCY Earl of Worcester. (EARL OF WORCESTER:)\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY Earl of Northumberland. (NORTHUMBERLAND:)\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY surnamed HOTSPUR, his son. (HOTSPUR:)\n\n" + "EDMUND MORTIMER Earl of March. (MORTIMER:)\n\n" + "RICHARD SCROOP Archbishop of York. (ARCHBISHOP OF YORK:)\n\n" + "ARCHIBALD Earl of Douglas. (DOUGLAS:)\n\n" + "OWEN GLENDOWER:\n\n" + "SIR RICHARD VERNON (VERNON:)\n\n" + "SIR JOHN FALSTAFF (FALSTAFF:)\n\n" + "SIR MICHAEL a friend to the Archbishop of York.\n\n" + "POINS:\n\n" + "GADSHILL:\n\n" + "PETO:\n\n" + "BARDOLPH:\n\n" + "FRANCIS a waiter.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY wife to Hotspur, and sister to Mortimer.\n\n" + "LADY MORTIMER daughter to Glendower,\n" + " and wife to Mortimer.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap. (Hostess:)\n\n" + " Lords, Officers, Sheriff, Vintner, Chamberlain,\n" + " Drawers, two Carriers, Travellers, Attendants,\n" + " and an Ostler.\n" + " (Sheriff:)\n" + " (Vintner:)\n" + " (Chamberlain:)\n" + " (First Carrier:)\n" + " (Second Carrier:)\n" + " (First Traveller:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Ostler:)\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE England.\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY, LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER, the EARL\n" + " of WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT, and others]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV So shaken as we are, so wan with care,\n" + " Find we a time for frighted peace to pant,\n" + " And breathe short-winded accents of new broils\n" + " To be commenced in strands afar remote.\n" + " No more the thirsty entrance of this soil\n" + " Shall daub her lips with her own children's blood;\n" + " Nor more shall trenching war channel her fields,\n" + " Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs\n" + " Of hostile paces: those opposed eyes,\n" + " Which, like the meteors of a troubled heaven,\n" + " All of one nature, of one substance bred,\n" + " Did lately meet in the intestine shock\n" + " And furious close of civil butchery\n" + " Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks,\n" + " March all one way and be no more opposed\n" + " Against acquaintance, kindred and allies:\n" + " The edge of war, like an ill-sheathed knife,\n" + " No more shall cut his master. Therefore, friends,\n" + " As far as to the sepulchre of Christ,\n" + " Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross\n" + " We are impressed and engaged to fight,\n" + " Forthwith a power of English shall we levy;\n" + " Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb\n" + " To chase these pagans in those holy fields\n" + " Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet\n" + " Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd\n" + " For our advantage on the bitter cross.\n" + " But this our purpose now is twelve month old,\n" + " And bootless 'tis to tell you we will go:\n" + " Therefore we meet not now. Then let me hear\n" + " Of you, my gentle cousin Westmoreland,\n" + " What yesternight our council did decree\n" + " In forwarding this dear expedience.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND My liege, this haste was hot in question,\n" + " And many limits of the charge set down\n" + " But yesternight: when all athwart there came\n" + " A post from Wales loaden with heavy news;\n" + " Whose worst was, that the noble Mortimer,\n" + " Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight\n" + " Against the irregular and wild Glendower,\n" + " Was by the rude hands of that Welshman taken,\n" + " A thousand of his people butchered;\n" + " Upon whose dead corpse there was such misuse,\n" + " Such beastly shameless transformation,\n" + " By those Welshwomen done as may not be\n" + " Without much shame retold or spoken of.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV It seems then that the tidings of this broil\n" + " Brake off our business for the Holy Land.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND This match'd with other did, my gracious lord;\n" + " For more uneven and unwelcome news\n" + " Came from the north and thus it did import:\n" + " On Holy-rood day, the gallant Hotspur there,\n" + " Young Harry Percy and brave Archibald,\n" + " That ever-valiant and approved Scot,\n" + " At Holmedon met,\n" + " Where they did spend a sad and bloody hour,\n" + " As by discharge of their artillery,\n" + " And shape of likelihood, the news was told;\n" + " For he that brought them, in the very heat\n" + " And pride of their contention did take horse,\n" + " Uncertain of the issue any way.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Here is a dear, a true industrious friend,\n" + " Sir Walter Blunt, new lighted from his horse.\n" + " Stain'd with the variation of each soil\n" + " Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours;\n" + " And he hath brought us smooth and welcome news.\n" + " The Earl of Douglas is discomfited:\n" + " Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights,\n" + " Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see\n" + " On Holmedon's plains. Of prisoners, Hotspur took\n" + " Mordake the Earl of Fife, and eldest son\n" + " To beaten Douglas; and the Earl of Athol,\n" + " Of Murray, Angus, and Menteith:\n" + " And is not this an honourable spoil?\n" + " A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND In faith,\n" + " It is a conquest for a prince to boast of.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Yea, there thou makest me sad and makest me sin\n" + " In envy that my Lord Northumberland\n" + " Should be the father to so blest a son,\n" + " A son who is the theme of honour's tongue;\n" + " Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant;\n" + " Who is sweet Fortune's minion and her pride:\n" + " Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him,\n" + " See riot and dishonour stain the brow\n" + " Of my young Harry. O that it could be proved\n" + " That some night-tripping fairy had exchanged\n" + " In cradle-clothes our children where they lay,\n" + " And call'd mine Percy, his Plantagenet!\n" + " Then would I have his Harry, and he mine.\n" + " But let him from my thoughts. What think you, coz,\n" + " Of this young Percy's pride? the prisoners,\n" + " Which he in this adventure hath surprised,\n" + " To his own use he keeps; and sends me word,\n" + " I shall have none but Mordake Earl of Fife.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND This is his uncle's teaching; this is Worcester,\n" + " Malevolent to you in all aspects;\n" + " Which makes him prune himself, and bristle up\n" + " The crest of youth against your dignity.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV But I have sent for him to answer this;\n" + " And for this cause awhile we must neglect\n" + " Our holy purpose to Jerusalem.\n" + " Cousin, on Wednesday next our council we\n" + " Will hold at Windsor; so inform the lords:\n" + " But come yourself with speed to us again;\n" + " For more is to be said and to be done\n" + " Than out of anger can be uttered.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND I will, my liege.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II London. An apartment of the Prince's.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the PRINCE OF WALES and FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Now, Hal, what time of day is it, lad?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack\n" + " and unbuttoning thee after supper and sleeping upon\n" + " benches after noon, that thou hast forgotten to\n" + " demand that truly which thou wouldst truly know.\n" + " What a devil hast thou to do with the time of the\n" + " day? Unless hours were cups of sack and minutes\n" + " capons and clocks the tongues of bawds and dials the\n" + " signs of leaping-houses and the blessed sun himself\n" + " a fair hot wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no\n" + " reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand\n" + " the time of the day.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Indeed, you come near me now, Hal; for we that take\n" + " purses go by the moon and the seven stars, and not\n" + " by Phoebus, he,'that wandering knight so fair.' And,\n" + " I prithee, sweet wag, when thou art king, as, God\n" + " save thy grace,--majesty I should say, for grace\n" + " thou wilt have none,--\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What, none?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to\n" + " prologue to an egg and butter.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, how then? come, roundly, roundly.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not\n" + " us that are squires of the night's body be called\n" + " thieves of the day's beauty: let us be Diana's\n" + " foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the\n" + " moon; and let men say we be men of good government,\n" + " being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and\n" + " chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou sayest well, and it holds well too; for the\n" + " fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and\n" + " flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is,\n" + " by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold\n" + " most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most\n" + " dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with\n" + " swearing 'Lay by' and spent with crying 'Bring in;'\n" + " now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder\n" + " and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF By the Lord, thou sayest true, lad. And is not my\n" + " hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY As the honey of Hybla, my old lad of the castle. And\n" + " is not a buff jerkin a most sweet robe of durance?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF How now, how now, mad wag! what, in thy quips and\n" + " thy quiddities? what a plague have I to do with a\n" + " buff jerkin?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, what a pox have I to do with my hostess of the tavern?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, thou hast called her to a reckoning many a\n" + " time and oft.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Did I ever call for thee to pay thy part?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No; I'll give thee thy due, thou hast paid all there.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Yea, and elsewhere, so far as my coin would stretch;\n" + " and where it would not, I have used my credit.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Yea, and so used it that were it not here apparent\n" + " that thou art heir apparent--But, I prithee, sweet\n" + " wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when\n" + " thou art king? and resolution thus fobbed as it is\n" + " with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do\n" + " not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY No; thou shalt.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Shall I? O rare! By the Lord, I'll be a brave judge.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou judgest false already: I mean, thou shalt have\n" + " the hanging of the thieves and so become a rare hangman.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, Hal, well; and in some sort it jumps with my\n" + " humour as well as waiting in the court, I can tell\n" + " you.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY For obtaining of suits?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Yea, for obtaining of suits, whereof the hangman\n" + " hath no lean wardrobe. 'Sblood, I am as melancholy\n" + " as a gib cat or a lugged bear.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Or an old lion, or a lover's lute.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire bagpipe.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What sayest thou to a hare, or the melancholy of\n" + " Moor-ditch?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Thou hast the most unsavoury similes and art indeed\n" + " the most comparative, rascalliest, sweet young\n" + " prince. But, Hal, I prithee, trouble me no more\n" + " with vanity. I would to God thou and I knew where a\n" + " commodity of good names were to be bought. An old\n" + " lord of the council rated me the other day in the\n" + " street about you, sir, but I marked him not; and yet\n" + " he talked very wisely, but I regarded him not; and\n" + " yet he talked wisely, and in the street too.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou didst well; for wisdom cries out in the\n" + " streets, and no man regards it.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF O, thou hast damnable iteration and art indeed able\n" + " to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon\n" + " me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew\n" + " thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man\n" + " should speak truly, little better than one of the\n" + " wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give\n" + " it over: by the Lord, and I do not, I am a villain:\n" + " I'll be damned for never a king's son in\n" + " Christendom.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Where shall we take a purse tomorrow, Jack?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one; an I\n" + " do not, call me villain and baffle me.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I see a good amendment of life in thee; from praying\n" + " to purse-taking.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a\n" + " man to labour in his vocation.\n\n" + " [Enter POINS]\n\n" + " Poins! Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a\n" + " match. O, if men were to be saved by merit, what\n" + " hole in hell were hot enough for him? This is the\n" + " most omnipotent villain that ever cried 'Stand' to\n" + " a true man.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Good morrow, Ned.\n\n" + "POINS Good morrow, sweet Hal. What says Monsieur Remorse?\n" + " what says Sir John Sack and Sugar? Jack! how\n" + " agrees the devil and thee about thy soul, that thou\n" + " soldest him on Good-Friday last for a cup of Madeira\n" + " and a cold capon's leg?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Sir John stands to his word, the devil shall have\n" + " his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of\n" + " proverbs: he will give the devil his due.\n\n" + "POINS Then art thou damned for keeping thy word with the devil.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Else he had been damned for cozening the devil.\n\n" + "POINS But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four\n" + " o'clock, early at Gadshill! there are pilgrims going\n" + " to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders\n" + " riding to London with fat purses: I have vizards\n" + " for you all; you have horses for yourselves:\n" + " Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespoke\n" + " supper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it\n" + " as secure as sleep. If you will go, I will stuff\n" + " your purses full of crowns; if you will not, tarry\n" + " at home and be hanged.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at home and go not,\n" + " I'll hang you for going.\n\n" + "POINS You will, chops?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hal, wilt thou make one?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good\n" + " fellowship in thee, nor thou camest not of the blood\n" + " royal, if thou darest not stand for ten shillings.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, that's well said.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF By the Lord, I'll be a traitor then, when thou art king.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I care not.\n\n" + "POINS Sir John, I prithee, leave the prince and me alone:\n" + " I will lay him down such reasons for this adventure\n" + " that he shall go.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion and him\n" + " the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may\n" + " move and what he hears may be believed, that the\n" + " true prince may, for recreation sake, prove a false\n" + " thief; for the poor abuses of the time want\n" + " countenance. Farewell: you shall find me in Eastcheap.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Farewell, thou latter spring! farewell, All-hallown summer!\n\n" + " [Exit Falstaff]\n\n" + "POINS Now, my good sweet honey lord, ride with us\n" + " to-morrow: I have a jest to execute that I cannot\n" + " manage alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto and Gadshill\n" + " shall rob those men that we have already waylaid:\n" + " yourself and I will not be there; and when they\n" + " have the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut\n" + " this head off from my shoulders.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How shall we part with them in setting forth?\n\n" + "POINS Why, we will set forth before or after them, and\n" + " appoint them a place of meeting, wherein it is at\n" + " our pleasure to fail, and then will they adventure\n" + " upon the exploit themselves; which they shall have\n" + " no sooner achieved, but we'll set upon them.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Yea, but 'tis like that they will know us by our\n" + " horses, by our habits and by every other\n" + " appointment, to be ourselves.\n\n" + "POINS Tut! our horses they shall not see: I'll tie them\n" + " in the wood; our vizards we will change after we\n" + " leave them: and, sirrah, I have cases of buckram\n" + " for the nonce, to immask our noted outward garments.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for us.\n\n" + "POINS Well, for two of them, I know them to be as\n" + " true-bred cowards as ever turned back; and for the\n" + " third, if he fight longer than he sees reason, I'll\n" + " forswear arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the\n" + " incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will\n" + " tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at\n" + " least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what\n" + " extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this\n" + " lies the jest.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things\n" + " necessary and meet me to-morrow night in Eastcheap;\n" + " there I'll sup. Farewell.\n\n" + "POINS Farewell, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit Poins]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I know you all, and will awhile uphold\n" + " The unyoked humour of your idleness:\n" + " Yet herein will I imitate the sun,\n" + " Who doth permit the base contagious clouds\n" + " To smother up his beauty from the world,\n" + " That, when he please again to be himself,\n" + " Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,\n" + " By breaking through the foul and ugly mists\n" + " Of vapours that did seem to strangle him.\n" + " If all the year were playing holidays,\n" + " To sport would be as tedious as to work;\n" + " But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come,\n" + " And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.\n" + " So, when this loose behavior I throw off\n" + " And pay the debt I never promised,\n" + " By how much better than my word I am,\n" + " By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;\n" + " And like bright metal on a sullen ground,\n" + " My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,\n" + " Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes\n" + " Than that which hath no foil to set it off.\n" + " I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;\n" + " Redeeming time when men think least I will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the KING, NORTHUMBERLAND, WORCESTER, HOTSPUR,\n" + " SIR WALTER BLUNT, with others]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV My blood hath been too cold and temperate,\n" + " Unapt to stir at these indignities,\n" + " And you have found me; for accordingly\n" + " You tread upon my patience: but be sure\n" + " I will from henceforth rather be myself,\n" + " Mighty and to be fear'd, than my condition;\n" + " Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as young down,\n" + " And therefore lost that title of respect\n" + " Which the proud soul ne'er pays but to the proud.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Our house, my sovereign liege, little deserves\n" + " The scourge of greatness to be used on it;\n" + " And that same greatness too which our own hands\n" + " Have holp to make so portly.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND My lord.--\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Worcester, get thee gone; for I do see\n" + " Danger and disobedience in thine eye:\n" + " O, sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,\n" + " And majesty might never yet endure\n" + " The moody frontier of a servant brow.\n" + " You have good leave to leave us: when we need\n" + " Your use and counsel, we shall send for you.\n\n" + " [Exit Worcester]\n\n" + " You were about to speak.\n\n" + " [To North]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Yea, my good lord.\n" + " Those prisoners in your highness' name demanded,\n" + " Which Harry Percy here at Holmedon took,\n" + " Were, as he says, not with such strength denied\n" + " As is deliver'd to your majesty:\n" + " Either envy, therefore, or misprison\n" + " Is guilty of this fault and not my son.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR My liege, I did deny no prisoners.\n" + " But I remember, when the fight was done,\n" + " When I was dry with rage and extreme toil,\n" + " Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword,\n" + " Came there a certain lord, neat, and trimly dress'd,\n" + " Fresh as a bridegroom; and his chin new reap'd\n" + " Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home;\n" + " He was perfumed like a milliner;\n" + " And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held\n" + " A pouncet-box, which ever and anon\n" + " He gave his nose and took't away again;\n" + " Who therewith angry, when it next came there,\n" + " Took it in snuff; and still he smiled and talk'd,\n" + " And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,\n" + " He call'd them untaught knaves, unmannerly,\n" + " To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse\n" + " Betwixt the wind and his nobility.\n" + " With many holiday and lady terms\n" + " He question'd me; amongst the rest, demanded\n" + " My prisoners in your majesty's behalf.\n" + " I then, all smarting with my wounds being cold,\n" + " To be so pester'd with a popinjay,\n" + " Out of my grief and my impatience,\n" + " Answer'd neglectingly I know not what,\n" + " He should or he should not; for he made me mad\n" + " To see him shine so brisk and smell so sweet\n" + " And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman\n" + " Of guns and drums and wounds,--God save the mark!--\n" + " And telling me the sovereign'st thing on earth\n" + " Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;\n" + " And that it was great pity, so it was,\n" + " This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd\n" + " Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,\n" + " Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd\n" + " So cowardly; and but for these vile guns,\n" + " He would himself have been a soldier.\n" + " This bald unjointed chat of his, my lord,\n" + " I answer'd indirectly, as I said;\n" + " And I beseech you, let not his report\n" + " Come current for an accusation\n" + " Betwixt my love and your high majesty.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT The circumstance consider'd, good my lord,\n" + " Whate'er Lord Harry Percy then had said\n" + " To such a person and in such a place,\n" + " At such a time, with all the rest retold,\n" + " May reasonably die and never rise\n" + " To do him wrong or any way impeach\n" + " What then he said, so he unsay it now.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,\n" + " But with proviso and exception,\n" + " That we at our own charge shall ransom straight\n" + " His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer;\n" + " Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd\n" + " The lives of those that he did lead to fight\n" + " Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,\n" + " Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March\n" + " Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then,\n" + " Be emptied to redeem a traitor home?\n" + " Shall we but treason? and indent with fears,\n" + " When they have lost and forfeited themselves?\n" + " No, on the barren mountains let him starve;\n" + " For I shall never hold that man my friend\n" + " Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost\n" + " To ransom home revolted Mortimer.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Revolted Mortimer!\n" + " He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,\n" + " But by the chance of war; to prove that true\n" + " Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,\n" + " Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took\n" + " When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,\n" + " In single opposition, hand to hand,\n" + " He did confound the best part of an hour\n" + " In changing hardiment with great Glendower:\n" + " Three times they breathed and three times did\n" + " they drink,\n" + " Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood;\n" + " Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks,\n" + " Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds,\n" + " And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank,\n" + " Bloodstained with these valiant combatants.\n" + " Never did base and rotten policy\n" + " Colour her working with such deadly wounds;\n" + " Nor could the noble Mortimer\n" + " Receive so many, and all willingly:\n" + " Then let not him be slander'd with revolt.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him;\n" + " He never did encounter with Glendower:\n" + " I tell thee,\n" + " He durst as well have met the devil alone\n" + " As Owen Glendower for an enemy.\n" + " Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth\n" + " Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer:\n" + " Send me your prisoners with the speediest means,\n" + " Or you shall hear in such a kind from me\n" + " As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,\n" + " We licence your departure with your son.\n" + " Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR An if the devil come and roar for them,\n" + " I will not send them: I will after straight\n" + " And tell him so; for I will ease my heart,\n" + " Albeit I make a hazard of my head.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile:\n" + " Here comes your uncle.\n\n" + " [Re-enter WORCESTER]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Speak of Mortimer!\n" + " 'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my soul\n" + " Want mercy, if I do not join with him:\n" + " Yea, on his part I'll empty all these veins,\n" + " And shed my dear blood drop by drop in the dust,\n" + " But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer\n" + " As high in the air as this unthankful king,\n" + " As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Brother, the king hath made your nephew mad.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Who struck this heat up after I was gone?\n\n" + "HOTSPUR He will, forsooth, have all my prisoners;\n" + " And when I urged the ransom once again\n" + " Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd pale,\n" + " And on my face he turn'd an eye of death,\n" + " Trembling even at the name of Mortimer.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER I cannot blame him: was not he proclaim'd\n" + " By Richard that dead is the next of blood?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND He was; I heard the proclamation:\n" + " And then it was when the unhappy king,\n" + " --Whose wrongs in us God pardon!--did set forth\n" + " Upon his Irish expedition;\n" + " From whence he intercepted did return\n" + " To be deposed and shortly murdered.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER And for whose death we in the world's wide mouth\n" + " Live scandalized and foully spoken of.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR But soft, I pray you; did King Richard then\n" + " Proclaim my brother Edmund Mortimer\n" + " Heir to the crown?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND He did; myself did hear it.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin king,\n" + " That wished him on the barren mountains starve.\n" + " But shall it be that you, that set the crown\n" + " Upon the head of this forgetful man\n" + " And for his sake wear the detested blot\n" + " Of murderous subornation, shall it be,\n" + " That you a world of curses undergo,\n" + " Being the agents, or base second means,\n" + " The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather?\n" + " O, pardon me that I descend so low,\n" + " To show the line and the predicament\n" + " Wherein you range under this subtle king;\n" + " Shall it for shame be spoken in these days,\n" + " Or fill up chronicles in time to come,\n" + " That men of your nobility and power\n" + " Did gage them both in an unjust behalf,\n" + " As both of you--God pardon it!--have done,\n" + " To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,\n" + " An plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke?\n" + " And shall it in more shame be further spoken,\n" + " That you are fool'd, discarded and shook off\n" + " By him for whom these shames ye underwent?\n" + " No; yet time serves wherein you may redeem\n" + " Your banish'd honours and restore yourselves\n" + " Into the good thoughts of the world again,\n" + " Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt\n" + " Of this proud king, who studies day and night\n" + " To answer all the debt he owes to you\n" + " Even with the bloody payment of your deaths:\n" + " Therefore, I say--\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Peace, cousin, say no more:\n" + " And now I will unclasp a secret book,\n" + " And to your quick-conceiving discontents\n" + " I'll read you matter deep and dangerous,\n" + " As full of peril and adventurous spirit\n" + " As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud\n" + " On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR If he fall in, good night! or sink or swim:\n" + " Send danger from the east unto the west,\n" + " So honour cross it from the north to south,\n" + " And let them grapple: O, the blood more stirs\n" + " To rouse a lion than to start a hare!\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Imagination of some great exploit\n" + " Drives him beyond the bounds of patience.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap,\n" + " To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon,\n" + " Or dive into the bottom of the deep,\n" + " Where fathom-line could never touch the ground,\n" + " And pluck up drowned honour by the locks;\n" + " So he that doth redeem her thence might wear\n" + " Without corrival, all her dignities:\n" + " But out upon this half-faced fellowship!\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER He apprehends a world of figures here,\n" + " But not the form of what he should attend.\n" + " Good cousin, give me audience for a while.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I cry you mercy.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Those same noble Scots\n" + " That are your prisoners,--\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I'll keep them all;\n" + " By God, he shall not have a Scot of them;\n" + " No, if a Scot would save his soul, he shall not:\n" + " I'll keep them, by this hand.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER You start away\n" + " And lend no ear unto my purposes.\n" + " Those prisoners you shall keep.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Nay, I will; that's flat:\n" + " He said he would not ransom Mortimer;\n" + " Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer;\n" + " But I will find him when he lies asleep,\n" + " And in his ear I'll holla 'Mortimer!'\n" + " Nay,\n" + " I'll have a starling shall be taught to speak\n" + " Nothing but 'Mortimer,' and give it him\n" + " To keep his anger still in motion.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Hear you, cousin; a word.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR All studies here I solemnly defy,\n" + " Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke:\n" + " And that same sword-and-buckler Prince of Wales,\n" + " But that I think his father loves him not\n" + " And would be glad he met with some mischance,\n" + " I would have him poison'd with a pot of ale.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Farewell, kinsman: I'll talk to you\n" + " When you are better temper'd to attend.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool\n" + " Art thou to break into this woman's mood,\n" + " Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourged with rods,\n" + " Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear\n" + " Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.\n" + " In Richard's time,--what do you call the place?--\n" + " A plague upon it, it is in Gloucestershire;\n" + " 'Twas where the madcap duke his uncle kept,\n" + " His uncle York; where I first bow'd my knee\n" + " Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke,--\n" + " 'Sblood!--\n" + " When you and he came back from Ravenspurgh.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND At Berkley castle.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR You say true:\n" + " Why, what a candy deal of courtesy\n" + " This fawning greyhound then did proffer me!\n" + " Look,'when his infant fortune came to age,'\n" + " And 'gentle Harry Percy,' and 'kind cousin;'\n" + " O, the devil take such cozeners! God forgive me!\n" + " Good uncle, tell your tale; I have done.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Nay, if you have not, to it again;\n" + " We will stay your leisure.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I have done, i' faith.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Then once more to your Scottish prisoners.\n" + " Deliver them up without their ransom straight,\n" + " And make the Douglas' son your only mean\n" + " For powers in Scotland; which, for divers reasons\n" + " Which I shall send you written, be assured,\n" + " Will easily be granted. You, my lord,\n\n" + " [To Northumberland]\n\n" + " Your son in Scotland being thus employ'd,\n" + " Shall secretly into the bosom creep\n" + " Of that same noble prelate, well beloved,\n" + " The archbishop.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Of York, is it not?\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER True; who bears hard\n" + " His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.\n" + " I speak not this in estimation,\n" + " As what I think might be, but what I know\n" + " Is ruminated, plotted and set down,\n" + " And only stays but to behold the face\n" + " Of that occasion that shall bring it on.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I smell it: upon my life, it will do well.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Before the game is afoot, thou still let'st slip.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot;\n" + " And then the power of Scotland and of York,\n" + " To join with Mortimer, ha?\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER And so they shall.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR In faith, it is exceedingly well aim'd.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER And 'tis no little reason bids us speed,\n" + " To save our heads by raising of a head;\n" + " For, bear ourselves as even as we can,\n" + " The king will always think him in our debt,\n" + " And think we think ourselves unsatisfied,\n" + " Till he hath found a time to pay us home:\n" + " And see already how he doth begin\n" + " To make us strangers to his looks of love.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR He does, he does: we'll be revenged on him.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Cousin, farewell: no further go in this\n" + " Than I by letters shall direct your course.\n" + " When time is ripe, which will be suddenly,\n" + " I'll steal to Glendower and Lord Mortimer;\n" + " Where you and Douglas and our powers at once,\n" + " As I will fashion it, shall happily meet,\n" + " To bear our fortunes in our own strong arms,\n" + " Which now we hold at much uncertainty.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Farewell, good brother: we shall thrive, I trust.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Uncle, Adieu: O, let the hours be short\n" + " Till fields and blows and groans applaud our sport!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rochester. An inn yard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Carrier with a lantern in his hand]\n\n" + "First Carrier Heigh-ho! an it be not four by the day, I'll be\n" + " hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and\n" + " yet our horse not packed. What, ostler!\n\n" + "Ostler [Within] Anon, anon.\n\n" + "First Carrier I prithee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks\n" + " in the point; poor jade, is wrung in the withers out\n" + " of all cess.\n\n" + " [Enter another Carrier]\n\n" + "Second Carrier Peas and beans are as dank here as a dog, and that\n" + " is the next way to give poor jades the bots: this\n" + " house is turned upside down since Robin Ostler died.\n\n" + "First Carrier Poor fellow, never joyed since the price of oats\n" + " rose; it was the death of him.\n\n" + "Second Carrier I think this be the most villanous house in all\n" + " London road for fleas: I am stung like a tench.\n\n" + "First Carrier Like a tench! by the mass, there is ne'er a king\n" + " christen could be better bit than I have been since\n" + " the first cock.\n\n" + "Second Carrier Why, they will allow us ne'er a jordan, and then we\n" + " leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds\n" + " fleas like a loach.\n\n" + "First Carrier What, ostler! come away and be hanged!\n\n" + "Second Carrier I have a gammon of bacon and two razors of ginger,\n" + " to be delivered as far as Charing-cross.\n\n" + "First Carrier God's body! the turkeys in my pannier are quite\n" + " starved. What, ostler! A plague on thee! hast thou\n" + " never an eye in thy head? canst not hear? An\n" + " 'twere not as good deed as drink, to break the pate\n" + " on thee, I am a very villain. Come, and be hanged!\n" + " hast thou no faith in thee?\n\n" + " [Enter GADSHILL]\n\n" + "GADSHILL Good morrow, carriers. What's o'clock?\n\n" + "First Carrier I think it be two o'clock.\n\n" + "GADSHILL I pray thee lend me thy lantern, to see my gelding\n" + " in the stable.\n\n" + "First Carrier Nay, by God, soft; I know a trick worth two of that, i' faith.\n\n" + "GADSHILL I pray thee, lend me thine.\n\n" + "Second Carrier Ay, when? can'st tell? Lend me thy lantern, quoth\n" + " he? marry, I'll see thee hanged first.\n\n" + "GADSHILL Sirrah carrier, what time do you mean to come to London?\n\n" + "Second Carrier Time enough to go to bed with a candle, I warrant\n" + " thee. Come, neighbour Mugs, we'll call up the\n" + " gentleman: they will along with company, for they\n" + " have great charge.\n\n" + " [Exeunt carriers]\n\n" + "GADSHILL What, ho! chamberlain!\n\n" + "Chamberlain [Within] At hand, quoth pick-purse.\n\n" + "GADSHILL That's even as fair as--at hand, quoth the\n" + " chamberlain; for thou variest no more from picking\n" + " of purses than giving direction doth from labouring;\n" + " thou layest the plot how.\n\n" + " [Enter Chamberlain]\n\n" + "Chamberlain Good morrow, Master Gadshill. It holds current that\n" + " I told you yesternight: there's a franklin in the\n" + " wild of Kent hath brought three hundred marks with\n" + " him in gold: I heard him tell it to one of his\n" + " company last night at supper; a kind of auditor; one\n" + " that hath abundance of charge too, God knows what.\n" + " They are up already, and call for eggs and butter;\n" + " they will away presently.\n\n" + "GADSHILL Sirrah, if they meet not with Saint Nicholas'\n" + " clerks, I'll give thee this neck.\n\n" + "Chamberlain No, I'll none of it: I pray thee keep that for the\n" + " hangman; for I know thou worshippest St. Nicholas\n" + " as truly as a man of falsehood may.\n\n" + "GADSHILL What talkest thou to me of the hangman? if I hang,\n" + " I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old\n" + " Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no\n" + " starveling. Tut! there are other Trojans that thou\n" + " dreamest not of, the which for sport sake are\n" + " content to do the profession some grace; that would,\n" + " if matters should be looked into, for their own\n" + " credit sake, make all whole. I am joined with no\n" + " foot-land rakers, no long-staff sixpenny strikers,\n" + " none of these mad mustachio purple-hued malt-worms;\n" + " but with nobility and tranquillity, burgomasters and\n" + " great oneyers, such as can hold in, such as will\n" + " strike sooner than speak, and speak sooner than\n" + " drink, and drink sooner than pray: and yet, zounds,\n" + " I lie; for they pray continually to their saint, the\n" + " commonwealth; or rather, not pray to her, but prey\n" + " on her, for they ride up and down on her and make\n" + " her their boots.\n\n" + "Chamberlain What, the commonwealth their boots? will she hold\n" + " out water in foul way?\n\n" + "GADSHILL She will, she will; justice hath liquored her. We\n" + " steal as in a castle, cocksure; we have the receipt\n" + " of fern-seed, we walk invisible.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to\n" + " the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible.\n\n" + "GADSHILL Give me thy hand: thou shalt have a share in our\n" + " purchase, as I am a true man.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Nay, rather let me have it, as you are a false thief.\n\n" + "GADSHILL Go to; 'homo' is a common name to all men. Bid the\n" + " ostler bring my gelding out of the stable. Farewell,\n" + " you muddy knave.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The highway, near Gadshill.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS]\n\n" + "POINS Come, shelter, shelter: I have removed Falstaff's\n" + " horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Stand close.\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Poins! Poins, and be hanged! Poins!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost\n" + " thou keep!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Where's Poins, Hal?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY He is walked up to the top of the hill: I'll go seek him.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am accursed to rob in that thief's company: the\n" + " rascal hath removed my horse, and tied him I know\n" + " not where. If I travel but four foot by the squier\n" + " further afoot, I shall break my wind. Well, I doubt\n" + " not but to die a fair death for all this, if I\n" + " 'scape hanging for killing that rogue. I have\n" + " forsworn his company hourly any time this two and\n" + " twenty years, and yet I am bewitched with the\n" + " rogue's company. If the rascal hath not given me\n" + " medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged; it\n" + " could not be else: I have drunk medicines. Poins!\n" + " Hal! a plague upon you both! Bardolph! Peto!\n" + " I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further. An 'twere\n" + " not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man and to\n" + " leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that\n" + " ever chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of uneven\n" + " ground is threescore and ten miles afoot with me;\n" + " and the stony-hearted villains know it well enough:\n" + " a plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!\n\n" + " [They whistle]\n\n" + " Whew! A plague upon you all! Give me my horse, you\n" + " rogues; give me my horse, and be hanged!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Peace, ye fat-guts! lie down; lay thine ear close\n" + " to the ground and list if thou canst hear the tread\n" + " of travellers.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Have you any levers to lift me up again, being down?\n" + " 'Sblood, I'll not bear mine own flesh so far afoot\n" + " again for all the coin in thy father's exchequer.\n" + " What a plague mean ye to colt me thus?\n\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou liest; thou art not colted, thou art uncolted.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I prithee, good Prince Hal, help me to my horse,\n" + " good king's son.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent\n" + " garters! If I be ta'en, I'll peach for this. An I\n" + " have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy\n" + " tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison: when a jest\n" + " is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.\n\n" + " [Enter GADSHILL, BARDOLPH and PETO]\n\n" + "GADSHILL Stand.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF So I do, against my will.\n\n" + "POINS O, 'tis our setter: I know his voice. Bardolph,\n" + " what news?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Case ye, case ye; on with your vizards: there 's\n" + " money of the king's coming down the hill; 'tis going\n" + " to the king's exchequer.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the king's tavern.\n\n" + "GADSHILL There's enough to make us all.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF To be hanged.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Sirs, you four shall front them in the narrow lane;\n" + " Ned Poins and I will walk lower: if they 'scape\n" + " from your encounter, then they light on us.\n\n" + "PETO How many be there of them?\n\n" + "GADSHILL Some eight or ten.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Zounds, will they not rob us?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What, a coward, Sir John Paunch?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Indeed, I am not John of Gaunt, your grandfather;\n" + " but yet no coward, Hal.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, we leave that to the proof.\n\n" + "POINS Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge:\n" + " when thou needest him, there thou shalt find him.\n" + " Farewell, and stand fast.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hanged.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Ned, where are our disguises?\n\n" + "POINS Here, hard by: stand close.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and POINS]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I:\n" + " every man to his business.\n\n" + " [Enter the Travellers]\n\n" + "First Traveller Come, neighbour: the boy shall lead our horses down\n" + " the hill; we'll walk afoot awhile, and ease our legs.\n\n" + "Thieves Stand!\n\n" + "Travellers Jesus bless us!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Strike; down with them; cut the villains' throats:\n" + " ah! whoreson caterpillars! bacon-fed knaves! they\n" + " hate us youth: down with them: fleece them.\n\n" + "Travellers O, we are undone, both we and ours for ever!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye\n" + " fat chuffs: I would your store were here! On,\n" + " bacons, on! What, ye knaves! young men must live.\n" + " You are Grand-jurors, are ye? we'll jure ye, 'faith.\n\n" + " [Here they rob them and bind them. Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY The thieves have bound the true men. Now could thou\n" + " and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it\n" + " would be argument for a week, laughter for a month\n" + " and a good jest for ever.\n\n" + "POINS Stand close; I hear them coming.\n\n" + " [Enter the Thieves again]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come, my masters, let us share, and then to horse\n" + " before day. An the Prince and Poins be not two\n" + " arrant cowards, there's no equity stirring: there's\n" + " no more valour in that Poins than in a wild-duck.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Your money!\n\n" + "POINS Villains!\n\n" + " [As they are sharing, the Prince and Poins set upon\n" + " them; they all run away; and Falstaff, after a blow\n" + " or two, runs away too, leaving the booty behind them]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Got with much ease. Now merrily to horse:\n" + " The thieves are all scatter'd and possess'd with fear\n" + " So strongly that they dare not meet each other;\n" + " Each takes his fellow for an officer.\n" + " Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death,\n" + " And lards the lean earth as he walks along:\n" + " Were 't not for laughing, I should pity him.\n\n" + "POINS How the rogue roar'd!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Warkworth castle\n\n\n" + " [Enter HOTSPUR, solus, reading a letter]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR 'But for mine own part, my lord, I could be well\n" + " contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear\n" + " your house.' He could be contented: why is he not,\n" + " then? In respect of the love he bears our house:\n" + " he shows in this, he loves his own barn better than\n" + " he loves our house. Let me see some more. 'The\n" + " purpose you undertake is dangerous;'--why, that's\n" + " certain: 'tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to\n" + " drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this\n" + " nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 'The\n" + " purpose you undertake is dangerous; the friends you\n" + " have named uncertain; the time itself unsorted; and\n" + " your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so\n" + " great an opposition.' Say you so, say you so? I say\n" + " unto you again, you are a shallow cowardly hind, and\n" + " you lie. What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord,\n" + " our plot is a good plot as ever was laid; our\n" + " friends true and constant: a good plot, good\n" + " friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot,\n" + " very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is\n" + " this! Why, my lord of York commends the plot and the\n" + " general course of action. 'Zounds, an I were now by\n" + " this rascal, I could brain him with his lady's fan.\n" + " Is there not my father, my uncle and myself? lord\n" + " Edmund Mortimer, My lord of York and Owen Glendower?\n" + " is there not besides the Douglas? have I not all\n" + " their letters to meet me in arms by the ninth of the\n" + " next month? and are they not some of them set\n" + " forward already? What a pagan rascal is this! an\n" + " infidel! Ha! you shall see now in very sincerity\n" + " of fear and cold heart, will he to the king and lay\n" + " open all our proceedings. O, I could divide myself\n" + " and go to buffets, for moving such a dish of\n" + " skim milk with so honourable an action! Hang him!\n" + " let him tell the king: we are prepared. I will set\n" + " forward to-night.\n\n" + " [Enter LADY PERCY]\n\n" + " How now, Kate! I must leave you within these two hours.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY O, my good lord, why are you thus alone?\n" + " For what offence have I this fortnight been\n" + " A banish'd woman from my Harry's bed?\n" + " Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee\n" + " Thy stomach, pleasure and thy golden sleep?\n" + " Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth,\n" + " And start so often when thou sit'st alone?\n" + " Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks;\n" + " And given my treasures and my rights of thee\n" + " To thick-eyed musing and cursed melancholy?\n" + " In thy faint slumbers I by thee have watch'd,\n" + " And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars;\n" + " Speak terms of manage to thy bounding steed;\n" + " Cry 'Courage! to the field!' And thou hast talk'd\n" + " Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents,\n" + " Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets,\n" + " Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin,\n" + " Of prisoners' ransom and of soldiers slain,\n" + " And all the currents of a heady fight.\n" + " Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war\n" + " And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,\n" + " That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow\n" + " Like bubbles in a late-disturbed stream;\n" + " And in thy face strange motions have appear'd,\n" + " Such as we see when men restrain their breath\n" + " On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these?\n" + " Some heavy business hath my lord in hand,\n" + " And I must know it, else he loves me not.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR What, ho!\n\n" + " [Enter Servant]\n\n" + " Is Gilliams with the packet gone?\n\n" + "Servant He is, my lord, an hour ago.\n\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Hath Butler brought those horses from the sheriff?\n\n" + "Servant One horse, my lord, he brought even now.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR What horse? a roan, a crop-ear, is it not?\n\n" + "Servant It is, my lord.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR That roan shall by my throne.\n" + " Well, I will back him straight: O esperance!\n" + " Bid Butler lead him forth into the park.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + "LADY PERCY But hear you, my lord.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR What say'st thou, my lady?\n\n" + "LADY PERCY What is it carries you away?\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Why, my horse, my love, my horse.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Out, you mad-headed ape!\n" + " A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen\n" + " As you are toss'd with. In faith,\n" + " I'll know your business, Harry, that I will.\n" + " I fear my brother Mortimer doth stir\n" + " About his title, and hath sent for you\n" + " To line his enterprise: but if you go,--\n\n" + "HOTSPUR So far afoot, I shall be weary, love.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Come, come, you paraquito, answer me\n" + " Directly unto this question that I ask:\n" + " In faith, I'll break thy little finger, Harry,\n" + " An if thou wilt not tell me all things true.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Away,\n" + " Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not,\n" + " I care not for thee, Kate: this is no world\n" + " To play with mammets and to tilt with lips:\n" + " We must have bloody noses and crack'd crowns,\n" + " And pass them current too. God's me, my horse!\n" + " What say'st thou, Kate? what would'st thou\n" + " have with me?\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Do you not love me? do you not, indeed?\n" + " Well, do not then; for since you love me not,\n" + " I will not love myself. Do you not love me?\n" + " Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Come, wilt thou see me ride?\n" + " And when I am on horseback, I will swear\n" + " I love thee infinitely. But hark you, Kate;\n" + " I must not have you henceforth question me\n" + " Whither I go, nor reason whereabout:\n" + " Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude,\n" + " This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate.\n" + " I know you wise, but yet no farther wise\n" + " Than Harry Percy's wife: constant you are,\n" + " But yet a woman: and for secrecy,\n" + " No lady closer; for I well believe\n" + " Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know;\n" + " And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY How! so far?\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate:\n" + " Whither I go, thither shall you go too;\n" + " To-day will I set forth, to-morrow you.\n" + " Will this content you, Kate?\n\n" + "LADY PERCY It must of force.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The Boar's-Head Tavern, Eastcheap.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Ned, prithee, come out of that fat room, and lend me\n" + " thy hand to laugh a little.\n\n" + "POINS Where hast been, Hal?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY With three or four loggerheads amongst three or four\n" + " score hogsheads. I have sounded the very\n" + " base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother\n" + " to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by\n" + " their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis.\n" + " They take it already upon their salvation, that\n" + " though I be but the prince of Wales, yet I am king\n" + " of courtesy; and tell me flatly I am no proud Jack,\n" + " like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a\n" + " good boy, by the Lord, so they call me, and when I\n" + " am king of England, I shall command all the good\n" + " lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing\n" + " scarlet; and when you breathe in your watering, they\n" + " cry 'hem!' and bid you play it off. To conclude, I\n" + " am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour,\n" + " that I can drink with any tinker in his own language\n" + " during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost\n" + " much honour, that thou wert not with me in this sweet\n" + " action. But, sweet Ned,--to sweeten which name of\n" + " Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapped\n" + " even now into my hand by an under-skinker, one that\n" + " never spake other English in his life than 'Eight\n" + " shillings and sixpence' and 'You are welcome,' with\n" + " this shrill addition, 'Anon, anon, sir! Score a pint\n" + " of bastard in the Half-Moon,' or so. But, Ned, to\n" + " drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee,\n" + " do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my\n" + " puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do\n" + " thou never leave calling 'Francis,' that his tale\n" + " to me may be nothing but 'Anon.' Step aside, and\n" + " I'll show thee a precedent.\n\n" + "POINS Francis!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou art perfect.\n\n" + "POINS Francis!\n\n" + " [Exit POINS]\n\n" + " [Enter FRANCIS]\n\n" + "FRANCIS Anon, anon, sir. Look down into the Pomgarnet, Ralph.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Come hither, Francis.\n\n" + "FRANCIS My lord?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How long hast thou to serve, Francis?\n\n" + "FRANCIS Forsooth, five years, and as much as to--\n\n" + "POINS [Within] Francis!\n\n" + "FRANCIS Anon, anon, sir.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Five year! by'r lady, a long lease for the clinking\n" + " of pewter. But, Francis, darest thou be so valiant\n" + " as to play the coward with thy indenture and show it\n" + " a fair pair of heels and run from it?\n\n" + "FRANCIS O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in\n" + " England, I could find in my heart.\n\n" + "POINS [Within] Francis!\n\n" + "FRANCIS Anon, sir.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How old art thou, Francis?\n\n" + "FRANCIS Let me see--about Michaelmas next I shall be--\n\n" + "POINS [Within] Francis!\n\n" + "FRANCIS Anon, sir. Pray stay a little, my lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou\n" + " gavest me,'twas a pennyworth, wast't not?\n\n" + "FRANCIS O Lord, I would it had been two!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I will give thee for it a thousand pound: ask me\n" + " when thou wilt, and thou shalt have it.\n\n" + "POINS [Within] Francis!\n\n" + "FRANCIS Anon, anon.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Anon, Francis? No, Francis; but to-morrow, Francis;\n" + " or, Francis, o' Thursday; or indeed, Francis, when\n" + " thou wilt. But, Francis!\n\n" + "FRANCIS My lord?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Wilt thou rob this leathern jerkin, crystal-button,\n" + " not-pated, agate-ring, puke-stocking, caddis-garter,\n" + " smooth-tongue, Spanish-pouch,--\n\n" + "FRANCIS O Lord, sir, who do you mean?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, then, your brown bastard is your only drink;\n" + " for look you, Francis, your white canvas doublet\n" + " will sully: in Barbary, sir, it cannot come to so much.\n\n" + "FRANCIS What, sir?\n\n" + "POINS [Within] Francis!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them call?\n\n" + " [Here they both call him; the drawer stands amazed,\n" + " not knowing which way to go]\n\n" + " [Enter Vintner]\n\n" + "Vintner What, standest thou still, and hearest such a\n" + " calling? Look to the guests within.\n\n" + " [Exit Francis]\n\n" + " My lord, old Sir John, with half-a-dozen more, are\n" + " at the door: shall I let them in?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Let them alone awhile, and then open the door.\n\n" + " [Exit Vintner]\n" + " Poins!\n\n" + " [Re-enter POINS]\n\n" + "POINS Anon, anon, sir.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Sirrah, Falstaff and the rest of the thieves are at\n" + " the door: shall we be merry?\n\n" + "POINS As merry as crickets, my lad. But hark ye; what\n" + " cunning match have you made with this jest of the\n" + " drawer? come, what's the issue?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I am now of all humours that have showed themselves\n" + " humours since the old days of goodman Adam to the\n" + " pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.\n\n" + " [Re-enter FRANCIS]\n\n" + " What's o'clock, Francis?\n\n" + "FRANCIS Anon, anon, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY That ever this fellow should have fewer words than a\n" + " parrot, and yet the son of a woman! His industry is\n" + " upstairs and downstairs; his eloquence the parcel of\n" + " a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the\n" + " Hotspur of the north; he that kills me some six or\n" + " seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast, washes his\n" + " hands, and says to his wife 'Fie upon this quiet\n" + " life! I want work.' 'O my sweet Harry,' says she,\n" + " 'how many hast thou killed to-day?' 'Give my roan\n" + " horse a drench,' says he; and answers 'Some\n" + " fourteen,' an hour after; 'a trifle, a trifle.' I\n" + " prithee, call in Falstaff: I'll play Percy, and\n" + " that damned brawn shall play Dame Mortimer his\n" + " wife. 'Rivo!' says the drunkard. Call in ribs, call in tallow.\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF, GADSHILL, BARDOLPH, and PETO;\n" + " FRANCIS following with wine]\n\n" + "POINS Welcome, Jack: where hast thou been?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too!\n" + " marry, and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I\n" + " lead this life long, I'll sew nether stocks and mend\n" + " them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards!\n" + " Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?\n\n" + " [He drinks]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?\n" + " pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale\n" + " of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is\n" + " nothing but roguery to be found in villanous man:\n" + " yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime\n" + " in it. A villanous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack;\n" + " die when thou wilt, if manhood, good manhood, be\n" + " not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a\n" + " shotten herring. There live not three good men\n" + " unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and\n" + " grows old: God help the while! a bad world, I say.\n" + " I would I were a weaver; I could sing psalms or any\n" + " thing. A plague of all cowards, I say still.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How now, wool-sack! what mutter you?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A king's son! If I do not beat thee out of thy\n" + " kingdom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy\n" + " subjects afore thee like a flock of wild-geese,\n" + " I'll never wear hair on my face more. You Prince of Wales!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, you whoreson round man, what's the matter?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Are not you a coward? answer me to that: and Poins there?\n\n" + "POINS 'Zounds, ye fat paunch, an ye call me coward, by the\n" + " Lord, I'll stab thee.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I call thee coward! I'll see thee damned ere I call\n" + " thee coward: but I would give a thousand pound I\n" + " could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight\n" + " enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your\n" + " back: call you that backing of your friends? A\n" + " plague upon such backing! give me them that will\n" + " face me. Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I\n" + " drunk to-day.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O villain! thy lips are scarce wiped since thou\n" + " drunkest last.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF All's one for that.\n\n" + " [He drinks]\n\n" + " A plague of all cowards, still say I.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What's the matter?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What's the matter! there be four of us here have\n" + " ta'en a thousand pound this day morning.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Where is it, Jack? where is it?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Where is it! taken from us it is: a hundred upon\n" + " poor four of us.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What, a hundred, man?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a\n" + " dozen of them two hours together. I have 'scaped by\n" + " miracle. I am eight times thrust through the\n" + " doublet, four through the hose; my buckler cut\n" + " through and through; my sword hacked like a\n" + " hand-saw--ecce signum! I never dealt better since\n" + " I was a man: all would not do. A plague of all\n" + " cowards! Let them speak: if they speak more or\n" + " less than truth, they are villains and the sons of darkness.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Speak, sirs; how was it?\n\n" + "GADSHILL We four set upon some dozen--\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Sixteen at least, my lord.\n\n" + "GADSHILL And bound them.\n\n" + "PETO No, no, they were not bound.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; or I\n" + " am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.\n\n" + "GADSHILL As we were sharing, some six or seven fresh men set upon us--\n\n" + "FALSTAFF And unbound the rest, and then come in the other.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What, fought you with them all?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF All! I know not what you call all; but if I fought\n" + " not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish: if\n" + " there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old\n" + " Jack, then am I no two-legged creature.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Pray God you have not murdered some of them.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Nay, that's past praying for: I have peppered two\n" + " of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues\n" + " in buckram suits. I tell thee what, Hal, if I tell\n" + " thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou\n" + " knowest my old ward; here I lay and thus I bore my\n" + " point. Four rogues in buckram let drive at me--\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What, four? thou saidst but two even now.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Four, Hal; I told thee four.\n\n" + "POINS Ay, ay, he said four.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF These four came all a-front, and mainly thrust at\n" + " me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven\n" + " points in my target, thus.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Seven? why, there were but four even now.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF In buckram?\n\n" + "POINS Ay, four, in buckram suits.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Seven, by these hilts, or I am a villain else.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Prithee, let him alone; we shall have more anon.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Dost thou hear me, Hal?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Ay, and mark thee too, Jack.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Do so, for it is worth the listening to. These nine\n" + " in buckram that I told thee of--\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY So, two more already.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Their points being broken,--\n\n" + "POINS Down fell their hose.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Began to give me ground: but I followed me close,\n" + " came in foot and hand; and with a thought seven of\n" + " the eleven I paid.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O monstrous! eleven buckram men grown out of two!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF But, as the devil would have it, three misbegotten\n" + " knaves in Kendal green came at my back and let drive\n" + " at me; for it was so dark, Hal, that thou couldst\n" + " not see thy hand.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY These lies are like their father that begets them;\n" + " gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou\n" + " clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou\n" + " whoreson, obscene, grease tallow-catch,--\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What, art thou mad? art thou mad? is not the truth\n" + " the truth?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, how couldst thou know these men in Kendal\n" + " green, when it was so dark thou couldst not see thy\n" + " hand? come, tell us your reason: what sayest thou to this?\n\n" + "POINS Come, your reason, Jack, your reason.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What, upon compulsion? 'Zounds, an I were at the\n" + " strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would\n" + " not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on\n" + " compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as\n" + " blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon\n" + " compulsion, I.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I'll be no longer guilty of this sin; this sanguine\n" + " coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker,\n" + " this huge hill of flesh,--\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried\n" + " neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O\n" + " for breath to utter what is like thee! you\n" + " tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile\n" + " standing-tuck,--\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, breathe awhile, and then to it again: and\n" + " when thou hast tired thyself in base comparisons,\n" + " hear me speak but this.\n\n" + "POINS Mark, Jack.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY We two saw you four set on four and bound them, and\n" + " were masters of their wealth. Mark now, how a plain\n" + " tale shall put you down. Then did we two set on you\n" + " four; and, with a word, out-faced you from your\n" + " prize, and have it; yea, and can show it you here in\n" + " the house: and, Falstaff, you carried your guts\n" + " away as nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared\n" + " for mercy and still run and roared, as ever I heard\n" + " bull-calf. What a slave art thou, to hack thy sword\n" + " as thou hast done, and then say it was in fight!\n" + " What trick, what device, what starting-hole, canst\n" + " thou now find out to hide thee from this open and\n" + " apparent shame?\n\n" + "POINS Come, let's hear, Jack; what trick hast thou now?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF By the Lord, I knew ye as well as he that made ye.\n" + " Why, hear you, my masters: was it for me to kill the\n" + " heir-apparent? should I turn upon the true prince?\n" + " why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules: but\n" + " beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true\n" + " prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was now a\n" + " coward on instinct. I shall think the better of\n" + " myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant\n" + " lion, and thou for a true prince. But, by the Lord,\n" + " lads, I am glad you have the money. Hostess, clap\n" + " to the doors: watch to-night, pray to-morrow.\n" + " Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles\n" + " of good fellowship come to you! What, shall we be\n" + " merry? shall we have a play extempore?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Content; and the argument shall be thy running away.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ah, no more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me!\n\n" + " [Enter Hostess]\n\n" + "Hostess O Jesu, my lord the prince!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How now, my lady the hostess! what sayest thou to\n" + " me?\n\n" + "Hostess Marry, my lord, there is a nobleman of the court at\n" + " door would speak with you: he says he comes from\n" + " your father.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Give him as much as will make him a royal man, and\n" + " send him back again to my mother.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What manner of man is he?\n\n" + "Hostess An old man.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall\n" + " I give him his answer?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Prithee, do, Jack.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Faith, and I'll send him packing.\n\n" + " [Exit FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Now, sirs: by'r lady, you fought fair; so did you,\n" + " Peto; so did you, Bardolph: you are lions too, you\n" + " ran away upon instinct, you will not touch the true\n" + " prince; no, fie!\n\n" + "BARDOLPH 'Faith, I ran when I saw others run.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY 'Faith, tell me now in earnest, how came Falstaff's\n" + " sword so hacked?\n\n" + "PETO Why, he hacked it with his dagger, and said he would\n" + " swear truth out of England but he would make you\n" + " believe it was done in fight, and persuaded us to do the like.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Yea, and to tickle our noses with spear-grass to\n" + " make them bleed, and then to beslubber our garments\n" + " with it and swear it was the blood of true men. I\n" + " did that I did not this seven year before, I blushed\n" + " to hear his monstrous devices.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years\n" + " ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since\n" + " thou hast blushed extempore. Thou hadst fire and\n" + " sword on thy side, and yet thou rannest away: what\n" + " instinct hadst thou for it?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold\n" + " these exhalations?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I do.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH What think you they portend?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Hot livers and cold purses.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Choler, my lord, if rightly taken.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY No, if rightly taken, halter.\n\n" + " [Re-enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + " Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone.\n" + " How now, my sweet creature of bombast!\n" + " How long is't ago, Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My own knee! when I was about thy years, Hal, I was\n" + " not an eagle's talon in the waist; I could have\n" + " crept into any alderman's thumb-ring: a plague of\n" + " sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a\n" + " bladder. There's villanous news abroad: here was\n" + " Sir John Bracy from your father; you must to the\n" + " court in the morning. That same mad fellow of the\n" + " north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon the\n" + " bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore the\n" + " devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh\n" + " hook--what a plague call you him?\n\n" + "POINS O, Glendower.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Owen, Owen, the same; and his son-in-law Mortimer,\n" + " and old Northumberland, and that sprightly Scot of\n" + " Scots, Douglas, that runs o' horseback up a hill\n" + " perpendicular,--\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY He that rides at high speed and with his pistol\n" + " kills a sparrow flying.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You have hit it.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY So did he never the sparrow.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, that rascal hath good mettle in him; he will not run.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, what a rascal art thou then, to praise him so\n" + " for running!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF O' horseback, ye cuckoo; but afoot he will not budge a foot.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Yes, Jack, upon instinct.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I grant ye, upon instinct. Well, he is there too,\n" + " and one Mordake, and a thousand blue-caps more:\n" + " Worcester is stolen away to-night; thy father's\n" + " beard is turned white with the news: you may buy\n" + " land now as cheap as stinking mackerel.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, then, it is like, if there come a hot June and\n" + " this civil buffeting hold, we shall buy maidenheads\n" + " as they buy hob-nails, by the hundreds.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF By the mass, lad, thou sayest true; it is like we\n" + " shall have good trading that way. But tell me, Hal,\n" + " art not thou horrible afeard? thou being\n" + " heir-apparent, could the world pick thee out three\n" + " such enemies again as that fiend Douglas, that\n" + " spirit Percy, and that devil Glendower? Art thou\n" + " not horribly afraid? doth not thy blood thrill at\n" + " it?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Not a whit, i' faith; I lack some of thy instinct.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, thou wert be horribly chid tomorrow when thou\n" + " comest to thy father: if thou love me, practise an answer.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Do thou stand for my father, and examine me upon the\n" + " particulars of my life.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state,\n" + " this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thy state is taken for a joined-stool, thy golden\n" + " sceptre for a leaden dagger, and thy precious rich\n" + " crown for a pitiful bald crown!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, an the fire of grace be not quite out of thee,\n" + " now shalt thou be moved. Give me a cup of sack to\n" + " make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have\n" + " wept; for I must speak in passion, and I will do it\n" + " in King Cambyses' vein.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, here is my leg.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF And here is my speech. Stand aside, nobility.\n\n" + "Hostess O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i' faith!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Weep not, sweet queen; for trickling tears are vain.\n\n" + "Hostess O, the father, how he holds his countenance!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF For God's sake, lords, convey my tristful queen;\n" + " For tears do stop the flood-gates of her eyes.\n\n" + "Hostess O Jesu, he doth it as like one of these harlotry\n" + " players as ever I see!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Peace, good pint-pot; peace, good tickle-brain.\n" + " Harry, I do not only marvel where thou spendest thy\n" + " time, but also how thou art accompanied: for though\n" + " the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster\n" + " it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted the\n" + " sooner it wears. That thou art my son, I have\n" + " partly thy mother's word, partly my own opinion,\n" + " but chiefly a villanous trick of thine eye and a\n" + " foolish-hanging of thy nether lip, that doth warrant\n" + " me. If then thou be son to me, here lies the point;\n" + " why, being son to me, art thou so pointed at? Shall\n" + " the blessed sun of heaven prove a micher and eat\n" + " blackberries? a question not to be asked. Shall\n" + " the sun of England prove a thief and take purses? a\n" + " question to be asked. There is a thing, Harry,\n" + " which thou hast often heard of and it is known to\n" + " many in our land by the name of pitch: this pitch,\n" + " as ancient writers do report, doth defile; so doth\n" + " the company thou keepest: for, Harry, now I do not\n" + " speak to thee in drink but in tears, not in\n" + " pleasure but in passion, not in words only, but in\n" + " woes also: and yet there is a virtuous man whom I\n" + " have often noted in thy company, but I know not his name.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What manner of man, an it like your majesty?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a\n" + " cheerful look, a pleasing eye and a most noble\n" + " carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or,\n" + " by'r lady, inclining to three score; and now I\n" + " remember me, his name is Falstaff: if that man\n" + " should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry,\n" + " I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be\n" + " known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then,\n" + " peremptorily I speak it, there is virtue in that\n" + " Falstaff: him keep with, the rest banish. And tell\n" + " me now, thou naughty varlet, tell me, where hast\n" + " thou been this month?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Dost thou speak like a king? Do thou stand for me,\n" + " and I'll play my father.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Depose me? if thou dost it half so gravely, so\n" + " majestically, both in word and matter, hang me up by\n" + " the heels for a rabbit-sucker or a poulter's hare.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, here I am set.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF And here I stand: judge, my masters.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Now, Harry, whence come you?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My noble lord, from Eastcheap.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY The complaints I hear of thee are grievous.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Sblood, my lord, they are false: nay, I'll tickle\n" + " ye for a young prince, i' faith.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Swearest thou, ungracious boy? henceforth ne'er look\n" + " on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace:\n" + " there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an\n" + " old fat man; a tun of man is thy companion. Why\n" + " dost thou converse with that trunk of humours, that\n" + " bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel\n" + " of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed\n" + " cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with\n" + " the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that\n" + " grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in\n" + " years? Wherein is he good, but to taste sack and\n" + " drink it? wherein neat and cleanly, but to carve a\n" + " capon and eat it? wherein cunning, but in craft?\n" + " wherein crafty, but in villany? wherein villanous,\n" + " but in all things? wherein worthy, but in nothing?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would your grace would take me with you: whom\n" + " means your grace?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY That villanous abominable misleader of youth,\n" + " Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord, the man I know.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I know thou dost.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF But to say I know more harm in him than in myself,\n" + " were to say more than I know. That he is old, the\n" + " more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but\n" + " that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster,\n" + " that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault,\n" + " God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a\n" + " sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if\n" + " to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine\n" + " are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto,\n" + " banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack\n" + " Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff,\n" + " valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant,\n" + " being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him\n" + " thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's\n" + " company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I do, I will.\n\n" + " [A knocking heard]\n\n" + " [Exeunt Hostess, FRANCIS, and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " [Re-enter BARDOLPH, running]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH O, my lord, my lord! the sheriff with a most\n" + " monstrous watch is at the door.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Out, ye rogue! Play out the play: I have much to\n" + " say in the behalf of that Falstaff.\n\n" + " [Re-enter the Hostess]\n\n" + "Hostess O Jesu, my lord, my lord!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Heigh, heigh! the devil rides upon a fiddlestick:\n" + " what's the matter?\n\n" + "Hostess The sheriff and all the watch are at the door: they\n" + " are come to search the house. Shall I let them in?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Dost thou hear, Hal? never call a true piece of\n" + " gold a counterfeit: thou art essentially mad,\n" + " without seeming so.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY And thou a natural coward, without instinct.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I deny your major: if you will deny the sheriff,\n" + " so; if not, let him enter: if I become not a cart\n" + " as well as another man, a plague on my bringing up!\n" + " I hope I shall as soon be strangled with a halter as another.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Go, hide thee behind the arras: the rest walk up\n" + " above. Now, my masters, for a true face and good\n" + " conscience.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Both which I have had: but their date is out, and\n" + " therefore I'll hide me.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Call in the sheriff.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except PRINCE HENRY and PETO]\n\n" + " [Enter Sheriff and the Carrier]\n\n" + " Now, master sheriff, what is your will with me?\n\n" + "Sheriff First, pardon me, my lord. A hue and cry\n" + " Hath follow'd certain men unto this house.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What men?\n\n" + "Sheriff One of them is well known, my gracious lord,\n" + " A gross fat man.\n\n" + "Carrier As fat as butter.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY The man, I do assure you, is not here;\n" + " For I myself at this time have employ'd him.\n" + " And, sheriff, I will engage my word to thee\n" + " That I will, by to-morrow dinner-time,\n" + " Send him to answer thee, or any man,\n" + " For any thing he shall be charged withal:\n" + " And so let me entreat you leave the house.\n\n" + "Sheriff I will, my lord. There are two gentlemen\n" + " Have in this robbery lost three hundred marks.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY It may be so: if he have robb'd these men,\n" + " He shall be answerable; and so farewell.\n\n" + "Sheriff Good night, my noble lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I think it is good morrow, is it not?\n\n" + "Sheriff Indeed, my lord, I think it be two o'clock.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Sheriff and Carrier]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY This oily rascal is known as well as Paul's. Go,\n" + " call him forth.\n\n" + "PETO Falstaff!--Fast asleep behind the arras, and\n" + " snorting like a horse.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Hark, how hard he fetches breath. Search his pockets.\n\n" + " [He searcheth his pockets, and findeth certain papers]\n\n" + " What hast thou found?\n\n" + "PETO Nothing but papers, my lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Let's see what they be: read them.\n\n" + "PETO [Reads] Item, A capon,. . 2s. 2d.\n" + " Item, Sauce,. . . 4d.\n" + " Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. 8d.\n" + " Item, Anchovies and sack after supper, 2s. 6d.\n" + " Item, Bread, ob.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O monstrous! but one half-penny-worth of bread to\n" + " this intolerable deal of sack! What there is else,\n" + " keep close; we'll read it at more advantage: there\n" + " let him sleep till day. I'll to the court in the\n" + " morning. We must all to the wars, and thy place\n" + " shall be honourable. I'll procure this fat rogue a\n" + " charge of foot; and I know his death will be a\n" + " march of twelve-score. The money shall be paid\n" + " back again with advantage. Be with me betimes in\n" + " the morning; and so, good morrow, Peto.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + "PETO Good morrow, good my lord.\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Bangor. The Archdeacon's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, MORTIMER, and GLENDOWER]\n\n" + "MORTIMER These promises are fair, the parties sure,\n" + " And our induction full of prosperous hope.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Lord Mortimer, and cousin Glendower,\n" + " Will you sit down?\n" + " And uncle Worcester: a plague upon it!\n" + " I have forgot the map.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER No, here it is.\n" + " Sit, cousin Percy; sit, good cousin Hotspur,\n" + " For by that name as oft as Lancaster\n" + " Doth speak of you, his cheek looks pale and with\n" + " A rising sigh he wisheth you in heaven.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR And you in hell, as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER I cannot blame him: at my nativity\n" + " The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,\n" + " Of burning cressets; and at my birth\n" + " The frame and huge foundation of the earth\n" + " Shaked like a coward.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Why, so it would have done at the same season, if\n" + " your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself\n" + " had never been born.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER I say the earth did shake when I was born.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR And I say the earth was not of my mind,\n" + " If you suppose as fearing you it shook.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER The heavens were all on fire, the earth did tremble.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR O, then the earth shook to see the heavens on fire,\n" + " And not in fear of your nativity.\n" + " Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth\n" + " In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth\n" + " Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd\n" + " By the imprisoning of unruly wind\n" + " Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,\n" + " Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down\n" + " Steeples and moss-grown towers. At your birth\n" + " Our grandam earth, having this distemperature,\n" + " In passion shook.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Cousin, of many men\n" + " I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave\n" + " To tell you once again that at my birth\n" + " The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,\n" + " The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds\n" + " Were strangely clamorous to the frighted fields.\n" + " These signs have mark'd me extraordinary;\n" + " And all the courses of my life do show\n" + " I am not in the roll of common men.\n" + " Where is he living, clipp'd in with the sea\n" + " That chides the banks of England, Scotland, Wales,\n" + " Which calls me pupil, or hath read to me?\n" + " And bring him out that is but woman's son\n" + " Can trace me in the tedious ways of art\n" + " And hold me pace in deep experiments.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I think there's no man speaks better Welsh.\n" + " I'll to dinner.\n\n" + "MORTIMER Peace, cousin Percy; you will make him mad.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER I can call spirits from the vasty deep.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Why, so can I, or so can any man;\n" + " But will they come when you do call for them?\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Why, I can teach you, cousin, to command\n" + " The devil.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil\n" + " By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.\n" + " If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,\n" + " And I'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.\n" + " O, while you live, tell truth and shame the devil!\n\n" + "MORTIMER Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head\n" + " Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye\n" + " And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him\n" + " Bootless home and weather-beaten back.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Home without boots, and in foul weather too!\n" + " How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right\n" + " According to our threefold order ta'en?\n\n" + "MORTIMER The archdeacon hath divided it\n" + " Into three limits very equally:\n" + " England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,\n" + " By south and east is to my part assign'd:\n" + " All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,\n" + " And all the fertile land within that bound,\n" + " To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you\n" + " The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.\n" + " And our indentures tripartite are drawn;\n" + " Which being sealed interchangeably,\n" + " A business that this night may execute,\n" + " To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I\n" + " And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth\n" + " To meet your father and the Scottish power,\n" + " As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.\n" + " My father Glendower is not ready yet,\n" + " Not shall we need his help these fourteen days.\n" + " Within that space you may have drawn together\n" + " Your tenants, friends and neighbouring gentlemen.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:\n" + " And in my conduct shall your ladies come;\n" + " From whom you now must steal and take no leave,\n" + " For there will be a world of water shed\n" + " Upon the parting of your wives and you.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,\n" + " In quantity equals not one of yours:\n" + " See how this river comes me cranking in,\n" + " And cuts me from the best of all my land\n" + " A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.\n" + " I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;\n" + " And here the smug and silver Trent shall run\n" + " In a new channel, fair and evenly;\n" + " It shall not wind with such a deep indent,\n" + " To rob me of so rich a bottom here.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth.\n\n" + "MORTIMER Yea, but\n" + " Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up\n" + " With like advantage on the other side;\n" + " Gelding the opposed continent as much\n" + " As on the other side it takes from you.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Yea, but a little charge will trench him here\n" + " And on this north side win this cape of land;\n" + " And then he runs straight and even.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I'll have it so: a little charge will do it.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER I'll not have it alter'd.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Will not you?\n\n" + "GLENDOWER No, nor you shall not.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Who shall say me nay?\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Why, that will I.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Let me not understand you, then; speak it in Welsh.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER I can speak English, lord, as well as you;\n" + " For I was train'd up in the English court;\n" + " Where, being but young, I framed to the harp\n" + " Many an English ditty lovely well\n" + " And gave the tongue a helpful ornament,\n" + " A virtue that was never seen in you.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Marry,\n" + " And I am glad of it with all my heart:\n" + " I had rather be a kitten and cry mew\n" + " Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers;\n" + " I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd,\n" + " Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree;\n" + " And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,\n" + " Nothing so much as mincing poetry:\n" + " 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Come, you shall have Trent turn'd.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I do not care: I'll give thrice so much land\n" + " To any well-deserving friend;\n" + " But in the way of bargain, mark ye me,\n" + " I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.\n" + " Are the indentures drawn? shall we be gone?\n\n" + "GLENDOWER The moon shines fair; you may away by night:\n" + " I'll haste the writer and withal\n" + " Break with your wives of your departure hence:\n" + " I am afraid my daughter will run mad,\n" + " So much she doteth on her Mortimer.\n\n" + " [Exit GLENDOWER]\n\n" + "MORTIMER Fie, cousin Percy! how you cross my father!\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I cannot choose: sometime he angers me\n" + " With telling me of the mouldwarp and the ant,\n" + " Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies,\n" + " And of a dragon and a finless fish,\n" + " A clip-wing'd griffin and a moulten raven,\n" + " A couching lion and a ramping cat,\n" + " And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff\n" + " As puts me from my faith. I tell you what;\n" + " He held me last night at least nine hours\n" + " In reckoning up the several devils' names\n" + " That were his lackeys: I cried 'hum,' and 'well, go to,'\n" + " But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious\n" + " As a tired horse, a railing wife;\n" + " Worse than a smoky house: I had rather live\n" + " With cheese and garlic in a windmill, far,\n" + " Than feed on cates and have him talk to me\n" + " In any summer-house in Christendom.\n\n" + "MORTIMER In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,\n" + " Exceedingly well read, and profited\n" + " In strange concealments, valiant as a lion\n" + " And as wondrous affable and as bountiful\n" + " As mines of India. Shall I tell you, cousin?\n" + " He holds your temper in a high respect\n" + " And curbs himself even of his natural scope\n" + " When you come 'cross his humour; faith, he does:\n" + " I warrant you, that man is not alive\n" + " Might so have tempted him as you have done,\n" + " Without the taste of danger and reproof:\n" + " But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER In faith, my lord, you are too wilful-blame;\n" + " And since your coming hither have done enough\n" + " To put him quite beside his patience.\n" + " You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault:\n" + " Though sometimes it show greatness, courage, blood,--\n" + " And that's the dearest grace it renders you,--\n" + " Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage,\n" + " Defect of manners, want of government,\n" + " Pride, haughtiness, opinion and disdain:\n" + " The least of which haunting a nobleman\n" + " Loseth men's hearts and leaves behind a stain\n" + " Upon the beauty of all parts besides,\n" + " Beguiling them of commendation.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Well, I am school'd: good manners be your speed!\n" + " Here come our wives, and let us take our leave.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GLENDOWER with the ladies]\n\n" + "MORTIMER This is the deadly spite that angers me;\n" + " My wife can speak no English, I no Welsh.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER My daughter weeps: she will not part with you;\n" + " She'll be a soldier too, she'll to the wars.\n\n" + "MORTIMER Good father, tell her that she and my aunt Percy\n" + " Shall follow in your conduct speedily.\n\n" + " [Glendower speaks to her in Welsh, and she\n" + " answers him in the same]\n\n" + "GLENDOWER She is desperate here; a peevish self-wind harlotry,\n" + " one that no persuasion can do good upon.\n\n" + " [The lady speaks in Welsh]\n\n" + "MORTIMER I understand thy looks: that pretty Welsh\n" + " Which thou pour'st down from these swelling heavens\n" + " I am too perfect in; and, but for shame,\n" + " In such a parley should I answer thee.\n\n" + " [The lady speaks again in Welsh]\n\n" + " I understand thy kisses and thou mine,\n" + " And that's a feeling disputation:\n" + " But I will never be a truant, love,\n" + " Till I have learned thy language; for thy tongue\n" + " Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd,\n" + " Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower,\n" + " With ravishing division, to her lute.\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Nay, if you melt, then will she run mad.\n\n" + " [The lady speaks again in Welsh]\n\n" + "MORTIMER O, I am ignorance itself in this!\n\n" + "GLENDOWER She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down\n" + " And rest your gentle head upon her lap,\n" + " And she will sing the song that pleaseth you\n" + " And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep.\n" + " Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness,\n" + " Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep\n" + " As is the difference betwixt day and night\n" + " The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team\n" + " Begins his golden progress in the east.\n\n" + "MORTIMER With all my heart I'll sit and hear her sing:\n" + " By that time will our book, I think, be drawn\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Do so;\n" + " And those musicians that shall play to you\n" + " Hang in the air a thousand leagues from hence,\n" + " And straight they shall be here: sit, and attend.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down: come,\n" + " quick, quick, that I may lay my head in thy lap.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Go, ye giddy goose.\n\n" + " [The music plays]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Now I perceive the devil understands Welsh;\n" + " And 'tis no marvel he is so humorous.\n" + " By'r lady, he is a good musician.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Then should you be nothing but musical for you are\n" + " altogether governed by humours. Lie still, ye thief,\n" + " and hear the lady sing in Welsh.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I had rather hear Lady, my brach, howl in Irish.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Wouldst thou have thy head broken?\n\n" + "HOTSPUR No.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Then be still.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Neither;'tis a woman's fault.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Now God help thee!\n\n" + "HOTSPUR To the Welsh lady's bed.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY What's that?\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Peace! she sings.\n\n" + " [Here the lady sings a Welsh song]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Come, Kate, I'll have your song too.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY Not mine, in good sooth.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Not yours, in good sooth! Heart! you swear like a\n" + " comfit-maker's wife. 'Not you, in good sooth,' and\n" + " 'as true as I live,' and 'as God shall mend me,' and\n" + " 'as sure as day,'\n" + " And givest such sarcenet surety for thy oaths,\n" + " As if thou never walk'st further than Finsbury.\n" + " Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art,\n" + " A good mouth-filling oath, and leave 'in sooth,'\n" + " And such protest of pepper-gingerbread,\n" + " To velvet-guards and Sunday-citizens.\n" + " Come, sing.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY I will not sing.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be red-breast\n" + " teacher. An the indentures be drawn, I'll away\n" + " within these two hours; and so, come in when ye will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GLENDOWER Come, come, Lord Mortimer; you are as slow\n" + " As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.\n" + " By this our book is drawn; we'll but seal,\n" + " And then to horse immediately.\n\n" + "MORTIMER With all my heart.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE HENRY, and others]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I\n" + " Must have some private conference; but be near at hand,\n" + " For we shall presently have need of you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Lords]\n\n" + " I know not whether God will have it so,\n" + " For some displeasing service I have done,\n" + " That, in his secret doom, out of my blood\n" + " He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;\n" + " But thou dost in thy passages of life\n" + " Make me believe that thou art only mark'd\n" + " For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven\n" + " To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,\n" + " Could such inordinate and low desires,\n" + " Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean attempts,\n" + " Such barren pleasures, rude society,\n" + " As thou art match'd withal and grafted to,\n" + " Accompany the greatness of thy blood\n" + " And hold their level with thy princely heart?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY So please your majesty, I would I could\n" + " Quit all offences with as clear excuse\n" + " As well as I am doubtless I can purge\n" + " Myself of many I am charged withal:\n" + " Yet such extenuation let me beg,\n" + " As, in reproof of many tales devised,\n" + " which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,\n" + " By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,\n" + " I may, for some things true, wherein my youth\n" + " Hath faulty wander'd and irregular,\n" + " Find pardon on my true submission.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV God pardon thee! yet let me wonder, Harry,\n" + " At thy affections, which do hold a wing\n" + " Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.\n" + " Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost.\n" + " Which by thy younger brother is supplied,\n" + " And art almost an alien to the hearts\n" + " Of all the court and princes of my blood:\n" + " The hope and expectation of thy time\n" + " Is ruin'd, and the soul of every man\n" + " Prophetically doth forethink thy fall.\n" + " Had I so lavish of my presence been,\n" + " So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men,\n" + " So stale and cheap to vulgar company,\n" + " Opinion, that did help me to the crown,\n" + " Had still kept loyal to possession\n" + " And left me in reputeless banishment,\n" + " A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.\n" + " By being seldom seen, I could not stir\n" + " But like a comet I was wonder'd at;\n" + " That men would tell their children 'This is he;'\n" + " Others would say 'Where, which is Bolingbroke?'\n" + " And then I stole all courtesy from heaven,\n" + " And dress'd myself in such humility\n" + " That I did pluck allegiance from men's hearts,\n" + " Loud shouts and salutations from their mouths,\n" + " Even in the presence of the crowned king.\n" + " Thus did I keep my person fresh and new;\n" + " My presence, like a robe pontifical,\n" + " Ne'er seen but wonder'd at: and so my state,\n" + " Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast\n" + " And won by rareness such solemnity.\n" + " The skipping king, he ambled up and down\n" + " With shallow jesters and rash bavin wits,\n" + " Soon kindled and soon burnt; carded his state,\n" + " Mingled his royalty with capering fools,\n" + " Had his great name profaned with their scorns\n" + " And gave his countenance, against his name,\n" + " To laugh at gibing boys and stand the push\n" + " Of every beardless vain comparative,\n" + " Grew a companion to the common streets,\n" + " Enfeoff'd himself to popularity;\n" + " That, being daily swallow'd by men's eyes,\n" + " They surfeited with honey and began\n" + " To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little\n" + " More than a little is by much too much.\n" + " So when he had occasion to be seen,\n" + " He was but as the cuckoo is in June,\n" + " Heard, not regarded; seen, but with such eyes\n" + " As, sick and blunted with community,\n" + " Afford no extraordinary gaze,\n" + " Such as is bent on sun-like majesty\n" + " When it shines seldom in admiring eyes;\n" + " But rather drowzed and hung their eyelids down,\n" + " Slept in his face and render'd such aspect\n" + " As cloudy men use to their adversaries,\n" + " Being with his presence glutted, gorged and full.\n" + " And in that very line, Harry, standest thou;\n" + " For thou has lost thy princely privilege\n" + " With vile participation: not an eye\n" + " But is a-weary of thy common sight,\n" + " Save mine, which hath desired to see thee more;\n" + " Which now doth that I would not have it do,\n" + " Make blind itself with foolish tenderness.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I shall hereafter, my thrice gracious lord,\n" + " Be more myself.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV For all the world\n" + " As thou art to this hour was Richard then\n" + " When I from France set foot at Ravenspurgh,\n" + " And even as I was then is Percy now.\n" + " Now, by my sceptre and my soul to boot,\n" + " He hath more worthy interest to the state\n" + " Than thou the shadow of succession;\n" + " For of no right, nor colour like to right,\n" + " He doth fill fields with harness in the realm,\n" + " Turns head against the lion's armed jaws,\n" + " And, being no more in debt to years than thou,\n" + " Leads ancient lords and reverend bishops on\n" + " To bloody battles and to bruising arms.\n" + " What never-dying honour hath he got\n" + " Against renowned Douglas! whose high deeds,\n" + " Whose hot incursions and great name in arms\n" + " Holds from all soldiers chief majority\n" + " And military title capital\n" + " Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge Christ:\n" + " Thrice hath this Hotspur, Mars in swathling clothes,\n" + " This infant warrior, in his enterprises\n" + " Discomfited great Douglas, ta'en him once,\n" + " Enlarged him and made a friend of him,\n" + " To fill the mouth of deep defiance up\n" + " And shake the peace and safety of our throne.\n" + " And what say you to this? Percy, Northumberland,\n" + " The Archbishop's grace of York, Douglas, Mortimer,\n" + " Capitulate against us and are up.\n" + " But wherefore do I tell these news to thee?\n" + " Why, Harry, do I tell thee of my foes,\n" + " Which art my near'st and dearest enemy?\n" + " Thou that art like enough, through vassal fear,\n" + " Base inclination and the start of spleen\n" + " To fight against me under Percy's pay,\n" + " To dog his heels and curtsy at his frowns,\n" + " To show how much thou art degenerate.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Do not think so; you shall not find it so:\n" + " And God forgive them that so much have sway'd\n" + " Your majesty's good thoughts away from me!\n" + " I will redeem all this on Percy's head\n" + " And in the closing of some glorious day\n" + " Be bold to tell you that I am your son;\n" + " When I will wear a garment all of blood\n" + " And stain my favours in a bloody mask,\n" + " Which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it:\n" + " And that shall be the day, whene'er it lights,\n" + " That this same child of honour and renown,\n" + " This gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight,\n" + " And your unthought-of Harry chance to meet.\n" + " For every honour sitting on his helm,\n" + " Would they were multitudes, and on my head\n" + " My shames redoubled! for the time will come,\n" + " That I shall make this northern youth exchange\n" + " His glorious deeds for my indignities.\n" + " Percy is but my factor, good my lord,\n" + " To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf;\n" + " And I will call him to so strict account,\n" + " That he shall render every glory up,\n" + " Yea, even the slightest worship of his time,\n" + " Or I will tear the reckoning from his heart.\n" + " This, in the name of God, I promise here:\n" + " The which if He be pleased I shall perform,\n" + " I do beseech your majesty may salve\n" + " The long-grown wounds of my intemperance:\n" + " If not, the end of life cancels all bands;\n" + " And I will die a hundred thousand deaths\n" + " Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV A hundred thousand rebels die in this:\n" + " Thou shalt have charge and sovereign trust herein.\n\n" + " [Enter BLUNT]\n\n" + " How now, good Blunt? thy looks are full of speed.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT So hath the business that I come to speak of.\n" + " Lord Mortimer of Scotland hath sent word\n" + " That Douglas and the English rebels met\n" + " The eleventh of this month at Shrewsbury\n" + " A mighty and a fearful head they are,\n" + " If promises be kept on every hand,\n" + " As ever offer'd foul play in the state.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV The Earl of Westmoreland set forth to-day;\n" + " With him my son, Lord John of Lancaster;\n" + " For this advertisement is five days old:\n" + " On Wednesday next, Harry, you shall set forward;\n" + " On Thursday we ourselves will march: our meeting\n" + " Is Bridgenorth: and, Harry, you shall march\n" + " Through Gloucestershire; by which account,\n" + " Our business valued, some twelve days hence\n" + " Our general forces at Bridgenorth shall meet.\n" + " Our hands are full of business: let's away;\n" + " Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Eastcheap. The Boar's-Head Tavern.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since this last\n" + " action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why my\n" + " skin hangs about me like an like an old lady's loose\n" + " gown; I am withered like an old apple-john. Well,\n" + " I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some\n" + " liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I\n" + " shall have no strength to repent. An I have not\n" + " forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I\n" + " am a peppercorn, a brewer's horse: the inside of a\n" + " church! Company, villanous company, hath been the\n" + " spoil of me.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Sir John, you are so fretful, you cannot live long.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, there is it: come sing me a bawdy song; make\n" + " me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman\n" + " need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not\n" + " above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once\n" + " in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I\n" + " borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in\n" + " good compass: and now I live out of all order, out\n" + " of all compass.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Why, you are so fat, Sir John, that you must needs\n" + " be out of all compass, out of all reasonable\n" + " compass, Sir John.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life:\n" + " thou art our admiral, thou bearest the lantern in\n" + " the poop, but 'tis in the nose of thee; thou art the\n" + " Knight of the Burning Lamp.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Why, Sir John, my face does you no harm.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No, I'll be sworn; I make as good use of it as many\n" + " a man doth of a Death's-head or a memento mori: I\n" + " never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire and\n" + " Dives that lived in purple; for there he is in his\n" + " robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any way\n" + " given to virtue, I would swear by thy face; my oath\n" + " should be 'By this fire, that's God's angel:' but\n" + " thou art altogether given over; and wert indeed, but\n" + " for the light in thy face, the son of utter\n" + " darkness. When thou rannest up Gadshill in the\n" + " night to catch my horse, if I did not think thou\n" + " hadst been an ignis fatuus or a ball of wildfire,\n" + " there's no purchase in money. O, thou art a\n" + " perpetual triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light!\n" + " Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in links and\n" + " torches, walking with thee in the night betwixt\n" + " tavern and tavern: but the sack that thou hast\n" + " drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap\n" + " at the dearest chandler's in Europe. I have\n" + " maintained that salamander of yours with fire any\n" + " time this two and thirty years; God reward me for\n" + " it!\n\n" + "BARDOLPH 'Sblood, I would my face were in your belly!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF God-a-mercy! so should I be sure to be heart-burned.\n\n" + " [Enter Hostess]\n\n" + " How now, Dame Partlet the hen! have you inquired\n" + " yet who picked my pocket?\n\n" + "Hostess Why, Sir John, what do you think, Sir John? do you\n" + " think I keep thieves in my house? I have searched,\n" + " I have inquired, so has my husband, man by man, boy\n" + " by boy, servant by servant: the tithe of a hair\n" + " was never lost in my house before.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ye lie, hostess: Bardolph was shaved and lost many\n" + " a hair; and I'll be sworn my pocket was picked. Go\n" + " to, you are a woman, go.\n\n" + "Hostess Who, I? no; I defy thee: God's light, I was never\n" + " called so in mine own house before.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Go to, I know you well enough.\n\n" + "Hostess No, Sir John; You do not know me, Sir John. I know\n" + " you, Sir John: you owe me money, Sir John; and now\n" + " you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it: I bought\n" + " you a dozen of shirts to your back.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Dowlas, filthy dowlas: I have given them away to\n" + " bakers' wives, and they have made bolters of them.\n\n" + "Hostess Now, as I am a true woman, holland of eight\n" + " shillings an ell. You owe money here besides, Sir\n" + " John, for your diet and by-drinkings, and money lent\n" + " you, four and twenty pound.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF He had his part of it; let him pay.\n\n" + "Hostess He? alas, he is poor; he hath nothing.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF How! poor? look upon his face; what call you rich?\n" + " let them coin his nose, let them coin his cheeks:\n" + " Ill not pay a denier. What, will you make a younker\n" + " of me? shall I not take mine case in mine inn but I\n" + " shall have my pocket picked? I have lost a\n" + " seal-ring of my grandfather's worth forty mark.\n\n" + "Hostess O Jesu, I have heard the prince tell him, I know not\n" + " how oft, that ring was copper!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF How! the prince is a Jack, a sneak-cup: 'sblood, an\n" + " he were here, I would cudgel him like a dog, if he\n" + " would say so.\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE HENRY and PETO, marching, and FALSTAFF\n" + " meets them playing on his truncheon like a life]\n\n" + " How now, lad! is the wind in that door, i' faith?\n" + " must we all march?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Yea, two and two, Newgate fashion.\n\n" + "Hostess My lord, I pray you, hear me.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What sayest thou, Mistress Quickly? How doth thy\n" + " husband? I love him well; he is an honest man.\n\n" + "Hostess Good my lord, hear me.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Prithee, let her alone, and list to me.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What sayest thou, Jack?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF The other night I fell asleep here behind the arras\n" + " and had my pocket picked: this house is turned\n" + " bawdy-house; they pick pockets.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What didst thou lose, Jack?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Wilt thou believe me, Hal? three or four bonds of\n" + " forty pound apiece, and a seal-ring of my\n" + " grandfather's.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY A trifle, some eight-penny matter.\n\n" + "Hostess So I told him, my lord; and I said I heard your\n" + " grace say so: and, my lord, he speaks most vilely\n" + " of you, like a foul-mouthed man as he is; and said\n" + " he would cudgel you.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What! he did not?\n\n" + "Hostess There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in me else.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed\n" + " prune; nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn\n" + " fox; and for womanhood, Maid Marian may be the\n" + " deputy's wife of the ward to thee. Go, you thing,\n" + " go\n\n" + "Hostess Say, what thing? what thing?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What thing! why, a thing to thank God on.\n\n" + "Hostess I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou\n" + " shouldst know it; I am an honest man's wife: and,\n" + " setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to\n" + " call me so.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast to say\n" + " otherwise.\n\n" + "Hostess Say, what beast, thou knave, thou?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What beast! why, an otter.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY An otter, Sir John! Why an otter?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, she's neither fish nor flesh; a man knows not\n" + " where to have her.\n\n" + "Hostess Thou art an unjust man in saying so: thou or any\n" + " man knows where to have me, thou knave, thou!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou sayest true, hostess; and he slanders thee most grossly.\n\n" + "Hostess So he doth you, my lord; and said this other day you\n" + " ought him a thousand pound.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Sirrah, do I owe you a thousand pound?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A thousand pound, Ha! a million: thy love is worth\n" + " a million: thou owest me thy love.\n\n" + "Hostess Nay, my lord, he called you Jack, and said he would\n" + " cudgel you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Did I, Bardolph?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Indeed, Sir John, you said so.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Yea, if he said my ring was copper.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I say 'tis copper: darest thou be as good as thy word now?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, Hal, thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare:\n" + " but as thou art prince, I fear thee as I fear the\n" + " roaring of a lion's whelp.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY And why not as the lion?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF The king is to be feared as the lion: dost thou\n" + " think I'll fear thee as I fear thy father? nay, an\n" + " I do, I pray God my girdle break.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O, if it should, how would thy guts fall about thy\n" + " knees! But, sirrah, there's no room for faith,\n" + " truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine; it is all\n" + " filled up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest\n" + " woman with picking thy pocket! why, thou whoreson,\n" + " impudent, embossed rascal, if there were anything in\n" + " thy pocket but tavern-reckonings, memorandums of\n" + " bawdy-houses, and one poor penny-worth of\n" + " sugar-candy to make thee long-winded, if thy pocket\n" + " were enriched with any other injuries but these, I\n" + " am a villain: and yet you will stand to if; you will\n" + " not pocket up wrong: art thou not ashamed?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest in the state of\n" + " innocency Adam fell; and what should poor Jack\n" + " Falstaff do in the days of villany? Thou seest I\n" + " have more flesh than another man, and therefore more\n" + " frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY It appears so by the story.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hostess, I forgive thee: go, make ready breakfast;\n" + " love thy husband, look to thy servants, cherish thy\n" + " guests: thou shalt find me tractable to any honest\n" + " reason: thou seest I am pacified still. Nay,\n" + " prithee, be gone.\n\n" + " [Exit Hostess]\n\n" + " Now Hal, to the news at court: for the robbery,\n" + " lad, how is that answered?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O, my sweet beef, I must still be good angel to\n" + " thee: the money is paid back again.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF O, I do not like that paying back; 'tis a double labour.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I am good friends with my father and may do any thing.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Rob me the exchequer the first thing thou doest, and\n" + " do it with unwashed hands too.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Do, my lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I have procured thee, Jack, a charge of foot.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would it had been of horse. Where shall I find\n" + " one that can steal well? O for a fine thief, of the\n" + " age of two and twenty or thereabouts! I am\n" + " heinously unprovided. Well, God be thanked for\n" + " these rebels, they offend none but the virtuous: I\n" + " laud them, I praise them.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Bardolph!\n\n" + "BARDOLPH My lord?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Go bear this letter to Lord John of Lancaster, to my\n" + " brother John; this to my Lord of Westmoreland.\n\n" + " [Exit Bardolph]\n\n" + " Go, Peto, to horse, to horse; for thou and I have\n" + " thirty miles to ride yet ere dinner time.\n\n" + " [Exit Peto]\n\n" + " Jack, meet me to-morrow in the temple hall at two\n" + " o'clock in the afternoon.\n" + " There shalt thou know thy charge; and there receive\n" + " Money and order for their furniture.\n" + " The land is burning; Percy stands on high;\n" + " And either we or they must lower lie.\n\n" + " [Exit PRINCE HENRY]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Rare words! brave world! Hostess, my breakfast, come!\n" + " O, I could wish this tavern were my drum!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, and DOUGLAS]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth\n" + " In this fine age were not thought flattery,\n" + " Such attribution should the Douglas have,\n" + " As not a soldier of this season's stamp\n" + " Should go so general current through the world.\n" + " By God, I cannot flatter; I do defy\n" + " The tongues of soothers; but a braver place\n" + " In my heart's love hath no man than yourself:\n" + " Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Thou art the king of honour:\n" + " No man so potent breathes upon the ground\n" + " But I will beard him.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Do so, and 'tis well.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger with letters]\n\n" + " What letters hast thou there?--I can but thank you.\n\n" + "Messenger These letters come from your father.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Letters from him! why comes he not himself?\n\n" + "Messenger He cannot come, my lord; he is grievous sick.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR 'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick\n" + " In such a rustling time? Who leads his power?\n" + " Under whose government come they along?\n\n" + "Messenger His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed?\n\n" + "Messenger He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth;\n" + " And at the time of my departure thence\n" + " He was much fear'd by his physicians.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER I would the state of time had first been whole\n" + " Ere he by sickness had been visited:\n" + " His health was never better worth than now.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Sick now! droop now! this sickness doth infect\n" + " The very life-blood of our enterprise;\n" + " 'Tis catching hither, even to our camp.\n" + " He writes me here, that inward sickness--\n" + " And that his friends by deputation could not\n" + " So soon be drawn, nor did he think it meet\n" + " To lay so dangerous and dear a trust\n" + " On any soul removed but on his own.\n" + " Yet doth he give us bold advertisement,\n" + " That with our small conjunction we should on,\n" + " To see how fortune is disposed to us;\n" + " For, as he writes, there is no quailing now.\n" + " Because the king is certainly possess'd\n" + " Of all our purposes. What say you to it?\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Your father's sickness is a maim to us.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd off:\n" + " And yet, in faith, it is not; his present want\n" + " Seems more than we shall find it: were it good\n" + " To set the exact wealth of all our states\n" + " All at one cast? to set so rich a main\n" + " On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?\n" + " It were not good; for therein should we read\n" + " The very bottom and the soul of hope,\n" + " The very list, the very utmost bound\n" + " Of all our fortunes.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS 'Faith, and so we should;\n" + " Where now remains a sweet reversion:\n" + " We may boldly spend upon the hope of what\n" + " Is to come in:\n" + " A comfort of retirement lives in this.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR A rendezvous, a home to fly unto.\n" + " If that the devil and mischance look big\n" + " Upon the maidenhead of our affairs.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER But yet I would your father had been here.\n" + " The quality and hair of our attempt\n" + " Brooks no division: it will be thought\n" + " By some, that know not why he is away,\n" + " That wisdom, loyalty and mere dislike\n" + " Of our proceedings kept the earl from hence:\n" + " And think how such an apprehension\n" + " May turn the tide of fearful faction\n" + " And breed a kind of question in our cause;\n" + " For well you know we of the offering side\n" + " Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement,\n" + " And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence\n" + " The eye of reason may pry in upon us:\n" + " This absence of your father's draws a curtain,\n" + " That shows the ignorant a kind of fear\n" + " Before not dreamt of.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR You strain too far.\n" + " I rather of his absence make this use:\n" + " It lends a lustre and more great opinion,\n" + " A larger dare to our great enterprise,\n" + " Than if the earl were here; for men must think,\n" + " If we without his help can make a head\n" + " To push against a kingdom, with his help\n" + " We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvy down.\n" + " Yet all goes well, yet all our joints are whole.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS As heart can think: there is not such a word\n" + " Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR RICHARD VERNON]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR My cousin Vernon, welcome, by my soul.\n\n" + "VERNON Pray God my news be worth a welcome, lord.\n" + " The Earl of Westmoreland, seven thousand strong,\n" + " Is marching hitherwards; with him Prince John.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR No harm: what more?\n\n" + "VERNON And further, I have learn'd,\n" + " The king himself in person is set forth,\n" + " Or hitherwards intended speedily,\n" + " With strong and mighty preparation.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR He shall be welcome too. Where is his son,\n" + " The nimble-footed madcap Prince of Wales,\n" + " And his comrades, that daff'd the world aside,\n" + " And bid it pass?\n\n" + "VERNON All furnish'd, all in arms;\n" + " All plumed like estridges that with the wind\n" + " Baited like eagles having lately bathed;\n" + " Glittering in golden coats, like images;\n" + " As full of spirit as the month of May,\n" + " And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;\n" + " Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.\n" + " I saw young Harry, with his beaver on,\n" + " His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd\n" + " Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury,\n" + " And vaulted with such ease into his seat,\n" + " As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds,\n" + " To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus\n" + " And witch the world with noble horsemanship.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR No more, no more: worse than the sun in March,\n" + " This praise doth nourish agues. Let them come:\n" + " They come like sacrifices in their trim,\n" + " And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war\n" + " All hot and bleeding will we offer them:\n" + " The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit\n" + " Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire\n" + " To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh\n" + " And yet not ours. Come, let me taste my horse,\n" + " Who is to bear me like a thunderbolt\n" + " Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales:\n" + " Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse,\n" + " Meet and ne'er part till one drop down a corse.\n" + " O that Glendower were come!\n\n" + "VERNON There is more news:\n" + " I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along,\n" + " He cannot draw his power this fourteen days.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS That's the worst tidings that I hear of yet.\n\n" + "WORCESTER Ay, by my faith, that bears a frosty sound.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR What may the king's whole battle reach unto?\n\n" + "VERNON To thirty thousand.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Forty let it be:\n" + " My father and Glendower being both away,\n" + " The powers of us may serve so great a day\n" + " Come, let us take a muster speedily:\n" + " Doomsday is near; die all, die merrily.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Talk not of dying: I am out of fear\n" + " Of death or death's hand for this one-half year.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A public road near Coventry.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Bardolph, get thee before to Coventry; fill me a\n" + " bottle of sack: our soldiers shall march through;\n" + " we'll to Sutton Co'fil' tonight.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Will you give me money, captain?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Lay out, lay out.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH This bottle makes an angel.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF An if it do, take it for thy labour; and if it make\n" + " twenty, take them all; I'll answer the coinage. Bid\n" + " my lieutenant Peto meet me at town's end.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH I will, captain: farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF If I be not ashamed of my soldiers, I am a soused\n" + " gurnet. I have misused the king's press damnably.\n" + " I have got, in exchange of a hundred and fifty\n" + " soldiers, three hundred and odd pounds. I press me\n" + " none but good house-holders, yeoman's sons; inquire\n" + " me out contracted bachelors, such as had been asked\n" + " twice on the banns; such a commodity of warm slaves,\n" + " as had as lieve hear the devil as a drum; such as\n" + " fear the report of a caliver worse than a struck\n" + " fowl or a hurt wild-duck. I pressed me none but such\n" + " toasts-and-butter, with hearts in their bellies no\n" + " bigger than pins' heads, and they have bought out\n" + " their services; and now my whole charge consists of\n" + " ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gentlemen of\n" + " companies, slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the\n" + " painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his\n" + " sores; and such as indeed were never soldiers, but\n" + " discarded unjust serving-men, younger sons to\n" + " younger brothers, revolted tapsters and ostlers\n" + " trade-fallen, the cankers of a calm world and a\n" + " long peace, ten times more dishonourable ragged than\n" + " an old faced ancient: and such have I, to fill up\n" + " the rooms of them that have bought out their\n" + " services, that you would think that I had a hundred\n" + " and fifty tattered prodigals lately come from\n" + " swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad\n" + " fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded\n" + " all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye\n" + " hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march through\n" + " Coventry with them, that's flat: nay, and the\n" + " villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had\n" + " gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of\n" + " prison. There's but a shirt and a half in all my\n" + " company; and the half shirt is two napkins tacked\n" + " together and thrown over the shoulders like an\n" + " herald's coat without sleeves; and the shirt, to say\n" + " the truth, stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or\n" + " the red-nose innkeeper of Daventry. But that's all\n" + " one; they'll find linen enough on every hedge.\n\n" + " [Enter the PRINCE and WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How now, blown Jack! how now, quilt!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What, Hal! how now, mad wag! what a devil dost thou\n" + " in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmoreland, I\n" + " cry you mercy: I thought your honour had already been\n" + " at Shrewsbury.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Faith, Sir John,'tis more than time that I were\n" + " there, and you too; but my powers are there already.\n" + " The king, I can tell you, looks for us all: we must\n" + " away all night.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Tut, never fear me: I am as vigilant as a cat to\n" + " steal cream.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I think, to steal cream indeed, for thy theft hath\n" + " already made thee butter. But tell me, Jack, whose\n" + " fellows are these that come after?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mine, Hal, mine.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I did never see such pitiful rascals.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Tut, tut; good enough to toss; food for powder, food\n" + " for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better:\n" + " tush, man, mortal men, mortal men.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Ay, but, Sir John, methinks they are exceeding poor\n" + " and bare, too beggarly.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Faith, for their poverty, I know not where they had\n" + " that; and for their bareness, I am sure they never\n" + " learned that of me.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY No I'll be sworn; unless you call three fingers on\n" + " the ribs bare. But, sirrah, make haste: Percy is\n" + " already in the field.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What, is the king encamped?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND He is, Sir John: I fear we shall stay too long.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well,\n" + " To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feast\n" + " Fits a dull fighter and a keen guest.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The rebel camp near Shrewsbury.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, DOUGLAS, and VERNON]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR We'll fight with him to-night.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER It may not be.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS You give him then the advantage.\n\n" + "VERNON Not a whit.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Why say you so? looks he not for supply?\n\n" + "VERNON So do we.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR His is certain, ours is doubtful.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Good cousin, be advised; stir not tonight.\n\n" + "VERNON Do not, my lord.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS You do not counsel well:\n" + " You speak it out of fear and cold heart.\n\n" + "VERNON Do me no slander, Douglas: by my life,\n" + " And I dare well maintain it with my life,\n" + " If well-respected honour bid me on,\n" + " I hold as little counsel with weak fear\n" + " As you, my lord, or any Scot that this day lives:\n" + " Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle\n" + " Which of us fears.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Yea, or to-night.\n\n" + "VERNON Content.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR To-night, say I.\n\n" + "VERNON Come, come it nay not be. I wonder much,\n" + " Being men of such great leading as you are,\n" + " That you foresee not what impediments\n" + " Drag back our expedition: certain horse\n" + " Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up:\n" + " Your uncle Worcester's horse came but today;\n" + " And now their pride and mettle is asleep,\n" + " Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,\n" + " That not a horse is half the half of himself.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR So are the horses of the enemy\n" + " In general, journey-bated and brought low:\n" + " The better part of ours are full of rest.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER The number of the king exceedeth ours:\n" + " For God's sake. cousin, stay till all come in.\n\n" + " [The trumpet sounds a parley]\n\n" + " [Enter SIR WALTER BLUNT]\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT I come with gracious offers from the king,\n" + " if you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God\n" + " You were of our determination!\n" + " Some of us love you well; and even those some\n" + " Envy your great deservings and good name,\n" + " Because you are not of our quality,\n" + " But stand against us like an enemy.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT And God defend but still I should stand so,\n" + " So long as out of limit and true rule\n" + " You stand against anointed majesty.\n" + " But to my charge. The king hath sent to know\n" + " The nature of your griefs, and whereupon\n" + " You conjure from the breast of civil peace\n" + " Such bold hostility, teaching his duteous land\n" + " Audacious cruelty. If that the king\n" + " Have any way your good deserts forgot,\n" + " Which he confesseth to be manifold,\n" + " He bids you name your griefs; and with all speed\n" + " You shall have your desires with interest\n" + " And pardon absolute for yourself and these\n" + " Herein misled by your suggestion.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR The king is kind; and well we know the king\n" + " Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.\n" + " My father and my uncle and myself\n" + " Did give him that same royalty he wears;\n" + " And when he was not six and twenty strong,\n" + " Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,\n" + " A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,\n" + " My father gave him welcome to the shore;\n" + " And when he heard him swear and vow to God\n" + " He came but to be Duke of Lancaster,\n" + " To sue his livery and beg his peace,\n" + " With tears of innocency and terms of zeal,\n" + " My father, in kind heart and pity moved,\n" + " Swore him assistance and perform'd it too.\n" + " Now when the lords and barons of the realm\n" + " Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,\n" + " The more and less came in with cap and knee;\n" + " Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,\n" + " Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes,\n" + " Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,\n" + " Gave him their heirs, as pages follow'd him\n" + " Even at the heels in golden multitudes.\n" + " He presently, as greatness knows itself,\n" + " Steps me a little higher than his vow\n" + " Made to my father, while his blood was poor,\n" + " Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;\n" + " And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform\n" + " Some certain edicts and some strait decrees\n" + " That lie too heavy on the commonwealth,\n" + " Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep\n" + " Over his country's wrongs; and by this face,\n" + " This seeming brow of justice, did he win\n" + " The hearts of all that he did angle for;\n" + " Proceeded further; cut me off the heads\n" + " Of all the favourites that the absent king\n" + " In deputation left behind him here,\n" + " When he was personal in the Irish war.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT Tut, I came not to hear this.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Then to the point.\n" + " In short time after, he deposed the king;\n" + " Soon after that, deprived him of his life;\n" + " And in the neck of that, task'd the whole state:\n" + " To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,\n" + " Who is, if every owner were well placed,\n" + " Indeed his king, to be engaged in Wales,\n" + " There without ransom to lie forfeited;\n" + " Disgraced me in my happy victories,\n" + " Sought to entrap me by intelligence;\n" + " Rated mine uncle from the council-board;\n" + " In rage dismiss'd my father from the court;\n" + " Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong,\n" + " And in conclusion drove us to seek out\n" + " This head of safety; and withal to pry\n" + " Into his title, the which we find\n" + " Too indirect for long continuance.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT Shall I return this answer to the king?\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile.\n" + " Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd\n" + " Some surety for a safe return again,\n" + " And in the morning early shall my uncle\n" + " Bring him our purposes: and so farewell.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT I would you would accept of grace and love.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR And may be so we shall.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT Pray God you do.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV York. The ARCHBISHOP'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK and SIR MICHAEL]\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Hie, good Sir Michael; bear this sealed brief\n" + " With winged haste to the lord marshal;\n" + " This to my cousin Scroop, and all the rest\n" + " To whom they are directed. If you knew\n" + " How much they do to import, you would make haste.\n\n" + "SIR MICHAEL My good lord,\n" + " I guess their tenor.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Like enough you do.\n" + " To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day\n" + " Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men\n" + " Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury,\n" + " As I am truly given to understand,\n" + " The king with mighty and quick-raised power\n" + " Meets with Lord Harry: and, I fear, Sir Michael,\n" + " What with the sickness of Northumberland,\n" + " Whose power was in the first proportion,\n" + " And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,\n" + " Who with them was a rated sinew too\n" + " And comes not in, o'er-ruled by prophecies,\n" + " I fear the power of Percy is too weak\n" + " To wage an instant trial with the king.\n\n" + "SIR MICHAEL Why, my good lord, you need not fear;\n" + " There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK No, Mortimer is not there.\n\n" + "SIR MICHAEL But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,\n" + " And there is my Lord of Worcester and a head\n" + " Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK And so there is: but yet the king hath drawn\n" + " The special head of all the land together:\n" + " The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,\n" + " The noble Westmoreland and warlike Blunt;\n" + " And moe corrivals and dear men\n" + " Of estimation and command in arms.\n\n" + "SIR MICHAEL Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;\n" + " And, to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed:\n" + " For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king\n" + " Dismiss his power, he means to visit us,\n" + " For he hath heard of our confederacy,\n" + " And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him:\n" + " Therefore make haste. I must go write again\n" + " To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I KING HENRY IV's camp near Shrewsbury.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY, PRINCE HENRY, Lord John of\n" + " LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND, SIR WALTER BLUNT,\n" + " and FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV How bloodily the sun begins to peer\n" + " Above yon busky hill! the day looks pale\n" + " At his distemperature.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY The southern wind\n" + " Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,\n" + " And by his hollow whistling in the leaves\n" + " Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Then with the losers let it sympathize,\n" + " For nothing can seem foul to those that win.\n\n" + " [The trumpet sounds]\n\n" + " [Enter WORCESTER and VERNON]\n\n" + " How now, my Lord of Worcester! 'tis not well\n" + " That you and I should meet upon such terms\n" + " As now we meet. You have deceived our trust,\n" + " And made us doff our easy robes of peace,\n" + " To crush our old limbs in ungentle steel:\n" + " This is not well, my lord, this is not well.\n" + " What say you to it? will you again unknit\n" + " This curlish knot of all-abhorred war?\n" + " And move in that obedient orb again\n" + " Where you did give a fair and natural light,\n" + " And be no more an exhaled meteor,\n" + " A prodigy of fear and a portent\n" + " Of broached mischief to the unborn times?\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Hear me, my liege:\n" + " For mine own part, I could be well content\n" + " To entertain the lag-end of my life\n" + " With quiet hours; for I do protest,\n" + " I have not sought the day of this dislike.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV You have not sought it! how comes it, then?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Peace, chewet, peace!\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER It pleased your majesty to turn your looks\n" + " Of favour from myself and all our house;\n" + " And yet I must remember you, my lord,\n" + " We were the first and dearest of your friends.\n" + " For you my staff of office did I break\n" + " In Richard's time; and posted day and night\n" + " to meet you on the way, and kiss your hand,\n" + " When yet you were in place and in account\n" + " Nothing so strong and fortunate as I.\n" + " It was myself, my brother and his son,\n" + " That brought you home and boldly did outdare\n" + " The dangers of the time. You swore to us,\n" + " And you did swear that oath at Doncaster,\n" + " That you did nothing purpose 'gainst the state;\n" + " Nor claim no further than your new-fall'n right,\n" + " The seat of Gaunt, dukedom of Lancaster:\n" + " To this we swore our aid. But in short space\n" + " It rain'd down fortune showering on your head;\n" + " And such a flood of greatness fell on you,\n" + " What with our help, what with the absent king,\n" + " What with the injuries of a wanton time,\n" + " The seeming sufferances that you had borne,\n" + " And the contrarious winds that held the king\n" + " So long in his unlucky Irish wars\n" + " That all in England did repute him dead:\n" + " And from this swarm of fair advantages\n" + " You took occasion to be quickly woo'd\n" + " To gripe the general sway into your hand;\n" + " Forget your oath to us at Doncaster;\n" + " And being fed by us you used us so\n" + " As that ungentle hull, the cuckoo's bird,\n" + " Useth the sparrow; did oppress our nest;\n" + " Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk\n" + " That even our love durst not come near your sight\n" + " For fear of swallowing; but with nimble wing\n" + " We were enforced, for safety sake, to fly\n" + " Out of sight and raise this present head;\n" + " Whereby we stand opposed by such means\n" + " As you yourself have forged against yourself\n" + " By unkind usage, dangerous countenance,\n" + " And violation of all faith and troth\n" + " Sworn to us in your younger enterprise.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV These things indeed you have articulate,\n" + " Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches,\n" + " To face the garment of rebellion\n" + " With some fine colour that may please the eye\n" + " Of fickle changelings and poor discontents,\n" + " Which gape and rub the elbow at the news\n" + " Of hurlyburly innovation:\n" + " And never yet did insurrection want\n" + " Such water-colours to impaint his cause;\n" + " Nor moody beggars, starving for a time\n" + " Of pellmell havoc and confusion.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY In both your armies there is many a soul\n" + " Shall pay full dearly for this encounter,\n" + " If once they join in trial. Tell your nephew,\n" + " The Prince of Wales doth join with all the world\n" + " In praise of Henry Percy: by my hopes,\n" + " This present enterprise set off his head,\n" + " I do not think a braver gentleman,\n" + " More active-valiant or more valiant-young,\n" + " More daring or more bold, is now alive\n" + " To grace this latter age with noble deeds.\n" + " For my part, I may speak it to my shame,\n" + " I have a truant been to chivalry;\n" + " And so I hear he doth account me too;\n" + " Yet this before my father's majesty--\n" + " I am content that he shall take the odds\n" + " Of his great name and estimation,\n" + " And will, to save the blood on either side,\n" + " Try fortune with him in a single fight.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee,\n" + " Albeit considerations infinite\n" + " Do make against it. No, good Worcester, no,\n" + " We love our people well; even those we love\n" + " That are misled upon your cousin's part;\n" + " And, will they take the offer of our grace,\n" + " Both he and they and you, every man\n" + " Shall be my friend again and I'll be his:\n" + " So tell your cousin, and bring me word\n" + " What he will do: but if he will not yield,\n" + " Rebuke and dread correction wait on us\n" + " And they shall do their office. So, be gone;\n" + " We will not now be troubled with reply:\n" + " We offer fair; take it advisedly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY It will not be accepted, on my life:\n" + " The Douglas and the Hotspur both together\n" + " Are confident against the world in arms.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge;\n" + " For, on their answer, will we set on them:\n" + " And God befriend us, as our cause is just!\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but PRINCE HENRY and FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hal, if thou see me down in the battle and bestride\n" + " me, so; 'tis a point of friendship.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Nothing but a colossus can do thee that friendship.\n" + " Say thy prayers, and farewell.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would 'twere bed-time, Hal, and all well.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, thou owest God a death.\n\n" + " [Exit PRINCE HENRY]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Tis not due yet; I would be loath to pay him before\n" + " his day. What need I be so forward with him that\n" + " calls not on me? Well, 'tis no matter; honour pricks\n" + " me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I\n" + " come on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? no: or\n" + " an arm? no: or take away the grief of a wound? no.\n" + " Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? no. What is\n" + " honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what\n" + " is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it?\n" + " he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no.\n" + " Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea,\n" + " to the dead. But will it not live with the living?\n" + " no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore\n" + " I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so\n" + " ends my catechism.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The rebel camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter WORCESTER and VERNON]\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER O, no, my nephew must not know, Sir Richard,\n" + " The liberal and kind offer of the king.\n\n" + "VERNON 'Twere best he did.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER Then are we all undone.\n" + " It is not possible, it cannot be,\n" + " The king should keep his word in loving us;\n" + " He will suspect us still and find a time\n" + " To punish this offence in other faults:\n" + " Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes;\n" + " For treason is but trusted like the fox,\n" + " Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and lock'd up,\n" + " Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.\n" + " Look how we can, or sad or merrily,\n" + " Interpretation will misquote our looks,\n" + " And we shall feed like oxen at a stall,\n" + " The better cherish'd, still the nearer death.\n" + " My nephew's trespass may be well forgot;\n" + " it hath the excuse of youth and heat of blood,\n" + " And an adopted name of privilege,\n" + " A hair-brain'd Hotspur, govern'd by a spleen:\n" + " All his offences live upon my head\n" + " And on his father's; we did train him on,\n" + " And, his corruption being ta'en from us,\n" + " We, as the spring of all, shall pay for all.\n" + " Therefore, good cousin, let not Harry know,\n" + " In any case, the offer of the king.\n\n" + "VERNON Deliver what you will; I'll say 'tis so.\n" + " Here comes your cousin.\n\n" + " [Enter HOTSPUR and DOUGLAS]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR My uncle is return'd:\n" + " Deliver up my Lord of Westmoreland.\n" + " Uncle, what news?\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER The king will bid you battle presently.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Defy him by the Lord of Westmoreland.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Lord Douglas, go you and tell him so.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Marry, and shall, and very willingly.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER There is no seeming mercy in the king.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Did you beg any? God forbid!\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER I told him gently of our grievances,\n" + " Of his oath-breaking; which he mended thus,\n" + " By now forswearing that he is forsworn:\n" + " He calls us rebels, traitors; and will scourge\n" + " With haughty arms this hateful name in us.\n\n" + " [Re-enter the EARL OF DOUGLAS]\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Arm, gentlemen; to arms! for I have thrown\n" + " A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth,\n" + " And Westmoreland, that was engaged, did bear it;\n" + " Which cannot choose but bring him quickly on.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER The Prince of Wales stepp'd forth before the king,\n" + " And, nephew, challenged you to single fight.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR O, would the quarrel lay upon our heads,\n" + " And that no man might draw short breath today\n" + " But I and Harry Monmouth! Tell me, tell me,\n" + " How show'd his tasking? seem'd it in contempt?\n\n" + "VERNON No, by my soul; I never in my life\n" + " Did hear a challenge urged more modestly,\n" + " Unless a brother should a brother dare\n" + " To gentle exercise and proof of arms.\n" + " He gave you all the duties of a man;\n" + " Trimm'd up your praises with a princely tongue,\n" + " Spoke to your deservings like a chronicle,\n" + " Making you ever better than his praise\n" + " By still dispraising praise valued in you;\n" + " And, which became him like a prince indeed,\n" + " He made a blushing cital of himself;\n" + " And chid his truant youth with such a grace\n" + " As if he master'd there a double spirit.\n" + " Of teaching and of learning instantly.\n" + " There did he pause: but let me tell the world,\n" + " If he outlive the envy of this day,\n" + " England did never owe so sweet a hope,\n" + " So much misconstrued in his wantonness.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Cousin, I think thou art enamoured\n" + " On his follies: never did I hear\n" + " Of any prince so wild a libertine.\n" + " But be he as he will, yet once ere night\n" + " I will embrace him with a soldier's arm,\n" + " That he shall shrink under my courtesy.\n" + " Arm, arm with speed: and, fellows, soldiers, friends,\n" + " Better consider what you have to do\n" + " Than I, that have not well the gift of tongue,\n" + " Can lift your blood up with persuasion.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, here are letters for you.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I cannot read them now.\n" + " O gentlemen, the time of life is short!\n" + " To spend that shortness basely were too long,\n" + " If life did ride upon a dial's point,\n" + " Still ending at the arrival of an hour.\n" + " An if we live, we live to tread on kings;\n" + " If die, brave death, when princes die with us!\n" + " Now, for our consciences, the arms are fair,\n" + " When the intent of bearing them is just.\n\n" + " [Enter another Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, prepare; the king comes on apace.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I thank him, that he cuts me from my tale,\n" + " For I profess not talking; only this--\n" + " Let each man do his best: and here draw I\n" + " A sword, whose temper I intend to stain\n" + " With the best blood that I can meet withal\n" + " In the adventure of this perilous day.\n" + " Now, Esperance! Percy! and set on.\n" + " Sound all the lofty instruments of war,\n" + " And by that music let us all embrace;\n" + " For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall\n" + " A second time do such a courtesy.\n\n" + " [The trumpets sound. They embrace, and exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Plain between the camps.\n\n\n" + " [KING HENRY enters with his power. Alarum to the\n" + " battle. Then enter DOUGLAS and SIR WALTER BLUNT]\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT What is thy name, that in the battle thus\n" + " Thou crossest me? what honour dost thou seek\n" + " Upon my head?\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Know then, my name is Douglas;\n" + " And I do haunt thee in the battle thus\n" + " Because some tell me that thou art a king.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT They tell thee true.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS The Lord of Stafford dear to-day hath bought\n" + " Thy likeness, for instead of thee, King Harry,\n" + " This sword hath ended him: so shall it thee,\n" + " Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner.\n\n" + "SIR WALTER BLUNT I was not born a yielder, thou proud Scot;\n" + " And thou shalt find a king that will revenge\n" + " Lord Stafford's death.\n\n" + " [They fight. DOUGLAS kills SIR WALTER BLUNT.\n" + " Enter HOTSPUR]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR O Douglas, hadst thou fought at Holmedon thus,\n" + " never had triumph'd upon a Scot.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS All's done, all's won; here breathless lies the king.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Where?\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Here.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR This, Douglas? no: I know this face full well:\n" + " A gallant knight he was, his name was Blunt;\n" + " Semblably furnish'd like the king himself.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS A fool go with thy soul, whither it goes!\n" + " A borrow'd title hast thou bought too dear:\n" + " Why didst thou tell me that thou wert a king?\n\n" + "HOTSPUR The king hath many marching in his coats.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats;\n" + " I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece,\n" + " Until I meet the king.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Up, and away!\n" + " Our soldiers stand full fairly for the day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter FALSTAFF, solus]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Though I could 'scape shot-free at London, I fear\n" + " the shot here; here's no scoring but upon the pate.\n" + " Soft! who are you? Sir Walter Blunt: there's honour\n" + " for you! here's no vanity! I am as hot as moulten\n" + " lead, and as heavy too: God keep lead out of me! I\n" + " need no more weight than mine own bowels. I have\n" + " led my ragamuffins where they are peppered: there's\n" + " not three of my hundred and fifty left alive; and\n" + " they are for the town's end, to beg during life.\n" + " But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE HENRY]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What, stand'st thou idle here? lend me thy sword:\n" + " Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff\n" + " Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies,\n" + " Whose deaths are yet unrevenged: I prithee,\n" + " lend me thy sword.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF O Hal, I prithee, give me leave to breathe awhile.\n" + " Turk Gregory never did such deeds in arms as I have\n" + " done this day. I have paid Percy, I have made him sure.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY He is, indeed; and living to kill thee. I prithee,\n" + " lend me thy sword.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be alive, thou get'st\n" + " not my sword; but take my pistol, if thou wilt.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Give it to me: what, is it in the case?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ay, Hal; 'tis hot, 'tis hot; there's that will sack a city.\n\n" + " [PRINCE HENRY draws it out, and finds it to be a\n" + " bottle of sack]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What, is it a time to jest and dally now?\n\n" + " [He throws the bottle at him. Exit]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, if Percy be alive, I'll pierce him. If he do\n" + " come in my way, so: if he do not, if I come in his\n" + " willingly, let him make a carbonado of me. I like\n" + " not such grinning honour as Sir Walter hath: give me\n" + " life: which if I can save, so; if not, honour comes\n" + " unlooked for, and there's an end.\n\n" + " [Exit FALSTAFF]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Excursions. Enter PRINCE HENRY, LORD JOHN\n" + " OF LANCASTER, and EARL OF WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV I prithee,\n" + " Harry, withdraw thyself; thou bleed'st too much.\n" + " Lord John of Lancaster, go you with him.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Not I, my lord, unless I did bleed too.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I beseech your majesty, make up,\n" + " Lest your retirement do amaze your friends.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV I will do so.\n" + " My Lord of Westmoreland, lead him to his tent.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Come, my lord, I'll lead you to your tent.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help:\n" + " And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive\n" + " The Prince of Wales from such a field as this,\n" + " Where stain'd nobility lies trodden on,\n" + " and rebels' arms triumph in massacres!\n\n" + "LANCASTER We breathe too long: come, cousin Westmoreland,\n" + " Our duty this way lies; for God's sake come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LANCASTER and WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY By God, thou hast deceived me, Lancaster;\n" + " I did not think thee lord of such a spirit:\n" + " Before, I loved thee as a brother, John;\n" + " But now, I do respect thee as my soul.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV I saw him hold Lord Percy at the point\n" + " With lustier maintenance than I did look for\n" + " Of such an ungrown warrior.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O, this boy\n" + " Lends mettle to us all!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter DOUGLAS]\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS Another king! they grow like Hydra's heads:\n" + " I am the Douglas, fatal to all those\n" + " That wear those colours on them: what art thou,\n" + " That counterfeit'st the person of a king?\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV The king himself; who, Douglas, grieves at heart\n" + " So many of his shadows thou hast met\n" + " And not the very king. I have two boys\n" + " Seek Percy and thyself about the field:\n" + " But, seeing thou fall'st on me so luckily,\n" + " I will assay thee: so, defend thyself.\n\n" + "EARL OF DOUGLAS I fear thou art another counterfeit;\n" + " And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king:\n" + " But mine I am sure thou art, whoe'er thou be,\n" + " And thus I win thee.\n\n" + " [They fight. KING HENRY being in danger, PRINCE\n" + " HENRY enters]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like\n" + " Never to hold it up again! the spirits\n" + " Of valiant Shirley, Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms:\n" + " It is the Prince of Wales that threatens thee;\n" + " Who never promiseth but he means to pay.\n\n" + " [They fight: DOUGLAS flies]\n\n" + " Cheerly, my lord how fares your grace?\n" + " Sir Nicholas Gawsey hath for succor sent,\n" + " And so hath Clifton: I'll to Clifton straight.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Stay, and breathe awhile:\n" + " Thou hast redeem'd thy lost opinion,\n" + " And show'd thou makest some tender of my life,\n" + " In this fair rescue thou hast brought to me.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O God! they did me too much injury\n" + " That ever said I hearken'd for your death.\n" + " If it were so, I might have let alone\n" + " The insulting hand of Douglas over you,\n" + " Which would have been as speedy in your end\n" + " As all the poisonous potions in the world\n" + " And saved the treacherous labour of your son.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Make up to Clifton: I'll to Sir Nicholas Gawsey.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter HOTSPUR]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR If I mistake not, thou art Harry Monmouth.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Thou speak'st as if I would deny my name.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR My name is Harry Percy.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, then I see\n" + " A very valiant rebel of the name.\n" + " I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy,\n" + " To share with me in glory any more:\n" + " Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere;\n" + " Nor can one England brook a double reign,\n" + " Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR Nor shall it, Harry; for the hour is come\n" + " To end the one of us; and would to God\n" + " Thy name in arms were now as great as mine!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I'll make it greater ere I part from thee;\n" + " And all the budding honours on thy crest\n" + " I'll crop, to make a garland for my head.\n\n" + "HOTSPUR I can no longer brook thy vanities.\n\n" + " [They fight]\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well said, Hal! to it Hal! Nay, you shall find no\n" + " boy's play here, I can tell you.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DOUGLAS; he fights with FALSTAFF,\n" + " who falls down as if he were dead, and exit\n" + " DOUGLAS. HOTSPUR is wounded, and falls]\n\n" + "HOTSPUR O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth!\n" + " I better brook the loss of brittle life\n" + " Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;\n" + " They wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh:\n" + " But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;\n" + " And time, that takes survey of all the world,\n" + " Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,\n" + " But that the earthy and cold hand of death\n" + " Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust\n" + " And food for--\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY For worms, brave Percy: fare thee well, great heart!\n" + " Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!\n" + " When that this body did contain a spirit,\n" + " A kingdom for it was too small a bound;\n" + " But now two paces of the vilest earth\n" + " Is room enough: this earth that bears thee dead\n" + " Bears not alive so stout a gentleman.\n" + " If thou wert sensible of courtesy,\n" + " I should not make so dear a show of zeal:\n" + " But let my favours hide thy mangled face;\n" + " And, even in thy behalf, I'll thank myself\n" + " For doing these fair rites of tenderness.\n" + " Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!\n" + " Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,\n" + " But not remember'd in thy epitaph!\n\n" + " [He spieth FALSTAFF on the ground]\n\n" + " What, old acquaintance! could not all this flesh\n" + " Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell!\n" + " I could have better spared a better man:\n" + " O, I should have a heavy miss of thee,\n" + " If I were much in love with vanity!\n" + " Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day,\n" + " Though many dearer, in this bloody fray.\n" + " Embowell'd will I see thee by and by:\n" + " Till then in blood by noble Percy lie.\n\n" + " [Exit PRINCE HENRY]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF [Rising up] Embowelled! if thou embowel me to-day,\n" + " I'll give you leave to powder me and eat me too\n" + " to-morrow. 'Sblood,'twas time to counterfeit, or\n" + " that hot termagant Scot had paid me scot and lot too.\n" + " Counterfeit? I lie, I am no counterfeit: to die,\n" + " is to be a counterfeit; for he is but the\n" + " counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man:\n" + " but to counterfeit dying, when a man thereby\n" + " liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and\n" + " perfect image of life indeed. The better part of\n" + " valour is discretion; in the which better part I\n" + " have saved my life.'Zounds, I am afraid of this\n" + " gunpowder Percy, though he be dead: how, if he\n" + " should counterfeit too and rise? by my faith, I am\n" + " afraid he would prove the better counterfeit.\n" + " Therefore I'll make him sure; yea, and I'll swear I\n" + " killed him. Why may not he rise as well as I?\n" + " Nothing confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me.\n" + " Therefore, sirrah,\n\n" + " [Stabbing him]\n\n" + " with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.\n\n" + " [Takes up HOTSPUR on his back]\n\n" + " [Re-enter PRINCE HENRY and LORD JOHN OF LANCASTER]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Come, brother John; full bravely hast thou flesh'd\n" + " Thy maiden sword.\n\n" + "LANCASTER But, soft! whom have we here?\n" + " Did you not tell me this fat man was dead?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I did; I saw him dead,\n" + " Breathless and bleeding on the ground. Art\n" + " thou alive?\n" + " Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight?\n" + " I prithee, speak; we will not trust our eyes\n" + " Without our ears: thou art not what thou seem'st.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No, that's certain; I am not a double man: but if I\n" + " be not Jack Falstaff, then am I a Jack. There is Percy:\n\n" + " [Throwing the body down]\n\n" + " if your father will do me any honour, so; if not, let\n" + " him kill the next Percy himself. I look to be either\n" + " earl or duke, I can assure you.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, Percy I killed myself and saw thee dead.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Didst thou? Lord, Lord, how this world is given to\n" + " lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath;\n" + " and so was he: but we rose both at an instant and\n" + " fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may be\n" + " believed, so; if not, let them that should reward\n" + " valour bear the sin upon their own heads. I'll take\n" + " it upon my death, I gave him this wound in the\n" + " thigh: if the man were alive and would deny it,\n" + " 'zounds, I would make him eat a piece of my sword.\n\n" + "LANCASTER This is the strangest tale that ever I heard.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY This is the strangest fellow, brother John.\n" + " Come, bring your luggage nobly on your back:\n" + " For my part, if a lie may do thee grace,\n" + " I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.\n\n" + " [A retreat is sounded]\n\n" + " The trumpet sounds retreat; the day is ours.\n" + " Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field,\n" + " To see what friends are living, who are dead.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PRINCE HENRY and LANCASTER]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that\n" + " rewards me, God reward him! If I do grow great,\n" + " I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and\n" + " live cleanly as a nobleman should do.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [The trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY IV, PRINCE\n" + " HENRY, LORD JOHN LANCASTER, EARL OF WESTMORELAND,\n" + " with WORCESTER and VERNON prisoners]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Thus ever did rebellion find rebuke.\n" + " Ill-spirited Worcester! did not we send grace,\n" + " Pardon and terms of love to all of you?\n" + " And wouldst thou turn our offers contrary?\n" + " Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust?\n" + " Three knights upon our party slain to-day,\n" + " A noble earl and many a creature else\n" + " Had been alive this hour,\n" + " If like a Christian thou hadst truly borne\n" + " Betwixt our armies true intelligence.\n\n" + "EARL OF WORCESTER What I have done my safety urged me to;\n" + " And I embrace this fortune patiently,\n" + " Since not to be avoided it falls on me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Bear Worcester to the death and Vernon too:\n" + " Other offenders we will pause upon.\n\n" + " [Exeunt WORCESTER and VERNON, guarded]\n\n" + " How goes the field?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY The noble Scot, Lord Douglas, when he saw\n" + " The fortune of the day quite turn'd from him,\n" + " The noble Percy slain, and all his men\n" + " Upon the foot of fear, fled with the rest;\n" + " And falling from a hill, he was so bruised\n" + " That the pursuers took him. At my tent\n" + " The Douglas is; and I beseech your grace\n" + " I may dispose of him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV With all my heart.\n\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Then, brother John of Lancaster, to you\n" + " This honourable bounty shall belong:\n" + " Go to the Douglas, and deliver him\n" + " Up to his pleasure, ransomless and free:\n" + " His valour shown upon our crests to-day\n" + " Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds\n" + " Even in the bosom of our adversaries.\n\n" + "LANCASTER I thank your grace for this high courtesy,\n" + " Which I shall give away immediately.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Then this remains, that we divide our power.\n" + " You, son John, and my cousin Westmoreland\n" + " Towards York shall bend you with your dearest speed,\n" + " To meet Northumberland and the prelate Scroop,\n" + " Who, as we hear, are busily in arms:\n" + " Myself and you, son Harry, will towards Wales,\n" + " To fight with Glendower and the Earl of March.\n" + " Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway,\n" + " Meeting the cheque of such another day:\n" + " And since this business so fair is done,\n" + " Let us not leave till all our own be won.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING\n" + "HENRY THE SIXTH (KING HENRY VI:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF GLOUCESTER uncle to the King, and Protector. (GLOUCESTER:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF BEDFORD uncle to the King, and Regent of France. (BEDFORD:)\n\n" + "THOMAS BEAUFORT Duke of Exeter, great-uncle to the King. (EXETER:)\n\n" + "HENRY BEAUFORT great-uncle to the King, Bishop of Winchester, and\n" + " afterwards Cardinal. (BISHOP OF WINCHESTER:)\n\n" + "JOHN BEAUFORT Earl, afterwards Duke, of Somerset. (SOMERSET:)\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET son of Richard late Earl of Cambridge, (RICHARD\n" + " PLANTAGENET:) afterwards Duke of York.\n" + " (YORK:)\n\n" + "EARL OF WARWICK (WARWICK:)\n\n" + "EARL OF SALISBURY (SALISBURY:)\n\n" + "EARL OF SUFFOLK (SUFFOLK:)\n\n" + "LORD TALBOT afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury. (TALBOT:)\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT Lord Talbot's son.\n\n" + "EDMUND MORTIMER Earl of March. (MORTIMER:)\n\n" + "SIR JOHN FASTOLFE (FASTOLFE:)\n\n" + "SIR WILLIAM LUCY (LUCY:)\n\n" + "SIR\n" + "WILLIAM GLANSDALE (GLANDSDALE:)\n\n" + "SIR\n" + "THOMAS GARGRAVE (GARGRAVE:)\n\n" + "Mayor of London (Mayor:)\n\n" + "WOODVILE Lieutenant of the Tower.\n\n" + "VERNON of the White-Rose or York faction.\n\n" + "BASSET of the Red-Rose or Lancaster faction.\n\n" + " A Lawyer. (Lawyer:)\n\n" + " Mortimer's Keepers. (First Gaoler:)\n\n" + "CHARLES Dauphin, and afterwards King, of France.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Duke of Anjou, and titular King of Naples.\n\n" + "DUKE OF BURGUNDY (BURGUNDY:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF ALENCON (ALENCON:)\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS:\n\n" + " Governor of Paris.\n\n" + " Master-Gunner of Orleans, (Master-Gunner:)\n" + " and his Son. (Boy:)\n\n" + " General of the French forces in Bourdeaux. (General:)\n\n" + " A French Sergeant. (Sargeant:)\n\n" + " A Porter.\n\n" + " An old Shepherd, father to Joan la Pucelle. (Shepherd:)\n\n" + "MARGARET daughter to Reignier, afterwards married to King Henry.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE:\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE commonly called Joan of Arc.\n\n" + " Lords, Warders of the Tower, Heralds, Officers,\n" + " Soldiers, Messengers, and Attendants.\n" + " (First Warder:)\n" + " (Second Warder:)\n" + " (Captain:)\n" + " (Officer:)\n" + " (Soldier:)\n" + " (First Soldier:)\n" + " (Watch:)\n" + " (Scout:)\n" + " (First Sentinel:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (First Serving-Man:)\n" + " (Second Serving-Man:)\n" + " (Third Serving-Man:)\n\n" + " Fiends appearing to La Pucelle.\n\n\n" + "SCENE Partly in England, and partly in France.\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Westminster Abbey.\n\n\n" + " [Dead March. Enter the Funeral of KING HENRY the\n" + " Fifth, attended on by Dukes of BEDFORD, Regent of\n" + " France; GLOUCESTER, Protector; and EXETER, Earl of\n" + " WARWICK, the BISHOP OF WINCHESTER, Heralds, &c]\n\n" + "BEDFORD Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!\n" + " Comets, importing change of times and states,\n" + " Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky,\n" + " And with them scourge the bad revolting stars\n" + " That have consented unto Henry's death!\n" + " King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long!\n" + " England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER England ne'er had a king until his time.\n" + " Virtue he had, deserving to command:\n" + " His brandish'd sword did blind men with his beams:\n" + " His arms spread wider than a dragon's wings;\n" + " His sparking eyes, replete with wrathful fire,\n" + " More dazzled and drove back his enemies\n" + " Than mid-day sun fierce bent against their faces.\n" + " What should I say? his deeds exceed all speech:\n" + " He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.\n\n" + "EXETER We mourn in black: why mourn we not in blood?\n" + " Henry is dead and never shall revive:\n" + " Upon a wooden coffin we attend,\n" + " And death's dishonourable victory\n" + " We with our stately presence glorify,\n" + " Like captives bound to a triumphant car.\n" + " What! shall we curse the planets of mishap\n" + " That plotted thus our glory's overthrow?\n" + " Or shall we think the subtle-witted French\n" + " Conjurers and sorcerers, that afraid of him\n" + " By magic verses have contrived his end?\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER He was a king bless'd of the King of kings.\n" + " Unto the French the dreadful judgement-day\n" + " So dreadful will not be as was his sight.\n" + " The battles of the Lord of hosts he fought:\n" + " The church's prayers made him so prosperous.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The church! where is it? Had not churchmen pray'd,\n" + " His thread of life had not so soon decay'd:\n" + " None do you like but an effeminate prince,\n" + " Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Gloucester, whate'er we like, thou art protector\n" + " And lookest to command the prince and realm.\n" + " Thy wife is proud; she holdeth thee in awe,\n" + " More than God or religious churchmen may.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Name not religion, for thou lovest the flesh,\n" + " And ne'er throughout the year to church thou go'st\n" + " Except it be to pray against thy foes.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Cease, cease these jars and rest your minds in peace:\n" + " Let's to the altar: heralds, wait on us:\n" + " Instead of gold, we'll offer up our arms:\n" + " Since arms avail not now that Henry's dead.\n" + " Posterity, await for wretched years,\n" + " When at their mothers' moist eyes babes shall suck,\n" + " Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears,\n" + " And none but women left to wail the dead.\n" + " Henry the Fifth, thy ghost I invocate:\n" + " Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils,\n" + " Combat with adverse planets in the heavens!\n" + " A far more glorious star thy soul will make\n" + " Than Julius Caesar or bright--\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My honourable lords, health to you all!\n" + " Sad tidings bring I to you out of France,\n" + " Of loss, of slaughter and discomfiture:\n" + " Guienne, Champagne, Rheims, Orleans,\n" + " Paris, Guysors, Poictiers, are all quite lost.\n\n" + "BEDFORD What say'st thou, man, before dead Henry's corse?\n" + " Speak softly, or the loss of those great towns\n" + " Will make him burst his lead and rise from death.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up?\n" + " If Henry were recall'd to life again,\n" + " These news would cause him once more yield the ghost.\n\n" + "EXETER How were they lost? what treachery was used?\n\n" + "Messenger No treachery; but want of men and money.\n" + " Amongst the soldiers this is muttered,\n" + " That here you maintain several factions,\n" + " And whilst a field should be dispatch'd and fought,\n" + " You are disputing of your generals:\n" + " One would have lingering wars with little cost;\n" + " Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings;\n" + " A third thinks, without expense at all,\n" + " By guileful fair words peace may be obtain'd.\n" + " Awake, awake, English nobility!\n" + " Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot:\n" + " Cropp'd are the flower-de-luces in your arms;\n" + " Of England's coat one half is cut away.\n\n" + "EXETER Were our tears wanting to this funeral,\n" + " These tidings would call forth their flowing tides.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Me they concern; Regent I am of France.\n" + " Give me my steeled coat. I'll fight for France.\n" + " Away with these disgraceful wailing robes!\n" + " Wounds will I lend the French instead of eyes,\n" + " To weep their intermissive miseries.\n\n" + " [Enter to them another Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance.\n" + " France is revolted from the English quite,\n" + " Except some petty towns of no import:\n" + " The Dauphin Charles is crowned king of Rheims;\n" + " The Bastard of Orleans with him is join'd;\n" + " Reignier, Duke of Anjou, doth take his part;\n" + " The Duke of Alencon flieth to his side.\n\n" + "EXETER The Dauphin crowned king! all fly to him!\n" + " O, whither shall we fly from this reproach?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER We will not fly, but to our enemies' throats.\n" + " Bedford, if thou be slack, I'll fight it out.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Gloucester, why doubt'st thou of my forwardness?\n" + " An army have I muster'd in my thoughts,\n" + " Wherewith already France is overrun.\n\n" + " [Enter another Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My gracious lords, to add to your laments,\n" + " Wherewith you now bedew King Henry's hearse,\n" + " I must inform you of a dismal fight\n" + " Betwixt the stout Lord Talbot and the French.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER What! wherein Talbot overcame? is't so?\n\n" + "Messenger O, no; wherein Lord Talbot was o'erthrown:\n" + " The circumstance I'll tell you more at large.\n" + " The tenth of August last this dreadful lord,\n" + " Retiring from the siege of Orleans,\n" + " Having full scarce six thousand in his troop.\n" + " By three and twenty thousand of the French\n" + " Was round encompassed and set upon.\n" + " No leisure had he to enrank his men;\n" + " He wanted pikes to set before his archers;\n" + " Instead whereof sharp stakes pluck'd out of hedges\n" + " They pitched in the ground confusedly,\n" + " To keep the horsemen off from breaking in.\n" + " More than three hours the fight continued;\n" + " Where valiant Talbot above human thought\n" + " Enacted wonders with his sword and lance:\n" + " Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst stand him;\n" + " Here, there, and every where, enraged he flew:\n" + " The French exclaim'd, the devil was in arms;\n" + " All the whole army stood agazed on him:\n" + " His soldiers spying his undaunted spirit\n" + " A Talbot! a Talbot! cried out amain\n" + " And rush'd into the bowels of the battle.\n" + " Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up,\n" + " If Sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the coward:\n" + " He, being in the vaward, placed behind\n" + " With purpose to relieve and follow them,\n" + " Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.\n" + " Hence grew the general wreck and massacre;\n" + " Enclosed were they with their enemies:\n" + " A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace,\n" + " Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back,\n" + " Whom all France with their chief assembled strength\n" + " Durst not presume to look once in the face.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Is Talbot slain? then I will slay myself,\n" + " For living idly here in pomp and ease,\n" + " Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid,\n" + " Unto his dastard foemen is betray'd.\n\n" + "Messenger O no, he lives; but is took prisoner,\n" + " And Lord Scales with him and Lord Hungerford:\n" + " Most of the rest slaughter'd or took likewise.\n\n" + "BEDFORD His ransom there is none but I shall pay:\n" + " I'll hale the Dauphin headlong from his throne:\n" + " His crown shall be the ransom of my friend;\n" + " Four of their lords I'll change for one of ours.\n" + " Farewell, my masters; to my task will I;\n" + " Bonfires in France forthwith I am to make,\n" + " To keep our great Saint George's feast withal:\n" + " Ten thousand soldiers with me I will take,\n" + " Whose bloody deeds shall make all Europe quake.\n\n" + "Messenger So you had need; for Orleans is besieged;\n" + " The English army is grown weak and faint:\n" + " The Earl of Salisbury craveth supply,\n" + " And hardly keeps his men from mutiny,\n" + " Since they, so few, watch such a multitude.\n\n" + "EXETER Remember, lords, your oaths to Henry sworn,\n" + " Either to quell the Dauphin utterly,\n" + " Or bring him in obedience to your yoke.\n\n" + "BEDFORD I do remember it; and here take my leave,\n" + " To go about my preparation.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I'll to the Tower with all the haste I can,\n" + " To view the artillery and munition;\n" + " And then I will proclaim young Henry king.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EXETER To Eltham will I, where the young king is,\n" + " Being ordain'd his special governor,\n" + " And for his safety there I'll best devise.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Each hath his place and function to attend:\n" + " I am left out; for me nothing remains.\n" + " But long I will not be Jack out of office:\n" + " The king from Eltham I intend to steal\n" + " And sit at chiefest stern of public weal.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II France. Before Orleans.\n\n\n" + " [Sound a flourish. Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and\n" + " REIGNIER, marching with drum and Soldiers]\n\n" + "CHARLES Mars his true moving, even as in the heavens\n" + " So in the earth, to this day is not known:\n" + " Late did he shine upon the English side;\n" + " Now we are victors; upon us he smiles.\n" + " What towns of any moment but we have?\n" + " At pleasure here we lie near Orleans;\n" + " Otherwhiles the famish'd English, like pale ghosts,\n" + " Faintly besiege us one hour in a month.\n\n" + "ALENCON They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves:\n" + " Either they must be dieted like mules\n" + " And have their provender tied to their mouths\n" + " Or piteous they will look, like drowned mice.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Let's raise the siege: why live we idly here?\n" + " Talbot is taken, whom we wont to fear:\n" + " Remaineth none but mad-brain'd Salisbury;\n" + " And he may well in fretting spend his gall,\n" + " Nor men nor money hath he to make war.\n\n" + "CHARLES Sound, sound alarum! we will rush on them.\n" + " Now for the honour of the forlorn French!\n" + " Him I forgive my death that killeth me\n" + " When he sees me go back one foot or fly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Here alarum; they are beaten back by the English\n" + " with great loss. Re-enter CHARLES, ALENCON, and REIGNIER]\n\n" + "CHARLES Who ever saw the like? what men have I!\n" + " Dogs! cowards! dastards! I would ne'er have fled,\n" + " But that they left me 'midst my enemies.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Salisbury is a desperate homicide;\n" + " He fighteth as one weary of his life.\n" + " The other lords, like lions wanting food,\n" + " Do rush upon us as their hungry prey.\n\n" + "ALENCON Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,\n" + " England all Olivers and Rowlands bred,\n" + " During the time Edward the Third did reign.\n" + " More truly now may this be verified;\n" + " For none but Samsons and Goliases\n" + " It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!\n" + " Lean, raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose\n" + " They had such courage and audacity?\n\n" + "CHARLES Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brain'd slaves,\n" + " And hunger will enforce them to be more eager:\n" + " Of old I know them; rather with their teeth\n" + " The walls they'll tear down than forsake the siege.\n\n" + "REIGNIER I think, by some odd gimmors or device\n" + " Their arms are set like clocks, stiff to strike on;\n" + " Else ne'er could they hold out so as they do.\n" + " By my consent, we'll even let them alone.\n\n" + "ALENCON Be it so.\n\n" + " [Enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS]\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Where's the Prince Dauphin? I have news for him.\n\n" + "CHARLES Bastard of Orleans, thrice welcome to us.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Methinks your looks are sad, your cheer appall'd:\n" + " Hath the late overthrow wrought this offence?\n" + " Be not dismay'd, for succor is at hand:\n" + " A holy maid hither with me I bring,\n" + " Which by a vision sent to her from heaven\n" + " Ordained is to raise this tedious siege\n" + " And drive the English forth the bounds of France.\n" + " The spirit of deep prophecy she hath,\n" + " Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome:\n" + " What's past and what's to come she can descry.\n" + " Speak, shall I call her in? Believe my words,\n" + " For they are certain and unfallible.\n\n" + "CHARLES Go, call her in.\n\n" + " [Exit BASTARD OF ORLEANS]\n\n" + " But first, to try her skill,\n" + " Reignier, stand thou as Dauphin in my place:\n" + " Question her proudly; let thy looks be stern:\n" + " By this means shall we sound what skill she hath.\n\n" + " [Re-enter the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, with JOAN LA PUCELLE]\n\n" + "REIGNIER Fair maid, is't thou wilt do these wondrous feats?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Reignier, is't thou that thinkest to beguile me?\n" + " Where is the Dauphin? Come, come from behind;\n" + " I know thee well, though never seen before.\n" + " Be not amazed, there's nothing hid from me:\n" + " In private will I talk with thee apart.\n" + " Stand back, you lords, and give us leave awhile.\n\n" + "REIGNIER She takes upon her bravely at first dash.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter,\n" + " My wit untrain'd in any kind of art.\n" + " Heaven and our Lady gracious hath it pleased\n" + " To shine on my contemptible estate:\n" + " Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs,\n" + " And to sun's parching heat display'd my cheeks,\n" + " God's mother deigned to appear to me\n" + " And in a vision full of majesty\n" + " Will'd me to leave my base vocation\n" + " And free my country from calamity:\n" + " Her aid she promised and assured success:\n" + " In complete glory she reveal'd herself;\n" + " And, whereas I was black and swart before,\n" + " With those clear rays which she infused on me\n" + " That beauty am I bless'd with which you see.\n" + " Ask me what question thou canst possible,\n" + " And I will answer unpremeditated:\n" + " My courage try by combat, if thou darest,\n" + " And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex.\n" + " Resolve on this, thou shalt be fortunate,\n" + " If thou receive me for thy warlike mate.\n\n" + "CHARLES Thou hast astonish'd me with thy high terms:\n" + " Only this proof I'll of thy valour make,\n" + " In single combat thou shalt buckle with me,\n" + " And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true;\n" + " Otherwise I renounce all confidence.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE I am prepared: here is my keen-edged sword,\n" + " Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each side;\n" + " The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine's\n" + " churchyard,\n" + " Out of a great deal of old iron I chose forth.\n\n" + "CHARLES Then come, o' God's name; I fear no woman.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE And while I live, I'll ne'er fly from a man.\n\n" + " [Here they fight, and JOAN LA PUCELLE overcomes]\n\n" + "CHARLES Stay, stay thy hands! thou art an Amazon\n" + " And fightest with the sword of Deborah.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Christ's mother helps me, else I were too weak.\n\n" + "CHARLES Whoe'er helps thee, 'tis thou that must help me:\n" + " Impatiently I burn with thy desire;\n" + " My heart and hands thou hast at once subdued.\n" + " Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so,\n" + " Let me thy servant and not sovereign be:\n" + " 'Tis the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE I must not yield to any rites of love,\n" + " For my profession's sacred from above:\n" + " When I have chased all thy foes from hence,\n" + " Then will I think upon a recompense.\n\n" + "CHARLES Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall.\n\n" + "REIGNIER My lord, methinks, is very long in talk.\n\n" + "ALENCON Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock;\n" + " Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Shall we disturb him, since he keeps no mean?\n\n" + "ALENCON He may mean more than we poor men do know:\n" + " These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.\n\n" + "REIGNIER My lord, where are you? what devise you on?\n" + " Shall we give over Orleans, or no?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Why, no, I say, distrustful recreants!\n" + " Fight till the last gasp; I will be your guard.\n\n" + "CHARLES What she says I'll confirm: we'll fight it out.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Assign'd am I to be the English scourge.\n" + " This night the siege assuredly I'll raise:\n" + " Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days,\n" + " Since I have entered into these wars.\n" + " Glory is like a circle in the water,\n" + " Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself\n" + " Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.\n" + " With Henry's death the English circle ends;\n" + " Dispersed are the glories it included.\n" + " Now am I like that proud insulting ship\n" + " Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once.\n\n" + "CHARLES Was Mahomet inspired with a dove?\n" + " Thou with an eagle art inspired then.\n" + " Helen, the mother of great Constantine,\n" + " Nor yet Saint Philip's daughters, were like thee.\n" + " Bright star of Venus, fall'n down on the earth,\n" + " How may I reverently worship thee enough?\n\n" + "ALENCON Leave off delays, and let us raise the siege.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Woman, do what thou canst to save our honours;\n" + " Drive them from Orleans and be immortalized.\n\n" + "CHARLES Presently we'll try: come, let's away about it:\n" + " No prophet will I trust, if she prove false.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III London. Before the Tower.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, with his Serving-men in blue coats]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I am come to survey the Tower this day:\n" + " Since Henry's death, I fear, there is conveyance.\n" + " Where be these warders, that they wait not here?\n" + " Open the gates; 'tis Gloucester that calls.\n\n" + "First Warder [Within] Who's there that knocks so imperiously?\n\n" + "First Serving-Man It is the noble Duke of Gloucester.\n\n" + "Second Warder [Within] Whoe'er he be, you may not be let in.\n\n" + "First Serving-Man Villains, answer you so the lord protector?\n\n" + "First Warder [Within] The Lord protect him! so we answer him:\n" + " We do no otherwise than we are will'd.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Who willed you? or whose will stands but mine?\n" + " There's none protector of the realm but I.\n" + " Break up the gates, I'll be your warrantize.\n" + " Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?\n\n" + " [Gloucester's men rush at the Tower Gates, and\n" + " WOODVILE the Lieutenant speaks within]\n\n" + "WOODVILE What noise is this? what traitors have we here?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Lieutenant, is it you whose voice I hear?\n" + " Open the gates; here's Gloucester that would enter.\n\n" + "WOODVILE Have patience, noble duke; I may not open;\n" + " The Cardinal of Winchester forbids:\n" + " From him I have express commandment\n" + " That thou nor none of thine shall be let in.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Faint-hearted Woodvile, prizest him 'fore me?\n" + " Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate,\n" + " Whom Henry, our late sovereign, ne'er could brook?\n" + " Thou art no friend to God or to the king:\n" + " Open the gates, or I'll shut thee out shortly.\n\n" + "Serving-Men Open the gates unto the lord protector,\n" + " Or we'll burst them open, if that you come not quickly.\n\n" + " [Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates BISHOP\n" + " OF WINCHESTER and his men in tawny coats]\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER How now, ambitious Humphry! what means this?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Peel'd priest, dost thou command me to be shut out?\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER I do, thou most usurping proditor,\n" + " And not protector, of the king or realm.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Stand back, thou manifest conspirator,\n" + " Thou that contrivedst to murder our dead lord;\n" + " Thou that givest whores indulgences to sin:\n" + " I'll canvass thee in thy broad cardinal's hat,\n" + " If thou proceed in this thy insolence.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Nay, stand thou back, I will not budge a foot:\n" + " This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain,\n" + " To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I will not slay thee, but I'll drive thee back:\n" + " Thy scarlet robes as a child's bearing-cloth\n" + " I'll use to carry thee out of this place.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Do what thou darest; I beard thee to thy face.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What! am I dared and bearded to my face?\n" + " Draw, men, for all this privileged place;\n" + " Blue coats to tawny coats. Priest, beware your beard,\n" + " I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly:\n" + " Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat:\n" + " In spite of pope or dignities of church,\n" + " Here by the cheeks I'll drag thee up and down.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Gloucester, thou wilt answer this before the pope.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Winchester goose, I cry, a rope! a rope!\n" + " Now beat them hence; why do you let them stay?\n" + " Thee I'll chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's array.\n" + " Out, tawny coats! out, scarlet hypocrite!\n\n" + " [Here GLOUCESTER's men beat out BISHOP OF\n" + " WINCHESTER's men, and enter in the hurly-\n" + " burly the Mayor of London and his Officers]\n\n" + "Mayor Fie, lords! that you, being supreme magistrates,\n" + " Thus contumeliously should break the peace!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Peace, mayor! thou know'st little of my wrongs:\n" + " Here's Beaufort, that regards nor God nor king,\n" + " Hath here distrain'd the Tower to his use.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Here's Gloucester, a foe to citizens,\n" + " One that still motions war and never peace,\n" + " O'ercharging your free purses with large fines,\n" + " That seeks to overthrow religion,\n" + " Because he is protector of the realm,\n" + " And would have armour here out of the Tower,\n" + " To crown himself king and suppress the prince.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I will not answer thee with words, but blows.\n\n" + " [Here they skirmish again]\n\n" + "Mayor Naught rests for me in this tumultuous strife\n" + " But to make open proclamation:\n" + " Come, officer; as loud as e'er thou canst,\n" + " Cry.\n\n" + "Officer All manner of men assembled here in arms this day\n" + " against God's peace and the king's, we charge and\n" + " command you, in his highness' name, to repair to\n" + " your several dwelling-places; and not to wear,\n" + " handle, or use any sword, weapon, or dagger,\n" + " henceforward, upon pain of death.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Cardinal, I'll be no breaker of the law:\n" + " But we shall meet, and break our minds at large.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Gloucester, we will meet; to thy cost, be sure:\n" + " Thy heart-blood I will have for this day's work.\n\n" + "Mayor I'll call for clubs, if you will not away.\n" + " This cardinal's more haughty than the devil.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Mayor, farewell: thou dost but what thou mayst.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Abominable Gloucester, guard thy head;\n" + " For I intend to have it ere long.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, severally, GLOUCESTER and BISHOP OF\n" + " WINCHESTER with their Serving-men]\n\n" + "Mayor See the coast clear'd, and then we will depart.\n" + " Good God, these nobles should such stomachs bear!\n" + " I myself fight not once in forty year.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Orleans.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, on the walls, a Master Gunner and his Boy]\n\n" + "Master-Gunner Sirrah, thou know'st how Orleans is besieged,\n" + " And how the English have the suburbs won.\n\n" + "Boy Father, I know; and oft have shot at them,\n" + " Howe'er unfortunate I miss'd my aim.\n\n" + "Master-Gunner But now thou shalt not. Be thou ruled by me:\n" + " Chief master-gunner am I of this town;\n" + " Something I must do to procure me grace.\n" + " The prince's espials have informed me\n" + " How the English, in the suburbs close intrench'd,\n" + " Wont, through a secret grate of iron bars\n" + " In yonder tower, to overpeer the city,\n" + " And thence discover how with most advantage\n" + " They may vex us with shot, or with assault.\n" + " To intercept this inconvenience,\n" + " A piece of ordnance 'gainst it I have placed;\n" + " And even these three days have I watch'd,\n" + " If I could see them.\n" + " Now do thou watch, for I can stay no longer.\n" + " If thou spy'st any, run and bring me word;\n" + " And thou shalt find me at the governor's.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Boy Father, I warrant you; take you no care;\n" + " I'll never trouble you, if I may spy them.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter, on the turrets, SALISBURY and TALBOT,\n" + " GLANSDALE, GARGRAVE, and others]\n\n" + "SALISBURY Talbot, my life, my joy, again return'd!\n" + " How wert thou handled being prisoner?\n" + " Or by what means got'st thou to be released?\n" + " Discourse, I prithee, on this turret's top.\n\n" + "TALBOT The Duke of Bedford had a prisoner\n" + " Call'd the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles;\n" + " For him was I exchanged and ransomed.\n" + " But with a baser man of arms by far\n" + " Once in contempt they would have barter'd me:\n" + " Which I, disdaining, scorn'd; and craved death,\n" + " Rather than I would be so vile esteem'd.\n" + " In fine, redeem'd I was as I desired.\n" + " But, O! the treacherous Fastolfe wounds my heart,\n" + " Whom with my bare fists I would execute,\n" + " If I now had him brought into my power.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Yet tell'st thou not how thou wert entertain'd.\n\n" + "TALBOT With scoffs and scorns and contumelious taunts.\n" + " In open market-place produced they me,\n" + " To be a public spectacle to all:\n" + " Here, said they, is the terror of the French,\n" + " The scarecrow that affrights our children so.\n" + " Then broke I from the officers that led me,\n" + " And with my nails digg'd stones out of the ground,\n" + " To hurl at the beholders of my shame:\n" + " My grisly countenance made others fly;\n" + " None durst come near for fear of sudden death.\n" + " In iron walls they deem'd me not secure;\n" + " So great fear of my name 'mongst them was spread,\n" + " That they supposed I could rend bars of steel,\n" + " And spurn in pieces posts of adamant:\n" + " Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had,\n" + " That walked about me every minute-while;\n" + " And if I did but stir out of my bed,\n" + " Ready they were to shoot me to the heart.\n\n" + " [Enter the Boy with a linstock]\n\n" + "SALISBURY I grieve to hear what torments you endured,\n" + " But we will be revenged sufficiently\n" + " Now it is supper-time in Orleans:\n" + " Here, through this grate, I count each one\n" + " and view the Frenchmen how they fortify:\n" + " Let us look in; the sight will much delight thee.\n" + " Sir Thomas Gargrave, and Sir William Glansdale,\n" + " Let me have your express opinions\n" + " Where is best place to make our battery next.\n\n" + "GARGRAVE I think, at the north gate; for there stand lords.\n\n" + "GLANSDALE And I, here, at the bulwark of the bridge.\n\n" + "TALBOT For aught I see, this city must be famish'd,\n" + " Or with light skirmishes enfeebled.\n\n" + " [Here they shoot. SALISBURY and GARGRAVE fall]\n\n" + "SALISBURY O Lord, have mercy on us, wretched sinners!\n\n" + "GARGRAVE O Lord, have mercy on me, woful man!\n\n" + "TALBOT What chance is this that suddenly hath cross'd us?\n" + " Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst speak:\n" + " How farest thou, mirror of all martial men?\n" + " One of thy eyes and thy cheek's side struck off!\n" + " Accursed tower! accursed fatal hand\n" + " That hath contrived this woful tragedy!\n" + " In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame;\n" + " Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars;\n" + " Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up,\n" + " His sword did ne'er leave striking in the field.\n" + " Yet livest thou, Salisbury? though thy speech doth fail,\n" + " One eye thou hast, to look to heaven for grace:\n" + " The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.\n" + " Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive,\n" + " If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands!\n" + " Bear hence his body; I will help to bury it.\n" + " Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life?\n" + " Speak unto Talbot; nay, look up to him.\n" + " Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this comfort;\n" + " Thou shalt not die whiles--\n" + " He beckons with his hand and smiles on me.\n" + " As who should say 'When I am dead and gone,\n" + " Remember to avenge me on the French.'\n" + " Plantagenet, I will; and like thee, Nero,\n" + " Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn:\n" + " Wretched shall France be only in my name.\n\n" + " [Here an alarum, and it thunders and lightens]\n\n" + " What stir is this? what tumult's in the heavens?\n" + " Whence cometh this alarum and the noise?\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head:\n" + " The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle join'd,\n" + " A holy prophetess new risen up,\n" + " Is come with a great power to raise the siege.\n\n" + " [Here SALISBURY lifteth himself up and groans]\n\n" + "TALBOT Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan!\n" + " It irks his heart he cannot be revenged.\n" + " Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you:\n" + " Pucelle or puzzel, dolphin or dogfish,\n" + " Your hearts I'll stamp out with my horse's heels,\n" + " And make a quagmire of your mingled brains.\n" + " Convey me Salisbury into his tent,\n" + " And then we'll try what these dastard Frenchmen dare.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same.\n\n\n" + " [Here an alarum again: and TALBOT pursueth the\n" + " DAUPHIN, and driveth him: then enter JOAN LA\n" + " PUCELLE, driving Englishmen before her, and exit\n" + " after them then re-enter TALBOT]\n\n" + "TALBOT Where is my strength, my valour, and my force?\n" + " Our English troops retire, I cannot stay them:\n" + " A woman clad in armour chaseth them.\n\n" + " [Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE]\n\n" + " Here, here she comes. I'll have a bout with thee;\n" + " Devil or devil's dam, I'll conjure thee:\n" + " Blood will I draw on thee, thou art a witch,\n" + " And straightway give thy soul to him thou servest.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Come, come, 'tis only I that must disgrace thee.\n\n" + " [Here they fight]\n\n" + "TALBOT Heavens, can you suffer hell so to prevail?\n" + " My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage\n" + " And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder.\n" + " But I will chastise this high-minded strumpet.\n\n" + " [They fight again]\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Talbot, farewell; thy hour is not yet come:\n" + " I must go victual Orleans forthwith.\n\n" + " [A short alarum; then enter the town with soldiers]\n\n" + " O'ertake me, if thou canst; I scorn thy strength.\n" + " Go, go, cheer up thy hungry-starved men;\n" + " Help Salisbury to make his testament:\n" + " This day is ours, as many more shall be.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TALBOT My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel;\n" + " I know not where I am, nor what I do;\n" + " A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal,\n" + " Drives back our troops and conquers as she lists:\n" + " So bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench\n" + " Are from their hives and houses driven away.\n" + " They call'd us for our fierceness English dogs;\n" + " Now, like to whelps, we crying run away.\n\n" + " [A short alarum]\n\n" + " Hark, countrymen! either renew the fight,\n" + " Or tear the lions out of England's coat;\n" + " Renounce your soil, give sheep in lions' stead:\n" + " Sheep run not half so treacherous from the wolf,\n" + " Or horse or oxen from the leopard,\n" + " As you fly from your oft-subdued slaves.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Here another skirmish]\n\n" + " It will not be: retire into your trenches:\n" + " You all consented unto Salisbury's death,\n" + " For none would strike a stroke in his revenge.\n" + " Pucelle is enter'd into Orleans,\n" + " In spite of us or aught that we could do.\n" + " O, would I were to die with Salisbury!\n" + " The shame hereof will make me hide my head.\n\n" + " [Exit TALBOT. Alarum; retreat; flourish]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, on the walls, JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES,\n" + " REIGNIER, ALENCON, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Advance our waving colours on the walls;\n" + " Rescued is Orleans from the English\n" + " Thus Joan la Pucelle hath perform'd her word.\n\n" + "CHARLES Divinest creature, Astraea's daughter,\n" + " How shall I honour thee for this success?\n" + " Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens\n" + " That one day bloom'd and fruitful were the next.\n" + " France, triumph in thy glorious prophetess!\n" + " Recover'd is the town of Orleans:\n" + " More blessed hap did ne'er befall our state.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Why ring not out the bells aloud throughout the town?\n" + " Dauphin, command the citizens make bonfires\n" + " And feast and banquet in the open streets,\n" + " To celebrate the joy that God hath given us.\n\n" + "ALENCON All France will be replete with mirth and joy,\n" + " When they shall hear how we have play'd the men.\n\n" + "CHARLES 'Tis Joan, not we, by whom the day is won;\n" + " For which I will divide my crown with her,\n" + " And all the priests and friars in my realm\n" + " Shall in procession sing her endless praise.\n" + " A statelier pyramis to her I'll rear\n" + " Than Rhodope's or Memphis' ever was:\n" + " In memory of her when she is dead,\n" + " Her ashes, in an urn more precious\n" + " Than the rich-jewel'd of Darius,\n" + " Transported shall be at high festivals\n" + " Before the kings and queens of France.\n" + " No longer on Saint Denis will we cry,\n" + " But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint.\n" + " Come in, and let us banquet royally,\n" + " After this golden day of victory.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before Orleans.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Sergeant of a band with two Sentinels]\n\n" + "Sergeant Sirs, take your places and be vigilant:\n" + " If any noise or soldier you perceive\n" + " Near to the walls, by some apparent sign\n" + " Let us have knowledge at the court of guard.\n\n" + "First Sentinel Sergeant, you shall.\n\n" + " [Exit Sergeant]\n\n" + " Thus are poor servitors,\n" + " When others sleep upon their quiet beds,\n" + " Constrain'd to watch in darkness, rain and cold.\n\n" + " [Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, and Forces, with\n" + " scaling-ladders, their drums beating a dead march]\n\n" + "TALBOT Lord Regent, and redoubted Burgundy,\n" + " By whose approach the regions of Artois,\n" + " Wallon and Picardy are friends to us,\n" + " This happy night the Frenchmen are secure,\n" + " Having all day caroused and banqueted:\n" + " Embrace we then this opportunity\n" + " As fitting best to quittance their deceit\n" + " Contrived by art and baleful sorcery.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Coward of France! how much he wrongs his fame,\n" + " Despairing of his own arm's fortitude,\n" + " To join with witches and the help of hell!\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Traitors have never other company.\n" + " But what's that Pucelle whom they term so pure?\n\n" + "TALBOT A maid, they say.\n\n" + "BEDFORD A maid! and be so martial!\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Pray God she prove not masculine ere long,\n" + " If underneath the standard of the French\n" + " She carry armour as she hath begun.\n\n" + "TALBOT Well, let them practise and converse with spirits:\n" + " God is our fortress, in whose conquering name\n" + " Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Ascend, brave Talbot; we will follow thee.\n\n" + "TALBOT Not all together: better far, I guess,\n" + " That we do make our entrance several ways;\n" + " That, if it chance the one of us do fail,\n" + " The other yet may rise against their force.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Agreed: I'll to yond corner.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY And I to this.\n\n" + "TALBOT And here will Talbot mount, or make his grave.\n" + " Now, Salisbury, for thee, and for the right\n" + " Of English Henry, shall this night appear\n" + " How much in duty I am bound to both.\n\n" + "Sentinels Arm! arm! the enemy doth make assault!\n\n" + " [Cry: 'St. George,' 'A Talbot.']\n\n" + " [The French leap over the walls in their shirts.\n" + " Enter, several ways, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS,\n" + " ALENCON, and REIGNIER, half ready, and half unready]\n\n" + "ALENCON How now, my lords! what, all unready so?\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Unready! ay, and glad we 'scaped so well.\n\n" + "REIGNIER 'Twas time, I trow, to wake and leave our beds,\n" + " Hearing alarums at our chamber-doors.\n\n" + "ALENCON Of all exploits since first I follow'd arms,\n" + " Ne'er heard I of a warlike enterprise\n" + " More venturous or desperate than this.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS I think this Talbot be a fiend of hell.\n\n" + "REIGNIER If not of hell, the heavens, sure, favour him.\n\n" + "ALENCON Here cometh Charles: I marvel how he sped.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Tut, holy Joan was his defensive guard.\n\n" + " [Enter CHARLES and JOAN LA PUCELLE]\n\n" + "CHARLES Is this thy cunning, thou deceitful dame?\n" + " Didst thou at first, to flatter us withal,\n" + " Make us partakers of a little gain,\n" + " That now our loss might be ten times so much?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Wherefore is Charles impatient with his friend!\n" + " At all times will you have my power alike?\n" + " Sleeping or waking must I still prevail,\n" + " Or will you blame and lay the fault on me?\n" + " Improvident soldiers! had your watch been good,\n" + " This sudden mischief never could have fall'n.\n\n" + "CHARLES Duke of Alencon, this was your default,\n" + " That, being captain of the watch to-night,\n" + " Did look no better to that weighty charge.\n\n" + "ALENCON Had all your quarters been as safely kept\n" + " As that whereof I had the government,\n" + " We had not been thus shamefully surprised.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Mine was secure.\n\n" + "REIGNIER And so was mine, my lord.\n\n" + "CHARLES And, for myself, most part of all this night,\n" + " Within her quarter and mine own precinct\n" + " I was employ'd in passing to and fro,\n" + " About relieving of the sentinels:\n" + " Then how or which way should they first break in?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Question, my lords, no further of the case,\n" + " How or which way: 'tis sure they found some place\n" + " But weakly guarded, where the breach was made.\n" + " And now there rests no other shift but this;\n" + " To gather our soldiers, scatter'd and dispersed,\n" + " And lay new platforms to endamage them.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter an English Soldier, crying 'A\n" + " Talbot! a Talbot!' They fly, leaving their\n" + " clothes behind]\n\n" + "Soldier I'll be so bold to take what they have left.\n" + " The cry of Talbot serves me for a sword;\n" + " For I have loaden me with many spoils,\n" + " Using no other weapon but his name.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Orleans. Within the town.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TALBOT, BEDFORD, BURGUNDY, a Captain, and others]\n\n" + "BEDFORD The day begins to break, and night is fled,\n" + " Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth.\n" + " Here sound retreat, and cease our hot pursuit.\n\n" + " [Retreat sounded]\n\n" + "TALBOT Bring forth the body of old Salisbury,\n" + " And here advance it in the market-place,\n" + " The middle centre of this cursed town.\n" + " Now have I paid my vow unto his soul;\n" + " For every drop of blood was drawn from him,\n" + " There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight.\n" + " And that hereafter ages may behold\n" + " What ruin happen'd in revenge of him,\n" + " Within their chiefest temple I'll erect\n" + " A tomb, wherein his corpse shall be interr'd:\n" + " Upon the which, that every one may read,\n" + " Shall be engraved the sack of Orleans,\n" + " The treacherous manner of his mournful death\n" + " And what a terror he had been to France.\n" + " But, lords, in all our bloody massacre,\n" + " I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,\n" + " His new-come champion, virtuous Joan of Arc,\n" + " Nor any of his false confederates.\n\n" + "BEDFORD 'Tis thought, Lord Talbot, when the fight began,\n" + " Roused on the sudden from their drowsy beds,\n" + " They did amongst the troops of armed men\n" + " Leap o'er the walls for refuge in the field.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Myself, as far as I could well discern\n" + " For smoke and dusky vapours of the night,\n" + " Am sure I scared the Dauphin and his trull,\n" + " When arm in arm they both came swiftly running,\n" + " Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves\n" + " That could not live asunder day or night.\n" + " After that things are set in order here,\n" + " We'll follow them with all the power we have.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger All hail, my lords! which of this princely train\n" + " Call ye the warlike Talbot, for his acts\n" + " So much applauded through the realm of France?\n\n" + "TALBOT Here is the Talbot: who would speak with him?\n\n" + "Messenger The virtuous lady, Countess of Auvergne,\n" + " With modesty admiring thy renown,\n" + " By me entreats, great lord, thou wouldst vouchsafe\n" + " To visit her poor castle where she lies,\n" + " That she may boast she hath beheld the man\n" + " Whose glory fills the world with loud report.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Is it even so? Nay, then, I see our wars\n" + " Will turn unto a peaceful comic sport,\n" + " When ladies crave to be encounter'd with.\n" + " You may not, my lord, despise her gentle suit.\n\n" + "TALBOT Ne'er trust me then; for when a world of men\n" + " Could not prevail with all their oratory,\n" + " Yet hath a woman's kindness over-ruled:\n" + " And therefore tell her I return great thanks,\n" + " And in submission will attend on her.\n" + " Will not your honours bear me company?\n\n" + "BEDFORD No, truly; it is more than manners will:\n" + " And I have heard it said, unbidden guests\n" + " Are often welcomest when they are gone.\n\n" + "TALBOT Well then, alone, since there's no remedy,\n" + " I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.\n" + " Come hither, captain.\n\n" + " [Whispers]\n\n" + " You perceive my mind?\n\n" + "Captain I do, my lord, and mean accordingly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Auvergne. The COUNTESS's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the COUNTESS and her Porter]\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE Porter, remember what I gave in charge;\n" + " And when you have done so, bring the keys to me.\n\n" + "Porter Madam, I will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE The plot is laid: if all things fall out right,\n" + " I shall as famous be by this exploit\n" + " As Scythian Tomyris by Cyrus' death.\n" + " Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight,\n" + " And his achievements of no less account:\n" + " Fain would mine eyes be witness with mine ears,\n" + " To give their censure of these rare reports.\n\n" + " [Enter Messenger and TALBOT]\n\n" + "Messenger Madam,\n" + " According as your ladyship desired,\n" + " By message craved, so is Lord Talbot come.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE And he is welcome. What! is this the man?\n\n" + "Messenger Madam, it is.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE Is this the scourge of France?\n" + " Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad\n" + " That with his name the mothers still their babes?\n" + " I see report is fabulous and false:\n" + " I thought I should have seen some Hercules,\n" + " A second Hector, for his grim aspect,\n" + " And large proportion of his strong-knit limbs.\n" + " Alas, this is a child, a silly dwarf!\n" + " It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp\n" + " Should strike such terror to his enemies.\n\n" + "TALBOT Madam, I have been bold to trouble you;\n" + " But since your ladyship is not at leisure,\n" + " I'll sort some other time to visit you.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE What means he now? Go ask him whither he goes.\n\n" + "Messenger Stay, my Lord Talbot; for my lady craves\n" + " To know the cause of your abrupt departure.\n\n" + "TALBOT Marry, for that she's in a wrong belief,\n" + " I go to certify her Talbot's here.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Porter with keys]\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE If thou be he, then art thou prisoner.\n\n" + "TALBOT Prisoner! to whom?\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE To me, blood-thirsty lord;\n" + " And for that cause I trained thee to my house.\n" + " Long time thy shadow hath been thrall to me,\n" + " For in my gallery thy picture hangs:\n" + " But now the substance shall endure the like,\n" + " And I will chain these legs and arms of thine,\n" + " That hast by tyranny these many years\n" + " Wasted our country, slain our citizens\n" + " And sent our sons and husbands captivate.\n\n" + "TALBOT Ha, ha, ha!\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE Laughest thou, wretch? thy mirth shall turn to moan.\n\n" + "TALBOT I laugh to see your ladyship so fond\n" + " To think that you have aught but Talbot's shadow\n" + " Whereon to practise your severity.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE Why, art not thou the man?\n\n" + "TALBOT I am indeed.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE Then have I substance too.\n\n" + "TALBOT No, no, I am but shadow of myself:\n" + " You are deceived, my substance is not here;\n" + " For what you see is but the smallest part\n" + " And least proportion of humanity:\n" + " I tell you, madam, were the whole frame here,\n" + " It is of such a spacious lofty pitch,\n" + " Your roof were not sufficient to contain't.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE This is a riddling merchant for the nonce;\n" + " He will be here, and yet he is not here:\n" + " How can these contrarieties agree?\n\n" + "TALBOT That will I show you presently.\n\n" + " [Winds his horn. Drums strike up: a peal of\n" + " ordnance. Enter soldiers]\n\n" + " How say you, madam? are you now persuaded\n" + " That Talbot is but shadow of himself?\n" + " These are his substance, sinews, arms and strength,\n" + " With which he yoketh your rebellious necks,\n" + " Razeth your cities and subverts your towns\n" + " And in a moment makes them desolate.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE Victorious Talbot! pardon my abuse:\n" + " I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited\n" + " And more than may be gather'd by thy shape.\n" + " Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath;\n" + " For I am sorry that with reverence\n" + " I did not entertain thee as thou art.\n\n" + "TALBOT Be not dismay'd, fair lady; nor misconstrue\n" + " The mind of Talbot, as you did mistake\n" + " The outward composition of his body.\n" + " What you have done hath not offended me;\n" + " Nor other satisfaction do I crave,\n" + " But only, with your patience, that we may\n" + " Taste of your wine and see what cates you have;\n" + " For soldiers' stomachs always serve them well.\n\n" + "COUNTESS\n" + "OF AUVERGNE With all my heart, and think me honoured\n" + " To feast so great a warrior in my house.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV London. The Temple-garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the Earls of SOMERSET, SUFFOLK, and WARWICK;\n" + " RICHARD PLANTAGENET, VERNON, and another Lawyer]\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Great lords and gentlemen, what means this silence?\n" + " Dare no man answer in a case of truth?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Within the Temple-hall we were too loud;\n" + " The garden here is more convenient.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Then say at once if I maintain'd the truth;\n" + " Or else was wrangling Somerset in the error?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Faith, I have been a truant in the law,\n" + " And never yet could frame my will to it;\n" + " And therefore frame the law unto my will.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Judge you, my Lord of Warwick, then, between us.\n\n" + "WARWICK Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch;\n" + " Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth;\n" + " Between two blades, which bears the better temper:\n" + " Between two horses, which doth bear him best;\n" + " Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye;\n" + " I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgement;\n" + " But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,\n" + " Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance:\n" + " The truth appears so naked on my side\n" + " That any purblind eye may find it out.\n\n" + "SOMERSET And on my side it is so well apparell'd,\n" + " So clear, so shining and so evident\n" + " That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Since you are tongue-tied and so loath to speak,\n" + " In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts:\n" + " Let him that is a true-born gentleman\n" + " And stands upon the honour of his birth,\n" + " If he suppose that I have pleaded truth,\n" + " From off this brier pluck a white rose with me.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer,\n" + " But dare maintain the party of the truth,\n" + " Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.\n\n" + "WARWICK I love no colours, and without all colour\n" + " Of base insinuating flattery\n" + " I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I pluck this red rose with young Somerset\n" + " And say withal I think he held the right.\n\n" + "VERNON Stay, lords and gentlemen, and pluck no more,\n" + " Till you conclude that he upon whose side\n" + " The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree\n" + " Shall yield the other in the right opinion.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Good Master Vernon, it is well objected:\n" + " If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET And I.\n\n" + "VERNON Then for the truth and plainness of the case.\n" + " I pluck this pale and maiden blossom here,\n" + " Giving my verdict on the white rose side.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Prick not your finger as you pluck it off,\n" + " Lest bleeding you do paint the white rose red\n" + " And fall on my side so, against your will.\n\n" + "VERNON If I my lord, for my opinion bleed,\n" + " Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt\n" + " And keep me on the side where still I am.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Well, well, come on: who else?\n\n" + "Lawyer Unless my study and my books be false,\n" + " The argument you held was wrong in you:\n\n" + " [To SOMERSET]\n\n" + " In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Now, Somerset, where is your argument?\n\n" + "SOMERSET Here in my scabbard, meditating that\n" + " Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses;\n" + " For pale they look with fear, as witnessing\n" + " The truth on our side.\n\n" + "SOMERSET No, Plantagenet,\n" + " 'Tis not for fear but anger that thy cheeks\n" + " Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses,\n" + " And yet thy tongue will not confess thy error.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset?\n\n" + "SOMERSET Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet?\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth;\n" + " Whiles thy consuming canker eats his falsehood.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses,\n" + " That shall maintain what I have said is true,\n" + " Where false Plantagenet dare not be seen.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Now, by this maiden blossom in my hand,\n" + " I scorn thee and thy fashion, peevish boy.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Turn not thy scorns this way, Plantagenet.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Proud Pole, I will, and scorn both him and thee.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I'll turn my part thereof into thy throat.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Away, away, good William de la Pole!\n" + " We grace the yeoman by conversing with him.\n\n" + "WARWICK Now, by God's will, thou wrong'st him, Somerset;\n" + " His grandfather was Lionel Duke of Clarence,\n" + " Third son to the third Edward King of England:\n" + " Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET He bears him on the place's privilege,\n" + " Or durst not, for his craven heart, say thus.\n\n" + "SOMERSET By him that made me, I'll maintain my words\n" + " On any plot of ground in Christendom.\n" + " Was not thy father, Richard Earl of Cambridge,\n" + " For treason executed in our late king's days?\n" + " And, by his treason, stand'st not thou attainted,\n" + " Corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry?\n" + " His trespass yet lives guilty in thy blood;\n" + " And, till thou be restored, thou art a yeoman.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET My father was attached, not attainted,\n" + " Condemn'd to die for treason, but no traitor;\n" + " And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,\n" + " Were growing time once ripen'd to my will.\n" + " For your partaker Pole and you yourself,\n" + " I'll note you in my book of memory,\n" + " To scourge you for this apprehension:\n" + " Look to it well and say you are well warn'd.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Ah, thou shalt find us ready for thee still;\n" + " And know us by these colours for thy foes,\n" + " For these my friends in spite of thee shall wear.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose,\n" + " As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate,\n" + " Will I for ever and my faction wear,\n" + " Until it wither with me to my grave\n" + " Or flourish to the height of my degree.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Go forward and be choked with thy ambition!\n" + " And so farewell until I meet thee next.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SOMERSET Have with thee, Pole. Farewell, ambitious Richard.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET How I am braved and must perforce endure it!\n\n" + "WARWICK This blot that they object against your house\n" + " Shall be wiped out in the next parliament\n" + " Call'd for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester;\n" + " And if thou be not then created York,\n" + " I will not live to be accounted Warwick.\n" + " Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,\n" + " Against proud Somerset and William Pole,\n" + " Will I upon thy party wear this rose:\n" + " And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,\n" + " Grown to this faction in the Temple-garden,\n" + " Shall send between the red rose and the white\n" + " A thousand souls to death and deadly night.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Good Master Vernon, I am bound to you,\n" + " That you on my behalf would pluck a flower.\n\n" + "VERNON In your behalf still will I wear the same.\n\n" + "Lawyer And so will I.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Thanks, gentle sir.\n" + " Come, let us four to dinner: I dare say\n" + " This quarrel will drink blood another day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The Tower of London.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MORTIMER, brought in a chair, and Gaolers]\n\n" + "MORTIMER Kind keepers of my weak decaying age,\n" + " Let dying Mortimer here rest himself.\n" + " Even like a man new haled from the rack,\n" + " So fare my limbs with long imprisonment.\n" + " And these grey locks, the pursuivants of death,\n" + " Nestor-like aged in an age of care,\n" + " Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer.\n" + " These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent,\n" + " Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent;\n" + " Weak shoulders, overborne with burthening grief,\n" + " And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine\n" + " That droops his sapless branches to the ground;\n" + " Yet are these feet, whose strengthless stay is numb,\n" + " Unable to support this lump of clay,\n" + " Swift-winged with desire to get a grave,\n" + " As witting I no other comfort have.\n" + " But tell me, keeper, will my nephew come?\n\n" + "First Gaoler Richard Plantagenet, my lord, will come:\n" + " We sent unto the Temple, unto his chamber;\n" + " And answer was return'd that he will come.\n\n" + "MORTIMER Enough: my soul shall then be satisfied.\n" + " Poor gentleman! his wrong doth equal mine.\n" + " Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign,\n" + " Before whose glory I was great in arms,\n" + " This loathsome sequestration have I had:\n" + " And even since then hath Richard been obscured,\n" + " Deprived of honour and inheritance.\n" + " But now the arbitrator of despairs,\n" + " Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries,\n" + " With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence:\n" + " I would his troubles likewise were expired,\n" + " That so he might recover what was lost.\n\n" + " [Enter RICHARD PLANTAGENET]\n\n" + "First Gaoler My lord, your loving nephew now is come.\n\n" + "MORTIMER Richard Plantagenet, my friend, is he come?\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Ay, noble uncle, thus ignobly used,\n" + " Your nephew, late despised Richard, comes.\n\n" + "MORTIMER Direct mine arms I may embrace his neck,\n" + " And in his bosom spend my latter gasp:\n" + " O, tell me when my lips do touch his cheeks,\n" + " That I may kindly give one fainting kiss.\n" + " And now declare, sweet stem from York's great stock,\n" + " Why didst thou say, of late thou wert despised?\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET First, lean thine aged back against mine arm;\n" + " And, in that ease, I'll tell thee my disease.\n" + " This day, in argument upon a case,\n" + " Some words there grew 'twixt Somerset and me;\n" + " Among which terms he used his lavish tongue\n" + " And did upbraid me with my father's death:\n" + " Which obloquy set bars before my tongue,\n" + " Else with the like I had requited him.\n" + " Therefore, good uncle, for my father's sake,\n" + " In honour of a true Plantagenet\n" + " And for alliance sake, declare the cause\n" + " My father, Earl of Cambridge, lost his head.\n\n" + "MORTIMER That cause, fair nephew, that imprison'd me\n" + " And hath detain'd me all my flowering youth\n" + " Within a loathsome dungeon, there to pine,\n" + " Was cursed instrument of his decease.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Discover more at large what cause that was,\n" + " For I am ignorant and cannot guess.\n\n" + "MORTIMER I will, if that my fading breath permit\n" + " And death approach not ere my tale be done.\n" + " Henry the Fourth, grandfather to this king,\n" + " Deposed his nephew Richard, Edward's son,\n" + " The first-begotten and the lawful heir,\n" + " Of Edward king, the third of that descent:\n" + " During whose reign the Percies of the north,\n" + " Finding his usurpation most unjust,\n" + " Endeavor'd my advancement to the throne:\n" + " The reason moved these warlike lords to this\n" + " Was, for that--young King Richard thus removed,\n" + " Leaving no heir begotten of his body--\n" + " I was the next by birth and parentage;\n" + " For by my mother I derived am\n" + " From Lionel Duke of Clarence, the third son\n" + " To King Edward the Third; whereas he\n" + " From John of Gaunt doth bring his pedigree,\n" + " Being but fourth of that heroic line.\n" + " But mark: as in this haughty attempt\n" + " They laboured to plant the rightful heir,\n" + " I lost my liberty and they their lives.\n" + " Long after this, when Henry the Fifth,\n" + " Succeeding his father Bolingbroke, did reign,\n" + " Thy father, Earl of Cambridge, then derived\n" + " From famous Edmund Langley, Duke of York,\n" + " Marrying my sister that thy mother was,\n" + " Again in pity of my hard distress\n" + " Levied an army, weening to redeem\n" + " And have install'd me in the diadem:\n" + " But, as the rest, so fell that noble earl\n" + " And was beheaded. Thus the Mortimers,\n" + " In whom the tide rested, were suppress'd.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Of which, my lord, your honour is the last.\n\n" + "MORTIMER True; and thou seest that I no issue have\n" + " And that my fainting words do warrant death;\n" + " Thou art my heir; the rest I wish thee gather:\n" + " But yet be wary in thy studious care.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Thy grave admonishments prevail with me:\n" + " But yet, methinks, my father's execution\n" + " Was nothing less than bloody tyranny.\n\n" + "MORTIMER With silence, nephew, be thou politic:\n" + " Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster,\n" + " And like a mountain, not to be removed.\n" + " But now thy uncle is removing hence:\n" + " As princes do their courts, when they are cloy'd\n" + " With long continuance in a settled place.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET O, uncle, would some part of my young years\n" + " Might but redeem the passage of your age!\n\n" + "MORTIMER Thou dost then wrong me, as that slaughterer doth\n" + " Which giveth many wounds when one will kill.\n" + " Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good;\n" + " Only give order for my funeral:\n" + " And so farewell, and fair be all thy hopes\n" + " And prosperous be thy life in peace and war!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET And peace, no war, befall thy parting soul!\n" + " In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage\n" + " And like a hermit overpass'd thy days.\n" + " Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast;\n" + " And what I do imagine let that rest.\n" + " Keepers, convey him hence, and I myself\n" + " Will see his burial better than his life.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Gaolers, bearing out the body of MORTIMER]\n\n" + " Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer,\n" + " Choked with ambition of the meaner sort:\n" + " And for those wrongs, those bitter injuries,\n" + " Which Somerset hath offer'd to my house:\n" + " I doubt not but with honour to redress;\n" + " And therefore haste I to the parliament,\n" + " Either to be restored to my blood,\n" + " Or make my ill the advantage of my good.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. The Parliament-house.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, EXETER, GLOUCESTER,\n" + " WARWICK, SOMERSET, and SUFFOLK; the BISHOP OF\n" + " WINCHESTER, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, and others.\n" + " GLOUCESTER offers to put up a bill; BISHOP OF\n" + " WINCHESTER snatches it, and tears it]\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Comest thou with deep premeditated lines,\n" + " With written pamphlets studiously devised,\n" + " Humphrey of Gloucester? If thou canst accuse,\n" + " Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge,\n" + " Do it without invention, suddenly;\n" + " As I with sudden and extemporal speech\n" + " Purpose to answer what thou canst object.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Presumptuous priest! this place commands my patience,\n" + " Or thou shouldst find thou hast dishonour'd me.\n" + " Think not, although in writing I preferr'd\n" + " The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes,\n" + " That therefore I have forged, or am not able\n" + " Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen:\n" + " No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness,\n" + " Thy lewd, pestiferous and dissentious pranks,\n" + " As very infants prattle of thy pride.\n" + " Thou art a most pernicious usurer,\n" + " Forward by nature, enemy to peace;\n" + " Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems\n" + " A man of thy profession and degree;\n" + " And for thy treachery, what's more manifest?\n" + " In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life,\n" + " As well at London bridge as at the Tower.\n" + " Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were sifted,\n" + " The king, thy sovereign, is not quite exempt\n" + " From envious malice of thy swelling heart.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Gloucester, I do defy thee. Lords, vouchsafe\n" + " To give me hearing what I shall reply.\n" + " If I were covetous, ambitious or perverse,\n" + " As he will have me, how am I so poor?\n" + " Or how haps it I seek not to advance\n" + " Or raise myself, but keep my wonted calling?\n" + " And for dissension, who preferreth peace\n" + " More than I do?--except I be provoked.\n" + " No, my good lords, it is not that offends;\n" + " It is not that that hath incensed the duke:\n" + " It is, because no one should sway but he;\n" + " No one but he should be about the king;\n" + " And that engenders thunder in his breast\n" + " And makes him roar these accusations forth.\n" + " But he shall know I am as good--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER As good!\n" + " Thou bastard of my grandfather!\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Ay, lordly sir; for what are you, I pray,\n" + " But one imperious in another's throne?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Am I not protector, saucy priest?\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER And am not I a prelate of the church?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps\n" + " And useth it to patronage his theft.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Unreverent Gloster!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Thou art reverent\n" + " Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Rome shall remedy this.\n\n" + "WARWICK Roam thither, then.\n\n" + "SOMERSET My lord, it were your duty to forbear.\n\n" + "WARWICK Ay, see the bishop be not overborne.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Methinks my lord should be religious\n" + " And know the office that belongs to such.\n\n" + "WARWICK Methinks his lordship should be humbler;\n" + " it fitteth not a prelate so to plead.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Yes, when his holy state is touch'd so near.\n\n" + "WARWICK State holy or unhallow'd, what of that?\n" + " Is not his grace protector to the king?\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET [Aside] Plantagenet, I see, must hold his tongue,\n" + " Lest it be said 'Speak, sirrah, when you should;\n" + " Must your bold verdict enter talk with lords?'\n" + " Else would I have a fling at Winchester.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester,\n" + " The special watchmen of our English weal,\n" + " I would prevail, if prayers might prevail,\n" + " To join your hearts in love and amity.\n" + " O, what a scandal is it to our crown,\n" + " That two such noble peers as ye should jar!\n" + " Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell\n" + " Civil dissension is a viperous worm\n" + " That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.\n\n" + " [A noise within, 'Down with the tawny-coats!']\n\n" + " What tumult's this?\n\n" + "WARWICK An uproar, I dare warrant,\n" + " Begun through malice of the bishop's men.\n\n" + " [A noise again, 'Stones! stones!' Enter Mayor]\n\n" + "Mayor O, my good lords, and virtuous Henry,\n" + " Pity the city of London, pity us!\n" + " The bishop and the Duke of Gloucester's men,\n" + " Forbidden late to carry any weapon,\n" + " Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble stones\n" + " And banding themselves in contrary parts\n" + " Do pelt so fast at one another's pate\n" + " That many have their giddy brains knock'd out:\n" + " Our windows are broke down in every street\n" + " And we for fear compell'd to shut our shops.\n\n" + " [Enter Serving-men, in skirmish, with bloody pates]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI We charge you, on allegiance to ourself,\n" + " To hold your slaughtering hands and keep the peace.\n" + " Pray, uncle Gloucester, mitigate this strife.\n\n" + "First Serving-man Nay, if we be forbidden stones,\n" + " We'll fall to it with our teeth.\n\n" + "Second Serving-man Do what ye dare, we are as resolute.\n\n" + " [Skirmish again]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER You of my household, leave this peevish broil\n" + " And set this unaccustom'd fight aside.\n\n" + "Third Serving-man My lord, we know your grace to be a man\n" + " Just and upright; and, for your royal birth,\n" + " Inferior to none but to his majesty:\n" + " And ere that we will suffer such a prince,\n" + " So kind a father of the commonweal,\n" + " To be disgraced by an inkhorn mate,\n" + " We and our wives and children all will fight\n" + " And have our bodies slaughtered by thy foes.\n\n" + "First Serving-man Ay, and the very parings of our nails\n" + " Shall pitch a field when we are dead.\n\n" + " [Begin again]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Stay, stay, I say!\n" + " And if you love me, as you say you do,\n" + " Let me persuade you to forbear awhile.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O, how this discord doth afflict my soul!\n" + " Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold\n" + " My sighs and tears and will not once relent?\n" + " Who should be pitiful, if you be not?\n" + " Or who should study to prefer a peace.\n" + " If holy churchmen take delight in broils?\n\n" + "WARWICK Yield, my lord protector; yield, Winchester;\n" + " Except you mean with obstinate repulse\n" + " To slay your sovereign and destroy the realm.\n" + " You see what mischief and what murder too\n" + " Hath been enacted through your enmity;\n" + " Then be at peace except ye thirst for blood.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER He shall submit, or I will never yield.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Compassion on the king commands me stoop;\n" + " Or I would see his heart out, ere the priest\n" + " Should ever get that privilege of me.\n\n" + "WARWICK Behold, my Lord of Winchester, the duke\n" + " Hath banish'd moody discontented fury,\n" + " As by his smoothed brows it doth appear:\n" + " Why look you still so stern and tragical?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach\n" + " That malice was a great and grievous sin;\n" + " And will not you maintain the thing you teach,\n" + " But prove a chief offender in the same?\n\n" + "WARWICK Sweet king! the bishop hath a kindly gird.\n" + " For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent!\n" + " What, shall a child instruct you what to do?\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Well, Duke of Gloucester, I will yield to thee;\n" + " Love for thy love and hand for hand I give.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] Ay, but, I fear me, with a hollow heart.--\n" + " See here, my friends and loving countrymen,\n" + " This token serveth for a flag of truce\n" + " Betwixt ourselves and all our followers:\n" + " So help me God, as I dissemble not!\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER [Aside] So help me God, as I intend it not!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O, loving uncle, kind Duke of Gloucester,\n" + " How joyful am I made by this contract!\n" + " Away, my masters! trouble us no more;\n" + " But join in friendship, as your lords have done.\n\n" + "First Serving-man Content: I'll to the surgeon's.\n\n" + "Second Serving-man And so will I.\n\n" + "Third Serving-man And I will see what physic the tavern affords.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Serving-men, Mayor, &c]\n\n" + "WARWICK Accept this scroll, most gracious sovereign,\n" + " Which in the right of Richard Plantagenet\n" + " We do exhibit to your majesty.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well urged, my Lord of Warwick: or sweet prince,\n" + " And if your grace mark every circumstance,\n" + " You have great reason to do Richard right;\n" + " Especially for those occasions\n" + " At Eltham Place I told your majesty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI And those occasions, uncle, were of force:\n" + " Therefore, my loving lords, our pleasure is\n" + " That Richard be restored to his blood.\n\n" + "WARWICK Let Richard be restored to his blood;\n" + " So shall his father's wrongs be recompensed.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER As will the rest, so willeth Winchester.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI If Richard will be true, not that alone\n" + " But all the whole inheritance I give\n" + " That doth belong unto the house of York,\n" + " From whence you spring by lineal descent.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Thy humble servant vows obedience\n" + " And humble service till the point of death.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Stoop then and set your knee against my foot;\n" + " And, in reguerdon of that duty done,\n" + " I gird thee with the valiant sword of York:\n" + " Rise Richard, like a true Plantagenet,\n" + " And rise created princely Duke of York.\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET And so thrive Richard as thy foes may fall!\n" + " And as my duty springs, so perish they\n" + " That grudge one thought against your majesty!\n\n" + "ALL Welcome, high prince, the mighty Duke of York!\n\n" + "SOMERSET [Aside] Perish, base prince, ignoble Duke of York!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now will it best avail your majesty\n" + " To cross the seas and to be crown'd in France:\n" + " The presence of a king engenders love\n" + " Amongst his subjects and his loyal friends,\n" + " As it disanimates his enemies.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes;\n" + " For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Your ships already are in readiness.\n\n" + " [Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but EXETER]\n\n" + "EXETER Ay, we may march in England or in France,\n" + " Not seeing what is likely to ensue.\n" + " This late dissension grown betwixt the peers\n" + " Burns under feigned ashes of forged love\n" + " And will at last break out into a flame:\n" + " As fester'd members rot but by degree,\n" + " Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away,\n" + " So will this base and envious discord breed.\n" + " And now I fear that fatal prophecy\n" + " Which in the time of Henry named the Fifth\n" + " Was in the mouth of every sucking babe;\n" + " That Henry born at Monmouth should win all\n" + " And Henry born at Windsor lose all:\n" + " Which is so plain that Exeter doth wish\n" + " His days may finish ere that hapless time.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II France. Before Rouen.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE disguised, with four Soldiers\n" + " with sacks upon their backs]\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen,\n" + " Through which our policy must make a breach:\n" + " Take heed, be wary how you place your words;\n" + " Talk like the vulgar sort of market men\n" + " That come to gather money for their corn.\n" + " If we have entrance, as I hope we shall,\n" + " And that we find the slothful watch but weak,\n" + " I'll by a sign give notice to our friends,\n" + " That Charles the Dauphin may encounter them.\n\n" + "First Soldier Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city,\n" + " And we be lords and rulers over Rouen;\n" + " Therefore we'll knock.\n\n" + " [Knocks]\n\n" + "Watch [Within] Qui est la?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Paysans, pauvres gens de France;\n" + " Poor market folks that come to sell their corn.\n\n" + "Watch Enter, go in; the market bell is rung.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON,\n" + " REIGNIER, and forces]\n\n" + "CHARLES Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem!\n" + " And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Here enter'd Pucelle and her practisants;\n" + " Now she is there, how will she specify\n" + " Where is the best and safest passage in?\n\n" + "REIGNIER By thrusting out a torch from yonder tower;\n" + " Which, once discern'd, shows that her meaning is,\n" + " No way to that, for weakness, which she enter'd.\n\n" + " [Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE on the top, thrusting out a\n" + " torch burning]\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Behold, this is the happy wedding torch\n" + " That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen,\n" + " But burning fatal to the Talbotites!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS See, noble Charles, the beacon of our friend;\n" + " The burning torch in yonder turret stands.\n\n" + "CHARLES Now shine it like a comet of revenge,\n" + " A prophet to the fall of all our foes!\n\n" + "REIGNIER Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends;\n" + " Enter, and cry 'The Dauphin!' presently,\n" + " And then do execution on the watch.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Exeunt]\n\n" + " [An alarum. Enter TALBOT in an excursion]\n\n" + "TALBOT France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears,\n" + " If Talbot but survive thy treachery.\n" + " Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress,\n" + " Hath wrought this hellish mischief unawares,\n" + " That hardly we escaped the pride of France.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [An alarum: excursions. BEDFORD, brought in sick\n" + " in a chair. Enter TALBOT and BURGUNDY without:\n" + " within JOAN LA PUCELLE, CHARLES, BASTARD OF ORLEANS,\n" + " ALENCON, and REIGNIER, on the walls]\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Good morrow, gallants! want ye corn for bread?\n" + " I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast\n" + " Before he'll buy again at such a rate:\n" + " 'Twas full of darnel; do you like the taste?\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Scoff on, vile fiend and shameless courtezan!\n" + " I trust ere long to choke thee with thine own\n" + " And make thee curse the harvest of that corn.\n\n" + "CHARLES Your grace may starve perhaps before that time.\n\n" + "BEDFORD O, let no words, but deeds, revenge this treason!\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE What will you do, good grey-beard? break a lance,\n" + " And run a tilt at death within a chair?\n\n" + "TALBOT Foul fiend of France, and hag of all despite,\n" + " Encompass'd with thy lustful paramours!\n" + " Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age\n" + " And twit with cowardice a man half dead?\n" + " Damsel, I'll have a bout with you again,\n" + " Or else let Talbot perish with this shame.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Are ye so hot, sir? yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace;\n" + " If Talbot do but thunder, rain will follow.\n\n" + " [The English whisper together in council]\n\n" + " God speed the parliament! who shall be the speaker?\n\n" + "TALBOT Dare ye come forth and meet us in the field?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Belike your lordship takes us then for fools,\n" + " To try if that our own be ours or no.\n\n" + "TALBOT I speak not to that railing Hecate,\n" + " But unto thee, Alencon, and the rest;\n" + " Will ye, like soldiers, come and fight it out?\n\n" + "ALENCON Signior, no.\n\n" + "TALBOT Signior, hang! base muleters of France!\n" + " Like peasant foot-boys do they keep the walls\n" + " And dare not take up arms like gentlemen.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Away, captains! let's get us from the walls;\n" + " For Talbot means no goodness by his looks.\n" + " God be wi' you, my lord! we came but to tell you\n" + " That we are here.\n\n" + " [Exeunt from the walls]\n\n" + "TALBOT And there will we be too, ere it be long,\n" + " Or else reproach be Talbot's greatest fame!\n" + " Vow, Burgundy, by honour of thy house,\n" + " Prick'd on by public wrongs sustain'd in France,\n" + " Either to get the town again or die:\n" + " And I, as sure as English Henry lives\n" + " And as his father here was conqueror,\n" + " As sure as in this late-betrayed town\n" + " Great Coeur-de-lion's heart was buried,\n" + " So sure I swear to get the town or die.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY My vows are equal partners with thy vows.\n\n" + "TALBOT But, ere we go, regard this dying prince,\n" + " The valiant Duke of Bedford. Come, my lord,\n" + " We will bestow you in some better place,\n" + " Fitter for sickness and for crazy age.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Lord Talbot, do not so dishonour me:\n" + " Here will I sit before the walls of Rouen\n" + " And will be partner of your weal or woe.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Courageous Bedford, let us now persuade you.\n\n" + "BEDFORD Not to be gone from hence; for once I read\n" + " That stout Pendragon in his litter sick\n" + " Came to the field and vanquished his foes:\n" + " Methinks I should revive the soldiers' hearts,\n" + " Because I ever found them as myself.\n\n" + "TALBOT Undaunted spirit in a dying breast!\n" + " Then be it so: heavens keep old Bedford safe!\n" + " And now no more ado, brave Burgundy,\n" + " But gather we our forces out of hand\n" + " And set upon our boasting enemy.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but BEDFORD and Attendants]\n\n" + " [An alarum: excursions. Enter FASTOLFE and\n" + " a Captain]\n\n" + "Captain Whither away, Sir John Fastolfe, in such haste?\n\n" + "FASTOLFE Whither away! to save myself by flight:\n" + " We are like to have the overthrow again.\n\n" + "Captain What! will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?\n\n" + "FASTOLFE Ay,\n" + " All the Talbots in the world, to save my life!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Captain Cowardly knight! ill fortune follow thee!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Retreat: excursions. JOAN LA PUCELLE, ALENCON,\n" + " and CHARLES fly]\n\n" + "BEDFORD Now, quiet soul, depart when heaven please,\n" + " For I have seen our enemies' overthrow.\n" + " What is the trust or strength of foolish man?\n" + " They that of late were daring with their scoffs\n" + " Are glad and fain by flight to save themselves.\n\n" + " [BEDFORD dies, and is carried in by two in his chair]\n\n" + " [An alarum. Re-enter TALBOT, BURGUNDY, and the rest]\n\n" + "TALBOT Lost, and recover'd in a day again!\n" + " This is a double honour, Burgundy:\n" + " Yet heavens have glory for this victory!\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Warlike and martial Talbot, Burgundy\n" + " Enshrines thee in his heart and there erects\n" + " Thy noble deeds as valour's monuments.\n\n" + "TALBOT Thanks, gentle duke. But where is Pucelle now?\n" + " I think her old familiar is asleep:\n" + " Now where's the Bastard's braves, and Charles his gleeks?\n" + " What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief\n" + " That such a valiant company are fled.\n" + " Now will we take some order in the town,\n" + " Placing therein some expert officers,\n" + " And then depart to Paris to the king,\n" + " For there young Henry with his nobles lie.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY What wills Lord Talbot pleaseth Burgundy.\n\n" + "TALBOT But yet, before we go, let's not forget\n" + " The noble Duke of Bedford late deceased,\n" + " But see his exequies fulfill'd in Rouen:\n" + " A braver soldier never couched lance,\n" + " A gentler heart did never sway in court;\n" + " But kings and mightiest potentates must die,\n" + " For that's the end of human misery.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The plains near Rouen.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CHARLES, the BASTARD OF ORLEANS, ALENCON, JOAN\n" + " LA PUCELLE, and forces]\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Dismay not, princes, at this accident,\n" + " Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered:\n" + " Care is no cure, but rather corrosive,\n" + " For things that are not to be remedied.\n" + " Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while\n" + " And like a peacock sweep along his tail;\n" + " We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,\n" + " If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.\n\n" + "CHARLES We have been guided by thee hitherto,\n" + " And of thy cunning had no diffidence:\n" + " One sudden foil shall never breed distrust.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Search out thy wit for secret policies,\n" + " And we will make thee famous through the world.\n\n" + "ALENCON We'll set thy statue in some holy place,\n" + " And have thee reverenced like a blessed saint:\n" + " Employ thee then, sweet virgin, for our good.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Then thus it must be; this doth Joan devise:\n" + " By fair persuasions mix'd with sugar'd words\n" + " We will entice the Duke of Burgundy\n" + " To leave the Talbot and to follow us.\n\n" + "CHARLES Ay, marry, sweeting, if we could do that,\n" + " France were no place for Henry's warriors;\n" + " Nor should that nation boast it so with us,\n" + " But be extirped from our provinces.\n\n" + "ALENCON For ever should they be expulsed from France\n" + " And not have title of an earldom here.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Your honours shall perceive how I will work\n" + " To bring this matter to the wished end.\n\n" + " [Drum sounds afar off]\n\n" + " Hark! by the sound of drum you may perceive\n" + " Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.\n\n" + " [Here sound an English march. Enter, and pass over\n" + " at a distance, TALBOT and his forces]\n\n" + " There goes the Talbot, with his colours spread,\n" + " And all the troops of English after him.\n\n" + " [French march. Enter BURGUNDY and forces]\n\n" + " Now in the rearward comes the duke and his:\n" + " Fortune in favour makes him lag behind.\n" + " Summon a parley; we will talk with him.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound a parley]\n\n" + "CHARLES A parley with the Duke of Burgundy!\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY What say'st thou, Charles? for I am marching hence.\n\n" + "CHARLES Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Brave Burgundy, undoubted hope of France!\n" + " Stay, let thy humble handmaid speak to thee.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Speak on; but be not over-tedious.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Look on thy country, look on fertile France,\n" + " And see the cities and the towns defaced\n" + " By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.\n" + " As looks the mother on her lowly babe\n" + " When death doth close his tender dying eyes,\n" + " See, see the pining malady of France;\n" + " Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,\n" + " Which thou thyself hast given her woful breast.\n" + " O, turn thy edged sword another way;\n" + " Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.\n" + " One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom\n" + " Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore:\n" + " Return thee therefore with a flood of tears,\n" + " And wash away thy country's stained spots.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Either she hath bewitch'd me with her words,\n" + " Or nature makes me suddenly relent.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,\n" + " Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.\n" + " Who joint'st thou with but with a lordly nation\n" + " That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?\n" + " When Talbot hath set footing once in France\n" + " And fashion'd thee that instrument of ill,\n" + " Who then but English Henry will be lord\n" + " And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?\n" + " Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof,\n" + " Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe?\n" + " And was he not in England prisoner?\n" + " But when they heard he was thine enemy,\n" + " They set him free without his ransom paid,\n" + " In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.\n" + " See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen\n" + " And joint'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.\n" + " Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord:\n" + " Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY I am vanquished; these haughty words of hers\n" + " Have batter'd me like roaring cannon-shot,\n" + " And made me almost yield upon my knees.\n" + " Forgive me, country, and sweet countrymen,\n" + " And, lords, accept this hearty kind embrace:\n" + " My forces and my power of men are yours:\n" + " So farewell, Talbot; I'll no longer trust thee.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE [Aside] Done like a Frenchman: turn, and turn again!\n\n" + "CHARLES Welcome, brave duke! thy friendship makes us fresh.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS And doth beget new courage in our breasts.\n\n" + "ALENCON Pucelle hath bravely play'd her part in this,\n" + " And doth deserve a coronet of gold.\n\n" + "CHARLES Now let us on, my lords, and join our powers,\n" + " And seek how we may prejudice the foe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Paris. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF\n" + " WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK,\n" + " EXETER, VERNON BASSET, and others. To them\n" + " with his Soldiers, TALBOT]\n\n" + "TALBOT My gracious prince, and honourable peers,\n" + " Hearing of your arrival in this realm,\n" + " I have awhile given truce unto my wars,\n" + " To do my duty to my sovereign:\n" + " In sign, whereof, this arm, that hath reclaim'd\n" + " To your obedience fifty fortresses,\n" + " Twelve cities and seven walled towns of strength,\n" + " Beside five hundred prisoners of esteem,\n" + " Lets fall his sword before your highness' feet,\n" + " And with submissive loyalty of heart\n" + " Ascribes the glory of his conquest got\n" + " First to my God and next unto your grace.\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Is this the Lord Talbot, uncle Gloucester,\n" + " That hath so long been resident in France?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Yes, if it please your majesty, my liege.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Welcome, brave captain and victorious lord!\n" + " When I was young, as yet I am not old,\n" + " I do remember how my father said\n" + " A stouter champion never handled sword.\n" + " Long since we were resolved of your truth,\n" + " Your faithful service and your toil in war;\n" + " Yet never have you tasted our reward,\n" + " Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks,\n" + " Because till now we never saw your face:\n" + " Therefore, stand up; and, for these good deserts,\n" + " We here create you Earl of Shrewsbury;\n" + " And in our coronation take your place.\n\n" + " [Sennet. Flourish. Exeunt all but VERNON and BASSET]\n\n" + "VERNON Now, sir, to you, that were so hot at sea,\n" + " Disgracing of these colours that I wear\n" + " In honour of my noble Lord of York:\n" + " Darest thou maintain the former words thou spakest?\n\n" + "BASSET Yes, sir; as well as you dare patronage\n" + " The envious barking of your saucy tongue\n" + " Against my lord the Duke of Somerset.\n\n" + "VERNON Sirrah, thy lord I honour as he is.\n\n" + "BASSET Why, what is he? as good a man as York.\n\n" + "VERNON Hark ye; not so: in witness, take ye that.\n\n" + " [Strikes him]\n\n" + "BASSET Villain, thou know'st the law of arms is such\n" + " That whoso draws a sword, 'tis present death,\n" + " Or else this blow should broach thy dearest blood.\n" + " But I'll unto his majesty, and crave\n" + " I may have liberty to venge this wrong;\n" + " When thou shalt see I'll meet thee to thy cost.\n\n" + "VERNON Well, miscreant, I'll be there as soon as you;\n" + " And, after, meet you sooner than you would.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Paris. A hall of state.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, BISHOP OF\n" + " WINCHESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, SOMERSET, WARWICK,\n" + " TALBOT, EXETER, the Governor, of Paris, and others]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Lord bishop, set the crown upon his head.\n\n" + "BISHOP\n" + "OF WINCHESTER God save King Henry, of that name the sixth!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now, governor of Paris, take your oath,\n" + " That you elect no other king but him;\n" + " Esteem none friends but such as are his friends,\n" + " And none your foes but such as shall pretend\n" + " Malicious practises against his state:\n" + " This shall ye do, so help you righteous God!\n\n" + " [Enter FASTOLFE]\n\n" + "FASTOLFE My gracious sovereign, as I rode from Calais,\n" + " To haste unto your coronation,\n" + " A letter was deliver'd to my hands,\n" + " Writ to your grace from the Duke of Burgundy.\n\n" + "TALBOT Shame to the Duke of Burgundy and thee!\n" + " I vow'd, base knight, when I did meet thee next,\n" + " To tear the garter from thy craven's leg,\n\n" + " [Plucking it off]\n\n" + " Which I have done, because unworthily\n" + " Thou wast installed in that high degree.\n" + " Pardon me, princely Henry, and the rest\n" + " This dastard, at the battle of Patay,\n" + " When but in all I was six thousand strong\n" + " And that the French were almost ten to one,\n" + " Before we met or that a stroke was given,\n" + " Like to a trusty squire did run away:\n" + " In which assault we lost twelve hundred men;\n" + " Myself and divers gentlemen beside\n" + " Were there surprised and taken prisoners.\n" + " Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss;\n" + " Or whether that such cowards ought to wear\n" + " This ornament of knighthood, yea or no.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER To say the truth, this fact was infamous\n" + " And ill beseeming any common man,\n" + " Much more a knight, a captain and a leader.\n\n" + "TALBOT When first this order was ordain'd, my lords,\n" + " Knights of the garter were of noble birth,\n" + " Valiant and virtuous, full of haughty courage,\n" + " Such as were grown to credit by the wars;\n" + " Not fearing death, nor shrinking for distress,\n" + " But always resolute in most extremes.\n" + " He then that is not furnish'd in this sort\n" + " Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight,\n" + " Profaning this most honourable order,\n" + " And should, if I were worthy to be judge,\n" + " Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain\n" + " That doth presume to boast of gentle blood.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Stain to thy countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom!\n" + " Be packing, therefore, thou that wast a knight:\n" + " Henceforth we banish thee, on pain of death.\n\n" + " [Exit FASTOLFE]\n\n" + " And now, my lord protector, view the letter\n" + " Sent from our uncle Duke of Burgundy.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What means his grace, that he hath changed his style?\n" + " No more but, plain and bluntly, 'To the king!'\n" + " Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?\n" + " Or doth this churlish superscription\n" + " Pretend some alteration in good will?\n" + " What's here?\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'I have, upon especial cause,\n" + " Moved with compassion of my country's wreck,\n" + " Together with the pitiful complaints\n" + " Of such as your oppression feeds upon,\n" + " Forsaken your pernicious faction\n" + " And join'd with Charles, the rightful King of France.'\n" + " O monstrous treachery! can this be so,\n" + " That in alliance, amity and oaths,\n" + " There should be found such false dissembling guile?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI What! doth my uncle Burgundy revolt?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He doth, my lord, and is become your foe.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Is that the worst this letter doth contain?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, then, Lord Talbot there shall talk with him\n" + " And give him chastisement for this abuse.\n" + " How say you, my lord? are you not content?\n\n" + "TALBOT Content, my liege! yes, but that I am prevented,\n" + " I should have begg'd I might have been employ'd.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Then gather strength and march unto him straight:\n" + " Let him perceive how ill we brook his treason\n" + " And what offence it is to flout his friends.\n\n" + "TALBOT I go, my lord, in heart desiring still\n" + " You may behold confusion of your foes.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter VERNON and BASSET]\n\n" + "VERNON Grant me the combat, gracious sovereign.\n\n" + "BASSET And me, my lord, grant me the combat too.\n\n" + "YORK This is my servant: hear him, noble prince.\n\n" + "SOMERSET And this is mine: sweet Henry, favour him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Be patient, lords; and give them leave to speak.\n" + " Say, gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaim?\n" + " And wherefore crave you combat? or with whom?\n\n" + "VERNON With him, my lord; for he hath done me wrong.\n\n" + "BASSET And I with him; for he hath done me wrong.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI What is that wrong whereof you both complain?\n" + " First let me know, and then I'll answer you.\n\n" + "BASSET Crossing the sea from England into France,\n" + " This fellow here, with envious carping tongue,\n" + " Upbraided me about the rose I wear;\n" + " Saying, the sanguine colour of the leaves\n" + " Did represent my master's blushing cheeks,\n" + " When stubbornly he did repugn the truth\n" + " About a certain question in the law\n" + " Argued betwixt the Duke of York and him;\n" + " With other vile and ignominious terms:\n" + " In confutation of which rude reproach\n" + " And in defence of my lord's worthiness,\n" + " I crave the benefit of law of arms.\n\n" + "VERNON And that is my petition, noble lord:\n" + " For though he seem with forged quaint conceit\n" + " To set a gloss upon his bold intent,\n" + " Yet know, my lord, I was provoked by him;\n" + " And he first took exceptions at this badge,\n" + " Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower\n" + " Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.\n\n" + "YORK Will not this malice, Somerset, be left?\n\n" + "SOMERSET Your private grudge, my Lord of York, will out,\n" + " Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men,\n" + " When for so slight and frivolous a cause\n" + " Such factious emulations shall arise!\n" + " Good cousins both, of York and Somerset,\n" + " Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace.\n\n" + "YORK Let this dissension first be tried by fight,\n" + " And then your highness shall command a peace.\n\n" + "SOMERSET The quarrel toucheth none but us alone;\n" + " Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then.\n\n" + "YORK There is my pledge; accept it, Somerset.\n\n" + "VERNON Nay, let it rest where it began at first.\n\n" + "BASSET Confirm it so, mine honourable lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Confirm it so! Confounded be your strife!\n" + " And perish ye, with your audacious prate!\n" + " Presumptuous vassals, are you not ashamed\n" + " With this immodest clamorous outrage\n" + " To trouble and disturb the king and us?\n" + " And you, my lords, methinks you do not well\n" + " To bear with their perverse objections;\n" + " Much less to take occasion from their mouths\n" + " To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves:\n" + " Let me persuade you take a better course.\n\n" + "EXETER It grieves his highness: good my lords, be friends.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Come hither, you that would be combatants:\n" + " Henceforth I charge you, as you love our favour,\n" + " Quite to forget this quarrel and the cause.\n" + " And you, my lords, remember where we are,\n" + " In France, amongst a fickle wavering nation:\n" + " If they perceive dissension in our looks\n" + " And that within ourselves we disagree,\n" + " How will their grudging stomachs be provoked\n" + " To wilful disobedience, and rebel!\n" + " Beside, what infamy will there arise,\n" + " When foreign princes shall be certified\n" + " That for a toy, a thing of no regard,\n" + " King Henry's peers and chief nobility\n" + " Destroy'd themselves, and lost the realm of France!\n" + " O, think upon the conquest of my father,\n" + " My tender years, and let us not forego\n" + " That for a trifle that was bought with blood\n" + " Let me be umpire in this doubtful strife.\n" + " I see no reason, if I wear this rose,\n\n" + " [Putting on a red rose]\n\n" + " That any one should therefore be suspicious\n" + " I more incline to Somerset than York:\n" + " Both are my kinsmen, and I love them both:\n" + " As well they may upbraid me with my crown,\n" + " Because, forsooth, the king of Scots is crown'd.\n" + " But your discretions better can persuade\n" + " Than I am able to instruct or teach:\n" + " And therefore, as we hither came in peace,\n" + " So let us still continue peace and love.\n" + " Cousin of York, we institute your grace\n" + " To be our regent in these parts of France:\n" + " And, good my Lord of Somerset, unite\n" + " Your troops of horsemen with his bands of foot;\n" + " And, like true subjects, sons of your progenitors,\n" + " Go cheerfully together and digest.\n" + " Your angry choler on your enemies.\n" + " Ourself, my lord protector and the rest\n" + " After some respite will return to Calais;\n" + " From thence to England; where I hope ere long\n" + " To be presented, by your victories,\n" + " With Charles, Alencon and that traitorous rout.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt all but YORK, WARWICK, EXETER\n" + " and VERNON]\n\n" + "WARWICK My Lord of York, I promise you, the king\n" + " Prettily, methought, did play the orator.\n\n" + "YORK And so he did; but yet I like it not,\n" + " In that he wears the badge of Somerset.\n\n" + "WARWICK Tush, that was but his fancy, blame him not;\n" + " I dare presume, sweet prince, he thought no harm.\n\n" + "YORK An if I wist he did,--but let it rest;\n" + " Other affairs must now be managed.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but EXETER]\n\n" + "EXETER Well didst thou, Richard, to suppress thy voice;\n" + " For, had the passions of thy heart burst out,\n" + " I fear we should have seen decipher'd there\n" + " More rancorous spite, more furious raging broils,\n" + " Than yet can be imagined or supposed.\n" + " But howsoe'er, no simple man that sees\n" + " This jarring discord of nobility,\n" + " This shouldering of each other in the court,\n" + " This factious bandying of their favourites,\n" + " But that it doth presage some ill event.\n" + " 'Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands;\n" + " But more when envy breeds unkind division;\n" + " There comes the rain, there begins confusion.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before Bourdeaux.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TALBOT, with trump and drum]\n\n" + "TALBOT Go to the gates of Bourdeaux, trumpeter:\n" + " Summon their general unto the wall.\n\n" + " [Trumpet sounds. Enter General and others, aloft]\n\n" + " English John Talbot, captains, calls you forth,\n" + " Servant in arms to Harry King of England;\n" + " And thus he would: Open your city gates;\n" + " Be humble to us; call my sovereign yours,\n" + " And do him homage as obedient subjects;\n" + " And I'll withdraw me and my bloody power:\n" + " But, if you frown upon this proffer'd peace,\n" + " You tempt the fury of my three attendants,\n" + " Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing fire;\n" + " Who in a moment even with the earth\n" + " Shall lay your stately and air-braving towers,\n" + " If you forsake the offer of their love.\n\n" + "General Thou ominous and fearful owl of death,\n" + " Our nation's terror and their bloody scourge!\n" + " The period of thy tyranny approacheth.\n" + " On us thou canst not enter but by death;\n" + " For, I protest, we are well fortified\n" + " And strong enough to issue out and fight:\n" + " If thou retire, the Dauphin, well appointed,\n" + " Stands with the snares of war to tangle thee:\n" + " On either hand thee there are squadrons pitch'd,\n" + " To wall thee from the liberty of flight;\n" + " And no way canst thou turn thee for redress,\n" + " But death doth front thee with apparent spoil\n" + " And pale destruction meets thee in the face.\n" + " Ten thousand French have ta'en the sacrament\n" + " To rive their dangerous artillery\n" + " Upon no Christian soul but English Talbot.\n" + " Lo, there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant man,\n" + " Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit!\n" + " This is the latest glory of thy praise\n" + " That I, thy enemy, due thee withal;\n" + " For ere the glass, that now begins to run,\n" + " Finish the process of his sandy hour,\n" + " These eyes, that see thee now well coloured,\n" + " Shall see thee wither'd, bloody, pale and dead.\n\n" + " [Drum afar off]\n\n" + " Hark! hark! the Dauphin's drum, a warning bell,\n" + " Sings heavy music to thy timorous soul;\n" + " And mine shall ring thy dire departure out.\n\n" + " [Exeunt General, &c]\n\n" + "TALBOT He fables not; I hear the enemy:\n" + " Out, some light horsemen, and peruse their wings.\n" + " O, negligent and heedless discipline!\n" + " How are we park'd and bounded in a pale,\n" + " A little herd of England's timorous deer,\n" + " Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs!\n" + " If we be English deer, be then in blood;\n" + " Not rascal-like, to fall down with a pinch,\n" + " But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags,\n" + " Turn on the bloody hounds with heads of steel\n" + " And make the cowards stand aloof at bay:\n" + " Sell every man his life as dear as mine,\n" + " And they shall find dear deer of us, my friends.\n" + " God and Saint George, Talbot and England's right,\n" + " Prosper our colours in this dangerous fight!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Plains in Gascony.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger that meets YORK. Enter YORK\n" + " with trumpet and many Soldiers]\n\n" + "YORK Are not the speedy scouts return'd again,\n" + " That dogg'd the mighty army of the Dauphin?\n\n" + "Messenger They are return'd, my lord, and give it out\n" + " That he is march'd to Bourdeaux with his power,\n" + " To fight with Talbot: as he march'd along,\n" + " By your espials were discovered\n" + " Two mightier troops than that the Dauphin led,\n" + " Which join'd with him and made their march for Bourdeaux.\n\n" + "YORK A plague upon that villain Somerset,\n" + " That thus delays my promised supply\n" + " Of horsemen, that were levied for this siege!\n" + " Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid,\n" + " And I am lowted by a traitor villain\n" + " And cannot help the noble chevalier:\n" + " God comfort him in this necessity!\n" + " If he miscarry, farewell wars in France.\n\n" + " [Enter Sir William LUCY]\n\n" + "LUCY Thou princely leader of our English strength,\n" + " Never so needful on the earth of France,\n" + " Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot,\n" + " Who now is girdled with a waist of iron\n" + " And hemm'd about with grim destruction:\n" + " To Bourdeaux, warlike duke! to Bourdeaux, York!\n" + " Else, farewell Talbot, France, and England's honour.\n\n" + "YORK O God, that Somerset, who in proud heart\n" + " Doth stop my cornets, were in Talbot's place!\n" + " So should we save a valiant gentleman\n" + " By forfeiting a traitor and a coward.\n" + " Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep,\n" + " That thus we die, while remiss traitors sleep.\n\n" + "LUCY O, send some succor to the distress'd lord!\n\n" + "YORK He dies, we lose; I break my warlike word;\n" + " We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get;\n" + " All 'long of this vile traitor Somerset.\n\n" + "LUCY Then God take mercy on brave Talbot's soul;\n" + " And on his son young John, who two hours since\n" + " I met in travel toward his warlike father!\n" + " This seven years did not Talbot see his son;\n" + " And now they meet where both their lives are done.\n\n" + "YORK Alas, what joy shall noble Talbot have\n" + " To bid his young son welcome to his grave?\n" + " Away! vexation almost stops my breath,\n" + " That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of death.\n" + " Lucy, farewell; no more my fortune can,\n" + " But curse the cause I cannot aid the man.\n" + " Maine, Blois, Poictiers, and Tours, are won away,\n" + " 'Long all of Somerset and his delay.\n\n" + " [Exit, with his soldiers]\n\n" + "LUCY Thus, while the vulture of sedition\n" + " Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders,\n" + " Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss\n" + " The conquest of our scarce cold conqueror,\n" + " That ever living man of memory,\n" + " Henry the Fifth: whiles they each other cross,\n" + " Lives, honours, lands and all hurry to loss.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Other plains in Gascony.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SOMERSET, with his army; a Captain of\n" + " TALBOT's with him]\n\n" + "SOMERSET It is too late; I cannot send them now:\n" + " This expedition was by York and Talbot\n" + " Too rashly plotted: all our general force\n" + " Might with a sally of the very town\n" + " Be buckled with: the over-daring Talbot\n" + " Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour\n" + " By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure:\n" + " York set him on to fight and die in shame,\n" + " That, Talbot dead, great York might bear the name.\n\n" + "Captain Here is Sir William Lucy, who with me\n" + " Set from our o'ermatch'd forces forth for aid.\n\n" + " [Enter Sir William LUCY]\n\n" + "SOMERSET How now, Sir William! whither were you sent?\n\n" + "LUCY Whither, my lord? from bought and sold Lord Talbot;\n" + " Who, ring'd about with bold adversity,\n" + " Cries out for noble York and Somerset,\n" + " To beat assailing death from his weak legions:\n" + " And whiles the honourable captain there\n" + " Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs,\n" + " And, in advantage lingering, looks for rescue,\n" + " You, his false hopes, the trust of England's honour,\n" + " Keep off aloof with worthless emulation.\n" + " Let not your private discord keep away\n" + " The levied succors that should lend him aid,\n" + " While he, renowned noble gentleman,\n" + " Yields up his life unto a world of odds:\n" + " Orleans the Bastard, Charles, Burgundy,\n" + " Alencon, Reignier, compass him about,\n" + " And Talbot perisheth by your default.\n\n" + "SOMERSET York set him on; York should have sent him aid.\n\n" + "LUCY And York as fast upon your grace exclaims;\n" + " Swearing that you withhold his levied host,\n" + " Collected for this expedition.\n\n" + "SOMERSET York lies; he might have sent and had the horse;\n" + " I owe him little duty, and less love;\n" + " And take foul scorn to fawn on him by sending.\n\n" + "LUCY The fraud of England, not the force of France,\n" + " Hath now entrapp'd the noble-minded Talbot:\n" + " Never to England shall he bear his life;\n" + " But dies, betray'd to fortune by your strife.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Come, go; I will dispatch the horsemen straight:\n" + " Within six hours they will be at his aid.\n\n" + "LUCY Too late comes rescue: he is ta'en or slain;\n" + " For fly he could not, if he would have fled;\n" + " And fly would Talbot never, though he might.\n\n" + "SOMERSET If he be dead, brave Talbot, then adieu!\n\n" + "LUCY His fame lives in the world, his shame in you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The English camp near Bourdeaux.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TALBOT and JOHN his son]\n\n" + "TALBOT O young John Talbot! I did send for thee\n" + " To tutor thee in stratagems of war,\n" + " That Talbot's name might be in thee revived\n" + " When sapless age and weak unable limbs\n" + " Should bring thy father to his drooping chair.\n" + " But, O malignant and ill-boding stars!\n" + " Now thou art come unto a feast of death,\n" + " A terrible and unavoided danger:\n" + " Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest horse;\n" + " And I'll direct thee how thou shalt escape\n" + " By sudden flight: come, dally not, be gone.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT Is my name Talbot? and am I your son?\n" + " And shall I fly? O if you love my mother,\n" + " Dishonour not her honourable name,\n" + " To make a bastard and a slave of me!\n" + " The world will say, he is not Talbot's blood,\n" + " That basely fled when noble Talbot stood.\n\n" + "TALBOT Fly, to revenge my death, if I be slain.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT He that flies so will ne'er return again.\n\n" + "TALBOT If we both stay, we both are sure to die.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT Then let me stay; and, father, do you fly:\n" + " Your loss is great, so your regard should be;\n" + " My worth unknown, no loss is known in me.\n" + " Upon my death the French can little boast;\n" + " In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost.\n" + " Flight cannot stain the honour you have won;\n" + " But mine it will, that no exploit have done:\n" + " You fled for vantage, everyone will swear;\n" + " But, if I bow, they'll say it was for fear.\n" + " There is no hope that ever I will stay,\n" + " If the first hour I shrink and run away.\n" + " Here on my knee I beg mortality,\n" + " Rather than life preserved with infamy.\n\n" + "TALBOT Shall all thy mother's hopes lie in one tomb?\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb.\n\n" + "TALBOT Upon my blessing, I command thee go.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT To fight I will, but not to fly the foe.\n\n" + "TALBOT Part of thy father may be saved in thee.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT No part of him but will be shame in me.\n\n" + "TALBOT Thou never hadst renown, nor canst not lose it.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT Yes, your renowned name: shall flight abuse it?\n\n" + "TALBOT Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT You cannot witness for me, being slain.\n" + " If death be so apparent, then both fly.\n\n" + "TALBOT And leave my followers here to fight and die?\n" + " My age was never tainted with such shame.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT And shall my youth be guilty of such blame?\n" + " No more can I be sever'd from your side,\n" + " Than can yourself yourself in twain divide:\n" + " Stay, go, do what you will, the like do I;\n" + " For live I will not, if my father die.\n\n" + "TALBOT Then here I take my leave of thee, fair son,\n" + " Born to eclipse thy life this afternoon.\n" + " Come, side by side together live and die.\n" + " And soul with soul from France to heaven fly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI A field of battle.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum: excursions, wherein JOHN TALBOT is\n" + " hemmed about, and TALBOT rescues him]\n\n" + "TALBOT Saint George and victory! fight, soldiers, fight.\n" + " The regent hath with Talbot broke his word\n" + " And left us to the rage of France his sword.\n" + " Where is John Talbot? Pause, and take thy breath;\n" + " I gave thee life and rescued thee from death.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT O, twice my father, twice am I thy son!\n" + " The life thou gavest me first was lost and done,\n" + " Till with thy warlike sword, despite of late,\n" + " To my determined time thou gavest new date.\n\n" + "TALBOT When from the Dauphin's crest thy sword struck fire,\n" + " It warm'd thy father's heart with proud desire\n" + " Of bold-faced victory. Then leaden age,\n" + " Quicken'd with youthful spleen and warlike rage,\n" + " Beat down Alencon, Orleans, Burgundy,\n" + " And from the pride of Gallia rescued thee.\n" + " The ireful bastard Orleans, that drew blood\n" + " From thee, my boy, and had the maidenhood\n" + " Of thy first fight, I soon encountered,\n" + " And interchanging blows I quickly shed\n" + " Some of his bastard blood; and in disgrace\n" + " Bespoke him thus; 'Contaminated, base\n" + " And misbegotten blood I spill of thine,\n" + " Mean and right poor, for that pure blood of mine\n" + " Which thou didst force from Talbot, my brave boy:'\n" + " Here, purposing the Bastard to destroy,\n" + " Came in strong rescue. Speak, thy father's care,\n" + " Art thou not weary, John? how dost thou fare?\n" + " Wilt thou yet leave the battle, boy, and fly,\n" + " Now thou art seal'd the son of chivalry?\n" + " Fly, to revenge my death when I am dead:\n" + " The help of one stands me in little stead.\n" + " O, too much folly is it, well I wot,\n" + " To hazard all our lives in one small boat!\n" + " If I to-day die not with Frenchmen's rage,\n" + " To-morrow I shall die with mickle age:\n" + " By me they nothing gain an if I stay;\n" + " 'Tis but the shortening of my life one day:\n" + " In thee thy mother dies, our household's name,\n" + " My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame:\n" + " All these and more we hazard by thy stay;\n" + " All these are saved if thou wilt fly away.\n\n" + "JOHN TALBOT The sword of Orleans hath not made me smart;\n" + " These words of yours draw life-blood from my heart:\n" + " On that advantage, bought with such a shame,\n" + " To save a paltry life and slay bright fame,\n" + " Before young Talbot from old Talbot fly,\n" + " The coward horse that bears me fail and die!\n" + " And like me to the peasant boys of France,\n" + " To be shame's scorn and subject of mischance!\n" + " Surely, by all the glory you have won,\n" + " An if I fly, I am not Talbot's son:\n" + " Then talk no more of flight, it is no boot;\n" + " If son to Talbot, die at Talbot's foot.\n\n" + "TALBOT Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete,\n" + " Thou Icarus; thy life to me is sweet:\n" + " If thou wilt fight, fight by thy father's side;\n" + " And, commendable proved, let's die in pride.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum: excursions. Enter TALBOT led by a Servant]\n\n" + "TALBOT Where is my other life? mine own is gone;\n" + " O, where's young Talbot? where is valiant John?\n" + " Triumphant death, smear'd with captivity,\n" + " Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee:\n" + " When he perceived me shrink and on my knee,\n" + " His bloody sword he brandish'd over me,\n" + " And, like a hungry lion, did commence\n" + " Rough deeds of rage and stern impatience;\n" + " But when my angry guardant stood alone,\n" + " Tendering my ruin and assail'd of none,\n" + " Dizzy-eyed fury and great rage of heart\n" + " Suddenly made him from my side to start\n" + " Into the clustering battle of the French;\n" + " And in that sea of blood my boy did drench\n" + " His over-mounting spirit, and there died,\n" + " My Icarus, my blossom, in his pride.\n\n" + "Servant O, my dear lord, lo, where your son is borne!\n\n" + " [Enter Soldiers, with the body of JOHN TALBOT]\n\n" + "TALBOT Thou antic death, which laugh'st us here to scorn,\n" + " Anon, from thy insulting tyranny,\n" + " Coupled in bonds of perpetuity,\n" + " Two Talbots, winged through the lither sky,\n" + " In thy despite shall 'scape mortality.\n" + " O, thou, whose wounds become hard-favour'd death,\n" + " Speak to thy father ere thou yield thy breath!\n" + " Brave death by speaking, whether he will or no;\n" + " Imagine him a Frenchman and thy foe.\n" + " Poor boy! he smiles, methinks, as who should say,\n" + " Had death been French, then death had died to-day.\n" + " Come, come and lay him in his father's arms:\n" + " My spirit can no longer bear these harms.\n" + " Soldiers, adieu! I have what I would have,\n" + " Now my old arms are young John Talbot's grave.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + " [Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BURGUNDY, BASTARD OF\n" + " ORLEANS, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces]\n\n" + "CHARLES Had York and Somerset brought rescue in,\n" + " We should have found a bloody day of this.\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging-wood,\n" + " Did flesh his puny sword in Frenchmen's blood!\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Once I encounter'd him, and thus I said:\n" + " 'Thou maiden youth, be vanquish'd by a maid:'\n" + " But, with a proud majestical high scorn,\n" + " He answer'd thus: 'Young Talbot was not born\n" + " To be the pillage of a giglot wench:'\n" + " So, rushing in the bowels of the French,\n" + " He left me proudly, as unworthy fight.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Doubtless he would have made a noble knight;\n" + " See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms\n" + " Of the most bloody nurser of his harms!\n\n" + "BASTARD OF ORLEANS Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder\n" + " Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's wonder.\n\n" + "CHARLES O, no, forbear! for that which we have fled\n" + " During the life, let us not wrong it dead.\n\n" + " [Enter Sir William LUCY, attended; Herald of the\n" + " French preceding]\n\n" + "LUCY Herald, conduct me to the Dauphin's tent,\n" + " To know who hath obtained the glory of the day.\n\n" + "CHARLES On what submissive message art thou sent?\n\n" + "LUCY Submission, Dauphin! 'tis a mere French word;\n" + " We English warriors wot not what it means.\n" + " I come to know what prisoners thou hast ta'en\n" + " And to survey the bodies of the dead.\n\n" + "CHARLES For prisoners ask'st thou? hell our prison is.\n" + " But tell me whom thou seek'st.\n\n" + "LUCY But where's the great Alcides of the field,\n" + " Valiant Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury,\n" + " Created, for his rare success in arms,\n" + " Great Earl of Washford, Waterford and Valence;\n" + " Lord Talbot of Goodrig and Urchinfield,\n" + " Lord Strange of Blackmere, Lord Verdun of Alton,\n" + " Lord Cromwell of Wingfield, Lord Furnival of Sheffield,\n" + " The thrice-victorious Lord of Falconbridge;\n" + " Knight of the noble order of Saint George,\n" + " Worthy Saint Michael and the Golden Fleece;\n" + " Great marshal to Henry the Sixth\n" + " Of all his wars within the realm of France?\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Here is a silly stately style indeed!\n" + " The Turk, that two and fifty kingdoms hath,\n" + " Writes not so tedious a style as this.\n" + " Him that thou magnifiest with all these titles\n" + " Stinking and fly-blown lies here at our feet.\n\n" + "LUCY Is Talbot slain, the Frenchmen's only scourge,\n" + " Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis?\n" + " O, were mine eyeballs into bullets turn'd,\n" + " That I in rage might shoot them at your faces!\n" + " O, that I could but call these dead to life!\n" + " It were enough to fright the realm of France:\n" + " Were but his picture left amongst you here,\n" + " It would amaze the proudest of you all.\n" + " Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence\n" + " And give them burial as beseems their worth.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE I think this upstart is old Talbot's ghost,\n" + " He speaks with such a proud commanding spirit.\n" + " For God's sake let him have 'em; to keep them here,\n" + " They would but stink, and putrefy the air.\n\n" + "CHARLES Go, take their bodies hence.\n\n" + "LUCY I'll bear them hence; but from their ashes shall be rear'd\n" + " A phoenix that shall make all France afeard.\n\n" + "CHARLES So we be rid of them, do with 'em what thou wilt.\n" + " And now to Paris, in this conquering vein:\n" + " All will be ours, now bloody Talbot's slain.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, and EXETER]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Have you perused the letters from the pope,\n" + " The emperor and the Earl of Armagnac?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I have, my lord: and their intent is this:\n" + " They humbly sue unto your excellence\n" + " To have a godly peace concluded of\n" + " Between the realms of England and of France.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI How doth your grace affect their motion?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well, my good lord; and as the only means\n" + " To stop effusion of our Christian blood\n" + " And 'stablish quietness on every side.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought\n" + " It was both impious and unnatural\n" + " That such immanity and bloody strife\n" + " Should reign among professors of one faith.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Beside, my lord, the sooner to effect\n" + " And surer bind this knot of amity,\n" + " The Earl of Armagnac, near knit to Charles,\n" + " A man of great authority in France,\n" + " Proffers his only daughter to your grace\n" + " In marriage, with a large and sumptuous dowry.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Marriage, uncle! alas, my years are young!\n" + " And fitter is my study and my books\n" + " Than wanton dalliance with a paramour.\n" + " Yet call the ambassador; and, as you please,\n" + " So let them have their answers every one:\n" + " I shall be well content with any choice\n" + " Tends to God's glory and my country's weal.\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER in Cardinal's habit,\n" + " a Legate and two Ambassadors]\n\n" + "EXETER What! is my Lord of Winchester install'd,\n" + " And call'd unto a cardinal's degree?\n" + " Then I perceive that will be verified\n" + " Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy,\n" + " 'If once he come to be a cardinal,\n" + " He'll make his cap co-equal with the crown.'\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My lords ambassadors, your several suits\n" + " Have been consider'd and debated on.\n" + " And therefore are we certainly resolved\n" + " To draw conditions of a friendly peace;\n" + " Which by my Lord of Winchester we mean\n" + " Shall be transported presently to France.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And for the proffer of my lord your master,\n" + " I have inform'd his highness so at large\n" + " As liking of the lady's virtuous gifts,\n" + " Her beauty and the value of her dower,\n" + " He doth intend she shall be England's queen.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI In argument and proof of which contract,\n" + " Bear her this jewel, pledge of my affection.\n" + " And so, my lord protector, see them guarded\n" + " And safely brought to Dover; where inshipp'd\n" + " Commit them to the fortune of the sea.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER and Legate]\n\n" + "CARDINAL\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Stay, my lord legate: you shall first receive\n" + " The sum of money which I promised\n" + " Should be deliver'd to his holiness\n" + " For clothing me in these grave ornaments.\n\n" + "Legate I will attend upon your lordship's leisure.\n\n" + "CARDINAL\n" + "OF WINCHESTER [Aside] Now Winchester will not submit, I trow,\n" + " Or be inferior to the proudest peer.\n" + " Humphrey of Gloucester, thou shalt well perceive\n" + " That, neither in birth or for authority,\n" + " The bishop will be overborne by thee:\n" + " I'll either make thee stoop and bend thy knee,\n" + " Or sack this country with a mutiny.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II France. Plains in Anjou.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CHARLES, BURGUNDY, ALENCON, BASTARD OF\n" + " ORLEANS, REIGNIER, JOAN LA PUCELLE, and forces]\n\n" + "CHARLES These news, my lord, may cheer our drooping spirits:\n" + " 'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt\n" + " And turn again unto the warlike French.\n\n" + "ALENCON Then march to Paris, royal Charles of France,\n" + " And keep not back your powers in dalliance.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Peace be amongst them, if they turn to us;\n" + " Else, ruin combat with their palaces!\n\n" + " [Enter Scout]\n\n" + "Scout Success unto our valiant general,\n" + " And happiness to his accomplices!\n\n" + "CHARLES What tidings send our scouts? I prithee, speak.\n\n" + "Scout The English army, that divided was\n" + " Into two parties, is now conjoined in one,\n" + " And means to give you battle presently.\n\n" + "CHARLES Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is;\n" + " But we will presently provide for them.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY I trust the ghost of Talbot is not there:\n" + " Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.\n" + " Command the conquest, Charles, it shall be thine,\n" + " Let Henry fret and all the world repine.\n\n" + "CHARLES Then on, my lords; and France be fortunate!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Before Angiers.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Excursions. Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE]\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE The regent conquers, and the Frenchmen fly.\n" + " Now help, ye charming spells and periapts;\n" + " And ye choice spirits that admonish me\n" + " And give me signs of future accidents.\n\n" + " [Thunder]\n\n" + " You speedy helpers, that are substitutes\n" + " Under the lordly monarch of the north,\n" + " Appear and aid me in this enterprise.\n\n" + " [Enter Fiends]\n\n" + " This speedy and quick appearance argues proof\n" + " Of your accustom'd diligence to me.\n" + " Now, ye familiar spirits, that are cull'd\n" + " Out of the powerful regions under earth,\n" + " Help me this once, that France may get the field.\n\n" + " [They walk, and speak not]\n\n" + " O, hold me not with silence over-long!\n" + " Where I was wont to feed you with my blood,\n" + " I'll lop a member off and give it you\n" + " In earnest of further benefit,\n" + " So you do condescend to help me now.\n\n" + " [They hang their heads]\n\n" + " No hope to have redress? My body shall\n" + " Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit.\n\n" + " [They shake their heads]\n\n" + " Cannot my body nor blood-sacrifice\n" + " Entreat you to your wonted furtherance?\n" + " Then take my soul, my body, soul and all,\n" + " Before that England give the French the foil.\n\n" + " [They depart]\n\n" + " See, they forsake me! Now the time is come\n" + " That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest\n" + " And let her head fall into England's lap.\n" + " My ancient incantations are too weak,\n" + " And hell too strong for me to buckle with:\n" + " Now, France, thy glory droopeth to the dust.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Excursions. Re-enter JOAN LA PUCELLE fighting hand\n" + " to hand with YORK JOAN LA PUCELLE is taken. The\n" + " French fly]\n\n" + "YORK Damsel of France, I think I have you fast:\n" + " Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms\n" + " And try if they can gain your liberty.\n" + " A goodly prize, fit for the devil's grace!\n" + " See, how the ugly wench doth bend her brows,\n" + " As if with Circe she would change my shape!\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be.\n\n" + "YORK O, Charles the Dauphin is a proper man;\n" + " No shape but his can please your dainty eye.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE A plaguing mischief light on Charles and thee!\n" + " And may ye both be suddenly surprised\n" + " By bloody hands, in sleeping on your beds!\n\n" + "YORK Fell banning hag, enchantress, hold thy tongue!\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE I prithee, give me leave to curse awhile.\n\n" + "YORK Curse, miscreant, when thou comest to the stake.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter SUFFOLK with MARGARET in his hand]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Be what thou wilt, thou art my prisoner.\n\n" + " [Gazes on her]\n\n" + " O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly!\n" + " For I will touch thee but with reverent hands;\n" + " I kiss these fingers for eternal peace,\n" + " And lay them gently on thy tender side.\n" + " Who art thou? say, that I may honour thee.\n\n" + "MARGARET Margaret my name, and daughter to a king,\n" + " The King of Naples, whosoe'er thou art.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK An earl I am, and Suffolk am I call'd.\n" + " Be not offended, nature's miracle,\n" + " Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me:\n" + " So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,\n" + " Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.\n" + " Yet, if this servile usage once offend.\n" + " Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend.\n\n" + " [She is going]\n\n" + " O, stay! I have no power to let her pass;\n" + " My hand would free her, but my heart says no\n" + " As plays the sun upon the glassy streams,\n" + " Twinkling another counterfeited beam,\n" + " So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes.\n" + " Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak:\n" + " I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind.\n" + " Fie, de la Pole! disable not thyself;\n" + " Hast not a tongue? is she not here?\n" + " Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight?\n" + " Ay, beauty's princely majesty is such,\n" + " Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.\n\n" + "MARGARET Say, Earl of Suffolk--if thy name be so--\n" + " What ransom must I pay before I pass?\n" + " For I perceive I am thy prisoner.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK How canst thou tell she will deny thy suit,\n" + " Before thou make a trial of her love?\n\n" + "MARGARET Why speak'st thou not? what ransom must I pay?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd;\n" + " She is a woman, therefore to be won.\n\n" + "MARGARET Wilt thou accept of ransom? yea, or no.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Fond man, remember that thou hast a wife;\n" + " Then how can Margaret be thy paramour?\n\n" + "MARGARET I were best to leave him, for he will not hear.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK There all is marr'd; there lies a cooling card.\n\n" + "MARGARET He talks at random; sure, the man is mad.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK And yet a dispensation may be had.\n\n" + "MARGARET And yet I would that you would answer me.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I'll win this Lady Margaret. For whom?\n" + " Why, for my king: tush, that's a wooden thing!\n\n" + "MARGARET He talks of wood: it is some carpenter.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Yet so my fancy may be satisfied,\n" + " And peace established between these realms\n" + " But there remains a scruple in that too;\n" + " For though her father be the King of Naples,\n" + " Duke of Anjou and Maine, yet is he poor,\n" + " And our nobility will scorn the match.\n\n" + "MARGARET Hear ye, captain, are you not at leisure?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK It shall be so, disdain they ne'er so much.\n" + " Henry is youthful and will quickly yield.\n" + " Madam, I have a secret to reveal.\n\n" + "MARGARET What though I be enthrall'd? he seems a knight,\n" + " And will not any way dishonour me.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Lady, vouchsafe to listen what I say.\n\n" + "MARGARET Perhaps I shall be rescued by the French;\n" + " And then I need not crave his courtesy.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Sweet madam, give me a hearing in a cause--\n\n" + "MARGARET Tush, women have been captivate ere now.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Lady, wherefore talk you so?\n\n" + "MARGARET I cry you mercy, 'tis but Quid for Quo.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Say, gentle princess, would you not suppose\n" + " Your bondage happy, to be made a queen?\n\n" + "MARGARET To be a queen in bondage is more vile\n" + " Than is a slave in base servility;\n" + " For princes should be free.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK And so shall you,\n" + " If happy England's royal king be free.\n\n" + "MARGARET Why, what concerns his freedom unto me?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I'll undertake to make thee Henry's queen,\n" + " To put a golden sceptre in thy hand\n" + " And set a precious crown upon thy head,\n" + " If thou wilt condescend to be my--\n\n" + "MARGARET What?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK His love.\n\n" + "MARGARET I am unworthy to be Henry's wife.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK No, gentle madam; I unworthy am\n" + " To woo so fair a dame to be his wife,\n" + " And have no portion in the choice myself.\n" + " How say you, madam, are ye so content?\n\n" + "MARGARET An if my father please, I am content.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Then call our captains and our colours forth.\n" + " And, madam, at your father's castle walls\n" + " We'll crave a parley, to confer with him.\n\n" + " [A parley sounded. Enter REIGNIER on the walls]\n\n" + " See, Reignier, see, thy daughter prisoner!\n\n" + "REIGNIER To whom?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK To me.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Suffolk, what remedy?\n" + " I am a soldier, and unapt to weep,\n" + " Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Yes, there is remedy enough, my lord:\n" + " Consent, and for thy honour give consent,\n" + " Thy daughter shall be wedded to my king;\n" + " Whom I with pain have woo'd and won thereto;\n" + " And this her easy-held imprisonment\n" + " Hath gained thy daughter princely liberty.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Speaks Suffolk as he thinks?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Fair Margaret knows\n" + " That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.\n\n" + "REIGNIER Upon thy princely warrant, I descend\n" + " To give thee answer of thy just demand.\n\n" + " [Exit from the walls]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK And here I will expect thy coming.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound. Enter REIGNIER, below]\n\n" + "REIGNIER Welcome, brave earl, into our territories:\n" + " Command in Anjou what your honour pleases.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thanks, Reignier, happy for so sweet a child,\n" + " Fit to be made companion with a king:\n" + " What answer makes your grace unto my suit?\n\n" + "REIGNIER Since thou dost deign to woo her little worth\n" + " To be the princely bride of such a lord;\n" + " Upon condition I may quietly\n" + " Enjoy mine own, the country Maine and Anjou,\n" + " Free from oppression or the stroke of war,\n" + " My daughter shall be Henry's, if he please.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK That is her ransom; I deliver her;\n" + " And those two counties I will undertake\n" + " Your grace shall well and quietly enjoy.\n\n" + "REIGNIER And I again, in Henry's royal name,\n" + " As deputy unto that gracious king,\n" + " Give thee her hand, for sign of plighted faith.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Reignier of France, I give thee kingly thanks,\n" + " Because this is in traffic of a king.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " And yet, methinks, I could be well content\n" + " To be mine own attorney in this case.\n" + " I'll over then to England with this news,\n" + " And make this marriage to be solemnized.\n" + " So farewell, Reignier: set this diamond safe\n" + " In golden palaces, as it becomes.\n\n" + "REIGNIER I do embrace thee, as I would embrace\n" + " The Christian prince, King Henry, were he here.\n\n" + "MARGARET Farewell, my lord: good wishes, praise and prayers\n" + " Shall Suffolk ever have of Margaret.\n\n" + " [Going]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Farewell, sweet madam: but hark you, Margaret;\n" + " No princely commendations to my king?\n\n" + "MARGARET Such commendations as becomes a maid,\n" + " A virgin and his servant, say to him.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Words sweetly placed and modestly directed.\n" + " But madam, I must trouble you again;\n" + " No loving token to his majesty?\n\n" + "MARGARET Yes, my good lord, a pure unspotted heart,\n" + " Never yet taint with love, I send the king.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK And this withal.\n\n" + " [Kisses her]\n\n" + "MARGARET That for thyself: I will not so presume\n" + " To send such peevish tokens to a king.\n\n" + " [Exeunt REIGNIER and MARGARET]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK O, wert thou for myself! But, Suffolk, stay;\n" + " Thou mayst not wander in that labyrinth;\n" + " There Minotaurs and ugly treasons lurk.\n" + " Solicit Henry with her wondrous praise:\n" + " Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount,\n" + " And natural graces that extinguish art;\n" + " Repeat their semblance often on the seas,\n" + " That, when thou comest to kneel at Henry's feet,\n" + " Thou mayst bereave him of his wits with wonder.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Camp of the YORK in Anjou.\n\n\n" + " [Enter YORK, WARWICK, and others]\n\n" + "YORK Bring forth that sorceress condemn'd to burn.\n\n" + " [Enter JOAN LA PUCELLE, guarded, and a Shepherd]\n\n" + "Shepherd Ah, Joan, this kills thy father's heart outright!\n" + " Have I sought every country far and near,\n" + " And, now it is my chance to find thee out,\n" + " Must I behold thy timeless cruel death?\n" + " Ah, Joan, sweet daughter Joan, I'll die with thee!\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Decrepit miser! base ignoble wretch!\n" + " I am descended of a gentler blood:\n" + " Thou art no father nor no friend of mine.\n\n" + "Shepherd Out, out! My lords, an please you, 'tis not so;\n" + " I did beget her, all the parish knows:\n" + " Her mother liveth yet, can testify\n" + " She was the first fruit of my bachelorship.\n\n" + "WARWICK Graceless! wilt thou deny thy parentage?\n\n" + "YORK This argues what her kind of life hath been,\n" + " Wicked and vile; and so her death concludes.\n\n" + "Shepherd Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle!\n" + " God knows thou art a collop of my flesh;\n" + " And for thy sake have I shed many a tear:\n" + " Deny me not, I prithee, gentle Joan.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Peasant, avaunt! You have suborn'd this man,\n" + " Of purpose to obscure my noble birth.\n\n" + "Shepherd 'Tis true, I gave a noble to the priest\n" + " The morn that I was wedded to her mother.\n" + " Kneel down and take my blessing, good my girl.\n" + " Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the time\n" + " Of thy nativity! I would the milk\n" + " Thy mother gave thee when thou suck'dst her breast,\n" + " Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake!\n" + " Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs a-field,\n" + " I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee!\n" + " Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab?\n" + " O, burn her, burn her! hanging is too good.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "YORK Take her away; for she hath lived too long,\n" + " To fill the world with vicious qualities.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE First, let me tell you whom you have condemn'd:\n" + " Not me begotten of a shepherd swain,\n" + " But issued from the progeny of kings;\n" + " Virtuous and holy; chosen from above,\n" + " By inspiration of celestial grace,\n" + " To work exceeding miracles on earth.\n" + " I never had to do with wicked spirits:\n" + " But you, that are polluted with your lusts,\n" + " Stain'd with the guiltless blood of innocents,\n" + " Corrupt and tainted with a thousand vices,\n" + " Because you want the grace that others have,\n" + " You judge it straight a thing impossible\n" + " To compass wonders but by help of devils.\n" + " No, misconceived! Joan of Arc hath been\n" + " A virgin from her tender infancy,\n" + " Chaste and immaculate in very thought;\n" + " Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously effused,\n" + " Will cry for vengeance at the gates of heaven.\n\n" + "YORK Ay, ay: away with her to execution!\n\n" + "WARWICK And hark ye, sirs; because she is a maid,\n" + " Spare for no faggots, let there be enow:\n" + " Place barrels of pitch upon the fatal stake,\n" + " That so her torture may be shortened.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts?\n" + " Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity,\n" + " That warranteth by law to be thy privilege.\n" + " I am with child, ye bloody homicides:\n" + " Murder not then the fruit within my womb,\n" + " Although ye hale me to a violent death.\n\n" + "YORK Now heaven forfend! the holy maid with child!\n\n" + "WARWICK The greatest miracle that e'er ye wrought:\n" + " Is all your strict preciseness come to this?\n\n" + "YORK She and the Dauphin have been juggling:\n" + " I did imagine what would be her refuge.\n\n" + "WARWICK Well, go to; we'll have no bastards live;\n" + " Especially since Charles must father it.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE You are deceived; my child is none of his:\n" + " It was Alencon that enjoy'd my love.\n\n" + "YORK Alencon! that notorious Machiavel!\n" + " It dies, an if it had a thousand lives.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE O, give me leave, I have deluded you:\n" + " 'Twas neither Charles nor yet the duke I named,\n" + " But Reignier, king of Naples, that prevail'd.\n\n" + "WARWICK A married man! that's most intolerable.\n\n" + "YORK Why, here's a girl! I think she knows not well,\n" + " There were so many, whom she may accuse.\n\n" + "WARWICK It's sign she hath been liberal and free.\n\n" + "YORK And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure.\n" + " Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee:\n" + " Use no entreaty, for it is in vain.\n\n" + "JOAN LA PUCELLE Then lead me hence; with whom I leave my curse:\n" + " May never glorious sun reflex his beams\n" + " Upon the country where you make abode;\n" + " But darkness and the gloomy shade of death\n" + " Environ you, till mischief and despair\n" + " Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves!\n\n" + " [Exit, guarded]\n\n" + "YORK Break thou in pieces and consume to ashes,\n" + " Thou foul accursed minister of hell!\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL OF WINCHESTER, attended]\n\n" + "CARDINAL\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Lord regent, I do greet your excellence\n" + " With letters of commission from the king.\n" + " For know, my lords, the states of Christendom,\n" + " Moved with remorse of these outrageous broils,\n" + " Have earnestly implored a general peace\n" + " Betwixt our nation and the aspiring French;\n" + " And here at hand the Dauphin and his train\n" + " Approacheth, to confer about some matter.\n\n" + "YORK Is all our travail turn'd to this effect?\n" + " After the slaughter of so many peers,\n" + " So many captains, gentlemen and soldiers,\n" + " That in this quarrel have been overthrown\n" + " And sold their bodies for their country's benefit,\n" + " Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace?\n" + " Have we not lost most part of all the towns,\n" + " By treason, falsehood and by treachery,\n" + " Our great progenitors had conquered?\n" + " O Warwick, Warwick! I foresee with grief\n" + " The utter loss of all the realm of France.\n\n" + "WARWICK Be patient, York: if we conclude a peace,\n" + " It shall be with such strict and severe covenants\n" + " As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby.\n\n" + " [Enter CHARLES, ALENCON, BASTARD OF ORLEANS,\n" + " REIGNIER, and others]\n\n" + "CHARLES Since, lords of England, it is thus agreed\n" + " That peaceful truce shall be proclaim'd in France,\n" + " We come to be informed by yourselves\n" + " What the conditions of that league must be.\n\n" + "YORK Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes\n" + " The hollow passage of my poison'd voice,\n" + " By sight of these our baleful enemies.\n\n" + "CARDINAL\n" + "OF WINCHESTER Charles, and the rest, it is enacted thus:\n" + " That, in regard King Henry gives consent,\n" + " Of mere compassion and of lenity,\n" + " To ease your country of distressful war,\n" + " And suffer you to breathe in fruitful peace,\n" + " You shall become true liegemen to his crown:\n" + " And Charles, upon condition thou wilt swear\n" + " To pay him tribute, submit thyself,\n" + " Thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him,\n" + " And still enjoy thy regal dignity.\n\n" + "ALENCON Must he be then as shadow of himself?\n" + " Adorn his temples with a coronet,\n" + " And yet, in substance and authority,\n" + " Retain but privilege of a private man?\n" + " This proffer is absurd and reasonless.\n\n" + "CHARLES 'Tis known already that I am possess'd\n" + " With more than half the Gallian territories,\n" + " And therein reverenced for their lawful king:\n" + " Shall I, for lucre of the rest unvanquish'd,\n" + " Detract so much from that prerogative,\n" + " As to be call'd but viceroy of the whole?\n" + " No, lord ambassador, I'll rather keep\n" + " That which I have than, coveting for more,\n" + " Be cast from possibility of all.\n\n" + "YORK Insulting Charles! hast thou by secret means\n" + " Used intercession to obtain a league,\n" + " And, now the matter grows to compromise,\n" + " Stand'st thou aloof upon comparison?\n" + " Either accept the title thou usurp'st,\n" + " Of benefit proceeding from our king\n" + " And not of any challenge of desert,\n" + " Or we will plague thee with incessant wars.\n\n" + "REIGNIER My lord, you do not well in obstinacy\n" + " To cavil in the course of this contract:\n" + " If once it be neglected, ten to one\n" + " We shall not find like opportunity.\n\n" + "ALENCON To say the truth, it is your policy\n" + " To save your subjects from such massacre\n" + " And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen\n" + " By our proceeding in hostility;\n" + " And therefore take this compact of a truce,\n" + " Although you break it when your pleasure serves.\n\n" + "WARWICK How say'st thou, Charles? shall our condition stand?\n\n" + "CHARLES It shall;\n" + " Only reserved, you claim no interest\n" + " In any of our towns of garrison.\n\n" + "YORK Then swear allegiance to his majesty,\n" + " As thou art knight, never to disobey\n" + " Nor be rebellious to the crown of England,\n" + " Thou, nor thy nobles, to the crown of England.\n" + " So, now dismiss your army when ye please:\n" + " Hang up your ensign, let your drums be still,\n" + " For here we entertain a solemn peace.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 1 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SUFFOLK in conference with KING HENRY VI,\n" + " GLOUCESTER and EXETER]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Your wondrous rare description, noble earl,\n" + " Of beauteous Margaret hath astonish'd me:\n" + " Her virtues graced with external gifts\n" + " Do breed love's settled passions in my heart:\n" + " And like as rigor of tempestuous gusts\n" + " Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide,\n" + " So am I driven by breath of her renown\n" + " Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive\n" + " Where I may have fruition of her love.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Tush, my good lord, this superficial tale\n" + " Is but a preface of her worthy praise;\n" + " The chief perfections of that lovely dame\n" + " Had I sufficient skill to utter them,\n" + " Would make a volume of enticing lines,\n" + " Able to ravish any dull conceit:\n" + " And, which is more, she is not so divine,\n" + " So full-replete with choice of all delights,\n" + " But with as humble lowliness of mind\n" + " She is content to be at your command;\n" + " Command, I mean, of virtuous chaste intents,\n" + " To love and honour Henry as her lord.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI And otherwise will Henry ne'er presume.\n" + " Therefore, my lord protector, give consent\n" + " That Margaret may be England's royal queen.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER So should I give consent to flatter sin.\n" + " You know, my lord, your highness is betroth'd\n" + " Unto another lady of esteem:\n" + " How shall we then dispense with that contract,\n" + " And not deface your honour with reproach?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths;\n" + " Or one that, at a triumph having vow'd\n" + " To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists\n" + " By reason of his adversary's odds:\n" + " A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds,\n" + " And therefore may be broke without offence.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, what, I pray, is Margaret more than that?\n" + " Her father is no better than an earl,\n" + " Although in glorious titles he excel.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Yes, lord, her father is a king,\n" + " The King of Naples and Jerusalem;\n" + " And of such great authority in France\n" + " As his alliance will confirm our peace\n" + " And keep the Frenchmen in allegiance.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And so the Earl of Armagnac may do,\n" + " Because he is near kinsman unto Charles.\n\n" + "EXETER Beside, his wealth doth warrant a liberal dower,\n" + " Where Reignier sooner will receive than give.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK A dower, my lords! disgrace not so your king,\n" + " That he should be so abject, base and poor,\n" + " To choose for wealth and not for perfect love.\n" + " Henry is able to enrich his queen\n" + " And not seek a queen to make him rich:\n" + " So worthless peasants bargain for their wives,\n" + " As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse.\n" + " Marriage is a matter of more worth\n" + " Than to be dealt in by attorneyship;\n" + " Not whom we will, but whom his grace affects,\n" + " Must be companion of his nuptial bed:\n" + " And therefore, lords, since he affects her most,\n" + " It most of all these reasons bindeth us,\n" + " In our opinions she should be preferr'd.\n" + " For what is wedlock forced but a hell,\n" + " An age of discord and continual strife?\n" + " Whereas the contrary bringeth bliss,\n" + " And is a pattern of celestial peace.\n" + " Whom should we match with Henry, being a king,\n" + " But Margaret, that is daughter to a king?\n" + " Her peerless feature, joined with her birth,\n" + " Approves her fit for none but for a king:\n" + " Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit,\n" + " More than in women commonly is seen,\n" + " Will answer our hope in issue of a king;\n" + " For Henry, son unto a conqueror,\n" + " Is likely to beget more conquerors,\n" + " If with a lady of so high resolve\n" + " As is fair Margaret he be link'd in love.\n" + " Then yield, my lords; and here conclude with me\n" + " That Margaret shall be queen, and none but she.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Whether it be through force of your report,\n" + " My noble Lord of Suffolk, or for that\n" + " My tender youth was never yet attaint\n" + " With any passion of inflaming love,\n" + " I cannot tell; but this I am assured,\n" + " I feel such sharp dissension in my breast,\n" + " Such fierce alarums both of hope and fear,\n" + " As I am sick with working of my thoughts.\n" + " Take, therefore, shipping; post, my lord, to France;\n" + " Agree to any covenants, and procure\n" + " That Lady Margaret do vouchsafe to come\n" + " To cross the seas to England and be crown'd\n" + " King Henry's faithful and anointed queen:\n" + " For your expenses and sufficient charge,\n" + " Among the people gather up a tenth.\n" + " Be gone, I say; for, till you do return,\n" + " I rest perplexed with a thousand cares.\n" + " And you, good uncle, banish all offence:\n" + " If you do censure me by what you were,\n" + " Not what you are, I know it will excuse\n" + " This sudden execution of my will.\n" + " And so, conduct me where, from company,\n" + " I may revolve and ruminate my grief.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, grief, I fear me, both at first and last.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EXETER]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thus Suffolk hath prevail'd; and thus he goes,\n" + " As did the youthful Paris once to Greece,\n" + " With hope to find the like event in love,\n" + " But prosper better than the Trojan did.\n" + " Margaret shall now be queen, and rule the king;\n" + " But I will rule both her, the king and realm.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "RUMOUR the Presenter.\n\n" + "KING HENRY the Fourth. (KING HENRY IV:)\n\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY |\n" + "OF WALES (PRINCE HENRY:) |\n" + " afterwards KING HENRY V. |\n" + " |\n" + "THOMAS, DUKE OF | sons of King Henry.\n" + "CLARENCE (CLARENCE:) |\n" + " |\n" + "PRINCE HUMPHREY |\n" + "OF GLOUCESTER (GLOUCESTER:) |\n\n\n" + "EARL OF WARWICK (WARWICK:)\n\n" + "EARL OF\n" + "WESTMORELAND (WESTMORELAND:)\n\n" + "EARL OF SURREY:\n\n" + "GOWER:\n\n" + "HARCOURT:\n\n" + "BLUNT:\n\n" + " Lord Chief-Justice of the King's Bench:\n" + " (Lord Chief-Justice:)\n\n" + " A Servant of the Chief-Justice.\n\n" + "EARL OF\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND (NORTHUMBERLAND:)\n\n" + "SCROOP,\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK (ARCHBISHOP OF YORK:)\n\n" + "LORD MOWBRAY (MOWBRAY:)\n\n" + "LORD HASTINGS (HASTINGS:)\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH:\n\n" + "SIR JOHN COLEVILE (COLEVILE:)\n\n\n" + "TRAVERS |\n" + " | retainers of Northumberland.\n" + "MORTON |\n\n\n" + "SIR JOHN FALSTAFF (FALSTAFF:)\n\n" + " His Page. (Page:)\n\n" + "BARDOLPH:\n\n" + "PISTOL:\n\n" + "POINS:\n\n" + "PETO:\n\n\n" + "SHALLOW |\n" + " | country justices.\n" + "SILENCE |\n\n\n" + "DAVY servant to Shallow.\n\n\n" + "MOULDY |\n" + " |\n" + "SHADOW |\n" + " |\n" + "WART | recruits.\n" + " |\n" + "FEEBLE |\n" + " |\n" + "BULLCALF |\n\n\n" + "FANG |\n" + " | sheriff's officers.\n" + "SNARE |\n\n\n" + "LADY\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND:\n\n" + "LADY PERCY:\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET:\n\n" + " Lords and Attendants; Porter, Drawers,\n" + " Beadles, Grooms, &c.\n" + " (First Messenger:)\n" + " (Porter:)\n" + " (First Drawer:)\n" + " (Second Drawer:)\n" + " (First Beadle:)\n" + " (First Groom:)\n" + " (Second Groom:)\n\n" + " A Dancer, speaker of the epilogue.\n\n\n" + "SCENE England.\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n" + " INDUCTION\n\n\n" + " [Warkworth. Before the castle]\n\n" + " [Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues]\n\n" + "RUMOUR Open your ears; for which of you will stop\n" + " The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?\n" + " I, from the orient to the drooping west,\n" + " Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold\n" + " The acts commenced on this ball of earth:\n" + " Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,\n" + " The which in every language I pronounce,\n" + " Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.\n" + " I speak of peace, while covert enmity\n" + " Under the smile of safety wounds the world:\n" + " And who but Rumour, who but only I,\n" + " Make fearful musters and prepared defence,\n" + " Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,\n" + " Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war,\n" + " And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe\n" + " Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures\n" + " And of so easy and so plain a stop\n" + " That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,\n" + " The still-discordant wavering multitude,\n" + " Can play upon it. But what need I thus\n" + " My well-known body to anatomize\n" + " Among my household? Why is Rumour here?\n" + " I run before King Harry's victory;\n" + " Who in a bloody field by Shrewsbury\n" + " Hath beaten down young Hotspur and his troops,\n" + " Quenching the flame of bold rebellion\n" + " Even with the rebel's blood. But what mean I\n" + " To speak so true at first? my office is\n" + " To noise abroad that Harry Monmouth fell\n" + " Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword,\n" + " And that the king before the Douglas' rage\n" + " Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death.\n" + " This have I rumour'd through the peasant towns\n" + " Between that royal field of Shrewsbury\n" + " And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone,\n" + " Where Hotspur's father, old Northumberland,\n" + " Lies crafty-sick: the posts come tiring on,\n" + " And not a man of them brings other news\n" + " Than they have learn'd of me: from Rumour's tongues\n" + " They bring smooth comforts false, worse than\n" + " true wrongs.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LORD BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Who keeps the gate here, ho?\n\n" + " [The Porter opens the gate]\n\n" + " Where is the earl?\n\n" + "Porter What shall I say you are?\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Tell thou the earl\n" + " That the Lord Bardolph doth attend him here.\n\n" + "Porter His lordship is walk'd forth into the orchard;\n" + " Please it your honour, knock but at the gate,\n" + " And he himself wilt answer.\n\n" + " [Enter NORTHUMBERLAND]\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Here comes the earl.\n\n" + " [Exit Porter]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND What news, Lord Bardolph? every minute now\n" + " Should be the father of some stratagem:\n" + " The times are wild: contention, like a horse\n" + " Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose\n" + " And bears down all before him.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Noble earl,\n" + " I bring you certain news from Shrewsbury.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Good, an God will!\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH As good as heart can wish:\n" + " The king is almost wounded to the death;\n" + " And, in the fortune of my lord your son,\n" + " Prince Harry slain outright; and both the Blunts\n" + " Kill'd by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John\n" + " And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field;\n" + " And Harry Monmouth's brawn, the hulk Sir John,\n" + " Is prisoner to your son: O, such a day,\n" + " So fought, so follow'd and so fairly won,\n" + " Came not till now to dignify the times,\n" + " Since Caesar's fortunes!\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND How is this derived?\n" + " Saw you the field? came you from Shrewsbury?\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH I spake with one, my lord, that came from thence,\n" + " A gentleman well bred and of good name,\n" + " That freely render'd me these news for true.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Here comes my servant Travers, whom I sent\n" + " On Tuesday last to listen after news.\n\n" + " [Enter TRAVERS]\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH My lord, I over-rode him on the way;\n" + " And he is furnish'd with no certainties\n" + " More than he haply may retail from me.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you?\n\n" + "TRAVERS My lord, Sir John Umfrevile turn'd me back\n" + " With joyful tidings; and, being better horsed,\n" + " Out-rode me. After him came spurring hard\n" + " A gentleman, almost forspent with speed,\n" + " That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied horse.\n" + " He ask'd the way to Chester; and of him\n" + " I did demand what news from Shrewsbury:\n" + " He told me that rebellion had bad luck\n" + " And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold.\n" + " With that, he gave his able horse the head,\n" + " And bending forward struck his armed heels\n" + " Against the panting sides of his poor jade\n" + " Up to the rowel-head, and starting so\n" + " He seem'd in running to devour the way,\n" + " Staying no longer question.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Ha! Again:\n" + " Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?\n" + " Of Hotspur Coldspur? that rebellion\n" + " Had met ill luck?\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH My lord, I'll tell you what;\n" + " If my young lord your son have not the day,\n" + " Upon mine honour, for a silken point\n" + " I'll give my barony: never talk of it.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Why should that gentleman that rode by Travers\n" + " Give then such instances of loss?\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Who, he?\n" + " He was some hilding fellow that had stolen\n" + " The horse he rode on, and, upon my life,\n" + " Spoke at a venture. Look, here comes more news.\n\n" + " [Enter MORTON]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf,\n" + " Foretells the nature of a tragic volume:\n" + " So looks the strand whereon the imperious flood\n" + " Hath left a witness'd usurpation.\n" + " Say, Morton, didst thou come from Shrewsbury?\n\n" + "MORTON I ran from Shrewsbury, my noble lord;\n" + " Where hateful death put on his ugliest mask\n" + " To fright our party.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND How doth my son and brother?\n" + " Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek\n" + " Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.\n" + " Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless,\n" + " So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone,\n" + " Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night,\n" + " And would have told him half his Troy was burnt;\n" + " But Priam found the fire ere he his tongue,\n" + " And I my Percy's death ere thou report'st it.\n" + " This thou wouldst say, 'Your son did thus and thus;\n" + " Your brother thus: so fought the noble Douglas:'\n" + " Stopping my greedy ear with their bold deeds:\n" + " But in the end, to stop my ear indeed,\n" + " Thou hast a sigh to blow away this praise,\n" + " Ending with 'Brother, son, and all are dead.'\n\n" + "MORTON Douglas is living, and your brother, yet;\n" + " But, for my lord your son--\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Why, he is dead.\n" + " See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!\n" + " He that but fears the thing he would not know\n" + " Hath by instinct knowledge from others' eyes\n" + " That what he fear'd is chanced. Yet speak, Morton;\n" + " Tell thou an earl his divination lies,\n" + " And I will take it as a sweet disgrace\n" + " And make thee rich for doing me such wrong.\n\n" + "MORTON You are too great to be by me gainsaid:\n" + " Your spirit is too true, your fears too certain.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Yet, for all this, say not that Percy's dead.\n" + " I see a strange confession in thine eye:\n" + " Thou shakest thy head and hold'st it fear or sin\n" + " To speak a truth. If he be slain, say so;\n" + " The tongue offends not that reports his death:\n" + " And he doth sin that doth belie the dead,\n" + " Not he which says the dead is not alive.\n" + " Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news\n" + " Hath but a losing office, and his tongue\n" + " Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,\n" + " Remember'd tolling a departing friend.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH I cannot think, my lord, your son is dead.\n\n" + "MORTON I am sorry I should force you to believe\n" + " That which I would to God I had not seen;\n" + " But these mine eyes saw him in bloody state,\n" + " Rendering faint quittance, wearied and out-breathed,\n" + " To Harry Monmouth; whose swift wrath beat down\n" + " The never-daunted Percy to the earth,\n" + " From whence with life he never more sprung up.\n" + " In few, his death, whose spirit lent a fire\n" + " Even to the dullest peasant in his camp,\n" + " Being bruited once, took fire and heat away\n" + " From the best temper'd courage in his troops;\n" + " For from his metal was his party steel'd;\n" + " Which once in him abated, all the rest\n" + " Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy lead:\n" + " And as the thing that's heavy in itself,\n" + " Upon enforcement flies with greatest speed,\n" + " So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss,\n" + " Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear\n" + " That arrows fled not swifter toward their aim\n" + " Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety,\n" + " Fly from the field. Then was the noble Worcester\n" + " Too soon ta'en prisoner; and that furious Scot,\n" + " The bloody Douglas, whose well-labouring sword\n" + " Had three times slain the appearance of the king,\n" + " 'Gan vail his stomach and did grace the shame\n" + " Of those that turn'd their backs, and in his flight,\n" + " Stumbling in fear, was took. The sum of all\n" + " Is that the king hath won, and hath sent out\n" + " A speedy power to encounter you, my lord,\n" + " Under the conduct of young Lancaster\n" + " And Westmoreland. This is the news at full.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND For this I shall have time enough to mourn.\n" + " In poison there is physic; and these news,\n" + " Having been well, that would have made me sick,\n" + " Being sick, have in some measure made me well:\n" + " And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd joints,\n" + " Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life,\n" + " Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire\n" + " Out of his keeper's arms, even so my limbs,\n" + " Weaken'd with grief, being now enraged with grief,\n" + " Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch!\n" + " A scaly gauntlet now with joints of steel\n" + " Must glove this hand: and hence, thou sickly quoif!\n" + " Thou art a guard too wanton for the head\n" + " Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim to hit.\n" + " Now bind my brows with iron; and approach\n" + " The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring\n" + " To frown upon the enraged Northumberland!\n" + " Let heaven kiss earth! now let not Nature's hand\n" + " Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!\n" + " And let this world no longer be a stage\n" + " To feed contention in a lingering act;\n" + " But let one spirit of the first-born Cain\n" + " Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being set\n" + " On bloody courses, the rude scene may end,\n" + " And darkness be the burier of the dead!\n\n" + "TRAVERS This strained passion doth you wrong, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Sweet earl, divorce not wisdom from your honour.\n\n" + "MORTON The lives of all your loving complices\n" + " Lean on your health; the which, if you give o'er\n" + " To stormy passion, must perforce decay.\n" + " You cast the event of war, my noble lord,\n" + " And summ'd the account of chance, before you said\n" + " 'Let us make head.' It was your presurmise,\n" + " That, in the dole of blows, your son might drop:\n" + " You knew he walk'd o'er perils, on an edge,\n" + " More likely to fall in than to get o'er;\n" + " You were advised his flesh was capable\n" + " Of wounds and scars and that his forward spirit\n" + " Would lift him where most trade of danger ranged:\n" + " Yet did you say 'Go forth;' and none of this,\n" + " Though strongly apprehended, could restrain\n" + " The stiff-borne action: what hath then befallen,\n" + " Or what hath this bold enterprise brought forth,\n" + " More than that being which was like to be?\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH We all that are engaged to this loss\n" + " Knew that we ventured on such dangerous seas\n" + " That if we wrought our life 'twas ten to one;\n" + " And yet we ventured, for the gain proposed\n" + " Choked the respect of likely peril fear'd;\n" + " And since we are o'erset, venture again.\n" + " Come, we will all put forth, body and goods.\n\n" + "MORTON 'Tis more than time: and, my most noble lord,\n" + " I hear for certain, and do speak the truth,\n" + " The gentle Archbishop of York is up\n" + " With well-appointed powers: he is a man\n" + " Who with a double surety binds his followers.\n" + " My lord your son had only but the corpse,\n" + " But shadows and the shows of men, to fight;\n" + " For that same word, rebellion, did divide\n" + " The action of their bodies from their souls;\n" + " And they did fight with queasiness, constrain'd,\n" + " As men drink potions, that their weapons only\n" + " Seem'd on our side; but, for their spirits and souls,\n" + " This word, rebellion, it had froze them up,\n" + " As fish are in a pond. But now the bishop\n" + " Turns insurrection to religion:\n" + " Supposed sincere and holy in his thoughts,\n" + " He's followed both with body and with mind;\n" + " And doth enlarge his rising with the blood\n" + " Of fair King Richard, scraped from Pomfret stones;\n" + " Derives from heaven his quarrel and his cause;\n" + " Tells them he doth bestride a bleeding land,\n" + " Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke;\n" + " And more and less do flock to follow him.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND I knew of this before; but, to speak truth,\n" + " This present grief had wiped it from my mind.\n" + " Go in with me; and counsel every man\n" + " The aptest way for safety and revenge:\n" + " Get posts and letters, and make friends with speed:\n" + " Never so few, and never yet more need.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II London. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF, with his Page bearing his sword\n" + " and buckler]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Sirrah, you giant, what says the doctor to my water?\n\n" + "Page He said, sir, the water itself was a good healthy\n" + " water; but, for the party that owed it, he might\n" + " have more diseases than he knew for.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the\n" + " brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not\n" + " able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more\n" + " than I invent or is invented on me: I am not only\n" + " witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other\n" + " men. I do here walk before thee like a sow that\n" + " hath overwhelmed all her litter but one. If the\n" + " prince put thee into my service for any other reason\n" + " than to set me off, why then I have no judgment.\n" + " Thou whoreson mandrake, thou art fitter to be worn\n" + " in my cap than to wait at my heels. I was never\n" + " manned with an agate till now: but I will inset you\n" + " neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and\n" + " send you back again to your master, for a jewel,--\n" + " the juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is\n" + " not yet fledged. I will sooner have a beard grow in\n" + " the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his\n" + " cheek; and yet he will not stick to say his face is\n" + " a face-royal: God may finish it when he will, 'tis\n" + " not a hair amiss yet: he may keep it still at a\n" + " face-royal, for a barber shall never earn sixpence\n" + " out of it; and yet he'll be crowing as if he had\n" + " writ man ever since his father was a bachelor. He\n" + " may keep his own grace, but he's almost out of mine,\n" + " I can assure him. What said Master Dombledon about\n" + " the satin for my short cloak and my slops?\n\n" + "Page He said, sir, you should procure him better\n" + " assurance than Bardolph: he would not take his\n" + " band and yours; he liked not the security.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let him be damned, like the glutton! pray God his\n" + " tongue be hotter! A whoreson Achitophel! a rascally\n" + " yea-forsooth knave! to bear a gentleman in hand,\n" + " and then stand upon security! The whoreson\n" + " smooth-pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, and\n" + " bunches of keys at their girdles; and if a man is\n" + " through with them in honest taking up, then they\n" + " must stand upon security. I had as lief they would\n" + " put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with\n" + " security. I looked a' should have sent me two and\n" + " twenty yards of satin, as I am a true knight, and he\n" + " sends me security. Well, he may sleep in security;\n" + " for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness\n" + " of his wife shines through it: and yet cannot he\n" + " see, though he have his own lanthorn to light him.\n" + " Where's Bardolph?\n\n" + "Page He's gone into Smithfield to buy your worship a horse.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I bought him in Paul's, and he'll buy me a horse in\n" + " Smithfield: an I could get me but a wife in the\n" + " stews, I were manned, horsed, and wived.\n\n" + " [Enter the Lord Chief-Justice and Servant]\n\n" + "Page Sir, here comes the nobleman that committed the\n" + " Prince for striking him about Bardolph.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Wait, close; I will not see him.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice What's he that goes there?\n\n" + "Servant Falstaff, an't please your lordship.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice He that was in question for the robbery?\n\n" + "Servant He, my lord: but he hath since done good service at\n" + " Shrewsbury; and, as I hear, is now going with some\n" + " charge to the Lord John of Lancaster.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice What, to York? Call him back again.\n\n" + "Servant Sir John Falstaff!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Boy, tell him I am deaf.\n\n" + "Page You must speak louder; my master is deaf.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I am sure he is, to the hearing of any thing good.\n" + " Go, pluck him by the elbow; I must speak with him.\n\n" + "Servant Sir John!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What! a young knave, and begging! Is there not\n" + " wars? is there not employment? doth not the king\n" + " lack subjects? do not the rebels need soldiers?\n" + " Though it be a shame to be on any side but one, it\n" + " is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side,\n" + " were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell\n" + " how to make it.\n\n" + "Servant You mistake me, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, sir, did I say you were an honest man? setting\n" + " my knighthood and my soldiership aside, I had lied\n" + " in my throat, if I had said so.\n\n" + "Servant I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and our\n" + " soldiership aside; and give me leave to tell you,\n" + " you lie in your throat, if you say I am any other\n" + " than an honest man.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I give thee leave to tell me so! I lay aside that\n" + " which grows to me! if thou gettest any leave of me,\n" + " hang me; if thou takest leave, thou wert better be\n" + " hanged. You hunt counter: hence! avaunt!\n\n" + "Servant Sir, my lord would speak with you.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Sir John Falstaff, a word with you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My good lord! God give your lordship good time of\n" + " day. I am glad to see your lordship abroad: I heard\n" + " say your lordship was sick: I hope your lordship\n" + " goes abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not\n" + " clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in\n" + " you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I must\n" + " humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverent care\n" + " of your health.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Sir John, I sent for you before your expedition to\n" + " Shrewsbury.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF An't please your lordship, I hear his majesty is\n" + " returned with some discomfort from Wales.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I talk not of his majesty: you would not come when\n" + " I sent for you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF And I hear, moreover, his highness is fallen into\n" + " this same whoreson apoplexy.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Well, God mend him! I pray you, let me speak with\n" + " you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy,\n" + " an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the\n" + " blood, a whoreson tingling.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice What tell you me of it? be it as it is.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF It hath its original from much grief, from study and\n" + " perturbation of the brain: I have read the cause of\n" + " his effects in Galen: it is a kind of deafness.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I think you are fallen into the disease; for you\n" + " hear not what I say to you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Very well, my lord, very well: rather, an't please\n" + " you, it is the disease of not listening, the malady\n" + " of not marking, that I am troubled withal.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice To punish you by the heels would amend the\n" + " attention of your ears; and I care not if I do\n" + " become your physician.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient:\n" + " your lordship may minister the potion of\n" + " imprisonment to me in respect of poverty; but how\n" + " should I be your patient to follow your\n" + " prescriptions, the wise may make some dram of a\n" + " scruple, or indeed a scruple itself.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I sent for you, when there were matters against you\n" + " for your life, to come speak with me.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF As I was then advised by my learned counsel in the\n" + " laws of this land-service, I did not come.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Well, the truth is, Sir John, you live in great infamy.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF He that buckles him in my belt cannot live in less.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would it were otherwise; I would my means were\n" + " greater, and my waist slenderer.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice You have misled the youthful prince.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF The young prince hath misled me: I am the fellow\n" + " with the great belly, and he my dog.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Well, I am loath to gall a new-healed wound: your\n" + " day's service at Shrewsbury hath a little gilded\n" + " over your night's exploit on Gad's-hill: you may\n" + " thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er-posting\n" + " that action.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice But since all is well, keep it so: wake not a\n" + " sleeping wolf.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF To wake a wolf is as bad as to smell a fox.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice What! you are as a candle, the better part burnt\n" + " out.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A wassail candle, my lord, all tallow: if I did say\n" + " of wax, my growth would approve the truth.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice There is not a white hair on your face but should\n" + " have his effect of gravity.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF His effect of gravy, gravy, gravy.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice You follow the young prince up and down, like his\n" + " ill angel.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Not so, my lord; your ill angel is light; but I hope\n" + " he that looks upon me will take me without weighing:\n" + " and yet, in some respects, I grant, I cannot go: I\n" + " cannot tell. Virtue is of so little regard in these\n" + " costermonger times that true valour is turned\n" + " bear-herd: pregnancy is made a tapster, and hath\n" + " his quick wit wasted in giving reckonings: all the\n" + " other gifts appertinent to man, as the malice of\n" + " this age shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry.\n" + " You that are old consider not the capacities of us\n" + " that are young; you do measure the heat of our\n" + " livers with the bitterness of your galls: and we\n" + " that are in the vaward of our youth, I must confess,\n" + " are wags too.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth,\n" + " that are written down old with all the characters of\n" + " age? Have you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a\n" + " yellow cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an\n" + " increasing belly? is not your voice broken? your\n" + " wind short? your chin double? your wit single? and\n" + " every part about you blasted with antiquity? and\n" + " will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the\n" + " afternoon, with a white head and something a round\n" + " belly. For my voice, I have lost it with halloing\n" + " and singing of anthems. To approve my youth\n" + " further, I will not: the truth is, I am only old in\n" + " judgment and understanding; and he that will caper\n" + " with me for a thousand marks, let him lend me the\n" + " money, and have at him! For the box of the ear that\n" + " the prince gave you, he gave it like a rude prince,\n" + " and you took it like a sensible lord. I have\n" + " chequed him for it, and the young lion repents;\n" + " marry, not in ashes and sackcloth, but in new silk\n" + " and old sack.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Well, God send the prince a better companion!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF God send the companion a better prince! I cannot\n" + " rid my hands of him.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Well, the king hath severed you and Prince Harry: I\n" + " hear you are going with Lord John of Lancaster\n" + " against the Archbishop and the Earl of\n" + " Northumberland.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Yea; I thank your pretty sweet wit for it. But look\n" + " you pray, all you that kiss my lady Peace at home,\n" + " that our armies join not in a hot day; for, by the\n" + " Lord, I take but two shirts out with me, and I mean\n" + " not to sweat extraordinarily: if it be a hot day,\n" + " and I brandish any thing but a bottle, I would I\n" + " might never spit white again. There is not a\n" + " dangerous action can peep out his head but I am\n" + " thrust upon it: well, I cannot last ever: but it\n" + " was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if\n" + " they have a good thing, to make it too common. If\n" + " ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give\n" + " me rest. I would to God my name were not so\n" + " terrible to the enemy as it is: I were better to be\n" + " eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to\n" + " nothing with perpetual motion.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Well, be honest, be honest; and God bless your\n" + " expedition!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Will your lordship lend me a thousand pound to\n" + " furnish me forth?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Not a penny, not a penny; you are too impatient to\n" + " bear crosses. Fare you well: commend me to my\n" + " cousin Westmoreland.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Chief-Justice and Servant]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF If I do, fillip me with a three-man beetle. A man\n" + " can no more separate age and covetousness than a'\n" + " can part young limbs and lechery: but the gout\n" + " galls the one, and the pox pinches the other; and\n" + " so both the degrees prevent my curses. Boy!\n\n" + "Page Sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What money is in my purse?\n\n" + "Page Seven groats and two pence.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I can get no remedy against this consumption of the\n" + " purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out,\n" + " but the disease is incurable. Go bear this letter\n" + " to my Lord of Lancaster; this to the prince; this\n" + " to the Earl of Westmoreland; and this to old\n" + " Mistress Ursula, whom I have weekly sworn to marry\n" + " since I perceived the first white hair on my chin.\n" + " About it: you know where to find me.\n\n" + " [Exit Page]\n\n" + " A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox! for\n" + " the one or the other plays the rogue with my great\n" + " toe. 'Tis no matter if I do halt; I have the wars\n" + " for my colour, and my pension shall seem the more\n" + " reasonable. A good wit will make use of any thing:\n" + " I will turn diseases to commodity.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III York. The Archbishop's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, the Lords HASTINGS,\n" + " MOWBRAY, and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Thus have you heard our cause and known our means;\n" + " And, my most noble friends, I pray you all,\n" + " Speak plainly your opinions of our hopes:\n" + " And first, lord marshal, what say you to it?\n\n" + "MOWBRAY I well allow the occasion of our arms;\n" + " But gladly would be better satisfied\n" + " How in our means we should advance ourselves\n" + " To look with forehead bold and big enough\n" + " Upon the power and puissance of the king.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Our present musters grow upon the file\n" + " To five and twenty thousand men of choice;\n" + " And our supplies live largely in the hope\n" + " Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns\n" + " With an incensed fire of injuries.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH The question then, Lord Hastings, standeth thus;\n" + " Whether our present five and twenty thousand\n" + " May hold up head without Northumberland?\n\n" + "HASTINGS With him, we may.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Yea, marry, there's the point:\n" + " But if without him we be thought too feeble,\n" + " My judgment is, we should not step too far\n" + " Till we had his assistance by the hand;\n" + " For in a theme so bloody-faced as this\n" + " Conjecture, expectation, and surmise\n" + " Of aids incertain should not be admitted.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 'Tis very true, Lord Bardolph; for indeed\n" + " It was young Hotspur's case at Shrewsbury.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH It was, my lord; who lined himself with hope,\n" + " Eating the air on promise of supply,\n" + " Flattering himself in project of a power\n" + " Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts:\n" + " And so, with great imagination\n" + " Proper to madmen, led his powers to death\n" + " And winking leap'd into destruction.\n\n" + "HASTINGS But, by your leave, it never yet did hurt\n" + " To lay down likelihoods and forms of hope.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Yes, if this present quality of war,\n" + " Indeed the instant action: a cause on foot\n" + " Lives so in hope as in an early spring\n" + " We see the appearing buds; which to prove fruit,\n" + " Hope gives not so much warrant as despair\n" + " That frosts will bite them. When we mean to build,\n" + " We first survey the plot, then draw the model;\n" + " And when we see the figure of the house,\n" + " Then must we rate the cost of the erection;\n" + " Which if we find outweighs ability,\n" + " What do we then but draw anew the model\n" + " In fewer offices, or at last desist\n" + " To build at all? Much more, in this great work,\n" + " Which is almost to pluck a kingdom down\n" + " And set another up, should we survey\n" + " The plot of situation and the model,\n" + " Consent upon a sure foundation,\n" + " Question surveyors, know our own estate,\n" + " How able such a work to undergo,\n" + " To weigh against his opposite; or else\n" + " We fortify in paper and in figures,\n" + " Using the names of men instead of men:\n" + " Like one that draws the model of a house\n" + " Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,\n" + " Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost\n" + " A naked subject to the weeping clouds\n" + " And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,\n" + " Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd\n" + " The utmost man of expectation,\n" + " I think we are a body strong enough,\n" + " Even as we are, to equal with the king.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH What, is the king but five and twenty thousand?\n\n" + "HASTINGS To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph.\n" + " For his divisions, as the times do brawl,\n" + " Are in three heads: one power against the French,\n" + " And one against Glendower; perforce a third\n" + " Must take up us: so is the unfirm king\n" + " In three divided; and his coffers sound\n" + " With hollow poverty and emptiness.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK That he should draw his several strengths together\n" + " And come against us in full puissance,\n" + " Need not be dreaded.\n\n" + "HASTINGS If he should do so,\n" + " He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh\n" + " Baying him at the heels: never fear that.\n\n" + "LORD BARDOLPH Who is it like should lead his forces hither?\n\n" + "HASTINGS The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland;\n" + " Against the Welsh, himself and Harry Monmouth:\n" + " But who is substituted 'gainst the French,\n" + " I have no certain notice.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Let us on,\n" + " And publish the occasion of our arms.\n" + " The commonwealth is sick of their own choice;\n" + " Their over-greedy love hath surfeited:\n" + " An habitation giddy and unsure\n" + " Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.\n" + " O thou fond many, with what loud applause\n" + " Didst thou beat heaven with blessing Bolingbroke,\n" + " Before he was what thou wouldst have him be!\n" + " And being now trimm'd in thine own desires,\n" + " Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him,\n" + " That thou provokest thyself to cast him up.\n" + " So, so, thou common dog, didst thou disgorge\n" + " Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard;\n" + " And now thou wouldst eat thy dead vomit up,\n" + " And howl'st to find it. What trust is in\n" + " these times?\n" + " They that, when Richard lived, would have him die,\n" + " Are now become enamour'd on his grave:\n" + " Thou, that threw'st dust upon his goodly head\n" + " When through proud London he came sighing on\n" + " After the admired heels of Bolingbroke,\n" + " Criest now 'O earth, yield us that king again,\n" + " And take thou this!' O thoughts of men accursed!\n" + " Past and to come seems best; things present worst.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Shall we go draw our numbers and set on?\n\n" + "HASTINGS We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, FANG and his Boy with her,\n" + " and SNARE following.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Master Fang, have you entered the action?\n\n" + "FANG It is entered.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Where's your yeoman? Is't a lusty yeoman? will a'\n" + " stand to 't?\n\n" + "FANG Sirrah, where's Snare?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY O Lord, ay! good Master Snare.\n\n" + "SNARE Here, here.\n\n" + "FANG Snare, we must arrest Sir John Falstaff.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, good Master Snare; I have entered him and all.\n\n" + "SNARE It may chance cost some of us our lives, for he will stab.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas the day! take heed of him; he stabbed me in\n" + " mine own house, and that most beastly: in good\n" + " faith, he cares not what mischief he does. If his\n" + " weapon be out: he will foin like any devil; he will\n" + " spare neither man, woman, nor child.\n\n" + "FANG If I can close with him, I care not for his thrust.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY No, nor I neither: I'll be at your elbow.\n\n" + "FANG An I but fist him once; an a' come but within my vice,--\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY I am undone by his going; I warrant you, he's an\n" + " infinitive thing upon my score. Good Master Fang,\n" + " hold him sure: good Master Snare, let him not\n" + " 'scape. A' comes continuantly to Pie-corner--saving\n" + " your manhoods--to buy a saddle; and he is indited to\n" + " dinner to the Lubber's-head in Lumbert street, to\n" + " Master Smooth's the silkman: I pray ye, since my\n" + " exion is entered and my case so openly known to the\n" + " world, let him be brought in to his answer. A\n" + " hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to\n" + " bear: and I have borne, and borne, and borne, and\n" + " have been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fubbed\n" + " off, from this day to that day, that it is a shame\n" + " to be thought on. There is no honesty in such\n" + " dealing; unless a woman should be made an ass and a\n" + " beast, to bear every knave's wrong. Yonder he\n" + " comes; and that errant malmsey-nose knave, Bardolph,\n" + " with him. Do your offices, do your offices: Master\n" + " Fang and Master Snare, do me, do me, do me your offices.\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF, Page, and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF How now! whose mare's dead? what's the matter?\n\n" + "FANG Sir John, I arrest you at the suit of Mistress Quickly.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Away, varlets! Draw, Bardolph: cut me off the\n" + " villain's head: throw the quean in the channel.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Throw me in the channel! I'll throw thee in the\n" + " channel. Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly\n" + " rogue! Murder, murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle\n" + " villain! wilt thou kill God's officers and the\n" + " king's? Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! thou art a\n" + " honey-seed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Keep them off, Bardolph.\n\n" + "FANG A rescue! a rescue!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Good people, bring a rescue or two. Thou wo't, wo't\n" + " thou? Thou wo't, wo't ta? do, do, thou rogue! do,\n" + " thou hemp-seed!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Away, you scullion! you rampallion! You\n" + " fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe.\n\n" + " [Enter the Lord Chief-Justice, and his men]\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice What is the matter? keep the peace here, ho!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Good my lord, be good to me. I beseech you, stand to me.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice How now, Sir John! what are you brawling here?\n" + " Doth this become your place, your time and business?\n" + " You should have been well on your way to York.\n" + " Stand from him, fellow: wherefore hang'st upon him?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY O most worshipful lord, an't please your grace, I am\n" + " a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice For what sum?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY It is more than for some, my lord; it is for all,\n" + " all I have. He hath eaten me out of house and home;\n" + " he hath put all my substance into that fat belly of\n" + " his: but I will have some of it out again, or I\n" + " will ride thee o' nights like the mare.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I think I am as like to ride the mare, if I have\n" + " any vantage of ground to get up.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice How comes this, Sir John? Fie! what man of good\n" + " temper would endure this tempest of exclamation?\n" + " Are you not ashamed to enforce a poor widow to so\n" + " rough a course to come by her own?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What is the gross sum that I owe thee?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, if thou wert an honest man, thyself and the\n" + " money too. Thou didst swear to me upon a\n" + " parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber,\n" + " at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon\n" + " Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke\n" + " thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of\n" + " Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was\n" + " washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady\n" + " thy wife. Canst thou deny it? Did not goodwife\n" + " Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me\n" + " gossip Quickly? coming in to borrow a mess of\n" + " vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns;\n" + " whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I\n" + " told thee they were ill for a green wound? And\n" + " didst thou not, when she was gone down stairs,\n" + " desire me to be no more so familiarity with such\n" + " poor people; saying that ere long they should call\n" + " me madam? And didst thou not kiss me and bid me\n" + " fetch thee thirty shillings? I put thee now to thy\n" + " book-oath: deny it, if thou canst.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord, this is a poor mad soul; and she says up\n" + " and down the town that the eldest son is like you:\n" + " she hath been in good case, and the truth is,\n" + " poverty hath distracted her. But for these foolish\n" + " officers, I beseech you I may have redress against them.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Sir John, Sir John, I am well acquainted with your\n" + " manner of wrenching the true cause the false way. It\n" + " is not a confident brow, nor the throng of words\n" + " that come with such more than impudent sauciness\n" + " from you, can thrust me from a level consideration:\n" + " you have, as it appears to me, practised upon the\n" + " easy-yielding spirit of this woman, and made her\n" + " serve your uses both in purse and in person.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Yea, in truth, my lord.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Pray thee, peace. Pay her the debt you owe her, and\n" + " unpay the villany you have done her: the one you\n" + " may do with sterling money, and the other with\n" + " current repentance.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without\n" + " reply. You call honourable boldness impudent\n" + " sauciness: if a man will make courtesy and say\n" + " nothing, he is virtuous: no, my lord, my humble\n" + " duty remembered, I will not be your suitor. I say\n" + " to you, I do desire deliverance from these officers,\n" + " being upon hasty employment in the king's affairs.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice You speak as having power to do wrong: but answer\n" + " in the effect of your reputation, and satisfy this\n" + " poor woman.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come hither, hostess.\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER]\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Now, Master Gower, what news?\n\n" + "GOWER The king, my lord, and Harry Prince of Wales\n" + " Are near at hand: the rest the paper tells.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Faith, you said so before.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF As I am a gentleman. Come, no more words of it.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY By this heavenly ground I tread on, I must be fain\n" + " to pawn both my plate and the tapestry of my\n" + " dining-chambers.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Glasses, glasses is the only drinking: and for thy\n" + " walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of\n" + " the Prodigal, or the German hunting in water-work,\n" + " is worth a thousand of these bed-hangings and these\n" + " fly-bitten tapestries. Let it be ten pound, if thou\n" + " canst. Come, an 'twere not for thy humours, there's\n" + " not a better wench in England. Go, wash thy face,\n" + " and draw the action. Come, thou must not be in\n" + " this humour with me; dost not know me? come, come, I\n" + " know thou wast set on to this.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray thee, Sir John, let it be but twenty nobles: i'\n" + " faith, I am loath to pawn my plate, so God save me,\n" + " la!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let it alone; I'll make other shift: you'll be a\n" + " fool still.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, you shall have it, though I pawn my gown. I\n" + " hope you'll come to supper. You'll pay me all together?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Will I live?\n\n" + " [To BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " Go, with her, with her; hook on, hook on.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Will you have Doll Tearsheet meet you at supper?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No more words; let's have her.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY, BARDOLPH, Officers and Boy]\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I have heard better news.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What's the news, my lord?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Where lay the king last night?\n\n" + "GOWER At Basingstoke, my lord.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I hope, my lord, all's well: what is the news, my lord?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Come all his forces back?\n\n" + "GOWER No; fifteen hundred foot, five hundred horse,\n" + " Are marched up to my lord of Lancaster,\n" + " Against Northumberland and the Archbishop.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Comes the king back from Wales, my noble lord?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice You shall have letters of me presently:\n" + " Come, go along with me, good Master Gower.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord!\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice What's the matter?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Master Gower, shall I entreat you with me to dinner?\n\n" + "GOWER I must wait upon my good lord here; I thank you,\n" + " good Sir John.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Sir John, you loiter here too long, being you are to\n" + " take soldiers up in counties as you go.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Will you sup with me, Master Gower?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice What foolish master taught you these manners, Sir John?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Master Gower, if they become me not, he was a fool\n" + " that taught them me. This is the right fencing\n" + " grace, my lord; tap for tap, and so part fair.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Now the Lord lighten thee! thou art a great fool.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II London. Another street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE HENRY and POINS]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Before God, I am exceeding weary.\n\n" + "POINS Is't come to that? I had thought weariness durst not\n" + " have attached one of so high blood.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Faith, it does me; though it discolours the\n" + " complexion of my greatness to acknowledge it. Doth\n" + " it not show vilely in me to desire small beer?\n\n" + "POINS Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as\n" + " to remember so weak a composition.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Belike then my appetite was not princely got; for,\n" + " by my troth, I do now remember the poor creature,\n" + " small beer. But, indeed, these humble\n" + " considerations make me out of love with my\n" + " greatness. What a disgrace is it to me to remember\n" + " thy name! or to know thy face to-morrow! or to\n" + " take note how many pair of silk stockings thou\n" + " hast, viz. these, and those that were thy\n" + " peach-coloured ones! or to bear the inventory of thy\n" + " shirts, as, one for superfluity, and another for\n" + " use! But that the tennis-court-keeper knows better\n" + " than I; for it is a low ebb of linen with thee when\n" + " thou keepest not racket there; as thou hast not done\n" + " a great while, because the rest of thy low\n" + " countries have made a shift to eat up thy holland:\n" + " and God knows, whether those that bawl out the ruins\n" + " of thy linen shall inherit his kingdom: but the\n" + " midwives say the children are not in the fault;\n" + " whereupon the world increases, and kindreds are\n" + " mightily strengthened.\n\n" + "POINS How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard,\n" + " you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good\n" + " young princes would do so, their fathers being so\n" + " sick as yours at this time is?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Shall I tell thee one thing, Poins?\n\n" + "POINS Yes, faith; and let it be an excellent good thing.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY It shall serve among wits of no higher breeding than thine.\n\n" + "POINS Go to; I stand the push of your one thing that you\n" + " will tell.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Marry, I tell thee, it is not meet that I should be\n" + " sad, now my father is sick: albeit I could tell\n" + " thee, as to one it pleases me, for fault of a\n" + " better, to call my friend, I could be sad, and sad\n" + " indeed too.\n\n" + "POINS Very hardly upon such a subject.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY By this hand thou thinkest me as far in the devil's\n" + " book as thou and Falstaff for obduracy and\n" + " persistency: let the end try the man. But I tell\n" + " thee, my heart bleeds inwardly that my father is so\n" + " sick: and keeping such vile company as thou art\n" + " hath in reason taken from me all ostentation of sorrow.\n\n" + "POINS The reason?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What wouldst thou think of me, if I should weep?\n\n" + "POINS I would think thee a most princely hypocrite.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY It would be every man's thought; and thou art a\n" + " blessed fellow to think as every man thinks: never\n" + " a man's thought in the world keeps the road-way\n" + " better than thine: every man would think me an\n" + " hypocrite indeed. And what accites your most\n" + " worshipful thought to think so?\n\n" + "POINS Why, because you have been so lewd and so much\n" + " engraffed to Falstaff.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY And to thee.\n\n" + "POINS By this light, I am well spoke on; I can hear it\n" + " with my own ears: the worst that they can say of\n" + " me is that I am a second brother and that I am a\n" + " proper fellow of my hands; and those two things, I\n" + " confess, I cannot help. By the mass, here comes Bardolph.\n\n" + " [Enter BARDOLPH and Page]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY And the boy that I gave Falstaff: a' had him from\n" + " me Christian; and look, if the fat villain have not\n" + " transformed him ape.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH God save your grace!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY And yours, most noble Bardolph!\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Come, you virtuous ass, you bashful fool, must you\n" + " be blushing? wherefore blush you now? What a\n" + " maidenly man-at-arms are you become! Is't such a\n" + " matter to get a pottle-pot's maidenhead?\n\n" + "Page A' calls me e'en now, my lord, through a red\n" + " lattice, and I could discern no part of his face\n" + " from the window: at last I spied his eyes, and\n" + " methought he had made two holes in the ale-wife's\n" + " new petticoat and so peeped through.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Has not the boy profited?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Away, you whoreson upright rabbit, away!\n\n" + "Page Away, you rascally Althaea's dream, away!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Instruct us, boy; what dream, boy?\n\n" + "Page Marry, my lord, Althaea dreamed she was delivered\n" + " of a fire-brand; and therefore I call him her dream.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY A crown's worth of good interpretation: there 'tis,\n" + " boy.\n\n" + "POINS O, that this good blossom could be kept from\n" + " cankers! Well, there is sixpence to preserve thee.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH An you do not make him hanged among you, the\n" + " gallows shall have wrong.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY And how doth thy master, Bardolph?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Well, my lord. He heard of your grace's coming to\n" + " town: there's a letter for you.\n\n" + "POINS Delivered with good respect. And how doth the\n" + " martlemas, your master?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH In bodily health, sir.\n\n" + "POINS Marry, the immortal part needs a physician; but\n" + " that moves not him: though that be sick, it dies\n" + " not.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I do allow this wen to be as familiar with me as my\n" + " dog; and he holds his place; for look you how be writes.\n\n" + "POINS [Reads] 'John Falstaff, knight,'--every man must\n" + " know that, as oft as he has occasion to name\n" + " himself: even like those that are kin to the king;\n" + " for they never prick their finger but they say,\n" + " 'There's some of the king's blood spilt.' 'How\n" + " comes that?' says he, that takes upon him not to\n" + " conceive. The answer is as ready as a borrower's\n" + " cap, 'I am the king's poor cousin, sir.'\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Nay, they will be kin to us, or they will fetch it\n" + " from Japhet. But to the letter.\n\n" + "POINS [Reads] 'Sir John Falstaff, knight, to the son of\n" + " the king, nearest his father, Harry Prince of\n" + " Wales, greeting.' Why, this is a certificate.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Peace!\n\n" + "POINS [Reads] 'I will imitate the honourable Romans in\n" + " brevity:' he sure means brevity in breath,\n" + " short-winded. 'I commend me to thee, I commend\n" + " thee, and I leave thee. Be not too familiar with\n" + " Poins; for he misuses thy favours so much, that he\n" + " swears thou art to marry his sister Nell. Repent\n" + " at idle times as thou mayest; and so, farewell.\n" + " Thine, by yea and no, which is as much as to\n" + " say, as thou usest him, JACK FALSTAFF with my\n" + " familiars, JOHN with my brothers and sisters,\n" + " and SIR JOHN with all Europe.'\n" + " My lord, I'll steep this letter in sack and make him eat it.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY That's to make him eat twenty of his words. But do\n" + " you use me thus, Ned? must I marry your sister?\n\n" + "POINS God send the wench no worse fortune! But I never said so.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Well, thus we play the fools with the time, and the\n" + " spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.\n" + " Is your master here in London?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Yea, my lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Where sups he? doth the old boar feed in the old frank?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What company?\n\n" + "Page Ephesians, my lord, of the old church.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Sup any women with him?\n\n" + "Page None, my lord, but old Mistress Quickly and\n" + " Mistress Doll Tearsheet.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY What pagan may that be?\n\n" + "Page A proper gentlewoman, sir, and a kinswoman of my master's.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Even such kin as the parish heifers are to the town\n" + " bull. Shall we steal upon them, Ned, at supper?\n\n" + "POINS I am your shadow, my lord; I'll follow you.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Sirrah, you boy, and Bardolph, no word to your\n" + " master that I am yet come to town: there's for\n" + " your silence.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH I have no tongue, sir.\n\n" + "Page And for mine, sir, I will govern it.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Fare you well; go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BARDOLPH and Page]\n\n" + " This Doll Tearsheet should be some road.\n\n" + "POINS I warrant you, as common as the way between Saint\n" + " Alban's and London.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night\n" + " in his true colours, and not ourselves be seen?\n\n" + "POINS Put on two leathern jerkins and aprons, and wait\n" + " upon him at his table as drawers.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY From a God to a bull? a heavy decension! it was\n" + " Jove's case. From a prince to a prentice? a low\n" + " transformation! that shall be mine; for in every\n" + " thing the purpose must weigh with the folly.\n" + " Follow me, Ned.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Warkworth. Before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter NORTHUMBERLAND, LADY NORTHUMBERLAND, and LADY PERCY]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND I pray thee, loving wife, and gentle daughter,\n" + " Give even way unto my rough affairs:\n" + " Put not you on the visage of the times\n" + " And be like them to Percy troublesome.\n\n" + "LADY\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND I have given over, I will speak no more:\n" + " Do what you will; your wisdom be your guide.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Alas, sweet wife, my honour is at pawn;\n" + " And, but my going, nothing can redeem it.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY O yet, for God's sake, go not to these wars!\n" + " The time was, father, that you broke your word,\n" + " When you were more endeared to it than now;\n" + " When your own Percy, when my heart's dear Harry,\n" + " Threw many a northward look to see his father\n" + " Bring up his powers; but he did long in vain.\n" + " Who then persuaded you to stay at home?\n" + " There were two honours lost, yours and your son's.\n" + " For yours, the God of heaven brighten it!\n" + " For his, it stuck upon him as the sun\n" + " In the grey vault of heaven, and by his light\n" + " Did all the chivalry of England move\n" + " To do brave acts: he was indeed the glass\n" + " Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves:\n" + " He had no legs that practised not his gait;\n" + " And speaking thick, which nature made his blemish,\n" + " Became the accents of the valiant;\n" + " For those that could speak low and tardily\n" + " Would turn their own perfection to abuse,\n" + " To seem like him: so that in speech, in gait,\n" + " In diet, in affections of delight,\n" + " In military rules, humours of blood,\n" + " He was the mark and glass, copy and book,\n" + " That fashion'd others. And him, O wondrous him!\n" + " O miracle of men! him did you leave,\n" + " Second to none, unseconded by you,\n" + " To look upon the hideous god of war\n" + " In disadvantage; to abide a field\n" + " Where nothing but the sound of Hotspur's name\n" + " Did seem defensible: so you left him.\n" + " Never, O never, do his ghost the wrong\n" + " To hold your honour more precise and nice\n" + " With others than with him! let them alone:\n" + " The marshal and the archbishop are strong:\n" + " Had my sweet Harry had but half their numbers,\n" + " To-day might I, hanging on Hotspur's neck,\n" + " Have talk'd of Monmouth's grave.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Beshrew your heart,\n" + " Fair daughter, you do draw my spirits from me\n" + " With new lamenting ancient oversights.\n" + " But I must go and meet with danger there,\n" + " Or it will seek me in another place\n" + " And find me worse provided.\n\n" + "LADY\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND O, fly to Scotland,\n" + " Till that the nobles and the armed commons\n" + " Have of their puissance made a little taste.\n\n" + "LADY PERCY If they get ground and vantage of the king,\n" + " Then join you with them, like a rib of steel,\n" + " To make strength stronger; but, for all our loves,\n" + " First let them try themselves. So did your son;\n" + " He was so suffer'd: so came I a widow;\n" + " And never shall have length of life enough\n" + " To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes,\n" + " That it may grow and sprout as high as heaven,\n" + " For recordation to my noble husband.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Come, come, go in with me. 'Tis with my mind\n" + " As with the tide swell'd up unto his height,\n" + " That makes a still-stand, running neither way:\n" + " Fain would I go to meet the archbishop,\n" + " But many thousand reasons hold me back.\n" + " I will resolve for Scotland: there am I,\n" + " Till time and vantage crave my company.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Drawers]\n\n" + "First Drawer What the devil hast thou brought there? apple-johns?\n" + " thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john.\n\n" + "Second Drawer Mass, thou sayest true. The prince once set a dish\n" + " of apple-johns before him, and told him there were\n" + " five more Sir Johns, and, putting off his hat, said\n" + " 'I will now take my leave of these six dry, round,\n" + " old, withered knights.' It angered him to the\n" + " heart: but he hath forgot that.\n\n" + "First Drawer Why, then, cover, and set them down: and see if\n" + " thou canst find out Sneak's noise; Mistress\n" + " Tearsheet would fain hear some music. Dispatch: the\n" + " room where they supped is too hot; they'll come in straight.\n\n" + "Second Drawer Sirrah, here will be the prince and Master Poins\n" + " anon; and they will put on two of our jerkins and\n" + " aprons; and Sir John must not know of it: Bardolph\n" + " hath brought word.\n\n" + "First Drawer By the mass, here will be old Utis: it will be an\n" + " excellent stratagem.\n\n" + "Second Drawer I'll see if I can find out Sneak.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY and DOLL TEARSHEET]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY I' faith, sweetheart, methinks now you are in an\n" + " excellent good temperality: your pulsidge beats as\n" + " extraordinarily as heart would desire; and your\n" + " colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good\n" + " truth, la! But, i' faith, you have drunk too much\n" + " canaries; and that's a marvellous searching wine,\n" + " and it perfumes the blood ere one can say 'What's\n" + " this?' How do you now?\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Better than I was: hem!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Why, that's well said; a good heart's worth gold.\n" + " Lo, here comes Sir John.\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF [Singing] 'When Arthur first in court,'\n" + " --Empty the jordan.\n\n" + " [Exit First Drawer]\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " --'And was a worthy king.' How now, Mistress Doll!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Sick of a calm; yea, good faith.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF So is all her sect; an they be once in a calm, they are sick.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET You muddy rascal, is that all the comfort you give me?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You make fat rascals, Mistress Doll.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET I make them! gluttony and diseases make them; I\n" + " make them not.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF If the cook help to make the gluttony, you help to\n" + " make the diseases, Doll: we catch of you, Doll, we\n" + " catch of you; grant that, my poor virtue grant that.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Yea, joy, our chains and our jewels.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Your broaches, pearls, and ouches:' for to serve\n" + " bravely is to come halting off, you know: to come\n" + " off the breach with his pike bent bravely, and to\n" + " surgery bravely; to venture upon the charged\n" + " chambers bravely,--\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Hang yourself, you muddy conger, hang yourself!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY By my troth, this is the old fashion; you two never\n" + " meet but you fall to some discord: you are both,\n" + " i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you\n" + " cannot one bear with another's confirmities. What\n" + " the good-year! one must bear, and that must be\n" + " you: you are the weaker vessel, as they say, the\n" + " emptier vessel.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Can a weak empty vessel bear such a huge full\n" + " hogshead? there's a whole merchant's venture of\n" + " Bourdeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk\n" + " better stuffed in the hold. Come, I'll be friends\n" + " with thee, Jack: thou art going to the wars; and\n" + " whether I shall ever see thee again or no, there is\n" + " nobody cares.\n\n" + " [Re-enter First Drawer]\n\n" + "First Drawer Sir, Ancient Pistol's below, and would speak with\n" + " you.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Hang him, swaggering rascal! let him not come\n" + " hither: it is the foul-mouthed'st rogue in England.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY If he swagger, let him not come here: no, by my\n" + " faith; I must live among my neighbours: I'll no\n" + " swaggerers: I am in good name and fame with the\n" + " very best: shut the door; there comes no swaggerers\n" + " here: I have not lived all this while, to have\n" + " swaggering now: shut the door, I pray you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Dost thou hear, hostess?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Pray ye, pacify yourself, Sir John: there comes no\n" + " swaggerers here.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Dost thou hear? it is mine ancient.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me: your ancient\n" + " swaggerer comes not in my doors. I was before Master\n" + " Tisick, the debuty, t'other day; and, as he said to\n" + " me, 'twas no longer ago than Wednesday last, 'I'\n" + " good faith, neighbour Quickly,' says he; Master\n" + " Dumbe, our minister, was by then; 'neighbour\n" + " Quickly,' says he, 'receive those that are civil;\n" + " for,' said he, 'you are in an ill name:' now a'\n" + " said so, I can tell whereupon; 'for,' says he, 'you\n" + " are an honest woman, and well thought on; therefore\n" + " take heed what guests you receive: receive,' says\n" + " he, 'no swaggering companions.' There comes none\n" + " here: you would bless you to hear what he said:\n" + " no, I'll no swaggerers.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF He's no swaggerer, hostess; a tame cheater, i'\n" + " faith; you may stroke him as gently as a puppy\n" + " greyhound: he'll not swagger with a Barbary hen, if\n" + " her feathers turn back in any show of resistance.\n" + " Call him up, drawer.\n\n" + " [Exit First Drawer]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Cheater, call you him? I will bar no honest man my\n" + " house, nor no cheater: but I do not love\n" + " swaggering, by my troth; I am the worse, when one\n" + " says swagger: feel, masters, how I shake; look you,\n" + " I warrant you.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET So you do, hostess.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Do I? yea, in very truth, do I, an 'twere an aspen\n" + " leaf: I cannot abide swaggerers.\n\n" + " [Enter PISTOL, BARDOLPH, and Page]\n\n" + "PISTOL God save you, Sir John!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge\n" + " you with a cup of sack: do you discharge upon mine hostess.\n\n" + "PISTOL I will discharge upon her, Sir John, with two bullets.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF She is Pistol-proof, sir; you shall hardly offend\n" + " her.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Come, I'll drink no proofs nor no bullets: I'll\n" + " drink no more than will do me good, for no man's\n" + " pleasure, I.\n\n" + "PISTOL Then to you, Mistress Dorothy; I will charge you.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Charge me! I scorn you, scurvy companion. What!\n" + " you poor, base, rascally, cheating, lack-linen\n" + " mate! Away, you mouldy rogue, away! I am meat for\n" + " your master.\n\n" + "PISTOL I know you, Mistress Dorothy.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away!\n" + " by this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy\n" + " chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away,\n" + " you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale\n" + " juggler, you! Since when, I pray you, sir? God's\n" + " light, with two points on your shoulder? much!\n\n" + "PISTOL God let me not live, but I will murder your ruff for this.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No more, Pistol; I would not have you go off here:\n" + " discharge yourself of our company, Pistol.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY No, Good Captain Pistol; not here, sweet captain.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Captain! thou abominable damned cheater, art thou\n" + " not ashamed to be called captain? An captains were\n" + " of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for\n" + " taking their names upon you before you have earned\n" + " them. You a captain! you slave, for what? for\n" + " tearing a poor whore's ruff in a bawdy-house? He a\n" + " captain! hang him, rogue! he lives upon mouldy\n" + " stewed prunes and dried cakes. A captain! God's\n" + " light, these villains will make the word as odious\n" + " as the word 'occupy;' which was an excellent good\n" + " word before it was ill sorted: therefore captains\n" + " had need look to 't.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Pray thee, go down, good ancient.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hark thee hither, Mistress Doll.\n\n" + "PISTOL Not I I tell thee what, Corporal Bardolph, I could\n" + " tear her: I'll be revenged of her.\n\n" + "Page Pray thee, go down.\n\n" + "PISTOL I'll see her damned first; to Pluto's damned lake,\n" + " by this hand, to the infernal deep, with Erebus and\n" + " tortures vile also. Hold hook and line, say I.\n" + " Down, down, dogs! down, faitors! Have we not\n" + " Hiren here?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Good Captain Peesel, be quiet; 'tis very late, i'\n" + " faith: I beseek you now, aggravate your choler.\n\n" + "PISTOL These be good humours, indeed! Shall pack-horses\n" + " And hollow pamper'd jades of Asia,\n" + " Which cannot go but thirty mile a-day,\n" + " Compare with Caesars, and with Cannibals,\n" + " And Trojan Greeks? nay, rather damn them with\n" + " King Cerberus; and let the welkin roar.\n" + " Shall we fall foul for toys?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY By my troth, captain, these are very bitter words.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Be gone, good ancient: this will grow to abrawl anon.\n\n" + "PISTOL Die men like dogs! give crowns like pins! Have we\n" + " not Heren here?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY O' my word, captain, there's none such here. What\n" + " the good-year! do you think I would deny her? For\n" + " God's sake, be quiet.\n\n" + "PISTOL Then feed, and be fat, my fair Calipolis.\n" + " Come, give's some sack.\n" + " 'Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contento.'\n" + " Fear we broadsides? no, let the fiend give fire:\n" + " Give me some sack: and, sweetheart, lie thou there.\n\n" + " [Laying down his sword]\n\n" + " Come we to full points here; and are etceteras nothing?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Pistol, I would be quiet.\n\n" + "PISTOL Sweet knight, I kiss thy neaf: what! we have seen\n" + " the seven stars.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET For God's sake, thrust him down stairs: I cannot\n" + " endure such a fustian rascal.\n\n" + "PISTOL Thrust him down stairs! know we not Galloway nags?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat\n" + " shilling: nay, an a' do nothing but speak nothing,\n" + " a' shall be nothing here.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Come, get you down stairs.\n\n" + "PISTOL What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?\n\n" + " [Snatching up his sword]\n\n" + " Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days!\n" + " Why, then, let grievous, ghastly, gaping wounds\n" + " Untwine the Sisters Three! Come, Atropos, I say!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Here's goodly stuff toward!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Give me my rapier, boy.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET I pray thee, Jack, I pray thee, do not draw.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Get you down stairs.\n\n" + " [Drawing, and driving PISTOL out]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Here's a goodly tumult! I'll forswear keeping\n" + " house, afore I'll be in these tirrits and frights.\n" + " So; murder, I warrant now. Alas, alas! put up\n" + " your naked weapons, put up your naked weapons.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PISTOL and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET I pray thee, Jack, be quiet; the rascal's gone.\n" + " Ah, you whoreson little valiant villain, you!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY He you not hurt i' the groin? methought a' made a\n" + " shrewd thrust at your belly.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Have you turned him out o' doors?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Yea, sir. The rascal's drunk: you have hurt him,\n" + " sir, i' the shoulder.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A rascal! to brave me!\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! alas, poor ape,\n" + " how thou sweatest! come, let me wipe thy face;\n" + " come on, you whoreson chops: ah, rogue! i'faith, I\n" + " love thee: thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy,\n" + " worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than\n" + " the Nine Worthies: ah, villain!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A rascally slave! I will toss the rogue in a blanket.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Do, an thou darest for thy heart: an thou dost,\n" + " I'll canvass thee between a pair of sheets.\n\n" + " [Enter Music]\n\n" + "Page The music is come, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let them play. Play, sirs. Sit on my knee, Doll.\n" + " A rascal bragging slave! the rogue fled from me\n" + " like quicksilver.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET I' faith, and thou followedst him like a church.\n" + " Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig,\n" + " when wilt thou leave fighting o' days and foining\n" + " o' nights, and begin to patch up thine old body for heaven?\n\n" + " [Enter, behind, PRINCE HENRY and POINS, disguised]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Peace, good Doll! do not speak like a death's-head;\n" + " do not bid me remember mine end.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Sirrah, what humour's the prince of?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A good shallow young fellow: a' would have made a\n" + " good pantler, a' would ha' chipp'd bread well.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET They say Poins has a good wit.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF He a good wit? hang him, baboon! his wit's as thick\n" + " as Tewksbury mustard; there's no more conceit in him\n" + " than is in a mallet.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Why does the prince love him so, then?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Because their legs are both of a bigness, and a'\n" + " plays at quoits well, and eats conger and fennel,\n" + " and drinks off candles' ends for flap-dragons, and\n" + " rides the wild-mare with the boys, and jumps upon\n" + " joined-stools, and swears with a good grace, and\n" + " wears his boots very smooth, like unto the sign of\n" + " the leg, and breeds no bate with telling of discreet\n" + " stories; and such other gambol faculties a' has,\n" + " that show a weak mind and an able body, for the\n" + " which the prince admits him: for the prince himself\n" + " is such another; the weight of a hair will turn the\n" + " scales between their avoirdupois.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off?\n\n" + "POINS Let's beat him before his whore.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Look, whether the withered elder hath not his poll\n" + " clawed like a parrot.\n\n" + "POINS Is it not strange that desire should so many years\n" + " outlive performance?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Kiss me, Doll.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction! what\n" + " says the almanac to that?\n\n" + "POINS And look, whether the fiery Trigon, his man, be not\n" + " lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book,\n" + " his counsel-keeper.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Thou dost give me flattering busses.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET By my troth, I kiss thee with a most constant heart.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am old, I am old.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET I love thee better than I love e'er a scurvy young\n" + " boy of them all.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? I shall receive\n" + " money o' Thursday: shalt have a cap to-morrow. A\n" + " merry song, come: it grows late; we'll to bed.\n" + " Thou'lt forget me when I am gone.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET By my troth, thou'lt set me a-weeping, an thou\n" + " sayest so: prove that ever I dress myself handsome\n" + " till thy return: well, harken at the end.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Some sack, Francis.\n\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY |\n" + " | Anon, anon, sir.\n" + "POINS |\n\n\n" + " [Coming forward]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ha! a bastard son of the king's? And art not thou\n" + " Poins his brother?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Why, thou globe of sinful continents! what a life\n" + " dost thou lead!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF A better than thou: I am a gentleman; thou art a drawer.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Very true, sir; and I come to draw you out by the ears.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY O, the Lord preserve thy good grace! by my troth,\n" + " welcome to London. Now, the Lord bless that sweet\n" + " face of thine! O, Jesu, are you come from Wales?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Thou whoreson mad compound of majesty, by this light\n" + " flesh and corrupt blood, thou art welcome.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET How, you fat fool! I scorn you.\n\n" + "POINS My lord, he will drive you out of your revenge and\n" + " turn all to a merriment, if you take not the heat.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY You whoreson candle-mine, you, how vilely did you\n" + " speak of me even now before this honest, virtuous,\n" + " civil gentlewoman!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY God's blessing of your good heart! and so she is,\n" + " by my troth.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Didst thou hear me?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Yea, and you knew me, as you did when you ran away\n" + " by Gad's-hill: you knew I was at your back, and\n" + " spoke it on purpose to try my patience.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No, no, no; not so; I did not think thou wast within hearing.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I shall drive you then to confess the wilful abuse;\n" + " and then I know how to handle you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No abuse, Hal, o' mine honour, no abuse.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Not to dispraise me, and call me pantier and\n" + " bread-chipper and I know not what?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No abuse, Hal.\n\n" + "POINS No abuse?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No abuse, Ned, i' the world; honest Ned, none. I\n" + " dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked\n" + " might not fall in love with him; in which doing, I\n" + " have done the part of a careful friend and a true\n" + " subject, and thy father is to give me thanks for it.\n" + " No abuse, Hal: none, Ned, none: no, faith, boys, none.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY See now, whether pure fear and entire cowardice doth\n" + " not make thee wrong this virtuous gentlewoman to\n" + " close with us? is she of the wicked? is thine\n" + " hostess here of the wicked? or is thy boy of the\n" + " wicked? or honest Bardolph, whose zeal burns in his\n" + " nose, of the wicked?\n\n" + "POINS Answer, thou dead elm, answer.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF The fiend hath pricked down Bardolph irrecoverable;\n" + " and his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he\n" + " doth nothing but roast malt-worms. For the boy,\n" + " there is a good angel about him; but the devil\n" + " outbids him too.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY For the women?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF For one of them, she is in hell already, and burns\n" + " poor souls. For the other, I owe her money, and\n" + " whether she be damned for that, I know not.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY No, I warrant you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No, I think thou art not; I think thou art quit for\n" + " that. Marry, there is another indictment upon thee,\n" + " for suffering flesh to be eaten in thy house,\n" + " contrary to the law; for the which I think thou wilt howl.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY All victuallers do so; what's a joint of mutton or\n" + " two in a whole Lent?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY You, gentlewoman,-\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET What says your grace?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF His grace says that which his flesh rebels against.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Who knocks so loud at door? Look to the door there, Francis.\n\n" + " [Enter PETO]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Peto, how now! what news?\n\n" + "PETO The king your father is at Westminster:\n" + " And there are twenty weak and wearied posts\n" + " Come from the north: and, as I came along,\n" + " I met and overtook a dozen captains,\n" + " Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns,\n" + " And asking every one for Sir John Falstaff.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY By heaven, Poins, I feel me much to blame,\n" + " So idly to profane the precious time,\n" + " When tempest of commotion, like the south\n" + " Borne with black vapour, doth begin to melt\n" + " And drop upon our bare unarmed heads.\n" + " Give me my sword and cloak. Falstaff, good night.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PRINCE HENRY, POINS, PETO and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and\n" + " we must hence and leave it unpicked.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " More knocking at the door!\n\n" + " [Re-enter BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " How now! what's the matter?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH You must away to court, sir, presently;\n" + " A dozen captains stay at door for you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF [To the Page] Pay the musicians, sirrah. Farewell,\n" + " hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches,\n" + " how men of merit are sought after: the undeserver\n" + " may sleep, when the man of action is called on.\n" + " Farewell good wenches: if I be not sent away post,\n" + " I will see you again ere I go.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET I cannot speak; if my heart be not read to burst,--\n" + " well, sweet Jack, have a care of thyself.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Farewell, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, fare thee well: I have known thee these\n" + " twenty-nine years, come peascod-time; but an\n" + " honester and truer-hearted man,--well, fare thee well.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH [Within] Mistress Tearsheet!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY What's the matter?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH [Within] Good Mistress Tearsheet, come to my master.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY O, run, Doll, run; run, good Doll: come.\n\n" + " [She comes blubbered]\n\n" + " Yea, will you come, Doll?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Westminster. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY IV in his nightgown, with a Page]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Go call the Earls of Surrey and of Warwick;\n" + " But, ere they come, bid them o'er-read these letters,\n" + " And well consider of them; make good speed.\n\n" + " [Exit Page]\n\n" + " How many thousand of my poorest subjects\n" + " Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep,\n" + " Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,\n" + " That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down\n" + " And steep my senses in forgetfulness?\n" + " Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs,\n" + " Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee\n" + " And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber,\n" + " Than in the perfumed chambers of the great,\n" + " Under the canopies of costly state,\n" + " And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?\n" + " O thou dull god, why liest thou with the vile\n" + " In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch\n" + " A watch-case or a common 'larum-bell?\n" + " Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast\n" + " Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains\n" + " In cradle of the rude imperious surge\n" + " And in the visitation of the winds,\n" + " Who take the ruffian billows by the top,\n" + " Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them\n" + " With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds,\n" + " That, with the hurly, death itself awakes?\n" + " Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose\n" + " To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude,\n" + " And in the calmest and most stillest night,\n" + " With all appliances and means to boot,\n" + " Deny it to a king? Then happy low, lie down!\n" + " Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK and SURREY]\n\n" + "WARWICK Many good morrows to your majesty!\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Is it good morrow, lords?\n\n" + "WARWICK 'Tis one o'clock, and past.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Why, then, good morrow to you all, my lords.\n" + " Have you read o'er the letters that I sent you?\n\n" + "WARWICK We have, my liege.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Then you perceive the body of our kingdom\n" + " How foul it is; what rank diseases grow\n" + " And with what danger, near the heart of it.\n\n" + "WARWICK It is but as a body yet distemper'd;\n" + " Which to his former strength may be restored\n" + " With good advice and little medicine:\n" + " My Lord Northumberland will soon be cool'd.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV O God! that one might read the book of fate,\n" + " And see the revolution of the times\n" + " Make mountains level, and the continent,\n" + " Weary of solid firmness, melt itself\n" + " Into the sea! and, other times, to see\n" + " The beachy girdle of the ocean\n" + " Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock,\n" + " And changes fill the cup of alteration\n" + " With divers liquors! O, if this were seen,\n" + " The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,\n" + " What perils past, what crosses to ensue,\n" + " Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.\n" + " 'Tis not 'ten years gone\n" + " Since Richard and Northumberland, great friends,\n" + " Did feast together, and in two years after\n" + " Were they at wars: it is but eight years since\n" + " This Percy was the man nearest my soul,\n" + " Who like a brother toil'd in my affairs\n" + " And laid his love and life under my foot,\n" + " Yea, for my sake, even to the eyes of Richard\n" + " Gave him defiance. But which of you was by--\n" + " You, cousin Nevil, as I may remember--\n\n" + " [To WARWICK]\n\n" + " When Richard, with his eye brimful of tears,\n" + " Then cheque'd and rated by Northumberland,\n" + " Did speak these words, now proved a prophecy?\n" + " 'Northumberland, thou ladder by the which\n" + " My cousin Bolingbroke ascends my throne;'\n" + " Though then, God knows, I had no such intent,\n" + " But that necessity so bow'd the state\n" + " That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss:\n" + " 'The time shall come,' thus did he follow it,\n" + " 'The time will come, that foul sin, gathering head,\n" + " Shall break into corruption:' so went on,\n" + " Foretelling this same time's condition\n" + " And the division of our amity.\n\n" + "WARWICK There is a history in all men's lives,\n" + " Figuring the nature of the times deceased;\n" + " The which observed, a man may prophesy,\n" + " With a near aim, of the main chance of things\n" + " As yet not come to life, which in their seeds\n" + " And weak beginnings lie intreasured.\n" + " Such things become the hatch and brood of time;\n" + " And by the necessary form of this\n" + " King Richard might create a perfect guess\n" + " That great Northumberland, then false to him,\n" + " Would of that seed grow to a greater falseness;\n" + " Which should not find a ground to root upon,\n" + " Unless on you.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Are these things then necessities?\n" + " Then let us meet them like necessities:\n" + " And that same word even now cries out on us:\n" + " They say the bishop and Northumberland\n" + " Are fifty thousand strong.\n\n" + "WARWICK It cannot be, my lord;\n" + " Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo,\n" + " The numbers of the fear'd. Please it your grace\n" + " To go to bed. Upon my soul, my lord,\n" + " The powers that you already have sent forth\n" + " Shall bring this prize in very easily.\n" + " To comfort you the more, I have received\n" + " A certain instance that Glendower is dead.\n" + " Your majesty hath been this fortnight ill,\n" + " And these unseason'd hours perforce must add\n" + " Unto your sickness.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV I will take your counsel:\n" + " And were these inward wars once out of hand,\n" + " We would, dear lords, unto the Holy Land.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Gloucestershire. Before SHALLOW'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SHALLOW and SILENCE, meeting; MOULDY,\n" + " SHADOW, WART, FEEBLE, BULLCALF, a Servant or two\n" + " with them]\n\n" + "SHALLOW Come on, come on, come on, sir; give me your hand,\n" + " sir, give me your hand, sir: an early stirrer, by\n" + " the rood! And how doth my good cousin Silence?\n\n" + "SILENCE Good morrow, good cousin Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW And how doth my cousin, your bedfellow? and your\n" + " fairest daughter and mine, my god-daughter Ellen?\n\n" + "SILENCE Alas, a black ousel, cousin Shallow!\n\n" + "SHALLOW By yea and nay, sir, I dare say my cousin William is\n" + " become a good scholar: he is at Oxford still, is he not?\n\n" + "SILENCE Indeed, sir, to my cost.\n\n" + "SHALLOW A' must, then, to the inns o' court shortly. I was\n" + " once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will\n" + " talk of mad Shallow yet.\n\n" + "SILENCE You were called 'lusty Shallow' then, cousin.\n\n" + "SHALLOW By the mass, I was called any thing; and I would\n" + " have done any thing indeed too, and roundly too.\n" + " There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire,\n" + " and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and\n" + " Will Squele, a Cotswold man; you had not four such\n" + " swinge-bucklers in all the inns o' court again: and\n" + " I may say to you, we knew where the bona-robas were\n" + " and had the best of them all at commandment. Then\n" + " was Jack Falstaff, now Sir John, a boy, and page to\n" + " Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.\n\n" + "SILENCE This Sir John, cousin, that comes hither anon about soldiers?\n\n" + "SHALLOW The same Sir John, the very same. I see him break\n" + " Skogan's head at the court-gate, when a' was a\n" + " crack not thus high: and the very same day did I\n" + " fight with one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer,\n" + " behind Gray's Inn. Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I\n" + " have spent! and to see how many of my old\n" + " acquaintance are dead!\n\n" + "SILENCE We shall all follow, cousin.\n\n" + "SHADOW Certain, 'tis certain; very sure, very sure: death,\n" + " as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall\n" + " die. How a good yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair?\n\n" + "SILENCE By my troth, I was not there.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Death is certain. Is old Double of your town living\n" + " yet?\n\n" + "SILENCE Dead, sir.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Jesu, Jesu, dead! a' drew a good bow; and dead! a'\n" + " shot a fine shoot: John a Gaunt loved him well, and\n" + " betted much money on his head. Dead! a' would have\n" + " clapped i' the clout at twelve score; and carried\n" + " you a forehand shaft a fourteen and fourteen and a\n" + " half, that it would have done a man's heart good to\n" + " see. How a score of ewes now?\n\n" + "SILENCE Thereafter as they be: a score of good ewes may be\n" + " worth ten pounds.\n\n" + "SHALLOW And is old Double dead?\n\n" + "SILENCE Here come two of Sir John Falstaff's men, as I think.\n\n" + " [Enter BARDOLPH and one with him]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Good morrow, honest gentlemen: I beseech you, which\n" + " is Justice Shallow?\n\n" + "SHALLOW I am Robert Shallow, sir; a poor esquire of this\n" + " county, and one of the king's justices of the peace:\n" + " What is your good pleasure with me?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH My captain, sir, commends him to you; my captain,\n" + " Sir John Falstaff, a tall gentleman, by heaven, and\n" + " a most gallant leader.\n\n" + "SHALLOW He greets me well, sir. I knew him a good backsword\n" + " man. How doth the good knight? may I ask how my\n" + " lady his wife doth?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Sir, pardon; a soldier is better accommodated than\n" + " with a wife.\n\n" + "SHALLOW It is well said, in faith, sir; and it is well said\n" + " indeed too. Better accommodated! it is good; yea,\n" + " indeed, is it: good phrases are surely, and ever\n" + " were, very commendable. Accommodated! it comes of\n" + " 'accommodo' very good; a good phrase.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Pardon me, sir; I have heard the word. Phrase call\n" + " you it? by this good day, I know not the phrase;\n" + " but I will maintain the word with my sword to be a\n" + " soldier-like word, and a word of exceeding good\n" + " command, by heaven. Accommodated; that is, when a\n" + " man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is,\n" + " being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated;\n" + " which is an excellent thing.\n\n" + "SHALLOW It is very just.\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + " Look, here comes good Sir John. Give me your good\n" + " hand, give me your worship's good hand: by my\n" + " troth, you like well and bear your years very well:\n" + " welcome, good Sir John.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am glad to see you well, good Master Robert\n" + " Shallow: Master Surecard, as I think?\n\n" + "SHALLOW No, Sir John; it is my cousin Silence, in commission with me.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Good Master Silence, it well befits you should be of\n" + " the peace.\n\n" + "SILENCE Your good-worship is welcome.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Fie! this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you\n" + " provided me here half a dozen sufficient men?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Marry, have we, sir. Will you sit?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let me see them, I beseech you.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Where's the roll? where's the roll? where's the\n" + " roll? Let me see, let me see, let me see. So, so:\n" + " yea, marry, sir: Ralph Mouldy! Let them appear as\n" + " I call; let them do so, let them do so. Let me\n" + " see; where is Mouldy?\n\n" + "MOULDY Here, an't please you.\n\n" + "SHALLOW What think you, Sir John? a good-limbed fellow;\n" + " young, strong, and of good friends.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Is thy name Mouldy?\n\n" + "MOULDY Yea, an't please you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Tis the more time thou wert used.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ha, ha, ha! most excellent, i' faith! Things that\n" + " are mouldy lack use: very singular good! in faith,\n" + " well said, Sir John, very well said.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Prick him.\n\n" + "MOULDY I was pricked well enough before, an you could have\n" + " let me alone: my old dame will be undone now for\n" + " one to do her husbandry and her drudgery: you need\n" + " not to have pricked me; there are other men fitter\n" + " to go out than I.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Go to: peace, Mouldy; you shall go. Mouldy, it is\n" + " time you were spent.\n\n" + "MOULDY Spent!\n\n" + "SHALLOW Peace, fellow, peace; stand aside: know you where\n" + " you are? For the other, Sir John: let me see:\n" + " Simon Shadow!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Yea, marry, let me have him to sit under: he's like\n" + " to be a cold soldier.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Where's Shadow?\n\n" + "SHADOW Here, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Shadow, whose son art thou?\n\n" + "SHADOW My mother's son, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Thy mother's son! like enough, and thy father's\n" + " shadow: so the son of the female is the shadow of\n" + " the male: it is often so, indeed; but much of the\n" + " father's substance!\n\n" + "SHALLOW Do you like him, Sir John?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Shadow will serve for summer; prick him, for we have\n" + " a number of shadows to fill up the muster-book.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Thomas Wart!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Where's he?\n\n" + "WART Here, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Is thy name Wart?\n\n" + "WART Yea, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Thou art a very ragged wart.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Shall I prick him down, Sir John?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF It were superfluous; for his apparel is built upon\n" + " his back and the whole frame stands upon pins:\n" + " prick him no more.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ha, ha, ha! you can do it, sir; you can do it: I\n" + " commend you well. Francis Feeble!\n\n" + "FEEBLE Here, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What trade art thou, Feeble?\n\n" + "FEEBLE A woman's tailor, sir.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Shall I prick him, sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You may: but if he had been a man's tailor, he'ld\n" + " ha' pricked you. Wilt thou make as many holes in\n" + " an enemy's battle as thou hast done in a woman's petticoat?\n\n" + "FEEBLE I will do my good will, sir; you can have no more.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well said, good woman's tailor! well said,\n" + " courageous Feeble! thou wilt be as valiant as the\n" + " wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the\n" + " woman's tailor: well, Master Shallow; deep, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "FEEBLE I would Wart might have gone, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou mightst\n" + " mend him and make him fit to go. I cannot put him\n" + " to a private soldier that is the leader of so many\n" + " thousands: let that suffice, most forcible Feeble.\n\n" + "FEEBLE It shall suffice, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am bound to thee, reverend Feeble. Who is next?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Peter Bullcalf o' the green!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Yea, marry, let's see Bullcalf.\n\n" + "BULLCALF Here, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Fore God, a likely fellow! Come, prick me Bullcalf\n" + " till he roar again.\n\n" + "BULLCALF O Lord! good my lord captain,--\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What, dost thou roar before thou art pricked?\n\n" + "BULLCALF O Lord, sir! I am a diseased man.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What disease hast thou?\n\n" + "BULLCALF A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir, which I caught\n" + " with ringing in the king's affairs upon his\n" + " coronation-day, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come, thou shalt go to the wars in a gown; we wilt\n" + " have away thy cold; and I will take such order that\n" + " my friends shall ring for thee. Is here all?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Here is two more called than your number, you must\n" + " have but four here, sir: and so, I pray you, go in\n" + " with me to dinner.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come, I will go drink with you, but I cannot tarry\n" + " dinner. I am glad to see you, by my troth, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW O, Sir John, do you remember since we lay all night\n" + " in the windmill in Saint George's field?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No more of that, good Master Shallow, no more of that.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ha! 'twas a merry night. And is Jane Nightwork alive?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF She lives, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW She never could away with me.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Never, never; she would always say she could not\n" + " abide Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW By the mass, I could anger her to the heart. She\n" + " was then a bona-roba. Doth she hold her own well?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Old, old, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but be old;\n" + " certain she's old; and had Robin Nightwork by old\n" + " Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn.\n\n" + "SILENCE That's fifty-five year ago.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ha, cousin Silence, that thou hadst seen that that\n" + " this knight and I have seen! Ha, Sir John, said I well?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW That we have, that we have, that we have; in faith,\n" + " Sir John, we have: our watch-word was 'Hem boys!'\n" + " Come, let's to dinner; come, let's to dinner:\n" + " Jesus, the days that we have seen! Come, come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FALSTAFF and Justices]\n\n" + "BULLCALF Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my friend;\n" + " and here's four Harry ten shillings in French crowns\n" + " for you. In very truth, sir, I had as lief be\n" + " hanged, sir, as go: and yet, for mine own part, sir,\n" + " I do not care; but rather, because I am unwilling,\n" + " and, for mine own part, have a desire to stay with\n" + " my friends; else, sir, I did not care, for mine own\n" + " part, so much.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Go to; stand aside.\n\n" + "MOULDY And, good master corporal captain, for my old\n" + " dame's sake, stand my friend: she has nobody to do\n" + " any thing about her when I am gone; and she is old,\n" + " and cannot help herself: You shall have forty, sir.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Go to; stand aside.\n\n" + "FEEBLE By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once: we\n" + " owe God a death: I'll ne'er bear a base mind:\n" + " an't be my destiny, so; an't be not, so: no man is\n" + " too good to serve's prince; and let it go which way\n" + " it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Well said; thou'rt a good fellow.\n\n" + "FEEBLE Faith, I'll bear no base mind.\n\n" + " [Re-enter FALSTAFF and the Justices]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come, sir, which men shall I have?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Four of which you please.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Sir, a word with you: I have three pound to free\n" + " Mouldy and Bullcalf.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Go to; well.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Come, Sir John, which four will you have?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Do you choose for me.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Marry, then, Mouldy, Bullcalf, Feeble and Shadow.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mouldy and Bullcalf: for you, Mouldy, stay at home\n" + " till you are past service: and for your part,\n" + " Bullcalf, grow till you come unto it: I will none of you.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Sir John, Sir John, do not yourself wrong: they are\n" + " your likeliest men, and I would have you served with the best.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a\n" + " man? Care I for the limb, the thewes, the stature,\n" + " bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the\n" + " spirit, Master Shallow. Here's Wart; you see what a\n" + " ragged appearance it is; a' shall charge you and\n" + " discharge you with the motion of a pewterer's\n" + " hammer, come off and on swifter than he that gibbets\n" + " on the brewer's bucket. And this same half-faced\n" + " fellow, Shadow; give me this man: he presents no\n" + " mark to the enemy; the foeman may with as great aim\n" + " level at the edge of a penknife. And for a retreat;\n" + " how swiftly will this Feeble the woman's tailor run\n" + " off! O, give me the spare men, and spare me the\n" + " great ones. Put me a caliver into Wart's hand, Bardolph.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Hold, Wart, traverse; thus, thus, thus.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come, manage me your caliver. So: very well: go\n" + " to: very good, exceeding good. O, give me always a\n" + " little, lean, old, chapt, bald shot. Well said, i'\n" + " faith, Wart; thou'rt a good scab: hold, there's a\n" + " tester for thee.\n\n" + "SHALLOW He is not his craft's master; he doth not do it\n" + " right. I remember at Mile-end Green, when I lay at\n" + " Clement's Inn--I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's\n" + " show,--there was a little quiver fellow, and a'\n" + " would manage you his piece thus; and a' would about\n" + " and about, and come you in and come you in: 'rah,\n" + " tah, tah,' would a' say; 'bounce' would a' say; and\n" + " away again would a' go, and again would a' come: I\n" + " shall ne'er see such a fellow.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF These fellows will do well, Master Shallow. God\n" + " keep you, Master Silence: I will not use many words\n" + " with you. Fare you well, gentlemen both: I thank\n" + " you: I must a dozen mile to-night. Bardolph, give\n" + " the soldiers coats.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Sir John, the Lord bless you! God prosper your\n" + " affairs! God send us peace! At your return visit\n" + " our house; let our old acquaintance be renewed;\n" + " peradventure I will with ye to the court.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Fore God, I would you would, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Go to; I have spoke at a word. God keep you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Fare you well, gentle gentlemen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Justices]\n\n" + " On, Bardolph; lead the men away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BARDOLPH, Recruits, &c]\n\n" + " As I return, I will fetch off these justices: I do\n" + " see the bottom of Justice Shallow. Lord, Lord, how\n" + " subject we old men are to this vice of lying! This\n" + " same starved justice hath done nothing but prate to\n" + " me of the wildness of his youth, and the feats he\n" + " hath done about Turnbull Street: and every third\n" + " word a lie, duer paid to the hearer than the Turk's\n" + " tribute. I do remember him at Clement's Inn like a\n" + " man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a'\n" + " was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked\n" + " radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it\n" + " with a knife: a' was so forlorn, that his\n" + " dimensions to any thick sight were invincible: a'\n" + " was the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a\n" + " monkey, and the whores called him mandrake: a' came\n" + " ever in the rearward of the fashion, and sung those\n" + " tunes to the overscutched huswives that he heard the\n" + " carmen whistle, and swear they were his fancies or\n" + " his good-nights. And now is this Vice's dagger\n" + " become a squire, and talks as familiarly of John a\n" + " Gaunt as if he had been sworn brother to him; and\n" + " I'll be sworn a' ne'er saw him but once in the\n" + " Tilt-yard; and then he burst his head for crowding\n" + " among the marshal's men. I saw it, and told John a\n" + " Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have\n" + " thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the\n" + " case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a\n" + " court: and now has he land and beefs. Well, I'll\n" + " be acquainted with him, if I return; and it shall\n" + " go hard but I will make him a philosopher's two\n" + " stones to me: if the young dace be a bait for the\n" + " old pike, I see no reason in the law of nature but I\n" + " may snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, LORD\n" + " HASTINGS, and others]\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK What is this forest call'd?\n\n" + "HASTINGS 'Tis Gaultree Forest, an't shall please your grace.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Here stand, my lords; and send discoverers forth\n" + " To know the numbers of our enemies.\n\n" + "HASTINGS We have sent forth already.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 'Tis well done.\n" + " My friends and brethren in these great affairs,\n" + " I must acquaint you that I have received\n" + " New-dated letters from Northumberland;\n" + " Their cold intent, tenor and substance, thus:\n" + " Here doth he wish his person, with such powers\n" + " As might hold sortance with his quality,\n" + " The which he could not levy; whereupon\n" + " He is retired, to ripe his growing fortunes,\n" + " To Scotland: and concludes in hearty prayers\n" + " That your attempts may overlive the hazard\n" + " And fearful melting of their opposite.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Thus do the hopes we have in him touch ground\n" + " And dash themselves to pieces.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "HASTINGS Now, what news?\n\n" + "Messenger West of this forest, scarcely off a mile,\n" + " In goodly form comes on the enemy;\n" + " And, by the ground they hide, I judge their number\n" + " Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY The just proportion that we gave them out\n" + " Let us sway on and face them in the field.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK What well-appointed leader fronts us here?\n\n" + " [Enter WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "MOWBRAY I think it is my Lord of Westmoreland.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Health and fair greeting from our general,\n" + " The prince, Lord John and Duke of Lancaster.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Say on, my Lord of Westmoreland, in peace:\n" + " What doth concern your coming?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Then, my lord,\n" + " Unto your grace do I in chief address\n" + " The substance of my speech. If that rebellion\n" + " Came like itself, in base and abject routs,\n" + " Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rags,\n" + " And countenanced by boys and beggary,\n" + " I say, if damn'd commotion so appear'd,\n" + " In his true, native and most proper shape,\n" + " You, reverend father, and these noble lords\n" + " Had not been here, to dress the ugly form\n" + " Of base and bloody insurrection\n" + " With your fair honours. You, lord archbishop,\n" + " Whose see is by a civil peace maintained,\n" + " Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touch'd,\n" + " Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutor'd,\n" + " Whose white investments figure innocence,\n" + " The dove and very blessed spirit of peace,\n" + " Wherefore do you so ill translate ourself\n" + " Out of the speech of peace that bears such grace,\n" + " Into the harsh and boisterous tongue of war;\n" + " Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood,\n" + " Your pens to lances and your tongue divine\n" + " To a trumpet and a point of war?\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Wherefore do I this? so the question stands.\n" + " Briefly to this end: we are all diseased,\n" + " And with our surfeiting and wanton hours\n" + " Have brought ourselves into a burning fever,\n" + " And we must bleed for it; of which disease\n" + " Our late king, Richard, being infected, died.\n" + " But, my most noble Lord of Westmoreland,\n" + " I take not on me here as a physician,\n" + " Nor do I as an enemy to peace\n" + " Troop in the throngs of military men;\n" + " But rather show awhile like fearful war,\n" + " To diet rank minds sick of happiness\n" + " And purge the obstructions which begin to stop\n" + " Our very veins of life. Hear me more plainly.\n" + " I have in equal balance justly weigh'd\n" + " What wrongs our arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,\n" + " And find our griefs heavier than our offences.\n" + " We see which way the stream of time doth run,\n" + " And are enforced from our most quiet there\n" + " By the rough torrent of occasion;\n" + " And have the summary of all our griefs,\n" + " When time shall serve, to show in articles;\n" + " Which long ere this we offer'd to the king,\n" + " And might by no suit gain our audience:\n" + " When we are wrong'd and would unfold our griefs,\n" + " We are denied access unto his person\n" + " Even by those men that most have done us wrong.\n" + " The dangers of the days but newly gone,\n" + " Whose memory is written on the earth\n" + " With yet appearing blood, and the examples\n" + " Of every minute's instance, present now,\n" + " Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms,\n" + " Not to break peace or any branch of it,\n" + " But to establish here a peace indeed,\n" + " Concurring both in name and quality.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND When ever yet was your appeal denied?\n" + " Wherein have you been galled by the king?\n" + " What peer hath been suborn'd to grate on you,\n" + " That you should seal this lawless bloody book\n" + " Of forged rebellion with a seal divine\n" + " And consecrate commotion's bitter edge?\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK My brother general, the commonwealth,\n" + " To brother born an household cruelty,\n" + " I make my quarrel in particular.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND There is no need of any such redress;\n" + " Or if there were, it not belongs to you.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Why not to him in part, and to us all\n" + " That feel the bruises of the days before,\n" + " And suffer the condition of these times\n" + " To lay a heavy and unequal hand\n" + " Upon our honours?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND O, my good Lord Mowbray,\n" + " Construe the times to their necessities,\n" + " And you shall say indeed, it is the time,\n" + " And not the king, that doth you injuries.\n" + " Yet for your part, it not appears to me\n" + " Either from the king or in the present time\n" + " That you should have an inch of any ground\n" + " To build a grief on: were you not restored\n" + " To all the Duke of Norfolk's signories,\n" + " Your noble and right well remember'd father's?\n\n" + "MOWBRAY What thing, in honour, had my father lost,\n" + " That need to be revived and breathed in me?\n" + " The king that loved him, as the state stood then,\n" + " Was force perforce compell'd to banish him:\n" + " And then that Harry Bolingbroke and he,\n" + " Being mounted and both roused in their seats,\n" + " Their neighing coursers daring of the spur,\n" + " Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down,\n" + " Their eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel\n" + " And the loud trumpet blowing them together,\n" + " Then, then, when there was nothing could have stay'd\n" + " My father from the breast of Bolingbroke,\n" + " O when the king did throw his warder down,\n" + " His own life hung upon the staff he threw;\n" + " Then threw he down himself and all their lives\n" + " That by indictment and by dint of sword\n" + " Have since miscarried under Bolingbroke.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND You speak, Lord Mowbray, now you know not what.\n" + " The Earl of Hereford was reputed then\n" + " In England the most valiant gentlemen:\n" + " Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled?\n" + " But if your father had been victor there,\n" + " He ne'er had borne it out of Coventry:\n" + " For all the country in a general voice\n" + " Cried hate upon him; and all their prayers and love\n" + " Were set on Hereford, whom they doted on\n" + " And bless'd and graced indeed, more than the king.\n" + " But this is mere digression from my purpose.\n" + " Here come I from our princely general\n" + " To know your griefs; to tell you from his grace\n" + " That he will give you audience; and wherein\n" + " It shall appear that your demands are just,\n" + " You shall enjoy them, every thing set off\n" + " That might so much as think you enemies.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY But he hath forced us to compel this offer;\n" + " And it proceeds from policy, not love.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Mowbray, you overween to take it so;\n" + " This offer comes from mercy, not from fear:\n" + " For, lo! within a ken our army lies,\n" + " Upon mine honour, all too confident\n" + " To give admittance to a thought of fear.\n" + " Our battle is more full of names than yours,\n" + " Our men more perfect in the use of arms,\n" + " Our armour all as strong, our cause the best;\n" + " Then reason will our heart should be as good\n" + " Say you not then our offer is compell'd.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Well, by my will we shall admit no parley.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND That argues but the shame of your offence:\n" + " A rotten case abides no handling.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Hath the Prince John a full commission,\n" + " In very ample virtue of his father,\n" + " To hear and absolutely to determine\n" + " Of what conditions we shall stand upon?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND That is intended in the general's name:\n" + " I muse you make so slight a question.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Then take, my Lord of Westmoreland, this schedule,\n" + " For this contains our general grievances:\n" + " Each several article herein redress'd,\n" + " All members of our cause, both here and hence,\n" + " That are insinew'd to this action,\n" + " Acquitted by a true substantial form\n" + " And present execution of our wills\n" + " To us and to our purposes confined,\n" + " We come within our awful banks again\n" + " And knit our powers to the arm of peace.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND This will I show the general. Please you, lords,\n" + " In sight of both our battles we may meet;\n" + " And either end in peace, which God so frame!\n" + " Or to the place of difference call the swords\n" + " Which must decide it.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK My lord, we will do so.\n\n" + " [Exit WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "MOWBRAY There is a thing within my bosom tells me\n" + " That no conditions of our peace can stand.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Fear you not that: if we can make our peace\n" + " Upon such large terms and so absolute\n" + " As our conditions shall consist upon,\n" + " Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Yea, but our valuation shall be such\n" + " That every slight and false-derived cause,\n" + " Yea, every idle, nice and wanton reason\n" + " Shall to the king taste of this action;\n" + " That, were our royal faiths martyrs in love,\n" + " We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind\n" + " That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff\n" + " And good from bad find no partition.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK No, no, my lord. Note this; the king is weary\n" + " Of dainty and such picking grievances:\n" + " For he hath found to end one doubt by death\n" + " Revives two greater in the heirs of life,\n" + " And therefore will he wipe his tables clean\n" + " And keep no tell-tale to his memory\n" + " That may repeat and history his loss\n" + " To new remembrance; for full well he knows\n" + " He cannot so precisely weed this land\n" + " As his misdoubts present occasion:\n" + " His foes are so enrooted with his friends\n" + " That, plucking to unfix an enemy,\n" + " He doth unfasten so and shake a friend:\n" + " So that this land, like an offensive wife\n" + " That hath enraged him on to offer strokes,\n" + " As he is striking, holds his infant up\n" + " And hangs resolved correction in the arm\n" + " That was uprear'd to execution.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Besides, the king hath wasted all his rods\n" + " On late offenders, that he now doth lack\n" + " The very instruments of chastisement:\n" + " So that his power, like to a fangless lion,\n" + " May offer, but not hold.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK 'Tis very true:\n" + " And therefore be assured, my good lord marshal,\n" + " If we do now make our atonement well,\n" + " Our peace will, like a broken limb united,\n" + " Grow stronger for the breaking.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Be it so.\n" + " Here is return'd my Lord of Westmoreland.\n\n" + " [Re-enter WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND The prince is here at hand: pleaseth your lordship\n" + " To meet his grace just distance 'tween our armies.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Your grace of York, in God's name then, set forward.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Before, and greet his grace: my lord, we come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another part of the forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from one side, MOWBRAY, attended; afterwards\n" + " the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, HASTINGS, and others: from\n" + " the other side, Prince John of LANCASTER, and\n" + " WESTMORELAND; Officers, and others with them]\n\n" + "LANCASTER You are well encounter'd here, my cousin Mowbray:\n" + " Good day to you, gentle lord archbishop;\n" + " And so to you, Lord Hastings, and to all.\n" + " My Lord of York, it better show'd with you\n" + " When that your flock, assembled by the bell,\n" + " Encircled you to hear with reverence\n" + " Your exposition on the holy text\n" + " Than now to see you here an iron man,\n" + " Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum,\n" + " Turning the word to sword and life to death.\n" + " That man that sits within a monarch's heart,\n" + " And ripens in the sunshine of his favour,\n" + " Would he abuse the countenance of the king,\n" + " Alack, what mischiefs might he set abrooch\n" + " In shadow of such greatness! With you, lord bishop,\n" + " It is even so. Who hath not heard it spoken\n" + " How deep you were within the books of God?\n" + " To us the speaker in his parliament;\n" + " To us the imagined voice of God himself;\n" + " The very opener and intelligencer\n" + " Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven\n" + " And our dull workings. O, who shall believe\n" + " But you misuse the reverence of your place,\n" + " Employ the countenance and grace of heaven,\n" + " As a false favourite doth his prince's name,\n" + " In deeds dishonourable? You have ta'en up,\n" + " Under the counterfeited zeal of God,\n" + " The subjects of his substitute, my father,\n" + " And both against the peace of heaven and him\n" + " Have here up-swarm'd them.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Good my Lord of Lancaster,\n" + " I am not here against your father's peace;\n" + " But, as I told my lord of Westmoreland,\n" + " The time misorder'd doth, in common sense,\n" + " Crowd us and crush us to this monstrous form,\n" + " To hold our safety up. I sent your grace\n" + " The parcels and particulars of our grief,\n" + " The which hath been with scorn shoved from the court,\n" + " Whereon this Hydra son of war is born;\n" + " Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleep\n" + " With grant of our most just and right desires,\n" + " And true obedience, of this madness cured,\n" + " Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY If not, we ready are to try our fortunes\n" + " To the last man.\n\n" + "HASTINGS And though we here fall down,\n" + " We have supplies to second our attempt:\n" + " If they miscarry, theirs shall second them;\n" + " And so success of mischief shall be born\n" + " And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel up\n" + " Whiles England shall have generation.\n\n" + "LANCASTER You are too shallow, Hastings, much too shallow,\n" + " To sound the bottom of the after-times.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Pleaseth your grace to answer them directly\n" + " How far forth you do like their articles.\n\n" + "LANCASTER I like them all, and do allow them well,\n" + " And swear here, by the honour of my blood,\n" + " My father's purposes have been mistook,\n" + " And some about him have too lavishly\n" + " Wrested his meaning and authority.\n" + " My lord, these griefs shall be with speed redress'd;\n" + " Upon my soul, they shall. If this may please you,\n" + " Discharge your powers unto their several counties,\n" + " As we will ours: and here between the armies\n" + " Let's drink together friendly and embrace,\n" + " That all their eyes may bear those tokens home\n" + " Of our restored love and amity.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK I take your princely word for these redresses.\n\n" + "LANCASTER I give it you, and will maintain my word:\n" + " And thereupon I drink unto your grace.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Go, captain, and deliver to the army\n" + " This news of peace: let them have pay, and part:\n" + " I know it will well please them. Hie thee, captain.\n\n" + " [Exit Officer]\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK To you, my noble Lord of Westmoreland.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND I pledge your grace; and, if you knew what pains\n" + " I have bestow'd to breed this present peace,\n" + " You would drink freely: but my love to ye\n" + " Shall show itself more openly hereafter.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK I do not doubt you.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND I am glad of it.\n" + " Health to my lord and gentle cousin, Mowbray.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY You wish me health in very happy season;\n" + " For I am, on the sudden, something ill.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Against ill chances men are ever merry;\n" + " But heaviness foreruns the good event.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow\n" + " Serves to say thus, 'some good thing comes\n" + " to-morrow.'\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Believe me, I am passing light in spirit.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY So much the worse, if your own rule be true.\n\n" + " [Shouts within]\n\n" + "LANCASTER The word of peace is render'd: hark, how they shout!\n\n" + "MOWBRAY This had been cheerful after victory.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK A peace is of the nature of a conquest;\n" + " For then both parties nobly are subdued,\n" + " And neither party loser.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Go, my lord,\n" + " And let our army be discharged too.\n\n" + " [Exit WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + " And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains\n" + " March, by us, that we may peruse the men\n" + " We should have coped withal.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Go, good Lord Hastings,\n" + " And, ere they be dismissed, let them march by.\n\n" + " [Exit HASTINGS]\n\n" + "LANCASTER I trust, lords, we shall lie to-night together.\n\n" + " [Re-enter WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + " Now, cousin, wherefore stands our army still?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND The leaders, having charge from you to stand,\n" + " Will not go off until they hear you speak.\n\n" + "LANCASTER They know their duties.\n\n" + " [Re-enter HASTINGS]\n\n" + "HASTINGS My lord, our army is dispersed already;\n" + " Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses\n" + " East, west, north, south; or, like a school broke up,\n" + " Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Good tidings, my Lord Hastings; for the which\n" + " I do arrest thee, traitor, of high treason:\n" + " And you, lord archbishop, and you, Lord Mowbray,\n" + " Of capitol treason I attach you both.\n\n" + "MOWBRAY Is this proceeding just and honourable?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Is your assembly so?\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Will you thus break your faith?\n\n" + "LANCASTER I pawn'd thee none:\n" + " I promised you redress of these same grievances\n" + " Whereof you did complain; which, by mine honour,\n" + " I will perform with a most Christian care.\n" + " But for you, rebels, look to taste the due\n" + " Meet for rebellion and such acts as yours.\n" + " Most shallowly did you these arms commence,\n" + " Fondly brought here and foolishly sent hence.\n" + " Strike up our drums, pursue the scatter'd stray:\n" + " God, and not we, hath safely fought to-day.\n" + " Some guard these traitors to the block of death,\n" + " Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another part of the forest.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Excursions. Enter FALSTAFF and COLEVILE, meeting]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What's your name, sir? of what condition are you,\n" + " and of what place, I pray?\n\n" + "COLEVILE I am a knight, sir, and my name is Colevile of the dale.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, then, Colevile is your name, a knight is your\n" + " degree, and your place the dale: Colevile shall be\n" + " still your name, a traitor your degree, and the\n" + " dungeon your place, a place deep enough; so shall\n" + " you be still Colevile of the dale.\n\n" + "COLEVILE Are not you Sir John Falstaff?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF As good a man as he, sir, whoe'er I am. Do ye\n" + " yield, sir? or shall I sweat for you? if I do\n" + " sweat, they are the drops of thy lovers, and they\n" + " weep for thy death: therefore rouse up fear and\n" + " trembling, and do observance to my mercy.\n\n" + "COLEVILE I think you are Sir John Falstaff, and in that\n" + " thought yield me.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I have a whole school of tongues in this belly of\n" + " mine, and not a tongue of them all speaks any other\n" + " word but my name. An I had but a belly of any\n" + " indifference, I were simply the most active fellow\n" + " in Europe: my womb, my womb, my womb, undoes me.\n" + " Here comes our general.\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER, WESTMORELAND,\n" + " BLUNT, and others]\n\n" + "LANCASTER The heat is past; follow no further now:\n" + " Call in the powers, good cousin Westmoreland.\n\n" + " [Exit WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + " Now, Falstaff, where have you been all this while?\n" + " When every thing is ended, then you come:\n" + " These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life,\n" + " One time or other break some gallows' back.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be thus: I\n" + " never knew yet but rebuke and cheque was the reward\n" + " of valour. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a\n" + " bullet? have I, in my poor and old motion, the\n" + " expedition of thought? I have speeded hither with\n" + " the very extremest inch of possibility; I have\n" + " foundered nine score and odd posts: and here,\n" + " travel-tainted as I am, have in my pure and\n" + " immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the\n" + " dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy.\n" + " But what of that? he saw me, and yielded; that I\n" + " may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome,\n" + " 'I came, saw, and overcame.'\n\n" + "LANCASTER It was more of his courtesy than your deserving.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I know not: here he is, and here I yield him: and\n" + " I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the\n" + " rest of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, I will\n" + " have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own\n" + " picture on the top on't, Colevile kissing my foot:\n" + " to the which course if I be enforced, if you do not\n" + " all show like gilt twopences to me, and I in the\n" + " clear sky of fame o'ershine you as much as the full\n" + " moon doth the cinders of the element, which show\n" + " like pins' heads to her, believe not the word of\n" + " the noble: therefore let me have right, and let\n" + " desert mount.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Thine's too heavy to mount.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let it shine, then.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Thine's too thick to shine.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let it do something, my good lord, that may do me\n" + " good, and call it what you will.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Is thy name Colevile?\n\n" + "COLEVILE It is, my lord.\n\n" + "LANCASTER A famous rebel art thou, Colevile.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF And a famous true subject took him.\n\n" + "COLEVILE I am, my lord, but as my betters are\n" + " That led me hither: had they been ruled by me,\n" + " You should have won them dearer than you have.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I know not how they sold themselves: but thou, like\n" + " a kind fellow, gavest thyself away gratis; and I\n" + " thank thee for thee.\n\n" + " [Re-enter WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "LANCASTER Now, have you left pursuit?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Retreat is made and execution stay'd.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Send Colevile with his confederates\n" + " To York, to present execution:\n" + " Blunt, lead him hence; and see you guard him sure.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BLUNT and others with COLEVILE]\n\n" + " And now dispatch we toward the court, my lords:\n" + " I hear the king my father is sore sick:\n" + " Our news shall go before us to his majesty,\n" + " Which, cousin, you shall bear to comfort him,\n" + " And we with sober speed will follow you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go\n" + " Through Gloucestershire: and, when you come to court,\n" + " Stand my good lord, pray, in your good report.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Fare you well, Falstaff: I, in my condition,\n" + " Shall better speak of you than you deserve.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but Falstaff]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would you had but the wit: 'twere better than\n" + " your dukedom. Good faith, this same young sober-\n" + " blooded boy doth not love me; nor a man cannot make\n" + " him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine.\n" + " There's never none of these demure boys come to any\n" + " proof; for thin drink doth so over-cool their blood,\n" + " and making many fish-meals, that they fall into a\n" + " kind of male green-sickness; and then when they\n" + " marry, they get wenches: they are generally fools\n" + " and cowards; which some of us should be too, but for\n" + " inflammation. A good sherris sack hath a two-fold\n" + " operation in it. It ascends me into the brain;\n" + " dries me there all the foolish and dull and curdy\n" + " vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive,\n" + " quick, forgetive, full of nimble fiery and\n" + " delectable shapes, which, delivered o'er to the\n" + " voice, the tongue, which is the birth, becomes\n" + " excellent wit. The second property of your\n" + " excellent sherris is, the warming of the blood;\n" + " which, before cold and settled, left the liver\n" + " white and pale, which is the badge of pusillanimity\n" + " and cowardice; but the sherris warms it and makes\n" + " it course from the inwards to the parts extreme:\n" + " it illumineth the face, which as a beacon gives\n" + " warning to all the rest of this little kingdom,\n" + " man, to arm; and then the vital commoners and\n" + " inland petty spirits muster me all to their captain,\n" + " the heart, who, great and puffed up with this\n" + " retinue, doth any deed of courage; and this valour\n" + " comes of sherris. So that skill in the weapon is\n" + " nothing without sack, for that sets it a-work; and\n" + " learning a mere hoard of gold kept by a devil, till\n" + " sack commences it and sets it in act and use.\n" + " Hereof comes it that Prince Harry is valiant; for\n" + " the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his\n" + " father, he hath, like lean, sterile and bare land,\n" + " manured, husbanded and tilled with excellent\n" + " endeavour of drinking good and good store of fertile\n" + " sherris, that he is become very hot and valiant. If\n" + " I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I\n" + " would teach them should be, to forswear thin\n" + " potations and to addict themselves to sack.\n\n" + " [Enter BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " How now Bardolph?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH The army is discharged all and gone.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let them go. I'll through Gloucestershire; and\n" + " there will I visit Master Robert Shallow, esquire:\n" + " I have him already tempering between my finger and\n" + " my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Come away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Westminster. The Jerusalem Chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY IV, the Princes Thomas of CLARENCE\n" + " and Humphrey of GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Now, lords, if God doth give successful end\n" + " To this debate that bleedeth at our doors,\n" + " We will our youth lead on to higher fields\n" + " And draw no swords but what are sanctified.\n" + " Our navy is address'd, our power collected,\n" + " Our substitutes in absence well invested,\n" + " And every thing lies level to our wish:\n" + " Only, we want a little personal strength;\n" + " And pause us, till these rebels, now afoot,\n" + " Come underneath the yoke of government.\n\n" + "WARWICK Both which we doubt not but your majesty\n" + " Shall soon enjoy.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Humphrey, my son of Gloucester,\n" + " Where is the prince your brother?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I think he's gone to hunt, my lord, at Windsor.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV And how accompanied?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I do not know, my lord.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Is not his brother, Thomas of Clarence, with him?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No, my good lord; he is in presence here.\n\n" + "CLARENCE What would my lord and father?\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence.\n" + " How chance thou art not with the prince thy brother?\n" + " He loves thee, and thou dost neglect him, Thomas;\n" + " Thou hast a better place in his affection\n" + " Than all thy brothers: cherish it, my boy,\n" + " And noble offices thou mayst effect\n" + " Of mediation, after I am dead,\n" + " Between his greatness and thy other brethren:\n" + " Therefore omit him not; blunt not his love,\n" + " Nor lose the good advantage of his grace\n" + " By seeming cold or careless of his will;\n" + " For he is gracious, if he be observed:\n" + " He hath a tear for pity and a hand\n" + " Open as day for melting charity:\n" + " Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint,\n" + " As humorous as winter and as sudden\n" + " As flaws congealed in the spring of day.\n" + " His temper, therefore, must be well observed:\n" + " Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,\n" + " When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth;\n" + " But, being moody, give him line and scope,\n" + " Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,\n" + " Confound themselves with working. Learn this, Thomas,\n" + " And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,\n" + " A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,\n" + " That the united vessel of their blood,\n" + " Mingled with venom of suggestion--\n" + " As, force perforce, the age will pour it in--\n" + " Shall never leak, though it do work as strong\n" + " As aconitum or rash gunpowder.\n\n" + "CLARENCE I shall observe him with all care and love.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Why art thou not at Windsor with him, Thomas?\n\n" + "CLARENCE He is not there to-day; he dines in London.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV And how accompanied? canst thou tell that?\n\n" + "CLARENCE With Poins, and other his continual followers.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds;\n" + " And he, the noble image of my youth,\n" + " Is overspread with them: therefore my grief\n" + " Stretches itself beyond the hour of death:\n" + " The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape\n" + " In forms imaginary the unguided days\n" + " And rotten times that you shall look upon\n" + " When I am sleeping with my ancestors.\n" + " For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,\n" + " When rage and hot blood are his counsellors,\n" + " When means and lavish manners meet together,\n" + " O, with what wings shall his affections fly\n" + " Towards fronting peril and opposed decay!\n\n" + "WARWICK My gracious lord, you look beyond him quite:\n" + " The prince but studies his companions\n" + " Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,\n" + " 'Tis needful that the most immodest word\n" + " Be look'd upon and learn'd; which once attain'd,\n" + " Your highness knows, comes to no further use\n" + " But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms,\n" + " The prince will in the perfectness of time\n" + " Cast off his followers; and their memory\n" + " Shall as a pattern or a measure live,\n" + " By which his grace must mete the lives of others,\n" + " Turning past evils to advantages.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb\n" + " In the dead carrion.\n\n" + " [Enter WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + " Who's here? Westmoreland?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Health to my sovereign, and new happiness\n" + " Added to that that I am to deliver!\n" + " Prince John your son doth kiss your grace's hand:\n" + " Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings and all\n" + " Are brought to the correction of your law;\n" + " There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd\n" + " But peace puts forth her olive every where.\n" + " The manner how this action hath been borne\n" + " Here at more leisure may your highness read,\n" + " With every course in his particular.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV O Westmoreland, thou art a summer bird,\n" + " Which ever in the haunch of winter sings\n" + " The lifting up of day.\n\n" + " [Enter HARCOURT]\n\n" + " Look, here's more news.\n\n" + "HARCOURT From enemies heaven keep your majesty;\n" + " And, when they stand against you, may they fall\n" + " As those that I am come to tell you of!\n" + " The Earl Northumberland and the Lord Bardolph,\n" + " With a great power of English and of Scots\n" + " Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown:\n" + " The manner and true order of the fight\n" + " This packet, please it you, contains at large.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV And wherefore should these good news make me sick?\n" + " Will fortune never come with both hands full,\n" + " But write her fair words still in foulest letters?\n" + " She either gives a stomach and no food;\n" + " Such are the poor, in health; or else a feast\n" + " And takes away the stomach; such are the rich,\n" + " That have abundance and enjoy it not.\n" + " I should rejoice now at this happy news;\n" + " And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy:\n" + " O me! come near me; now I am much ill.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Comfort, your majesty!\n\n" + "CLARENCE O my royal father!\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND My sovereign lord, cheer up yourself, look up.\n\n" + "WARWICK Be patient, princes; you do know, these fits\n" + " Are with his highness very ordinary.\n" + " Stand from him. Give him air; he'll straight be well.\n\n" + "CLARENCE No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs:\n" + " The incessant care and labour of his mind\n" + " Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in\n" + " So thin that life looks through and will break out.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The people fear me; for they do observe\n" + " Unfather'd heirs and loathly births of nature:\n" + " The seasons change their manners, as the year\n" + " Had found some months asleep and leap'd them over.\n\n" + "CLARENCE The river hath thrice flow'd, no ebb between;\n" + " And the old folk, time's doting chronicles,\n" + " Say it did so a little time before\n" + " That our great-grandsire, Edward, sick'd and died.\n\n" + "WARWICK Speak lower, princes, for the king recovers.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER This apoplexy will certain be his end.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV I pray you, take me up, and bear me hence\n" + " Into some other chamber: softly, pray.\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another chamber.\n\n\n" + " [KING HENRY IV lying on a bed: CLARENCE,\n" + " GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, and others in attendance]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Let there be no noise made, my gentle friends;\n" + " Unless some dull and favourable hand\n" + " Will whisper music to my weary spirit.\n\n" + "WARWICK Call for the music in the other room.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Set me the crown upon my pillow here.\n\n" + "CLARENCE His eye is hollow, and he changes much.\n\n" + "WARWICK Less noise, less noise!\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE HENRY]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Who saw the Duke of Clarence?\n\n" + "CLARENCE I am here, brother, full of heaviness.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How now! rain within doors, and none abroad!\n" + " How doth the king?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Exceeding ill.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Heard he the good news yet?\n" + " Tell it him.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He alter'd much upon the hearing it.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY If he be sick with joy, he'll recover without physic.\n\n" + "WARWICK Not so much noise, my lords: sweet prince,\n" + " speak low;\n" + " The king your father is disposed to sleep.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Let us withdraw into the other room.\n\n" + "WARWICK Will't please your grace to go along with us?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY No; I will sit and watch here by the king.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but PRINCE HENRY]\n\n" + " Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow,\n" + " Being so troublesome a bedfellow?\n" + " O polish'd perturbation! golden care!\n" + " That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide\n" + " To many a watchful night! sleep with it now!\n" + " Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet\n" + " As he whose brow with homely biggen bound\n" + " Snores out the watch of night. O majesty!\n" + " When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit\n" + " Like a rich armour worn in heat of day,\n" + " That scalds with safety. By his gates of breath\n" + " There lies a downy feather which stirs not:\n" + " Did he suspire, that light and weightless down\n" + " Perforce must move. My gracious lord! my father!\n" + " This sleep is sound indeed, this is a sleep\n" + " That from this golden rigol hath divorced\n" + " So many English kings. Thy due from me\n" + " Is tears and heavy sorrows of the blood,\n" + " Which nature, love, and filial tenderness,\n" + " Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously:\n" + " My due from thee is this imperial crown,\n" + " Which, as immediate as thy place and blood,\n" + " Derives itself to me. Lo, here it sits,\n" + " Which God shall guard: and put the world's whole strength\n" + " Into one giant arm, it shall not force\n" + " This lineal honour from me: this from thee\n" + " Will I to mine leave, as 'tis left to me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Warwick! Gloucester! Clarence!\n\n" + " [Re-enter WARWICK, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest]\n\n" + "CLARENCE Doth the king call?\n\n" + "WARWICK What would your majesty? How fares your grace?\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Why did you leave me here alone, my lords?\n\n" + "CLARENCE We left the prince my brother here, my liege,\n" + " Who undertook to sit and watch by you.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV The Prince of Wales! Where is he? let me see him:\n" + " He is not here.\n\n" + "WARWICK This door is open; he is gone this way.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He came not through the chamber where we stay'd.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Where is the crown? who took it from my pillow?\n\n" + "WARWICK When we withdrew, my liege, we left it here.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV The prince hath ta'en it hence: go, seek him out.\n" + " Is he so hasty that he doth suppose\n" + " My sleep my death?\n" + " Find him, my Lord of Warwick; chide him hither.\n\n" + " [Exit WARWICK]\n\n" + " This part of his conjoins with my disease,\n" + " And helps to end me. See, sons, what things you are!\n" + " How quickly nature falls into revolt\n" + " When gold becomes her object!\n" + " For this the foolish over-careful fathers\n" + " Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,\n" + " Their bones with industry;\n" + " For this they have engrossed and piled up\n" + " The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold;\n" + " For this they have been thoughtful to invest\n" + " Their sons with arts and martial exercises:\n" + " When, like the bee, culling from every flower\n" + " The virtuous sweets,\n" + " Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey,\n" + " We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees,\n" + " Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste\n" + " Yield his engrossments to the ending father.\n\n" + " [Re-enter WARWICK]\n\n" + " Now, where is he that will not stay so long\n" + " Till his friend sickness hath determined me?\n\n" + "WARWICK My lord, I found the prince in the next room,\n" + " Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks,\n" + " With such a deep demeanor in great sorrow\n" + " That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood,\n" + " Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife\n" + " With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV But wherefore did he take away the crown?\n\n" + " [Re-enter PRINCE HENRY]\n\n" + " Lo, where he comes. Come hither to me, Harry.\n" + " Depart the chamber, leave us here alone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt WARWICK and the rest]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I never thought to hear you speak again.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought:\n" + " I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.\n" + " Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair\n" + " That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours\n" + " Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth!\n" + " Thou seek'st the greatness that will o'erwhelm thee.\n" + " Stay but a little; for my cloud of dignity\n" + " Is held from falling with so weak a wind\n" + " That it will quickly drop: my day is dim.\n" + " Thou hast stolen that which after some few hours\n" + " Were thine without offence; and at my death\n" + " Thou hast seal'd up my expectation:\n" + " Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not,\n" + " And thou wilt have me die assured of it.\n" + " Thou hidest a thousand daggers in thy thoughts,\n" + " Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart,\n" + " To stab at half an hour of my life.\n" + " What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour?\n" + " Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself,\n" + " And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear\n" + " That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.\n" + " Let all the tears that should bedew my hearse\n" + " Be drops of balm to sanctify thy head:\n" + " Only compound me with forgotten dust\n" + " Give that which gave thee life unto the worms.\n" + " Pluck down my officers, break my decrees;\n" + " For now a time is come to mock at form:\n" + " Harry the Fifth is crown'd: up, vanity!\n" + " Down, royal state! all you sage counsellors, hence!\n" + " And to the English court assemble now,\n" + " From every region, apes of idleness!\n" + " Now, neighbour confines, purge you of your scum:\n" + " Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance,\n" + " Revel the night, rob, murder, and commit\n" + " The oldest sins the newest kind of ways?\n" + " Be happy, he will trouble you no more;\n" + " England shall double gild his treble guilt,\n" + " England shall give him office, honour, might;\n" + " For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence plucks\n" + " The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog\n" + " Shall flesh his tooth on every innocent.\n" + " O my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows!\n" + " When that my care could not withhold thy riots,\n" + " What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?\n" + " O, thou wilt be a wilderness again,\n" + " Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O, pardon me, my liege! but for my tears,\n" + " The moist impediments unto my speech,\n" + " I had forestall'd this dear and deep rebuke\n" + " Ere you with grief had spoke and I had heard\n" + " The course of it so far. There is your crown;\n" + " And He that wears the crown immortally\n" + " Long guard it yours! If I affect it more\n" + " Than as your honour and as your renown,\n" + " Let me no more from this obedience rise,\n" + " Which my most inward true and duteous spirit\n" + " Teacheth, this prostrate and exterior bending.\n" + " God witness with me, when I here came in,\n" + " And found no course of breath within your majesty,\n" + " How cold it struck my heart! If I do feign,\n" + " O, let me in my present wildness die\n" + " And never live to show the incredulous world\n" + " The noble change that I have purposed!\n" + " Coming to look on you, thinking you dead,\n" + " And dead almost, my liege, to think you were,\n" + " I spake unto this crown as having sense,\n" + " And thus upbraided it: 'The care on thee depending\n" + " Hath fed upon the body of my father;\n" + " Therefore, thou best of gold art worst of gold:\n" + " Other, less fine in carat, is more precious,\n" + " Preserving life in medicine potable;\n" + " But thou, most fine, most honour'd: most renown'd,\n" + " Hast eat thy bearer up.' Thus, my most royal liege,\n" + " Accusing it, I put it on my head,\n" + " To try with it, as with an enemy\n" + " That had before my face murder'd my father,\n" + " The quarrel of a true inheritor.\n" + " But if it did infect my blood with joy,\n" + " Or swell my thoughts to any strain of pride;\n" + " If any rebel or vain spirit of mine\n" + " Did with the least affection of a welcome\n" + " Give entertainment to the might of it,\n" + " Let God for ever keep it from my head\n" + " And make me as the poorest vassal is\n" + " That doth with awe and terror kneel to it!\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV O my son,\n" + " God put it in thy mind to take it hence,\n" + " That thou mightst win the more thy father's love,\n" + " Pleading so wisely in excuse of it!\n" + " Come hither, Harry, sit thou by my bed;\n" + " And hear, I think, the very latest counsel\n" + " That ever I shall breathe. God knows, my son,\n" + " By what by-paths and indirect crook'd ways\n" + " I met this crown; and I myself know well\n" + " How troublesome it sat upon my head.\n" + " To thee it shall descend with bitter quiet,\n" + " Better opinion, better confirmation;\n" + " For all the soil of the achievement goes\n" + " With me into the earth. It seem'd in me\n" + " But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous hand,\n" + " And I had many living to upbraid\n" + " My gain of it by their assistances;\n" + " Which daily grew to quarrel and to bloodshed,\n" + " Wounding supposed peace: all these bold fears\n" + " Thou see'st with peril I have answered;\n" + " For all my reign hath been but as a scene\n" + " Acting that argument: and now my death\n" + " Changes the mode; for what in me was purchased,\n" + " Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort;\n" + " So thou the garland wear'st successively.\n" + " Yet, though thou stand'st more sure than I could do,\n" + " Thou art not firm enough, since griefs are green;\n" + " And all my friends, which thou must make thy friends,\n" + " Have but their stings and teeth newly ta'en out;\n" + " By whose fell working I was first advanced\n" + " And by whose power I well might lodge a fear\n" + " To be again displaced: which to avoid,\n" + " I cut them off; and had a purpose now\n" + " To lead out many to the Holy Land,\n" + " Lest rest and lying still might make them look\n" + " Too near unto my state. Therefore, my Harry,\n" + " Be it thy course to busy giddy minds\n" + " With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,\n" + " May waste the memory of the former days.\n" + " More would I, but my lungs are wasted so\n" + " That strength of speech is utterly denied me.\n" + " How I came by the crown, O God forgive;\n" + " And grant it may with thee in true peace live!\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY My gracious liege,\n" + " You won it, wore it, kept it, gave it me;\n" + " Then plain and right must my possession be:\n" + " Which I with more than with a common pain\n" + " 'Gainst all the world will rightfully maintain.\n\n" + " [Enter Lord John of LANCASTER]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Look, look, here comes my John of Lancaster.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Health, peace, and happiness to my royal father!\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Thou bring'st me happiness and peace, son John;\n" + " But health, alack, with youthful wings is flown\n" + " From this bare wither'd trunk: upon thy sight\n" + " My worldly business makes a period.\n" + " Where is my Lord of Warwick?\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY My Lord of Warwick!\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK, and others]\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Doth any name particular belong\n" + " Unto the lodging where I first did swoon?\n\n" + "WARWICK 'Tis call'd Jerusalem, my noble lord.\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV Laud be to God! even there my life must end.\n" + " It hath been prophesied to me many years,\n" + " I should not die but in Jerusalem;\n" + " Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land:\n" + " But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;\n" + " In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SHALLOW, FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, and Page]\n\n" + "SHALLOW By cock and pie, sir, you shall not away to-night.\n" + " What, Davy, I say!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You must excuse me, Master Robert Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW I will not excuse you; you shall not be excused;\n" + " excuses shall not be admitted; there is no excuse\n" + " shall serve; you shall not be excused. Why, Davy!\n\n" + " [Enter DAVY]\n\n" + "DAVY Here, sir.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Davy, Davy, Davy, Davy, let me see, Davy; let me\n" + " see, Davy; let me see: yea, marry, William cook,\n" + " bid him come hither. Sir John, you shall not be excused.\n\n" + "DAVY Marry, sir, thus; those precepts cannot be served:\n" + " and, again, sir, shall we sow the headland with wheat?\n\n" + "SHALLOW With red wheat, Davy. But for William cook: are\n" + " there no young pigeons?\n\n" + "DAVY Yes, sir. Here is now the smith's note for shoeing\n" + " and plough-irons.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Let it be cast and paid. Sir John, you shall not be excused.\n\n" + "DAVY Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must need be\n" + " had: and, sir, do you mean to stop any of William's\n" + " wages, about the sack he lost the other day at\n" + " Hinckley fair?\n\n" + "SHALLOW A' shall answer it. Some pigeons, Davy, a couple\n" + " of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any\n" + " pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.\n\n" + "DAVY Doth the man of war stay all night, sir?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Yea, Davy. I will use him well: a friend i' the\n" + " court is better than a penny in purse. Use his men\n" + " well, Davy; for they are arrant knaves, and will backbite.\n\n" + "DAVY No worse than they are backbitten, sir; for they\n" + " have marvellous foul linen.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Well conceited, Davy: about thy business, Davy.\n\n" + "DAVY I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of\n" + " Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.\n\n" + "SHALLOW There is many complaints, Davy, against that Visor:\n" + " that Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.\n\n" + "DAVY I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but\n" + " yet, God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some\n" + " countenance at his friend's request. An honest\n" + " man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave\n" + " is not. I have served your worship truly, sir,\n" + " this eight years; and if I cannot once or twice in\n" + " a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I\n" + " have but a very little credit with your worship. The\n" + " knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I\n" + " beseech your worship, let him be countenanced.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Go to; I say he shall have no wrong. Look about, Davy.\n\n" + " [Exit DAVY]\n\n" + " Where are you, Sir John? Come, come, come, off\n" + " with your boots. Give me your hand, Master Bardolph.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH I am glad to see your worship.\n\n" + "SHALLOW I thank thee with all my heart, kind\n" + " Master Bardolph: and welcome, my tall fellow.\n\n" + " [To the Page]\n\n" + " Come, Sir John.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I'll follow you, good Master Robert Shallow.\n\n" + " [Exit SHALLOW]\n\n" + " Bardolph, look to our horses.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BARDOLPH and Page]\n\n" + " If I were sawed into quantities, I should make four\n" + " dozen of such bearded hermits' staves as Master\n" + " Shallow. It is a wonderful thing to see the\n" + " semblable coherence of his men's spirits and his:\n" + " they, by observing of him, do bear themselves like\n" + " foolish justices; he, by conversing with them, is\n" + " turned into a justice-like serving-man: their\n" + " spirits are so married in conjunction with the\n" + " participation of society that they flock together in\n" + " consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had a suit\n" + " to Master Shallow, I would humour his men with the\n" + " imputation of being near their master: if to his\n" + " men, I would curry with Master Shallow that no man\n" + " could better command his servants. It is certain\n" + " that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is\n" + " caught, as men take diseases, one of another:\n" + " therefore let men take heed of their company. I\n" + " will devise matter enough out of this Shallow to\n" + " keep Prince Harry in continual laughter the wearing\n" + " out of six fashions, which is four terms, or two\n" + " actions, and a' shall laugh without intervallums. O,\n" + " it is much that a lie with a slight oath and a jest\n" + " with a sad brow will do with a fellow that never\n" + " had the ache in his shoulders! O, you shall see him\n" + " laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!\n\n" + "SHALLOW [Within] Sir John!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I come, Master Shallow; I come, Master Shallow.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Westminster. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK and the Lord Chief-Justice, meeting]\n\n" + "WARWICK How now, my lord chief-justice! whither away?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice How doth the king?\n\n" + "WARWICK Exceeding well; his cares are now all ended.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I hope, not dead.\n\n" + "WARWICK He's walk'd the way of nature;\n" + " And to our purposes he lives no more.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I would his majesty had call'd me with him:\n" + " The service that I truly did his life\n" + " Hath left me open to all injuries.\n\n" + "WARWICK Indeed I think the young king loves you not.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I know he doth not, and do arm myself\n" + " To welcome the condition of the time,\n" + " Which cannot look more hideously upon me\n" + " Than I have drawn it in my fantasy.\n\n" + " [Enter LANCASTER, CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER,\n" + " WESTMORELAND, and others]\n\n" + "WARWICK Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry:\n" + " O that the living Harry had the temper\n" + " Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen!\n" + " How many nobles then should hold their places\n" + " That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort!\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice O God, I fear all will be overturn'd!\n\n" + "LANCASTER Good morrow, cousin Warwick, good morrow.\n\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER |\n" + " | Good morrow, cousin.\n" + "CLARENCE |\n\n\n" + "LANCASTER We meet like men that had forgot to speak.\n\n" + "WARWICK We do remember; but our argument\n" + " Is all too heavy to admit much talk.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Well, peace be with him that hath made us heavy.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Peace be with us, lest we be heavier!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed;\n" + " And I dare swear you borrow not that face\n" + " Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your own.\n\n" + "LANCASTER Though no man be assured what grace to find,\n" + " You stand in coldest expectation:\n" + " I am the sorrier; would 'twere otherwise.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Well, you must now speak Sir John Falstaff fair;\n" + " Which swims against your stream of quality.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Sweet princes, what I did, I did in honour,\n" + " Led by the impartial conduct of my soul:\n" + " And never shall you see that I will beg\n" + " A ragged and forestall'd remission.\n" + " If truth and upright innocency fail me,\n" + " I'll to the king my master that is dead,\n" + " And tell him who hath sent me after him.\n\n" + "WARWICK Here comes the prince.\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY V, attended]\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Good morrow; and God save your majesty!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,\n" + " Sits not so easy on me as you think.\n" + " Brothers, you mix your sadness with some fear:\n" + " This is the English, not the Turkish court;\n" + " Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds,\n" + " But Harry Harry. Yet be sad, good brothers,\n" + " For, by my faith, it very well becomes you:\n" + " Sorrow so royally in you appears\n" + " That I will deeply put the fashion on\n" + " And wear it in my heart: why then, be sad;\n" + " But entertain no more of it, good brothers,\n" + " Than a joint burden laid upon us all.\n" + " For me, by heaven, I bid you be assured,\n" + " I'll be your father and your brother too;\n" + " Let me but bear your love, I 'll bear your cares:\n" + " Yet weep that Harry's dead; and so will I;\n" + " But Harry lives, that shall convert those tears\n" + " By number into hours of happiness.\n\n" + "Princes We hope no other from your majesty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V You all look strangely on me: and you most;\n" + " You are, I think, assured I love you not.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I am assured, if I be measured rightly,\n" + " Your majesty hath no just cause to hate me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No!\n" + " How might a prince of my great hopes forget\n" + " So great indignities you laid upon me?\n" + " What! rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison\n" + " The immediate heir of England! Was this easy?\n" + " May this be wash'd in Lethe, and forgotten?\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I then did use the person of your father;\n" + " The image of his power lay then in me:\n" + " And, in the administration of his law,\n" + " Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth,\n" + " Your highness pleased to forget my place,\n" + " The majesty and power of law and justice,\n" + " The image of the king whom I presented,\n" + " And struck me in my very seat of judgment;\n" + " Whereon, as an offender to your father,\n" + " I gave bold way to my authority\n" + " And did commit you. If the deed were ill,\n" + " Be you contented, wearing now the garland,\n" + " To have a son set your decrees at nought,\n" + " To pluck down justice from your awful bench,\n" + " To trip the course of law and blunt the sword\n" + " That guards the peace and safety of your person;\n" + " Nay, more, to spurn at your most royal image\n" + " And mock your workings in a second body.\n" + " Question your royal thoughts, make the case yours;\n" + " Be now the father and propose a son,\n" + " Hear your own dignity so much profaned,\n" + " See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted,\n" + " Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd;\n" + " And then imagine me taking your part\n" + " And in your power soft silencing your son:\n" + " After this cold considerance, sentence me;\n" + " And, as you are a king, speak in your state\n" + " What I have done that misbecame my place,\n" + " My person, or my liege's sovereignty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V You are right, justice, and you weigh this well;\n" + " Therefore still bear the balance and the sword:\n" + " And I do wish your honours may increase,\n" + " Till you do live to see a son of mine\n" + " Offend you and obey you, as I did.\n" + " So shall I live to speak my father's words:\n" + " 'Happy am I, that have a man so bold,\n" + " That dares do justice on my proper son;\n" + " And not less happy, having such a son,\n" + " That would deliver up his greatness so\n" + " Into the hands of justice.' You did commit me:\n" + " For which, I do commit into your hand\n" + " The unstained sword that you have used to bear;\n" + " With this remembrance, that you use the same\n" + " With the like bold, just and impartial spirit\n" + " As you have done 'gainst me. There is my hand.\n" + " You shall be as a father to my youth:\n" + " My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear,\n" + " And I will stoop and humble my intents\n" + " To your well-practised wise directions.\n" + " And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you;\n" + " My father is gone wild into his grave,\n" + " For in his tomb lie my affections;\n" + " And with his spirit sadly I survive,\n" + " To mock the expectation of the world,\n" + " To frustrate prophecies and to raze out\n" + " Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down\n" + " After my seeming. The tide of blood in me\n" + " Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now:\n" + " Now doth it turn and ebb back to the sea,\n" + " Where it shall mingle with the state of floods\n" + " And flow henceforth in formal majesty.\n" + " Now call we our high court of parliament:\n" + " And let us choose such limbs of noble counsel,\n" + " That the great body of our state may go\n" + " In equal rank with the best govern'd nation;\n" + " That war, or peace, or both at once, may be\n" + " As things acquainted and familiar to us;\n" + " In which you, father, shall have foremost hand.\n" + " Our coronation done, we will accite,\n" + " As I before remember'd, all our state:\n" + " And, God consigning to my good intents,\n" + " No prince nor peer shall have just cause to say,\n" + " God shorten Harry's happy life one day!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Gloucestershire. SHALLOW'S orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, SILENCE, DAVY, BARDOLPH,\n" + " and the Page]\n\n" + "SHALLOW Nay, you shall see my orchard, where, in an arbour,\n" + " we will eat a last year's pippin of my own graffing,\n" + " with a dish of caraways, and so forth: come,\n" + " cousin Silence: and then to bed.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars all,\n" + " Sir John: marry, good air. Spread, Davy; spread,\n" + " Davy; well said, Davy.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF This Davy serves you for good uses; he is your\n" + " serving-man and your husband.\n\n" + "SHALLOW A good varlet, a good varlet, a very good varlet,\n" + " Sir John: by the mass, I have drunk too much sack\n" + " at supper: a good varlet. Now sit down, now sit\n" + " down: come, cousin.\n\n" + "SILENCE Ah, sirrah! quoth-a, we shall\n" + " Do nothing but eat, and make good cheer,\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " And praise God for the merry year;\n" + " When flesh is cheap and females dear,\n" + " And lusty lads roam here and there\n" + " So merrily,\n" + " And ever among so merrily.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF There's a merry heart! Good Master Silence, I'll\n" + " give you a health for that anon.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Give Master Bardolph some wine, Davy.\n\n" + "DAVY Sweet sir, sit; I'll be with you anon. most sweet\n" + " sir, sit. Master page, good master page, sit.\n" + " Proface! What you want in meat, we'll have in drink:\n" + " but you must bear; the heart's all.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SHALLOW Be merry, Master Bardolph; and, my little soldier\n" + " there, be merry.\n\n" + "SILENCE Be merry, be merry, my wife has all;\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " For women are shrews, both short and tall:\n" + " 'Tis merry in hall when beards wag all,\n" + " And welcome merry Shrove-tide.\n" + " Be merry, be merry.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I did not think Master Silence had been a man of\n" + " this mettle.\n\n" + "SILENCE Who, I? I have been merry twice and once ere now.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DAVY]\n\n" + "DAVY There's a dish of leather-coats for you.\n\n" + " [To BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "SHALLOW Davy!\n\n" + "DAVY Your worship! I'll be with you straight.\n\n" + " [To BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " A cup of wine, sir?\n\n" + "SILENCE A cup of wine that's brisk and fine,\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " And drink unto the leman mine;\n" + " And a merry heart lives long-a.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well said, Master Silence.\n\n" + "SILENCE An we shall be merry, now comes in the sweet o' the night.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Health and long life to you, Master Silence.\n\n" + "SILENCE Fill the cup, and let it come;\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " I'll pledge you a mile to the bottom.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Honest Bardolph, welcome: if thou wantest any\n" + " thing, and wilt not call, beshrew thy heart.\n" + " Welcome, my little tiny thief.\n\n" + " [To the Page]\n\n" + " And welcome indeed too. I'll drink to Master\n" + " Bardolph, and to all the cavaleros about London.\n\n" + "DAVY I hove to see London once ere I die.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH An I might see you there, Davy,--\n\n" + "SHALLOW By the mass, you'll crack a quart together, ha!\n" + " Will you not, Master Bardolph?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Yea, sir, in a pottle-pot.\n\n" + "SHALLOW By God's liggens, I thank thee: the knave will\n" + " stick by thee, I can assure thee that. A' will not\n" + " out; he is true bred.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH And I'll stick by him, sir.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Why, there spoke a king. Lack nothing: be merry.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " Look who's at door there, ho! who knocks?\n\n" + " [Exit DAVY]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, now you have done me right.\n\n" + " [To SILENCE, seeing him take off a bumper]\n\n" + "SILENCE [Singing]\n\n" + " Do me right,\n" + " And dub me knight: Samingo.\n" + " Is't not so?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Tis so.\n\n" + "SILENCE Is't so? Why then, say an old man can do somewhat.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DAVY]\n\n" + "DAVY An't please your worship, there's one Pistol come\n" + " from the court with news.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF From the court! let him come in.\n\n" + " [Enter PISTOL]\n\n" + " How now, Pistol!\n\n" + "PISTOL Sir John, God save you!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What wind blew you hither, Pistol?\n\n" + "PISTOL Not the ill wind which blows no man to good. Sweet\n" + " knight, thou art now one of the greatest men in this realm.\n\n" + "SILENCE By'r lady, I think a' be, but goodman Puff of Barson.\n\n" + "PISTOL Puff!\n" + " Puff in thy teeth, most recreant coward base!\n" + " Sir John, I am thy Pistol and thy friend,\n" + " And helter-skelter have I rode to thee,\n" + " And tidings do I bring and lucky joys\n" + " And golden times and happy news of price.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I pray thee now, deliver them like a man of this world.\n\n" + "PISTOL A foutre for the world and worldlings base!\n" + " I speak of Africa and golden joys.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF O base Assyrian knight, what is thy news?\n" + " Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof.\n\n" + "SILENCE And Robin Hood, Scarlet, and John.\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + "PISTOL Shall dunghill curs confront the Helicons?\n" + " And shall good news be baffled?\n" + " Then, Pistol, lay thy head in Furies' lap.\n\n" + "SILENCE Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding.\n\n" + "PISTOL Why then, lament therefore.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Give me pardon, sir: if, sir, you come with news\n" + " from the court, I take it there's but two ways,\n" + " either to utter them, or to conceal them. I am,\n" + " sir, under the king, in some authority.\n\n" + "PISTOL Under which king, Besonian? speak, or die.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Under King Harry.\n\n" + "PISTOL Harry the Fourth? or Fifth?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Harry the Fourth.\n\n" + "PISTOL A foutre for thine office!\n" + " Sir John, thy tender lambkin now is king;\n" + " Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth:\n" + " When Pistol lies, do this; and fig me, like\n" + " The bragging Spaniard.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What, is the old king dead?\n\n" + "PISTOL As nail in door: the things I speak are just.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Away, Bardolph! saddle my horse. Master Robert\n" + " Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land,\n" + " 'tis thine. Pistol, I will double-charge thee with dignities.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH O joyful day!\n" + " I would not take a knighthood for my fortune.\n\n" + "PISTOL What! I do bring good news.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Carry Master Silence to bed. Master Shallow, my\n" + " Lord Shallow,--be what thou wilt; I am fortune's\n" + " steward--get on thy boots: we'll ride all night.\n" + " O sweet Pistol! Away, Bardolph!\n\n" + " [Exit BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " Come, Pistol, utter more to me; and withal devise\n" + " something to do thyself good. Boot, boot, Master\n" + " Shallow: I know the young king is sick for me. Let\n" + " us take any man's horses; the laws of England are at\n" + " my commandment. Blessed are they that have been my\n" + " friends; and woe to my lord chief-justice!\n\n" + "PISTOL Let vultures vile seize on his lungs also!\n" + " 'Where is the life that late I led?' say they:\n" + " Why, here it is; welcome these pleasant days!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV London. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Beadles, dragging in HOSTESS QUICKLY\n" + " and DOLL TEARSHEET]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY No, thou arrant knave; I would to God that I might\n" + " die, that I might have thee hanged: thou hast\n" + " drawn my shoulder out of joint.\n\n" + "First Beadle The constables have delivered her over to me; and\n" + " she shall have whipping-cheer enough, I warrant\n" + " her: there hath been a man or two lately killed about her.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Nut-hook, nut-hook, you lie. Come on; I 'll tell\n" + " thee what, thou damned tripe-visaged rascal, an\n" + " the child I now go with do miscarry, thou wert\n" + " better thou hadst struck thy mother, thou\n" + " paper-faced villain.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY O the Lord, that Sir John were come! he would make\n" + " this a bloody day to somebody. But I pray God the\n" + " fruit of her womb miscarry!\n\n" + "First Beadle If it do, you shall have a dozen of cushions again;\n" + " you have but eleven now. Come, I charge you both go\n" + " with me; for the man is dead that you and Pistol\n" + " beat amongst you.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I\n" + " will have you as soundly swinged for this,--you\n" + " blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner,\n" + " if you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.\n\n" + "First Beadle Come, come, you she knight-errant, come.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY O God, that right should thus overcome might!\n" + " Well, of sufferance comes ease.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Ay, come, you starved blood-hound.\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Goodman death, goodman bones!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Thou atomy, thou!\n\n" + "DOLL TEARSHEET Come, you thin thing; come you rascal.\n\n" + "First Beadle Very well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A public place near Westminster Abbey.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Grooms, strewing rushes]\n\n" + "First Groom More rushes, more rushes.\n\n" + "Second Groom The trumpets have sounded twice.\n\n" + "First Groom 'Twill be two o'clock ere they come from the\n" + " coronation: dispatch, dispatch.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF, SHALLOW, PISTOL,\n" + " BARDOLPH, and Page]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Stand here by me, Master Robert Shallow; I will\n" + " make the king do you grace: I will leer upon him as\n" + " a' comes by; and do but mark the countenance that he\n" + " will give me.\n\n" + "PISTOL God bless thy lungs, good knight.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come here, Pistol; stand behind me. O, if I had had\n" + " time to have made new liveries, I would have\n" + " bestowed the thousand pound I borrowed of you. But\n" + " 'tis no matter; this poor show doth better: this\n" + " doth infer the zeal I had to see him.\n\n" + "SHALLOW It doth so.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF It shows my earnestness of affection,--\n\n" + "SHALLOW It doth so.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My devotion,--\n\n" + "SHALLOW It doth, it doth, it doth.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF As it were, to ride day and night; and not to\n" + " deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience\n" + " to shift me,--\n\n" + "SHALLOW It is best, certain.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF But to stand stained with travel, and sweating with\n" + " desire to see him; thinking of nothing else,\n" + " putting all affairs else in oblivion, as if there\n" + " were nothing else to be done but to see him.\n\n" + "PISTOL 'Tis 'semper idem,' for 'obsque hoc nihil est:'\n" + " 'tis all in every part.\n\n" + "SHALLOW 'Tis so, indeed.\n\n" + "PISTOL My knight, I will inflame thy noble liver,\n" + " And make thee rage.\n" + " Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts,\n" + " Is in base durance and contagious prison;\n" + " Haled thither\n" + " By most mechanical and dirty hand:\n" + " Rouse up revenge from ebon den with fell\n" + " Alecto's snake,\n" + " For Doll is in. Pistol speaks nought but truth.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I will deliver her.\n\n" + " [Shouts within, and the trumpets sound]\n\n" + "PISTOL There roar'd the sea, and trumpet-clangor sounds.\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY V and his train, the Lord Chief-\n" + " Justice among them]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF God save thy grace, King Hal! my royal Hal!\n\n" + "PISTOL The heavens thee guard and keep, most royal imp of fame!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF God save thee, my sweet boy!\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV My lord chief-justice, speak to that vain man.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Have you your wits? know you what 'tis to speak?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My king! my Jove! I speak to thee, my heart!\n\n" + "KING HENRY IV I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers;\n" + " How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!\n" + " I have long dream'd of such a kind of man,\n" + " So surfeit-swell'd, so old and so profane;\n" + " But, being awaked, I do despise my dream.\n" + " Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace;\n" + " Leave gormandizing; know the grave doth gape\n" + " For thee thrice wider than for other men.\n" + " Reply not to me with a fool-born jest:\n" + " Presume not that I am the thing I was;\n" + " For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,\n" + " That I have turn'd away my former self;\n" + " So will I those that kept me company.\n" + " When thou dost hear I am as I have been,\n" + " Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou wast,\n" + " The tutor and the feeder of my riots:\n" + " Till then, I banish thee, on pain of death,\n" + " As I have done the rest of my misleaders,\n" + " Not to come near our person by ten mile.\n" + " For competence of life I will allow you,\n" + " That lack of means enforce you not to evil:\n" + " And, as we hear you do reform yourselves,\n" + " We will, according to your strengths and qualities,\n" + " Give you advancement. Be it your charge, my lord,\n" + " To see perform'd the tenor of our word. Set on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING HENRY V, &c]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Master Shallow, I owe you a thousand pound.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me\n" + " have home with me.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not you\n" + " grieve at this; I shall be sent for in private to\n" + " him: look you, he must seem thus to the world:\n" + " fear not your advancements; I will be the man yet\n" + " that shall make you great.\n\n" + "SHALLOW I cannot well perceive how, unless you should give\n" + " me your doublet and stuff me out with straw. I\n" + " beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred\n" + " of my thousand.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Sir, I will be as good as my word: this that you\n" + " heard was but a colour.\n\n" + "SHALLOW A colour that I fear you will die in, Sir John.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Fear no colours: go with me to dinner: come,\n" + " Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph: I shall be sent\n" + " for soon at night.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Prince John of LANCASTER, the Lord\n" + " Chief-Justice; Officers with them]\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice Go, carry Sir John Falstaff to the Fleet:\n" + " Take all his company along with him.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My lord, my lord,--\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice I cannot now speak: I will hear you soon.\n" + " Take them away.\n\n" + "PISTOL Si fortune me tormenta, spero contenta.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but PRINCE JOHN and the Lord\n" + " Chief-Justice]\n\n" + "LANCASTER I like this fair proceeding of the king's:\n" + " He hath intent his wonted followers\n" + " Shall all be very well provided for;\n" + " But all are banish'd till their conversations\n" + " Appear more wise and modest to the world.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice And so they are.\n\n" + "LANCASTER The king hath call'd his parliament, my lord.\n\n" + "Lord Chief-Justice He hath.\n\n" + "LANCASTER I will lay odds that, ere this year expire,\n" + " We bear our civil swords and native fire\n" + " As far as France: I beard a bird so sing,\n" + " Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.\n" + " Come, will you hence?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY IV\n\n" + " EPILOGUE\n\n\n" + " [Spoken by a Dancer]\n\n" + " First my fear; then my courtesy; last my speech.\n" + " My fear is, your displeasure; my courtesy, my duty;\n" + " and my speech, to beg your pardons. If you look\n" + " for a good speech now, you undo me: for what I have\n" + " to say is of mine own making; and what indeed I\n" + " should say will, I doubt, prove mine own marring.\n" + " But to the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it\n" + " known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here\n" + " in the end of a displeasing play, to pray your\n" + " patience for it and to promise you a better. I\n" + " meant indeed to pay you with this; which, if like an\n" + " ill venture it come unluckily home, I break, and\n" + " you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here I promised you\n" + " I would be and here I commit my body to your\n" + " mercies: bate me some and I will pay you some and,\n" + " as most debtors do, promise you infinitely.\n\n" + " If my tongue cannot entreat you to acquit me, will\n" + " you command me to use my legs? and yet that were but\n" + " light payment, to dance out of your debt. But a\n" + " good conscience will make any possible satisfaction,\n" + " and so would I. All the gentlewomen here have\n" + " forgiven me: if the gentlemen will not, then the\n" + " gentlemen do not agree with the gentlewomen, which\n" + " was never seen before in such an assembly.\n\n" + " One word more, I beseech you. If you be not too\n" + " much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will\n" + " continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make\n" + " you merry with fair Katharine of France: where, for\n" + " any thing I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat,\n" + " unless already a' be killed with your hard\n" + " opinions; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is\n" + " not the man. My tongue is weary; when my legs are\n" + " too, I will bid you good night: and so kneel down\n" + " before you; but, indeed, to pray for the queen.\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING HENRY\n" + "the Sixth (KING HENRY VI:)\n\n" + "HUMPHREY Duke of Gloucester, his uncle. (GLOUCESTER:)\n\n" + "CARDINAL BEAUFORT Bishop of Winchester, great-uncle to the King.\n" + " (CARDINAL:)\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Duke of York. (YORK:)\n\n\n" + "EDWARD |\n" + " | his sons\n" + "RICHARD |\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF SOMERSET (SOMERSET:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF SUFFOLK (SUFFOLK:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (BUCKINGHAM:)\n\n" + "LORD CLIFFORD (CLIFFORD:)\n\n" + "YOUNG CLIFFORD his son.\n\n" + "EARL OF SALISBURY (SALISBURY:)\n\n" + "EARL OF WARWICK (WARWICK:)\n\n" + "LORD SCALES (SCALES:)\n\n" + "LORD SAY (SAY:)\n\n" + "SIR HUMPHREY\n" + "STAFFORD (SIR HUMPHREY:)\n\n" + "WILLIAM STAFFORD Sir Humphrey Stafford's brother.\n\n" + "SIR JOHN STANLEY (STANLEY:)\n\n" + "VAUX:\n\n" + "MATTHEW GOFFE:\n\n" + " A Sea-captain, (Captain:) Master, and Master's-Mate.\n\n" + "WALTER WHITMORE:\n\n" + " Two Gentlemen, prisoners with Suffolk.\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n\n\n" + "JOHN HUME (HUME:) |\n" + " | priests.\n" + "JOHN SOUTHWELL |\n\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE a conjurer.\n\n" + "THOMAS HORNER an armourer. (HORNER:)\n\n" + "PETER Thomas Horner's man.\n\n" + " Clerk of Chatham. (Clerk:)\n\n" + " Mayor of Saint Alban's. (Mayor:)\n\n" + "SIMPCOX an impostor.\n\n" + "ALEXANDER IDEN a Kentish gentleman. (IDEN:)\n\n" + "JACK CADE a rebel. (CADE:)\n\n\n" + "GEORGE BEVIS (BEVIS:) |\n" + " |\n" + "JOHN HOLLAND (HOLLAND:) |\n" + " |\n" + "DICK the butcher (DICK:) |\n" + " | followers of Cade.\n" + "SMITH the weaver (SMITH:) |\n" + " |\n" + "MICHAEL (MICHAEL:) |\n" + " |\n" + "&c. |\n\n\n" + " Two Murderers\n" + " (First Murderer:)\n" + " (Second Murderer:)\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Queen to King Henry.\n\n" + "ELEANOR Duchess of Gloucester. (DUCHESS:)\n\n" + "MARGARET JOURDAIN a witch.\n\n" + " Wife to Simpcox (Wife:)\n\n" + " Lords, Ladies, and Attendants. Petitioners,\n" + " Aldermen, a Herald, a Beadle, Sheriff, and\n" + " Officers, Citizens, 'Prentices, Falconers,\n" + " Guards, Soldiers, Messengers, &c.\n" + " (First Neighbour:)\n" + " (Second Neighbour:)\n" + " (Third Neighbour:)\n" + " (First Petitioner:)\n" + " (Second Petitioner:)\n" + " (Herald:)\n" + " (Beadle:)\n" + " (Sheriff:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (Soldier:)\n" + " (Townsman:)\n" + " (First 'Prentice:)\n" + " (Second 'Prentice:)\n" + " (Post:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n" + " A Spirit. (Spirit:)\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE England.\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish of trumpets: then hautboys. Enter KING\n" + " HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER, SALISBURY, WARWICK, and\n" + " CARDINAL, on the one side; QUEEN MARGARET, SUFFOLK,\n" + " YORK, SOMERSET, and BUCKINGHAM, on the other]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK As by your high imperial majesty\n" + " I had in charge at my depart for France,\n" + " As procurator to your excellence,\n" + " To marry Princess Margaret for your grace,\n" + " So, in the famous ancient city, Tours,\n" + " In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil,\n" + " The Dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretagne and Alencon,\n" + " Seven earls, twelve barons and twenty reverend bishops,\n" + " I have perform'd my task and was espoused:\n" + " And humbly now upon my bended knee,\n" + " In sight of England and her lordly peers,\n" + " Deliver up my title in the queen\n" + " To your most gracious hands, that are the substance\n" + " Of that great shadow I did represent;\n" + " The happiest gift that ever marquess gave,\n" + " The fairest queen that ever king received.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Suffolk, arise. Welcome, Queen Margaret:\n" + " I can express no kinder sign of love\n" + " Than this kind kiss. O Lord, that lends me life,\n" + " Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!\n" + " For thou hast given me in this beauteous face\n" + " A world of earthly blessings to my soul,\n" + " If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Great King of England and my gracious lord,\n" + " The mutual conference that my mind hath had,\n" + " By day, by night, waking and in my dreams,\n" + " In courtly company or at my beads,\n" + " With you, mine alder-liefest sovereign,\n" + " Makes me the bolder to salute my king\n" + " With ruder terms, such as my wit affords\n" + " And over-joy of heart doth minister.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Her sight did ravish; but her grace in speech,\n" + " Her words y-clad with wisdom's majesty,\n" + " Makes me from wondering fall to weeping joys;\n" + " Such is the fulness of my heart's content.\n" + " Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my love.\n\n" + "ALL [Kneeling] Long live Queen Margaret, England's\n" + " happiness!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET We thank you all.\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK My lord protector, so it please your grace,\n" + " Here are the articles of contracted peace\n" + " Between our sovereign and the French king Charles,\n" + " For eighteen months concluded by consent.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Reads] 'Imprimis, it is agreed between the French\n" + " king Charles, and William de la Pole, Marquess of\n" + " Suffolk, ambassador for Henry King of England, that\n" + " the said Henry shall espouse the Lady Margaret,\n" + " daughter unto Reignier King of Naples, Sicilia and\n" + " Jerusalem, and crown her Queen of England ere the\n" + " thirtieth of May next ensuing. Item, that the duchy\n" + " of Anjou and the county of Maine shall be released\n" + " and delivered to the king her father'--\n\n" + " [Lets the paper fall]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Uncle, how now!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Pardon me, gracious lord;\n" + " Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart\n" + " And dimm'd mine eyes, that I can read no further.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Uncle of Winchester, I pray, read on.\n\n" + "CARDINAL [Reads] 'Item, It is further agreed between them,\n" + " that the duchies of Anjou and Maine shall be\n" + " released and delivered over to the king her father,\n" + " and she sent over of the King of England's own\n" + " proper cost and charges, without having any dowry.'\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI They please us well. Lord marquess, kneel down:\n" + " We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,\n" + " And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York,\n" + " We here discharge your grace from being regent\n" + " I' the parts of France, till term of eighteen months\n" + " Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester,\n" + " Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset,\n" + " Salisbury, and Warwick;\n" + " We thank you all for the great favour done,\n" + " In entertainment to my princely queen.\n" + " Come, let us in, and with all speed provide\n" + " To see her coronation be perform'd.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, and SUFFOLK]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Brave peers of England, pillars of the state,\n" + " To you Duke Humphrey must unload his grief,\n" + " Your grief, the common grief of all the land.\n" + " What! did my brother Henry spend his youth,\n" + " His valour, coin and people, in the wars?\n" + " Did he so often lodge in open field,\n" + " In winter's cold and summer's parching heat,\n" + " To conquer France, his true inheritance?\n" + " And did my brother Bedford toil his wits,\n" + " To keep by policy what Henry got?\n" + " Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham,\n" + " Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick,\n" + " Received deep scars in France and Normandy?\n" + " Or hath mine uncle Beaufort and myself,\n" + " With all the learned council of the realm,\n" + " Studied so long, sat in the council-house\n" + " Early and late, debating to and fro\n" + " How France and Frenchmen might be kept in awe,\n" + " And had his highness in his infancy\n" + " Crowned in Paris in despite of foes?\n" + " And shall these labours and these honours die?\n" + " Shall Henry's conquest, Bedford's vigilance,\n" + " Your deeds of war and all our counsel die?\n" + " O peers of England, shameful is this league!\n" + " Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame,\n" + " Blotting your names from books of memory,\n" + " Razing the characters of your renown,\n" + " Defacing monuments of conquer'd France,\n" + " Undoing all, as all had never been!\n\n" + "CARDINAL Nephew, what means this passionate discourse,\n" + " This peroration with such circumstance?\n" + " For France, 'tis ours; and we will keep it still.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we can;\n" + " But now it is impossible we should:\n" + " Suffolk, the new-made duke that rules the roast,\n" + " Hath given the duchy of Anjou and Maine\n" + " Unto the poor King Reignier, whose large style\n" + " Agrees not with the leanness of his purse.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Now, by the death of Him that died for all,\n" + " These counties were the keys of Normandy.\n" + " But wherefore weeps Warwick, my valiant son?\n\n" + "WARWICK For grief that they are past recovery:\n" + " For, were there hope to conquer them again,\n" + " My sword should shed hot blood, mine eyes no tears.\n" + " Anjou and Maine! myself did win them both;\n" + " Those provinces these arms of mine did conquer:\n" + " And are the cities, that I got with wounds,\n" + " Delivered up again with peaceful words?\n" + " Mort Dieu!\n\n" + "YORK For Suffolk's duke, may he be suffocate,\n" + " That dims the honour of this warlike isle!\n" + " France should have torn and rent my very heart,\n" + " Before I would have yielded to this league.\n" + " I never read but England's kings have had\n" + " Large sums of gold and dowries with their wives:\n" + " And our King Henry gives away his own,\n" + " To match with her that brings no vantages.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER A proper jest, and never heard before,\n" + " That Suffolk should demand a whole fifteenth\n" + " For costs and charges in transporting her!\n" + " She should have stayed in France and starved\n" + " in France, Before--\n\n" + "CARDINAL My Lord of Gloucester, now ye grow too hot:\n" + " It was the pleasure of my lord the King.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind;\n" + " 'Tis not my speeches that you do mislike,\n" + " But 'tis my presence that doth trouble ye.\n" + " Rancour will out: proud prelate, in thy face\n" + " I see thy fury: if I longer stay,\n" + " We shall begin our ancient bickerings.\n" + " Lordings, farewell; and say, when I am gone,\n" + " I prophesied France will be lost ere long.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CARDINAL So, there goes our protector in a rage.\n" + " 'Tis known to you he is mine enemy,\n" + " Nay, more, an enemy unto you all,\n" + " And no great friend, I fear me, to the king.\n" + " Consider, lords, he is the next of blood,\n" + " And heir apparent to the English crown:\n" + " Had Henry got an empire by his marriage,\n" + " And all the wealthy kingdoms of the west,\n" + " There's reason he should be displeased at it.\n" + " Look to it, lords! let not his smoothing words\n" + " Bewitch your hearts; be wise and circumspect.\n" + " What though the common people favour him,\n" + " Calling him 'Humphrey, the good Duke of\n" + " Gloucester,'\n" + " Clapping their hands, and crying with loud voice,\n" + " 'Jesu maintain your royal excellence!'\n" + " With 'God preserve the good Duke Humphrey!'\n" + " I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss,\n" + " He will be found a dangerous protector.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Why should he, then, protect our sovereign,\n" + " He being of age to govern of himself?\n" + " Cousin of Somerset, join you with me,\n" + " And all together, with the Duke of Suffolk,\n" + " We'll quickly hoise Duke Humphrey from his seat.\n\n" + "CARDINAL This weighty business will not brook delay:\n" + " I'll to the Duke of Suffolk presently.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SOMERSET Cousin of Buckingham, though Humphrey's pride\n" + " And greatness of his place be grief to us,\n" + " Yet let us watch the haughty cardinal:\n" + " His insolence is more intolerable\n" + " Than all the princes in the land beside:\n" + " If Gloucester be displaced, he'll be protector.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Or thou or I, Somerset, will be protector,\n" + " Despite Duke Humphrey or the cardinal.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and SOMERSET]\n\n" + "SALISBURY Pride went before, ambition follows him.\n" + " While these do labour for their own preferment,\n" + " Behoves it us to labour for the realm.\n" + " I never saw but Humphrey Duke of Gloucester\n" + " Did bear him like a noble gentleman.\n" + " Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal,\n" + " More like a soldier than a man o' the church,\n" + " As stout and proud as he were lord of all,\n" + " Swear like a ruffian and demean himself\n" + " Unlike the ruler of a commonweal.\n" + " Warwick, my son, the comfort of my age,\n" + " Thy deeds, thy plainness and thy housekeeping,\n" + " Hath won the greatest favour of the commons,\n" + " Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey:\n" + " And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland,\n" + " In bringing them to civil discipline,\n" + " Thy late exploits done in the heart of France,\n" + " When thou wert regent for our sovereign,\n" + " Have made thee fear'd and honour'd of the people:\n" + " Join we together, for the public good,\n" + " In what we can, to bridle and suppress\n" + " The pride of Suffolk and the cardinal,\n" + " With Somerset's and Buckingham's ambition;\n" + " And, as we may, cherish Duke Humphrey's deeds,\n" + " While they do tend the profit of the land.\n\n" + "WARWICK So God help Warwick, as he loves the land,\n" + " And common profit of his country!\n\n" + "YORK [Aside] And so says York, for he hath greatest cause.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Then let's make haste away, and look unto the main.\n\n" + "WARWICK Unto the main! O father, Maine is lost;\n" + " That Maine which by main force Warwick did win,\n" + " And would have kept so long as breath did last!\n" + " Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine,\n" + " Which I will win from France, or else be slain,\n\n" + " [Exeunt WARWICK and SALISBURY]\n\n" + "YORK Anjou and Maine are given to the French;\n" + " Paris is lost; the state of Normandy\n" + " Stands on a tickle point, now they are gone:\n" + " Suffolk concluded on the articles,\n" + " The peers agreed, and Henry was well pleased\n" + " To change two dukedoms for a duke's fair daughter.\n" + " I cannot blame them all: what is't to them?\n" + " 'Tis thine they give away, and not their own.\n" + " Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage\n" + " And purchase friends and give to courtezans,\n" + " Still revelling like lords till all be gone;\n" + " While as the silly owner of the goods\n" + " Weeps over them and wrings his hapless hands\n" + " And shakes his head and trembling stands aloof,\n" + " While all is shared and all is borne away,\n" + " Ready to starve and dare not touch his own:\n" + " So York must sit and fret and bite his tongue,\n" + " While his own lands are bargain'd for and sold.\n" + " Methinks the realms of England, France and Ireland\n" + " Bear that proportion to my flesh and blood\n" + " As did the fatal brand Althaea burn'd\n" + " Unto the prince's heart of Calydon.\n" + " Anjou and Maine both given unto the French!\n" + " Cold news for me, for I had hope of France,\n" + " Even as I have of fertile England's soil.\n" + " A day will come when York shall claim his own;\n" + " And therefore I will take the Nevils' parts\n" + " And make a show of love to proud Duke Humphrey,\n" + " And, when I spy advantage, claim the crown,\n" + " For that's the golden mark I seek to hit:\n" + " Nor shall proud Lancaster usurp my right,\n" + " Nor hold the sceptre in his childish fist,\n" + " Nor wear the diadem upon his head,\n" + " Whose church-like humours fits not for a crown.\n" + " Then, York, be still awhile, till time do serve:\n" + " Watch thou and wake when others be asleep,\n" + " To pry into the secrets of the state;\n" + " Till Henry, surfeiting in joys of love,\n" + " With his new bride and England's dear-bought queen,\n" + " And Humphrey with the peers be fall'n at jars:\n" + " Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose,\n" + " With whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed;\n" + " And in my standard bear the arms of York\n" + " To grapple with the house of Lancaster;\n" + " And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown,\n" + " Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II GLOUCESTER'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER and his DUCHESS]\n\n" + "DUCHESS Why droops my lord, like over-ripen'd corn,\n" + " Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load?\n" + " Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows,\n" + " As frowning at the favours of the world?\n" + " Why are thine eyes fixed to the sullen earth,\n" + " Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight?\n" + " What seest thou there? King Henry's diadem,\n" + " Enchased with all the honours of the world?\n" + " If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face,\n" + " Until thy head be circled with the same.\n" + " Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.\n" + " What, is't too short? I'll lengthen it with mine:\n" + " And, having both together heaved it up,\n" + " We'll both together lift our heads to heaven,\n" + " And never more abase our sight so low\n" + " As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,\n" + " Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.\n" + " And may that thought, when I imagine ill\n" + " Against my king and nephew, virtuous Henry,\n" + " Be my last breathing in this mortal world!\n" + " My troublous dream this night doth make me sad.\n\n" + "DUCHESS What dream'd my lord? tell me, and I'll requite it\n" + " With sweet rehearsal of my morning's dream.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Methought this staff, mine office-badge in court,\n" + " Was broke in twain; by whom I have forgot,\n" + " But, as I think, it was by the cardinal;\n" + " And on the pieces of the broken wand\n" + " Were placed the heads of Edmund Duke of Somerset,\n" + " And William de la Pole, first duke of Suffolk.\n" + " This was my dream: what it doth bode, God knows.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Tut, this was nothing but an argument\n" + " That he that breaks a stick of Gloucester's grove\n" + " Shall lose his head for his presumption.\n" + " But list to me, my Humphrey, my sweet duke:\n" + " Methought I sat in seat of majesty\n" + " In the cathedral church of Westminster,\n" + " And in that chair where kings and queens are crown'd;\n" + " Where Henry and dame Margaret kneel'd to me\n" + " And on my head did set the diadem.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide outright:\n" + " Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtured Eleanor,\n" + " Art thou not second woman in the realm,\n" + " And the protector's wife, beloved of him?\n" + " Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command,\n" + " Above the reach or compass of thy thought?\n" + " And wilt thou still be hammering treachery,\n" + " To tumble down thy husband and thyself\n" + " From top of honour to disgrace's feet?\n" + " Away from me, and let me hear no more!\n\n" + "DUCHESS What, what, my lord! are you so choleric\n" + " With Eleanor, for telling but her dream?\n" + " Next time I'll keep my dreams unto myself,\n" + " And not be cheque'd.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Nay, be not angry; I am pleased again.\n\n" + " [Enter Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord protector, 'tis his highness' pleasure\n" + " You do prepare to ride unto Saint Alban's,\n" + " Where as the king and queen do mean to hawk.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?\n\n" + "DUCHESS Yes, my good lord, I'll follow presently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Messenger]\n\n" + " Follow I must; I cannot go before,\n" + " While Gloucester bears this base and humble mind.\n" + " Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood,\n" + " I would remove these tedious stumbling-blocks\n" + " And smooth my way upon their headless necks;\n" + " And, being a woman, I will not be slack\n" + " To play my part in Fortune's pageant.\n" + " Where are you there? Sir John! nay, fear not, man,\n" + " We are alone; here's none but thee and I.\n\n" + " [Enter HUME]\n\n" + "HUME Jesus preserve your royal majesty!\n\n" + "DUCHESS What say'st thou? majesty! I am but grace.\n\n" + "HUME But, by the grace of God, and Hume's advice,\n" + " Your grace's title shall be multiplied.\n\n" + "DUCHESS What say'st thou, man? hast thou as yet conferr'd\n" + " With Margery Jourdain, the cunning witch,\n" + " With Roger Bolingbroke, the conjurer?\n" + " And will they undertake to do me good?\n\n" + "HUME This they have promised, to show your highness\n" + " A spirit raised from depth of under-ground,\n" + " That shall make answer to such questions\n" + " As by your grace shall be propounded him.\n\n" + "DUCHESS It is enough; I'll think upon the questions:\n" + " When from St. Alban's we do make return,\n" + " We'll see these things effected to the full.\n" + " Here, Hume, take this reward; make merry, man,\n" + " With thy confederates in this weighty cause.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HUME Hume must make merry with the duchess' gold;\n" + " Marry, and shall. But how now, Sir John Hume!\n" + " Seal up your lips, and give no words but mum:\n" + " The business asketh silent secrecy.\n" + " Dame Eleanor gives gold to bring the witch:\n" + " Gold cannot come amiss, were she a devil.\n" + " Yet have I gold flies from another coast;\n" + " I dare not say, from the rich cardinal\n" + " And from the great and new-made Duke of Suffolk,\n" + " Yet I do find it so; for to be plain,\n" + " They, knowing Dame Eleanor's aspiring humour,\n" + " Have hired me to undermine the duchess\n" + " And buz these conjurations in her brain.\n" + " They say 'A crafty knave does need no broker;'\n" + " Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker.\n" + " Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go near\n" + " To call them both a pair of crafty knaves.\n" + " Well, so it stands; and thus, I fear, at last\n" + " Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck,\n" + " And her attainture will be Humphrey's fall:\n" + " Sort how it will, I shall have gold for all.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter three or four Petitioners, PETER, the\n" + " Armourer's man, being one]\n\n" + "First Petitioner My masters, let's stand close: my lord protector\n" + " will come this way by and by, and then we may deliver\n" + " our supplications in the quill.\n\n" + "Second Petitioner Marry, the Lord protect him, for he's a good man!\n" + " Jesu bless him!\n\n" + " [Enter SUFFOLK and QUEEN MARGARET]\n\n" + "PETER Here a' comes, methinks, and the queen with him.\n" + " I'll be the first, sure.\n\n" + "Second Petitioner Come back, fool; this is the Duke of Suffolk, and\n" + " not my lord protector.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK How now, fellow! would'st anything with me?\n\n" + "First Petitioner I pray, my lord, pardon me; I took ye for my lord\n" + " protector.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET [Reading] 'To my Lord Protector!' Are your\n" + " supplications to his lordship? Let me see them:\n" + " what is thine?\n\n" + "First Petitioner Mine is, an't please your grace, against John\n" + " Goodman, my lord cardinal's man, for keeping my\n" + " house, and lands, and wife and all, from me.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thy wife, too! that's some wrong, indeed. What's\n" + " yours? What's here!\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Against the Duke of Suffolk, for enclosing the\n" + " commons of Melford.' How now, sir knave!\n\n" + "Second Petitioner Alas, sir, I am but a poor petitioner of our whole township.\n\n" + "PETER [Giving his petition] Against my master, Thomas\n" + " Horner, for saying that the Duke of York was rightful\n" + " heir to the crown.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET What sayst thou? did the Duke of York say he was\n" + " rightful heir to the crown?\n\n" + "PETER That my master was? no, forsooth: my master said\n" + " that he was, and that the king was an usurper.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Who is there?\n\n" + " [Enter Servant]\n\n" + " Take this fellow in, and send for\n" + " his master with a pursuivant presently: we'll hear\n" + " more of your matter before the King.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant with PETER]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And as for you, that love to be protected\n" + " Under the wings of our protector's grace,\n" + " Begin your suits anew, and sue to him.\n\n" + " [Tears the supplication]\n\n" + " Away, base cullions! Suffolk, let them go.\n\n" + "ALL Come, let's be gone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET My Lord of Suffolk, say, is this the guise,\n" + " Is this the fashion in the court of England?\n" + " Is this the government of Britain's isle,\n" + " And this the royalty of Albion's king?\n" + " What shall King Henry be a pupil still\n" + " Under the surly Gloucester's governance?\n" + " Am I a queen in title and in style,\n" + " And must be made a subject to a duke?\n" + " I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours\n" + " Thou ran'st a tilt in honour of my love\n" + " And stolest away the ladies' hearts of France,\n" + " I thought King Henry had resembled thee\n" + " In courage, courtship and proportion:\n" + " But all his mind is bent to holiness,\n" + " To number Ave-Maries on his beads;\n" + " His champions are the prophets and apostles,\n" + " His weapons holy saws of sacred writ,\n" + " His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves\n" + " Are brazen images of canonized saints.\n" + " I would the college of the cardinals\n" + " Would choose him pope, and carry him to Rome,\n" + " And set the triple crown upon his head:\n" + " That were a state fit for his holiness.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Madam, be patient: as I was cause\n" + " Your highness came to England, so will I\n" + " In England work your grace's full content.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Beside the haughty protector, have we Beaufort,\n" + " The imperious churchman, Somerset, Buckingham,\n" + " And grumbling York: and not the least of these\n" + " But can do more in England than the king.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK And he of these that can do most of all\n" + " Cannot do more in England than the Nevils:\n" + " Salisbury and Warwick are no simple peers.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Not all these lords do vex me half so much\n" + " As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife.\n" + " She sweeps it through the court with troops of ladies,\n" + " More like an empress than Duke Humphrey's wife:\n" + " Strangers in court do take her for the queen:\n" + " She bears a duke's revenues on her back,\n" + " And in her heart she scorns our poverty:\n" + " Shall I not live to be avenged on her?\n" + " Contemptuous base-born callet as she is,\n" + " She vaunted 'mongst her minions t'other day,\n" + " The very train of her worst wearing gown\n" + " Was better worth than all my father's lands,\n" + " Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his daughter.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Madam, myself have limed a bush for her,\n" + " And placed a quire of such enticing birds,\n" + " That she will light to listen to the lays,\n" + " And never mount to trouble you again.\n" + " So, let her rest: and, madam, list to me;\n" + " For I am bold to counsel you in this.\n" + " Although we fancy not the cardinal,\n" + " Yet must we join with him and with the lords,\n" + " Till we have brought Duke Humphrey in disgrace.\n" + " As for the Duke of York, this late complaint\n" + " Will make but little for his benefit.\n" + " So, one by one, we'll weed them all at last,\n" + " And you yourself shall steer the happy helm.\n\n" + " [Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, GLOUCESTER,\n" + " CARDINAL, BUCKINGHAM, YORK, SOMERSET, SALISBURY,\n" + " WARWICK, and the DUCHESS]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI For my part, noble lords, I care not which;\n" + " Or Somerset or York, all's one to me.\n\n" + "YORK If York have ill demean'd himself in France,\n" + " Then let him be denay'd the regentship.\n\n" + "SOMERSET If Somerset be unworthy of the place,\n" + " Let York be regent; I will yield to him.\n\n" + "WARWICK Whether your grace be worthy, yea or no,\n" + " Dispute not that: York is the worthier.\n\n" + "CARDINAL Ambitious Warwick, let thy betters speak.\n\n" + "WARWICK The cardinal's not my better in the field.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM All in this presence are thy betters, Warwick.\n\n" + "WARWICK Warwick may live to be the best of all.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Peace, son! and show some reason, Buckingham,\n" + " Why Somerset should be preferred in this.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Because the king, forsooth, will have it so.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Madam, the king is old enough himself\n" + " To give his censure: these are no women's matters.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET If he be old enough, what needs your grace\n" + " To be protector of his excellence?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Madam, I am protector of the realm;\n" + " And, at his pleasure, will resign my place.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Resign it then and leave thine insolence.\n" + " Since thou wert king--as who is king but thou?--\n" + " The commonwealth hath daily run to wreck;\n" + " The Dauphin hath prevail'd beyond the seas;\n" + " And all the peers and nobles of the realm\n" + " Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty.\n\n" + "CARDINAL The commons hast thou rack'd; the clergy's bags\n" + " Are lank and lean with thy extortions.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Thy sumptuous buildings and thy wife's attire\n" + " Have cost a mass of public treasury.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Thy cruelty in execution\n" + " Upon offenders, hath exceeded law,\n" + " And left thee to the mercy of the law.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET They sale of offices and towns in France,\n" + " If they were known, as the suspect is great,\n" + " Would make thee quickly hop without thy head.\n\n" + " [Exit GLOUCESTER. QUEEN MARGARET drops her fan]\n\n" + " Give me my fan: what, minion! can ye not?\n\n" + " [She gives the DUCHESS a box on the ear]\n\n" + " I cry you mercy, madam; was it you?\n\n" + "DUCHESS Was't I! yea, I it was, proud Frenchwoman:\n" + " Could I come near your beauty with my nails,\n" + " I'd set my ten commandments in your face.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Sweet aunt, be quiet; 'twas against her will.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Against her will! good king, look to't in time;\n" + " She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby:\n" + " Though in this place most master wear no breeches,\n" + " She shall not strike Dame Eleanor unrevenged.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Lord cardinal, I will follow Eleanor,\n" + " And listen after Humphrey, how he proceeds:\n" + " She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs,\n" + " She'll gallop far enough to her destruction.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now, lords, my choler being over-blown\n" + " With walking once about the quadrangle,\n" + " I come to talk of commonwealth affairs.\n" + " As for your spiteful false objections,\n" + " Prove them, and I lie open to the law:\n" + " But God in mercy so deal with my soul,\n" + " As I in duty love my king and country!\n" + " But, to the matter that we have in hand:\n" + " I say, my sovereign, York is meetest man\n" + " To be your regent in the realm of France.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Before we make election, give me leave\n" + " To show some reason, of no little force,\n" + " That York is most unmeet of any man.\n\n" + "YORK I'll tell thee, Suffolk, why I am unmeet:\n" + " First, for I cannot flatter thee in pride;\n" + " Next, if I be appointed for the place,\n" + " My Lord of Somerset will keep me here,\n" + " Without discharge, money, or furniture,\n" + " Till France be won into the Dauphin's hands:\n" + " Last time, I danced attendance on his will\n" + " Till Paris was besieged, famish'd, and lost.\n\n" + "WARWICK That can I witness; and a fouler fact\n" + " Did never traitor in the land commit.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Peace, headstrong Warwick!\n\n" + "WARWICK Image of pride, why should I hold my peace?\n\n" + " [Enter HORNER, the Armourer, and his man\n" + " PETER, guarded]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Because here is a man accused of treason:\n" + " Pray God the Duke of York excuse himself!\n\n" + "YORK Doth any one accuse York for a traitor?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI What mean'st thou, Suffolk; tell me, what are these?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Please it your majesty, this is the man\n" + " That doth accuse his master of high treason:\n" + " His words were these: that Richard, Duke of York,\n" + " Was rightful heir unto the English crown\n" + " And that your majesty was a usurper.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Say, man, were these thy words?\n\n" + "HORNER An't shall please your majesty, I never said nor\n" + " thought any such matter: God is my witness, I am\n" + " falsely accused by the villain.\n\n" + "PETER By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak them to\n" + " me in the garret one night, as we were scouring my\n" + " Lord of York's armour.\n\n" + "YORK Base dunghill villain and mechanical,\n" + " I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech.\n" + " I do beseech your royal majesty,\n" + " Let him have all the rigor of the law.\n\n" + "HORNER Alas, my lord, hang me, if ever I spake the words.\n" + " My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct\n" + " him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his\n" + " knees he would be even with me: I have good\n" + " witness of this: therefore I beseech your majesty,\n" + " do not cast away an honest man for a villain's\n" + " accusation.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Uncle, what shall we say to this in law?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER This doom, my lord, if I may judge:\n" + " Let Somerset be regent over the French,\n" + " Because in York this breeds suspicion:\n" + " And let these have a day appointed them\n" + " For single combat in convenient place,\n" + " For he hath witness of his servant's malice:\n" + " This is the law, and this Duke Humphrey's doom.\n\n" + "SOMERSET I humbly thank your royal majesty.\n\n" + "HORNER And I accept the combat willingly.\n\n" + "PETER Alas, my lord, I cannot fight; for God's sake, pity\n" + " my case. The spite of man prevaileth against me. O\n" + " Lord, have mercy upon me! I shall never be able to\n" + " fight a blow. O Lord, my heart!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sirrah, or you must fight, or else be hang'd.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Away with them to prison; and the day of combat\n" + " shall be the last of the next month. Come,\n" + " Somerset, we'll see thee sent away.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV GLOUCESTER's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARGARET JOURDAIN, HUME, SOUTHWELL, and\n" + " BOLINGBROKE]\n\n" + "HUME Come, my masters; the duchess, I tell you, expects\n" + " performance of your promises.\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE Master Hume, we are therefore provided: will her\n" + " ladyship behold and hear our exorcisms?\n\n" + "HUME Ay, what else? fear you not her courage.\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE I have heard her reported to be a woman of an\n" + " invincible spirit: but it shall be convenient,\n" + " Master Hume, that you be by her aloft, while we be\n" + " busy below; and so, I pray you, go, in God's name,\n" + " and leave us.\n\n" + " [Exit HUME]\n\n" + " Mother Jourdain, be you\n" + " prostrate and grovel on the earth; John Southwell,\n" + " read you; and let us to our work.\n\n" + " [Enter the DUCHESS aloft, HUME following]\n\n" + "DUCHESS Well said, my masters; and welcome all. To this\n" + " gear the sooner the better.\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE Patience, good lady; wizards know their times:\n" + " Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,\n" + " The time of night when Troy was set on fire;\n" + " The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,\n" + " And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves,\n" + " That time best fits the work we have in hand.\n" + " Madam, sit you and fear not: whom we raise,\n" + " We will make fast within a hallow'd verge.\n\n" + " [Here they do the ceremonies belonging, and make the\n" + " circle; BOLINGBROKE or SOUTHWELL reads, Conjuro te,\n" + " &c. It thunders and lightens terribly; then the\n" + " Spirit riseth]\n\n" + "Spirit Adsum.\n\n" + "MARGARET JOURDAIN Asmath,\n" + " By the eternal God, whose name and power\n" + " Thou tremblest at, answer that I shall ask;\n" + " For, till thou speak, thou shalt not pass from hence.\n\n" + "Spirit Ask what thou wilt. That I had said and done!\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE 'First of the king: what shall of him become?'\n\n" + " [Reading out of a paper]\n\n" + "Spirit The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose;\n" + " But him outlive, and die a violent death.\n\n" + " [As the Spirit speaks, SOUTHWELL writes the answer]\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE 'What fates await the Duke of Suffolk?'\n\n" + "Spirit By water shall he die, and take his end.\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE 'What shall befall the Duke of Somerset?'\n\n" + "Spirit Let him shun castles;\n" + " Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains\n" + " Than where castles mounted stand.\n" + " Have done, for more I hardly can endure.\n\n" + "BOLINGBROKE Descend to darkness and the burning lake!\n" + " False fiend, avoid!\n\n" + " [Thunder and lightning. Exit Spirit]\n\n" + " [Enter YORK and BUCKINGHAM with their Guard\n" + " and break in]\n\n" + "YORK Lay hands upon these traitors and their trash.\n" + " Beldam, I think we watch'd you at an inch.\n" + " What, madam, are you there? the king and commonweal\n" + " Are deeply indebted for this piece of pains:\n" + " My lord protector will, I doubt it not,\n" + " See you well guerdon'd for these good deserts.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Not half so bad as thine to England's king,\n" + " Injurious duke, that threatest where's no cause.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM True, madam, none at all: what call you this?\n" + " Away with them! let them be clapp'd up close.\n" + " And kept asunder. You, madam, shall with us.\n" + " Stafford, take her to thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt above DUCHESS and HUME, guarded]\n\n" + " We'll see your trinkets here all forthcoming.\n" + " All, away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt guard with MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, &c]\n\n" + "YORK Lord Buckingham, methinks, you watch'd her well:\n" + " A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon!\n" + " Now, pray, my lord, let's see the devil's writ.\n" + " What have we here?\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'The duke yet lives, that Henry shall depose;\n" + " But him outlive, and die a violent death.'\n" + " Why, this is just\n" + " 'Aio te, AEacida, Romanos vincere posse.'\n" + " Well, to the rest:\n" + " 'Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk?\n" + " By water shall he die, and take his end.\n" + " What shall betide the Duke of Somerset?\n" + " Let him shun castles;\n" + " Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains\n" + " Than where castles mounted stand.'\n" + " Come, come, my lords;\n" + " These oracles are hardly attain'd,\n" + " And hardly understood.\n" + " The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban's,\n" + " With him the husband of this lovely lady:\n" + " Thither go these news, as fast as horse can\n" + " carry them:\n" + " A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Your grace shall give me leave, my Lord of York,\n" + " To be the post, in hope of his reward.\n\n" + "YORK At your pleasure, my good lord. Who's within\n" + " there, ho!\n\n" + " [Enter a Servingman]\n\n" + " Invite my Lords of Salisbury and Warwick\n" + " To sup with me to-morrow night. Away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Saint Alban's.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET, GLOUCESTER,\n" + " CARDINAL, and SUFFOLK, with Falconers halloing]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Believe me, lords, for flying at the brook,\n" + " I saw not better sport these seven years' day:\n" + " Yet, by your leave, the wind was very high;\n" + " And, ten to one, old Joan had not gone out.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI But what a point, my lord, your falcon made,\n" + " And what a pitch she flew above the rest!\n" + " To see how God in all his creatures works!\n" + " Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK No marvel, an it like your majesty,\n" + " My lord protector's hawks do tower so well;\n" + " They know their master loves to be aloft,\n" + " And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind\n" + " That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.\n\n" + "CARDINAL I thought as much; he would be above the clouds.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, my lord cardinal? how think you by that?\n" + " Were it not good your grace could fly to heaven?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI The treasury of everlasting joy.\n\n" + "CARDINAL Thy heaven is on earth; thine eyes and thoughts\n" + " Beat on a crown, the treasure of thy heart;\n" + " Pernicious protector, dangerous peer,\n" + " That smooth'st it so with king and commonweal!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, cardinal, is your priesthood grown peremptory?\n" + " Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?\n" + " Churchmen so hot? good uncle, hide such malice;\n" + " With such holiness can you do it?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK No malice, sir; no more than well becomes\n" + " So good a quarrel and so bad a peer.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER As who, my lord?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Why, as you, my lord,\n" + " An't like your lordly lord-protectorship.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, Suffolk, England knows thine insolence.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And thy ambition, Gloucester.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I prithee, peace, good queen,\n" + " And whet not on these furious peers;\n" + " For blessed are the peacemakers on earth.\n\n" + "CARDINAL Let me be blessed for the peace I make,\n" + " Against this proud protector, with my sword!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CARDINAL] Faith, holy uncle, would\n" + " 'twere come to that!\n\n" + "CARDINAL [Aside to GLOUCESTER] Marry, when thou darest.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CARDINAL] Make up no factious\n" + " numbers for the matter;\n" + " In thine own person answer thy abuse.\n\n" + "CARDINAL [Aside to GLOUCESTER] Ay, where thou darest\n" + " not peep: an if thou darest,\n" + " This evening, on the east side of the grove.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI How now, my lords!\n\n" + "CARDINAL Believe me, cousin Gloucester,\n" + " Had not your man put up the fowl so suddenly,\n" + " We had had more sport.\n\n" + " [Aside to GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + " Come with thy two-hand sword.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER True, uncle.\n\n" + "CARDINAL [Aside to GLOUCESTER] Are ye advised? the\n" + " east side of the grove?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CARDINAL] Cardinal, I am with you.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, how now, uncle Gloucester!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Talking of hawking; nothing else, my lord.\n\n" + " [Aside to CARDINAL]\n\n" + " Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown for this,\n" + " Or all my fence shall fail.\n\n" + "CARDINAL [Aside to GLOUCESTER] Medice, teipsum--\n" + " Protector, see to't well, protect yourself.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords.\n" + " How irksome is this music to my heart!\n" + " When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?\n" + " I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.\n\n" + " [Enter a Townsman of Saint Alban's, crying 'A miracle!']\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What means this noise?\n" + " Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim?\n\n" + "Townsman A miracle! a miracle!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Come to the king and tell him what miracle.\n\n" + "Townsman Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine,\n" + " Within this half-hour, hath received his sight;\n" + " A man that ne'er saw in his life before.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Now, God be praised, that to believing souls\n" + " Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!\n\n" + " [Enter the Mayor of Saint Alban's and his\n" + " brethren, bearing SIMPCOX, between two in a\n" + " chair, SIMPCOX's Wife following]\n\n" + "CARDINAL Here comes the townsmen on procession,\n" + " To present your highness with the man.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Great is his comfort in this earthly vale,\n" + " Although by his sight his sin be multiplied.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Stand by, my masters: bring him near the king;\n" + " His highness' pleasure is to talk with him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Good fellow, tell us here the circumstance,\n" + " That we for thee may glorify the Lord.\n" + " What, hast thou been long blind and now restored?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Born blind, an't please your grace.\n\n" + "Wife Ay, indeed, was he.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK What woman is this?\n\n" + "Wife His wife, an't like your worship.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Hadst thou been his mother, thou couldst have\n" + " better told.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Where wert thou born?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX At Berwick in the north, an't like your grace.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Poor soul, God's goodness hath been great to thee:\n" + " Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,\n" + " But still remember what the Lord hath done.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Tell me, good fellow, camest thou here by chance,\n" + " Or of devotion, to this holy shrine?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX God knows, of pure devotion; being call'd\n" + " A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep,\n" + " By good Saint Alban; who said, 'Simpcox, come,\n" + " Come, offer at my shrine, and I will help thee.'\n\n" + "Wife Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft\n" + " Myself have heard a voice to call him so.\n\n" + "CARDINAL What, art thou lame?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Ay, God Almighty help me!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK How camest thou so?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX A fall off of a tree.\n\n" + "Wife A plum-tree, master.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER How long hast thou been blind?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Born so, master.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, and wouldst climb a tree?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX But that in all my life, when I was a youth.\n\n" + "Wife Too true; and bought his climbing very dear.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Mass, thou lovedst plums well, that wouldst\n" + " venture so.\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Alas, good master, my wife desired some damsons,\n" + " And made me climb, with danger of my life.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER A subtle knave! but yet it shall not serve.\n" + " Let me see thine eyes: wink now: now open them:\n" + " In my opinion yet thou seest not well.\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and\n" + " Saint Alban.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Say'st thou me so? What colour is this cloak of?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Red, master; red as blood.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, that's well said. What colour is my gown of?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Black, forsooth: coal-black as jet.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, then, thou know'st what colour jet is of?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK And yet, I think, jet did he never see.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But cloaks and gowns, before this day, a many.\n\n" + "Wife Never, before this day, in all his life.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Tell me, sirrah, what's my name?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Alas, master, I know not.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What's his name?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX I know not.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Nor his?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX No, indeed, master.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What's thine own name?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Saunder Simpcox, an if it please you, master.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Then, Saunder, sit there, the lyingest knave in\n" + " Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou\n" + " mightest as well have known all our names as thus to\n" + " name the several colours we do wear. Sight may\n" + " distinguish of colours, but suddenly to nominate them\n" + " all, it is impossible. My lords, Saint Alban here\n" + " hath done a miracle; and would ye not think his\n" + " cunning to be great, that could restore this cripple\n" + " to his legs again?\n\n" + "SIMPCOX O master, that you could!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My masters of Saint Alban's, have you not beadles in\n" + " your town, and things called whips?\n\n" + "Mayor Yes, my lord, if it please your grace.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Then send for one presently.\n\n" + "Mayor Sirrah, go fetch the beadle hither straight.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now fetch me a stool hither by and by. Now, sirrah,\n" + " if you mean to save yourself from whipping, leap me\n" + " over this stool and run away.\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Alas, master, I am not able to stand alone:\n" + " You go about to torture me in vain.\n\n" + " [Enter a Beadle with whips]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. Sirrah\n" + " beadle, whip him till he leap over that same stool.\n\n" + "Beadle I will, my lord. Come on, sirrah; off with your\n" + " doublet quickly.\n\n" + "SIMPCOX Alas, master, what shall I do? I am not able to stand.\n\n" + " [After the Beadle hath hit him once, he leaps over\n" + " the stool and runs away; and they follow and cry, 'A miracle!']\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O God, seest Thou this, and bearest so long?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET It made me laugh to see the villain run.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Follow the knave; and take this drab away.\n\n" + "Wife Alas, sir, we did it for pure need.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Let them be whipped through every market-town, till\n" + " they come to Berwick, from whence they came.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Wife, Beadle, Mayor, &c]\n\n" + "CARDINAL Duke Humphrey has done a miracle to-day.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK True; made the lame to leap and fly away.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But you have done more miracles than I;\n" + " You made in a day, my lord, whole towns to fly.\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI What tidings with our cousin Buckingham?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Such as my heart doth tremble to unfold.\n" + " A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent,\n" + " Under the countenance and confederacy\n" + " Of Lady Eleanor, the protector's wife,\n" + " The ringleader and head of all this rout,\n" + " Have practised dangerously against your state,\n" + " Dealing with witches and with conjurers:\n" + " Whom we have apprehended in the fact;\n" + " Raising up wicked spirits from under ground,\n" + " Demanding of King Henry's life and death,\n" + " And other of your highness' privy-council;\n" + " As more at large your grace shall understand.\n\n" + "CARDINAL [Aside to GLOUCESTER] And so, my lord protector,\n" + " by this means\n" + " Your lady is forthcoming yet at London.\n" + " This news, I think, hath turn'd your weapon's edge;\n" + " 'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ambitious churchman, leave to afflict my heart:\n" + " Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my powers;\n" + " And, vanquish'd as I am, I yield to thee,\n" + " Or to the meanest groom.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones,\n" + " Heaping confusion on their own heads thereby!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Gloucester, see here the tainture of thy nest.\n" + " And look thyself be faultless, thou wert best.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Madam, for myself, to heaven I do appeal,\n" + " How I have loved my king and commonweal:\n" + " And, for my wife, I know not how it stands;\n" + " Sorry I am to hear what I have heard:\n" + " Noble she is, but if she have forgot\n" + " Honour and virtue and conversed with such\n" + " As, like to pitch, defile nobility,\n" + " I banish her my bed and company\n" + " And give her as a prey to law and shame,\n" + " That hath dishonour'd Gloucester's honest name.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Well, for this night we will repose us here:\n" + " To-morrow toward London back again,\n" + " To look into this business thoroughly\n" + " And call these foul offenders to their answers\n" + " And poise the cause in justice' equal scales,\n" + " Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II London. YORK'S garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter YORK, SALISBURY, and WARWICK]\n\n" + "YORK Now, my good Lords of Salisbury and Warwick,\n" + " Our simple supper ended, give me leave\n" + " In this close walk to satisfy myself,\n" + " In craving your opinion of my title,\n" + " Which is infallible, to England's crown.\n\n" + "SALISBURY My lord, I long to hear it at full.\n\n" + "WARWICK Sweet York, begin: and if thy claim be good,\n" + " The Nevils are thy subjects to command.\n\n" + "YORK Then thus:\n" + " Edward the Third, my lords, had seven sons:\n" + " The first, Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales;\n" + " The second, William of Hatfield, and the third,\n" + " Lionel Duke of Clarence: next to whom\n" + " Was John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster;\n" + " The fifth was Edmund Langley, Duke of York;\n" + " The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester;\n" + " William of Windsor was the seventh and last.\n" + " Edward the Black Prince died before his father\n" + " And left behind him Richard, his only son,\n" + " Who after Edward the Third's death reign'd as king;\n" + " Till Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster,\n" + " The eldest son and heir of John of Gaunt,\n" + " Crown'd by the name of Henry the Fourth,\n" + " Seized on the realm, deposed the rightful king,\n" + " Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came,\n" + " And him to Pomfret; where, as all you know,\n" + " Harmless Richard was murder'd traitorously.\n\n" + "WARWICK Father, the duke hath told the truth:\n" + " Thus got the house of Lancaster the crown.\n\n" + "YORK Which now they hold by force and not by right;\n" + " For Richard, the first son's heir, being dead,\n" + " The issue of the next son should have reign'd.\n\n" + "SALISBURY But William of Hatfield died without an heir.\n\n" + "YORK The third son, Duke of Clarence, from whose line\n" + " I claimed the crown, had issue, Philippe, a daughter,\n" + " Who married Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March:\n" + " Edmund had issue, Roger Earl of March;\n" + " Roger had issue, Edmund, Anne and Eleanor.\n\n" + "SALISBURY This Edmund, in the reign of Bolingbroke,\n" + " As I have read, laid claim unto the crown;\n" + " And, but for Owen Glendower, had been king,\n" + " Who kept him in captivity till he died.\n" + " But to the rest.\n\n" + "YORK His eldest sister, Anne,\n" + " My mother, being heir unto the crown\n" + " Married Richard Earl of Cambridge; who was son\n" + " To Edmund Langley, Edward the Third's fifth son.\n" + " By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir\n" + " To Roger Earl of March, who was the son\n" + " Of Edmund Mortimer, who married Philippe,\n" + " Sole daughter unto Lionel Duke of Clarence:\n" + " So, if the issue of the elder son\n" + " Succeed before the younger, I am king.\n\n" + "WARWICK What plain proceeding is more plain than this?\n" + " Henry doth claim the crown from John of Gaunt,\n" + " The fourth son; York claims it from the third.\n" + " Till Lionel's issue fails, his should not reign:\n" + " It fails not yet, but flourishes in thee\n" + " And in thy sons, fair slips of such a stock.\n" + " Then, father Salisbury, kneel we together;\n" + " And in this private plot be we the first\n" + " That shall salute our rightful sovereign\n" + " With honour of his birthright to the crown.\n\n" + "BOTH Long live our sovereign Richard, England's king!\n\n" + "YORK We thank you, lords. But I am not your king\n" + " Till I be crown'd and that my sword be stain'd\n" + " With heart-blood of the house of Lancaster;\n" + " And that's not suddenly to be perform'd,\n" + " But with advice and silent secrecy.\n" + " Do you as I do in these dangerous days:\n" + " Wink at the Duke of Suffolk's insolence,\n" + " At Beaufort's pride, at Somerset's ambition,\n" + " At Buckingham and all the crew of them,\n" + " Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock,\n" + " That virtuous prince, the good Duke Humphrey:\n" + " 'Tis that they seek, and they in seeking that\n" + " Shall find their deaths, if York can prophesy.\n\n" + "SALISBURY My lord, break we off; we know your mind at full.\n\n" + "WARWICK My heart assures me that the Earl of Warwick\n" + " Shall one day make the Duke of York a king.\n\n" + "YORK And, Nevil, this I do assure myself:\n" + " Richard shall live to make the Earl of Warwick\n" + " The greatest man in England but the king.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A hall of justice.\n\n\n" + " [Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN\n" + " MARGARET, GLOUCESTER, YORK, SUFFOLK, and SALISBURY;\n" + " the DUCHESS, MARGARET JOURDAIN, SOUTHWELL, HUME,\n" + " and BOLINGBROKE, under guard]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Stand forth, Dame Eleanor Cobham, Gloucester's wife:\n" + " In sight of God and us, your guilt is great:\n" + " Receive the sentence of the law for sins\n" + " Such as by God's book are adjudged to death.\n" + " You four, from hence to prison back again;\n" + " From thence unto the place of execution:\n" + " The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to ashes,\n" + " And you three shall be strangled on the gallows.\n" + " You, madam, for you are more nobly born,\n" + " Despoiled of your honour in your life,\n" + " Shall, after three days' open penance done,\n" + " Live in your country here in banishment,\n" + " With Sir John Stanley, in the Isle of Man.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Welcome is banishment; welcome were my death.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Eleanor, the law, thou see'st, hath judged thee:\n" + " I cannot justify whom the law condemns.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DUCHESS and other prisoners, guarded]\n\n" + " Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.\n" + " Ah, Humphrey, this dishonour in thine age\n" + " Will bring thy head with sorrow to the ground!\n" + " I beseech your majesty, give me leave to go;\n" + " Sorrow would solace and mine age would ease.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Stay, Humphrey Duke of Gloucester: ere thou go,\n" + " Give up thy staff: Henry will to himself\n" + " Protector be; and God shall be my hope,\n" + " My stay, my guide and lantern to my feet:\n" + " And go in peace, Humphrey, no less beloved\n" + " Than when thou wert protector to thy King.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET I see no reason why a king of years\n" + " Should be to be protected like a child.\n" + " God and King Henry govern England's realm.\n" + " Give up your staff, sir, and the king his realm.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My staff? here, noble Henry, is my staff:\n" + " As willingly do I the same resign\n" + " As e'er thy father Henry made it mine;\n" + " And even as willingly at thy feet I leave it\n" + " As others would ambitiously receive it.\n" + " Farewell, good king: when I am dead and gone,\n" + " May honourable peace attend thy throne!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Why, now is Henry king, and Margaret queen;\n" + " And Humphrey Duke of Gloucester scarce himself,\n" + " That bears so shrewd a maim; two pulls at once;\n" + " His lady banish'd, and a limb lopp'd off.\n" + " This staff of honour raught, there let it stand\n" + " Where it best fits to be, in Henry's hand.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thus droops this lofty pine and hangs his sprays;\n" + " Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her youngest days.\n\n" + "YORK Lords, let him go. Please it your majesty,\n" + " This is the day appointed for the combat;\n" + " And ready are the appellant and defendant,\n" + " The armourer and his man, to enter the lists,\n" + " So please your highness to behold the fight.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ay, good my lord; for purposely therefore\n" + " Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O God's name, see the lists and all things fit:\n" + " Here let them end it; and God defend the right!\n\n" + "YORK I never saw a fellow worse bested,\n" + " Or more afraid to fight, than is the appellant,\n" + " The servant of this armourer, my lords.\n\n" + " [Enter at one door, HORNER, the Armourer, and his\n" + " Neighbours, drinking to him so much that he is drunk;\n" + " and he enters with a drum before him and his staff\n" + " with a sand-bag fastened to it; and at the other\n" + " door PETER, his man, with a drum and sand-bag, and\n" + " 'Prentices drinking to him]\n\n" + "First Neighbour Here, neighbour Horner, I drink to you in a cup of\n" + " sack: and fear not, neighbour, you shall do well enough.\n\n" + "Second Neighbour And here, neighbour, here's a cup of charneco.\n\n" + "Third Neighbour And here's a pot of good double beer, neighbour:\n" + " drink, and fear not your man.\n\n" + "HORNER Let it come, i' faith, and I'll pledge you all; and\n" + " a fig for Peter!\n\n" + "First 'Prentice Here, Peter, I drink to thee: and be not afraid.\n\n" + "Second 'Prentice Be merry, Peter, and fear not thy master: fight\n" + " for credit of the 'prentices.\n\n" + "PETER I thank you all: drink, and pray for me, I pray\n" + " you; for I think I have taken my last draught in\n" + " this world. Here, Robin, an if I die, I give thee\n" + " my apron: and, Will, thou shalt have my hammer:\n" + " and here, Tom, take all the money that I have. O\n" + " Lord bless me! I pray God! for I am never able to\n" + " deal with my master, he hath learnt me so much fence already.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Come, leave your drinking, and fall to blows.\n" + " Sirrah, what's thy name?\n\n" + "PETER Peter, forsooth.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Peter! what more?\n\n" + "PETER Thump.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Thump! then see thou thump thy master well.\n\n" + "HORNER Masters, I am come hither, as it were, upon my man's\n" + " instigation, to prove him a knave and myself an\n" + " honest man: and touching the Duke of York, I will\n" + " take my death, I never meant him any ill, nor the\n" + " king, nor the queen: and therefore, Peter, have at\n" + " thee with a downright blow!\n\n" + "YORK Dispatch: this knave's tongue begins to double.\n" + " Sound, trumpets, alarum to the combatants!\n\n" + " [Alarum. They fight, and PETER strikes him down]\n\n" + "HORNER Hold, Peter, hold! I confess, I confess treason.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "YORK Take away his weapon. Fellow, thank God, and the\n" + " good wine in thy master's way.\n\n" + "PETER O God, have I overcome mine enemy in this presence?\n" + " O Peter, thou hast prevailed in right!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Go, take hence that traitor from our sight;\n" + " For his death we do perceive his guilt:\n" + " And God in justice hath revealed to us\n" + " The truth and innocence of this poor fellow,\n" + " Which he had thought to have murder'd wrongfully.\n" + " Come, fellow, follow us for thy reward.\n\n" + " [Sound a flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER and his Servingmen, in\n" + " mourning cloaks]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;\n" + " And after summer evermore succeeds\n" + " Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:\n" + " So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.\n" + " Sirs, what's o'clock?\n\n" + "Servants Ten, my lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ten is the hour that was appointed me\n" + " To watch the coming of my punish'd duchess:\n" + " Uneath may she endure the flinty streets,\n" + " To tread them with her tender-feeling feet.\n" + " Sweet Nell, ill can thy noble mind abrook\n" + " The abject people gazing on thy face,\n" + " With envious looks, laughing at thy shame,\n" + " That erst did follow thy proud chariot-wheels\n" + " When thou didst ride in triumph through the streets.\n" + " But, soft! I think she comes; and I'll prepare\n" + " My tear-stain'd eyes to see her miseries.\n\n" + " [Enter the DUCHESS in a white sheet, and a taper\n" + " burning in her hand; with STANLEY, the Sheriff,\n" + " and Officers]\n\n" + "Servant So please your grace, we'll take her from the sheriff.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No, stir not, for your lives; let her pass by.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Come you, my lord, to see my open shame?\n" + " Now thou dost penance too. Look how they gaze!\n" + " See how the giddy multitude do point,\n" + " And nod their heads, and throw their eyes on thee!\n" + " Ah, Gloucester, hide thee from their hateful looks,\n" + " And, in thy closet pent up, rue my shame,\n" + " And ban thine enemies, both mine and thine!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Be patient, gentle Nell; forget this grief.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Ah, Gloucester, teach me to forget myself!\n" + " For whilst I think I am thy married wife\n" + " And thou a prince, protector of this land,\n" + " Methinks I should not thus be led along,\n" + " Mail'd up in shame, with papers on my back,\n" + " And followed with a rabble that rejoice\n" + " To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans.\n" + " The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet,\n" + " And when I start, the envious people laugh\n" + " And bid me be advised how I tread.\n" + " Ah, Humphrey, can I bear this shameful yoke?\n" + " Trow'st thou that e'er I'll look upon the world,\n" + " Or count them happy that enjoy the sun?\n" + " No; dark shall be my light and night my day;\n" + " To think upon my pomp shall be my hell.\n" + " Sometime I'll say, I am Duke Humphrey's wife,\n" + " And he a prince and ruler of the land:\n" + " Yet so he ruled and such a prince he was\n" + " As he stood by whilst I, his forlorn duchess,\n" + " Was made a wonder and a pointing-stock\n" + " To every idle rascal follower.\n" + " But be thou mild and blush not at my shame,\n" + " Nor stir at nothing till the axe of death\n" + " Hang over thee, as, sure, it shortly will;\n" + " For Suffolk, he that can do all in all\n" + " With her that hateth thee and hates us all,\n" + " And York and impious Beaufort, that false priest,\n" + " Have all limed bushes to betray thy wings,\n" + " And, fly thou how thou canst, they'll tangle thee:\n" + " But fear not thou, until thy foot be snared,\n" + " Nor never seek prevention of thy foes.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ah, Nell, forbear! thou aimest all awry;\n" + " I must offend before I be attainted;\n" + " And had I twenty times so many foes,\n" + " And each of them had twenty times their power,\n" + " All these could not procure me any scathe,\n" + " So long as I am loyal, true and crimeless.\n" + " Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach?\n" + " Why, yet thy scandal were not wiped away\n" + " But I in danger for the breach of law.\n" + " Thy greatest help is quiet, gentle Nell:\n" + " I pray thee, sort thy heart to patience;\n" + " These few days' wonder will be quickly worn.\n\n" + " [Enter a Herald]\n\n" + "Herald I summon your grace to his majesty's parliament,\n" + " Holden at Bury the first of this next month.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And my consent ne'er ask'd herein before!\n" + " This is close dealing. Well, I will be there.\n\n" + " [Exit Herald]\n\n" + " My Nell, I take my leave: and, master sheriff,\n" + " Let not her penance exceed the king's commission.\n\n" + "Sheriff An't please your grace, here my commission stays,\n" + " And Sir John Stanley is appointed now\n" + " To take her with him to the Isle of Man.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Must you, Sir John, protect my lady here?\n\n" + "STANLEY So am I given in charge, may't please your grace.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Entreat her not the worse in that I pray\n" + " You use her well: the world may laugh again;\n" + " And I may live to do you kindness if\n" + " You do it her: and so, Sir John, farewell!\n\n" + "DUCHESS What, gone, my lord, and bid me not farewell!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Witness my tears, I cannot stay to speak.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GLOUCESTER and Servingmen]\n\n" + "DUCHESS Art thou gone too? all comfort go with thee!\n" + " For none abides with me: my joy is death;\n" + " Death, at whose name I oft have been afear'd,\n" + " Because I wish'd this world's eternity.\n" + " Stanley, I prithee, go, and take me hence;\n" + " I care not whither, for I beg no favour,\n" + " Only convey me where thou art commanded.\n\n" + "STANLEY Why, madam, that is to the Isle of Man;\n" + " There to be used according to your state.\n\n" + "DUCHESS That's bad enough, for I am but reproach:\n" + " And shall I then be used reproachfully?\n\n" + "STANLEY Like to a duchess, and Duke Humphrey's lady;\n" + " According to that state you shall be used.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Sheriff, farewell, and better than I fare,\n" + " Although thou hast been conduct of my shame.\n\n" + "Sheriff It is my office; and, madam, pardon me.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Ay, ay, farewell; thy office is discharged.\n" + " Come, Stanley, shall we go?\n\n" + "STANLEY Madam, your penance done, throw off this sheet,\n" + " And go we to attire you for our journey.\n\n" + "DUCHESS My shame will not be shifted with my sheet:\n" + " No, it will hang upon my richest robes\n" + " And show itself, attire me how I can.\n" + " Go, lead the way; I long to see my prison.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The Abbey at Bury St. Edmund's.\n\n\n" + " [Sound a sennet. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN\n" + " MARGARET, CARDINAL, SUFFOLK, YORK, BUCKINGHAM,\n" + " SALISBURY and WARWICK to the Parliament]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I muse my Lord of Gloucester is not come:\n" + " 'Tis not his wont to be the hindmost man,\n" + " Whate'er occasion keeps him from us now.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Can you not see? or will ye not observe\n" + " The strangeness of his alter'd countenance?\n" + " With what a majesty he bears himself,\n" + " How insolent of late he is become,\n" + " How proud, how peremptory, and unlike himself?\n" + " We know the time since he was mild and affable,\n" + " And if we did but glance a far-off look,\n" + " Immediately he was upon his knee,\n" + " That all the court admired him for submission:\n" + " But meet him now, and, be it in the morn,\n" + " When every one will give the time of day,\n" + " He knits his brow and shows an angry eye,\n" + " And passeth by with stiff unbowed knee,\n" + " Disdaining duty that to us belongs.\n" + " Small curs are not regarded when they grin;\n" + " But great men tremble when the lion roars;\n" + " And Humphrey is no little man in England.\n" + " First note that he is near you in descent,\n" + " And should you fall, he as the next will mount.\n" + " Me seemeth then it is no policy,\n" + " Respecting what a rancorous mind he bears\n" + " And his advantage following your decease,\n" + " That he should come about your royal person\n" + " Or be admitted to your highness' council.\n" + " By flattery hath he won the commons' hearts,\n" + " And when he please to make commotion,\n" + " 'Tis to be fear'd they all will follow him.\n" + " Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;\n" + " Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden\n" + " And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.\n" + " The reverent care I bear unto my lord\n" + " Made me collect these dangers in the duke.\n" + " If it be fond, call it a woman's fear;\n" + " Which fear if better reasons can supplant,\n" + " I will subscribe and say I wrong'd the duke.\n" + " My Lord of Suffolk, Buckingham, and York,\n" + " Reprove my allegation, if you can;\n" + " Or else conclude my words effectual.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Well hath your highness seen into this duke;\n" + " And, had I first been put to speak my mind,\n" + " I think I should have told your grace's tale.\n" + " The duchess, by his subornation,\n" + " Upon my life, began her devilish practises:\n" + " Or, if he were not privy to those faults,\n" + " Yet, by reputing of his high descent,\n" + " As next the king he was successive heir,\n" + " And such high vaunts of his nobility,\n" + " Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick duchess\n" + " By wicked means to frame our sovereign's fall.\n" + " Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;\n" + " And in his simple show he harbours treason.\n" + " The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb.\n" + " No, no, my sovereign; Gloucester is a man\n" + " Unsounded yet and full of deep deceit.\n\n" + "CARDINAL Did he not, contrary to form of law,\n" + " Devise strange deaths for small offences done?\n\n" + "YORK And did he not, in his protectorship,\n" + " Levy great sums of money through the realm\n" + " For soldiers' pay in France, and never sent it?\n" + " By means whereof the towns each day revolted.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Tut, these are petty faults to faults unknown.\n" + " Which time will bring to light in smooth\n" + " Duke Humphrey.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My lords, at once: the care you have of us,\n" + " To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot,\n" + " Is worthy praise: but, shall I speak my conscience,\n" + " Our kinsman Gloucester is as innocent\n" + " From meaning treason to our royal person\n" + " As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove:\n" + " The duke is virtuous, mild and too well given\n" + " To dream on evil or to work my downfall.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ah, what's more dangerous than this fond affiance!\n" + " Seems he a dove? his feathers are but borrowed,\n" + " For he's disposed as the hateful raven:\n" + " Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him,\n" + " For he's inclined as is the ravenous wolf.\n" + " Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit?\n" + " Take heed, my lord; the welfare of us all\n" + " Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.\n\n" + " [Enter SOMERSET]\n\n" + "SOMERSET All health unto my gracious sovereign!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Welcome, Lord Somerset. What news from France?\n\n" + "SOMERSET That all your interest in those territories\n" + " Is utterly bereft you; all is lost.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Cold news, Lord Somerset: but God's will be done!\n\n" + "YORK [Aside] Cold news for me; for I had hope of France\n" + " As firmly as I hope for fertile England.\n" + " Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud\n" + " And caterpillars eat my leaves away;\n" + " But I will remedy this gear ere long,\n" + " Or sell my title for a glorious grave.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER All happiness unto my lord the king!\n" + " Pardon, my liege, that I have stay'd so long.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Nay, Gloucester, know that thou art come too soon,\n" + " Unless thou wert more loyal than thou art:\n" + " I do arrest thee of high treason here.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well, Suffolk, thou shalt not see me blush\n" + " Nor change my countenance for this arrest:\n" + " A heart unspotted is not easily daunted.\n" + " The purest spring is not so free from mud\n" + " As I am clear from treason to my sovereign:\n" + " Who can accuse me? wherein am I guilty?\n\n" + "YORK 'Tis thought, my lord, that you took bribes of France,\n" + " And, being protector, stayed the soldiers' pay;\n" + " By means whereof his highness hath lost France.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Is it but thought so? what are they that think it?\n" + " I never robb'd the soldiers of their pay,\n" + " Nor ever had one penny bribe from France.\n" + " So help me God, as I have watch'd the night,\n" + " Ay, night by night, in studying good for England,\n" + " That doit that e'er I wrested from the king,\n" + " Or any groat I hoarded to my use,\n" + " Be brought against me at my trial-day!\n" + " No; many a pound of mine own proper store,\n" + " Because I would not tax the needy commons,\n" + " Have I disbursed to the garrisons,\n" + " And never ask'd for restitution.\n\n" + "CARDINAL It serves you well, my lord, to say so much.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I say no more than truth, so help me God!\n\n" + "YORK In your protectorship you did devise\n" + " Strange tortures for offenders never heard of,\n" + " That England was defamed by tyranny.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, 'tis well known that, whiles I was\n" + " protector,\n" + " Pity was all the fault that was in me;\n" + " For I should melt at an offender's tears,\n" + " And lowly words were ransom for their fault.\n" + " Unless it were a bloody murderer,\n" + " Or foul felonious thief that fleeced poor passengers,\n" + " I never gave them condign punishment:\n" + " Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured\n" + " Above the felon or what trespass else.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK My lord, these faults are easy, quickly answered:\n" + " But mightier crimes are laid unto your charge,\n" + " Whereof you cannot easily purge yourself.\n" + " I do arrest you in his highness' name;\n" + " And here commit you to my lord cardinal\n" + " To keep, until your further time of trial.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My lord of Gloucester, 'tis my special hope\n" + " That you will clear yourself from all suspect:\n" + " My conscience tells me you are innocent.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ah, gracious lord, these days are dangerous:\n" + " Virtue is choked with foul ambition\n" + " And charity chased hence by rancour's hand;\n" + " Foul subornation is predominant\n" + " And equity exiled your highness' land.\n" + " I know their complot is to have my life,\n" + " And if my death might make this island happy,\n" + " And prove the period of their tyranny,\n" + " I would expend it with all willingness:\n" + " But mine is made the prologue to their play;\n" + " For thousands more, that yet suspect no peril,\n" + " Will not conclude their plotted tragedy.\n" + " Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's malice,\n" + " And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate;\n" + " Sharp Buckingham unburthens with his tongue\n" + " The envious load that lies upon his heart;\n" + " And dogged York, that reaches at the moon,\n" + " Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd back,\n" + " By false accuse doth level at my life:\n" + " And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest,\n" + " Causeless have laid disgraces on my head,\n" + " And with your best endeavour have stirr'd up\n" + " My liefest liege to be mine enemy:\n" + " Ay, all you have laid your heads together--\n" + " Myself had notice of your conventicles--\n" + " And all to make away my guiltless life.\n" + " I shall not want false witness to condemn me,\n" + " Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt;\n" + " The ancient proverb will be well effected:\n" + " 'A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.'\n\n" + "CARDINAL My liege, his railing is intolerable:\n" + " If those that care to keep your royal person\n" + " From treason's secret knife and traitors' rage\n" + " Be thus upbraided, chid and rated at,\n" + " And the offender granted scope of speech,\n" + " 'Twill make them cool in zeal unto your grace.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Hath he not twit our sovereign lady here\n" + " With ignominious words, though clerkly couch'd,\n" + " As if she had suborned some to swear\n" + " False allegations to o'erthrow his state?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET But I can give the loser leave to chide.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Far truer spoke than meant: I lose, indeed;\n" + " Beshrew the winners, for they play'd me false!\n" + " And well such losers may have leave to speak.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM He'll wrest the sense and hold us here all day:\n" + " Lord cardinal, he is your prisoner.\n\n" + "CARDINAL Sirs, take away the duke, and guard him sure.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ah! thus King Henry throws away his crutch\n" + " Before his legs be firm to bear his body.\n" + " Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side,\n" + " And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first.\n" + " Ah, that my fear were false! ah, that it were!\n" + " For, good King Henry, thy decay I fear.\n\n" + " [Exit, guarded]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My lords, what to your wisdoms seemeth best,\n" + " Do or undo, as if ourself were here.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET What, will your highness leave the parliament?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ay, Margaret; my heart is drown'd with grief,\n" + " Whose flood begins to flow within mine eyes,\n" + " My body round engirt with misery,\n" + " For what's more miserable than discontent?\n" + " Ah, uncle Humphrey! in thy face I see\n" + " The map of honour, truth and loyalty:\n" + " And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come\n" + " That e'er I proved thee false or fear'd thy faith.\n" + " What louring star now envies thy estate,\n" + " That these great lords and Margaret our queen\n" + " Do seek subversion of thy harmless life?\n" + " Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man wrong;\n" + " And as the butcher takes away the calf\n" + " And binds the wretch, and beats it when it strays,\n" + " Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house,\n" + " Even so remorseless have they borne him hence;\n" + " And as the dam runs lowing up and down,\n" + " Looking the way her harmless young one went,\n" + " And can do nought but wail her darling's loss,\n" + " Even so myself bewails good Gloucester's case\n" + " With sad unhelpful tears, and with dimm'd eyes\n" + " Look after him and cannot do him good,\n" + " So mighty are his vowed enemies.\n" + " His fortunes I will weep; and, 'twixt each groan\n" + " Say 'Who's a traitor? Gloucester he is none.'\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET, CARDINAL,\n" + " SUFFOLK, and YORK; SOMERSET remains apart]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams.\n" + " Henry my lord is cold in great affairs,\n" + " Too full of foolish pity, and Gloucester's show\n" + " Beguiles him as the mournful crocodile\n" + " With sorrow snares relenting passengers,\n" + " Or as the snake roll'd in a flowering bank,\n" + " With shining chequer'd slough, doth sting a child\n" + " That for the beauty thinks it excellent.\n" + " Believe me, lords, were none more wise than I--\n" + " And yet herein I judge mine own wit good--\n" + " This Gloucester should be quickly rid the world,\n" + " To rid us of the fear we have of him.\n\n" + "CARDINAL That he should die is worthy policy;\n" + " But yet we want a colour for his death:\n" + " 'Tis meet he be condemn'd by course of law.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK But, in my mind, that were no policy:\n" + " The king will labour still to save his life,\n" + " The commons haply rise, to save his life;\n" + " And yet we have but trivial argument,\n" + " More than mistrust, that shows him worthy death.\n\n" + "YORK So that, by this, you would not have him die.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Ah, York, no man alive so fain as I!\n\n" + "YORK 'Tis York that hath more reason for his death.\n" + " But, my lord cardinal, and you, my Lord of Suffolk,\n" + " Say as you think, and speak it from your souls,\n" + " Were't not all one, an empty eagle were set\n" + " To guard the chicken from a hungry kite,\n" + " As place Duke Humphrey for the king's protector?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET So the poor chicken should be sure of death.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Madam, 'tis true; and were't not madness, then,\n" + " To make the fox surveyor of the fold?\n" + " Who being accused a crafty murderer,\n" + " His guilt should be but idly posted over,\n" + " Because his purpose is not executed.\n" + " No; let him die, in that he is a fox,\n" + " By nature proved an enemy to the flock,\n" + " Before his chaps be stain'd with crimson blood,\n" + " As Humphrey, proved by reasons, to my liege.\n" + " And do not stand on quillets how to slay him:\n" + " Be it by gins, by snares, by subtlety,\n" + " Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how,\n" + " So he be dead; for that is good deceit\n" + " Which mates him first that first intends deceit.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Thrice-noble Suffolk, 'tis resolutely spoke.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Not resolute, except so much were done;\n" + " For things are often spoke and seldom meant:\n" + " But that my heart accordeth with my tongue,\n" + " Seeing the deed is meritorious,\n" + " And to preserve my sovereign from his foe,\n" + " Say but the word, and I will be his priest.\n\n" + "CARDINAL But I would have him dead, my Lord of Suffolk,\n" + " Ere you can take due orders for a priest:\n" + " Say you consent and censure well the deed,\n" + " And I'll provide his executioner,\n" + " I tender so the safety of my liege.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Here is my hand, the deed is worthy doing.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And so say I.\n\n" + "YORK And I and now we three have spoke it,\n" + " It skills not greatly who impugns our doom.\n\n" + " [Enter a Post]\n\n" + "Post Great lords, from Ireland am I come amain,\n" + " To signify that rebels there are up\n" + " And put the Englishmen unto the sword:\n" + " Send succors, lords, and stop the rage betime,\n" + " Before the wound do grow uncurable;\n" + " For, being green, there is great hope of help.\n\n" + "CARDINAL A breach that craves a quick expedient stop!\n" + " What counsel give you in this weighty cause?\n\n" + "YORK That Somerset be sent as regent thither:\n" + " 'Tis meet that lucky ruler be employ'd;\n" + " Witness the fortune he hath had in France.\n\n" + "SOMERSET If York, with all his far-fet policy,\n" + " Had been the regent there instead of me,\n" + " He never would have stay'd in France so long.\n\n" + "YORK No, not to lose it all, as thou hast done:\n" + " I rather would have lost my life betimes\n" + " Than bring a burthen of dishonour home\n" + " By staying there so long till all were lost.\n" + " Show me one scar character'd on thy skin:\n" + " Men's flesh preserved so whole do seldom win.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Nay, then, this spark will prove a raging fire,\n" + " If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with:\n" + " No more, good York; sweet Somerset, be still:\n" + " Thy fortune, York, hadst thou been regent there,\n" + " Might happily have proved far worse than his.\n\n" + "YORK What, worse than nought? nay, then, a shame take all!\n\n" + "SOMERSET And, in the number, thee that wishest shame!\n\n" + "CARDINAL My Lord of York, try what your fortune is.\n" + " The uncivil kerns of Ireland are in arms\n" + " And temper clay with blood of Englishmen:\n" + " To Ireland will you lead a band of men,\n" + " Collected choicely, from each county some,\n" + " And try your hap against the Irishmen?\n\n" + "YORK I will, my lord, so please his majesty.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Why, our authority is his consent,\n" + " And what we do establish he confirms:\n" + " Then, noble York, take thou this task in hand.\n\n" + "YORK I am content: provide me soldiers, lords,\n" + " Whiles I take order for mine own affairs.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK A charge, Lord York, that I will see perform'd.\n" + " But now return we to the false Duke Humphrey.\n\n" + "CARDINAL No more of him; for I will deal with him\n" + " That henceforth he shall trouble us no more.\n" + " And so break off; the day is almost spent:\n" + " Lord Suffolk, you and I must talk of that event.\n\n" + "YORK My Lord of Suffolk, within fourteen days\n" + " At Bristol I expect my soldiers;\n" + " For there I'll ship them all for Ireland.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I'll see it truly done, my Lord of York.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but YORK]\n\n" + "YORK Now, York, or never, steel thy fearful thoughts,\n" + " And change misdoubt to resolution:\n" + " Be that thou hopest to be, or what thou art\n" + " Resign to death; it is not worth the enjoying:\n" + " Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man,\n" + " And find no harbour in a royal heart.\n" + " Faster than spring-time showers comes thought\n" + " on thought,\n" + " And not a thought but thinks on dignity.\n" + " My brain more busy than the labouring spider\n" + " Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.\n" + " Well, nobles, well, 'tis politicly done,\n" + " To send me packing with an host of men:\n" + " I fear me you but warm the starved snake,\n" + " Who, cherish'd in your breasts, will sting\n" + " your hearts.\n" + " 'Twas men I lack'd and you will give them me:\n" + " I take it kindly; and yet be well assured\n" + " You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands.\n" + " Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band,\n" + " I will stir up in England some black storm\n" + " Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell;\n" + " And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage\n" + " Until the golden circuit on my head,\n" + " Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams,\n" + " Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw.\n" + " And, for a minister of my intent,\n" + " I have seduced a headstrong Kentishman,\n" + " John Cade of Ashford,\n" + " To make commotion, as full well he can,\n" + " Under the title of John Mortimer.\n" + " In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade\n" + " Oppose himself against a troop of kerns,\n" + " And fought so long, till that his thighs with darts\n" + " Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine;\n" + " And, in the end being rescued, I have seen\n" + " Him caper upright like a wild Morisco,\n" + " Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.\n" + " Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty kern,\n" + " Hath he conversed with the enemy,\n" + " And undiscover'd come to me again\n" + " And given me notice of their villanies.\n" + " This devil here shall be my substitute;\n" + " For that John Mortimer, which now is dead,\n" + " In face, in gait, in speech, he doth resemble:\n" + " By this I shall perceive the commons' mind,\n" + " How they affect the house and claim of York.\n" + " Say he be taken, rack'd and tortured,\n" + " I know no pain they can inflict upon him\n" + " Will make him say I moved him to those arms.\n" + " Say that he thrive, as 'tis great like he will,\n" + " Why, then from Ireland come I with my strength\n" + " And reap the harvest which that rascal sow'd;\n" + " For Humphrey being dead, as he shall be,\n" + " And Henry put apart, the next for me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Bury St. Edmund's. A room of state.\n\n\n" + " [Enter certain Murderers, hastily]\n\n" + "First Murderer Run to my Lord of Suffolk; let him know\n" + " We have dispatch'd the duke, as he commanded.\n\n" + "Second Murderer O that it were to do! What have we done?\n" + " Didst ever hear a man so penitent?\n\n" + " [Enter SUFFOLK]\n\n" + "First Murder Here comes my lord.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Now, sirs, have you dispatch'd this thing?\n\n" + "First Murderer Ay, my good lord, he's dead.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Why, that's well said. Go, get you to my house;\n" + " I will reward you for this venturous deed.\n" + " The king and all the peers are here at hand.\n" + " Have you laid fair the bed? Is all things well,\n" + " According as I gave directions?\n\n" + "First Murderer 'Tis, my good lord.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Away! be gone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Murderers]\n\n" + " [Sound trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN\n" + " MARGARET, CARDINAL, SOMERSET, with Attendants]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Go, call our uncle to our presence straight;\n" + " Say we intend to try his grace to-day.\n" + " If he be guilty, as 'tis published.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I'll call him presently, my noble lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Lords, take your places; and, I pray you all,\n" + " Proceed no straiter 'gainst our uncle Gloucester\n" + " Than from true evidence of good esteem\n" + " He be approved in practise culpable.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET God forbid any malice should prevail,\n" + " That faultless may condemn a nobleman!\n" + " Pray God he may acquit him of suspicion!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I thank thee, Meg; these words content me much.\n\n" + " [Re-enter SUFFOLK]\n\n" + " How now! why look'st thou pale? why tremblest thou?\n" + " Where is our uncle? what's the matter, Suffolk?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Dead in his bed, my lord; Gloucester is dead.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Marry, God forfend!\n\n" + "CARDINAL God's secret judgment: I did dream to-night\n" + " The duke was dumb and could not speak a word.\n\n" + " [KING HENRY VI swoons]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET How fares my lord? Help, lords! the king is dead.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Rear up his body; wring him by the nose.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Run, go, help, help! O Henry, ope thine eyes!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK He doth revive again: madam, be patient.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O heavenly God!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET How fares my gracious lord?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Comfort, my sovereign! gracious Henry, comfort!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI What, doth my Lord of Suffolk comfort me?\n" + " Came he right now to sing a raven's note,\n" + " Whose dismal tune bereft my vital powers;\n" + " And thinks he that the chirping of a wren,\n" + " By crying comfort from a hollow breast,\n" + " Can chase away the first-conceived sound?\n" + " Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words;\n" + " Lay not thy hands on me; forbear, I say;\n" + " Their touch affrights me as a serpent's sting.\n" + " Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight!\n" + " Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny\n" + " Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world.\n" + " Look not upon me, for thine eyes are wounding:\n" + " Yet do not go away: come, basilisk,\n" + " And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight;\n" + " For in the shade of death I shall find joy;\n" + " In life but double death, now Gloucester's dead.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolk thus?\n" + " Although the duke was enemy to him,\n" + " Yet he most Christian-like laments his death:\n" + " And for myself, foe as he was to me,\n" + " Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans\n" + " Or blood-consuming sighs recall his life,\n" + " I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans,\n" + " Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs,\n" + " And all to have the noble duke alive.\n" + " What know I how the world may deem of me?\n" + " For it is known we were but hollow friends:\n" + " It may be judged I made the duke away;\n" + " So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded,\n" + " And princes' courts be fill'd with my reproach.\n" + " This get I by his death: ay me, unhappy!\n" + " To be a queen, and crown'd with infamy!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ah, woe is me for Gloucester, wretched man!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Be woe for me, more wretched than he is.\n" + " What, dost thou turn away and hide thy face?\n" + " I am no loathsome leper; look on me.\n" + " What! art thou, like the adder, waxen deaf?\n" + " Be poisonous too and kill thy forlorn queen.\n" + " Is all thy comfort shut in Gloucester's tomb?\n" + " Why, then, dame Margaret was ne'er thy joy.\n" + " Erect his statue and worship it,\n" + " And make my image but an alehouse sign.\n" + " Was I for this nigh wreck'd upon the sea\n" + " And twice by awkward wind from England's bank\n" + " Drove back again unto my native clime?\n" + " What boded this, but well forewarning wind\n" + " Did seem to say 'Seek not a scorpion's nest,\n" + " Nor set no footing on this unkind shore'?\n" + " What did I then, but cursed the gentle gusts\n" + " And he that loosed them forth their brazen caves:\n" + " And bid them blow towards England's blessed shore,\n" + " Or turn our stern upon a dreadful rock\n" + " Yet AEolus would not be a murderer,\n" + " But left that hateful office unto thee:\n" + " The pretty-vaulting sea refused to drown me,\n" + " Knowing that thou wouldst have me drown'd on shore,\n" + " With tears as salt as sea, through thy unkindness:\n" + " The splitting rocks cower'd in the sinking sands\n" + " And would not dash me with their ragged sides,\n" + " Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they,\n" + " Might in thy palace perish Margaret.\n" + " As far as I could ken thy chalky cliffs,\n" + " When from thy shore the tempest beat us back,\n" + " I stood upon the hatches in the storm,\n" + " And when the dusky sky began to rob\n" + " My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's view,\n" + " I took a costly jewel from my neck,\n" + " A heart it was, bound in with diamonds,\n" + " And threw it towards thy land: the sea received it,\n" + " And so I wish'd thy body might my heart:\n" + " And even with this I lost fair England's view\n" + " And bid mine eyes be packing with my heart\n" + " And call'd them blind and dusky spectacles,\n" + " For losing ken of Albion's wished coast.\n" + " How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue,\n" + " The agent of thy foul inconstancy,\n" + " To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did\n" + " When he to madding Dido would unfold\n" + " His father's acts commenced in burning Troy!\n" + " Am I not witch'd like her? or thou not false like him?\n" + " Ay me, I can no more! die, Margaret!\n" + " For Henry weeps that thou dost live so long.\n\n" + " [Noise within. Enter WARWICK, SALISBURY, and many Commons]\n\n" + "WARWICK It is reported, mighty sovereign,\n" + " That good Duke Humphrey traitorously is murder'd\n" + " By Suffolk and the Cardinal Beaufort's means.\n" + " The commons, like an angry hive of bees\n" + " That want their leader, scatter up and down\n" + " And care not who they sting in his revenge.\n" + " Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny,\n" + " Until they hear the order of his death.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI That he is dead, good Warwick, 'tis too true;\n" + " But how he died God knows, not Henry:\n" + " Enter his chamber, view his breathless corpse,\n" + " And comment then upon his sudden death.\n\n" + "WARWICK That shall I do, my liege. Stay, Salisbury,\n" + " With the rude multitude till I return.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O Thou that judgest all things, stay my thoughts,\n" + " My thoughts, that labour to persuade my soul\n" + " Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life!\n" + " If my suspect be false, forgive me, God,\n" + " For judgment only doth belong to thee.\n" + " Fain would I go to chafe his paly lips\n" + " With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain\n" + " Upon his face an ocean of salt tears,\n" + " To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk,\n" + " And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling:\n" + " But all in vain are these mean obsequies;\n" + " And to survey his dead and earthly image,\n" + " What were it but to make my sorrow greater?\n\n" + " [Re-enter WARWICK and others, bearing\n" + " GLOUCESTER'S body on a bed]\n\n" + "WARWICK Come hither, gracious sovereign, view this body.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI That is to see how deep my grave is made;\n" + " For with his soul fled all my worldly solace,\n" + " For seeing him I see my life in death.\n\n" + "WARWICK As surely as my soul intends to live\n" + " With that dread King that took our state upon him\n" + " To free us from his father's wrathful curse,\n" + " I do believe that violent hands were laid\n" + " Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK A dreadful oath, sworn with a solemn tongue!\n" + " What instance gives Lord Warwick for his vow?\n\n" + "WARWICK See how the blood is settled in his face.\n" + " Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost,\n" + " Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale and bloodless,\n" + " Being all descended to the labouring heart;\n" + " Who, in the conflict that it holds with death,\n" + " Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy;\n" + " Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth\n" + " To blush and beautify the cheek again.\n" + " But see, his face is black and full of blood,\n" + " His eye-balls further out than when he lived,\n" + " Staring full ghastly like a strangled man;\n" + " His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretched with struggling;\n" + " His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd\n" + " And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued:\n" + " Look, on the sheets his hair you see, is sticking;\n" + " His well-proportion'd beard made rough and rugged,\n" + " Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodged.\n" + " It cannot be but he was murder'd here;\n" + " The least of all these signs were probable.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Why, Warwick, who should do the duke to death?\n" + " Myself and Beaufort had him in protection;\n" + " And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers.\n\n" + "WARWICK But both of you were vow'd Duke Humphrey's foes,\n" + " And you, forsooth, had the good duke to keep:\n" + " 'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend;\n" + " And 'tis well seen he found an enemy.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Then you, belike, suspect these noblemen\n" + " As guilty of Duke Humphrey's timeless death.\n\n" + "WARWICK Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh\n" + " And sees fast by a butcher with an axe,\n" + " But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?\n" + " Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,\n" + " But may imagine how the bird was dead,\n" + " Although the kite soar with unbloodied beak?\n" + " Even so suspicious is this tragedy.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Are you the butcher, Suffolk? Where's your knife?\n" + " Is Beaufort term'd a kite? Where are his talons?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men;\n" + " But here's a vengeful sword, rusted with ease,\n" + " That shall be scoured in his rancorous heart\n" + " That slanders me with murder's crimson badge.\n" + " Say, if thou darest, proud Lord of Warwick-shire,\n" + " That I am faulty in Duke Humphrey's death.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CARDINAL, SOMERSET, and others]\n\n" + "WARWICK What dares not Warwick, if false Suffolk dare him?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET He dares not calm his contumelious spirit\n" + " Nor cease to be an arrogant controller,\n" + " Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand times.\n\n" + "WARWICK Madam, be still; with reverence may I say;\n" + " For every word you speak in his behalf\n" + " Is slander to your royal dignity.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanor!\n" + " If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much,\n" + " Thy mother took into her blameful bed\n" + " Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock\n" + " Was graft with crab-tree slip; whose fruit thou art,\n" + " And never of the Nevils' noble race.\n\n" + "WARWICK But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee\n" + " And I should rob the deathsman of his fee,\n" + " Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand shames,\n" + " And that my sovereign's presence makes me mild,\n" + " I would, false murderous coward, on thy knee\n" + " Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech,\n" + " And say it was thy mother that thou meant'st\n" + " That thou thyself was born in bastardy;\n" + " And after all this fearful homage done,\n" + " Give thee thy hire and send thy soul to hell,\n" + " Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thou shall be waking well I shed thy blood,\n" + " If from this presence thou darest go with me.\n\n" + "WARWICK Away even now, or I will drag thee hence:\n" + " Unworthy though thou art, I'll cope with thee\n" + " And do some service to Duke Humphrey's ghost.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SUFFOLK and WARWICK]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!\n" + " Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,\n" + " And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel\n" + " Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.\n\n" + " [A noise within]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET What noise is this?\n\n" + " [Re-enter SUFFOLK and WARWICK, with their\n" + " weapons drawn]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, how now, lords! your wrathful weapons drawn\n" + " Here in our presence! dare you be so bold?\n" + " Why, what tumultuous clamour have we here?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK The traitorous Warwick with the men of Bury\n" + " Set all upon me, mighty sovereign.\n\n" + "SALISBURY [To the Commons, entering] Sirs, stand apart;\n" + " the king shall know your mind.\n" + " Dread lord, the commons send you word by me,\n" + " Unless Lord Suffolk straight be done to death,\n" + " Or banished fair England's territories,\n" + " They will by violence tear him from your palace\n" + " And torture him with grievous lingering death.\n" + " They say, by him the good Duke Humphrey died;\n" + " They say, in him they fear your highness' death;\n" + " And mere instinct of love and loyalty,\n" + " Free from a stubborn opposite intent,\n" + " As being thought to contradict your liking,\n" + " Makes them thus forward in his banishment.\n" + " They say, in care of your most royal person,\n" + " That if your highness should intend to sleep\n" + " And charge that no man should disturb your rest\n" + " In pain of your dislike or pain of death,\n" + " Yet, notwithstanding such a strait edict,\n" + " Were there a serpent seen, with forked tongue,\n" + " That slily glided towards your majesty,\n" + " It were but necessary you were waked,\n" + " Lest, being suffer'd in that harmful slumber,\n" + " The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal;\n" + " And therefore do they cry, though you forbid,\n" + " That they will guard you, whether you will or no,\n" + " From such fell serpents as false Suffolk is,\n" + " With whose envenomed and fatal sting,\n" + " Your loving uncle, twenty times his worth,\n" + " They say, is shamefully bereft of life.\n\n" + "Commons [Within] An answer from the king, my\n" + " Lord of Salisbury!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK 'Tis like the commons, rude unpolish'd hinds,\n" + " Could send such message to their sovereign:\n" + " But you, my lord, were glad to be employ'd,\n" + " To show how quaint an orator you are:\n" + " But all the honour Salisbury hath won\n" + " Is, that he was the lord ambassador\n" + " Sent from a sort of tinkers to the king.\n\n" + "Commons [Within] An answer from the king, or we will all break in!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Go, Salisbury, and tell them all from me.\n" + " I thank them for their tender loving care;\n" + " And had I not been cited so by them,\n" + " Yet did I purpose as they do entreat;\n" + " For, sure, my thoughts do hourly prophesy\n" + " Mischance unto my state by Suffolk's means:\n" + " And therefore, by His majesty I swear,\n" + " Whose far unworthy deputy I am,\n" + " He shall not breathe infection in this air\n" + " But three days longer, on the pain of death.\n\n" + " [Exit SALISBURY]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET O Henry, let me plead for gentle Suffolk!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ungentle queen, to call him gentle Suffolk!\n" + " No more, I say: if thou dost plead for him,\n" + " Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath.\n" + " Had I but said, I would have kept my word,\n" + " But when I swear, it is irrevocable.\n" + " If, after three days' space, thou here be'st found\n" + " On any ground that I am ruler of,\n" + " The world shall not be ransom for thy life.\n" + " Come, Warwick, come, good Warwick, go with me;\n" + " I have great matters to impart to thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but QUEEN MARGARET and SUFFOLK]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Mischance and sorrow go along with you!\n" + " Heart's discontent and sour affliction\n" + " Be playfellows to keep you company!\n" + " There's two of you; the devil make a third!\n" + " And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Cease, gentle queen, these execrations,\n" + " And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!\n" + " Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?\n" + " Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan,\n" + " I would invent as bitter-searching terms,\n" + " As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear,\n" + " Deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth,\n" + " With full as many signs of deadly hate,\n" + " As lean-faced Envy in her loathsome cave:\n" + " My tongue should stumble in mine earnest words;\n" + " Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten flint;\n" + " Mine hair be fixed on end, as one distract;\n" + " Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:\n" + " And even now my burthen'd heart would break,\n" + " Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!\n" + " Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!\n" + " Their sweetest shade a grove of cypress trees!\n" + " Their chiefest prospect murdering basilisks!\n" + " Their softest touch as smart as lizards' sting!\n" + " Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss,\n" + " And boding screech-owls make the concert full!\n" + " All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell--\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Enough, sweet Suffolk; thou torment'st thyself;\n" + " And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass,\n" + " Or like an overcharged gun, recoil,\n" + " And turn the force of them upon thyself.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?\n" + " Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,\n" + " Well could I curse away a winter's night,\n" + " Though standing naked on a mountain top,\n" + " Where biting cold would never let grass grow,\n" + " And think it but a minute spent in sport.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET O, let me entreat thee cease. Give me thy hand,\n" + " That I may dew it with my mournful tears;\n" + " Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,\n" + " To wash away my woful monuments.\n" + " O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand,\n" + " That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,\n" + " Through whom a thousand sighs are breathed for thee!\n" + " So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief;\n" + " 'Tis but surmised whiles thou art standing by,\n" + " As one that surfeits thinking on a want.\n" + " I will repeal thee, or, be well assured,\n" + " Adventure to be banished myself:\n" + " And banished I am, if but from thee.\n" + " Go; speak not to me; even now be gone.\n" + " O, go not yet! Even thus two friends condemn'd\n" + " Embrace and kiss and take ten thousand leaves,\n" + " Loather a hundred times to part than die.\n" + " Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished;\n" + " Once by the king, and three times thrice by thee.\n" + " 'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence;\n" + " A wilderness is populous enough,\n" + " So Suffolk had thy heavenly company:\n" + " For where thou art, there is the world itself,\n" + " With every several pleasure in the world,\n" + " And where thou art not, desolation.\n" + " I can no more: live thou to joy thy life;\n" + " Myself no joy in nought but that thou livest.\n\n" + " [Enter VAUX]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Wither goes Vaux so fast? what news, I prithee?\n\n" + "VAUX To signify unto his majesty\n" + " That Cardinal Beaufort is at point of death;\n" + " For suddenly a grievous sickness took him,\n" + " That makes him gasp and stare and catch the air,\n" + " Blaspheming God and cursing men on earth.\n" + " Sometimes he talks as if Duke Humphrey's ghost\n" + " Were by his side; sometime he calls the king,\n" + " And whispers to his pillow, as to him,\n" + " The secrets of his overcharged soul;\n" + " And I am sent to tell his majesty\n" + " That even now he cries aloud for him.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Go tell this heavy message to the king.\n\n" + " [Exit VAUX]\n\n" + " Ay me! what is this world! what news are these!\n" + " But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss,\n" + " Omitting Suffolk's exile, my soul's treasure?\n" + " Why only, Suffolk, mourn I not for thee,\n" + " And with the southern clouds contend in tears,\n" + " Theirs for the earth's increase, mine for my sorrows?\n" + " Now get thee hence: the king, thou know'st, is coming;\n" + " If thou be found by me, thou art but dead.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK If I depart from thee, I cannot live;\n" + " And in thy sight to die, what were it else\n" + " But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap?\n" + " Here could I breathe my soul into the air,\n" + " As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe\n" + " Dying with mother's dug between its lips:\n" + " Where, from thy sight, I should be raging mad,\n" + " And cry out for thee to close up mine eyes,\n" + " To have thee with thy lips to stop my mouth;\n" + " So shouldst thou either turn my flying soul,\n" + " Or I should breathe it so into thy body,\n" + " And then it lived in sweet Elysium.\n" + " To die by thee were but to die in jest;\n" + " From thee to die were torture more than death:\n" + " O, let me stay, befall what may befall!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Away! though parting be a fretful corrosive,\n" + " It is applied to a deathful wound.\n" + " To France, sweet Suffolk: let me hear from thee;\n" + " For wheresoe'er thou art in this world's globe,\n" + " I'll have an Iris that shall find thee out.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I go.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And take my heart with thee.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK A jewel, lock'd into the wofull'st cask\n" + " That ever did contain a thing of worth.\n" + " Even as a splitted bark, so sunder we\n" + " This way fall I to death.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET This way for me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A bedchamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the KING, SALISBURY, WARWICK, to the\n" + " CARDINAL in bed]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI How fares my lord? speak, Beaufort, to\n" + " thy sovereign.\n\n" + "CARDINAL If thou be'st death, I'll give thee England's treasure,\n" + " Enough to purchase such another island,\n" + " So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,\n" + " Where death's approach is seen so terrible!\n\n" + "WARWICK Beaufort, it is thy sovereign speaks to thee.\n\n" + "CARDINAL Bring me unto my trial when you will.\n" + " Died he not in his bed? where should he die?\n" + " Can I make men live, whether they will or no?\n" + " O, torture me no more! I will confess.\n" + " Alive again? then show me where he is:\n" + " I'll give a thousand pound to look upon him.\n" + " He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them.\n" + " Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright,\n" + " Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul.\n" + " Give me some drink; and bid the apothecary\n" + " Bring the strong poison that I bought of him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O thou eternal Mover of the heavens.\n" + " Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch!\n" + " O, beat away the busy meddling fiend\n" + " That lays strong siege unto this wretch's soul.\n" + " And from his bosom purge this black despair!\n\n" + "WARWICK See, how the pangs of death do make him grin!\n\n" + "SALISBURY Disturb him not; let him pass peaceably.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be!\n" + " Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss,\n" + " Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope.\n" + " He dies, and makes no sign. O God, forgive him!\n\n" + "WARWICK So bad a death argues a monstrous life.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.\n" + " Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close;\n" + " And let us all to meditation.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The coast of Kent.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Fight at sea. Ordnance goes off. Enter a\n" + " Captain, a Master, a Master's-mate, WALTER WHITMORE,\n" + " and others; with them SUFFOLK, and others, prisoners]\n\n" + "Captain The gaudy, blabbing and remorseful day\n" + " Is crept into the bosom of the sea;\n" + " And now loud-howling wolves arouse the jades\n" + " That drag the tragic melancholy night;\n" + " Who, with their drowsy, slow and flagging wings,\n" + " Clip dead men's graves and from their misty jaws\n" + " Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air.\n" + " Therefore bring forth the soldiers of our prize;\n" + " For, whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs,\n" + " Here shall they make their ransom on the sand,\n" + " Or with their blood stain this discolour'd shore.\n" + " Master, this prisoner freely give I thee;\n" + " And thou that art his mate, make boot of this;\n" + " The other, Walter Whitmore, is thy share.\n\n" + "First Gentleman What is my ransom, master? let me know.\n\n" + "Master A thousand crowns, or else lay down your head.\n\n" + "Master's-Mate And so much shall you give, or off goes yours.\n\n" + "Captain What, think you much to pay two thousand crowns,\n" + " And bear the name and port of gentlemen?\n" + " Cut both the villains' throats; for die you shall:\n" + " The lives of those which we have lost in fight\n" + " Be counterpoised with such a petty sum!\n\n" + "First Gentleman I'll give it, sir; and therefore spare my life.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman And so will I and write home for it straight.\n\n" + "WHITMORE I lost mine eye in laying the prize aboard,\n" + " And therefore to revenge it, shalt thou die;\n\n" + " [To SUFFOLK]\n\n" + " And so should these, if I might have my will.\n\n" + "Captain Be not so rash; take ransom, let him live.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Look on my George; I am a gentleman:\n" + " Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid.\n\n" + "WHITMORE And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore.\n" + " How now! why start'st thou? what, doth\n" + " death affright?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death.\n" + " A cunning man did calculate my birth\n" + " And told me that by water I should die:\n" + " Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded;\n" + " Thy name is Gaultier, being rightly sounded.\n\n" + "WHITMORE Gaultier or Walter, which it is, I care not:\n" + " Never yet did base dishonour blur our name,\n" + " But with our sword we wiped away the blot;\n" + " Therefore, when merchant-like I sell revenge,\n" + " Broke be my sword, my arms torn and defaced,\n" + " And I proclaim'd a coward through the world!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Stay, Whitmore; for thy prisoner is a prince,\n" + " The Duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole.\n\n" + "WHITMORE The Duke of Suffolk muffled up in rags!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Ay, but these rags are no part of the duke:\n" + " Jove sometimes went disguised, and why not I?\n\n" + "Captain But Jove was never slain, as thou shalt be.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Obscure and lowly swain, King Henry's blood,\n" + " The honourable blood of Lancaster,\n" + " Must not be shed by such a jaded groom.\n" + " Hast thou not kiss'd thy hand and held my stirrup?\n" + " Bare-headed plodded by my foot-cloth mule\n" + " And thought thee happy when I shook my head?\n" + " How often hast thou waited at my cup,\n" + " Fed from my trencher, kneel'd down at the board.\n" + " When I have feasted with Queen Margaret?\n" + " Remember it and let it make thee crest-fall'n,\n" + " Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride;\n" + " How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood\n" + " And duly waited for my coming forth?\n" + " This hand of mine hath writ in thy behalf,\n" + " And therefore shall it charm thy riotous tongue.\n\n" + "WHITMORE Speak, captain, shall I stab the forlorn swain?\n\n" + "Captain First let my words stab him, as he hath me.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Base slave, thy words are blunt and so art thou.\n\n" + "Captain Convey him hence and on our longboat's side\n" + " Strike off his head.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Thou darest not, for thy own.\n\n" + "Captain Yes, Pole.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Pole!\n\n" + "Captain Pool! Sir Pool! lord!\n" + " Ay, kennel, puddle, sink; whose filth and dirt\n" + " Troubles the silver spring where England drinks.\n" + " Now will I dam up this thy yawning mouth\n" + " For swallowing the treasure of the realm:\n" + " Thy lips that kiss'd the queen shall sweep the ground;\n" + " And thou that smiledst at good Duke Humphrey's death,\n" + " Against the senseless winds shalt grin in vain,\n" + " Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again:\n" + " And wedded be thou to the hags of hell,\n" + " For daring to affy a mighty lord\n" + " Unto the daughter of a worthless king,\n" + " Having neither subject, wealth, nor diadem.\n" + " By devilish policy art thou grown great,\n" + " And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorged\n" + " With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding heart.\n" + " By thee Anjou and Maine were sold to France,\n" + " The false revolting Normans thorough thee\n" + " Disdain to call us lord, and Picardy\n" + " Hath slain their governors, surprised our forts,\n" + " And sent the ragged soldiers wounded home.\n" + " The princely Warwick, and the Nevils all,\n" + " Whose dreadful swords were never drawn in vain,\n" + " As hating thee, are rising up in arms:\n" + " And now the house of York, thrust from the crown\n" + " By shameful murder of a guiltless king\n" + " And lofty proud encroaching tyranny,\n" + " Burns with revenging fire; whose hopeful colours\n" + " Advance our half-faced sun, striving to shine,\n" + " Under the which is writ 'Invitis nubibus.'\n" + " The commons here in Kent are up in arms:\n" + " And, to conclude, reproach and beggary\n" + " Is crept into the palace of our king.\n" + " And all by thee. Away! convey him hence.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK O that I were a god, to shoot forth thunder\n" + " Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges!\n" + " Small things make base men proud: this villain here,\n" + " Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more\n" + " Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate.\n" + " Drones suck not eagles' blood but rob beehives:\n" + " It is impossible that I should die\n" + " By such a lowly vassal as thyself.\n" + " Thy words move rage and not remorse in me:\n" + " I go of message from the queen to France;\n" + " I charge thee waft me safely cross the Channel.\n\n" + "Captain Walter,--\n\n" + "WHITMORE Come, Suffolk, I must waft thee to thy death.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Gelidus timor occupat artus it is thee I fear.\n\n" + "WHITMORE Thou shalt have cause to fear before I leave thee.\n" + " What, are ye daunted now? now will ye stoop?\n\n" + "First Gentleman My gracious lord, entreat him, speak him fair.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and rough,\n" + " Used to command, untaught to plead for favour.\n" + " Far be it we should honour such as these\n" + " With humble suit: no, rather let my head\n" + " Stoop to the block than these knees bow to any\n" + " Save to the God of heaven and to my king;\n" + " And sooner dance upon a bloody pole\n" + " Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar groom.\n" + " True nobility is exempt from fear:\n" + " More can I bear than you dare execute.\n\n" + "Captain Hale him away, and let him talk no more.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Come, soldiers, show what cruelty ye can,\n" + " That this my death may never be forgot!\n" + " Great men oft die by vile bezonians:\n" + " A Roman sworder and banditto slave\n" + " Murder'd sweet Tully; Brutus' bastard hand\n" + " Stabb'd Julius Caesar; savage islanders\n" + " Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Whitmore and others with Suffolk]\n\n" + "Captain And as for these whose ransom we have set,\n" + " It is our pleasure one of them depart;\n" + " Therefore come you with us and let him go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but the First Gentleman]\n\n" + " [Re-enter WHITMORE with SUFFOLK's body]\n\n" + "WHITMORE There let his head and lifeless body lie,\n" + " Until the queen his mistress bury it.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Gentleman O barbarous and bloody spectacle!\n" + " His body will I bear unto the king:\n" + " If he revenge it not, yet will his friends;\n" + " So will the queen, that living held him dear.\n\n" + " [Exit with the body]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Blackheath.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GEORGE BEVIS and JOHN HOLLAND]\n\n" + "BEVIS Come, and get thee a sword, though made of a lath;\n" + " they have been up these two days.\n\n" + "HOLLAND They have the more need to sleep now, then.\n\n" + "BEVIS I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress\n" + " the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.\n\n" + "HOLLAND So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I say it\n" + " was never merry world in England since gentlemen came up.\n\n" + "BEVIS O miserable age! virtue is not regarded in handicrafts-men.\n\n" + "HOLLAND The nobility think scorn to go in leather aprons.\n\n" + "BEVIS Nay, more, the king's council are no good workmen.\n\n" + "HOLLAND True; and yet it is said, labour in thy vocation;\n" + " which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be\n" + " labouring men; and therefore should we be\n" + " magistrates.\n\n" + "BEVIS Thou hast hit it; for there's no better sign of a\n" + " brave mind than a hard hand.\n\n" + "HOLLAND I see them! I see them! there's Best's son, the\n" + " tanner of Wingham,--\n\n" + "BEVIS He shall have the skin of our enemies, to make\n" + " dog's-leather of.\n\n" + "HOLLAND And Dick the Butcher,--\n\n" + "BEVIS Then is sin struck down like an ox, and iniquity's\n" + " throat cut like a calf.\n\n" + "HOLLAND And Smith the weaver,--\n\n" + "BEVIS Argo, their thread of life is spun.\n\n" + "HOLLAND Come, come, let's fall in with them.\n\n" + " [Drum. Enter CADE, DICK the Butcher, SMITH the\n" + " Weaver, and a Sawyer, with infinite numbers]\n\n" + "CADE We John Cade, so termed of our supposed father,--\n\n" + "DICK [Aside] Or rather, of stealing a cade of herrings.\n\n" + "CADE For our enemies shall fall before us, inspired with\n" + " the spirit of putting down kings and princes,\n" + " --Command silence.\n\n" + "DICK Silence!\n\n" + "CADE My father was a Mortimer,--\n\n" + "DICK [Aside] He was an honest man, and a good\n" + " bricklayer.\n\n" + "CADE My mother a Plantagenet,--\n\n" + "DICK [Aside] I knew her well; she was a midwife.\n\n" + "CADE My wife descended of the Lacies,--\n\n" + "DICK [Aside] She was, indeed, a pedler's daughter, and\n" + " sold many laces.\n\n" + "SMITH [Aside] But now of late, notable to travel with her\n" + " furred pack, she washes bucks here at home.\n\n" + "CADE Therefore am I of an honourable house.\n\n" + "DICK [Aside] Ay, by my faith, the field is honourable;\n" + " and there was he borne, under a hedge, for his\n" + " father had never a house but the cage.\n\n" + "CADE Valiant I am.\n\n" + "SMITH [Aside] A' must needs; for beggary is valiant.\n\n" + "CADE I am able to endure much.\n\n" + "DICK [Aside] No question of that; for I have seen him\n" + " whipped three market-days together.\n\n" + "CADE I fear neither sword nor fire.\n\n" + "SMITH [Aside] He need not fear the sword; for his coat is of proof.\n\n" + "DICK [Aside] But methinks he should stand in fear of\n" + " fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep.\n\n" + "CADE Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows\n" + " reformation. There shall be in England seven\n" + " halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped\n" + " pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony\n" + " to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in\n" + " common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to\n" + " grass: and when I am king, as king I will be,--\n\n" + "ALL God save your majesty!\n\n" + "CADE I thank you, good people: there shall be no money;\n" + " all shall eat and drink on my score; and I will\n" + " apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree\n" + " like brothers and worship me their lord.\n\n" + "DICK The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.\n\n" + "CADE Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable\n" + " thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should\n" + " be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled\n" + " o'er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings:\n" + " but I say, 'tis the bee's wax; for I did but seal\n" + " once to a thing, and I was never mine own man\n" + " since. How now! who's there?\n\n" + " [Enter some, bringing forward the Clerk of Chatham]\n\n" + "SMITH The clerk of Chatham: he can write and read and\n" + " cast accompt.\n\n" + "CADE O monstrous!\n\n" + "SMITH We took him setting of boys' copies.\n\n" + "CADE Here's a villain!\n\n" + "SMITH Has a book in his pocket with red letters in't.\n\n" + "CADE Nay, then, he is a conjurer.\n\n" + "DICK Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand.\n\n" + "CADE I am sorry for't: the man is a proper man, of mine\n" + " honour; unless I find him guilty, he shall not die.\n" + " Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee: what is thy name?\n\n" + "Clerk Emmanuel.\n\n" + "DICK They use to write it on the top of letters: 'twill\n" + " go hard with you.\n\n" + "CADE Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? or\n" + " hast thou a mark to thyself, like an honest\n" + " plain-dealing man?\n\n" + "CLERK Sir, I thank God, I have been so well brought up\n" + " that I can write my name.\n\n" + "ALL He hath confessed: away with him! he's a villain\n" + " and a traitor.\n\n" + "CADE Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and\n" + " ink-horn about his neck.\n\n" + " [Exit one with the Clerk]\n\n" + " [Enter MICHAEL]\n\n" + "MICHAEL Where's our general?\n\n" + "CADE Here I am, thou particular fellow.\n\n" + "MICHAEL Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his\n" + " brother are hard by, with the king's forces.\n\n" + "CADE Stand, villain, stand, or I'll fell thee down. He\n" + " shall be encountered with a man as good as himself:\n" + " he is but a knight, is a'?\n\n" + "MICHAEL No.\n\n" + "CADE To equal him, I will make myself a knight presently.\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + " Rise up Sir John Mortimer.\n\n" + " [Rises]\n\n" + " Now have at him!\n\n" + " [Enter SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD, with\n" + " drum and soldiers]\n\n" + "SIR HUMPHREY Rebellious hinds, the filth and scum of Kent,\n" + " Mark'd for the gallows, lay your weapons down;\n" + " Home to your cottages, forsake this groom:\n" + " The king is merciful, if you revolt.\n\n" + "WILLIAM STAFFORD But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,\n" + " If you go forward; therefore yield, or die.\n\n" + "CADE As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not:\n" + " It is to you, good people, that I speak,\n" + " Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign;\n" + " For I am rightful heir unto the crown.\n\n" + "SIR HUMPHREY Villain, thy father was a plasterer;\n" + " And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?\n\n" + "CADE And Adam was a gardener.\n\n" + "WILLIAM STAFFORD And what of that?\n\n" + "CADE Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March.\n" + " Married the Duke of Clarence' daughter, did he not?\n\n" + "SIR HUMPHREY Ay, sir.\n\n" + "CADE By her he had two children at one birth.\n\n" + "WILLIAM STAFFORD That's false.\n\n" + "CADE Ay, there's the question; but I say, 'tis true:\n" + " The elder of them, being put to nurse,\n" + " Was by a beggar-woman stolen away;\n" + " And, ignorant of his birth and parentage,\n" + " Became a bricklayer when he came to age:\n" + " His son am I; deny it, if you can.\n\n" + "DICK Nay, 'tis too true; therefore he shall be king.\n\n" + "SMITH Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and\n" + " the bricks are alive at this day to testify it;\n" + " therefore deny it not.\n\n" + "SIR HUMPHREY And will you credit this base drudge's words,\n" + " That speaks he knows not what?\n\n" + "ALL Ay, marry, will we; therefore get ye gone.\n\n" + "WILLIAM STAFFORD Jack Cade, the Duke of York hath taught you this.\n\n" + "CADE [Aside] He lies, for I invented it myself.\n" + " Go to, sirrah, tell the king from me, that, for his\n" + " father's sake, Henry the Fifth, in whose time boys\n" + " went to span-counter for French crowns, I am content\n" + " he shall reign; but I'll be protector over him.\n\n" + "DICK And furthermore, well have the Lord Say's head for\n" + " selling the dukedom of Maine.\n\n" + "CADE And good reason; for thereby is England mained, and\n" + " fain to go with a staff, but that my puissance holds\n" + " it up. Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord Say\n" + " hath gelded the commonwealth, and made it an eunuch:\n" + " and more than that, he can speak French; and\n" + " therefore he is a traitor.\n\n" + "SIR HUMPHREY O gross and miserable ignorance!\n\n" + "CADE Nay, answer, if you can: the Frenchmen are our\n" + " enemies; go to, then, I ask but this: can he that\n" + " speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good\n" + " counsellor, or no?\n\n" + "ALL No, no; and therefore we'll have his head.\n\n" + "WILLIAM STAFFORD Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail,\n" + " Assail them with the army of the king.\n\n" + "SIR HUMPHREY Herald, away; and throughout every town\n" + " Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade;\n" + " That those which fly before the battle ends\n" + " May, even in their wives' and children's sight,\n" + " Be hang'd up for example at their doors:\n" + " And you that be the king's friends, follow me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt WILLIAM STAFFORD and SIR HUMPHREY, and soldiers]\n\n" + "CADE And you that love the commons, follow me.\n" + " Now show yourselves men; 'tis for liberty.\n" + " We will not leave one lord, one gentleman:\n" + " Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon;\n" + " For they are thrifty honest men, and such\n" + " As would, but that they dare not, take our parts.\n\n" + "DICK They are all in order and march toward us.\n\n" + "CADE But then are we in order when we are most\n" + " out of order. Come, march forward.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another part of Blackheath.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums to the fight, wherein SIR HUMPHREY and\n" + " WILLIAM STAFFORD are slain. Enter CADE and the rest]\n\n" + "CADE Where's Dick, the butcher of Ashford?\n\n" + "DICK Here, sir.\n\n" + "CADE They fell before thee like sheep and oxen, and thou\n" + " behavedst thyself as if thou hadst been in thine own\n" + " slaughter-house: therefore thus will I reward thee,\n" + " the Lent shall be as long again as it is; and thou\n" + " shalt have a licence to kill for a hundred lacking\n" + " one.\n\n" + "DICK I desire no more.\n\n" + "CADE And, to speak truth, thou deservest no less. This\n" + " monument of the victory will I bear;\n\n" + " [Putting on SIR HUMPHREY'S brigandine]\n\n" + " and the bodies shall be dragged at my horse' heels\n" + " till I do come to London, where we will have the\n" + " mayor's sword borne before us.\n\n" + "DICK If we mean to thrive and do good, break open the\n" + " gaols and let out the prisoners.\n\n" + "CADE Fear not that, I warrant thee. Come, let's march\n" + " towards London.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VI with a supplication, and the\n" + " QUEEN with SUFFOLK'S head, BUCKINGHAM and Lord SAY]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind,\n" + " And makes it fearful and degenerate;\n" + " Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.\n" + " But who can cease to weep and look on this?\n" + " Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast:\n" + " But where's the body that I should embrace?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM What answer makes your grace to the rebels'\n" + " supplication?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I'll send some holy bishop to entreat;\n" + " For God forbid so many simple souls\n" + " Should perish by the sword! And I myself,\n" + " Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,\n" + " Will parley with Jack Cade their general:\n" + " But stay, I'll read it over once again.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ah, barbarous villains! hath this lovely face\n" + " Ruled, like a wandering planet, over me,\n" + " And could it not enforce them to relent,\n" + " That were unworthy to behold the same?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Lord Say, Jack Cade hath sworn to have thy head.\n\n" + "SAY Ay, but I hope your highness shall have his.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI How now, madam!\n" + " Still lamenting and mourning for Suffolk's death?\n" + " I fear me, love, if that I had been dead,\n" + " Thou wouldst not have mourn'd so much for me.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET No, my love, I should not mourn, but die for thee.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI How now! what news? why comest thou in such haste?\n\n" + "Messenger The rebels are in Southwark; fly, my lord!\n" + " Jack Cade proclaims himself Lord Mortimer,\n" + " Descended from the Duke of Clarence' house,\n" + " And calls your grace usurper openly\n" + " And vows to crown himself in Westminster.\n" + " His army is a ragged multitude\n" + " Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless:\n" + " Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother's death\n" + " Hath given them heart and courage to proceed:\n" + " All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen,\n" + " They call false caterpillars, and intend their death.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O graceless men! they know not what they do.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My gracious lord, return to Killingworth,\n" + " Until a power be raised to put them down.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ah, were the Duke of Suffolk now alive,\n" + " These Kentish rebels would be soon appeased!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Lord Say, the traitors hate thee;\n" + " Therefore away with us to Killingworth.\n\n" + "SAY So might your grace's person be in danger.\n" + " The sight of me is odious in their eyes;\n" + " And therefore in this city will I stay\n" + " And live alone as secret as I may.\n\n" + " [Enter another Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge:\n" + " The citizens fly and forsake their houses:\n" + " The rascal people, thirsting after prey,\n" + " Join with the traitor, and they jointly swear\n" + " To spoil the city and your royal court.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Then linger not, my lord, away, take horse.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Come, Margaret; God, our hope, will succor us.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET My hope is gone, now Suffolk is deceased.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Farewell, my lord: trust not the Kentish rebels.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Trust nobody, for fear you be betray'd.\n\n" + "SAY The trust I have is in mine innocence,\n" + " And therefore am I bold and resolute.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V London. The Tower.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SCALES upon the Tower, walking.\n" + " Then enter two or three Citizens below]\n\n" + "SCALES How now! is Jack Cade slain?\n\n" + "First Citizen No, my lord, nor likely to be slain; for they have\n" + " won the bridge, killing all those that withstand\n" + " them: the lord mayor craves aid of your honour from\n" + " the Tower, to defend the city from the rebels.\n\n" + "SCALES Such aid as I can spare you shall command;\n" + " But I am troubled here with them myself;\n" + " The rebels have assay'd to win the Tower.\n" + " But get you to Smithfield, and gather head,\n" + " And thither I will send you Matthew Goffe;\n" + " Fight for your king, your country and your lives;\n" + " And so, farewell, for I must hence again.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI London. Cannon Street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CADE and the rest, and strikes his staff on\n" + " London-stone]\n\n" + "CADE Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting\n" + " upon London-stone, I charge and command that, of the\n" + " city's cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but\n" + " claret wine this first year of our reign. And now\n" + " henceforward it shall be treason for any that calls\n" + " me other than Lord Mortimer.\n\n" + " [Enter a Soldier, running]\n\n" + "Soldier Jack Cade! Jack Cade!\n\n" + "CADE Knock him down there.\n\n" + " [They kill him]\n\n" + "SMITH If this fellow be wise, he'll never call ye Jack\n" + " Cade more: I think he hath a very fair warning.\n\n" + "DICK My lord, there's an army gathered together in\n" + " Smithfield.\n\n" + "CADE Come, then, let's go fight with them; but first, go\n" + " and set London bridge on fire; and, if you can, burn\n" + " down the Tower too. Come, let's away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII London. Smithfield.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums. MATTHEW GOFFE is slain, and all the rest.\n" + " Then enter CADE, with his company.\n\n" + "CADE So, sirs: now go some and pull down the Savoy;\n" + " others to the inns of court; down with them all.\n\n" + "DICK I have a suit unto your lordship.\n\n" + "CADE Be it a lordship, thou shalt have it for that word.\n\n" + "DICK Only that the laws of England may come out of your mouth.\n\n" + "HOLLAND [Aside] Mass, 'twill be sore law, then; for he was\n" + " thrust in the mouth with a spear, and 'tis not whole\n" + " yet.\n\n" + "SMITH [Aside] Nay, John, it will be stinking law for his\n" + " breath stinks with eating toasted cheese.\n\n" + "CADE I have thought upon it, it shall be so. Away, burn\n" + " all the records of the realm: my mouth shall be\n" + " the parliament of England.\n\n" + "HOLLAND [Aside] Then we are like to have biting statutes,\n" + " unless his teeth be pulled out.\n\n" + "CADE And henceforward all things shall be in common.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, a prize, a prize! here's the Lord Say,\n" + " which sold the towns in France; he that made us pay\n" + " one and twenty fifteens, and one shilling to the\n" + " pound, the last subsidy.\n\n" + " [Enter BEVIS, with Lord SAY]\n\n" + "CADE Well, he shall be beheaded for it ten times. Ah,\n" + " thou say, thou serge, nay, thou buckram lord! now\n" + " art thou within point-blank of our jurisdiction\n" + " regal. What canst thou answer to my majesty for\n" + " giving up of Normandy unto Mounsieur Basimecu, the\n" + " dauphin of France? Be it known unto thee by these\n" + " presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I\n" + " am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such\n" + " filth as thou art. Thou hast most traitorously\n" + " corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a\n" + " grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers\n" + " had no other books but the score and the tally, thou\n" + " hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to\n" + " the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a\n" + " paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou\n" + " hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and\n" + " a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian\n" + " ear can endure to hear. Thou hast appointed\n" + " justices of peace, to call poor men before them\n" + " about matters they were not able to answer.\n" + " Moreover, thou hast put them in prison; and because\n" + " they could not read, thou hast hanged them; when,\n" + " indeed, only for that cause they have been most\n" + " worthy to live. Thou dost ride in a foot-cloth, dost thou not?\n\n" + "SAY What of that?\n\n" + "CADE Marry, thou oughtest not to let thy horse wear a\n" + " cloak, when honester men than thou go in their hose\n" + " and doublets.\n\n" + "DICK And work in their shirt too; as myself, for example,\n" + " that am a butcher.\n\n" + "SAY You men of Kent,--\n\n" + "DICK What say you of Kent?\n\n" + "SAY Nothing but this; 'tis 'bona terra, mala gens.'\n\n" + "CADE Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin.\n\n" + "SAY Hear me but speak, and bear me where you will.\n" + " Kent, in the Commentaries Caesar writ,\n" + " Is term'd the civil'st place of this isle:\n" + " Sweet is the country, because full of riches;\n" + " The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy;\n" + " Which makes me hope you are not void of pity.\n" + " I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy,\n" + " Yet, to recover them, would lose my life.\n" + " Justice with favour have I always done;\n" + " Prayers and tears have moved me, gifts could never.\n" + " When have I aught exacted at your hands,\n" + " But to maintain the king, the realm and you?\n" + " Large gifts have I bestow'd on learned clerks,\n" + " Because my book preferr'd me to the king,\n" + " And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,\n" + " Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven,\n" + " Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits,\n" + " You cannot but forbear to murder me:\n" + " This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings\n" + " For your behoof,--\n\n" + "CADE Tut, when struck'st thou one blow in the field?\n\n" + "SAY Great men have reaching hands: oft have I struck\n" + " Those that I never saw and struck them dead.\n\n" + "BEVIS O monstrous coward! what, to come behind folks?\n\n" + "SAY These cheeks are pale for watching for your good.\n\n" + "CADE Give him a box o' the ear and that will make 'em red again.\n\n" + "SAY Long sitting to determine poor men's causes\n" + " Hath made me full of sickness and diseases.\n\n" + "CADE Ye shall have a hempen caudle, then, and the help of hatchet.\n\n" + "DICK Why dost thou quiver, man?\n\n" + "SAY The palsy, and not fear, provokes me.\n\n" + "CADE Nay, he nods at us, as who should say, I'll be even\n" + " with you: I'll see if his head will stand steadier\n" + " on a pole, or no. Take him away, and behead him.\n\n" + "SAY Tell me wherein have I offended most?\n" + " Have I affected wealth or honour? speak.\n" + " Are my chests fill'd up with extorted gold?\n" + " Is my apparel sumptuous to behold?\n" + " Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death?\n" + " These hands are free from guiltless bloodshedding,\n" + " This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts.\n" + " O, let me live!\n\n" + "CADE [Aside] I feel remorse in myself with his words;\n" + " but I'll bridle it: he shall die, an it be but for\n" + " pleading so well for his life. Away with him! he\n" + " has a familiar under his tongue; he speaks not o'\n" + " God's name. Go, take him away, I say, and strike\n" + " off his head presently; and then break into his\n" + " son-in-law's house, Sir James Cromer, and strike off\n" + " his head, and bring them both upon two poles hither.\n\n" + "ALL It shall be done.\n\n" + "SAY Ah, countrymen! if when you make your prayers,\n" + " God should be so obdurate as yourselves,\n" + " How would it fare with your departed souls?\n" + " And therefore yet relent, and save my life.\n\n" + "CADE Away with him! and do as I command ye.\n\n" + " [Exeunt some with Lord SAY]\n\n" + " The proudest peer in the realm shall not wear a head\n" + " on his shoulders, unless he pay me tribute; there\n" + " shall not a maid be married, but she shall pay to me\n" + " her maidenhead ere they have it: men shall hold of\n" + " me in capite; and we charge and command that their\n" + " wives be as free as heart can wish or tongue can tell.\n\n" + "DICK My lord, when shall we go to Cheapside and take up\n" + " commodities upon our bills?\n\n" + "CADE Marry, presently.\n\n" + "ALL O, brave!\n\n" + " [Re-enter one with the heads]\n\n" + "CADE But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another,\n" + " for they loved well when they were alive. Now part\n" + " them again, lest they consult about the giving up of\n" + " some more towns in France. Soldiers, defer the\n" + " spoil of the city until night: for with these borne\n" + " before us, instead of maces, will we ride through\n" + " the streets, and at every corner have them kiss. Away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII Southwark.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum and retreat. Enter CADE and all his\n" + " rabblement]\n\n" + "CADE Up Fish Street! down Saint Magnus' Corner! Kill\n" + " and knock down! throw them into Thames!\n\n" + " [Sound a parley]\n\n" + " What noise is this I hear? Dare any be so bold to\n" + " sound retreat or parley, when I command them kill?\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD, attended]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Ay, here they be that dare and will disturb thee:\n" + " Know, Cade, we come ambassadors from the king\n" + " Unto the commons whom thou hast misled;\n" + " And here pronounce free pardon to them all\n" + " That will forsake thee and go home in peace.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD What say ye, countrymen? will ye relent,\n" + " And yield to mercy whilst 'tis offer'd you;\n" + " Or let a rebel lead you to your deaths?\n" + " Who loves the king and will embrace his pardon,\n" + " Fling up his cap, and say 'God save his majesty!'\n" + " Who hateth him and honours not his father,\n" + " Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,\n" + " Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.\n\n" + "ALL God save the king! God save the king!\n\n" + "CADE What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave? And\n" + " you, base peasants, do ye believe him? will you\n" + " needs be hanged with your pardons about your necks?\n" + " Hath my sword therefore broke through London gates,\n" + " that you should leave me at the White Hart in\n" + " Southwark? I thought ye would never have given out\n" + " these arms till you had recovered your ancient\n" + " freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards,\n" + " and delight to live in slavery to the nobility. Let\n" + " them break your backs with burthens, take your\n" + " houses over your heads, ravish your wives and\n" + " daughters before your faces: for me, I will make\n" + " shift for one; and so, God's curse light upon you\n" + " all!\n\n" + "ALL We'll follow Cade, we'll follow Cade!\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth,\n" + " That thus you do exclaim you'll go with him?\n" + " Will he conduct you through the heart of France,\n" + " And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?\n" + " Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to;\n" + " Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil,\n" + " Unless by robbing of your friends and us.\n" + " Were't not a shame, that whilst you live at jar,\n" + " The fearful French, whom you late vanquished,\n" + " Should make a start o'er seas and vanquish you?\n" + " Methinks already in this civil broil\n" + " I see them lording it in London streets,\n" + " Crying 'Villiago!' unto all they meet.\n" + " Better ten thousand base-born Cades miscarry\n" + " Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's mercy.\n" + " To France, to France, and get what you have lost;\n" + " Spare England, for it is your native coast;\n" + " Henry hath money, you are strong and manly;\n" + " God on our side, doubt not of victory.\n\n" + "ALL A Clifford! a Clifford! we'll follow the king and Clifford.\n\n" + "CADE Was ever feather so lightly blown to and fro as this\n" + " multitude? The name of Henry the Fifth hales them\n" + " to an hundred mischiefs, and makes them leave me\n" + " desolate. I see them lay their heads together to\n" + " surprise me. My sword make way for me, for here is\n" + " no staying. In despite of the devils and hell, have\n" + " through the very middest of you? and heavens and\n" + " honour be witness, that no want of resolution in me.\n" + " but only my followers' base and ignominious\n" + " treasons, makes me betake me to my heels.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM What, is he fled? Go some, and follow him;\n" + " And he that brings his head unto the king\n" + " Shall have a thousand crowns for his reward.\n\n" + " [Exeunt some of them]\n\n" + " Follow me, soldiers: we'll devise a mean\n" + " To reconcile you all unto the king.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IX Kenilworth Castle.\n\n\n" + " [Sound Trumpets. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN\n" + " MARGARET, and SOMERSET, on the terrace]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Was ever king that joy'd an earthly throne,\n" + " And could command no more content than I?\n" + " No sooner was I crept out of my cradle\n" + " But I was made a king, at nine months old.\n" + " Was never subject long'd to be a king\n" + " As I do long and wish to be a subject.\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM and CLIFFORD]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Health and glad tidings to your majesty!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, Buckingham, is the traitor Cade surprised?\n" + " Or is he but retired to make him strong?\n\n" + " [Enter below, multitudes, with halters about\n" + " their necks]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD He is fled, my lord, and all his powers do yield;\n" + " And humbly thus, with halters on their necks,\n" + " Expect your highness' doom of life or death.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Then, heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates,\n" + " To entertain my vows of thanks and praise!\n" + " Soldiers, this day have you redeemed your lives,\n" + " And show'd how well you love your prince and country:\n" + " Continue still in this so good a mind,\n" + " And Henry, though he be infortunate,\n" + " Assure yourselves, will never be unkind:\n" + " And so, with thanks and pardon to you all,\n" + " I do dismiss you to your several countries.\n\n" + "ALL God save the king! God save the king!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Please it your grace to be advertised\n" + " The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland,\n" + " And with a puissant and a mighty power\n" + " Of gallowglasses and stout kerns\n" + " Is marching hitherward in proud array,\n" + " And still proclaimeth, as he comes along,\n" + " His arms are only to remove from thee\n" + " The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms traitor.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Thus stands my state, 'twixt Cade and York distress'd.\n" + " Like to a ship that, having 'scaped a tempest,\n" + " Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a pirate:\n" + " But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed;\n" + " And now is York in arms to second him.\n" + " I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,\n" + " And ask him what's the reason of these arms.\n" + " Tell him I'll send Duke Edmund to the Tower;\n" + " And, Somerset, we'll commit thee thither,\n" + " Until his army be dismiss'd from him.\n\n" + "SOMERSET My lord,\n" + " I'll yield myself to prison willingly,\n" + " Or unto death, to do my country good.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI In any case, be not too rough in terms;\n" + " For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I will, my lord; and doubt not so to deal\n" + " As all things shall redound unto your good.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Come, wife, let's in, and learn to govern better;\n" + " For yet may England curse my wretched reign.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE X Kent. IDEN's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CADE]\n\n" + "CADE Fie on ambition! fie on myself, that have a sword,\n" + " and yet am ready to famish! These five days have I\n" + " hid me in these woods and durst not peep out, for\n" + " all the country is laid for me; but now am I so\n" + " hungry that if I might have a lease of my life for a\n" + " thousand years I could stay no longer. Wherefore,\n" + " on a brick wall have I climbed into this garden, to\n" + " see if I can eat grass, or pick a sallet another\n" + " while, which is not amiss to cool a man's stomach\n" + " this hot weather. And I think this word 'sallet'\n" + " was born to do me good: for many a time, but for a\n" + " sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown\n" + " bill; and many a time, when I have been dry and\n" + " bravely marching, it hath served me instead of a\n" + " quart pot to drink in; and now the word 'sallet'\n" + " must serve me to feed on.\n\n" + " [Enter IDEN]\n\n" + "IDEN Lord, who would live turmoiled in the court,\n" + " And may enjoy such quiet walks as these?\n" + " This small inheritance my father left me\n" + " Contenteth me, and worth a monarchy.\n" + " I seek not to wax great by others' waning,\n" + " Or gather wealth, I care not, with what envy:\n" + " Sufficeth that I have maintains my state\n" + " And sends the poor well pleased from my gate.\n\n" + "CADE Here's the lord of the soil come to seize me for a\n" + " stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave.\n" + " Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand\n" + " crowns of the king carrying my head to him: but\n" + " I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow\n" + " my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part.\n\n" + "IDEN Why, rude companion, whatsoe'er thou be,\n" + " I know thee not; why, then, should I betray thee?\n" + " Is't not enough to break into my garden,\n" + " And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds,\n" + " Climbing my walls in spite of me the owner,\n" + " But thou wilt brave me with these saucy terms?\n\n" + "CADE Brave thee! ay, by the best blood that ever was\n" + " broached, and beard thee too. Look on me well: I\n" + " have eat no meat these five days; yet, come thou and\n" + " thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead\n" + " as a doornail, I pray God I may never eat grass more.\n\n" + "IDEN Nay, it shall ne'er be said, while England stands,\n" + " That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent,\n" + " Took odds to combat a poor famish'd man.\n" + " Oppose thy steadfast-gazing eyes to mine,\n" + " See if thou canst outface me with thy looks:\n" + " Set limb to limb, and thou art far the lesser;\n" + " Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,\n" + " Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon;\n" + " My foot shall fight with all the strength thou hast;\n" + " And if mine arm be heaved in the air,\n" + " Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth.\n" + " As for words, whose greatness answers words,\n" + " Let this my sword report what speech forbears.\n\n" + "CADE By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I\n" + " heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out\n" + " the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou\n" + " sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou\n" + " mayst be turned to hobnails.\n\n" + " [Here they fight. CADE falls]\n\n" + " O, I am slain! famine and no other hath slain me:\n" + " let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me\n" + " but the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them\n" + " all. Wither, garden; and be henceforth a\n" + " burying-place to all that do dwell in this house,\n" + " because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled.\n\n" + "IDEN Is't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous traitor?\n" + " Sword, I will hollow thee for this thy deed,\n" + " And hang thee o'er my tomb when I am dead:\n" + " Ne'er shall this blood be wiped from thy point;\n" + " But thou shalt wear it as a herald's coat,\n" + " To emblaze the honour that thy master got.\n\n" + "CADE Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell\n" + " Kent from me, she hath lost her best man, and exhort\n" + " all the world to be cowards; for I, that never\n" + " feared any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "IDEN How much thou wrong'st me, heaven be my judge.\n" + " Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee;\n" + " And as I thrust thy body in with my sword,\n" + " So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell.\n" + " Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels\n" + " Unto a dunghill which shall be thy grave,\n" + " And there cut off thy most ungracious head;\n" + " Which I will bear in triumph to the king,\n" + " Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Fields between Dartford and Blackheath.\n\n\n" + " [Enter YORK, and his army of Irish, with drum\n" + " and colours]\n\n" + "YORK From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right,\n" + " And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head:\n" + " Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright,\n" + " To entertain great England's lawful king.\n" + " Ah! sancta majestas, who would not buy thee dear?\n" + " Let them obey that know not how to rule;\n" + " This hand was made to handle naught but gold.\n" + " I cannot give due action to my words,\n" + " Except a sword or sceptre balance it:\n" + " A sceptre shall it have, have I a soul,\n" + " On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France.\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + " Whom have we here? Buckingham, to disturb me?\n" + " The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well.\n\n" + "YORK Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting.\n" + " Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM A messenger from Henry, our dread liege,\n" + " To know the reason of these arms in peace;\n" + " Or why thou, being a subject as I am,\n" + " Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn,\n" + " Should raise so great a power without his leave,\n" + " Or dare to bring thy force so near the court.\n\n" + "YORK [Aside] Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great:\n" + " O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint,\n" + " I am so angry at these abject terms;\n" + " And now, like Ajax Telamonius,\n" + " On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury.\n" + " I am far better born than is the king,\n" + " More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts:\n" + " But I must make fair weather yet a while,\n" + " Till Henry be more weak and I more strong,--\n" + " Buckingham, I prithee, pardon me,\n" + " That I have given no answer all this while;\n" + " My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.\n" + " The cause why I have brought this army hither\n" + " Is to remove proud Somerset from the king,\n" + " Seditious to his grace and to the state.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM That is too much presumption on thy part:\n" + " But if thy arms be to no other end,\n" + " The king hath yielded unto thy demand:\n" + " The Duke of Somerset is in the Tower.\n\n" + "YORK Upon thine honour, is he prisoner?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Upon mine honour, he is prisoner.\n\n" + "YORK Then, Buckingham, I do dismiss my powers.\n" + " Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves;\n" + " Meet me to-morrow in St. George's field,\n" + " You shall have pay and every thing you wish.\n" + " And let my sovereign, virtuous Henry,\n" + " Command my eldest son, nay, all my sons,\n" + " As pledges of my fealty and love;\n" + " I'll send them all as willing as I live:\n" + " Lands, goods, horse, armour, any thing I have,\n" + " Is his to use, so Somerset may die.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM York, I commend this kind submission:\n" + " We twain will go into his highness' tent.\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VI and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us,\n" + " That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm?\n\n" + "YORK In all submission and humility\n" + " York doth present himself unto your highness.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Then what intends these forces thou dost bring?\n\n" + "YORK To heave the traitor Somerset from hence,\n" + " And fight against that monstrous rebel Cade,\n" + " Who since I heard to be discomfited.\n\n" + " [Enter IDEN, with CADE'S head]\n\n" + "IDEN If one so rude and of so mean condition\n" + " May pass into the presence of a king,\n" + " Lo, I present your grace a traitor's head,\n" + " The head of Cade, whom I in combat slew.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI The head of Cade! Great God, how just art Thou!\n" + " O, let me view his visage, being dead,\n" + " That living wrought me such exceeding trouble.\n" + " Tell me, my friend, art thou the man that slew him?\n\n" + "IDEN I was, an't like your majesty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI How art thou call'd? and what is thy degree?\n\n" + "IDEN Alexander Iden, that's my name;\n" + " A poor esquire of Kent, that loves his king.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM So please it you, my lord, 'twere not amiss\n" + " He were created knight for his good service.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Iden, kneel down.\n\n" + " [He kneels]\n\n" + " Rise up a knight.\n" + " We give thee for reward a thousand marks,\n" + " And will that thou henceforth attend on us.\n\n" + "IDEN May Iden live to merit such a bounty.\n" + " And never live but true unto his liege!\n\n" + " [Rises]\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN MARGARET and SOMERSET]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI See, Buckingham, Somerset comes with the queen:\n" + " Go, bid her hide him quickly from the duke.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET For thousand Yorks he shall not hide his head,\n" + " But boldly stand and front him to his face.\n\n" + "YORK How now! is Somerset at liberty?\n" + " Then, York, unloose thy long-imprison'd thoughts,\n" + " And let thy tongue be equal with thy heart.\n" + " Shall I endure the sight of Somerset?\n" + " False king! why hast thou broken faith with me,\n" + " Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?\n" + " King did I call thee? no, thou art not king,\n" + " Not fit to govern and rule multitudes,\n" + " Which darest not, no, nor canst not rule a traitor.\n" + " That head of thine doth not become a crown;\n" + " Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff,\n" + " And not to grace an awful princely sceptre.\n" + " That gold must round engirt these brows of mine,\n" + " Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear,\n" + " Is able with the change to kill and cure.\n" + " Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up\n" + " And with the same to act controlling laws.\n" + " Give place: by heaven, thou shalt rule no more\n" + " O'er him whom heaven created for thy ruler.\n\n" + "SOMERSET O monstrous traitor! I arrest thee, York,\n" + " Of capital treason 'gainst the king and crown;\n" + " Obey, audacious traitor; kneel for grace.\n\n" + "YORK Wouldst have me kneel? first let me ask of these,\n" + " If they can brook I bow a knee to man.\n" + " Sirrah, call in my sons to be my bail;\n\n" + " [Exit Attendant]\n\n" + " I know, ere they will have me go to ward,\n" + " They'll pawn their swords for my enfranchisement.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Call hither Clifford! bid him come amain,\n" + " To say if that the bastard boys of York\n" + " Shall be the surety for their traitor father.\n\n" + " [Exit BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "YORK O blood-besotted Neapolitan,\n" + " Outcast of Naples, England's bloody scourge!\n" + " The sons of York, thy betters in their birth,\n" + " Shall be their father's bail; and bane to those\n" + " That for my surety will refuse the boys!\n\n" + " [Enter EDWARD and RICHARD]\n\n" + " See where they come: I'll warrant they'll\n" + " make it good.\n\n" + " [Enter CLIFFORD and YOUNG CLIFFORD]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And here comes Clifford to deny their bail.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Health and all happiness to my lord the king!\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + "YORK I thank thee, Clifford: say, what news with thee?\n" + " Nay, do not fright us with an angry look;\n" + " We are thy sovereign, Clifford, kneel again;\n" + " For thy mistaking so, we pardon thee.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD This is my king, York, I do not mistake;\n" + " But thou mistakest me much to think I do:\n" + " To Bedlam with him! is the man grown mad?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ay, Clifford; a bedlam and ambitious humour\n" + " Makes him oppose himself against his king.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD He is a traitor; let him to the Tower,\n" + " And chop away that factious pate of his.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET He is arrested, but will not obey;\n" + " His sons, he says, shall give their words for him.\n\n" + "YORK Will you not, sons?\n\n" + "EDWARD Ay, noble father, if our words will serve.\n\n" + "RICHARD And if words will not, then our weapons shall.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Why, what a brood of traitors have we here!\n\n" + "YORK Look in a glass, and call thy image so:\n" + " I am thy king, and thou a false-heart traitor.\n" + " Call hither to the stake my two brave bears,\n" + " That with the very shaking of their chains\n" + " They may astonish these fell-lurking curs:\n" + " Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me.\n\n" + " [Enter the WARWICK and SALISBURY]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Are these thy bears? we'll bait thy bears to death.\n" + " And manacle the bear-ward in their chains,\n" + " If thou darest bring them to the baiting place.\n\n" + "RICHARD Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening cur\n" + " Run back and bite, because he was withheld;\n" + " Who, being suffer'd with the bear's fell paw,\n" + " Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs and cried:\n" + " And such a piece of service will you do,\n" + " If you oppose yourselves to match Lord Warwick.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump,\n" + " As crooked in thy manners as thy shape!\n\n" + "YORK Nay, we shall heat you thoroughly anon.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?\n" + " Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,\n" + " Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sick son!\n" + " What, wilt thou on thy death-bed play the ruffian,\n" + " And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?\n" + " O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?\n" + " If it be banish'd from the frosty head,\n" + " Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?\n" + " Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,\n" + " And shame thine honourable age with blood?\n" + " Why art thou old, and want'st experience?\n" + " Or wherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it?\n" + " For shame! in duty bend thy knee to me\n" + " That bows unto the grave with mickle age.\n\n" + "SALISBURY My lord, I have consider'd with myself\n" + " The title of this most renowned duke;\n" + " And in my conscience do repute his grace\n" + " The rightful heir to England's royal seat.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Hast thou not sworn allegiance unto me?\n\n" + "SALISBURY I have.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Canst thou dispense with heaven for such an oath?\n\n" + "SALISBURY It is great sin to swear unto a sin,\n" + " But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.\n" + " Who can be bound by any solemn vow\n" + " To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,\n" + " To force a spotless virgin's chastity,\n" + " To reave the orphan of his patrimony,\n" + " To wring the widow from her custom'd right,\n" + " And have no other reason for this wrong\n" + " But that he was bound by a solemn oath?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET A subtle traitor needs no sophister.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself.\n\n" + "YORK Call Buckingham, and all the friends thou hast,\n" + " I am resolved for death or dignity.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD The first I warrant thee, if dreams prove true.\n\n" + "WARWICK You were best to go to bed and dream again,\n" + " To keep thee from the tempest of the field.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD I am resolved to bear a greater storm\n" + " Than any thou canst conjure up to-day;\n" + " And that I'll write upon thy burgonet,\n" + " Might I but know thee by thy household badge.\n\n" + "WARWICK Now, by my father's badge, old Nevil's crest,\n" + " The rampant bear chain'd to the ragged staff,\n" + " This day I'll wear aloft my burgonet,\n" + " As on a mountain top the cedar shows\n" + " That keeps his leaves in spite of any storm,\n" + " Even to affright thee with the view thereof.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD And from thy burgonet I'll rend thy bear\n" + " And tread it under foot with all contempt,\n" + " Despite the bear-ward that protects the bear.\n\n" + "YOUNG CLIFFORD And so to arms, victorious father,\n" + " To quell the rebels and their complices.\n\n" + "RICHARD Fie! charity, for shame! speak not in spite,\n" + " For you shall sup with Jesu Christ to-night.\n\n" + "YOUNG CLIFFORD Foul stigmatic, that's more than thou canst tell.\n\n" + "RICHARD If not in heaven, you'll surely sup in hell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Saint Alban's.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums to the battle. Enter WARWICK]\n\n" + "WARWICK Clifford of Cumberland, 'tis Warwick calls:\n" + " And if thou dost not hide thee from the bear,\n" + " Now, when the angry trumpet sounds alarum\n" + " And dead men's cries do fill the empty air,\n" + " Clifford, I say, come forth and fight with me:\n" + " Proud northern lord, Clifford of Cumberland,\n" + " Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to arms.\n\n" + " [Enter YORK]\n\n" + " How now, my noble lord? what, all afoot?\n\n" + "YORK The deadly-handed Clifford slew my steed,\n" + " But match to match I have encounter'd him\n" + " And made a prey for carrion kites and crows\n" + " Even of the bonny beast he loved so well.\n\n" + " [Enter CLIFFORD]\n\n" + "WARWICK Of one or both of us the time is come.\n\n" + "YORK Hold, Warwick, seek thee out some other chase,\n" + " For I myself must hunt this deer to death.\n\n" + "WARWICK Then, nobly, York; 'tis for a crown thou fight'st.\n" + " As I intend, Clifford, to thrive to-day,\n" + " It grieves my soul to leave thee unassail'd.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD What seest thou in me, York? why dost thou pause?\n\n" + "YORK With thy brave bearing should I be in love,\n" + " But that thou art so fast mine enemy.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem,\n" + " But that 'tis shown ignobly and in treason.\n\n" + "YORK So let it help me now against thy sword\n" + " As I in justice and true right express it.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD My soul and body on the action both!\n\n" + "YORK A dreadful lay! Address thee instantly.\n\n" + " [They fight, and CLIFFORD falls]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD La fin couronne les oeuvres.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "YORK Thus war hath given thee peace, for thou art still.\n" + " Peace with his soul, heaven, if it be thy will!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter YOUNG CLIFFORD]\n\n" + "YOUNG CLIFFORD Shame and confusion! all is on the rout;\n" + " Fear frames disorder, and disorder wounds\n" + " Where it should guard. O war, thou son of hell,\n" + " Whom angry heavens do make their minister\n" + " Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part\n" + " Hot coals of vengeance! Let no soldier fly.\n" + " He that is truly dedicate to war\n" + " Hath no self-love, nor he that loves himself\n" + " Hath not essentially but by circumstance\n" + " The name of valour.\n\n" + " [Seeing his dead father]\n\n" + " O, let the vile world end,\n" + " And the premised flames of the last day\n" + " Knit earth and heaven together!\n" + " Now let the general trumpet blow his blast,\n" + " Particularities and petty sounds\n" + " To cease! Wast thou ordain'd, dear father,\n" + " To lose thy youth in peace, and to achieve\n" + " The silver livery of advised age,\n" + " And, in thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus\n" + " To die in ruffian battle? Even at this sight\n" + " My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine,\n" + " It shall be stony. York not our old men spares;\n" + " No more will I their babes: tears virginal\n" + " Shall be to me even as the dew to fire,\n" + " And beauty that the tyrant oft reclaims\n" + " Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax.\n" + " Henceforth I will not have to do with pity:\n" + " Meet I an infant of the house of York,\n" + " Into as many gobbets will I cut it\n" + " As wild Medea young Absyrtus did:\n" + " In cruelty will I seek out my fame.\n" + " Come, thou new ruin of old Clifford's house:\n" + " As did AEneas old Anchises bear,\n" + " So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders;\n" + " But then AEneas bare a living load,\n" + " Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine.\n\n" + " [Exit, bearing off his father]\n\n" + " [Enter RICHARD and SOMERSET to fight. SOMERSET\n" + " is killed]\n\n" + "RICHARD So, lie thou there;\n" + " For underneath an alehouse' paltry sign,\n" + " The Castle in Saint Alban's, Somerset\n" + " Hath made the wizard famous in his death.\n" + " Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still:\n" + " Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Fight: excursions. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN\n" + " MARGARET, and others]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Away, my lord! you are slow; for shame, away!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET What are you made of? you'll nor fight nor fly:\n" + " Now is it manhood, wisdom and defence,\n" + " To give the enemy way, and to secure us\n" + " By what we can, which can no more but fly.\n\n" + " [Alarum afar off]\n\n" + " If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom\n" + " Of all our fortunes: but if we haply scape,\n" + " As well we may, if not through your neglect,\n" + " We shall to London get, where you are loved\n" + " And where this breach now in our fortunes made\n" + " May readily be stopp'd.\n\n" + " [Re-enter YOUNG CLIFFORD]\n\n" + "YOUNG CLIFFORD But that my heart's on future mischief set,\n" + " I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly:\n" + " But fly you must; uncurable discomfit\n" + " Reigns in the hearts of all our present parts.\n" + " Away, for your relief! and we will live\n" + " To see their day and them our fortune give:\n" + " Away, my lord, away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 2 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Fields near St. Alban's.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Retreat. Enter YORK, RICHARD, WARWICK,\n" + " and Soldiers, with drum and colours]\n\n" + "YORK Of Salisbury, who can report of him,\n" + " That winter lion, who in rage forgets\n" + " Aged contusions and all brush of time,\n" + " And, like a gallant in the brow of youth,\n" + " Repairs him with occasion? This happy day\n" + " Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,\n" + " If Salisbury be lost.\n\n" + "RICHARD My noble father,\n" + " Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,\n" + " Three times bestrid him; thrice I led him off,\n" + " Persuaded him from any further act:\n" + " But still, where danger was, still there I met him;\n" + " And like rich hangings in a homely house,\n" + " So was his will in his old feeble body.\n" + " But, noble as he is, look where he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter SALISBURY]\n\n" + "SALISBURY Now, by my sword, well hast thou fought to-day;\n" + " By the mass, so did we all. I thank you, Richard:\n" + " God knows how long it is I have to live;\n" + " And it hath pleased him that three times to-day\n" + " You have defended me from imminent death.\n" + " Well, lords, we have not got that which we have:\n" + " 'Tis not enough our foes are this time fled,\n" + " Being opposites of such repairing nature.\n\n" + "YORK I know our safety is to follow them;\n" + " For, as I hear, the king is fled to London,\n" + " To call a present court of parliament.\n" + " Let us pursue him ere the writs go forth.\n" + " What says Lord Warwick? shall we after them?\n\n" + "WARWICK After them! nay, before them, if we can.\n" + " Now, by my faith, lords, 'twas a glorious day:\n" + " Saint Alban's battle won by famous York\n" + " Shall be eternized in all age to come.\n" + " Sound drums and trumpets, and to London all:\n" + " And more such days as these to us befall!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n" + " \n" + " \n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING HENRY the Sixth.\n\n" + "EDWARD,\n" + "PRINCE OF WALES his son. (PRINCE EDWARD:)\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI King of France. (KING LEWIS XI:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF SOMERSET (SOMERSET:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF EXETER (EXETER:)\n\n" + "EARL OF OXFORD (OXFORD:)\n\n" + "EARL OF\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND (NORTHUMBERLAND:)\n\n" + "EARL OF\n" + "WESTMORELAND (WESTMORELAND:)\n\n" + "LORD CLIFFORD (CLIFFORD:)\n\n" + "RICHARD\n" + "PLANTAGENET Duke of York. (YORK:)\n\n\n" + "EDWARD (EDWARD:) Earl of March, |\n" + " afterwards King Edward IV. |\n" + " (KING EDWARD IV:) |\n" + " |\n" + "EDMUND Earl of Rutland, (RUTLAND:) |\n" + " | his sons.\n" + "GEORGE (GEORGE:) afterwards Duke of |\n" + " Clarence (CLARENCE:) |\n" + " |\n" + "RICHARD (RICHARD:) afterwards Duke of |\n" + " Gloucester, (GLOUCESTER:) |\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF NORFOLK (NORFOLK:)\n\n" + "MARQUESS OF\n" + "MONTAGUE (MONTAGUE:)\n\n" + "EARL OF WARWICK (WARWICK:)\n\n" + "EARL OF PEMBROKE (PEMBROKE:)\n\n" + "LORD HASTINGS (HASTINGS:)\n\n" + "LORD STAFFORD (STAFFORD:)\n\n\n" + "SIR JOHN MORTIMER (JOHN MORTIMER:) |\n" + " | uncles to the Duke of York.\n" + "SIR HUGH MORTIMER (HUGH MORTIMER:) |\n\n\n" + "HENRY Earl of Richmond, a youth (HENRY OF RICHMOND:).\n\n" + "LORD RIVERS brother to Lady Grey. (RIVERS:)\n\n" + "SIR\n" + "WILLIAM STANLEY (STANLEY:)\n\n" + "SIR\n" + "JOHN MONTGOMERY (MONTGOMERY:)\n\n" + "SIR\n" + "JOHN SOMERVILLE (SOMERVILLE:)\n\n" + " Tutor to Rutland. (Tutor:)\n\n" + " Mayor of York. (Mayor:)\n\n" + " Lieutenant of the Tower. (Lieutenant:)\n\n" + " A Nobleman. (Nobleman:)\n\n" + " Two Keepers.\n" + " (First Keeper:)\n" + " (Second Keeper:)\n\n" + " A Huntsman. (Huntsman:)\n\n" + " A Son that has killed his father. (Son:)\n\n" + " A Father that has killed his son. (Father:)\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET:\n\n" + "LADY GREY afterwards Queen to Edward IV. (QUEEN ELIZABETH:)\n\n" + "BONA sister to the French Queen.\n\n" + " Soldiers, Attendants, Messengers, Watchmen, &c.\n" + " (Soldier:)\n" + " (Post:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (First Messenger:)\n" + " (Second Messenger:)\n" + " (First Watchman:)\n" + " (Second Watchman:)\n" + " (Third Watchman:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE England and France.\n\n\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. The Parliament-house.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter YORK, EDWARD, RICHARD, NORFOLK,\n" + " MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "WARWICK I wonder how the king escaped our hands.\n\n" + "YORK While we pursued the horsemen of the north,\n" + " He slily stole away and left his men:\n" + " Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland,\n" + " Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat,\n" + " Cheer'd up the drooping army; and himself,\n" + " Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast,\n" + " Charged our main battle's front, and breaking in\n" + " Were by the swords of common soldiers slain.\n\n" + "EDWARD Lord Stafford's father, Duke of Buckingham,\n" + " Is either slain or wounded dangerously;\n" + " I cleft his beaver with a downright blow:\n" + " That this is true, father, behold his blood.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE And, brother, here's the Earl of Wiltshire's blood,\n" + " Whom I encounter'd as the battles join'd.\n\n" + "RICHARD Speak thou for me and tell them what I did.\n\n" + " [Throwing down SOMERSET's head]\n\n" + "YORK Richard hath best deserved of all my sons.\n" + " But is your grace dead, my Lord of Somerset?\n\n" + "NORFOLK Such hope have all the line of John of Gaunt!\n\n" + "RICHARD Thus do I hope to shake King Henry's head.\n\n" + "WARWICK And so do I. Victorious Prince of York,\n" + " Before I see thee seated in that throne\n" + " Which now the house of Lancaster usurps,\n" + " I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close.\n" + " This is the palace of the fearful king,\n" + " And this the regal seat: possess it, York;\n" + " For this is thine and not King Henry's heirs'\n\n" + "YORK Assist me, then, sweet Warwick, and I will;\n" + " For hither we have broken in by force.\n\n" + "NORFOLK We'll all assist you; he that flies shall die.\n\n" + "YORK Thanks, gentle Norfolk: stay by me, my lords;\n" + " And, soldiers, stay and lodge by me this night.\n\n" + " [They go up]\n\n" + "WARWICK And when the king comes, offer no violence,\n" + " Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce.\n\n" + "YORK The queen this day here holds her parliament,\n" + " But little thinks we shall be of her council:\n" + " By words or blows here let us win our right.\n\n" + "RICHARD Arm'd as we are, let's stay within this house.\n\n" + "WARWICK The bloody parliament shall this be call'd,\n" + " Unless Plantagenet, Duke of York, be king,\n" + " And bashful Henry deposed, whose cowardice\n" + " Hath made us by-words to our enemies.\n\n" + "YORK Then leave me not, my lords; be resolute;\n" + " I mean to take possession of my right.\n\n" + "WARWICK Neither the king, nor he that loves him best,\n" + " The proudest he that holds up Lancaster,\n" + " Dares stir a wing, if Warwick shake his bells.\n" + " I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares:\n" + " Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD,\n" + " NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My lords, look where the sturdy rebel sits,\n" + " Even in the chair of state: belike he means,\n" + " Back'd by the power of Warwick, that false peer,\n" + " To aspire unto the crown and reign as king.\n" + " Earl of Northumberland, he slew thy father.\n" + " And thine, Lord Clifford; and you both have vow'd revenge\n" + " On him, his sons, his favourites and his friends.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND If I be not, heavens be revenged on me!\n\n" + "CLIFFORD The hope thereof makes Clifford mourn in steel.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND What, shall we suffer this? let's pluck him down:\n" + " My heart for anger burns; I cannot brook it.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Be patient, gentle Earl of Westmoreland.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Patience is for poltroons, such as he:\n" + " He durst not sit there, had your father lived.\n" + " My gracious lord, here in the parliament\n" + " Let us assail the family of York.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Well hast thou spoken, cousin: be it so.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ah, know you not the city favours them,\n" + " And they have troops of soldiers at their beck?\n\n" + "EXETER But when the duke is slain, they'll quickly fly.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Far be the thought of this from Henry's heart,\n" + " To make a shambles of the parliament-house!\n" + " Cousin of Exeter, frowns, words and threats\n" + " Shall be the war that Henry means to use.\n" + " Thou factious Duke of York, descend my throne,\n" + " and kneel for grace and mercy at my feet;\n" + " I am thy sovereign.\n\n" + "YORK I am thine.\n\n" + "EXETER For shame, come down: he made thee Duke of York.\n\n" + "YORK 'Twas my inheritance, as the earldom was.\n\n" + "EXETER Thy father was a traitor to the crown.\n\n" + "WARWICK Exeter, thou art a traitor to the crown\n" + " In following this usurping Henry.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Whom should he follow but his natural king?\n\n" + "WARWICK True, Clifford; and that's Richard Duke of York.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI And shall I stand, and thou sit in my throne?\n\n" + "YORK It must and shall be so: content thyself.\n\n" + "WARWICK Be Duke of Lancaster; let him be king.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND He is both king and Duke of Lancaster;\n" + " And that the Lord of Westmoreland shall maintain.\n\n" + "WARWICK And Warwick shall disprove it. You forget\n" + " That we are those which chased you from the field\n" + " And slew your fathers, and with colours spread\n" + " March'd through the city to the palace gates.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Yes, Warwick, I remember it to my grief;\n" + " And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall rue it.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Plantagenet, of thee and these thy sons,\n" + " Thy kinsman and thy friends, I'll have more lives\n" + " Than drops of blood were in my father's veins.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Urge it no more; lest that, instead of words,\n" + " I send thee, Warwick, such a messenger\n" + " As shall revenge his death before I stir.\n\n" + "WARWICK Poor Clifford! how I scorn his worthless threats!\n\n" + "YORK Will you we show our title to the crown?\n" + " If not, our swords shall plead it in the field.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI What title hast thou, traitor, to the crown?\n" + " Thy father was, as thou art, Duke of York;\n" + " Thy grandfather, Roger Mortimer, Earl of March:\n" + " I am the son of Henry the Fifth,\n" + " Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop\n" + " And seized upon their towns and provinces.\n\n" + "WARWICK Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it all.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI The lord protector lost it, and not I:\n" + " When I was crown'd I was but nine months old.\n\n" + "RICHARD You are old enough now, and yet, methinks, you lose.\n" + " Father, tear the crown from the usurper's head.\n\n" + "EDWARD Sweet father, do so; set it on your head.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Good brother, as thou lovest and honourest arms,\n" + " Let's fight it out and not stand cavilling thus.\n\n" + "RICHARD Sound drums and trumpets, and the king will fly.\n\n" + "YORK Sons, peace!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Peace, thou! and give King Henry leave to speak.\n\n" + "WARWICK Plantagenet shall speak first: hear him, lords;\n" + " And be you silent and attentive too,\n" + " For he that interrupts him shall not live.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Think'st thou that I will leave my kingly throne,\n" + " Wherein my grandsire and my father sat?\n" + " No: first shall war unpeople this my realm;\n" + " Ay, and their colours, often borne in France,\n" + " And now in England to our heart's great sorrow,\n" + " Shall be my winding-sheet. Why faint you, lords?\n" + " My title's good, and better far than his.\n\n" + "WARWICK Prove it, Henry, and thou shalt be king.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Henry the Fourth by conquest got the crown.\n\n" + "YORK 'Twas by rebellion against his king.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI [Aside] I know not what to say; my title's weak.--\n" + " Tell me, may not a king adopt an heir?\n\n" + "YORK What then?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI An if he may, then am I lawful king;\n" + " For Richard, in the view of many lords,\n" + " Resign'd the crown to Henry the Fourth,\n" + " Whose heir my father was, and I am his.\n\n" + "YORK He rose against him, being his sovereign,\n" + " And made him to resign his crown perforce.\n\n" + "WARWICK Suppose, my lords, he did it unconstrain'd,\n" + " Think you 'twere prejudicial to his crown?\n\n" + "EXETER No; for he could not so resign his crown\n" + " But that the next heir should succeed and reign.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Art thou against us, Duke of Exeter?\n\n" + "EXETER His is the right, and therefore pardon me.\n\n" + "YORK Why whisper you, my lords, and answer not?\n\n" + "EXETER My conscience tells me he is lawful king.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI [Aside] All will revolt from me, and turn to him.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Plantagenet, for all the claim thou lay'st,\n" + " Think not that Henry shall be so deposed.\n\n" + "WARWICK Deposed he shall be, in despite of all.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Thou art deceived: 'tis not thy southern power,\n" + " Of Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, nor of Kent,\n" + " Which makes thee thus presumptuous and proud,\n" + " Can set the duke up in despite of me.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD King Henry, be thy title right or wrong,\n" + " Lord Clifford vows to fight in thy defence:\n" + " May that ground gape and swallow me alive,\n" + " Where I shall kneel to him that slew my father!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O Clifford, how thy words revive my heart!\n\n" + "YORK Henry of Lancaster, resign thy crown.\n" + " What mutter you, or what conspire you, lords?\n\n" + "WARWICK Do right unto this princely Duke of York,\n" + " Or I will fill the house with armed men,\n" + " And over the chair of state, where now he sits,\n" + " Write up his title with usurping blood.\n\n" + " [He stamps with his foot and the soldiers show\n" + " themselves]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My Lord of Warwick, hear me but one word:\n" + " Let me for this my life-time reign as king.\n\n" + "YORK Confirm the crown to me and to mine heirs,\n" + " And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou livest.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I am content: Richard Plantagenet,\n" + " Enjoy the kingdom after my decease.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD What wrong is this unto the prince your son!\n\n" + "WARWICK What good is this to England and himself!\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Base, fearful and despairing Henry!\n\n" + "CLIFFORD How hast thou injured both thyself and us!\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND I cannot stay to hear these articles.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Nor I.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Come, cousin, let us tell the queen these news.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate king,\n" + " In whose cold blood no spark of honour bides.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Be thou a prey unto the house of York,\n" + " And die in bands for this unmanly deed!\n\n" + "CLIFFORD In dreadful war mayst thou be overcome,\n" + " Or live in peace abandon'd and despised!\n\n" + " [Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND, CLIFFORD, and WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "WARWICK Turn this way, Henry, and regard them not.\n\n" + "EXETER They seek revenge and therefore will not yield.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ah, Exeter!\n\n" + "WARWICK Why should you sigh, my lord?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Not for myself, Lord Warwick, but my son,\n" + " Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit.\n" + " But be it as it may: I here entail\n" + " The crown to thee and to thine heirs for ever;\n" + " Conditionally, that here thou take an oath\n" + " To cease this civil war, and, whilst I live,\n" + " To honour me as thy king and sovereign,\n" + " And neither by treason nor hostility\n" + " To seek to put me down and reign thyself.\n\n" + "YORK This oath I willingly take and will perform.\n\n" + "WARWICK Long live King Henry! Plantagenet embrace him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI And long live thou and these thy forward sons!\n\n" + "YORK Now York and Lancaster are reconciled.\n\n" + "EXETER Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes!\n\n" + " [Sennet. Here they come down]\n\n" + "YORK Farewell, my gracious lord; I'll to my castle.\n\n" + "WARWICK And I'll keep London with my soldiers.\n\n" + "NORFOLK And I to Norfolk with my followers.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE And I unto the sea from whence I came.\n\n" + " [Exeunt YORK, EDWARD, EDMUND, GEORGE, RICHARD,\n" + " WARWICK, NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, their Soldiers, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI And I, with grief and sorrow, to the court.\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD]\n\n" + "EXETER Here comes the queen, whose looks bewray her anger:\n" + " I'll steal away.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Exeter, so will I.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Nay, go not from me; I will follow thee.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Be patient, gentle queen, and I will stay.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Who can be patient in such extremes?\n" + " Ah, wretched man! would I had died a maid\n" + " And never seen thee, never borne thee son,\n" + " Seeing thou hast proved so unnatural a father\n" + " Hath he deserved to lose his birthright thus?\n" + " Hadst thou but loved him half so well as I,\n" + " Or felt that pain which I did for him once,\n" + " Or nourish'd him as I did with my blood,\n" + " Thou wouldst have left thy dearest heart-blood there,\n" + " Rather than have that savage duke thine heir\n" + " And disinherited thine only son.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Father, you cannot disinherit me:\n" + " If you be king, why should not I succeed?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Pardon me, Margaret; pardon me, sweet son:\n" + " The Earl of Warwick and the duke enforced me.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Enforced thee! art thou king, and wilt be forced?\n" + " I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous wretch!\n" + " Thou hast undone thyself, thy son and me;\n" + " And given unto the house of York such head\n" + " As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance.\n" + " To entail him and his heirs unto the crown,\n" + " What is it, but to make thy sepulchre\n" + " And creep into it far before thy time?\n" + " Warwick is chancellor and the lord of Calais;\n" + " Stern Falconbridge commands the narrow seas;\n" + " The duke is made protector of the realm;\n" + " And yet shalt thou be safe? such safety finds\n" + " The trembling lamb environed with wolves.\n" + " Had I been there, which am a silly woman,\n" + " The soldiers should have toss'd me on their pikes\n" + " Before I would have granted to that act.\n" + " But thou preferr'st thy life before thine honour:\n" + " And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself\n" + " Both from thy table, Henry, and thy bed,\n" + " Until that act of parliament be repeal'd\n" + " Whereby my son is disinherited.\n" + " The northern lords that have forsworn thy colours\n" + " Will follow mine, if once they see them spread;\n" + " And spread they shall be, to thy foul disgrace\n" + " And utter ruin of the house of York.\n" + " Thus do I leave thee. Come, son, let's away;\n" + " Our army is ready; come, we'll after them.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Stay, gentle Margaret, and hear me speak.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Thou hast spoke too much already: get thee gone.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Gentle son Edward, thou wilt stay with me?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ay, to be murder'd by his enemies.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD When I return with victory from the field\n" + " I'll see your grace: till then I'll follow her.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Come, son, away; we may not linger thus.\n\n" + " [Exeunt QUEEN MARGARET and PRINCE EDWARD]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Poor queen! how love to me and to her son\n" + " Hath made her break out into terms of rage!\n" + " Revenged may she be on that hateful duke,\n" + " Whose haughty spirit, winged with desire,\n" + " Will cost my crown, and like an empty eagle\n" + " Tire on the flesh of me and of my son!\n" + " The loss of those three lords torments my heart:\n" + " I'll write unto them and entreat them fair.\n" + " Come, cousin you shall be the messenger.\n\n" + "EXETER And I, I hope, shall reconcile them all.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Sandal Castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter RICHARD, EDWARD, and MONTAGUE]\n\n" + "RICHARD Brother, though I be youngest, give me leave.\n\n" + "EDWARD No, I can better play the orator.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE But I have reasons strong and forcible.\n\n" + " [Enter YORK]\n\n" + "YORK Why, how now, sons and brother! at a strife?\n" + " What is your quarrel? how began it first?\n\n" + "EDWARD No quarrel, but a slight contention.\n\n" + "YORK About what?\n\n" + "RICHARD About that which concerns your grace and us;\n" + " The crown of England, father, which is yours.\n\n" + "YORK Mine boy? not till King Henry be dead.\n\n" + "RICHARD Your right depends not on his life or death.\n\n" + "EDWARD Now you are heir, therefore enjoy it now:\n" + " By giving the house of Lancaster leave to breathe,\n" + " It will outrun you, father, in the end.\n\n" + "YORK I took an oath that he should quietly reign.\n\n" + "EDWARD But for a kingdom any oath may be broken:\n" + " I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year.\n\n" + "RICHARD No; God forbid your grace should be forsworn.\n\n" + "YORK I shall be, if I claim by open war.\n\n" + "RICHARD I'll prove the contrary, if you'll hear me speak.\n\n" + "YORK Thou canst not, son; it is impossible.\n\n" + "RICHARD An oath is of no moment, being not took\n" + " Before a true and lawful magistrate,\n" + " That hath authority over him that swears:\n" + " Henry had none, but did usurp the place;\n" + " Then, seeing 'twas he that made you to depose,\n" + " Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous.\n" + " Therefore, to arms! And, father, do but think\n" + " How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown;\n" + " Within whose circuit is Elysium\n" + " And all that poets feign of bliss and joy.\n" + " Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest\n" + " Until the white rose that I wear be dyed\n" + " Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's heart.\n\n" + "YORK Richard, enough; I will be king, or die.\n" + " Brother, thou shalt to London presently,\n" + " And whet on Warwick to this enterprise.\n" + " Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk,\n" + " And tell him privily of our intent.\n" + " You Edward, shall unto my Lord Cobham,\n" + " With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise:\n" + " In them I trust; for they are soldiers,\n" + " Witty, courteous, liberal, full of spirit.\n" + " While you are thus employ'd, what resteth more,\n" + " But that I seek occasion how to rise,\n" + " And yet the king not privy to my drift,\n" + " Nor any of the house of Lancaster?\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such post?\n\n" + "Messenger The queen with all the northern earls and lords\n" + " Intend here to besiege you in your castle:\n" + " She is hard by with twenty thousand men;\n" + " And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.\n\n" + "YORK Ay, with my sword. What! think'st thou that we fear them?\n" + " Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;\n" + " My brother Montague shall post to London:\n" + " Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest,\n" + " Whom we have left protectors of the king,\n" + " With powerful policy strengthen themselves,\n" + " And trust not simple Henry nor his oaths.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Brother, I go; I'll win them, fear it not:\n" + " And thus most humbly I do take my leave.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter JOHN MORTIMER and HUGH MORTIMER]\n\n" + " Sir John and Sir Hugh Mortimer, mine uncles,\n" + " You are come to Sandal in a happy hour;\n" + " The army of the queen mean to besiege us.\n\n" + "JOHN MORTIMER She shall not need; we'll meet her in the field.\n\n" + "YORK What, with five thousand men?\n\n" + "RICHARD Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need:\n" + " A woman's general; what should we fear?\n\n" + " [A march afar off]\n\n" + "EDWARD I hear their drums: let's set our men in order,\n" + " And issue forth and bid them battle straight.\n\n" + "YORK Five men to twenty! though the odds be great,\n" + " I doubt not, uncle, of our victory.\n" + " Many a battle have I won in France,\n" + " When as the enemy hath been ten to one:\n" + " Why should I not now have the like success?\n\n" + " [Alarum. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Field of battle betwixt Sandal Castle and Wakefield.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter RUTLAND and his Tutor]\n\n" + "RUTLAND Ah, whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?\n" + " Ah, tutor, look where bloody Clifford comes!\n\n" + " [Enter CLIFFORD and Soldiers]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life.\n" + " As for the brat of this accursed duke,\n" + " Whose father slew my father, he shall die.\n\n" + "Tutor And I, my lord, will bear him company.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Soldiers, away with him!\n\n" + "Tutor Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child,\n" + " Lest thou be hated both of God and man!\n\n" + " [Exit, dragged off by Soldiers]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD How now! is he dead already? or is it fear\n" + " That makes him close his eyes? I'll open them.\n\n" + "RUTLAND So looks the pent-up lion o'er the wretch\n" + " That trembles under his devouring paws;\n" + " And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey,\n" + " And so he comes, to rend his limbs asunder.\n" + " Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword,\n" + " And not with such a cruel threatening look.\n" + " Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die.\n" + " I am too mean a subject for thy wrath:\n" + " Be thou revenged on men, and let me live.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD In vain thou speak'st, poor boy; my father's blood\n" + " Hath stopp'd the passage where thy words should enter.\n\n" + "RUTLAND Then let my father's blood open it again:\n" + " He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Had thy brethren here, their lives and thine\n" + " Were not revenge sufficient for me;\n" + " No, if I digg'd up thy forefathers' graves\n" + " And hung their rotten coffins up in chains,\n" + " It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart.\n" + " The sight of any of the house of York\n" + " Is as a fury to torment my soul;\n" + " And till I root out their accursed line\n" + " And leave not one alive, I live in hell.\n" + " Therefore--\n\n" + " [Lifting his hand]\n\n" + "RUTLAND O, let me pray before I take my death!\n" + " To thee I pray; sweet Clifford, pity me!\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Such pity as my rapier's point affords.\n\n" + "RUTLAND I never did thee harm: why wilt thou slay me?\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Thy father hath.\n\n" + "RUTLAND But 'twas ere I was born.\n" + " Thou hast one son; for his sake pity me,\n" + " Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just,\n" + " He be as miserably slain as I.\n" + " Ah, let me live in prison all my days;\n" + " And when I give occasion of offence,\n" + " Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD No cause!\n" + " Thy father slew my father; therefore, die.\n\n" + " [Stabs him]\n\n" + "RUTLAND Di faciant laudis summa sit ista tuae!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Plantagenet! I come, Plantagenet!\n" + " And this thy son's blood cleaving to my blade\n" + " Shall rust upon my weapon, till thy blood,\n" + " Congeal'd with this, do make me wipe off both.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter YORK]\n\n" + "YORK The army of the queen hath got the field:\n" + " My uncles both are slain in rescuing me;\n" + " And all my followers to the eager foe\n" + " Turn back and fly, like ships before the wind\n" + " Or lambs pursued by hunger-starved wolves.\n" + " My sons, God knows what hath bechanced them:\n" + " But this I know, they have demean'd themselves\n" + " Like men born to renown by life or death.\n" + " Three times did Richard make a lane to me.\n" + " And thrice cried 'Courage, father! fight it out!'\n" + " And full as oft came Edward to my side,\n" + " With purple falchion, painted to the hilt\n" + " In blood of those that had encounter'd him:\n" + " And when the hardiest warriors did retire,\n" + " Richard cried 'Charge! and give no foot of ground!'\n" + " And cried 'A crown, or else a glorious tomb!\n" + " A sceptre, or an earthly sepulchre!'\n" + " With this, we charged again: but, out, alas!\n" + " We bodged again; as I have seen a swan\n" + " With bootless labour swim against the tide\n" + " And spend her strength with over-matching waves.\n\n" + " [A short alarum within]\n\n" + " Ah, hark! the fatal followers do pursue;\n" + " And I am faint and cannot fly their fury:\n" + " And were I strong, I would not shun their fury:\n" + " The sands are number'd that make up my life;\n" + " Here must I stay, and here my life must end.\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN MARGARET, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND,\n" + " PRINCE EDWARD, and Soldiers]\n\n" + " Come, bloody Clifford, rough Northumberland,\n" + " I dare your quenchless fury to more rage:\n" + " I am your butt, and I abide your shot.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Yield to our mercy, proud Plantagenet.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm,\n" + " With downright payment, show'd unto my father.\n" + " Now Phaethon hath tumbled from his car,\n" + " And made an evening at the noontide prick.\n\n" + "YORK My ashes, as the phoenix, may bring forth\n" + " A bird that will revenge upon you all:\n" + " And in that hope I throw mine eyes to heaven,\n" + " Scorning whate'er you can afflict me with.\n" + " Why come you not? what! multitudes, and fear?\n\n" + "CLIFFORD So cowards fight when they can fly no further;\n" + " So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons;\n" + " So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives,\n" + " Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers.\n\n" + "YORK O Clifford, but bethink thee once again,\n" + " And in thy thought o'er-run my former time;\n" + " And, if though canst for blushing, view this face,\n" + " And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice\n" + " Whose frown hath made thee faint and fly ere this!\n\n" + "CLIFFORD I will not bandy with thee word for word,\n" + " But buckle with thee blows, twice two for one.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Hold, valiant Clifford! for a thousand causes\n" + " I would prolong awhile the traitor's life.\n" + " Wrath makes him deaf: speak thou, Northumberland.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Hold, Clifford! do not honour him so much\n" + " To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart:\n" + " What valour were it, when a cur doth grin,\n" + " For one to thrust his hand between his teeth,\n" + " When he might spurn him with his foot away?\n" + " It is war's prize to take all vantages;\n" + " And ten to one is no impeach of valour.\n\n" + " [They lay hands on YORK, who struggles]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND So doth the cony struggle in the net.\n\n" + "YORK So triumph thieves upon their conquer'd booty;\n" + " So true men yield, with robbers so o'ermatch'd.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND What would your grace have done unto him now?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Brave warriors, Clifford and Northumberland,\n" + " Come, make him stand upon this molehill here,\n" + " That raught at mountains with outstretched arms,\n" + " Yet parted but the shadow with his hand.\n" + " What! was it you that would be England's king?\n" + " Was't you that revell'd in our parliament,\n" + " And made a preachment of your high descent?\n" + " Where are your mess of sons to back you now?\n" + " The wanton Edward, and the lusty George?\n" + " And where's that valiant crook-back prodigy,\n" + " Dicky your boy, that with his grumbling voice\n" + " Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies?\n" + " Or, with the rest, where is your darling Rutland?\n" + " Look, York: I stain'd this napkin with the blood\n" + " That valiant Clifford, with his rapier's point,\n" + " Made issue from the bosom of the boy;\n" + " And if thine eyes can water for his death,\n" + " I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal.\n" + " Alas poor York! but that I hate thee deadly,\n" + " I should lament thy miserable state.\n" + " I prithee, grieve, to make me merry, York.\n" + " What, hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine entrails\n" + " That not a tear can fall for Rutland's death?\n" + " Why art thou patient, man? thou shouldst be mad;\n" + " And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee thus.\n" + " Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and dance.\n" + " Thou wouldst be fee'd, I see, to make me sport:\n" + " York cannot speak, unless he wear a crown.\n" + " A crown for York! and, lords, bow low to him:\n" + " Hold you his hands, whilst I do set it on.\n\n" + " [Putting a paper crown on his head]\n\n" + " Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king!\n" + " Ay, this is he that took King Henry's chair,\n" + " And this is he was his adopted heir.\n" + " But how is it that great Plantagenet\n" + " Is crown'd so soon, and broke his solemn oath?\n" + " As I bethink me, you should not be king\n" + " Till our King Henry had shook hands with death.\n" + " And will you pale your head in Henry's glory,\n" + " And rob his temples of the diadem,\n" + " Now in his life, against your holy oath?\n" + " O, 'tis a fault too too unpardonable!\n" + " Off with the crown, and with the crown his head;\n" + " And, whilst we breathe, take time to do him dead.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD That is my office, for my father's sake.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Nay, stay; lets hear the orisons he makes.\n\n" + "YORK She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France,\n" + " Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth!\n" + " How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex\n" + " To triumph, like an Amazonian trull,\n" + " Upon their woes whom fortune captivates!\n" + " But that thy face is, vizard-like, unchanging,\n" + " Made impudent with use of evil deeds,\n" + " I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush.\n" + " To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived,\n" + " Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.\n" + " Thy father bears the type of King of Naples,\n" + " Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem,\n" + " Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman.\n" + " Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult?\n" + " It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen,\n" + " Unless the adage must be verified,\n" + " That beggars mounted run their horse to death.\n" + " 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;\n" + " But, God he knows, thy share thereof is small:\n" + " 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired;\n" + " The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at:\n" + " 'Tis government that makes them seem divine;\n" + " The want thereof makes thee abominable:\n" + " Thou art as opposite to every good\n" + " As the Antipodes are unto us,\n" + " Or as the south to the septentrion.\n" + " O tiger's heart wrapt in a woman's hide!\n" + " How couldst thou drain the life-blood of the child,\n" + " To bid the father wipe his eyes withal,\n" + " And yet be seen to bear a woman's face?\n" + " Women are soft, mild, pitiful and flexible;\n" + " Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless.\n" + " Bids't thou me rage? why, now thou hast thy wish:\n" + " Wouldst have me weep? why, now thou hast thy will:\n" + " For raging wind blows up incessant showers,\n" + " And when the rage allays, the rain begins.\n" + " These tears are my sweet Rutland's obsequies:\n" + " And every drop cries vengeance for his death,\n" + " 'Gainst thee, fell Clifford, and thee, false\n" + " Frenchwoman.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Beshrew me, but his passion moves me so\n" + " That hardly can I cheque my eyes from tears.\n\n" + "YORK That face of his the hungry cannibals\n" + " Would not have touch'd, would not have stain'd with blood:\n" + " But you are more inhuman, more inexorable,\n" + " O, ten times more, than tigers of Hyrcania.\n" + " See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears:\n" + " This cloth thou dip'dst in blood of my sweet boy,\n" + " And I with tears do wash the blood away.\n" + " Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this:\n" + " And if thou tell'st the heavy story right,\n" + " Upon my soul, the hearers will shed tears;\n" + " Yea even my foes will shed fast-falling tears,\n" + " And say 'Alas, it was a piteous deed!'\n" + " There, take the crown, and, with the crown, my curse;\n" + " And in thy need such comfort come to thee\n" + " As now I reap at thy too cruel hand!\n" + " Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world:\n" + " My soul to heaven, my blood upon your heads!\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Had he been slaughter-man to all my kin,\n" + " I should not for my life but weep with him.\n" + " To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET What, weeping-ripe, my Lord Northumberland?\n" + " Think but upon the wrong he did us all,\n" + " And that will quickly dry thy melting tears.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Here's for my oath, here's for my father's death.\n\n" + " [Stabbing him]\n\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And here's to right our gentle-hearted king.\n\n" + " [Stabbing him]\n\n" + "YORK Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God!\n" + " My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Off with his head, and set it on York gates;\n" + " So York may overlook the town of York.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A plain near Mortimer's Cross in Herefordshire.\n\n\n" + " [A march. Enter EDWARD, RICHARD, and their power]\n\n" + "EDWARD I wonder how our princely father 'scaped,\n" + " Or whether he be 'scaped away or no\n" + " From Clifford's and Northumberland's pursuit:\n" + " Had he been ta'en, we should have heard the news;\n" + " Had he been slain, we should have heard the news;\n" + " Or had he 'scaped, methinks we should have heard\n" + " The happy tidings of his good escape.\n" + " How fares my brother? why is he so sad?\n\n" + "RICHARD I cannot joy, until I be resolved\n" + " Where our right valiant father is become.\n" + " I saw him in the battle range about;\n" + " And watch'd him how he singled Clifford forth.\n" + " Methought he bore him in the thickest troop\n" + " As doth a lion in a herd of neat;\n" + " Or as a bear, encompass'd round with dogs,\n" + " Who having pinch'd a few and made them cry,\n" + " The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him.\n" + " So fared our father with his enemies;\n" + " So fled his enemies my warlike father:\n" + " Methinks, 'tis prize enough to be his son.\n" + " See how the morning opes her golden gates,\n" + " And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!\n" + " How well resembles it the prime of youth,\n" + " Trimm'd like a younker prancing to his love!\n\n" + "EDWARD Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?\n\n" + "RICHARD Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun;\n" + " Not separated with the racking clouds,\n" + " But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky.\n" + " See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss,\n" + " As if they vow'd some league inviolable:\n" + " Now are they but one lamp, one light, one sun.\n" + " In this the heaven figures some event.\n\n" + "EDWARD 'Tis wondrous strange, the like yet never heard of.\n" + " I think it cites us, brother, to the field,\n" + " That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet,\n" + " Each one already blazing by our meeds,\n" + " Should notwithstanding join our lights together\n" + " And over-shine the earth as this the world.\n" + " Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I bear\n" + " Upon my target three fair-shining suns.\n\n" + "RICHARD Nay, bear three daughters: by your leave I speak it,\n" + " You love the breeder better than the male.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell\n" + " Some dreadful story hanging on thy tongue?\n\n" + "Messenger Ah, one that was a woful looker-on\n" + " When as the noble Duke of York was slain,\n" + " Your princely father and my loving lord!\n\n" + "EDWARD O, speak no more, for I have heard too much.\n\n" + "RICHARD Say how he died, for I will hear it all.\n\n" + "Messenger Environed he was with many foes,\n" + " And stood against them, as the hope of Troy\n" + " Against the Greeks that would have enter'd Troy.\n" + " But Hercules himself must yield to odds;\n" + " And many strokes, though with a little axe,\n" + " Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.\n" + " By many hands your father was subdued;\n" + " But only slaughter'd by the ireful arm\n" + " Of unrelenting Clifford and the queen,\n" + " Who crown'd the gracious duke in high despite,\n" + " Laugh'd in his face; and when with grief he wept,\n" + " The ruthless queen gave him to dry his cheeks\n" + " A napkin steeped in the harmless blood\n" + " Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slain:\n" + " And after many scorns, many foul taunts,\n" + " They took his head, and on the gates of York\n" + " They set the same; and there it doth remain,\n" + " The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd.\n\n" + "EDWARD Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,\n" + " Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no stay.\n" + " O Clifford, boisterous Clifford! thou hast slain\n" + " The flower of Europe for his chivalry;\n" + " And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him,\n" + " For hand to hand he would have vanquish'd thee.\n" + " Now my soul's palace is become a prison:\n" + " Ah, would she break from hence, that this my body\n" + " Might in the ground be closed up in rest!\n" + " For never henceforth shall I joy again,\n" + " Never, O never shall I see more joy!\n\n" + "RICHARD I cannot weep; for all my body's moisture\n" + " Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart:\n" + " Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burthen;\n" + " For selfsame wind that I should speak withal\n" + " Is kindling coals that fires all my breast,\n" + " And burns me up with flames that tears would quench.\n" + " To weep is to make less the depth of grief:\n" + " Tears then for babes; blows and revenge for me\n" + " Richard, I bear thy name; I'll venge thy death,\n" + " Or die renowned by attempting it.\n\n" + "EDWARD His name that valiant duke hath left with thee;\n" + " His dukedom and his chair with me is left.\n\n" + "RICHARD Nay, if thou be that princely eagle's bird,\n" + " Show thy descent by gazing 'gainst the sun:\n" + " For chair and dukedom, throne and kingdom say;\n" + " Either that is thine, or else thou wert not his.\n\n" + " [March. Enter WARWICK, MONTAGUE, and their army]\n\n" + "WARWICK How now, fair lords! What fare? what news abroad?\n\n" + "RICHARD Great Lord of Warwick, if we should recount\n" + " Our baleful news, and at each word's deliverance\n" + " Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told,\n" + " The words would add more anguish than the wounds.\n" + " O valiant lord, the Duke of York is slain!\n\n" + "EDWARD O Warwick, Warwick! that Plantagenet,\n" + " Which held three dearly as his soul's redemption,\n" + " Is by the stern Lord Clifford done to death.\n\n" + "WARWICK Ten days ago I drown'd these news in tears;\n" + " And now, to add more measure to your woes,\n" + " I come to tell you things sith then befall'n.\n" + " After the bloody fray at Wakefield fought,\n" + " Where your brave father breathed his latest gasp,\n" + " Tidings, as swiftly as the posts could run,\n" + " Were brought me of your loss and his depart.\n" + " I, then in London keeper of the king,\n" + " Muster'd my soldiers, gather'd flocks of friends,\n" + " And very well appointed, as I thought,\n" + " March'd toward Saint Alban's to intercept the queen,\n" + " Bearing the king in my behalf along;\n" + " For by my scouts I was advertised\n" + " That she was coming with a full intent\n" + " To dash our late decree in parliament\n" + " Touching King Henry's oath and your succession.\n" + " Short tale to make, we at Saint Alban's met\n" + " Our battles join'd, and both sides fiercely fought:\n" + " But whether 'twas the coldness of the king,\n" + " Who look'd full gently on his warlike queen,\n" + " That robb'd my soldiers of their heated spleen;\n" + " Or whether 'twas report of her success;\n" + " Or more than common fear of Clifford's rigour,\n" + " Who thunders to his captives blood and death,\n" + " I cannot judge: but to conclude with truth,\n" + " Their weapons like to lightning came and went;\n" + " Our soldiers', like the night-owl's lazy flight,\n" + " Or like an idle thresher with a flail,\n" + " Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends.\n" + " I cheer'd them up with justice of our cause,\n" + " With promise of high pay and great rewards:\n" + " But all in vain; they had no heart to fight,\n" + " And we in them no hope to win the day;\n" + " So that we fled; the king unto the queen;\n" + " Lord George your brother, Norfolk and myself,\n" + " In haste, post-haste, are come to join with you:\n" + " For in the marches here we heard you were,\n" + " Making another head to fight again.\n\n" + "EDWARD Where is the Duke of Norfolk, gentle Warwick?\n" + " And when came George from Burgundy to England?\n\n" + "WARWICK Some six miles off the duke is with the soldiers;\n" + " And for your brother, he was lately sent\n" + " From your kind aunt, Duchess of Burgundy,\n" + " With aid of soldiers to this needful war.\n\n" + "RICHARD 'Twas odds, belike, when valiant Warwick fled:\n" + " Oft have I heard his praises in pursuit,\n" + " But ne'er till now his scandal of retire.\n\n" + "WARWICK Nor now my scandal, Richard, dost thou hear;\n" + " For thou shalt know this strong right hand of mine\n" + " Can pluck the diadem from faint Henry's head,\n" + " And wring the awful sceptre from his fist,\n" + " Were he as famous and as bold in war\n" + " As he is famed for mildness, peace, and prayer.\n\n" + "RICHARD I know it well, Lord Warwick; blame me not:\n" + " 'Tis love I bear thy glories makes me speak.\n" + " But in this troublous time what's to be done?\n" + " Shall we go throw away our coats of steel,\n" + " And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns,\n" + " Numbering our Ave-Maries with our beads?\n" + " Or shall we on the helmets of our foes\n" + " Tell our devotion with revengeful arms?\n" + " If for the last, say ay, and to it, lords.\n\n" + "WARWICK Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out;\n" + " And therefore comes my brother Montague.\n" + " Attend me, lords. The proud insulting queen,\n" + " With Clifford and the haught Northumberland,\n" + " And of their feather many more proud birds,\n" + " Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax.\n" + " He swore consent to your succession,\n" + " His oath enrolled in the parliament;\n" + " And now to London all the crew are gone,\n" + " To frustrate both his oath and what beside\n" + " May make against the house of Lancaster.\n" + " Their power, I think, is thirty thousand strong:\n" + " Now, if the help of Norfolk and myself,\n" + " With all the friends that thou, brave Earl of March,\n" + " Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure,\n" + " Will but amount to five and twenty thousand,\n" + " Why, Via! to London will we march amain,\n" + " And once again bestride our foaming steeds,\n" + " And once again cry 'Charge upon our foes!'\n" + " But never once again turn back and fly.\n\n" + "RICHARD Ay, now methinks I hear great Warwick speak:\n" + " Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day,\n" + " That cries 'Retire,' if Warwick bid him stay.\n\n" + "EDWARD Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean;\n" + " And when thou fail'st--as God forbid the hour!--\n" + " Must Edward fall, which peril heaven forfend!\n\n" + "WARWICK No longer Earl of March, but Duke of York:\n" + " The next degree is England's royal throne;\n" + " For King of England shalt thou be proclaim'd\n" + " In every borough as we pass along;\n" + " And he that throws not up his cap for joy\n" + " Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head.\n" + " King Edward, valiant Richard, Montague,\n" + " Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown,\n" + " But sound the trumpets, and about our task.\n\n" + "RICHARD Then, Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel,\n" + " As thou hast shown it flinty by thy deeds,\n" + " I come to pierce it, or to give thee mine.\n\n" + "EDWARD Then strike up drums: God and Saint George for us!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "WARWICK How now! what news?\n\n" + "Messenger The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me,\n" + " The queen is coming with a puissant host;\n" + " And craves your company for speedy counsel.\n\n" + "WARWICK Why then it sorts, brave warriors, let's away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before York.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, QUEEN MARGARET,\n" + " PRINCE EDWARD, CLIFFORD, and NORTHUMBERLAND, with\n" + " drum and trumpets]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Welcome, my lord, to this brave town of York.\n" + " Yonder's the head of that arch-enemy\n" + " That sought to be encompass'd with your crown:\n" + " Doth not the object cheer your heart, my lord?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ay, as the rocks cheer them that fear their wreck:\n" + " To see this sight, it irks my very soul.\n" + " Withhold revenge, dear God! 'tis not my fault,\n" + " Nor wittingly have I infringed my vow.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD My gracious liege, this too much lenity\n" + " And harmful pity must be laid aside.\n" + " To whom do lions cast their gentle looks?\n" + " Not to the beast that would usurp their den.\n" + " Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick?\n" + " Not his that spoils her young before her face.\n" + " Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting?\n" + " Not he that sets his foot upon her back.\n" + " The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,\n" + " And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.\n" + " Ambitious York doth level at thy crown,\n" + " Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows:\n" + " He, but a duke, would have his son a king,\n" + " And raise his issue, like a loving sire;\n" + " Thou, being a king, blest with a goodly son,\n" + " Didst yield consent to disinherit him,\n" + " Which argued thee a most unloving father.\n" + " Unreasonable creatures feed their young;\n" + " And though man's face be fearful to their eyes,\n" + " Yet, in protection of their tender ones,\n" + " Who hath not seen them, even with those wings\n" + " Which sometime they have used with fearful flight,\n" + " Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest,\n" + " Offer their own lives in their young's defence?\n" + " For shame, my liege, make them your precedent!\n" + " Were it not pity that this goodly boy\n" + " Should lose his birthright by his father's fault,\n" + " And long hereafter say unto his child,\n" + " 'What my great-grandfather and his grandsire got\n" + " My careless father fondly gave away'?\n" + " Ah, what a shame were this! Look on the boy;\n" + " And let his manly face, which promiseth\n" + " Successful fortune, steel thy melting heart\n" + " To hold thine own and leave thine own with him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Full well hath Clifford play'd the orator,\n" + " Inferring arguments of mighty force.\n" + " But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear\n" + " That things ill-got had ever bad success?\n" + " And happy always was it for that son\n" + " Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?\n" + " I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind;\n" + " And would my father had left me no more!\n" + " For all the rest is held at such a rate\n" + " As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep\n" + " Than in possession and jot of pleasure.\n" + " Ah, cousin York! would thy best friends did know\n" + " How it doth grieve me that thy head is here!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET My lord, cheer up your spirits: our foes are nigh,\n" + " And this soft courage makes your followers faint.\n" + " You promised knighthood to our forward son:\n" + " Unsheathe your sword, and dub him presently.\n" + " Edward, kneel down.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Edward Plantagenet, arise a knight;\n" + " And learn this lesson, draw thy sword in right.\n\n" + "PRINCE My gracious father, by your kingly leave,\n" + " I'll draw it as apparent to the crown,\n" + " And in that quarrel use it to the death.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Why, that is spoken like a toward prince.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Royal commanders, be in readiness:\n" + " For with a band of thirty thousand men\n" + " Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York;\n" + " And in the towns, as they do march along,\n" + " Proclaims him king, and many fly to him:\n" + " Darraign your battle, for they are at hand.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD I would your highness would depart the field:\n" + " The queen hath best success when you are absent.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ay, good my lord, and leave us to our fortune.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, that's my fortune too; therefore I'll stay.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Be it with resolution then to fight.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD My royal father, cheer these noble lords\n" + " And hearten those that fight in your defence:\n" + " Unsheathe your sword, good father; cry 'Saint George!'\n\n" + " [March. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD, WARWICK,\n" + " NORFOLK, MONTAGUE, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "EDWARD Now, perjured Henry! wilt thou kneel for grace,\n" + " And set thy diadem upon my head;\n" + " Or bide the mortal fortune of the field?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy!\n" + " Becomes it thee to be thus bold in terms\n" + " Before thy sovereign and thy lawful king?\n\n" + "EDWARD I am his king, and he should bow his knee;\n" + " I was adopted heir by his consent:\n" + " Since when, his oath is broke; for, as I hear,\n" + " You, that are king, though he do wear the crown,\n" + " Have caused him, by new act of parliament,\n" + " To blot out me, and put his own son in.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD And reason too:\n" + " Who should succeed the father but the son?\n\n" + "RICHARD Are you there, butcher? O, I cannot speak!\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Ay, crook-back, here I stand to answer thee,\n" + " Or any he the proudest of thy sort.\n\n" + "RICHARD 'Twas you that kill'd young Rutland, was it not?\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Ay, and old York, and yet not satisfied.\n\n" + "RICHARD For God's sake, lords, give signal to the fight.\n\n" + "WARWICK What say'st thou, Henry, wilt thou yield the crown?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Why, how now, long-tongued Warwick! dare you speak?\n" + " When you and I met at Saint Alban's last,\n" + " Your legs did better service than your hands.\n\n" + "WARWICK Then 'twas my turn to fly, and now 'tis thine.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD You said so much before, and yet you fled.\n\n" + "WARWICK 'Twas not your valour, Clifford, drove me thence.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND No, nor your manhood that durst make you stay.\n\n" + "RICHARD Northumberland, I hold thee reverently.\n" + " Break off the parley; for scarce I can refrain\n" + " The execution of my big-swoln heart\n" + " Upon that Clifford, that cruel child-killer.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD I slew thy father, call'st thou him a child?\n\n" + "RICHARD Ay, like a dastard and a treacherous coward,\n" + " As thou didst kill our tender brother Rutland;\n" + " But ere sunset I'll make thee curse the deed.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Have done with words, my lords, and hear me speak.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Defy them then, or else hold close thy lips.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I prithee, give no limits to my tongue:\n" + " I am a king, and privileged to speak.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD My liege, the wound that bred this meeting here\n" + " Cannot be cured by words; therefore be still.\n\n" + "RICHARD Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword:\n" + " By him that made us all, I am resolved\n" + " that Clifford's manhood lies upon his tongue.\n\n" + "EDWARD Say, Henry, shall I have my right, or no?\n" + " A thousand men have broke their fasts to-day,\n" + " That ne'er shall dine unless thou yield the crown.\n\n" + "WARWICK If thou deny, their blood upon thy head;\n" + " For York in justice puts his armour on.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD If that be right which Warwick says is right,\n" + " There is no wrong, but every thing is right.\n\n" + "RICHARD Whoever got thee, there thy mother stands;\n" + " For, well I wot, thou hast thy mother's tongue.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET But thou art neither like thy sire nor dam;\n" + " But like a foul mis-shapen stigmatic,\n" + " Mark'd by the destinies to be avoided,\n" + " As venom toads, or lizards' dreadful stings.\n\n" + "RICHARD Iron of Naples hid with English gilt,\n" + " Whose father bears the title of a king,--\n" + " As if a channel should be call'd the sea,--\n" + " Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught,\n" + " To let thy tongue detect thy base-born heart?\n\n" + "EDWARD A wisp of straw were worth a thousand crowns,\n" + " To make this shameless callet know herself.\n" + " Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou,\n" + " Although thy husband may be Menelaus;\n" + " And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd\n" + " By that false woman, as this king by thee.\n" + " His father revell'd in the heart of France,\n" + " And tamed the king, and made the dauphin stoop;\n" + " And had he match'd according to his state,\n" + " He might have kept that glory to this day;\n" + " But when he took a beggar to his bed,\n" + " And graced thy poor sire with his bridal-day,\n" + " Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower for him,\n" + " That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of France,\n" + " And heap'd sedition on his crown at home.\n" + " For what hath broach'd this tumult but thy pride?\n" + " Hadst thou been meek, our title still had slept;\n" + " And we, in pity of the gentle king,\n" + " Had slipp'd our claim until another age.\n\n" + "GEORGE But when we saw our sunshine made thy spring,\n" + " And that thy summer bred us no increase,\n" + " We set the axe to thy usurping root;\n" + " And though the edge hath something hit ourselves,\n" + " Yet, know thou, since we have begun to strike,\n" + " We'll never leave till we have hewn thee down,\n" + " Or bathed thy growing with our heated bloods.\n\n" + "EDWARD And, in this resolution, I defy thee;\n" + " Not willing any longer conference,\n" + " Since thou deniest the gentle king to speak.\n" + " Sound trumpets! let our bloody colours wave!\n" + " And either victory, or else a grave.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Stay, Edward.\n\n" + "EDWARD No, wrangling woman, we'll no longer stay:\n" + " These words will cost ten thousand lives this day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A field of battle between Towton and Saxton, in\n" + " Yorkshire.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Excursions. Enter WARWICK]\n\n" + "WARWICK Forspent with toil, as runners with a race,\n" + " I lay me down a little while to breathe;\n" + " For strokes received, and many blows repaid,\n" + " Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their strength,\n" + " And spite of spite needs must I rest awhile.\n\n" + " [Enter EDWARD, running]\n\n" + "EDWARD Smile, gentle heaven! or strike, ungentle death!\n" + " For this world frowns, and Edward's sun is clouded.\n\n" + "WARWICK How now, my lord! what hap? what hope of good?\n\n" + " [Enter GEORGE]\n\n" + "GEORGE Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair;\n" + " Our ranks are broke, and ruin follows us:\n" + " What counsel give you? whither shall we fly?\n\n" + "EDWARD Bootless is flight, they follow us with wings;\n" + " And weak we are and cannot shun pursuit.\n\n" + " [Enter RICHARD]\n\n" + "RICHARD Ah, Warwick, why hast thou withdrawn thyself?\n" + " Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath drunk,\n" + " Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's lance;\n" + " And in the very pangs of death he cried,\n" + " Like to a dismal clangour heard from far,\n" + " 'Warwick, revenge! brother, revenge my death!'\n" + " So, underneath the belly of their steeds,\n" + " That stain'd their fetlocks in his smoking blood,\n" + " The noble gentleman gave up the ghost.\n\n" + "WARWICK Then let the earth be drunken with our blood:\n" + " I'll kill my horse, because I will not fly.\n" + " Why stand we like soft-hearted women here,\n" + " Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth rage;\n" + " And look upon, as if the tragedy\n" + " Were play'd in jest by counterfeiting actors?\n" + " Here on my knee I vow to God above,\n" + " I'll never pause again, never stand still,\n" + " Till either death hath closed these eyes of mine\n" + " Or fortune given me measure of revenge.\n\n" + "EDWARD O Warwick, I do bend my knee with thine;\n" + " And in this vow do chain my soul to thine!\n" + " And, ere my knee rise from the earth's cold face,\n" + " I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to thee,\n" + " Thou setter up and plucker down of kings,\n" + " Beseeching thee, if with they will it stands\n" + " That to my foes this body must be prey,\n" + " Yet that thy brazen gates of heaven may ope,\n" + " And give sweet passage to my sinful soul!\n" + " Now, lords, take leave until we meet again,\n" + " Where'er it be, in heaven or in earth.\n\n" + "RICHARD Brother, give me thy hand; and, gentle Warwick,\n" + " Let me embrace thee in my weary arms:\n" + " I, that did never weep, now melt with woe\n" + " That winter should cut off our spring-time so.\n\n" + "WARWICK Away, away! Once more, sweet lords farewell.\n\n" + "GEORGE Yet let us all together to our troops,\n" + " And give them leave to fly that will not stay;\n" + " And call them pillars that will stand to us;\n" + " And, if we thrive, promise them such rewards\n" + " As victors wear at the Olympian games:\n" + " This may plant courage in their quailing breasts;\n" + " For yet is hope of life and victory.\n" + " Forslow no longer, make we hence amain.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Excursions. Enter RICHARD and CLIFFORD]\n\n" + "RICHARD Now, Clifford, I have singled thee alone:\n" + " Suppose this arm is for the Duke of York,\n" + " And this for Rutland; both bound to revenge,\n" + " Wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall.\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Now, Richard, I am with thee here alone:\n" + " This is the hand that stabb'd thy father York;\n" + " And this the hand that slew thy brother Rutland;\n" + " And here's the heart that triumphs in their death\n" + " And cheers these hands that slew thy sire and brother\n" + " To execute the like upon thyself;\n" + " And so, have at thee!\n\n" + " [They fight. WARWICK comes; CLIFFORD flies]\n\n" + "RICHARD Nay Warwick, single out some other chase;\n" + " For I myself will hunt this wolf to death.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter KING HENRY VI alone]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI This battle fares like to the morning's war,\n" + " When dying clouds contend with growing light,\n" + " What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails,\n" + " Can neither call it perfect day nor night.\n" + " Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea\n" + " Forced by the tide to combat with the wind;\n" + " Now sways it that way, like the selfsame sea\n" + " Forced to retire by fury of the wind:\n" + " Sometime the flood prevails, and then the wind;\n" + " Now one the better, then another best;\n" + " Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast,\n" + " Yet neither conqueror nor conquered:\n" + " So is the equal of this fell war.\n" + " Here on this molehill will I sit me down.\n" + " To whom God will, there be the victory!\n" + " For Margaret my queen, and Clifford too,\n" + " Have chid me from the battle; swearing both\n" + " They prosper best of all when I am thence.\n" + " Would I were dead! if God's good will were so;\n" + " For what is in this world but grief and woe?\n" + " O God! methinks it were a happy life,\n" + " To be no better than a homely swain;\n" + " To sit upon a hill, as I do now,\n" + " To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,\n" + " Thereby to see the minutes how they run,\n" + " How many make the hour full complete;\n" + " How many hours bring about the day;\n" + " How many days will finish up the year;\n" + " How many years a mortal man may live.\n" + " When this is known, then to divide the times:\n" + " So many hours must I tend my flock;\n" + " So many hours must I take my rest;\n" + " So many hours must I contemplate;\n" + " So many hours must I sport myself;\n" + " So many days my ewes have been with young;\n" + " So many weeks ere the poor fools will ean:\n" + " So many years ere I shall shear the fleece:\n" + " So minutes, hours, days, months, and years,\n" + " Pass'd over to the end they were created,\n" + " Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.\n" + " Ah, what a life were this! how sweet! how lovely!\n" + " Gives not the hawthorn-bush a sweeter shade\n" + " To shepherds looking on their silly sheep,\n" + " Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy\n" + " To kings that fear their subjects' treachery?\n" + " O, yes, it doth; a thousand-fold it doth.\n" + " And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds,\n" + " His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle.\n" + " His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade,\n" + " All which secure and sweetly he enjoys,\n" + " Is far beyond a prince's delicates,\n" + " His viands sparkling in a golden cup,\n" + " His body couched in a curious bed,\n" + " When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter a Son that has killed his father,\n" + " dragging in the dead body]\n\n" + "Son Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.\n" + " This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,\n" + " May be possessed with some store of crowns;\n" + " And I, that haply take them from him now,\n" + " May yet ere night yield both my life and them\n" + " To some man else, as this dead man doth me.\n" + " Who's this? O God! it is my father's face,\n" + " Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd.\n" + " O heavy times, begetting such events!\n" + " From London by the king was I press'd forth;\n" + " My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man,\n" + " Came on the part of York, press'd by his master;\n" + " And I, who at his hands received my life, him\n" + " Have by my hands of life bereaved him.\n" + " Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did!\n" + " And pardon, father, for I knew not thee!\n" + " My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks;\n" + " And no more words till they have flow'd their fill.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI O piteous spectacle! O bloody times!\n" + " Whiles lions war and battle for their dens,\n" + " Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.\n" + " Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear;\n" + " And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war,\n" + " Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief.\n\n" + " [Enter a Father that has killed his son, bringing in the body]\n\n" + "Father Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,\n" + " Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold:\n" + " For I have bought it with an hundred blows.\n" + " But let me see: is this our foeman's face?\n" + " Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son!\n" + " Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,\n" + " Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise,\n" + " Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,\n" + " Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart!\n" + " O, pity, God, this miserable age!\n" + " What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,\n" + " Erroneous, mutinous and unnatural,\n" + " This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!\n" + " O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,\n" + " And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Woe above woe! grief more than common grief!\n" + " O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds!\n" + " O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity!\n" + " The red rose and the white are on his face,\n" + " The fatal colours of our striving houses:\n" + " The one his purple blood right well resembles;\n" + " The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth:\n" + " Wither one rose, and let the other flourish;\n" + " If you contend, a thousand lives must wither.\n\n" + "Son How will my mother for a father's death\n" + " Take on with me and ne'er be satisfied!\n\n" + "Father How will my wife for slaughter of my son\n" + " Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI How will the country for these woful chances\n" + " Misthink the king and not be satisfied!\n\n" + "Son Was ever son so rued a father's death?\n\n" + "Father Was ever father so bemoan'd his son?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Was ever king so grieved for subjects' woe?\n" + " Much is your sorrow; mine ten times so much.\n\n" + "Son I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.\n\n" + " [Exit with the body]\n\n" + "Father These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;\n" + " My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,\n" + " For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go;\n" + " My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;\n" + " And so obsequious will thy father be,\n" + " Even for the loss of thee, having no more,\n" + " As Priam was for all his valiant sons.\n" + " I'll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will,\n" + " For I have murdered where I should not kill.\n\n" + " [Exit with the body]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care,\n" + " Here sits a king more woful than you are.\n\n" + " [Alarums: excursions. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE\n" + " EDWARD, and EXETER]\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Fly, father, fly! for all your friends are fled,\n" + " And Warwick rages like a chafed bull:\n" + " Away! for death doth hold us in pursuit.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Mount you, my lord; towards Berwick post amain:\n" + " Edward and Richard, like a brace of greyhounds\n" + " Having the fearful flying hare in sight,\n" + " With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath,\n" + " And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful hands,\n" + " Are at our backs; and therefore hence amain.\n\n" + "EXETER Away! for vengeance comes along with them:\n" + " Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed;\n" + " Or else come after: I'll away before.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Nay, take me with thee, good sweet Exeter:\n" + " Not that I fear to stay, but love to go\n" + " Whither the queen intends. Forward; away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [A loud alarum. Enter CLIFFORD, wounded]\n\n" + "CLIFFORD Here burns my candle out; ay, here it dies,\n" + " Which, whiles it lasted, gave King Henry light.\n" + " O Lancaster, I fear thy overthrow\n" + " More than my body's parting with my soul!\n" + " My love and fear glued many friends to thee;\n" + " And, now I fall, thy tough commixture melts.\n" + " Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York,\n" + " The common people swarm like summer flies;\n" + " And whither fly the gnats but to the sun?\n" + " And who shines now but Henry's enemies?\n" + " O Phoebus, hadst thou never given consent\n" + " That Phaethon should cheque thy fiery steeds,\n" + " Thy burning car never had scorch'd the earth!\n" + " And, Henry, hadst thou sway'd as kings should do,\n" + " Or as thy father and his father did,\n" + " Giving no ground unto the house of York,\n" + " They never then had sprung like summer flies;\n" + " I and ten thousand in this luckless realm\n" + " Had left no mourning widows for our death;\n" + " And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in peace.\n" + " For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air?\n" + " And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?\n" + " Bootless are plaints, and cureless are my wounds;\n" + " No way to fly, nor strength to hold out flight:\n" + " The foe is merciless, and will not pity;\n" + " For at their hands I have deserved no pity.\n" + " The air hath got into my deadly wounds,\n" + " And much effuse of blood doth make me faint.\n" + " Come, York and Richard, Warwick and the rest;\n" + " I stabb'd your fathers' bosoms, split my breast.\n\n" + " [He faints]\n\n" + " [Alarum and retreat. Enter EDWARD, GEORGE, RICHARD,\n" + " MONTAGUE, WARWICK, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "EDWARD Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,\n" + " And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.\n" + " Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen,\n" + " That led calm Henry, though he were a king,\n" + " As doth a sail, fill'd with a fretting gust,\n" + " Command an argosy to stem the waves.\n" + " But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?\n\n" + "WARWICK No, 'tis impossible he should escape,\n" + " For, though before his face I speak the words\n" + " Your brother Richard mark'd him for the grave:\n" + " And wheresoe'er he is, he's surely dead.\n\n" + " [CLIFFORD groans, and dies]\n\n" + "EDWARD Whose soul is that which takes her heavy leave?\n\n" + "RICHARD A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.\n\n" + "EDWARD See who it is: and, now the battle's ended,\n" + " If friend or foe, let him be gently used.\n\n" + "RICHARD Revoke that doom of mercy, for 'tis Clifford;\n" + " Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch\n" + " In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth,\n" + " But set his murdering knife unto the root\n" + " From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring,\n" + " I mean our princely father, Duke of York.\n\n" + "WARWICK From off the gates of York fetch down the head,\n" + " Your father's head, which Clifford placed there;\n" + " Instead whereof let this supply the room:\n" + " Measure for measure must be answered.\n\n" + "EDWARD Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house,\n" + " That nothing sung but death to us and ours:\n" + " Now death shall stop his dismal threatening sound,\n" + " And his ill-boding tongue no more shall speak.\n\n" + "WARWICK I think his understanding is bereft.\n" + " Speak, Clifford, dost thou know who speaks to thee?\n" + " Dark cloudy death o'ershades his beams of life,\n" + " And he nor sees nor hears us what we say.\n\n" + "RICHARD O, would he did! and so perhaps he doth:\n" + " 'Tis but his policy to counterfeit,\n" + " Because he would avoid such bitter taunts\n" + " Which in the time of death he gave our father.\n\n" + "GEORGE If so thou think'st, vex him with eager words.\n\n" + "RICHARD Clifford, ask mercy and obtain no grace.\n\n" + "EDWARD Clifford, repent in bootless penitence.\n\n" + "WARWICK Clifford, devise excuses for thy faults.\n\n" + "GEORGE While we devise fell tortures for thy faults.\n\n" + "RICHARD Thou didst love York, and I am son to York.\n\n" + "EDWARD Thou pitied'st Rutland; I will pity thee.\n\n" + "GEORGE Where's Captain Margaret, to fence you now?\n\n" + "WARWICK They mock thee, Clifford: swear as thou wast wont.\n\n" + "RICHARD What, not an oath? nay, then the world goes hard\n" + " When Clifford cannot spare his friends an oath.\n" + " I know by that he's dead; and, by my soul,\n" + " If this right hand would buy two hour's life,\n" + " That I in all despite might rail at him,\n" + " This hand should chop it off, and with the\n" + " issuing blood\n" + " Stifle the villain whose unstanched thirst\n" + " York and young Rutland could not satisfy.\n\n" + "WARWICK Ay, but he's dead: off with the traitor's head,\n" + " And rear it in the place your father's stands.\n" + " And now to London with triumphant march,\n" + " There to be crowned England's royal king:\n" + " From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France,\n" + " And ask the Lady Bona for thy queen:\n" + " So shalt thou sinew both these lands together;\n" + " And, having France thy friend, thou shalt not dread\n" + " The scatter'd foe that hopes to rise again;\n" + " For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt,\n" + " Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine ears.\n" + " First will I see the coronation;\n" + " And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea,\n" + " To effect this marriage, so it please my lord.\n\n" + "EDWARD Even as thou wilt, sweet Warwick, let it be;\n" + " For in thy shoulder do I build my seat,\n" + " And never will I undertake the thing\n" + " Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting.\n" + " Richard, I will create thee Duke of Gloucester,\n" + " And George, of Clarence: Warwick, as ourself,\n" + " Shall do and undo as him pleaseth best.\n\n" + "RICHARD Let me be Duke of Clarence, George of Gloucester;\n" + " For Gloucester's dukedom is too ominous.\n\n" + "WARWICK Tut, that's a foolish observation:\n" + " Richard, be Duke of Gloucester. Now to London,\n" + " To see these honours in possession.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A forest in the north of England.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands]\n\n" + "First Keeper Under this thick-grown brake we'll shroud ourselves;\n" + " For through this laund anon the deer will come;\n" + " And in this covert will we make our stand,\n" + " Culling the principal of all the deer.\n\n" + "Second Keeper I'll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.\n\n" + "First Keeper That cannot be; the noise of thy cross-bow\n" + " Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.\n" + " Here stand we both, and aim we at the best:\n" + " And, for the time shall not seem tedious,\n" + " I'll tell thee what befell me on a day\n" + " In this self-place where now we mean to stand.\n\n" + "Second Keeper Here comes a man; let's stay till he be past.\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VI, disguised, with a prayerbook]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI From Scotland am I stol'n, even of pure love,\n" + " To greet mine own land with my wishful sight.\n" + " No, Harry, Harry, 'tis no land of thine;\n" + " Thy place is fill'd, thy sceptre wrung from thee,\n" + " Thy balm wash'd off wherewith thou wast anointed:\n" + " No bending knee will call thee Caesar now,\n" + " No humble suitors press to speak for right,\n" + " No, not a man comes for redress of thee;\n" + " For how can I help them, and not myself?\n\n" + "First Keeper Ay, here's a deer whose skin's a keeper's fee:\n" + " This is the quondam king; let's seize upon him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Let me embrace thee, sour adversity,\n" + " For wise men say it is the wisest course.\n\n" + "Second Keeper Why linger we? let us lay hands upon him.\n\n" + "First Keeper Forbear awhile; we'll hear a little more.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My queen and son are gone to France for aid;\n" + " And, as I hear, the great commanding Warwick\n" + " Is thither gone, to crave the French king's sister\n" + " To wife for Edward: if this news be true,\n" + " Poor queen and son, your labour is but lost;\n" + " For Warwick is a subtle orator,\n" + " And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words.\n" + " By this account then Margaret may win him;\n" + " For she's a woman to be pitied much:\n" + " Her sighs will make a battery in his breast;\n" + " Her tears will pierce into a marble heart;\n" + " The tiger will be mild whiles she doth mourn;\n" + " And Nero will be tainted with remorse,\n" + " To hear and see her plaints, her brinish tears.\n" + " Ay, but she's come to beg, Warwick to give;\n" + " She, on his left side, craving aid for Henry,\n" + " He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward.\n" + " She weeps, and says her Henry is deposed;\n" + " He smiles, and says his Edward is install'd;\n" + " That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak no more;\n" + " Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the wrong,\n" + " Inferreth arguments of mighty strength,\n" + " And in conclusion wins the king from her,\n" + " With promise of his sister, and what else,\n" + " To strengthen and support King Edward's place.\n" + " O Margaret, thus 'twill be; and thou, poor soul,\n" + " Art then forsaken, as thou went'st forlorn!\n\n" + "Second Keeper Say, what art thou that talk'st of kings and queens?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI More than I seem, and less than I was born to:\n" + " A man at least, for less I should not be;\n" + " And men may talk of kings, and why not I?\n\n" + "Second Keeper Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou wert a king.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, so I am, in mind; and that's enough.\n\n" + "Second Keeper But, if thou be a king, where is thy crown?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My crown is in my heart, not on my head;\n" + " Not decked with diamonds and Indian stones,\n" + " Nor to be seen: my crown is called content:\n" + " A crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.\n\n" + "Second Keeper Well, if you be a king crown'd with content,\n" + " Your crown content and you must be contented\n" + " To go along with us; for as we think,\n" + " You are the king King Edward hath deposed;\n" + " And we his subjects sworn in all allegiance\n" + " Will apprehend you as his enemy.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI But did you never swear, and break an oath?\n\n" + "Second Keeper No, never such an oath; nor will not now.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Where did you dwell when I was King of England?\n\n" + "Second Keeper Here in this country, where we now remain.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I was anointed king at nine months old;\n" + " My father and my grandfather were kings,\n" + " And you were sworn true subjects unto me:\n" + " And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?\n\n" + "First Keeper No;\n" + " For we were subjects but while you were king.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Why, am I dead? do I not breathe a man?\n" + " Ah, simple men, you know not what you swear!\n" + " Look, as I blow this feather from my face,\n" + " And as the air blows it to me again,\n" + " Obeying with my wind when I do blow,\n" + " And yielding to another when it blows,\n" + " Commanded always by the greater gust;\n" + " Such is the lightness of you common men.\n" + " But do not break your oaths; for of that sin\n" + " My mild entreaty shall not make you guilty.\n" + " Go where you will, the king shall be commanded;\n" + " And be you kings, command, and I'll obey.\n\n" + "First Keeper We are true subjects to the king, King Edward.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI So would you be again to Henry,\n" + " If he were seated as King Edward is.\n\n" + "First Keeper We charge you, in God's name, and the king's,\n" + " To go with us unto the officers.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI In God's name, lead; your king's name be obey'd:\n" + " And what God will, that let your king perform;\n" + " And what he will, I humbly yield unto.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and\n" + " LADY GREY]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Brother of Gloucester, at Saint Alban's field\n" + " This lady's husband, Sir Richard Grey, was slain,\n" + " His lands then seized on by the conqueror:\n" + " Her suit is now to repossess those lands;\n" + " Which we in justice cannot well deny,\n" + " Because in quarrel of the house of York\n" + " The worthy gentleman did lose his life.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Your highness shall do well to grant her suit;\n" + " It were dishonour to deny it her.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV It were no less; but yet I'll make a pause.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] Yea, is it so?\n" + " I see the lady hath a thing to grant,\n" + " Before the king will grant her humble suit.\n\n" + "CLARENCE [Aside to GLOUCESTER] He knows the game: how true\n" + " he keeps the wind!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] Silence!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Widow, we will consider of your suit;\n" + " And come some other time to know our mind.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Right gracious lord, I cannot brook delay:\n" + " May it please your highness to resolve me now;\n" + " And what your pleasure is, shall satisfy me.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, widow? then I'll warrant\n" + " you all your lands,\n" + " An if what pleases him shall pleasure you.\n" + " Fight closer, or, good faith, you'll catch a blow.\n\n" + "CLARENCE [Aside to GLOUCESTER] I fear her not, unless she\n" + " chance to fall.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] God forbid that! for he'll\n" + " take vantages.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV How many children hast thou, widow? tell me.\n\n" + "CLARENCE [Aside to GLOUCESTER] I think he means to beg a\n" + " child of her.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] Nay, whip me then: he'll rather\n" + " give her two.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Three, my most gracious lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] You shall have four, if you'll\n" + " be ruled by him.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV 'Twere pity they should lose their father's lands.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Be pitiful, dread lord, and grant it then.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Lords, give us leave: I'll try this widow's wit.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] Ay, good leave have you; for\n" + " you will have leave,\n" + " Till youth take leave and leave you to the crutch.\n\n" + " [GLOUCESTER and CLARENCE retire]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now tell me, madam, do you love your children?\n\n" + "LADY GREY Ay, full as dearly as I love myself.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV And would you not do much to do them good?\n\n" + "LADY GREY To do them good, I would sustain some harm.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Then get your husband's lands, to do them good.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Therefore I came unto your majesty.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV I'll tell you how these lands are to be got.\n\n" + "LADY GREY So shall you bind me to your highness' service.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV What service wilt thou do me, if I give them?\n\n" + "LADY GREY What you command, that rests in me to do.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV But you will take exceptions to my boon.\n\n" + "LADY GREY No, gracious lord, except I cannot do it.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Ay, but thou canst do what I mean to ask.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Why, then I will do what your grace commands.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] He plies her hard; and much rain\n" + " wears the marble.\n\n" + "CLARENCE [Aside to GLOUCESTER] As red as fire! nay, then\n" + " her wax must melt.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Why stops my lord, shall I not hear my task?\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV An easy task; 'tis but to love a king.\n\n" + "LADY GREY That's soon perform'd, because I am a subject.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Why, then, thy husband's lands I freely give thee.\n\n" + "LADY GREY I take my leave with many thousand thanks.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] The match is made; she seals it\n" + " with a curtsy.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV But stay thee, 'tis the fruits of love I mean.\n\n" + "LADY GREY The fruits of love I mean, my loving liege.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Ay, but, I fear me, in another sense.\n" + " What love, think'st thou, I sue so much to get?\n\n" + "LADY GREY My love till death, my humble thanks, my prayers;\n" + " That love which virtue begs and virtue grants.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV No, by my troth, I did not mean such love.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Why, then you mean not as I thought you did.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV But now you partly may perceive my mind.\n\n" + "LADY GREY My mind will never grant what I perceive\n" + " Your highness aims at, if I aim aright.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.\n\n" + "LADY GREY To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Why, then thou shalt not have thy husband's lands.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Why, then mine honesty shall be my dower;\n" + " For by that loss I will not purchase them.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Therein thou wrong'st thy children mightily.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Herein your highness wrongs both them and me.\n" + " But, mighty lord, this merry inclination\n" + " Accords not with the sadness of my suit:\n" + " Please you dismiss me either with 'ay' or 'no.'\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Ay, if thou wilt say 'ay' to my request;\n" + " No if thou dost say 'no' to my demand.\n\n" + "LADY GREY Then, no, my lord. My suit is at an end.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] The widow likes him not, she\n" + " knits her brows.\n\n" + "CLARENCE [Aside to GLOUCESTER] He is the bluntest wooer in\n" + " Christendom.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV [Aside] Her looks do argue her replete with modesty;\n" + " Her words do show her wit incomparable;\n" + " All her perfections challenge sovereignty:\n" + " One way or other, she is for a king;\n" + " And she shall be my love, or else my queen.--\n" + " Say that King Edward take thee for his queen?\n\n" + "LADY GREY 'Tis better said than done, my gracious lord:\n" + " I am a subject fit to jest withal,\n" + " But far unfit to be a sovereign.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Sweet widow, by my state I swear to thee\n" + " I speak no more than what my soul intends;\n" + " And that is, to enjoy thee for my love.\n\n" + "LADY GREY And that is more than I will yield unto:\n" + " I know I am too mean to be your queen,\n" + " And yet too good to be your concubine.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV You cavil, widow: I did mean, my queen.\n\n" + "LADY GREY 'Twill grieve your grace my sons should call you father.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV No more than when my daughters call thee mother.\n" + " Thou art a widow, and thou hast some children;\n" + " And, by God's mother, I, being but a bachelor,\n" + " Have other some: why, 'tis a happy thing\n" + " To be the father unto many sons.\n" + " Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside to CLARENCE] The ghostly father now hath done\n" + " his shrift.\n\n" + "CLARENCE [Aside to GLOUCESTER] When he was made a shriver,\n" + " 'twas for shift.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Brothers, you muse what chat we two have had.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The widow likes it not, for she looks very sad.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV You'll think it strange if I should marry her.\n\n" + "CLARENCE To whom, my lord?\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Why, Clarence, to myself.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER That would be ten days' wonder at the least.\n\n" + "CLARENCE That's a day longer than a wonder lasts.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER By so much is the wonder in extremes.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Well, jest on, brothers: I can tell you both\n" + " Her suit is granted for her husband's lands.\n\n" + " [Enter a Nobleman]\n\n" + "Nobleman My gracious lord, Henry your foe is taken,\n" + " And brought your prisoner to your palace gate.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV See that he be convey'd unto the Tower:\n" + " And go we, brothers, to the man that took him,\n" + " To question of his apprehension.\n" + " Widow, go you along. Lords, use her honourably.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, Edward will use women honourably.\n" + " Would he were wasted, marrow, bones and all,\n" + " That from his loins no hopeful branch may spring,\n" + " To cross me from the golden time I look for!\n" + " And yet, between my soul's desire and me--\n" + " The lustful Edward's title buried--\n" + " Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward,\n" + " And all the unlook'd for issue of their bodies,\n" + " To take their rooms, ere I can place myself:\n" + " A cold premeditation for my purpose!\n" + " Why, then, I do but dream on sovereignty;\n" + " Like one that stands upon a promontory,\n" + " And spies a far-off shore where he would tread,\n" + " Wishing his foot were equal with his eye,\n" + " And chides the sea that sunders him from thence,\n" + " Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way:\n" + " So do I wish the crown, being so far off;\n" + " And so I chide the means that keeps me from it;\n" + " And so I say, I'll cut the causes off,\n" + " Flattering me with impossibilities.\n" + " My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much,\n" + " Unless my hand and strength could equal them.\n" + " Well, say there is no kingdom then for Richard;\n" + " What other pleasure can the world afford?\n" + " I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap,\n" + " And deck my body in gay ornaments,\n" + " And witch sweet ladies with my words and looks.\n" + " O miserable thought! and more unlikely\n" + " Than to accomplish twenty golden crowns!\n" + " Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb:\n" + " And, for I should not deal in her soft laws,\n" + " She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe,\n" + " To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub;\n" + " To make an envious mountain on my back,\n" + " Where sits deformity to mock my body;\n" + " To shape my legs of an unequal size;\n" + " To disproportion me in every part,\n" + " Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelp\n" + " That carries no impression like the dam.\n" + " And am I then a man to be beloved?\n" + " O monstrous fault, to harbour such a thought!\n" + " Then, since this earth affords no joy to me,\n" + " But to command, to cheque, to o'erbear such\n" + " As are of better person than myself,\n" + " I'll make my heaven to dream upon the crown,\n" + " And, whiles I live, to account this world but hell,\n" + " Until my mis-shaped trunk that bears this head\n" + " Be round impaled with a glorious crown.\n" + " And yet I know not how to get the crown,\n" + " For many lives stand between me and home:\n" + " And I,--like one lost in a thorny wood,\n" + " That rends the thorns and is rent with the thorns,\n" + " Seeking a way and straying from the way;\n" + " Not knowing how to find the open air,\n" + " But toiling desperately to find it out,--\n" + " Torment myself to catch the English crown:\n" + " And from that torment I will free myself,\n" + " Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.\n" + " Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,\n" + " And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,\n" + " And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,\n" + " And frame my face to all occasions.\n" + " I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;\n" + " I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;\n" + " I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,\n" + " Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,\n" + " And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.\n" + " I can add colours to the chameleon,\n" + " Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,\n" + " And set the murderous Machiavel to school.\n" + " Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?\n" + " Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III France. KING LEWIS XI's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING LEWIS XI, his sister BONA,\n" + " his Admiral, called BOURBON, PRINCE EDWARD, QUEEN\n" + " MARGARET, and OXFORD. KING LEWIS XI sits, and\n" + " riseth up again]\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Fair Queen of England, worthy Margaret,\n" + " Sit down with us: it ill befits thy state\n" + " And birth, that thou shouldst stand while Lewis doth sit.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET No, mighty King of France: now Margaret\n" + " Must strike her sail and learn awhile to serve\n" + " Where kings command. I was, I must confess,\n" + " Great Albion's queen in former golden days:\n" + " But now mischance hath trod my title down,\n" + " And with dishonour laid me on the ground;\n" + " Where I must take like seat unto my fortune,\n" + " And to my humble seat conform myself.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Why, say, fair queen, whence springs this deep despair?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET From such a cause as fills mine eyes with tears\n" + " And stops my tongue, while heart is drown'd in cares.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Whate'er it be, be thou still like thyself,\n" + " And sit thee by our side:\n\n" + " [Seats her by him]\n\n" + " Yield not thy neck\n" + " To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind\n" + " Still ride in triumph over all mischance.\n" + " Be plain, Queen Margaret, and tell thy grief;\n" + " It shall be eased, if France can yield relief.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Those gracious words revive my drooping thoughts\n" + " And give my tongue-tied sorrows leave to speak.\n" + " Now, therefore, be it known to noble Lewis,\n" + " That Henry, sole possessor of my love,\n" + " Is of a king become a banish'd man,\n" + " And forced to live in Scotland a forlorn;\n" + " While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York\n" + " Usurps the regal title and the seat\n" + " Of England's true-anointed lawful king.\n" + " This is the cause that I, poor Margaret,\n" + " With this my son, Prince Edward, Henry's heir,\n" + " Am come to crave thy just and lawful aid;\n" + " And if thou fail us, all our hope is done:\n" + " Scotland hath will to help, but cannot help;\n" + " Our people and our peers are both misled,\n" + " Our treasures seized, our soldiers put to flight,\n" + " And, as thou seest, ourselves in heavy plight.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Renowned queen, with patience calm the storm,\n" + " While we bethink a means to break it off.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET The more we stay, the stronger grows our foe.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI The more I stay, the more I'll succor thee.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET O, but impatience waiteth on true sorrow.\n" + " And see where comes the breeder of my sorrow!\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK]\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI What's he approacheth boldly to our presence?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Our Earl of Warwick, Edward's greatest friend.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Welcome, brave Warwick! What brings thee to France?\n\n" + " [He descends. She ariseth]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ay, now begins a second storm to rise;\n" + " For this is he that moves both wind and tide.\n\n" + "WARWICK From worthy Edward, King of Albion,\n" + " My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend,\n" + " I come, in kindness and unfeigned love,\n" + " First, to do greetings to thy royal person;\n" + " And then to crave a league of amity;\n" + " And lastly, to confirm that amity\n" + " With a nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant\n" + " That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister,\n" + " To England's king in lawful marriage.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET [Aside] If that go forward, Henry's hope is done.\n\n" + "WARWICK [To BONA] And, gracious madam, in our king's behalf,\n" + " I am commanded, with your leave and favour,\n" + " Humbly to kiss your hand, and with my tongue\n" + " To tell the passion of my sovereign's heart;\n" + " Where fame, late entering at his heedful ears,\n" + " Hath placed thy beauty's image and thy virtue.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET King Lewis and Lady Bona, hear me speak,\n" + " Before you answer Warwick. His demand\n" + " Springs not from Edward's well-meant honest love,\n" + " But from deceit bred by necessity;\n" + " For how can tyrants safely govern home,\n" + " Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?\n" + " To prove him tyrant this reason may suffice,\n" + " That Henry liveth still: but were he dead,\n" + " Yet here Prince Edward stands, King Henry's son.\n" + " Look, therefore, Lewis, that by this league and marriage\n" + " Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonour;\n" + " For though usurpers sway the rule awhile,\n" + " Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.\n\n" + "WARWICK Injurious Margaret!\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD And why not queen?\n\n" + "WARWICK Because thy father Henry did usurp;\n" + " And thou no more are prince than she is queen.\n\n" + "OXFORD Then Warwick disannuls great John of Gaunt,\n" + " Which did subdue the greatest part of Spain;\n" + " And, after John of Gaunt, Henry the Fourth,\n" + " Whose wisdom was a mirror to the wisest;\n" + " And, after that wise prince, Henry the Fifth,\n" + " Who by his prowess conquered all France:\n" + " From these our Henry lineally descends.\n\n" + "WARWICK Oxford, how haps it, in this smooth discourse,\n" + " You told not how Henry the Sixth hath lost\n" + " All that which Henry Fifth had gotten?\n" + " Methinks these peers of France should smile at that.\n" + " But for the rest, you tell a pedigree\n" + " Of threescore and two years; a silly time\n" + " To make prescription for a kingdom's worth.\n\n" + "OXFORD Why, Warwick, canst thou speak against thy liege,\n" + " Whom thou obeyed'st thirty and six years,\n" + " And not bewray thy treason with a blush?\n\n" + "WARWICK Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right,\n" + " Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree?\n" + " For shame! leave Henry, and call Edward king.\n\n" + "OXFORD Call him my king by whose injurious doom\n" + " My elder brother, the Lord Aubrey Vere,\n" + " Was done to death? and more than so, my father,\n" + " Even in the downfall of his mellow'd years,\n" + " When nature brought him to the door of death?\n" + " No, Warwick, no; while life upholds this arm,\n" + " This arm upholds the house of Lancaster.\n\n" + "WARWICK And I the house of York.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Queen Margaret, Prince Edward, and Oxford,\n" + " Vouchsafe, at our request, to stand aside,\n" + " While I use further conference with Warwick.\n\n" + " [They stand aloof]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Heavens grant that Warwick's words bewitch him not!\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Now Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience,\n" + " Is Edward your true king? for I were loath\n" + " To link with him that were not lawful chosen.\n\n" + "WARWICK Thereon I pawn my credit and mine honour.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI But is he gracious in the people's eye?\n\n" + "WARWICK The more that Henry was unfortunate.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Then further, all dissembling set aside,\n" + " Tell me for truth the measure of his love\n" + " Unto our sister Bona.\n\n" + "WARWICK Such it seems\n" + " As may beseem a monarch like himself.\n" + " Myself have often heard him say and swear\n" + " That this his love was an eternal plant,\n" + " Whereof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground,\n" + " The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beauty's sun,\n" + " Exempt from envy, but not from disdain,\n" + " Unless the Lady Bona quit his pain.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Now, sister, let us hear your firm resolve.\n\n" + "BONA Your grant, or your denial, shall be mine:\n\n" + " [To WARWICK]\n\n" + " Yet I confess that often ere this day,\n" + " When I have heard your king's desert recounted,\n" + " Mine ear hath tempted judgment to desire.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward's;\n" + " And now forthwith shall articles be drawn\n" + " Touching the jointure that your king must make,\n" + " Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.\n" + " Draw near, Queen Margaret, and be a witness\n" + " That Bona shall be wife to the English king.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD To Edward, but not to the English king.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Deceitful Warwick! it was thy device\n" + " By this alliance to make void my suit:\n" + " Before thy coming Lewis was Henry's friend.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI And still is friend to him and Margaret:\n" + " But if your title to the crown be weak,\n" + " As may appear by Edward's good success,\n" + " Then 'tis but reason that I be released\n" + " From giving aid which late I promised.\n" + " Yet shall you have all kindness at my hand\n" + " That your estate requires and mine can yield.\n\n" + "WARWICK Henry now lives in Scotland at his ease,\n" + " Where having nothing, nothing can he lose.\n" + " And as for you yourself, our quondam queen,\n" + " You have a father able to maintain you;\n" + " And better 'twere you troubled him than France.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, peace,\n" + " Proud setter up and puller down of kings!\n" + " I will not hence, till, with my talk and tears,\n" + " Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold\n" + " Thy sly conveyance and thy lord's false love;\n" + " For both of you are birds of selfsame feather.\n\n" + " [Post blows a horn within]\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Warwick, this is some post to us or thee.\n\n" + " [Enter a Post]\n\n" + "Post [To WARWICK] My lord ambassador, these letters are for you,\n" + " Sent from your brother, Marquess Montague:\n\n" + " [To KING LEWIS XI]\n\n" + " These from our king unto your majesty:\n\n" + " [To QUEEN MARGARET]\n\n" + " And, madam, these for you; from whom I know not.\n\n" + " [They all read their letters]\n\n" + "OXFORD I like it well that our fair queen and mistress\n" + " Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns at his.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Nay, mark how Lewis stamps, as he were nettled:\n" + " I hope all's for the best.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Warwick, what are thy news? and yours, fair queen?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Mine, such as fill my heart with unhoped joys.\n\n" + "WARWICK Mine, full of sorrow and heart's discontent.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI What! has your king married the Lady Grey!\n" + " And now, to soothe your forgery and his,\n" + " Sends me a paper to persuade me patience?\n" + " Is this the alliance that he seeks with France?\n" + " Dare he presume to scorn us in this manner?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET I told your majesty as much before:\n" + " This proveth Edward's love and Warwick's honesty.\n\n" + "WARWICK King Lewis, I here protest, in sight of heaven,\n" + " And by the hope I have of heavenly bliss,\n" + " That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's,\n" + " No more my king, for he dishonours me,\n" + " But most himself, if he could see his shame.\n" + " Did I forget that by the house of York\n" + " My father came untimely to his death?\n" + " Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece?\n" + " Did I impale him with the regal crown?\n" + " Did I put Henry from his native right?\n" + " And am I guerdon'd at the last with shame?\n" + " Shame on himself! for my desert is honour:\n" + " And to repair my honour lost for him,\n" + " I here renounce him and return to Henry.\n" + " My noble queen, let former grudges pass,\n" + " And henceforth I am thy true servitor:\n" + " I will revenge his wrong to Lady Bona,\n" + " And replant Henry in his former state.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Warwick, these words have turn'd my hate to love;\n" + " And I forgive and quite forget old faults,\n" + " And joy that thou becomest King Henry's friend.\n\n" + "WARWICK So much his friend, ay, his unfeigned friend,\n" + " That, if King Lewis vouchsafe to furnish us\n" + " With some few bands of chosen soldiers,\n" + " I'll undertake to land them on our coast\n" + " And force the tyrant from his seat by war.\n" + " 'Tis not his new-made bride shall succor him:\n" + " And as for Clarence, as my letters tell me,\n" + " He's very likely now to fall from him,\n" + " For matching more for wanton lust than honour,\n" + " Or than for strength and safety of our country.\n\n" + "BONA Dear brother, how shall Bona be revenged\n" + " But by thy help to this distressed queen?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Renowned prince, how shall poor Henry live,\n" + " Unless thou rescue him from foul despair?\n\n" + "BONA My quarrel and this English queen's are one.\n\n" + "WARWICK And mine, fair lady Bona, joins with yours.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI And mine with hers, and thine, and Margaret's.\n" + " Therefore at last I firmly am resolved\n" + " You shall have aid.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Let me give humble thanks for all at once.\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Then, England's messenger, return in post,\n" + " And tell false Edward, thy supposed king,\n" + " That Lewis of France is sending over masquers\n" + " To revel it with him and his new bride:\n" + " Thou seest what's past, go fear thy king withal.\n\n" + "BONA Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,\n" + " I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Tell him, my mourning weeds are laid aside,\n" + " And I am ready to put armour on.\n\n" + "WARWICK Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,\n" + " And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.\n" + " There's thy reward: be gone.\n\n" + " [Exit Post]\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI But, Warwick,\n" + " Thou and Oxford, with five thousand men,\n" + " Shall cross the seas, and bid false Edward battle;\n" + " And, as occasion serves, this noble queen\n" + " And prince shall follow with a fresh supply.\n" + " Yet, ere thou go, but answer me one doubt,\n" + " What pledge have we of thy firm loyalty?\n\n" + "WARWICK This shall assure my constant loyalty,\n" + " That if our queen and this young prince agree,\n" + " I'll join mine eldest daughter and my joy\n" + " To him forthwith in holy wedlock bands.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.\n" + " Son Edward, she is fair and virtuous,\n" + " Therefore delay not, give thy hand to Warwick;\n" + " And, with thy hand, thy faith irrevocable,\n" + " That only Warwick's daughter shall be thine.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Yes, I accept her, for she well deserves it;\n" + " And here, to pledge my vow, I give my hand.\n\n" + " [He gives his hand to WARWICK]\n\n" + "KING LEWIS XI Why stay we now? These soldiers shall be levied,\n" + " And thou, Lord Bourbon, our high admiral,\n" + " Shalt waft them over with our royal fleet.\n" + " I long till Edward fall by war's mischance,\n" + " For mocking marriage with a dame of France.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but WARWICK]\n\n" + "WARWICK I came from Edward as ambassador,\n" + " But I return his sworn and mortal foe:\n" + " Matter of marriage was the charge he gave me,\n" + " But dreadful war shall answer his demand.\n" + " Had he none else to make a stale but me?\n" + " Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow.\n" + " I was the chief that raised him to the crown,\n" + " And I'll be chief to bring him down again:\n" + " Not that I pity Henry's misery,\n" + " But seek revenge on Edward's mockery.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, SOMERSET, and MONTAGUE]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now tell me, brother Clarence, what think you\n" + " Of this new marriage with the Lady Grey?\n" + " Hath not our brother made a worthy choice?\n\n" + "CLARENCE Alas, you know, 'tis far from hence to France;\n" + " How could he stay till Warwick made return?\n\n" + "SOMERSET My lords, forbear this talk; here comes the king.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And his well-chosen bride.\n\n" + "CLARENCE I mind to tell him plainly what I think.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, attended; QUEEN\n" + " ELIZABETH, PEMBROKE, STAFFORD, HASTINGS, and others]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now, brother of Clarence, how like you our choice,\n" + " That you stand pensive, as half malcontent?\n\n" + "CLARENCE As well as Lewis of France, or the Earl of Warwick,\n" + " Which are so weak of courage and in judgment\n" + " That they'll take no offence at our abuse.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Suppose they take offence without a cause,\n" + " They are but Lewis and Warwick: I am Edward,\n" + " Your king and Warwick's, and must have my will.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And shall have your will, because our king:\n" + " Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Yea, brother Richard, are you offended too?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Not I:\n" + " No, God forbid that I should wish them sever'd\n" + " Whom God hath join'd together; ay, and 'twere pity\n" + " To sunder them that yoke so well together.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Setting your scorns and your mislike aside,\n" + " Tell me some reason why the Lady Grey\n" + " Should not become my wife and England's queen.\n" + " And you too, Somerset and Montague,\n" + " Speak freely what you think.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Then this is mine opinion: that King Lewis\n" + " Becomes your enemy, for mocking him\n" + " About the marriage of the Lady Bona.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And Warwick, doing what you gave in charge,\n" + " Is now dishonoured by this new marriage.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV What if both Lewis and Warwick be appeased\n" + " By such invention as I can devise?\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Yet, to have join'd with France in such alliance\n" + " Would more have strengthen'd this our commonwealth\n" + " 'Gainst foreign storms than any home-bred marriage.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Why, knows not Montague that of itself\n" + " England is safe, if true within itself?\n\n" + "MONTAGUE But the safer when 'tis back'd with France.\n\n" + "HASTINGS 'Tis better using France than trusting France:\n" + " Let us be back'd with God and with the seas\n" + " Which He hath given for fence impregnable,\n" + " And with their helps only defend ourselves;\n" + " In them and in ourselves our safety lies.\n\n" + "CLARENCE For this one speech Lord Hastings well deserves\n" + " To have the heir of the Lord Hungerford.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Ay, what of that? it was my will and grant;\n" + " And for this once my will shall stand for law.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And yet methinks your grace hath not done well,\n" + " To give the heir and daughter of Lord Scales\n" + " Unto the brother of your loving bride;\n" + " She better would have fitted me or Clarence:\n" + " But in your bride you bury brotherhood.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Or else you would not have bestow'd the heir\n" + " Of the Lord Bonville on your new wife's son,\n" + " And leave your brothers to go speed elsewhere.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Alas, poor Clarence! is it for a wife\n" + " That thou art malcontent? I will provide thee.\n\n" + "CLARENCE In choosing for yourself, you show'd your judgment,\n" + " Which being shallow, you give me leave\n" + " To play the broker in mine own behalf;\n" + " And to that end I shortly mind to leave you.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Leave me, or tarry, Edward will be king,\n" + " And not be tied unto his brother's will.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH My lords, before it pleased his majesty\n" + " To raise my state to title of a queen,\n" + " Do me but right, and you must all confess\n" + " That I was not ignoble of descent;\n" + " And meaner than myself have had like fortune.\n" + " But as this title honours me and mine,\n" + " So your dislike, to whom I would be pleasing,\n" + " Doth cloud my joys with danger and with sorrow.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV My love, forbear to fawn upon their frowns:\n" + " What danger or what sorrow can befall thee,\n" + " So long as Edward is thy constant friend,\n" + " And their true sovereign, whom they must obey?\n" + " Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee too,\n" + " Unless they seek for hatred at my hands;\n" + " Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe,\n" + " And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.\n\n" + " [Enter a Post]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now, messenger, what letters or what news\n" + " From France?\n\n" + "Post My sovereign liege, no letters; and few words,\n" + " But such as I, without your special pardon,\n" + " Dare not relate.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Go to, we pardon thee: therefore, in brief,\n" + " Tell me their words as near as thou canst guess them.\n" + " What answer makes King Lewis unto our letters?\n\n" + "Post At my depart, these were his very words:\n" + " 'Go tell false Edward, thy supposed king,\n" + " That Lewis of France is sending over masquers\n" + " To revel it with him and his new bride.'\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Is Lewis so brave? belike he thinks me Henry.\n" + " But what said Lady Bona to my marriage?\n\n" + "Post These were her words, utter'd with mad disdain:\n" + " 'Tell him, in hope he'll prove a widower shortly,\n" + " I'll wear the willow garland for his sake.'\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV I blame not her, she could say little less;\n" + " She had the wrong. But what said Henry's queen?\n" + " For I have heard that she was there in place.\n\n" + "Post 'Tell him,' quoth she, 'my mourning weeds are done,\n" + " And I am ready to put armour on.'\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Belike she minds to play the Amazon.\n" + " But what said Warwick to these injuries?\n\n" + "Post He, more incensed against your majesty\n" + " Than all the rest, discharged me with these words:\n" + " 'Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,\n" + " And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long.'\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Ha! durst the traitor breathe out so proud words?\n" + " Well I will arm me, being thus forewarn'd:\n" + " They shall have wars and pay for their presumption.\n" + " But say, is Warwick friends with Margaret?\n\n" + "Post Ay, gracious sovereign; they are so link'd in\n" + " friendship\n" + " That young Prince Edward marries Warwick's daughter.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Belike the elder; Clarence will have the younger.\n" + " Now, brother king, farewell, and sit you fast,\n" + " For I will hence to Warwick's other daughter;\n" + " That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage\n" + " I may not prove inferior to yourself.\n" + " You that love me and Warwick, follow me.\n\n" + " [Exit CLARENCE, and SOMERSET follows]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] Not I:\n" + " My thoughts aim at a further matter; I\n" + " Stay not for the love of Edward, but the crown.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Clarence and Somerset both gone to Warwick!\n" + " Yet am I arm'd against the worst can happen;\n" + " And haste is needful in this desperate case.\n" + " Pembroke and Stafford, you in our behalf\n" + " Go levy men, and make prepare for war;\n" + " They are already, or quickly will be landed:\n" + " Myself in person will straight follow you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PEMBROKE and STAFFORD]\n\n" + " But, ere I go, Hastings and Montague,\n" + " Resolve my doubt. You twain, of all the rest,\n" + " Are near to Warwick by blood and by alliance:\n" + " Tell me if you love Warwick more than me?\n" + " If it be so, then both depart to him;\n" + " I rather wish you foes than hollow friends:\n" + " But if you mind to hold your true obedience,\n" + " Give me assurance with some friendly vow,\n" + " That I may never have you in suspect.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE So God help Montague as he proves true!\n\n" + "HASTINGS And Hastings as he favours Edward's cause!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now, brother Richard, will you stand by us?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, in despite of all that shall withstand you.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Why, so! then am I sure of victory.\n" + " Now therefore let us hence; and lose no hour,\n" + " Till we meet Warwick with his foreign power.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A plain in Warwickshire.\n\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK and OXFORD, with French soldiers]\n\n" + "WARWICK Trust me, my lord, all hitherto goes well;\n" + " The common people by numbers swarm to us.\n\n" + " [Enter CLARENCE and SOMERSET]\n\n" + " But see where Somerset and Clarence come!\n" + " Speak suddenly, my lords, are we all friends?\n\n" + "CLARENCE Fear not that, my lord.\n\n" + "WARWICK Then, gentle Clarence, welcome unto Warwick;\n" + " And welcome, Somerset: I hold it cowardice\n" + " To rest mistrustful where a noble heart\n" + " Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love;\n" + " Else might I think that Clarence, Edward's brother,\n" + " Were but a feigned friend to our proceedings:\n" + " But welcome, sweet Clarence; my daughter shall be thine.\n" + " And now what rests but, in night's coverture,\n" + " Thy brother being carelessly encamp'd,\n" + " His soldiers lurking in the towns about,\n" + " And but attended by a simple guard,\n" + " We may surprise and take him at our pleasure?\n" + " Our scouts have found the adventure very easy:\n" + " That as Ulysses and stout Diomede\n" + " With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' tents,\n" + " And brought from thence the Thracian fatal steeds,\n" + " So we, well cover'd with the night's black mantle,\n" + " At unawares may beat down Edward's guard\n" + " And seize himself; I say not, slaughter him,\n" + " For I intend but only to surprise him.\n" + " You that will follow me to this attempt,\n" + " Applaud the name of Henry with your leader.\n\n" + " [They all cry, 'Henry!']\n\n" + " Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort:\n" + " For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Edward's camp, near Warwick.\n\n\n" + " [Enter three Watchmen, to guard KING EDWARD IV's tent]\n\n" + "First Watchman Come on, my masters, each man take his stand:\n" + " The king by this is set him down to sleep.\n\n" + "Second Watchman What, will he not to bed?\n\n" + "First Watchman Why, no; for he hath made a solemn vow\n" + " Never to lie and take his natural rest\n" + " Till Warwick or himself be quite suppress'd.\n\n" + "Second Watchman To-morrow then belike shall be the day,\n" + " If Warwick be so near as men report.\n\n" + "Third Watchman But say, I pray, what nobleman is that\n" + " That with the king here resteth in his tent?\n\n" + "First Watchman 'Tis the Lord Hastings, the king's chiefest friend.\n\n" + "Third Watchman O, is it so? But why commands the king\n" + " That his chief followers lodge in towns about him,\n" + " While he himself keeps in the cold field?\n\n" + "Second Watchman 'Tis the more honour, because more dangerous.\n\n" + "Third Watchman Ay, but give me worship and quietness;\n" + " I like it better than a dangerous honour.\n" + " If Warwick knew in what estate he stands,\n" + " 'Tis to be doubted he would waken him.\n\n" + "First Watchman Unless our halberds did shut up his passage.\n\n" + "Second Watchman Ay, wherefore else guard we his royal tent,\n" + " But to defend his person from night-foes?\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK, CLARENCE, OXFORD, SOMERSET, and\n" + " French soldiers, silent all]\n\n" + "WARWICK This is his tent; and see where stand his guard.\n" + " Courage, my masters! honour now or never!\n" + " But follow me, and Edward shall be ours.\n\n" + "First Watchman Who goes there?\n\n" + "Second Watchman Stay, or thou diest!\n\n" + " [WARWICK and the rest cry all, 'Warwick! Warwick!'\n" + " and set upon the Guard, who fly, crying, 'Arm!\n" + " arm!' WARWICK and the rest following them]\n\n" + " [The drum playing and trumpet sounding, reenter\n" + " WARWICK, SOMERSET, and the rest, bringing KING\n" + " EDWARD IV out in his gown, sitting in a chair.\n" + " RICHARD and HASTINGS fly over the stage]\n\n" + "SOMERSET What are they that fly there?\n\n" + "WARWICK Richard and Hastings: let them go; here is The duke.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV The duke! Why, Warwick, when we parted,\n" + " Thou call'dst me king.\n\n" + "WARWICK Ay, but the case is alter'd:\n" + " When you disgraced me in my embassade,\n" + " Then I degraded you from being king,\n" + " And come now to create you Duke of York.\n" + " Alas! how should you govern any kingdom,\n" + " That know not how to use ambassadors,\n" + " Nor how to be contented with one wife,\n" + " Nor how to use your brothers brotherly,\n" + " Nor how to study for the people's welfare,\n" + " Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies?\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Yea, brother of Clarence, are thou here too?\n" + " Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down.\n" + " Yet, Warwick, in despite of all mischance,\n" + " Of thee thyself and all thy complices,\n" + " Edward will always bear himself as king:\n" + " Though fortune's malice overthrow my state,\n" + " My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.\n\n" + "WARWICK Then, for his mind, be Edward England's king:\n\n" + " [Takes off his crown]\n\n" + " But Henry now shall wear the English crown,\n" + " And be true king indeed, thou but the shadow.\n" + " My Lord of Somerset, at my request,\n" + " See that forthwith Duke Edward be convey'd\n" + " Unto my brother, Archbishop of York.\n" + " When I have fought with Pembroke and his fellows,\n" + " I'll follow you, and tell what answer\n" + " Lewis and the Lady Bona send to him.\n" + " Now, for a while farewell, good Duke of York.\n\n" + " [They lead him out forcibly]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV What fates impose, that men must needs abide;\n" + " It boots not to resist both wind and tide.\n\n" + " [Exit, guarded]\n\n" + "OXFORD What now remains, my lords, for us to do\n" + " But march to London with our soldiers?\n\n" + "WARWICK Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do;\n" + " To free King Henry from imprisonment\n" + " And see him seated in the regal throne.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and RIVERS]\n\n" + "RIVERS Madam, what makes you in this sudden change?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Why brother Rivers, are you yet to learn\n" + " What late misfortune is befall'n King Edward?\n\n" + "RIVERS What! loss of some pitch'd battle against Warwick?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH No, but the loss of his own royal person.\n\n" + "RIVERS Then is my sovereign slain?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Ay, almost slain, for he is taken prisoner,\n" + " Either betray'd by falsehood of his guard\n" + " Or by his foe surprised at unawares:\n" + " And, as I further have to understand,\n" + " Is new committed to the Bishop of York,\n" + " Fell Warwick's brother and by that our foe.\n\n" + "RIVERS These news I must confess are full of grief;\n" + " Yet, gracious madam, bear it as you may:\n" + " Warwick may lose, that now hath won the day.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Till then fair hope must hinder life's decay.\n" + " And I the rather wean me from despair\n" + " For love of Edward's offspring in my womb:\n" + " This is it that makes me bridle passion\n" + " And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross;\n" + " Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear\n" + " And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs,\n" + " Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown\n" + " King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown.\n\n" + "RIVERS But, madam, where is Warwick then become?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH I am inform'd that he comes towards London,\n" + " To set the crown once more on Henry's head:\n" + " Guess thou the rest; King Edward's friends must down,\n" + " But, to prevent the tyrant's violence,--\n" + " For trust not him that hath once broken faith,--\n" + " I'll hence forthwith unto the sanctuary,\n" + " To save at least the heir of Edward's right:\n" + " There shall I rest secure from force and fraud.\n" + " Come, therefore, let us fly while we may fly:\n" + " If Warwick take us we are sure to die.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A park near Middleham Castle In Yorkshire.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and STANLEY]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,\n" + " Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither,\n" + " Into this chiefest thicket of the park.\n" + " Thus stands the case: you know our king, my brother,\n" + " Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands\n" + " He hath good usage and great liberty,\n" + " And, often but attended with weak guard,\n" + " Comes hunting this way to disport himself.\n" + " I have advertised him by secret means\n" + " That if about this hour he make his way\n" + " Under the colour of his usual game,\n" + " He shall here find his friends with horse and men\n" + " To set him free from his captivity.\n\n" + " [Enter KING EDWARD IV and a Huntsman with him]\n\n" + "Huntsman This way, my lord; for this way lies the game.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Nay, this way, man: see where the huntsmen stand.\n" + " Now, brother of Gloucester, Lord Hastings, and the rest,\n" + " Stand you thus close, to steal the bishop's deer?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Brother, the time and case requireth haste:\n" + " Your horse stands ready at the park-corner.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV But whither shall we then?\n\n" + "HASTINGS To Lynn, my lord,\n" + " And ship from thence to Flanders.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well guess'd, believe me; for that was my meaning.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Stanley, I will requite thy forwardness.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But wherefore stay we? 'tis no time to talk.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Huntsman, what say'st thou? wilt thou go along?\n\n" + "Huntsman Better do so than tarry and be hang'd.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Come then, away; let's ha' no more ado.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Bishop, farewell: shield thee from Warwick's frown;\n" + " And pray that I may repossess the crown.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI London. The Tower.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLARENCE, WARWICK,\n" + " SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, OXFORD, MONTAGUE, and\n" + " Lieutenant of the Tower]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Master lieutenant, now that God and friends\n" + " Have shaken Edward from the regal seat,\n" + " And turn'd my captive state to liberty,\n" + " My fear to hope, my sorrows unto joys,\n" + " At our enlargement what are thy due fees?\n\n" + "Lieutenant Subjects may challenge nothing of their sovereigns;\n" + " But if an humble prayer may prevail,\n" + " I then crave pardon of your majesty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI For what, lieutenant? for well using me?\n" + " Nay, be thou sure I'll well requite thy kindness,\n" + " For that it made my imprisonment a pleasure;\n" + " Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds\n" + " Conceive when after many moody thoughts\n" + " At last by notes of household harmony\n" + " They quite forget their loss of liberty.\n" + " But, Warwick, after God, thou set'st me free,\n" + " And chiefly therefore I thank God and thee;\n" + " He was the author, thou the instrument.\n" + " Therefore, that I may conquer fortune's spite\n" + " By living low, where fortune cannot hurt me,\n" + " And that the people of this blessed land\n" + " May not be punish'd with my thwarting stars,\n" + " Warwick, although my head still wear the crown,\n" + " I here resign my government to thee,\n" + " For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds.\n\n" + "WARWICK Your grace hath still been famed for virtuous;\n" + " And now may seem as wise as virtuous,\n" + " By spying and avoiding fortune's malice,\n" + " For few men rightly temper with the stars:\n" + " Yet in this one thing let me blame your grace,\n" + " For choosing me when Clarence is in place.\n\n" + "CLARENCE No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway,\n" + " To whom the heavens in thy nativity\n" + " Adjudged an olive branch and laurel crown,\n" + " As likely to be blest in peace and war;\n" + " And therefore I yield thee my free consent.\n\n" + "WARWICK And I choose Clarence only for protector.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Warwick and Clarence give me both your hands:\n" + " Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts,\n" + " That no dissension hinder government:\n" + " I make you both protectors of this land,\n" + " While I myself will lead a private life\n" + " And in devotion spend my latter days,\n" + " To sin's rebuke and my Creator's praise.\n\n" + "WARWICK What answers Clarence to his sovereign's will?\n\n" + "CLARENCE That he consents, if Warwick yield consent;\n" + " For on thy fortune I repose myself.\n\n" + "WARWICK Why, then, though loath, yet must I be content:\n" + " We'll yoke together, like a double shadow\n" + " To Henry's body, and supply his place;\n" + " I mean, in bearing weight of government,\n" + " While he enjoys the honour and his ease.\n" + " And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful\n" + " Forthwith that Edward be pronounced a traitor,\n" + " And all his lands and goods be confiscate.\n\n" + "CLARENCE What else? and that succession be determined.\n\n" + "WARWICK Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI But, with the first of all your chief affairs,\n" + " Let me entreat, for I command no more,\n" + " That Margaret your queen and my son Edward\n" + " Be sent for, to return from France with speed;\n" + " For, till I see them here, by doubtful fear\n" + " My joy of liberty is half eclipsed.\n\n" + "CLARENCE It shall be done, my sovereign, with all speed.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI My Lord of Somerset, what youth is that,\n" + " Of whom you seem to have so tender care?\n\n" + "SOMERSET My liege, it is young Henry, earl of Richmond.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Come hither, England's hope.\n\n" + " [Lays his hand on his head]\n\n" + " If secret powers\n" + " Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts,\n" + " This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss.\n" + " His looks are full of peaceful majesty,\n" + " His head by nature framed to wear a crown,\n" + " His hand to wield a sceptre, and himself\n" + " Likely in time to bless a regal throne.\n" + " Make much of him, my lords, for this is he\n" + " Must help you more than you are hurt by me.\n\n" + " [Enter a Post]\n\n" + "WARWICK What news, my friend?\n\n" + "Post That Edward is escaped from your brother,\n" + " And fled, as he hears since, to Burgundy.\n\n" + "WARWICK Unsavoury news! but how made he escape?\n\n" + "Post He was convey'd by Richard Duke of Gloucester\n" + " And the Lord Hastings, who attended him\n" + " In secret ambush on the forest side\n" + " And from the bishop's huntsmen rescued him;\n" + " For hunting was his daily exercise.\n\n" + "WARWICK My brother was too careless of his charge.\n" + " But let us hence, my sovereign, to provide\n" + " A salve for any sore that may betide.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but SOMERSET, HENRY OF RICHMOND, and OXFORD]\n\n" + "SOMERSET My lord, I like not of this flight of Edward's;\n" + " For doubtless Burgundy will yield him help,\n" + " And we shall have more wars before 't be long.\n" + " As Henry's late presaging prophecy\n" + " Did glad my heart with hope of this young Richmond,\n" + " So doth my heart misgive me, in these conflicts\n" + " What may befall him, to his harm and ours:\n" + " Therefore, Lord Oxford, to prevent the worst,\n" + " Forthwith we'll send him hence to Brittany,\n" + " Till storms be past of civil enmity.\n\n" + "OXFORD Ay, for if Edward repossess the crown,\n" + " 'Tis like that Richmond with the rest shall down.\n\n" + "SOMERSET It shall be so; he shall to Brittany.\n" + " Come, therefore, let's about it speedily.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Before York.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER,\n" + " HASTINGS, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now, brother Richard, Lord Hastings, and the rest,\n" + " Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends,\n" + " And says that once more I shall interchange\n" + " My waned state for Henry's regal crown.\n" + " Well have we pass'd and now repass'd the seas\n" + " And brought desired help from Burgundy:\n" + " What then remains, we being thus arrived\n" + " From Ravenspurgh haven before the gates of York,\n" + " But that we enter, as into our dukedom?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The gates made fast! Brother, I like not this;\n" + " For many men that stumble at the threshold\n" + " Are well foretold that danger lurks within.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Tush, man, abodements must not now affright us:\n" + " By fair or foul means we must enter in,\n" + " For hither will our friends repair to us.\n\n" + "HASTINGS My liege, I'll knock once more to summon them.\n\n" + " [Enter, on the walls, the Mayor of York, and his Brethren]\n\n" + "Mayor My lords, we were forewarned of your coming,\n" + " And shut the gates for safety of ourselves;\n" + " For now we owe allegiance unto Henry.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV But, master mayor, if Henry be your king,\n" + " Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York.\n\n" + "Mayor True, my good lord; I know you for no less.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Why, and I challenge nothing but my dukedom,\n" + " As being well content with that alone.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] But when the fox hath once got in his nose,\n" + " He'll soon find means to make the body follow.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Why, master mayor, why stand you in a doubt?\n" + " Open the gates; we are King Henry's friends.\n\n" + "Mayor Ay, say you so? the gates shall then be open'd.\n\n" + " [They descend]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER A wise stout captain, and soon persuaded!\n\n" + "HASTINGS The good old man would fain that all were well,\n" + " So 'twere not 'long of him; but being enter'd,\n" + " I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade\n" + " Both him and all his brothers unto reason.\n\n" + " [Enter the Mayor and two Aldermen, below]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV So, master mayor: these gates must not be shut\n" + " But in the night or in the time of war.\n" + " What! fear not, man, but yield me up the keys;\n\n" + " [Takes his keys]\n\n" + " For Edward will defend the town and thee,\n" + " And all those friends that deign to follow me.\n\n" + " [March. Enter MONTGOMERY, with drum and soldiers]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Brother, this is Sir John Montgomery,\n" + " Our trusty friend, unless I be deceived.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Welcome, Sir John! But why come you in arms?\n\n" + "MONTAGUE To help King Edward in his time of storm,\n" + " As every loyal subject ought to do.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Thanks, good Montgomery; but we now forget\n" + " Our title to the crown and only claim\n" + " Our dukedom till God please to send the rest.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Then fare you well, for I will hence again:\n" + " I came to serve a king and not a duke.\n" + " Drummer, strike up, and let us march away.\n\n" + " [The drum begins to march]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Nay, stay, Sir John, awhile, and we'll debate\n" + " By what safe means the crown may be recover'd.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE What talk you of debating? in few words,\n" + " If you'll not here proclaim yourself our king,\n" + " I'll leave you to your fortune and be gone\n" + " To keep them back that come to succor you:\n" + " Why shall we fight, if you pretend no title?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points?\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV When we grow stronger, then we'll make our claim:\n" + " Till then, 'tis wisdom to conceal our meaning.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Away with scrupulous wit! now arms must rule.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns.\n" + " Brother, we will proclaim you out of hand:\n" + " The bruit thereof will bring you many friends.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Then be it as you will; for 'tis my right,\n" + " And Henry but usurps the diadem.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself;\n" + " And now will I be Edward's champion.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Sound trumpet; Edward shall be here proclaim'd:\n" + " Come, fellow-soldier, make thou proclamation.\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n" + "Soldier Edward the Fourth, by the grace of God, king of\n" + " England and France, and lord of Ireland, &c.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE And whosoe'er gainsays King Edward's right,\n" + " By this I challenge him to single fight.\n\n" + " [Throws down his gauntlet]\n\n" + "All Long live Edward the Fourth!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Thanks, brave Montgomery; and thanks unto you all:\n" + " If fortune serve me, I'll requite this kindness.\n" + " Now, for this night, let's harbour here in York;\n" + " And when the morning sun shall raise his car\n" + " Above the border of this horizon,\n" + " We'll forward towards Warwick and his mates;\n" + " For well I wot that Henry is no soldier.\n" + " Ah, froward Clarence! how evil it beseems thee\n" + " To flatter Henry and forsake thy brother!\n" + " Yet, as we may, we'll meet both thee and Warwick.\n" + " Come on, brave soldiers: doubt not of the day,\n" + " And, that once gotten, doubt not of large pay.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, WARWICK, MONTAGUE,\n" + " CLARENCE, EXETER, and OXFORD]\n\n" + "WARWICK What counsel, lords? Edward from Belgia,\n" + " With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders,\n" + " Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas,\n" + " And with his troops doth march amain to London;\n" + " And many giddy people flock to him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Let's levy men, and beat him back again.\n\n" + "CLARENCE A little fire is quickly trodden out;\n" + " Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.\n\n" + "WARWICK In Warwickshire I have true-hearted friends,\n" + " Not mutinous in peace, yet bold in war;\n" + " Those will I muster up: and thou, son Clarence,\n" + " Shalt stir up in Suffolk, Norfolk, and in Kent,\n" + " The knights and gentlemen to come with thee:\n" + " Thou, brother Montague, in Buckingham,\n" + " Northampton and in Leicestershire, shalt find\n" + " Men well inclined to hear what thou command'st:\n" + " And thou, brave Oxford, wondrous well beloved,\n" + " In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends.\n" + " My sovereign, with the loving citizens,\n" + " Like to his island girt in with the ocean,\n" + " Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs,\n" + " Shall rest in London till we come to him.\n" + " Fair lords, take leave and stand not to reply.\n" + " Farewell, my sovereign.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Farewell, my Hector, and my Troy's true hope.\n\n" + "CLARENCE In sign of truth, I kiss your highness' hand.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Well-minded Clarence, be thou fortunate!\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Comfort, my lord; and so I take my leave.\n\n" + "OXFORD And thus I seal my truth, and bid adieu.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Sweet Oxford, and my loving Montague,\n" + " And all at once, once more a happy farewell.\n\n" + "WARWICK Farewell, sweet lords: let's meet at Coventry.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but KING HENRY VI and EXETER]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Here at the palace I will rest awhile.\n" + " Cousin of Exeter, what thinks your lordship?\n" + " Methinks the power that Edward hath in field\n" + " Should not be able to encounter mine.\n\n" + "EXETER The doubt is that he will seduce the rest.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI That's not my fear; my meed hath got me fame:\n" + " I have not stopp'd mine ears to their demands,\n" + " Nor posted off their suits with slow delays;\n" + " My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,\n" + " My mildness hath allay'd their swelling griefs,\n" + " My mercy dried their water-flowing tears;\n" + " I have not been desirous of their wealth,\n" + " Nor much oppress'd them with great subsidies.\n" + " Nor forward of revenge, though they much err'd:\n" + " Then why should they love Edward more than me?\n" + " No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace:\n" + " And when the lion fawns upon the lamb,\n" + " The lamb will never cease to follow him.\n\n" + " [Shout within. 'A Lancaster! A Lancaster!']\n\n" + "EXETER Hark, hark, my lord! what shouts are these?\n\n" + " [Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, and soldiers]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Seize on the shame-faced Henry, bear him hence;\n" + " And once again proclaim us King of England.\n" + " You are the fount that makes small brooks to flow:\n" + " Now stops thy spring; my sea sha$l suck them dry,\n" + " And swell so much the higher by their ebb.\n" + " Hence with him to the Tower; let him not speak.\n\n" + " [Exeunt some with KING HENRY VI]\n\n" + " And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course\n" + " Where peremptory Warwick now remains:\n" + " The sun shines hot; and, if we use delay,\n" + " Cold biting winter mars our hoped-for hay.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Away betimes, before his forces join,\n" + " And take the great-grown traitor unawares:\n" + " Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Coventry.\n\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK, the Mayor of Coventry, two Messengers,\n" + " and others upon the walls]\n\n" + "WARWICK Where is the post that came from valiant Oxford?\n" + " How far hence is thy lord, mine honest fellow?\n\n" + "First Messenger By this at Dunsmore, marching hitherward.\n\n" + "WARWICK How far off is our brother Montague?\n" + " Where is the post that came from Montague?\n\n" + "Second Messenger By this at Daintry, with a puissant troop.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR JOHN SOMERVILLE]\n\n" + "WARWICK Say, Somerville, what says my loving son?\n" + " And, by thy guess, how nigh is Clarence now?\n\n" + "SOMERSET At Southam I did leave him with his forces,\n" + " And do expect him here some two hours hence.\n\n" + " [Drum heard]\n\n" + "WARWICK Then Clarence is at hand, I hear his drum.\n\n" + "SOMERSET It is not his, my lord; here Southam lies:\n" + " The drum your honour hears marcheth from Warwick.\n\n" + "WARWICK Who should that be? belike, unlook'd-for friends.\n\n" + "SOMERSET They are at hand, and you shall quickly know.\n\n" + " [March: flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER,\n" + " and soldiers]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Go, trumpet, to the walls, and sound a parle.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER See how the surly Warwick mans the wall!\n\n" + "WARWICK O unbid spite! is sportful Edward come?\n" + " Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced,\n" + " That we could hear no news of his repair?\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates,\n" + " Speak gentle words and humbly bend thy knee,\n" + " Call Edward king and at his hands beg mercy?\n" + " And he shall pardon thee these outrages.\n\n" + "WARWICK Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence,\n" + " Confess who set thee up and pluck'd thee own,\n" + " Call Warwick patron and be penitent?\n" + " And thou shalt still remain the Duke of York.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I thought, at least, he would have said the king;\n" + " Or did he make the jest against his will?\n\n" + "WARWICK Is not a dukedom, sir, a goodly gift?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, by my faith, for a poor earl to give:\n" + " I'll do thee service for so good a gift.\n\n" + "WARWICK 'Twas I that gave the kingdom to thy brother.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Why then 'tis mine, if but by Warwick's gift.\n\n" + "WARWICK Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight:\n" + " And weakling, Warwick takes his gift again;\n" + " And Henry is my king, Warwick his subject.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV But Warwick's king is Edward's prisoner:\n" + " And, gallant Warwick, do but answer this:\n" + " What is the body when the head is off?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Alas, that Warwick had no more forecast,\n" + " But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten,\n" + " The king was slily finger'd from the deck!\n" + " You left poor Henry at the Bishop's palace,\n" + " And, ten to one, you'll meet him in the Tower.\n\n" + "EDWARD 'Tis even so; yet you are Warwick still.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Come, Warwick, take the time; kneel down, kneel down:\n" + " Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron cools.\n\n" + "WARWICK I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,\n" + " And with the other fling it at thy face,\n" + " Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Sail how thou canst, have wind and tide thy friend,\n" + " This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black hair\n" + " Shall, whiles thy head is warm and new cut off,\n" + " Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood,\n" + " 'Wind-changing Warwick now can change no more.'\n\n" + " [Enter OXFORD, with drum and colours]\n\n" + "WARWICK O cheerful colours! see where Oxford comes!\n\n" + "OXFORD Oxford, Oxford, for Lancaster!\n\n" + " [He and his forces enter the city]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The gates are open, let us enter too.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV So other foes may set upon our backs.\n" + " Stand we in good array; for they no doubt\n" + " Will issue out again and bid us battle:\n" + " If not, the city being but of small defence,\n" + " We'll quickly rouse the traitors in the same.\n\n" + "WARWICK O, welcome, Oxford! for we want thy help.\n\n" + " [Enter MONTAGUE with drum and colours]\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Montague, Montague, for Lancaster!\n\n" + " [He and his forces enter the city]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Thou and thy brother both shall buy this treason\n" + " Even with the dearest blood your bodies bear.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV The harder match'd, the greater victory:\n" + " My mind presageth happy gain and conquest.\n\n" + " [Enter SOMERSET, with drum and colours]\n\n" + "SOMERSET Somerset, Somerset, for Lancaster!\n\n" + " [He and his forces enter the city]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Two of thy name, both Dukes of Somerset,\n" + " Have sold their lives unto the house of York;\n" + " And thou shalt be the third if this sword hold.\n\n" + " [Enter CLARENCE, with drum and colours]\n\n" + "WARWICK And lo, where George of Clarence sweeps along,\n" + " Of force enough to bid his brother battle;\n" + " With whom an upright zeal to right prevails\n" + " More than the nature of a brother's love!\n" + " Come, Clarence, come; thou wilt, if Warwick call.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Father of Warwick, know you what this means?\n\n" + " [Taking his red rose out of his hat]\n\n" + " Look here, I throw my infamy at thee\n" + " I will not ruinate my father's house,\n" + " Who gave his blood to lime the stones together,\n" + " And set up Lancaster. Why, trow'st thou, Warwick,\n" + " That Clarence is so harsh, so blunt, unnatural,\n" + " To bend the fatal instruments of war\n" + " Against his brother and his lawful king?\n" + " Perhaps thou wilt object my holy oath:\n" + " To keep that oath were more impiety\n" + " Than Jephthah's, when he sacrificed his daughter.\n" + " I am so sorry for my trespass made\n" + " That, to deserve well at my brother's hands,\n" + " I here proclaim myself thy mortal foe,\n" + " With resolution, wheresoe'er I meet thee--\n" + " As I will meet thee, if thou stir abroad--\n" + " To plague thee for thy foul misleading me.\n" + " And so, proud-hearted Warwick, I defy thee,\n" + " And to my brother turn my blushing cheeks.\n" + " Pardon me, Edward, I will make amends:\n" + " And, Richard, do not frown upon my faults,\n" + " For I will henceforth be no more unconstant.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now welcome more, and ten times more beloved,\n" + " Than if thou never hadst deserved our hate.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Welcome, good Clarence; this is brotherlike.\n\n" + "WARWICK O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV What, Warwick, wilt thou leave the town and fight?\n" + " Or shall we beat the stones about thine ears?\n\n" + "WARWICK Alas, I am not coop'd here for defence!\n" + " I will away towards Barnet presently,\n" + " And bid thee battle, Edward, if thou darest.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Yes, Warwick, Edward dares, and leads the way.\n" + " Lords, to the field; Saint George and victory!\n\n" + " [Exeunt King Edward and his company. March. Warwick\n" + " and his company follow]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A field of battle near Barnet.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum and excursions. Enter KING EDWARD IV, bringing\n" + " forth WARWICK wounded]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV So, lie thou there: die thou, and die our fear;\n" + " For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all.\n" + " Now, Montague, sit fast; I seek for thee,\n" + " That Warwick's bones may keep thine company.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "WARWICK Ah, who is nigh? come to me, friend or foe,\n" + " And tell me who is victor, York or Warwick?\n" + " Why ask I that? my mangled body shows,\n" + " My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows.\n" + " That I must yield my body to the earth\n" + " And, by my fall, the conquest to my foe.\n" + " Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge,\n" + " Whose arms gave shelter to the princely eagle,\n" + " Under whose shade the ramping lion slept,\n" + " Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spreading tree\n" + " And kept low shrubs from winter's powerful wind.\n" + " These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's black veil,\n" + " Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun,\n" + " To search the secret treasons of the world:\n" + " The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood,\n" + " Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres;\n" + " For who lived king, but I could dig his grave?\n" + " And who durst mine when Warwick bent his brow?\n" + " Lo, now my glory smear'd in dust and blood!\n" + " My parks, my walks, my manors that I had.\n" + " Even now forsake me, and of all my lands\n" + " Is nothing left me but my body's length.\n" + " Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?\n" + " And, live we how we can, yet die we must.\n\n" + " [Enter OXFORD and SOMERSET]\n\n" + "SOMERSET Ah, Warwick, Warwick! wert thou as we are.\n" + " We might recover all our loss again;\n" + " The queen from France hath brought a puissant power:\n" + " Even now we heard the news: ah, could'st thou fly!\n\n" + "WARWICK Why, then I would not fly. Ah, Montague,\n" + " If thou be there, sweet brother, take my hand.\n" + " And with thy lips keep in my soul awhile!\n" + " Thou lovest me not; for, brother, if thou didst,\n" + " Thy tears would wash this cold congealed blood\n" + " That glues my lips and will not let me speak.\n" + " Come quickly, Montague, or I am dead.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last;\n" + " And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,\n" + " And said 'Commend me to my valiant brother.'\n" + " And more he would have said, and more he spoke,\n" + " Which sounded like a clamour in a vault,\n" + " That mought not be distinguished; but at last\n" + " I well might hear, delivered with a groan,\n" + " 'O, farewell, Warwick!'\n\n" + "WARWICK Sweet rest his soul! Fly, lords, and save yourselves;\n" + " For Warwick bids you all farewell to meet in heaven.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "OXFORD Away, away, to meet the queen's great power!\n\n" + " [Here they bear away his body. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV in triumph; with\n" + " GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE, and the rest]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,\n" + " And we are graced with wreaths of victory.\n" + " But, in the midst of this bright-shining day,\n" + " I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud,\n" + " That will encounter with our glorious sun,\n" + " Ere he attain his easeful western bed:\n" + " I mean, my lords, those powers that the queen\n" + " Hath raised in Gallia have arrived our coast\n" + " And, as we hear, march on to fight with us.\n\n" + "CLARENCE A little gale will soon disperse that cloud\n" + " And blow it to the source from whence it came:\n" + " The very beams will dry those vapours up,\n" + " For every cloud engenders not a storm.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The queen is valued thirty thousand strong,\n" + " And Somerset, with Oxford fled to her:\n" + " If she have time to breathe be well assured\n" + " Her faction will be full as strong as ours.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV We are advertised by our loving friends\n" + " That they do hold their course toward Tewksbury:\n" + " We, having now the best at Barnet field,\n" + " Will thither straight, for willingness rids way;\n" + " And, as we march, our strength will be augmented\n" + " In every county as we go along.\n" + " Strike up the drum; cry 'Courage!' and away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Plains near Tewksbury.\n\n\n" + " [March. Enter QUEEN MARGARET, PRINCE EDWARD,\n" + " SOMERSET, OXFORD, and soldiers]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Great lords, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,\n" + " But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.\n" + " What though the mast be now blown overboard,\n" + " The cable broke, the holding-anchor lost,\n" + " And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?\n" + " Yet lives our pilot still. Is't meet that he\n" + " Should leave the helm and like a fearful lad\n" + " With tearful eyes add water to the sea\n" + " And give more strength to that which hath too much,\n" + " Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,\n" + " Which industry and courage might have saved?\n" + " Ah, what a shame! ah, what a fault were this!\n" + " Say Warwick was our anchor; what of that?\n" + " And Montague our topmost; what of him?\n" + " Our slaughter'd friends the tackles; what of these?\n" + " Why, is not Oxford here another anchor?\n" + " And Somerset another goodly mast?\n" + " The friends of France our shrouds and tacklings?\n" + " And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I\n" + " For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge?\n" + " We will not from the helm to sit and weep,\n" + " But keep our course, though the rough wind say no,\n" + " From shelves and rocks that threaten us with wreck.\n" + " As good to chide the waves as speak them fair.\n" + " And what is Edward but ruthless sea?\n" + " What Clarence but a quicksand of deceit?\n" + " And Richard but a ragged fatal rock?\n" + " All these the enemies to our poor bark.\n" + " Say you can swim; alas, 'tis but a while!\n" + " Tread on the sand; why, there you quickly sink:\n" + " Bestride the rock; the tide will wash you off,\n" + " Or else you famish; that's a threefold death.\n" + " This speak I, lords, to let you understand,\n" + " If case some one of you would fly from us,\n" + " That there's no hoped-for mercy with the brothers\n" + " More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks.\n" + " Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided\n" + " 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Methinks a woman of this valiant spirit\n" + " Should, if a coward heard her speak these words,\n" + " Infuse his breast with magnanimity\n" + " And make him, naked, foil a man at arms.\n" + " I speak not this as doubting any here\n" + " For did I but suspect a fearful man\n" + " He should have leave to go away betimes,\n" + " Lest in our need he might infect another\n" + " And make him of like spirit to himself.\n" + " If any such be here--as God forbid!--\n" + " Let him depart before we need his help.\n\n" + "OXFORD Women and children of so high a courage,\n" + " And warriors faint! why, 'twere perpetual shame.\n" + " O brave young prince! thy famous grandfather\n" + " Doth live again in thee: long mayst thou live\n" + " To bear his image and renew his glories!\n\n" + "SOMERSET And he that will not fight for such a hope.\n" + " Go home to bed, and like the owl by day,\n" + " If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Thanks, gentle Somerset; sweet Oxford, thanks.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD And take his thanks that yet hath nothing else.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand.\n" + " Ready to fight; therefore be resolute.\n\n" + "OXFORD I thought no less: it is his policy\n" + " To haste thus fast, to find us unprovided.\n\n" + "SOMERSET But he's deceived; we are in readiness.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET This cheers my heart, to see your forwardness.\n\n" + "OXFORD Here pitch our battle; hence we will not budge.\n\n" + " [Flourish and march. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER,\n" + " CLARENCE, and soldiers]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood,\n" + " Which, by the heavens' assistance and your strength,\n" + " Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night.\n" + " I need not add more fuel to your fire,\n" + " For well I wot ye blaze to burn them out\n" + " Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Lords, knights, and gentlemen, what I should say\n" + " My tears gainsay; for every word I speak,\n" + " Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes.\n" + " Therefore, no more but this: Henry, your sovereign,\n" + " Is prisoner to the foe; his state usurp'd,\n" + " His realm a slaughter-house, his subjects slain,\n" + " His statutes cancell'd and his treasure spent;\n" + " And yonder is the wolf that makes this spoil.\n" + " You fight in justice: then, in God's name, lords,\n" + " Be valiant and give signal to the fight.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Retreat. Excursions. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, GLOUCESTER, CLARENCE,\n" + " and soldiers; with QUEEN MARGARET, OXFORD, and\n" + " SOMERSET, prisoners]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now here a period of tumultuous broils.\n" + " Away with Oxford to Hames Castle straight:\n" + " For Somerset, off with his guilty head.\n" + " Go, bear them hence; I will not hear them speak.\n\n" + "OXFORD For my part, I'll not trouble thee with words.\n\n" + "SOMERSET Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Oxford and Somerset, guarded]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET So part we sadly in this troublous world,\n" + " To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Is proclamation made, that who finds Edward\n" + " Shall have a high reward, and he his life?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER It is: and lo, where youthful Edward comes!\n\n" + " [Enter soldiers, with PRINCE EDWARD]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Bring forth the gallant, let us hear him speak.\n" + " What! can so young a thorn begin to prick?\n" + " Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make\n" + " For bearing arms, for stirring up my subjects,\n" + " And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to?\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Speak like a subject, proud ambitious York!\n" + " Suppose that I am now my father's mouth;\n" + " Resign thy chair, and where I stand kneel thou,\n" + " Whilst I propose the selfsame words to thee,\n" + " Which traitor, thou wouldst have me answer to.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ah, that thy father had been so resolved!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER That you might still have worn the petticoat,\n" + " And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lancaster.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Let AEsop fable in a winter's night;\n" + " His currish riddles sort not with this place.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER By heaven, brat, I'll plague ye for that word.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ay, thou wast born to be a plague to men.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER For God's sake, take away this captive scold.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Nay, take away this scolding crookback rather.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Peace, wilful boy, or I will charm your tongue.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Untutor'd lad, thou art too malapert.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD I know my duty; you are all undutiful:\n" + " Lascivious Edward, and thou perjured George,\n" + " And thou mis-shapen Dick, I tell ye all\n" + " I am your better, traitors as ye are:\n" + " And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Take that, thou likeness of this railer here.\n\n" + " [Stabs him]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sprawl'st thou? take that, to end thy agony.\n\n" + " [Stabs him]\n\n" + "CLARENCE And there's for twitting me with perjury.\n\n" + " [Stabs him]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET O, kill me too!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Marry, and shall.\n\n" + " [Offers to kill her]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Hold, Richard, hold; for we have done too much.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why should she live, to fill the world with words?\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV What, doth she swoon? use means for her recovery.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Clarence, excuse me to the king my brother;\n" + " I'll hence to London on a serious matter:\n" + " Ere ye come there, be sure to hear some news.\n\n" + "CLARENCE What? what?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The Tower, the Tower.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET O Ned, sweet Ned! speak to thy mother, boy!\n" + " Canst thou not speak? O traitors! murderers!\n" + " They that stabb'd Caesar shed no blood at all,\n" + " Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame,\n" + " If this foul deed were by to equal it:\n" + " He was a man; this, in respect, a child:\n" + " And men ne'er spend their fury on a child.\n" + " What's worse than murderer, that I may name it?\n" + " No, no, my heart will burst, and if I speak:\n" + " And I will speak, that so my heart may burst.\n" + " Butchers and villains! bloody cannibals!\n" + " How sweet a plant have you untimely cropp'd!\n" + " You have no children, butchers! if you had,\n" + " The thought of them would have stirr'd up remorse:\n" + " But if you ever chance to have a child,\n" + " Look in his youth to have him so cut off\n" + " As, deathmen, you have rid this sweet young prince!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Away with her; go, bear her hence perforce.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Nay, never bear me hence, dispatch me here,\n" + " Here sheathe thy sword, I'll pardon thee my death:\n" + " What, wilt thou not? then, Clarence, do it thou.\n\n" + "CLARENCE By heaven, I will not do thee so much ease.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Good Clarence, do; sweet Clarence, do thou do it.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Ay, but thou usest to forswear thyself:\n" + " 'Twas sin before, but now 'tis charity.\n" + " What, wilt thou not? Where is that devil's butcher,\n" + " Hard-favour'd Richard? Richard, where art thou?\n" + " Thou art not here: murder is thy alms-deed;\n" + " Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Away, I say; I charge ye, bear her hence.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET So come to you and yours, as to this Prince!\n\n" + " [Exit, led out forcibly]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Where's Richard gone?\n\n" + "CLARENCE To London, all in post; and, as I guess,\n" + " To make a bloody supper in the Tower.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV He's sudden, if a thing comes in his head.\n" + " Now march we hence: discharge the common sort\n" + " With pay and thanks, and let's away to London\n" + " And see our gentle queen how well she fares:\n" + " By this, I hope, she hath a son for me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI London. The Tower.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VI and GLOUCESTER, with the\n" + " Lieutenant, on the walls]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Good day, my lord. What, at your book so hard?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ay, my good lord:--my lord, I should say rather;\n" + " 'Tis sin to flatter; 'good' was little better:\n" + " 'Good Gloucester' and 'good devil' were alike,\n" + " And both preposterous; therefore, not 'good lord.'\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sirrah, leave us to ourselves: we must confer.\n\n" + " [Exit Lieutenant]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf;\n" + " So first the harmless sheep doth yield his fleece\n" + " And next his throat unto the butcher's knife.\n" + " What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;\n" + " The thief doth fear each bush an officer.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI The bird that hath been limed in a bush,\n" + " With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush;\n" + " And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird,\n" + " Have now the fatal object in my eye\n" + " Where my poor young was limed, was caught and kill'd.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, what a peevish fool was that of Crete,\n" + " That taught his son the office of a fowl!\n" + " An yet, for all his wings, the fool was drown'd.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI I, Daedalus; my poor boy, Icarus;\n" + " Thy father, Minos, that denied our course;\n" + " The sun that sear'd the wings of my sweet boy\n" + " Thy brother Edward, and thyself the sea\n" + " Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life.\n" + " Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!\n" + " My breast can better brook thy dagger's point\n" + " Than can my ears that tragic history.\n" + " But wherefore dost thou come? is't for my life?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Think'st thou I am an executioner?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI A persecutor, I am sure, thou art:\n" + " If murdering innocents be executing,\n" + " Why, then thou art an executioner.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Thy son I kill'd for his presumption.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Hadst thou been kill'd when first thou didst presume,\n" + " Thou hadst not lived to kill a son of mine.\n" + " And thus I prophesy, that many a thousand,\n" + " Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear,\n" + " And many an old man's sigh and many a widow's,\n" + " And many an orphan's water-standing eye--\n" + " Men for their sons, wives for their husbands,\n" + " And orphans for their parents timeless death--\n" + " Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born.\n" + " The owl shriek'd at thy birth,--an evil sign;\n" + " The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;\n" + " Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempest shook down trees;\n" + " The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top,\n" + " And chattering pies in dismal discords sung.\n" + " Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain,\n" + " And, yet brought forth less than a mother's hope,\n" + " To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,\n" + " Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.\n" + " Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,\n" + " To signify thou camest to bite the world:\n" + " And, if the rest be true which I have heard,\n" + " Thou camest--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I'll hear no more: die, prophet in thy speech:\n\n" + " [Stabs him]\n\n" + " For this amongst the rest, was I ordain'd.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VI Ay, and for much more slaughter after this.\n" + " God forgive my sins, and pardon thee!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, will the aspiring blood of Lancaster\n" + " Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted.\n" + " See how my sword weeps for the poor king's death!\n" + " O, may such purple tears be alway shed\n" + " From those that wish the downfall of our house!\n" + " If any spark of life be yet remaining,\n" + " Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither:\n\n" + " [Stabs him again]\n\n" + " I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.\n" + " Indeed, 'tis true that Henry told me of;\n" + " For I have often heard my mother say\n" + " I came into the world with my legs forward:\n" + " Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste,\n" + " And seek their ruin that usurp'd our right?\n" + " The midwife wonder'd and the women cried\n" + " 'O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth!'\n" + " And so I was; which plainly signified\n" + " That I should snarl and bite and play the dog.\n" + " Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so,\n" + " Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it.\n" + " I have no brother, I am like no brother;\n" + " And this word 'love,' which graybeards call divine,\n" + " Be resident in men like one another\n" + " And not in me: I am myself alone.\n" + " Clarence, beware; thou keep'st me from the light:\n" + " But I will sort a pitchy day for thee;\n" + " For I will buz abroad such prophecies\n" + " That Edward shall be fearful of his life,\n" + " And then, to purge his fear, I'll be thy death.\n" + " King Henry and the prince his son are gone:\n" + " Clarence, thy turn is next, and then the rest,\n" + " Counting myself but bad till I be best.\n" + " I'll throw thy body in another room\n" + " And triumph, Henry, in thy day of doom.\n\n" + " [Exit, with the body]\n\n\n\n\n" + " 3 KING HENRY VI\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV, QUEEN ELIZABETH,\n" + " CLARENCE, GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, a Nurse with the\n" + " young Prince, and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Once more we sit in England's royal throne,\n" + " Re-purchased with the blood of enemies.\n" + " What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn,\n" + " Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their pride!\n" + " Three Dukes of Somerset, threefold renown'd\n" + " For hardy and undoubted champions;\n" + " Two Cliffords, as the father and the son,\n" + " And two Northumberlands; two braver men\n" + " Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's sound;\n" + " With them, the two brave bears, Warwick and Montague,\n" + " That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion\n" + " And made the forest tremble when they roar'd.\n" + " Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat\n" + " And made our footstool of security.\n" + " Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy.\n" + " Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles and myself\n" + " Have in our armours watch'd the winter's night,\n" + " Went all afoot in summer's scalding heat,\n" + " That thou mightst repossess the crown in peace;\n" + " And of our labours thou shalt reap the gain.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] I'll blast his harvest, if your head were laid;\n" + " For yet I am not look'd on in the world.\n" + " This shoulder was ordain'd so thick to heave;\n" + " And heave it shall some weight, or break my back:\n" + " Work thou the way,--and thou shalt execute.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Clarence and Gloucester, love my lovely queen;\n" + " And kiss your princely nephew, brothers both.\n\n" + "CLARENCE The duty that I owe unto your majesty\n" + " I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Thanks, noble Clarence; worthy brother, thanks.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And, that I love the tree from whence thou sprang'st,\n" + " Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit.\n" + " [Aside] To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his master,\n" + " And cried 'all hail!' when as he meant all harm.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now am I seated as my soul delights,\n" + " Having my country's peace and brothers' loves.\n\n" + "CLARENCE What will your grace have done with Margaret?\n" + " Reignier, her father, to the king of France\n" + " Hath pawn'd the Sicils and Jerusalem,\n" + " And hither have they sent it for her ransom.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Away with her, and waft her hence to France.\n" + " And now what rests but that we spend the time\n" + " With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows,\n" + " Such as befits the pleasure of the court?\n" + " Sound drums and trumpets! farewell sour annoy!\n" + " For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE (KING:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF FLORENCE (DUKE:)\n\n" + "BERTRAM Count of Rousillon.\n\n" + "LAFEU an old lord.\n\n" + "PAROLLES a follower of Bertram.\n\n\n" + "Steward |\n" + " | servants to the Countess of Rousillon.\n" + "Clown |\n\n\n" + " A Page. (Page:)\n\n" + "COUNTESS OF\n" + "ROUSILLON mother to Bertram. (COUNTESS:)\n\n" + "HELENA a gentlewoman protected by the Countess.\n\n" + " An old Widow of Florence. (Widow:)\n\n" + "DIANA daughter to the Widow.\n\n\n" + "VIOLENTA |\n" + " | neighbours and friends to the Widow.\n" + "MARIANA |\n\n\n" + " Lords, Officers, Soldiers, &c., French and Florentine.\n" + " (First Lord:)\n" + " (Second Lord:)\n" + " (Fourth Lord:)\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n" + " (First Soldier:)\n" + " (Gentleman:)\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles.\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM, the COUNTESS of Rousillon, HELENA,\n" + " and LAFEU, all in black]\n\n" + "COUNTESS In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.\n\n" + "BERTRAM And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death\n" + " anew: but I must attend his majesty's command, to\n" + " whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.\n\n" + "LAFEU You shall find of the king a husband, madam; you,\n" + " sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times\n" + " good must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose\n" + " worthiness would stir it up where it wanted rather\n" + " than lack it where there is such abundance.\n\n" + "COUNTESS What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?\n\n" + "LAFEU He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose\n" + " practises he hath persecuted time with hope, and\n" + " finds no other advantage in the process but only the\n" + " losing of hope by time.\n\n" + "COUNTESS This young gentlewoman had a father,--O, that\n" + " 'had'! how sad a passage 'tis!--whose skill was\n" + " almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so\n" + " far, would have made nature immortal, and death\n" + " should have play for lack of work. Would, for the\n" + " king's sake, he were living! I think it would be\n" + " the death of the king's disease.\n\n" + "LAFEU How called you the man you speak of, madam?\n\n" + "COUNTESS He was famous, sir, in his profession, and it was\n" + " his great right to be so: Gerard de Narbon.\n\n" + "LAFEU He was excellent indeed, madam: the king very\n" + " lately spoke of him admiringly and mourningly: he\n" + " was skilful enough to have lived still, if knowledge\n" + " could be set up against mortality.\n\n" + "BERTRAM What is it, my good lord, the king languishes of?\n\n" + "LAFEU A fistula, my lord.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I heard not of it before.\n\n" + "LAFEU I would it were not notorious. Was this gentlewoman\n" + " the daughter of Gerard de Narbon?\n\n" + "COUNTESS His sole child, my lord, and bequeathed to my\n" + " overlooking. I have those hopes of her good that\n" + " her education promises; her dispositions she\n" + " inherits, which makes fair gifts fairer; for where\n" + " an unclean mind carries virtuous qualities, there\n" + " commendations go with pity; they are virtues and\n" + " traitors too; in her they are the better for their\n" + " simpleness; she derives her honesty and achieves her goodness.\n\n" + "LAFEU Your commendations, madam, get from her tears.\n\n" + "COUNTESS 'Tis the best brine a maiden can season her praise\n" + " in. The remembrance of her father never approaches\n" + " her heart but the tyranny of her sorrows takes all\n" + " livelihood from her cheek. No more of this, Helena;\n" + " go to, no more; lest it be rather thought you affect\n" + " a sorrow than have it.\n\n" + "HELENA I do affect a sorrow indeed, but I have it too.\n\n" + "LAFEU Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,\n" + " excessive grief the enemy to the living.\n\n" + "COUNTESS If the living be enemy to the grief, the excess\n" + " makes it soon mortal.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Madam, I desire your holy wishes.\n\n" + "LAFEU How understand we that?\n\n" + "COUNTESS Be thou blest, Bertram, and succeed thy father\n" + " In manners, as in shape! thy blood and virtue\n" + " Contend for empire in thee, and thy goodness\n" + " Share with thy birthright! Love all, trust a few,\n" + " Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy\n" + " Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend\n" + " Under thy own life's key: be cheque'd for silence,\n" + " But never tax'd for speech. What heaven more will,\n" + " That thee may furnish and my prayers pluck down,\n" + " Fall on thy head! Farewell, my lord;\n" + " 'Tis an unseason'd courtier; good my lord,\n" + " Advise him.\n\n" + "LAFEU He cannot want the best\n" + " That shall attend his love.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Heaven bless him! Farewell, Bertram.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BERTRAM [To HELENA] The best wishes that can be forged in\n" + " your thoughts be servants to you! Be comfortable\n" + " to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.\n\n" + "LAFEU Farewell, pretty lady: you must hold the credit of\n" + " your father.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BERTRAM and LAFEU]\n\n" + "HELENA O, were that all! I think not on my father;\n" + " And these great tears grace his remembrance more\n" + " Than those I shed for him. What was he like?\n" + " I have forgot him: my imagination\n" + " Carries no favour in't but Bertram's.\n" + " I am undone: there is no living, none,\n" + " If Bertram be away. 'Twere all one\n" + " That I should love a bright particular star\n" + " And think to wed it, he is so above me:\n" + " In his bright radiance and collateral light\n" + " Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.\n" + " The ambition in my love thus plagues itself:\n" + " The hind that would be mated by the lion\n" + " Must die for love. 'Twas pretty, though plague,\n" + " To see him every hour; to sit and draw\n" + " His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls,\n" + " In our heart's table; heart too capable\n" + " Of every line and trick of his sweet favour:\n" + " But now he's gone, and my idolatrous fancy\n" + " Must sanctify his reliques. Who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter PAROLLES]\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " One that goes with him: I love him for his sake;\n" + " And yet I know him a notorious liar,\n" + " Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;\n" + " Yet these fixed evils sit so fit in him,\n" + " That they take place, when virtue's steely bones\n" + " Look bleak i' the cold wind: withal, full oft we see\n" + " Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Save you, fair queen!\n\n" + "HELENA And you, monarch!\n\n" + "PAROLLES No.\n\n" + "HELENA And no.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Are you meditating on virginity?\n\n" + "HELENA Ay. You have some stain of soldier in you: let me\n" + " ask you a question. Man is enemy to virginity; how\n" + " may we barricado it against him?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Keep him out.\n\n" + "HELENA But he assails; and our virginity, though valiant,\n" + " in the defence yet is weak: unfold to us some\n" + " warlike resistance.\n\n" + "PAROLLES There is none: man, sitting down before you, will\n" + " undermine you and blow you up.\n\n" + "HELENA Bless our poor virginity from underminers and\n" + " blowers up! Is there no military policy, how\n" + " virgins might blow up men?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Virginity being blown down, man will quicklier be\n" + " blown up: marry, in blowing him down again, with\n" + " the breach yourselves made, you lose your city. It\n" + " is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to\n" + " preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational\n" + " increase and there was never virgin got till\n" + " virginity was first lost. That you were made of is\n" + " metal to make virgins. Virginity by being once lost\n" + " may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is\n" + " ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with 't!\n\n" + "HELENA I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.\n\n" + "PAROLLES There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the\n" + " rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity,\n" + " is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible\n" + " disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin:\n" + " virginity murders itself and should be buried in\n" + " highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate\n" + " offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites,\n" + " much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very\n" + " paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach.\n" + " Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of\n" + " self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the\n" + " canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose\n" + " by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make\n" + " itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the\n" + " principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!\n\n" + "HELENA How might one do, sir, to lose it to her own liking?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Let me see: marry, ill, to like him that ne'er it\n" + " likes. 'Tis a commodity will lose the gloss with\n" + " lying; the longer kept, the less worth: off with 't\n" + " while 'tis vendible; answer the time of request.\n" + " Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out\n" + " of fashion: richly suited, but unsuitable: just\n" + " like the brooch and the tooth-pick, which wear not\n" + " now. Your date is better in your pie and your\n" + " porridge than in your cheek; and your virginity,\n" + " your old virginity, is like one of our French\n" + " withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry,\n" + " 'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better;\n" + " marry, yet 'tis a withered pear: will you anything with it?\n\n" + "HELENA Not my virginity yet [ ]\n" + " There shall your master have a thousand loves,\n" + " A mother and a mistress and a friend,\n" + " A phoenix, captain and an enemy,\n" + " A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign,\n" + " A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear;\n" + " His humble ambition, proud humility,\n" + " His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet,\n" + " His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world\n" + " Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,\n" + " That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he--\n" + " I know not what he shall. God send him well!\n" + " The court's a learning place, and he is one--\n\n" + "PAROLLES What one, i' faith?\n\n" + "HELENA That I wish well. 'Tis pity--\n\n" + "PAROLLES What's pity?\n\n" + "HELENA That wishing well had not a body in't,\n" + " Which might be felt; that we, the poorer born,\n" + " Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes,\n" + " Might with effects of them follow our friends,\n" + " And show what we alone must think, which never\n" + " Return us thanks.\n\n" + " [Enter Page]\n\n" + "Page Monsieur Parolles, my lord calls for you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Little Helen, farewell; if I can remember thee, I\n" + " will think of thee at court.\n\n" + "HELENA Monsieur Parolles, you were born under a charitable star.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Under Mars, I.\n\n" + "HELENA I especially think, under Mars.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Why under Mars?\n\n" + "HELENA The wars have so kept you under that you must needs\n" + " be born under Mars.\n\n" + "PAROLLES When he was predominant.\n\n" + "HELENA When he was retrograde, I think, rather.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Why think you so?\n\n" + "HELENA You go so much backward when you fight.\n\n" + "PAROLLES That's for advantage.\n\n" + "HELENA So is running away, when fear proposes the safety;\n" + " but the composition that your valour and fear makes\n" + " in you is a virtue of a good wing, and I like the wear well.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee\n" + " acutely. I will return perfect courtier; in the\n" + " which, my instruction shall serve to naturalize\n" + " thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier's\n" + " counsel and understand what advice shall thrust upon\n" + " thee; else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and\n" + " thine ignorance makes thee away: farewell. When\n" + " thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast\n" + " none, remember thy friends; get thee a good husband,\n" + " and use him as he uses thee; so, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HELENA Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,\n" + " Which we ascribe to heaven: the fated sky\n" + " Gives us free scope, only doth backward pull\n" + " Our slow designs when we ourselves are dull.\n" + " What power is it which mounts my love so high,\n" + " That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye?\n" + " The mightiest space in fortune nature brings\n" + " To join like likes and kiss like native things.\n" + " Impossible be strange attempts to those\n" + " That weigh their pains in sense and do suppose\n" + " What hath been cannot be: who ever strove\n" + " So show her merit, that did miss her love?\n" + " The king's disease--my project may deceive me,\n" + " But my intents are fix'd and will not leave me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Paris. The KING's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING of France,\n" + " with letters, and divers Attendants]\n\n" + "KING The Florentines and Senoys are by the ears;\n" + " Have fought with equal fortune and continue\n" + " A braving war.\n\n" + "First Lord So 'tis reported, sir.\n\n" + "KING Nay, 'tis most credible; we here received it\n" + " A certainty, vouch'd from our cousin Austria,\n" + " With caution that the Florentine will move us\n" + " For speedy aid; wherein our dearest friend\n" + " Prejudicates the business and would seem\n" + " To have us make denial.\n\n" + "First Lord His love and wisdom,\n" + " Approved so to your majesty, may plead\n" + " For amplest credence.\n\n" + "KING He hath arm'd our answer,\n" + " And Florence is denied before he comes:\n" + " Yet, for our gentlemen that mean to see\n" + " The Tuscan service, freely have they leave\n" + " To stand on either part.\n\n" + "Second Lord It well may serve\n" + " A nursery to our gentry, who are sick\n" + " For breathing and exploit.\n\n" + "KING What's he comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES]\n\n" + "First Lord It is the Count Rousillon, my good lord,\n" + " Young Bertram.\n\n" + "KING Youth, thou bear'st thy father's face;\n" + " Frank nature, rather curious than in haste,\n" + " Hath well composed thee. Thy father's moral parts\n" + " Mayst thou inherit too! Welcome to Paris.\n\n" + "BERTRAM My thanks and duty are your majesty's.\n\n" + "KING I would I had that corporal soundness now,\n" + " As when thy father and myself in friendship\n" + " First tried our soldiership! He did look far\n" + " Into the service of the time and was\n" + " Discipled of the bravest: he lasted long;\n" + " But on us both did haggish age steal on\n" + " And wore us out of act. It much repairs me\n" + " To talk of your good father. In his youth\n" + " He had the wit which I can well observe\n" + " To-day in our young lords; but they may jest\n" + " Till their own scorn return to them unnoted\n" + " Ere they can hide their levity in honour;\n" + " So like a courtier, contempt nor bitterness\n" + " Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were,\n" + " His equal had awaked them, and his honour,\n" + " Clock to itself, knew the true minute when\n" + " Exception bid him speak, and at this time\n" + " His tongue obey'd his hand: who were below him\n" + " He used as creatures of another place\n" + " And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks,\n" + " Making them proud of his humility,\n" + " In their poor praise he humbled. Such a man\n" + " Might be a copy to these younger times;\n" + " Which, follow'd well, would demonstrate them now\n" + " But goers backward.\n\n" + "BERTRAM His good remembrance, sir,\n" + " Lies richer in your thoughts than on his tomb;\n" + " So in approof lives not his epitaph\n" + " As in your royal speech.\n\n" + "KING Would I were with him! He would always say--\n" + " Methinks I hear him now; his plausive words\n" + " He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them,\n" + " To grow there and to bear,--'Let me not live,'--\n" + " This his good melancholy oft began,\n" + " On the catastrophe and heel of pastime,\n" + " When it was out,--'Let me not live,' quoth he,\n" + " 'After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff\n" + " Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses\n" + " All but new things disdain; whose judgments are\n" + " Mere fathers of their garments; whose constancies\n" + " Expire before their fashions.' This he wish'd;\n" + " I after him do after him wish too,\n" + " Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home,\n" + " I quickly were dissolved from my hive,\n" + " To give some labourers room.\n\n" + "Second Lord You are loved, sir:\n" + " They that least lend it you shall lack you first.\n\n" + "KING I fill a place, I know't. How long is't, count,\n" + " Since the physician at your father's died?\n" + " He was much famed.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Some six months since, my lord.\n\n" + "KING If he were living, I would try him yet.\n" + " Lend me an arm; the rest have worn me out\n" + " With several applications; nature and sickness\n" + " Debate it at their leisure. Welcome, count;\n" + " My son's no dearer.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Thank your majesty.\n\n" + " [Exeunt. Flourish]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter COUNTESS, Steward, and Clown]\n\n" + "COUNTESS I will now hear; what say you of this gentlewoman?\n\n" + "Steward Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I\n" + " wish might be found in the calendar of my past\n" + " endeavours; for then we wound our modesty and make\n" + " foul the clearness of our deservings, when of\n" + " ourselves we publish them.\n\n" + "COUNTESS What does this knave here? Get you gone, sirrah:\n" + " the complaints I have heard of you I do not all\n" + " believe: 'tis my slowness that I do not; for I know\n" + " you lack not folly to commit them, and have ability\n" + " enough to make such knaveries yours.\n\n" + "Clown 'Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Well, sir.\n\n" + "Clown No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though\n" + " many of the rich are damned: but, if I may have\n" + " your ladyship's good will to go to the world, Isbel\n" + " the woman and I will do as we may.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Wilt thou needs be a beggar?\n\n" + "Clown I do beg your good will in this case.\n\n" + "COUNTESS In what case?\n\n" + "Clown In Isbel's case and mine own. Service is no\n" + " heritage: and I think I shall never have the\n" + " blessing of God till I have issue o' my body; for\n" + " they say barnes are blessings.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Tell me thy reason why thou wilt marry.\n\n" + "Clown My poor body, madam, requires it: I am driven on\n" + " by the flesh; and he must needs go that the devil drives.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Is this all your worship's reason?\n\n" + "Clown Faith, madam, I have other holy reasons such as they\n" + " are.\n\n" + "COUNTESS May the world know them?\n\n" + "Clown I have been, madam, a wicked creature, as you and\n" + " all flesh and blood are; and, indeed, I do marry\n" + " that I may repent.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Thy marriage, sooner than thy wickedness.\n\n" + "Clown I am out o' friends, madam; and I hope to have\n" + " friends for my wife's sake.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Such friends are thine enemies, knave.\n\n" + "Clown You're shallow, madam, in great friends; for the\n" + " knaves come to do that for me which I am aweary of.\n" + " He that ears my land spares my team and gives me\n" + " leave to in the crop; if I be his cuckold, he's my\n" + " drudge: he that comforts my wife is the cherisher\n" + " of my flesh and blood; he that cherishes my flesh\n" + " and blood loves my flesh and blood; he that loves my\n" + " flesh and blood is my friend: ergo, he that kisses\n" + " my wife is my friend. If men could be contented to\n" + " be what they are, there were no fear in marriage;\n" + " for young Charbon the Puritan and old Poysam the\n" + " Papist, howsome'er their hearts are severed in\n" + " religion, their heads are both one; they may jowl\n" + " horns together, like any deer i' the herd.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Wilt thou ever be a foul-mouthed and calumnious knave?\n\n" + "Clown A prophet I, madam; and I speak the truth the next\n" + " way:\n" + " For I the ballad will repeat,\n" + " Which men full true shall find;\n" + " Your marriage comes by destiny,\n" + " Your cuckoo sings by kind.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Get you gone, sir; I'll talk with you more anon.\n\n" + "Steward May it please you, madam, that he bid Helen come to\n" + " you: of her I am to speak.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her;\n" + " Helen, I mean.\n\n" + "Clown Was this fair face the cause, quoth she,\n" + " Why the Grecians sacked Troy?\n" + " Fond done, done fond,\n" + " Was this King Priam's joy?\n" + " With that she sighed as she stood,\n" + " With that she sighed as she stood,\n" + " And gave this sentence then;\n" + " Among nine bad if one be good,\n" + " Among nine bad if one be good,\n" + " There's yet one good in ten.\n\n" + "COUNTESS What, one good in ten? you corrupt the song, sirrah.\n\n" + "Clown One good woman in ten, madam; which is a purifying\n" + " o' the song: would God would serve the world so all\n" + " the year! we'ld find no fault with the tithe-woman,\n" + " if I were the parson. One in ten, quoth a'! An we\n" + " might have a good woman born but one every blazing\n" + " star, or at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery\n" + " well: a man may draw his heart out, ere a' pluck\n" + " one.\n\n" + "COUNTESS You'll be gone, sir knave, and do as I command you.\n\n" + "Clown That man should be at woman's command, and yet no\n" + " hurt done! Though honesty be no puritan, yet it\n" + " will do no hurt; it will wear the surplice of\n" + " humility over the black gown of a big heart. I am\n" + " going, forsooth: the business is for Helen to come hither.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "COUNTESS Well, now.\n\n" + "Steward I know, madam, you love your gentlewoman entirely.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Faith, I do: her father bequeathed her to me; and\n" + " she herself, without other advantage, may lawfully\n" + " make title to as much love as she finds: there is\n" + " more owing her than is paid; and more shall be paid\n" + " her than she'll demand.\n\n" + "Steward Madam, I was very late more near her than I think\n" + " she wished me: alone she was, and did communicate\n" + " to herself her own words to her own ears; she\n" + " thought, I dare vow for her, they touched not any\n" + " stranger sense. Her matter was, she loved your son:\n" + " Fortune, she said, was no goddess, that had put\n" + " such difference betwixt their two estates; Love no\n" + " god, that would not extend his might, only where\n" + " qualities were level; Dian no queen of virgins, that\n" + " would suffer her poor knight surprised, without\n" + " rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward.\n" + " This she delivered in the most bitter touch of\n" + " sorrow that e'er I heard virgin exclaim in: which I\n" + " held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal;\n" + " sithence, in the loss that may happen, it concerns\n" + " you something to know it.\n\n" + "COUNTESS You have discharged this honestly; keep it to\n" + " yourself: many likelihoods informed me of this\n" + " before, which hung so tottering in the balance that\n" + " I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you,\n" + " leave me: stall this in your bosom; and I thank you\n" + " for your honest care: I will speak with you further anon.\n\n" + " [Exit Steward]\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA]\n\n" + " Even so it was with me when I was young:\n" + " If ever we are nature's, these are ours; this thorn\n" + " Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong;\n" + " Our blood to us, this to our blood is born;\n" + " It is the show and seal of nature's truth,\n" + " Where love's strong passion is impress'd in youth:\n" + " By our remembrances of days foregone,\n" + " Such were our faults, or then we thought them none.\n" + " Her eye is sick on't: I observe her now.\n\n" + "HELENA What is your pleasure, madam?\n\n" + "COUNTESS You know, Helen,\n" + " I am a mother to you.\n\n" + "HELENA Mine honourable mistress.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Nay, a mother:\n" + " Why not a mother? When I said 'a mother,'\n" + " Methought you saw a serpent: what's in 'mother,'\n" + " That you start at it? I say, I am your mother;\n" + " And put you in the catalogue of those\n" + " That were enwombed mine: 'tis often seen\n" + " Adoption strives with nature and choice breeds\n" + " A native slip to us from foreign seeds:\n" + " You ne'er oppress'd me with a mother's groan,\n" + " Yet I express to you a mother's care:\n" + " God's mercy, maiden! does it curd thy blood\n" + " To say I am thy mother? What's the matter,\n" + " That this distemper'd messenger of wet,\n" + " The many-colour'd Iris, rounds thine eye?\n" + " Why? that you are my daughter?\n\n" + "HELENA That I am not.\n\n" + "COUNTESS I say, I am your mother.\n\n" + "HELENA Pardon, madam;\n" + " The Count Rousillon cannot be my brother:\n" + " I am from humble, he from honour'd name;\n" + " No note upon my parents, his all noble:\n" + " My master, my dear lord he is; and I\n" + " His servant live, and will his vassal die:\n" + " He must not be my brother.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Nor I your mother?\n\n" + "HELENA You are my mother, madam; would you were,--\n" + " So that my lord your son were not my brother,--\n" + " Indeed my mother! or were you both our mothers,\n" + " I care no more for than I do for heaven,\n" + " So I were not his sister. Can't no other,\n" + " But, I your daughter, he must be my brother?\n\n" + "COUNTESS Yes, Helen, you might be my daughter-in-law:\n" + " God shield you mean it not! daughter and mother\n" + " So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again?\n" + " My fear hath catch'd your fondness: now I see\n" + " The mystery of your loneliness, and find\n" + " Your salt tears' head: now to all sense 'tis gross\n" + " You love my son; invention is ashamed,\n" + " Against the proclamation of thy passion,\n" + " To say thou dost not: therefore tell me true;\n" + " But tell me then, 'tis so; for, look thy cheeks\n" + " Confess it, th' one to th' other; and thine eyes\n" + " See it so grossly shown in thy behaviors\n" + " That in their kind they speak it: only sin\n" + " And hellish obstinacy tie thy tongue,\n" + " That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so?\n" + " If it be so, you have wound a goodly clew;\n" + " If it be not, forswear't: howe'er, I charge thee,\n" + " As heaven shall work in me for thine avail,\n" + " Tell me truly.\n\n" + "HELENA Good madam, pardon me!\n\n" + "COUNTESS Do you love my son?\n\n" + "HELENA Your pardon, noble mistress!\n\n" + "COUNTESS Love you my son?\n\n" + "HELENA Do not you love him, madam?\n\n" + "COUNTESS Go not about; my love hath in't a bond,\n" + " Whereof the world takes note: come, come, disclose\n" + " The state of your affection; for your passions\n" + " Have to the full appeach'd.\n\n" + "HELENA Then, I confess,\n" + " Here on my knee, before high heaven and you,\n" + " That before you, and next unto high heaven,\n" + " I love your son.\n" + " My friends were poor, but honest; so's my love:\n" + " Be not offended; for it hurts not him\n" + " That he is loved of me: I follow him not\n" + " By any token of presumptuous suit;\n" + " Nor would I have him till I do deserve him;\n" + " Yet never know how that desert should be.\n" + " I know I love in vain, strive against hope;\n" + " Yet in this captious and intenible sieve\n" + " I still pour in the waters of my love\n" + " And lack not to lose still: thus, Indian-like,\n" + " Religious in mine error, I adore\n" + " The sun, that looks upon his worshipper,\n" + " But knows of him no more. My dearest madam,\n" + " Let not your hate encounter with my love\n" + " For loving where you do: but if yourself,\n" + " Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth,\n" + " Did ever in so true a flame of liking\n" + " Wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian\n" + " Was both herself and love: O, then, give pity\n" + " To her, whose state is such that cannot choose\n" + " But lend and give where she is sure to lose;\n" + " That seeks not to find that her search implies,\n" + " But riddle-like lives sweetly where she dies!\n\n" + "COUNTESS Had you not lately an intent,--speak truly,--\n" + " To go to Paris?\n\n" + "HELENA Madam, I had.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Wherefore? tell true.\n\n" + "HELENA I will tell truth; by grace itself I swear.\n" + " You know my father left me some prescriptions\n" + " Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading\n" + " And manifest experience had collected\n" + " For general sovereignty; and that he will'd me\n" + " In heedfull'st reservation to bestow them,\n" + " As notes whose faculties inclusive were\n" + " More than they were in note: amongst the rest,\n" + " There is a remedy, approved, set down,\n" + " To cure the desperate languishings whereof\n" + " The king is render'd lost.\n\n" + "COUNTESS This was your motive\n" + " For Paris, was it? speak.\n\n" + "HELENA My lord your son made me to think of this;\n" + " Else Paris and the medicine and the king\n" + " Had from the conversation of my thoughts\n" + " Haply been absent then.\n\n" + "COUNTESS But think you, Helen,\n" + " If you should tender your supposed aid,\n" + " He would receive it? he and his physicians\n" + " Are of a mind; he, that they cannot help him,\n" + " They, that they cannot help: how shall they credit\n" + " A poor unlearned virgin, when the schools,\n" + " Embowell'd of their doctrine, have left off\n" + " The danger to itself?\n\n" + "HELENA There's something in't,\n" + " More than my father's skill, which was the greatest\n" + " Of his profession, that his good receipt\n" + " Shall for my legacy be sanctified\n" + " By the luckiest stars in heaven: and, would your honour\n" + " But give me leave to try success, I'ld venture\n" + " The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure\n" + " By such a day and hour.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Dost thou believe't?\n\n" + "HELENA Ay, madam, knowingly.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Why, Helen, thou shalt have my leave and love,\n" + " Means and attendants and my loving greetings\n" + " To those of mine in court: I'll stay at home\n" + " And pray God's blessing into thy attempt:\n" + " Be gone to-morrow; and be sure of this,\n" + " What I can help thee to thou shalt not miss.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Paris. The KING's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish of cornets. Enter the KING, attended\n" + " with divers young Lords taking leave for the\n" + " Florentine war; BERTRAM, and PAROLLES]\n\n" + "KING Farewell, young lords; these warlike principles\n" + " Do not throw from you: and you, my lords, farewell:\n" + " Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain, all\n" + " The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received,\n" + " And is enough for both.\n\n" + "First Lord 'Tis our hope, sir,\n" + " After well enter'd soldiers, to return\n" + " And find your grace in health.\n\n" + "KING No, no, it cannot be; and yet my heart\n" + " Will not confess he owes the malady\n" + " That doth my life besiege. Farewell, young lords;\n" + " Whether I live or die, be you the sons\n" + " Of worthy Frenchmen: let higher Italy,--\n" + " Those bated that inherit but the fall\n" + " Of the last monarchy,--see that you come\n" + " Not to woo honour, but to wed it; when\n" + " The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek,\n" + " That fame may cry you loud: I say, farewell.\n\n" + "Second Lord Health, at your bidding, serve your majesty!\n\n" + "KING Those girls of Italy, take heed of them:\n" + " They say, our French lack language to deny,\n" + " If they demand: beware of being captives,\n" + " Before you serve.\n\n" + "Both Our hearts receive your warnings.\n\n" + "KING Farewell. Come hither to me.\n\n" + " [Exit, attended]\n\n" + "First Lord O, my sweet lord, that you will stay behind us!\n\n" + "PAROLLES 'Tis not his fault, the spark.\n\n" + "Second Lord O, 'tis brave wars!\n\n" + "PAROLLES Most admirable: I have seen those wars.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I am commanded here, and kept a coil with\n" + " 'Too young' and 'the next year' and ''tis too early.'\n\n" + "PAROLLES An thy mind stand to't, boy, steal away bravely.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I shall stay here the forehorse to a smock,\n" + " Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry,\n" + " Till honour be bought up and no sword worn\n" + " But one to dance with! By heaven, I'll steal away.\n\n" + "First Lord There's honour in the theft.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Commit it, count.\n\n" + "Second Lord I am your accessary; and so, farewell.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I grow to you, and our parting is a tortured body.\n\n" + "First Lord Farewell, captain.\n\n" + "Second Lord Sweet Monsieur Parolles!\n\n" + "PAROLLES Noble heroes, my sword and yours are kin. Good\n" + " sparks and lustrous, a word, good metals: you shall\n" + " find in the regiment of the Spinii one Captain\n" + " Spurio, with his cicatrice, an emblem of war, here\n" + " on his sinister cheek; it was this very sword\n" + " entrenched it: say to him, I live; and observe his\n" + " reports for me.\n\n" + "First Lord We shall, noble captain.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Lords]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Mars dote on you for his novices! what will ye do?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Stay: the king.\n\n" + " [Re-enter KING. BERTRAM and PAROLLES retire]\n\n" + "PAROLLES [To BERTRAM] Use a more spacious ceremony to the\n" + " noble lords; you have restrained yourself within the\n" + " list of too cold an adieu: be more expressive to\n" + " them: for they wear themselves in the cap of the\n" + " time, there do muster true gait, eat, speak, and\n" + " move under the influence of the most received star;\n" + " and though the devil lead the measure, such are to\n" + " be followed: after them, and take a more dilated farewell.\n\n" + "BERTRAM And I will do so.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Worthy fellows; and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BERTRAM and PAROLLES]\n\n" + " [Enter LAFEU]\n\n" + "LAFEU [Kneeling] Pardon, my lord, for me and for my tidings.\n\n" + "KING I'll fee thee to stand up.\n\n" + "LAFEU Then here's a man stands, that has brought his pardon.\n" + " I would you had kneel'd, my lord, to ask me mercy,\n" + " And that at my bidding you could so stand up.\n\n" + "KING I would I had; so I had broke thy pate,\n" + " And ask'd thee mercy for't.\n\n" + "LAFEU Good faith, across: but, my good lord 'tis thus;\n" + " Will you be cured of your infirmity?\n\n" + "KING No.\n\n" + "LAFEU O, will you eat no grapes, my royal fox?\n" + " Yes, but you will my noble grapes, an if\n" + " My royal fox could reach them: I have seen a medicine\n" + " That's able to breathe life into a stone,\n" + " Quicken a rock, and make you dance canary\n" + " With spritely fire and motion; whose simple touch,\n" + " Is powerful to araise King Pepin, nay,\n" + " To give great Charlemain a pen in's hand,\n" + " And write to her a love-line.\n\n" + "KING What 'her' is this?\n\n" + "LAFEU Why, Doctor She: my lord, there's one arrived,\n" + " If you will see her: now, by my faith and honour,\n" + " If seriously I may convey my thoughts\n" + " In this my light deliverance, I have spoke\n" + " With one that, in her sex, her years, profession,\n" + " Wisdom and constancy, hath amazed me more\n" + " Than I dare blame my weakness: will you see her\n" + " For that is her demand, and know her business?\n" + " That done, laugh well at me.\n\n" + "KING Now, good Lafeu,\n" + " Bring in the admiration; that we with thee\n" + " May spend our wonder too, or take off thine\n" + " By wondering how thou took'st it.\n\n" + "LAFEU Nay, I'll fit you,\n" + " And not be all day neither.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING Thus he his special nothing ever prologues.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LAFEU, with HELENA]\n\n" + "LAFEU Nay, come your ways.\n\n" + "KING This haste hath wings indeed.\n\n" + "LAFEU Nay, come your ways:\n" + " This is his majesty; say your mind to him:\n" + " A traitor you do look like; but such traitors\n" + " His majesty seldom fears: I am Cressid's uncle,\n" + " That dare leave two together; fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING Now, fair one, does your business follow us?\n\n" + "HELENA Ay, my good lord.\n" + " Gerard de Narbon was my father;\n" + " In what he did profess, well found.\n\n" + "KING I knew him.\n\n" + "HELENA The rather will I spare my praises towards him:\n" + " Knowing him is enough. On's bed of death\n" + " Many receipts he gave me: chiefly one.\n" + " Which, as the dearest issue of his practise,\n" + " And of his old experience the oily darling,\n" + " He bade me store up, as a triple eye,\n" + " Safer than mine own two, more dear; I have so;\n" + " And hearing your high majesty is touch'd\n" + " With that malignant cause wherein the honour\n" + " Of my dear father's gift stands chief in power,\n" + " I come to tender it and my appliance\n" + " With all bound humbleness.\n\n" + "KING We thank you, maiden;\n" + " But may not be so credulous of cure,\n" + " When our most learned doctors leave us and\n" + " The congregated college have concluded\n" + " That labouring art can never ransom nature\n" + " From her inaidible estate; I say we must not\n" + " So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope,\n" + " To prostitute our past-cure malady\n" + " To empirics, or to dissever so\n" + " Our great self and our credit, to esteem\n" + " A senseless help when help past sense we deem.\n\n" + "HELENA My duty then shall pay me for my pains:\n" + " I will no more enforce mine office on you.\n" + " Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts\n" + " A modest one, to bear me back a again.\n\n" + "KING I cannot give thee less, to be call'd grateful:\n" + " Thou thought'st to help me; and such thanks I give\n" + " As one near death to those that wish him live:\n" + " But what at full I know, thou know'st no part,\n" + " I knowing all my peril, thou no art.\n\n" + "HELENA What I can do can do no hurt to try,\n" + " Since you set up your rest 'gainst remedy.\n" + " He that of greatest works is finisher\n" + " Oft does them by the weakest minister:\n" + " So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,\n" + " When judges have been babes; great floods have flown\n" + " From simple sources, and great seas have dried\n" + " When miracles have by the greatest been denied.\n" + " Oft expectation fails and most oft there\n" + " Where most it promises, and oft it hits\n" + " Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.\n\n" + "KING I must not hear thee; fare thee well, kind maid;\n" + " Thy pains not used must by thyself be paid:\n" + " Proffers not took reap thanks for their reward.\n\n" + "HELENA Inspired merit so by breath is barr'd:\n" + " It is not so with Him that all things knows\n" + " As 'tis with us that square our guess by shows;\n" + " But most it is presumption in us when\n" + " The help of heaven we count the act of men.\n" + " Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent;\n" + " Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.\n" + " I am not an impostor that proclaim\n" + " Myself against the level of mine aim;\n" + " But know I think and think I know most sure\n" + " My art is not past power nor you past cure.\n\n" + "KING Are thou so confident? within what space\n" + " Hopest thou my cure?\n\n" + "HELENA The great'st grace lending grace\n" + " Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring\n" + " Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring,\n" + " Ere twice in murk and occidental damp\n" + " Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp,\n" + " Or four and twenty times the pilot's glass\n" + " Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass,\n" + " What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly,\n" + " Health shall live free and sickness freely die.\n\n" + "KING Upon thy certainty and confidence\n" + " What darest thou venture?\n\n" + "HELENA Tax of impudence,\n" + " A strumpet's boldness, a divulged shame\n" + " Traduced by odious ballads: my maiden's name\n" + " Sear'd otherwise; nay, worse--if worse--extended\n" + " With vilest torture let my life be ended.\n\n" + "KING Methinks in thee some blessed spirit doth speak\n" + " His powerful sound within an organ weak:\n" + " And what impossibility would slay\n" + " In common sense, sense saves another way.\n" + " Thy life is dear; for all that life can rate\n" + " Worth name of life in thee hath estimate,\n" + " Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, all\n" + " That happiness and prime can happy call:\n" + " Thou this to hazard needs must intimate\n" + " Skill infinite or monstrous desperate.\n" + " Sweet practiser, thy physic I will try,\n" + " That ministers thine own death if I die.\n\n" + "HELENA If I break time, or flinch in property\n" + " Of what I spoke, unpitied let me die,\n" + " And well deserved: not helping, death's my fee;\n" + " But, if I help, what do you promise me?\n\n" + "KING Make thy demand.\n\n" + "HELENA But will you make it even?\n\n" + "KING Ay, by my sceptre and my hopes of heaven.\n\n" + "HELENA Then shalt thou give me with thy kingly hand\n" + " What husband in thy power I will command:\n" + " Exempted be from me the arrogance\n" + " To choose from forth the royal blood of France,\n" + " My low and humble name to propagate\n" + " With any branch or image of thy state;\n" + " But such a one, thy vassal, whom I know\n" + " Is free for me to ask, thee to bestow.\n\n" + "KING Here is my hand; the premises observed,\n" + " Thy will by my performance shall be served:\n" + " So make the choice of thy own time, for I,\n" + " Thy resolved patient, on thee still rely.\n" + " More should I question thee, and more I must,\n" + " Though more to know could not be more to trust,\n" + " From whence thou camest, how tended on: but rest\n" + " Unquestion'd welcome and undoubted blest.\n" + " Give me some help here, ho! If thou proceed\n" + " As high as word, my deed shall match thy meed.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter COUNTESS and Clown]\n\n" + "COUNTESS Come on, sir; I shall now put you to the height of\n" + " your breeding.\n\n" + "Clown I will show myself highly fed and lowly taught: I\n" + " know my business is but to the court.\n\n" + "COUNTESS To the court! why, what place make you special,\n" + " when you put off that with such contempt? But to the court!\n\n" + "Clown Truly, madam, if God have lent a man any manners, he\n" + " may easily put it off at court: he that cannot make\n" + " a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand and say nothing,\n" + " has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed\n" + " such a fellow, to say precisely, were not for the\n" + " court; but for me, I have an answer will serve all\n" + " men.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Marry, that's a bountiful answer that fits all\n" + " questions.\n\n" + "Clown It is like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks,\n" + " the pin-buttock, the quatch-buttock, the brawn\n" + " buttock, or any buttock.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Will your answer serve fit to all questions?\n\n" + "Clown As fit as ten groats is for the hand of an attorney,\n" + " as your French crown for your taffeta punk, as Tib's\n" + " rush for Tom's forefinger, as a pancake for Shrove\n" + " Tuesday, a morris for May-day, as the nail to his\n" + " hole, the cuckold to his horn, as a scolding queen\n" + " to a wrangling knave, as the nun's lip to the\n" + " friar's mouth, nay, as the pudding to his skin.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Have you, I say, an answer of such fitness for all\n" + " questions?\n\n" + "Clown From below your duke to beneath your constable, it\n" + " will fit any question.\n\n" + "COUNTESS It must be an answer of most monstrous size that\n" + " must fit all demands.\n\n" + "Clown But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned\n" + " should speak truth of it: here it is, and all that\n" + " belongs to't. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall\n" + " do you no harm to learn.\n\n" + "COUNTESS To be young again, if we could: I will be a fool in\n" + " question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I\n" + " pray you, sir, are you a courtier?\n\n" + "Clown O Lord, sir! There's a simple putting off. More,\n" + " more, a hundred of them.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Sir, I am a poor friend of yours, that loves you.\n\n" + "Clown O Lord, sir! Thick, thick, spare not me.\n\n" + "COUNTESS I think, sir, you can eat none of this homely meat.\n\n" + "Clown O Lord, sir! Nay, put me to't, I warrant you.\n\n" + "COUNTESS You were lately whipped, sir, as I think.\n\n" + "Clown O Lord, sir! spare not me.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Do you cry, 'O Lord, sir!' at your whipping, and\n" + " 'spare not me?' Indeed your 'O Lord, sir!' is very\n" + " sequent to your whipping: you would answer very well\n" + " to a whipping, if you were but bound to't.\n\n" + "Clown I ne'er had worse luck in my life in my 'O Lord,\n" + " sir!' I see things may serve long, but not serve ever.\n\n" + "COUNTESS I play the noble housewife with the time\n" + " To entertain't so merrily with a fool.\n\n" + "Clown O Lord, sir! why, there't serves well again.\n\n" + "COUNTESS An end, sir; to your business. Give Helen this,\n" + " And urge her to a present answer back:\n" + " Commend me to my kinsmen and my son:\n" + " This is not much.\n\n" + "Clown Not much commendation to them.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Not much employment for you: you understand me?\n\n" + "Clown Most fruitfully: I am there before my legs.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Haste you again.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Paris. The KING's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM, LAFEU, and PAROLLES]\n\n" + "LAFEU They say miracles are past; and we have our\n" + " philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar,\n" + " things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that\n" + " we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves\n" + " into seeming knowledge, when we should submit\n" + " ourselves to an unknown fear.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Why, 'tis the rarest argument of wonder that hath\n" + " shot out in our latter times.\n\n" + "BERTRAM And so 'tis.\n\n" + "LAFEU To be relinquish'd of the artists,--\n\n" + "PAROLLES So I say.\n\n" + "LAFEU Both of Galen and Paracelsus.\n\n" + "PAROLLES So I say.\n\n" + "LAFEU Of all the learned and authentic fellows,--\n\n" + "PAROLLES Right; so I say.\n\n" + "LAFEU That gave him out incurable,--\n\n" + "PAROLLES Why, there 'tis; so say I too.\n\n" + "LAFEU Not to be helped,--\n\n" + "PAROLLES Right; as 'twere, a man assured of a--\n\n" + "LAFEU Uncertain life, and sure death.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Just, you say well; so would I have said.\n\n" + "LAFEU I may truly say, it is a novelty to the world.\n\n" + "PAROLLES It is, indeed: if you will have it in showing, you\n" + " shall read it in--what do you call there?\n\n" + "LAFEU A showing of a heavenly effect in an earthly actor.\n\n" + "PAROLLES That's it; I would have said the very same.\n\n" + "LAFEU Why, your dolphin is not lustier: 'fore me,\n" + " I speak in respect--\n\n" + "PAROLLES Nay, 'tis strange, 'tis very strange, that is the\n" + " brief and the tedious of it; and he's of a most\n" + " facinerious spirit that will not acknowledge it to be the--\n\n" + "LAFEU Very hand of heaven.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Ay, so I say.\n\n" + "LAFEU In a most weak--\n\n" + " [pausing]\n\n" + " and debile minister, great power, great\n" + " transcendence: which should, indeed, give us a\n" + " further use to be made than alone the recovery of\n" + " the king, as to be--\n\n" + " [pausing]\n\n" + " generally thankful.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I would have said it; you say well. Here comes the king.\n\n" + " [Enter KING, HELENA, and Attendants. LAFEU and\n" + " PAROLLES retire]\n\n" + "LAFEU Lustig, as the Dutchman says: I'll like a maid the\n" + " better, whilst I have a tooth in my head: why, he's\n" + " able to lead her a coranto.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Mort du vinaigre! is not this Helen?\n\n" + "LAFEU 'Fore God, I think so.\n\n" + "KING Go, call before me all the lords in court.\n" + " Sit, my preserver, by thy patient's side;\n" + " And with this healthful hand, whose banish'd sense\n" + " Thou hast repeal'd, a second time receive\n" + " The confirmation of my promised gift,\n" + " Which but attends thy naming.\n\n" + " [Enter three or four Lords]\n\n" + " Fair maid, send forth thine eye: this youthful parcel\n" + " Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing,\n" + " O'er whom both sovereign power and father's voice\n" + " I have to use: thy frank election make;\n" + " Thou hast power to choose, and they none to forsake.\n\n" + "HELENA To each of you one fair and virtuous mistress\n" + " Fall, when Love please! marry, to each, but one!\n\n" + "LAFEU I'ld give bay Curtal and his furniture,\n" + " My mouth no more were broken than these boys',\n" + " And writ as little beard.\n\n" + "KING Peruse them well:\n" + " Not one of those but had a noble father.\n\n" + "HELENA Gentlemen,\n" + " Heaven hath through me restored the king to health.\n\n" + "All We understand it, and thank heaven for you.\n\n" + "HELENA I am a simple maid, and therein wealthiest,\n" + " That I protest I simply am a maid.\n" + " Please it your majesty, I have done already:\n" + " The blushes in my cheeks thus whisper me,\n" + " 'We blush that thou shouldst choose; but, be refused,\n" + " Let the white death sit on thy cheek for ever;\n" + " We'll ne'er come there again.'\n\n" + "KING Make choice; and, see,\n" + " Who shuns thy love shuns all his love in me.\n\n" + "HELENA Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly,\n" + " And to imperial Love, that god most high,\n" + " Do my sighs stream. Sir, will you hear my suit?\n\n" + "First Lord And grant it.\n\n" + "HELENA Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.\n\n" + "LAFEU I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace\n" + " for my life.\n\n" + "HELENA The honour, sir, that flames in your fair eyes,\n" + " Before I speak, too threateningly replies:\n" + " Love make your fortunes twenty times above\n" + " Her that so wishes and her humble love!\n\n" + "Second Lord No better, if you please.\n\n" + "HELENA My wish receive,\n" + " Which great Love grant! and so, I take my leave.\n\n" + "LAFEU Do all they deny her? An they were sons of mine,\n" + " I'd have them whipped; or I would send them to the\n" + " Turk, to make eunuchs of.\n\n" + "HELENA Be not afraid that I your hand should take;\n" + " I'll never do you wrong for your own sake:\n" + " Blessing upon your vows! and in your bed\n" + " Find fairer fortune, if you ever wed!\n\n" + "LAFEU These boys are boys of ice, they'll none have her:\n" + " sure, they are bastards to the English; the French\n" + " ne'er got 'em.\n\n" + "HELENA You are too young, too happy, and too good,\n" + " To make yourself a son out of my blood.\n\n" + "Fourth Lord Fair one, I think not so.\n\n" + "LAFEU There's one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk\n" + " wine: but if thou be'st not an ass, I am a youth\n" + " of fourteen; I have known thee already.\n\n" + "HELENA [To BERTRAM] I dare not say I take you; but I give\n" + " Me and my service, ever whilst I live,\n" + " Into your guiding power. This is the man.\n\n" + "KING Why, then, young Bertram, take her; she's thy wife.\n\n" + "BERTRAM My wife, my liege! I shall beseech your highness,\n" + " In such a business give me leave to use\n" + " The help of mine own eyes.\n\n" + "KING Know'st thou not, Bertram,\n" + " What she has done for me?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Yes, my good lord;\n" + " But never hope to know why I should marry her.\n\n" + "KING Thou know'st she has raised me from my sickly bed.\n\n" + "BERTRAM But follows it, my lord, to bring me down\n" + " Must answer for your raising? I know her well:\n" + " She had her breeding at my father's charge.\n" + " A poor physician's daughter my wife! Disdain\n" + " Rather corrupt me ever!\n\n" + "KING 'Tis only title thou disdain'st in her, the which\n" + " I can build up. Strange is it that our bloods,\n" + " Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all together,\n" + " Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off\n" + " In differences so mighty. If she be\n" + " All that is virtuous, save what thou dislikest,\n" + " A poor physician's daughter, thou dislikest\n" + " Of virtue for the name: but do not so:\n" + " From lowest place when virtuous things proceed,\n" + " The place is dignified by the doer's deed:\n" + " Where great additions swell's, and virtue none,\n" + " It is a dropsied honour. Good alone\n" + " Is good without a name. Vileness is so:\n" + " The property by what it is should go,\n" + " Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair;\n" + " In these to nature she's immediate heir,\n" + " And these breed honour: that is honour's scorn,\n" + " Which challenges itself as honour's born\n" + " And is not like the sire: honours thrive,\n" + " When rather from our acts we them derive\n" + " Than our foregoers: the mere word's a slave\n" + " Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave\n" + " A lying trophy, and as oft is dumb\n" + " Where dust and damn'd oblivion is the tomb\n" + " Of honour'd bones indeed. What should be said?\n" + " If thou canst like this creature as a maid,\n" + " I can create the rest: virtue and she\n" + " Is her own dower; honour and wealth from me.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.\n\n" + "KING Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose.\n\n" + "HELENA That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:\n" + " Let the rest go.\n\n" + "KING My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,\n" + " I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,\n" + " Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;\n" + " That dost in vile misprision shackle up\n" + " My love and her desert; that canst not dream,\n" + " We, poising us in her defective scale,\n" + " Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know,\n" + " It is in us to plant thine honour where\n" + " We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:\n" + " Obey our will, which travails in thy good:\n" + " Believe not thy disdain, but presently\n" + " Do thine own fortunes that obedient right\n" + " Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;\n" + " Or I will throw thee from my care for ever\n" + " Into the staggers and the careless lapse\n" + " Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate\n" + " Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,\n" + " Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Pardon, my gracious lord; for I submit\n" + " My fancy to your eyes: when I consider\n" + " What great creation and what dole of honour\n" + " Flies where you bid it, I find that she, which late\n" + " Was in my nobler thoughts most base, is now\n" + " The praised of the king; who, so ennobled,\n" + " Is as 'twere born so.\n\n" + "KING Take her by the hand,\n" + " And tell her she is thine: to whom I promise\n" + " A counterpoise, if not to thy estate\n" + " A balance more replete.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I take her hand.\n\n" + "KING Good fortune and the favour of the king\n" + " Smile upon this contract; whose ceremony\n" + " Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief,\n" + " And be perform'd to-night: the solemn feast\n" + " Shall more attend upon the coming space,\n" + " Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her,\n" + " Thy love's to me religious; else, does err.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but LAFEU and PAROLLES]\n\n" + "LAFEU [Advancing] Do you hear, monsieur? a word with you.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Your pleasure, sir?\n\n" + "LAFEU Your lord and master did well to make his\n" + " recantation.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Recantation! My lord! my master!\n\n" + "LAFEU Ay; is it not a language I speak?\n\n" + "PAROLLES A most harsh one, and not to be understood without\n" + " bloody succeeding. My master!\n\n" + "LAFEU Are you companion to the Count Rousillon?\n\n" + "PAROLLES To any count, to all counts, to what is man.\n\n" + "LAFEU To what is count's man: count's master is of\n" + " another style.\n\n" + "PAROLLES You are too old, sir; let it satisfy you, you are too old.\n\n" + "LAFEU I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man; to which\n" + " title age cannot bring thee.\n\n" + "PAROLLES What I dare too well do, I dare not do.\n\n" + "LAFEU I did think thee, for two ordinaries, to be a pretty\n" + " wise fellow; thou didst make tolerable vent of thy\n" + " travel; it might pass: yet the scarfs and the\n" + " bannerets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me from\n" + " believing thee a vessel of too great a burthen. I\n" + " have now found thee; when I lose thee again, I care\n" + " not: yet art thou good for nothing but taking up; and\n" + " that thou't scarce worth.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Hadst thou not the privilege of antiquity upon thee,--\n\n" + "LAFEU Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou\n" + " hasten thy trial; which if--Lord have mercy on thee\n" + " for a hen! So, my good window of lattice, fare thee\n" + " well: thy casement I need not open, for I look\n" + " through thee. Give me thy hand.\n\n" + "PAROLLES My lord, you give me most egregious indignity.\n\n" + "LAFEU Ay, with all my heart; and thou art worthy of it.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I have not, my lord, deserved it.\n\n" + "LAFEU Yes, good faith, every dram of it; and I will not\n" + " bate thee a scruple.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Well, I shall be wiser.\n\n" + "LAFEU Even as soon as thou canst, for thou hast to pull at\n" + " a smack o' the contrary. If ever thou be'st bound\n" + " in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is\n" + " to be proud of thy bondage. I have a desire to hold\n" + " my acquaintance with thee, or rather my knowledge,\n" + " that I may say in the default, he is a man I know.\n\n" + "PAROLLES My lord, you do me most insupportable vexation.\n\n" + "LAFEU I would it were hell-pains for thy sake, and my poor\n" + " doing eternal: for doing I am past: as I will by\n" + " thee, in what motion age will give me leave.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Well, thou hast a son shall take this disgrace off\n" + " me; scurvy, old, filthy, scurvy lord! Well, I must\n" + " be patient; there is no fettering of authority.\n" + " I'll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him with\n" + " any convenience, an he were double and double a\n" + " lord. I'll have no more pity of his age than I\n" + " would of--I'll beat him, an if I could but meet him again.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LAFEU]\n\n" + "LAFEU Sirrah, your lord and master's married; there's news\n" + " for you: you have a new mistress.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I most unfeignedly beseech your lordship to make\n" + " some reservation of your wrongs: he is my good\n" + " lord: whom I serve above is my master.\n\n" + "LAFEU Who? God?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Ay, sir.\n\n" + "LAFEU The devil it is that's thy master. Why dost thou\n" + " garter up thy arms o' this fashion? dost make hose of\n" + " sleeves? do other servants so? Thou wert best set\n" + " thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine\n" + " honour, if I were but two hours younger, I'ld beat\n" + " thee: methinks, thou art a general offence, and\n" + " every man should beat thee: I think thou wast\n" + " created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.\n\n" + "PAROLLES This is hard and undeserved measure, my lord.\n\n" + "LAFEU Go to, sir; you were beaten in Italy for picking a\n" + " kernel out of a pomegranate; you are a vagabond and\n" + " no true traveller: you are more saucy with lords\n" + " and honourable personages than the commission of your\n" + " birth and virtue gives you heraldry. You are not\n" + " worth another word, else I'ld call you knave. I leave you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Good, very good; it is so then: good, very good;\n" + " let it be concealed awhile.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BERTRAM]\n\n" + "BERTRAM Undone, and forfeited to cares for ever!\n\n" + "PAROLLES What's the matter, sweet-heart?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Although before the solemn priest I have sworn,\n" + " I will not bed her.\n\n" + "PAROLLES What, what, sweet-heart?\n\n" + "BERTRAM O my Parolles, they have married me!\n" + " I'll to the Tuscan wars, and never bed her.\n\n" + "PAROLLES France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits\n" + " The tread of a man's foot: to the wars!\n\n" + "BERTRAM There's letters from my mother: what the import is,\n" + " I know not yet.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Ay, that would be known. To the wars, my boy, to the wars!\n" + " He wears his honour in a box unseen,\n" + " That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home,\n" + " Spending his manly marrow in her arms,\n" + " Which should sustain the bound and high curvet\n" + " Of Mars's fiery steed. To other regions\n" + " France is a stable; we that dwell in't jades;\n" + " Therefore, to the war!\n\n" + "BERTRAM It shall be so: I'll send her to my house,\n" + " Acquaint my mother with my hate to her,\n" + " And wherefore I am fled; write to the king\n" + " That which I durst not speak; his present gift\n" + " Shall furnish me to those Italian fields,\n" + " Where noble fellows strike: war is no strife\n" + " To the dark house and the detested wife.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Will this capriccio hold in thee? art sure?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Go with me to my chamber, and advise me.\n" + " I'll send her straight away: to-morrow\n" + " I'll to the wars, she to her single sorrow.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Why, these balls bound; there's noise in it. 'Tis hard:\n" + " A young man married is a man that's marr'd:\n" + " Therefore away, and leave her bravely; go:\n" + " The king has done you wrong: but, hush, 'tis so.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Paris. The KING's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA and Clown]\n\n" + "HELENA My mother greets me kindly; is she well?\n\n" + "Clown She is not well; but yet she has her health: she's\n" + " very merry; but yet she is not well: but thanks be\n" + " given, she's very well and wants nothing i', the\n" + " world; but yet she is not well.\n\n" + "HELENA If she be very well, what does she ail, that she's\n" + " not very well?\n\n" + "Clown Truly, she's very well indeed, but for two things.\n\n" + "HELENA What two things?\n\n" + "Clown One, that she's not in heaven, whither God send her\n" + " quickly! the other that she's in earth, from whence\n" + " God send her quickly!\n\n" + " [Enter PAROLLES]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Bless you, my fortunate lady!\n\n" + "HELENA I hope, sir, I have your good will to have mine own\n" + " good fortunes.\n\n" + "PAROLLES You had my prayers to lead them on; and to keep them\n" + " on, have them still. O, my knave, how does my old lady?\n\n" + "Clown So that you had her wrinkles and I her money,\n" + " I would she did as you say.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Why, I say nothing.\n\n" + "Clown Marry, you are the wiser man; for many a man's\n" + " tongue shakes out his master's undoing: to say\n" + " nothing, to do nothing, to know nothing, and to have\n" + " nothing, is to be a great part of your title; which\n" + " is within a very little of nothing.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Away! thou'rt a knave.\n\n" + "Clown You should have said, sir, before a knave thou'rt a\n" + " knave; that's, before me thou'rt a knave: this had\n" + " been truth, sir.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Go to, thou art a witty fool; I have found thee.\n\n" + "Clown Did you find me in yourself, sir? or were you\n" + " taught to find me? The search, sir, was profitable;\n" + " and much fool may you find in you, even to the\n" + " world's pleasure and the increase of laughter.\n\n" + "PAROLLES A good knave, i' faith, and well fed.\n" + " Madam, my lord will go away to-night;\n" + " A very serious business calls on him.\n" + " The great prerogative and rite of love,\n" + " Which, as your due, time claims, he does acknowledge;\n" + " But puts it off to a compell'd restraint;\n" + " Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets,\n" + " Which they distil now in the curbed time,\n" + " To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy\n" + " And pleasure drown the brim.\n\n" + "HELENA What's his will else?\n\n" + "PAROLLES That you will take your instant leave o' the king\n" + " And make this haste as your own good proceeding,\n" + " Strengthen'd with what apology you think\n" + " May make it probable need.\n\n" + "HELENA What more commands he?\n\n" + "PAROLLES That, having this obtain'd, you presently\n" + " Attend his further pleasure.\n\n" + "HELENA In every thing I wait upon his will.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I shall report it so.\n\n" + "HELENA I pray you.\n\n" + " [Exit PAROLLES]\n\n" + " Come, sirrah.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Paris. The KING's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LAFEU and BERTRAM]\n\n" + "LAFEU But I hope your lordship thinks not him a soldier.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Yes, my lord, and of very valiant approof.\n\n" + "LAFEU You have it from his own deliverance.\n\n" + "BERTRAM And by other warranted testimony.\n\n" + "LAFEU Then my dial goes not true: I took this lark for a bunting.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I do assure you, my lord, he is very great in\n" + " knowledge and accordingly valiant.\n\n" + "LAFEU I have then sinned against his experience and\n" + " transgressed against his valour; and my state that\n" + " way is dangerous, since I cannot yet find in my\n" + " heart to repent. Here he comes: I pray you, make\n" + " us friends; I will pursue the amity.\n\n" + " [Enter PAROLLES]\n\n" + "PAROLLES [To BERTRAM] These things shall be done, sir.\n\n" + "LAFEU Pray you, sir, who's his tailor?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Sir?\n\n" + "LAFEU O, I know him well, I, sir; he, sir, 's a good\n" + " workman, a very good tailor.\n\n" + "BERTRAM [Aside to PAROLLES] Is she gone to the king?\n\n" + "PAROLLES She is.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Will she away to-night?\n\n" + "PAROLLES As you'll have her.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I have writ my letters, casketed my treasure,\n" + " Given order for our horses; and to-night,\n" + " When I should take possession of the bride,\n" + " End ere I do begin.\n\n" + "LAFEU A good traveller is something at the latter end of a\n" + " dinner; but one that lies three thirds and uses a\n" + " known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should\n" + " be once heard and thrice beaten. God save you, captain.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Is there any unkindness between my lord and you, monsieur?\n\n" + "PAROLLES I know not how I have deserved to run into my lord's\n" + " displeasure.\n\n" + "LAFEU You have made shift to run into 't, boots and spurs\n" + " and all, like him that leaped into the custard; and\n" + " out of it you'll run again, rather than suffer\n" + " question for your residence.\n\n" + "BERTRAM It may be you have mistaken him, my lord.\n\n" + "LAFEU And shall do so ever, though I took him at 's\n" + " prayers. Fare you well, my lord; and believe this\n" + " of me, there can be no kernel in this light nut; the\n" + " soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in\n" + " matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them\n" + " tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur:\n" + " I have spoken better of you than you have or will to\n" + " deserve at my hand; but we must do good against evil.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PAROLLES An idle lord. I swear.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I think so.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Why, do you not know him?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Yes, I do know him well, and common speech\n" + " Gives him a worthy pass. Here comes my clog.\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA]\n\n" + "HELENA I have, sir, as I was commanded from you,\n" + " Spoke with the king and have procured his leave\n" + " For present parting; only he desires\n" + " Some private speech with you.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I shall obey his will.\n" + " You must not marvel, Helen, at my course,\n" + " Which holds not colour with the time, nor does\n" + " The ministration and required office\n" + " On my particular. Prepared I was not\n" + " For such a business; therefore am I found\n" + " So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you\n" + " That presently you take our way for home;\n" + " And rather muse than ask why I entreat you,\n" + " For my respects are better than they seem\n" + " And my appointments have in them a need\n" + " Greater than shows itself at the first view\n" + " To you that know them not. This to my mother:\n\n" + " [Giving a letter]\n\n" + " 'Twill be two days ere I shall see you, so\n" + " I leave you to your wisdom.\n\n" + "HELENA Sir, I can nothing say,\n" + " But that I am your most obedient servant.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Come, come, no more of that.\n\n" + "HELENA And ever shall\n" + " With true observance seek to eke out that\n" + " Wherein toward me my homely stars have fail'd\n" + " To equal my great fortune.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Let that go:\n" + " My haste is very great: farewell; hie home.\n\n" + "HELENA Pray, sir, your pardon.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Well, what would you say?\n\n" + "HELENA I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,\n" + " Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is;\n" + " But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal\n" + " What law does vouch mine own.\n\n" + "BERTRAM What would you have?\n\n" + "HELENA Something; and scarce so much: nothing, indeed.\n" + " I would not tell you what I would, my lord:\n" + " Faith yes;\n" + " Strangers and foes do sunder, and not kiss.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I pray you, stay not, but in haste to horse.\n\n" + "HELENA I shall not break your bidding, good my lord.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Where are my other men, monsieur? Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit HELENA]\n\n" + " Go thou toward home; where I will never come\n" + " Whilst I can shake my sword or hear the drum.\n" + " Away, and for our flight.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Bravely, coragio!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Florence. The DUKE's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence attended;\n" + " the two Frenchmen, with a troop of soldiers.\n\n" + "DUKE So that from point to point now have you heard\n" + " The fundamental reasons of this war,\n" + " Whose great decision hath much blood let forth\n" + " And more thirsts after.\n\n" + "First Lord Holy seems the quarrel\n" + " Upon your grace's part; black and fearful\n" + " On the opposer.\n\n" + "DUKE Therefore we marvel much our cousin France\n" + " Would in so just a business shut his bosom\n" + " Against our borrowing prayers.\n\n" + "Second Lord Good my lord,\n" + " The reasons of our state I cannot yield,\n" + " But like a common and an outward man,\n" + " That the great figure of a council frames\n" + " By self-unable motion: therefore dare not\n" + " Say what I think of it, since I have found\n" + " Myself in my incertain grounds to fail\n" + " As often as I guess'd.\n\n" + "DUKE Be it his pleasure.\n\n" + "First Lord But I am sure the younger of our nature,\n" + " That surfeit on their ease, will day by day\n" + " Come here for physic.\n\n" + "DUKE Welcome shall they be;\n" + " And all the honours that can fly from us\n" + " Shall on them settle. You know your places well;\n" + " When better fall, for your avails they fell:\n" + " To-morrow to the field.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter COUNTESS and Clown]\n\n" + "COUNTESS It hath happened all as I would have had it, save\n" + " that he comes not along with her.\n\n" + "Clown By my troth, I take my young lord to be a very\n" + " melancholy man.\n\n" + "COUNTESS By what observance, I pray you?\n\n" + "Clown Why, he will look upon his boot and sing; mend the\n" + " ruff and sing; ask questions and sing; pick his\n" + " teeth and sing. I know a man that had this trick of\n" + " melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Let me see what he writes, and when he means to come.\n\n" + " [Opening a letter]\n\n" + "Clown I have no mind to Isbel since I was at court: our\n" + " old ling and our Isbels o' the country are nothing\n" + " like your old ling and your Isbels o' the court:\n" + " the brains of my Cupid's knocked out, and I begin to\n" + " love, as an old man loves money, with no stomach.\n\n" + "COUNTESS What have we here?\n\n" + "Clown E'en that you have there.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "COUNTESS [Reads] I have sent you a daughter-in-law: she hath\n" + " recovered the king, and undone me. I have wedded\n" + " her, not bedded her; and sworn to make the 'not'\n" + " eternal. You shall hear I am run away: know it\n" + " before the report come. If there be breadth enough\n" + " in the world, I will hold a long distance. My duty\n" + " to you. Your unfortunate son,\n" + " BERTRAM.\n" + " This is not well, rash and unbridled boy.\n" + " To fly the favours of so good a king;\n" + " To pluck his indignation on thy head\n" + " By the misprising of a maid too virtuous\n" + " For the contempt of empire.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Clown]\n\n" + "Clown O madam, yonder is heavy news within between two\n" + " soldiers and my young lady!\n\n" + "COUNTESS What is the matter?\n\n" + "Clown Nay, there is some comfort in the news, some\n" + " comfort; your son will not be killed so soon as I\n" + " thought he would.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Why should he be killed?\n\n" + "Clown So say I, madam, if he run away, as I hear he does:\n" + " the danger is in standing to't; that's the loss of\n" + " men, though it be the getting of children. Here\n" + " they come will tell you more: for my part, I only\n" + " hear your son was run away.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA, and two Gentlemen]\n\n" + "First Gentleman Save you, good madam.\n\n" + "HELENA Madam, my lord is gone, for ever gone.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Do not say so.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen,\n" + " I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief,\n" + " That the first face of neither, on the start,\n" + " Can woman me unto't: where is my son, I pray you?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Madam, he's gone to serve the duke of Florence:\n" + " We met him thitherward; for thence we came,\n" + " And, after some dispatch in hand at court,\n" + " Thither we bend again.\n\n" + "HELENA Look on his letter, madam; here's my passport.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " When thou canst get the ring upon my finger which\n" + " never shall come off, and show me a child begotten\n" + " of thy body that I am father to, then call me\n" + " husband: but in such a 'then' I write a 'never.'\n" + " This is a dreadful sentence.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Brought you this letter, gentlemen?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Ay, madam;\n" + " And for the contents' sake are sorry for our pain.\n\n" + "COUNTESS I prithee, lady, have a better cheer;\n" + " If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,\n" + " Thou robb'st me of a moiety: he was my son;\n" + " But I do wash his name out of my blood,\n" + " And thou art all my child. Towards Florence is he?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Ay, madam.\n\n" + "COUNTESS And to be a soldier?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,\n" + " The duke will lay upon him all the honour\n" + " That good convenience claims.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Return you thither?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Ay, madam, with the swiftest wing of speed.\n\n" + "HELENA [Reads] Till I have no wife I have nothing in France.\n" + " 'Tis bitter.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Find you that there?\n\n" + "HELENA Ay, madam.\n\n" + "First Gentleman 'Tis but the boldness of his hand, haply, which his\n" + " heart was not consenting to.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Nothing in France, until he have no wife!\n" + " There's nothing here that is too good for him\n" + " But only she; and she deserves a lord\n" + " That twenty such rude boys might tend upon\n" + " And call her hourly mistress. Who was with him?\n\n" + "First Gentleman A servant only, and a gentleman\n" + " Which I have sometime known.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Parolles, was it not?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Ay, my good lady, he.\n\n" + "COUNTESS A very tainted fellow, and full of wickedness.\n" + " My son corrupts a well-derived nature\n" + " With his inducement.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Indeed, good lady,\n" + " The fellow has a deal of that too much,\n" + " Which holds him much to have.\n\n" + "COUNTESS You're welcome, gentlemen.\n" + " I will entreat you, when you see my son,\n" + " To tell him that his sword can never win\n" + " The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you\n" + " Written to bear along.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman We serve you, madam,\n" + " In that and all your worthiest affairs.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Not so, but as we change our courtesies.\n" + " Will you draw near!\n\n" + " [Exeunt COUNTESS and Gentlemen]\n\n" + "HELENA 'Till I have no wife, I have nothing in France.'\n" + " Nothing in France, until he has no wife!\n" + " Thou shalt have none, Rousillon, none in France;\n" + " Then hast thou all again. Poor lord! is't I\n" + " That chase thee from thy country and expose\n" + " Those tender limbs of thine to the event\n" + " Of the none-sparing war? and is it I\n" + " That drive thee from the sportive court, where thou\n" + " Wast shot at with fair eyes, to be the mark\n" + " Of smoky muskets? O you leaden messengers,\n" + " That ride upon the violent speed of fire,\n" + " Fly with false aim; move the still-peering air,\n" + " That sings with piercing; do not touch my lord.\n" + " Whoever shoots at him, I set him there;\n" + " Whoever charges on his forward breast,\n" + " I am the caitiff that do hold him to't;\n" + " And, though I kill him not, I am the cause\n" + " His death was so effected: better 'twere\n" + " I met the ravin lion when he roar'd\n" + " With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere\n" + " That all the miseries which nature owes\n" + " Were mine at once. No, come thou home, Rousillon,\n" + " Whence honour but of danger wins a scar,\n" + " As oft it loses all: I will be gone;\n" + " My being here it is that holds thee hence:\n" + " Shall I stay here to do't? no, no, although\n" + " The air of paradise did fan the house\n" + " And angels officed all: I will be gone,\n" + " That pitiful rumour may report my flight,\n" + " To consolate thine ear. Come, night; end, day!\n" + " For with the dark, poor thief, I'll steal away.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Florence. Before the DUKE's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter the DUKE of Florence, BERTRAM,\n" + " PAROLLES, Soldiers, Drum, and Trumpets]\n\n" + "DUKE The general of our horse thou art; and we,\n" + " Great in our hope, lay our best love and credence\n" + " Upon thy promising fortune.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Sir, it is\n" + " A charge too heavy for my strength, but yet\n" + " We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake\n" + " To the extreme edge of hazard.\n\n" + "DUKE Then go thou forth;\n" + " And fortune play upon thy prosperous helm,\n" + " As thy auspicious mistress!\n\n" + "BERTRAM This very day,\n" + " Great Mars, I put myself into thy file:\n" + " Make me but like my thoughts, and I shall prove\n" + " A lover of thy drum, hater of love.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter COUNTESS and Steward]\n\n" + "COUNTESS Alas! and would you take the letter of her?\n" + " Might you not know she would do as she has done,\n" + " By sending me a letter? Read it again.\n\n" + "Steward [Reads]\n\n" + " I am Saint Jaques' pilgrim, thither gone:\n" + " Ambitious love hath so in me offended,\n" + " That barefoot plod I the cold ground upon,\n" + " With sainted vow my faults to have amended.\n" + " Write, write, that from the bloody course of war\n" + " My dearest master, your dear son, may hie:\n" + " Bless him at home in peace, whilst I from far\n" + " His name with zealous fervor sanctify:\n" + " His taken labours bid him me forgive;\n" + " I, his despiteful Juno, sent him forth\n" + " From courtly friends, with camping foes to live,\n" + " Where death and danger dogs the heels of worth:\n" + " He is too good and fair for death and me:\n" + " Whom I myself embrace, to set him free.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words!\n" + " Rinaldo, you did never lack advice so much,\n" + " As letting her pass so: had I spoke with her,\n" + " I could have well diverted her intents,\n" + " Which thus she hath prevented.\n\n" + "Steward Pardon me, madam:\n" + " If I had given you this at over-night,\n" + " She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes,\n" + " Pursuit would be but vain.\n\n" + "COUNTESS What angel shall\n" + " Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive,\n" + " Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear\n" + " And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath\n" + " Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rinaldo,\n" + " To this unworthy husband of his wife;\n" + " Let every word weigh heavy of her worth\n" + " That he does weigh too light: my greatest grief.\n" + " Though little he do feel it, set down sharply.\n" + " Dispatch the most convenient messenger:\n" + " When haply he shall hear that she is gone,\n" + " He will return; and hope I may that she,\n" + " Hearing so much, will speed her foot again,\n" + " Led hither by pure love: which of them both\n" + " Is dearest to me. I have no skill in sense\n" + " To make distinction: provide this messenger:\n" + " My heart is heavy and mine age is weak;\n" + " Grief would have tears, and sorrow bids me speak.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Florence. Without the walls. A tucket afar off.\n\n\n" + " [Enter an old Widow of Florence, DIANA, VIOLENTA,\n" + " and MARIANA, with other Citizens]\n\n" + "Widow Nay, come; for if they do approach the city, we\n" + " shall lose all the sight.\n\n" + "DIANA They say the French count has done most honourable service.\n\n" + "Widow It is reported that he has taken their greatest\n" + " commander; and that with his own hand he slew the\n" + " duke's brother.\n\n" + " [Tucket]\n\n" + " We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary\n" + " way: hark! you may know by their trumpets.\n\n" + "MARIANA Come, let's return again, and suffice ourselves with\n" + " the report of it. Well, Diana, take heed of this\n" + " French earl: the honour of a maid is her name; and\n" + " no legacy is so rich as honesty.\n\n" + "Widow I have told my neighbour how you have been solicited\n" + " by a gentleman his companion.\n\n" + "MARIANA I know that knave; hang him! one Parolles: a\n" + " filthy officer he is in those suggestions for the\n" + " young earl. Beware of them, Diana; their promises,\n" + " enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of\n" + " lust, are not the things they go under: many a maid\n" + " hath been seduced by them; and the misery is,\n" + " example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of\n" + " maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession,\n" + " but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten\n" + " them. I hope I need not to advise you further; but\n" + " I hope your own grace will keep you where you are,\n" + " though there were no further danger known but the\n" + " modesty which is so lost.\n\n" + "DIANA You shall not need to fear me.\n\n" + "Widow I hope so.\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA, disguised like a Pilgrim]\n\n" + " Look, here comes a pilgrim: I know she will lie at\n" + " my house; thither they send one another: I'll\n" + " question her. God save you, pilgrim! whither are you bound?\n\n" + "HELENA To Saint Jaques le Grand.\n" + " Where do the palmers lodge, I do beseech you?\n\n" + "Widow At the Saint Francis here beside the port.\n\n" + "HELENA Is this the way?\n\n" + "Widow Ay, marry, is't.\n\n" + " [A march afar]\n\n" + " Hark you! they come this way.\n" + " If you will tarry, holy pilgrim,\n" + " But till the troops come by,\n" + " I will conduct you where you shall be lodged;\n" + " The rather, for I think I know your hostess\n" + " As ample as myself.\n\n" + "HELENA Is it yourself?\n\n" + "Widow If you shall please so, pilgrim.\n\n" + "HELENA I thank you, and will stay upon your leisure.\n\n" + "Widow You came, I think, from France?\n\n" + "HELENA I did so.\n\n" + "Widow Here you shall see a countryman of yours\n" + " That has done worthy service.\n\n" + "HELENA His name, I pray you.\n\n" + "DIANA The Count Rousillon: know you such a one?\n\n" + "HELENA But by the ear, that hears most nobly of him:\n" + " His face I know not.\n\n" + "DIANA Whatsome'er he is,\n" + " He's bravely taken here. He stole from France,\n" + " As 'tis reported, for the king had married him\n" + " Against his liking: think you it is so?\n\n" + "HELENA Ay, surely, mere the truth: I know his lady.\n\n" + "DIANA There is a gentleman that serves the count\n" + " Reports but coarsely of her.\n\n" + "HELENA What's his name?\n\n" + "DIANA Monsieur Parolles.\n\n" + "HELENA O, I believe with him,\n" + " In argument of praise, or to the worth\n" + " Of the great count himself, she is too mean\n" + " To have her name repeated: all her deserving\n" + " Is a reserved honesty, and that\n" + " I have not heard examined.\n\n" + "DIANA Alas, poor lady!\n" + " 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife\n" + " Of a detesting lord.\n\n" + "Widow I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is,\n" + " Her heart weighs sadly: this young maid might do her\n" + " A shrewd turn, if she pleased.\n\n" + "HELENA How do you mean?\n" + " May be the amorous count solicits her\n" + " In the unlawful purpose.\n\n" + "Widow He does indeed;\n" + " And brokes with all that can in such a suit\n" + " Corrupt the tender honour of a maid:\n" + " But she is arm'd for him and keeps her guard\n" + " In honestest defence.\n\n" + "MARIANA The gods forbid else!\n\n" + "Widow So, now they come:\n\n" + " [Drum and Colours]\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and the whole army]\n\n" + " That is Antonio, the duke's eldest son;\n" + " That, Escalus.\n\n" + "HELENA Which is the Frenchman?\n\n" + "DIANA He;\n" + " That with the plume: 'tis a most gallant fellow.\n" + " I would he loved his wife: if he were honester\n" + " He were much goodlier: is't not a handsome gentleman?\n\n" + "HELENA I like him well.\n\n" + "DIANA 'Tis pity he is not honest: yond's that same knave\n" + " That leads him to these places: were I his lady,\n" + " I would Poison that vile rascal.\n\n" + "HELENA Which is he?\n\n" + "DIANA That jack-an-apes with scarfs: why is he melancholy?\n\n" + "HELENA Perchance he's hurt i' the battle.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Lose our drum! well.\n\n" + "MARIANA He's shrewdly vexed at something: look, he has spied us.\n\n" + "Widow Marry, hang you!\n\n" + "MARIANA And your courtesy, for a ring-carrier!\n\n" + " [Exeunt BERTRAM, PAROLLES, and army]\n\n" + "Widow The troop is past. Come, pilgrim, I will bring you\n" + " Where you shall host: of enjoin'd penitents\n" + " There's four or five, to great Saint Jaques bound,\n" + " Already at my house.\n\n" + "HELENA I humbly thank you:\n" + " Please it this matron and this gentle maid\n" + " To eat with us to-night, the charge and thanking\n" + " Shall be for me; and, to requite you further,\n" + " I will bestow some precepts of this virgin\n" + " Worthy the note.\n\n" + "BOTH We'll take your offer kindly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Camp before Florence.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM and the two French Lords]\n\n" + "Second Lord Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his\n" + " way.\n\n" + "First Lord If your lordship find him not a hilding, hold me no\n" + " more in your respect.\n\n" + "Second Lord On my life, my lord, a bubble.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Do you think I am so far deceived in him?\n\n" + "Second Lord Believe it, my lord, in mine own direct knowledge,\n" + " without any malice, but to speak of him as my\n" + " kinsman, he's a most notable coward, an infinite and\n" + " endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner\n" + " of no one good quality worthy your lordship's\n" + " entertainment.\n\n" + "First Lord It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing too far in\n" + " his virtue, which he hath not, he might at some\n" + " great and trusty business in a main danger fail you.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I would I knew in what particular action to try him.\n\n" + "First Lord None better than to let him fetch off his drum,\n" + " which you hear him so confidently undertake to do.\n\n" + "Second Lord I, with a troop of Florentines, will suddenly\n" + " surprise him; such I will have, whom I am sure he\n" + " knows not from the enemy: we will bind and hoodwink\n" + " him so, that he shall suppose no other but that he\n" + " is carried into the leaguer of the adversaries, when\n" + " we bring him to our own tents. Be but your lordship\n" + " present at his examination: if he do not, for the\n" + " promise of his life and in the highest compulsion of\n" + " base fear, offer to betray you and deliver all the\n" + " intelligence in his power against you, and that with\n" + " the divine forfeit of his soul upon oath, never\n" + " trust my judgment in any thing.\n\n" + "First Lord O, for the love of laughter, let him fetch his drum;\n" + " he says he has a stratagem for't: when your\n" + " lordship sees the bottom of his success in't, and to\n" + " what metal this counterfeit lump of ore will be\n" + " melted, if you give him not John Drum's\n" + " entertainment, your inclining cannot be removed.\n" + " Here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter PAROLLES]\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside to BERTRAM] O, for the love of laughter,\n" + " hinder not the honour of his design: let him fetch\n" + " off his drum in any hand.\n\n" + "BERTRAM How now, monsieur! this drum sticks sorely in your\n" + " disposition.\n\n" + "First Lord A pox on't, let it go; 'tis but a drum.\n\n" + "PAROLLES 'But a drum'! is't 'but a drum'? A drum so lost!\n" + " There was excellent command,--to charge in with our\n" + " horse upon our own wings, and to rend our own soldiers!\n\n" + "First Lord That was not to be blamed in the command of the\n" + " service: it was a disaster of war that Caesar\n" + " himself could not have prevented, if he had been\n" + " there to command.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Well, we cannot greatly condemn our success: some\n" + " dishonour we had in the loss of that drum; but it is\n" + " not to be recovered.\n\n" + "PAROLLES It might have been recovered.\n\n" + "BERTRAM It might; but it is not now.\n\n" + "PAROLLES It is to be recovered: but that the merit of\n" + " service is seldom attributed to the true and exact\n" + " performer, I would have that drum or another, or\n" + " 'hic jacet.'\n\n" + "BERTRAM Why, if you have a stomach, to't, monsieur: if you\n" + " think your mystery in stratagem can bring this\n" + " instrument of honour again into his native quarter,\n" + " be magnanimous in the enterprise and go on; I will\n" + " grace the attempt for a worthy exploit: if you\n" + " speed well in it, the duke shall both speak of it.\n" + " and extend to you what further becomes his\n" + " greatness, even to the utmost syllable of your\n" + " worthiness.\n\n" + "PAROLLES By the hand of a soldier, I will undertake it.\n\n" + "BERTRAM But you must not now slumber in it.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I'll about it this evening: and I will presently\n" + " pen down my dilemmas, encourage myself in my\n" + " certainty, put myself into my mortal preparation;\n" + " and by midnight look to hear further from me.\n\n" + "BERTRAM May I be bold to acquaint his grace you are gone about it?\n\n" + "PAROLLES I know not what the success will be, my lord; but\n" + " the attempt I vow.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I know thou'rt valiant; and, to the possibility of\n" + " thy soldiership, will subscribe for thee. Farewell.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I love not many words.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Second Lord No more than a fish loves water. Is not this a\n" + " strange fellow, my lord, that so confidently seems\n" + " to undertake this business, which he knows is not to\n" + " be done; damns himself to do and dares better be\n" + " damned than to do't?\n\n" + "First Lord You do not know him, my lord, as we do: certain it\n" + " is that he will steal himself into a man's favour and\n" + " for a week escape a great deal of discoveries; but\n" + " when you find him out, you have him ever after.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Why, do you think he will make no deed at all of\n" + " this that so seriously he does address himself unto?\n\n" + "Second Lord None in the world; but return with an invention and\n" + " clap upon you two or three probable lies: but we\n" + " have almost embossed him; you shall see his fall\n" + " to-night; for indeed he is not for your lordship's respect.\n\n" + "First Lord We'll make you some sport with the fox ere we case\n" + " him. He was first smoked by the old lord Lafeu:\n" + " when his disguise and he is parted, tell me what a\n" + " sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this\n" + " very night.\n\n" + "Second Lord I must go look my twigs: he shall be caught.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Your brother he shall go along with me.\n\n" + "Second Lord As't please your lordship: I'll leave you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BERTRAM Now will I lead you to the house, and show you\n" + " The lass I spoke of.\n\n" + "First Lord But you say she's honest.\n\n" + "BERTRAM That's all the fault: I spoke with her but once\n" + " And found her wondrous cold; but I sent to her,\n" + " By this same coxcomb that we have i' the wind,\n" + " Tokens and letters which she did re-send;\n" + " And this is all I have done. She's a fair creature:\n" + " Will you go see her?\n\n" + "First Lord With all my heart, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Florence. The Widow's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA and Widow]\n\n" + "HELENA If you misdoubt me that I am not she,\n" + " I know not how I shall assure you further,\n" + " But I shall lose the grounds I work upon.\n\n" + "Widow Though my estate be fallen, I was well born,\n" + " Nothing acquainted with these businesses;\n" + " And would not put my reputation now\n" + " In any staining act.\n\n" + "HELENA Nor would I wish you.\n" + " First, give me trust, the count he is my husband,\n" + " And what to your sworn counsel I have spoken\n" + " Is so from word to word; and then you cannot,\n" + " By the good aid that I of you shall borrow,\n" + " Err in bestowing it.\n\n" + "Widow I should believe you:\n" + " For you have show'd me that which well approves\n" + " You're great in fortune.\n\n" + "HELENA Take this purse of gold,\n" + " And let me buy your friendly help thus far,\n" + " Which I will over-pay and pay again\n" + " When I have found it. The count he wooes your daughter,\n" + " Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty,\n" + " Resolved to carry her: let her in fine consent,\n" + " As we'll direct her how 'tis best to bear it.\n" + " Now his important blood will nought deny\n" + " That she'll demand: a ring the county wears,\n" + " That downward hath succeeded in his house\n" + " From son to son, some four or five descents\n" + " Since the first father wore it: this ring he holds\n" + " In most rich choice; yet in his idle fire,\n" + " To buy his will, it would not seem too dear,\n" + " Howe'er repented after.\n\n" + "Widow Now I see\n" + " The bottom of your purpose.\n\n" + "HELENA You see it lawful, then: it is no more,\n" + " But that your daughter, ere she seems as won,\n" + " Desires this ring; appoints him an encounter;\n" + " In fine, delivers me to fill the time,\n" + " Herself most chastely absent: after this,\n" + " To marry her, I'll add three thousand crowns\n" + " To what is passed already.\n\n" + "Widow I have yielded:\n" + " Instruct my daughter how she shall persever,\n" + " That time and place with this deceit so lawful\n" + " May prove coherent. Every night he comes\n" + " With musics of all sorts and songs composed\n" + " To her unworthiness: it nothing steads us\n" + " To chide him from our eaves; for he persists\n" + " As if his life lay on't.\n\n" + "HELENA Why then to-night\n" + " Let us assay our plot; which, if it speed,\n" + " Is wicked meaning in a lawful deed\n" + " And lawful meaning in a lawful act,\n" + " Where both not sin, and yet a sinful fact:\n" + " But let's about it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Without the Florentine camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Second French Lord, with five or six other\n" + " Soldiers in ambush]\n\n" + "Second Lord He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner.\n" + " When you sally upon him, speak what terrible\n" + " language you will: though you understand it not\n" + " yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to\n" + " understand him, unless some one among us whom we\n" + " must produce for an interpreter.\n\n" + "First Soldier Good captain, let me be the interpreter.\n\n" + "Second Lord Art not acquainted with him? knows he not thy voice?\n\n" + "First Soldier No, sir, I warrant you.\n\n" + "Second Lord But what linsey-woolsey hast thou to speak to us again?\n\n" + "First Soldier E'en such as you speak to me.\n\n" + "Second Lord He must think us some band of strangers i' the\n" + " adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of\n" + " all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every\n" + " one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we\n" + " speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to\n" + " know straight our purpose: choughs' language,\n" + " gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,\n" + " interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch,\n" + " ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,\n" + " and then to return and swear the lies he forges.\n\n" + " [Enter PAROLLES]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Ten o'clock: within these three hours 'twill be\n" + " time enough to go home. What shall I say I have\n" + " done? It must be a very plausive invention that\n" + " carries it: they begin to smoke me; and disgraces\n" + " have of late knocked too often at my door. I find\n" + " my tongue is too foolhardy; but my heart hath the\n" + " fear of Mars before it and of his creatures, not\n" + " daring the reports of my tongue.\n\n" + "Second Lord This is the first truth that e'er thine own tongue\n" + " was guilty of.\n\n" + "PAROLLES What the devil should move me to undertake the\n" + " recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the\n" + " impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I\n" + " must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in\n" + " exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they\n" + " will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great\n" + " ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the\n" + " instance? Tongue, I must put you into a\n" + " butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of\n" + " Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.\n\n" + "Second Lord Is it possible he should know what he is, and be\n" + " that he is?\n\n" + "PAROLLES I would the cutting of my garments would serve the\n" + " turn, or the breaking of my Spanish sword.\n\n" + "Second Lord We cannot afford you so.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Or the baring of my beard; and to say it was in\n" + " stratagem.\n\n" + "Second Lord 'Twould not do.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Or to drown my clothes, and say I was stripped.\n\n" + "Second Lord Hardly serve.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Though I swore I leaped from the window of the citadel.\n\n" + "Second Lord How deep?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Thirty fathom.\n\n" + "Second Lord Three great oaths would scarce make that be believed.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I would I had any drum of the enemy's: I would swear\n" + " I recovered it.\n\n" + "Second Lord You shall hear one anon.\n\n" + "PAROLLES A drum now of the enemy's,--\n\n" + " [Alarum within]\n\n" + "Second Lord Throca movousus, cargo, cargo, cargo.\n\n" + "All Cargo, cargo, cargo, villiando par corbo, cargo.\n\n" + "PAROLLES O, ransom, ransom! do not hide mine eyes.\n\n" + " [They seize and blindfold him]\n\n" + "First Soldier Boskos thromuldo boskos.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I know you are the Muskos' regiment:\n" + " And I shall lose my life for want of language;\n" + " If there be here German, or Dane, low Dutch,\n" + " Italian, or French, let him speak to me; I'll\n" + " Discover that which shall undo the Florentine.\n\n" + "First Soldier Boskos vauvado: I understand thee, and can speak\n" + " thy tongue. Kerely bonto, sir, betake thee to thy\n" + " faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom.\n\n" + "PAROLLES O!\n\n" + "First Soldier O, pray, pray, pray! Manka revania dulche.\n\n" + "Second Lord Oscorbidulchos volivorco.\n\n" + "First Soldier The general is content to spare thee yet;\n" + " And, hoodwink'd as thou art, will lead thee on\n" + " To gather from thee: haply thou mayst inform\n" + " Something to save thy life.\n\n" + "PAROLLES O, let me live!\n" + " And all the secrets of our camp I'll show,\n" + " Their force, their purposes; nay, I'll speak that\n" + " Which you will wonder at.\n\n" + "First Soldier But wilt thou faithfully?\n\n" + "PAROLLES If I do not, damn me.\n\n" + "First Soldier Acordo linta.\n" + " Come on; thou art granted space.\n\n" + " [Exit, with PAROLLES guarded. A short alarum within]\n\n" + "Second Lord Go, tell the Count Rousillon, and my brother,\n" + " We have caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled\n" + " Till we do hear from them.\n\n" + "Second Soldier Captain, I will.\n\n" + "Second Lord A' will betray us all unto ourselves:\n" + " Inform on that.\n\n" + "Second Soldier So I will, sir.\n\n" + "Second Lord Till then I'll keep him dark and safely lock'd.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Florence. The Widow's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM and DIANA]\n\n" + "BERTRAM They told me that your name was Fontibell.\n\n" + "DIANA No, my good lord, Diana.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Titled goddess;\n" + " And worth it, with addition! But, fair soul,\n" + " In your fine frame hath love no quality?\n" + " If quick fire of youth light not your mind,\n" + " You are no maiden, but a monument:\n" + " When you are dead, you should be such a one\n" + " As you are now, for you are cold and stem;\n" + " And now you should be as your mother was\n" + " When your sweet self was got.\n\n" + "DIANA She then was honest.\n\n" + "BERTRAM So should you be.\n\n" + "DIANA No:\n" + " My mother did but duty; such, my lord,\n" + " As you owe to your wife.\n\n" + "BERTRAM No more o' that;\n" + " I prithee, do not strive against my vows:\n" + " I was compell'd to her; but I love thee\n" + " By love's own sweet constraint, and will for ever\n" + " Do thee all rights of service.\n\n" + "DIANA Ay, so you serve us\n" + " Till we serve you; but when you have our roses,\n" + " You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves\n" + " And mock us with our bareness.\n\n" + "BERTRAM How have I sworn!\n\n" + "DIANA 'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,\n" + " But the plain single vow that is vow'd true.\n" + " What is not holy, that we swear not by,\n" + " But take the High'st to witness: then, pray you, tell me,\n" + " If I should swear by God's great attributes,\n" + " I loved you dearly, would you believe my oaths,\n" + " When I did love you ill? This has no holding,\n" + " To swear by him whom I protest to love,\n" + " That I will work against him: therefore your oaths\n" + " Are words and poor conditions, but unseal'd,\n" + " At least in my opinion.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Change it, change it;\n" + " Be not so holy-cruel: love is holy;\n" + " And my integrity ne'er knew the crafts\n" + " That you do charge men with. Stand no more off,\n" + " But give thyself unto my sick desires,\n" + " Who then recover: say thou art mine, and ever\n" + " My love as it begins shall so persever.\n\n" + "DIANA I see that men make ropes in such a scarre\n" + " That we'll forsake ourselves. Give me that ring.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I'll lend it thee, my dear; but have no power\n" + " To give it from me.\n\n" + "DIANA Will you not, my lord?\n\n" + "BERTRAM It is an honour 'longing to our house,\n" + " Bequeathed down from many ancestors;\n" + " Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world\n" + " In me to lose.\n\n" + "DIANA Mine honour's such a ring:\n" + " My chastity's the jewel of our house,\n" + " Bequeathed down from many ancestors;\n" + " Which were the greatest obloquy i' the world\n" + " In me to lose: thus your own proper wisdom\n" + " Brings in the champion Honour on my part,\n" + " Against your vain assault.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Here, take my ring:\n" + " My house, mine honour, yea, my life, be thine,\n" + " And I'll be bid by thee.\n\n" + "DIANA When midnight comes, knock at my chamber-window:\n" + " I'll order take my mother shall not hear.\n" + " Now will I charge you in the band of truth,\n" + " When you have conquer'd my yet maiden bed,\n" + " Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me:\n" + " My reasons are most strong; and you shall know them\n" + " When back again this ring shall be deliver'd:\n" + " And on your finger in the night I'll put\n" + " Another ring, that what in time proceeds\n" + " May token to the future our past deeds.\n" + " Adieu, till then; then, fail not. You have won\n" + " A wife of me, though there my hope be done.\n\n" + "BERTRAM A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DIANA For which live long to thank both heaven and me!\n" + " You may so in the end.\n" + " My mother told me just how he would woo,\n" + " As if she sat in 's heart; she says all men\n" + " Have the like oaths: he had sworn to marry me\n" + " When his wife's dead; therefore I'll lie with him\n" + " When I am buried. Since Frenchmen are so braid,\n" + " Marry that will, I live and die a maid:\n" + " Only in this disguise I think't no sin\n" + " To cozen him that would unjustly win.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The Florentine camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the two French Lords and some two or three Soldiers]\n\n" + "First Lord You have not given him his mother's letter?\n\n" + "Second Lord I have delivered it an hour since: there is\n" + " something in't that stings his nature; for on the\n" + " reading it he changed almost into another man.\n\n" + "First Lord He has much worthy blame laid upon him for shaking\n" + " off so good a wife and so sweet a lady.\n\n" + "Second Lord Especially he hath incurred the everlasting\n" + " displeasure of the king, who had even tuned his\n" + " bounty to sing happiness to him. I will tell you a\n" + " thing, but you shall let it dwell darkly with you.\n\n" + "First Lord When you have spoken it, 'tis dead, and I am the\n" + " grave of it.\n\n" + "Second Lord He hath perverted a young gentlewoman here in\n" + " Florence, of a most chaste renown; and this night he\n" + " fleshes his will in the spoil of her honour: he hath\n" + " given her his monumental ring, and thinks himself\n" + " made in the unchaste composition.\n\n" + "First Lord Now, God delay our rebellion! as we are ourselves,\n" + " what things are we!\n\n" + "Second Lord Merely our own traitors. And as in the common course\n" + " of all treasons, we still see them reveal\n" + " themselves, till they attain to their abhorred ends,\n" + " so he that in this action contrives against his own\n" + " nobility, in his proper stream o'erflows himself.\n\n" + "First Lord Is it not meant damnable in us, to be trumpeters of\n" + " our unlawful intents? We shall not then have his\n" + " company to-night?\n\n" + "Second Lord Not till after midnight; for he is dieted to his hour.\n\n" + "First Lord That approaches apace; I would gladly have him see\n" + " his company anatomized, that he might take a measure\n" + " of his own judgments, wherein so curiously he had\n" + " set this counterfeit.\n\n" + "Second Lord We will not meddle with him till he come; for his\n" + " presence must be the whip of the other.\n\n" + "First Lord In the mean time, what hear you of these wars?\n\n" + "Second Lord I hear there is an overture of peace.\n\n" + "First Lord Nay, I assure you, a peace concluded.\n\n" + "Second Lord What will Count Rousillon do then? will he travel\n" + " higher, or return again into France?\n\n" + "First Lord I perceive, by this demand, you are not altogether\n" + " of his council.\n\n" + "Second Lord Let it be forbid, sir; so should I be a great deal\n" + " of his act.\n\n" + "First Lord Sir, his wife some two months since fled from his\n" + " house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques\n" + " le Grand; which holy undertaking with most austere\n" + " sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing the\n" + " tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her\n" + " grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and\n" + " now she sings in heaven.\n\n" + "Second Lord How is this justified?\n\n" + "First Lord The stronger part of it by her own letters, which\n" + " makes her story true, even to the point of her\n" + " death: her death itself, which could not be her\n" + " office to say is come, was faithfully confirmed by\n" + " the rector of the place.\n\n" + "Second Lord Hath the count all this intelligence?\n\n" + "First Lord Ay, and the particular confirmations, point from\n" + " point, so to the full arming of the verity.\n\n" + "Second Lord I am heartily sorry that he'll be glad of this.\n\n" + "First Lord How mightily sometimes we make us comforts of our losses!\n\n" + "Second Lord And how mightily some other times we drown our gain\n" + " in tears! The great dignity that his valour hath\n" + " here acquired for him shall at home be encountered\n" + " with a shame as ample.\n\n" + "First Lord The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and\n" + " ill together: our virtues would be proud, if our\n" + " faults whipped them not; and our crimes would\n" + " despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " How now! where's your master?\n\n" + "Servant He met the duke in the street, sir, of whom he hath\n" + " taken a solemn leave: his lordship will next\n" + " morning for France. The duke hath offered him\n" + " letters of commendations to the king.\n\n" + "Second Lord They shall be no more than needful there, if they\n" + " were more than they can commend.\n\n" + "First Lord They cannot be too sweet for the king's tartness.\n" + " Here's his lordship now.\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM]\n\n" + " How now, my lord! is't not after midnight?\n\n" + "BERTRAM I have to-night dispatched sixteen businesses, a\n" + " month's length a-piece, by an abstract of success:\n" + " I have congied with the duke, done my adieu with his\n" + " nearest; buried a wife, mourned for her; writ to my\n" + " lady mother I am returning; entertained my convoy;\n" + " and between these main parcels of dispatch effected\n" + " many nicer needs; the last was the greatest, but\n" + " that I have not ended yet.\n\n" + "Second Lord If the business be of any difficulty, and this\n" + " morning your departure hence, it requires haste of\n" + " your lordship.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I mean, the business is not ended, as fearing to\n" + " hear of it hereafter. But shall we have this\n" + " dialogue between the fool and the soldier? Come,\n" + " bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived\n" + " me, like a double-meaning prophesier.\n\n" + "Second Lord Bring him forth: has sat i' the stocks all night,\n" + " poor gallant knave.\n\n" + "BERTRAM No matter: his heels have deserved it, in usurping\n" + " his spurs so long. How does he carry himself?\n\n" + "Second Lord I have told your lordship already, the stocks carry\n" + " him. But to answer you as you would be understood;\n" + " he weeps like a wench that had shed her milk: he\n" + " hath confessed himself to Morgan, whom he supposes\n" + " to be a friar, from the time of his remembrance to\n" + " this very instant disaster of his setting i' the\n" + " stocks: and what think you he hath confessed?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Nothing of me, has a'?\n\n" + "Second Lord His confession is taken, and it shall be read to his\n" + " face: if your lordship be in't, as I believe you\n" + " are, you must have the patience to hear it.\n\n" + " [Enter PAROLLES guarded, and First Soldier]\n\n" + "BERTRAM A plague upon him! muffled! he can say nothing of\n" + " me: hush, hush!\n\n" + "First Lord Hoodman comes! Portotartarosa\n\n" + "First Soldier He calls for the tortures: what will you say\n" + " without 'em?\n\n" + "PAROLLES I will confess what I know without constraint: if\n" + " ye pinch me like a pasty, I can say no more.\n\n" + "First Soldier Bosko chimurcho.\n\n" + "First Lord Boblibindo chicurmurco.\n\n" + "First Soldier You are a merciful general. Our general bids you\n" + " answer to what I shall ask you out of a note.\n\n" + "PAROLLES And truly, as I hope to live.\n\n" + "First Soldier [Reads] 'First demand of him how many horse the\n" + " duke is strong.' What say you to that?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Five or six thousand; but very weak and\n" + " unserviceable: the troops are all scattered, and\n" + " the commanders very poor rogues, upon my reputation\n" + " and credit and as I hope to live.\n\n" + "First Soldier Shall I set down your answer so?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Do: I'll take the sacrament on't, how and which way you will.\n\n" + "BERTRAM All's one to him. What a past-saving slave is this!\n\n" + "First Lord You're deceived, my lord: this is Monsieur\n" + " Parolles, the gallant militarist,--that was his own\n" + " phrase,--that had the whole theoric of war in the\n" + " knot of his scarf, and the practise in the chape of\n" + " his dagger.\n\n" + "Second Lord I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword\n" + " clean. nor believe he can have every thing in him\n" + " by wearing his apparel neatly.\n\n" + "First Soldier Well, that's set down.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Five or six thousand horse, I said,-- I will say\n" + " true,--or thereabouts, set down, for I'll speak truth.\n\n" + "First Lord He's very near the truth in this.\n\n" + "BERTRAM But I con him no thanks for't, in the nature he\n" + " delivers it.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Poor rogues, I pray you, say.\n\n" + "First Soldier Well, that's set down.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I humbly thank you, sir: a truth's a truth, the\n" + " rogues are marvellous poor.\n\n" + "First Soldier [Reads] 'Demand of him, of what strength they are\n" + " a-foot.' What say you to that?\n\n" + "PAROLLES By my troth, sir, if I were to live this present\n" + " hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a\n" + " hundred and fifty; Sebastian, so many; Corambus, so\n" + " many; Jaques, so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick,\n" + " and Gratii, two hundred and fifty each; mine own\n" + " company, Chitopher, Vaumond, Bentii, two hundred and\n" + " fifty each: so that the muster-file, rotten and\n" + " sound, upon my life, amounts not to fifteen thousand\n" + " poll; half of the which dare not shake snow from off\n" + " their cassocks, lest they shake themselves to pieces.\n\n" + "BERTRAM What shall be done to him?\n\n" + "First Lord Nothing, but let him have thanks. Demand of him my\n" + " condition, and what credit I have with the duke.\n\n" + "First Soldier Well, that's set down.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumain\n" + " be i' the camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is\n" + " with the duke; what his valour, honesty, and\n" + " expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not\n" + " possible, with well-weighing sums of gold, to\n" + " corrupt him to revolt.' What say you to this? what\n" + " do you know of it?\n\n" + "PAROLLES I beseech you, let me answer to the particular of\n" + " the inter'gatories: demand them singly.\n\n" + "First Soldier Do you know this Captain Dumain?\n\n" + "PAROLLES I know him: a' was a botcher's 'prentice in Paris,\n" + " from whence he was whipped for getting the shrieve's\n" + " fool with child,--a dumb innocent, that could not\n" + " say him nay.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Nay, by your leave, hold your hands; though I know\n" + " his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls.\n\n" + "First Soldier Well, is this captain in the duke of Florence's camp?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Upon my knowledge, he is, and lousy.\n\n" + "First Lord Nay look not so upon me; we shall hear of your\n" + " lordship anon.\n\n" + "First Soldier What is his reputation with the duke?\n\n" + "PAROLLES The duke knows him for no other but a poor officer\n" + " of mine; and writ to me this other day to turn him\n" + " out o' the band: I think I have his letter in my pocket.\n\n" + "First Soldier Marry, we'll search.\n\n" + "PAROLLES In good sadness, I do not know; either it is there,\n" + " or it is upon a file with the duke's other letters\n" + " in my tent.\n\n" + "First Soldier Here 'tis; here's a paper: shall I read it to you?\n\n" + "PAROLLES I do not know if it be it or no.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Our interpreter does it well.\n\n" + "First Lord Excellently.\n\n" + "First Soldier [Reads] 'Dian, the count's a fool, and full of gold,'--\n\n" + "PAROLLES That is not the duke's letter, sir; that is an\n" + " advertisement to a proper maid in Florence, one\n" + " Diana, to take heed of the allurement of one Count\n" + " Rousillon, a foolish idle boy, but for all that very\n" + " ruttish: I pray you, sir, put it up again.\n\n" + "First Soldier Nay, I'll read it first, by your favour.\n\n" + "PAROLLES My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the\n" + " behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be\n" + " a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to\n" + " virginity and devours up all the fry it finds.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Damnable both-sides rogue!\n\n" + "First Soldier [Reads] 'When he swears oaths, bid him drop gold, and take it;\n" + " After he scores, he never pays the score:\n" + " Half won is match well made; match, and well make it;\n" + " He ne'er pays after-debts, take it before;\n" + " And say a soldier, Dian, told thee this,\n" + " Men are to mell with, boys are not to kiss:\n" + " For count of this, the count's a fool, I know it,\n" + " Who pays before, but not when he does owe it.\n" + " Thine, as he vowed to thee in thine ear,\n" + " PAROLLES.'\n\n" + "BERTRAM He shall be whipped through the army with this rhyme\n" + " in's forehead.\n\n" + "Second Lord This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold\n" + " linguist and the armipotent soldier.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I could endure any thing before but a cat, and now\n" + " he's a cat to me.\n\n" + "First Soldier I perceive, sir, by the general's looks, we shall be\n" + " fain to hang you.\n\n" + "PAROLLES My life, sir, in any case: not that I am afraid to\n" + " die; but that, my offences being many, I would\n" + " repent out the remainder of nature: let me live,\n" + " sir, in a dungeon, i' the stocks, or any where, so I may live.\n\n" + "First Soldier We'll see what may be done, so you confess freely;\n" + " therefore, once more to this Captain Dumain: you\n" + " have answered to his reputation with the duke and to\n" + " his valour: what is his honesty?\n\n" + "PAROLLES He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister: for\n" + " rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus: he\n" + " professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking 'em he\n" + " is stronger than Hercules: he will lie, sir, with\n" + " such volubility, that you would think truth were a\n" + " fool: drunkenness is his best virtue, for he will\n" + " be swine-drunk; and in his sleep he does little\n" + " harm, save to his bed-clothes about him; but they\n" + " know his conditions and lay him in straw. I have but\n" + " little more to say, sir, of his honesty: he has\n" + " every thing that an honest man should not have; what\n" + " an honest man should have, he has nothing.\n\n" + "First Lord I begin to love him for this.\n\n" + "BERTRAM For this description of thine honesty? A pox upon\n" + " him for me, he's more and more a cat.\n\n" + "First Soldier What say you to his expertness in war?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Faith, sir, he has led the drum before the English\n" + " tragedians; to belie him, I will not, and more of\n" + " his soldiership I know not; except, in that country\n" + " he had the honour to be the officer at a place there\n" + " called Mile-end, to instruct for the doubling of\n" + " files: I would do the man what honour I can, but of\n" + " this I am not certain.\n\n" + "First Lord He hath out-villained villany so far, that the\n" + " rarity redeems him.\n\n" + "BERTRAM A pox on him, he's a cat still.\n\n" + "First Soldier His qualities being at this poor price, I need not\n" + " to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Sir, for a quart d'ecu he will sell the fee-simple\n" + " of his salvation, the inheritance of it; and cut the\n" + " entail from all remainders, and a perpetual\n" + " succession for it perpetually.\n\n" + "First Soldier What's his brother, the other Captain Dumain?\n\n" + "Second Lord Why does be ask him of me?\n\n" + "First Soldier What's he?\n\n" + "PAROLLES E'en a crow o' the same nest; not altogether so\n" + " great as the first in goodness, but greater a great\n" + " deal in evil: he excels his brother for a coward,\n" + " yet his brother is reputed one of the best that is:\n" + " in a retreat he outruns any lackey; marry, in coming\n" + " on he has the cramp.\n\n" + "First Soldier If your life be saved, will you undertake to betray\n" + " the Florentine?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Ay, and the captain of his horse, Count Rousillon.\n\n" + "First Soldier I'll whisper with the general, and know his pleasure.\n\n" + "PAROLLES [Aside] I'll no more drumming; a plague of all\n" + " drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to\n" + " beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy\n" + " the count, have I run into this danger. Yet who\n" + " would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?\n\n" + "First Soldier There is no remedy, sir, but you must die: the\n" + " general says, you that have so traitorously\n" + " discovered the secrets of your army and made such\n" + " pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can\n" + " serve the world for no honest use; therefore you\n" + " must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.\n\n" + "PAROLLES O Lord, sir, let me live, or let me see my death!\n\n" + "First Lord That shall you, and take your leave of all your friends.\n\n" + " [Unblinding him]\n\n" + " So, look about you: know you any here?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Good morrow, noble captain.\n\n" + "Second Lord God bless you, Captain Parolles.\n\n" + "First Lord God save you, noble captain.\n\n" + "Second Lord Captain, what greeting will you to my Lord Lafeu?\n" + " I am for France.\n\n" + "First Lord Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet\n" + " you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Rousillon?\n" + " an I were not a very coward, I'ld compel it of you:\n" + " but fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BERTRAM and Lords]\n\n" + "First Soldier You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that\n" + " has a knot on't yet\n\n" + "PAROLLES Who cannot be crushed with a plot?\n\n" + "First Soldier If you could find out a country where but women were\n" + " that had received so much shame, you might begin an\n" + " impudent nation. Fare ye well, sir; I am for France\n" + " too: we shall speak of you there.\n\n" + " [Exit with Soldiers]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Yet am I thankful: if my heart were great,\n" + " 'Twould burst at this. Captain I'll be no more;\n" + " But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft\n" + " As captain shall: simply the thing I am\n" + " Shall make me live. Who knows himself a braggart,\n" + " Let him fear this, for it will come to pass\n" + " that every braggart shall be found an ass.\n" + " Rust, sword? cool, blushes! and, Parolles, live\n" + " Safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!\n" + " There's place and means for every man alive.\n" + " I'll after them.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Florence. The Widow's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA]\n\n" + "HELENA That you may well perceive I have not wrong'd you,\n" + " One of the greatest in the Christian world\n" + " Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful,\n" + " Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel:\n" + " Time was, I did him a desired office,\n" + " Dear almost as his life; which gratitude\n" + " Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth,\n" + " And answer, thanks: I duly am inform'd\n" + " His grace is at Marseilles; to which place\n" + " We have convenient convoy. You must know\n" + " I am supposed dead: the army breaking,\n" + " My husband hies him home; where, heaven aiding,\n" + " And by the leave of my good lord the king,\n" + " We'll be before our welcome.\n\n" + "Widow Gentle madam,\n" + " You never had a servant to whose trust\n" + " Your business was more welcome.\n\n" + "HELENA Nor you, mistress,\n" + " Ever a friend whose thoughts more truly labour\n" + " To recompense your love: doubt not but heaven\n" + " Hath brought me up to be your daughter's dower,\n" + " As it hath fated her to be my motive\n" + " And helper to a husband. But, O strange men!\n" + " That can such sweet use make of what they hate,\n" + " When saucy trusting of the cozen'd thoughts\n" + " Defiles the pitchy night: so lust doth play\n" + " With what it loathes for that which is away.\n" + " But more of this hereafter. You, Diana,\n" + " Under my poor instructions yet must suffer\n" + " Something in my behalf.\n\n" + "DIANA Let death and honesty\n" + " Go with your impositions, I am yours\n" + " Upon your will to suffer.\n\n" + "HELENA Yet, I pray you:\n" + " But with the word the time will bring on summer,\n" + " When briers shall have leaves as well as thorns,\n" + " And be as sweet as sharp. We must away;\n" + " Our wagon is prepared, and time revives us:\n" + " All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown;\n" + " Whate'er the course, the end is the renown.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter COUNTESS, LAFEU, and Clown]\n\n" + "LAFEU No, no, no, your son was misled with a snipt-taffeta\n" + " fellow there, whose villanous saffron would have\n" + " made all the unbaked and doughy youth of a nation in\n" + " his colour: your daughter-in-law had been alive at\n" + " this hour, and your son here at home, more advanced\n" + " by the king than by that red-tailed humble-bee I speak of.\n\n" + "COUNTESS I would I had not known him; it was the death of the\n" + " most virtuous gentlewoman that ever nature had\n" + " praise for creating. If she had partaken of my\n" + " flesh, and cost me the dearest groans of a mother, I\n" + " could not have owed her a more rooted love.\n\n" + "LAFEU 'Twas a good lady, 'twas a good lady: we may pick a\n" + " thousand salads ere we light on such another herb.\n\n" + "Clown Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the\n" + " salad, or rather, the herb of grace.\n\n" + "LAFEU They are not herbs, you knave; they are nose-herbs.\n\n" + "Clown I am no great Nebuchadnezzar, sir; I have not much\n" + " skill in grass.\n\n" + "LAFEU Whether dost thou profess thyself, a knave or a fool?\n\n" + "Clown A fool, sir, at a woman's service, and a knave at a man's.\n\n" + "LAFEU Your distinction?\n\n" + "Clown I would cozen the man of his wife and do his service.\n\n" + "LAFEU So you were a knave at his service, indeed.\n\n" + "Clown And I would give his wife my bauble, sir, to do her service.\n\n" + "LAFEU I will subscribe for thee, thou art both knave and fool.\n\n" + "Clown At your service.\n\n" + "LAFEU No, no, no.\n\n" + "Clown Why, sir, if I cannot serve you, I can serve as\n" + " great a prince as you are.\n\n" + "LAFEU Who's that? a Frenchman?\n\n" + "Clown Faith, sir, a' has an English name; but his fisnomy\n" + " is more hotter in France than there.\n\n" + "LAFEU What prince is that?\n\n" + "Clown The black prince, sir; alias, the prince of\n" + " darkness; alias, the devil.\n\n" + "LAFEU Hold thee, there's my purse: I give thee not this\n" + " to suggest thee from thy master thou talkest of;\n" + " serve him still.\n\n" + "Clown I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a\n" + " great fire; and the master I speak of ever keeps a\n" + " good fire. But, sure, he is the prince of the\n" + " world; let his nobility remain in's court. I am for\n" + " the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be\n" + " too little for pomp to enter: some that humble\n" + " themselves may; but the many will be too chill and\n" + " tender, and they'll be for the flowery way that\n" + " leads to the broad gate and the great fire.\n\n" + "LAFEU Go thy ways, I begin to be aweary of thee; and I\n" + " tell thee so before, because I would not fall out\n" + " with thee. Go thy ways: let my horses be well\n" + " looked to, without any tricks.\n\n" + "Clown If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be\n" + " jades' tricks; which are their own right by the law of nature.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LAFEU A shrewd knave and an unhappy.\n\n" + "COUNTESS So he is. My lord that's gone made himself much\n" + " sport out of him: by his authority he remains here,\n" + " which he thinks is a patent for his sauciness; and,\n" + " indeed, he has no pace, but runs where he will.\n\n" + "LAFEU I like him well; 'tis not amiss. And I was about to\n" + " tell you, since I heard of the good lady's death and\n" + " that my lord your son was upon his return home, I\n" + " moved the king my master to speak in the behalf of\n" + " my daughter; which, in the minority of them both,\n" + " his majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did\n" + " first propose: his highness hath promised me to do\n" + " it: and, to stop up the displeasure he hath\n" + " conceived against your son, there is no fitter\n" + " matter. How does your ladyship like it?\n\n" + "COUNTESS With very much content, my lord; and I wish it\n" + " happily effected.\n\n" + "LAFEU His highness comes post from Marseilles, of as able\n" + " body as when he numbered thirty: he will be here\n" + " to-morrow, or I am deceived by him that in such\n" + " intelligence hath seldom failed.\n\n" + "COUNTESS It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I\n" + " die. I have letters that my son will be here\n" + " to-night: I shall beseech your lordship to remain\n" + " with me till they meet together.\n\n" + "LAFEU Madam, I was thinking with what manners I might\n" + " safely be admitted.\n\n" + "COUNTESS You need but plead your honourable privilege.\n\n" + "LAFEU Lady, of that I have made a bold charter; but I\n" + " thank my God it holds yet.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Clown]\n\n" + "Clown O madam, yonder's my lord your son with a patch of\n" + " velvet on's face: whether there be a scar under't\n" + " or no, the velvet knows; but 'tis a goodly patch of\n" + " velvet: his left cheek is a cheek of two pile and a\n" + " half, but his right cheek is worn bare.\n\n" + "LAFEU A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery\n" + " of honour; so belike is that.\n\n" + "Clown But it is your carbonadoed face.\n\n" + "LAFEU Let us go see your son, I pray you: I long to talk\n" + " with the young noble soldier.\n\n" + "Clown Faith there's a dozen of 'em, with delicate fine\n" + " hats and most courteous feathers, which bow the head\n" + " and nod at every man.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Marseilles. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA, Widow, and DIANA, with two\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "HELENA But this exceeding posting day and night\n" + " Must wear your spirits low; we cannot help it:\n" + " But since you have made the days and nights as one,\n" + " To wear your gentle limbs in my affairs,\n" + " Be bold you do so grow in my requital\n" + " As nothing can unroot you. In happy time;\n\n" + " [Enter a Gentleman]\n\n" + " This man may help me to his majesty's ear,\n" + " If he would spend his power. God save you, sir.\n\n" + "Gentleman And you.\n\n" + "HELENA Sir, I have seen you in the court of France.\n\n" + "Gentleman I have been sometimes there.\n\n" + "HELENA I do presume, sir, that you are not fallen\n" + " From the report that goes upon your goodness;\n" + " An therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions,\n" + " Which lay nice manners by, I put you to\n" + " The use of your own virtues, for the which\n" + " I shall continue thankful.\n\n" + "Gentleman What's your will?\n\n" + "HELENA That it will please you\n" + " To give this poor petition to the king,\n" + " And aid me with that store of power you have\n" + " To come into his presence.\n\n" + "Gentleman The king's not here.\n\n" + "HELENA Not here, sir!\n\n" + "Gentleman Not, indeed:\n" + " He hence removed last night and with more haste\n" + " Than is his use.\n\n" + "Widow Lord, how we lose our pains!\n\n" + "HELENA ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL yet,\n" + " Though time seem so adverse and means unfit.\n" + " I do beseech you, whither is he gone?\n\n" + "Gentleman Marry, as I take it, to Rousillon;\n" + " Whither I am going.\n\n" + "HELENA I do beseech you, sir,\n" + " Since you are like to see the king before me,\n" + " Commend the paper to his gracious hand,\n" + " Which I presume shall render you no blame\n" + " But rather make you thank your pains for it.\n" + " I will come after you with what good speed\n" + " Our means will make us means.\n\n" + "Gentleman This I'll do for you.\n\n" + "HELENA And you shall find yourself to be well thank'd,\n" + " Whate'er falls more. We must to horse again.\n" + " Go, go, provide.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Rousillon. Before the COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Clown, and PAROLLES, following]\n\n" + "PAROLLES Good Monsieur Lavache, give my Lord Lafeu this\n" + " letter: I have ere now, sir, been better known to\n" + " you, when I have held familiarity with fresher\n" + " clothes; but I am now, sir, muddied in fortune's\n" + " mood, and smell somewhat strong of her strong\n" + " displeasure.\n\n" + "Clown Truly, fortune's displeasure is but sluttish, if it\n" + " smell so strongly as thou speakest of: I will\n" + " henceforth eat no fish of fortune's buttering.\n" + " Prithee, allow the wind.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir; I spake\n" + " but by a metaphor.\n\n" + "Clown Indeed, sir, if your metaphor stink, I will stop my\n" + " nose; or against any man's metaphor. Prithee, get\n" + " thee further.\n\n" + "PAROLLES Pray you, sir, deliver me this paper.\n\n" + "Clown Foh! prithee, stand away: a paper from fortune's\n" + " close-stool to give to a nobleman! Look, here he\n" + " comes himself.\n\n" + " [Enter LAFEU]\n\n" + " Here is a purr of fortune's, sir, or of fortune's\n" + " cat,--but not a musk-cat,--that has fallen into the\n" + " unclean fishpond of her displeasure, and, as he\n" + " says, is muddied withal: pray you, sir, use the\n" + " carp as you may; for he looks like a poor, decayed,\n" + " ingenious, foolish, rascally knave. I do pity his\n" + " distress in my similes of comfort and leave him to\n" + " your lordship.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PAROLLES My lord, I am a man whom fortune hath cruelly\n" + " scratched.\n\n" + "LAFEU And what would you have me to do? 'Tis too late to\n" + " pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the\n" + " knave with fortune, that she should scratch you, who\n" + " of herself is a good lady and would not have knaves\n" + " thrive long under her? There's a quart d'ecu for\n" + " you: let the justices make you and fortune friends:\n" + " I am for other business.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I beseech your honour to hear me one single word.\n\n" + "LAFEU You beg a single penny more: come, you shall ha't;\n" + " save your word.\n\n" + "PAROLLES My name, my good lord, is Parolles.\n\n" + "LAFEU You beg more than 'word,' then. Cox my passion!\n" + " give me your hand. How does your drum?\n\n" + "PAROLLES O my good lord, you were the first that found me!\n\n" + "LAFEU Was I, in sooth? and I was the first that lost thee.\n\n" + "PAROLLES It lies in you, my lord, to bring me in some grace,\n" + " for you did bring me out.\n\n" + "LAFEU Out upon thee, knave! dost thou put upon me at once\n" + " both the office of God and the devil? One brings\n" + " thee in grace and the other brings thee out.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound]\n\n" + " The king's coming; I know by his trumpets. Sirrah,\n" + " inquire further after me; I had talk of you last\n" + " night: though you are a fool and a knave, you shall\n" + " eat; go to, follow.\n\n" + "PAROLLES I praise God for you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Rousillon. The COUNT's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING, COUNTESS, LAFEU, the two\n" + " French Lords, with Attendants]\n\n" + "KING We lost a jewel of her; and our esteem\n" + " Was made much poorer by it: but your son,\n" + " As mad in folly, lack'd the sense to know\n" + " Her estimation home.\n\n" + "COUNTESS 'Tis past, my liege;\n" + " And I beseech your majesty to make it\n" + " Natural rebellion, done i' the blaze of youth;\n" + " When oil and fire, too strong for reason's force,\n" + " O'erbears it and burns on.\n\n" + "KING My honour'd lady,\n" + " I have forgiven and forgotten all;\n" + " Though my revenges were high bent upon him,\n" + " And watch'd the time to shoot.\n\n" + "LAFEU This I must say,\n" + " But first I beg my pardon, the young lord\n" + " Did to his majesty, his mother and his lady\n" + " Offence of mighty note; but to himself\n" + " The greatest wrong of all. He lost a wife\n" + " Whose beauty did astonish the survey\n" + " Of richest eyes, whose words all ears took captive,\n" + " Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn'd to serve\n" + " Humbly call'd mistress.\n\n" + "KING Praising what is lost\n" + " Makes the remembrance dear. Well, call him hither;\n" + " We are reconciled, and the first view shall kill\n" + " All repetition: let him not ask our pardon;\n" + " The nature of his great offence is dead,\n" + " And deeper than oblivion we do bury\n" + " The incensing relics of it: let him approach,\n" + " A stranger, no offender; and inform him\n" + " So 'tis our will he should.\n\n" + "Gentleman I shall, my liege.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING What says he to your daughter? have you spoke?\n\n" + "LAFEU All that he is hath reference to your highness.\n\n" + "KING Then shall we have a match. I have letters sent me\n" + " That set him high in fame.\n\n" + " [Enter BERTRAM]\n\n" + "LAFEU He looks well on't.\n\n" + "KING I am not a day of season,\n" + " For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail\n" + " In me at once: but to the brightest beams\n" + " Distracted clouds give way; so stand thou forth;\n" + " The time is fair again.\n\n" + "BERTRAM My high-repented blames,\n" + " Dear sovereign, pardon to me.\n\n" + "KING All is whole;\n" + " Not one word more of the consumed time.\n" + " Let's take the instant by the forward top;\n" + " For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees\n" + " The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time\n" + " Steals ere we can effect them. You remember\n" + " The daughter of this lord?\n\n" + "BERTRAM Admiringly, my liege, at first\n" + " I stuck my choice upon her, ere my heart\n" + " Durst make too bold a herald of my tongue\n" + " Where the impression of mine eye infixing,\n" + " Contempt his scornful perspective did lend me,\n" + " Which warp'd the line of every other favour;\n" + " Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen;\n" + " Extended or contracted all proportions\n" + " To a most hideous object: thence it came\n" + " That she whom all men praised and whom myself,\n" + " Since I have lost, have loved, was in mine eye\n" + " The dust that did offend it.\n\n" + "KING Well excused:\n" + " That thou didst love her, strikes some scores away\n" + " From the great compt: but love that comes too late,\n" + " Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,\n" + " To the great sender turns a sour offence,\n" + " Crying, 'That's good that's gone.' Our rash faults\n" + " Make trivial price of serious things we have,\n" + " Not knowing them until we know their grave:\n" + " Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust,\n" + " Destroy our friends and after weep their dust\n" + " Our own love waking cries to see what's done,\n" + " While shame full late sleeps out the afternoon.\n" + " Be this sweet Helen's knell, and now forget her.\n" + " Send forth your amorous token for fair Maudlin:\n" + " The main consents are had; and here we'll stay\n" + " To see our widower's second marriage-day.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Which better than the first, O dear heaven, bless!\n" + " Or, ere they meet, in me, O nature, cesse!\n\n" + "LAFEU Come on, my son, in whom my house's name\n" + " Must be digested, give a favour from you\n" + " To sparkle in the spirits of my daughter,\n" + " That she may quickly come.\n\n" + " [BERTRAM gives a ring]\n\n" + " By my old beard,\n" + " And every hair that's on't, Helen, that's dead,\n" + " Was a sweet creature: such a ring as this,\n" + " The last that e'er I took her at court,\n" + " I saw upon her finger.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Hers it was not.\n\n" + "KING Now, pray you, let me see it; for mine eye,\n" + " While I was speaking, oft was fasten'd to't.\n" + " This ring was mine; and, when I gave it Helen,\n" + " I bade her, if her fortunes ever stood\n" + " Necessitied to help, that by this token\n" + " I would relieve her. Had you that craft, to reave\n" + " her\n" + " Of what should stead her most?\n\n" + "BERTRAM My gracious sovereign,\n" + " Howe'er it pleases you to take it so,\n" + " The ring was never hers.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Son, on my life,\n" + " I have seen her wear it; and she reckon'd it\n" + " At her life's rate.\n\n" + "LAFEU I am sure I saw her wear it.\n\n" + "BERTRAM You are deceived, my lord; she never saw it:\n" + " In Florence was it from a casement thrown me,\n" + " Wrapp'd in a paper, which contain'd the name\n" + " Of her that threw it: noble she was, and thought\n" + " I stood engaged: but when I had subscribed\n" + " To mine own fortune and inform'd her fully\n" + " I could not answer in that course of honour\n" + " As she had made the overture, she ceased\n" + " In heavy satisfaction and would never\n" + " Receive the ring again.\n\n" + "KING Plutus himself,\n" + " That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine,\n" + " Hath not in nature's mystery more science\n" + " Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's,\n" + " Whoever gave it you. Then, if you know\n" + " That you are well acquainted with yourself,\n" + " Confess 'twas hers, and by what rough enforcement\n" + " You got it from her: she call'd the saints to surety\n" + " That she would never put it from her finger,\n" + " Unless she gave it to yourself in bed,\n" + " Where you have never come, or sent it us\n" + " Upon her great disaster.\n\n" + "BERTRAM She never saw it.\n\n" + "KING Thou speak'st it falsely, as I love mine honour;\n" + " And makest conjectural fears to come into me\n" + " Which I would fain shut out. If it should prove\n" + " That thou art so inhuman,--'twill not prove so;--\n" + " And yet I know not: thou didst hate her deadly,\n" + " And she is dead; which nothing, but to close\n" + " Her eyes myself, could win me to believe,\n" + " More than to see this ring. Take him away.\n\n" + " [Guards seize BERTRAM]\n\n" + " My fore-past proofs, howe'er the matter fall,\n" + " Shall tax my fears of little vanity,\n" + " Having vainly fear'd too little. Away with him!\n" + " We'll sift this matter further.\n\n" + "BERTRAM If you shall prove\n" + " This ring was ever hers, you shall as easy\n" + " Prove that I husbanded her bed in Florence,\n" + " Where yet she never was.\n\n" + " [Exit, guarded]\n\n" + "KING I am wrapp'd in dismal thinkings.\n\n" + " [Enter a Gentleman]\n\n" + "Gentleman Gracious sovereign,\n" + " Whether I have been to blame or no, I know not:\n" + " Here's a petition from a Florentine,\n" + " Who hath for four or five removes come short\n" + " To tender it herself. I undertook it,\n" + " Vanquish'd thereto by the fair grace and speech\n" + " Of the poor suppliant, who by this I know\n" + " Is here attending: her business looks in her\n" + " With an importing visage; and she told me,\n" + " In a sweet verbal brief, it did concern\n" + " Your highness with herself.\n\n" + "KING [Reads] Upon his many protestations to marry me\n" + " when his wife was dead, I blush to say it, he won\n" + " me. Now is the Count Rousillon a widower: his vows\n" + " are forfeited to me, and my honour's paid to him. He\n" + " stole from Florence, taking no leave, and I follow\n" + " him to his country for justice: grant it me, O\n" + " king! in you it best lies; otherwise a seducer\n" + " flourishes, and a poor maid is undone.\n" + " DIANA CAPILET.\n\n" + "LAFEU I will buy me a son-in-law in a fair, and toll for\n" + " this: I'll none of him.\n\n" + "KING The heavens have thought well on thee Lafeu,\n" + " To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors:\n" + " Go speedily and bring again the count.\n" + " I am afeard the life of Helen, lady,\n" + " Was foully snatch'd.\n\n" + "COUNTESS Now, justice on the doers!\n\n" + " [Re-enter BERTRAM, guarded]\n\n" + "KING I wonder, sir, sith wives are monsters to you,\n" + " And that you fly them as you swear them lordship,\n" + " Yet you desire to marry.\n\n" + " [Enter Widow and DIANA]\n\n" + " What woman's that?\n\n" + "DIANA I am, my lord, a wretched Florentine,\n" + " Derived from the ancient Capilet:\n" + " My suit, as I do understand, you know,\n" + " And therefore know how far I may be pitied.\n\n" + "Widow I am her mother, sir, whose age and honour\n" + " Both suffer under this complaint we bring,\n" + " And both shall cease, without your remedy.\n\n" + "KING Come hither, count; do you know these women?\n\n" + "BERTRAM My lord, I neither can nor will deny\n" + " But that I know them: do they charge me further?\n\n" + "DIANA Why do you look so strange upon your wife?\n\n" + "BERTRAM She's none of mine, my lord.\n\n" + "DIANA If you shall marry,\n" + " You give away this hand, and that is mine;\n" + " You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine;\n" + " You give away myself, which is known mine;\n" + " For I by vow am so embodied yours,\n" + " That she which marries you must marry me,\n" + " Either both or none.\n\n" + "LAFEU Your reputation comes too short for my daughter; you\n" + " are no husband for her.\n\n" + "BERTRAM My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature,\n" + " Whom sometime I have laugh'd with: let your highness\n" + " Lay a more noble thought upon mine honour\n" + " Than for to think that I would sink it here.\n\n" + "KING Sir, for my thoughts, you have them ill to friend\n" + " Till your deeds gain them: fairer prove your honour\n" + " Than in my thought it lies.\n\n" + "DIANA Good my lord,\n" + " Ask him upon his oath, if he does think\n" + " He had not my virginity.\n\n" + "KING What say'st thou to her?\n\n" + "BERTRAM She's impudent, my lord,\n" + " And was a common gamester to the camp.\n\n" + "DIANA He does me wrong, my lord; if I were so,\n" + " He might have bought me at a common price:\n" + " Do not believe him. O, behold this ring,\n" + " Whose high respect and rich validity\n" + " Did lack a parallel; yet for all that\n" + " He gave it to a commoner o' the camp,\n" + " If I be one.\n\n" + "COUNTESS He blushes, and 'tis it:\n" + " Of six preceding ancestors, that gem,\n" + " Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue,\n" + " Hath it been owed and worn. This is his wife;\n" + " That ring's a thousand proofs.\n\n" + "KING Methought you said\n" + " You saw one here in court could witness it.\n\n" + "DIANA I did, my lord, but loath am to produce\n" + " So bad an instrument: his name's Parolles.\n\n" + "LAFEU I saw the man to-day, if man he be.\n\n" + "KING Find him, and bring him hither.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + "BERTRAM What of him?\n" + " He's quoted for a most perfidious slave,\n" + " With all the spots o' the world tax'd and debosh'd;\n" + " Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth.\n" + " Am I or that or this for what he'll utter,\n" + " That will speak any thing?\n\n" + "KING She hath that ring of yours.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I think she has: certain it is I liked her,\n" + " And boarded her i' the wanton way of youth:\n" + " She knew her distance and did angle for me,\n" + " Madding my eagerness with her restraint,\n" + " As all impediments in fancy's course\n" + " Are motives of more fancy; and, in fine,\n" + " Her infinite cunning, with her modern grace,\n" + " Subdued me to her rate: she got the ring;\n" + " And I had that which any inferior might\n" + " At market-price have bought.\n\n" + "DIANA I must be patient:\n" + " You, that have turn'd off a first so noble wife,\n" + " May justly diet me. I pray you yet;\n" + " Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband;\n" + " Send for your ring, I will return it home,\n" + " And give me mine again.\n\n" + "BERTRAM I have it not.\n\n" + "KING What ring was yours, I pray you?\n\n" + "DIANA Sir, much like\n" + " The same upon your finger.\n\n" + "KING Know you this ring? this ring was his of late.\n\n" + "DIANA And this was it I gave him, being abed.\n\n" + "KING The story then goes false, you threw it him\n" + " Out of a casement.\n\n" + "DIANA I have spoke the truth.\n\n" + " [Enter PAROLLES]\n\n" + "BERTRAM My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.\n\n" + "KING You boggle shrewdly, every feather stars you.\n" + " Is this the man you speak of?\n\n" + "DIANA Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "KING Tell me, sirrah, but tell me true, I charge you,\n" + " Not fearing the displeasure of your master,\n" + " Which on your just proceeding I'll keep off,\n" + " By him and by this woman here what know you?\n\n" + "PAROLLES So please your majesty, my master hath been an\n" + " honourable gentleman: tricks he hath had in him,\n" + " which gentlemen have.\n\n" + "KING Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Faith, sir, he did love her; but how?\n\n" + "KING How, I pray you?\n\n" + "PAROLLES He did love her, sir, as a gentleman loves a woman.\n\n" + "KING How is that?\n\n" + "PAROLLES He loved her, sir, and loved her not.\n\n" + "KING As thou art a knave, and no knave. What an\n" + " equivocal companion is this!\n\n" + "PAROLLES I am a poor man, and at your majesty's command.\n\n" + "LAFEU He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator.\n\n" + "DIANA Do you know he promised me marriage?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Faith, I know more than I'll speak.\n\n" + "KING But wilt thou not speak all thou knowest?\n\n" + "PAROLLES Yes, so please your majesty. I did go between them,\n" + " as I said; but more than that, he loved her: for\n" + " indeed he was mad for her, and talked of Satan and\n" + " of Limbo and of Furies and I know not what: yet I\n" + " was in that credit with them at that time that I\n" + " knew of their going to bed, and of other motions,\n" + " as promising her marriage, and things which would\n" + " derive me ill will to speak of; therefore I will not\n" + " speak what I know.\n\n" + "KING Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say\n" + " they are married: but thou art too fine in thy\n" + " evidence; therefore stand aside.\n" + " This ring, you say, was yours?\n\n" + "DIANA Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "KING Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?\n\n" + "DIANA It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.\n\n" + "KING Who lent it you?\n\n" + "DIANA It was not lent me neither.\n\n" + "KING Where did you find it, then?\n\n" + "DIANA I found it not.\n\n" + "KING If it were yours by none of all these ways,\n" + " How could you give it him?\n\n" + "DIANA I never gave it him.\n\n" + "LAFEU This woman's an easy glove, my lord; she goes off\n" + " and on at pleasure.\n\n" + "KING This ring was mine; I gave it his first wife.\n\n" + "DIANA It might be yours or hers, for aught I know.\n\n" + "KING Take her away; I do not like her now;\n" + " To prison with her: and away with him.\n" + " Unless thou tell'st me where thou hadst this ring,\n" + " Thou diest within this hour.\n\n" + "DIANA I'll never tell you.\n\n" + "KING Take her away.\n\n" + "DIANA I'll put in bail, my liege.\n\n" + "KING I think thee now some common customer.\n\n" + "DIANA By Jove, if ever I knew man, 'twas you.\n\n" + "KING Wherefore hast thou accused him all this while?\n\n" + "DIANA Because he's guilty, and he is not guilty:\n" + " He knows I am no maid, and he'll swear to't;\n" + " I'll swear I am a maid, and he knows not.\n" + " Great king, I am no strumpet, by my life;\n" + " I am either maid, or else this old man's wife.\n\n" + "KING She does abuse our ears: to prison with her.\n\n" + "DIANA Good mother, fetch my bail. Stay, royal sir:\n\n" + " [Exit Widow]\n\n" + " The jeweller that owes the ring is sent for,\n" + " And he shall surety me. But for this lord,\n" + " Who hath abused me, as he knows himself,\n" + " Though yet he never harm'd me, here I quit him:\n" + " He knows himself my bed he hath defiled;\n" + " And at that time he got his wife with child:\n" + " Dead though she be, she feels her young one kick:\n" + " So there's my riddle: one that's dead is quick:\n" + " And now behold the meaning.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Widow, with HELENA]\n\n" + "KING Is there no exorcist\n" + " Beguiles the truer office of mine eyes?\n" + " Is't real that I see?\n\n" + "HELENA No, my good lord;\n" + " 'Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,\n" + " The name and not the thing.\n\n" + "BERTRAM Both, both. O, pardon!\n\n" + "HELENA O my good lord, when I was like this maid,\n" + " I found you wondrous kind. There is your ring;\n" + " And, look you, here's your letter; this it says:\n" + " 'When from my finger you can get this ring\n" + " And are by me with child,' &c. This is done:\n" + " Will you be mine, now you are doubly won?\n\n" + "BERTRAM If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly,\n" + " I'll love her dearly, ever, ever dearly.\n\n" + "HELENA If it appear not plain and prove untrue,\n" + " Deadly divorce step between me and you!\n" + " O my dear mother, do I see you living?\n\n" + "LAFEU Mine eyes smell onions; I shall weep anon:\n\n" + " [To PAROLLES]\n\n" + " Good Tom Drum, lend me a handkercher: so,\n" + " I thank thee: wait on me home, I'll make sport with thee:\n" + " Let thy courtesies alone, they are scurvy ones.\n\n" + "KING Let us from point to point this story know,\n" + " To make the even truth in pleasure flow.\n\n" + " [To DIANA]\n\n" + " If thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,\n" + " Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;\n" + " For I can guess that by thy honest aid\n" + " Thou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.\n" + " Of that and all the progress, more or less,\n" + " Resolvedly more leisure shall express:\n" + " All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,\n" + " The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL\n\n" + " EPILOGUE\n\n\n" + "KING The king's a beggar, now the play is done:\n" + " All is well ended, if this suit be won,\n" + " That you express content; which we will pay,\n" + " With strife to please you, day exceeding day:\n" + " Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;\n" + " Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY |\n" + " |\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR | triumvirs.\n" + " |\n" + "M. AEMILIUS |\n" + "LEPIDUS (LEPIDUS:) |\n\n\n" + "SEXTUS POMPEIUS (POMPEY:)\n\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS |\n" + " |\n" + "VENTIDIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "EROS |\n" + " |\n" + "SCARUS | friends to Antony.\n" + " |\n" + "DERCETAS |\n" + " |\n" + "DEMETRIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "PHILO |\n\n\n" + "MECAENAS |\n" + " |\n" + "AGRIPPA |\n" + " |\n" + "DOLABELLA |\n" + " |\n" + "PROCULEIUS | friends to Caesar.\n" + " |\n" + "THYREUS |\n" + " |\n" + "GALLUS |\n" + " |\n" + "MENAS |\n\n\n" + "MENECRATES |\n" + " | friends to Pompey.\n" + "VARRIUS |\n\n\n" + "TAURUS lieutenant-general to Caesar.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS lieutenant-general to Antony.\n\n" + "SILIUS an officer in Ventidius's army.\n\n" + "EUPHRONIUS an ambassador from Antony to Caesar.\n\n" + " \n" + "ALEXAS |\n" + " |\n" + "MARDIAN a Eunuch. |\n" + " | attendants on Cleopatra.\n" + "SELEUCUS |\n" + " |\n" + "DIOMEDES |\n\n\n" + " A Soothsayer. (Soothsayer:)\n\n" + " A Clown. (Clown:)\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA queen of Egypt.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA sister to Caesar and wife to Antony.\n\n\n" + "CHARMIAN |\n" + " | attendants on Cleopatra.\n" + "IRAS |\n\n\n" + " Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.\n" + " (First Officer:)\n" + " (Second Officer:)\n" + " (Third Officer:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Second Messenger:)\n" + " (First Servant:)\n" + " (Second Servant:)\n" + " (Egyptian:)\n" + " (Guard:)\n" + " (First Guard:)\n" + " (Second Guard:)\n" + " (Attendant:)\n" + " (First Attendant:)\n" + " (Second Attendant:)\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE In several parts of the Roman empire.\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Alexandria. A room in CLEOPATRA's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DEMETRIUS and PHILO]\n\n" + "PHILO Nay, but this dotage of our general's\n" + " O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,\n" + " That o'er the files and musters of the war\n" + " Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,\n" + " The office and devotion of their view\n" + " Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,\n" + " Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst\n" + " The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,\n" + " And is become the bellows and the fan\n" + " To cool a gipsy's lust.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, her Ladies,\n" + " the Train, with Eunuchs fanning her]\n\n" + " Look, where they come:\n" + " Take but good note, and you shall see in him.\n" + " The triple pillar of the world transform'd\n" + " Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA If it be love indeed, tell me how much.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.\n\n" + " [Enter an Attendant]\n\n" + "Attendant News, my good lord, from Rome.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Grates me: the sum.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Nay, hear them, Antony:\n" + " Fulvia perchance is angry; or, who knows\n" + " If the scarce-bearded Caesar have not sent\n" + " His powerful mandate to you, 'Do this, or this;\n" + " Take in that kingdom, and enfranchise that;\n" + " Perform 't, or else we damn thee.'\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY How, my love!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Perchance! nay, and most like:\n" + " You must not stay here longer, your dismission\n" + " Is come from Caesar; therefore hear it, Antony.\n" + " Where's Fulvia's process? Caesar's I would say? both?\n" + " Call in the messengers. As I am Egypt's queen,\n" + " Thou blushest, Antony; and that blood of thine\n" + " Is Caesar's homager: else so thy cheek pays shame\n" + " When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch\n" + " Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.\n" + " Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike\n" + " Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life\n" + " Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair\n\n" + " [Embracing]\n\n" + " And such a twain can do't, in which I bind,\n" + " On pain of punishment, the world to weet\n" + " We stand up peerless.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Excellent falsehood!\n" + " Why did he marry Fulvia, and not love her?\n" + " I'll seem the fool I am not; Antony\n" + " Will be himself.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY But stirr'd by Cleopatra.\n" + " Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours,\n" + " Let's not confound the time with conference harsh:\n" + " There's not a minute of our lives should stretch\n" + " Without some pleasure now. What sport tonight?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Hear the ambassadors.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Fie, wrangling queen!\n" + " Whom every thing becomes, to chide, to laugh,\n" + " To weep; whose every passion fully strives\n" + " To make itself, in thee, fair and admired!\n" + " No messenger, but thine; and all alone\n" + " To-night we'll wander through the streets and note\n" + " The qualities of people. Come, my queen;\n" + " Last night you did desire it: speak not to us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA with\n" + " their train]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight?\n\n" + "PHILO Sir, sometimes, when he is not Antony,\n" + " He comes too short of that great property\n" + " Which still should go with Antony.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I am full sorry\n" + " That he approves the common liar, who\n" + " Thus speaks of him at Rome: but I will hope\n" + " Of better deeds to-morrow. Rest you happy!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. Another room.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, and a Soothsayer]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Lord Alexas, sweet Alexas, most any thing Alexas,\n" + " almost most absolute Alexas, where's the soothsayer\n" + " that you praised so to the queen? O, that I knew\n" + " this husband, which, you say, must charge his horns\n" + " with garlands!\n\n" + "ALEXAS Soothsayer!\n\n" + "Soothsayer Your will?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Is this the man? Is't you, sir, that know things?\n\n" + "Soothsayer In nature's infinite book of secrecy\n" + " A little I can read.\n\n" + "ALEXAS Show him your hand.\n\n" + " [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Bring in the banquet quickly; wine enough\n" + " Cleopatra's health to drink.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Good sir, give me good fortune.\n\n" + "Soothsayer I make not, but foresee.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Pray, then, foresee me one.\n\n" + "Soothsayer You shall be yet far fairer than you are.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN He means in flesh.\n\n" + "IRAS No, you shall paint when you are old.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Wrinkles forbid!\n\n" + "ALEXAS Vex not his prescience; be attentive.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Hush!\n\n" + "Soothsayer You shall be more beloving than beloved.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN I had rather heat my liver with drinking.\n\n" + "ALEXAS Nay, hear him.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me be married\n" + " to three kings in a forenoon, and widow them all:\n" + " let me have a child at fifty, to whom Herod of Jewry\n" + " may do homage: find me to marry me with Octavius\n" + " Caesar, and companion me with my mistress.\n\n" + "Soothsayer You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN O excellent! I love long life better than figs.\n\n" + "Soothsayer You have seen and proved a fairer former fortune\n" + " Than that which is to approach.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Then belike my children shall have no names:\n" + " prithee, how many boys and wenches must I have?\n\n" + "Soothsayer If every of your wishes had a womb.\n" + " And fertile every wish, a million.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Out, fool! I forgive thee for a witch.\n\n" + "ALEXAS You think none but your sheets are privy to your wishes.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Nay, come, tell Iras hers.\n\n" + "ALEXAS We'll know all our fortunes.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Mine, and most of our fortunes, to-night, shall\n" + " be--drunk to bed.\n\n" + "IRAS There's a palm presages chastity, if nothing else.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN E'en as the o'erflowing Nilus presageth famine.\n\n" + "IRAS Go, you wild bedfellow, you cannot soothsay.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Nay, if an oily palm be not a fruitful\n" + " prognostication, I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee,\n" + " tell her but a worky-day fortune.\n\n" + "Soothsayer Your fortunes are alike.\n\n" + "IRAS But how, but how? give me particulars.\n\n" + "Soothsayer I have said.\n\n" + "IRAS Am I not an inch of fortune better than she?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than\n" + " I, where would you choose it?\n\n" + "IRAS Not in my husband's nose.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas,--come,\n" + " his fortune, his fortune! O, let him marry a woman\n" + " that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee! and let\n" + " her die too, and give him a worse! and let worst\n" + " follow worse, till the worst of all follow him\n" + " laughing to his grave, fifty-fold a cuckold! Good\n" + " Isis, hear me this prayer, though thou deny me a\n" + " matter of more weight; good Isis, I beseech thee!\n\n" + "IRAS Amen. Dear goddess, hear that prayer of the people!\n" + " for, as it is a heartbreaking to see a handsome man\n" + " loose-wived, so it is a deadly sorrow to behold a\n" + " foul knave uncuckolded: therefore, dear Isis, keep\n" + " decorum, and fortune him accordingly!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Amen.\n\n" + "ALEXAS Lo, now, if it lay in their hands to make me a\n" + " cuckold, they would make themselves whores, but\n" + " they'ld do't!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Hush! here comes Antony.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Not he; the queen.\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Saw you my lord?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS No, lady.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Was he not here?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN No, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA He was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden\n" + " A Roman thought hath struck him. Enobarbus!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Madam?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Seek him, and bring him hither.\n" + " Where's Alexas?\n\n" + "ALEXAS Here, at your service. My lord approaches.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA We will not look upon him: go with us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY with a Messenger and Attendants]\n\n" + "Messenger Fulvia thy wife first came into the field.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Against my brother Lucius?\n\n" + "Messenger Ay:\n" + " But soon that war had end, and the time's state\n" + " Made friends of them, joining their force 'gainst Caesar;\n" + " Whose better issue in the war, from Italy,\n" + " Upon the first encounter, drave them.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Well, what worst?\n\n" + "Messenger The nature of bad news infects the teller.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY When it concerns the fool or coward. On:\n" + " Things that are past are done with me. 'Tis thus:\n" + " Who tells me true, though in his tale lie death,\n" + " I hear him as he flatter'd.\n\n" + "Messenger Labienus--\n" + " This is stiff news--hath, with his Parthian force,\n" + " Extended Asia from Euphrates;\n" + " His conquering banner shook from Syria\n" + " To Lydia and to Ionia; Whilst--\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Antony, thou wouldst say,--\n\n" + "Messenger O, my lord!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Speak to me home, mince not the general tongue:\n" + " Name Cleopatra as she is call'd in Rome;\n" + " Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase; and taunt my faults\n" + " With such full licence as both truth and malice\n" + " Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds,\n" + " When our quick minds lie still; and our ills told us\n" + " Is as our earing. Fare thee well awhile.\n\n" + "Messenger At your noble pleasure.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY From Sicyon, ho, the news! Speak there!\n\n" + "First Attendant The man from Sicyon,--is there such an one?\n\n" + "Second Attendant He stays upon your will.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Let him appear.\n" + " These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,\n" + " Or lose myself in dotage.\n\n" + " [Enter another Messenger]\n\n" + " What are you?\n\n" + "Second Messenger Fulvia thy wife is dead.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Where died she?\n\n" + "Second Messenger In Sicyon:\n" + " Her length of sickness, with what else more serious\n" + " Importeth thee to know, this bears.\n\n" + " [Gives a letter]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Forbear me.\n\n" + " [Exit Second Messenger]\n\n" + " There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it:\n" + " What our contempt doth often hurl from us,\n" + " We wish it ours again; the present pleasure,\n" + " By revolution lowering, does become\n" + " The opposite of itself: she's good, being gone;\n" + " The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.\n" + " I must from this enchanting queen break off:\n" + " Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I know,\n" + " My idleness doth hatch. How now! Enobarbus!\n\n" + " [Re-enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS What's your pleasure, sir?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I must with haste from hence.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Why, then, we kill all our women:\n" + " we see how mortal an unkindness is to them;\n" + " if they suffer our departure, death's the word.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I must be gone.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Under a compelling occasion, let women die; it were\n" + " pity to cast them away for nothing; though, between\n" + " them and a great cause, they should be esteemed\n" + " nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of\n" + " this, dies instantly; I have seen her die twenty\n" + " times upon far poorer moment: I do think there is\n" + " mettle in death, which commits some loving act upon\n" + " her, she hath such a celerity in dying.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY She is cunning past man's thought.\n\n" + " [Exit ALEXAS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but\n" + " the finest part of pure love: we cannot call her\n" + " winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater\n" + " storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this\n" + " cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a\n" + " shower of rain as well as Jove.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Would I had never seen her.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS O, sir, you had then left unseen a wonderful piece\n" + " of work; which not to have been blest withal would\n" + " have discredited your travel.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Fulvia is dead.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Sir?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Fulvia is dead.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Fulvia!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Dead.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Why, sir, give the gods a thankful sacrifice. When\n" + " it pleaseth their deities to take the wife of a man\n" + " from him, it shows to man the tailors of the earth;\n" + " comforting therein, that when old robes are worn\n" + " out, there are members to make new. If there were\n" + " no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut,\n" + " and the case to be lamented: this grief is crowned\n" + " with consolation; your old smock brings forth a new\n" + " petticoat: and indeed the tears live in an onion\n" + " that should water this sorrow.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY The business she hath broached in the state\n" + " Cannot endure my absence.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS And the business you have broached here cannot be\n" + " without you; especially that of Cleopatra's, which\n" + " wholly depends on your abode.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY No more light answers. Let our officers\n" + " Have notice what we purpose. I shall break\n" + " The cause of our expedience to the queen,\n" + " And get her leave to part. For not alone\n" + " The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,\n" + " Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too\n" + " Of many our contriving friends in Rome\n" + " Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius\n" + " Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands\n" + " The empire of the sea: our slippery people,\n" + " Whose love is never link'd to the deserver\n" + " Till his deserts are past, begin to throw\n" + " Pompey the Great and all his dignities\n" + " Upon his son; who, high in name and power,\n" + " Higher than both in blood and life, stands up\n" + " For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,\n" + " The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,\n" + " Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,\n" + " And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,\n" + " To such whose place is under us, requires\n" + " Our quick remove from hence.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I shall do't.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. Another room.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Where is he?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN I did not see him since.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA See where he is, who's with him, what he does:\n" + " I did not send you: if you find him sad,\n" + " Say I am dancing; if in mirth, report\n" + " That I am sudden sick: quick, and return.\n\n" + " [Exit ALEXAS]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,\n" + " You do not hold the method to enforce\n" + " The like from him.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What should I do, I do not?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN In each thing give him way, cross him nothing.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Thou teachest like a fool; the way to lose him.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Tempt him not so too far; I wish, forbear:\n" + " In time we hate that which we often fear.\n" + " But here comes Antony.\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I am sick and sullen.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Help me away, dear Charmian; I shall fall:\n" + " It cannot be thus long, the sides of nature\n" + " Will not sustain it.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Now, my dearest queen,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Pray you, stand further from me.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY What's the matter?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I know, by that same eye, there's some good news.\n" + " What says the married woman? You may go:\n" + " Would she had never given you leave to come!\n" + " Let her not say 'tis I that keep you here:\n" + " I have no power upon you; hers you are.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY The gods best know,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O, never was there queen\n" + " So mightily betray'd! yet at the first\n" + " I saw the treasons planted.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Cleopatra,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Why should I think you can be mine and true,\n" + " Though you in swearing shake the throned gods,\n" + " Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous madness,\n" + " To be entangled with those mouth-made vows,\n" + " Which break themselves in swearing!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Most sweet queen,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Nay, pray you, seek no colour for your going,\n" + " But bid farewell, and go: when you sued staying,\n" + " Then was the time for words: no going then;\n" + " Eternity was in our lips and eyes,\n" + " Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor,\n" + " But was a race of heaven: they are so still,\n" + " Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world,\n" + " Art turn'd the greatest liar.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY How now, lady!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I would I had thy inches; thou shouldst know\n" + " There were a heart in Egypt.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Hear me, queen:\n" + " The strong necessity of time commands\n" + " Our services awhile; but my full heart\n" + " Remains in use with you. Our Italy\n" + " Shines o'er with civil swords: Sextus Pompeius\n" + " Makes his approaches to the port of Rome:\n" + " Equality of two domestic powers\n" + " Breed scrupulous faction: the hated, grown to strength,\n" + " Are newly grown to love: the condemn'd Pompey,\n" + " Rich in his father's honour, creeps apace,\n" + " Into the hearts of such as have not thrived\n" + " Upon the present state, whose numbers threaten;\n" + " And quietness, grown sick of rest, would purge\n" + " By any desperate change: my more particular,\n" + " And that which most with you should safe my going,\n" + " Is Fulvia's death.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Though age from folly could not give me freedom,\n" + " It does from childishness: can Fulvia die?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY She's dead, my queen:\n" + " Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read\n" + " The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:\n" + " See when and where she died.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O most false love!\n" + " Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill\n" + " With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see,\n" + " In Fulvia's death, how mine received shall be.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Quarrel no more, but be prepared to know\n" + " The purposes I bear; which are, or cease,\n" + " As you shall give the advice. By the fire\n" + " That quickens Nilus' slime, I go from hence\n" + " Thy soldier, servant; making peace or war\n" + " As thou affect'st.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Cut my lace, Charmian, come;\n" + " But let it be: I am quickly ill, and well,\n" + " So Antony loves.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY My precious queen, forbear;\n" + " And give true evidence to his love, which stands\n" + " An honourable trial.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA So Fulvia told me.\n" + " I prithee, turn aside and weep for her,\n" + " Then bid adieu to me, and say the tears\n" + " Belong to Egypt: good now, play one scene\n" + " Of excellent dissembling; and let it look\n" + " Life perfect honour.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY You'll heat my blood: no more.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA You can do better yet; but this is meetly.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Now, by my sword,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA And target. Still he mends;\n" + " But this is not the best. Look, prithee, Charmian,\n" + " How this Herculean Roman does become\n" + " The carriage of his chafe.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I'll leave you, lady.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Courteous lord, one word.\n" + " Sir, you and I must part, but that's not it:\n" + " Sir, you and I have loved, but there's not it;\n" + " That you know well: something it is I would,\n" + " O, my oblivion is a very Antony,\n" + " And I am all forgotten.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY But that your royalty\n" + " Holds idleness your subject, I should take you\n" + " For idleness itself.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA 'Tis sweating labour\n" + " To bear such idleness so near the heart\n" + " As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me;\n" + " Since my becomings kill me, when they do not\n" + " Eye well to you: your honour calls you hence;\n" + " Therefore be deaf to my unpitied folly.\n" + " And all the gods go with you! upon your sword\n" + " Sit laurel victory! and smooth success\n" + " Be strew'd before your feet!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Let us go. Come;\n" + " Our separation so abides, and flies,\n" + " That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,\n" + " And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee. Away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, reading a letter, LEPIDUS,\n" + " and their Train]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know,\n" + " It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate\n" + " Our great competitor: from Alexandria\n" + " This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes\n" + " The lamps of night in revel; is not more man-like\n" + " Than Cleopatra; nor the queen of Ptolemy\n" + " More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or\n" + " Vouchsafed to think he had partners: you shall find there\n" + " A man who is the abstract of all faults\n" + " That all men follow.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS I must not think there are\n" + " Evils enow to darken all his goodness:\n" + " His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven,\n" + " More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary,\n" + " Rather than purchased; what he cannot change,\n" + " Than what he chooses.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR You are too indulgent. Let us grant, it is not\n" + " Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy;\n" + " To give a kingdom for a mirth; to sit\n" + " And keep the turn of tippling with a slave;\n" + " To reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet\n" + " With knaves that smell of sweat: say this\n" + " becomes him,--\n" + " As his composure must be rare indeed\n" + " Whom these things cannot blemish,--yet must Antony\n" + " No way excuse his soils, when we do bear\n" + " So great weight in his lightness. If he fill'd\n" + " His vacancy with his voluptuousness,\n" + " Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones,\n" + " Call on him for't: but to confound such time,\n" + " That drums him from his sport, and speaks as loud\n" + " As his own state and ours,--'tis to be chid\n" + " As we rate boys, who, being mature in knowledge,\n" + " Pawn their experience to their present pleasure,\n" + " And so rebel to judgment.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Here's more news.\n\n" + "Messenger Thy biddings have been done; and every hour,\n" + " Most noble Caesar, shalt thou have report\n" + " How 'tis abroad. Pompey is strong at sea;\n" + " And it appears he is beloved of those\n" + " That only have fear'd Caesar: to the ports\n" + " The discontents repair, and men's reports\n" + " Give him much wrong'd.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I should have known no less.\n" + " It hath been taught us from the primal state,\n" + " That he which is was wish'd until he were;\n" + " And the ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love,\n" + " Comes dear'd by being lack'd. This common body,\n" + " Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream,\n" + " Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide,\n" + " To rot itself with motion.\n\n" + "Messenger Caesar, I bring thee word,\n" + " Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates,\n" + " Make the sea serve them, which they ear and wound\n" + " With keels of every kind: many hot inroads\n" + " They make in Italy; the borders maritime\n" + " Lack blood to think on't, and flush youth revolt:\n" + " No vessel can peep forth, but 'tis as soon\n" + " Taken as seen; for Pompey's name strikes more\n" + " Than could his war resisted.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Antony,\n" + " Leave thy lascivious wassails. When thou once\n" + " Wast beaten from Modena, where thou slew'st\n" + " Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel\n" + " Did famine follow; whom thou fought'st against,\n" + " Though daintily brought up, with patience more\n" + " Than savages could suffer: thou didst drink\n" + " The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle\n" + " Which beasts would cough at: thy palate then did deign\n" + " The roughest berry on the rudest hedge;\n" + " Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture sheets,\n" + " The barks of trees thou browsed'st; on the Alps\n" + " It is reported thou didst eat strange flesh,\n" + " Which some did die to look on: and all this--\n" + " It wounds thine honour that I speak it now--\n" + " Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek\n" + " So much as lank'd not.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS 'Tis pity of him.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Let his shames quickly\n" + " Drive him to Rome: 'tis time we twain\n" + " Did show ourselves i' the field; and to that end\n" + " Assemble we immediate council: Pompey\n" + " Thrives in our idleness.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS To-morrow, Caesar,\n" + " I shall be furnish'd to inform you rightly\n" + " Both what by sea and land I can be able\n" + " To front this present time.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Till which encounter,\n" + " It is my business too. Farewell.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Farewell, my lord: what you shall know meantime\n" + " Of stirs abroad, I shall beseech you, sir,\n" + " To let me be partaker.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Doubt not, sir;\n" + " I knew it for my bond.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Charmian!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Madam?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Ha, ha!\n" + " Give me to drink mandragora.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Why, madam?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA That I might sleep out this great gap of time\n" + " My Antony is away.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN You think of him too much.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O, 'tis treason!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Madam, I trust, not so.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Thou, eunuch Mardian!\n\n" + "MARDIAN What's your highness' pleasure?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Not now to hear thee sing; I take no pleasure\n" + " In aught an eunuch has: 'tis well for thee,\n" + " That, being unseminar'd, thy freer thoughts\n" + " May not fly forth of Egypt. Hast thou affections?\n\n" + "MARDIAN Yes, gracious madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Indeed!\n\n" + "MARDIAN Not in deed, madam; for I can do nothing\n" + " But what indeed is honest to be done:\n" + " Yet have I fierce affections, and think\n" + " What Venus did with Mars.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O Charmian,\n" + " Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, or sits he?\n" + " Or does he walk? or is he on his horse?\n" + " O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!\n" + " Do bravely, horse! for wot'st thou whom thou movest?\n" + " The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm\n" + " And burgonet of men. He's speaking now,\n" + " Or murmuring 'Where's my serpent of old Nile?'\n" + " For so he calls me: now I feed myself\n" + " With most delicious poison. Think on me,\n" + " That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black,\n" + " And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,\n" + " When thou wast here above the ground, I was\n" + " A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey\n" + " Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;\n" + " There would he anchor his aspect and die\n" + " With looking on his life.\n\n" + " [Enter ALEXAS, from OCTAVIUS CAESAR]\n\n" + "ALEXAS Sovereign of Egypt, hail!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA How much unlike art thou Mark Antony!\n" + " Yet, coming from him, that great medicine hath\n" + " With his tinct gilded thee.\n" + " How goes it with my brave Mark Antony?\n\n" + "ALEXAS Last thing he did, dear queen,\n" + " He kiss'd,--the last of many doubled kisses,--\n" + " This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Mine ear must pluck it thence.\n\n" + "ALEXAS 'Good friend,' quoth he,\n" + " 'Say, the firm Roman to great Egypt sends\n" + " This treasure of an oyster; at whose foot,\n" + " To mend the petty present, I will piece\n" + " Her opulent throne with kingdoms; all the east,\n" + " Say thou, shall call her mistress.' So he nodded,\n" + " And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,\n" + " Who neigh'd so high, that what I would have spoke\n" + " Was beastly dumb'd by him.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What, was he sad or merry?\n\n" + "ALEXAS Like to the time o' the year between the extremes\n" + " Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O well-divided disposition! Note him,\n" + " Note him good Charmian, 'tis the man; but note him:\n" + " He was not sad, for he would shine on those\n" + " That make their looks by his; he was not merry,\n" + " Which seem'd to tell them his remembrance lay\n" + " In Egypt with his joy; but between both:\n" + " O heavenly mingle! Be'st thou sad or merry,\n" + " The violence of either thee becomes,\n" + " So does it no man else. Met'st thou my posts?\n\n" + "ALEXAS Ay, madam, twenty several messengers:\n" + " Why do you send so thick?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Who's born that day\n" + " When I forget to send to Antony,\n" + " Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian.\n" + " Welcome, my good Alexas. Did I, Charmian,\n" + " Ever love Caesar so?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN O that brave Caesar!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Be choked with such another emphasis!\n" + " Say, the brave Antony.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN The valiant Caesar!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA By Isis, I will give thee bloody teeth,\n" + " If thou with Caesar paragon again\n" + " My man of men.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN By your most gracious pardon,\n" + " I sing but after you.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA My salad days,\n" + " When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,\n" + " To say as I said then! But, come, away;\n" + " Get me ink and paper:\n" + " He shall have every day a several greeting,\n" + " Or I'll unpeople Egypt.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Messina. POMPEY's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POMPEY, MENECRATES, and MENAS, in\n" + " warlike manner]\n\n" + "POMPEY If the great gods be just, they shall assist\n" + " The deeds of justest men.\n\n" + "MENECRATES Know, worthy Pompey,\n" + " That what they do delay, they not deny.\n\n" + "POMPEY Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays\n" + " The thing we sue for.\n\n" + "MENECRATES We, ignorant of ourselves,\n" + " Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers\n" + " Deny us for our good; so find we profit\n" + " By losing of our prayers.\n\n" + "POMPEY I shall do well:\n" + " The people love me, and the sea is mine;\n" + " My powers are crescent, and my auguring hope\n" + " Says it will come to the full. Mark Antony\n" + " In Egypt sits at dinner, and will make\n" + " No wars without doors: Caesar gets money where\n" + " He loses hearts: Lepidus flatters both,\n" + " Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves,\n" + " Nor either cares for him.\n\n" + "MENAS Caesar and Lepidus\n" + " Are in the field: a mighty strength they carry.\n\n" + "POMPEY Where have you this? 'tis false.\n\n" + "MENAS From Silvius, sir.\n\n" + "POMPEY He dreams: I know they are in Rome together,\n" + " Looking for Antony. But all the charms of love,\n" + " Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip!\n" + " Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!\n" + " Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts,\n" + " Keep his brain fuming; Epicurean cooks\n" + " Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite;\n" + " That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour\n" + " Even till a Lethe'd dulness!\n\n" + " [Enter VARRIUS]\n\n" + " How now, Varrius!\n\n" + "VARRIUS This is most certain that I shall deliver:\n" + " Mark Antony is every hour in Rome\n" + " Expected: since he went from Egypt 'tis\n" + " A space for further travel.\n\n" + "POMPEY I could have given less matter\n" + " A better ear. Menas, I did not think\n" + " This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm\n" + " For such a petty war: his soldiership\n" + " Is twice the other twain: but let us rear\n" + " The higher our opinion, that our stirring\n" + " Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck\n" + " The ne'er-lust-wearied Antony.\n\n" + "MENAS I cannot hope\n" + " Caesar and Antony shall well greet together:\n" + " His wife that's dead did trespasses to Caesar;\n" + " His brother warr'd upon him; although, I think,\n" + " Not moved by Antony.\n\n" + "POMPEY I know not, Menas,\n" + " How lesser enmities may give way to greater.\n" + " Were't not that we stand up against them all,\n" + " 'Twere pregnant they should square between\n" + " themselves;\n" + " For they have entertained cause enough\n" + " To draw their swords: but how the fear of us\n" + " May cement their divisions and bind up\n" + " The petty difference, we yet not know.\n" + " Be't as our gods will have't! It only stands\n" + " Our lives upon to use our strongest hands.\n" + " Come, Menas.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Rome. The house of LEPIDUS.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and LEPIDUS]\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Good Enobarbus, 'tis a worthy deed,\n" + " And shall become you well, to entreat your captain\n" + " To soft and gentle speech.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I shall entreat him\n" + " To answer like himself: if Caesar move him,\n" + " Let Antony look over Caesar's head\n" + " And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter,\n" + " Were I the wearer of Antonius' beard,\n" + " I would not shave't to-day.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS 'Tis not a time\n" + " For private stomaching.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Every time\n" + " Serves for the matter that is then born in't.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS But small to greater matters must give way.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Not if the small come first.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Your speech is passion:\n" + " But, pray you, stir no embers up. Here comes\n" + " The noble Antony.\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and VENTIDIUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS And yonder, Caesar.\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY If we compose well here, to Parthia:\n" + " Hark, Ventidius.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I do not know,\n" + " Mecaenas; ask Agrippa.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Noble friends,\n" + " That which combined us was most great, and let not\n" + " A leaner action rend us. What's amiss,\n" + " May it be gently heard: when we debate\n" + " Our trivial difference loud, we do commit\n" + " Murder in healing wounds: then, noble partners,\n" + " The rather, for I earnestly beseech,\n" + " Touch you the sourest points with sweetest terms,\n" + " Nor curstness grow to the matter.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY 'Tis spoken well.\n" + " Were we before our armies, and to fight.\n" + " I should do thus.\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Welcome to Rome.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Thank you.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Sit.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Sit, sir.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Nay, then.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I learn, you take things ill which are not so,\n" + " Or being, concern you not.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I must be laugh'd at,\n" + " If, or for nothing or a little, I\n" + " Should say myself offended, and with you\n" + " Chiefly i' the world; more laugh'd at, that I should\n" + " Once name you derogately, when to sound your name\n" + " It not concern'd me.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY My being in Egypt, Caesar,\n" + " What was't to you?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR No more than my residing here at Rome\n" + " Might be to you in Egypt: yet, if you there\n" + " Did practise on my state, your being in Egypt\n" + " Might be my question.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY How intend you, practised?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR You may be pleased to catch at mine intent\n" + " By what did here befal me. Your wife and brother\n" + " Made wars upon me; and their contestation\n" + " Was theme for you, you were the word of war.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY You do mistake your business; my brother never\n" + " Did urge me in his act: I did inquire it;\n" + " And have my learning from some true reports,\n" + " That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather\n" + " Discredit my authority with yours;\n" + " And make the wars alike against my stomach,\n" + " Having alike your cause? Of this my letters\n" + " Before did satisfy you. If you'll patch a quarrel,\n" + " As matter whole you have not to make it with,\n" + " It must not be with this.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR You praise yourself\n" + " By laying defects of judgment to me; but\n" + " You patch'd up your excuses.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Not so, not so;\n" + " I know you could not lack, I am certain on't,\n" + " Very necessity of this thought, that I,\n" + " Your partner in the cause 'gainst which he fought,\n" + " Could not with graceful eyes attend those wars\n" + " Which fronted mine own peace. As for my wife,\n" + " I would you had her spirit in such another:\n" + " The third o' the world is yours; which with a snaffle\n" + " You may pace easy, but not such a wife.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Would we had all such wives, that the men might go\n" + " to wars with the women!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY So much uncurbable, her garboils, Caesar\n" + " Made out of her impatience, which not wanted\n" + " Shrewdness of policy too, I grieving grant\n" + " Did you too much disquiet: for that you must\n" + " But say, I could not help it.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I wrote to you\n" + " When rioting in Alexandria; you\n" + " Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts\n" + " Did gibe my missive out of audience.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Sir,\n" + " He fell upon me ere admitted: then\n" + " Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want\n" + " Of what I was i' the morning: but next day\n" + " I told him of myself; which was as much\n" + " As to have ask'd him pardon. Let this fellow\n" + " Be nothing of our strife; if we contend,\n" + " Out of our question wipe him.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR You have broken\n" + " The article of your oath; which you shall never\n" + " Have tongue to charge me with.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Soft, Caesar!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY No,\n" + " Lepidus, let him speak:\n" + " The honour is sacred which he talks on now,\n" + " Supposing that I lack'd it. But, on, Caesar;\n" + " The article of my oath.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR To lend me arms and aid when I required them;\n" + " The which you both denied.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Neglected, rather;\n" + " And then when poison'd hours had bound me up\n" + " From mine own knowledge. As nearly as I may,\n" + " I'll play the penitent to you: but mine honesty\n" + " Shall not make poor my greatness, nor my power\n" + " Work without it. Truth is, that Fulvia,\n" + " To have me out of Egypt, made wars here;\n" + " For which myself, the ignorant motive, do\n" + " So far ask pardon as befits mine honour\n" + " To stoop in such a case.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS 'Tis noble spoken.\n\n" + "MECAENAS If it might please you, to enforce no further\n" + " The griefs between ye: to forget them quite\n" + " Were to remember that the present need\n" + " Speaks to atone you.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Worthily spoken, Mecaenas.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Or, if you borrow one another's love for the\n" + " instant, you may, when you hear no more words of\n" + " Pompey, return it again: you shall have time to\n" + " wrangle in when you have nothing else to do.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Thou art a soldier only: speak no more.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY You wrong this presence; therefore speak no more.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Go to, then; your considerate stone.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I do not much dislike the matter, but\n" + " The manner of his speech; for't cannot be\n" + " We shall remain in friendship, our conditions\n" + " So differing in their acts. Yet if I knew\n" + " What hoop should hold us stanch, from edge to edge\n" + " O' the world I would pursue it.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Give me leave, Caesar,--\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Speak, Agrippa.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Thou hast a sister by the mother's side,\n" + " Admired Octavia: great Mark Antony\n" + " Is now a widower.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Say not so, Agrippa:\n" + " If Cleopatra heard you, your reproof\n" + " Were well deserved of rashness.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I am not married, Caesar: let me hear\n" + " Agrippa further speak.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA To hold you in perpetual amity,\n" + " To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts\n" + " With an unslipping knot, take Antony\n" + " Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims\n" + " No worse a husband than the best of men;\n" + " Whose virtue and whose general graces speak\n" + " That which none else can utter. By this marriage,\n" + " All little jealousies, which now seem great,\n" + " And all great fears, which now import their dangers,\n" + " Would then be nothing: truths would be tales,\n" + " Where now half tales be truths: her love to both\n" + " Would, each to other and all loves to both,\n" + " Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke;\n" + " For 'tis a studied, not a present thought,\n" + " By duty ruminated.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Will Caesar speak?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Not till he hears how Antony is touch'd\n" + " With what is spoke already.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY What power is in Agrippa,\n" + " If I would say, 'Agrippa, be it so,'\n" + " To make this good?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR The power of Caesar, and\n" + " His power unto Octavia.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY May I never\n" + " To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,\n" + " Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:\n" + " Further this act of grace: and from this hour\n" + " The heart of brothers govern in our loves\n" + " And sway our great designs!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR There is my hand.\n" + " A sister I bequeath you, whom no brother\n" + " Did ever love so dearly: let her live\n" + " To join our kingdoms and our hearts; and never\n" + " Fly off our loves again!\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Happily, amen!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I did not think to draw my sword 'gainst Pompey;\n" + " For he hath laid strange courtesies and great\n" + " Of late upon me: I must thank him only,\n" + " Lest my remembrance suffer ill report;\n" + " At heel of that, defy him.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Time calls upon's:\n" + " Of us must Pompey presently be sought,\n" + " Or else he seeks out us.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Where lies he?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR About the mount Misenum.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY What is his strength by land?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Great and increasing: but by sea\n" + " He is an absolute master.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY So is the fame.\n" + " Would we had spoke together! Haste we for it:\n" + " Yet, ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we\n" + " The business we have talk'd of.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR With most gladness:\n" + " And do invite you to my sister's view,\n" + " Whither straight I'll lead you.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Let us, Lepidus,\n" + " Not lack your company.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Noble Antony,\n" + " Not sickness should detain me.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY,\n" + " and LEPIDUS]\n\n" + "MECAENAS Welcome from Egypt, sir.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Half the heart of Caesar, worthy Mecaenas! My\n" + " honourable friend, Agrippa!\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Good Enobarbus!\n\n" + "MECAENAS We have cause to be glad that matters are so well\n" + " digested. You stayed well by 't in Egypt.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Ay, sir; we did sleep day out of countenance, and\n" + " made the night light with drinking.\n\n" + "MECAENAS Eight wild-boars roasted whole at a breakfast, and\n" + " but twelve persons there; is this true?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS This was but as a fly by an eagle: we had much more\n" + " monstrous matter of feast, which worthily deserved noting.\n\n" + "MECAENAS She's a most triumphant lady, if report be square to\n" + " her.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up\n" + " his heart, upon the river of Cydnus.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA There she appeared indeed; or my reporter devised\n" + " well for her.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I will tell you.\n" + " The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,\n" + " Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold;\n" + " Purple the sails, and so perfumed that\n" + " The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,\n" + " Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made\n" + " The water which they beat to follow faster,\n" + " As amorous of their strokes. For her own person,\n" + " It beggar'd all description: she did lie\n" + " In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue--\n" + " O'er-picturing that Venus where we see\n" + " The fancy outwork nature: on each side her\n" + " Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,\n" + " With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem\n" + " To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,\n" + " And what they undid did.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA O, rare for Antony!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides,\n" + " So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes,\n" + " And made their bends adornings: at the helm\n" + " A seeming mermaid steers: the silken tackle\n" + " Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands,\n" + " That yarely frame the office. From the barge\n" + " A strange invisible perfume hits the sense\n" + " Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast\n" + " Her people out upon her; and Antony,\n" + " Enthroned i' the market-place, did sit alone,\n" + " Whistling to the air; which, but for vacancy,\n" + " Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too,\n" + " And made a gap in nature.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Rare Egyptian!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Upon her landing, Antony sent to her,\n" + " Invited her to supper: she replied,\n" + " It should be better he became her guest;\n" + " Which she entreated: our courteous Antony,\n" + " Whom ne'er the word of 'No' woman heard speak,\n" + " Being barber'd ten times o'er, goes to the feast,\n" + " And for his ordinary pays his heart\n" + " For what his eyes eat only.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Royal wench!\n" + " She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed:\n" + " He plough'd her, and she cropp'd.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I saw her once\n" + " Hop forty paces through the public street;\n" + " And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,\n" + " That she did make defect perfection,\n" + " And, breathless, power breathe forth.\n\n" + "MECAENAS Now Antony must leave her utterly.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Never; he will not:\n" + " Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale\n" + " Her infinite variety: other women cloy\n" + " The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry\n" + " Where most she satisfies; for vilest things\n" + " Become themselves in her: that the holy priests\n" + " Bless her when she is riggish.\n\n" + "MECAENAS If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle\n" + " The heart of Antony, Octavia is\n" + " A blessed lottery to him.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Let us go.\n" + " Good Enobarbus, make yourself my guest\n" + " Whilst you abide here.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Humbly, sir, I thank you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY, OCTAVIUS CAESAR, OCTAVIA between\n" + " them, and Attendants]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY The world and my great office will sometimes\n" + " Divide me from your bosom.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA All which time\n" + " Before the gods my knee shall bow my prayers\n" + " To them for you.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Good night, sir. My Octavia,\n" + " Read not my blemishes in the world's report:\n" + " I have not kept my square; but that to come\n" + " Shall all be done by the rule. Good night, dear lady.\n" + " Good night, sir.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Good night.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and OCTAVIA]\n\n" + " [Enter Soothsayer]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Now, sirrah; you do wish yourself in Egypt?\n\n" + "Soothsayer Would I had never come from thence, nor you Thither!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY If you can, your reason?\n\n" + "Soothsayer I see it in\n" + " My motion, have it not in my tongue: but yet\n" + " Hie you to Egypt again.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Say to me,\n" + " Whose fortunes shall rise higher, Caesar's or mine?\n\n" + "Soothsayer Caesar's.\n" + " Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side:\n" + " Thy demon, that's thy spirit which keeps thee, is\n" + " Noble, courageous high, unmatchable,\n" + " Where Caesar's is not; but, near him, thy angel\n" + " Becomes a fear, as being o'erpower'd: therefore\n" + " Make space enough between you.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Speak this no more.\n\n" + "Soothsayer To none but thee; no more, but when to thee.\n" + " If thou dost play with him at any game,\n" + " Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck,\n" + " He beats thee 'gainst the odds: thy lustre thickens,\n" + " When he shines by: I say again, thy spirit\n" + " Is all afraid to govern thee near him;\n" + " But, he away, 'tis noble.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Get thee gone:\n" + " Say to Ventidius I would speak with him:\n\n" + " [Exit Soothsayer]\n\n" + " He shall to Parthia. Be it art or hap,\n" + " He hath spoken true: the very dice obey him;\n" + " And in our sports my better cunning faints\n" + " Under his chance: if we draw lots, he speeds;\n" + " His cocks do win the battle still of mine,\n" + " When it is all to nought; and his quails ever\n" + " Beat mine, inhoop'd, at odds. I will to Egypt:\n" + " And though I make this marriage for my peace,\n" + " I' the east my pleasure lies.\n\n" + " [Enter VENTIDIUS]\n\n" + " O, come, Ventidius,\n" + " You must to Parthia: your commission's ready;\n" + " Follow me, and receive't.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEPIDUS, MECAENAS, and AGRIPPA]\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Trouble yourselves no further: pray you, hasten\n" + " Your generals after.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Sir, Mark Antony\n" + " Will e'en but kiss Octavia, and we'll follow.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Till I shall see you in your soldier's dress,\n" + " Which will become you both, farewell.\n\n" + "MECAENAS We shall,\n" + " As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount\n" + " Before you, Lepidus.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Your way is shorter;\n" + " My purposes do draw me much about:\n" + " You'll win two days upon me.\n\n\n" + "MECAENAS |\n" + " | Sir, good success!\n" + "AGRIPPA |\n\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Give me some music; music, moody food\n" + " Of us that trade in love.\n\n" + "Attendants The music, ho!\n\n" + " [Enter MARDIAN]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Let it alone; let's to billiards: come, Charmian.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN My arm is sore; best play with Mardian.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA As well a woman with an eunuch play'd\n" + " As with a woman. Come, you'll play with me, sir?\n\n" + "MARDIAN As well as I can, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA And when good will is show'd, though't come\n" + " too short,\n" + " The actor may plead pardon. I'll none now:\n" + " Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there,\n" + " My music playing far off, I will betray\n" + " Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce\n" + " Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,\n" + " I'll think them every one an Antony,\n" + " And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'\n\n" + "CHARMIAN 'Twas merry when\n" + " You wager'd on your angling; when your diver\n" + " Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he\n" + " With fervency drew up.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA That time,--O times!--\n" + " I laugh'd him out of patience; and that night\n" + " I laugh'd him into patience; and next morn,\n" + " Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed;\n" + " Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst\n" + " I wore his sword Philippan.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " O, from Italy\n" + " Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears,\n" + " That long time have been barren.\n\n" + "Messenger Madam, madam,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Antonius dead!--If thou say so, villain,\n" + " Thou kill'st thy mistress: but well and free,\n" + " If thou so yield him, there is gold, and here\n" + " My bluest veins to kiss; a hand that kings\n" + " Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing.\n\n" + "Messenger First, madam, he is well.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Why, there's more gold.\n" + " But, sirrah, mark, we use\n" + " To say the dead are well: bring it to that,\n" + " The gold I give thee will I melt and pour\n" + " Down thy ill-uttering throat.\n\n" + "Messenger Good madam, hear me.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Well, go to, I will;\n" + " But there's no goodness in thy face: if Antony\n" + " Be free and healthful,--so tart a favour\n" + " To trumpet such good tidings! If not well,\n" + " Thou shouldst come like a Fury crown'd with snakes,\n" + " Not like a formal man.\n\n" + "Messenger Will't please you hear me?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I have a mind to strike thee ere thou speak'st:\n" + " Yet if thou say Antony lives, is well,\n" + " Or friends with Caesar, or not captive to him,\n" + " I'll set thee in a shower of gold, and hail\n" + " Rich pearls upon thee.\n\n" + "Messenger Madam, he's well.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Well said.\n\n" + "Messenger And friends with Caesar.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Thou'rt an honest man.\n\n" + "Messenger Caesar and he are greater friends than ever.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Make thee a fortune from me.\n\n" + "Messenger But yet, madam,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I do not like 'But yet,' it does allay\n" + " The good precedence; fie upon 'But yet'!\n" + " 'But yet' is as a gaoler to bring forth\n" + " Some monstrous malefactor. Prithee, friend,\n" + " Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear,\n" + " The good and bad together: he's friends with Caesar:\n" + " In state of health thou say'st; and thou say'st free.\n\n" + "Messenger Free, madam! no; I made no such report:\n" + " He's bound unto Octavia.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA For what good turn?\n\n" + "Messenger For the best turn i' the bed.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I am pale, Charmian.\n\n" + "Messenger Madam, he's married to Octavia.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA The most infectious pestilence upon thee!\n\n" + " [Strikes him down]\n\n" + "Messenger Good madam, patience.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What say you? Hence,\n\n" + " [Strikes him again]\n\n" + " Horrible villain! or I'll spurn thine eyes\n" + " Like balls before me; I'll unhair thy head:\n\n" + " [She hales him up and down]\n\n" + " Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine,\n" + " Smarting in lingering pickle.\n\n" + "Messenger Gracious madam,\n" + " I that do bring the news made not the match.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Say 'tis not so, a province I will give thee,\n" + " And make thy fortunes proud: the blow thou hadst\n" + " Shall make thy peace for moving me to rage;\n" + " And I will boot thee with what gift beside\n" + " Thy modesty can beg.\n\n" + "Messenger He's married, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Rogue, thou hast lived too long.\n\n" + " [Draws a knife]\n\n" + "Messenger Nay, then I'll run.\n" + " What mean you, madam? I have made no fault.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Good madam, keep yourself within yourself:\n" + " The man is innocent.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.\n" + " Melt Egypt into Nile! and kindly creatures\n" + " Turn all to serpents! Call the slave again:\n" + " Though I am mad, I will not bite him: call.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN He is afeard to come.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I will not hurt him.\n\n" + " [Exit CHARMIAN]\n\n" + " These hands do lack nobility, that they strike\n" + " A meaner than myself; since I myself\n" + " Have given myself the cause.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CHARMIAN and Messenger]\n\n" + " Come hither, sir.\n" + " Though it be honest, it is never good\n" + " To bring bad news: give to a gracious message.\n" + " An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell\n" + " Themselves when they be felt.\n\n" + "Messenger I have done my duty.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Is he married?\n" + " I cannot hate thee worser than I do,\n" + " If thou again say 'Yes.'\n\n" + "Messenger He's married, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA The gods confound thee! dost thou hold there still?\n\n" + "Messenger Should I lie, madam?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O, I would thou didst,\n" + " So half my Egypt were submerged and made\n" + " A cistern for scaled snakes! Go, get thee hence:\n" + " Hadst thou Narcissus in thy face, to me\n" + " Thou wouldst appear most ugly. He is married?\n\n" + "Messenger I crave your highness' pardon.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA He is married?\n\n" + "Messenger Take no offence that I would not offend you:\n" + " To punish me for what you make me do.\n" + " Seems much unequal: he's married to Octavia.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O, that his fault should make a knave of thee,\n" + " That art not what thou'rt sure of! Get thee hence:\n" + " The merchandise which thou hast brought from Rome\n" + " Are all too dear for me: lie they upon thy hand,\n" + " And be undone by 'em!\n\n" + " [Exit Messenger]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Good your highness, patience.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Many times, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I am paid for't now.\n" + " Lead me from hence:\n" + " I faint: O Iras, Charmian! 'tis no matter.\n" + " Go to the fellow, good Alexas; bid him\n" + " Report the feature of Octavia, her years,\n" + " Her inclination, let him not leave out\n" + " The colour of her hair: bring me word quickly.\n\n" + " [Exit ALEXAS]\n\n" + " Let him for ever go:--let him not--Charmian,\n" + " Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,\n" + " The other way's a Mars. Bid you Alexas\n\n" + " [To MARDIAN]\n\n" + " Bring me word how tall she is. Pity me, Charmian,\n" + " But do not speak to me. Lead me to my chamber.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Near Misenum.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter POMPEY and MENAS at one door,\n" + " with drum and trumpet: at another, OCTAVIUS CAESAR,\n" + " MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MECAENAS,\n" + " with Soldiers marching]\n\n" + "POMPEY Your hostages I have, so have you mine;\n" + " And we shall talk before we fight.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Most meet\n" + " That first we come to words; and therefore have we\n" + " Our written purposes before us sent;\n" + " Which, if thou hast consider'd, let us know\n" + " If 'twill tie up thy discontented sword,\n" + " And carry back to Sicily much tall youth\n" + " That else must perish here.\n\n" + "POMPEY To you all three,\n" + " The senators alone of this great world,\n" + " Chief factors for the gods, I do not know\n" + " Wherefore my father should revengers want,\n" + " Having a son and friends; since Julius Caesar,\n" + " Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted,\n" + " There saw you labouring for him. What was't\n" + " That moved pale Cassius to conspire; and what\n" + " Made the all-honour'd, honest Roman, Brutus,\n" + " With the arm'd rest, courtiers and beauteous freedom,\n" + " To drench the Capitol; but that they would\n" + " Have one man but a man? And that is it\n" + " Hath made me rig my navy; at whose burthen\n" + " The anger'd ocean foams; with which I meant\n" + " To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful Rome\n" + " Cast on my noble father.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Take your time.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails;\n" + " We'll speak with thee at sea: at land, thou know'st\n" + " How much we do o'er-count thee.\n\n" + "POMPEY At land, indeed,\n" + " Thou dost o'er-count me of my father's house:\n" + " But, since the cuckoo builds not for himself,\n" + " Remain in't as thou mayst.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Be pleased to tell us--\n" + " For this is from the present--how you take\n" + " The offers we have sent you.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR There's the point.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Which do not be entreated to, but weigh\n" + " What it is worth embraced.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR And what may follow,\n" + " To try a larger fortune.\n\n" + "POMPEY You have made me offer\n" + " Of Sicily, Sardinia; and I must\n" + " Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send\n" + " Measures of wheat to Rome; this 'greed upon\n" + " To part with unhack'd edges, and bear back\n" + " Our targes undinted.\n\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR |\n" + " |\n" + "MARK ANTONY | That's our offer.\n" + " |\n" + "LEPIDUS |\n\n\n" + "POMPEY Know, then,\n" + " I came before you here a man prepared\n" + " To take this offer: but Mark Antony\n" + " Put me to some impatience: though I lose\n" + " The praise of it by telling, you must know,\n" + " When Caesar and your brother were at blows,\n" + " Your mother came to Sicily and did find\n" + " Her welcome friendly.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I have heard it, Pompey;\n" + " And am well studied for a liberal thanks\n" + " Which I do owe you.\n\n" + "POMPEY Let me have your hand:\n" + " I did not think, sir, to have met you here.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,\n" + " That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;\n" + " For I have gain'd by 't.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Since I saw you last,\n" + " There is a change upon you.\n\n" + "POMPEY Well, I know not\n" + " What counts harsh fortune casts upon my face;\n" + " But in my bosom shall she never come,\n" + " To make my heart her vassal.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Well met here.\n\n" + "POMPEY I hope so, Lepidus. Thus we are agreed:\n" + " I crave our composition may be written,\n" + " And seal'd between us.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR That's the next to do.\n\n" + "POMPEY We'll feast each other ere we part; and let's\n" + " Draw lots who shall begin.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY That will I, Pompey.\n\n" + "POMPEY No, Antony, take the lot: but, first\n" + " Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery\n" + " Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar\n" + " Grew fat with feasting there.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY You have heard much.\n\n" + "POMPEY I have fair meanings, sir.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY And fair words to them.\n\n" + "POMPEY Then so much have I heard:\n" + " And I have heard, Apollodorus carried--\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS No more of that: he did so.\n\n" + "POMPEY What, I pray you?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS A certain queen to Caesar in a mattress.\n\n" + "POMPEY I know thee now: how farest thou, soldier?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Well;\n" + " And well am like to do; for, I perceive,\n" + " Four feasts are toward.\n\n" + "POMPEY Let me shake thy hand;\n" + " I never hated thee: I have seen thee fight,\n" + " When I have envied thy behavior.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Sir,\n" + " I never loved you much; but I ha' praised ye,\n" + " When you have well deserved ten times as much\n" + " As I have said you did.\n\n" + "POMPEY Enjoy thy plainness,\n" + " It nothing ill becomes thee.\n" + " Aboard my galley I invite you all:\n" + " Will you lead, lords?\n\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR |\n" + " |\n" + "MARK ANTONY | Show us the way, sir.\n" + " |\n" + "LEPIDUS |\n\n\n" + "POMPEY Come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but MENAS and ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "MENAS [Aside] Thy father, Pompey, would ne'er have\n" + " made this treaty.--You and I have known, sir.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS At sea, I think.\n\n" + "MENAS We have, sir.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS You have done well by water.\n\n" + "MENAS And you by land.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I will praise any man that will praise me; though it\n" + " cannot be denied what I have done by land.\n\n" + "MENAS Nor what I have done by water.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Yes, something you can deny for your own\n" + " safety: you have been a great thief by sea.\n\n" + "MENAS And you by land.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS There I deny my land service. But give me your\n" + " hand, Menas: if our eyes had authority, here they\n" + " might take two thieves kissing.\n\n" + "MENAS All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS But there is never a fair woman has a true face.\n\n" + "MENAS No slander; they steal hearts.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS We came hither to fight with you.\n\n" + "MENAS For my part, I am sorry it is turned to a drinking.\n" + " Pompey doth this day laugh away his fortune.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS If he do, sure, he cannot weep't back again.\n\n" + "MENAS You've said, sir. We looked not for Mark Antony\n" + " here: pray you, is he married to Cleopatra?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Caesar's sister is called Octavia.\n\n" + "MENAS True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS But she is now the wife of Marcus Antonius.\n\n" + "MENAS Pray ye, sir?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 'Tis true.\n\n" + "MENAS Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS If I were bound to divine of this unity, I would\n" + " not prophesy so.\n\n" + "MENAS I think the policy of that purpose made more in the\n" + " marriage than the love of the parties.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I think so too. But you shall find, the band that\n" + " seems to tie their friendship together will be the\n" + " very strangler of their amity: Octavia is of a\n" + " holy, cold, and still conversation.\n\n" + "MENAS Who would not have his wife so?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Not he that himself is not so; which is Mark Antony.\n" + " He will to his Egyptian dish again: then shall the\n" + " sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar; and, as\n" + " I said before, that which is the strength of their\n" + " amity shall prove the immediate author of their\n" + " variance. Antony will use his affection where it is:\n" + " he married but his occasion here.\n\n" + "MENAS And thus it may be. Come, sir, will you aboard?\n" + " I have a health for you.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I shall take it, sir: we have used our throats in Egypt.\n\n" + "MENAS Come, let's away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII On board POMPEY's galley, off Misenum.\n\n\n" + " [Music plays. Enter two or three Servants with\n" + " a banquet]\n\n" + "First Servant Here they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are\n" + " ill-rooted already: the least wind i' the world\n" + " will blow them down.\n\n" + "Second Servant Lepidus is high-coloured.\n\n" + "First Servant They have made him drink alms-drink.\n\n" + "Second Servant As they pinch one another by the disposition, he\n" + " cries out 'No more;' reconciles them to his\n" + " entreaty, and himself to the drink.\n\n" + "First Servant But it raises the greater war between him and\n" + " his discretion.\n\n" + "Second Servant Why, this is to have a name in great men's\n" + " fellowship: I had as lief have a reed that will do\n" + " me no service as a partisan I could not heave.\n\n" + "First Servant To be called into a huge sphere, and not to be seen\n" + " to move in't, are the holes where eyes should be,\n" + " which pitifully disaster the cheeks.\n\n" + " [A sennet sounded. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK\n" + " ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POMPEY, AGRIPPA, MECAENAS,\n" + " DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, MENAS, with other captains]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY [To OCTAVIUS CAESAR] Thus do they, sir: they take\n" + " the flow o' the Nile\n" + " By certain scales i' the pyramid; they know,\n" + " By the height, the lowness, or the mean, if dearth\n" + " Or foison follow: the higher Nilus swells,\n" + " The more it promises: as it ebbs, the seedsman\n" + " Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,\n" + " And shortly comes to harvest.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS You've strange serpents there.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Ay, Lepidus.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the\n" + " operation of your sun: so is your crocodile.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY They are so.\n\n" + "POMPEY Sit,--and some wine! A health to Lepidus!\n\n" + "LEPIDUS I am not so well as I should be, but I'll ne'er out.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Not till you have slept; I fear me you'll be in till then.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Nay, certainly, I have heard the Ptolemies'\n" + " pyramises are very goodly things; without\n" + " contradiction, I have heard that.\n\n" + "MENAS [Aside to POMPEY] Pompey, a word.\n\n" + "POMPEY [Aside to MENAS] Say in mine ear:\n" + " what is't?\n\n" + "MENAS [Aside to POMPEY] Forsake thy seat, I do beseech\n" + " thee, captain,\n" + " And hear me speak a word.\n\n" + "POMPEY [Aside to MENAS] Forbear me till anon.\n" + " This wine for Lepidus!\n\n" + "LEPIDUS What manner o' thing is your crocodile?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad\n" + " as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is,\n" + " and moves with its own organs: it lives by that\n" + " which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of\n" + " it, it transmigrates.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS What colour is it of?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Of it own colour too.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS 'Tis a strange serpent.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY 'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Will this description satisfy him?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY With the health that Pompey gives him, else he is a\n" + " very epicure.\n\n" + "POMPEY [Aside to MENAS] Go hang, sir, hang! Tell me of\n" + " that? away!\n" + " Do as I bid you. Where's this cup I call'd for?\n\n" + "MENAS [Aside to POMPEY] If for the sake of merit thou\n" + " wilt hear me,\n" + " Rise from thy stool.\n\n" + "POMPEY [Aside to MENAS] I think thou'rt mad.\n" + " The matter?\n\n" + " [Rises, and walks aside]\n\n" + "MENAS I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.\n\n" + "POMPEY Thou hast served me with much faith. What's else to say?\n" + " Be jolly, lords.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY These quick-sands, Lepidus,\n" + " Keep off them, for you sink.\n\n" + "MENAS Wilt thou be lord of all the world?\n\n" + "POMPEY What say'st thou?\n\n" + "MENAS Wilt thou be lord of the whole world? That's twice.\n\n" + "POMPEY How should that be?\n\n" + "MENAS But entertain it,\n" + " And, though thou think me poor, I am the man\n" + " Will give thee all the world.\n\n" + "POMPEY Hast thou drunk well?\n\n" + "MENAS Now, Pompey, I have kept me from the cup.\n" + " Thou art, if thou darest be, the earthly Jove:\n" + " Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips,\n" + " Is thine, if thou wilt ha't.\n\n" + "POMPEY Show me which way.\n\n" + "MENAS These three world-sharers, these competitors,\n" + " Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable;\n" + " And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:\n" + " All there is thine.\n\n" + "POMPEY Ah, this thou shouldst have done,\n" + " And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany;\n" + " In thee't had been good service. Thou must know,\n" + " 'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;\n" + " Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue\n" + " Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown,\n" + " I should have found it afterwards well done;\n" + " But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.\n\n" + "MENAS [Aside] For this,\n" + " I'll never follow thy pall'd fortunes more.\n" + " Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd,\n" + " Shall never find it more.\n\n" + "POMPEY This health to Lepidus!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Bear him ashore. I'll pledge it for him, Pompey.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Here's to thee, Menas!\n\n" + "MENAS Enobarbus, welcome!\n\n" + "POMPEY Fill till the cup be hid.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS There's a strong fellow, Menas.\n\n" + " [Pointing to the Attendant who carries off LEPIDUS]\n\n" + "MENAS Why?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS A' bears the third part of the world, man; see'st\n" + " not?\n\n" + "MENAS The third part, then, is drunk: would it were all,\n" + " That it might go on wheels!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Drink thou; increase the reels.\n\n" + "MENAS Come.\n\n" + "POMPEY This is not yet an Alexandrian feast.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY It ripens towards it. Strike the vessels, ho?\n" + " Here is to Caesar!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I could well forbear't.\n" + " It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain,\n" + " And it grows fouler.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Be a child o' the time.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Possess it, I'll make answer:\n" + " But I had rather fast from all four days\n" + " Than drink so much in one.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Ha, my brave emperor!\n\n" + " [To MARK ANTONY]\n\n" + " Shall we dance now the Egyptian Bacchanals,\n" + " And celebrate our drink?\n\n" + "POMPEY Let's ha't, good soldier.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Come, let's all take hands,\n" + " Till that the conquering wine hath steep'd our sense\n" + " In soft and delicate Lethe.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS All take hands.\n" + " Make battery to our ears with the loud music:\n" + " The while I'll place you: then the boy shall sing;\n" + " The holding every man shall bear as loud\n" + " As his strong sides can volley.\n\n" + " [Music plays. DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS places them\n" + " hand in hand]\n" + " THE SONG.\n\n" + " Come, thou monarch of the vine,\n" + " Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!\n" + " In thy fats our cares be drown'd,\n" + " With thy grapes our hairs be crown'd:\n" + " Cup us, till the world go round,\n" + " Cup us, till the world go round!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR What would you more? Pompey, good night. Good brother,\n" + " Let me request you off: our graver business\n" + " Frowns at this levity. Gentle lords, let's part;\n" + " You see we have burnt our cheeks: strong Enobarb\n" + " Is weaker than the wine; and mine own tongue\n" + " Splits what it speaks: the wild disguise hath almost\n" + " Antick'd us all. What needs more words? Good night.\n" + " Good Antony, your hand.\n\n" + "POMPEY I'll try you on the shore.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY And shall, sir; give's your hand.\n\n" + "POMPEY O Antony,\n" + " You have my father's house,--But, what? we are friends.\n" + " Come, down into the boat.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Take heed you fall not.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and MENAS]\n\n" + " Menas, I'll not on shore.\n\n" + "MENAS No, to my cabin.\n" + " These drums! these trumpets, flutes! what!\n" + " Let Neptune hear we bid a loud farewell\n" + " To these great fellows: sound and be hang'd, sound out!\n\n" + " [Sound a flourish, with drums]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Ho! says a' There's my cap.\n\n" + "MENAS Ho! Noble captain, come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A plain in Syria.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VENTIDIUS as it were in triumph, with SILIUS,\n" + " and other Romans, Officers, and Soldiers; the dead\n" + " body of PACORUS borne before him]\n\n" + "VENTIDIUS Now, darting Parthia, art thou struck; and now\n" + " Pleased fortune does of Marcus Crassus' death\n" + " Make me revenger. Bear the king's son's body\n" + " Before our army. Thy Pacorus, Orodes,\n" + " Pays this for Marcus Crassus.\n\n" + "SILIUS Noble Ventidius,\n" + " Whilst yet with Parthian blood thy sword is warm,\n" + " The fugitive Parthians follow; spur through Media,\n" + " Mesopotamia, and the shelters whither\n" + " The routed fly: so thy grand captain Antony\n" + " Shall set thee on triumphant chariots and\n" + " Put garlands on thy head.\n\n" + "VENTIDIUS O Silius, Silius,\n" + " I have done enough; a lower place, note well,\n" + " May make too great an act: for learn this, Silius;\n" + " Better to leave undone, than by our deed\n" + " Acquire too high a fame when him we serve's away.\n" + " Caesar and Antony have ever won\n" + " More in their officer than person: Sossius,\n" + " One of my place in Syria, his lieutenant,\n" + " For quick accumulation of renown,\n" + " Which he achieved by the minute, lost his favour.\n" + " Who does i' the wars more than his captain can\n" + " Becomes his captain's captain: and ambition,\n" + " The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss,\n" + " Than gain which darkens him.\n" + " I could do more to do Antonius good,\n" + " But 'twould offend him; and in his offence\n" + " Should my performance perish.\n\n" + "SILIUS Thou hast, Ventidius,\n" + " that\n" + " Without the which a soldier, and his sword,\n" + " Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony!\n\n" + "VENTIDIUS I'll humbly signify what in his name,\n" + " That magical word of war, we have effected;\n" + " How, with his banners and his well-paid ranks,\n" + " The ne'er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia\n" + " We have jaded out o' the field.\n\n" + "SILIUS Where is he now?\n\n" + "VENTIDIUS He purposeth to Athens: whither, with what haste\n" + " The weight we must convey with's will permit,\n" + " We shall appear before him. On there; pass along!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Rome. An ante-chamber in OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AGRIPPA at one door, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS\n" + " at another]\n\n" + "AGRIPPA What, are the brothers parted?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS They have dispatch'd with Pompey, he is gone;\n" + " The other three are sealing. Octavia weeps\n" + " To part from Rome; Caesar is sad; and Lepidus,\n" + " Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled\n" + " With the green sickness.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA 'Tis a noble Lepidus.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS A very fine one: O, how he loves Caesar!\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Nay, but how dearly he adores Mark Antony!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Caesar? Why, he's the Jupiter of men.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA What's Antony? The god of Jupiter.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Spake you of Caesar? How! the non-pareil!\n\n" + "AGRIPPA O Antony! O thou Arabian bird!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Would you praise Caesar, say 'Caesar:' go no further.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS But he loves Caesar best; yet he loves Antony:\n" + " Ho! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards,\n" + " poets, cannot\n" + " Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho!\n" + " His love to Antony. But as for Caesar,\n" + " Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Both he loves.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS They are his shards, and he their beetle.\n\n" + " [Trumpets within]\n" + " So;\n" + " This is to horse. Adieu, noble Agrippa.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Good fortune, worthy soldier; and farewell.\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, MARK ANTONY, LEPIDUS, and OCTAVIA]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY No further, sir.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR You take from me a great part of myself;\n" + " Use me well in 't. Sister, prove such a wife\n" + " As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band\n" + " Shall pass on thy approof. Most noble Antony,\n" + " Let not the piece of virtue, which is set\n" + " Betwixt us as the cement of our love,\n" + " To keep it builded, be the ram to batter\n" + " The fortress of it; for better might we\n" + " Have loved without this mean, if on both parts\n" + " This be not cherish'd.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Make me not offended\n" + " In your distrust.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I have said.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY You shall not find,\n" + " Though you be therein curious, the least cause\n" + " For what you seem to fear: so, the gods keep you,\n" + " And make the hearts of Romans serve your ends!\n" + " We will here part.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:\n" + " The elements be kind to thee, and make\n" + " Thy spirits all of comfort! fare thee well.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA My noble brother!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY The April 's in her eyes: it is love's spring,\n" + " And these the showers to bring it on. Be cheerful.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA Sir, look well to my husband's house; and--\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR What, Octavia?\n\n" + "OCTAVIA I'll tell you in your ear.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can\n" + " Her heart inform her tongue,--the swan's\n" + " down-feather,\n" + " That stands upon the swell at full of tide,\n" + " And neither way inclines.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside to AGRIPPA] Will Caesar weep?\n\n" + "AGRIPPA [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] He has a cloud in 's face.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside to AGRIPPA] He were the worse for that,\n" + " were he a horse;\n" + " So is he, being a man.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] Why, Enobarbus,\n" + " When Antony found Julius Caesar dead,\n" + " He cried almost to roaring; and he wept\n" + " When at Philippi he found Brutus slain.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside to AGRIPPA] That year, indeed, he was\n" + " troubled with a rheum;\n" + " What willingly he did confound he wail'd,\n" + " Believe't, till I wept too.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR No, sweet Octavia,\n" + " You shall hear from me still; the time shall not\n" + " Out-go my thinking on you.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Come, sir, come;\n" + " I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love:\n" + " Look, here I have you; thus I let you go,\n" + " And give you to the gods.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Adieu; be happy!\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Let all the number of the stars give light\n" + " To thy fair way!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Farewell, farewell!\n\n" + " [Kisses OCTAVIA]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Farewell!\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and ALEXAS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Where is the fellow?\n\n" + "ALEXAS Half afeard to come.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Go to, go to.\n\n" + " [Enter the Messenger as before]\n\n" + " Come hither, sir.\n\n" + "ALEXAS Good majesty,\n" + " Herod of Jewry dare not look upon you\n" + " But when you are well pleased.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA That Herod's head\n" + " I'll have: but how, when Antony is gone\n" + " Through whom I might command it? Come thou near.\n\n" + "Messenger Most gracious majesty,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Didst thou behold Octavia?\n\n" + "Messenger Ay, dread queen.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Where?\n\n" + "Messenger Madam, in Rome;\n" + " I look'd her in the face, and saw her led\n" + " Between her brother and Mark Antony.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Is she as tall as me?\n\n" + "Messenger She is not, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Didst hear her speak? is she shrill-tongued or low?\n\n" + "Messenger Madam, I heard her speak; she is low-voiced.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA That's not so good: he cannot like her long.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Like her! O Isis! 'tis impossible.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I think so, Charmian: dull of tongue, and dwarfish!\n" + " What majesty is in her gait? Remember,\n" + " If e'er thou look'dst on majesty.\n\n" + "Messenger She creeps:\n" + " Her motion and her station are as one;\n" + " She shows a body rather than a life,\n" + " A statue than a breather.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Is this certain?\n\n" + "Messenger Or I have no observance.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Three in Egypt\n" + " Cannot make better note.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA He's very knowing;\n" + " I do perceive't: there's nothing in her yet:\n" + " The fellow has good judgment.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Excellent.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Guess at her years, I prithee.\n\n" + "Messenger Madam,\n" + " She was a widow,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Widow! Charmian, hark.\n\n" + "Messenger And I do think she's thirty.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Bear'st thou her face in mind? is't long or round?\n\n" + "Messenger Round even to faultiness.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA For the most part, too, they are foolish that are so.\n" + " Her hair, what colour?\n\n" + "Messenger Brown, madam: and her forehead\n" + " As low as she would wish it.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA There's gold for thee.\n" + " Thou must not take my former sharpness ill:\n" + " I will employ thee back again; I find thee\n" + " Most fit for business: go make thee ready;\n" + " Our letters are prepared.\n\n" + " [Exit Messenger]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN A proper man.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Indeed, he is so: I repent me much\n" + " That so I harried him. Why, methinks, by him,\n" + " This creature's no such thing.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Nothing, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA The man hath seen some majesty, and should know.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Hath he seen majesty? Isis else defend,\n" + " And serving you so long!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I have one thing more to ask him yet, good Charmian:\n" + " But 'tis no matter; thou shalt bring him to me\n" + " Where I will write. All may be well enough.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN I warrant you, madam.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Athens. A room in MARK ANTONY's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and OCTAVIA]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Nay, nay, Octavia, not only that,--\n" + " That were excusable, that, and thousands more\n" + " Of semblable import,--but he hath waged\n" + " New wars 'gainst Pompey; made his will, and read it\n" + " To public ear:\n" + " Spoke scantly of me: when perforce he could not\n" + " But pay me terms of honour, cold and sickly\n" + " He vented them; most narrow measure lent me:\n" + " When the best hint was given him, he not took't,\n" + " Or did it from his teeth.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA O my good lord,\n" + " Believe not all; or, if you must believe,\n" + " Stomach not all. A more unhappy lady,\n" + " If this division chance, ne'er stood between,\n" + " Praying for both parts:\n" + " The good gods me presently,\n" + " When I shall pray, 'O bless my lord and husband!'\n" + " Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud,\n" + " 'O, bless my brother!' Husband win, win brother,\n" + " Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway\n" + " 'Twixt these extremes at all.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Gentle Octavia,\n" + " Let your best love draw to that point, which seeks\n" + " Best to preserve it: if I lose mine honour,\n" + " I lose myself: better I were not yours\n" + " Than yours so branchless. But, as you requested,\n" + " Yourself shall go between 's: the mean time, lady,\n" + " I'll raise the preparation of a war\n" + " Shall stain your brother: make your soonest haste;\n" + " So your desires are yours.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA Thanks to my lord.\n" + " The Jove of power make me most weak, most weak,\n" + " Your reconciler! Wars 'twixt you twain would be\n" + " As if the world should cleave, and that slain men\n" + " Should solder up the rift.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY When it appears to you where this begins,\n" + " Turn your displeasure that way: for our faults\n" + " Can never be so equal, that your love\n" + " Can equally move with them. Provide your going;\n" + " Choose your own company, and command what cost\n" + " Your heart has mind to.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same. Another room.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS and EROS, meeting]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS How now, friend Eros!\n\n" + "EROS There's strange news come, sir.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS What, man?\n\n" + "EROS Caesar and Lepidus have made wars upon Pompey.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS This is old: what is the success?\n\n" + "EROS Caesar, having made use of him in the wars 'gainst\n" + " Pompey, presently denied him rivality; would not let\n" + " him partake in the glory of the action: and not\n" + " resting here, accuses him of letters he had formerly\n" + " wrote to Pompey; upon his own appeal, seizes him: so\n" + " the poor third is up, till death enlarge his confine.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more;\n" + " And throw between them all the food thou hast,\n" + " They'll grind the one the other. Where's Antony?\n\n" + "EROS He's walking in the garden--thus; and spurns\n" + " The rush that lies before him; cries, 'Fool Lepidus!'\n" + " And threats the throat of that his officer\n" + " That murder'd Pompey.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Our great navy's rigg'd.\n\n" + "EROS For Italy and Caesar. More, Domitius;\n" + " My lord desires you presently: my news\n" + " I might have told hereafter.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS 'Twill be naught:\n" + " But let it be. Bring me to Antony.\n\n" + "EROS Come, sir.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Rome. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Contemning Rome, he has done all this, and more,\n" + " In Alexandria: here's the manner of 't:\n" + " I' the market-place, on a tribunal silver'd,\n" + " Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold\n" + " Were publicly enthroned: at the feet sat\n" + " Caesarion, whom they call my father's son,\n" + " And all the unlawful issue that their lust\n" + " Since then hath made between them. Unto her\n" + " He gave the stablishment of Egypt; made her\n" + " Of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia,\n" + " Absolute queen.\n\n" + "MECAENAS This in the public eye?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I' the common show-place, where they exercise.\n" + " His sons he there proclaim'd the kings of kings:\n" + " Great Media, Parthia, and Armenia.\n" + " He gave to Alexander; to Ptolemy he assign'd\n" + " Syria, Cilicia, and Phoenicia: she\n" + " In the habiliments of the goddess Isis\n" + " That day appear'd; and oft before gave audience,\n" + " As 'tis reported, so.\n\n" + "MECAENAS Let Rome be thus Inform'd.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Who, queasy with his insolence\n" + " Already, will their good thoughts call from him.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR The people know it; and have now received\n" + " His accusations.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Who does he accuse?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Caesar: and that, having in Sicily\n" + " Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him\n" + " His part o' the isle: then does he say, he lent me\n" + " Some shipping unrestored: lastly, he frets\n" + " That Lepidus of the triumvirate\n" + " Should be deposed; and, being, that we detain\n" + " All his revenue.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Sir, this should be answer'd.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR 'Tis done already, and the messenger gone.\n" + " I have told him, Lepidus was grown too cruel;\n" + " That he his high authority abused,\n" + " And did deserve his change: for what I have conquer'd,\n" + " I grant him part; but then, in his Armenia,\n" + " And other of his conquer'd kingdoms, I\n" + " Demand the like.\n\n" + "MECAENAS He'll never yield to that.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Nor must not then be yielded to in this.\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIA with her train]\n\n" + "OCTAVIA Hail, Caesar, and my lord! hail, most dear Caesar!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR That ever I should call thee castaway!\n\n" + "OCTAVIA You have not call'd me so, nor have you cause.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Why have you stol'n upon us thus! You come not\n" + " Like Caesar's sister: the wife of Antony\n" + " Should have an army for an usher, and\n" + " The neighs of horse to tell of her approach\n" + " Long ere she did appear; the trees by the way\n" + " Should have borne men; and expectation fainted,\n" + " Longing for what it had not; nay, the dust\n" + " Should have ascended to the roof of heaven,\n" + " Raised by your populous troops: but you are come\n" + " A market-maid to Rome; and have prevented\n" + " The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown,\n" + " Is often left unloved; we should have met you\n" + " By sea and land; supplying every stage\n" + " With an augmented greeting.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA Good my lord,\n" + " To come thus was I not constrain'd, but did\n" + " On my free will. My lord, Mark Antony,\n" + " Hearing that you prepared for war, acquainted\n" + " My grieved ear withal; whereon, I begg'd\n" + " His pardon for return.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Which soon he granted,\n" + " Being an obstruct 'tween his lust and him.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA Do not say so, my lord.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR I have eyes upon him,\n" + " And his affairs come to me on the wind.\n" + " Where is he now?\n\n" + "OCTAVIA My lord, in Athens.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR No, my most wronged sister; Cleopatra\n" + " Hath nodded him to her. He hath given his empire\n" + " Up to a whore; who now are levying\n" + " The kings o' the earth for war; he hath assembled\n" + " Bocchus, the king of Libya; Archelaus,\n" + " Of Cappadocia; Philadelphos, king\n" + " Of Paphlagonia; the Thracian king, Adallas;\n" + " King Malchus of Arabia; King of Pont;\n" + " Herod of Jewry; Mithridates, king\n" + " Of Comagene; Polemon and Amyntas,\n" + " The kings of Mede and Lycaonia,\n" + " With a more larger list of sceptres.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA Ay me, most wretched,\n" + " That have my heart parted betwixt two friends\n" + " That do afflict each other!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Welcome hither:\n" + " Your letters did withhold our breaking forth;\n" + " Till we perceived, both how you were wrong led,\n" + " And we in negligent danger. Cheer your heart;\n" + " Be you not troubled with the time, which drives\n" + " O'er your content these strong necessities;\n" + " But let determined things to destiny\n" + " Hold unbewail'd their way. Welcome to Rome;\n" + " Nothing more dear to me. You are abused\n" + " Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods,\n" + " To do you justice, make them ministers\n" + " Of us and those that love you. Best of comfort;\n" + " And ever welcome to us.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Welcome, lady.\n\n" + "MECAENAS Welcome, dear madam.\n" + " Each heart in Rome does love and pity you:\n" + " Only the adulterous Antony, most large\n" + " In his abominations, turns you off;\n" + " And gives his potent regiment to a trull,\n" + " That noises it against us.\n\n" + "OCTAVIA Is it so, sir?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Most certain. Sister, welcome: pray you,\n" + " Be ever known to patience: my dear'st sister!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Near Actium. MARK ANTONY's camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I will be even with thee, doubt it not.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS But why, why, why?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Thou hast forspoke my being in these wars,\n" + " And say'st it is not fit.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Well, is it, is it?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA If not denounced against us, why should not we\n" + " Be there in person?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside] Well, I could reply:\n" + " If we should serve with horse and mares together,\n" + " The horse were merely lost; the mares would bear\n" + " A soldier and his horse.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What is't you say?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Your presence needs must puzzle Antony;\n" + " Take from his heart, take from his brain,\n" + " from's time,\n" + " What should not then be spared. He is already\n" + " Traduced for levity; and 'tis said in Rome\n" + " That Photinus an eunuch and your maids\n" + " Manage this war.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Sink Rome, and their tongues rot\n" + " That speak against us! A charge we bear i' the war,\n" + " And, as the president of my kingdom, will\n" + " Appear there for a man. Speak not against it:\n" + " I will not stay behind.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Nay, I have done.\n" + " Here comes the emperor.\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and CANIDIUS]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Is it not strange, Canidius,\n" + " That from Tarentum and Brundusium\n" + " He could so quickly cut the Ionian sea,\n" + " And take in Toryne? You have heard on't, sweet?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Celerity is never more admired\n" + " Than by the negligent.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY A good rebuke,\n" + " Which might have well becomed the best of men,\n" + " To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we\n" + " Will fight with him by sea.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA By sea! what else?\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Why will my lord do so?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY For that he dares us to't.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS So hath my lord dared him to single fight.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Ay, and to wage this battle at Pharsalia.\n" + " Where Caesar fought with Pompey: but these offers,\n" + " Which serve not for his vantage, be shakes off;\n" + " And so should you.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Your ships are not well mann'd;\n" + " Your mariners are muleters, reapers, people\n" + " Ingross'd by swift impress; in Caesar's fleet\n" + " Are those that often have 'gainst Pompey fought:\n" + " Their ships are yare; yours, heavy: no disgrace\n" + " Shall fall you for refusing him at sea,\n" + " Being prepared for land.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY By sea, by sea.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Most worthy sir, you therein throw away\n" + " The absolute soldiership you have by land;\n" + " Distract your army, which doth most consist\n" + " Of war-mark'd footmen; leave unexecuted\n" + " Your own renowned knowledge; quite forego\n" + " The way which promises assurance; and\n" + " Give up yourself merely to chance and hazard,\n" + " From firm security.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I'll fight at sea.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I have sixty sails, Caesar none better.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Our overplus of shipping will we burn;\n" + " And, with the rest full-mann'd, from the head of Actium\n" + " Beat the approaching Caesar. But if we fail,\n" + " We then can do't at land.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " Thy business?\n\n" + "Messenger The news is true, my lord; he is descried;\n" + " Caesar has taken Toryne.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Can he be there in person? 'tis impossible;\n" + " Strange that power should be. Canidius,\n" + " Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land,\n" + " And our twelve thousand horse. We'll to our ship:\n" + " Away, my Thetis!\n\n" + " [Enter a Soldier]\n\n" + " How now, worthy soldier?\n\n" + "Soldier O noble emperor, do not fight by sea;\n" + " Trust not to rotten planks: do you misdoubt\n" + " This sword and these my wounds? Let the Egyptians\n" + " And the Phoenicians go a-ducking; we\n" + " Have used to conquer, standing on the earth,\n" + " And fighting foot to foot.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Well, well: away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt MARK ANTONY, QUEEN CLEOPATRA, and DOMITIUS\n" + " ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "Soldier By Hercules, I think I am i' the right.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Soldier, thou art: but his whole action grows\n" + " Not in the power on't: so our leader's led,\n" + " And we are women's men.\n\n" + "Soldier You keep by land\n" + " The legions and the horse whole, do you not?\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Marcus Octavius, Marcus Justeius,\n" + " Publicola, and Caelius, are for sea:\n" + " But we keep whole by land. This speed of Caesar's\n" + " Carries beyond belief.\n\n" + "Soldier While he was yet in Rome,\n" + " His power went out in such distractions as\n" + " Beguiled all spies.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Who's his lieutenant, hear you?\n\n" + "Soldier They say, one Taurus.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Well I know the man.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger The emperor calls Canidius.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS With news the time's with labour, and throes forth,\n" + " Each minute, some.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII A plain near Actium.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and TAURUS, with his army, marching]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Taurus!\n\n" + "TAURUS My lord?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Strike not by land; keep whole: provoke not battle,\n" + " Till we have done at sea. Do not exceed\n" + " The prescript of this scroll: our fortune lies\n" + " Upon this jump.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IX Another part of the plain.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Set we our squadrons on yond side o' the hill,\n" + " In eye of Caesar's battle; from which place\n" + " We may the number of the ships behold,\n" + " And so proceed accordingly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n" + "SCENE X Another part of the plain.\n\n\n" + " [CANIDIUS marcheth with his land army one way over\n" + " the stage; and TAURUS, the lieutenant of OCTAVIUS\n" + " CAESAR, the other way. After their going in, is\n" + " heard the noise of a sea-fight]\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Naught, naught all, naught! I can behold no longer:\n" + " The Antoniad, the Egyptian admiral,\n" + " With all their sixty, fly and turn the rudder:\n" + " To see't mine eyes are blasted.\n\n" + " [Enter SCARUS]\n\n" + "SCARUS Gods and goddesses,\n" + " All the whole synod of them!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS What's thy passion!\n\n" + "SCARUS The greater cantle of the world is lost\n" + " With very ignorance; we have kiss'd away\n" + " Kingdoms and provinces.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS How appears the fight?\n\n" + "SCARUS On our side like the token'd pestilence,\n" + " Where death is sure. Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,--\n" + " Whom leprosy o'ertake!--i' the midst o' the fight,\n" + " When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd,\n" + " Both as the same, or rather ours the elder,\n" + " The breese upon her, like a cow in June,\n" + " Hoists sails and flies.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS That I beheld:\n" + " Mine eyes did sicken at the sight, and could not\n" + " Endure a further view.\n\n" + "SCARUS She once being loof'd,\n" + " The noble ruin of her magic, Antony,\n" + " Claps on his sea-wing, and, like a doting mallard,\n" + " Leaving the fight in height, flies after her:\n" + " I never saw an action of such shame;\n" + " Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before\n" + " Did violate so itself.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Alack, alack!\n\n" + " [Enter CANIDIUS]\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Our fortune on the sea is out of breath,\n" + " And sinks most lamentably. Had our general\n" + " Been what he knew himself, it had gone well:\n" + " O, he has given example for our flight,\n" + " Most grossly, by his own!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Ay, are you thereabouts?\n" + " Why, then, good night indeed.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS Toward Peloponnesus are they fled.\n\n" + "SCARUS 'Tis easy to't; and there I will attend\n" + " What further comes.\n\n" + "CANIDIUS To Caesar will I render\n" + " My legions and my horse: six kings already\n" + " Show me the way of yielding.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I'll yet follow\n" + " The wounded chance of Antony, though my reason\n" + " Sits in the wind against me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE XI Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY with Attendants]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Hark! the land bids me tread no more upon't;\n" + " It is ashamed to bear me! Friends, come hither:\n" + " I am so lated in the world, that I\n" + " Have lost my way for ever: I have a ship\n" + " Laden with gold; take that, divide it; fly,\n" + " And make your peace with Caesar.\n\n" + "All Fly! not we.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I have fled myself; and have instructed cowards\n" + " To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone;\n" + " I have myself resolved upon a course\n" + " Which has no need of you; be gone:\n" + " My treasure's in the harbour, take it. O,\n" + " I follow'd that I blush to look upon:\n" + " My very hairs do mutiny; for the white\n" + " Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them\n" + " For fear and doting. Friends, be gone: you shall\n" + " Have letters from me to some friends that will\n" + " Sweep your way for you. Pray you, look not sad,\n" + " Nor make replies of loathness: take the hint\n" + " Which my despair proclaims; let that be left\n" + " Which leaves itself: to the sea-side straightway:\n" + " I will possess you of that ship and treasure.\n" + " Leave me, I pray, a little: pray you now:\n" + " Nay, do so; for, indeed, I have lost command,\n" + " Therefore I pray you: I'll see you by and by.\n\n" + " [Sits down]\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA led by CHARMIAN and IRAS; EROS\n" + " following]\n\n" + "EROS Nay, gentle madam, to him, comfort him.\n\n" + "IRAS Do, most dear queen.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Do! why: what else?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Let me sit down. O Juno!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY No, no, no, no, no.\n\n" + "EROS See you here, sir?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY O fie, fie, fie!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Madam!\n\n" + "IRAS Madam, O good empress!\n\n" + "EROS Sir, sir,--\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept\n" + " His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck\n" + " The lean and wrinkled Cassius; and 'twas I\n" + " That the mad Brutus ended: he alone\n" + " Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practise had\n" + " In the brave squares of war: yet now--No matter.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Ah, stand by.\n\n" + "EROS The queen, my lord, the queen.\n\n" + "IRAS Go to him, madam, speak to him:\n" + " He is unqualitied with very shame.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Well then, sustain him: O!\n\n" + "EROS Most noble sir, arise; the queen approaches:\n" + " Her head's declined, and death will seize her, but\n" + " Your comfort makes the rescue.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I have offended reputation,\n" + " A most unnoble swerving.\n\n" + "EROS Sir, the queen.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See,\n" + " How I convey my shame out of thine eyes\n" + " By looking back what I have left behind\n" + " 'Stroy'd in dishonour.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O my lord, my lord,\n" + " Forgive my fearful sails! I little thought\n" + " You would have follow'd.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Egypt, thou knew'st too well\n" + " My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings,\n" + " And thou shouldst tow me after: o'er my spirit\n" + " Thy full supremacy thou knew'st, and that\n" + " Thy beck might from the bidding of the gods\n" + " Command me.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O, my pardon!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Now I must\n" + " To the young man send humble treaties, dodge\n" + " And palter in the shifts of lowness; who\n" + " With half the bulk o' the world play'd as I pleased,\n" + " Making and marring fortunes. You did know\n" + " How much you were my conqueror; and that\n" + " My sword, made weak by my affection, would\n" + " Obey it on all cause.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Pardon, pardon!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates\n" + " All that is won and lost: give me a kiss;\n" + " Even this repays me. We sent our schoolmaster;\n" + " Is he come back? Love, I am full of lead.\n" + " Some wine, within there, and our viands! Fortune knows\n" + " We scorn her most when most she offers blows.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE XII Egypt. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, DOLABELLA, THYREUS, with others]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Let him appear that's come from Antony.\n" + " Know you him?\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Caesar, 'tis his schoolmaster:\n" + " An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither\n" + " He sends so poor a pinion off his wing,\n" + " Which had superfluous kings for messengers\n" + " Not many moons gone by.\n\n" + " [Enter EUPHRONIUS, ambassador from MARK ANTONY]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Approach, and speak.\n\n" + "EUPHRONIUS Such as I am, I come from Antony:\n" + " I was of late as petty to his ends\n" + " As is the morn-dew on the myrtle-leaf\n" + " To his grand sea.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Be't so: declare thine office.\n\n" + "EUPHRONIUS Lord of his fortunes he salutes thee, and\n" + " Requires to live in Egypt: which not granted,\n" + " He lessens his requests; and to thee sues\n" + " To let him breathe between the heavens and earth,\n" + " A private man in Athens: this for him.\n" + " Next, Cleopatra does confess thy greatness;\n" + " Submits her to thy might; and of thee craves\n" + " The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs,\n" + " Now hazarded to thy grace.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR For Antony,\n" + " I have no ears to his request. The queen\n" + " Of audience nor desire shall fail, so she\n" + " From Egypt drive her all-disgraced friend,\n" + " Or take his life there: this if she perform,\n" + " She shall not sue unheard. So to them both.\n\n" + "EUPHRONIUS Fortune pursue thee!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Bring him through the bands.\n\n" + " [Exit EUPHRONIUS]\n\n" + " [To THYREUS] To try eloquence, now 'tis time: dispatch;\n" + " From Antony win Cleopatra: promise,\n" + " And in our name, what she requires; add more,\n" + " From thine invention, offers: women are not\n" + " In their best fortunes strong; but want will perjure\n" + " The ne'er touch'd vestal: try thy cunning, Thyreus;\n" + " Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we\n" + " Will answer as a law.\n\n" + "THYREUS Caesar, I go.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Observe how Antony becomes his flaw,\n" + " And what thou think'st his very action speaks\n" + " In every power that moves.\n\n" + "THYREUS Caesar, I shall.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE XIII Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, CHARMIAN, and IRAS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What shall we do, Enobarbus?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Think, and die.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Is Antony or we in fault for this?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Antony only, that would make his will\n" + " Lord of his reason. What though you fled\n" + " From that great face of war, whose several ranges\n" + " Frighted each other? why should he follow?\n" + " The itch of his affection should not then\n" + " Have nick'd his captainship; at such a point,\n" + " When half to half the world opposed, he being\n" + " The meered question: 'twas a shame no less\n" + " Than was his loss, to course your flying flags,\n" + " And leave his navy gazing.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Prithee, peace.\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY with EUPHRONIUS, the Ambassador]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Is that his answer?\n\n" + "EUPHRONIUS Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY The queen shall then have courtesy, so she\n" + " Will yield us up.\n\n" + "EUPHRONIUS He says so.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Let her know't.\n" + " To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head,\n" + " And he will fill thy wishes to the brim\n" + " With principalities.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA That head, my lord?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY To him again: tell him he wears the rose\n" + " Of youth upon him; from which the world should note\n" + " Something particular: his coin, ships, legions,\n" + " May be a coward's; whose ministers would prevail\n" + " Under the service of a child as soon\n" + " As i' the command of Caesar: I dare him therefore\n" + " To lay his gay comparisons apart,\n" + " And answer me declined, sword against sword,\n" + " Ourselves alone. I'll write it: follow me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MARK ANTONY and EUPHRONIUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside] Yes, like enough, high-battled Caesar will\n" + " Unstate his happiness, and be staged to the show,\n" + " Against a sworder! I see men's judgments are\n" + " A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward\n" + " Do draw the inward quality after them,\n" + " To suffer all alike. That he should dream,\n" + " Knowing all measures, the full Caesar will\n" + " Answer his emptiness! Caesar, thou hast subdued\n" + " His judgment too.\n\n" + " [Enter an Attendant]\n\n" + "Attendant A messenger from CAESAR.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What, no more ceremony? See, my women!\n" + " Against the blown rose may they stop their nose\n" + " That kneel'd unto the buds. Admit him, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit Attendant]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside] Mine honesty and I begin to square.\n" + " The loyalty well held to fools does make\n" + " Our faith mere folly: yet he that can endure\n" + " To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord\n" + " Does conquer him that did his master conquer\n" + " And earns a place i' the story.\n\n" + " [Enter THYREUS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Caesar's will?\n\n" + "THYREUS Hear it apart.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA None but friends: say boldly.\n\n" + "THYREUS So, haply, are they friends to Antony.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has;\n" + " Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master\n" + " Will leap to be his friend: for us, you know,\n" + " Whose he is we are, and that is, Caesar's.\n\n" + "THYREUS So.\n" + " Thus then, thou most renown'd: Caesar entreats,\n" + " Not to consider in what case thou stand'st,\n" + " Further than he is Caesar.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Go on: right royal.\n\n" + "THYREUS He knows that you embrace not Antony\n" + " As you did love, but as you fear'd him.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O!\n\n" + "THYREUS The scars upon your honour, therefore, he\n" + " Does pity, as constrained blemishes,\n" + " Not as deserved.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA He is a god, and knows\n" + " What is most right: mine honour was not yielded,\n" + " But conquer'd merely.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside] To be sure of that,\n" + " I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so leaky,\n" + " That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for\n" + " Thy dearest quit thee.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "THYREUS Shall I say to Caesar\n" + " What you require of him? for he partly begs\n" + " To be desired to give. It much would please him,\n" + " That of his fortunes you should make a staff\n" + " To lean upon: but it would warm his spirits,\n" + " To hear from me you had left Antony,\n" + " And put yourself under his shrowd,\n" + " The universal landlord.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What's your name?\n\n" + "THYREUS My name is Thyreus.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Most kind messenger,\n" + " Say to great Caesar this: in deputation\n" + " I kiss his conquering hand: tell him, I am prompt\n" + " To lay my crown at 's feet, and there to kneel:\n" + " Tell him from his all-obeying breath I hear\n" + " The doom of Egypt.\n\n" + "THYREUS 'Tis your noblest course.\n" + " Wisdom and fortune combating together,\n" + " If that the former dare but what it can,\n" + " No chance may shake it. Give me grace to lay\n" + " My duty on your hand.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Your Caesar's father oft,\n" + " When he hath mused of taking kingdoms in,\n" + " Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,\n" + " As it rain'd kisses.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARK ANTONY and DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Favours, by Jove that thunders!\n" + " What art thou, fellow?\n\n" + "THYREUS One that but performs\n" + " The bidding of the fullest man, and worthiest\n" + " To have command obey'd.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside] You will be whipp'd.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Approach, there! Ah, you kite! Now, gods\n" + " and devils!\n" + " Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!'\n" + " Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth,\n" + " And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am\n" + " Antony yet.\n\n" + " [Enter Attendants]\n\n" + " Take hence this Jack, and whip him.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside] 'Tis better playing with a lion's whelp\n" + " Than with an old one dying.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Moon and stars!\n" + " Whip him. Were't twenty of the greatest tributaries\n" + " That do acknowledge Caesar, should I find them\n" + " So saucy with the hand of she here,--what's her name,\n" + " Since she was Cleopatra? Whip him, fellows,\n" + " Till, like a boy, you see him cringe his face,\n" + " And whine aloud for mercy: take him hence.\n\n" + "THYREUS Mark Antony!\n\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Tug him away: being whipp'd,\n" + " Bring him again: this Jack of Caesar's shall\n" + " Bear us an errand to him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Attendants with THYREUS]\n\n" + " You were half blasted ere I knew you: ha!\n" + " Have I my pillow left unpress'd in Rome,\n" + " Forborne the getting of a lawful race,\n" + " And by a gem of women, to be abused\n" + " By one that looks on feeders?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Good my lord,--\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY You have been a boggler ever:\n" + " But when we in our viciousness grow hard--\n" + " O misery on't!--the wise gods seel our eyes;\n" + " In our own filth drop our clear judgments; make us\n" + " Adore our errors; laugh at's, while we strut\n" + " To our confusion.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O, is't come to this?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I found you as a morsel cold upon\n" + " Dead Caesar's trencher; nay, you were a fragment\n" + " Of Cneius Pompey's; besides what hotter hours,\n" + " Unregister'd in vulgar fame, you have\n" + " Luxuriously pick'd out: for, I am sure,\n" + " Though you can guess what temperance should be,\n" + " You know not what it is.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Wherefore is this?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY To let a fellow that will take rewards\n" + " And say 'God quit you!' be familiar with\n" + " My playfellow, your hand; this kingly seal\n" + " And plighter of high hearts! O, that I were\n" + " Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar\n" + " The horned herd! for I have savage cause;\n" + " And to proclaim it civilly, were like\n" + " A halter'd neck which does the hangman thank\n" + " For being yare about him.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Attendants with THYREUS]\n\n" + " Is he whipp'd?\n\n" + "First Attendant Soundly, my lord.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Cried he? and begg'd a' pardon?\n\n" + "First Attendant He did ask favour.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY If that thy father live, let him repent\n" + " Thou wast not made his daughter; and be thou sorry\n" + " To follow Caesar in his triumph, since\n" + " Thou hast been whipp'd for following him: henceforth\n" + " The white hand of a lady fever thee,\n" + " Shake thou to look on 't. Get thee back to Caesar,\n" + " Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say\n" + " He makes me angry with him; for he seems\n" + " Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am,\n" + " Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry;\n" + " And at this time most easy 'tis to do't,\n" + " When my good stars, that were my former guides,\n" + " Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires\n" + " Into the abysm of hell. If he mislike\n" + " My speech and what is done, tell him he has\n" + " Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom\n" + " He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,\n" + " As he shall like, to quit me: urge it thou:\n" + " Hence with thy stripes, begone!\n\n" + " [Exit THYREUS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Have you done yet?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Alack, our terrene moon\n" + " Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone\n" + " The fall of Antony!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I must stay his time.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY To flatter Caesar, would you mingle eyes\n" + " With one that ties his points?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Not know me yet?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Cold-hearted toward me?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Ah, dear, if I be so,\n" + " From my cold heart let heaven engender hail,\n" + " And poison it in the source; and the first stone\n" + " Drop in my neck: as it determines, so\n" + " Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite!\n" + " Till by degrees the memory of my womb,\n" + " Together with my brave Egyptians all,\n" + " By the discandying of this pelleted storm,\n" + " Lie graveless, till the flies and gnats of Nile\n" + " Have buried them for prey!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I am satisfied.\n" + " Caesar sits down in Alexandria; where\n" + " I will oppose his fate. Our force by land\n" + " Hath nobly held; our sever'd navy too\n" + " Have knit again, and fleet, threatening most sea-like.\n" + " Where hast thou been, my heart? Dost thou hear, lady?\n" + " If from the field I shall return once more\n" + " To kiss these lips, I will appear in blood;\n" + " I and my sword will earn our chronicle:\n" + " There's hope in't yet.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA That's my brave lord!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I will be treble-sinew'd, hearted, breathed,\n" + " And fight maliciously: for when mine hours\n" + " Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives\n" + " Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth,\n" + " And send to darkness all that stop me. Come,\n" + " Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me\n" + " All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;\n" + " Let's mock the midnight bell.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA It is my birth-day:\n" + " I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord\n" + " Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY We will yet do well.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Call all his noble captains to my lord.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Do so, we'll speak to them; and to-night I'll force\n" + " The wine peep through their scars. Come on, my queen;\n" + " There's sap in't yet. The next time I do fight,\n" + " I'll make death love me; for I will contend\n" + " Even with his pestilent scythe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious,\n" + " Is to be frighted out of fear; and in that mood\n" + " The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still,\n" + " A diminution in our captain's brain\n" + " Restores his heart: when valour preys on reason,\n" + " It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek\n" + " Some way to leave him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, and MECAENAS, with\n" + " his Army; OCTAVIUS CAESAR reading a letter]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power\n" + " To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger\n" + " He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat,\n" + " Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know\n" + " I have many other ways to die; meantime\n" + " Laugh at his challenge.\n\n" + "MECAENAS Caesar must think,\n" + " When one so great begins to rage, he's hunted\n" + " Even to falling. Give him no breath, but now\n" + " Make boot of his distraction: never anger\n" + " Made good guard for itself.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Let our best heads\n" + " Know, that to-morrow the last of many battles\n" + " We mean to fight: within our files there are,\n" + " Of those that served Mark Antony but late,\n" + " Enough to fetch him in. See it done:\n" + " And feast the army; we have store to do't,\n" + " And they have earn'd the waste. Poor Antony!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Alexandria. CLEOPATRA's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY, CLEOPATRA, DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS,\n" + " CHARMIAN, IRAS, ALEXAS, with others]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY He will not fight with me, Domitius.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS No.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Why should he not?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS He thinks, being twenty times of better fortune,\n" + " He is twenty men to one.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY To-morrow, soldier,\n" + " By sea and land I'll fight: or I will live,\n" + " Or bathe my dying honour in the blood\n" + " Shall make it live again. Woo't thou fight well?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I'll strike, and cry 'Take all.'\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Well said; come on.\n" + " Call forth my household servants: let's to-night\n" + " Be bounteous at our meal.\n\n" + " [Enter three or four Servitors]\n\n" + " Give me thy hand,\n" + " Thou hast been rightly honest;--so hast thou;--\n" + " Thou,--and thou,--and thou:--you have served me well,\n" + " And kings have been your fellows.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What means this?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside to CLEOPATRA] 'Tis one of those odd\n" + " tricks which sorrow shoots\n" + " Out of the mind.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY And thou art honest too.\n" + " I wish I could be made so many men,\n" + " And all of you clapp'd up together in\n" + " An Antony, that I might do you service\n" + " So good as you have done.\n\n" + "All The gods forbid!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Well, my good fellows, wait on me to-night:\n" + " Scant not my cups; and make as much of me\n" + " As when mine empire was your fellow too,\n" + " And suffer'd my command.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA [Aside to DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS] What does he mean?\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS [Aside to CLEOPATRA] To make his followers weep.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Tend me to-night;\n" + " May be it is the period of your duty:\n" + " Haply you shall not see me more; or if,\n" + " A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow\n" + " You'll serve another master. I look on you\n" + " As one that takes his leave. Mine honest friends,\n" + " I turn you not away; but, like a master\n" + " Married to your good service, stay till death:\n" + " Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,\n" + " And the gods yield you for't!\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS What mean you, sir,\n" + " To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep;\n" + " And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame,\n" + " Transform us not to women.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Ho, ho, ho!\n" + " Now the witch take me, if I meant it thus!\n" + " Grace grow where those drops fall!\n" + " My hearty friends,\n" + " You take me in too dolorous a sense;\n" + " For I spake to you for your comfort; did desire you\n" + " To burn this night with torches: know, my hearts,\n" + " I hope well of to-morrow; and will lead you\n" + " Where rather I'll expect victorious life\n" + " Than death and honour. Let's to supper, come,\n" + " And drown consideration.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. Before the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Soldiers to their guard]\n\n" + "First Soldier Brother, good night: to-morrow is the day.\n\n" + "Second Soldier It will determine one way: fare you well.\n" + " Heard you of nothing strange about the streets?\n\n" + "First Soldier Nothing. What news?\n\n" + "Second Soldier Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you.\n\n" + "First Soldier Well, sir, good night.\n\n" + " [Enter two other Soldiers]\n\n" + "Second Soldier Soldiers, have careful watch.\n\n" + "Third Soldier And you. Good night, good night.\n\n" + " [They place themselves in every corner of the stage]\n\n" + "Fourth Soldier Here we: and if to-morrow\n" + " Our navy thrive, I have an absolute hope\n" + " Our landmen will stand up.\n\n" + "Third Soldier 'Tis a brave army,\n" + " And full of purpose.\n\n" + " [Music of the hautboys as under the stage]\n\n" + "Fourth Soldier Peace! what noise?\n\n" + "First Soldier List, list!\n\n" + "Second Soldier Hark!\n\n" + "First Soldier Music i' the air.\n\n" + "Third Soldier Under the earth.\n\n" + "Fourth Soldier It signs well, does it not?\n\n" + "Third Soldier No.\n\n" + "First Soldier Peace, I say!\n" + " What should this mean?\n\n" + "Second Soldier 'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,\n" + " Now leaves him.\n\n" + "First Soldier Walk; let's see if other watchmen\n" + " Do hear what we do?\n\n" + " [They advance to another post]\n\n" + "Second Soldier How now, masters!\n\n" + "All [Speaking together] How now!\n" + " How now! do you hear this?\n\n" + "First Soldier Ay; is't not strange?\n\n" + "Third Soldier Do you hear, masters? do you hear?\n\n" + "First Soldier Follow the noise so far as we have quarter;\n" + " Let's see how it will give off.\n\n" + "All Content. 'Tis strange.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and\n" + " others attending]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Eros! mine armour, Eros!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Sleep a little.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY No, my chuck. Eros, come; mine armour, Eros!\n\n" + " [Enter EROS with armour]\n\n" + " Come good fellow, put mine iron on:\n" + " If fortune be not ours to-day, it is\n" + " Because we brave her: come.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Nay, I'll help too.\n" + " What's this for?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Ah, let be, let be! thou art\n" + " The armourer of my heart: false, false; this, this.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Sooth, la, I'll help: thus it must be.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Well, well;\n" + " We shall thrive now. Seest thou, my good fellow?\n" + " Go put on thy defences.\n\n" + "EROS Briefly, sir.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Is not this buckled well?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Rarely, rarely:\n" + " He that unbuckles this, till we do please\n" + " To daff't for our repose, shall hear a storm.\n" + " Thou fumblest, Eros; and my queen's a squire\n" + " More tight at this than thou: dispatch. O love,\n" + " That thou couldst see my wars to-day, and knew'st\n" + " The royal occupation! thou shouldst see\n" + " A workman in't.\n\n" + " [Enter an armed Soldier]\n\n" + " Good morrow to thee; welcome:\n" + " Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:\n" + " To business that we love we rise betime,\n" + " And go to't with delight.\n\n" + "Soldier A thousand, sir,\n" + " Early though't be, have on their riveted trim,\n" + " And at the port expect you.\n\n" + " [Shout. Trumpets flourish]\n\n" + " [Enter Captains and Soldiers]\n\n" + "Captain The morn is fair. Good morrow, general.\n\n" + "All Good morrow, general.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY 'Tis well blown, lads:\n" + " This morning, like the spirit of a youth\n" + " That means to be of note, begins betimes.\n" + " So, so; come, give me that: this way; well said.\n" + " Fare thee well, dame, whate'er becomes of me:\n" + " This is a soldier's kiss: rebukeable\n\n" + " [Kisses her]\n\n" + " And worthy shameful cheque it were, to stand\n" + " On more mechanic compliment; I'll leave thee\n" + " Now, like a man of steel. You that will fight,\n" + " Follow me close; I'll bring you to't. Adieu.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MARK ANTONY, EROS, Captains, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Please you, retire to your chamber.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Lead me.\n" + " He goes forth gallantly. That he and Caesar might\n" + " Determine this great war in single fight!\n" + " Then Antony,--but now--Well, on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Alexandria. MARK ANTONY's camp.\n\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound. Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS; a\n" + " Soldier meeting them]\n\n" + "Soldier The gods make this a happy day to Antony!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Would thou and those thy scars had once prevail'd\n" + " To make me fight at land!\n\n" + "Soldier Hadst thou done so,\n" + " The kings that have revolted, and the soldier\n" + " That has this morning left thee, would have still\n" + " Follow'd thy heels.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Who's gone this morning?\n\n" + "Soldier Who!\n" + " One ever near thee: call for Enobarbus,\n" + " He shall not hear thee; or from Caesar's camp\n" + " Say 'I am none of thine.'\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY What say'st thou?\n\n" + "Soldier Sir,\n" + " He is with Caesar.\n\n" + "EROS Sir, his chests and treasure\n" + " He has not with him.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Is he gone?\n\n" + "Soldier Most certain.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Go, Eros, send his treasure after; do it;\n" + " Detain no jot, I charge thee: write to him--\n" + " I will subscribe--gentle adieus and greetings;\n" + " Say that I wish he never find more cause\n" + " To change a master. O, my fortunes have\n" + " Corrupted honest men! Dispatch.--Enobarbus!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, with\n" + " DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS, and others]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Go forth, Agrippa, and begin the fight:\n" + " Our will is Antony be took alive;\n" + " Make it so known.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Caesar, I shall.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR The time of universal peace is near:\n" + " Prove this a prosperous day, the three-nook'd world\n" + " Shall bear the olive freely.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Antony\n" + " Is come into the field.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Go charge Agrippa\n" + " Plant those that have revolted in the van,\n" + " That Antony may seem to spend his fury\n" + " Upon himself.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Alexas did revolt; and went to Jewry on\n" + " Affairs of Antony; there did persuade\n" + " Great Herod to incline himself to Caesar,\n" + " And leave his master Antony: for this pains\n" + " Caesar hath hang'd him. Canidius and the rest\n" + " That fell away have entertainment, but\n" + " No honourable trust. I have done ill;\n" + " Of which I do accuse myself so sorely,\n" + " That I will joy no more.\n\n" + " [Enter a Soldier of CAESAR's]\n\n" + "Soldier Enobarbus, Antony\n" + " Hath after thee sent all thy treasure, with\n" + " His bounty overplus: the messenger\n" + " Came on my guard; and at thy tent is now\n" + " Unloading of his mules.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I give it you.\n\n" + "Soldier Mock not, Enobarbus.\n" + " I tell you true: best you safed the bringer\n" + " Out of the host; I must attend mine office,\n" + " Or would have done't myself. Your emperor\n" + " Continues still a Jove.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS I am alone the villain of the earth,\n" + " And feel I am so most. O Antony,\n" + " Thou mine of bounty, how wouldst thou have paid\n" + " My better service, when my turpitude\n" + " Thou dost so crown with gold! This blows my heart:\n" + " If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean\n" + " Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do't, I feel.\n" + " I fight against thee! No: I will go seek\n" + " Some ditch wherein to die; the foul'st best fits\n" + " My latter part of life.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Field of battle between the camps.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Drums and trumpets. Enter AGRIPPA\n" + " and others]\n\n" + "AGRIPPA Retire, we have engaged ourselves too far:\n" + " Caesar himself has work, and our oppression\n" + " Exceeds what we expected.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS wounded]\n\n" + "SCARUS O my brave emperor, this is fought indeed!\n" + " Had we done so at first, we had droven them home\n" + " With clouts about their heads.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Thou bleed'st apace.\n\n" + "SCARUS I had a wound here that was like a T,\n" + " But now 'tis made an H.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY They do retire.\n\n" + "SCARUS We'll beat 'em into bench-holes: I have yet\n" + " Room for six scotches more.\n\n" + " [Enter EROS]\n\n" + "EROS They are beaten, sir, and our advantage serves\n" + " For a fair victory.\n\n" + "SCARUS Let us score their backs,\n" + " And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, behind:\n" + " 'Tis sport to maul a runner.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I will reward thee\n" + " Once for thy spritely comfort, and ten-fold\n" + " For thy good valour. Come thee on.\n\n" + "SCARUS I'll halt after.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII Under the walls of Alexandria.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter MARK ANTONY, in a march; SCARUS,\n" + " with others]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY We have beat him to his camp: run one before,\n" + " And let the queen know of our gests. To-morrow,\n" + " Before the sun shall see 's, we'll spill the blood\n" + " That has to-day escaped. I thank you all;\n" + " For doughty-handed are you, and have fought\n" + " Not as you served the cause, but as 't had been\n" + " Each man's like mine; you have shown all Hectors.\n" + " Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends,\n" + " Tell them your feats; whilst they with joyful tears\n" + " Wash the congealment from your wounds, and kiss\n" + " The honour'd gashes whole.\n\n" + " [To SCARUS]\n\n" + " Give me thy hand\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, attended]\n\n" + " To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts,\n" + " Make her thanks bless thee.\n\n" + " [To CLEOPATRA]\n\n" + " O thou day o' the world,\n" + " Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all,\n" + " Through proof of harness to my heart, and there\n" + " Ride on the pants triumphing!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Lord of lords!\n" + " O infinite virtue, comest thou smiling from\n" + " The world's great snare uncaught?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY My nightingale,\n" + " We have beat them to their beds. What, girl!\n" + " though grey\n" + " Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we\n" + " A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can\n" + " Get goal for goal of youth. Behold this man;\n" + " Commend unto his lips thy favouring hand:\n" + " Kiss it, my warrior: he hath fought to-day\n" + " As if a god, in hate of mankind, had\n" + " Destroy'd in such a shape.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I'll give thee, friend,\n" + " An armour all of gold; it was a king's.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY He has deserved it, were it carbuncled\n" + " Like holy Phoebus' car. Give me thy hand:\n" + " Through Alexandria make a jolly march;\n" + " Bear our hack'd targets like the men that owe them:\n" + " Had our great palace the capacity\n" + " To camp this host, we all would sup together,\n" + " And drink carouses to the next day's fate,\n" + " Which promises royal peril. Trumpeters,\n" + " With brazen din blast you the city's ear;\n" + " Make mingle with rattling tabourines;\n" + " That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together,\n" + " Applauding our approach.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IX OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.\n\n\n" + " [Sentinels at their post]\n\n" + "First Soldier If we be not relieved within this hour,\n" + " We must return to the court of guard: the night\n" + " Is shiny; and they say we shall embattle\n" + " By the second hour i' the morn.\n\n" + "Second Soldier This last day was\n" + " A shrewd one to's.\n\n" + " [Enter DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS]\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS O, bear me witness, night,--\n\n" + "Third Soldier What man is this?\n\n" + "Second Soldier Stand close, and list him.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS Be witness to me, O thou blessed moon,\n" + " When men revolted shall upon record\n" + " Bear hateful memory, poor Enobarbus did\n" + " Before thy face repent!\n\n" + "First Soldier Enobarbus!\n\n" + "Third Soldier Peace!\n" + " Hark further.\n\n" + "DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS O sovereign mistress of true melancholy,\n" + " The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me,\n" + " That life, a very rebel to my will,\n" + " May hang no longer on me: throw my heart\n" + " Against the flint and hardness of my fault:\n" + " Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,\n" + " And finish all foul thoughts. O Antony,\n" + " Nobler than my revolt is infamous,\n" + " Forgive me in thine own particular;\n" + " But let the world rank me in register\n" + " A master-leaver and a fugitive:\n" + " O Antony! O Antony!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "Second Soldier Let's speak To him.\n\n" + "First Soldier Let's hear him, for the things he speaks\n" + " May concern Caesar.\n\n" + "Third Soldier Let's do so. But he sleeps.\n\n" + "First Soldier Swoons rather; for so bad a prayer as his\n" + " Was never yet for sleep.\n\n" + "Second Soldier Go we to him.\n\n" + "Third Soldier Awake, sir, awake; speak to us.\n\n" + "Second Soldier Hear you, sir?\n\n" + "First Soldier The hand of death hath raught him.\n\n" + " [Drums afar off]\n\n" + " Hark! the drums\n" + " Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him\n" + " To the court of guard; he is of note: our hour\n" + " Is fully out.\n\n" + "Third Soldier Come on, then;\n" + " He may recover yet.\n\n" + " [Exeunt with the body]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE X Between the two camps.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS, with their Army]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Their preparation is to-day by sea;\n" + " We please them not by land.\n\n" + "SCARUS For both, my lord.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I would they'ld fight i' the fire or i' the air;\n" + " We'ld fight there too. But this it is; our foot\n" + " Upon the hills adjoining to the city\n" + " Shall stay with us: order for sea is given;\n" + " They have put forth the haven [ ]\n" + " Where their appointment we may best discover,\n" + " And look on their endeavour.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE XI Another part of the same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, and his Army]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR But being charged, we will be still by land,\n" + " Which, as I take't, we shall; for his best force\n" + " Is forth to man his galleys. To the vales,\n" + " And hold our best advantage.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE XII Another part of the same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and SCARUS]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Yet they are not join'd: where yond pine\n" + " does stand,\n" + " I shall discover all: I'll bring thee word\n" + " Straight, how 'tis like to go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SCARUS Swallows have built\n" + " In Cleopatra's sails their nests: the augurers\n" + " Say they know not, they cannot tell; look grimly,\n" + " And dare not speak their knowledge. Antony\n" + " Is valiant, and dejected; and, by starts,\n" + " His fretted fortunes give him hope, and fear,\n" + " Of what he has, and has not.\n\n" + " [Alarum afar off, as at a sea-fight]\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARK ANTONY]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY All is lost;\n" + " This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me:\n" + " My fleet hath yielded to the foe; and yonder\n" + " They cast their caps up and carouse together\n" + " Like friends long lost. Triple-turn'd whore!\n" + " 'tis thou\n" + " Hast sold me to this novice; and my heart\n" + " Makes only wars on thee. Bid them all fly;\n" + " For when I am revenged upon my charm,\n" + " I have done all. Bid them all fly; begone.\n\n" + " [Exit SCARUS]\n\n" + " O sun, thy uprise shall I see no more:\n" + " Fortune and Antony part here; even here\n" + " Do we shake hands. All come to this? The hearts\n" + " That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave\n" + " Their wishes, do discandy, melt their sweets\n" + " On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is bark'd,\n" + " That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am:\n" + " O this false soul of Egypt! this grave charm,--\n" + " Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and call'd them home;\n" + " Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end,--\n" + " Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose,\n" + " Beguiled me to the very heart of loss.\n" + " What, Eros, Eros!\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA]\n\n" + " Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Why is my lord enraged against his love?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Vanish, or I shall give thee thy deserving,\n" + " And blemish Caesar's triumph. Let him take thee,\n" + " And hoist thee up to the shouting plebeians:\n" + " Follow his chariot, like the greatest spot\n" + " Of all thy sex; most monster-like, be shown\n" + " For poor'st diminutives, for doits; and let\n" + " Patient Octavia plough thy visage up\n" + " With her prepared nails.\n\n" + " [Exit CLEOPATRA]\n\n" + " 'Tis well thou'rt gone,\n" + " If it be well to live; but better 'twere\n" + " Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death\n" + " Might have prevented many. Eros, ho!\n" + " The shirt of Nessus is upon me: teach me,\n" + " Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage:\n" + " Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the moon;\n" + " And with those hands, that grasp'd the heaviest club,\n" + " Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall die:\n" + " To the young Roman boy she hath sold me, and I fall\n" + " Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE XIII Alexandria. Cleopatra's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, IRAS, and MARDIAN]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Help me, my women! O, he is more mad\n" + " Than Telamon for his shield; the boar of Thessaly\n" + " Was never so emboss'd.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN To the monument!\n" + " There lock yourself, and send him word you are dead.\n" + " The soul and body rive not more in parting\n" + " Than greatness going off.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA To the monument!\n" + " Mardian, go tell him I have slain myself;\n" + " Say, that the last I spoke was 'Antony,'\n" + " And word it, prithee, piteously: hence, Mardian,\n" + " And bring me how he takes my death.\n" + " To the monument!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE XIV The same. Another room.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARK ANTONY and EROS]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Eros, thou yet behold'st me?\n\n" + "EROS Ay, noble lord.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Sometimes we see a cloud that's dragonish;\n" + " A vapour sometime like a bear or lion,\n" + " A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock,\n" + " A forked mountain, or blue promontory\n" + " With trees upon't, that nod unto the world,\n" + " And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen\n" + " these signs;\n" + " They are black vesper's pageants.\n\n" + "EROS Ay, my lord,\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY That which is now a horse, even with a thought\n" + " The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct,\n" + " As water is in water.\n\n" + "EROS It does, my lord.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY My good knave Eros, now thy captain is\n" + " Even such a body: here I am Antony:\n" + " Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave.\n" + " I made these wars for Egypt: and the queen,--\n" + " Whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine;\n" + " Which whilst it was mine had annex'd unto't\n" + " A million more, now lost,--she, Eros, has\n" + " Pack'd cards with Caesar, and false-play'd my glory\n" + " Unto an enemy's triumph.\n" + " Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us\n" + " Ourselves to end ourselves.\n\n" + " [Enter MARDIAN]\n\n" + " O! thy vile lady!\n" + " She has robb'd me of my sword.\n\n" + "MARDIAN No, Antony;\n" + " My mistress loved thee, and her fortunes mingled\n" + " With thine entirely.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Hence, saucy eunuch; peace!\n" + " She hath betray'd me and shall die the death.\n\n" + "MARDIAN Death of one person can be paid but once,\n" + " And that she has discharged: what thou wouldst do\n" + " Is done unto thy hand: the last she spake\n" + " Was 'Antony! most noble Antony!'\n" + " Then in the midst a tearing groan did break\n" + " The name of Antony; it was divided\n" + " Between her heart and lips: she render'd life,\n" + " Thy name so buried in her.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Dead, then?\n\n" + "MARDIAN Dead.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Unarm, Eros; the long day's task is done,\n" + " And we must sleep.\n\n" + " [To MARDIAN]\n\n" + " That thou depart'st hence safe,\n" + " Does pay thy labour richly; go.\n\n" + " [Exit MARDIAN]\n\n" + " Off, pluck off:\n" + " The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep\n" + " The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!\n" + " Heart, once be stronger than thy continent,\n" + " Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace.\n" + " No more a soldier: bruised pieces, go;\n" + " You have been nobly borne. From me awhile.\n\n" + " [Exit EROS]\n\n" + " I will o'ertake thee, Cleopatra, and\n" + " Weep for my pardon. So it must be, for now\n" + " All length is torture: since the torch is out,\n" + " Lie down, and stray no farther: now all labour\n" + " Mars what it does; yea, very force entangles\n" + " Itself with strength: seal then, and all is done.\n" + " Eros!--I come, my queen:--Eros!--Stay for me:\n" + " Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand,\n" + " And with our sprightly port make the ghosts gaze:\n" + " Dido and her AEneas shall want troops,\n" + " And all the haunt be ours. Come, Eros, Eros!\n\n" + " [Re-enter EROS]\n\n" + "EROS What would my lord?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Since Cleopatra died,\n" + " I have lived in such dishonour, that the gods\n" + " Detest my baseness. I, that with my sword\n" + " Quarter'd the world, and o'er green Neptune's back\n" + " With ships made cities, condemn myself to lack\n" + " The courage of a woman; less noble mind\n" + " Than she which by her death our Caesar tells\n" + " 'I am conqueror of myself.' Thou art sworn, Eros,\n" + " That, when the exigent should come, which now\n" + " Is come indeed, when I should see behind me\n" + " The inevitable prosecution of\n" + " Disgrace and horror, that, on my command,\n" + " Thou then wouldst kill me: do't; the time is come:\n" + " Thou strikest not me, 'tis Caesar thou defeat'st.\n" + " Put colour in thy cheek.\n\n" + "EROS The gods withhold me!\n" + " Shall I do that which all the Parthian darts,\n" + " Though enemy, lost aim, and could not?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Eros,\n" + " Wouldst thou be window'd in great Rome and see\n" + " Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down\n" + " His corrigible neck, his face subdued\n" + " To penetrative shame, whilst the wheel'd seat\n" + " Of fortunate Caesar, drawn before him, branded\n" + " His baseness that ensued?\n\n" + "EROS I would not see't.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Come, then; for with a wound I must be cured.\n" + " Draw that thy honest sword, which thou hast worn\n" + " Most useful for thy country.\n\n" + "EROS O, sir, pardon me!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY When I did make thee free, sworest thou not then\n" + " To do this when I bade thee? Do it at once;\n" + " Or thy precedent services are all\n" + " But accidents unpurposed. Draw, and come.\n\n" + "EROS Turn from me, then, that noble countenance,\n" + " Wherein the worship of the whole world lies.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Lo thee!\n\n" + " [Turning from him]\n\n" + "EROS My sword is drawn.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Then let it do at once\n" + " The thing why thou hast drawn it.\n\n" + "EROS My dear master,\n" + " My captain, and my emperor, let me say,\n" + " Before I strike this bloody stroke, farewell.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY 'Tis said, man; and farewell.\n\n" + "EROS Farewell, great chief. Shall I strike now?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Now, Eros.\n\n" + "EROS Why, there then: thus I do escape the sorrow\n" + " Of Antony's death.\n\n" + " [Kills himself]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Thrice-nobler than myself!\n" + " Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what\n" + " I should, and thou couldst not. My queen and Eros\n" + " Have by their brave instruction got upon me\n" + " A nobleness in record: but I will be\n" + " A bridegroom in my death, and run into't\n" + " As to a lover's bed. Come, then; and, Eros,\n" + " Thy master dies thy scholar: to do thus\n\n" + " [Falling on his sword]\n\n" + " I learn'd of thee. How! not dead? not dead?\n" + " The guard, ho! O, dispatch me!\n\n" + " [Enter DERCETAS and Guard]\n\n" + "First Guard What's the noise?\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I have done my work in, friends: O, make an end\n" + " Of what I have begun.\n\n" + "Second Guard The star is fall'n.\n\n" + "First Guard And time is at his period.\n\n" + "All Alas, and woe!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Let him that loves me strike me dead.\n\n" + "First Guard Not I.\n\n" + "Second Guard Nor I.\n\n" + "Third Guard Nor any one.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Guard]\n\n" + "DERCETAS Thy death and fortunes bid thy followers fly.\n" + " This sword but shown to Caesar, with this tidings,\n" + " Shall enter me with him.\n\n" + " [Enter DIOMEDES]\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Where's Antony?\n\n" + "DERCETAS There, Diomed there.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Lives he?\n" + " Wilt thou not answer, man?\n\n" + " [Exit DERCETAS]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Art thou there, Diomed? Draw thy sword, and give me\n" + " Sufficing strokes for death.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Most absolute lord,\n" + " My mistress Cleopatra sent me to thee.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY When did she send thee?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Now, my lord.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Where is she?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Lock'd in her monument. She had a prophesying fear\n" + " Of what hath come to pass: for when she saw--\n" + " Which never shall be found--you did suspect\n" + " She had disposed with Caesar, and that your rage\n" + " Would not be purged, she sent you word she was dead;\n" + " But, fearing since how it might work, hath sent\n" + " Me to proclaim the truth; and I am come,\n" + " I dread, too late.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Too late, good Diomed: call my guard, I prithee.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES What, ho, the emperor's guard! The guard, what, ho!\n" + " Come, your lord calls!\n\n" + " [Enter four or five of the Guard of MARK ANTONY]\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides;\n" + " 'Tis the last service that I shall command you.\n\n" + "First Guard Woe, woe are we, sir, you may not live to wear\n" + " All your true followers out.\n\n" + "All Most heavy day!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate\n" + " To grace it with your sorrows: bid that welcome\n" + " Which comes to punish us, and we punish it\n" + " Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up:\n" + " I have led you oft: carry me now, good friends,\n" + " And have my thanks for all.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, bearing MARK ANTONY]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE XV The same. A monument.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA and her maids aloft, with\n" + " CHARMIAN and IRAS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O Charmian, I will never go from hence.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Be comforted, dear madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA No, I will not:\n" + " All strange and terrible events are welcome,\n" + " But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow,\n" + " Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great\n" + " As that which makes it.\n\n" + " [Enter, below, DIOMEDES]\n\n" + " How now! is he dead?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES His death's upon him, but not dead.\n" + " Look out o' the other side your monument;\n" + " His guard have brought him thither.\n\n" + " [Enter, below, MARK ANTONY, borne by the Guard]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O sun,\n" + " Burn the great sphere thou movest in!\n" + " darkling stand\n" + " The varying shore o' the world. O Antony,\n" + " Antony, Antony! Help, Charmian, help, Iras, help;\n" + " Help, friends below; let's draw him hither.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Peace!\n" + " Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony,\n" + " But Antony's hath triumph'd on itself.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA So it should be, that none but Antony\n" + " Should conquer Antony; but woe 'tis so!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I am dying, Egypt, dying; only\n" + " I here importune death awhile, until\n" + " Of many thousand kisses the poor last\n" + " I lay up thy lips.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I dare not, dear,--\n" + " Dear my lord, pardon,--I dare not,\n" + " Lest I be taken: not the imperious show\n" + " Of the full-fortuned Caesar ever shall\n" + " Be brooch'd with me; if knife, drugs,\n" + " serpents, have\n" + " Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe:\n" + " Your wife Octavia, with her modest eyes\n" + " And still conclusion, shall acquire no honour\n" + " Demuring upon me. But come, come, Antony,--\n" + " Help me, my women,--we must draw thee up:\n" + " Assist, good friends.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY O, quick, or I am gone.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord!\n" + " Our strength is all gone into heaviness,\n" + " That makes the weight: had I great Juno's power,\n" + " The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch thee up,\n" + " And set thee by Jove's side. Yet come a little,--\n" + " Wishes were ever fools,--O, come, come, come;\n\n" + " [They heave MARK ANTONY aloft to CLEOPATRA]\n\n" + " And welcome, welcome! die where thou hast lived:\n" + " Quicken with kissing: had my lips that power,\n" + " Thus would I wear them out.\n\n" + "All A heavy sight!\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY I am dying, Egypt, dying:\n" + " Give me some wine, and let me speak a little.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA No, let me speak; and let me rail so high,\n" + " That the false housewife Fortune break her wheel,\n" + " Provoked by my offence.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY One word, sweet queen:\n" + " Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA They do not go together.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY Gentle, hear me:\n" + " None about Caesar trust but Proculeius.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA My resolution and my hands I'll trust;\n" + " None about Caesar.\n\n" + "MARK ANTONY The miserable change now at my end\n" + " Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts\n" + " In feeding them with those my former fortunes\n" + " Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world,\n" + " The noblest; and do now not basely die,\n" + " Not cowardly put off my helmet to\n" + " My countryman,--a Roman by a Roman\n" + " Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going;\n" + " I can no more.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Noblest of men, woo't die?\n" + " Hast thou no care of me? shall I abide\n" + " In this dull world, which in thy absence is\n" + " No better than a sty? O, see, my women,\n\n" + " [MARK ANTONY dies]\n\n" + " The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!\n" + " O, wither'd is the garland of the war,\n" + " The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls\n" + " Are level now with men; the odds is gone,\n" + " And there is nothing left remarkable\n" + " Beneath the visiting moon.\n\n" + " [Faints]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN O, quietness, lady!\n\n" + "IRAS She is dead too, our sovereign.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Lady!\n\n" + "IRAS Madam!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN O madam, madam, madam!\n\n" + "IRAS Royal Egypt, Empress!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Peace, peace, Iras!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA No more, but e'en a woman, and commanded\n" + " By such poor passion as the maid that milks\n" + " And does the meanest chares. It were for me\n" + " To throw my sceptre at the injurious gods;\n" + " To tell them that this world did equal theirs\n" + " Till they had stol'n our jewel. All's but naught;\n" + " Patience is scottish, and impatience does\n" + " Become a dog that's mad: then is it sin\n" + " To rush into the secret house of death,\n" + " Ere death dare come to us? How do you, women?\n" + " What, what! good cheer! Why, how now, Charmian!\n" + " My noble girls! Ah, women, women, look,\n" + " Our lamp is spent, it's out! Good sirs, take heart:\n" + " We'll bury him; and then, what's brave,\n" + " what's noble,\n" + " Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,\n" + " And make death proud to take us. Come, away:\n" + " This case of that huge spirit now is cold:\n" + " Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend\n" + " But resolution, and the briefest end.\n\n" + " [Exeunt; those above bearing off MARK ANTONY's body]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Alexandria. OCTAVIUS CAESAR's camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, AGRIPPA, DOLABELLA, MECAENAS,\n" + " GALLUS, PROCULEIUS, and others, his council of war]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Go to him, Dolabella, bid him yield;\n" + " Being so frustrate, tell him he mocks\n" + " The pauses that he makes.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Caesar, I shall.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter DERCETAS, with the sword of MARK ANTONY]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Wherefore is that? and what art thou that darest\n" + " Appear thus to us?\n\n" + "DERCETAS I am call'd Dercetas;\n" + " Mark Antony I served, who best was worthy\n" + " Best to be served: whilst he stood up and spoke,\n" + " He was my master; and I wore my life\n" + " To spend upon his haters. If thou please\n" + " To take me to thee, as I was to him\n" + " I'll be to Caesar; if thou pleasest not,\n" + " I yield thee up my life.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR What is't thou say'st?\n\n" + "DERCETAS I say, O Caesar, Antony is dead.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR The breaking of so great a thing should make\n" + " A greater crack: the round world\n" + " Should have shook lions into civil streets,\n" + " And citizens to their dens: the death of Antony\n" + " Is not a single doom; in the name lay\n" + " A moiety of the world.\n\n" + "DERCETAS He is dead, Caesar:\n" + " Not by a public minister of justice,\n" + " Nor by a hired knife; but that self hand,\n" + " Which writ his honour in the acts it did,\n" + " Hath, with the courage which the heart did lend it,\n" + " Splitted the heart. This is his sword;\n" + " I robb'd his wound of it; behold it stain'd\n" + " With his most noble blood.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Look you sad, friends?\n" + " The gods rebuke me, but it is tidings\n" + " To wash the eyes of kings.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA And strange it is,\n" + " That nature must compel us to lament\n" + " Our most persisted deeds.\n\n" + "MECAENAS His taints and honours\n" + " Waged equal with him.\n\n" + "AGRIPPA A rarer spirit never\n" + " Did steer humanity: but you, gods, will give us\n" + " Some faults to make us men. Caesar is touch'd.\n\n" + "MECAENAS When such a spacious mirror's set before him,\n" + " He needs must see himself.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR O Antony!\n" + " I have follow'd thee to this; but we do lance\n" + " Diseases in our bodies: I must perforce\n" + " Have shown to thee such a declining day,\n" + " Or look on thine; we could not stall together\n" + " In the whole world: but yet let me lament,\n" + " With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts,\n" + " That thou, my brother, my competitor\n" + " In top of all design, my mate in empire,\n" + " Friend and companion in the front of war,\n" + " The arm of mine own body, and the heart\n" + " Where mine his thoughts did kindle,--that our stars,\n" + " Unreconciliable, should divide\n" + " Our equalness to this. Hear me, good friends--\n" + " But I will tell you at some meeter season:\n\n" + " [Enter an Egyptian]\n\n" + " The business of this man looks out of him;\n" + " We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you?\n\n" + "Egyptian A poor Egyptian yet. The queen my mistress,\n" + " Confined in all she has, her monument,\n" + " Of thy intents desires instruction,\n" + " That she preparedly may frame herself\n" + " To the way she's forced to.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Bid her have good heart:\n" + " She soon shall know of us, by some of ours,\n" + " How honourable and how kindly we\n" + " Determine for her; for Caesar cannot live\n" + " To be ungentle.\n\n" + "Egyptian So the gods preserve thee!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,\n" + " We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts\n" + " The quality of her passion shall require,\n" + " Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke\n" + " She do defeat us; for her life in Rome\n" + " Would be eternal in our triumph: go,\n" + " And with your speediest bring us what she says,\n" + " And how you find of her.\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS Caesar, I shall.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Gallus, go you along.\n\n" + " [Exit GALLUS]\n\n" + " Where's Dolabella,\n" + " To second Proculeius?\n\n" + "All Dolabella!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Let him alone, for I remember now\n" + " How he's employ'd: he shall in time be ready.\n" + " Go with me to my tent; where you shall see\n" + " How hardly I was drawn into this war;\n" + " How calm and gentle I proceeded still\n" + " In all my writings: go with me, and see\n" + " What I can show in this.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Alexandria. A room in the monument.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMIAN, and IRAS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA My desolation does begin to make\n" + " A better life. 'Tis paltry to be Caesar;\n" + " Not being Fortune, he's but Fortune's knave,\n" + " A minister of her will: and it is great\n" + " To do that thing that ends all other deeds;\n" + " Which shackles accidents and bolts up change;\n" + " Which sleeps, and never palates more the dug,\n" + " The beggar's nurse and Caesar's.\n\n" + " [Enter, to the gates of the monument, PROCULEIUS,\n" + " GALLUS and Soldiers]\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS Caesar sends greeting to the Queen of Egypt;\n" + " And bids thee study on what fair demands\n" + " Thou mean'st to have him grant thee.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What's thy name?\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS My name is Proculeius.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Antony\n" + " Did tell me of you, bade me trust you; but\n" + " I do not greatly care to be deceived,\n" + " That have no use for trusting. If your master\n" + " Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him,\n" + " That majesty, to keep decorum, must\n" + " No less beg than a kingdom: if he please\n" + " To give me conquer'd Egypt for my son,\n" + " He gives me so much of mine own, as I\n" + " Will kneel to him with thanks.\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS Be of good cheer;\n" + " You're fall'n into a princely hand, fear nothing:\n" + " Make your full reference freely to my lord,\n" + " Who is so full of grace, that it flows over\n" + " On all that need: let me report to him\n" + " Your sweet dependency; and you shall find\n" + " A conqueror that will pray in aid for kindness,\n" + " Where he for grace is kneel'd to.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Pray you, tell him\n" + " I am his fortune's vassal, and I send him\n" + " The greatness he has got. I hourly learn\n" + " A doctrine of obedience; and would gladly\n" + " Look him i' the face.\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS This I'll report, dear lady.\n" + " Have comfort, for I know your plight is pitied\n" + " Of him that caused it.\n\n" + "GALLUS You see how easily she may be surprised:\n\n" + " [Here PROCULEIUS and two of the Guard ascend the\n" + " monument by a ladder placed against a window, and,\n" + " having descended, come behind CLEOPATRA. Some of\n" + " the Guard unbar and open the gates]\n\n" + " [To PROCULEIUS and the Guard]\n\n" + " Guard her till Caesar come.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IRAS Royal queen!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN O Cleopatra! thou art taken, queen:\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Quick, quick, good hands.\n\n" + " [Drawing a dagger]\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS Hold, worthy lady, hold:\n\n" + " [Seizes and disarms her]\n\n" + " Do not yourself such wrong, who are in this\n" + " Relieved, but not betray'd.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What, of death too,\n" + " That rids our dogs of languish?\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS Cleopatra,\n" + " Do not abuse my master's bounty by\n" + " The undoing of yourself: let the world see\n" + " His nobleness well acted, which your death\n" + " Will never let come forth.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Where art thou, death?\n" + " Come hither, come! come, come, and take a queen\n" + " Worthy many babes and beggars!\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS O, temperance, lady!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Sir, I will eat no meat, I'll not drink, sir;\n" + " If idle talk will once be necessary,\n" + " I'll not sleep neither: this mortal house I'll ruin,\n" + " Do Caesar what he can. Know, sir, that I\n" + " Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court;\n" + " Nor once be chastised with the sober eye\n" + " Of dull Octavia. Shall they hoist me up\n" + " And show me to the shouting varletry\n" + " Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt\n" + " Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud\n" + " Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies\n" + " Blow me into abhorring! rather make\n" + " My country's high pyramides my gibbet,\n" + " And hang me up in chains!\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS You do extend\n" + " These thoughts of horror further than you shall\n" + " Find cause in Caesar.\n\n" + " [Enter DOLABELLA]\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Proculeius,\n" + " What thou hast done thy master Caesar knows,\n" + " And he hath sent for thee: for the queen,\n" + " I'll take her to my guard.\n\n" + "PROCULEIUS So, Dolabella,\n" + " It shall content me best: be gentle to her.\n\n" + " [To CLEOPATRA]\n\n" + " To Caesar I will speak what you shall please,\n" + " If you'll employ me to him.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Say, I would die.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PROCULEIUS and Soldiers]\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Most noble empress, you have heard of me?\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I cannot tell.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Assuredly you know me.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA No matter, sir, what I have heard or known.\n" + " You laugh when boys or women tell their dreams;\n" + " Is't not your trick?\n\n" + "DOLABELLA I understand not, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony:\n" + " O, such another sleep, that I might see\n" + " But such another man!\n\n" + "DOLABELLA If it might please ye,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA His face was as the heavens; and therein stuck\n" + " A sun and moon, which kept their course,\n" + " and lighted\n" + " The little O, the earth.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Most sovereign creature,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm\n" + " Crested the world: his voice was propertied\n" + " As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;\n" + " But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,\n" + " He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,\n" + " There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas\n" + " That grew the more by reaping: his delights\n" + " Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above\n" + " The element they lived in: in his livery\n" + " Walk'd crowns and crownets; realms and islands were\n" + " As plates dropp'd from his pocket.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Cleopatra!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Think you there was, or might be, such a man\n" + " As this I dream'd of?\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Gentle madam, no.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.\n" + " But, if there be, or ever were, one such,\n" + " It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff\n" + " To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine\n" + " And Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy,\n" + " Condemning shadows quite.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Hear me, good madam.\n" + " Your loss is as yourself, great; and you bear it\n" + " As answering to the weight: would I might never\n" + " O'ertake pursued success, but I do feel,\n" + " By the rebound of yours, a grief that smites\n" + " My very heart at root.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA I thank you, sir,\n" + " Know you what Caesar means to do with me?\n\n" + "DOLABELLA I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Nay, pray you, sir,--\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Though he be honourable,--\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA He'll lead me, then, in triumph?\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Madam, he will; I know't.\n\n" + " [Flourish, and shout within, 'Make way there:\n" + " Octavius Caesar!']\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR, GALLUS, PROCULEIUS,\n" + " MECAENAS, SELEUCUS, and others of his Train]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Which is the Queen of Egypt?\n\n" + "DOLABELLA It is the emperor, madam.\n\n" + " [CLEOPATRA kneels]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Arise, you shall not kneel:\n" + " I pray you, rise; rise, Egypt.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Sir, the gods\n" + " Will have it thus; my master and my lord\n" + " I must obey.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Take to you no hard thoughts:\n" + " The record of what injuries you did us,\n" + " Though written in our flesh, we shall remember\n" + " As things but done by chance.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Sole sir o' the world,\n" + " I cannot project mine own cause so well\n" + " To make it clear; but do confess I have\n" + " Been laden with like frailties which before\n" + " Have often shamed our sex.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Cleopatra, know,\n" + " We will extenuate rather than enforce:\n" + " If you apply yourself to our intents,\n" + " Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find\n" + " A benefit in this change; but if you seek\n" + " To lay on me a cruelty, by taking\n" + " Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself\n" + " Of my good purposes, and put your children\n" + " To that destruction which I'll guard them from,\n" + " If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA And may, through all the world: 'tis yours; and we,\n" + " Your scutcheons and your signs of conquest, shall\n" + " Hang in what place you please. Here, my good lord.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR You shall advise me in all for Cleopatra.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA This is the brief of money, plate, and jewels,\n" + " I am possess'd of: 'tis exactly valued;\n" + " Not petty things admitted. Where's Seleucus?\n\n" + "SELEUCUS Here, madam.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA This is my treasurer: let him speak, my lord,\n" + " Upon his peril, that I have reserved\n" + " To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus.\n\n" + "SELEUCUS Madam,\n" + " I had rather seal my lips, than, to my peril,\n" + " Speak that which is not.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA What have I kept back?\n\n" + "SELEUCUS Enough to purchase what you have made known.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Nay, blush not, Cleopatra; I approve\n" + " Your wisdom in the deed.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA See, Caesar! O, behold,\n" + " How pomp is follow'd! mine will now be yours;\n" + " And, should we shift estates, yours would be mine.\n" + " The ingratitude of this Seleucus does\n" + " Even make me wild: O slave, of no more trust\n" + " Than love that's hired! What, goest thou back? thou shalt\n" + " Go back, I warrant thee; but I'll catch thine eyes,\n" + " Though they had wings: slave, soulless villain, dog!\n" + " O rarely base!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Good queen, let us entreat you.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA O Caesar, what a wounding shame is this,\n" + " That thou, vouchsafing here to visit me,\n" + " Doing the honour of thy lordliness\n" + " To one so meek, that mine own servant should\n" + " Parcel the sum of my disgraces by\n" + " Addition of his envy! Say, good Caesar,\n" + " That I some lady trifles have reserved,\n" + " Immoment toys, things of such dignity\n" + " As we greet modern friends withal; and say,\n" + " Some nobler token I have kept apart\n" + " For Livia and Octavia, to induce\n" + " Their mediation; must I be unfolded\n" + " With one that I have bred? The gods! it smites me\n" + " Beneath the fall I have.\n\n" + " [To SELEUCUS]\n\n" + " Prithee, go hence;\n" + " Or I shall show the cinders of my spirits\n" + " Through the ashes of my chance: wert thou a man,\n" + " Thou wouldst have mercy on me.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Forbear, Seleucus.\n\n" + " [Exit SELEUCUS]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought\n" + " For things that others do; and, when we fall,\n" + " We answer others' merits in our name,\n" + " Are therefore to be pitied.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Cleopatra,\n" + " Not what you have reserved, nor what acknowledged,\n" + " Put we i' the roll of conquest: still be't yours,\n" + " Bestow it at your pleasure; and believe,\n" + " Caesar's no merchant, to make prize with you\n" + " Of things that merchants sold. Therefore be cheer'd;\n" + " Make not your thoughts your prisons: no, dear queen;\n" + " For we intend so to dispose you as\n" + " Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed, and sleep:\n" + " Our care and pity is so much upon you,\n" + " That we remain your friend; and so, adieu.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA My master, and my lord!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Not so. Adieu.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt OCTAVIUS CAESAR and his train]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA He words me, girls, he words me, that I should not\n" + " Be noble to myself: but, hark thee, Charmian.\n\n" + " [Whispers CHARMIAN]\n\n" + "IRAS Finish, good lady; the bright day is done,\n" + " And we are for the dark.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Hie thee again:\n" + " I have spoke already, and it is provided;\n" + " Go put it to the haste.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Madam, I will.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DOLABELLA]\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Where is the queen?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Behold, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Dolabella!\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Madam, as thereto sworn by your command,\n" + " Which my love makes religion to obey,\n" + " I tell you this: Caesar through Syria\n" + " Intends his journey; and within three days\n" + " You with your children will he send before:\n" + " Make your best use of this: I have perform'd\n" + " Your pleasure and my promise.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Dolabella,\n" + " I shall remain your debtor.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA I your servant,\n" + " Adieu, good queen; I must attend on Caesar.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Farewell, and thanks.\n\n" + " [Exit DOLABELLA]\n\n" + " Now, Iras, what think'st thou?\n" + " Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown\n" + " In Rome, as well as I mechanic slaves\n" + " With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall\n" + " Uplift us to the view; in their thick breaths,\n" + " Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded,\n" + " And forced to drink their vapour.\n\n" + "IRAS The gods forbid!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Nay, 'tis most certain, Iras: saucy lictors\n" + " Will catch at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers\n" + " Ballad us out o' tune: the quick comedians\n" + " Extemporally will stage us, and present\n" + " Our Alexandrian revels; Antony\n" + " Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see\n" + " Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness\n" + " I' the posture of a whore.\n\n" + "IRAS O the good gods!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Nay, that's certain.\n\n" + "IRAS I'll never see 't; for, I am sure, my nails\n" + " Are stronger than mine eyes.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Why, that's the way\n" + " To fool their preparation, and to conquer\n" + " Their most absurd intents.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CHARMIAN]\n\n" + " Now, Charmian!\n" + " Show me, my women, like a queen: go fetch\n" + " My best attires: I am again for Cydnus,\n" + " To meet Mark Antony: sirrah Iras, go.\n" + " Now, noble Charmian, we'll dispatch indeed;\n" + " And, when thou hast done this chare, I'll give thee leave\n" + " To play till doomsday. Bring our crown and all.\n" + " Wherefore's this noise?\n\n" + " [Exit IRAS. A noise within]\n\n" + " [Enter a Guardsman]\n\n" + "Guard Here is a rural fellow\n" + " That will not be denied your highness presence:\n" + " He brings you figs.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Let him come in.\n\n" + " [Exit Guardsman]\n\n" + " What poor an instrument\n" + " May do a noble deed! he brings me liberty.\n" + " My resolution's placed, and I have nothing\n" + " Of woman in me: now from head to foot\n" + " I am marble-constant; now the fleeting moon\n" + " No planet is of mine.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Guardsman, with Clown bringing in a basket]\n\n" + "Guard This is the man.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Avoid, and leave him.\n\n" + " [Exit Guardsman]\n\n" + " Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there,\n" + " That kills and pains not?\n\n" + "Clown Truly, I have him: but I would not be the party\n" + " that should desire you to touch him, for his biting\n" + " is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or\n" + " never recover.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Rememberest thou any that have died on't?\n\n" + "Clown Very many, men and women too. I heard of one of\n" + " them no longer than yesterday: a very honest woman,\n" + " but something given to lie; as a woman should not\n" + " do, but in the way of honesty: how she died of the\n" + " biting of it, what pain she felt: truly, she makes\n" + " a very good report o' the worm; but he that will\n" + " believe all that they say, shall never be saved by\n" + " half that they do: but this is most fallible, the\n" + " worm's an odd worm.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Get thee hence; farewell.\n\n" + "Clown I wish you all joy of the worm.\n\n" + " [Setting down his basket]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Farewell.\n\n" + "Clown You must think this, look you, that the worm will\n" + " do his kind.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Ay, ay; farewell.\n\n" + "Clown Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in the\n" + " keeping of wise people; for, indeed, there is no\n" + " goodness in worm.\n\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Take thou no care; it shall be heeded.\n\n" + "Clown Very good. Give it nothing, I pray you, for it is\n" + " not worth the feeding.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Will it eat me?\n\n" + "Clown You must not think I am so simple but I know the\n" + " devil himself will not eat a woman: I know that a\n" + " woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her\n" + " not. But, truly, these same whoreson devils do the\n" + " gods great harm in their women; for in every ten\n" + " that they make, the devils mar five.\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Well, get thee gone; farewell.\n\n" + "Clown Yes, forsooth: I wish you joy o' the worm.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter IRAS with a robe, crown, &c]\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have\n" + " Immortal longings in me: now no more\n" + " The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:\n" + " Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear\n" + " Antony call; I see him rouse himself\n" + " To praise my noble act; I hear him mock\n" + " The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men\n" + " To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:\n" + " Now to that name my courage prove my title!\n" + " I am fire and air; my other elements\n" + " I give to baser life. So; have you done?\n" + " Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.\n" + " Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.\n\n" + " [Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies]\n\n" + " Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?\n" + " If thou and nature can so gently part,\n" + " The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,\n" + " Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?\n" + " If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world\n" + " It is not worth leave-taking.\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain; that I may say,\n" + " The gods themselves do weep!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA This proves me base:\n" + " If she first meet the curled Antony,\n" + " He'll make demand of her, and spend that kiss\n" + " Which is my heaven to have. Come, thou\n" + " mortal wretch,\n\n" + " [To an asp, which she applies to her breast]\n\n" + " With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate\n" + " Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool\n" + " Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak,\n" + " That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass\n" + " Unpolicied!\n\n" + "CHARMIAN O eastern star!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA Peace, peace!\n" + " Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,\n" + " That sucks the nurse asleep?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN O, break! O, break!\n\n" + "CLEOPATRA As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,--\n" + " O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too.\n\n" + " [Applying another asp to her arm]\n\n" + " What should I stay--\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "CHARMIAN In this vile world? So, fare thee well.\n" + " Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies\n" + " A lass unparallel'd. Downy windows, close;\n" + " And golden Phoebus never be beheld\n" + " Of eyes again so royal! Your crown's awry;\n" + " I'll mend it, and then play.\n\n" + " [Enter the Guard, rushing in]\n\n" + "First Guard Where is the queen?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Speak softly, wake her not.\n\n" + "First Guard Caesar hath sent--\n\n" + "CHARMIAN Too slow a messenger.\n\n" + " [Applies an asp]\n\n" + " O, come apace, dispatch! I partly feel thee.\n\n" + "First Guard Approach, ho! All's not well: Caesar's beguiled.\n\n" + "Second Guard There's Dolabella sent from Caesar; call him.\n\n" + "First Guard What work is here! Charmian, is this well done?\n\n" + "CHARMIAN It is well done, and fitting for a princess\n" + " Descended of so many royal kings.\n" + " Ah, soldier!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + " [Re-enter DOLABELLA]\n\n" + "DOLABELLA How goes it here?\n\n" + "Second Guard All dead.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Caesar, thy thoughts\n" + " Touch their effects in this: thyself art coming\n" + " To see perform'd the dreaded act which thou\n" + " So sought'st to hinder.\n\n" + " [Within 'A way there, a way for Caesar!']\n\n" + " [Re-enter OCTAVIUS CAESAR and all his train marching]\n\n" + "DOLABELLA O sir, you are too sure an augurer;\n" + " That you did fear is done.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Bravest at the last,\n" + " She levell'd at our purposes, and, being royal,\n" + " Took her own way. The manner of their deaths?\n" + " I do not see them bleed.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Who was last with them?\n\n" + "First Guard A simple countryman, that brought her figs:\n" + " This was his basket.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Poison'd, then.\n\n" + "First Guard O Caesar,\n" + " This Charmian lived but now; she stood and spake:\n" + " I found her trimming up the diadem\n" + " On her dead mistress; tremblingly she stood\n" + " And on the sudden dropp'd.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR O noble weakness!\n" + " If they had swallow'd poison, 'twould appear\n" + " By external swelling: but she looks like sleep,\n" + " As she would catch another Antony\n" + " In her strong toil of grace.\n\n" + "DOLABELLA Here, on her breast,\n" + " There is a vent of blood and something blown:\n" + " The like is on her arm.\n\n" + "First Guard This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves\n" + " Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves\n" + " Upon the caves of Nile.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR Most probable\n" + " That so she died; for her physician tells me\n" + " She hath pursued conclusions infinite\n" + " Of easy ways to die. Take up her bed;\n" + " And bear her women from the monument:\n" + " She shall be buried by her Antony:\n" + " No grave upon the earth shall clip in it\n" + " A pair so famous. High events as these\n" + " Strike those that make them; and their story is\n" + " No less in pity than his glory which\n" + " Brought them to be lamented. Our army shall\n" + " In solemn show attend this funeral;\n" + " And then to Rome. Come, Dolabella, see\n" + " High order in this great solemnity.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR living in banishment.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK his brother, an usurper of his dominions.\n\n\n" + "AMIENS |\n" + " | lords attending on the banished duke.\n" + "JAQUES |\n\n\n" + "LE BEAU a courtier attending upon Frederick.\n\n" + "CHARLES wrestler to Frederick.\n\n\n" + "OLIVER |\n" + " |\n" + "JAQUES (JAQUES DE BOYS:) | sons of Sir Rowland de Boys.\n" + " |\n" + "ORLANDO |\n\n\n" + "ADAM |\n" + " | servants to Oliver.\n" + "DENNIS |\n\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE a clown.\n\n" + "SIR OLIVER MARTEXT a vicar.\n\n\n" + "CORIN |\n" + " | shepherds.\n" + "SILVIUS |\n\n\n" + "WILLIAM a country fellow in love with Audrey.\n\n" + " A person representing HYMEN. (HYMEN:)\n\n" + "ROSALIND daughter to the banished duke.\n\n" + "CELIA daughter to Frederick.\n\n" + "PHEBE a shepherdess.\n\n" + "AUDREY a country wench.\n\n" + " Lords, pages, and attendants, &c.\n" + " (Forester:)\n" + " (A Lord:)\n" + " (First Lord:)\n" + " (Second Lord:)\n" + " (First Page:)\n" + " (Second Page:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Oliver's house; Duke Frederick's court; and the\n" + " Forest of Arden.\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Orchard of Oliver's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM]\n\n" + "ORLANDO As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion\n" + " bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,\n" + " and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his\n" + " blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my\n" + " sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and\n" + " report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part,\n" + " he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more\n" + " properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you\n" + " that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that\n" + " differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses\n" + " are bred better; for, besides that they are fair\n" + " with their feeding, they are taught their manage,\n" + " and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his\n" + " brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the\n" + " which his animals on his dunghills are as much\n" + " bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so\n" + " plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave\n" + " me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets\n" + " me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a\n" + " brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my\n" + " gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that\n" + " grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I\n" + " think is within me, begins to mutiny against this\n" + " servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I\n" + " know no wise remedy how to avoid it.\n\n" + "ADAM Yonder comes my master, your brother.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will\n" + " shake me up.\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVER]\n\n" + "OLIVER Now, sir! what make you here?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.\n\n" + "OLIVER What mar you then, sir?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God\n" + " made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.\n\n" + "OLIVER Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them?\n" + " What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should\n" + " come to such penury?\n\n" + "OLIVER Know you where your are, sir?\n\n" + "ORLANDO O, sir, very well; here in your orchard.\n\n" + "OLIVER Know you before whom, sir?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know\n" + " you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle\n" + " condition of blood, you should so know me. The\n" + " courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that\n" + " you are the first-born; but the same tradition\n" + " takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers\n" + " betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as\n" + " you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is\n" + " nearer to his reverence.\n\n" + "OLIVER What, boy!\n\n" + "ORLANDO Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.\n\n" + "OLIVER Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir\n" + " Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice\n" + " a villain that says such a father begot villains.\n" + " Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand\n" + " from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy\n" + " tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself.\n\n" + "ADAM Sweet masters, be patient: for your father's\n" + " remembrance, be at accord.\n\n" + "OLIVER Let me go, I say.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I will not, till I please: you shall hear me. My\n" + " father charged you in his will to give me good\n" + " education: you have trained me like a peasant,\n" + " obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like\n" + " qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in\n" + " me, and I will no longer endure it: therefore allow\n" + " me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or\n" + " give me the poor allottery my father left me by\n" + " testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.\n\n" + "OLIVER And what wilt thou do? beg, when that is spent?\n" + " Well, sir, get you in: I will not long be troubled\n" + " with you; you shall have some part of your will: I\n" + " pray you, leave me.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I will no further offend you than becomes me for my good.\n\n" + "OLIVER Get you with him, you old dog.\n\n" + "ADAM Is 'old dog' my reward? Most true, I have lost my\n" + " teeth in your service. God be with my old master!\n" + " he would not have spoke such a word.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ORLANDO and ADAM]\n\n" + "OLIVER Is it even so? begin you to grow upon me? I will\n" + " physic your rankness, and yet give no thousand\n" + " crowns neither. Holla, Dennis!\n\n" + " [Enter DENNIS]\n\n" + "DENNIS Calls your worship?\n\n" + "OLIVER Was not Charles, the duke's wrestler, here to speak with me?\n\n" + "DENNIS So please you, he is here at the door and importunes\n" + " access to you.\n\n" + "OLIVER Call him in.\n\n" + " [Exit DENNIS]\n\n" + " 'Twill be a good way; and to-morrow the wrestling is.\n\n" + " [Enter CHARLES]\n\n" + "CHARLES Good morrow to your worship.\n\n" + "OLIVER Good Monsieur Charles, what's the new news at the\n" + " new court?\n\n" + "CHARLES There's no news at the court, sir, but the old news:\n" + " that is, the old duke is banished by his younger\n" + " brother the new duke; and three or four loving lords\n" + " have put themselves into voluntary exile with him,\n" + " whose lands and revenues enrich the new duke;\n" + " therefore he gives them good leave to wander.\n\n" + "OLIVER Can you tell if Rosalind, the duke's daughter, be\n" + " banished with her father?\n\n" + "CHARLES O, no; for the duke's daughter, her cousin, so loves\n" + " her, being ever from their cradles bred together,\n" + " that she would have followed her exile, or have died\n" + " to stay behind her. She is at the court, and no\n" + " less beloved of her uncle than his own daughter; and\n" + " never two ladies loved as they do.\n\n" + "OLIVER Where will the old duke live?\n\n" + "CHARLES They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and\n" + " a many merry men with him; and there they live like\n" + " the old Robin Hood of England: they say many young\n" + " gentlemen flock to him every day, and fleet the time\n" + " carelessly, as they did in the golden world.\n\n" + "OLIVER What, you wrestle to-morrow before the new duke?\n\n" + "CHARLES Marry, do I, sir; and I came to acquaint you with a\n" + " matter. I am given, sir, secretly to understand\n" + " that your younger brother Orlando hath a disposition\n" + " to come in disguised against me to try a fall.\n" + " To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit; and he that\n" + " escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him\n" + " well. Your brother is but young and tender; and,\n" + " for your love, I would be loath to foil him, as I\n" + " must, for my own honour, if he come in: therefore,\n" + " out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you\n" + " withal, that either you might stay him from his\n" + " intendment or brook such disgrace well as he shall\n" + " run into, in that it is a thing of his own search\n" + " and altogether against my will.\n\n" + "OLIVER Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which\n" + " thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had\n" + " myself notice of my brother's purpose herein and\n" + " have by underhand means laboured to dissuade him from\n" + " it, but he is resolute. I'll tell thee, Charles:\n" + " it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full\n" + " of ambition, an envious emulator of every man's\n" + " good parts, a secret and villanous contriver against\n" + " me his natural brother: therefore use thy\n" + " discretion; I had as lief thou didst break his neck\n" + " as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if\n" + " thou dost him any slight disgrace or if he do not\n" + " mightily grace himself on thee, he will practise\n" + " against thee by poison, entrap thee by some\n" + " treacherous device and never leave thee till he\n" + " hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other;\n" + " for, I assure thee, and almost with tears I speak\n" + " it, there is not one so young and so villanous this\n" + " day living. I speak but brotherly of him; but\n" + " should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must\n" + " blush and weep and thou must look pale and wonder.\n\n" + "CHARLES I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come\n" + " to-morrow, I'll give him his payment: if ever he go\n" + " alone again, I'll never wrestle for prize more: and\n" + " so God keep your worship!\n\n" + "OLIVER Farewell, good Charles.\n\n" + " [Exit CHARLES]\n\n" + " Now will I stir this gamester: I hope I shall see\n" + " an end of him; for my soul, yet I know not why,\n" + " hates nothing more than he. Yet he's gentle, never\n" + " schooled and yet learned, full of noble device, of\n" + " all sorts enchantingly beloved, and indeed so much\n" + " in the heart of the world, and especially of my own\n" + " people, who best know him, that I am altogether\n" + " misprised: but it shall not be so long; this\n" + " wrestler shall clear all: nothing remains but that\n" + " I kindle the boy thither; which now I'll go about.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Lawn before the Duke's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CELIA and ROSALIND]\n\n" + "CELIA I pray thee, Rosalind, sweet my coz, be merry.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am mistress of;\n" + " and would you yet I were merrier? Unless you could\n" + " teach me to forget a banished father, you must not\n" + " learn me how to remember any extraordinary pleasure.\n\n" + "CELIA Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight\n" + " that I love thee. If my uncle, thy banished father,\n" + " had banished thy uncle, the duke my father, so thou\n" + " hadst been still with me, I could have taught my\n" + " love to take thy father for mine: so wouldst thou,\n" + " if the truth of thy love to me were so righteously\n" + " tempered as mine is to thee.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Well, I will forget the condition of my estate, to\n" + " rejoice in yours.\n\n" + "CELIA You know my father hath no child but I, nor none is\n" + " like to have: and, truly, when he dies, thou shalt\n" + " be his heir, for what he hath taken away from thy\n" + " father perforce, I will render thee again in\n" + " affection; by mine honour, I will; and when I break\n" + " that oath, let me turn monster: therefore, my\n" + " sweet Rose, my dear Rose, be merry.\n\n" + "ROSALIND From henceforth I will, coz, and devise sports. Let\n" + " me see; what think you of falling in love?\n\n" + "CELIA Marry, I prithee, do, to make sport withal: but\n" + " love no man in good earnest; nor no further in sport\n" + " neither than with safety of a pure blush thou mayst\n" + " in honour come off again.\n\n" + "ROSALIND What shall be our sport, then?\n\n" + "CELIA Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from\n" + " her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I would we could do so, for her benefits are\n" + " mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman\n" + " doth most mistake in her gifts to women.\n\n" + "CELIA 'Tis true; for those that she makes fair she scarce\n" + " makes honest, and those that she makes honest she\n" + " makes very ill-favouredly.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's office to\n" + " Nature's: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world,\n" + " not in the lineaments of Nature.\n\n" + " [Enter TOUCHSTONE]\n\n" + "CELIA No? when Nature hath made a fair creature, may she\n" + " not by Fortune fall into the fire? Though Nature\n" + " hath given us wit to flout at Fortune, hath not\n" + " Fortune sent in this fool to cut off the argument?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, when\n" + " Fortune makes Nature's natural the cutter-off of\n" + " Nature's wit.\n\n" + "CELIA Peradventure this is not Fortune's work neither, but\n" + " Nature's; who perceiveth our natural wits too dull\n" + " to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this\n" + " natural for our whetstone; for always the dulness of\n" + " the fool is the whetstone of the wits. How now,\n" + " wit! whither wander you?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Mistress, you must come away to your father.\n\n" + "CELIA Were you made the messenger?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE No, by mine honour, but I was bid to come for you.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Where learned you that oath, fool?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Of a certain knight that swore by his honour they\n" + " were good pancakes and swore by his honour the\n" + " mustard was naught: now I'll stand to it, the\n" + " pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and\n" + " yet was not the knight forsworn.\n\n" + "CELIA How prove you that, in the great heap of your\n" + " knowledge?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, marry, now unmuzzle your wisdom.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Stand you both forth now: stroke your chins, and\n" + " swear by your beards that I am a knave.\n\n" + "CELIA By our beards, if we had them, thou art.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE By my knavery, if I had it, then I were; but if you\n" + " swear by that that is not, you are not forsworn: no\n" + " more was this knight swearing by his honour, for he\n" + " never had any; or if he had, he had sworn it away\n" + " before ever he saw those pancakes or that mustard.\n\n" + "CELIA Prithee, who is't that thou meanest?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE One that old Frederick, your father, loves.\n\n" + "CELIA My father's love is enough to honour him: enough!\n" + " speak no more of him; you'll be whipped for taxation\n" + " one of these days.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what\n" + " wise men do foolishly.\n\n" + "CELIA By my troth, thou sayest true; for since the little\n" + " wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery\n" + " that wise men have makes a great show. Here comes\n" + " Monsieur Le Beau.\n\n" + "ROSALIND With his mouth full of news.\n\n" + "CELIA Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Then shall we be news-crammed.\n\n" + "CELIA All the better; we shall be the more marketable.\n\n" + " [Enter LE BEAU]\n\n" + " Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau: what's the news?\n\n" + "LE BEAU Fair princess, you have lost much good sport.\n\n" + "CELIA Sport! of what colour?\n\n" + "LE BEAU What colour, madam! how shall I answer you?\n\n" + "ROSALIND As wit and fortune will.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Or as the Destinies decree.\n\n" + "CELIA Well said: that was laid on with a trowel.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Nay, if I keep not my rank,--\n\n" + "ROSALIND Thou losest thy old smell.\n\n" + "LE BEAU You amaze me, ladies: I would have told you of good\n" + " wrestling, which you have lost the sight of.\n\n" + "ROSALIND You tell us the manner of the wrestling.\n\n" + "LE BEAU I will tell you the beginning; and, if it please\n" + " your ladyships, you may see the end; for the best is\n" + " yet to do; and here, where you are, they are coming\n" + " to perform it.\n\n" + "CELIA Well, the beginning, that is dead and buried.\n\n" + "LE BEAU There comes an old man and his three sons,--\n\n" + "CELIA I could match this beginning with an old tale.\n\n" + "LE BEAU Three proper young men, of excellent growth and presence.\n\n" + "ROSALIND With bills on their necks, 'Be it known unto all men\n" + " by these presents.'\n\n" + "LE BEAU The eldest of the three wrestled with Charles, the\n" + " duke's wrestler; which Charles in a moment threw him\n" + " and broke three of his ribs, that there is little\n" + " hope of life in him: so he served the second, and\n" + " so the third. Yonder they lie; the poor old man,\n" + " their father, making such pitiful dole over them\n" + " that all the beholders take his part with weeping.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Alas!\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE But what is the sport, monsieur, that the ladies\n" + " have lost?\n\n" + "LE BEAU Why, this that I speak of.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Thus men may grow wiser every day: it is the first\n" + " time that ever I heard breaking of ribs was sport\n" + " for ladies.\n\n" + "CELIA Or I, I promise thee.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But is there any else longs to see this broken music\n" + " in his sides? is there yet another dotes upon\n" + " rib-breaking? Shall we see this wrestling, cousin?\n\n" + "LE BEAU You must, if you stay here; for here is the place\n" + " appointed for the wrestling, and they are ready to\n" + " perform it.\n\n" + "CELIA Yonder, sure, they are coming: let us now stay and see it.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, ORLANDO,\n" + " CHARLES, and Attendants]\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Come on: since the youth will not be entreated, his\n" + " own peril on his forwardness.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Is yonder the man?\n\n" + "LE BEAU Even he, madam.\n\n" + "CELIA Alas, he is too young! yet he looks successfully.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK How now, daughter and cousin! are you crept hither\n" + " to see the wrestling?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, my liege, so please you give us leave.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK You will take little delight in it, I can tell you;\n" + " there is such odds in the man. In pity of the\n" + " challenger's youth I would fain dissuade him, but he\n" + " will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies; see if\n" + " you can move him.\n\n" + "CELIA Call him hither, good Monsieur Le Beau.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Do so: I'll not be by.\n\n" + "LE BEAU Monsieur the challenger, the princesses call for you.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I attend them with all respect and duty.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Young man, have you challenged Charles the wrestler?\n\n" + "ORLANDO No, fair princess; he is the general challenger: I\n" + " come but in, as others do, to try with him the\n" + " strength of my youth.\n\n" + "CELIA Young gentleman, your spirits are too bold for your\n" + " years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's\n" + " strength: if you saw yourself with your eyes or\n" + " knew yourself with your judgment, the fear of your\n" + " adventure would counsel you to a more equal\n" + " enterprise. We pray you, for your own sake, to\n" + " embrace your own safety and give over this attempt.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Do, young sir; your reputation shall not therefore\n" + " be misprised: we will make it our suit to the duke\n" + " that the wrestling might not go forward.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I beseech you, punish me not with your hard\n" + " thoughts; wherein I confess me much guilty, to deny\n" + " so fair and excellent ladies any thing. But let\n" + " your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my\n" + " trial: wherein if I be foiled, there is but one\n" + " shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one\n" + " dead that was willing to be so: I shall do my\n" + " friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me, the\n" + " world no injury, for in it I have nothing; only in\n" + " the world I fill up a place, which may be better\n" + " supplied when I have made it empty.\n\n" + "ROSALIND The little strength that I have, I would it were with you.\n\n" + "CELIA And mine, to eke out hers.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Fare you well: pray heaven I be deceived in you!\n\n" + "CELIA Your heart's desires be with you!\n\n" + "CHARLES Come, where is this young gallant that is so\n" + " desirous to lie with his mother earth?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Ready, sir; but his will hath in it a more modest working.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK You shall try but one fall.\n\n" + "CHARLES No, I warrant your grace, you shall not entreat him\n" + " to a second, that have so mightily persuaded him\n" + " from a first.\n\n" + "ORLANDO An you mean to mock me after, you should not have\n" + " mocked me before: but come your ways.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Now Hercules be thy speed, young man!\n\n" + "CELIA I would I were invisible, to catch the strong\n" + " fellow by the leg.\n\n" + " [They wrestle]\n\n" + "ROSALIND O excellent young man!\n\n" + "CELIA If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, I can tell who\n" + " should down.\n\n" + " [Shout. CHARLES is thrown]\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK No more, no more.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Yes, I beseech your grace: I am not yet well breathed.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK How dost thou, Charles?\n\n" + "LE BEAU He cannot speak, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Bear him away. What is thy name, young man?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Orlando, my liege; the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK I would thou hadst been son to some man else:\n" + " The world esteem'd thy father honourable,\n" + " But I did find him still mine enemy:\n" + " Thou shouldst have better pleased me with this deed,\n" + " Hadst thou descended from another house.\n" + " But fare thee well; thou art a gallant youth:\n" + " I would thou hadst told me of another father.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK, train, and LE BEAU]\n\n" + "CELIA Were I my father, coz, would I do this?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son,\n" + " His youngest son; and would not change that calling,\n" + " To be adopted heir to Frederick.\n\n" + "ROSALIND My father loved Sir Rowland as his soul,\n" + " And all the world was of my father's mind:\n" + " Had I before known this young man his son,\n" + " I should have given him tears unto entreaties,\n" + " Ere he should thus have ventured.\n\n" + "CELIA Gentle cousin,\n" + " Let us go thank him and encourage him:\n" + " My father's rough and envious disposition\n" + " Sticks me at heart. Sir, you have well deserved:\n" + " If you do keep your promises in love\n" + " But justly, as you have exceeded all promise,\n" + " Your mistress shall be happy.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Gentleman,\n\n" + " [Giving him a chain from her neck]\n\n" + " Wear this for me, one out of suits with fortune,\n" + " That could give more, but that her hand lacks means.\n" + " Shall we go, coz?\n\n" + "CELIA Ay. Fare you well, fair gentleman.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Can I not say, I thank you? My better parts\n" + " Are all thrown down, and that which here stands up\n" + " Is but a quintain, a mere lifeless block.\n\n" + "ROSALIND He calls us back: my pride fell with my fortunes;\n" + " I'll ask him what he would. Did you call, sir?\n" + " Sir, you have wrestled well and overthrown\n" + " More than your enemies.\n\n" + "CELIA Will you go, coz?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Have with you. Fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA]\n\n" + "ORLANDO What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue?\n" + " I cannot speak to her, yet she urged conference.\n" + " O poor Orlando, thou art overthrown!\n" + " Or Charles or something weaker masters thee.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LE BEAU]\n\n" + "LE BEAU Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you\n" + " To leave this place. Albeit you have deserved\n" + " High commendation, true applause and love,\n" + " Yet such is now the duke's condition\n" + " That he misconstrues all that you have done.\n" + " The duke is humorous; what he is indeed,\n" + " More suits you to conceive than I to speak of.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I thank you, sir: and, pray you, tell me this:\n" + " Which of the two was daughter of the duke\n" + " That here was at the wrestling?\n\n" + "LE BEAU Neither his daughter, if we judge by manners;\n" + " But yet indeed the lesser is his daughter\n" + " The other is daughter to the banish'd duke,\n" + " And here detain'd by her usurping uncle,\n" + " To keep his daughter company; whose loves\n" + " Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters.\n" + " But I can tell you that of late this duke\n" + " Hath ta'en displeasure 'gainst his gentle niece,\n" + " Grounded upon no other argument\n" + " But that the people praise her for her virtues\n" + " And pity her for her good father's sake;\n" + " And, on my life, his malice 'gainst the lady\n" + " Will suddenly break forth. Sir, fare you well:\n" + " Hereafter, in a better world than this,\n" + " I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I rest much bounden to you: fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit LE BEAU]\n\n" + " Thus must I from the smoke into the smother;\n" + " From tyrant duke unto a tyrant brother:\n" + " But heavenly Rosalind!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CELIA and ROSALIND]\n\n" + "CELIA Why, cousin! why, Rosalind! Cupid have mercy! not a word?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Not one to throw at a dog.\n\n" + "CELIA No, thy words are too precious to be cast away upon\n" + " curs; throw some of them at me; come, lame me with reasons.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Then there were two cousins laid up; when the one\n" + " should be lamed with reasons and the other mad\n" + " without any.\n\n" + "CELIA But is all this for your father?\n\n" + "ROSALIND No, some of it is for my child's father. O, how\n" + " full of briers is this working-day world!\n\n" + "CELIA They are but burs, cousin, thrown upon thee in\n" + " holiday foolery: if we walk not in the trodden\n" + " paths our very petticoats will catch them.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I could shake them off my coat: these burs are in my heart.\n\n" + "CELIA Hem them away.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I would try, if I could cry 'hem' and have him.\n\n" + "CELIA Come, come, wrestle with thy affections.\n\n" + "ROSALIND O, they take the part of a better wrestler than myself!\n\n" + "CELIA O, a good wish upon you! you will try in time, in\n" + " despite of a fall. But, turning these jests out of\n" + " service, let us talk in good earnest: is it\n" + " possible, on such a sudden, you should fall into so\n" + " strong a liking with old Sir Rowland's youngest son?\n\n" + "ROSALIND The duke my father loved his father dearly.\n\n" + "CELIA Doth it therefore ensue that you should love his son\n" + " dearly? By this kind of chase, I should hate him,\n" + " for my father hated his father dearly; yet I hate\n" + " not Orlando.\n\n" + "ROSALIND No, faith, hate him not, for my sake.\n\n" + "CELIA Why should I not? doth he not deserve well?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Let me love him for that, and do you love him\n" + " because I do. Look, here comes the duke.\n\n" + "CELIA With his eyes full of anger.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords]\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Mistress, dispatch you with your safest haste\n" + " And get you from our court.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Me, uncle?\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK You, cousin\n" + " Within these ten days if that thou be'st found\n" + " So near our public court as twenty miles,\n" + " Thou diest for it.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I do beseech your grace,\n" + " Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:\n" + " If with myself I hold intelligence\n" + " Or have acquaintance with mine own desires,\n" + " If that I do not dream or be not frantic,--\n" + " As I do trust I am not--then, dear uncle,\n" + " Never so much as in a thought unborn\n" + " Did I offend your highness.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Thus do all traitors:\n" + " If their purgation did consist in words,\n" + " They are as innocent as grace itself:\n" + " Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Yet your mistrust cannot make me a traitor:\n" + " Tell me whereon the likelihood depends.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Thou art thy father's daughter; there's enough.\n\n" + "ROSALIND So was I when your highness took his dukedom;\n" + " So was I when your highness banish'd him:\n" + " Treason is not inherited, my lord;\n" + " Or, if we did derive it from our friends,\n" + " What's that to me? my father was no traitor:\n" + " Then, good my liege, mistake me not so much\n" + " To think my poverty is treacherous.\n\n" + "CELIA Dear sovereign, hear me speak.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Ay, Celia; we stay'd her for your sake,\n" + " Else had she with her father ranged along.\n\n" + "CELIA I did not then entreat to have her stay;\n" + " It was your pleasure and your own remorse:\n" + " I was too young that time to value her;\n" + " But now I know her: if she be a traitor,\n" + " Why so am I; we still have slept together,\n" + " Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together,\n" + " And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,\n" + " Still we went coupled and inseparable.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK She is too subtle for thee; and her smoothness,\n" + " Her very silence and her patience\n" + " Speak to the people, and they pity her.\n" + " Thou art a fool: she robs thee of thy name;\n" + " And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous\n" + " When she is gone. Then open not thy lips:\n" + " Firm and irrevocable is my doom\n" + " Which I have pass'd upon her; she is banish'd.\n\n" + "CELIA Pronounce that sentence then on me, my liege:\n" + " I cannot live out of her company.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK You are a fool. You, niece, provide yourself:\n" + " If you outstay the time, upon mine honour,\n" + " And in the greatness of my word, you die.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DUKE FREDERICK and Lords]\n\n" + "CELIA O my poor Rosalind, whither wilt thou go?\n" + " Wilt thou change fathers? I will give thee mine.\n" + " I charge thee, be not thou more grieved than I am.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I have more cause.\n\n" + "CELIA Thou hast not, cousin;\n" + " Prithee be cheerful: know'st thou not, the duke\n" + " Hath banish'd me, his daughter?\n\n" + "ROSALIND That he hath not.\n\n" + "CELIA No, hath not? Rosalind lacks then the love\n" + " Which teacheth thee that thou and I am one:\n" + " Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet girl?\n" + " No: let my father seek another heir.\n" + " Therefore devise with me how we may fly,\n" + " Whither to go and what to bear with us;\n" + " And do not seek to take your change upon you,\n" + " To bear your griefs yourself and leave me out;\n" + " For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows pale,\n" + " Say what thou canst, I'll go along with thee.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Why, whither shall we go?\n\n" + "CELIA To seek my uncle in the forest of Arden.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Alas, what danger will it be to us,\n" + " Maids as we are, to travel forth so far!\n" + " Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.\n\n" + "CELIA I'll put myself in poor and mean attire\n" + " And with a kind of umber smirch my face;\n" + " The like do you: so shall we pass along\n" + " And never stir assailants.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Were it not better,\n" + " Because that I am more than common tall,\n" + " That I did suit me all points like a man?\n" + " A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh,\n" + " A boar-spear in my hand; and--in my heart\n" + " Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will--\n" + " We'll have a swashing and a martial outside,\n" + " As many other mannish cowards have\n" + " That do outface it with their semblances.\n\n" + "CELIA What shall I call thee when thou art a man?\n\n" + "ROSALIND I'll have no worse a name than Jove's own page;\n" + " And therefore look you call me Ganymede.\n" + " But what will you be call'd?\n\n" + "CELIA Something that hath a reference to my state\n" + " No longer Celia, but Aliena.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal\n" + " The clownish fool out of your father's court?\n" + " Would he not be a comfort to our travel?\n\n" + "CELIA He'll go along o'er the wide world with me;\n" + " Leave me alone to woo him. Let's away,\n" + " And get our jewels and our wealth together,\n" + " Devise the fittest time and safest way\n" + " To hide us from pursuit that will be made\n" + " After my flight. Now go we in content\n" + " To liberty and not to banishment.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The Forest of Arden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and two or three Lords,\n" + " like foresters]\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,\n" + " Hath not old custom made this life more sweet\n" + " Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods\n" + " More free from peril than the envious court?\n" + " Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,\n" + " The seasons' difference, as the icy fang\n" + " And churlish chiding of the winter's wind,\n" + " Which, when it bites and blows upon my body,\n" + " Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say\n" + " 'This is no flattery: these are counsellors\n" + " That feelingly persuade me what I am.'\n" + " Sweet are the uses of adversity,\n" + " Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,\n" + " Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;\n" + " And this our life exempt from public haunt\n" + " Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,\n" + " Sermons in stones and good in every thing.\n" + " I would not change it.\n\n" + "AMIENS Happy is your grace,\n" + " That can translate the stubbornness of fortune\n" + " Into so quiet and so sweet a style.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Come, shall we go and kill us venison?\n" + " And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,\n" + " Being native burghers of this desert city,\n" + " Should in their own confines with forked heads\n" + " Have their round haunches gored.\n\n" + "First Lord Indeed, my lord,\n" + " The melancholy Jaques grieves at that,\n" + " And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp\n" + " Than doth your brother that hath banish'd you.\n" + " To-day my Lord of Amiens and myself\n" + " Did steal behind him as he lay along\n" + " Under an oak whose antique root peeps out\n" + " Upon the brook that brawls along this wood:\n" + " To the which place a poor sequester'd stag,\n" + " That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt,\n" + " Did come to languish, and indeed, my lord,\n" + " The wretched animal heaved forth such groans\n" + " That their discharge did stretch his leathern coat\n" + " Almost to bursting, and the big round tears\n" + " Coursed one another down his innocent nose\n" + " In piteous chase; and thus the hairy fool\n" + " Much marked of the melancholy Jaques,\n" + " Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook,\n" + " Augmenting it with tears.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR But what said Jaques?\n" + " Did he not moralize this spectacle?\n\n" + "First Lord O, yes, into a thousand similes.\n" + " First, for his weeping into the needless stream;\n" + " 'Poor deer,' quoth he, 'thou makest a testament\n" + " As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more\n" + " To that which had too much:' then, being there alone,\n" + " Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends,\n" + " ''Tis right:' quoth he; 'thus misery doth part\n" + " The flux of company:' anon a careless herd,\n" + " Full of the pasture, jumps along by him\n" + " And never stays to greet him; 'Ay' quoth Jaques,\n" + " 'Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens;\n" + " 'Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look\n" + " Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?'\n" + " Thus most invectively he pierceth through\n" + " The body of the country, city, court,\n" + " Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we\n" + " Are mere usurpers, tyrants and what's worse,\n" + " To fright the animals and to kill them up\n" + " In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR And did you leave him in this contemplation?\n\n" + "Second Lord We did, my lord, weeping and commenting\n" + " Upon the sobbing deer.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Show me the place:\n" + " I love to cope him in these sullen fits,\n" + " For then he's full of matter.\n\n" + "First Lord I'll bring you to him straight.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, with Lords]\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Can it be possible that no man saw them?\n" + " It cannot be: some villains of my court\n" + " Are of consent and sufferance in this.\n\n" + "First Lord I cannot hear of any that did see her.\n" + " The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,\n" + " Saw her abed, and in the morning early\n" + " They found the bed untreasured of their mistress.\n\n" + "Second Lord My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft\n" + " Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.\n" + " Hisperia, the princess' gentlewoman,\n" + " Confesses that she secretly o'erheard\n" + " Your daughter and her cousin much commend\n" + " The parts and graces of the wrestler\n" + " That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;\n" + " And she believes, wherever they are gone,\n" + " That youth is surely in their company.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;\n" + " If he be absent, bring his brother to me;\n" + " I'll make him find him: do this suddenly,\n" + " And let not search and inquisition quail\n" + " To bring again these foolish runaways.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Before OLIVER'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting]\n\n" + "ORLANDO Who's there?\n\n" + "ADAM What, my young master? O, my gentle master!\n" + " O my sweet master! O you memory\n" + " Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?\n" + " Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?\n" + " And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?\n" + " Why would you be so fond to overcome\n" + " The bonny priser of the humorous duke?\n" + " Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.\n" + " Know you not, master, to some kind of men\n" + " Their graces serve them but as enemies?\n" + " No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,\n" + " Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.\n" + " O, what a world is this, when what is comely\n" + " Envenoms him that bears it!\n\n" + "ORLANDO Why, what's the matter?\n\n" + "ADAM O unhappy youth!\n" + " Come not within these doors; within this roof\n" + " The enemy of all your graces lives:\n" + " Your brother--no, no brother; yet the son--\n" + " Yet not the son, I will not call him son\n" + " Of him I was about to call his father--\n" + " Hath heard your praises, and this night he means\n" + " To burn the lodging where you use to lie\n" + " And you within it: if he fail of that,\n" + " He will have other means to cut you off.\n" + " I overheard him and his practises.\n" + " This is no place; this house is but a butchery:\n" + " Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?\n\n" + "ADAM No matter whither, so you come not here.\n\n" + "ORLANDO What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?\n" + " Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce\n" + " A thievish living on the common road?\n" + " This I must do, or know not what to do:\n" + " Yet this I will not do, do how I can;\n" + " I rather will subject me to the malice\n" + " Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.\n\n" + "ADAM But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,\n" + " The thrifty hire I saved under your father,\n" + " Which I did store to be my foster-nurse\n" + " When service should in my old limbs lie lame\n" + " And unregarded age in corners thrown:\n" + " Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,\n" + " Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,\n" + " Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;\n" + " And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:\n" + " Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;\n" + " For in my youth I never did apply\n" + " Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,\n" + " Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo\n" + " The means of weakness and debility;\n" + " Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,\n" + " Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;\n" + " I'll do the service of a younger man\n" + " In all your business and necessities.\n\n" + "ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears\n" + " The constant service of the antique world,\n" + " When service sweat for duty, not for meed!\n" + " Thou art not for the fashion of these times,\n" + " Where none will sweat but for promotion,\n" + " And having that, do choke their service up\n" + " Even with the having: it is not so with thee.\n" + " But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,\n" + " That cannot so much as a blossom yield\n" + " In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry\n" + " But come thy ways; well go along together,\n" + " And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,\n" + " We'll light upon some settled low content.\n\n" + "ADAM Master, go on, and I will follow thee,\n" + " To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.\n" + " From seventeen years till now almost fourscore\n" + " Here lived I, but now live here no more.\n" + " At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;\n" + " But at fourscore it is too late a week:\n" + " Yet fortune cannot recompense me better\n" + " Than to die well and not my master's debtor.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The Forest of Arden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND for Ganymede, CELIA for Aliena,\n" + " and TOUCHSTONE]\n\n" + "ROSALIND O Jupiter, how weary are my spirits!\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's\n" + " apparel and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort\n" + " the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show\n" + " itself courageous to petticoat: therefore courage,\n" + " good Aliena!\n\n" + "CELIA I pray you, bear with me; I cannot go no further.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE For my part, I had rather bear with you than bear\n" + " you; yet I should bear no cross if I did bear you,\n" + " for I think you have no money in your purse.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Well, this is the forest of Arden.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Ay, now am I in Arden; the more fool I; when I was\n" + " at home, I was in a better place: but travellers\n" + " must be content.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, be so, good Touchstone.\n\n" + " [Enter CORIN and SILVIUS]\n\n" + " Look you, who comes here; a young man and an old in\n" + " solemn talk.\n\n" + "CORIN That is the way to make her scorn you still.\n\n" + "SILVIUS O Corin, that thou knew'st how I do love her!\n\n" + "CORIN I partly guess; for I have loved ere now.\n\n" + "SILVIUS No, Corin, being old, thou canst not guess,\n" + " Though in thy youth thou wast as true a lover\n" + " As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow:\n" + " But if thy love were ever like to mine--\n" + " As sure I think did never man love so--\n" + " How many actions most ridiculous\n" + " Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy?\n\n" + "CORIN Into a thousand that I have forgotten.\n\n" + "SILVIUS O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily!\n" + " If thou remember'st not the slightest folly\n" + " That ever love did make thee run into,\n" + " Thou hast not loved:\n" + " Or if thou hast not sat as I do now,\n" + " Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise,\n" + " Thou hast not loved:\n" + " Or if thou hast not broke from company\n" + " Abruptly, as my passion now makes me,\n" + " Thou hast not loved.\n" + " O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ROSALIND Alas, poor shepherd! searching of thy wound,\n" + " I have by hard adventure found mine own.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE And I mine. I remember, when I was in love I broke\n" + " my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for\n" + " coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the\n" + " kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her\n" + " pretty chopt hands had milked; and I remember the\n" + " wooing of a peascod instead of her, from whom I took\n" + " two cods and, giving her them again, said with\n" + " weeping tears 'Wear these for my sake.' We that are\n" + " true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is\n" + " mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Thou speakest wiser than thou art ware of.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Nay, I shall ne'er be ware of mine own wit till I\n" + " break my shins against it.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Jove, Jove! this shepherd's passion\n" + " Is much upon my fashion.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE And mine; but it grows something stale with me.\n\n" + "CELIA I pray you, one of you question yond man\n" + " If he for gold will give us any food:\n" + " I faint almost to death.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Holla, you clown!\n\n" + "ROSALIND Peace, fool: he's not thy kinsman.\n\n" + "CORIN Who calls?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Your betters, sir.\n\n" + "CORIN Else are they very wretched.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Peace, I say. Good even to you, friend.\n\n" + "CORIN And to you, gentle sir, and to you all.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold\n" + " Can in this desert place buy entertainment,\n" + " Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed:\n" + " Here's a young maid with travel much oppress'd\n" + " And faints for succor.\n\n" + "CORIN Fair sir, I pity her\n" + " And wish, for her sake more than for mine own,\n" + " My fortunes were more able to relieve her;\n" + " But I am shepherd to another man\n" + " And do not shear the fleeces that I graze:\n" + " My master is of churlish disposition\n" + " And little recks to find the way to heaven\n" + " By doing deeds of hospitality:\n" + " Besides, his cote, his flocks and bounds of feed\n" + " Are now on sale, and at our sheepcote now,\n" + " By reason of his absence, there is nothing\n" + " That you will feed on; but what is, come see.\n" + " And in my voice most welcome shall you be.\n\n" + "ROSALIND What is he that shall buy his flock and pasture?\n\n" + "CORIN That young swain that you saw here but erewhile,\n" + " That little cares for buying any thing.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I pray thee, if it stand with honesty,\n" + " Buy thou the cottage, pasture and the flock,\n" + " And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.\n\n" + "CELIA And we will mend thy wages. I like this place.\n" + " And willingly could waste my time in it.\n\n" + "CORIN Assuredly the thing is to be sold:\n" + " Go with me: if you like upon report\n" + " The soil, the profit and this kind of life,\n" + " I will your very faithful feeder be\n" + " And buy it with your gold right suddenly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The Forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others]\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + "AMIENS Under the greenwood tree\n" + " Who loves to lie with me,\n" + " And turn his merry note\n" + " Unto the sweet bird's throat,\n" + " Come hither, come hither, come hither:\n" + " Here shall he see No enemy\n" + " But winter and rough weather.\n\n" + "JAQUES More, more, I prithee, more.\n\n" + "AMIENS It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.\n\n" + "JAQUES I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck\n" + " melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.\n" + " More, I prithee, more.\n\n" + "AMIENS My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.\n\n" + "JAQUES I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to\n" + " sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?\n\n" + "AMIENS What you will, Monsieur Jaques.\n\n" + "JAQUES Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me\n" + " nothing. Will you sing?\n\n" + "AMIENS More at your request than to please myself.\n\n" + "JAQUES Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you;\n" + " but that they call compliment is like the encounter\n" + " of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily,\n" + " methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me\n" + " the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will\n" + " not, hold your tongues.\n\n" + "AMIENS Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the\n" + " duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all\n" + " this day to look you.\n\n" + "JAQUES And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is\n" + " too disputable for my company: I think of as many\n" + " matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no\n" + " boast of them. Come, warble, come.\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + " Who doth ambition shun\n\n" + " [All together here]\n\n" + " And loves to live i' the sun,\n" + " Seeking the food he eats\n" + " And pleased with what he gets,\n" + " Come hither, come hither, come hither:\n" + " Here shall he see No enemy\n" + " But winter and rough weather.\n\n" + "JAQUES I'll give you a verse to this note that I made\n" + " yesterday in despite of my invention.\n\n" + "AMIENS And I'll sing it.\n\n" + "JAQUES Thus it goes:--\n\n" + " If it do come to pass\n" + " That any man turn ass,\n" + " Leaving his wealth and ease,\n" + " A stubborn will to please,\n" + " Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:\n" + " Here shall he see\n" + " Gross fools as he,\n" + " An if he will come to me.\n\n" + "AMIENS What's that 'ducdame'?\n\n" + "JAQUES 'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a\n" + " circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll\n" + " rail against all the first-born of Egypt.\n\n" + "AMIENS And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM]\n\n" + "ADAM Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food!\n" + " Here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell,\n" + " kind master.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live\n" + " a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little.\n" + " If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I\n" + " will either be food for it or bring it for food to\n" + " thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers.\n" + " For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at\n" + " the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently;\n" + " and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will\n" + " give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I\n" + " come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!\n" + " thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly.\n" + " Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear\n" + " thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for\n" + " lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this\n" + " desert. Cheerly, good Adam!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII The forest.\n\n\n" + " [A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and\n" + " Lords like outlaws]\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR I think he be transform'd into a beast;\n" + " For I can no where find him like a man.\n\n" + "First Lord My lord, he is but even now gone hence:\n" + " Here was he merry, hearing of a song.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR If he, compact of jars, grow musical,\n" + " We shall have shortly discord in the spheres.\n" + " Go, seek him: tell him I would speak with him.\n\n" + " [Enter JAQUES]\n\n" + "First Lord He saves my labour by his own approach.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Why, how now, monsieur! what a life is this,\n" + " That your poor friends must woo your company?\n" + " What, you look merrily!\n\n" + "JAQUES A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest,\n" + " A motley fool; a miserable world!\n" + " As I do live by food, I met a fool\n" + " Who laid him down and bask'd him in the sun,\n" + " And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,\n" + " In good set terms and yet a motley fool.\n" + " 'Good morrow, fool,' quoth I. 'No, sir,' quoth he,\n" + " 'Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me fortune:'\n" + " And then he drew a dial from his poke,\n" + " And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,\n" + " Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:\n" + " Thus we may see,' quoth he, 'how the world wags:\n" + " 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,\n" + " And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;\n" + " And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,\n" + " And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;\n" + " And thereby hangs a tale.' When I did hear\n" + " The motley fool thus moral on the time,\n" + " My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,\n" + " That fools should be so deep-contemplative,\n" + " And I did laugh sans intermission\n" + " An hour by his dial. O noble fool!\n" + " A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR What fool is this?\n\n" + "JAQUES O worthy fool! One that hath been a courtier,\n" + " And says, if ladies be but young and fair,\n" + " They have the gift to know it: and in his brain,\n" + " Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit\n" + " After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd\n" + " With observation, the which he vents\n" + " In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!\n" + " I am ambitious for a motley coat.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Thou shalt have one.\n\n" + "JAQUES It is my only suit;\n" + " Provided that you weed your better judgments\n" + " Of all opinion that grows rank in them\n" + " That I am wise. I must have liberty\n" + " Withal, as large a charter as the wind,\n" + " To blow on whom I please; for so fools have;\n" + " And they that are most galled with my folly,\n" + " They most must laugh. And why, sir, must they so?\n" + " The 'why' is plain as way to parish church:\n" + " He that a fool doth very wisely hit\n" + " Doth very foolishly, although he smart,\n" + " Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not,\n" + " The wise man's folly is anatomized\n" + " Even by the squandering glances of the fool.\n" + " Invest me in my motley; give me leave\n" + " To speak my mind, and I will through and through\n" + " Cleanse the foul body of the infected world,\n" + " If they will patiently receive my medicine.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do.\n\n" + "JAQUES What, for a counter, would I do but good?\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin:\n" + " For thou thyself hast been a libertine,\n" + " As sensual as the brutish sting itself;\n" + " And all the embossed sores and headed evils,\n" + " That thou with licence of free foot hast caught,\n" + " Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.\n\n" + "JAQUES Why, who cries out on pride,\n" + " That can therein tax any private party?\n" + " Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea,\n" + " Till that the weary very means do ebb?\n" + " What woman in the city do I name,\n" + " When that I say the city-woman bears\n" + " The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders?\n" + " Who can come in and say that I mean her,\n" + " When such a one as she such is her neighbour?\n" + " Or what is he of basest function\n" + " That says his bravery is not of my cost,\n" + " Thinking that I mean him, but therein suits\n" + " His folly to the mettle of my speech?\n" + " There then; how then? what then? Let me see wherein\n" + " My tongue hath wrong'd him: if it do him right,\n" + " Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,\n" + " Why then my taxing like a wild-goose flies,\n" + " Unclaim'd of any man. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn]\n\n" + "ORLANDO Forbear, and eat no more.\n\n" + "JAQUES Why, I have eat none yet.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Nor shalt not, till necessity be served.\n\n" + "JAQUES Of what kind should this cock come of?\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Art thou thus bolden'd, man, by thy distress,\n" + " Or else a rude despiser of good manners,\n" + " That in civility thou seem'st so empty?\n\n" + "ORLANDO You touch'd my vein at first: the thorny point\n" + " Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show\n" + " Of smooth civility: yet am I inland bred\n" + " And know some nurture. But forbear, I say:\n" + " He dies that touches any of this fruit\n" + " Till I and my affairs are answered.\n\n" + "JAQUES An you will not be answered with reason, I must die.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR What would you have? Your gentleness shall force\n" + " More than your force move us to gentleness.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I almost die for food; and let me have it.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Speak you so gently? Pardon me, I pray you:\n" + " I thought that all things had been savage here;\n" + " And therefore put I on the countenance\n" + " Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are\n" + " That in this desert inaccessible,\n" + " Under the shade of melancholy boughs,\n" + " Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time\n" + " If ever you have look'd on better days,\n" + " If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church,\n" + " If ever sat at any good man's feast,\n" + " If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear\n" + " And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied,\n" + " Let gentleness my strong enforcement be:\n" + " In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR True is it that we have seen better days,\n" + " And have with holy bell been knoll'd to church\n" + " And sat at good men's feasts and wiped our eyes\n" + " Of drops that sacred pity hath engender'd:\n" + " And therefore sit you down in gentleness\n" + " And take upon command what help we have\n" + " That to your wanting may be minister'd.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Then but forbear your food a little while,\n" + " Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn\n" + " And give it food. There is an old poor man,\n" + " Who after me hath many a weary step\n" + " Limp'd in pure love: till he be first sufficed,\n" + " Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger,\n" + " I will not touch a bit.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Go find him out,\n" + " And we will nothing waste till you return.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I thank ye; and be blest for your good comfort!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy:\n" + " This wide and universal theatre\n" + " Presents more woeful pageants than the scene\n" + " Wherein we play in.\n\n" + "JAQUES All the world's a stage,\n" + " And all the men and women merely players:\n" + " They have their exits and their entrances;\n" + " And one man in his time plays many parts,\n" + " His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,\n" + " Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.\n" + " And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel\n" + " And shining morning face, creeping like snail\n" + " Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,\n" + " Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad\n" + " Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,\n" + " Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,\n" + " Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,\n" + " Seeking the bubble reputation\n" + " Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,\n" + " In fair round belly with good capon lined,\n" + " With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,\n" + " Full of wise saws and modern instances;\n" + " And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts\n" + " Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,\n" + " With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,\n" + " His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide\n" + " For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,\n" + " Turning again toward childish treble, pipes\n" + " And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,\n" + " That ends this strange eventful history,\n" + " Is second childishness and mere oblivion,\n" + " Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ORLANDO, with ADAM]\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Welcome. Set down your venerable burthen,\n" + " And let him feed.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I thank you most for him.\n\n" + "ADAM So had you need:\n" + " I scarce can speak to thank you for myself.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Welcome; fall to: I will not trouble you\n" + " As yet, to question you about your fortunes.\n" + " Give us some music; and, good cousin, sing.\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + "AMIENS Blow, blow, thou winter wind.\n" + " Thou art not so unkind\n" + " As man's ingratitude;\n" + " Thy tooth is not so keen,\n" + " Because thou art not seen,\n" + " Although thy breath be rude.\n" + " Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:\n" + " Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:\n" + " Then, heigh-ho, the holly!\n" + " This life is most jolly.\n" + " Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,\n" + " That dost not bite so nigh\n" + " As benefits forgot:\n" + " Though thou the waters warp,\n" + " Thy sting is not so sharp\n" + " As friend remember'd not.\n" + " Heigh-ho! sing, &c.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son,\n" + " As you have whisper'd faithfully you were,\n" + " And as mine eye doth his effigies witness\n" + " Most truly limn'd and living in your face,\n" + " Be truly welcome hither: I am the duke\n" + " That loved your father: the residue of your fortune,\n" + " Go to my cave and tell me. Good old man,\n" + " Thou art right welcome as thy master is.\n" + " Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,\n" + " And let me all your fortunes understand.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE FREDERICK, Lords, and OLIVER]\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK Not see him since? Sir, sir, that cannot be:\n" + " But were I not the better part made mercy,\n" + " I should not seek an absent argument\n" + " Of my revenge, thou present. But look to it:\n" + " Find out thy brother, wheresoe'er he is;\n" + " Seek him with candle; bring him dead or living\n" + " Within this twelvemonth, or turn thou no more\n" + " To seek a living in our territory.\n" + " Thy lands and all things that thou dost call thine\n" + " Worth seizure do we seize into our hands,\n" + " Till thou canst quit thee by thy brothers mouth\n" + " Of what we think against thee.\n\n" + "OLIVER O that your highness knew my heart in this!\n" + " I never loved my brother in my life.\n\n" + "DUKE FREDERICK More villain thou. Well, push him out of doors;\n" + " And let my officers of such a nature\n" + " Make an extent upon his house and lands:\n" + " Do this expediently and turn him going.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO, with a paper]\n\n" + "ORLANDO Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love:\n" + " And thou, thrice-crowned queen of night, survey\n" + " With thy chaste eye, from thy pale sphere above,\n" + " Thy huntress' name that my full life doth sway.\n" + " O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books\n" + " And in their barks my thoughts I'll character;\n" + " That every eye which in this forest looks\n" + " Shall see thy virtue witness'd every where.\n" + " Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree\n" + " The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter CORIN and TOUCHSTONE]\n\n" + "CORIN And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is a good\n" + " life, but in respect that it is a shepherd's life,\n" + " it is naught. In respect that it is solitary, I\n" + " like it very well; but in respect that it is\n" + " private, it is a very vile life. Now, in respect it\n" + " is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but in\n" + " respect it is not in the court, it is tedious. As\n" + " is it a spare life, look you, it fits my humour well;\n" + " but as there is no more plenty in it, it goes much\n" + " against my stomach. Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd?\n\n" + "CORIN No more but that I know the more one sickens the\n" + " worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money,\n" + " means and content is without three good friends;\n" + " that the property of rain is to wet and fire to\n" + " burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and that a\n" + " great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that\n" + " he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may\n" + " complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Such a one is a natural philosopher. Wast ever in\n" + " court, shepherd?\n\n" + "CORIN No, truly.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Then thou art damned.\n\n" + "CORIN Nay, I hope.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Truly, thou art damned like an ill-roasted egg, all\n" + " on one side.\n\n" + "CORIN For not being at court? Your reason.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Why, if thou never wast at court, thou never sawest\n" + " good manners; if thou never sawest good manners,\n" + " then thy manners must be wicked; and wickedness is\n" + " sin, and sin is damnation. Thou art in a parlous\n" + " state, shepherd.\n\n" + "CORIN Not a whit, Touchstone: those that are good manners\n" + " at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the\n" + " behavior of the country is most mockable at the\n" + " court. You told me you salute not at the court, but\n" + " you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be\n" + " uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Instance, briefly; come, instance.\n\n" + "CORIN Why, we are still handling our ewes, and their\n" + " fells, you know, are greasy.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? and is not\n" + " the grease of a mutton as wholesome as the sweat of\n" + " a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I say; come.\n\n" + "CORIN Besides, our hands are hard.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Your lips will feel them the sooner. Shallow again.\n" + " A more sounder instance, come.\n\n" + "CORIN And they are often tarred over with the surgery of\n" + " our sheep: and would you have us kiss tar? The\n" + " courtier's hands are perfumed with civet.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Most shallow man! thou worms-meat, in respect of a\n" + " good piece of flesh indeed! Learn of the wise, and\n" + " perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the\n" + " very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd.\n\n" + "CORIN You have too courtly a wit for me: I'll rest.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Wilt thou rest damned? God help thee, shallow man!\n" + " God make incision in thee! thou art raw.\n\n" + "CORIN Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get\n" + " that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's\n" + " happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my\n" + " harm, and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes\n" + " graze and my lambs suck.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE That is another simple sin in you, to bring the ewes\n" + " and the rams together and to offer to get your\n" + " living by the copulation of cattle; to be bawd to a\n" + " bell-wether, and to betray a she-lamb of a\n" + " twelvemonth to a crooked-pated, old, cuckoldly ram,\n" + " out of all reasonable match. If thou beest not\n" + " damned for this, the devil himself will have no\n" + " shepherds; I cannot see else how thou shouldst\n" + " 'scape.\n\n" + "CORIN Here comes young Master Ganymede, my new mistress's brother.\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND, with a paper, reading]\n\n" + "ROSALIND From the east to western Ind,\n" + " No jewel is like Rosalind.\n" + " Her worth, being mounted on the wind,\n" + " Through all the world bears Rosalind.\n" + " All the pictures fairest lined\n" + " Are but black to Rosalind.\n" + " Let no fair be kept in mind\n" + " But the fair of Rosalind.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE I'll rhyme you so eight years together, dinners and\n" + " suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is the\n" + " right butter-women's rank to market.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Out, fool!\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE For a taste:\n" + " If a hart do lack a hind,\n" + " Let him seek out Rosalind.\n" + " If the cat will after kind,\n" + " So be sure will Rosalind.\n" + " Winter garments must be lined,\n" + " So must slender Rosalind.\n" + " They that reap must sheaf and bind;\n" + " Then to cart with Rosalind.\n" + " Sweetest nut hath sourest rind,\n" + " Such a nut is Rosalind.\n" + " He that sweetest rose will find\n" + " Must find love's prick and Rosalind.\n" + " This is the very false gallop of verses: why do you\n" + " infect yourself with them?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Peace, you dull fool! I found them on a tree.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Truly, the tree yields bad fruit.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I'll graff it with you, and then I shall graff it\n" + " with a medlar: then it will be the earliest fruit\n" + " i' the country; for you'll be rotten ere you be half\n" + " ripe, and that's the right virtue of the medlar.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE You have said; but whether wisely or no, let the\n" + " forest judge.\n\n" + " [Enter CELIA, with a writing]\n\n" + "ROSALIND Peace! Here comes my sister, reading: stand aside.\n\n" + "CELIA [Reads]\n\n" + " Why should this a desert be?\n" + " For it is unpeopled? No:\n" + " Tongues I'll hang on every tree,\n" + " That shall civil sayings show:\n" + " Some, how brief the life of man\n" + " Runs his erring pilgrimage,\n" + " That the stretching of a span\n" + " Buckles in his sum of age;\n" + " Some, of violated vows\n" + " 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend:\n" + " But upon the fairest boughs,\n" + " Or at every sentence end,\n" + " Will I Rosalinda write,\n" + " Teaching all that read to know\n" + " The quintessence of every sprite\n" + " Heaven would in little show.\n" + " Therefore Heaven Nature charged\n" + " That one body should be fill'd\n" + " With all graces wide-enlarged:\n" + " Nature presently distill'd\n" + " Helen's cheek, but not her heart,\n" + " Cleopatra's majesty,\n" + " Atalanta's better part,\n" + " Sad Lucretia's modesty.\n" + " Thus Rosalind of many parts\n" + " By heavenly synod was devised,\n" + " Of many faces, eyes and hearts,\n" + " To have the touches dearest prized.\n" + " Heaven would that she these gifts should have,\n" + " And I to live and die her slave.\n\n" + "ROSALIND O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love\n" + " have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never\n" + " cried 'Have patience, good people!'\n\n" + "CELIA How now! back, friends! Shepherd, go off a little.\n" + " Go with him, sirrah.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat;\n" + " though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CORIN and TOUCHSTONE]\n\n" + "CELIA Didst thou hear these verses?\n\n" + "ROSALIND O, yes, I heard them all, and more too; for some of\n" + " them had in them more feet than the verses would bear.\n\n" + "CELIA That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, but the feet were lame and could not bear\n" + " themselves without the verse and therefore stood\n" + " lamely in the verse.\n\n" + "CELIA But didst thou hear without wondering how thy name\n" + " should be hanged and carved upon these trees?\n\n" + "ROSALIND I was seven of the nine days out of the wonder\n" + " before you came; for look here what I found on a\n" + " palm-tree. I was never so be-rhymed since\n" + " Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I\n" + " can hardly remember.\n\n" + "CELIA Trow you who hath done this?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Is it a man?\n\n" + "CELIA And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck.\n" + " Change you colour?\n\n" + "ROSALIND I prithee, who?\n\n" + "CELIA O Lord, Lord! it is a hard matter for friends to\n" + " meet; but mountains may be removed with earthquakes\n" + " and so encounter.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay, but who is it?\n\n" + "CELIA Is it possible?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence,\n" + " tell me who it is.\n\n" + "CELIA O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful\n" + " wonderful! and yet again wonderful, and after that,\n" + " out of all hooping!\n\n" + "ROSALIND Good my complexion! dost thou think, though I am\n" + " caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in\n" + " my disposition? One inch of delay more is a\n" + " South-sea of discovery; I prithee, tell me who is it\n" + " quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst\n" + " stammer, that thou mightst pour this concealed man\n" + " out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-\n" + " mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or none at\n" + " all. I prithee, take the cork out of thy mouth that\n" + " may drink thy tidings.\n\n" + "CELIA So you may put a man in your belly.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Is he of God's making? What manner of man? Is his\n" + " head worth a hat, or his chin worth a beard?\n\n" + "CELIA Nay, he hath but a little beard.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Why, God will send more, if the man will be\n" + " thankful: let me stay the growth of his beard, if\n" + " thou delay me not the knowledge of his chin.\n\n" + "CELIA It is young Orlando, that tripped up the wrestler's\n" + " heels and your heart both in an instant.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay, but the devil take mocking: speak, sad brow and\n" + " true maid.\n\n" + "CELIA I' faith, coz, 'tis he.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Orlando?\n\n" + "CELIA Orlando.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Alas the day! what shall I do with my doublet and\n" + " hose? What did he when thou sawest him? What said\n" + " he? How looked he? Wherein went he? What makes\n" + " him here? Did he ask for me? Where remains he?\n" + " How parted he with thee? and when shalt thou see\n" + " him again? Answer me in one word.\n\n" + "CELIA You must borrow me Gargantua's mouth first: 'tis a\n" + " word too great for any mouth of this age's size. To\n" + " say ay and no to these particulars is more than to\n" + " answer in a catechism.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But doth he know that I am in this forest and in\n" + " man's apparel? Looks he as freshly as he did the\n" + " day he wrestled?\n\n" + "CELIA It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the\n" + " propositions of a lover; but take a taste of my\n" + " finding him, and relish it with good observance.\n" + " I found him under a tree, like a dropped acorn.\n\n" + "ROSALIND It may well be called Jove's tree, when it drops\n" + " forth such fruit.\n\n" + "CELIA Give me audience, good madam.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Proceed.\n\n" + "CELIA There lay he, stretched along, like a wounded knight.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Though it be pity to see such a sight, it well\n" + " becomes the ground.\n\n" + "CELIA Cry 'holla' to thy tongue, I prithee; it curvets\n" + " unseasonably. He was furnished like a hunter.\n\n" + "ROSALIND O, ominous! he comes to kill my heart.\n\n" + "CELIA I would sing my song without a burden: thou bringest\n" + " me out of tune.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must\n" + " speak. Sweet, say on.\n\n" + "CELIA You bring me out. Soft! comes he not here?\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO and JAQUES]\n\n" + "ROSALIND 'Tis he: slink by, and note him.\n\n" + "JAQUES I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had\n" + " as lief have been myself alone.\n\n" + "ORLANDO And so had I; but yet, for fashion sake, I thank you\n" + " too for your society.\n\n" + "JAQUES God be wi' you: let's meet as little as we can.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I do desire we may be better strangers.\n\n" + "JAQUES I pray you, mar no more trees with writing\n" + " love-songs in their barks.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I pray you, mar no more of my verses with reading\n" + " them ill-favouredly.\n\n" + "JAQUES Rosalind is your love's name?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Yes, just.\n\n" + "JAQUES I do not like her name.\n\n" + "ORLANDO There was no thought of pleasing you when she was\n" + " christened.\n\n" + "JAQUES What stature is she of?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Just as high as my heart.\n\n" + "JAQUES You are full of pretty answers. Have you not been\n" + " acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them\n" + " out of rings?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, from\n" + " whence you have studied your questions.\n\n" + "JAQUES You have a nimble wit: I think 'twas made of\n" + " Atalanta's heels. Will you sit down with me? and\n" + " we two will rail against our mistress the world and\n" + " all our misery.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I will chide no breather in the world but myself,\n" + " against whom I know most faults.\n\n" + "JAQUES The worst fault you have is to be in love.\n\n" + "ORLANDO 'Tis a fault I will not change for your best virtue.\n" + " I am weary of you.\n\n" + "JAQUES By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I found\n" + " you.\n\n" + "ORLANDO He is drowned in the brook: look but in, and you\n" + " shall see him.\n\n" + "JAQUES There I shall see mine own figure.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.\n\n" + "JAQUES I'll tarry no longer with you: farewell, good\n" + " Signior Love.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I am glad of your departure: adieu, good Monsieur\n" + " Melancholy.\n\n" + " [Exit JAQUES]\n\n" + "ROSALIND [Aside to CELIA] I will speak to him, like a saucy\n" + " lackey and under that habit play the knave with him.\n" + " Do you hear, forester?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Very well: what would you?\n\n" + "ROSALIND I pray you, what is't o'clock?\n\n" + "ORLANDO You should ask me what time o' day: there's no clock\n" + " in the forest.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Then there is no true lover in the forest; else\n" + " sighing every minute and groaning every hour would\n" + " detect the lazy foot of Time as well as a clock.\n\n" + "ORLANDO And why not the swift foot of Time? had not that\n" + " been as proper?\n\n" + "ROSALIND By no means, sir: Time travels in divers paces with\n" + " divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles\n" + " withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops\n" + " withal and who he stands still withal.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I prithee, who doth he trot withal?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Marry, he trots hard with a young maid between the\n" + " contract of her marriage and the day it is\n" + " solemnized: if the interim be but a se'nnight,\n" + " Time's pace is so hard that it seems the length of\n" + " seven year.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Who ambles Time withal?\n\n" + "ROSALIND With a priest that lacks Latin and a rich man that\n" + " hath not the gout, for the one sleeps easily because\n" + " he cannot study, and the other lives merrily because\n" + " he feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean\n" + " and wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden\n" + " of heavy tedious penury; these Time ambles withal.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Who doth he gallop withal?\n\n" + "ROSALIND With a thief to the gallows, for though he go as\n" + " softly as foot can fall, he thinks himself too soon there.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Who stays it still withal?\n\n" + "ROSALIND With lawyers in the vacation, for they sleep between\n" + " term and term and then they perceive not how Time moves.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Where dwell you, pretty youth?\n\n" + "ROSALIND With this shepherdess, my sister; here in the\n" + " skirts of the forest, like fringe upon a petticoat.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Are you native of this place?\n\n" + "ROSALIND As the cony that you see dwell where she is kindled.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Your accent is something finer than you could\n" + " purchase in so removed a dwelling.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I have been told so of many: but indeed an old\n" + " religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was\n" + " in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship\n" + " too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard\n" + " him read many lectures against it, and I thank God\n" + " I am not a woman, to be touched with so many\n" + " giddy offences as he hath generally taxed their\n" + " whole sex withal.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Can you remember any of the principal evils that he\n" + " laid to the charge of women?\n\n" + "ROSALIND There were none principal; they were all like one\n" + " another as half-pence are, every one fault seeming\n" + " monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I prithee, recount some of them.\n\n" + "ROSALIND No, I will not cast away my physic but on those that\n" + " are sick. There is a man haunts the forest, that\n" + " abuses our young plants with carving 'Rosalind' on\n" + " their barks; hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies\n" + " on brambles, all, forsooth, deifying the name of\n" + " Rosalind: if I could meet that fancy-monger I would\n" + " give him some good counsel, for he seems to have the\n" + " quotidian of love upon him.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I am he that is so love-shaked: I pray you tell me\n" + " your remedy.\n\n" + "ROSALIND There is none of my uncle's marks upon you: he\n" + " taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage\n" + " of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.\n\n" + "ORLANDO What were his marks?\n\n" + "ROSALIND A lean cheek, which you have not, a blue eye and\n" + " sunken, which you have not, an unquestionable\n" + " spirit, which you have not, a beard neglected,\n" + " which you have not; but I pardon you for that, for\n" + " simply your having in beard is a younger brother's\n" + " revenue: then your hose should be ungartered, your\n" + " bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe\n" + " untied and every thing about you demonstrating a\n" + " careless desolation; but you are no such man; you\n" + " are rather point-device in your accoutrements as\n" + " loving yourself than seeming the lover of any other.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Me believe it! you may as soon make her that you\n" + " love believe it; which, I warrant, she is apter to\n" + " do than to confess she does: that is one of the\n" + " points in the which women still give the lie to\n" + " their consciences. But, in good sooth, are you he\n" + " that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind\n" + " is so admired?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I swear to thee, youth, by the white hand of\n" + " Rosalind, I am that he, that unfortunate he.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves\n" + " as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and\n" + " the reason why they are not so punished and cured\n" + " is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers\n" + " are in love too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Did you ever cure any so?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Yes, one, and in this manner. He was to imagine me\n" + " his love, his mistress; and I set him every day to\n" + " woo me: at which time would I, being but a moonish\n" + " youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, longing\n" + " and liking, proud, fantastical, apish, shallow,\n" + " inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles, for every\n" + " passion something and for no passion truly any\n" + " thing, as boys and women are for the most part\n" + " cattle of this colour; would now like him, now loathe\n" + " him; then entertain him, then forswear him; now weep\n" + " for him, then spit at him; that I drave my suitor\n" + " from his mad humour of love to a living humour of\n" + " madness; which was, to forswear the full stream of\n" + " the world, and to live in a nook merely monastic.\n" + " And thus I cured him; and this way will I take upon\n" + " me to wash your liver as clean as a sound sheep's\n" + " heart, that there shall not be one spot of love in't.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I would not be cured, youth.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I would cure you, if you would but call me Rosalind\n" + " and come every day to my cote and woo me.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Now, by the faith of my love, I will: tell me\n" + " where it is.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Go with me to it and I'll show it you and by the way\n" + " you shall tell me where in the forest you live.\n" + " Will you go?\n\n" + "ORLANDO With all my heart, good youth.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay you must call me Rosalind. Come, sister, will you go?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY; JAQUES behind]\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Come apace, good Audrey: I will fetch up your\n" + " goats, Audrey. And how, Audrey? am I the man yet?\n" + " doth my simple feature content you?\n\n" + "AUDREY Your features! Lord warrant us! what features!\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE I am here with thee and thy goats, as the most\n" + " capricious poet, honest Ovid, was among the Goths.\n\n" + "JAQUES [Aside] O knowledge ill-inhabited, worse than Jove\n" + " in a thatched house!\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a\n" + " man's good wit seconded with the forward child\n" + " Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a\n" + " great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would\n" + " the gods had made thee poetical.\n\n" + "AUDREY I do not know what 'poetical' is: is it honest in\n" + " deed and word? is it a true thing?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE No, truly; for the truest poetry is the most\n" + " feigning; and lovers are given to poetry, and what\n" + " they swear in poetry may be said as lovers they do feign.\n\n" + "AUDREY Do you wish then that the gods had made me poetical?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE I do, truly; for thou swearest to me thou art\n" + " honest: now, if thou wert a poet, I might have some\n" + " hope thou didst feign.\n\n" + "AUDREY Would you not have me honest?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured; for\n" + " honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.\n\n" + "JAQUES [Aside] A material fool!\n\n" + "AUDREY Well, I am not fair; and therefore I pray the gods\n" + " make me honest.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Truly, and to cast away honesty upon a foul slut\n" + " were to put good meat into an unclean dish.\n\n" + "AUDREY I am not a slut, though I thank the gods I am foul.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness!\n" + " sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may\n" + " be, I will marry thee, and to that end I have been\n" + " with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next\n" + " village, who hath promised to meet me in this place\n" + " of the forest and to couple us.\n\n" + "JAQUES [Aside] I would fain see this meeting.\n\n" + "AUDREY Well, the gods give us joy!\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Amen. A man may, if he were of a fearful heart,\n" + " stagger in this attempt; for here we have no temple\n" + " but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what\n" + " though? Courage! As horns are odious, they are\n" + " necessary. It is said, 'many a man knows no end of\n" + " his goods:' right; many a man has good horns, and\n" + " knows no end of them. Well, that is the dowry of\n" + " his wife; 'tis none of his own getting. Horns?\n" + " Even so. Poor men alone? No, no; the noblest deer\n" + " hath them as huge as the rascal. Is the single man\n" + " therefore blessed? No: as a walled town is more\n" + " worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a\n" + " married man more honourable than the bare brow of a\n" + " bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no\n" + " skill, by so much is a horn more precious than to\n" + " want. Here comes Sir Oliver.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR OLIVER MARTEXT]\n\n" + " Sir Oliver Martext, you are well met: will you\n" + " dispatch us here under this tree, or shall we go\n" + " with you to your chapel?\n\n" + "SIR OLIVER MARTEXT Is there none here to give the woman?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE I will not take her on gift of any man.\n\n" + "SIR OLIVER MARTEXT Truly, she must be given, or the marriage is not lawful.\n\n" + "JAQUES [Advancing]\n\n" + " Proceed, proceed I'll give her.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Good even, good Master What-ye-call't: how do you,\n" + " sir? You are very well met: God 'ild you for your\n" + " last company: I am very glad to see you: even a\n" + " toy in hand here, sir: nay, pray be covered.\n\n" + "JAQUES Will you be married, motley?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE As the ox hath his bow, sir, the horse his curb and\n" + " the falcon her bells, so man hath his desires; and\n" + " as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling.\n\n" + "JAQUES And will you, being a man of your breeding, be\n" + " married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to\n" + " church, and have a good priest that can tell you\n" + " what marriage is: this fellow will but join you\n" + " together as they join wainscot; then one of you will\n" + " prove a shrunk panel and, like green timber, warp, warp.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE [Aside] I am not in the mind but I were better to be\n" + " married of him than of another: for he is not like\n" + " to marry me well; and not being well married, it\n" + " will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife.\n\n" + "JAQUES Go thou with me, and let me counsel thee.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE 'Come, sweet Audrey:\n" + " We must be married, or we must live in bawdry.\n" + " Farewell, good Master Oliver: not,--\n" + " O sweet Oliver,\n" + " O brave Oliver,\n" + " Leave me not behind thee: but,--\n" + " Wind away,\n" + " Begone, I say,\n" + " I will not to wedding with thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt JAQUES, TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]\n\n" + "SIR OLIVER MARTEXT 'Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them\n" + " all shall flout me out of my calling.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND and CELIA]\n\n" + "ROSALIND Never talk to me; I will weep.\n\n" + "CELIA Do, I prithee; but yet have the grace to consider\n" + " that tears do not become a man.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But have I not cause to weep?\n\n" + "CELIA As good cause as one would desire; therefore weep.\n\n" + "ROSALIND His very hair is of the dissembling colour.\n\n" + "CELIA Something browner than Judas's marry, his kisses are\n" + " Judas's own children.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I' faith, his hair is of a good colour.\n\n" + "CELIA An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the only colour.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And his kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch\n" + " of holy bread.\n\n" + "CELIA He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun\n" + " of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously;\n" + " the very ice of chastity is in them.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But why did he swear he would come this morning, and\n" + " comes not?\n\n" + "CELIA Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Do you think so?\n\n" + "CELIA Yes; I think he is not a pick-purse nor a\n" + " horse-stealer, but for his verity in love, I do\n" + " think him as concave as a covered goblet or a\n" + " worm-eaten nut.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Not true in love?\n\n" + "CELIA Yes, when he is in; but I think he is not in.\n\n" + "ROSALIND You have heard him swear downright he was.\n\n" + "CELIA 'Was' is not 'is:' besides, the oath of a lover is\n" + " no stronger than the word of a tapster; they are\n" + " both the confirmer of false reckonings. He attends\n" + " here in the forest on the duke your father.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I met the duke yesterday and had much question with\n" + " him: he asked me of what parentage I was; I told\n" + " him, of as good as he; so he laughed and let me go.\n" + " But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a\n" + " man as Orlando?\n\n" + "CELIA O, that's a brave man! he writes brave verses,\n" + " speaks brave words, swears brave oaths and breaks\n" + " them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of\n" + " his lover; as a puisny tilter, that spurs his horse\n" + " but on one side, breaks his staff like a noble\n" + " goose: but all's brave that youth mounts and folly\n" + " guides. Who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter CORIN]\n\n" + "CORIN Mistress and master, you have oft inquired\n" + " After the shepherd that complain'd of love,\n" + " Who you saw sitting by me on the turf,\n" + " Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess\n" + " That was his mistress.\n\n" + "CELIA Well, and what of him?\n\n" + "CORIN If you will see a pageant truly play'd,\n" + " Between the pale complexion of true love\n" + " And the red glow of scorn and proud disdain,\n" + " Go hence a little and I shall conduct you,\n" + " If you will mark it.\n\n" + "ROSALIND O, come, let us remove:\n" + " The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.\n" + " Bring us to this sight, and you shall say\n" + " I'll prove a busy actor in their play.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE]\n\n" + "SILVIUS Sweet Phebe, do not scorn me; do not, Phebe;\n" + " Say that you love me not, but say not so\n" + " In bitterness. The common executioner,\n" + " Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard,\n" + " Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck\n" + " But first begs pardon: will you sterner be\n" + " Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and CORIN, behind]\n\n" + "PHEBE I would not be thy executioner:\n" + " I fly thee, for I would not injure thee.\n" + " Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:\n" + " 'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,\n" + " That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,\n" + " Who shut their coward gates on atomies,\n" + " Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!\n" + " Now I do frown on thee with all my heart;\n" + " And if mine eyes can wound, now let them kill thee:\n" + " Now counterfeit to swoon; why now fall down;\n" + " Or if thou canst not, O, for shame, for shame,\n" + " Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers!\n" + " Now show the wound mine eye hath made in thee:\n" + " Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains\n" + " Some scar of it; lean but upon a rush,\n" + " The cicatrice and capable impressure\n" + " Thy palm some moment keeps; but now mine eyes,\n" + " Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not,\n" + " Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes\n" + " That can do hurt.\n\n" + "SILVIUS O dear Phebe,\n" + " If ever,--as that ever may be near,--\n" + " You meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy,\n" + " Then shall you know the wounds invisible\n" + " That love's keen arrows make.\n\n" + "PHEBE But till that time\n" + " Come not thou near me: and when that time comes,\n" + " Afflict me with thy mocks, pity me not;\n" + " As till that time I shall not pity thee.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And why, I pray you? Who might be your mother,\n" + " That you insult, exult, and all at once,\n" + " Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty,--\n" + " As, by my faith, I see no more in you\n" + " Than without candle may go dark to bed--\n" + " Must you be therefore proud and pitiless?\n" + " Why, what means this? Why do you look on me?\n" + " I see no more in you than in the ordinary\n" + " Of nature's sale-work. 'Od's my little life,\n" + " I think she means to tangle my eyes too!\n" + " No, faith, proud mistress, hope not after it:\n" + " 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,\n" + " Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream,\n" + " That can entame my spirits to your worship.\n" + " You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her,\n" + " Like foggy south puffing with wind and rain?\n" + " You are a thousand times a properer man\n" + " Than she a woman: 'tis such fools as you\n" + " That makes the world full of ill-favour'd children:\n" + " 'Tis not her glass, but you, that flatters her;\n" + " And out of you she sees herself more proper\n" + " Than any of her lineaments can show her.\n" + " But, mistress, know yourself: down on your knees,\n" + " And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love:\n" + " For I must tell you friendly in your ear,\n" + " Sell when you can: you are not for all markets:\n" + " Cry the man mercy; love him; take his offer:\n" + " Foul is most foul, being foul to be a scoffer.\n" + " So take her to thee, shepherd: fare you well.\n\n" + "PHEBE Sweet youth, I pray you, chide a year together:\n" + " I had rather hear you chide than this man woo.\n\n" + "ROSALIND He's fallen in love with your foulness and she'll\n" + " fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as\n" + " she answers thee with frowning looks, I'll sauce her\n" + " with bitter words. Why look you so upon me?\n\n" + "PHEBE For no ill will I bear you.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I pray you, do not fall in love with me,\n" + " For I am falser than vows made in wine:\n" + " Besides, I like you not. If you will know my house,\n" + " 'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by.\n" + " Will you go, sister? Shepherd, ply her hard.\n" + " Come, sister. Shepherdess, look on him better,\n" + " And be not proud: though all the world could see,\n" + " None could be so abused in sight as he.\n" + " Come, to our flock.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSALIND, CELIA and CORIN]\n\n" + "PHEBE Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might,\n" + " 'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?'\n\n" + "SILVIUS Sweet Phebe,--\n\n" + "PHEBE Ha, what say'st thou, Silvius?\n\n" + "SILVIUS Sweet Phebe, pity me.\n\n" + "PHEBE Why, I am sorry for thee, gentle Silvius.\n\n" + "SILVIUS Wherever sorrow is, relief would be:\n" + " If you do sorrow at my grief in love,\n" + " By giving love your sorrow and my grief\n" + " Were both extermined.\n\n" + "PHEBE Thou hast my love: is not that neighbourly?\n\n" + "SILVIUS I would have you.\n\n" + "PHEBE Why, that were covetousness.\n" + " Silvius, the time was that I hated thee,\n" + " And yet it is not that I bear thee love;\n" + " But since that thou canst talk of love so well,\n" + " Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,\n" + " I will endure, and I'll employ thee too:\n" + " But do not look for further recompense\n" + " Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.\n\n" + "SILVIUS So holy and so perfect is my love,\n" + " And I in such a poverty of grace,\n" + " That I shall think it a most plenteous crop\n" + " To glean the broken ears after the man\n" + " That the main harvest reaps: loose now and then\n" + " A scatter'd smile, and that I'll live upon.\n\n" + "PHEBE Know'st now the youth that spoke to me erewhile?\n\n" + "SILVIUS Not very well, but I have met him oft;\n" + " And he hath bought the cottage and the bounds\n" + " That the old carlot once was master of.\n\n" + "PHEBE Think not I love him, though I ask for him:\n" + " 'Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well;\n" + " But what care I for words? yet words do well\n" + " When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.\n" + " It is a pretty youth: not very pretty:\n" + " But, sure, he's proud, and yet his pride becomes him:\n" + " He'll make a proper man: the best thing in him\n" + " Is his complexion; and faster than his tongue\n" + " Did make offence his eye did heal it up.\n" + " He is not very tall; yet for his years he's tall:\n" + " His leg is but so so; and yet 'tis well:\n" + " There was a pretty redness in his lip,\n" + " A little riper and more lusty red\n" + " Than that mix'd in his cheek; 'twas just the difference\n" + " Between the constant red and mingled damask.\n" + " There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him\n" + " In parcels as I did, would have gone near\n" + " To fall in love with him; but, for my part,\n" + " I love him not nor hate him not; and yet\n" + " I have more cause to hate him than to love him:\n" + " For what had he to do to chide at me?\n" + " He said mine eyes were black and my hair black:\n" + " And, now I am remember'd, scorn'd at me:\n" + " I marvel why I answer'd not again:\n" + " But that's all one; omittance is no quittance.\n" + " I'll write to him a very taunting letter,\n" + " And thou shalt bear it: wilt thou, Silvius?\n\n" + "SILVIUS Phebe, with all my heart.\n\n" + "PHEBE I'll write it straight;\n" + " The matter's in my head and in my heart:\n" + " I will be bitter with him and passing short.\n" + " Go with me, Silvius.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND, CELIA, and JAQUES]\n\n" + "JAQUES I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted\n" + " with thee.\n\n" + "ROSALIND They say you are a melancholy fellow.\n\n" + "JAQUES I am so; I do love it better than laughing.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Those that are in extremity of either are abominable\n" + " fellows and betray themselves to every modern\n" + " censure worse than drunkards.\n\n" + "JAQUES Why, 'tis good to be sad and say nothing.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Why then, 'tis good to be a post.\n\n" + "JAQUES I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is\n" + " emulation, nor the musician's, which is fantastical,\n" + " nor the courtier's, which is proud, nor the\n" + " soldier's, which is ambitious, nor the lawyer's,\n" + " which is politic, nor the lady's, which is nice, nor\n" + " the lover's, which is all these: but it is a\n" + " melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples,\n" + " extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry's\n" + " contemplation of my travels, in which my often\n" + " rumination wraps me m a most humorous sadness.\n\n" + "ROSALIND A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to\n" + " be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see\n" + " other men's; then, to have seen much and to have\n" + " nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.\n\n" + "JAQUES Yes, I have gained my experience.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And your experience makes you sad: I had rather have\n" + " a fool to make me merry than experience to make me\n" + " sad; and to travel for it too!\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO]\n\n" + "ORLANDO Good day and happiness, dear Rosalind!\n\n" + "JAQUES Nay, then, God be wi' you, an you talk in blank verse.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ROSALIND Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and\n" + " wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your\n" + " own country, be out of love with your nativity and\n" + " almost chide God for making you that countenance you\n" + " are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a\n" + " gondola. Why, how now, Orlando! where have you been\n" + " all this while? You a lover! An you serve me such\n" + " another trick, never come in my sight more.\n\n" + "ORLANDO My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my promise.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Break an hour's promise in love! He that will\n" + " divide a minute into a thousand parts and break but\n" + " a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the\n" + " affairs of love, it may be said of him that Cupid\n" + " hath clapped him o' the shoulder, but I'll warrant\n" + " him heart-whole.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Pardon me, dear Rosalind.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay, an you be so tardy, come no more in my sight: I\n" + " had as lief be wooed of a snail.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Of a snail?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he\n" + " carries his house on his head; a better jointure,\n" + " I think, than you make a woman: besides he brings\n" + " his destiny with him.\n\n" + "ORLANDO What's that?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Why, horns, which such as you are fain to be\n" + " beholding to your wives for: but he comes armed in\n" + " his fortune and prevents the slander of his wife.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Virtue is no horn-maker; and my Rosalind is virtuous.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And I am your Rosalind.\n\n" + "CELIA It pleases him to call you so; but he hath a\n" + " Rosalind of a better leer than you.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday\n" + " humour and like enough to consent. What would you\n" + " say to me now, an I were your very very Rosalind?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I would kiss before I spoke.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay, you were better speak first, and when you were\n" + " gravelled for lack of matter, you might take\n" + " occasion to kiss. Very good orators, when they are\n" + " out, they will spit; and for lovers lacking--God\n" + " warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.\n\n" + "ORLANDO How if the kiss be denied?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Then she puts you to entreaty, and there begins new matter.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Who could be out, being before his beloved mistress?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Marry, that should you, if I were your mistress, or\n" + " I should think my honesty ranker than my wit.\n\n" + "ORLANDO What, of my suit?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Not out of your apparel, and yet out of your suit.\n" + " Am not I your Rosalind?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I take some joy to say you are, because I would be\n" + " talking of her.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Well in her person I say I will not have you.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Then in mine own person I die.\n\n" + "ROSALIND No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is\n" + " almost six thousand years old, and in all this time\n" + " there was not any man died in his own person,\n" + " videlicit, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains\n" + " dashed out with a Grecian club; yet he did what he\n" + " could to die before, and he is one of the patterns\n" + " of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair\n" + " year, though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been\n" + " for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went\n" + " but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and being\n" + " taken with the cramp was drowned and the foolish\n" + " coroners of that age found it was 'Hero of Sestos.'\n" + " But these are all lies: men have died from time to\n" + " time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I would not have my right Rosalind of this mind,\n" + " for, I protest, her frown might kill me.\n\n" + "ROSALIND By this hand, it will not kill a fly. But come, now\n" + " I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on\n" + " disposition, and ask me what you will. I will grant\n" + " it.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Then love me, Rosalind.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Yes, faith, will I, Fridays and Saturdays and all.\n\n" + "ORLANDO And wilt thou have me?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, and twenty such.\n\n" + "ORLANDO What sayest thou?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Are you not good?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I hope so.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?\n" + " Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.\n" + " Give me your hand, Orlando. What do you say, sister?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Pray thee, marry us.\n\n" + "CELIA I cannot say the words.\n\n" + "ROSALIND You must begin, 'Will you, Orlando--'\n\n" + "CELIA Go to. Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I will.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, but when?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Why now; as fast as she can marry us.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Then you must say 'I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.'\n\n" + "ORLANDO I take thee, Rosalind, for wife.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I might ask you for your commission; but I do take\n" + " thee, Orlando, for my husband: there's a girl goes\n" + " before the priest; and certainly a woman's thought\n" + " runs before her actions.\n\n" + "ORLANDO So do all thoughts; they are winged.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Now tell me how long you would have her after you\n" + " have possessed her.\n\n" + "ORLANDO For ever and a day.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Say 'a day,' without the 'ever.' No, no, Orlando;\n" + " men are April when they woo, December when they wed:\n" + " maids are May when they are maids, but the sky\n" + " changes when they are wives. I will be more jealous\n" + " of thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his hen,\n" + " more clamorous than a parrot against rain, more\n" + " new-fangled than an ape, more giddy in my desires\n" + " than a monkey: I will weep for nothing, like Diana\n" + " in the fountain, and I will do that when you are\n" + " disposed to be merry; I will laugh like a hyen, and\n" + " that when thou art inclined to sleep.\n\n" + "ORLANDO But will my Rosalind do so?\n\n" + "ROSALIND By my life, she will do as I do.\n\n" + "ORLANDO O, but she is wise.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Or else she could not have the wit to do this: the\n" + " wiser, the waywarder: make the doors upon a woman's\n" + " wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and\n" + " 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly\n" + " with the smoke out at the chimney.\n\n" + "ORLANDO A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say\n" + " 'Wit, whither wilt?'\n\n" + "ROSALIND Nay, you might keep that cheque for it till you met\n" + " your wife's wit going to your neighbour's bed.\n\n" + "ORLANDO And what wit could wit have to excuse that?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You shall\n" + " never take her without her answer, unless you take\n" + " her without her tongue. O, that woman that cannot\n" + " make her fault her husband's occasion, let her\n" + " never nurse her child herself, for she will breed\n" + " it like a fool!\n\n" + "ORLANDO For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Alas! dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours.\n\n" + "ORLANDO I must attend the duke at dinner: by two o'clock I\n" + " will be with thee again.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Ay, go your ways, go your ways; I knew what you\n" + " would prove: my friends told me as much, and I\n" + " thought no less: that flattering tongue of yours\n" + " won me: 'tis but one cast away, and so, come,\n" + " death! Two o'clock is your hour?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Ay, sweet Rosalind.\n\n" + "ROSALIND By my troth, and in good earnest, and so God mend\n" + " me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous,\n" + " if you break one jot of your promise or come one\n" + " minute behind your hour, I will think you the most\n" + " pathetical break-promise and the most hollow lover\n" + " and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind that\n" + " may be chosen out of the gross band of the\n" + " unfaithful: therefore beware my censure and keep\n" + " your promise.\n\n" + "ORLANDO With no less religion than if thou wert indeed my\n" + " Rosalind: so adieu.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Well, Time is the old justice that examines all such\n" + " offenders, and let Time try: adieu.\n\n" + " [Exit ORLANDO]\n\n" + "CELIA You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate:\n" + " we must have your doublet and hose plucked over your\n" + " head, and show the world what the bird hath done to\n" + " her own nest.\n\n" + "ROSALIND O coz, coz, coz, my pretty little coz, that thou\n" + " didst know how many fathom deep I am in love! But\n" + " it cannot be sounded: my affection hath an unknown\n" + " bottom, like the bay of Portugal.\n\n" + "CELIA Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour\n" + " affection in, it runs out.\n\n" + "ROSALIND No, that same wicked bastard of Venus that was begot\n" + " of thought, conceived of spleen and born of madness,\n" + " that blind rascally boy that abuses every one's eyes\n" + " because his own are out, let him be judge how deep I\n" + " am in love. I'll tell thee, Aliena, I cannot be out\n" + " of the sight of Orlando: I'll go find a shadow and\n" + " sigh till he come.\n\n" + "CELIA And I'll sleep.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JAQUES, Lords, and Foresters]\n\n" + "JAQUES Which is he that killed the deer?\n\n" + "A Lord Sir, it was I.\n\n" + "JAQUES Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman\n" + " conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's\n" + " horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have\n" + " you no song, forester, for this purpose?\n\n" + "Forester Yes, sir.\n\n" + "JAQUES Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it\n" + " make noise enough.\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + "Forester What shall he have that kill'd the deer?\n" + " His leather skin and horns to wear.\n" + " Then sing him home;\n\n" + " [The rest shall bear this burden]\n\n" + " Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;\n" + " It was a crest ere thou wast born:\n" + " Thy father's father wore it,\n" + " And thy father bore it:\n" + " The horn, the horn, the lusty horn\n" + " Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND and CELIA]\n\n" + "ROSALIND How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and\n" + " here much Orlando!\n\n" + "CELIA I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he\n" + " hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to\n" + " sleep. Look, who comes here.\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIUS]\n\n" + "SILVIUS My errand is to you, fair youth;\n" + " My gentle Phebe bid me give you this:\n" + " I know not the contents; but, as I guess\n" + " By the stern brow and waspish action\n" + " Which she did use as she was writing of it,\n" + " It bears an angry tenor: pardon me:\n" + " I am but as a guiltless messenger.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Patience herself would startle at this letter\n" + " And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all:\n" + " She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;\n" + " She calls me proud, and that she could not love me,\n" + " Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will!\n" + " Her love is not the hare that I do hunt:\n" + " Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well,\n" + " This is a letter of your own device.\n\n" + "SILVIUS No, I protest, I know not the contents:\n" + " Phebe did write it.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Come, come, you are a fool\n" + " And turn'd into the extremity of love.\n" + " I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand.\n" + " A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think\n" + " That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands:\n" + " She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter:\n" + " I say she never did invent this letter;\n" + " This is a man's invention and his hand.\n\n" + "SILVIUS Sure, it is hers.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style.\n" + " A style for-challengers; why, she defies me,\n" + " Like Turk to Christian: women's gentle brain\n" + " Could not drop forth such giant-rude invention\n" + " Such Ethiope words, blacker in their effect\n" + " Than in their countenance. Will you hear the letter?\n\n" + "SILVIUS So please you, for I never heard it yet;\n" + " Yet heard too much of Phebe's cruelty.\n\n" + "ROSALIND She Phebes me: mark how the tyrant writes.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " Art thou god to shepherd turn'd,\n" + " That a maiden's heart hath burn'd?\n" + " Can a woman rail thus?\n\n" + "SILVIUS Call you this railing?\n\n" + "ROSALIND [Reads]\n\n" + " Why, thy godhead laid apart,\n" + " Warr'st thou with a woman's heart?\n" + " Did you ever hear such railing?\n" + " Whiles the eye of man did woo me,\n" + " That could do no vengeance to me.\n" + " Meaning me a beast.\n" + " If the scorn of your bright eyne\n" + " Have power to raise such love in mine,\n" + " Alack, in me what strange effect\n" + " Would they work in mild aspect!\n" + " Whiles you chid me, I did love;\n" + " How then might your prayers move!\n" + " He that brings this love to thee\n" + " Little knows this love in me:\n" + " And by him seal up thy mind;\n" + " Whether that thy youth and kind\n" + " Will the faithful offer take\n" + " Of me and all that I can make;\n" + " Or else by him my love deny,\n" + " And then I'll study how to die.\n\n" + "SILVIUS Call you this chiding?\n\n" + "CELIA Alas, poor shepherd!\n\n" + "ROSALIND Do you pity him? no, he deserves no pity. Wilt\n" + " thou love such a woman? What, to make thee an\n" + " instrument and play false strains upon thee! not to\n" + " be endured! Well, go your way to her, for I see\n" + " love hath made thee a tame snake, and say this to\n" + " her: that if she love me, I charge her to love\n" + " thee; if she will not, I will never have her unless\n" + " thou entreat for her. If you be a true lover,\n" + " hence, and not a word; for here comes more company.\n\n" + " [Exit SILVIUS]\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVER]\n\n" + "OLIVER Good morrow, fair ones: pray you, if you know,\n" + " Where in the purlieus of this forest stands\n" + " A sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees?\n\n" + "CELIA West of this place, down in the neighbour bottom:\n" + " The rank of osiers by the murmuring stream\n" + " Left on your right hand brings you to the place.\n" + " But at this hour the house doth keep itself;\n" + " There's none within.\n\n" + "OLIVER If that an eye may profit by a tongue,\n" + " Then should I know you by description;\n" + " Such garments and such years: 'The boy is fair,\n" + " Of female favour, and bestows himself\n" + " Like a ripe sister: the woman low\n" + " And browner than her brother.' Are not you\n" + " The owner of the house I did inquire for?\n\n" + "CELIA It is no boast, being ask'd, to say we are.\n\n" + "OLIVER Orlando doth commend him to you both,\n" + " And to that youth he calls his Rosalind\n" + " He sends this bloody napkin. Are you he?\n\n" + "ROSALIND I am: what must we understand by this?\n\n" + "OLIVER Some of my shame; if you will know of me\n" + " What man I am, and how, and why, and where\n" + " This handkercher was stain'd.\n\n" + "CELIA I pray you, tell it.\n\n" + "OLIVER When last the young Orlando parted from you\n" + " He left a promise to return again\n" + " Within an hour, and pacing through the forest,\n" + " Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy,\n" + " Lo, what befell! he threw his eye aside,\n" + " And mark what object did present itself:\n" + " Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age\n" + " And high top bald with dry antiquity,\n" + " A wretched ragged man, o'ergrown with hair,\n" + " Lay sleeping on his back: about his neck\n" + " A green and gilded snake had wreathed itself,\n" + " Who with her head nimble in threats approach'd\n" + " The opening of his mouth; but suddenly,\n" + " Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,\n" + " And with indented glides did slip away\n" + " Into a bush: under which bush's shade\n" + " A lioness, with udders all drawn dry,\n" + " Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch,\n" + " When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis\n" + " The royal disposition of that beast\n" + " To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead:\n" + " This seen, Orlando did approach the man\n" + " And found it was his brother, his elder brother.\n\n" + "CELIA O, I have heard him speak of that same brother;\n" + " And he did render him the most unnatural\n" + " That lived amongst men.\n\n" + "OLIVER And well he might so do,\n" + " For well I know he was unnatural.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But, to Orlando: did he leave him there,\n" + " Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness?\n\n" + "OLIVER Twice did he turn his back and purposed so;\n" + " But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,\n" + " And nature, stronger than his just occasion,\n" + " Made him give battle to the lioness,\n" + " Who quickly fell before him: in which hurtling\n" + " From miserable slumber I awaked.\n\n" + "CELIA Are you his brother?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Wast you he rescued?\n\n" + "CELIA Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?\n\n" + "OLIVER 'Twas I; but 'tis not I I do not shame\n" + " To tell you what I was, since my conversion\n" + " So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But, for the bloody napkin?\n\n" + "OLIVER By and by.\n" + " When from the first to last betwixt us two\n" + " Tears our recountments had most kindly bathed,\n" + " As how I came into that desert place:--\n" + " In brief, he led me to the gentle duke,\n" + " Who gave me fresh array and entertainment,\n" + " Committing me unto my brother's love;\n" + " Who led me instantly unto his cave,\n" + " There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm\n" + " The lioness had torn some flesh away,\n" + " Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted\n" + " And cried, in fainting, upon Rosalind.\n" + " Brief, I recover'd him, bound up his wound;\n" + " And, after some small space, being strong at heart,\n" + " He sent me hither, stranger as I am,\n" + " To tell this story, that you might excuse\n" + " His broken promise, and to give this napkin\n" + " Dyed in his blood unto the shepherd youth\n" + " That he in sport doth call his Rosalind.\n\n" + " [ROSALIND swoons]\n\n" + "CELIA Why, how now, Ganymede! sweet Ganymede!\n\n" + "OLIVER Many will swoon when they do look on blood.\n\n" + "CELIA There is more in it. Cousin Ganymede!\n\n" + "OLIVER Look, he recovers.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I would I were at home.\n\n" + "CELIA We'll lead you thither.\n" + " I pray you, will you take him by the arm?\n\n" + "OLIVER Be of good cheer, youth: you a man! you lack a\n" + " man's heart.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I do so, I confess it. Ah, sirrah, a body would\n" + " think this was well counterfeited! I pray you, tell\n" + " your brother how well I counterfeited. Heigh-ho!\n\n" + "OLIVER This was not counterfeit: there is too great\n" + " testimony in your complexion that it was a passion\n" + " of earnest.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Counterfeit, I assure you.\n\n" + "OLIVER Well then, take a good heart and counterfeit to be a man.\n\n" + "ROSALIND So I do: but, i' faith, I should have been a woman by right.\n\n" + "CELIA Come, you look paler and paler: pray you, draw\n" + " homewards. Good sir, go with us.\n\n" + "OLIVER That will I, for I must bear answer back\n" + " How you excuse my brother, Rosalind.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I shall devise something: but, I pray you, commend\n" + " my counterfeiting to him. Will you go?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE We shall find a time, Audrey; patience, gentle Audrey.\n\n" + "AUDREY Faith, the priest was good enough, for all the old\n" + " gentleman's saying.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE A most wicked Sir Oliver, Audrey, a most vile\n" + " Martext. But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the\n" + " forest lays claim to you.\n\n" + "AUDREY Ay, I know who 'tis; he hath no interest in me in\n" + " the world: here comes the man you mean.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE It is meat and drink to me to see a clown: by my\n" + " troth, we that have good wits have much to answer\n" + " for; we shall be flouting; we cannot hold.\n\n" + " [Enter WILLIAM]\n\n" + "WILLIAM Good even, Audrey.\n\n" + "AUDREY God ye good even, William.\n\n" + "WILLIAM And good even to you, sir.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Good even, gentle friend. Cover thy head, cover thy\n" + " head; nay, prithee, be covered. How old are you, friend?\n\n" + "WILLIAM Five and twenty, sir.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE A ripe age. Is thy name William?\n\n" + "WILLIAM William, sir.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE A fair name. Wast born i' the forest here?\n\n" + "WILLIAM Ay, sir, I thank God.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE 'Thank God;' a good answer. Art rich?\n\n" + "WILLIAM Faith, sir, so so.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE 'So so' is good, very good, very excellent good; and\n" + " yet it is not; it is but so so. Art thou wise?\n\n" + "WILLIAM Ay, sir, I have a pretty wit.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Why, thou sayest well. I do now remember a saying,\n" + " 'The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man\n" + " knows himself to be a fool.' The heathen\n" + " philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape,\n" + " would open his lips when he put it into his mouth;\n" + " meaning thereby that grapes were made to eat and\n" + " lips to open. You do love this maid?\n\n" + "WILLIAM I do, sir.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Give me your hand. Art thou learned?\n\n" + "WILLIAM No, sir.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Then learn this of me: to have, is to have; for it\n" + " is a figure in rhetoric that drink, being poured out\n" + " of a cup into a glass, by filling the one doth empty\n" + " the other; for all your writers do consent that ipse\n" + " is he: now, you are not ipse, for I am he.\n\n" + "WILLIAM Which he, sir?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE He, sir, that must marry this woman. Therefore, you\n" + " clown, abandon,--which is in the vulgar leave,--the\n" + " society,--which in the boorish is company,--of this\n" + " female,--which in the common is woman; which\n" + " together is, abandon the society of this female, or,\n" + " clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better\n" + " understanding, diest; or, to wit I kill thee, make\n" + " thee away, translate thy life into death, thy\n" + " liberty into bondage: I will deal in poison with\n" + " thee, or in bastinado, or in steel; I will bandy\n" + " with thee in faction; I will o'errun thee with\n" + " policy; I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways:\n" + " therefore tremble and depart.\n\n" + "AUDREY Do, good William.\n\n" + "WILLIAM God rest you merry, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter CORIN]\n\n" + "CORIN Our master and mistress seeks you; come, away, away!\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Trip, Audrey! trip, Audrey! I attend, I attend.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ORLANDO and OLIVER]\n\n" + "ORLANDO Is't possible that on so little acquaintance you\n" + " should like her? that but seeing you should love\n" + " her? and loving woo? and, wooing, she should\n" + " grant? and will you persever to enjoy her?\n\n" + "OLIVER Neither call the giddiness of it in question, the\n" + " poverty of her, the small acquaintance, my sudden\n" + " wooing, nor her sudden consenting; but say with me,\n" + " I love Aliena; say with her that she loves me;\n" + " consent with both that we may enjoy each other: it\n" + " shall be to your good; for my father's house and all\n" + " the revenue that was old Sir Rowland's will I\n" + " estate upon you, and here live and die a shepherd.\n\n" + "ORLANDO You have my consent. Let your wedding be to-morrow:\n" + " thither will I invite the duke and all's contented\n" + " followers. Go you and prepare Aliena; for look\n" + " you, here comes my Rosalind.\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND]\n\n" + "ROSALIND God save you, brother.\n\n" + "OLIVER And you, fair sister.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ROSALIND O, my dear Orlando, how it grieves me to see thee\n" + " wear thy heart in a scarf!\n\n" + "ORLANDO It is my arm.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I thought thy heart had been wounded with the claws\n" + " of a lion.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Wounded it is, but with the eyes of a lady.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Did your brother tell you how I counterfeited to\n" + " swoon when he showed me your handkerchief?\n\n" + "ORLANDO Ay, and greater wonders than that.\n\n" + "ROSALIND O, I know where you are: nay, 'tis true: there was\n" + " never any thing so sudden but the fight of two rams\n" + " and Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and\n" + " overcame:' for your brother and my sister no sooner\n" + " met but they looked, no sooner looked but they\n" + " loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner\n" + " sighed but they asked one another the reason, no\n" + " sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;\n" + " and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs\n" + " to marriage which they will climb incontinent, or\n" + " else be incontinent before marriage: they are in\n" + " the very wrath of love and they will together; clubs\n" + " cannot part them.\n\n" + "ORLANDO They shall be married to-morrow, and I will bid the\n" + " duke to the nuptial. But, O, how bitter a thing it\n" + " is to look into happiness through another man's\n" + " eyes! By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at\n" + " the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall\n" + " think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Why then, to-morrow I cannot serve your turn for Rosalind?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I can live no longer by thinking.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I will weary you then no longer with idle talking.\n" + " Know of me then, for now I speak to some purpose,\n" + " that I know you are a gentleman of good conceit: I\n" + " speak not this that you should bear a good opinion\n" + " of my knowledge, insomuch I say I know you are;\n" + " neither do I labour for a greater esteem than may in\n" + " some little measure draw a belief from you, to do\n" + " yourself good and not to grace me. Believe then, if\n" + " you please, that I can do strange things: I have,\n" + " since I was three year old, conversed with a\n" + " magician, most profound in his art and yet not\n" + " damnable. If you do love Rosalind so near the heart\n" + " as your gesture cries it out, when your brother\n" + " marries Aliena, shall you marry her: I know into\n" + " what straits of fortune she is driven; and it is\n" + " not impossible to me, if it appear not inconvenient\n" + " to you, to set her before your eyes tomorrow human\n" + " as she is and without any danger.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Speakest thou in sober meanings?\n\n" + "ROSALIND By my life, I do; which I tender dearly, though I\n" + " say I am a magician. Therefore, put you in your\n" + " best array: bid your friends; for if you will be\n" + " married to-morrow, you shall, and to Rosalind, if you will.\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIUS and PHEBE]\n\n" + " Look, here comes a lover of mine and a lover of hers.\n\n" + "PHEBE Youth, you have done me much ungentleness,\n" + " To show the letter that I writ to you.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I care not if I have: it is my study\n" + " To seem despiteful and ungentle to you:\n" + " You are there followed by a faithful shepherd;\n" + " Look upon him, love him; he worships you.\n\n" + "PHEBE Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.\n\n" + "SILVIUS It is to be all made of sighs and tears;\n" + " And so am I for Phebe.\n\n" + "PHEBE And I for Ganymede.\n\n" + "ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And I for no woman.\n\n" + "SILVIUS It is to be all made of faith and service;\n" + " And so am I for Phebe.\n\n" + "PHEBE And I for Ganymede.\n\n" + "ORLANDO And I for Rosalind.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And I for no woman.\n\n" + "SILVIUS It is to be all made of fantasy,\n" + " All made of passion and all made of wishes,\n" + " All adoration, duty, and observance,\n" + " All humbleness, all patience and impatience,\n" + " All purity, all trial, all observance;\n" + " And so am I for Phebe.\n\n" + "PHEBE And so am I for Ganymede.\n\n" + "ORLANDO And so am I for Rosalind.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And so am I for no woman.\n\n" + "PHEBE If this be so, why blame you me to love you?\n\n" + "SILVIUS If this be so, why blame you me to love you?\n\n" + "ORLANDO If this be so, why blame you me to love you?\n\n" + "ROSALIND Who do you speak to, 'Why blame you me to love you?'\n\n" + "ORLANDO To her that is not here, nor doth not hear.\n\n" + "ROSALIND Pray you, no more of this; 'tis like the howling\n" + " of Irish wolves against the moon.\n\n" + " [To SILVIUS]\n\n" + " I will help you, if I can:\n\n" + " [To PHEBE]\n\n" + " I would love you, if I could. To-morrow meet me all together.\n\n" + " [To PHEBE]\n\n" + " I will marry you, if ever I marry woman, and I'll be\n" + " married to-morrow:\n\n" + " [To ORLANDO]\n\n" + " I will satisfy you, if ever I satisfied man, and you\n" + " shall be married to-morrow:\n\n" + " [To SILVIUS]\n\n" + " I will content you, if what pleases you contents\n" + " you, and you shall be married to-morrow.\n\n" + " [To ORLANDO]\n\n" + " As you love Rosalind, meet:\n\n" + " [To SILVIUS]\n\n" + " as you love Phebe, meet: and as I love no woman,\n" + " I'll meet. So fare you well: I have left you commands.\n\n" + "SILVIUS I'll not fail, if I live.\n\n" + "PHEBE Nor I.\n\n" + "ORLANDO Nor I.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will\n" + " we be married.\n\n" + "AUDREY I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is\n" + " no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the\n" + " world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages.\n\n" + " [Enter two Pages]\n\n" + "First Page Well met, honest gentleman.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.\n\n" + "Second Page We are for you: sit i' the middle.\n\n" + "First Page Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or\n" + " spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only\n" + " prologues to a bad voice?\n\n" + "Second Page I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two\n" + " gipsies on a horse.\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + " It was a lover and his lass,\n" + " With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,\n" + " That o'er the green corn-field did pass\n" + " In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,\n" + " When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:\n" + " Sweet lovers love the spring.\n\n" + " Between the acres of the rye,\n" + " With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino\n" + " These pretty country folks would lie,\n" + " In spring time, &c.\n\n" + " This carol they began that hour,\n" + " With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,\n" + " How that a life was but a flower\n" + " In spring time, &c.\n\n" + " And therefore take the present time,\n" + " With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;\n" + " For love is crowned with the prime\n" + " In spring time, &c.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great\n" + " matter in the ditty, yet the note was very\n" + " untuneable.\n\n" + "First Page You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear\n" + " such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend\n" + " your voices! Come, Audrey.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JAQUES, ORLANDO, OLIVER,\n" + " and CELIA]\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Dost thou believe, Orlando, that the boy\n" + " Can do all this that he hath promised?\n\n" + "ORLANDO I sometimes do believe, and sometimes do not;\n" + " As those that fear they hope, and know they fear.\n\n" + " [Enter ROSALIND, SILVIUS, and PHEBE]\n\n" + "ROSALIND Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged:\n" + " You say, if I bring in your Rosalind,\n" + " You will bestow her on Orlando here?\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR That would I, had I kingdoms to give with her.\n\n" + "ROSALIND And you say, you will have her, when I bring her?\n\n" + "ORLANDO That would I, were I of all kingdoms king.\n\n" + "ROSALIND You say, you'll marry me, if I be willing?\n\n" + "PHEBE That will I, should I die the hour after.\n\n" + "ROSALIND But if you do refuse to marry me,\n" + " You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd?\n\n" + "PHEBE So is the bargain.\n\n" + "ROSALIND You say, that you'll have Phebe, if she will?\n\n" + "SILVIUS Though to have her and death were both one thing.\n\n" + "ROSALIND I have promised to make all this matter even.\n" + " Keep you your word, O duke, to give your daughter;\n" + " You yours, Orlando, to receive his daughter:\n" + " Keep your word, Phebe, that you'll marry me,\n" + " Or else refusing me, to wed this shepherd:\n" + " Keep your word, Silvius, that you'll marry her.\n" + " If she refuse me: and from hence I go,\n" + " To make these doubts all even.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSALIND and CELIA]\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR I do remember in this shepherd boy\n" + " Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.\n\n" + "ORLANDO My lord, the first time that I ever saw him\n" + " Methought he was a brother to your daughter:\n" + " But, my good lord, this boy is forest-born,\n" + " And hath been tutor'd in the rudiments\n" + " Of many desperate studies by his uncle,\n" + " Whom he reports to be a great magician,\n" + " Obscured in the circle of this forest.\n\n" + " [Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY]\n\n" + "JAQUES There is, sure, another flood toward, and these\n" + " couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of\n" + " very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Salutation and greeting to you all!\n\n" + "JAQUES Good my lord, bid him welcome: this is the\n" + " motley-minded gentleman that I have so often met in\n" + " the forest: he hath been a courtier, he swears.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE If any man doubt that, let him put me to my\n" + " purgation. I have trod a measure; I have flattered\n" + " a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth\n" + " with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have\n" + " had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.\n\n" + "JAQUES And how was that ta'en up?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Faith, we met, and found the quarrel was upon the\n" + " seventh cause.\n\n" + "JAQUES How seventh cause? Good my lord, like this fellow.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR I like him very well.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE God 'ild you, sir; I desire you of the like. I\n" + " press in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country\n" + " copulatives, to swear and to forswear: according as\n" + " marriage binds and blood breaks: a poor virgin,\n" + " sir, an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own; a poor\n" + " humour of mine, sir, to take that that no man else\n" + " will: rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a\n" + " poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR By my faith, he is very swift and sententious.\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE According to the fool's bolt, sir, and such dulcet diseases.\n\n" + "JAQUES But, for the seventh cause; how did you find the\n" + " quarrel on the seventh cause?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE Upon a lie seven times removed:--bear your body more\n" + " seeming, Audrey:--as thus, sir. I did dislike the\n" + " cut of a certain courtier's beard: he sent me word,\n" + " if I said his beard was not cut well, he was in the\n" + " mind it was: this is called the Retort Courteous.\n" + " If I sent him word again 'it was not well cut,' he\n" + " would send me word, he cut it to please himself:\n" + " this is called the Quip Modest. If again 'it was\n" + " not well cut,' he disabled my judgment: this is\n" + " called the Reply Churlish. If again 'it was not\n" + " well cut,' he would answer, I spake not true: this\n" + " is called the Reproof Valiant. If again 'it was not\n" + " well cut,' he would say I lied: this is called the\n" + " Counter-cheque Quarrelsome: and so to the Lie\n" + " Circumstantial and the Lie Direct.\n\n" + "JAQUES And how oft did you say his beard was not well cut?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE I durst go no further than the Lie Circumstantial,\n" + " nor he durst not give me the Lie Direct; and so we\n" + " measured swords and parted.\n\n" + "JAQUES Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie?\n\n" + "TOUCHSTONE O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book; as you have\n" + " books for good manners: I will name you the degrees.\n" + " The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the\n" + " Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the\n" + " fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the\n" + " Countercheque Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with\n" + " Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All\n" + " these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may\n" + " avoid that too, with an If. I knew when seven\n" + " justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the\n" + " parties were met themselves, one of them thought but\n" + " of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and\n" + " they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the\n" + " only peacemaker; much virtue in If.\n\n" + "JAQUES Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? he's as good at\n" + " any thing and yet a fool.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR He uses his folly like a stalking-horse and under\n" + " the presentation of that he shoots his wit.\n\n" + " [Enter HYMEN, ROSALIND, and CELIA]\n\n" + " [Still Music]\n\n" + "HYMEN Then is there mirth in heaven,\n" + " When earthly things made even\n" + " Atone together.\n" + " Good duke, receive thy daughter\n" + " Hymen from heaven brought her,\n" + " Yea, brought her hither,\n" + " That thou mightst join her hand with his\n" + " Whose heart within his bosom is.\n\n" + "ROSALIND [To DUKE SENIOR] To you I give myself, for I am yours.\n\n" + " [To ORLANDO]\n\n" + " To you I give myself, for I am yours.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter.\n\n" + "ORLANDO If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind.\n\n" + "PHEBE If sight and shape be true,\n" + " Why then, my love adieu!\n\n" + "ROSALIND I'll have no father, if you be not he:\n" + " I'll have no husband, if you be not he:\n" + " Nor ne'er wed woman, if you be not she.\n\n" + "HYMEN Peace, ho! I bar confusion:\n" + " 'Tis I must make conclusion\n" + " Of these most strange events:\n" + " Here's eight that must take hands\n" + " To join in Hymen's bands,\n" + " If truth holds true contents.\n" + " You and you no cross shall part:\n" + " You and you are heart in heart\n" + " You to his love must accord,\n" + " Or have a woman to your lord:\n" + " You and you are sure together,\n" + " As the winter to foul weather.\n" + " Whiles a wedlock-hymn we sing,\n" + " Feed yourselves with questioning;\n" + " That reason wonder may diminish,\n" + " How thus we met, and these things finish.\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + " Wedding is great Juno's crown:\n" + " O blessed bond of board and bed!\n" + " 'Tis Hymen peoples every town;\n" + " High wedlock then be honoured:\n" + " Honour, high honour and renown,\n" + " To Hymen, god of every town!\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR O my dear niece, welcome thou art to me!\n" + " Even daughter, welcome, in no less degree.\n\n" + "PHEBE I will not eat my word, now thou art mine;\n" + " Thy faith my fancy to thee doth combine.\n\n" + " [Enter JAQUES DE BOYS]\n\n" + "JAQUES DE BOYS Let me have audience for a word or two:\n" + " I am the second son of old Sir Rowland,\n" + " That bring these tidings to this fair assembly.\n" + " Duke Frederick, hearing how that every day\n" + " Men of great worth resorted to this forest,\n" + " Address'd a mighty power; which were on foot,\n" + " In his own conduct, purposely to take\n" + " His brother here and put him to the sword:\n" + " And to the skirts of this wild wood he came;\n" + " Where meeting with an old religious man,\n" + " After some question with him, was converted\n" + " Both from his enterprise and from the world,\n" + " His crown bequeathing to his banish'd brother,\n" + " And all their lands restored to them again\n" + " That were with him exiled. This to be true,\n" + " I do engage my life.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Welcome, young man;\n" + " Thou offer'st fairly to thy brothers' wedding:\n" + " To one his lands withheld, and to the other\n" + " A land itself at large, a potent dukedom.\n" + " First, in this forest, let us do those ends\n" + " That here were well begun and well begot:\n" + " And after, every of this happy number\n" + " That have endured shrewd days and nights with us\n" + " Shall share the good of our returned fortune,\n" + " According to the measure of their states.\n" + " Meantime, forget this new-fall'n dignity\n" + " And fall into our rustic revelry.\n" + " Play, music! And you, brides and bridegrooms all,\n" + " With measure heap'd in joy, to the measures fall.\n\n" + "JAQUES Sir, by your patience. If I heard you rightly,\n" + " The duke hath put on a religious life\n" + " And thrown into neglect the pompous court?\n\n" + "JAQUES DE BOYS He hath.\n\n" + "JAQUES To him will I : out of these convertites\n" + " There is much matter to be heard and learn'd.\n\n" + " [To DUKE SENIOR]\n\n" + " You to your former honour I bequeath;\n" + " Your patience and your virtue well deserves it:\n\n" + " [To ORLANDO]\n\n" + " You to a love that your true faith doth merit:\n\n" + " [To OLIVER]\n\n" + " You to your land and love and great allies:\n\n" + " [To SILVIUS]\n\n" + " You to a long and well-deserved bed:\n\n" + " [To TOUCHSTONE]\n\n" + " And you to wrangling; for thy loving voyage\n" + " Is but for two months victuall'd. So, to your pleasures:\n" + " I am for other than for dancing measures.\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Stay, Jaques, stay.\n\n" + "JAQUES To see no pastime I what you would have\n" + " I'll stay to know at your abandon'd cave.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUKE SENIOR Proceed, proceed: we will begin these rites,\n" + " As we do trust they'll end, in true delights.\n\n" + " [A dance]\n\n\n\n\n" + " AS YOU LIKE IT\n\n" + " EPILOGUE\n\n\n" + "ROSALIND It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue;\n" + " but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord\n" + " the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs\n" + " no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no\n" + " epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes,\n" + " and good plays prove the better by the help of good\n" + " epilogues. What a case am I in then, that am\n" + " neither a good epilogue nor cannot insinuate with\n" + " you in the behalf of a good play! I am not\n" + " furnished like a beggar, therefore to beg will not\n" + " become me: my way is to conjure you; and I'll begin\n" + " with the women. I charge you, O women, for the love\n" + " you bear to men, to like as much of this play as\n" + " please you: and I charge you, O men, for the love\n" + " you bear to women--as I perceive by your simpering,\n" + " none of you hates them--that between you and the\n" + " women the play may please. If I were a woman I\n" + " would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased\n" + " me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I\n" + " defied not: and, I am sure, as many as have good\n" + " beards or good faces or sweet breaths will, for my\n" + " kind offer, when I make curtsy, bid me farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "SOLINUS Duke of Ephesus. (DUKE SOLINUS:)\n\n" + "AEGEON a merchant of Syracuse.\n\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS |\n" + "OF EPHESUS |\n" + " | twin brothers, and sons to AEgeon and AEmilia.\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS |\n" + "OF SYRACUSE |\n\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS |\n" + " | twin brothers, and attendants on the two Antipholuses.\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE |\n\n\n" + "BALTHAZAR a merchant\n\n" + "ANGELO a goldsmith.\n\n" + "First Merchant friend to Antipholus of Syracuse.\n\n" + "Second Merchant to whom Angelo is a debtor.\n\n" + "PINCH a schoolmaster.\n\n" + "AEMILIA wife to AEgeon, an abbess at Ephesus.\n\n" + "ADRIANA wife to Antipholus of Ephesus.\n\n" + "LUCIANA her sister.\n\n" + "LUCE servant to Adriana.\n\n" + " A Courtezan.\n\n" + " Gaoler, Officers, and other Attendants\n" + " (Gaoler:)\n" + " (Officer:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n\n" + "SCENE Ephesus.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A hall in DUKE SOLINUS'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE SOLINUS, AEGEON, Gaoler, Officers, and other\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "AEGEON Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall\n" + " And by the doom of death end woes and all.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;\n" + " I am not partial to infringe our laws:\n" + " The enmity and discord which of late\n" + " Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke\n" + " To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,\n" + " Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives\n" + " Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,\n" + " Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.\n" + " For, since the mortal and intestine jars\n" + " 'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,\n" + " It hath in solemn synods been decreed\n" + " Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,\n" + " To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more,\n" + " If any born at Ephesus be seen\n" + " At any Syracusian marts and fairs;\n" + " Again: if any Syracusian born\n" + " Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,\n" + " His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,\n" + " Unless a thousand marks be levied,\n" + " To quit the penalty and to ransom him.\n" + " Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,\n" + " Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;\n" + " Therefore by law thou art condemned to die.\n\n" + "AEGEON Yet this my comfort: when your words are done,\n" + " My woes end likewise with the evening sun.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Well, Syracusian, say in brief the cause\n" + " Why thou departed'st from thy native home\n" + " And for what cause thou camest to Ephesus.\n\n" + "AEGEON A heavier task could not have been imposed\n" + " Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable:\n" + " Yet, that the world may witness that my end\n" + " Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence,\n" + " I'll utter what my sorrows give me leave.\n" + " In Syracusa was I born, and wed\n" + " Unto a woman, happy but for me,\n" + " And by me, had not our hap been bad.\n" + " With her I lived in joy; our wealth increased\n" + " By prosperous voyages I often made\n" + " To Epidamnum; till my factor's death\n" + " And the great care of goods at random left\n" + " Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse:\n" + " From whom my absence was not six months old\n" + " Before herself, almost at fainting under\n" + " The pleasing punishment that women bear,\n" + " Had made provision for her following me\n" + " And soon and safe arrived where I was.\n" + " There had she not been long, but she became\n" + " A joyful mother of two goodly sons;\n" + " And, which was strange, the one so like the other,\n" + " As could not be distinguish'd but by names.\n" + " That very hour, and in the self-same inn,\n" + " A meaner woman was delivered\n" + " Of such a burden, male twins, both alike:\n" + " Those,--for their parents were exceeding poor,--\n" + " I bought and brought up to attend my sons.\n" + " My wife, not meanly proud of two such boys,\n" + " Made daily motions for our home return:\n" + " Unwilling I agreed. Alas! too soon,\n" + " We came aboard.\n" + " A league from Epidamnum had we sail'd,\n" + " Before the always wind-obeying deep\n" + " Gave any tragic instance of our harm:\n" + " But longer did we not retain much hope;\n" + " For what obscured light the heavens did grant\n" + " Did but convey unto our fearful minds\n" + " A doubtful warrant of immediate death;\n" + " Which though myself would gladly have embraced,\n" + " Yet the incessant weepings of my wife,\n" + " Weeping before for what she saw must come,\n" + " And piteous plainings of the pretty babes,\n" + " That mourn'd for fashion, ignorant what to fear,\n" + " Forced me to seek delays for them and me.\n" + " And this it was, for other means was none:\n" + " The sailors sought for safety by our boat,\n" + " And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us:\n" + " My wife, more careful for the latter-born,\n" + " Had fasten'd him unto a small spare mast,\n" + " Such as seafaring men provide for storms;\n" + " To him one of the other twins was bound,\n" + " Whilst I had been like heedful of the other:\n" + " The children thus disposed, my wife and I,\n" + " Fixing our eyes on whom our care was fix'd,\n" + " Fasten'd ourselves at either end the mast;\n" + " And floating straight, obedient to the stream,\n" + " Was carried towards Corinth, as we thought.\n" + " At length the sun, gazing upon the earth,\n" + " Dispersed those vapours that offended us;\n" + " And by the benefit of his wished light,\n" + " The seas wax'd calm, and we discovered\n" + " Two ships from far making amain to us,\n" + " Of Corinth that, of Epidaurus this:\n" + " But ere they came,--O, let me say no more!\n" + " Gather the sequel by that went before.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Nay, forward, old man; do not break off so;\n" + " For we may pity, though not pardon thee.\n\n" + "AEGEON O, had the gods done so, I had not now\n" + " Worthily term'd them merciless to us!\n" + " For, ere the ships could meet by twice five leagues,\n" + " We were encounterd by a mighty rock;\n" + " Which being violently borne upon,\n" + " Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst;\n" + " So that, in this unjust divorce of us,\n" + " Fortune had left to both of us alike\n" + " What to delight in, what to sorrow for.\n" + " Her part, poor soul! seeming as burdened\n" + " With lesser weight but not with lesser woe,\n" + " Was carried with more speed before the wind;\n" + " And in our sight they three were taken up\n" + " By fishermen of Corinth, as we thought.\n" + " At length, another ship had seized on us;\n" + " And, knowing whom it was their hap to save,\n" + " Gave healthful welcome to their shipwreck'd guests;\n" + " And would have reft the fishers of their prey,\n" + " Had not their bark been very slow of sail;\n" + " And therefore homeward did they bend their course.\n" + " Thus have you heard me sever'd from my bliss;\n" + " That by misfortunes was my life prolong'd,\n" + " To tell sad stories of my own mishaps.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS And for the sake of them thou sorrowest for,\n" + " Do me the favour to dilate at full\n" + " What hath befall'n of them and thee till now.\n\n" + "AEGEON My youngest boy, and yet my eldest care,\n" + " At eighteen years became inquisitive\n" + " After his brother: and importuned me\n" + " That his attendant--so his case was like,\n" + " Reft of his brother, but retain'd his name--\n" + " Might bear him company in the quest of him:\n" + " Whom whilst I labour'd of a love to see,\n" + " I hazarded the loss of whom I loved.\n" + " Five summers have I spent in furthest Greece,\n" + " Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia,\n" + " And, coasting homeward, came to Ephesus;\n" + " Hopeless to find, yet loath to leave unsought\n" + " Or that or any place that harbours men.\n" + " But here must end the story of my life;\n" + " And happy were I in my timely death,\n" + " Could all my travels warrant me they live.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Hapless AEgeon, whom the fates have mark'd\n" + " To bear the extremity of dire mishap!\n" + " Now, trust me, were it not against our laws,\n" + " Against my crown, my oath, my dignity,\n" + " Which princes, would they, may not disannul,\n" + " My soul would sue as advocate for thee.\n" + " But, though thou art adjudged to the death\n" + " And passed sentence may not be recall'd\n" + " But to our honour's great disparagement,\n" + " Yet I will favour thee in what I can.\n" + " Therefore, merchant, I'll limit thee this day\n" + " To seek thy life by beneficial help:\n" + " Try all the friends thou hast in Ephesus;\n" + " Beg thou, or borrow, to make up the sum,\n" + " And live; if no, then thou art doom'd to die.\n" + " Gaoler, take him to thy custody.\n\n" + "Gaoler I will, my lord.\n\n" + "AEGEON Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,\n" + " But to procrastinate his lifeless end.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The Mart.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse, DROMIO of Syracuse,\n" + " and First Merchant]\n\n" + "First Merchant Therefore give out you are of Epidamnum,\n" + " Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate.\n" + " This very day a Syracusian merchant\n" + " Is apprehended for arrival here;\n" + " And not being able to buy out his life\n" + " According to the statute of the town,\n" + " Dies ere the weary sun set in the west.\n" + " There is your money that I had to keep.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Go bear it to the Centaur, where we host,\n" + " And stay there, Dromio, till I come to thee.\n" + " Within this hour it will be dinner-time:\n" + " Till that, I'll view the manners of the town,\n" + " Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings,\n" + " And then return and sleep within mine inn,\n" + " For with long travel I am stiff and weary.\n" + " Get thee away.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Many a man would take you at your word,\n" + " And go indeed, having so good a mean.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE A trusty villain, sir, that very oft,\n" + " When I am dull with care and melancholy,\n" + " Lightens my humour with his merry jests.\n" + " What, will you walk with me about the town,\n" + " And then go to my inn and dine with me?\n\n" + "First Merchant I am invited, sir, to certain merchants,\n" + " Of whom I hope to make much benefit;\n" + " I crave your pardon. Soon at five o'clock,\n" + " Please you, I'll meet with you upon the mart\n" + " And afterward consort you till bed-time:\n" + " My present business calls me from you now.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Farewell till then: I will go lose myself\n" + " And wander up and down to view the city.\n\n" + "First Merchant Sir, I commend you to your own content.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE He that commends me to mine own content\n" + " Commends me to the thing I cannot get.\n" + " I to the world am like a drop of water\n" + " That in the ocean seeks another drop,\n" + " Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,\n" + " Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:\n" + " So I, to find a mother and a brother,\n" + " In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself.\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO of Ephesus]\n\n" + " Here comes the almanac of my true date.\n" + " What now? how chance thou art return'd so soon?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Return'd so soon! rather approach'd too late:\n" + " The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit,\n" + " The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;\n" + " My mistress made it one upon my cheek:\n" + " She is so hot because the meat is cold;\n" + " The meat is cold because you come not home;\n" + " You come not home because you have no stomach;\n" + " You have no stomach having broke your fast;\n" + " But we that know what 'tis to fast and pray\n" + " Are penitent for your default to-day.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Stop in your wind, sir: tell me this, I pray:\n" + " Where have you left the money that I gave you?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS O,--sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last\n" + " To pay the saddler for my mistress' crupper?\n" + " The saddler had it, sir; I kept it not.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I am not in a sportive humour now:\n" + " Tell me, and dally not, where is the money?\n" + " We being strangers here, how darest thou trust\n" + " So great a charge from thine own custody?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I pray you, air, as you sit at dinner:\n" + " I from my mistress come to you in post;\n" + " If I return, I shall be post indeed,\n" + " For she will score your fault upon my pate.\n" + " Methinks your maw, like mine, should be your clock,\n" + " And strike you home without a messenger.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Come, Dromio, come, these jests are out of season;\n" + " Reserve them till a merrier hour than this.\n" + " Where is the gold I gave in charge to thee?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS To me, sir? why, you gave no gold to me.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Come on, sir knave, have done your foolishness,\n" + " And tell me how thou hast disposed thy charge.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS My charge was but to fetch you from the mart\n" + " Home to your house, the Phoenix, sir, to dinner:\n" + " My mistress and her sister stays for you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE In what safe place you have bestow'd my money,\n" + " Or I shall break that merry sconce of yours\n" + " That stands on tricks when I am undisposed:\n" + " Where is the thousand marks thou hadst of me?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I have some marks of yours upon my pate,\n" + " Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders,\n" + " But not a thousand marks between you both.\n" + " If I should pay your worship those again,\n" + " Perchance you will not bear them patiently.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Thy mistress' marks? what mistress, slave, hast thou?\n\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Your worship's wife, my mistress at the Phoenix;\n" + " She that doth fast till you come home to dinner,\n" + " And prays that you will hie you home to dinner.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What, wilt thou flout me thus unto my face,\n" + " Being forbid? There, take you that, sir knave.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS What mean you, sir? for God's sake, hold your hands!\n" + " Nay, and you will not, sir, I'll take my heels.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Upon my life, by some device or other\n" + " The villain is o'er-raught of all my money.\n" + " They say this town is full of cozenage,\n" + " As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye,\n" + " Dark-working sorcerers that change the mind,\n" + " Soul-killing witches that deform the body,\n" + " Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks,\n" + " And many such-like liberties of sin:\n" + " If it prove so, I will be gone the sooner.\n" + " I'll to the Centaur, to go seek this slave:\n" + " I greatly fear my money is not safe.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA]\n\n" + "ADRIANA Neither my husband nor the slave return'd,\n" + " That in such haste I sent to seek his master!\n" + " Sure, Luciana, it is two o'clock.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Perhaps some merchant hath invited him,\n" + " And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner.\n" + " Good sister, let us dine and never fret:\n" + " A man is master of his liberty:\n" + " Time is their master, and, when they see time,\n" + " They'll go or come: if so, be patient, sister.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Why should their liberty than ours be more?\n\n" + "LUCIANA Because their business still lies out o' door.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Look, when I serve him so, he takes it ill.\n\n" + "LUCIANA O, know he is the bridle of your will.\n\n" + "ADRIANA There's none but asses will be bridled so.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd with woe.\n" + " There's nothing situate under heaven's eye\n" + " But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky:\n" + " The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls,\n" + " Are their males' subjects and at their controls:\n" + " Men, more divine, the masters of all these,\n" + " Lords of the wide world and wild watery seas,\n" + " Indued with intellectual sense and souls,\n" + " Of more preeminence than fish and fowls,\n" + " Are masters to their females, and their lords:\n" + " Then let your will attend on their accords.\n\n" + "ADRIANA This servitude makes you to keep unwed.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Not this, but troubles of the marriage-bed.\n\n" + "ADRIANA But, were you wedded, you would bear some sway.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Ere I learn love, I'll practise to obey.\n\n" + "ADRIANA How if your husband start some other where?\n\n" + "LUCIANA Till he come home again, I would forbear.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Patience unmoved! no marvel though she pause;\n" + " They can be meek that have no other cause.\n" + " A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,\n" + " We bid be quiet when we hear it cry;\n" + " But were we burdened with like weight of pain,\n" + " As much or more would we ourselves complain:\n" + " So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee,\n" + " With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me,\n" + " But, if thou live to see like right bereft,\n" + " This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Well, I will marry one day, but to try.\n" + " Here comes your man; now is your husband nigh.\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO of Ephesus]\n\n" + "ADRIANA Say, is your tardy master now at hand?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Nay, he's at two hands with me, and that my two ears\n" + " can witness.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Say, didst thou speak with him? know'st thou his mind?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Ay, ay, he told his mind upon mine ear:\n" + " Beshrew his hand, I scarce could understand it.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Spake he so doubtfully, thou couldst not feel his meaning?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Nay, he struck so plainly, I could too well feel his\n" + " blows; and withal so doubtfully that I could scarce\n" + " understand them.\n\n" + "ADRIANA But say, I prithee, is he coming home? It seems he\n" + " hath great care to please his wife.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Why, mistress, sure my master is horn-mad.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Horn-mad, thou villain!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I mean not cuckold-mad;\n" + " But, sure, he is stark mad.\n" + " When I desired him to come home to dinner,\n" + " He ask'd me for a thousand marks in gold:\n" + " ''Tis dinner-time,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he;\n" + " 'Your meat doth burn,' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he:\n" + " 'Will you come home?' quoth I; 'My gold!' quoth he.\n" + " 'Where is the thousand marks I gave thee, villain?'\n" + " 'The pig,' quoth I, 'is burn'd;' 'My gold!' quoth he:\n" + " 'My mistress, sir' quoth I; 'Hang up thy mistress!\n" + " I know not thy mistress; out on thy mistress!'\n\n" + "LUCIANA Quoth who?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Quoth my master:\n" + " 'I know,' quoth he, 'no house, no wife, no mistress.'\n" + " So that my errand, due unto my tongue,\n" + " I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders;\n" + " For, in conclusion, he did beat me there.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Go back again, and be new beaten home?\n" + " For God's sake, send some other messenger.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Back, slave, or I will break thy pate across.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS And he will bless that cross with other beating:\n" + " Between you I shall have a holy head.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Hence, prating peasant! fetch thy master home.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Am I so round with you as you with me,\n" + " That like a football you do spurn me thus?\n" + " You spurn me hence, and he will spurn me hither:\n" + " If I last in this service, you must case me in leather.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LUCIANA Fie, how impatience loureth in your face!\n\n" + "ADRIANA His company must do his minions grace,\n" + " Whilst I at home starve for a merry look.\n" + " Hath homely age the alluring beauty took\n" + " From my poor cheek? then he hath wasted it:\n" + " Are my discourses dull? barren my wit?\n" + " If voluble and sharp discourse be marr'd,\n" + " Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard:\n" + " Do their gay vestments his affections bait?\n" + " That's not my fault: he's master of my state:\n" + " What ruins are in me that can be found,\n" + " By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground\n" + " Of my defeatures. My decayed fair\n" + " A sunny look of his would soon repair\n" + " But, too unruly deer, he breaks the pale\n" + " And feeds from home; poor I am but his stale.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Self-harming jealousy! fie, beat it hence!\n\n" + "ADRIANA Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense.\n" + " I know his eye doth homage otherwhere,\n" + " Or else what lets it but he would be here?\n" + " Sister, you know he promised me a chain;\n" + " Would that alone, alone he would detain,\n" + " So he would keep fair quarter with his bed!\n" + " I see the jewel best enamelled\n" + " Will lose his beauty; yet the gold bides still,\n" + " That others touch, and often touching will\n" + " Wear gold: and no man that hath a name,\n" + " By falsehood and corruption doth it shame.\n" + " Since that my beauty cannot please his eye,\n" + " I'll weep what's left away, and weeping die.\n\n" + "LUCIANA How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE The gold I gave to Dromio is laid up\n" + " Safe at the Centaur; and the heedful slave\n" + " Is wander'd forth, in care to seek me out\n" + " By computation and mine host's report.\n" + " I could not speak with Dromio since at first\n" + " I sent him from the mart. See, here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO of Syracuse]\n\n" + " How now sir! is your merry humour alter'd?\n" + " As you love strokes, so jest with me again.\n" + " You know no Centaur? you received no gold?\n" + " Your mistress sent to have me home to dinner?\n" + " My house was at the Phoenix? Wast thou mad,\n" + " That thus so madly thou didst answer me?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE What answer, sir? when spake I such a word?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Even now, even here, not half an hour since.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I did not see you since you sent me hence,\n" + " Home to the Centaur, with the gold you gave me.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Villain, thou didst deny the gold's receipt,\n" + " And told'st me of a mistress and a dinner;\n" + " For which, I hope, thou felt'st I was displeased.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I am glad to see you in this merry vein:\n" + " What means this jest? I pray you, master, tell me.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth?\n" + " Think'st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that, and that.\n\n" + " [Beating him]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Hold, sir, for God's sake! now your jest is earnest:\n" + " Upon what bargain do you give it me?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Because that I familiarly sometimes\n" + " Do use you for my fool and chat with you,\n" + " Your sauciness will jest upon my love\n" + " And make a common of my serious hours.\n" + " When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,\n" + " But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.\n" + " If you will jest with me, know my aspect,\n" + " And fashion your demeanor to my looks,\n" + " Or I will beat this method in your sconce.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Sconce call you it? so you would leave battering, I\n" + " had rather have it a head: an you use these blows\n" + " long, I must get a sconce for my head and ensconce\n" + " it too; or else I shall seek my wit in my shoulders.\n" + " But, I pray, sir why am I beaten?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Dost thou not know?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Nothing, sir, but that I am beaten.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Shall I tell you why?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Ay, sir, and wherefore; for they say every why hath\n" + " a wherefore.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Why, first,--for flouting me; and then, wherefore--\n" + " For urging it the second time to me.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season,\n" + " When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme\n" + " nor reason?\n" + " Well, sir, I thank you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Thank me, sir, for what?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, sir, for this something that you gave me for nothing.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I'll make you amends next, to give you nothing for\n" + " something. But say, sir, is it dinner-time?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No, sir; I think the meat wants that I have.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE In good time, sir; what's that?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Basting.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Well, sir, then 'twill be dry.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE If it be, sir, I pray you, eat none of it.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Your reason?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Lest it make you choleric and purchase me another\n" + " dry basting.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Well, sir, learn to jest in good time: there's a\n" + " time for all things.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I durst have denied that, before you were so choleric.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE By what rule, sir?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald\n" + " pate of father Time himself.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Let's hear it.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE There's no time for a man to recover his hair that\n" + " grows bald by nature.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE May he not do it by fine and recovery?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig and recover the\n" + " lost hair of another man.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Why is Time such a niggard of hair, being, as it is,\n" + " so plentiful an excrement?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts;\n" + " and what he hath scanted men in hair he hath given them in wit.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Why, but there's many a man hath more hair than wit.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Not a man of those but he hath the wit to lose his hair.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Why, thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE The plainer dealer, the sooner lost: yet he loseth\n" + " it in a kind of jollity.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE For what reason?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE For two; and sound ones too.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Nay, not sound, I pray you.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Sure ones, then.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Nay, not sure, in a thing falsing.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Certain ones then.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Name them.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE The one, to save the money that he spends in\n" + " trimming; the other, that at dinner they should not\n" + " drop in his porridge.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE You would all this time have proved there is no\n" + " time for all things.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, and did, sir; namely, no time to recover hair\n" + " lost by nature.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE But your reason was not substantial, why there is no\n" + " time to recover.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald and therefore\n" + " to the world's end will have bald followers.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I knew 'twould be a bald conclusion:\n" + " But, soft! who wafts us yonder?\n\n" + " [Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA]\n\n" + "ADRIANA Ay, ay, Antipholus, look strange and frown:\n" + " Some other mistress hath thy sweet aspects;\n" + " I am not Adriana nor thy wife.\n" + " The time was once when thou unurged wouldst vow\n" + " That never words were music to thine ear,\n" + " That never object pleasing in thine eye,\n" + " That never touch well welcome to thy hand,\n" + " That never meat sweet-savor'd in thy taste,\n" + " Unless I spake, or look'd, or touch'd, or carved to thee.\n" + " How comes it now, my husband, O, how comes it,\n" + " That thou art thus estranged from thyself?\n" + " Thyself I call it, being strange to me,\n" + " That, undividable, incorporate,\n" + " Am better than thy dear self's better part.\n" + " Ah, do not tear away thyself from me!\n" + " For know, my love, as easy mayest thou fall\n" + " A drop of water in the breaking gulf,\n" + " And take unmingled that same drop again,\n" + " Without addition or diminishing,\n" + " As take from me thyself and not me too.\n" + " How dearly would it touch me to the quick,\n" + " Shouldst thou but hear I were licentious\n" + " And that this body, consecrate to thee,\n" + " By ruffian lust should be contaminate!\n" + " Wouldst thou not spit at me and spurn at me\n" + " And hurl the name of husband in my face\n" + " And tear the stain'd skin off my harlot-brow\n" + " And from my false hand cut the wedding-ring\n" + " And break it with a deep-divorcing vow?\n" + " I know thou canst; and therefore see thou do it.\n" + " I am possess'd with an adulterate blot;\n" + " My blood is mingled with the crime of lust:\n" + " For if we too be one and thou play false,\n" + " I do digest the poison of thy flesh,\n" + " Being strumpeted by thy contagion.\n" + " Keep then far league and truce with thy true bed;\n" + " I live unstain'd, thou undishonoured.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Plead you to me, fair dame? I know you not:\n" + " In Ephesus I am but two hours old,\n" + " As strange unto your town as to your talk;\n" + " Who, every word by all my wit being scann'd,\n" + " Want wit in all one word to understand.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Fie, brother! how the world is changed with you!\n" + " When were you wont to use my sister thus?\n" + " She sent for you by Dromio home to dinner.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE By Dromio?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE By me?\n\n" + "ADRIANA By thee; and this thou didst return from him,\n" + " That he did buffet thee, and, in his blows,\n" + " Denied my house for his, me for his wife.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman?\n" + " What is the course and drift of your compact?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I, sir? I never saw her till this time.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Villain, thou liest; for even her very words\n" + " Didst thou deliver to me on the mart.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I never spake with her in all my life.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE How can she thus then call us by our names,\n" + " Unless it be by inspiration.\n\n" + "ADRIANA How ill agrees it with your gravity\n" + " To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave,\n" + " Abetting him to thwart me in my mood!\n" + " Be it my wrong you are from me exempt,\n" + " But wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.\n" + " Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine:\n" + " Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,\n" + " Whose weakness, married to thy stronger state,\n" + " Makes me with thy strength to communicate:\n" + " If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,\n" + " Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;\n" + " Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion\n" + " Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE To me she speaks; she moves me for her theme:\n" + " What, was I married to her in my dream?\n" + " Or sleep I now and think I hear all this?\n" + " What error drives our eyes and ears amiss?\n" + " Until I know this sure uncertainty,\n" + " I'll entertain the offer'd fallacy.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Dromio, go bid the servants spread for dinner.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE O, for my beads! I cross me for a sinner.\n" + " This is the fairy land: O spite of spites!\n" + " We talk with goblins, owls and sprites:\n" + " If we obey them not, this will ensue,\n" + " They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Why pratest thou to thyself and answer'st not?\n" + " Dromio, thou drone, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I am transformed, master, am I not?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I think thou art in mind, and so am I.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Thou hast thine own form.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No, I am an ape.\n\n" + "LUCIANA If thou art changed to aught, 'tis to an ass.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE 'Tis true; she rides me and I long for grass.\n" + " 'Tis so, I am an ass; else it could never be\n" + " But I should know her as well as she knows me.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Come, come, no longer will I be a fool,\n" + " To put the finger in the eye and weep,\n" + " Whilst man and master laugh my woes to scorn.\n" + " Come, sir, to dinner. Dromio, keep the gate.\n" + " Husband, I'll dine above with you to-day\n" + " And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks.\n" + " Sirrah, if any ask you for your master,\n" + " Say he dines forth, and let no creature enter.\n" + " Come, sister. Dromio, play the porter well.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Am I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?\n" + " Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised?\n" + " Known unto these, and to myself disguised!\n" + " I'll say as they say and persever so,\n" + " And in this mist at all adventures go.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Master, shall I be porter at the gate?\n\n" + "ADRIANA Ay; and let none enter, lest I break your pate.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Come, come, Antipholus, we dine too late.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before the house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus, DROMIO of Ephesus,\n" + " ANGELO, and BALTHAZAR]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Good Signior Angelo, you must excuse us all;\n" + " My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours:\n" + " Say that I linger'd with you at your shop\n" + " To see the making of her carcanet,\n" + " And that to-morrow you will bring it home.\n" + " But here's a villain that would face me down\n" + " He met me on the mart, and that I beat him,\n" + " And charged him with a thousand marks in gold,\n" + " And that I did deny my wife and house.\n" + " Thou drunkard, thou, what didst thou mean by this?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Say what you will, sir, but I know what I know;\n" + " That you beat me at the mart, I have your hand to show:\n" + " If the skin were parchment, and the blows you gave were ink,\n" + " Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I think thou art an ass.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Marry, so it doth appear\n" + " By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear.\n" + " I should kick, being kick'd; and, being at that pass,\n" + " You would keep from my heels and beware of an ass.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS You're sad, Signior Balthazar: pray God our cheer\n" + " May answer my good will and your good welcome here.\n\n" + "BALTHAZAR I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and your\n" + " welcome dear.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS O, Signior Balthazar, either at flesh or fish,\n" + " A table full of welcome make scarce one dainty dish.\n\n" + "BALTHAZAR Good meat, sir, is common; that every churl affords.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS And welcome more common; for that's nothing but words.\n\n" + "BALTHAZAR Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Ay, to a niggardly host, and more sparing guest:\n" + " But though my cates be mean, take them in good part;\n" + " Better cheer may you have, but not with better heart.\n" + " But, soft! my door is lock'd. Go bid them let us in.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Maud, Bridget, Marian, Cicel, Gillian, Ginn!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb,\n" + " idiot, patch!\n" + " Either get thee from the door, or sit down at the hatch.\n" + " Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou call'st\n" + " for such store,\n" + " When one is one too many? Go, get thee from the door.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS What patch is made our porter? My master stays in\n" + " the street.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Let him walk from whence he came, lest he\n" + " catch cold on's feet.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Who talks within there? ho, open the door!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Right, sir; I'll tell you when, an you tell\n" + " me wherefore.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Wherefore? for my dinner: I have not dined to-day.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Nor to-day here you must not; come again\n" + " when you may.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS What art thou that keepest me out from the house I owe?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] The porter for this time, sir, and my name\n" + " is Dromio.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS O villain! thou hast stolen both mine office and my name.\n" + " The one ne'er got me credit, the other mickle blame.\n" + " If thou hadst been Dromio to-day in my place,\n" + " Thou wouldst have changed thy face for a name or thy\n" + " name for an ass.\n\n" + "LUCE [Within] What a coil is there, Dromio? who are those\n" + " at the gate?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Let my master in, Luce.\n\n" + "LUCE [Within] Faith, no; he comes too late;\n" + " And so tell your master.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS O Lord, I must laugh!\n" + " Have at you with a proverb--Shall I set in my staff?\n\n" + "LUCE [Within] Have at you with another; that's--When?\n" + " can you tell?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] If thy name be call'd Luce--Luce, thou hast\n" + " answered him well.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS Do you hear, you minion? you'll let us in, I hope?\n" + "OF EPHESUS\n\n" + "LUCE [Within] I thought to have asked you.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] And you said no.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS So, come, help: well struck! there was blow for blow.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Thou baggage, let me in.\n\n" + "LUCE [Within] Can you tell for whose sake?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Master, knock the door hard.\n\n" + "LUCE [Within] Let him knock till it ache.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS You'll cry for this, minion, if I beat the door down.\n\n" + "LUCE [Within] What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town?\n\n" + "ADRIANA [Within] Who is that at the door that keeps all\n" + " this noise?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] By my troth, your town is troubled with\n" + " unruly boys.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Are you there, wife? you might have come before.\n\n" + "ADRIANA [Within] Your wife, sir knave! go get you from the door.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS If you went in pain, master, this 'knave' would go sore.\n\n" + "ANGELO Here is neither cheer, sir, nor welcome: we would\n" + " fain have either.\n\n" + "BALTHAZAR In debating which was best, we shall part with neither.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS They stand at the door, master; bid them welcome hither.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS There is something in the wind, that we cannot get in.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS You would say so, master, if your garments were thin.\n" + " Your cake there is warm within; you stand here in the cold:\n" + " It would make a man mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Go fetch me something: I'll break ope the gate.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Break any breaking here, and I'll break your\n" + " knave's pate.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind,\n" + " Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] It seems thou want'st breaking: out upon\n" + " thee, hind!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Here's too much 'out upon thee!' I pray thee,\n" + " let me in.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE [Within] Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Well, I'll break in: go borrow me a crow.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS A crow without feather? Master, mean you so?\n" + " For a fish without a fin, there's a fowl without a feather;\n" + " If a crow help us in, sirrah, we'll pluck a crow together.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Go get thee gone; fetch me an iron crow.\n\n" + "BALTHAZAR Have patience, sir; O, let it not be so!\n" + " Herein you war against your reputation\n" + " And draw within the compass of suspect\n" + " The unviolated honour of your wife.\n" + " Once this,--your long experience of her wisdom,\n" + " Her sober virtue, years and modesty,\n" + " Plead on her part some cause to you unknown:\n" + " And doubt not, sir, but she will well excuse\n" + " Why at this time the doors are made against you.\n" + " Be ruled by me: depart in patience,\n" + " And let us to the Tiger all to dinner,\n" + " And about evening come yourself alone\n" + " To know the reason of this strange restraint.\n" + " If by strong hand you offer to break in\n" + " Now in the stirring passage of the day,\n" + " A vulgar comment will be made of it,\n" + " And that supposed by the common rout\n" + " Against your yet ungalled estimation\n" + " That may with foul intrusion enter in\n" + " And dwell upon your grave when you are dead;\n" + " For slander lives upon succession,\n" + " For ever housed where it gets possession.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS You have prevailed: I will depart in quiet,\n" + " And, in despite of mirth, mean to be merry.\n" + " I know a wench of excellent discourse,\n" + " Pretty and witty; wild, and yet, too, gentle:\n" + " There will we dine. This woman that I mean,\n" + " My wife--but, I protest, without desert--\n" + " Hath oftentimes upbraided me withal:\n" + " To her will we to dinner.\n\n" + " [To Angelo]\n\n" + " Get you home\n" + " And fetch the chain; by this I know 'tis made:\n" + " Bring it, I pray you, to the Porpentine;\n" + " For there's the house: that chain will I bestow--\n" + " Be it for nothing but to spite my wife--\n" + " Upon mine hostess there: good sir, make haste.\n" + " Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me,\n" + " I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me.\n\n" + "ANGELO I'll meet you at that place some hour hence.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Do so. This jest shall cost me some expense.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIANA and ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse]\n\n" + "LUCIANA And may it be that you have quite forgot\n" + " A husband's office? shall, Antipholus.\n" + " Even in the spring of love, thy love-springs rot?\n" + " Shall love, in building, grow so ruinous?\n" + " If you did wed my sister for her wealth,\n" + " Then for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness:\n" + " Or if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;\n" + " Muffle your false love with some show of blindness:\n" + " Let not my sister read it in your eye;\n" + " Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;\n" + " Look sweet, be fair, become disloyalty;\n" + " Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger;\n" + " Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;\n" + " Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint;\n" + " Be secret-false: what need she be acquainted?\n" + " What simple thief brags of his own attaint?\n" + " 'Tis double wrong, to truant with your bed\n" + " And let her read it in thy looks at board:\n" + " Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed;\n" + " Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.\n" + " Alas, poor women! make us but believe,\n" + " Being compact of credit, that you love us;\n" + " Though others have the arm, show us the sleeve;\n" + " We in your motion turn and you may move us.\n" + " Then, gentle brother, get you in again;\n" + " Comfort my sister, cheer her, call her wife:\n" + " 'Tis holy sport to be a little vain,\n" + " When the sweet breath of flattery conquers strife.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Sweet mistress--what your name is else, I know not,\n" + " Nor by what wonder you do hit of mine,--\n" + " Less in your knowledge and your grace you show not\n" + " Than our earth's wonder, more than earth divine.\n" + " Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak;\n" + " Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit,\n" + " Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak,\n" + " The folded meaning of your words' deceit.\n" + " Against my soul's pure truth why labour you\n" + " To make it wander in an unknown field?\n" + " Are you a god? would you create me new?\n" + " Transform me then, and to your power I'll yield.\n" + " But if that I am I, then well I know\n" + " Your weeping sister is no wife of mine,\n" + " Nor to her bed no homage do I owe\n" + " Far more, far more to you do I decline.\n" + " O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,\n" + " To drown me in thy sister's flood of tears:\n" + " Sing, siren, for thyself and I will dote:\n" + " Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs,\n" + " And as a bed I'll take them and there lie,\n" + " And in that glorious supposition think\n" + " He gains by death that hath such means to die:\n" + " Let Love, being light, be drowned if she sink!\n\n" + "LUCIANA What, are you mad, that you do reason so?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Not mad, but mated; how, I do not know.\n\n" + "LUCIANA It is a fault that springeth from your eye.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE For gazing on your beams, fair sun, being by.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE As good to wink, sweet love, as look on night.\n\n\n" + "LUCIANA Why call you me love? call my sister so.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Thy sister's sister.\n\n\n" + "LUCIANA That's my sister.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE No;\n" + " It is thyself, mine own self's better part,\n" + " Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart,\n" + " My food, my fortune and my sweet hope's aim,\n" + " My sole earth's heaven and my heaven's claim.\n\n" + "LUCIANA All this my sister is, or else should be.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Call thyself sister, sweet, for I am thee.\n" + " Thee will I love and with thee lead my life:\n" + " Thou hast no husband yet nor I no wife.\n" + " Give me thy hand.\n\n" + "LUCIANA O, soft, air! hold you still:\n" + " I'll fetch my sister, to get her good will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO of Syracuse]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Why, how now, Dromio! where runn'st thou so fast?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Do you know me, sir? am I Dromio? am I your man?\n" + " am I myself?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Thou art Dromio, thou art my man, thou art thyself.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I am an ass, I am a woman's man and besides myself.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS What woman's man? and how besides thyself? besides thyself?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, sir, besides myself, I am due to a woman; one\n" + " that claims me, one that haunts me, one that will have me.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What claim lays she to thee?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry sir, such claim as you would lay to your\n" + " horse; and she would have me as a beast: not that, I\n" + " being a beast, she would have me; but that she,\n" + " being a very beastly creature, lays claim to me.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What is she?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE A very reverent body; ay, such a one as a man may\n" + " not speak of without he say 'Sir-reverence.' I have\n" + " but lean luck in the match, and yet is she a\n" + " wondrous fat marriage.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE How dost thou mean a fat marriage?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, sir, she's the kitchen wench and all grease;\n" + " and I know not what use to put her to but to make a\n" + " lamp of her and run from her by her own light. I\n" + " warrant, her rags and the tallow in them will burn a\n" + " Poland winter: if she lives till doomsday,\n" + " she'll burn a week longer than the whole world.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What complexion is she of?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Swart, like my shoe, but her face nothing half so\n" + " clean kept: for why, she sweats; a man may go over\n" + " shoes in the grime of it.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE That's a fault that water will mend.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No, sir, 'tis in grain; Noah's flood could not do it.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What's her name?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters, that's\n" + " an ell and three quarters, will not measure her from\n" + " hip to hip.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Then she bears some breadth?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip:\n" + " she is spherical, like a globe; I could find out\n" + " countries in her.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE In what part of her body stands Ireland?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, in her buttocks: I found it out by the bogs.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Where Scotland?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm of the hand.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Where France?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE In her forehead; armed and reverted, making war\n" + " against her heir.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Where England?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I looked for the chalky cliffs, but I could find no\n" + " whiteness in them; but I guess it stood in her chin,\n" + " by the salt rheum that ran between France and it.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Where Spain?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Faith, I saw it not; but I felt it hot in her breath.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Where America, the Indies?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with\n" + " rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich\n" + " aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole\n" + " armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Where stood Belgia, the Netherlands?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Oh, sir, I did not look so low. To conclude, this\n" + " drudge, or diviner, laid claim to me, call'd me\n" + " Dromio; swore I was assured to her; told me what\n" + " privy marks I had about me, as, the mark of my\n" + " shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my\n" + " left arm, that I amazed ran from her as a witch:\n" + " And, I think, if my breast had not been made of\n" + " faith and my heart of steel,\n" + " She had transform'd me to a curtal dog and made\n" + " me turn i' the wheel.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Go hie thee presently, post to the road:\n" + " An if the wind blow any way from shore,\n" + " I will not harbour in this town to-night:\n" + " If any bark put forth, come to the mart,\n" + " Where I will walk till thou return to me.\n" + " If every one knows us and we know none,\n" + " 'Tis time, I think, to trudge, pack and be gone.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE As from a bear a man would run for life,\n" + " So fly I from her that would be my wife.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE There's none but witches do inhabit here;\n" + " And therefore 'tis high time that I were hence.\n" + " She that doth call me husband, even my soul\n" + " Doth for a wife abhor. But her fair sister,\n" + " Possess'd with such a gentle sovereign grace,\n" + " Of such enchanting presence and discourse,\n" + " Hath almost made me traitor to myself:\n" + " But, lest myself be guilty to self-wrong,\n" + " I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song.\n\n" + " [Enter ANGELO with the chain]\n\n" + "ANGELO Master Antipholus,--\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Ay, that's my name.\n\n" + "ANGELO I know it well, sir, lo, here is the chain.\n" + " I thought to have ta'en you at the Porpentine:\n" + " The chain unfinish'd made me stay thus long.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What is your will that I shall do with this?\n\n" + "ANGELO What please yourself, sir: I have made it for you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Made it for me, sir! I bespoke it not.\n\n" + "ANGELO Not once, nor twice, but twenty times you have.\n" + " Go home with it and please your wife withal;\n" + " And soon at supper-time I'll visit you\n" + " And then receive my money for the chain.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I pray you, sir, receive the money now,\n" + " For fear you ne'er see chain nor money more.\n\n" + "ANGELO You are a merry man, sir: fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What I should think of this, I cannot tell:\n" + " But this I think, there's no man is so vain\n" + " That would refuse so fair an offer'd chain.\n" + " I see a man here needs not live by shifts,\n" + " When in the streets he meets such golden gifts.\n" + " I'll to the mart, and there for Dromio stay\n" + " If any ship put out, then straight away.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Second Merchant, ANGELO, and an Officer]\n\n" + "Second Merchant You know since Pentecost the sum is due,\n" + " And since I have not much importuned you;\n" + " Nor now I had not, but that I am bound\n" + " To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage:\n" + " Therefore make present satisfaction,\n" + " Or I'll attach you by this officer.\n\n" + "ANGELO Even just the sum that I do owe to you\n" + " Is growing to me by Antipholus,\n" + " And in the instant that I met with you\n" + " He had of me a chain: at five o'clock\n" + " I shall receive the money for the same.\n" + " Pleaseth you walk with me down to his house,\n" + " I will discharge my bond and thank you too.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus\n" + " from the courtezan's]\n\n" + "Officer That labour may you save: see where he comes.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS While I go to the goldsmith's house, go thou\n" + " And buy a rope's end: that will I bestow\n" + " Among my wife and her confederates,\n" + " For locking me out of my doors by day.\n" + " But, soft! I see the goldsmith. Get thee gone;\n" + " Buy thou a rope and bring it home to me.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I buy a thousand pound a year: I buy a rope.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS A man is well holp up that trusts to you:\n" + " I promised your presence and the chain;\n" + " But neither chain nor goldsmith came to me.\n" + " Belike you thought our love would last too long,\n" + " If it were chain'd together, and therefore came not.\n\n" + "ANGELO Saving your merry humour, here's the note\n" + " How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat,\n" + " The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion.\n" + " Which doth amount to three odd ducats more\n" + " Than I stand debted to this gentleman:\n" + " I pray you, see him presently discharged,\n" + " For he is bound to sea and stays but for it.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I am not furnish'd with the present money;\n" + " Besides, I have some business in the town.\n" + " Good signior, take the stranger to my house\n" + " And with you take the chain and bid my wife\n" + " Disburse the sum on the receipt thereof:\n" + " Perchance I will be there as soon as you.\n\n" + "ANGELO Then you will bring the chain to her yourself?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS No; bear it with you, lest I come not time enough.\n\n" + "ANGELO Well, sir, I will. Have you the chain about you?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS An if I have not, sir, I hope you have;\n" + " Or else you may return without your money.\n\n" + "ANGELO Nay, come, I pray you, sir, give me the chain:\n" + " Both wind and tide stays for this gentleman,\n" + " And I, to blame, have held him here too long.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Good Lord! you use this dalliance to excuse\n" + " Your breach of promise to the Porpentine.\n" + " I should have chid you for not bringing it,\n" + " But, like a shrew, you first begin to brawl.\n\n" + "Second Merchant The hour steals on; I pray you, sir, dispatch.\n\n" + "ANGELO You hear how he importunes me;--the chain!\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Why, give it to my wife and fetch your money.\n\n" + "ANGELO Come, come, you know I gave it you even now.\n" + " Either send the chain or send me by some token.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Fie, now you run this humour out of breath,\n" + " where's the chain? I pray you, let me see it.\n\n" + "Second Merchant My business cannot brook this dalliance.\n" + " Good sir, say whether you'll answer me or no:\n" + " If not, I'll leave him to the officer.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I answer you! what should I answer you?\n\n" + "ANGELO The money that you owe me for the chain.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I owe you none till I receive the chain.\n\n" + "ANGELO You know I gave it you half an hour since.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS You gave me none: you wrong me much to say so.\n\n" + "ANGELO You wrong me more, sir, in denying it:\n" + " Consider how it stands upon my credit.\n\n" + "Second Merchant Well, officer, arrest him at my suit.\n\n" + "Officer I do; and charge you in the duke's name to obey me.\n\n" + "ANGELO This touches me in reputation.\n" + " Either consent to pay this sum for me\n" + " Or I attach you by this officer.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Consent to pay thee that I never had!\n" + " Arrest me, foolish fellow, if thou darest.\n\n" + "ANGELO Here is thy fee; arrest him, officer,\n" + " I would not spare my brother in this case,\n" + " If he should scorn me so apparently.\n\n" + "Officer I do arrest you, sir: you hear the suit.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I do obey thee till I give thee bail.\n" + " But, sirrah, you shall buy this sport as dear\n" + " As all the metal in your shop will answer.\n\n" + "ANGELO Sir, sir, I will have law in Ephesus,\n" + " To your notorious shame; I doubt it not.\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO of Syracuse, from the bay]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Master, there is a bark of Epidamnum\n" + " That stays but till her owner comes aboard,\n" + " And then, sir, she bears away. Our fraughtage, sir,\n" + " I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought\n" + " The oil, the balsamum and aqua-vitae.\n" + " The ship is in her trim; the merry wind\n" + " Blows fair from land: they stay for nought at all\n" + " But for their owner, master, and yourself.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS How now! a madman! Why, thou peevish sheep,\n" + " What ship of Epidamnum stays for me?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE A ship you sent me to, to hire waftage.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope;\n" + " And told thee to what purpose and what end.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE You sent me for a rope's end as soon:\n" + " You sent me to the bay, sir, for a bark.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I will debate this matter at more leisure\n" + " And teach your ears to list me with more heed.\n" + " To Adriana, villain, hie thee straight:\n" + " Give her this key, and tell her, in the desk\n" + " That's cover'd o'er with Turkish tapestry,\n" + " There is a purse of ducats; let her send it:\n" + " Tell her I am arrested in the street\n" + " And that shall bail me; hie thee, slave, be gone!\n" + " On, officer, to prison till it come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Second Merchant, Angelo, Officer, and\n" + " Antipholus of Ephesus]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE To Adriana! that is where we dined,\n" + " Where Dowsabel did claim me for her husband:\n" + " She is too big, I hope, for me to compass.\n" + " Thither I must, although against my will,\n" + " For servants must their masters' minds fulfil.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The house of ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ADRIANA and LUCIANA]\n\n" + "ADRIANA Ah, Luciana, did he tempt thee so?\n" + " Mightst thou perceive austerely in his eye\n" + " That he did plead in earnest? yea or no?\n" + " Look'd he or red or pale, or sad or merrily?\n" + " What observation madest thou in this case\n" + " Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face?\n\n" + "LUCIANA First he denied you had in him no right.\n\n" + "ADRIANA He meant he did me none; the more my spite.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Then swore he that he was a stranger here.\n\n" + "ADRIANA And true he swore, though yet forsworn he were.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Then pleaded I for you.\n\n" + "ADRIANA And what said he?\n\n" + "LUCIANA That love I begg'd for you he begg'd of me.\n\n" + "ADRIANA With what persuasion did he tempt thy love?\n\n" + "LUCIANA With words that in an honest suit might move.\n" + " First he did praise my beauty, then my speech.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Didst speak him fair?\n\n" + "LUCIANA Have patience, I beseech.\n\n" + "ADRIANA I cannot, nor I will not, hold me still;\n" + " My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.\n" + " He is deformed, crooked, old and sere,\n" + " Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere;\n" + " Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind;\n" + " Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Who would be jealous then of such a one?\n" + " No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Ah, but I think him better than I say,\n" + " And yet would herein others' eyes were worse.\n" + " Far from her nest the lapwing cries away:\n" + " My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO of Syracuse]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Here! go; the desk, the purse! sweet, now, make haste.\n\n" + "LUCIANA How hast thou lost thy breath?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE By running fast.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Where is thy master, Dromio? is he well?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No, he's in Tartar limbo, worse than hell.\n" + " A devil in an everlasting garment hath him;\n" + " One whose hard heart is button'd up with steel;\n" + " A fiend, a fury, pitiless and rough;\n" + " A wolf, nay, worse, a fellow all in buff;\n" + " A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that\n" + " countermands\n" + " The passages of alleys, creeks and narrow lands;\n" + " A hound that runs counter and yet draws dryfoot well;\n" + " One that before the judgement carries poor souls to hell.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Why, man, what is the matter?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I do not know the matter: he is 'rested on the case.\n\n" + "ADRIANA What, is he arrested? Tell me at whose suit.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I know not at whose suit he is arrested well;\n" + " But he's in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell.\n" + " Will you send him, mistress, redemption, the money in his desk?\n\n" + "ADRIANA Go fetch it, sister.\n\n" + " [Exit Luciana]\n\n" + " This I wonder at,\n" + " That he, unknown to me, should be in debt.\n" + " Tell me, was he arrested on a band?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Not on a band, but on a stronger thing;\n" + " A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring?\n\n" + "ADRIANA What, the chain?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No, no, the bell: 'tis time that I were gone:\n" + " It was two ere I left him, and now the clock\n" + " strikes one.\n\n" + "ADRIANA The hours come back! that did I never hear.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE O, yes; if any hour meet a sergeant, a' turns back for\n" + " very fear.\n\n" + "ADRIANA As if Time were in debt! how fondly dost thou reason!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Time is a very bankrupt, and owes more than he's\n" + " worth, to season.\n" + " Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say\n" + " That Time comes stealing on by night and day?\n" + " If Time be in debt and theft, and a sergeant in the way,\n" + " Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day?\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIANA with a purse]\n\n" + "ADRIANA Go, Dromio; there's the money, bear it straight;\n" + " And bring thy master home immediately.\n" + " Come, sister: I am press'd down with conceit--\n" + " Conceit, my comfort and my injury.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE There's not a man I meet but doth salute me\n" + " As if I were their well-acquainted friend;\n" + " And every one doth call me by my name.\n" + " Some tender money to me; some invite me;\n" + " Some other give me thanks for kindnesses;\n" + " Some offer me commodities to buy:\n" + " Even now a tailor call'd me in his shop\n" + " And show'd me silks that he had bought for me,\n" + " And therewithal took measure of my body.\n" + " Sure, these are but imaginary wiles\n" + " And Lapland sorcerers inhabit here.\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO OF SYRACUSE]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Master, here's the gold you sent me for. What, have\n" + " you got the picture of old Adam new-apparelled?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What gold is this? what Adam dost thou mean?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam\n" + " that keeps the prison: he that goes in the calf's\n" + " skin that was killed for the Prodigal; he that came\n" + " behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid you\n" + " forsake your liberty.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I understand thee not.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE No? why, 'tis a plain case: he that went, like a\n" + " bass-viol, in a case of leather; the man, sir,\n" + " that, when gentlemen are tired, gives them a sob\n" + " and 'rests them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed\n" + " men and gives them suits of durance; he that sets up\n" + " his rest to do more exploits with his mace than a\n" + " morris-pike.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE What, thou meanest an officer?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Ay, sir, the sergeant of the band, he that brings\n" + " any man to answer it that breaks his band; one that\n" + " thinks a man always going to bed, and says, 'God\n" + " give you good rest!'\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Well, sir, there rest in your foolery. Is there any\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Why, sir, I brought you word an hour since that the\n" + " bark Expedition put forth to-night; and then were\n" + " you hindered by the sergeant, to tarry for the hoy\n" + " Delay. Here are the angels that you sent for to\n" + " deliver you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE The fellow is distract, and so am I;\n" + " And here we wander in illusions:\n" + " Some blessed power deliver us from hence!\n\n" + " [Enter a Courtezan]\n\n" + "Courtezan Well met, well met, Master Antipholus.\n" + " I see, sir, you have found the goldsmith now:\n" + " Is that the chain you promised me to-day?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Satan, avoid! I charge thee, tempt me not.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Master, is this Mistress Satan?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE It is the devil.\n\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Nay, she is worse, she is the devil's dam; and here\n" + " she comes in the habit of a light wench: and thereof\n" + " comes that the wenches say 'God damn me;' that's as\n" + " much to say 'God make me a light wench.' It is\n" + " written, they appear to men like angels of light:\n" + " light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn;\n" + " ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her.\n\n" + "Courtezan Your man and you are marvellous merry, sir.\n" + " Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat; or bespeak a\n" + " long spoon.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Why, Dromio?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with\n" + " the devil.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Avoid then, fiend! what tell'st thou me of supping?\n" + " Thou art, as you are all, a sorceress:\n" + " I conjure thee to leave me and be gone.\n\n" + "Courtezan Give me the ring of mine you had at dinner,\n" + " Or, for my diamond, the chain you promised,\n" + " And I'll be gone, sir, and not trouble you.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Some devils ask but the parings of one's nail,\n" + " A rush, a hair, a drop of blood, a pin,\n" + " A nut, a cherry-stone;\n" + " But she, more covetous, would have a chain.\n" + " Master, be wise: an if you give it her,\n" + " The devil will shake her chain and fright us with it.\n\n" + "Courtezan I pray you, sir, my ring, or else the chain:\n" + " I hope you do not mean to cheat me so.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Avaunt, thou witch! Come, Dromio, let us go.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE 'Fly pride,' says the peacock: mistress, that you know.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse]\n\n" + "Courtezan Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,\n" + " Else would he never so demean himself.\n" + " A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,\n" + " And for the same he promised me a chain:\n" + " Both one and other he denies me now.\n" + " The reason that I gather he is mad,\n" + " Besides this present instance of his rage,\n" + " Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner,\n" + " Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.\n" + " Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,\n" + " On purpose shut the doors against his way.\n" + " My way is now to hie home to his house,\n" + " And tell his wife that, being lunatic,\n" + " He rush'd into my house and took perforce\n" + " My ring away. This course I fittest choose;\n" + " For forty ducats is too much to lose.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and the Officer]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Fear me not, man; I will not break away:\n" + " I'll give thee, ere I leave thee, so much money,\n" + " To warrant thee, as I am 'rested for.\n" + " My wife is in a wayward mood to-day,\n" + " And will not lightly trust the messenger\n" + " That I should be attach'd in Ephesus,\n" + " I tell you, 'twill sound harshly in her ears.\n\n" + " [Enter DROMIO of Ephesus with a rope's-end]\n\n" + " Here comes my man; I think he brings the money.\n" + " How now, sir! have you that I sent you for?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Here's that, I warrant you, will pay them all.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS But where's the money?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Why, sir, I gave the money for the rope.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Five hundred ducats, villain, for a rope?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS To what end did I bid thee hie thee home?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS To a rope's-end, sir; and to that end am I returned.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS And to that end, sir, I will welcome you.\n\n" + " [Beating him]\n\n" + "Officer Good sir, be patient.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Nay, 'tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity.\n\n" + "Officer Good, now, hold thy tongue.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Thou whoreson, senseless villain!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I would I were senseless, sir, that I might not feel\n" + " your blows.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS Thou art sensible in nothing but blows, and so is an\n" + " ass.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long\n" + " ears. I have served him from the hour of my\n" + " nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his\n" + " hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he\n" + " heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me\n" + " with beating; I am waked with it when I sleep;\n" + " raised with it when I sit; driven out of doors with\n" + " it when I go from home; welcomed home with it when\n" + " I return; nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a\n" + " beggar wont her brat; and, I think when he hath\n" + " lamed me, I shall beg with it from door to door.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Come, go along; my wife is coming yonder.\n\n" + " [Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and PINCH]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Mistress, 'respice finem,' respect your end; or\n" + " rather, the prophecy like the parrot, 'beware the\n" + " rope's-end.'\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Wilt thou still talk?\n\n" + " [Beating him]\n\n" + "Courtezan How say you now? is not your husband mad?\n\n" + "ADRIANA His incivility confirms no less.\n" + " Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer;\n" + " Establish him in his true sense again,\n" + " And I will please you what you will demand.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks!\n\n" + "Courtezan Mark how he trembles in his ecstasy!\n\n" + "PINCH Give me your hand and let me feel your pulse.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS There is my hand, and let it feel your ear.\n\n" + " [Striking him]\n\n" + "PINCH I charge thee, Satan, housed within this man,\n" + " To yield possession to my holy prayers\n" + " And to thy state of darkness hie thee straight:\n" + " I conjure thee by all the saints in heaven!\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Peace, doting wizard, peace! I am not mad.\n\n" + "ADRIANA O, that thou wert not, poor distressed soul!\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS You minion, you, are these your customers?\n" + " Did this companion with the saffron face\n" + " Revel and feast it at my house to-day,\n" + " Whilst upon me the guilty doors were shut\n" + " And I denied to enter in my house?\n\n" + "ADRIANA O husband, God doth know you dined at home;\n" + " Where would you had remain'd until this time,\n" + " Free from these slanders and this open shame!\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Dined at home! Thou villain, what sayest thou?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Sir, sooth to say, you did not dine at home.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Were not my doors lock'd up and I shut out?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Perdie, your doors were lock'd and you shut out.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS And did not she herself revile me there?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Sans fable, she herself reviled you there.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Certes, she did; the kitchen-vestal scorn'd you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS And did not I in rage depart from thence?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS In verity you did; my bones bear witness,\n" + " That since have felt the vigour of his rage.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Is't good to soothe him in these contraries?\n\n" + "PINCH It is no shame: the fellow finds his vein,\n" + " And yielding to him humours well his frenzy.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Thou hast suborn'd the goldsmith to arrest me.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Alas, I sent you money to redeem you,\n" + " By Dromio here, who came in haste for it.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Money by me! heart and goodwill you might;\n" + " But surely master, not a rag of money.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Went'st not thou to her for a purse of ducats?\n\n" + "ADRIANA He came to me and I deliver'd it.\n\n" + "LUCIANA And I am witness with her that she did.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS God and the rope-maker bear me witness\n" + " That I was sent for nothing but a rope!\n\n" + "PINCH Mistress, both man and master is possess'd;\n" + " I know it by their pale and deadly looks:\n" + " They must be bound and laid in some dark room.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Say, wherefore didst thou lock me forth to-day?\n" + " And why dost thou deny the bag of gold?\n\n" + "ADRIANA I did not, gentle husband, lock thee forth.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS And, gentle master, I received no gold;\n" + " But I confess, sir, that we were lock'd out.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Dissembling villain, thou speak'st false in both.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all;\n" + " And art confederate with a damned pack\n" + " To make a loathsome abject scorn of me:\n" + " But with these nails I'll pluck out these false eyes\n" + " That would behold in me this shameful sport.\n\n" + " [Enter three or four, and offer to bind him.\n" + " He strives]\n\n" + "ADRIANA O, bind him, bind him! let him not come near me.\n\n" + "PINCH More company! The fiend is strong within him.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Ay me, poor man, how pale and wan he looks!\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS What, will you murder me? Thou gaoler, thou,\n" + " I am thy prisoner: wilt thou suffer them\n" + " To make a rescue?\n\n" + "Officer Masters, let him go\n" + " He is my prisoner, and you shall not have him.\n\n" + "PINCH Go bind this man, for he is frantic too.\n\n" + " [They offer to bind Dromio of Ephesus]\n\n" + "ADRIANA What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?\n" + " Hast thou delight to see a wretched man\n" + " Do outrage and displeasure to himself?\n\n" + "Officer He is my prisoner: if I let him go,\n" + " The debt he owes will be required of me.\n\n" + "ADRIANA I will discharge thee ere I go from thee:\n" + " Bear me forthwith unto his creditor,\n" + " And, knowing how the debt grows, I will pay it.\n" + " Good master doctor, see him safe convey'd\n" + " Home to my house. O most unhappy day!\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS O most unhappy strumpet!\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Master, I am here entered in bond for you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Out on thee, villain! wherefore dost thou mad me?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Will you be bound for nothing? be mad, good master:\n" + " cry 'The devil!'\n\n" + "LUCIANA God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!\n\n" + "ADRIANA Go bear him hence. Sister, go you with me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but Adriana, Luciana, Officer and\n" + " Courtezan]\n\n" + " Say now, whose suit is he arrested at?\n\n" + "Officer One Angelo, a goldsmith: do you know him?\n\n" + "ADRIANA I know the man. What is the sum he owes?\n\n" + "Officer Two hundred ducats.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Say, how grows it due?\n\n" + "Officer Due for a chain your husband had of him.\n\n" + "ADRIANA He did bespeak a chain for me, but had it not.\n\n" + "Courtezan When as your husband all in rage to-day\n" + " Came to my house and took away my ring--\n" + " The ring I saw upon his finger now--\n" + " Straight after did I meet him with a chain.\n\n" + "ADRIANA It may be so, but I did never see it.\n" + " Come, gaoler, bring me where the goldsmith is:\n" + " I long to know the truth hereof at large.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse with his rapier drawn,\n" + " and DROMIO of Syracuse]\n\n" + "LUCIANA God, for thy mercy! they are loose again.\n\n" + "ADRIANA And come with naked swords.\n" + " Let's call more help to have them bound again.\n\n" + "Officer Away! they'll kill us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio\n" + " of Syracuse]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I see these witches are afraid of swords.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE She that would be your wife now ran from you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Come to the Centaur; fetch our stuff from thence:\n" + " I long that we were safe and sound aboard.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us\n" + " no harm: you saw they speak us fair, give us gold:\n" + " methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for\n" + " the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of\n" + " me, I could find in my heart to stay here still and\n" + " turn witch.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I will not stay to-night for all the town;\n" + " Therefore away, to get our stuff aboard.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE COMEDY OF ERRORS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A street before a Priory.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Second Merchant and ANGELO]\n\n" + "ANGELO I am sorry, sir, that I have hinder'd you;\n" + " But, I protest, he had the chain of me,\n" + " Though most dishonestly he doth deny it.\n\n" + "Second Merchant How is the man esteemed here in the city?\n\n" + "ANGELO Of very reverend reputation, sir,\n" + " Of credit infinite, highly beloved,\n" + " Second to none that lives here in the city:\n" + " His word might bear my wealth at any time.\n\n" + "Second Merchant Speak softly; yonder, as I think, he walks.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse]\n\n" + "ANGELO 'Tis so; and that self chain about his neck\n" + " Which he forswore most monstrously to have.\n" + " Good sir, draw near to me, I'll speak to him.\n" + " Signior Antipholus, I wonder much\n" + " That you would put me to this shame and trouble;\n" + " And, not without some scandal to yourself,\n" + " With circumstance and oaths so to deny\n" + " This chain which now you wear so openly:\n" + " Beside the charge, the shame, imprisonment,\n" + " You have done wrong to this my honest friend,\n" + " Who, but for staying on our controversy,\n" + " Had hoisted sail and put to sea to-day:\n" + " This chain you had of me; can you deny it?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I think I had; I never did deny it.\n\n" + "Second Merchant Yes, that you did, sir, and forswore it too.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Who heard me to deny it or forswear it?\n\n" + "Second Merchant These ears of mine, thou know'st did hear thee.\n" + " Fie on thee, wretch! 'tis pity that thou livest\n" + " To walk where any honest man resort.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE Thou art a villain to impeach me thus:\n" + " I'll prove mine honour and mine honesty\n" + " Against thee presently, if thou darest stand.\n\n" + "Second Merchant I dare, and do defy thee for a villain.\n\n" + " [They draw]\n\n" + " [Enter ADRIANA, LUCIANA, the Courtezan, and others]\n\n" + "ADRIANA Hold, hurt him not, for God's sake! he is mad.\n" + " Some get within him, take his sword away:\n" + " Bind Dromio too, and bear them to my house.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Run, master, run; for God's sake, take a house!\n" + " This is some priory. In, or we are spoil'd!\n\n" + " [Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Dromio of Syracuse\n" + " to the Priory]\n\n" + " [Enter the Lady Abbess, AEMILIA]\n\n" + "AEMELIA Be quiet, people. Wherefore throng you hither?\n\n" + "ADRIANA To fetch my poor distracted husband hence.\n" + " Let us come in, that we may bind him fast\n" + " And bear him home for his recovery.\n\n" + "ANGELO I knew he was not in his perfect wits.\n\n" + "Second Merchant I am sorry now that I did draw on him.\n\n" + "AEMELIA How long hath this possession held the man?\n\n" + "ADRIANA This week he hath been heavy, sour, sad,\n" + " And much different from the man he was;\n" + " But till this afternoon his passion\n" + " Ne'er brake into extremity of rage.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Hath he not lost much wealth by wreck of sea?\n" + " Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his eye\n" + " Stray'd his affection in unlawful love?\n" + " A sin prevailing much in youthful men,\n" + " Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing.\n" + " Which of these sorrows is he subject to?\n\n" + "ADRIANA To none of these, except it be the last;\n" + " Namely, some love that drew him oft from home.\n\n" + "AEMELIA You should for that have reprehended him.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Why, so I did.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Ay, but not rough enough.\n\n" + "ADRIANA As roughly as my modesty would let me.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Haply, in private.\n\n" + "ADRIANA And in assemblies too.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Ay, but not enough.\n\n" + "ADRIANA It was the copy of our conference:\n" + " In bed he slept not for my urging it;\n" + " At board he fed not for my urging it;\n" + " Alone, it was the subject of my theme;\n" + " In company I often glanced it;\n" + " Still did I tell him it was vile and bad.\n\n" + "AEMELIA And thereof came it that the man was mad.\n" + " The venom clamours of a jealous woman\n" + " Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.\n" + " It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing,\n" + " And therefore comes it that his head is light.\n" + " Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings:\n" + " Unquiet meals make ill digestions;\n" + " Thereof the raging fire of fever bred;\n" + " And what's a fever but a fit of madness?\n" + " Thou say'st his sports were hinderd by thy brawls:\n" + " Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue\n" + " But moody and dull melancholy,\n" + " Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair,\n" + " And at her heels a huge infectious troop\n" + " Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?\n" + " In food, in sport and life-preserving rest\n" + " To be disturb'd, would mad or man or beast:\n" + " The consequence is then thy jealous fits\n" + " Have scared thy husband from the use of wits.\n\n" + "LUCIANA She never reprehended him but mildly,\n" + " When he demean'd himself rough, rude and wildly.\n" + " Why bear you these rebukes and answer not?\n\n" + "ADRIANA She did betray me to my own reproof.\n" + " Good people enter and lay hold on him.\n\n" + "AEMELIA No, not a creature enters in my house.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Then let your servants bring my husband forth.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Neither: he took this place for sanctuary,\n" + " And it shall privilege him from your hands\n" + " Till I have brought him to his wits again,\n" + " Or lose my labour in assaying it.\n\n" + "ADRIANA I will attend my husband, be his nurse,\n" + " Diet his sickness, for it is my office,\n" + " And will have no attorney but myself;\n" + " And therefore let me have him home with me.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Be patient; for I will not let him stir\n" + " Till I have used the approved means I have,\n" + " With wholesome syrups, drugs and holy prayers,\n" + " To make of him a formal man again:\n" + " It is a branch and parcel of mine oath,\n" + " A charitable duty of my order.\n" + " Therefore depart and leave him here with me.\n\n" + "ADRIANA I will not hence and leave my husband here:\n" + " And ill it doth beseem your holiness\n" + " To separate the husband and the wife.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Be quiet and depart: thou shalt not have him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LUCIANA Complain unto the duke of this indignity.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Come, go: I will fall prostrate at his feet\n" + " And never rise until my tears and prayers\n" + " Have won his grace to come in person hither\n" + " And take perforce my husband from the abbess.\n\n" + "Second Merchant By this, I think, the dial points at five:\n" + " Anon, I'm sure, the duke himself in person\n" + " Comes this way to the melancholy vale,\n" + " The place of death and sorry execution,\n" + " Behind the ditches of the abbey here.\n\n" + "ANGELO Upon what cause?\n\n" + "Second Merchant To see a reverend Syracusian merchant,\n" + " Who put unluckily into this bay\n" + " Against the laws and statutes of this town,\n" + " Beheaded publicly for his offence.\n\n" + "ANGELO See where they come: we will behold his death.\n\n" + "LUCIANA Kneel to the duke before he pass the abbey.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE SOLINUS, attended; AEGEON bareheaded; with the\n" + " Headsman and other Officers]\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Yet once again proclaim it publicly,\n" + " If any friend will pay the sum for him,\n" + " He shall not die; so much we tender him.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Justice, most sacred duke, against the abbess!\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS She is a virtuous and a reverend lady:\n" + " It cannot be that she hath done thee wrong.\n\n" + "ADRIANA May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband,\n" + " Whom I made lord of me and all I had,\n" + " At your important letters,--this ill day\n" + " A most outrageous fit of madness took him;\n" + " That desperately he hurried through the street,\n" + " With him his bondman, all as mad as he--\n" + " Doing displeasure to the citizens\n" + " By rushing in their houses, bearing thence\n" + " Rings, jewels, any thing his rage did like.\n" + " Once did I get him bound and sent him home,\n" + " Whilst to take order for the wrongs I went,\n" + " That here and there his fury had committed.\n" + " Anon, I wot not by what strong escape,\n" + " He broke from those that had the guard of him;\n" + " And with his mad attendant and himself,\n" + " Each one with ireful passion, with drawn swords,\n" + " Met us again and madly bent on us,\n" + " Chased us away; till, raising of more aid,\n" + " We came again to bind them. Then they fled\n" + " Into this abbey, whither we pursued them:\n" + " And here the abbess shuts the gates on us\n" + " And will not suffer us to fetch him out,\n" + " Nor send him forth that we may bear him hence.\n" + " Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command\n" + " Let him be brought forth and borne hence for help.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Long since thy husband served me in my wars,\n" + " And I to thee engaged a prince's word,\n" + " When thou didst make him master of thy bed,\n" + " To do him all the grace and good I could.\n" + " Go, some of you, knock at the abbey-gate\n" + " And bid the lady abbess come to me.\n" + " I will determine this before I stir.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!\n" + " My master and his man are both broke loose,\n" + " Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor\n" + " Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire;\n" + " And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him\n" + " Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair:\n" + " My master preaches patience to him and the while\n" + " His man with scissors nicks him like a fool,\n" + " And sure, unless you send some present help,\n" + " Between them they will kill the conjurer.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Peace, fool! thy master and his man are here,\n" + " And that is false thou dost report to us.\n\n" + "Servant Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true;\n" + " I have not breathed almost since I did see it.\n" + " He cries for you, and vows, if he can take you,\n" + " To scorch your face and to disfigure you.\n\n" + " [Cry within]\n\n" + " Hark, hark! I hear him, mistress. fly, be gone!\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Come, stand by me; fear nothing. Guard with halberds!\n\n" + "ADRIANA Ay me, it is my husband! Witness you,\n" + " That he is borne about invisible:\n" + " Even now we housed him in the abbey here;\n" + " And now he's there, past thought of human reason.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus and DROMIO of Ephesus]\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Justice, most gracious duke, O, grant me justice!\n" + " Even for the service that long since I did thee,\n" + " When I bestrid thee in the wars and took\n" + " Deep scars to save thy life; even for the blood\n" + " That then I lost for thee, now grant me justice.\n\n" + "AEGEON Unless the fear of death doth make me dote,\n" + " I see my son Antipholus and Dromio.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Justice, sweet prince, against that woman there!\n" + " She whom thou gavest to me to be my wife,\n" + " That hath abused and dishonour'd me\n" + " Even in the strength and height of injury!\n" + " Beyond imagination is the wrong\n" + " That she this day hath shameless thrown on me.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Discover how, and thou shalt find me just.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me,\n" + " While she with harlots feasted in my house.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS A grievous fault! Say, woman, didst thou so?\n\n" + "ADRIANA No, my good lord: myself, he and my sister\n" + " To-day did dine together. So befall my soul\n" + " As this is false he burdens me withal!\n\n" + "LUCIANA Ne'er may I look on day, nor sleep on night,\n" + " But she tells to your highness simple truth!\n\n" + "ANGELO O perjured woman! They are both forsworn:\n" + " In this the madman justly chargeth them.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS My liege, I am advised what I say,\n" + " Neither disturbed with the effect of wine,\n" + " Nor heady-rash, provoked with raging ire,\n" + " Albeit my wrongs might make one wiser mad.\n" + " This woman lock'd me out this day from dinner:\n" + " That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her,\n" + " Could witness it, for he was with me then;\n" + " Who parted with me to go fetch a chain,\n" + " Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,\n" + " Where Balthazar and I did dine together.\n" + " Our dinner done, and he not coming thither,\n" + " I went to seek him: in the street I met him\n" + " And in his company that gentleman.\n" + " There did this perjured goldsmith swear me down\n" + " That I this day of him received the chain,\n" + " Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the which\n" + " He did arrest me with an officer.\n" + " I did obey, and sent my peasant home\n" + " For certain ducats: he with none return'd\n" + " Then fairly I bespoke the officer\n" + " To go in person with me to my house.\n" + " By the way we met\n" + " My wife, her sister, and a rabble more\n" + " Of vile confederates. Along with them\n" + " They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain,\n" + " A mere anatomy, a mountebank,\n" + " A threadbare juggler and a fortune-teller,\n" + " A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,\n" + " A dead-looking man: this pernicious slave,\n" + " Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer,\n" + " And, gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse,\n" + " And with no face, as 'twere, outfacing me,\n" + " Cries out, I was possess'd. Then all together\n" + " They fell upon me, bound me, bore me thence\n" + " And in a dark and dankish vault at home\n" + " There left me and my man, both bound together;\n" + " Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder,\n" + " I gain'd my freedom, and immediately\n" + " Ran hither to your grace; whom I beseech\n" + " To give me ample satisfaction\n" + " For these deep shames and great indignities.\n\n" + "ANGELO My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him,\n" + " That he dined not at home, but was lock'd out.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS But had he such a chain of thee or no?\n\n" + "ANGELO He had, my lord: and when he ran in here,\n" + " These people saw the chain about his neck.\n\n" + "Second Merchant Besides, I will be sworn these ears of mine\n" + " Heard you confess you had the chain of him\n" + " After you first forswore it on the mart:\n" + " And thereupon I drew my sword on you;\n" + " And then you fled into this abbey here,\n" + " From whence, I think, you are come by miracle.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I never came within these abbey-walls,\n" + " Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me:\n" + " I never saw the chain, so help me Heaven!\n" + " And this is false you burden me withal.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Why, what an intricate impeach is this!\n" + " I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup.\n" + " If here you housed him, here he would have been;\n" + " If he were mad, he would not plead so coldly:\n" + " You say he dined at home; the goldsmith here\n" + " Denies that saying. Sirrah, what say you?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Sir, he dined with her there, at the Porpentine.\n\n" + "Courtezan He did, and from my finger snatch'd that ring.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS 'Tis true, my liege; this ring I had of her.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey here?\n\n" + "Courtezan As sure, my liege, as I do see your grace.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Why, this is strange. Go call the abbess hither.\n" + " I think you are all mated or stark mad.\n\n" + " [Exit one to Abbess]\n\n" + "AEGEON Most mighty duke, vouchsafe me speak a word:\n" + " Haply I see a friend will save my life\n" + " And pay the sum that may deliver me.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Speak freely, Syracusian, what thou wilt.\n\n" + "AEGEON Is not your name, sir, call'd Antipholus?\n" + " And is not that your bondman, Dromio?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Within this hour I was his bondman sir,\n" + " But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords:\n" + " Now am I Dromio and his man unbound.\n\n" + "AEGEON I am sure you both of you remember me.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you;\n" + " For lately we were bound, as you are now\n" + " You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir?\n\n" + "AEGEON Why look you strange on me? you know me well.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS I never saw you in my life till now.\n\n" + "AEGEON O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last,\n" + " And careful hours with time's deformed hand\n" + " Have written strange defeatures in my face:\n" + " But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Neither.\n\n" + "AEGEON Dromio, nor thou?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS No, trust me, sir, nor I.\n\n" + "AEGEON I am sure thou dost.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Ay, sir, but I am sure I do not; and whatsoever a\n" + " man denies, you are now bound to believe him.\n\n" + "AEGEON Not know my voice! O time's extremity,\n" + " Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue\n" + " In seven short years, that here my only son\n" + " Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares?\n" + " Though now this grained face of mine be hid\n" + " In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,\n" + " And all the conduits of my blood froze up,\n" + " Yet hath my night of life some memory,\n" + " My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,\n" + " My dull deaf ears a little use to hear:\n" + " All these old witnesses--I cannot err--\n" + " Tell me thou art my son Antipholus.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I never saw my father in my life.\n\n" + "AEGEON But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy,\n" + " Thou know'st we parted: but perhaps, my son,\n" + " Thou shamest to acknowledge me in misery.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS The duke and all that know me in the city\n" + " Can witness with me that it is not so\n" + " I ne'er saw Syracusa in my life.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years\n" + " Have I been patron to Antipholus,\n" + " During which time he ne'er saw Syracusa:\n" + " I see thy age and dangers make thee dote.\n\n" + " [Re-enter AEMILIA, with ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and\n" + " DROMIO of Syracuse]\n\n" + "AEMELIA Most mighty duke, behold a man much wrong'd.\n\n" + " [All gather to see them]\n\n" + "ADRIANA I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS One of these men is Genius to the other;\n" + " And so of these. Which is the natural man,\n" + " And which the spirit? who deciphers them?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE I, sir, am Dromio; command him away.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE AEgeon art thou not? or else his ghost?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE O, my old master! who hath bound him here?\n\n" + "AEMELIA Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds\n" + " And gain a husband by his liberty.\n" + " Speak, old AEgeon, if thou be'st the man\n" + " That hadst a wife once call'd AEmilia\n" + " That bore thee at a burden two fair sons:\n" + " O, if thou be'st the same AEgeon, speak,\n" + " And speak unto the same AEmilia!\n\n" + "AEGEON If I dream not, thou art AEmilia:\n" + " If thou art she, tell me where is that son\n" + " That floated with thee on the fatal raft?\n\n" + "AEMELIA By men of Epidamnum he and I\n" + " And the twin Dromio all were taken up;\n" + " But by and by rude fishermen of Corinth\n" + " By force took Dromio and my son from them\n" + " And me they left with those of Epidamnum.\n" + " What then became of them I cannot tell\n" + " I to this fortune that you see me in.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Why, here begins his morning story right;\n" + " These two Antipholuses, these two so like,\n" + " And these two Dromios, one in semblance,--\n" + " Besides her urging of her wreck at sea,--\n" + " These are the parents to these children,\n" + " Which accidentally are met together.\n" + " Antipholus, thou camest from Corinth first?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE No, sir, not I; I came from Syracuse.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord,--\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS And I with him.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Brought to this town by that most famous warrior,\n" + " Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle.\n\n" + "ADRIANA Which of you two did dine with me to-day?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I, gentle mistress.\n\n" + "ADRIANA And are not you my husband?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS No; I say nay to that.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE And so do I; yet did she call me so:\n" + " And this fair gentlewoman, her sister here,\n" + " Did call me brother.\n\n" + " [To Luciana]\n\n" + " What I told you then,\n" + " I hope I shall have leisure to make good;\n" + " If this be not a dream I see and hear.\n\n" + "ANGELO That is the chain, sir, which you had of me.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE I think it be, sir; I deny it not.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS And you, sir, for this chain arrested me.\n\n" + "ANGELO I think I did, sir; I deny it not.\n\n" + "ADRIANA I sent you money, sir, to be your bail,\n" + " By Dromio; but I think he brought it not.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS No, none by me.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE This purse of ducats I received from you,\n" + " And Dromio, my man, did bring them me.\n" + " I see we still did meet each other's man,\n" + " And I was ta'en for him, and he for me,\n" + " And thereupon these errors are arose.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS These ducats pawn I for my father here.\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS It shall not need; thy father hath his life.\n\n" + "Courtezan Sir, I must have that diamond from you.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS There, take it; and much thanks for my good cheer.\n\n" + "AEMELIA Renowned duke, vouchsafe to take the pains\n" + " To go with us into the abbey here\n" + " And hear at large discoursed all our fortunes:\n" + " And all that are assembled in this place,\n" + " That by this sympathized one day's error\n" + " Have suffer'd wrong, go keep us company,\n" + " And we shall make full satisfaction.\n" + " Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail\n" + " Of you, my sons; and till this present hour\n" + " My heavy burden ne'er delivered.\n" + " The duke, my husband and my children both,\n" + " And you the calendars of their nativity,\n" + " Go to a gossips' feast and go with me;\n" + " After so long grief, such festivity!\n\n" + "DUKE SOLINUS With all my heart, I'll gossip at this feast.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but Antipholus of Syracuse, Antipholus\n" + " of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Master, shall I fetch your stuff from shipboard?\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF EPHESUS Dromio, what stuff of mine hast thou embark'd?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Your goods that lay at host, sir, in the Centaur.\n\n" + "ANTIPHOLUS\n" + "OF SYRACUSE He speaks to me. I am your master, Dromio:\n" + " Come, go with us; we'll look to that anon:\n" + " Embrace thy brother there; rejoice with him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Antipholus of Syracuse and Antipholus of Ephesus]\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE There is a fat friend at your master's house,\n" + " That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner:\n" + " She now shall be my sister, not my wife.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother:\n" + " I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth.\n" + " Will you walk in to see their gossiping?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE Not I, sir; you are my elder.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS That's a question: how shall we try it?\n\n" + "DROMIO OF SYRACUSE We'll draw cuts for the senior: till then lead thou first.\n\n" + "DROMIO OF EPHESUS Nay, then, thus:\n" + " We came into the world like brother and brother;\n" + " And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "CAIUS MARCIUS (MARCUS:) Afterwards CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS.\n" + " (CORIOLANUS:)\n\n\n" + "TITUS LARTIUS (LARTIUS:) |\n" + " | generals against the Volscians.\n" + "COMINIUS |\n\n\n" + "MENENIUS AGRIPPA friend to Coriolanus. (MENENIUS:)\n\n\n" + "SICINIUS VELUTUS (SICINIUS:) |\n" + " | tribunes of the people.\n" + "JUNIUS BRUTUS (BRUTUS:) |\n\n\n" + "Young MARCUS son to Coriolanus.\n\n" + " A Roman Herald. (Herald:)\n\n" + "TULLUS AUFIDIUS general of the Volscians. (AUFIDIUS:)\n\n" + " Lieutenant to Aufidius. (Lieutenant:)\n\n" + " Conspirators with Aufidius.\n" + " (First Conspirator:)\n" + " (Second Conspirator:)\n" + " (Third Conspirator:)\n\n" + " A Citizen of Antium.\n\n" + " Two Volscian Guards.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA mother to Coriolanus.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA wife to Coriolanus.\n\n" + "VALERIA friend to Virgilia.\n\n" + " Gentlewoman, attending on Virgilia. (Gentlewoman:)\n\n" + " Roman and Volscian Senators, Patricians,\n" + " AEdiles, Lictors, Soldiers, Citizens, Messengers,\n" + " Servants to Aufidius, and other Attendants.\n" + " (First Senator:)\n" + " (Second Senator:)\n" + " (A Patrician:)\n" + " (Second Patrician:)\n" + " (AEdile:)\n" + " (First Soldier:)\n" + " (Second Soldier:)\n" + " (First Citizen:)\n" + " (Second Citizen:)\n" + " (Third Citizen:)\n" + " (Fourth Citizen:)\n" + " (Fifth Citizen:)\n" + " (Sixth Citizen:)\n" + " (Seventh Citizen:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Second Messenger:)\n" + " (First Serviceman:)\n" + " (Second Serviceman:)\n" + " (Third Serviceman:)\n" + " (Officer:)\n" + " (First Officer:)\n" + " (Second Officer:)\n" + " (Roman:)\n" + " (First Roman:)\n" + " (Second Roman:)\n" + " (Third Roman:)\n" + " (Volsce:)\n" + " (First Lord:)\n" + " (Second Lord:)\n" + " (Third Lord:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Rome and the neighbourhood; Corioli\n" + " and the neighbourhood; Antium.\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves,\n" + " clubs, and other weapons]\n\n" + "First Citizen Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.\n\n" + "All Speak, speak.\n\n" + "First Citizen You are all resolved rather to die than to famish?\n\n" + "All Resolved. resolved.\n\n" + "First Citizen First, you know Caius Marcius is chief enemy to the people.\n\n" + "All We know't, we know't.\n\n" + "First Citizen Let us kill him, and we'll have corn at our own price.\n" + " Is't a verdict?\n\n" + "All No more talking on't; let it be done: away, away!\n\n" + "Second Citizen One word, good citizens.\n\n" + "First Citizen We are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.\n" + " What authority surfeits on would relieve us: if they\n" + " would yield us but the superfluity, while it were\n" + " wholesome, we might guess they relieved us humanely;\n" + " but they think we are too dear: the leanness that\n" + " afflicts us, the object of our misery, is as an\n" + " inventory to particularise their abundance; our\n" + " sufferance is a gain to them Let us revenge this with\n" + " our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I\n" + " speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Would you proceed especially against Caius Marcius?\n\n" + "All Against him first: he's a very dog to the commonalty.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Consider you what services he has done for his country?\n\n" + "First Citizen Very well; and could be content to give him good\n" + " report fort, but that he pays himself with being proud.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Nay, but speak not maliciously.\n\n" + "First Citizen I say unto you, what he hath done famously, he did\n" + " it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be\n" + " content to say it was for his country he did it to\n" + " please his mother and to be partly proud; which he\n" + " is, even till the altitude of his virtue.\n\n" + "Second Citizen What he cannot help in his nature, you account a\n" + " vice in him. You must in no way say he is covetous.\n\n" + "First Citizen If I must not, I need not be barren of accusations;\n" + " he hath faults, with surplus, to tire in repetition.\n\n" + " [Shouts within]\n\n" + " What shouts are these? The other side o' the city\n" + " is risen: why stay we prating here? to the Capitol!\n\n" + "All Come, come.\n\n" + "First Citizen Soft! who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter MENENIUS AGRIPPA]\n\n" + "Second Citizen Worthy Menenius Agrippa; one that hath always loved\n" + " the people.\n\n" + "First Citizen He's one honest enough: would all the rest were so!\n\n" + "MENENIUS What work's, my countrymen, in hand? where go you\n" + " With bats and clubs? The matter? speak, I pray you.\n\n" + "First Citizen Our business is not unknown to the senate; they have\n" + " had inkling this fortnight what we intend to do,\n" + " which now we'll show 'em in deeds. They say poor\n" + " suitors have strong breaths: they shall know we\n" + " have strong arms too.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Why, masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbours,\n" + " Will you undo yourselves?\n\n" + "First Citizen We cannot, sir, we are undone already.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I tell you, friends, most charitable care\n" + " Have the patricians of you. For your wants,\n" + " Your suffering in this dearth, you may as well\n" + " Strike at the heaven with your staves as lift them\n" + " Against the Roman state, whose course will on\n" + " The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs\n" + " Of more strong link asunder than can ever\n" + " Appear in your impediment. For the dearth,\n" + " The gods, not the patricians, make it, and\n" + " Your knees to them, not arms, must help. Alack,\n" + " You are transported by calamity\n" + " Thither where more attends you, and you slander\n" + " The helms o' the state, who care for you like fathers,\n" + " When you curse them as enemies.\n\n" + "First Citizen Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us\n" + " yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses\n" + " crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to\n" + " support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act\n" + " established against the rich, and provide more\n" + " piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain\n" + " the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and\n" + " there's all the love they bear us.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Either you must\n" + " Confess yourselves wondrous malicious,\n" + " Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you\n" + " A pretty tale: it may be you have heard it;\n" + " But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture\n" + " To stale 't a little more.\n\n" + "First Citizen Well, I'll hear it, sir: yet you must not think to\n" + " fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an 't please\n" + " you, deliver.\n\n" + "MENENIUS There was a time when all the body's members\n" + " Rebell'd against the belly, thus accused it:\n" + " That only like a gulf it did remain\n" + " I' the midst o' the body, idle and unactive,\n" + " Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing\n" + " Like labour with the rest, where the other instruments\n" + " Did see and hear, devise, instruct, walk, feel,\n" + " And, mutually participate, did minister\n" + " Unto the appetite and affection common\n" + " Of the whole body. The belly answer'd--\n\n" + "First Citizen Well, sir, what answer made the belly?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile,\n" + " Which ne'er came from the lungs, but even thus--\n" + " For, look you, I may make the belly smile\n" + " As well as speak--it tauntingly replied\n" + " To the discontented members, the mutinous parts\n" + " That envied his receipt; even so most fitly\n" + " As you malign our senators for that\n" + " They are not such as you.\n\n" + "First Citizen Your belly's answer? What!\n" + " The kingly-crowned head, the vigilant eye,\n" + " The counsellor heart, the arm our soldier,\n" + " Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter.\n" + " With other muniments and petty helps\n" + " In this our fabric, if that they--\n\n" + "MENENIUS What then?\n" + " 'Fore me, this fellow speaks! What then? what then?\n\n" + "First Citizen Should by the cormorant belly be restrain'd,\n" + " Who is the sink o' the body,--\n\n" + "MENENIUS Well, what then?\n\n" + "First Citizen The former agents, if they did complain,\n" + " What could the belly answer?\n\n" + "MENENIUS I will tell you\n" + " If you'll bestow a small--of what you have little--\n" + " Patience awhile, you'll hear the belly's answer.\n\n" + "First Citizen Ye're long about it.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Note me this, good friend;\n" + " Your most grave belly was deliberate,\n" + " Not rash like his accusers, and thus answer'd:\n" + " 'True is it, my incorporate friends,' quoth he,\n" + " 'That I receive the general food at first,\n" + " Which you do live upon; and fit it is,\n" + " Because I am the store-house and the shop\n" + " Of the whole body: but, if you do remember,\n" + " I send it through the rivers of your blood,\n" + " Even to the court, the heart, to the seat o' the brain;\n" + " And, through the cranks and offices of man,\n" + " The strongest nerves and small inferior veins\n" + " From me receive that natural competency\n" + " Whereby they live: and though that all at once,\n" + " You, my good friends,'--this says the belly, mark me,--\n\n" + "First Citizen Ay, sir; well, well.\n\n" + "MENENIUS 'Though all at once cannot\n" + " See what I do deliver out to each,\n" + " Yet I can make my audit up, that all\n" + " From me do back receive the flour of all,\n" + " And leave me but the bran.' What say you to't?\n\n" + "First Citizen It was an answer: how apply you this?\n\n" + "MENENIUS The senators of Rome are this good belly,\n" + " And you the mutinous members; for examine\n" + " Their counsels and their cares, digest things rightly\n" + " Touching the weal o' the common, you shall find\n" + " No public benefit which you receive\n" + " But it proceeds or comes from them to you\n" + " And no way from yourselves. What do you think,\n" + " You, the great toe of this assembly?\n\n" + "First Citizen I the great toe! why the great toe?\n\n" + "MENENIUS For that, being one o' the lowest, basest, poorest,\n" + " Of this most wise rebellion, thou go'st foremost:\n" + " Thou rascal, that art worst in blood to run,\n" + " Lead'st first to win some vantage.\n" + " But make you ready your stiff bats and clubs:\n" + " Rome and her rats are at the point of battle;\n" + " The one side must have bale.\n\n" + " [Enter CAIUS MARCIUS]\n\n" + " Hail, noble Marcius!\n\n" + "MARCIUS Thanks. What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,\n" + " That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,\n" + " Make yourselves scabs?\n\n" + "First Citizen We have ever your good word.\n\n" + "MARCIUS He that will give good words to thee will flatter\n" + " Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs,\n" + " That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you,\n" + " The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you,\n" + " Where he should find you lions, finds you hares;\n" + " Where foxes, geese: you are no surer, no,\n" + " Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,\n" + " Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is\n" + " To make him worthy whose offence subdues him\n" + " And curse that justice did it.\n" + " Who deserves greatness\n" + " Deserves your hate; and your affections are\n" + " A sick man's appetite, who desires most that\n" + " Which would increase his evil. He that depends\n" + " Upon your favours swims with fins of lead\n" + " And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye! Trust Ye?\n" + " With every minute you do change a mind,\n" + " And call him noble that was now your hate,\n" + " Him vile that was your garland. What's the matter,\n" + " That in these several places of the city\n" + " You cry against the noble senate, who,\n" + " Under the gods, keep you in awe, which else\n" + " Would feed on one another? What's their seeking?\n\n" + "MENENIUS For corn at their own rates; whereof, they say,\n" + " The city is well stored.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Hang 'em! They say!\n" + " They'll sit by the fire, and presume to know\n" + " What's done i' the Capitol; who's like to rise,\n" + " Who thrives and who declines; side factions\n" + " and give out\n" + " Conjectural marriages; making parties strong\n" + " And feebling such as stand not in their liking\n" + " Below their cobbled shoes. They say there's\n" + " grain enough!\n" + " Would the nobility lay aside their ruth,\n" + " And let me use my sword, I'll make a quarry\n" + " With thousands of these quarter'd slaves, as high\n" + " As I could pick my lance.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Nay, these are almost thoroughly persuaded;\n" + " For though abundantly they lack discretion,\n" + " Yet are they passing cowardly. But, I beseech you,\n" + " What says the other troop?\n\n" + "MARCIUS They are dissolved: hang 'em!\n" + " They said they were an-hungry; sigh'd forth proverbs,\n" + " That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,\n" + " That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not\n" + " Corn for the rich men only: with these shreds\n" + " They vented their complainings; which being answer'd,\n" + " And a petition granted them, a strange one--\n" + " To break the heart of generosity,\n" + " And make bold power look pale--they threw their caps\n" + " As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,\n" + " Shouting their emulation.\n\n" + "MENENIUS What is granted them?\n\n" + "MARCIUS Five tribunes to defend their vulgar wisdoms,\n" + " Of their own choice: one's Junius Brutus,\n" + " Sicinius Velutus, and I know not--'Sdeath!\n" + " The rabble should have first unroof'd the city,\n" + " Ere so prevail'd with me: it will in time\n" + " Win upon power and throw forth greater themes\n" + " For insurrection's arguing.\n\n" + "MENENIUS This is strange.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Go, get you home, you fragments!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger, hastily]\n\n" + "Messenger Where's Caius Marcius?\n\n" + "MARCIUS Here: what's the matter?\n\n" + "Messenger The news is, sir, the Volsces are in arms.\n\n" + "MARCIUS I am glad on 't: then we shall ha' means to vent\n" + " Our musty superfluity. See, our best elders.\n\n" + " [Enter COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators;\n" + " JUNIUS BRUTUS and SICINIUS VELUTUS]\n\n" + "First Senator Marcius, 'tis true that you have lately told us;\n" + " The Volsces are in arms.\n\n" + "MARCIUS They have a leader,\n" + " Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't.\n" + " I sin in envying his nobility,\n" + " And were I any thing but what I am,\n" + " I would wish me only he.\n\n" + "COMINIUS You have fought together.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Were half to half the world by the ears and he.\n" + " Upon my party, I'ld revolt to make\n" + " Only my wars with him: he is a lion\n" + " That I am proud to hunt.\n\n" + "First Senator Then, worthy Marcius,\n" + " Attend upon Cominius to these wars.\n\n" + "COMINIUS It is your former promise.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Sir, it is;\n" + " And I am constant. Titus Lartius, thou\n" + " Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' face.\n" + " What, art thou stiff? stand'st out?\n\n" + "TITUS No, Caius Marcius;\n" + " I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t'other,\n" + " Ere stay behind this business.\n\n" + "MENENIUS O, true-bred!\n\n" + "First Senator Your company to the Capitol; where, I know,\n" + " Our greatest friends attend us.\n\n" + "TITUS [To COMINIUS] Lead you on.\n\n" + " [To MARCIUS] Follow Cominius; we must follow you;\n" + " Right worthy you priority.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Noble Marcius!\n\n" + "First Senator [To the Citizens] Hence to your homes; be gone!\n\n" + "MARCIUS Nay, let them follow:\n" + " The Volsces have much corn; take these rats thither\n" + " To gnaw their garners. Worshipful mutiners,\n" + " Your valour puts well forth: pray, follow.\n\n" + " [Citizens steal away. Exeunt all but SICINIUS\n" + " and BRUTUS]\n\n" + "SICINIUS Was ever man so proud as is this Marcius?\n\n" + "BRUTUS He has no equal.\n\n" + "SICINIUS When we were chosen tribunes for the people,--\n\n" + "BRUTUS Mark'd you his lip and eyes?\n\n" + "SICINIUS Nay. but his taunts.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Be-mock the modest moon.\n\n" + "BRUTUS The present wars devour him: he is grown\n" + " Too proud to be so valiant.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Such a nature,\n" + " Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow\n" + " Which he treads on at noon: but I do wonder\n" + " His insolence can brook to be commanded\n" + " Under Cominius.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Fame, at the which he aims,\n" + " In whom already he's well graced, can not\n" + " Better be held nor more attain'd than by\n" + " A place below the first: for what miscarries\n" + " Shall be the general's fault, though he perform\n" + " To the utmost of a man, and giddy censure\n" + " Will then cry out of Marcius 'O if he\n" + " Had borne the business!'\n\n" + "SICINIUS Besides, if things go well,\n" + " Opinion that so sticks on Marcius shall\n" + " Of his demerits rob Cominius.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Come:\n" + " Half all Cominius' honours are to Marcius.\n" + " Though Marcius earned them not, and all his faults\n" + " To Marcius shall be honours, though indeed\n" + " In aught he merit not.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Let's hence, and hear\n" + " How the dispatch is made, and in what fashion,\n" + " More than his singularity, he goes\n" + " Upon this present action.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Lets along.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Corioli. The Senate-house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS and certain Senators]\n\n" + "First Senator So, your opinion is, Aufidius,\n" + " That they of Rome are entered in our counsels\n" + " And know how we proceed.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Is it not yours?\n" + " What ever have been thought on in this state,\n" + " That could be brought to bodily act ere Rome\n" + " Had circumvention? 'Tis not four days gone\n" + " Since I heard thence; these are the words: I think\n" + " I have the letter here; yes, here it is.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'They have press'd a power, but it is not known\n" + " Whether for east or west: the dearth is great;\n" + " The people mutinous; and it is rumour'd,\n" + " Cominius, Marcius your old enemy,\n" + " Who is of Rome worse hated than of you,\n" + " And Titus Lartius, a most valiant Roman,\n" + " These three lead on this preparation\n" + " Whither 'tis bent: most likely 'tis for you:\n" + " Consider of it.'\n\n" + "First Senator Our army's in the field\n" + " We never yet made doubt but Rome was ready\n" + " To answer us.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Nor did you think it folly\n" + " To keep your great pretences veil'd till when\n" + " They needs must show themselves; which\n" + " in the hatching,\n" + " It seem'd, appear'd to Rome. By the discovery.\n" + " We shall be shorten'd in our aim, which was\n" + " To take in many towns ere almost Rome\n" + " Should know we were afoot.\n\n" + "Second Senator Noble Aufidius,\n" + " Take your commission; hie you to your bands:\n" + " Let us alone to guard Corioli:\n" + " If they set down before 's, for the remove\n" + " Bring your army; but, I think, you'll find\n" + " They've not prepared for us.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS O, doubt not that;\n" + " I speak from certainties. Nay, more,\n" + " Some parcels of their power are forth already,\n" + " And only hitherward. I leave your honours.\n" + " If we and Caius Marcius chance to meet,\n" + " 'Tis sworn between us we shall ever strike\n" + " Till one can do no more.\n\n" + "All The gods assist you!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS And keep your honours safe!\n\n" + "First Senator Farewell.\n\n" + "Second Senator Farewell.\n\n" + "All Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Rome. A room in Marcius' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA they set them down\n" + " on two low stools, and sew]\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA I pray you, daughter, sing; or express yourself in a\n" + " more comfortable sort: if my son were my husband, I\n" + " should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he\n" + " won honour than in the embracements of his bed where\n" + " he would show most love. When yet he was but\n" + " tender-bodied and the only son of my womb, when\n" + " youth with comeliness plucked all gaze his way, when\n" + " for a day of kings' entreaties a mother should not\n" + " sell him an hour from her beholding, I, considering\n" + " how honour would become such a person. that it was\n" + " no better than picture-like to hang by the wall, if\n" + " renown made it not stir, was pleased to let him seek\n" + " danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel\n" + " war I sent him; from whence he returned, his brows\n" + " bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not\n" + " more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child\n" + " than now in first seeing he had proved himself a\n" + " man.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA But had he died in the business, madam; how then?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Then his good report should have been my son; I\n" + " therein would have found issue. Hear me profess\n" + " sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love\n" + " alike and none less dear than thine and my good\n" + " Marcius, I had rather had eleven die nobly for their\n" + " country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.\n\n" + " [Enter a Gentlewoman]\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Madam, the Lady Valeria is come to visit you.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA Beseech you, give me leave to retire myself.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Indeed, you shall not.\n" + " Methinks I hear hither your husband's drum,\n" + " See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair,\n" + " As children from a bear, the Volsces shunning him:\n" + " Methinks I see him stamp thus, and call thus:\n" + " 'Come on, you cowards! you were got in fear,\n" + " Though you were born in Rome:' his bloody brow\n" + " With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he goes,\n" + " Like to a harvest-man that's task'd to mow\n" + " Or all or lose his hire.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA His bloody brow! O Jupiter, no blood!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Away, you fool! it more becomes a man\n" + " Than gilt his trophy: the breasts of Hecuba,\n" + " When she did suckle Hector, look'd not lovelier\n" + " Than Hector's forehead when it spit forth blood\n" + " At Grecian sword, contemning. Tell Valeria,\n" + " We are fit to bid her welcome.\n\n" + " [Exit Gentlewoman]\n\n" + "VIRGILIA Heavens bless my lord from fell Aufidius!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee\n" + " And tread upon his neck.\n\n" + " [Enter VALERIA, with an Usher and Gentlewoman]\n\n" + "VALERIA My ladies both, good day to you.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Sweet madam.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA I am glad to see your ladyship.\n\n" + "VALERIA How do you both? you are manifest house-keepers.\n" + " What are you sewing here? A fine spot, in good\n" + " faith. How does your little son?\n\n" + "VIRGILIA I thank your ladyship; well, good madam.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA He had rather see the swords, and hear a drum, than\n" + " look upon his school-master.\n\n" + "VALERIA O' my word, the father's son: I'll swear,'tis a\n" + " very pretty boy. O' my troth, I looked upon him o'\n" + " Wednesday half an hour together: has such a\n" + " confirmed countenance. I saw him run after a gilded\n" + " butterfly: and when he caught it, he let it go\n" + " again; and after it again; and over and over he\n" + " comes, and again; catched it again; or whether his\n" + " fall enraged him, or how 'twas, he did so set his\n" + " teeth and tear it; O, I warrant it, how he mammocked\n" + " it!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA One on 's father's moods.\n\n" + "VALERIA Indeed, la, 'tis a noble child.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA A crack, madam.\n\n" + "VALERIA Come, lay aside your stitchery; I must have you play\n" + " the idle husewife with me this afternoon.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA No, good madam; I will not out of doors.\n\n" + "VALERIA Not out of doors!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA She shall, she shall.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA Indeed, no, by your patience; I'll not over the\n" + " threshold till my lord return from the wars.\n\n" + "VALERIA Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably: come,\n" + " you must go visit the good lady that lies in.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA I will wish her speedy strength, and visit her with\n" + " my prayers; but I cannot go thither.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Why, I pray you?\n\n" + "VIRGILIA 'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love.\n\n" + "VALERIA You would be another Penelope: yet, they say, all\n" + " the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill\n" + " Ithaca full of moths. Come; I would your cambric\n" + " were sensible as your finger, that you might leave\n" + " pricking it for pity. Come, you shall go with us.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA No, good madam, pardon me; indeed, I will not forth.\n\n" + "VALERIA In truth, la, go with me; and I'll tell you\n" + " excellent news of your husband.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA O, good madam, there can be none yet.\n\n" + "VALERIA Verily, I do not jest with you; there came news from\n" + " him last night.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA Indeed, madam?\n\n" + "VALERIA In earnest, it's true; I heard a senator speak it.\n" + " Thus it is: the Volsces have an army forth; against\n" + " whom Cominius the general is gone, with one part of\n" + " our Roman power: your lord and Titus Lartius are set\n" + " down before their city Corioli; they nothing doubt\n" + " prevailing and to make it brief wars. This is true,\n" + " on mine honour; and so, I pray, go with us.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA Give me excuse, good madam; I will obey you in every\n" + " thing hereafter.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Let her alone, lady: as she is now, she will but\n" + " disease our better mirth.\n\n" + "VALERIA In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then.\n" + " Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy\n" + " solemness out o' door. and go along with us.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA No, at a word, madam; indeed, I must not. I wish\n" + " you much mirth.\n\n" + "VALERIA Well, then, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Before Corioli.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, with drum and colours, MARCIUS, TITUS\n" + " LARTIUS, Captains and Soldiers. To them a\n" + " Messenger]\n\n" + "MARCIUS Yonder comes news. A wager they have met.\n\n" + "LARTIUS My horse to yours, no.\n\n" + "MARCIUS 'Tis done.\n\n" + "LARTIUS Agreed.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Say, has our general met the enemy?\n\n" + "Messenger They lie in view; but have not spoke as yet.\n\n" + "LARTIUS So, the good horse is mine.\n\n" + "MARCIUS I'll buy him of you.\n\n" + "LARTIUS No, I'll nor sell nor give him: lend you him I will\n" + " For half a hundred years. Summon the town.\n\n" + "MARCIUS How far off lie these armies?\n\n" + "Messenger Within this mile and half.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Then shall we hear their 'larum, and they ours.\n" + " Now, Mars, I prithee, make us quick in work,\n" + " That we with smoking swords may march from hence,\n" + " To help our fielded friends! Come, blow thy blast.\n\n" + " [They sound a parley. Enter two Senators with others\n" + " on the walls]\n\n" + " Tutus Aufidius, is he within your walls?\n\n" + "First Senator No, nor a man that fears you less than he,\n" + " That's lesser than a little.\n\n" + " [Drums afar off]\n\n" + " Hark! our drums\n" + " Are bringing forth our youth. We'll break our walls,\n" + " Rather than they shall pound us up: our gates,\n" + " Which yet seem shut, we, have but pinn'd with rushes;\n" + " They'll open of themselves.\n\n" + " [Alarum afar off]\n\n" + " Hark you. far off!\n" + " There is Aufidius; list, what work he makes\n" + " Amongst your cloven army.\n\n" + "MARCIUS O, they are at it!\n\n" + "LARTIUS Their noise be our instruction. Ladders, ho!\n\n" + " [Enter the army of the Volsces]\n\n" + "MARCIUS They fear us not, but issue forth their city.\n" + " Now put your shields before your hearts, and fight\n" + " With hearts more proof than shields. Advance,\n" + " brave Titus:\n" + " They do disdain us much beyond our thoughts,\n" + " Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows:\n" + " He that retires I'll take him for a Volsce,\n" + " And he shall feel mine edge.\n\n" + " [Alarum. The Romans are beat back to their\n" + " trenches. Re-enter MARCIUS cursing]\n\n" + "MARCIUS All the contagion of the south light on you,\n" + " You shames of Rome! you herd of--Boils and plagues\n" + " Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd\n" + " Further than seen and one infect another\n" + " Against the wind a mile! You souls of geese,\n" + " That bear the shapes of men, how have you run\n" + " From slaves that apes would beat! Pluto and hell!\n" + " All hurt behind; backs red, and faces pale\n" + " With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home,\n" + " Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe\n" + " And make my wars on you: look to't: come on;\n" + " If you'll stand fast, we'll beat them to their wives,\n" + " As they us to our trenches followed.\n\n" + " [Another alarum. The Volsces fly, and MARCIUS\n" + " follows them to the gates]\n\n" + " So, now the gates are ope: now prove good seconds:\n" + " 'Tis for the followers fortune widens them,\n" + " Not for the fliers: mark me, and do the like.\n\n" + " [Enters the gates]\n\n" + "First Soldier Fool-hardiness; not I.\n\n" + "Second Soldier Nor I.\n\n" + " [MARCIUS is shut in]\n\n" + "First Soldier See, they have shut him in.\n\n" + "All To the pot, I warrant him.\n\n" + " [Alarum continues]\n\n" + " [Re-enter TITUS LARTIUS]\n\n" + "LARTIUS What is become of Marcius?\n\n" + "All Slain, sir, doubtless.\n\n" + "First Soldier Following the fliers at the very heels,\n" + " With them he enters; who, upon the sudden,\n" + " Clapp'd to their gates: he is himself alone,\n" + " To answer all the city.\n\n" + "LARTIUS O noble fellow!\n" + " Who sensibly outdares his senseless sword,\n" + " And, when it bows, stands up. Thou art left, Marcius:\n" + " A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art,\n" + " Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a soldier\n" + " Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terrible\n" + " Only in strokes; but, with thy grim looks and\n" + " The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds,\n" + " Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world\n" + " Were feverous and did tremble.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARCIUS, bleeding, assaulted by the enemy]\n\n" + "First Soldier Look, sir.\n\n" + "LARTIUS O,'tis Marcius!\n" + " Let's fetch him off, or make remain alike.\n\n" + " [They fight, and all enter the city]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Corioli. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter certain Romans, with spoils]\n\n" + "First Roman This will I carry to Rome.\n\n" + "Second Roman And I this.\n\n" + "Third Roman A murrain on't! I took this for silver.\n\n" + " [Alarum continues still afar off]\n\n" + " [Enter MARCIUS and TITUS LARTIUS with a trumpet]\n\n" + "MARCIUS See here these movers that do prize their hours\n" + " At a crack'd drachm! Cushions, leaden spoons,\n" + " Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen would\n" + " Bury with those that wore them, these base slaves,\n" + " Ere yet the fight be done, pack up: down with them!\n" + " And hark, what noise the general makes! To him!\n" + " There is the man of my soul's hate, Aufidius,\n" + " Piercing our Romans: then, valiant Titus, take\n" + " Convenient numbers to make good the city;\n" + " Whilst I, with those that have the spirit, will haste\n" + " To help Cominius.\n\n" + "LARTIUS Worthy sir, thou bleed'st;\n" + " Thy exercise hath been too violent for\n" + " A second course of fight.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Sir, praise me not;\n" + " My work hath yet not warm'd me: fare you well:\n" + " The blood I drop is rather physical\n" + " Than dangerous to me: to Aufidius thus\n" + " I will appear, and fight.\n\n" + "LARTIUS Now the fair goddess, Fortune,\n" + " Fall deep in love with thee; and her great charms\n" + " Misguide thy opposers' swords! Bold gentleman,\n" + " Prosperity be thy page!\n\n" + "MARCIUS Thy friend no less\n" + " Than those she placeth highest! So, farewell.\n\n" + "LARTIUS Thou worthiest Marcius!\n\n" + " [Exit MARCIUS]\n\n" + " Go, sound thy trumpet in the market-place;\n" + " Call thither all the officers o' the town,\n" + " Where they shall know our mind: away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Near the camp of Cominius.\n\n\n" + " [Enter COMINIUS, as it were in retire,\n" + " with soldiers]\n\n" + "COMINIUS Breathe you, my friends: well fought;\n" + " we are come off\n" + " Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands,\n" + " Nor cowardly in retire: believe me, sirs,\n" + " We shall be charged again. Whiles we have struck,\n" + " By interims and conveying gusts we have heard\n" + " The charges of our friends. Ye Roman gods!\n" + " Lead their successes as we wish our own,\n" + " That both our powers, with smiling\n" + " fronts encountering,\n" + " May give you thankful sacrifice.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " Thy news?\n\n" + "Messenger The citizens of Corioli have issued,\n" + " And given to Lartius and to Marcius battle:\n" + " I saw our party to their trenches driven,\n" + " And then I came away.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Though thou speak'st truth,\n" + " Methinks thou speak'st not well.\n" + " How long is't since?\n\n" + "Messenger Above an hour, my lord.\n\n" + "COMINIUS 'Tis not a mile; briefly we heard their drums:\n" + " How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour,\n" + " And bring thy news so late?\n\n" + "Messenger Spies of the Volsces\n" + " Held me in chase, that I was forced to wheel\n" + " Three or four miles about, else had I, sir,\n" + " Half an hour since brought my report.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Who's yonder,\n" + " That does appear as he were flay'd? O gods\n" + " He has the stamp of Marcius; and I have\n" + " Before-time seen him thus.\n\n" + "MARCIUS [Within] Come I too late?\n\n" + "COMINIUS The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabour\n" + " More than I know the sound of Marcius' tongue\n" + " From every meaner man.\n\n" + " [Enter MARCIUS]\n\n" + "MARCIUS Come I too late?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Ay, if you come not in the blood of others,\n" + " But mantled in your own.\n\n" + "MARCIUS O, let me clip ye\n" + " In arms as sound as when I woo'd, in heart\n" + " As merry as when our nuptial day was done,\n" + " And tapers burn'd to bedward!\n\n" + "COMINIUS Flower of warriors,\n" + " How is it with Titus Lartius?\n\n" + "MARCIUS As with a man busied about decrees:\n" + " Condemning some to death, and some to exile;\n" + " Ransoming him, or pitying, threatening the other;\n" + " Holding Corioli in the name of Rome,\n" + " Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash,\n" + " To let him slip at will.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Where is that slave\n" + " Which told me they had beat you to your trenches?\n" + " Where is he? call him hither.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Let him alone;\n" + " He did inform the truth: but for our gentlemen,\n" + " The common file--a plague! tribunes for them!--\n" + " The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat as they did budge\n" + " From rascals worse than they.\n\n" + "COMINIUS But how prevail'd you?\n\n" + "MARCIUS Will the time serve to tell? I do not think.\n" + " Where is the enemy? are you lords o' the field?\n" + " If not, why cease you till you are so?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Marcius,\n" + " We have at disadvantage fought and did\n" + " Retire to win our purpose.\n\n" + "MARCIUS How lies their battle? know you on which side\n" + " They have placed their men of trust?\n\n" + "COMINIUS As I guess, Marcius,\n" + " Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates,\n" + " Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius,\n" + " Their very heart of hope.\n\n" + "MARCIUS I do beseech you,\n" + " By all the battles wherein we have fought,\n" + " By the blood we have shed together, by the vows\n" + " We have made to endure friends, that you directly\n" + " Set me against Aufidius and his Antiates;\n" + " And that you not delay the present, but,\n" + " Filling the air with swords advanced and darts,\n" + " We prove this very hour.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Though I could wish\n" + " You were conducted to a gentle bath\n" + " And balms applied to, you, yet dare I never\n" + " Deny your asking: take your choice of those\n" + " That best can aid your action.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Those are they\n" + " That most are willing. If any such be here--\n" + " As it were sin to doubt--that love this painting\n" + " Wherein you see me smear'd; if any fear\n" + " Lesser his person than an ill report;\n" + " If any think brave death outweighs bad life\n" + " And that his country's dearer than himself;\n" + " Let him alone, or so many so minded,\n" + " Wave thus, to express his disposition,\n" + " And follow Marcius.\n\n" + " [They all shout and wave their swords, take him up in\n" + " their arms, and cast up their caps]\n\n" + " O, me alone! make you a sword of me?\n" + " If these shows be not outward, which of you\n" + " But is four Volsces? none of you but is\n" + " Able to bear against the great Aufidius\n" + " A shield as hard as his. A certain number,\n" + " Though thanks to all, must I select\n" + " from all: the rest\n" + " Shall bear the business in some other fight,\n" + " As cause will be obey'd. Please you to march;\n" + " And four shall quickly draw out my command,\n" + " Which men are best inclined.\n\n" + "COMINIUS March on, my fellows:\n" + " Make good this ostentation, and you shall\n" + " Divide in all with us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII The gates of Corioli.\n\n\n" + " [TITUS LARTIUS, having set a guard upon\n" + " Corioli, going with drum and trumpet toward\n" + " COMINIUS and CAIUS MARCIUS, enters with\n" + " Lieutenant, other Soldiers, and a Scout]\n\n" + "LARTIUS So, let the ports be guarded: keep your duties,\n" + " As I have set them down. If I do send, dispatch\n" + " Those centuries to our aid: the rest will serve\n" + " For a short holding: if we lose the field,\n" + " We cannot keep the town.\n\n" + "Lieutenant Fear not our care, sir.\n\n" + "LARTIUS Hence, and shut your gates upon's.\n" + " Our guider, come; to the Roman camp conduct us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII A field of battle.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum as in battle. Enter, from opposite sides,\n" + " MARCIUS and AUFIDIUS]\n\n" + "MARCIUS I'll fight with none but thee; for I do hate thee\n" + " Worse than a promise-breaker.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS We hate alike:\n" + " Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor\n" + " More than thy fame and envy. Fix thy foot.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Let the first budger die the other's slave,\n" + " And the gods doom him after!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS If I fly, Marcius,\n" + " Holloa me like a hare.\n\n" + "MARCIUS Within these three hours, Tullus,\n" + " Alone I fought in your Corioli walls,\n" + " And made what work I pleased: 'tis not my blood\n" + " Wherein thou seest me mask'd; for thy revenge\n" + " Wrench up thy power to the highest.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Wert thou the Hector\n" + " That was the whip of your bragg'd progeny,\n" + " Thou shouldst not scape me here.\n\n" + " [They fight, and certain Volsces come to the aid of\n" + " AUFIDIUS. MARCIUS fights till they be driven in\n" + " breathless]\n\n" + " Officious, and not valiant, you have shamed me\n" + " In your condemned seconds.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IX The Roman camp.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Alarum. A retreat is sounded. Flourish.\n" + " Enter, from one side, COMINIUS with the Romans; from\n" + " the other side, MARCIUS, with his arm in a scarf]\n\n" + "COMINIUS If I should tell thee o'er this thy day's work,\n" + " Thou'ldst not believe thy deeds: but I'll report it\n" + " Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles,\n" + " Where great patricians shall attend and shrug,\n" + " I' the end admire, where ladies shall be frighted,\n" + " And, gladly quaked, hear more; where the\n" + " dull tribunes,\n" + " That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine honours,\n" + " Shall say against their hearts 'We thank the gods\n" + " Our Rome hath such a soldier.'\n" + " Yet camest thou to a morsel of this feast,\n" + " Having fully dined before.\n\n" + " [Enter TITUS LARTIUS, with his power,\n" + " from the pursuit]\n\n" + "LARTIUS O general,\n" + " Here is the steed, we the caparison:\n" + " Hadst thou beheld--\n\n" + "MARCIUS Pray now, no more: my mother,\n" + " Who has a charter to extol her blood,\n" + " When she does praise me grieves me. I have done\n" + " As you have done; that's what I can; induced\n" + " As you have been; that's for my country:\n" + " He that has but effected his good will\n" + " Hath overta'en mine act.\n\n" + "COMINIUS You shall not be\n" + " The grave of your deserving; Rome must know\n" + " The value of her own: 'twere a concealment\n" + " Worse than a theft, no less than a traducement,\n" + " To hide your doings; and to silence that,\n" + " Which, to the spire and top of praises vouch'd,\n" + " Would seem but modest: therefore, I beseech you\n" + " In sign of what you are, not to reward\n" + " What you have done--before our army hear me.\n\n" + "MARCIUS I have some wounds upon me, and they smart\n" + " To hear themselves remember'd.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Should they not,\n" + " Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude,\n" + " And tent themselves with death. Of all the horses,\n" + " Whereof we have ta'en good and good store, of all\n" + " The treasure in this field achieved and city,\n" + " We render you the tenth, to be ta'en forth,\n" + " Before the common distribution, at\n" + " Your only choice.\n\n" + "MARCIUS I thank you, general;\n" + " But cannot make my heart consent to take\n" + " A bribe to pay my sword: I do refuse it;\n" + " And stand upon my common part with those\n" + " That have beheld the doing.\n\n" + " [A long flourish. They all cry 'Marcius! Marcius!'\n" + " cast up their caps and lances: COMINIUS and LARTIUS\n" + " stand bare]\n\n" + "MARCIUS May these same instruments, which you profane,\n" + " Never sound more! when drums and trumpets shall\n" + " I' the field prove flatterers, let courts and cities be\n" + " Made all of false-faced soothing!\n" + " When steel grows soft as the parasite's silk,\n" + " Let him be made a coverture for the wars!\n" + " No more, I say! For that I have not wash'd\n" + " My nose that bled, or foil'd some debile wretch.--\n" + " Which, without note, here's many else have done,--\n" + " You shout me forth\n" + " In acclamations hyperbolical;\n" + " As if I loved my little should be dieted\n" + " In praises sauced with lies.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Too modest are you;\n" + " More cruel to your good report than grateful\n" + " To us that give you truly: by your patience,\n" + " If 'gainst yourself you be incensed, we'll put you,\n" + " Like one that means his proper harm, in manacles,\n" + " Then reason safely with you. Therefore, be it known,\n" + " As to us, to all the world, that Caius Marcius\n" + " Wears this war's garland: in token of the which,\n" + " My noble steed, known to the camp, I give him,\n" + " With all his trim belonging; and from this time,\n" + " For what he did before Corioli, call him,\n" + " With all the applause and clamour of the host,\n" + " CAIUS MARCIUS CORIOLANUS! Bear\n" + " The addition nobly ever!\n\n" + " [Flourish. Trumpets sound, and drums]\n\n" + "All Caius Marcius Coriolanus!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I will go wash;\n" + " And when my face is fair, you shall perceive\n" + " Whether I blush or no: howbeit, I thank you.\n" + " I mean to stride your steed, and at all times\n" + " To undercrest your good addition\n" + " To the fairness of my power.\n\n" + "COMINIUS So, to our tent;\n" + " Where, ere we do repose us, we will write\n" + " To Rome of our success. You, Titus Lartius,\n" + " Must to Corioli back: send us to Rome\n" + " The best, with whom we may articulate,\n" + " For their own good and ours.\n\n" + "LARTIUS I shall, my lord.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS The gods begin to mock me. I, that now\n" + " Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg\n" + " Of my lord general.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Take't; 'tis yours. What is't?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I sometime lay here in Corioli\n" + " At a poor man's house; he used me kindly:\n" + " He cried to me; I saw him prisoner;\n" + " But then Aufidius was within my view,\n" + " And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity: I request you\n" + " To give my poor host freedom.\n\n" + "COMINIUS O, well begg'd!\n" + " Were he the butcher of my son, he should\n" + " Be free as is the wind. Deliver him, Titus.\n\n" + "LARTIUS Marcius, his name?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS By Jupiter! forgot.\n" + " I am weary; yea, my memory is tired.\n" + " Have we no wine here?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Go we to our tent:\n" + " The blood upon your visage dries; 'tis time\n" + " It should be look'd to: come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE X The camp of the Volsces.\n\n\n" + " [A flourish. Cornets. Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS,\n" + " bloody, with two or three Soldiers]\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS The town is ta'en!\n\n" + "First Soldier 'Twill be deliver'd back on good condition.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Condition!\n" + " I would I were a Roman; for I cannot,\n" + " Being a Volsce, be that I am. Condition!\n" + " What good condition can a treaty find\n" + " I' the part that is at mercy? Five times, Marcius,\n" + " I have fought with thee: so often hast thou beat me,\n" + " And wouldst do so, I think, should we encounter\n" + " As often as we eat. By the elements,\n" + " If e'er again I meet him beard to beard,\n" + " He's mine, or I am his: mine emulation\n" + " Hath not that honour in't it had; for where\n" + " I thought to crush him in an equal force,\n" + " True sword to sword, I'll potch at him some way\n" + " Or wrath or craft may get him.\n\n" + "First Soldier He's the devil.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Bolder, though not so subtle. My valour's poison'd\n" + " With only suffering stain by him; for him\n" + " Shall fly out of itself: nor sleep nor sanctuary,\n" + " Being naked, sick, nor fane nor Capitol,\n" + " The prayers of priests nor times of sacrifice,\n" + " Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up\n" + " Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst\n" + " My hate to Marcius: where I find him, were it\n" + " At home, upon my brother's guard, even there,\n" + " Against the hospitable canon, would I\n" + " Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to the city;\n" + " Learn how 'tis held; and what they are that must\n" + " Be hostages for Rome.\n\n" + "First Soldier Will not you go?\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS I am attended at the cypress grove: I pray you--\n" + " 'Tis south the city mills--bring me word thither\n" + " How the world goes, that to the pace of it\n" + " I may spur on my journey.\n\n" + "First Soldier I shall, sir.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MENENIUS with the two Tribunes of the people,\n" + " SICINIUS and BRUTUS.\n\n" + "MENENIUS The augurer tells me we shall have news to-night.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Good or bad?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Not according to the prayer of the people, for they\n" + " love not Marcius.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Pray you, who does the wolf love?\n\n" + "SICINIUS The lamb.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Ay, to devour him; as the hungry plebeians would the\n" + " noble Marcius.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He's a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.\n\n" + "MENENIUS He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. You two\n" + " are old men: tell me one thing that I shall ask you.\n\n" + "Both Well, sir.\n\n" + "MENENIUS In what enormity is Marcius poor in, that you two\n" + " have not in abundance?\n\n" + "BRUTUS He's poor in no one fault, but stored with all.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Especially in pride.\n\n" + "BRUTUS And topping all others in boasting.\n\n" + "MENENIUS This is strange now: do you two know how you are\n" + " censured here in the city, I mean of us o' the\n" + " right-hand file? do you?\n\n" + "Both Why, how are we censured?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Because you talk of pride now,--will you not be angry?\n\n" + "Both Well, well, sir, well.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Why, 'tis no great matter; for a very little thief of\n" + " occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience:\n" + " give your dispositions the reins, and be angry at\n" + " your pleasures; at the least if you take it as a\n" + " pleasure to you in being so. You blame Marcius for\n" + " being proud?\n\n" + "BRUTUS We do it not alone, sir.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I know you can do very little alone; for your helps\n" + " are many, or else your actions would grow wondrous\n" + " single: your abilities are too infant-like for\n" + " doing much alone. You talk of pride: O that you\n" + " could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks,\n" + " and make but an interior survey of your good selves!\n" + " O that you could!\n\n" + "BRUTUS What then, sir?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,\n" + " proud, violent, testy magistrates, alias fools, as\n" + " any in Rome.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Menenius, you are known well enough too.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I am known to be a humorous patrician, and one that\n" + " loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying\n" + " Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in\n" + " favouring the first complaint; hasty and tinder-like\n" + " upon too trivial motion; one that converses more\n" + " with the buttock of the night than with the forehead\n" + " of the morning: what I think I utter, and spend my\n" + " malice in my breath. Meeting two such wealsmen as\n" + " you are--I cannot call you Lycurguses--if the drink\n" + " you give me touch my palate adversely, I make a\n" + " crooked face at it. I can't say your worships have\n" + " delivered the matter well, when I find the ass in\n" + " compound with the major part of your syllables: and\n" + " though I must be content to bear with those that say\n" + " you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that\n" + " tell you you have good faces. If you see this in\n" + " the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known\n" + " well enough too? what barm can your bisson\n" + " conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be\n" + " known well enough too?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Come, sir, come, we know you well enough.\n\n" + "MENENIUS You know neither me, yourselves nor any thing. You\n" + " are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs: you\n" + " wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a\n" + " cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller;\n" + " and then rejourn the controversy of three pence to a\n" + " second day of audience. When you are hearing a\n" + " matter between party and party, if you chance to be\n" + " pinched with the colic, you make faces like\n" + " mummers; set up the bloody flag against all\n" + " patience; and, in roaring for a chamber-pot,\n" + " dismiss the controversy bleeding the more entangled\n" + " by your hearing: all the peace you make in their\n" + " cause is, calling both the parties knaves. You are\n" + " a pair of strange ones.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Come, come, you are well understood to be a\n" + " perfecter giber for the table than a necessary\n" + " bencher in the Capitol.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall\n" + " encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When\n" + " you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the\n" + " wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not\n" + " so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's\n" + " cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's pack-\n" + " saddle. Yet you must be saying, Marcius is proud;\n" + " who in a cheap estimation, is worth predecessors\n" + " since Deucalion, though peradventure some of the\n" + " best of 'em were hereditary hangmen. God-den to\n" + " your worships: more of your conversation would\n" + " infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly\n" + " plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.\n\n" + " [BRUTUS and SICINIUS go aside]\n\n" + " [Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and VALERIA]\n\n" + " How now, my as fair as noble ladies,--and the moon,\n" + " were she earthly, no nobler,--whither do you follow\n" + " your eyes so fast?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Honourable Menenius, my boy Marcius approaches; for\n" + " the love of Juno, let's go.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Ha! Marcius coming home!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Ay, worthy Menenius; and with most prosperous\n" + " approbation.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee. Hoo!\n" + " Marcius coming home!\n\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA |\n" + " | Nay,'tis true.\n" + "VIRGILIA |\n\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Look, here's a letter from him: the state hath\n" + " another, his wife another; and, I think, there's one\n" + " at home for you.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I will make my very house reel tonight: a letter for\n" + " me!\n\n" + "VIRGILIA Yes, certain, there's a letter for you; I saw't.\n\n" + "MENENIUS A letter for me! it gives me an estate of seven\n" + " years' health; in which time I will make a lip at\n" + " the physician: the most sovereign prescription in\n" + " Galen is but empiricutic, and, to this preservative,\n" + " of no better report than a horse-drench. Is he\n" + " not wounded? he was wont to come home wounded.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA O, no, no, no.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA O, he is wounded; I thank the gods for't.\n\n" + "MENENIUS So do I too, if it be not too much: brings a'\n" + " victory in his pocket? the wounds become him.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA On's brows: Menenius, he comes the third time home\n" + " with the oaken garland.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Has he disciplined Aufidius soundly?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, but\n" + " Aufidius got off.\n\n" + "MENENIUS And 'twas time for him too, I'll warrant him that:\n" + " an he had stayed by him, I would not have been so\n" + " fidiused for all the chests in Corioli, and the gold\n" + " that's in them. Is the senate possessed of this?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Good ladies, let's go. Yes, yes, yes; the senate\n" + " has letters from the general, wherein he gives my\n" + " son the whole name of the war: he hath in this\n" + " action outdone his former deeds doubly\n\n" + "VALERIA In troth, there's wondrous things spoke of him.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Wondrous! ay, I warrant you, and not without his\n" + " true purchasing.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA The gods grant them true!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA True! pow, wow.\n\n" + "MENENIUS True! I'll be sworn they are true.\n" + " Where is he wounded?\n\n" + " [To the Tribunes]\n\n" + " God save your good worships! Marcius is coming\n" + " home: he has more cause to be proud. Where is he wounded?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA I' the shoulder and i' the left arm there will be\n" + " large cicatrices to show the people, when he shall\n" + " stand for his place. He received in the repulse of\n" + " Tarquin seven hurts i' the body.\n\n" + "MENENIUS One i' the neck, and two i' the thigh,--there's\n" + " nine that I know.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA He had, before this last expedition, twenty-five\n" + " wounds upon him.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Now it's twenty-seven: every gash was an enemy's grave.\n\n" + " [A shout and flourish]\n\n" + " Hark! the trumpets.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA These are the ushers of Marcius: before him he\n" + " carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears:\n" + " Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth lie;\n" + " Which, being advanced, declines, and then men die.\n\n" + " [A sennet. Trumpets sound. Enter COMINIUS the\n" + " general, and TITUS LARTIUS; between them, CORIOLANUS,\n" + " crowned with an oaken garland; with Captains and\n" + " Soldiers, and a Herald]\n\n" + "Herald Know, Rome, that all alone Marcius did fight\n" + " Within Corioli gates: where he hath won,\n" + " With fame, a name to Caius Marcius; these\n" + " In honour follows Coriolanus.\n" + " Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n" + "All Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS No more of this; it does offend my heart:\n" + " Pray now, no more.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Look, sir, your mother!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS O,\n" + " You have, I know, petition'd all the gods\n" + " For my prosperity!\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Nay, my good soldier, up;\n" + " My gentle Marcius, worthy Caius, and\n" + " By deed-achieving honour newly named,--\n" + " What is it?--Coriolanus must I call thee?--\n" + " But O, thy wife!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS My gracious silence, hail!\n" + " Wouldst thou have laugh'd had I come coffin'd home,\n" + " That weep'st to see me triumph? Ay, my dear,\n" + " Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear,\n" + " And mothers that lack sons.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Now, the gods crown thee!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS And live you yet?\n\n" + " [To VALERIA]\n" + " O my sweet lady, pardon.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA I know not where to turn: O, welcome home:\n" + " And welcome, general: and ye're welcome all.\n\n" + "MENENIUS A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep\n" + " And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome.\n" + " A curse begin at very root on's heart,\n" + " That is not glad to see thee! You are three\n" + " That Rome should dote on: yet, by the faith of men,\n" + " We have some old crab-trees here\n" + " at home that will not\n" + " Be grafted to your relish. Yet welcome, warriors:\n" + " We call a nettle but a nettle and\n" + " The faults of fools but folly.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Ever right.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Menenius ever, ever.\n\n" + "Herald Give way there, and go on!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS [To VOLUMNIA and VIRGILIA] Your hand, and yours:\n" + " Ere in our own house I do shade my head,\n" + " The good patricians must be visited;\n" + " From whom I have received not only greetings,\n" + " But with them change of honours.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA I have lived\n" + " To see inherited my very wishes\n" + " And the buildings of my fancy: only\n" + " There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but\n" + " Our Rome will cast upon thee.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Know, good mother,\n" + " I had rather be their servant in my way,\n" + " Than sway with them in theirs.\n\n" + "COMINIUS On, to the Capitol!\n\n" + " [Flourish. Cornets. Exeunt in state, as before.\n" + " BRUTUS and SICINIUS come forward]\n\n" + "BRUTUS All tongues speak of him, and the bleared sights\n" + " Are spectacled to see him: your prattling nurse\n" + " Into a rapture lets her baby cry\n" + " While she chats him: the kitchen malkin pins\n" + " Her richest lockram 'bout her reechy neck,\n" + " Clambering the walls to eye him: stalls, bulks, windows,\n" + " Are smother'd up, leads fill'd, and ridges horsed\n" + " With variable complexions, all agreeing\n" + " In earnestness to see him: seld-shown flamens\n" + " Do press among the popular throngs and puff\n" + " To win a vulgar station: or veil'd dames\n" + " Commit the war of white and damask in\n" + " Their nicely-gawded cheeks to the wanton spoil\n" + " Of Phoebus' burning kisses: such a pother\n" + " As if that whatsoever god who leads him\n" + " Were slily crept into his human powers\n" + " And gave him graceful posture.\n\n" + "SICINIUS On the sudden,\n" + " I warrant him consul.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Then our office may,\n" + " During his power, go sleep.\n\n" + "SICINIUS He cannot temperately transport his honours\n" + " From where he should begin and end, but will\n" + " Lose those he hath won.\n\n" + "BRUTUS In that there's comfort.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Doubt not\n" + " The commoners, for whom we stand, but they\n" + " Upon their ancient malice will forget\n" + " With the least cause these his new honours, which\n" + " That he will give them make I as little question\n" + " As he is proud to do't.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I heard him swear,\n" + " Were he to stand for consul, never would he\n" + " Appear i' the market-place nor on him put\n" + " The napless vesture of humility;\n" + " Nor showing, as the manner is, his wounds\n" + " To the people, beg their stinking breaths.\n\n" + "SICINIUS 'Tis right.\n\n" + "BRUTUS It was his word: O, he would miss it rather\n" + " Than carry it but by the suit of the gentry to him,\n" + " And the desire of the nobles.\n\n" + "SICINIUS I wish no better\n" + " Than have him hold that purpose and to put it\n" + " In execution.\n\n" + "BRUTUS 'Tis most like he will.\n\n" + "SICINIUS It shall be to him then as our good wills,\n" + " A sure destruction.\n\n" + "BRUTUS So it must fall out\n" + " To him or our authorities. For an end,\n" + " We must suggest the people in what hatred\n" + " He still hath held them; that to's power he would\n" + " Have made them mules, silenced their pleaders and\n" + " Dispropertied their freedoms, holding them,\n" + " In human action and capacity,\n" + " Of no more soul nor fitness for the world\n" + " Than camels in the war, who have their provand\n" + " Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows\n" + " For sinking under them.\n\n" + "SICINIUS This, as you say, suggested\n" + " At some time when his soaring insolence\n" + " Shall touch the people--which time shall not want,\n" + " If he be put upon 't; and that's as easy\n" + " As to set dogs on sheep--will be his fire\n" + " To kindle their dry stubble; and their blaze\n" + " Shall darken him for ever.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "BRUTUS What's the matter?\n\n" + "Messenger You are sent for to the Capitol. 'Tis thought\n" + " That Marcius shall be consul:\n" + " I have seen the dumb men throng to see him and\n" + " The blind to bear him speak: matrons flung gloves,\n" + " Ladies and maids their scarfs and handkerchers,\n" + " Upon him as he pass'd: the nobles bended,\n" + " As to Jove's statue, and the commons made\n" + " A shower and thunder with their caps and shouts:\n" + " I never saw the like.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Let's to the Capitol;\n" + " And carry with us ears and eyes for the time,\n" + " But hearts for the event.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Have with you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. The Capitol.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Officers, to lay cushions]\n\n" + "First Officer Come, come, they are almost here. How many stand\n" + " for consulships?\n\n" + "Second Officer Three, they say: but 'tis thought of every one\n" + " Coriolanus will carry it.\n\n" + "First Officer That's a brave fellow; but he's vengeance proud, and\n" + " loves not the common people.\n\n" + "Second Officer Faith, there had been many great men that have\n" + " flattered the people, who ne'er loved them; and there\n" + " be many that they have loved, they know not\n" + " wherefore: so that, if they love they know not why,\n" + " they hate upon no better a ground: therefore, for\n" + " Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate\n" + " him manifests the true knowledge he has in their\n" + " disposition; and out of his noble carelessness lets\n" + " them plainly see't.\n\n" + "First Officer If he did not care whether he had their love or no,\n" + " he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither\n" + " good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater\n" + " devotion than can render it him; and leaves\n" + " nothing undone that may fully discover him their\n" + " opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and\n" + " displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he\n" + " dislikes, to flatter them for their love.\n\n" + "Second Officer He hath deserved worthily of his country: and his\n" + " ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who,\n" + " having been supple and courteous to the people,\n" + " bonneted, without any further deed to have them at\n" + " an into their estimation and report: but he hath so\n" + " planted his honours in their eyes, and his actions\n" + " in their hearts, that for their tongues to be\n" + " silent, and not confess so much, were a kind of\n" + " ingrateful injury; to report otherwise, were a\n" + " malice, that, giving itself the lie, would pluck\n" + " reproof and rebuke from every ear that heard it.\n\n" + "First Officer No more of him; he is a worthy man: make way, they\n" + " are coming.\n\n" + " [A sennet. Enter, with actors before them, COMINIUS\n" + " the consul, MENENIUS, CORIOLANUS, Senators,\n" + " SICINIUS and BRUTUS. The Senators take their\n" + " places; the Tribunes take their Places by\n" + " themselves. CORIOLANUS stands]\n\n" + "MENENIUS Having determined of the Volsces and\n" + " To send for Titus Lartius, it remains,\n" + " As the main point of this our after-meeting,\n" + " To gratify his noble service that\n" + " Hath thus stood for his country: therefore,\n" + " please you,\n" + " Most reverend and grave elders, to desire\n" + " The present consul, and last general\n" + " In our well-found successes, to report\n" + " A little of that worthy work perform'd\n" + " By Caius Marcius Coriolanus, whom\n" + " We met here both to thank and to remember\n" + " With honours like himself.\n\n" + "First Senator Speak, good Cominius:\n" + " Leave nothing out for length, and make us think\n" + " Rather our state's defective for requital\n" + " Than we to stretch it out.\n\n" + " [To the Tribunes]\n\n" + " Masters o' the people,\n" + " We do request your kindest ears, and after,\n" + " Your loving motion toward the common body,\n" + " To yield what passes here.\n\n" + "SICINIUS We are convented\n" + " Upon a pleasing treaty, and have hearts\n" + " Inclinable to honour and advance\n" + " The theme of our assembly.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Which the rather\n" + " We shall be blest to do, if he remember\n" + " A kinder value of the people than\n" + " He hath hereto prized them at.\n\n" + "MENENIUS That's off, that's off;\n" + " I would you rather had been silent. Please you\n" + " To hear Cominius speak?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Most willingly;\n" + " But yet my caution was more pertinent\n" + " Than the rebuke you give it.\n\n" + "MENENIUS He loves your people\n" + " But tie him not to be their bedfellow.\n" + " Worthy Cominius, speak.\n\n" + " [CORIOLANUS offers to go away]\n\n" + " Nay, keep your place.\n\n" + "First Senator Sit, Coriolanus; never shame to hear\n" + " What you have nobly done.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Your horror's pardon:\n" + " I had rather have my wounds to heal again\n" + " Than hear say how I got them.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Sir, I hope\n" + " My words disbench'd you not.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS No, sir: yet oft,\n" + " When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.\n" + " You soothed not, therefore hurt not: but\n" + " your people,\n" + " I love them as they weigh.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Pray now, sit down.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I had rather have one scratch my head i' the sun\n" + " When the alarum were struck than idly sit\n" + " To hear my nothings monster'd.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MENENIUS Masters of the people,\n" + " Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter--\n" + " That's thousand to one good one--when you now see\n" + " He had rather venture all his limbs for honour\n" + " Than one on's ears to hear it? Proceed, Cominius.\n\n" + "COMINIUS I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus\n" + " Should not be utter'd feebly. It is held\n" + " That valour is the chiefest virtue, and\n" + " Most dignifies the haver: if it be,\n" + " The man I speak of cannot in the world\n" + " Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years,\n" + " When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he fought\n" + " Beyond the mark of others: our then dictator,\n" + " Whom with all praise I point at, saw him fight,\n" + " When with his Amazonian chin he drove\n" + " The bristled lips before him: be bestrid\n" + " An o'er-press'd Roman and i' the consul's view\n" + " Slew three opposers: Tarquin's self he met,\n" + " And struck him on his knee: in that day's feats,\n" + " When he might act the woman in the scene,\n" + " He proved best man i' the field, and for his meed\n" + " Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age\n" + " Man-enter'd thus, he waxed like a sea,\n" + " And in the brunt of seventeen battles since\n" + " He lurch'd all swords of the garland. For this last,\n" + " Before and in Corioli, let me say,\n" + " I cannot speak him home: he stopp'd the fliers;\n" + " And by his rare example made the coward\n" + " Turn terror into sport: as weeds before\n" + " A vessel under sail, so men obey'd\n" + " And fell below his stem: his sword, death's stamp,\n" + " Where it did mark, it took; from face to foot\n" + " He was a thing of blood, whose every motion\n" + " Was timed with dying cries: alone he enter'd\n" + " The mortal gate of the city, which he painted\n" + " With shunless destiny; aidless came off,\n" + " And with a sudden reinforcement struck\n" + " Corioli like a planet: now all's his:\n" + " When, by and by, the din of war gan pierce\n" + " His ready sense; then straight his doubled spirit\n" + " Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate,\n" + " And to the battle came he; where he did\n" + " Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if\n" + " 'Twere a perpetual spoil: and till we call'd\n" + " Both field and city ours, he never stood\n" + " To ease his breast with panting.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Worthy man!\n\n" + "First Senator He cannot but with measure fit the honours\n" + " Which we devise him.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Our spoils he kick'd at,\n" + " And look'd upon things precious as they were\n" + " The common muck of the world: he covets less\n" + " Than misery itself would give; rewards\n" + " His deeds with doing them, and is content\n" + " To spend the time to end it.\n\n" + "MENENIUS He's right noble:\n" + " Let him be call'd for.\n\n" + "First Senator Call Coriolanus.\n\n" + "Officer He doth appear.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CORIOLANUS]\n\n" + "MENENIUS The senate, Coriolanus, are well pleased\n" + " To make thee consul.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I do owe them still\n" + " My life and services.\n\n" + "MENENIUS It then remains\n" + " That you do speak to the people.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I do beseech you,\n" + " Let me o'erleap that custom, for I cannot\n" + " Put on the gown, stand naked and entreat them,\n" + " For my wounds' sake, to give their suffrage: please you\n" + " That I may pass this doing.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Sir, the people\n" + " Must have their voices; neither will they bate\n" + " One jot of ceremony.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Put them not to't:\n" + " Pray you, go fit you to the custom and\n" + " Take to you, as your predecessors have,\n" + " Your honour with your form.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS It is apart\n" + " That I shall blush in acting, and might well\n" + " Be taken from the people.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Mark you that?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS To brag unto them, thus I did, and thus;\n" + " Show them the unaching scars which I should hide,\n" + " As if I had received them for the hire\n" + " Of their breath only!\n\n" + "MENENIUS Do not stand upon't.\n" + " We recommend to you, tribunes of the people,\n" + " Our purpose to them: and to our noble consul\n" + " Wish we all joy and honour.\n\n" + "Senators To Coriolanus come all joy and honour!\n\n" + " [Flourish of cornets. Exeunt all but SICINIUS\n" + " and BRUTUS]\n\n" + "BRUTUS You see how he intends to use the people.\n\n" + "SICINIUS May they perceive's intent! He will require them,\n" + " As if he did contemn what he requested\n" + " Should be in them to give.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Come, we'll inform them\n" + " Of our proceedings here: on the marketplace,\n" + " I know, they do attend us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. The Forum.\n\n\n" + " [Enter seven or eight Citizens]\n\n" + "First Citizen Once, if he do require our voices, we ought not to deny him.\n\n" + "Second Citizen We may, sir, if we will.\n\n" + "Third Citizen We have power in ourselves to do it, but it is a\n" + " power that we have no power to do; for if he show us\n" + " his wounds and tell us his deeds, we are to put our\n" + " tongues into those wounds and speak for them; so, if\n" + " he tell us his noble deeds, we must also tell him\n" + " our noble acceptance of them. Ingratitude is\n" + " monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful,\n" + " were to make a monster of the multitude: of the\n" + " which we being members, should bring ourselves to be\n" + " monstrous members.\n\n" + "First Citizen And to make us no better thought of, a little help\n" + " will serve; for once we stood up about the corn, he\n" + " himself stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude.\n\n" + "Third Citizen We have been called so of many; not that our heads\n" + " are some brown, some black, some auburn, some bald,\n" + " but that our wits are so diversely coloured: and\n" + " truly I think if all our wits were to issue out of\n" + " one skull, they would fly east, west, north, south,\n" + " and their consent of one direct way should be at\n" + " once to all the points o' the compass.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Think you so? Which way do you judge my wit would\n" + " fly?\n\n" + "Third Citizen Nay, your wit will not so soon out as another man's\n" + " will;'tis strongly wedged up in a block-head, but\n" + " if it were at liberty, 'twould, sure, southward.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Why that way?\n\n" + "Third Citizen To lose itself in a fog, where being three parts\n" + " melted away with rotten dews, the fourth would return\n" + " for conscience sake, to help to get thee a wife.\n\n" + "Second Citizen You are never without your tricks: you may, you may.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Are you all resolved to give your voices? But\n" + " that's no matter, the greater part carries it. I\n" + " say, if he would incline to the people, there was\n" + " never a worthier man.\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS in a gown of humility,\n" + " with MENENIUS]\n\n" + " Here he comes, and in the gown of humility: mark his\n" + " behavior. We are not to stay all together, but to\n" + " come by him where he stands, by ones, by twos, and\n" + " by threes. He's to make his requests by\n" + " particulars; wherein every one of us has a single\n" + " honour, in giving him our own voices with our own\n" + " tongues: therefore follow me, and I direct you how\n" + " you shall go by him.\n\n" + "All Content, content.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Citizens]\n\n" + "MENENIUS O sir, you are not right: have you not known\n" + " The worthiest men have done't?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What must I say?\n" + " 'I Pray, sir'--Plague upon't! I cannot bring\n" + " My tongue to such a pace:--'Look, sir, my wounds!\n" + " I got them in my country's service, when\n" + " Some certain of your brethren roar'd and ran\n" + " From the noise of our own drums.'\n\n" + "MENENIUS O me, the gods!\n" + " You must not speak of that: you must desire them\n" + " To think upon you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Think upon me! hang 'em!\n" + " I would they would forget me, like the virtues\n" + " Which our divines lose by 'em.\n\n" + "MENENIUS You'll mar all:\n" + " I'll leave you: pray you, speak to 'em, I pray you,\n" + " In wholesome manner.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Bid them wash their faces\n" + " And keep their teeth clean.\n\n" + " [Re-enter two of the Citizens]\n\n" + " So, here comes a brace.\n\n" + " [Re-enter a third Citizen]\n\n" + " You know the cause, air, of my standing here.\n\n" + "Third Citizen We do, sir; tell us what hath brought you to't.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Mine own desert.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Your own desert!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Ay, but not mine own desire.\n\n" + "Third Citizen How not your own desire?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS No, sir,'twas never my desire yet to trouble the\n" + " poor with begging.\n\n" + "Third Citizen You must think, if we give you any thing, we hope to\n" + " gain by you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?\n\n" + "First Citizen The price is to ask it kindly.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Kindly! Sir, I pray, let me ha't: I have wounds to\n" + " show you, which shall be yours in private. Your\n" + " good voice, sir; what say you?\n\n" + "Second Citizen You shall ha' it, worthy sir.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS A match, sir. There's in all two worthy voices\n" + " begged. I have your alms: adieu.\n\n" + "Third Citizen But this is something odd.\n\n" + "Second Citizen An 'twere to give again,--but 'tis no matter.\n\n" + " [Exeunt the three Citizens]\n\n" + " [Re-enter two other Citizens]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your\n" + " voices that I may be consul, I have here the\n" + " customary gown.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen You have deserved nobly of your country, and you\n" + " have not deserved nobly.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Your enigma?\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have\n" + " been a rod to her friends; you have not indeed loved\n" + " the common people.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS You should account me the more virtuous that I have\n" + " not been common in my love. I will, sir, flatter my\n" + " sworn brother, the people, to earn a dearer\n" + " estimation of them; 'tis a condition they account\n" + " gentle: and since the wisdom of their choice is\n" + " rather to have my hat than my heart, I will practise\n" + " the insinuating nod and be off to them most\n" + " counterfeitly; that is, sir, I will counterfeit the\n" + " bewitchment of some popular man and give it\n" + " bountiful to the desirers. Therefore, beseech you,\n" + " I may be consul.\n\n" + "Fifth Citizen We hope to find you our friend; and therefore give\n" + " you our voices heartily.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen You have received many wounds for your country.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I will not seal your knowledge with showing them. I\n" + " will make much of your voices, and so trouble you no further.\n\n" + "Both Citizens The gods give you joy, sir, heartily!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Most sweet voices!\n" + " Better it is to die, better to starve,\n" + " Than crave the hire which first we do deserve.\n" + " Why in this woolvish toge should I stand here,\n" + " To beg of Hob and Dick, that do appear,\n" + " Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't:\n" + " What custom wills, in all things should we do't,\n" + " The dust on antique time would lie unswept,\n" + " And mountainous error be too highly heapt\n" + " For truth to o'er-peer. Rather than fool it so,\n" + " Let the high office and the honour go\n" + " To one that would do thus. I am half through;\n" + " The one part suffer'd, the other will I do.\n\n" + " [Re-enter three Citizens more]\n\n" + " Here come more voices.\n" + " Your voices: for your voices I have fought;\n" + " Watch'd for your voices; for Your voices bear\n" + " Of wounds two dozen odd; battles thrice six\n" + " I have seen and heard of; for your voices have\n" + " Done many things, some less, some more your voices:\n" + " Indeed I would be consul.\n\n" + "Sixth Citizen He has done nobly, and cannot go without any honest\n" + " man's voice.\n\n" + "Seventh Citizen Therefore let him be consul: the gods give him joy,\n" + " and make him good friend to the people!\n\n" + "All Citizens Amen, amen. God save thee, noble consul!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Worthy voices!\n\n" + " [Re-enter MENENIUS, with BRUTUS and SICINIUS]\n\n" + "MENENIUS You have stood your limitation; and the tribunes\n" + " Endue you with the people's voice: remains\n" + " That, in the official marks invested, you\n" + " Anon do meet the senate.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Is this done?\n\n" + "SICINIUS The custom of request you have discharged:\n" + " The people do admit you, and are summon'd\n" + " To meet anon, upon your approbation.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Where? at the senate-house?\n\n" + "SICINIUS There, Coriolanus.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS May I change these garments?\n\n" + "SICINIUS You may, sir.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS That I'll straight do; and, knowing myself again,\n" + " Repair to the senate-house.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I'll keep you company. Will you along?\n\n" + "BRUTUS We stay here for the people.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CORIOLANUS and MENENIUS]\n\n" + " He has it now, and by his looks methink\n" + " 'Tis warm at 's heart.\n\n" + "BRUTUS With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds.\n" + " will you dismiss the people?\n\n" + " [Re-enter Citizens]\n\n" + "SICINIUS How now, my masters! have you chose this man?\n\n" + "First Citizen He has our voices, sir.\n\n" + "BRUTUS We pray the gods he may deserve your loves.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Amen, sir: to my poor unworthy notice,\n" + " He mock'd us when he begg'd our voices.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Certainly\n" + " He flouted us downright.\n\n" + "First Citizen No,'tis his kind of speech: he did not mock us.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Not one amongst us, save yourself, but says\n" + " He used us scornfully: he should have show'd us\n" + " His marks of merit, wounds received for's country.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Why, so he did, I am sure.\n\n" + "Citizens No, no; no man saw 'em.\n\n" + "Third Citizen He said he had wounds, which he could show\n" + " in private;\n" + " And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn,\n" + " 'I would be consul,' says he: 'aged custom,\n" + " But by your voices, will not so permit me;\n" + " Your voices therefore.' When we granted that,\n" + " Here was 'I thank you for your voices: thank you:\n" + " Your most sweet voices: now you have left\n" + " your voices,\n" + " I have no further with you.' Was not this mockery?\n\n" + "SICINIUS Why either were you ignorant to see't,\n" + " Or, seeing it, of such childish friendliness\n" + " To yield your voices?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Could you not have told him\n" + " As you were lesson'd, when he had no power,\n" + " But was a petty servant to the state,\n" + " He was your enemy, ever spake against\n" + " Your liberties and the charters that you bear\n" + " I' the body of the weal; and now, arriving\n" + " A place of potency and sway o' the state,\n" + " If he should still malignantly remain\n" + " Fast foe to the plebeii, your voices might\n" + " Be curses to yourselves? You should have said\n" + " That as his worthy deeds did claim no less\n" + " Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature\n" + " Would think upon you for your voices and\n" + " Translate his malice towards you into love,\n" + " Standing your friendly lord.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Thus to have said,\n" + " As you were fore-advised, had touch'd his spirit\n" + " And tried his inclination; from him pluck'd\n" + " Either his gracious promise, which you might,\n" + " As cause had call'd you up, have held him to\n" + " Or else it would have gall'd his surly nature,\n" + " Which easily endures not article\n" + " Tying him to aught; so putting him to rage,\n" + " You should have ta'en the advantage of his choler\n" + " And pass'd him unelected.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Did you perceive\n" + " He did solicit you in free contempt\n" + " When he did need your loves, and do you think\n" + " That his contempt shall not be bruising to you,\n" + " When he hath power to crush? Why, had your bodies\n" + " No heart among you? or had you tongues to cry\n" + " Against the rectorship of judgment?\n\n" + "SICINIUS Have you\n" + " Ere now denied the asker? and now again\n" + " Of him that did not ask, but mock, bestow\n" + " Your sued-for tongues?\n\n" + "Third Citizen He's not confirm'd; we may deny him yet.\n\n" + "Second Citizen And will deny him:\n" + " I'll have five hundred voices of that sound.\n\n" + "First Citizen I twice five hundred and their friends to piece 'em.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Get you hence instantly, and tell those friends,\n" + " They have chose a consul that will from them take\n" + " Their liberties; make them of no more voice\n" + " Than dogs that are as often beat for barking\n" + " As therefore kept to do so.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Let them assemble,\n" + " And on a safer judgment all revoke\n" + " Your ignorant election; enforce his pride,\n" + " And his old hate unto you; besides, forget not\n" + " With what contempt he wore the humble weed,\n" + " How in his suit he scorn'd you; but your loves,\n" + " Thinking upon his services, took from you\n" + " The apprehension of his present portance,\n" + " Which most gibingly, ungravely, he did fashion\n" + " After the inveterate hate he bears you.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Lay\n" + " A fault on us, your tribunes; that we laboured,\n" + " No impediment between, but that you must\n" + " Cast your election on him.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Say, you chose him\n" + " More after our commandment than as guided\n" + " By your own true affections, and that your minds,\n" + " Preoccupied with what you rather must do\n" + " Than what you should, made you against the grain\n" + " To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Ay, spare us not. Say we read lectures to you.\n" + " How youngly he began to serve his country,\n" + " How long continued, and what stock he springs of,\n" + " The noble house o' the Marcians, from whence came\n" + " That Ancus Marcius, Numa's daughter's son,\n" + " Who, after great Hostilius, here was king;\n" + " Of the same house Publius and Quintus were,\n" + " That our beat water brought by conduits hither;\n" + " And [Censorinus,] nobly named so,\n" + " Twice being [by the people chosen] censor,\n" + " Was his great ancestor.\n\n" + "SICINIUS One thus descended,\n" + " That hath beside well in his person wrought\n" + " To be set high in place, we did commend\n" + " To your remembrances: but you have found,\n" + " Scaling his present bearing with his past,\n" + " That he's your fixed enemy, and revoke\n" + " Your sudden approbation.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Say, you ne'er had done't--\n" + " Harp on that still--but by our putting on;\n" + " And presently, when you have drawn your number,\n" + " Repair to the Capitol.\n\n" + "All We will so: almost all\n" + " Repent in their election.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Citizens]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Let them go on;\n" + " This mutiny were better put in hazard,\n" + " Than stay, past doubt, for greater:\n" + " If, as his nature is, he fall in rage\n" + " With their refusal, both observe and answer\n" + " The vantage of his anger.\n\n" + "SICINIUS To the Capitol, come:\n" + " We will be there before the stream o' the people;\n" + " And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own,\n" + " Which we have goaded onward.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Cornets. Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, all the\n" + " Gentry, COMINIUS, TITUS LARTIUS, and other Senators]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Tullus Aufidius then had made new head?\n\n" + "LARTIUS He had, my lord; and that it was which caused\n" + " Our swifter composition.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS So then the Volsces stand but as at first,\n" + " Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road.\n" + " Upon's again.\n\n" + "COMINIUS They are worn, lord consul, so,\n" + " That we shall hardly in our ages see\n" + " Their banners wave again.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Saw you Aufidius?\n\n" + "LARTIUS On safe-guard he came to me; and did curse\n" + " Against the Volsces, for they had so vilely\n" + " Yielded the town: he is retired to Antium.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Spoke he of me?\n\n" + "LARTIUS He did, my lord.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS How? what?\n\n" + "LARTIUS How often he had met you, sword to sword;\n" + " That of all things upon the earth he hated\n" + " Your person most, that he would pawn his fortunes\n" + " To hopeless restitution, so he might\n" + " Be call'd your vanquisher.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS At Antium lives he?\n\n" + "LARTIUS At Antium.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I wish I had a cause to seek him there,\n" + " To oppose his hatred fully. Welcome home.\n\n" + " [Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS]\n\n" + " Behold, these are the tribunes of the people,\n" + " The tongues o' the common mouth: I do despise them;\n" + " For they do prank them in authority,\n" + " Against all noble sufferance.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Pass no further.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Ha! what is that?\n\n" + "BRUTUS It will be dangerous to go on: no further.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What makes this change?\n\n" + "MENENIUS The matter?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Hath he not pass'd the noble and the common?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Cominius, no.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Have I had children's voices?\n\n" + "First Senator Tribunes, give way; he shall to the market-place.\n\n" + "BRUTUS The people are incensed against him.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Stop,\n" + " Or all will fall in broil.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Are these your herd?\n" + " Must these have voices, that can yield them now\n" + " And straight disclaim their tongues? What are\n" + " your offices?\n" + " You being their mouths, why rule you not their teeth?\n" + " Have you not set them on?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Be calm, be calm.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot,\n" + " To curb the will of the nobility:\n" + " Suffer't, and live with such as cannot rule\n" + " Nor ever will be ruled.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Call't not a plot:\n" + " The people cry you mock'd them, and of late,\n" + " When corn was given them gratis, you repined;\n" + " Scandal'd the suppliants for the people, call'd them\n" + " Time-pleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Why, this was known before.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Not to them all.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Have you inform'd them sithence?\n\n" + "BRUTUS How! I inform them!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS You are like to do such business.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Not unlike,\n" + " Each way, to better yours.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Why then should I be consul? By yond clouds,\n" + " Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me\n" + " Your fellow tribune.\n\n" + "SICINIUS You show too much of that\n" + " For which the people stir: if you will pass\n" + " To where you are bound, you must inquire your way,\n" + " Which you are out of, with a gentler spirit,\n" + " Or never be so noble as a consul,\n" + " Nor yoke with him for tribune.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Let's be calm.\n\n" + "COMINIUS The people are abused; set on. This paltering\n" + " Becomes not Rome, nor has Coriolanus\n" + " Deserved this so dishonour'd rub, laid falsely\n" + " I' the plain way of his merit.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Tell me of corn!\n" + " This was my speech, and I will speak't again--\n\n" + "MENENIUS Not now, not now.\n\n" + "First Senator Not in this heat, sir, now.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Now, as I live, I will. My nobler friends,\n" + " I crave their pardons:\n" + " For the mutable, rank-scented many, let them\n" + " Regard me as I do not flatter, and\n" + " Therein behold themselves: I say again,\n" + " In soothing them, we nourish 'gainst our senate\n" + " The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition,\n" + " Which we ourselves have plough'd for, sow'd,\n" + " and scatter'd,\n" + " By mingling them with us, the honour'd number,\n" + " Who lack not virtue, no, nor power, but that\n" + " Which they have given to beggars.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Well, no more.\n\n" + "First Senator No more words, we beseech you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS How! no more!\n" + " As for my country I have shed my blood,\n" + " Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs\n" + " Coin words till their decay against those measles,\n" + " Which we disdain should tatter us, yet sought\n" + " The very way to catch them.\n\n" + "BRUTUS You speak o' the people,\n" + " As if you were a god to punish, not\n" + " A man of their infirmity.\n\n" + "SICINIUS 'Twere well\n" + " We let the people know't.\n\n" + "MENENIUS What, what? his choler?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Choler!\n" + " Were I as patient as the midnight sleep,\n" + " By Jove, 'twould be my mind!\n\n" + "SICINIUS It is a mind\n" + " That shall remain a poison where it is,\n" + " Not poison any further.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Shall remain!\n" + " Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you\n" + " His absolute 'shall'?\n\n" + "COMINIUS 'Twas from the canon.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS 'Shall'!\n" + " O good but most unwise patricians! why,\n" + " You grave but reckless senators, have you thus\n" + " Given Hydra here to choose an officer,\n" + " That with his peremptory 'shall,' being but\n" + " The horn and noise o' the monster's, wants not spirit\n" + " To say he'll turn your current in a ditch,\n" + " And make your channel his? If he have power\n" + " Then vail your ignorance; if none, awake\n" + " Your dangerous lenity. If you are learn'd,\n" + " Be not as common fools; if you are not,\n" + " Let them have cushions by you. You are plebeians,\n" + " If they be senators: and they are no less,\n" + " When, both your voices blended, the great'st taste\n" + " Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate,\n" + " And such a one as he, who puts his 'shall,'\n" + " His popular 'shall' against a graver bench\n" + " Than ever frown in Greece. By Jove himself!\n" + " It makes the consuls base: and my soul aches\n" + " To know, when two authorities are up,\n" + " Neither supreme, how soon confusion\n" + " May enter 'twixt the gap of both and take\n" + " The one by the other.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Well, on to the market-place.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Whoever gave that counsel, to give forth\n" + " The corn o' the storehouse gratis, as 'twas used\n" + " Sometime in Greece,--\n\n" + "MENENIUS Well, well, no more of that.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Though there the people had more absolute power,\n" + " I say, they nourish'd disobedience, fed\n" + " The ruin of the state.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why, shall the people give\n" + " One that speaks thus their voice?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I'll give my reasons,\n" + " More worthier than their voices. They know the corn\n" + " Was not our recompense, resting well assured\n" + " That ne'er did service for't: being press'd to the war,\n" + " Even when the navel of the state was touch'd,\n" + " They would not thread the gates. This kind of service\n" + " Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i' the war\n" + " Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they show'd\n" + " Most valour, spoke not for them: the accusation\n" + " Which they have often made against the senate,\n" + " All cause unborn, could never be the motive\n" + " Of our so frank donation. Well, what then?\n" + " How shall this bisson multitude digest\n" + " The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express\n" + " What's like to be their words: 'we did request it;\n" + " We are the greater poll, and in true fear\n" + " They gave us our demands.' Thus we debase\n" + " The nature of our seats and make the rabble\n" + " Call our cares fears; which will in time\n" + " Break ope the locks o' the senate and bring in\n" + " The crows to peck the eagles.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Come, enough.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Enough, with over-measure.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS No, take more:\n" + " What may be sworn by, both divine and human,\n" + " Seal what I end withal! This double worship,\n" + " Where one part does disdain with cause, the other\n" + " Insult without all reason, where gentry, title, wisdom,\n" + " Cannot conclude but by the yea and no\n" + " Of general ignorance,--it must omit\n" + " Real necessities, and give way the while\n" + " To unstable slightness: purpose so barr'd,\n" + " it follows,\n" + " Nothing is done to purpose. Therefore, beseech you,--\n" + " You that will be less fearful than discreet,\n" + " That love the fundamental part of state\n" + " More than you doubt the change on't, that prefer\n" + " A noble life before a long, and wish\n" + " To jump a body with a dangerous physic\n" + " That's sure of death without it, at once pluck out\n" + " The multitudinous tongue; let them not lick\n" + " The sweet which is their poison: your dishonour\n" + " Mangles true judgment and bereaves the state\n" + " Of that integrity which should become't,\n" + " Not having the power to do the good it would,\n" + " For the in which doth control't.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Has said enough.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Has spoken like a traitor, and shall answer\n" + " As traitors do.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Thou wretch, despite o'erwhelm thee!\n" + " What should the people do with these bald tribunes?\n" + " On whom depending, their obedience fails\n" + " To the greater bench: in a rebellion,\n" + " When what's not meet, but what must be, was law,\n" + " Then were they chosen: in a better hour,\n" + " Let what is meet be said it must be meet,\n" + " And throw their power i' the dust.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Manifest treason!\n\n" + "SICINIUS This a consul? no.\n\n" + "BRUTUS The aediles, ho!\n\n" + " [Enter an AEdile]\n\n" + " Let him be apprehended.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Go, call the people:\n\n" + " [Exit AEdile]\n\n" + " in whose name myself\n" + " Attach thee as a traitorous innovator,\n" + " A foe to the public weal: obey, I charge thee,\n" + " And follow to thine answer.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Hence, old goat!\n\n" + "Senators, &C We'll surety him.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Aged sir, hands off.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Hence, rotten thing! or I shall shake thy bones\n" + " Out of thy garments.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Help, ye citizens!\n\n" + " [Enter a rabble of Citizens (Plebeians), with\n" + " the AEdiles]\n\n" + "MENENIUS On both sides more respect.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Here's he that would take from you all your power.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Seize him, AEdiles!\n\n" + "Citizens Down with him! down with him!\n\n" + "Senators, &C Weapons, weapons, weapons!\n\n" + " [They all bustle about CORIOLANUS, crying]\n\n" + " 'Tribunes!' 'Patricians!' 'Citizens!' 'What, ho!'\n" + " 'Sicinius!' 'Brutus!' 'Coriolanus!' 'Citizens!'\n" + " 'Peace, peace, peace!' 'Stay, hold, peace!'\n\n" + "MENENIUS What is about to be? I am out of breath;\n" + " Confusion's near; I cannot speak. You, tribunes\n" + " To the people! Coriolanus, patience!\n" + " Speak, good Sicinius.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Hear me, people; peace!\n\n" + "Citizens Let's hear our tribune: peace Speak, speak, speak.\n\n" + "SICINIUS You are at point to lose your liberties:\n" + " Marcius would have all from you; Marcius,\n" + " Whom late you have named for consul.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Fie, fie, fie!\n" + " This is the way to kindle, not to quench.\n\n" + "First Senator To unbuild the city and to lay all flat.\n\n" + "SICINIUS What is the city but the people?\n\n" + "Citizens True,\n" + " The people are the city.\n\n" + "BRUTUS By the consent of all, we were establish'd\n" + " The people's magistrates.\n\n" + "Citizens You so remain.\n\n" + "MENENIUS And so are like to do.\n\n" + "COMINIUS That is the way to lay the city flat;\n" + " To bring the roof to the foundation,\n" + " And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges,\n" + " In heaps and piles of ruin.\n\n" + "SICINIUS This deserves death.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Or let us stand to our authority,\n" + " Or let us lose it. We do here pronounce,\n" + " Upon the part o' the people, in whose power\n" + " We were elected theirs, Marcius is worthy\n" + " Of present death.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Therefore lay hold of him;\n" + " Bear him to the rock Tarpeian, and from thence\n" + " Into destruction cast him.\n\n" + "BRUTUS AEdiles, seize him!\n\n" + "Citizens Yield, Marcius, yield!\n\n" + "MENENIUS Hear me one word;\n" + " Beseech you, tribunes, hear me but a word.\n\n" + "AEdile Peace, peace!\n\n" + "MENENIUS [To BRUTUS] Be that you seem, truly your\n" + " country's friend,\n" + " And temperately proceed to what you would\n" + " Thus violently redress.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Sir, those cold ways,\n" + " That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous\n" + " Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him,\n" + " And bear him to the rock.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS No, I'll die here.\n\n" + " [Drawing his sword]\n\n" + " There's some among you have beheld me fighting:\n" + " Come, try upon yourselves what you have seen me.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Down with that sword! Tribunes, withdraw awhile.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Lay hands upon him.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Help Marcius, help,\n" + " You that be noble; help him, young and old!\n\n" + "Citizens Down with him, down with him!\n\n" + " [In this mutiny, the Tribunes, the AEdiles, and the\n" + " People, are beat in]\n\n" + "MENENIUS Go, get you to your house; be gone, away!\n" + " All will be naught else.\n\n" + "Second Senator Get you gone.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Stand fast;\n" + " We have as many friends as enemies.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Sham it be put to that?\n\n" + "First Senator The gods forbid!\n" + " I prithee, noble friend, home to thy house;\n" + " Leave us to cure this cause.\n\n" + "MENENIUS For 'tis a sore upon us,\n" + " You cannot tent yourself: be gone, beseech you.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Come, sir, along with us.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I would they were barbarians--as they are,\n" + " Though in Rome litter'd--not Romans--as they are not,\n" + " Though calved i' the porch o' the Capitol--\n\n" + "MENENIUS Be gone;\n" + " Put not your worthy rage into your tongue;\n" + " One time will owe another.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS On fair ground\n" + " I could beat forty of them.\n\n" + "COMINIUS I could myself\n" + " Take up a brace o' the best of them; yea, the\n" + " two tribunes:\n" + " But now 'tis odds beyond arithmetic;\n" + " And manhood is call'd foolery, when it stands\n" + " Against a falling fabric. Will you hence,\n" + " Before the tag return? whose rage doth rend\n" + " Like interrupted waters and o'erbear\n" + " What they are used to bear.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Pray you, be gone:\n" + " I'll try whether my old wit be in request\n" + " With those that have but little: this must be patch'd\n" + " With cloth of any colour.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Nay, come away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, and others]\n\n" + "A Patrician This man has marr'd his fortune.\n\n" + "MENENIUS His nature is too noble for the world:\n" + " He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,\n" + " Or Jove for's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth:\n" + " What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent;\n" + " And, being angry, does forget that ever\n" + " He heard the name of death.\n\n" + " [A noise within]\n\n" + " Here's goodly work!\n\n" + "Second Patrician I would they were abed!\n\n" + "MENENIUS I would they were in Tiber! What the vengeance!\n" + " Could he not speak 'em fair?\n\n" + " [Re-enter BRUTUS and SICINIUS, with the rabble]\n\n" + "SICINIUS Where is this viper\n" + " That would depopulate the city and\n" + " Be every man himself?\n\n" + "MENENIUS You worthy tribunes,--\n\n" + "SICINIUS He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian rock\n" + " With rigorous hands: he hath resisted law,\n" + " And therefore law shall scorn him further trial\n" + " Than the severity of the public power\n" + " Which he so sets at nought.\n\n" + "First Citizen He shall well know\n" + " The noble tribunes are the people's mouths,\n" + " And we their hands.\n\n" + "Citizens He shall, sure on't.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Sir, sir,--\n\n" + "SICINIUS Peace!\n\n" + "MENENIUS Do not cry havoc, where you should but hunt\n" + " With modest warrant.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Sir, how comes't that you\n" + " Have holp to make this rescue?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Hear me speak:\n" + " As I do know the consul's worthiness,\n" + " So can I name his faults,--\n\n" + "SICINIUS Consul! what consul?\n\n" + "MENENIUS The consul Coriolanus.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He consul!\n\n" + "Citizens No, no, no, no, no.\n\n" + "MENENIUS If, by the tribunes' leave, and yours, good people,\n" + " I may be heard, I would crave a word or two;\n" + " The which shall turn you to no further harm\n" + " Than so much loss of time.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Speak briefly then;\n" + " For we are peremptory to dispatch\n" + " This viperous traitor: to eject him hence\n" + " Were but one danger, and to keep him here\n" + " Our certain death: therefore it is decreed\n" + " He dies to-night.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Now the good gods forbid\n" + " That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude\n" + " Towards her deserved children is enroll'd\n" + " In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam\n" + " Should now eat up her own!\n\n" + "SICINIUS He's a disease that must be cut away.\n\n" + "MENENIUS O, he's a limb that has but a disease;\n" + " Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.\n" + " What has he done to Rome that's worthy death?\n" + " Killing our enemies, the blood he hath lost--\n" + " Which, I dare vouch, is more than that he hath,\n" + " By many an ounce--he dropp'd it for his country;\n" + " And what is left, to lose it by his country,\n" + " Were to us all, that do't and suffer it,\n" + " A brand to the end o' the world.\n\n" + "SICINIUS This is clean kam.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Merely awry: when he did love his country,\n" + " It honour'd him.\n\n" + "MENENIUS The service of the foot\n" + " Being once gangrened, is not then respected\n" + " For what before it was.\n\n" + "BRUTUS We'll hear no more.\n" + " Pursue him to his house, and pluck him thence:\n" + " Lest his infection, being of catching nature,\n" + " Spread further.\n\n" + "MENENIUS One word more, one word.\n" + " This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find\n" + " The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will too late\n" + " Tie leaden pounds to's heels. Proceed by process;\n" + " Lest parties, as he is beloved, break out,\n" + " And sack great Rome with Romans.\n\n" + "BRUTUS If it were so,--\n\n" + "SICINIUS What do ye talk?\n" + " Have we not had a taste of his obedience?\n" + " Our aediles smote? ourselves resisted? Come.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Consider this: he has been bred i' the wars\n" + " Since he could draw a sword, and is ill school'd\n" + " In bolted language; meal and bran together\n" + " He throws without distinction. Give me leave,\n" + " I'll go to him, and undertake to bring him\n" + " Where he shall answer, by a lawful form,\n" + " In peace, to his utmost peril.\n\n" + "First Senator Noble tribunes,\n" + " It is the humane way: the other course\n" + " Will prove too bloody, and the end of it\n" + " Unknown to the beginning.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Noble Menenius,\n" + " Be you then as the people's officer.\n" + " Masters, lay down your weapons.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Go not home.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Meet on the market-place. We'll attend you there:\n" + " Where, if you bring not Marcius, we'll proceed\n" + " In our first way.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I'll bring him to you.\n\n" + " [To the Senators]\n\n" + " Let me desire your company: he must come,\n" + " Or what is worst will follow.\n\n" + "First Senator Pray you, let's to him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in CORIOLANUS'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS with Patricians]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Let them puff all about mine ears, present me\n" + " Death on the wheel or at wild horses' heels,\n" + " Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock,\n" + " That the precipitation might down stretch\n" + " Below the beam of sight, yet will I still\n" + " Be thus to them.\n\n" + "A Patrician You do the nobler.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I muse my mother\n" + " Does not approve me further, who was wont\n" + " To call them woollen vassals, things created\n" + " To buy and sell with groats, to show bare heads\n" + " In congregations, to yawn, be still and wonder,\n" + " When one but of my ordinance stood up\n" + " To speak of peace or war.\n\n" + " [Enter VOLUMNIA]\n\n" + " I talk of you:\n" + " Why did you wish me milder? would you have me\n" + " False to my nature? Rather say I play\n" + " The man I am.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA O, sir, sir, sir,\n" + " I would have had you put your power well on,\n" + " Before you had worn it out.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Let go.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA You might have been enough the man you are,\n" + " With striving less to be so; lesser had been\n" + " The thwartings of your dispositions, if\n" + " You had not show'd them how ye were disposed\n" + " Ere they lack'd power to cross you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Let them hang.\n\n" + "A Patrician Ay, and burn too.\n\n" + " [Enter MENENIUS and Senators]\n\n" + "MENENIUS Come, come, you have been too rough, something\n" + " too rough;\n" + " You must return and mend it.\n\n" + "First Senator There's no remedy;\n" + " Unless, by not so doing, our good city\n" + " Cleave in the midst, and perish.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Pray, be counsell'd:\n" + " I have a heart as little apt as yours,\n" + " But yet a brain that leads my use of anger\n" + " To better vantage.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Well said, noble woman?\n" + " Before he should thus stoop to the herd, but that\n" + " The violent fit o' the time craves it as physic\n" + " For the whole state, I would put mine armour on,\n" + " Which I can scarcely bear.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What must I do?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Return to the tribunes.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Well, what then? what then?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Repent what you have spoke.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS For them! I cannot do it to the gods;\n" + " Must I then do't to them?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA You are too absolute;\n" + " Though therein you can never be too noble,\n" + " But when extremities speak. I have heard you say,\n" + " Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends,\n" + " I' the war do grow together: grant that, and tell me,\n" + " In peace what each of them by the other lose,\n" + " That they combine not there.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Tush, tush!\n\n" + "MENENIUS A good demand.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA If it be honour in your wars to seem\n" + " The same you are not, which, for your best ends,\n" + " You adopt your policy, how is it less or worse,\n" + " That it shall hold companionship in peace\n" + " With honour, as in war, since that to both\n" + " It stands in like request?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Why force you this?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Because that now it lies you on to speak\n" + " To the people; not by your own instruction,\n" + " Nor by the matter which your heart prompts you,\n" + " But with such words that are but rooted in\n" + " Your tongue, though but bastards and syllables\n" + " Of no allowance to your bosom's truth.\n" + " Now, this no more dishonours you at all\n" + " Than to take in a town with gentle words,\n" + " Which else would put you to your fortune and\n" + " The hazard of much blood.\n" + " I would dissemble with my nature where\n" + " My fortunes and my friends at stake required\n" + " I should do so in honour: I am in this,\n" + " Your wife, your son, these senators, the nobles;\n" + " And you will rather show our general louts\n" + " How you can frown than spend a fawn upon 'em,\n" + " For the inheritance of their loves and safeguard\n" + " Of what that want might ruin.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Noble lady!\n" + " Come, go with us; speak fair: you may salve so,\n" + " Not what is dangerous present, but the loss\n" + " Of what is past.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA I prithee now, my son,\n" + " Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand;\n" + " And thus far having stretch'd it--here be with them--\n" + " Thy knee bussing the stones--for in such business\n" + " Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant\n" + " More learned than the ears--waving thy head,\n" + " Which often, thus, correcting thy stout heart,\n" + " Now humble as the ripest mulberry\n" + " That will not hold the handling: or say to them,\n" + " Thou art their soldier, and being bred in broils\n" + " Hast not the soft way which, thou dost confess,\n" + " Were fit for thee to use as they to claim,\n" + " In asking their good loves, but thou wilt frame\n" + " Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far\n" + " As thou hast power and person.\n\n" + "MENENIUS This but done,\n" + " Even as she speaks, why, their hearts were yours;\n" + " For they have pardons, being ask'd, as free\n" + " As words to little purpose.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Prithee now,\n" + " Go, and be ruled: although I know thou hadst rather\n" + " Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf\n" + " Than flatter him in a bower. Here is Cominius.\n\n" + " [Enter COMINIUS]\n\n" + "COMINIUS I have been i' the market-place; and, sir,'tis fit\n" + " You make strong party, or defend yourself\n" + " By calmness or by absence: all's in anger.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Only fair speech.\n\n" + "COMINIUS I think 'twill serve, if he\n" + " Can thereto frame his spirit.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA He must, and will\n" + " Prithee now, say you will, and go about it.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce?\n" + " Must I with base tongue give my noble heart\n" + " A lie that it must bear? Well, I will do't:\n" + " Yet, were there but this single plot to lose,\n" + " This mould of Marcius, they to dust should grind it\n" + " And throw't against the wind. To the market-place!\n" + " You have put me now to such a part which never\n" + " I shall discharge to the life.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Come, come, we'll prompt you.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA I prithee now, sweet son, as thou hast said\n" + " My praises made thee first a soldier, so,\n" + " To have my praise for this, perform a part\n" + " Thou hast not done before.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Well, I must do't:\n" + " Away, my disposition, and possess me\n" + " Some harlot's spirit! my throat of war be turn'd,\n" + " Which quired with my drum, into a pipe\n" + " Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice\n" + " That babies lulls asleep! the smiles of knaves\n" + " Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up\n" + " The glasses of my sight! a beggar's tongue\n" + " Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees,\n" + " Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his\n" + " That hath received an alms! I will not do't,\n" + " Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth\n" + " And by my body's action teach my mind\n" + " A most inherent baseness.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA At thy choice, then:\n" + " To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour\n" + " Than thou of them. Come all to ruin; let\n" + " Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear\n" + " Thy dangerous stoutness, for I mock at death\n" + " With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list\n" + " Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me,\n" + " But owe thy pride thyself.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Pray, be content:\n" + " Mother, I am going to the market-place;\n" + " Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves,\n" + " Cog their hearts from them, and come home beloved\n" + " Of all the trades in Rome. Look, I am going:\n" + " Commend me to my wife. I'll return consul;\n" + " Or never trust to what my tongue can do\n" + " I' the way of flattery further.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Do your will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "COMINIUS Away! the tribunes do attend you: arm yourself\n" + " To answer mildly; for they are prepared\n" + " With accusations, as I hear, more strong\n" + " Than are upon you yet.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS The word is 'mildly.' Pray you, let us go:\n" + " Let them accuse me by invention, I\n" + " Will answer in mine honour.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Ay, but mildly.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Well, mildly be it then. Mildly!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. The Forum.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS]\n\n" + "BRUTUS In this point charge him home, that he affects\n" + " Tyrannical power: if he evade us there,\n" + " Enforce him with his envy to the people,\n" + " And that the spoil got on the Antiates\n" + " Was ne'er distributed.\n\n" + " [Enter an AEdile]\n\n" + " What, will he come?\n\n" + "AEdile He's coming.\n\n" + "BRUTUS How accompanied?\n\n" + "AEdile With old Menenius, and those senators\n" + " That always favour'd him.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Have you a catalogue\n" + " Of all the voices that we have procured\n" + " Set down by the poll?\n\n" + "AEdile I have; 'tis ready.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Have you collected them by tribes?\n\n" + "AEdile I have.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Assemble presently the people hither;\n" + " And when they bear me say 'It shall be so\n" + " I' the right and strength o' the commons,' be it either\n" + " For death, for fine, or banishment, then let them\n" + " If I say fine, cry 'Fine;' if death, cry 'Death.'\n" + " Insisting on the old prerogative\n" + " And power i' the truth o' the cause.\n\n" + "AEdile I shall inform them.\n\n" + "BRUTUS And when such time they have begun to cry,\n" + " Let them not cease, but with a din confused\n" + " Enforce the present execution\n" + " Of what we chance to sentence.\n\n" + "AEdile Very well.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Make them be strong and ready for this hint,\n" + " When we shall hap to give 't them.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Go about it.\n\n" + " [Exit AEdile]\n\n" + " Put him to choler straight: he hath been used\n" + " Ever to conquer, and to have his worth\n" + " Of contradiction: being once chafed, he cannot\n" + " Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks\n" + " What's in his heart; and that is there which looks\n" + " With us to break his neck.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Well, here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS, MENENIUS, and COMINIUS,\n" + " with Senators and Patricians]\n\n" + "MENENIUS Calmly, I do beseech you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Ay, as an ostler, that for the poorest piece\n" + " Will bear the knave by the volume. The honour'd gods\n" + " Keep Rome in safety, and the chairs of justice\n" + " Supplied with worthy men! plant love among 's!\n" + " Throng our large temples with the shows of peace,\n" + " And not our streets with war!\n\n" + "First Senator Amen, amen.\n\n" + "MENENIUS A noble wish.\n\n" + " [Re-enter AEdile, with Citizens]\n\n" + "SICINIUS Draw near, ye people.\n\n" + "AEdile List to your tribunes. Audience: peace, I say!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS First, hear me speak.\n\n" + "Both Tribunes Well, say. Peace, ho!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Shall I be charged no further than this present?\n" + " Must all determine here?\n\n" + "SICINIUS I do demand,\n" + " If you submit you to the people's voices,\n" + " Allow their officers and are content\n" + " To suffer lawful censure for such faults\n" + " As shall be proved upon you?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I am content.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Lo, citizens, he says he is content:\n" + " The warlike service he has done, consider; think\n" + " Upon the wounds his body bears, which show\n" + " Like graves i' the holy churchyard.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Scratches with briers,\n" + " Scars to move laughter only.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Consider further,\n" + " That when he speaks not like a citizen,\n" + " You find him like a soldier: do not take\n" + " His rougher accents for malicious sounds,\n" + " But, as I say, such as become a soldier,\n" + " Rather than envy you.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Well, well, no more.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What is the matter\n" + " That being pass'd for consul with full voice,\n" + " I am so dishonour'd that the very hour\n" + " You take it off again?\n\n" + "SICINIUS Answer to us.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Say, then: 'tis true, I ought so.\n\n" + "SICINIUS We charge you, that you have contrived to take\n" + " From Rome all season'd office and to wind\n" + " Yourself into a power tyrannical;\n" + " For which you are a traitor to the people.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS How! traitor!\n\n" + "MENENIUS Nay, temperately; your promise.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS The fires i' the lowest hell fold-in the people!\n" + " Call me their traitor! Thou injurious tribune!\n" + " Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand deaths,\n" + " In thy hand clutch'd as many millions, in\n" + " Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would say\n" + " 'Thou liest' unto thee with a voice as free\n" + " As I do pray the gods.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Mark you this, people?\n\n" + "Citizens To the rock, to the rock with him!\n\n" + "SICINIUS Peace!\n" + " We need not put new matter to his charge:\n" + " What you have seen him do and heard him speak,\n" + " Beating your officers, cursing yourselves,\n" + " Opposing laws with strokes and here defying\n" + " Those whose great power must try him; even this,\n" + " So criminal and in such capital kind,\n" + " Deserves the extremest death.\n\n" + "BRUTUS But since he hath\n" + " Served well for Rome,--\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What do you prate of service?\n\n" + "BRUTUS I talk of that, that know it.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS You?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Is this the promise that you made your mother?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Know, I pray you,--\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I know no further:\n" + " Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian death,\n" + " Vagabond exile, raying, pent to linger\n" + " But with a grain a day, I would not buy\n" + " Their mercy at the price of one fair word;\n" + " Nor cheque my courage for what they can give,\n" + " To have't with saying 'Good morrow.'\n\n" + "SICINIUS For that he has,\n" + " As much as in him lies, from time to time\n" + " Envied against the people, seeking means\n" + " To pluck away their power, as now at last\n" + " Given hostile strokes, and that not in the presence\n" + " Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers\n" + " That do distribute it; in the name o' the people\n" + " And in the power of us the tribunes, we,\n" + " Even from this instant, banish him our city,\n" + " In peril of precipitation\n" + " From off the rock Tarpeian never more\n" + " To enter our Rome gates: i' the people's name,\n" + " I say it shall be so.\n\n" + "Citizens It shall be so, it shall be so; let him away:\n" + " He's banish'd, and it shall be so.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Hear me, my masters, and my common friends,--\n\n" + "SICINIUS He's sentenced; no more hearing.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Let me speak:\n" + " I have been consul, and can show for Rome\n" + " Her enemies' marks upon me. I do love\n" + " My country's good with a respect more tender,\n" + " More holy and profound, than mine own life,\n" + " My dear wife's estimate, her womb's increase,\n" + " And treasure of my loins; then if I would\n" + " Speak that,--\n\n" + "SICINIUS We know your drift: speak what?\n\n" + "BRUTUS There's no more to be said, but he is banish'd,\n" + " As enemy to the people and his country:\n" + " It shall be so.\n\n" + "Citizens It shall be so, it shall be so.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate\n" + " As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize\n" + " As the dead carcasses of unburied men\n" + " That do corrupt my air, I banish you;\n" + " And here remain with your uncertainty!\n" + " Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!\n" + " Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,\n" + " Fan you into despair! Have the power still\n" + " To banish your defenders; till at length\n" + " Your ignorance, which finds not till it feels,\n" + " Making not reservation of yourselves,\n" + " Still your own foes, deliver you as most\n" + " Abated captives to some nation\n" + " That won you without blows! Despising,\n" + " For you, the city, thus I turn my back:\n" + " There is a world elsewhere.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CORIOLANUS, COMINIUS, MENENIUS, Senators,\n" + " and Patricians]\n\n" + "AEdile The people's enemy is gone, is gone!\n\n" + "Citizens Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!\n\n" + " [Shouting, and throwing up their caps]\n\n" + "SICINIUS Go, see him out at gates, and follow him,\n" + " As he hath followed you, with all despite;\n" + " Give him deserved vexation. Let a guard\n" + " Attend us through the city.\n\n" + "Citizens Come, come; let's see him out at gates; come.\n" + " The gods preserve our noble tribunes! Come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. Before a gate of the city.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS, VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, MENENIUS,\n" + " COMINIUS, with the young Nobility of Rome]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Come, leave your tears: a brief farewell: the beast\n" + " With many heads butts me away. Nay, mother,\n" + " Where is your ancient courage? you were used\n" + " To say extremity was the trier of spirits;\n" + " That common chances common men could bear;\n" + " That when the sea was calm all boats alike\n" + " Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's blows,\n" + " When most struck home, being gentle wounded, craves\n" + " A noble cunning: you were used to load me\n" + " With precepts that would make invincible\n" + " The heart that conn'd them.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA O heavens! O heavens!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Nay! prithee, woman,--\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Now the red pestilence strike all trades in Rome,\n" + " And occupations perish!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What, what, what!\n" + " I shall be loved when I am lack'd. Nay, mother.\n" + " Resume that spirit, when you were wont to say,\n" + " If you had been the wife of Hercules,\n" + " Six of his labours you'ld have done, and saved\n" + " Your husband so much sweat. Cominius,\n" + " Droop not; adieu. Farewell, my wife, my mother:\n" + " I'll do well yet. Thou old and true Menenius,\n" + " Thy tears are salter than a younger man's,\n" + " And venomous to thine eyes. My sometime general,\n" + " I have seen thee stem, and thou hast oft beheld\n" + " Heart-hardening spectacles; tell these sad women\n" + " 'Tis fond to wail inevitable strokes,\n" + " As 'tis to laugh at 'em. My mother, you wot well\n" + " My hazards still have been your solace: and\n" + " Believe't not lightly--though I go alone,\n" + " Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen\n" + " Makes fear'd and talk'd of more than seen--your son\n" + " Will or exceed the common or be caught\n" + " With cautelous baits and practise.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA My first son.\n" + " Whither wilt thou go? Take good Cominius\n" + " With thee awhile: determine on some course,\n" + " More than a wild exposture to each chance\n" + " That starts i' the way before thee.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS O the gods!\n\n" + "COMINIUS I'll follow thee a month, devise with thee\n" + " Where thou shalt rest, that thou mayst hear of us\n" + " And we of thee: so if the time thrust forth\n" + " A cause for thy repeal, we shall not send\n" + " O'er the vast world to seek a single man,\n" + " And lose advantage, which doth ever cool\n" + " I' the absence of the needer.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Fare ye well:\n" + " Thou hast years upon thee; and thou art too full\n" + " Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one\n" + " That's yet unbruised: bring me but out at gate.\n" + " Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, and\n" + " My friends of noble touch, when I am forth,\n" + " Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, come.\n" + " While I remain above the ground, you shall\n" + " Hear from me still, and never of me aught\n" + " But what is like me formerly.\n\n" + "MENENIUS That's worthily\n" + " As any ear can hear. Come, let's not weep.\n" + " If I could shake off but one seven years\n" + " From these old arms and legs, by the good gods,\n" + " I'ld with thee every foot.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Give me thy hand: Come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. A street near the gate.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SICINIUS, BRUTUS, and an AEdile]\n\n" + "SICINIUS Bid them all home; he's gone, and we'll no further.\n" + " The nobility are vex'd, whom we see have sided\n" + " In his behalf.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Now we have shown our power,\n" + " Let us seem humbler after it is done\n" + " Than when it was a-doing.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Bid them home:\n" + " Say their great enemy is gone, and they\n" + " Stand in their ancient strength.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Dismiss them home.\n\n" + " [Exit AEdile]\n\n" + " Here comes his mother.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Let's not meet her.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why?\n\n" + "SICINIUS They say she's mad.\n\n" + "BRUTUS They have ta'en note of us: keep on your way.\n\n" + " [Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and MENENIUS]\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA O, ye're well met: the hoarded plague o' the gods\n" + " Requite your love!\n\n" + "MENENIUS Peace, peace; be not so loud.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA If that I could for weeping, you should hear,--\n" + " Nay, and you shall hear some.\n\n" + " [To BRUTUS]\n\n" + " Will you be gone?\n\n" + "VIRGILIA [To SICINIUS] You shall stay too: I would I had the power\n" + " To say so to my husband.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Are you mankind?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Ay, fool; is that a shame? Note but this fool.\n" + " Was not a man my father? Hadst thou foxship\n" + " To banish him that struck more blows for Rome\n" + " Than thou hast spoken words?\n\n" + "SICINIUS O blessed heavens!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA More noble blows than ever thou wise words;\n" + " And for Rome's good. I'll tell thee what; yet go:\n" + " Nay, but thou shalt stay too: I would my son\n" + " Were in Arabia, and thy tribe before him,\n" + " His good sword in his hand.\n\n" + "SICINIUS What then?\n\n" + "VIRGILIA What then!\n" + " He'ld make an end of thy posterity.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Bastards and all.\n" + " Good man, the wounds that he does bear for Rome!\n\n" + "MENENIUS Come, come, peace.\n\n" + "SICINIUS I would he had continued to his country\n" + " As he began, and not unknit himself\n" + " The noble knot he made.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I would he had.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA 'I would he had'! 'Twas you incensed the rabble:\n" + " Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth\n" + " As I can of those mysteries which heaven\n" + " Will not have earth to know.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Pray, let us go.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Now, pray, sir, get you gone:\n" + " You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, hear this:--\n" + " As far as doth the Capitol exceed\n" + " The meanest house in Rome, so far my son--\n" + " This lady's husband here, this, do you see--\n" + " Whom you have banish'd, does exceed you all.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Well, well, we'll leave you.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Why stay we to be baited\n" + " With one that wants her wits?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Take my prayers with you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Tribunes]\n\n" + " I would the gods had nothing else to do\n" + " But to confirm my curses! Could I meet 'em\n" + " But once a-day, it would unclog my heart\n" + " Of what lies heavy to't.\n\n" + "MENENIUS You have told them home;\n" + " And, by my troth, you have cause. You'll sup with me?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,\n" + " And so shall starve with feeding. Come, let's go:\n" + " Leave this faint puling and lament as I do,\n" + " In anger, Juno-like. Come, come, come.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Fie, fie, fie!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A highway between Rome and Antium.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Roman and a Volsce, meeting]\n\n" + "Roman I know you well, sir, and you know\n" + " me: your name, I think, is Adrian.\n\n" + "Volsce It is so, sir: truly, I have forgot you.\n\n" + "Roman I am a Roman; and my services are,\n" + " as you are, against 'em: know you me yet?\n\n" + "Volsce Nicanor? no.\n\n" + "Roman The same, sir.\n\n" + "Volsce You had more beard when I last saw you; but your\n" + " favour is well approved by your tongue. What's the\n" + " news in Rome? I have a note from the Volscian state,\n" + " to find you out there: you have well saved me a\n" + " day's journey.\n\n" + "Roman There hath been in Rome strange insurrections; the\n" + " people against the senators, patricians, and nobles.\n\n" + "Volsce Hath been! is it ended, then? Our state thinks not\n" + " so: they are in a most warlike preparation, and\n" + " hope to come upon them in the heat of their division.\n\n" + "Roman The main blaze of it is past, but a small thing\n" + " would make it flame again: for the nobles receive\n" + " so to heart the banishment of that worthy\n" + " Coriolanus, that they are in a ripe aptness to take\n" + " all power from the people and to pluck from them\n" + " their tribunes for ever. This lies glowing, I can\n" + " tell you, and is almost mature for the violent\n" + " breaking out.\n\n" + "Volsce Coriolanus banished!\n\n" + "Roman Banished, sir.\n\n" + "Volsce You will be welcome with this intelligence, Nicanor.\n\n" + "Roman The day serves well for them now. I have heard it\n" + " said, the fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is\n" + " when she's fallen out with her husband. Your noble\n" + " Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his\n" + " great opposer, Coriolanus, being now in no request\n" + " of his country.\n\n" + "Volsce He cannot choose. I am most fortunate, thus\n" + " accidentally to encounter you: you have ended my\n" + " business, and I will merrily accompany you home.\n\n" + "Roman I shall, between this and supper, tell you most\n" + " strange things from Rome; all tending to the good of\n" + " their adversaries. Have you an army ready, say you?\n\n" + "Volsce A most royal one; the centurions and their charges,\n" + " distinctly billeted, already in the entertainment,\n" + " and to be on foot at an hour's warning.\n\n" + "Roman I am joyful to hear of their readiness, and am the\n" + " man, I think, that shall set them in present action.\n" + " So, sir, heartily well met, and most glad of your company.\n\n" + "Volsce You take my part from me, sir; I have the most cause\n" + " to be glad of yours.\n\n" + "Roman Well, let us go together.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Antium. Before Aufidius's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS in mean apparel, disguised\n" + " and muffled]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS A goodly city is this Antium. City,\n" + " 'Tis I that made thy widows: many an heir\n" + " Of these fair edifices 'fore my wars\n" + " Have I heard groan and drop: then know me not,\n" + " Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones\n" + " In puny battle slay me.\n\n" + " [Enter a Citizen]\n\n" + " Save you, sir.\n\n" + "Citizen And you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Direct me, if it be your will,\n" + " Where great Aufidius lies: is he in Antium?\n\n" + "Citizen He is, and feasts the nobles of the state\n" + " At his house this night.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Which is his house, beseech you?\n\n" + "Citizen This, here before you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Thank you, sir: farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit Citizen]\n\n" + " O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn,\n" + " Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart,\n" + " Whose house, whose bed, whose meal, and exercise,\n" + " Are still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love\n" + " Unseparable, shall within this hour,\n" + " On a dissension of a doit, break out\n" + " To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes,\n" + " Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep,\n" + " To take the one the other, by some chance,\n" + " Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends\n" + " And interjoin their issues. So with me:\n" + " My birth-place hate I, and my love's upon\n" + " This enemy town. I'll enter: if he slay me,\n" + " He does fair justice; if he give me way,\n" + " I'll do his country service.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same. A hall in Aufidius's house.\n\n\n" + " [Music within. Enter a Servingman]\n\n" + "First Servingman Wine, wine, wine! What service\n" + " is here! I think our fellows are asleep.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter a second Servingman]\n\n" + "Second Servingman Where's Cotus? my master calls\n" + " for him. Cotus!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS A goodly house: the feast smells well; but I\n" + " Appear not like a guest.\n\n" + " [Re-enter the first Servingman]\n\n" + "First Servingman What would you have, friend? whence are you?\n" + " Here's no place for you: pray, go to the door.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I have deserved no better entertainment,\n" + " In being Coriolanus.\n\n" + " [Re-enter second Servingman]\n\n" + "Second Servingman Whence are you, sir? Has the porter his eyes in his\n" + " head; that he gives entrance to such companions?\n" + " Pray, get you out.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Away!\n\n" + "Second Servingman Away! get you away.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Now thou'rt troublesome.\n\n" + "Second Servingman Are you so brave? I'll have you talked with anon.\n\n" + " [Enter a third Servingman. The first meets him]\n\n" + "Third Servingman What fellow's this?\n\n" + "First Servingman A strange one as ever I looked on: I cannot get him\n" + " out of the house: prithee, call my master to him.\n\n" + " [Retires]\n\n" + "Third Servingman What have you to do here, fellow? Pray you, avoid\n" + " the house.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Let me but stand; I will not hurt your hearth.\n\n" + "Third Servingman What are you?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS A gentleman.\n\n" + "Third Servingman A marvellous poor one.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS True, so I am.\n\n" + "Third Servingman Pray you, poor gentleman, take up some other\n" + " station; here's no place for you; pray you, avoid: come.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Follow your function, go, and batten on cold bits.\n\n" + " [Pushes him away]\n\n" + "Third Servingman What, you will not? Prithee, tell my master what a\n" + " strange guest he has here.\n\n" + "Second Servingman And I shall.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Third Servingman Where dwellest thou?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Under the canopy.\n\n" + "Third Servingman Under the canopy!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Ay.\n\n" + "Third Servingman Where's that?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I' the city of kites and crows.\n\n" + "Third Servingman I' the city of kites and crows! What an ass it is!\n" + " Then thou dwellest with daws too?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS No, I serve not thy master.\n\n" + "Third Servingman How, sir! do you meddle with my master?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Ay; 'tis an honester service than to meddle with thy\n" + " mistress. Thou pratest, and pratest; serve with thy\n" + " trencher, hence!\n\n" + " [Beats him away. Exit third Servingman]\n\n" + " [Enter AUFIDIUS with the second Servingman]\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Where is this fellow?\n\n" + "Second Servingman Here, sir: I'ld have beaten him like a dog, but for\n" + " disturbing the lords within.\n\n" + " [Retires]\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Whence comest thou? what wouldst thou? thy name?\n" + " Why speak'st not? speak, man: what's thy name?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS If, Tullus,\n\n" + " [Unmuffling]\n\n" + " Not yet thou knowest me, and, seeing me, dost not\n" + " Think me for the man I am, necessity\n" + " Commands me name myself.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS What is thy name?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,\n" + " And harsh in sound to thine.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Say, what's thy name?\n" + " Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face\n" + " Bears a command in't; though thy tackle's torn.\n" + " Thou show'st a noble vessel: what's thy name?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Prepare thy brow to frown: know'st\n" + " thou me yet?\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS I know thee not: thy name?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS My name is Caius Marcius, who hath done\n" + " To thee particularly and to all the Volsces\n" + " Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness may\n" + " My surname, Coriolanus: the painful service,\n" + " The extreme dangers and the drops of blood\n" + " Shed for my thankless country are requited\n" + " But with that surname; a good memory,\n" + " And witness of the malice and displeasure\n" + " Which thou shouldst bear me: only that name remains;\n" + " The cruelty and envy of the people,\n" + " Permitted by our dastard nobles, who\n" + " Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest;\n" + " And suffer'd me by the voice of slaves to be\n" + " Whoop'd out of Rome. Now this extremity\n" + " Hath brought me to thy hearth; not out of hope--\n" + " Mistake me not--to save my life, for if\n" + " I had fear'd death, of all the men i' the world\n" + " I would have 'voided thee, but in mere spite,\n" + " To be full quit of those my banishers,\n" + " Stand I before thee here. Then if thou hast\n" + " A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge\n" + " Thine own particular wrongs and stop those maims\n" + " Of shame seen through thy country, speed\n" + " thee straight,\n" + " And make my misery serve thy turn: so use it\n" + " That my revengeful services may prove\n" + " As benefits to thee, for I will fight\n" + " Against my canker'd country with the spleen\n" + " Of all the under fiends. But if so be\n" + " Thou darest not this and that to prove more fortunes\n" + " Thou'rt tired, then, in a word, I also am\n" + " Longer to live most weary, and present\n" + " My throat to thee and to thy ancient malice;\n" + " Which not to cut would show thee but a fool,\n" + " Since I have ever follow'd thee with hate,\n" + " Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast,\n" + " And cannot live but to thy shame, unless\n" + " It be to do thee service.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS O Marcius, Marcius!\n" + " Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart\n" + " A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter\n" + " Should from yond cloud speak divine things,\n" + " And say 'Tis true,' I'ld not believe them more\n" + " Than thee, all noble Marcius. Let me twine\n" + " Mine arms about that body, where against\n" + " My grained ash an hundred times hath broke\n" + " And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip\n" + " The anvil of my sword, and do contest\n" + " As hotly and as nobly with thy love\n" + " As ever in ambitious strength I did\n" + " Contend against thy valour. Know thou first,\n" + " I loved the maid I married; never man\n" + " Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here,\n" + " Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart\n" + " Than when I first my wedded mistress saw\n" + " Bestride my threshold. Why, thou Mars! I tell thee,\n" + " We have a power on foot; and I had purpose\n" + " Once more to hew thy target from thy brawn,\n" + " Or lose mine arm fort: thou hast beat me out\n" + " Twelve several times, and I have nightly since\n" + " Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me;\n" + " We have been down together in my sleep,\n" + " Unbuckling helms, fisting each other's throat,\n" + " And waked half dead with nothing. Worthy Marcius,\n" + " Had we no quarrel else to Rome, but that\n" + " Thou art thence banish'd, we would muster all\n" + " From twelve to seventy, and pouring war\n" + " Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome,\n" + " Like a bold flood o'er-bear. O, come, go in,\n" + " And take our friendly senators by the hands;\n" + " Who now are here, taking their leaves of me,\n" + " Who am prepared against your territories,\n" + " Though not for Rome itself.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS You bless me, gods!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Therefore, most absolute sir, if thou wilt have\n" + " The leading of thine own revenges, take\n" + " The one half of my commission; and set down--\n" + " As best thou art experienced, since thou know'st\n" + " Thy country's strength and weakness,--thine own ways;\n" + " Whether to knock against the gates of Rome,\n" + " Or rudely visit them in parts remote,\n" + " To fright them, ere destroy. But come in:\n" + " Let me commend thee first to those that shall\n" + " Say yea to thy desires. A thousand welcomes!\n" + " And more a friend than e'er an enemy;\n" + " Yet, Marcius, that was much. Your hand: most welcome!\n\n" + " [Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS. The two\n" + " Servingmen come forward]\n\n" + "First Servingman Here's a strange alteration!\n\n" + "Second Servingman By my hand, I had thought to have strucken him with\n" + " a cudgel; and yet my mind gave me his clothes made a\n" + " false report of him.\n\n" + "First Servingman What an arm he has! he turned me about with his\n" + " finger and his thumb, as one would set up a top.\n\n" + "Second Servingman Nay, I knew by his face that there was something in\n" + " him: he had, sir, a kind of face, methought,--I\n" + " cannot tell how to term it.\n\n" + "First Servingman He had so; looking as it were--would I were hanged,\n" + " but I thought there was more in him than I could think.\n\n" + "Second Servingman So did I, I'll be sworn: he is simply the rarest\n" + " man i' the world.\n\n" + "First Servingman I think he is: but a greater soldier than he you wot on.\n\n" + "Second Servingman Who, my master?\n\n" + "First Servingman Nay, it's no matter for that.\n\n" + "Second Servingman Worth six on him.\n\n" + "First Servingman Nay, not so neither: but I take him to be the\n" + " greater soldier.\n\n" + "Second Servingman Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that:\n" + " for the defence of a town, our general is excellent.\n\n" + "First Servingman Ay, and for an assault too.\n\n" + " [Re-enter third Servingman]\n\n" + "Third Servingman O slaves, I can tell you news,-- news, you rascals!\n\n\n" + "First Servingman |\n" + " | What, what, what? let's partake.\n" + "Second Servingman |\n\n\n" + "Third Servingman I would not be a Roman, of all nations; I had as\n" + " lieve be a condemned man.\n\n\n" + "First Servingman |\n" + " | Wherefore? wherefore?\n" + "Second Servingman |\n\n\n" + "Third Servingman Why, here's he that was wont to thwack our general,\n" + " Caius Marcius.\n\n" + "First Servingman Why do you say 'thwack our general '?\n\n" + "Third Servingman I do not say 'thwack our general;' but he was always\n" + " good enough for him.\n\n" + "Second Servingman Come, we are fellows and friends: he was ever too\n" + " hard for him; I have heard him say so himself.\n\n" + "First Servingman He was too hard for him directly, to say the troth\n" + " on't: before Corioli he scotched him and notched\n" + " him like a carbon ado.\n\n" + "Second Servingman An he had been cannibally given, he might have\n" + " broiled and eaten him too.\n\n" + "First Servingman But, more of thy news?\n\n" + "Third Servingman Why, he is so made on here within, as if he were son\n" + " and heir to Mars; set at upper end o' the table; no\n" + " question asked him by any of the senators, but they\n" + " stand bald before him: our general himself makes a\n" + " mistress of him: sanctifies himself with's hand and\n" + " turns up the white o' the eye to his discourse. But\n" + " the bottom of the news is that our general is cut i'\n" + " the middle and but one half of what he was\n" + " yesterday; for the other has half, by the entreaty\n" + " and grant of the whole table. He'll go, he says,\n" + " and sowl the porter of Rome gates by the ears: he\n" + " will mow all down before him, and leave his passage polled.\n\n" + "Second Servingman And he's as like to do't as any man I can imagine.\n\n" + "Third Servingman Do't! he will do't; for, look you, sir, he has as\n" + " many friends as enemies; which friends, sir, as it\n" + " were, durst not, look you, sir, show themselves, as\n" + " we term it, his friends whilst he's in directitude.\n\n" + "First Servingman Directitude! what's that?\n\n" + "Third Servingman But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again,\n" + " and the man in blood, they will out of their\n" + " burrows, like conies after rain, and revel all with\n" + " him.\n\n" + "First Servingman But when goes this forward?\n\n" + "Third Servingman To-morrow; to-day; presently; you shall have the\n" + " drum struck up this afternoon: 'tis, as it were, a\n" + " parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they\n" + " wipe their lips.\n\n" + "Second Servingman Why, then we shall have a stirring world again.\n" + " This peace is nothing, but to rust iron, increase\n" + " tailors, and breed ballad-makers.\n\n" + "First Servingman Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as\n" + " day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and\n" + " full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;\n" + " mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more\n" + " bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.\n\n" + "Second Servingman 'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to\n" + " be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a\n" + " great maker of cuckolds.\n\n" + "First Servingman Ay, and it makes men hate one another.\n\n" + "Third Servingman Reason; because they then less need one another.\n" + " The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans as cheap\n" + " as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising.\n\n" + "All In, in, in, in!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Rome. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SICINIUS and BRUTUS]\n\n" + "SICINIUS We hear not of him, neither need we fear him;\n" + " His remedies are tame i' the present peace\n" + " And quietness of the people, which before\n" + " Were in wild hurry. Here do we make his friends\n" + " Blush that the world goes well, who rather had,\n" + " Though they themselves did suffer by't, behold\n" + " Dissentious numbers pestering streets than see\n" + " Our tradesmen with in their shops and going\n" + " About their functions friendly.\n\n" + "BRUTUS We stood to't in good time.\n\n" + " [Enter MENENIUS]\n\n" + " Is this Menenius?\n\n" + "SICINIUS 'Tis he,'tis he: O, he is grown most kind of late.\n\n" + "Both Tribunes Hail sir!\n\n" + "MENENIUS Hail to you both!\n\n" + "SICINIUS Your Coriolanus\n" + " Is not much miss'd, but with his friends:\n" + " The commonwealth doth stand, and so would do,\n" + " Were he more angry at it.\n\n" + "MENENIUS All's well; and might have been much better, if\n" + " He could have temporized.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Where is he, hear you?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Nay, I hear nothing: his mother and his wife\n" + " Hear nothing from him.\n\n" + " [Enter three or four Citizens]\n\n" + "Citizens The gods preserve you both!\n\n" + "SICINIUS God-den, our neighbours.\n\n" + "BRUTUS God-den to you all, god-den to you all.\n\n" + "First Citizen Ourselves, our wives, and children, on our knees,\n" + " Are bound to pray for you both.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Live, and thrive!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Farewell, kind neighbours: we wish'd Coriolanus\n" + " Had loved you as we did.\n\n" + "Citizens Now the gods keep you!\n\n" + "Both Tribunes Farewell, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Citizens]\n\n" + "SICINIUS This is a happier and more comely time\n" + " Than when these fellows ran about the streets,\n" + " Crying confusion.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Caius Marcius was\n" + " A worthy officer i' the war; but insolent,\n" + " O'ercome with pride, ambitious past all thinking,\n" + " Self-loving,--\n\n" + "SICINIUS And affecting one sole throne,\n" + " Without assistance.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I think not so.\n\n" + "SICINIUS We should by this, to all our lamentation,\n" + " If he had gone forth consul, found it so.\n\n" + "BRUTUS The gods have well prevented it, and Rome\n" + " Sits safe and still without him.\n\n" + " [Enter an AEdile]\n\n" + "AEdile Worthy tribunes,\n" + " There is a slave, whom we have put in prison,\n" + " Reports, the Volsces with two several powers\n" + " Are enter'd in the Roman territories,\n" + " And with the deepest malice of the war\n" + " Destroy what lies before 'em.\n\n" + "MENENIUS 'Tis Aufidius,\n" + " Who, hearing of our Marcius' banishment,\n" + " Thrusts forth his horns again into the world;\n" + " Which were inshell'd when Marcius stood for Rome,\n" + " And durst not once peep out.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Come, what talk you\n" + " Of Marcius?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Go see this rumourer whipp'd. It cannot be\n" + " The Volsces dare break with us.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Cannot be!\n" + " We have record that very well it can,\n" + " And three examples of the like have been\n" + " Within my age. But reason with the fellow,\n" + " Before you punish him, where he heard this,\n" + " Lest you shall chance to whip your information\n" + " And beat the messenger who bids beware\n" + " Of what is to be dreaded.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Tell not me:\n" + " I know this cannot be.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Not possible.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger The nobles in great earnestness are going\n" + " All to the senate-house: some news is come\n" + " That turns their countenances.\n\n" + "SICINIUS 'Tis this slave;--\n" + " Go whip him, 'fore the people's eyes:--his raising;\n" + " Nothing but his report.\n\n" + "Messenger Yes, worthy sir,\n" + " The slave's report is seconded; and more,\n" + " More fearful, is deliver'd.\n\n" + "SICINIUS What more fearful?\n\n" + "Messenger It is spoke freely out of many mouths--\n" + " How probable I do not know--that Marcius,\n" + " Join'd with Aufidius, leads a power 'gainst Rome,\n" + " And vows revenge as spacious as between\n" + " The young'st and oldest thing.\n\n" + "SICINIUS This is most likely!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Raised only, that the weaker sort may wish\n" + " Good Marcius home again.\n\n" + "SICINIUS The very trick on't.\n\n" + "MENENIUS This is unlikely:\n" + " He and Aufidius can no more atone\n" + " Than violentest contrariety.\n\n" + " [Enter a second Messenger]\n\n" + "Second Messenger You are sent for to the senate:\n" + " A fearful army, led by Caius Marcius\n" + " Associated with Aufidius, rages\n" + " Upon our territories; and have already\n" + " O'erborne their way, consumed with fire, and took\n" + " What lay before them.\n\n" + " [Enter COMINIUS]\n\n" + "COMINIUS O, you have made good work!\n\n" + "MENENIUS What news? what news?\n\n" + "COMINIUS You have holp to ravish your own daughters and\n" + " To melt the city leads upon your pates,\n" + " To see your wives dishonour'd to your noses,--\n\n" + "MENENIUS What's the news? what's the news?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Your temples burned in their cement, and\n" + " Your franchises, whereon you stood, confined\n" + " Into an auger's bore.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Pray now, your news?\n" + " You have made fair work, I fear me.--Pray, your news?--\n" + " If Marcius should be join'd with Volscians,--\n\n" + "COMINIUS If!\n" + " He is their god: he leads them like a thing\n" + " Made by some other deity than nature,\n" + " That shapes man better; and they follow him,\n" + " Against us brats, with no less confidence\n" + " Than boys pursuing summer butterflies,\n" + " Or butchers killing flies.\n\n" + "MENENIUS You have made good work,\n" + " You and your apron-men; you that stood so up much\n" + " on the voice of occupation and\n" + " The breath of garlic-eaters!\n\n" + "COMINIUS He will shake\n" + " Your Rome about your ears.\n\n" + "MENENIUS As Hercules\n" + " Did shake down mellow fruit.\n" + " You have made fair work!\n\n" + "BRUTUS But is this true, sir?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Ay; and you'll look pale\n" + " Before you find it other. All the regions\n" + " Do smilingly revolt; and who resist\n" + " Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,\n" + " And perish constant fools. Who is't can blame him?\n" + " Your enemies and his find something in him.\n\n" + "MENENIUS We are all undone, unless\n" + " The noble man have mercy.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Who shall ask it?\n" + " The tribunes cannot do't for shame; the people\n" + " Deserve such pity of him as the wolf\n" + " Does of the shepherds: for his best friends, if they\n" + " Should say 'Be good to Rome,' they charged him even\n" + " As those should do that had deserved his hate,\n" + " And therein show'd like enemies.\n\n" + "MENENIUS 'Tis true:\n" + " If he were putting to my house the brand\n" + " That should consume it, I have not the face\n" + " To say 'Beseech you, cease.' You have made fair hands,\n" + " You and your crafts! you have crafted fair!\n\n" + "COMINIUS You have brought\n" + " A trembling upon Rome, such as was never\n" + " So incapable of help.\n\n" + "Both Tribunes Say not we brought it.\n\n" + "MENENIUS How! Was it we? we loved him but, like beasts\n" + " And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters,\n" + " Who did hoot him out o' the city.\n\n" + "COMINIUS But I fear\n" + " They'll roar him in again. Tullus Aufidius,\n" + " The second name of men, obeys his points\n" + " As if he were his officer: desperation\n" + " Is all the policy, strength and defence,\n" + " That Rome can make against them.\n\n" + " [Enter a troop of Citizens]\n\n" + "MENENIUS Here come the clusters.\n" + " And is Aufidius with him? You are they\n" + " That made the air unwholesome, when you cast\n" + " Your stinking greasy caps in hooting at\n" + " Coriolanus' exile. Now he's coming;\n" + " And not a hair upon a soldier's head\n" + " Which will not prove a whip: as many coxcombs\n" + " As you threw caps up will he tumble down,\n" + " And pay you for your voices. 'Tis no matter;\n" + " if he could burn us all into one coal,\n" + " We have deserved it.\n\n" + "Citizens Faith, we hear fearful news.\n\n" + "First Citizen For mine own part,\n" + " When I said, banish him, I said 'twas pity.\n\n" + "Second Citizen And so did I.\n\n" + "Third Citizen And so did I; and, to say the truth, so did very\n" + " many of us: that we did, we did for the best; and\n" + " though we willingly consented to his banishment, yet\n" + " it was against our will.\n\n" + "COMINIUS Ye re goodly things, you voices!\n\n" + "MENENIUS You have made\n" + " Good work, you and your cry! Shall's to the Capitol?\n\n" + "COMINIUS O, ay, what else?\n\n" + " [Exeunt COMINIUS and MENENIUS]\n\n" + "SICINIUS Go, masters, get you home; be not dismay'd:\n" + " These are a side that would be glad to have\n" + " This true which they so seem to fear. Go home,\n" + " And show no sign of fear.\n\n" + "First Citizen The gods be good to us! Come, masters, let's home.\n" + " I ever said we were i' the wrong when we banished\n" + " him.\n\n" + "Second Citizen So did we all. But, come, let's home.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Citizens]\n\n" + "BRUTUS I do not like this news.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Nor I.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Let's to the Capitol. Would half my wealth\n" + " Would buy this for a lie!\n\n" + "SICINIUS Pray, let us go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII A camp, at a small distance from Rome.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AUFIDIUS and his Lieutenant]\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Do they still fly to the Roman?\n\n" + "Lieutenant I do not know what witchcraft's in him, but\n" + " Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore meat,\n" + " Their talk at table, and their thanks at end;\n" + " And you are darken'd in this action, sir,\n" + " Even by your own.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS I cannot help it now,\n" + " Unless, by using means, I lame the foot\n" + " Of our design. He bears himself more proudlier,\n" + " Even to my person, than I thought he would\n" + " When first I did embrace him: yet his nature\n" + " In that's no changeling; and I must excuse\n" + " What cannot be amended.\n\n" + "Lieutenant Yet I wish, sir,--\n" + " I mean for your particular,--you had not\n" + " Join'd in commission with him; but either\n" + " Had borne the action of yourself, or else\n" + " To him had left it solely.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS I understand thee well; and be thou sure,\n" + " when he shall come to his account, he knows not\n" + " What I can urge against him. Although it seems,\n" + " And so he thinks, and is no less apparent\n" + " To the vulgar eye, that he bears all things fairly.\n" + " And shows good husbandry for the Volscian state,\n" + " Fights dragon-like, and does achieve as soon\n" + " As draw his sword; yet he hath left undone\n" + " That which shall break his neck or hazard mine,\n" + " Whene'er we come to our account.\n\n" + "Lieutenant Sir, I beseech you, think you he'll carry Rome?\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS All places yield to him ere he sits down;\n" + " And the nobility of Rome are his:\n" + " The senators and patricians love him too:\n" + " The tribunes are no soldiers; and their people\n" + " Will be as rash in the repeal, as hasty\n" + " To expel him thence. I think he'll be to Rome\n" + " As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it\n" + " By sovereignty of nature. First he was\n" + " A noble servant to them; but he could not\n" + " Carry his honours even: whether 'twas pride,\n" + " Which out of daily fortune ever taints\n" + " The happy man; whether defect of judgment,\n" + " To fail in the disposing of those chances\n" + " Which he was lord of; or whether nature,\n" + " Not to be other than one thing, not moving\n" + " From the casque to the cushion, but commanding peace\n" + " Even with the same austerity and garb\n" + " As he controll'd the war; but one of these--\n" + " As he hath spices of them all, not all,\n" + " For I dare so far free him--made him fear'd,\n" + " So hated, and so banish'd: but he has a merit,\n" + " To choke it in the utterance. So our virtues\n" + " Lie in the interpretation of the time:\n" + " And power, unto itself most commendable,\n" + " Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair\n" + " To extol what it hath done.\n" + " One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;\n" + " Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.\n" + " Come, let's away. When, Caius, Rome is thine,\n" + " Thou art poor'st of all; then shortly art thou mine.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MENENIUS, COMINIUS, SICINIUS, BRUTUS,\n" + " and others]\n\n" + "MENENIUS No, I'll not go: you hear what he hath said\n" + " Which was sometime his general; who loved him\n" + " In a most dear particular. He call'd me father:\n" + " But what o' that? Go, you that banish'd him;\n" + " A mile before his tent fall down, and knee\n" + " The way into his mercy: nay, if he coy'd\n" + " To hear Cominius speak, I'll keep at home.\n\n" + "COMINIUS He would not seem to know me.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Do you hear?\n\n" + "COMINIUS Yet one time he did call me by my name:\n" + " I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops\n" + " That we have bled together. Coriolanus\n" + " He would not answer to: forbad all names;\n" + " He was a kind of nothing, titleless,\n" + " Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire\n" + " Of burning Rome.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Why, so: you have made good work!\n" + " A pair of tribunes that have rack'd for Rome,\n" + " To make coals cheap,--a noble memory!\n\n" + "COMINIUS I minded him how royal 'twas to pardon\n" + " When it was less expected: he replied,\n" + " It was a bare petition of a state\n" + " To one whom they had punish'd.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Very well:\n" + " Could he say less?\n\n" + "COMINIUS I offer'd to awaken his regard\n" + " For's private friends: his answer to me was,\n" + " He could not stay to pick them in a pile\n" + " Of noisome musty chaff: he said 'twas folly,\n" + " For one poor grain or two, to leave unburnt,\n" + " And still to nose the offence.\n\n" + "MENENIUS For one poor grain or two!\n" + " I am one of those; his mother, wife, his child,\n" + " And this brave fellow too, we are the grains:\n" + " You are the musty chaff; and you are smelt\n" + " Above the moon: we must be burnt for you.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Nay, pray, be patient: if you refuse your aid\n" + " In this so never-needed help, yet do not\n" + " Upbraid's with our distress. But, sure, if you\n" + " Would be your country's pleader, your good tongue,\n" + " More than the instant army we can make,\n" + " Might stop our countryman.\n\n" + "MENENIUS No, I'll not meddle.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Pray you, go to him.\n\n" + "MENENIUS What should I do?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Only make trial what your love can do\n" + " For Rome, towards Marcius.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Well, and say that Marcius\n" + " Return me, as Cominius is return'd,\n" + " Unheard; what then?\n" + " But as a discontented friend, grief-shot\n" + " With his unkindness? say't be so?\n\n" + "SICINIUS Yet your good will\n" + " must have that thanks from Rome, after the measure\n" + " As you intended well.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I'll undertake 't:\n" + " I think he'll hear me. Yet, to bite his lip\n" + " And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts me.\n" + " He was not taken well; he had not dined:\n" + " The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then\n" + " We pout upon the morning, are unapt\n" + " To give or to forgive; but when we have stuff'd\n" + " These and these conveyances of our blood\n" + " With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls\n" + " Than in our priest-like fasts: therefore I'll watch him\n" + " Till he be dieted to my request,\n" + " And then I'll set upon him.\n\n" + "BRUTUS You know the very road into his kindness,\n" + " And cannot lose your way.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Good faith, I'll prove him,\n" + " Speed how it will. I shall ere long have knowledge\n" + " Of my success.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "COMINIUS He'll never hear him.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Not?\n\n" + "COMINIUS I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye\n" + " Red as 'twould burn Rome; and his injury\n" + " The gaoler to his pity. I kneel'd before him;\n" + " 'Twas very faintly he said 'Rise;' dismiss'd me\n" + " Thus, with his speechless hand: what he would do,\n" + " He sent in writing after me; what he would not,\n" + " Bound with an oath to yield to his conditions:\n" + " So that all hope is vain.\n" + " Unless his noble mother, and his wife;\n" + " Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him\n" + " For mercy to his country. Therefore, let's hence,\n" + " And with our fair entreaties haste them on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Entrance of the Volscian camp before Rome.\n" + " Two Sentinels on guard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter to them, MENENIUS]\n\n" + "First Senator Stay: whence are you?\n\n" + "Second Senator Stand, and go back.\n\n" + "MENENIUS You guard like men; 'tis well: but, by your leave,\n" + " I am an officer of state, and come\n" + " To speak with Coriolanus.\n\n" + "First Senator From whence?\n\n" + "MENENIUS From Rome.\n\n" + "First Senator You may not pass, you must return: our general\n" + " Will no more hear from thence.\n\n" + "Second Senator You'll see your Rome embraced with fire before\n" + " You'll speak with Coriolanus.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Good my friends,\n" + " If you have heard your general talk of Rome,\n" + " And of his friends there, it is lots to blanks,\n" + " My name hath touch'd your ears it is Menenius.\n\n" + "First Senator Be it so; go back: the virtue of your name\n" + " Is not here passable.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I tell thee, fellow,\n" + " The general is my lover: I have been\n" + " The book of his good acts, whence men have read\n" + " His name unparallel'd, haply amplified;\n" + " For I have ever verified my friends,\n" + " Of whom he's chief, with all the size that verity\n" + " Would without lapsing suffer: nay, sometimes,\n" + " Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground,\n" + " I have tumbled past the throw; and in his praise\n" + " Have almost stamp'd the leasing: therefore, fellow,\n" + " I must have leave to pass.\n\n" + "First Senator Faith, sir, if you had told as many lies in his\n" + " behalf as you have uttered words in your own, you\n" + " should not pass here; no, though it were as virtuous\n" + " to lie as to live chastely. Therefore, go back.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Prithee, fellow, remember my name is Menenius,\n" + " always factionary on the party of your general.\n\n" + "Second Senator Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you\n" + " have, I am one that, telling true under him, must\n" + " say, you cannot pass. Therefore, go back.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Has he dined, canst thou tell? for I would not\n" + " speak with him till after dinner.\n\n" + "First Senator You are a Roman, are you?\n\n" + "MENENIUS I am, as thy general is.\n\n" + "First Senator Then you should hate Rome, as he does. Can you,\n" + " when you have pushed out your gates the very\n" + " defender of them, and, in a violent popular\n" + " ignorance, given your enemy your shield, think to\n" + " front his revenges with the easy groans of old\n" + " women, the virginal palms of your daughters, or with\n" + " the palsied intercession of such a decayed dotant as\n" + " you seem to be? Can you think to blow out the\n" + " intended fire your city is ready to flame in, with\n" + " such weak breath as this? No, you are deceived;\n" + " therefore, back to Rome, and prepare for your\n" + " execution: you are condemned, our general has sworn\n" + " you out of reprieve and pardon.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Sirrah, if thy captain knew I were here, he would\n" + " use me with estimation.\n\n" + "Second Senator Come, my captain knows you not.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I mean, thy general.\n\n" + "First Senator My general cares not for you. Back, I say, go; lest\n" + " I let forth your half-pint of blood; back,--that's\n" + " the utmost of your having: back.\n\n" + "MENENIUS Nay, but, fellow, fellow,--\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What's the matter?\n\n" + "MENENIUS Now, you companion, I'll say an errand for you:\n" + " You shall know now that I am in estimation; you shall\n" + " perceive that a Jack guardant cannot office me from\n" + " my son Coriolanus: guess, but by my entertainment\n" + " with him, if thou standest not i' the state of\n" + " hanging, or of some death more long in\n" + " spectatorship, and crueller in suffering; behold now\n" + " presently, and swoon for what's to come upon thee.\n\n" + " [To CORIOLANUS]\n\n" + " The glorious gods sit in hourly synod about thy\n" + " particular prosperity, and love thee no worse than\n" + " thy old father Menenius does! O my son, my son!\n" + " thou art preparing fire for us; look thee, here's\n" + " water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come to\n" + " thee; but being assured none but myself could move\n" + " thee, I have been blown out of your gates with\n" + " sighs; and conjure thee to pardon Rome, and thy\n" + " petitionary countrymen. The good gods assuage thy\n" + " wrath, and turn the dregs of it upon this varlet\n" + " here,--this, who, like a block, hath denied my\n" + " access to thee.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Away!\n\n" + "MENENIUS How! away!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Wife, mother, child, I know not. My affairs\n" + " Are servanted to others: though I owe\n" + " My revenge properly, my remission lies\n" + " In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar,\n" + " Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison, rather\n" + " Than pity note how much. Therefore, be gone.\n" + " Mine ears against your suits are stronger than\n" + " Your gates against my force. Yet, for I loved thee,\n" + " Take this along; I writ it for thy sake\n\n" + " [Gives a letter]\n\n" + " And would have rent it. Another word, Menenius,\n" + " I will not hear thee speak. This man, Aufidius,\n" + " Was my beloved in Rome: yet thou behold'st!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS You keep a constant temper.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CORIOLANUS and AUFIDIUS]\n\n" + "First Senator Now, sir, is your name Menenius?\n\n" + "Second Senator 'Tis a spell, you see, of much power: you know the\n" + " way home again.\n\n" + "First Senator Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your\n" + " greatness back?\n\n" + "Second Senator What cause, do you think, I have to swoon?\n\n" + "MENENIUS I neither care for the world nor your general: for\n" + " such things as you, I can scarce think there's any,\n" + " ye're so slight. He that hath a will to die by\n" + " himself fears it not from another: let your general\n" + " do his worst. For you, be that you are, long; and\n" + " your misery increase with your age! I say to you,\n" + " as I was said to, Away!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Senator A noble fellow, I warrant him.\n\n" + "Second Senator The worthy fellow is our general: he's the rock, the\n" + " oak not to be wind-shaken.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The tent of Coriolanus.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS, AUFIDIUS, and others]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS We will before the walls of Rome tomorrow\n" + " Set down our host. My partner in this action,\n" + " You must report to the Volscian lords, how plainly\n" + " I have borne this business.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Only their ends\n" + " You have respected; stopp'd your ears against\n" + " The general suit of Rome; never admitted\n" + " A private whisper, no, not with such friends\n" + " That thought them sure of you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS This last old man,\n" + " Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome,\n" + " Loved me above the measure of a father;\n" + " Nay, godded me, indeed. Their latest refuge\n" + " Was to send him; for whose old love I have,\n" + " Though I show'd sourly to him, once more offer'd\n" + " The first conditions, which they did refuse\n" + " And cannot now accept; to grace him only\n" + " That thought he could do more, a very little\n" + " I have yielded to: fresh embassies and suits,\n" + " Nor from the state nor private friends, hereafter\n" + " Will I lend ear to. Ha! what shout is this?\n\n" + " [Shout within]\n\n" + " Shall I be tempted to infringe my vow\n" + " In the same time 'tis made? I will not.\n\n" + " [Enter in mourning habits, VIRGILIA, VOLUMNIA,\n" + " leading young MARCIUS, VALERIA, and Attendants]\n\n" + " My wife comes foremost; then the honour'd mould\n" + " Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand\n" + " The grandchild to her blood. But, out, affection!\n" + " All bond and privilege of nature, break!\n" + " Let it be virtuous to be obstinate.\n" + " What is that curt'sy worth? or those doves' eyes,\n" + " Which can make gods forsworn? I melt, and am not\n" + " Of stronger earth than others. My mother bows;\n" + " As if Olympus to a molehill should\n" + " In supplication nod: and my young boy\n" + " Hath an aspect of intercession, which\n" + " Great nature cries 'Deny not.' let the Volsces\n" + " Plough Rome and harrow Italy: I'll never\n" + " Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand,\n" + " As if a man were author of himself\n" + " And knew no other kin.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA My lord and husband!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS These eyes are not the same I wore in Rome.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA The sorrow that delivers us thus changed\n" + " Makes you think so.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Like a dull actor now,\n" + " I have forgot my part, and I am out,\n" + " Even to a full disgrace. Best of my flesh,\n" + " Forgive my tyranny; but do not say\n" + " For that 'Forgive our Romans.' O, a kiss\n" + " Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!\n" + " Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss\n" + " I carried from thee, dear; and my true lip\n" + " Hath virgin'd it e'er since. You gods! I prate,\n" + " And the most noble mother of the world\n" + " Leave unsaluted: sink, my knee, i' the earth;\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + " Of thy deep duty more impression show\n" + " Than that of common sons.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA O, stand up blest!\n" + " Whilst, with no softer cushion than the flint,\n" + " I kneel before thee; and unproperly\n" + " Show duty, as mistaken all this while\n" + " Between the child and parent.\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS What is this?\n" + " Your knees to me? to your corrected son?\n" + " Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach\n" + " Fillip the stars; then let the mutinous winds\n" + " Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery sun;\n" + " Murdering impossibility, to make\n" + " What cannot be, slight work.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Thou art my warrior;\n" + " I holp to frame thee. Do you know this lady?\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS The noble sister of Publicola,\n" + " The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle\n" + " That's curdied by the frost from purest snow\n" + " And hangs on Dian's temple: dear Valeria!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA This is a poor epitome of yours,\n" + " Which by the interpretation of full time\n" + " May show like all yourself.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS The god of soldiers,\n" + " With the consent of supreme Jove, inform\n" + " Thy thoughts with nobleness; that thou mayst prove\n" + " To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' the wars\n" + " Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw,\n" + " And saving those that eye thee!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Your knee, sirrah.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS That's my brave boy!\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Even he, your wife, this lady, and myself,\n" + " Are suitors to you.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I beseech you, peace:\n" + " Or, if you'ld ask, remember this before:\n" + " The thing I have forsworn to grant may never\n" + " Be held by you denials. Do not bid me\n" + " Dismiss my soldiers, or capitulate\n" + " Again with Rome's mechanics: tell me not\n" + " Wherein I seem unnatural: desire not\n" + " To ally my rages and revenges with\n" + " Your colder reasons.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA O, no more, no more!\n" + " You have said you will not grant us any thing;\n" + " For we have nothing else to ask, but that\n" + " Which you deny already: yet we will ask;\n" + " That, if you fail in our request, the blame\n" + " May hang upon your hardness: therefore hear us.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Aufidius, and you Volsces, mark; for we'll\n" + " Hear nought from Rome in private. Your request?\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment\n" + " And state of bodies would bewray what life\n" + " We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself\n" + " How more unfortunate than all living women\n" + " Are we come hither: since that thy sight,\n" + " which should\n" + " Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance\n" + " with comforts,\n" + " Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow;\n" + " Making the mother, wife and child to see\n" + " The son, the husband and the father tearing\n" + " His country's bowels out. And to poor we\n" + " Thine enmity's most capital: thou barr'st us\n" + " Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort\n" + " That all but we enjoy; for how can we,\n" + " Alas, how can we for our country pray.\n" + " Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,\n" + " Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose\n" + " The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,\n" + " Our comfort in the country. We must find\n" + " An evident calamity, though we had\n" + " Our wish, which side should win: for either thou\n" + " Must, as a foreign recreant, be led\n" + " With manacles thorough our streets, or else\n" + " triumphantly tread on thy country's ruin,\n" + " And bear the palm for having bravely shed\n" + " Thy wife and children's blood. For myself, son,\n" + " I purpose not to wait on fortune till\n" + " These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee\n" + " Rather to show a noble grace to both parts\n" + " Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner\n" + " March to assault thy country than to tread--\n" + " Trust to't, thou shalt not--on thy mother's womb,\n" + " That brought thee to this world.\n\n" + "VIRGILIA Ay, and mine,\n" + " That brought you forth this boy, to keep your name\n" + " Living to time.\n\n" + "Young MARCIUS A' shall not tread on me;\n" + " I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Not of a woman's tenderness to be,\n" + " Requires nor child nor woman's face to see.\n" + " I have sat too long.\n\n" + " [Rising]\n\n" + "VOLUMNIA Nay, go not from us thus.\n" + " If it were so that our request did tend\n" + " To save the Romans, thereby to destroy\n" + " The Volsces whom you serve, you might condemn us,\n" + " As poisonous of your honour: no; our suit\n" + " Is that you reconcile them: while the Volsces\n" + " May say 'This mercy we have show'd;' the Romans,\n" + " 'This we received;' and each in either side\n" + " Give the all-hail to thee and cry 'Be blest\n" + " For making up this peace!' Thou know'st, great son,\n" + " The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,\n" + " That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit\n" + " Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name,\n" + " Whose repetition will be dogg'd with curses;\n" + " Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,\n" + " But with his last attempt he wiped it out;\n" + " Destroy'd his country, and his name remains\n" + " To the ensuing age abhorr'd.' Speak to me, son:\n" + " Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour,\n" + " To imitate the graces of the gods;\n" + " To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the air,\n" + " And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt\n" + " That should but rive an oak. Why dost not speak?\n" + " Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man\n" + " Still to remember wrongs? Daughter, speak you:\n" + " He cares not for your weeping. Speak thou, boy:\n" + " Perhaps thy childishness will move him more\n" + " Than can our reasons. There's no man in the world\n" + " More bound to 's mother; yet here he lets me prate\n" + " Like one i' the stocks. Thou hast never in thy life\n" + " Show'd thy dear mother any courtesy,\n" + " When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood,\n" + " Has cluck'd thee to the wars and safely home,\n" + " Loaden with honour. Say my request's unjust,\n" + " And spurn me back: but if it be not so,\n" + " Thou art not honest; and the gods will plague thee,\n" + " That thou restrain'st from me the duty which\n" + " To a mother's part belongs. He turns away:\n" + " Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees.\n" + " To his surname Coriolanus 'longs more pride\n" + " Than pity to our prayers. Down: an end;\n" + " This is the last: so we will home to Rome,\n" + " And die among our neighbours. Nay, behold 's:\n" + " This boy, that cannot tell what he would have\n" + " But kneels and holds up bands for fellowship,\n" + " Does reason our petition with more strength\n" + " Than thou hast to deny 't. Come, let us go:\n" + " This fellow had a Volscian to his mother;\n" + " His wife is in Corioli and his child\n" + " Like him by chance. Yet give us our dispatch:\n" + " I am hush'd until our city be a-fire,\n" + " And then I'll speak a little.\n\n" + " [He holds her by the hand, silent]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS O mother, mother!\n" + " What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,\n" + " The gods look down, and this unnatural scene\n" + " They laugh at. O my mother, mother! O!\n" + " You have won a happy victory to Rome;\n" + " But, for your son,--believe it, O, believe it,\n" + " Most dangerously you have with him prevail'd,\n" + " If not most mortal to him. But, let it come.\n" + " Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars,\n" + " I'll frame convenient peace. Now, good Aufidius,\n" + " Were you in my stead, would you have heard\n" + " A mother less? or granted less, Aufidius?\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS I was moved withal.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS I dare be sworn you were:\n" + " And, sir, it is no little thing to make\n" + " Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir,\n" + " What peace you'll make, advise me: for my part,\n" + " I'll not to Rome, I'll back with you; and pray you,\n" + " Stand to me in this cause. O mother! wife!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS [Aside] I am glad thou hast set thy mercy and\n" + " thy honour\n" + " At difference in thee: out of that I'll work\n" + " Myself a former fortune.\n\n" + " [The Ladies make signs to CORIOLANUS]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Ay, by and by;\n\n" + " [To VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, &c]\n\n" + " But we will drink together; and you shall bear\n" + " A better witness back than words, which we,\n" + " On like conditions, will have counter-seal'd.\n" + " Come, enter with us. Ladies, you deserve\n" + " To have a temple built you: all the swords\n" + " In Italy, and her confederate arms,\n" + " Could not have made this peace.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Rome. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MENENIUS and SICINIUS]\n\n" + "MENENIUS See you yond coign o' the Capitol, yond\n" + " corner-stone?\n\n" + "SICINIUS Why, what of that?\n\n" + "MENENIUS If it be possible for you to displace it with your\n" + " little finger, there is some hope the ladies of\n" + " Rome, especially his mother, may prevail with him.\n" + " But I say there is no hope in't: our throats are\n" + " sentenced and stay upon execution.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Is't possible that so short a time can alter the\n" + " condition of a man!\n\n" + "MENENIUS There is differency between a grub and a butterfly;\n" + " yet your butterfly was a grub. This Marcius is grown\n" + " from man to dragon: he has wings; he's more than a\n" + " creeping thing.\n\n" + "SICINIUS He loved his mother dearly.\n\n" + "MENENIUS So did he me: and he no more remembers his mother\n" + " now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness\n" + " of his face sours ripe grapes: when he walks, he\n" + " moves like an engine, and the ground shrinks before\n" + " his treading: he is able to pierce a corslet with\n" + " his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a\n" + " battery. He sits in his state, as a thing made for\n" + " Alexander. What he bids be done is finished with\n" + " his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but eternity\n" + " and a heaven to throne in.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Yes, mercy, if you report him truly.\n\n" + "MENENIUS I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy his\n" + " mother shall bring from him: there is no more mercy\n" + " in him than there is milk in a male tiger; that\n" + " shall our poor city find: and all this is long of\n" + " you.\n\n" + "SICINIUS The gods be good unto us!\n\n" + "MENENIUS No, in such a case the gods will not be good unto\n" + " us. When we banished him, we respected not them;\n" + " and, he returning to break our necks, they respect not us.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Sir, if you'ld save your life, fly to your house:\n" + " The plebeians have got your fellow-tribune\n" + " And hale him up and down, all swearing, if\n" + " The Roman ladies bring not comfort home,\n" + " They'll give him death by inches.\n\n" + " [Enter a second Messenger]\n\n" + "SICINIUS What's the news?\n\n" + "Second Messenger Good news, good news; the ladies have prevail'd,\n" + " The Volscians are dislodged, and Marcius gone:\n" + " A merrier day did never yet greet Rome,\n" + " No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins.\n\n" + "SICINIUS Friend,\n" + " Art thou certain this is true? is it most certain?\n\n" + "Second Messenger As certain as I know the sun is fire:\n" + " Where have you lurk'd, that you make doubt of it?\n" + " Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown tide,\n" + " As the recomforted through the gates. Why, hark you!\n\n" + " [Trumpets; hautboys; drums beat; all together]\n\n" + " The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries and fifes,\n" + " Tabours and cymbals and the shouting Romans,\n" + " Make the sun dance. Hark you!\n\n" + " [A shout within]\n\n" + "MENENIUS This is good news:\n" + " I will go meet the ladies. This Volumnia\n" + " Is worth of consuls, senators, patricians,\n" + " A city full; of tribunes, such as you,\n" + " A sea and land full. You have pray'd well to-day:\n" + " This morning for ten thousand of your throats\n" + " I'd not have given a doit. Hark, how they joy!\n\n" + " [Music still, with shouts]\n\n" + "SICINIUS First, the gods bless you for your tidings; next,\n" + " Accept my thankfulness.\n\n" + "Second Messenger Sir, we have all\n" + " Great cause to give great thanks.\n\n" + "SICINIUS They are near the city?\n\n" + "Second Messenger Almost at point to enter.\n\n" + "SICINIUS We will meet them,\n" + " And help the joy.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same. A street near the gate.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Senators with VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA,\n" + " VALERIA, &c. passing over the stage,\n" + " followed by Patricians and others]\n\n" + "First Senator Behold our patroness, the life of Rome!\n" + " Call all your tribes together, praise the gods,\n" + " And make triumphant fires; strew flowers before them:\n" + " Unshout the noise that banish'd Marcius,\n" + " Repeal him with the welcome of his mother;\n" + " Cry 'Welcome, ladies, welcome!'\n\n" + "All Welcome, ladies, Welcome!\n\n" + " [A flourish with drums and trumpets. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CORIOLANUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Antium. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TULLUS AUFIDIUS, with Attendants]\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Go tell the lords o' the city I am here:\n" + " Deliver them this paper: having read it,\n" + " Bid them repair to the market place; where I,\n" + " Even in theirs and in the commons' ears,\n" + " Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse\n" + " The city ports by this hath enter'd and\n" + " Intends to appear before the people, hoping\n" + " To purge herself with words: dispatch.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Attendants]\n\n" + " [Enter three or four Conspirators of AUFIDIUS' faction]\n\n" + " Most welcome!\n\n" + "First Conspirator How is it with our general?\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Even so\n" + " As with a man by his own alms empoison'd,\n" + " And with his charity slain.\n\n" + "Second Conspirator Most noble sir,\n" + " If you do hold the same intent wherein\n" + " You wish'd us parties, we'll deliver you\n" + " Of your great danger.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Sir, I cannot tell:\n" + " We must proceed as we do find the people.\n\n" + "Third Conspirator The people will remain uncertain whilst\n" + " 'Twixt you there's difference; but the fall of either\n" + " Makes the survivor heir of all.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS I know it;\n" + " And my pretext to strike at him admits\n" + " A good construction. I raised him, and I pawn'd\n" + " Mine honour for his truth: who being so heighten'd,\n" + " He water'd his new plants with dews of flattery,\n" + " Seducing so my friends; and, to this end,\n" + " He bow'd his nature, never known before\n" + " But to be rough, unswayable and free.\n\n" + "Third Conspirator Sir, his stoutness\n" + " When he did stand for consul, which he lost\n" + " By lack of stooping,--\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS That I would have spoke of:\n" + " Being banish'd for't, he came unto my hearth;\n" + " Presented to my knife his throat: I took him;\n" + " Made him joint-servant with me; gave him way\n" + " In all his own desires; nay, let him choose\n" + " Out of my files, his projects to accomplish,\n" + " My best and freshest men; served his designments\n" + " In mine own person; holp to reap the fame\n" + " Which he did end all his; and took some pride\n" + " To do myself this wrong: till, at the last,\n" + " I seem'd his follower, not partner, and\n" + " He waged me with his countenance, as if\n" + " I had been mercenary.\n\n" + "First Conspirator So he did, my lord:\n" + " The army marvell'd at it, and, in the last,\n" + " When he had carried Rome and that we look'd\n" + " For no less spoil than glory,--\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS There was it:\n" + " For which my sinews shall be stretch'd upon him.\n" + " At a few drops of women's rheum, which are\n" + " As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and labour\n" + " Of our great action: therefore shall he die,\n" + " And I'll renew me in his fall. But, hark!\n\n" + " [Drums and trumpets sound, with great shouts of\n" + " the People]\n\n" + "First Conspirator Your native town you enter'd like a post,\n" + " And had no welcomes home: but he returns,\n" + " Splitting the air with noise.\n\n" + "Second Conspirator And patient fools,\n" + " Whose children he hath slain, their base throats tear\n" + " With giving him glory.\n\n" + "Third Conspirator Therefore, at your vantage,\n" + " Ere he express himself, or move the people\n" + " With what he would say, let him feel your sword,\n" + " Which we will second. When he lies along,\n" + " After your way his tale pronounced shall bury\n" + " His reasons with his body.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Say no more:\n" + " Here come the lords.\n\n" + " [Enter the Lords of the city]\n\n" + "All The Lords You are most welcome home.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS I have not deserved it.\n" + " But, worthy lords, have you with heed perused\n" + " What I have written to you?\n\n" + "Lords We have.\n\n" + "First Lord And grieve to hear't.\n" + " What faults he made before the last, I think\n" + " Might have found easy fines: but there to end\n" + " Where he was to begin and give away\n" + " The benefit of our levies, answering us\n" + " With our own charge, making a treaty where\n" + " There was a yielding,--this admits no excuse.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS He approaches: you shall hear him.\n\n" + " [Enter CORIOLANUS, marching with drum and\n" + " colours; commoners being with him]\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Hail, lords! I am return'd your soldier,\n" + " No more infected with my country's love\n" + " Than when I parted hence, but still subsisting\n" + " Under your great command. You are to know\n" + " That prosperously I have attempted and\n" + " With bloody passage led your wars even to\n" + " The gates of Rome. Our spoils we have brought home\n" + " Do more than counterpoise a full third part\n" + " The charges of the action. We have made peace\n" + " With no less honour to the Antiates\n" + " Than shame to the Romans: and we here deliver,\n" + " Subscribed by the consuls and patricians,\n" + " Together with the seal o' the senate, what\n" + " We have compounded on.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Read it not, noble lords;\n" + " But tell the traitor, in the high'st degree\n" + " He hath abused your powers.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Traitor! how now!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Ay, traitor, Marcius!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Marcius!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Ay, Marcius, Caius Marcius: dost thou think\n" + " I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stol'n name\n" + " Coriolanus in Corioli?\n" + " You lords and heads o' the state, perfidiously\n" + " He has betray'd your business, and given up,\n" + " For certain drops of salt, your city Rome,\n" + " I say 'your city,' to his wife and mother;\n" + " Breaking his oath and resolution like\n" + " A twist of rotten silk, never admitting\n" + " Counsel o' the war, but at his nurse's tears\n" + " He whined and roar'd away your victory,\n" + " That pages blush'd at him and men of heart\n" + " Look'd wondering each at other.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Hear'st thou, Mars?\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Name not the god, thou boy of tears!\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Ha!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS No more.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Measureless liar, thou hast made my heart\n" + " Too great for what contains it. Boy! O slave!\n" + " Pardon me, lords, 'tis the first time that ever\n" + " I was forced to scold. Your judgments, my grave lords,\n" + " Must give this cur the lie: and his own notion--\n" + " Who wears my stripes impress'd upon him; that\n" + " Must bear my beating to his grave--shall join\n" + " To thrust the lie unto him.\n\n" + "First Lord Peace, both, and hear me speak.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS Cut me to pieces, Volsces; men and lads,\n" + " Stain all your edges on me. Boy! false hound!\n" + " If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there,\n" + " That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I\n" + " Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli:\n" + " Alone I did it. Boy!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Why, noble lords,\n" + " Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune,\n" + " Which was your shame, by this unholy braggart,\n" + " 'Fore your own eyes and ears?\n\n" + "All Conspirators Let him die for't.\n\n" + "All The People 'Tear him to pieces.' 'Do it presently.' 'He kill'd\n" + " my son.' 'My daughter.' 'He killed my cousin\n" + " Marcus.' 'He killed my father.'\n\n" + "Second Lord Peace, ho! no outrage: peace!\n" + " The man is noble and his fame folds-in\n" + " This orb o' the earth. His last offences to us\n" + " Shall have judicious hearing. Stand, Aufidius,\n" + " And trouble not the peace.\n\n" + "CORIOLANUS O that I had him,\n" + " With six Aufidiuses, or more, his tribe,\n" + " To use my lawful sword!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS Insolent villain!\n\n" + "All Conspirators Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill him!\n\n" + " [The Conspirators draw, and kill CORIOLANUS:\n" + " AUFIDIUS stands on his body]\n\n" + "Lords Hold, hold, hold, hold!\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS My noble masters, hear me speak.\n\n" + "First Lord O Tullus,--\n\n" + "Second Lord Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.\n\n" + "Third Lord Tread not upon him. Masters all, be quiet;\n" + " Put up your swords.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS My lords, when you shall know--as in this rage,\n" + " Provoked by him, you cannot--the great danger\n" + " Which this man's life did owe you, you'll rejoice\n" + " That he is thus cut off. Please it your honours\n" + " To call me to your senate, I'll deliver\n" + " Myself your loyal servant, or endure\n" + " Your heaviest censure.\n\n" + "First Lord Bear from hence his body;\n" + " And mourn you for him: let him be regarded\n" + " As the most noble corse that ever herald\n" + " Did follow to his urn.\n\n" + "Second Lord His own impatience\n" + " Takes from Aufidius a great part of blame.\n" + " Let's make the best of it.\n\n" + "AUFIDIUS My rage is gone;\n" + " And I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.\n" + " Help, three o' the chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.\n" + " Beat thou the drum, that it speak mournfully:\n" + " Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he\n" + " Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one,\n" + " Which to this hour bewail the injury,\n" + " Yet he shall have a noble memory. Assist.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, bearing the body of CORIOLANUS. A dead\n" + " march sounded]\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "CYMBELINE king of Britain.\n\n" + "CLOTEN son to the Queen by a former husband.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS a gentleman, husband to Imogen.\n\n" + "BELARIUS a banished lord, disguised under the name of Morgan.\n\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS | sons to Cymbeline, disguised under the names\n" + " | of Polydote and Cadwal, supposed sons to\n" + "ARVIRAGUS | Morgan.\n\n\n" + "PHILARIO friend to Posthumus, |\n" + " | Italians.\n" + "IACHIMO friend to Philario, |\n\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS general of the Roman forces.\n\n" + "PISANIO servant to Posthumus.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS a physician.\n\n" + " A Roman Captain. (Captain:)\n\n" + " Two British Captains.\n" + " (First Captain:)\n" + " (Second Captain:)\n\n" + " A Frenchman, friend to Philario.\n" + " (Frenchman:)\n\n" + " Two Lords of Cymbeline's court.\n" + " (First Lord:)\n" + " (Second Lord:)\n\n" + " Two Gentlemen of the same.\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n\n" + " Two Gaolers.\n" + " (First Gaoler:)\n" + " (Second Gaoler:)\n\n" + "QUEEN wife to Cymbeline.\n\n" + "IMOGEN daughter to Cymbeline by a former queen.\n\n" + "HELEN a lady attending on Imogen.\n\n" + " Lords, Ladies, Roman Senators, Tribunes,\n" + " a Soothsayer, a Dutchman, a Spaniard, Musicians,\n" + " Officers, Captains, Soldiers, Messengers,\n" + " and other Attendants. (Lord:)\n" + " (Lady:)\n" + " (First Lady:)\n" + " (First Senator:)\n" + " (Second Senator:)\n" + " (First Tribune:)\n" + " (Soothsayer:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n" + " Apparitions.\n" + " (Sicilius Leonatus:)\n" + " (Mother:)\n" + " (First Brother:)\n" + " (Second Brother:)\n" + " (Jupiter:)\n\n" + "SCENE Britain; Rome.\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Britain. The garden of Cymbeline's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Gentlemen]\n\n" + "First Gentleman You do not meet a man but frowns: our bloods\n" + " No more obey the heavens than our courtiers\n" + " Still seem as does the king.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman But what's the matter?\n\n" + "First Gentleman His daughter, and the heir of's kingdom, whom\n" + " He purposed to his wife's sole son--a widow\n" + " That late he married--hath referr'd herself\n" + " Unto a poor but worthy gentleman: she's wedded;\n" + " Her husband banish'd; she imprison'd: all\n" + " Is outward sorrow; though I think the king\n" + " Be touch'd at very heart.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman None but the king?\n\n" + "First Gentleman He that hath lost her too; so is the queen,\n" + " That most desired the match; but not a courtier,\n" + " Although they wear their faces to the bent\n" + " Of the king's look's, hath a heart that is not\n" + " Glad at the thing they scowl at.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman And why so?\n\n" + "First Gentleman He that hath miss'd the princess is a thing\n" + " Too bad for bad report: and he that hath her--\n" + " I mean, that married her, alack, good man!\n" + " And therefore banish'd--is a creature such\n" + " As, to seek through the regions of the earth\n" + " For one his like, there would be something failing\n" + " In him that should compare. I do not think\n" + " So fair an outward and such stuff within\n" + " Endows a man but he.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman You speak him far.\n\n" + "First Gentleman I do extend him, sir, within himself,\n" + " Crush him together rather than unfold\n" + " His measure duly.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman What's his name and birth?\n\n" + "First Gentleman I cannot delve him to the root: his father\n" + " Was call'd Sicilius, who did join his honour\n" + " Against the Romans with Cassibelan,\n" + " But had his titles by Tenantius whom\n" + " He served with glory and admired success,\n" + " So gain'd the sur-addition Leonatus;\n" + " And had, besides this gentleman in question,\n" + " Two other sons, who in the wars o' the time\n" + " Died with their swords in hand; for which\n" + " their father,\n" + " Then old and fond of issue, took such sorrow\n" + " That he quit being, and his gentle lady,\n" + " Big of this gentleman our theme, deceased\n" + " As he was born. The king he takes the babe\n" + " To his protection, calls him Posthumus Leonatus,\n" + " Breeds him and makes him of his bed-chamber,\n" + " Puts to him all the learnings that his time\n" + " Could make him the receiver of; which he took,\n" + " As we do air, fast as 'twas minister'd,\n" + " And in's spring became a harvest, lived in court--\n" + " Which rare it is to do--most praised, most loved,\n" + " A sample to the youngest, to the more mature\n" + " A glass that feated them, and to the graver\n" + " A child that guided dotards; to his mistress,\n" + " For whom he now is banish'd, her own price\n" + " Proclaims how she esteem'd him and his virtue;\n" + " By her election may be truly read\n" + " What kind of man he is.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I honour him\n" + " Even out of your report. But, pray you, tell me,\n" + " Is she sole child to the king?\n\n" + "First Gentleman His only child.\n" + " He had two sons: if this be worth your hearing,\n" + " Mark it: the eldest of them at three years old,\n" + " I' the swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery\n" + " Were stol'n, and to this hour no guess in knowledge\n" + " Which way they went.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman How long is this ago?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Some twenty years.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman That a king's children should be so convey'd,\n" + " So slackly guarded, and the search so slow,\n" + " That could not trace them!\n\n" + "First Gentleman Howsoe'er 'tis strange,\n" + " Or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at,\n" + " Yet is it true, sir.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I do well believe you.\n\n" + "First Gentleman We must forbear: here comes the gentleman,\n" + " The queen, and princess.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter the QUEEN, POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and IMOGEN]\n\n" + "QUEEN No, be assured you shall not find me, daughter,\n" + " After the slander of most stepmothers,\n" + " Evil-eyed unto you: you're my prisoner, but\n" + " Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys\n" + " That lock up your restraint. For you, Posthumus,\n" + " So soon as I can win the offended king,\n" + " I will be known your advocate: marry, yet\n" + " The fire of rage is in him, and 'twere good\n" + " You lean'd unto his sentence with what patience\n" + " Your wisdom may inform you.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Please your highness,\n" + " I will from hence to-day.\n\n" + "QUEEN You know the peril.\n" + " I'll fetch a turn about the garden, pitying\n" + " The pangs of barr'd affections, though the king\n" + " Hath charged you should not speak together.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IMOGEN O\n" + " Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant\n" + " Can tickle where she wounds! My dearest husband,\n" + " I something fear my father's wrath; but nothing--\n" + " Always reserved my holy duty--what\n" + " His rage can do on me: you must be gone;\n" + " And I shall here abide the hourly shot\n" + " Of angry eyes, not comforted to live,\n" + " But that there is this jewel in the world\n" + " That I may see again.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS My queen! my mistress!\n" + " O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause\n" + " To be suspected of more tenderness\n" + " Than doth become a man. I will remain\n" + " The loyal'st husband that did e'er plight troth:\n" + " My residence in Rome at one Philario's,\n" + " Who to my father was a friend, to me\n" + " Known but by letter: thither write, my queen,\n" + " And with mine eyes I'll drink the words you send,\n" + " Though ink be made of gall.\n\n" + " [Re-enter QUEEN]\n\n" + "QUEEN Be brief, I pray you:\n" + " If the king come, I shall incur I know not\n" + " How much of his displeasure.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Yet I'll move him\n" + " To walk this way: I never do him wrong,\n" + " But he does buy my injuries, to be friends;\n" + " Pays dear for my offences.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Should we be taking leave\n" + " As long a term as yet we have to live,\n" + " The loathness to depart would grow. Adieu!\n\n" + "IMOGEN Nay, stay a little:\n" + " Were you but riding forth to air yourself,\n" + " Such parting were too petty. Look here, love;\n" + " This diamond was my mother's: take it, heart;\n" + " But keep it till you woo another wife,\n" + " When Imogen is dead.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS How, how! another?\n" + " You gentle gods, give me but this I have,\n" + " And sear up my embracements from a next\n" + " With bonds of death!\n\n" + " [Putting on the ring]\n\n" + " Remain, remain thou here\n" + " While sense can keep it on. And, sweetest, fairest,\n" + " As I my poor self did exchange for you,\n" + " To your so infinite loss, so in our trifles\n" + " I still win of you: for my sake wear this;\n" + " It is a manacle of love; I'll place it\n" + " Upon this fairest prisoner.\n\n" + " [Putting a bracelet upon her arm]\n\n" + "IMOGEN O the gods!\n" + " When shall we see again?\n\n" + " [Enter CYMBELINE and Lords]\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Alack, the king!\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Thou basest thing, avoid! hence, from my sight!\n" + " If after this command thou fraught the court\n" + " With thy unworthiness, thou diest: away!\n" + " Thou'rt poison to my blood.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS The gods protect you!\n" + " And bless the good remainders of the court! I am gone.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IMOGEN There cannot be a pinch in death\n" + " More sharp than this is.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE O disloyal thing,\n" + " That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st\n" + " A year's age on me.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I beseech you, sir,\n" + " Harm not yourself with your vexation\n" + " I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare\n" + " Subdues all pangs, all fears.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Past grace? obedience?\n\n" + "IMOGEN Past hope, and in despair; that way, past grace.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE That mightst have had the sole son of my queen!\n\n" + "IMOGEN O blest, that I might not! I chose an eagle,\n" + " And did avoid a puttock.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Thou took'st a beggar; wouldst have made my throne\n" + " A seat for baseness.\n\n" + "IMOGEN No; I rather added\n" + " A lustre to it.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE O thou vile one!\n\n" + "IMOGEN Sir,\n" + " It is your fault that I have loved Posthumus:\n" + " You bred him as my playfellow, and he is\n" + " A man worth any woman, overbuys me\n" + " Almost the sum he pays.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE What, art thou mad?\n\n" + "IMOGEN Almost, sir: heaven restore me! Would I were\n" + " A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus\n" + " Our neighbour shepherd's son!\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Thou foolish thing!\n\n" + " [Re-enter QUEEN]\n\n" + " They were again together: you have done\n" + " Not after our command. Away with her,\n" + " And pen her up.\n\n" + "QUEEN Beseech your patience. Peace,\n" + " Dear lady daughter, peace! Sweet sovereign,\n" + " Leave us to ourselves; and make yourself some comfort\n" + " Out of your best advice.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Nay, let her languish\n" + " A drop of blood a day; and, being aged,\n" + " Die of this folly!\n\n" + " [Exeunt CYMBELINE and Lords]\n\n" + "QUEEN Fie! you must give way.\n\n" + " [Enter PISANIO]\n\n" + " Here is your servant. How now, sir! What news?\n\n" + "PISANIO My lord your son drew on my master.\n\n" + "QUEEN Ha!\n" + " No harm, I trust, is done?\n\n" + "PISANIO There might have been,\n" + " But that my master rather play'd than fought\n" + " And had no help of anger: they were parted\n" + " By gentlemen at hand.\n\n" + "QUEEN I am very glad on't.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Your son's my father's friend; he takes his part.\n" + " To draw upon an exile! O brave sir!\n" + " I would they were in Afric both together;\n" + " Myself by with a needle, that I might prick\n" + " The goer-back. Why came you from your master?\n\n" + "PISANIO On his command: he would not suffer me\n" + " To bring him to the haven; left these notes\n" + " Of what commands I should be subject to,\n" + " When 't pleased you to employ me.\n\n" + "QUEEN This hath been\n" + " Your faithful servant: I dare lay mine honour\n" + " He will remain so.\n\n" + "PISANIO I humbly thank your highness.\n\n" + "QUEEN Pray, walk awhile.\n\n" + "IMOGEN About some half-hour hence,\n" + " I pray you, speak with me: you shall at least\n" + " Go see my lord aboard: for this time leave me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLOTEN and two Lords]\n\n" + "First Lord Sir, I would advise you to shift a shirt; the\n" + " violence of action hath made you reek as a\n" + " sacrifice: where air comes out, air comes in:\n" + " there's none abroad so wholesome as that you vent.\n\n" + "CLOTEN If my shirt were bloody, then to shift it. Have I hurt him?\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] No, 'faith; not so much as his patience.\n\n" + "First Lord Hurt him! his body's a passable carcass, if he be\n" + " not hurt: it is a thoroughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] His steel was in debt; it went o' the\n" + " backside the town.\n\n" + "CLOTEN The villain would not stand me.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] No; but he fled forward still, toward your face.\n\n" + "First Lord Stand you! You have land enough of your own: but\n" + " he added to your having; gave you some ground.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] As many inches as you have oceans. Puppies!\n\n" + "CLOTEN I would they had not come between us.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] So would I, till you had measured how long\n" + " a fool you were upon the ground.\n\n" + "CLOTEN And that she should love this fellow and refuse me!\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] If it be a sin to make a true election, she\n" + " is damned.\n\n" + "First Lord Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her brain\n" + " go not together: she's a good sign, but I have seen\n" + " small reflection of her wit.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] She shines not upon fools, lest the\n" + " reflection should hurt her.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Come, I'll to my chamber. Would there had been some\n" + " hurt done!\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] I wish not so; unless it had been the fall\n" + " of an ass, which is no great hurt.\n\n" + "CLOTEN You'll go with us?\n\n" + "First Lord I'll attend your lordship.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Nay, come, let's go together.\n\n" + "Second Lord Well, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in Cymbeline's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter IMOGEN and PISANIO]\n\n" + "IMOGEN I would thou grew'st unto the shores o' the haven,\n" + " And question'dst every sail: if he should write\n" + " And not have it, 'twere a paper lost,\n" + " As offer'd mercy is. What was the last\n" + " That he spake to thee?\n\n" + "PISANIO It was his queen, his queen!\n\n" + "IMOGEN Then waved his handkerchief?\n\n" + "PISANIO And kiss'd it, madam.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Senseless Linen! happier therein than I!\n" + " And that was all?\n\n" + "PISANIO No, madam; for so long\n" + " As he could make me with this eye or ear\n" + " Distinguish him from others, he did keep\n" + " The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief,\n" + " Still waving, as the fits and stirs of 's mind\n" + " Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on,\n" + " How swift his ship.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Thou shouldst have made him\n" + " As little as a crow, or less, ere left\n" + " To after-eye him.\n\n" + "PISANIO Madam, so I did.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I would have broke mine eye-strings; crack'd them, but\n" + " To look upon him, till the diminution\n" + " Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle,\n" + " Nay, follow'd him, till he had melted from\n" + " The smallness of a gnat to air, and then\n" + " Have turn'd mine eye and wept. But, good Pisanio,\n" + " When shall we hear from him?\n\n" + "PISANIO Be assured, madam,\n" + " With his next vantage.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I did not take my leave of him, but had\n" + " Most pretty things to say: ere I could tell him\n" + " How I would think on him at certain hours\n" + " Such thoughts and such, or I could make him swear\n" + " The shes of Italy should not betray\n" + " Mine interest and his honour, or have charged him,\n" + " At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight,\n" + " To encounter me with orisons, for then\n" + " I am in heaven for him; or ere I could\n" + " Give him that parting kiss which I had set\n" + " Betwixt two charming words, comes in my father\n" + " And like the tyrannous breathing of the north\n" + " Shakes all our buds from growing.\n\n" + " [Enter a Lady]\n\n" + "Lady The queen, madam,\n" + " Desires your highness' company.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Those things I bid you do, get them dispatch'd.\n" + " I will attend the queen.\n\n" + "PISANIO Madam, I shall.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Rome. Philario's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PHILARIO, IACHIMO, a Frenchman, a\n" + " Dutchman, and a Spaniard]\n\n" + "IACHIMO Believe it, sir, I have seen him in Britain: he was\n" + " then of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy\n" + " as since he hath been allowed the name of; but I\n" + " could then have looked on him without the help of\n" + " admiration, though the catalogue of his endowments\n" + " had been tabled by his side and I to peruse him by items.\n\n" + "PHILARIO You speak of him when he was less furnished than now\n" + " he is with that which makes him both without and within.\n\n" + "Frenchman I have seen him in France: we had very many there\n" + " could behold the sun with as firm eyes as he.\n\n" + "IACHIMO This matter of marrying his king's daughter, wherein\n" + " he must be weighed rather by her value than his own,\n" + " words him, I doubt not, a great deal from the matter.\n\n" + "Frenchman And then his banishment.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Ay, and the approbation of those that weep this\n" + " lamentable divorce under her colours are wonderfully\n" + " to extend him; be it but to fortify her judgment,\n" + " which else an easy battery might lay flat, for\n" + " taking a beggar without less quality. But how comes\n" + " it he is to sojourn with you? How creeps\n" + " acquaintance?\n\n" + "PHILARIO His father and I were soldiers together; to whom I\n" + " have been often bound for no less than my life.\n" + " Here comes the Briton: let him be so entertained\n" + " amongst you as suits, with gentlemen of your\n" + " knowing, to a stranger of his quality.\n\n" + " [Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS]\n\n" + " I beseech you all, be better known to this\n" + " gentleman; whom I commend to you as a noble friend\n" + " of mine: how worthy he is I will leave to appear\n" + " hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.\n\n" + "Frenchman Sir, we have known together in Orleans.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Since when I have been debtor to you for courtesies,\n" + " which I will be ever to pay and yet pay still.\n\n" + "Frenchman Sir, you o'er-rate my poor kindness: I was glad I\n" + " did atone my countryman and you; it had been pity\n" + " you should have been put together with so mortal a\n" + " purpose as then each bore, upon importance of so\n" + " slight and trivial a nature.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS By your pardon, sir, I was then a young traveller;\n" + " rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in\n" + " my every action to be guided by others' experiences:\n" + " but upon my mended judgment--if I offend not to say\n" + " it is mended--my quarrel was not altogether slight.\n\n" + "Frenchman 'Faith, yes, to be put to the arbitrement of swords,\n" + " and by such two that would by all likelihood have\n" + " confounded one the other, or have fallen both.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Can we, with manners, ask what was the difference?\n\n" + "Frenchman Safely, I think: 'twas a contention in public,\n" + " which may, without contradiction, suffer the report.\n" + " It was much like an argument that fell out last\n" + " night, where each of us fell in praise of our\n" + " country mistresses; this gentleman at that time\n" + " vouching--and upon warrant of bloody\n" + " affirmation--his to be more fair, virtuous, wise,\n" + " chaste, constant-qualified and less attemptable\n" + " than any the rarest of our ladies in France.\n\n" + "IACHIMO That lady is not now living, or this gentleman's\n" + " opinion by this worn out.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS She holds her virtue still and I my mind.\n\n" + "IACHIMO You must not so far prefer her 'fore ours of Italy.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Being so far provoked as I was in France, I would\n" + " abate her nothing, though I profess myself her\n" + " adorer, not her friend.\n\n" + "IACHIMO As fair and as good--a kind of hand-in-hand\n" + " comparison--had been something too fair and too good\n" + " for any lady in Britain. If she went before others\n" + " I have seen, as that diamond of yours outlustres\n" + " many I have beheld. I could not but believe she\n" + " excelled many: but I have not seen the most\n" + " precious diamond that is, nor you the lady.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone.\n\n" + "IACHIMO What do you esteem it at?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS More than the world enjoys.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she's\n" + " outprized by a trifle.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS You are mistaken: the one may be sold, or given, if\n" + " there were wealth enough for the purchase, or merit\n" + " for the gift: the other is not a thing for sale,\n" + " and only the gift of the gods.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Which the gods have given you?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Which, by their graces, I will keep.\n\n" + "IACHIMO You may wear her in title yours: but, you know,\n" + " strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds. Your\n" + " ring may be stolen too: so your brace of unprizable\n" + " estimations; the one is but frail and the other\n" + " casual; a cunning thief, or a that way accomplished\n" + " courtier, would hazard the winning both of first and last.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Your Italy contains none so accomplished a courtier\n" + " to convince the honour of my mistress, if, in the\n" + " holding or loss of that, you term her frail. I do\n" + " nothing doubt you have store of thieves;\n" + " notwithstanding, I fear not my ring.\n\n" + "PHILARIO Let us leave here, gentlemen.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signior, I\n" + " thank him, makes no stranger of me; we are familiar at first.\n\n" + "IACHIMO With five times so much conversation, I should get\n" + " ground of your fair mistress, make her go back, even\n" + " to the yielding, had I admittance and opportunity to friend.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS No, no.\n\n" + "IACHIMO I dare thereupon pawn the moiety of my estate to\n" + " your ring; which, in my opinion, o'ervalues it\n" + " something: but I make my wager rather against your\n" + " confidence than her reputation: and, to bar your\n" + " offence herein too, I durst attempt it against any\n" + " lady in the world.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS You are a great deal abused in too bold a\n" + " persuasion; and I doubt not you sustain what you're\n" + " worthy of by your attempt.\n\n" + "IACHIMO What's that?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS A repulse: though your attempt, as you call it,\n" + " deserve more; a punishment too.\n\n" + "PHILARIO Gentlemen, enough of this: it came in too suddenly;\n" + " let it die as it was born, and, I pray you, be\n" + " better acquainted.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Would I had put my estate and my neighbour's on the\n" + " approbation of what I have spoke!\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS What lady would you choose to assail?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Yours; whom in constancy you think stands so safe.\n" + " I will lay you ten thousand ducats to your ring,\n" + " that, commend me to the court where your lady is,\n" + " with no more advantage than the opportunity of a\n" + " second conference, and I will bring from thence\n" + " that honour of hers which you imagine so reserved.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I will wage against your gold, gold to it: my ring\n" + " I hold dear as my finger; 'tis part of it.\n\n" + "IACHIMO You are afraid, and therein the wiser. If you buy\n" + " ladies' flesh at a million a dram, you cannot\n" + " preserve it from tainting: but I see you have some\n" + " religion in you, that you fear.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS This is but a custom in your tongue; you bear a\n" + " graver purpose, I hope.\n\n" + "IACHIMO I am the master of my speeches, and would undergo\n" + " what's spoken, I swear.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Will you? I shall but lend my diamond till your\n" + " return: let there be covenants drawn between's: my\n" + " mistress exceeds in goodness the hugeness of your\n" + " unworthy thinking: I dare you to this match: here's my ring.\n\n" + "PHILARIO I will have it no lay.\n\n" + "IACHIMO By the gods, it is one. If I bring you no\n" + " sufficient testimony that I have enjoyed the dearest\n" + " bodily part of your mistress, my ten thousand ducats\n" + " are yours; so is your diamond too: if I come off,\n" + " and leave her in such honour as you have trust in,\n" + " she your jewel, this your jewel, and my gold are\n" + " yours: provided I have your commendation for my more\n" + " free entertainment.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I embrace these conditions; let us have articles\n" + " betwixt us. Only, thus far you shall answer: if\n" + " you make your voyage upon her and give me directly\n" + " to understand you have prevailed, I am no further\n" + " your enemy; she is not worth our debate: if she\n" + " remain unseduced, you not making it appear\n" + " otherwise, for your ill opinion and the assault you\n" + " have made to her chastity you shall answer me with\n" + " your sword.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Your hand; a covenant: we will have these things set\n" + " down by lawful counsel, and straight away for\n" + " Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and\n" + " starve: I will fetch my gold and have our two\n" + " wagers recorded.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Agreed.\n\n" + " [Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and IACHIMO]\n\n" + "Frenchman Will this hold, think you?\n\n" + "PHILARIO Signior Iachimo will not from it.\n" + " Pray, let us follow 'em.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Britain. A room in Cymbeline's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN, Ladies, and CORNELIUS]\n\n" + "QUEEN Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers;\n" + " Make haste: who has the note of them?\n\n" + "First Lady I, madam.\n\n" + "QUEEN Dispatch.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Ladies]\n\n" + " Now, master doctor, have you brought those drugs?\n\n" + "CORNELIUS Pleaseth your highness, ay: here they are, madam:\n\n" + " [Presenting a small box]\n\n" + " But I beseech your grace, without offence,--\n" + " My conscience bids me ask--wherefore you have\n" + " Commanded of me those most poisonous compounds,\n" + " Which are the movers of a languishing death;\n" + " But though slow, deadly?\n\n" + "QUEEN I wonder, doctor,\n" + " Thou ask'st me such a question. Have I not been\n" + " Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn'd me how\n" + " To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, so\n" + " That our great king himself doth woo me oft\n" + " For my confections? Having thus far proceeded,--\n" + " Unless thou think'st me devilish--is't not meet\n" + " That I did amplify my judgment in\n" + " Other conclusions? I will try the forces\n" + " Of these thy compounds on such creatures as\n" + " We count not worth the hanging, but none human,\n" + " To try the vigour of them and apply\n" + " Allayments to their act, and by them gather\n" + " Their several virtues and effects.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS Your highness\n" + " Shall from this practise but make hard your heart:\n" + " Besides, the seeing these effects will be\n" + " Both noisome and infectious.\n\n" + "QUEEN O, content thee.\n\n" + " [Enter PISANIO]\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Here comes a flattering rascal; upon him\n" + " Will I first work: he's for his master,\n" + " An enemy to my son. How now, Pisanio!\n" + " Doctor, your service for this time is ended;\n" + " Take your own way.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS [Aside] I do suspect you, madam;\n" + " But you shall do no harm.\n\n" + "QUEEN [To PISANIO] Hark thee, a word.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS [Aside] I do not like her. She doth think she has\n" + " Strange lingering poisons: I do know her spirit,\n" + " And will not trust one of her malice with\n" + " A drug of such damn'd nature. Those she has\n" + " Will stupefy and dull the sense awhile;\n" + " Which first, perchance, she'll prove on\n" + " cats and dogs,\n" + " Then afterward up higher: but there is\n" + " No danger in what show of death it makes,\n" + " More than the locking-up the spirits a time,\n" + " To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool'd\n" + " With a most false effect; and I the truer,\n" + " So to be false with her.\n\n" + "QUEEN No further service, doctor,\n" + " Until I send for thee.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS I humbly take my leave.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "QUEEN Weeps she still, say'st thou? Dost thou think in time\n" + " She will not quench and let instructions enter\n" + " Where folly now possesses? Do thou work:\n" + " When thou shalt bring me word she loves my son,\n" + " I'll tell thee on the instant thou art then\n" + " As great as is thy master, greater, for\n" + " His fortunes all lie speechless and his name\n" + " Is at last gasp: return he cannot, nor\n" + " Continue where he is: to shift his being\n" + " Is to exchange one misery with another,\n" + " And every day that comes comes to decay\n" + " A day's work in him. What shalt thou expect,\n" + " To be depender on a thing that leans,\n" + " Who cannot be new built, nor has no friends,\n" + " So much as but to prop him?\n\n" + " [The QUEEN drops the box: PISANIO takes it up]\n\n" + " Thou takest up\n" + " Thou know'st not what; but take it for thy labour:\n" + " It is a thing I made, which hath the king\n" + " Five times redeem'd from death: I do not know\n" + " What is more cordial. Nay, I prethee, take it;\n" + " It is an earnest of a further good\n" + " That I mean to thee. Tell thy mistress how\n" + " The case stands with her; do't as from thyself.\n" + " Think what a chance thou changest on, but think\n" + " Thou hast thy mistress still, to boot, my son,\n" + " Who shall take notice of thee: I'll move the king\n" + " To any shape of thy preferment such\n" + " As thou'lt desire; and then myself, I chiefly,\n" + " That set thee on to this desert, am bound\n" + " To load thy merit richly. Call my women:\n" + " Think on my words.\n\n" + " [Exit PISANIO]\n\n" + " A sly and constant knave,\n" + " Not to be shaked; the agent for his master\n" + " And the remembrancer of her to hold\n" + " The hand-fast to her lord. I have given him that\n" + " Which, if he take, shall quite unpeople her\n" + " Of liegers for her sweet, and which she after,\n" + " Except she bend her humour, shall be assured\n" + " To taste of too.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PISANIO and Ladies]\n\n" + " So, so: well done, well done:\n" + " The violets, cowslips, and the primroses,\n" + " Bear to my closet. Fare thee well, Pisanio;\n" + " Think on my words.\n\n" + " [Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies]\n\n" + "PISANIO And shall do:\n" + " But when to my good lord I prove untrue,\n" + " I'll choke myself: there's all I'll do for you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The same. Another room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter IMOGEN]\n\n" + "IMOGEN A father cruel, and a step-dame false;\n" + " A foolish suitor to a wedded lady,\n" + " That hath her husband banish'd;--O, that husband!\n" + " My supreme crown of grief! and those repeated\n" + " Vexations of it! Had I been thief-stol'n,\n" + " As my two brothers, happy! but most miserable\n" + " Is the desire that's glorious: blest be those,\n" + " How mean soe'er, that have their honest wills,\n" + " Which seasons comfort. Who may this be? Fie!\n\n" + " [Enter PISANIO and IACHIMO]\n\n" + "PISANIO Madam, a noble gentleman of Rome,\n" + " Comes from my lord with letters.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Change you, madam?\n" + " The worthy Leonatus is in safety\n" + " And greets your highness dearly.\n\n" + " [Presents a letter]\n\n" + "IMOGEN Thanks, good sir:\n" + " You're kindly welcome.\n\n" + "IACHIMO [Aside] All of her that is out of door most rich!\n" + " If she be furnish'd with a mind so rare,\n" + " She is alone the Arabian bird, and I\n" + " Have lost the wager. Boldness be my friend!\n" + " Arm me, audacity, from head to foot!\n" + " Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight;\n" + " Rather directly fly.\n\n" + "IMOGEN [Reads] 'He is one of the noblest note, to whose\n" + " kindnesses I am most infinitely tied. Reflect upon\n" + " him accordingly, as you value your trust--\n" + " LEONATUS.'\n" + " So far I read aloud:\n" + " But even the very middle of my heart\n" + " Is warm'd by the rest, and takes it thankfully.\n" + " You are as welcome, worthy sir, as I\n" + " Have words to bid you, and shall find it so\n" + " In all that I can do.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Thanks, fairest lady.\n" + " What, are men mad? Hath nature given them eyes\n" + " To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop\n" + " Of sea and land, which can distinguish 'twixt\n" + " The fiery orbs above and the twinn'd stones\n" + " Upon the number'd beach? and can we not\n" + " Partition make with spectacles so precious\n" + " 'Twixt fair and foul?\n\n" + "IMOGEN What makes your admiration?\n\n" + "IACHIMO It cannot be i' the eye, for apes and monkeys\n" + " 'Twixt two such shes would chatter this way and\n" + " Contemn with mows the other; nor i' the judgment,\n" + " For idiots in this case of favour would\n" + " Be wisely definite; nor i' the appetite;\n" + " Sluttery to such neat excellence opposed\n" + " Should make desire vomit emptiness,\n" + " Not so allured to feed.\n\n" + "IMOGEN What is the matter, trow?\n\n" + "IACHIMO The cloyed will,\n" + " That satiate yet unsatisfied desire, that tub\n" + " Both fill'd and running, ravening first the lamb\n" + " Longs after for the garbage.\n\n" + "IMOGEN What, dear sir,\n" + " Thus raps you? Are you well?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Thanks, madam; well.\n\n" + " [To PISANIO]\n\n" + " Beseech you, sir, desire\n" + " My man's abode where I did leave him: he\n" + " Is strange and peevish.\n\n" + "PISANIO I was going, sir,\n" + " To give him welcome.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IMOGEN Continues well my lord? His health, beseech you?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Well, madam.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Is he disposed to mirth? I hope he is.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Exceeding pleasant; none a stranger there\n" + " So merry and so gamesome: he is call'd\n" + " The Briton reveller.\n\n" + "IMOGEN When he was here,\n" + " He did incline to sadness, and oft-times\n" + " Not knowing why.\n\n" + "IACHIMO I never saw him sad.\n" + " There is a Frenchman his companion, one\n" + " An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves\n" + " A Gallian girl at home; he furnaces\n" + " The thick sighs from him, whiles the jolly Briton--\n" + " Your lord, I mean--laughs from's free lungs, cries 'O,\n" + " Can my sides hold, to think that man, who knows\n" + " By history, report, or his own proof,\n" + " What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose\n" + " But must be, will his free hours languish for\n" + " Assured bondage?'\n\n" + "IMOGEN Will my lord say so?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Ay, madam, with his eyes in flood with laughter:\n" + " It is a recreation to be by\n" + " And hear him mock the Frenchman. But, heavens know,\n" + " Some men are much to blame.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Not he, I hope.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Not he: but yet heaven's bounty towards him might\n" + " Be used more thankfully. In himself, 'tis much;\n" + " In you, which I account his beyond all talents,\n" + " Whilst I am bound to wonder, I am bound\n" + " To pity too.\n\n" + "IMOGEN What do you pity, sir?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Two creatures heartily.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Am I one, sir?\n" + " You look on me: what wreck discern you in me\n" + " Deserves your pity?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Lamentable! What,\n" + " To hide me from the radiant sun and solace\n" + " I' the dungeon by a snuff?\n\n" + "IMOGEN I pray you, sir,\n" + " Deliver with more openness your answers\n" + " To my demands. Why do you pity me?\n\n" + "IACHIMO That others do--\n" + " I was about to say--enjoy your--But\n" + " It is an office of the gods to venge it,\n" + " Not mine to speak on 't.\n\n" + "IMOGEN You do seem to know\n" + " Something of me, or what concerns me: pray you,--\n" + " Since doubling things go ill often hurts more\n" + " Than to be sure they do; for certainties\n" + " Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing,\n" + " The remedy then born--discover to me\n" + " What both you spur and stop.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Had I this cheek\n" + " To bathe my lips upon; this hand, whose touch,\n" + " Whose every touch, would force the feeler's soul\n" + " To the oath of loyalty; this object, which\n" + " Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye,\n" + " Fixing it only here; should I, damn'd then,\n" + " Slaver with lips as common as the stairs\n" + " That mount the Capitol; join gripes with hands\n" + " Made hard with hourly falsehood--falsehood, as\n" + " With labour; then by-peeping in an eye\n" + " Base and unlustrous as the smoky light\n" + " That's fed with stinking tallow; it were fit\n" + " That all the plagues of hell should at one time\n" + " Encounter such revolt.\n\n" + "IMOGEN My lord, I fear,\n" + " Has forgot Britain.\n\n" + "IACHIMO And himself. Not I,\n" + " Inclined to this intelligence, pronounce\n" + " The beggary of his change; but 'tis your graces\n" + " That from pay mutest conscience to my tongue\n" + " Charms this report out.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Let me hear no more.\n\n" + "IACHIMO O dearest soul! your cause doth strike my heart\n" + " With pity, that doth make me sick. A lady\n" + " So fair, and fasten'd to an empery,\n" + " Would make the great'st king double,--to be partner'd\n" + " With tomboys hired with that self-exhibition\n" + " Which your own coffers yield! with diseased ventures\n" + " That play with all infirmities for gold\n" + " Which rottenness can lend nature! such boil'd stuff\n" + " As well might poison poison! Be revenged;\n" + " Or she that bore you was no queen, and you\n" + " Recoil from your great stock.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Revenged!\n" + " How should I be revenged? If this be true,--\n" + " As I have such a heart that both mine ears\n" + " Must not in haste abuse--if it be true,\n" + " How should I be revenged?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Should he make me\n" + " Live, like Diana's priest, betwixt cold sheets,\n" + " Whiles he is vaulting variable ramps,\n" + " In your despite, upon your purse? Revenge it.\n" + " I dedicate myself to your sweet pleasure,\n" + " More noble than that runagate to your bed,\n" + " And will continue fast to your affection,\n" + " Still close as sure.\n\n" + "IMOGEN What, ho, Pisanio!\n\n" + "IACHIMO Let me my service tender on your lips.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Away! I do condemn mine ears that have\n" + " So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable,\n" + " Thou wouldst have told this tale for virtue, not\n" + " For such an end thou seek'st,--as base as strange.\n" + " Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far\n" + " From thy report as thou from honour, and\n" + " Solicit'st here a lady that disdains\n" + " Thee and the devil alike. What ho, Pisanio!\n" + " The king my father shall be made acquainted\n" + " Of thy assault: if he shall think it fit,\n" + " A saucy stranger in his court to mart\n" + " As in a Romish stew and to expound\n" + " His beastly mind to us, he hath a court\n" + " He little cares for and a daughter who\n" + " He not respects at all. What, ho, Pisanio!\n\n" + "IACHIMO O happy Leonatus! I may say\n" + " The credit that thy lady hath of thee\n" + " Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness\n" + " Her assured credit. Blessed live you long!\n" + " A lady to the worthiest sir that ever\n" + " Country call'd his! and you his mistress, only\n" + " For the most worthiest fit! Give me your pardon.\n" + " I have spoke this, to know if your affiance\n" + " Were deeply rooted; and shall make your lord,\n" + " That which he is, new o'er: and he is one\n" + " The truest manner'd; such a holy witch\n" + " That he enchants societies into him;\n" + " Half all men's hearts are his.\n\n" + "IMOGEN You make amends.\n\n" + "IACHIMO He sits 'mongst men like a descended god:\n" + " He hath a kind of honour sets him off,\n" + " More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry,\n" + " Most mighty princess, that I have adventured\n" + " To try your taking a false report; which hath\n" + " Honour'd with confirmation your great judgment\n" + " In the election of a sir so rare,\n" + " Which you know cannot err: the love I bear him\n" + " Made me to fan you thus, but the gods made you,\n" + " Unlike all others, chaffless. Pray, your pardon.\n\n" + "IMOGEN All's well, sir: take my power i' the court\n" + " for yours.\n\n" + "IACHIMO My humble thanks. I had almost forgot\n" + " To entreat your grace but in a small request,\n" + " And yet of moment to, for it concerns\n" + " Your lord; myself and other noble friends,\n" + " Are partners in the business.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Pray, what is't?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Some dozen Romans of us and your lord--\n" + " The best feather of our wing--have mingled sums\n" + " To buy a present for the emperor\n" + " Which I, the factor for the rest, have done\n" + " In France: 'tis plate of rare device, and jewels\n" + " Of rich and exquisite form; their values great;\n" + " And I am something curious, being strange,\n" + " To have them in safe stowage: may it please you\n" + " To take them in protection?\n\n" + "IMOGEN Willingly;\n" + " And pawn mine honour for their safety: since\n" + " My lord hath interest in them, I will keep them\n" + " In my bedchamber.\n\n" + "IACHIMO They are in a trunk,\n" + " Attended by my men: I will make bold\n" + " To send them to you, only for this night;\n" + " I must aboard to-morrow.\n\n" + "IMOGEN O, no, no.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Yes, I beseech; or I shall short my word\n" + " By lengthening my return. From Gallia\n" + " I cross'd the seas on purpose and on promise\n" + " To see your grace.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I thank you for your pains:\n" + " But not away to-morrow!\n\n" + "IACHIMO O, I must, madam:\n" + " Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please\n" + " To greet your lord with writing, do't to-night:\n" + " I have outstood my time; which is material\n" + " To the tender of our present.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I will write.\n" + " Send your trunk to me; it shall safe be kept,\n" + " And truly yielded you. You're very welcome.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Britain. Before Cymbeline's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLOTEN and two Lords]\n\n" + "CLOTEN Was there ever man had such luck! when I kissed the\n" + " jack, upon an up-cast to be hit away! I had a\n" + " hundred pound on't: and then a whoreson jackanapes\n" + " must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine\n" + " oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure.\n\n" + "First Lord What got he by that? You have broke his pate with\n" + " your bowl.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] If his wit had been like him that broke it,\n" + " it would have run all out.\n\n" + "CLOTEN When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for\n" + " any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?\n\n" + "Second Lord No my lord;\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " nor crop the ears of them.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Whoreson dog! I give him satisfaction?\n" + " Would he had been one of my rank!\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] To have smelt like a fool.\n\n" + "CLOTEN I am not vexed more at any thing in the earth: a\n" + " pox on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am;\n" + " they dare not fight with me, because of the queen my\n" + " mother: every Jack-slave hath his bellyful of\n" + " fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that\n" + " nobody can match.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] You are cock and capon too; and you crow,\n" + " cock, with your comb on.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Sayest thou?\n\n" + "Second Lord It is not fit your lordship should undertake every\n" + " companion that you give offence to.\n\n" + "CLOTEN No, I know that: but it is fit I should commit\n" + " offence to my inferiors.\n\n" + "Second Lord Ay, it is fit for your lordship only.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Why, so I say.\n\n" + "First Lord Did you hear of a stranger that's come to court to-night?\n\n" + "CLOTEN A stranger, and I not know on't!\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] He's a strange fellow himself, and knows it\n" + " not.\n\n" + "First Lord There's an Italian come; and, 'tis thought, one of\n" + " Leonatus' friends.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Leonatus! a banished rascal; and he's another,\n" + " whatsoever he be. Who told you of this stranger?\n\n" + "First Lord One of your lordship's pages.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Is it fit I went to look upon him? is there no\n" + " derogation in't?\n\n" + "Second Lord You cannot derogate, my lord.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Not easily, I think.\n\n" + "Second Lord [Aside] You are a fool granted; therefore your\n" + " issues, being foolish, do not derogate.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Come, I'll go see this Italian: what I have lost\n" + " to-day at bowls I'll win to-night of him. Come, go.\n\n" + "Second Lord I'll attend your lordship.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CLOTEN and First Lord]\n\n" + " That such a crafty devil as is his mother\n" + " Should yield the world this ass! a woman that\n" + " Bears all down with her brain; and this her son\n" + " Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart,\n" + " And leave eighteen. Alas, poor princess,\n" + " Thou divine Imogen, what thou endurest,\n" + " Betwixt a father by thy step-dame govern'd,\n" + " A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer\n" + " More hateful than the foul expulsion is\n" + " Of thy dear husband, than that horrid act\n" + " Of the divorce he'ld make! The heavens hold firm\n" + " The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked\n" + " That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand,\n" + " To enjoy thy banish'd lord and this great land!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Imogen's bedchamber in Cymbeline's palace:\n" + " a trunk in one corner of it.\n\n\n" + " [IMOGEN in bed, reading; a Lady attending]\n\n" + "IMOGEN Who's there? my woman Helen?\n\n" + "Lady Please you, madam\n\n" + "IMOGEN What hour is it?\n\n" + "Lady Almost midnight, madam.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak:\n" + " Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed:\n" + " Take not away the taper, leave it burning;\n" + " And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock,\n" + " I prithee, call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly\n\n" + " [Exit Lady]\n\n" + " To your protection I commend me, gods.\n" + " From fairies and the tempters of the night\n" + " Guard me, beseech ye.\n\n" + " [Sleeps. IACHIMO comes from the trunk]\n\n" + "IACHIMO The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense\n" + " Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus\n" + " Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd\n" + " The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,\n" + " How bravely thou becomest thy bed, fresh lily,\n" + " And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch!\n" + " But kiss; one kiss! Rubies unparagon'd,\n" + " How dearly they do't! 'Tis her breathing that\n" + " Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o' the taper\n" + " Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids,\n" + " To see the enclosed lights, now canopied\n" + " Under these windows, white and azure laced\n" + " With blue of heaven's own tinct. But my design,\n" + " To note the chamber: I will write all down:\n" + " Such and such pictures; there the window; such\n" + " The adornment of her bed; the arras; figures,\n" + " Why, such and such; and the contents o' the story.\n" + " Ah, but some natural notes about her body,\n" + " Above ten thousand meaner moveables\n" + " Would testify, to enrich mine inventory.\n" + " O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!\n" + " And be her sense but as a monument,\n" + " Thus in a chapel lying! Come off, come off:\n\n" + " [Taking off her bracelet]\n\n" + " As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard!\n" + " 'Tis mine; and this will witness outwardly,\n" + " As strongly as the conscience does within,\n" + " To the madding of her lord. On her left breast\n" + " A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops\n" + " I' the bottom of a cowslip: here's a voucher,\n" + " Stronger than ever law could make: this secret\n" + " Will force him think I have pick'd the lock and ta'en\n" + " The treasure of her honour. No more. To what end?\n" + " Why should I write this down, that's riveted,\n" + " Screw'd to my memory? She hath been reading late\n" + " The tale of Tereus; here the leaf's turn'd down\n" + " Where Philomel gave up. I have enough:\n" + " To the trunk again, and shut the spring of it.\n" + " Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning\n" + " May bare the raven's eye! I lodge in fear;\n" + " Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here.\n\n" + " [Clock strikes]\n\n" + " One, two, three: time, time!\n\n" + " [Goes into the trunk. The scene closes]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III An ante-chamber adjoining Imogen's apartments.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLOTEN and Lords]\n\n" + "First Lord Your lordship is the most patient man in loss, the\n" + " most coldest that ever turned up ace.\n\n" + "CLOTEN It would make any man cold to lose.\n\n" + "First Lord But not every man patient after the noble temper of\n" + " your lordship. You are most hot and furious when you win.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Winning will put any man into courage. If I could\n" + " get this foolish Imogen, I should have gold enough.\n" + " It's almost morning, is't not?\n\n" + "First Lord Day, my lord.\n\n" + "CLOTEN I would this music would come: I am advised to give\n" + " her music o' mornings; they say it will penetrate.\n\n" + " [Enter Musicians]\n\n" + " Come on; tune: if you can penetrate her with your\n" + " fingering, so; we'll try with tongue too: if none\n" + " will do, let her remain; but I'll never give o'er.\n" + " First, a very excellent good-conceited thing;\n" + " after, a wonderful sweet air, with admirable rich\n" + " words to it: and then let her consider.\n" + " [SONG]\n\n" + " Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings,\n" + " And Phoebus 'gins arise,\n" + " His steeds to water at those springs\n" + " On chaliced flowers that lies;\n" + " And winking Mary-buds begin\n" + " To ope their golden eyes:\n" + " With every thing that pretty is,\n" + " My lady sweet, arise:\n" + " Arise, arise.\n\n" + "CLOTEN So, get you gone. If this penetrate, I will\n" + " consider your music the better: if it do not, it is\n" + " a vice in her ears, which horse-hairs and\n" + " calves'-guts, nor the voice of unpaved eunuch to\n" + " boot, can never amend.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Musicians]\n\n" + "Second Lord Here comes the king.\n\n" + "CLOTEN I am glad I was up so late; for that's the reason I\n" + " was up so early: he cannot choose but take this\n" + " service I have done fatherly.\n\n" + " [Enter CYMBELINE and QUEEN]\n\n" + " Good morrow to your majesty and to my gracious mother.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Attend you here the door of our stern daughter?\n" + " Will she not forth?\n\n" + "CLOTEN I have assailed her with music, but she vouchsafes no notice.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE The exile of her minion is too new;\n" + " She hath not yet forgot him: some more time\n" + " Must wear the print of his remembrance out,\n" + " And then she's yours.\n\n" + "QUEEN You are most bound to the king,\n" + " Who lets go by no vantages that may\n" + " Prefer you to his daughter. Frame yourself\n" + " To orderly soliciting, and be friended\n" + " With aptness of the season; make denials\n" + " Increase your services; so seem as if\n" + " You were inspired to do those duties which\n" + " You tender to her; that you in all obey her,\n" + " Save when command to your dismission tends,\n" + " And therein you are senseless.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Senseless! not so.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger So like you, sir, ambassadors from Rome;\n" + " The one is Caius Lucius.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE A worthy fellow,\n" + " Albeit he comes on angry purpose now;\n" + " But that's no fault of his: we must receive him\n" + " According to the honour of his sender;\n" + " And towards himself, his goodness forespent on us,\n" + " We must extend our notice. Our dear son,\n" + " When you have given good morning to your mistress,\n" + " Attend the queen and us; we shall have need\n" + " To employ you towards this Roman. Come, our queen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but CLOTEN]\n\n" + "CLOTEN If she be up, I'll speak with her; if not,\n" + " Let her lie still and dream.\n\n" + " [Knocks]\n\n" + " By your leave, ho!\n" + " I Know her women are about her: what\n" + " If I do line one of their hands? 'Tis gold\n" + " Which buys admittance; oft it doth; yea, and makes\n" + " Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up\n" + " Their deer to the stand o' the stealer; and 'tis gold\n" + " Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief;\n" + " Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man: what\n" + " Can it not do and undo? I will make\n" + " One of her women lawyer to me, for\n" + " I yet not understand the case myself.\n\n" + " [Knocks]\n\n" + " By your leave.\n\n" + " [Enter a Lady]\n\n" + "Lady Who's there that knocks?\n\n" + "CLOTEN A gentleman.\n\n" + "Lady No more?\n\n" + "CLOTEN Yes, and a gentlewoman's son.\n\n" + "Lady That's more\n" + " Than some, whose tailors are as dear as yours,\n" + " Can justly boast of. What's your lordship's pleasure?\n\n" + "CLOTEN Your lady's person: is she ready?\n\n" + "Lady Ay,\n" + " To keep her chamber.\n\n" + "CLOTEN There is gold for you;\n" + " Sell me your good report.\n\n" + "Lady How! my good name? or to report of you\n" + " What I shall think is good?--The princess!\n\n" + " [Enter IMOGEN]\n\n" + "CLOTEN Good morrow, fairest: sister, your sweet hand.\n\n" + " [Exit Lady]\n\n" + "IMOGEN Good morrow, sir. You lay out too much pains\n" + " For purchasing but trouble; the thanks I give\n" + " Is telling you that I am poor of thanks\n" + " And scarce can spare them.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Still, I swear I love you.\n\n" + "IMOGEN If you but said so, 'twere as deep with me:\n" + " If you swear still, your recompense is still\n" + " That I regard it not.\n\n" + "CLOTEN This is no answer.\n\n" + "IMOGEN But that you shall not say I yield being silent,\n" + " I would not speak. I pray you, spare me: 'faith,\n" + " I shall unfold equal discourtesy\n" + " To your best kindness: one of your great knowing\n" + " Should learn, being taught, forbearance.\n\n" + "CLOTEN To leave you in your madness, 'twere my sin:\n" + " I will not.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Fools are not mad folks.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Do you call me fool?\n\n" + "IMOGEN As I am mad, I do:\n" + " If you'll be patient, I'll no more be mad;\n" + " That cures us both. I am much sorry, sir,\n" + " You put me to forget a lady's manners,\n" + " By being so verbal: and learn now, for all,\n" + " That I, which know my heart, do here pronounce,\n" + " By the very truth of it, I care not for you,\n" + " And am so near the lack of charity--\n" + " To accuse myself--I hate you; which I had rather\n" + " You felt than make't my boast.\n\n" + "CLOTEN You sin against\n" + " Obedience, which you owe your father. For\n" + " The contract you pretend with that base wretch,\n" + " One bred of alms and foster'd with cold dishes,\n" + " With scraps o' the court, it is no contract, none:\n" + " And though it be allow'd in meaner parties--\n" + " Yet who than he more mean?--to knit their souls,\n" + " On whom there is no more dependency\n" + " But brats and beggary, in self-figured knot;\n" + " Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by\n" + " The consequence o' the crown, and must not soil\n" + " The precious note of it with a base slave.\n" + " A hilding for a livery, a squire's cloth,\n" + " A pantler, not so eminent.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Profane fellow\n" + " Wert thou the son of Jupiter and no more\n" + " But what thou art besides, thou wert too base\n" + " To be his groom: thou wert dignified enough,\n" + " Even to the point of envy, if 'twere made\n" + " Comparative for your virtues, to be styled\n" + " The under-hangman of his kingdom, and hated\n" + " For being preferred so well.\n\n" + "CLOTEN The south-fog rot him!\n\n" + "IMOGEN He never can meet more mischance than come\n" + " To be but named of thee. His meanest garment,\n" + " That ever hath but clipp'd his body, is dearer\n" + " In my respect than all the hairs above thee,\n" + " Were they all made such men. How now, Pisanio!\n\n" + " [Enter PISANIO]\n\n" + "CLOTEN 'His garment!' Now the devil--\n\n" + "IMOGEN To Dorothy my woman hie thee presently--\n\n" + "CLOTEN 'His garment!'\n\n" + "IMOGEN I am sprited with a fool.\n" + " Frighted, and anger'd worse: go bid my woman\n" + " Search for a jewel that too casually\n" + " Hath left mine arm: it was thy master's: 'shrew me,\n" + " If I would lose it for a revenue\n" + " Of any king's in Europe. I do think\n" + " I saw't this morning: confident I am\n" + " Last night 'twas on mine arm; I kiss'd it:\n" + " I hope it be not gone to tell my lord\n" + " That I kiss aught but he.\n\n" + "PISANIO 'Twill not be lost.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I hope so: go and search.\n\n" + " [Exit PISANIO]\n\n" + "CLOTEN You have abused me:\n" + " 'His meanest garment!'\n\n" + "IMOGEN Ay, I said so, sir:\n" + " If you will make't an action, call witness to't.\n\n" + "CLOTEN I will inform your father.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Your mother too:\n" + " She's my good lady, and will conceive, I hope,\n" + " But the worst of me. So, I leave you, sir,\n" + " To the worst of discontent.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CLOTEN I'll be revenged:\n" + " 'His meanest garment!' Well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n" + "CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Rome. Philario's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POSTHUMUS and PHILARIO]\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Fear it not, sir: I would I were so sure\n" + " To win the king as I am bold her honour\n" + " Will remain hers.\n\n" + "PHILARIO What means do you make to him?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Not any, but abide the change of time,\n" + " Quake in the present winter's state and wish\n" + " That warmer days would come: in these sear'd hopes,\n" + " I barely gratify your love; they failing,\n" + " I must die much your debtor.\n\n" + "PHILARIO Your very goodness and your company\n" + " O'erpays all I can do. By this, your king\n" + " Hath heard of great Augustus: Caius Lucius\n" + " Will do's commission throughly: and I think\n" + " He'll grant the tribute, send the arrearages,\n" + " Or look upon our Romans, whose remembrance\n" + " Is yet fresh in their grief.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I do believe,\n" + " Statist though I am none, nor like to be,\n" + " That this will prove a war; and you shall hear\n" + " The legions now in Gallia sooner landed\n" + " In our not-fearing Britain than have tidings\n" + " Of any penny tribute paid. Our countrymen\n" + " Are men more order'd than when Julius Caesar\n" + " Smiled at their lack of skill, but found\n" + " their courage\n" + " Worthy his frowning at: their discipline,\n" + " Now mingled with their courages, will make known\n" + " To their approvers they are people such\n" + " That mend upon the world.\n\n" + " [Enter IACHIMO]\n\n" + "PHILARIO See! Iachimo!\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS The swiftest harts have posted you by land;\n" + " And winds of all the comers kiss'd your sails,\n" + " To make your vessel nimble.\n\n" + "PHILARIO Welcome, sir.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I hope the briefness of your answer made\n" + " The speediness of your return.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Your lady\n" + " Is one of the fairest that I have look'd upon.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS And therewithal the best; or let her beauty\n" + " Look through a casement to allure false hearts\n" + " And be false with them.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Here are letters for you.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Their tenor good, I trust.\n\n" + "IACHIMO 'Tis very like.\n\n" + "PHILARIO Was Caius Lucius in the Britain court\n" + " When you were there?\n\n" + "IACHIMO He was expected then,\n" + " But not approach'd.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS All is well yet.\n" + " Sparkles this stone as it was wont? or is't not\n" + " Too dull for your good wearing?\n\n" + "IACHIMO If I had lost it,\n" + " I should have lost the worth of it in gold.\n" + " I'll make a journey twice as far, to enjoy\n" + " A second night of such sweet shortness which\n" + " Was mine in Britain, for the ring is won.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS The stone's too hard to come by.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Not a whit,\n" + " Your lady being so easy.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Make not, sir,\n" + " Your loss your sport: I hope you know that we\n" + " Must not continue friends.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Good sir, we must,\n" + " If you keep covenant. Had I not brought\n" + " The knowledge of your mistress home, I grant\n" + " We were to question further: but I now\n" + " Profess myself the winner of her honour,\n" + " Together with your ring; and not the wronger\n" + " Of her or you, having proceeded but\n" + " By both your wills.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS If you can make't apparent\n" + " That you have tasted her in bed, my hand\n" + " And ring is yours; if not, the foul opinion\n" + " You had of her pure honour gains or loses\n" + " Your sword or mine, or masterless leaves both\n" + " To who shall find them.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Sir, my circumstances,\n" + " Being so near the truth as I will make them,\n" + " Must first induce you to believe: whose strength\n" + " I will confirm with oath; which, I doubt not,\n" + " You'll give me leave to spare, when you shall find\n" + " You need it not.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Proceed.\n\n" + "IACHIMO First, her bedchamber,--\n" + " Where, I confess, I slept not, but profess\n" + " Had that was well worth watching--it was hang'd\n" + " With tapesty of silk and silver; the story\n" + " Proud Cleopatra, when she met her Roman,\n" + " And Cydnus swell'd above the banks, or for\n" + " The press of boats or pride: a piece of work\n" + " So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive\n" + " In workmanship and value; which I wonder'd\n" + " Could be so rarely and exactly wrought,\n" + " Since the true life on't was--\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS This is true;\n" + " And this you might have heard of here, by me,\n" + " Or by some other.\n\n" + "IACHIMO More particulars\n" + " Must justify my knowledge.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS So they must,\n" + " Or do your honour injury.\n\n" + "IACHIMO The chimney\n" + " Is south the chamber, and the chimney-piece\n" + " Chaste Dian bathing: never saw I figures\n" + " So likely to report themselves: the cutter\n" + " Was as another nature, dumb; outwent her,\n" + " Motion and breath left out.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS This is a thing\n" + " Which you might from relation likewise reap,\n" + " Being, as it is, much spoke of.\n\n" + "IACHIMO The roof o' the chamber\n" + " With golden cherubins is fretted: her andirons--\n" + " I had forgot them--were two winking Cupids\n" + " Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely\n" + " Depending on their brands.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS This is her honour!\n" + " Let it be granted you have seen all this--and praise\n" + " Be given to your remembrance--the description\n" + " Of what is in her chamber nothing saves\n" + " The wager you have laid.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Then, if you can,\n\n" + " [Showing the bracelet]\n\n" + " Be pale: I beg but leave to air this jewel; see!\n" + " And now 'tis up again: it must be married\n" + " To that your diamond; I'll keep them.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Jove!\n" + " Once more let me behold it: is it that\n" + " Which I left with her?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Sir--I thank her--that:\n" + " She stripp'd it from her arm; I see her yet;\n" + " Her pretty action did outsell her gift,\n" + " And yet enrich'd it too: she gave it me, and said\n" + " She prized it once.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS May be she pluck'd it off\n" + " To send it me.\n\n" + "IACHIMO She writes so to you, doth she?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS O, no, no, no! 'tis true. Here, take this too;\n\n" + " [Gives the ring]\n\n" + " It is a basilisk unto mine eye,\n" + " Kills me to look on't. Let there be no honour\n" + " Where there is beauty; truth, where semblance; love,\n" + " Where there's another man: the vows of women\n" + " Of no more bondage be, to where they are made,\n" + " Than they are to their virtues; which is nothing.\n" + " O, above measure false!\n\n" + "PHILARIO Have patience, sir,\n" + " And take your ring again; 'tis not yet won:\n" + " It may be probable she lost it; or\n" + " Who knows if one of her women, being corrupted,\n" + " Hath stol'n it from her?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Very true;\n" + " And so, I hope, he came by't. Back my ring:\n" + " Render to me some corporal sign about her,\n" + " More evident than this; for this was stolen.\n\n" + "IACHIMO By Jupiter, I had it from her arm.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Hark you, he swears; by Jupiter he swears.\n" + " 'Tis true:--nay, keep the ring--'tis true: I am sure\n" + " She would not lose it: her attendants are\n" + " All sworn and honourable:--they induced to steal it!\n" + " And by a stranger!--No, he hath enjoyed her:\n" + " The cognizance of her incontinency\n" + " Is this: she hath bought the name of whore\n" + " thus dearly.\n" + " There, take thy hire; and all the fiends of hell\n" + " Divide themselves between you!\n\n" + "PHILARIO Sir, be patient:\n" + " This is not strong enough to be believed\n" + " Of one persuaded well of--\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Never talk on't;\n" + " She hath been colted by him.\n\n" + "IACHIMO If you seek\n" + " For further satisfying, under her breast--\n" + " Worthy the pressing--lies a mole, right proud\n" + " Of that most delicate lodging: by my life,\n" + " I kiss'd it; and it gave me present hunger\n" + " To feed again, though full. You do remember\n" + " This stain upon her?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Ay, and it doth confirm\n" + " Another stain, as big as hell can hold,\n" + " Were there no more but it.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Will you hear more?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Spare your arithmetic: never count the turns;\n" + " Once, and a million!\n\n" + "IACHIMO I'll be sworn--\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS No swearing.\n" + " If you will swear you have not done't, you lie;\n" + " And I will kill thee, if thou dost deny\n" + " Thou'st made me cuckold.\n\n" + "IACHIMO I'll deny nothing.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!\n" + " I will go there and do't, i' the court, before\n" + " Her father. I'll do something--\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PHILARIO Quite besides\n" + " The government of patience! You have won:\n" + " Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath\n" + " He hath against himself.\n\n" + "IACHIMO With an my heart.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another room in Philario's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS]\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Is there no way for men to be but women\n" + " Must be half-workers? We are all bastards;\n" + " And that most venerable man which I\n" + " Did call my father, was I know not where\n" + " When I was stamp'd; some coiner with his tools\n" + " Made me a counterfeit: yet my mother seem'd\n" + " The Dian of that time so doth my wife\n" + " The nonpareil of this. O, vengeance, vengeance!\n" + " Me of my lawful pleasure she restrain'd\n" + " And pray'd me oft forbearance; did it with\n" + " A pudency so rosy the sweet view on't\n" + " Might well have warm'd old Saturn; that I thought her\n" + " As chaste as unsunn'd snow. O, all the devils!\n" + " This yellow Iachimo, in an hour,--wast not?--\n" + " Or less,--at first?--perchance he spoke not, but,\n" + " Like a full-acorn'd boar, a German one,\n" + " Cried 'O!' and mounted; found no opposition\n" + " But what he look'd for should oppose and she\n" + " Should from encounter guard. Could I find out\n" + " The woman's part in me! For there's no motion\n" + " That tends to vice in man, but I affirm\n" + " It is the woman's part: be it lying, note it,\n" + " The woman's; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers;\n" + " Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers;\n" + " Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain,\n" + " Nice longing, slanders, mutability,\n" + " All faults that may be named, nay, that hell knows,\n" + " Why, hers, in part or all; but rather, all;\n" + " For even to vice\n" + " They are not constant but are changing still\n" + " One vice, but of a minute old, for one\n" + " Not half so old as that. I'll write against them,\n" + " Detest them, curse them: yet 'tis greater skill\n" + " In a true hate, to pray they have their will:\n" + " The very devils cannot plague them better.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Britain. A hall in Cymbeline's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter in state, CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN,\n" + " and Lords at one door, and at another,\n" + " CAIUS LUCIUS and Attendants]\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Now say, what would Augustus Caesar with us?\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS When Julius Caesar, whose remembrance yet\n" + " Lives in men's eyes and will to ears and tongues\n" + " Be theme and hearing ever, was in this Britain\n" + " And conquer'd it, Cassibelan, thine uncle,--\n" + " Famous in Caesar's praises, no whit less\n" + " Than in his feats deserving it--for him\n" + " And his succession granted Rome a tribute,\n" + " Yearly three thousand pounds, which by thee lately\n" + " Is left untender'd.\n\n" + "QUEEN And, to kill the marvel,\n" + " Shall be so ever.\n\n" + "CLOTEN There be many Caesars,\n" + " Ere such another Julius. Britain is\n" + " A world by itself; and we will nothing pay\n" + " For wearing our own noses.\n\n" + "QUEEN That opportunity\n" + " Which then they had to take from 's, to resume\n" + " We have again. Remember, sir, my liege,\n" + " The kings your ancestors, together with\n" + " The natural bravery of your isle, which stands\n" + " As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in\n" + " With rocks unscalable and roaring waters,\n" + " With sands that will not bear your enemies' boats,\n" + " But suck them up to the topmast. A kind of conquest\n" + " Caesar made here; but made not here his brag\n" + " Of 'Came' and 'saw' and 'overcame: ' with shame--\n" + " That first that ever touch'd him--he was carried\n" + " From off our coast, twice beaten; and his shipping--\n" + " Poor ignorant baubles!-- upon our terrible seas,\n" + " Like egg-shells moved upon their surges, crack'd\n" + " As easily 'gainst our rocks: for joy whereof\n" + " The famed Cassibelan, who was once at point--\n" + " O giglot fortune!--to master Caesar's sword,\n" + " Made Lud's town with rejoicing fires bright\n" + " And Britons strut with courage.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Come, there's no more tribute to be paid: our\n" + " kingdom is stronger than it was at that time; and,\n" + " as I said, there is no moe such Caesars: other of\n" + " them may have crook'd noses, but to owe such\n" + " straight arms, none.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Son, let your mother end.\n\n" + "CLOTEN We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as\n" + " Cassibelan: I do not say I am one; but I have a\n" + " hand. Why tribute? why should we pay tribute? If\n" + " Caesar can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or\n" + " put the moon in his pocket, we will pay him tribute\n" + " for light; else, sir, no more tribute, pray you now.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE You must know,\n" + " Till the injurious Romans did extort\n" + " This tribute from us, we were free:\n" + " Caesar's ambition,\n" + " Which swell'd so much that it did almost stretch\n" + " The sides o' the world, against all colour here\n" + " Did put the yoke upon 's; which to shake off\n" + " Becomes a warlike people, whom we reckon\n" + " Ourselves to be.\n\n" + "CLOTEN |\n" + " | We do.\n" + "Lords |\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Say, then, to Caesar,\n" + " Our ancestor was that Mulmutius which\n" + " Ordain'd our laws, whose use the sword of Caesar\n" + " Hath too much mangled; whose repair and franchise\n" + " Shall, by the power we hold, be our good deed,\n" + " Though Rome be therefore angry: Mulmutius made our laws,\n" + " Who was the first of Britain which did put\n" + " His brows within a golden crown and call'd\n" + " Himself a king.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS I am sorry, Cymbeline,\n" + " That I am to pronounce Augustus Caesar--\n" + " Caesar, that hath more kings his servants than\n" + " Thyself domestic officers--thine enemy:\n" + " Receive it from me, then: war and confusion\n" + " In Caesar's name pronounce I 'gainst thee: look\n" + " For fury not to be resisted. Thus defied,\n" + " I thank thee for myself.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Thou art welcome, Caius.\n" + " Thy Caesar knighted me; my youth I spent\n" + " Much under him; of him I gather'd honour;\n" + " Which he to seek of me again, perforce,\n" + " Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect\n" + " That the Pannonians and Dalmatians for\n" + " Their liberties are now in arms; a precedent\n" + " Which not to read would show the Britons cold:\n" + " So Caesar shall not find them.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Let proof speak.\n\n" + "CLOTEN His majesty bids you welcome. Make\n" + " pastime with us a day or two, or longer: if\n" + " you seek us afterwards in other terms, you\n" + " shall find us in our salt-water girdle: if you\n" + " beat us out of it, it is yours; if you fall in\n" + " the adventure, our crows shall fare the better\n" + " for you; and there's an end.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS So, sir.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE I know your master's pleasure and he mine:\n" + " All the remain is 'Welcome!'\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PISANIO, with a letter]\n\n" + "PISANIO How? of adultery? Wherefore write you not\n" + " What monster's her accuser? Leonatus,\n" + " O master! what a strange infection\n" + " Is fall'n into thy ear! What false Italian,\n" + " As poisonous-tongued as handed, hath prevail'd\n" + " On thy too ready hearing? Disloyal! No:\n" + " She's punish'd for her truth, and undergoes,\n" + " More goddess-like than wife-like, such assaults\n" + " As would take in some virtue. O my master!\n" + " Thy mind to her is now as low as were\n" + " Thy fortunes. How! that I should murder her?\n" + " Upon the love and truth and vows which I\n" + " Have made to thy command? I, her? her blood?\n" + " If it be so to do good service, never\n" + " Let me be counted serviceable. How look I,\n" + " That I should seem to lack humanity\n" + " so much as this fact comes to?\n\n" + " [Reading]\n\n" + " 'Do't: the letter\n" + " that I have sent her, by her own command\n" + " Shall give thee opportunity.' O damn'd paper!\n" + " Black as the ink that's on thee! Senseless bauble,\n" + " Art thou a feodary for this act, and look'st\n" + " So virgin-like without? Lo, here she comes.\n" + " I am ignorant in what I am commanded.\n\n" + " [Enter IMOGEN]\n\n" + "IMOGEN How now, Pisanio!\n\n" + "PISANIO Madam, here is a letter from my lord.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Who? thy lord? that is my lord, Leonatus!\n" + " O, learn'd indeed were that astronomer\n" + " That knew the stars as I his characters;\n" + " He'ld lay the future open. You good gods,\n" + " Let what is here contain'd relish of love,\n" + " Of my lord's health, of his content, yet not\n" + " That we two are asunder; let that grieve him:\n" + " Some griefs are med'cinable; that is one of them,\n" + " For it doth physic love: of his content,\n" + " All but in that! Good wax, thy leave. Blest be\n" + " You bees that make these locks of counsel! Lovers\n" + " And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike:\n" + " Though forfeiters you cast in prison, yet\n" + " You clasp young Cupid's tables. Good news, gods!\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Justice, and your father's wrath, should he take me\n" + " in his dominion, could not be so cruel to me, as\n" + " you, O the dearest of creatures, would even renew me\n" + " with your eyes. Take notice that I am in Cambria,\n" + " at Milford-Haven: what your own love will out of\n" + " this advise you, follow. So he wishes you all\n" + " happiness, that remains loyal to his vow, and your,\n" + " increasing in love,\n" + " LEONATUS POSTHUMUS.'\n" + " O, for a horse with wings! Hear'st thou, Pisanio?\n" + " He is at Milford-Haven: read, and tell me\n" + " How far 'tis thither. If one of mean affairs\n" + " May plod it in a week, why may not I\n" + " Glide thither in a day? Then, true Pisanio,--\n" + " Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord; who long'st,--\n" + " let me bate,-but not like me--yet long'st,\n" + " But in a fainter kind:--O, not like me;\n" + " For mine's beyond beyond--say, and speak thick;\n" + " Love's counsellor should fill the bores of hearing,\n" + " To the smothering of the sense--how far it is\n" + " To this same blessed Milford: and by the way\n" + " Tell me how Wales was made so happy as\n" + " To inherit such a haven: but first of all,\n" + " How we may steal from hence, and for the gap\n" + " That we shall make in time, from our hence-going\n" + " And our return, to excuse: but first, how get hence:\n" + " Why should excuse be born or e'er begot?\n" + " We'll talk of that hereafter. Prithee, speak,\n" + " How many score of miles may we well ride\n" + " 'Twixt hour and hour?\n\n" + "PISANIO One score 'twixt sun and sun,\n" + " Madam, 's enough for you:\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " and too much too.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Why, one that rode to's execution, man,\n" + " Could never go so slow: I have heard of\n" + " riding wagers,\n" + " Where horses have been nimbler than the sands\n" + " That run i' the clock's behalf. But this is foolery:\n" + " Go bid my woman feign a sickness; say\n" + " She'll home to her father: and provide me presently\n" + " A riding-suit, no costlier than would fit\n" + " A franklin's housewife.\n\n" + "PISANIO Madam, you're best consider.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I see before me, man: nor here, nor here,\n" + " Nor what ensues, but have a fog in them,\n" + " That I cannot look through. Away, I prithee;\n" + " Do as I bid thee: there's no more to say,\n" + " Accessible is none but Milford way.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Wales: a mountainous country with a cave.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS; GUIDERIUS,\n" + " and ARVIRAGUS following]\n\n" + "BELARIUS A goodly day not to keep house, with such\n" + " Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys; this gate\n" + " Instructs you how to adore the heavens and bows you\n" + " To a morning's holy office: the gates of monarchs\n" + " Are arch'd so high that giants may jet through\n" + " And keep their impious turbans on, without\n" + " Good morrow to the sun. Hail, thou fair heaven!\n" + " We house i' the rock, yet use thee not so hardly\n" + " As prouder livers do.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Hail, heaven!\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Hail, heaven!\n\n" + "BELARIUS Now for our mountain sport: up to yond hill;\n" + " Your legs are young; I'll tread these flats. Consider,\n" + " When you above perceive me like a crow,\n" + " That it is place which lessens and sets off;\n" + " And you may then revolve what tales I have told you\n" + " Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war:\n" + " This service is not service, so being done,\n" + " But being so allow'd: to apprehend thus,\n" + " Draws us a profit from all things we see;\n" + " And often, to our comfort, shall we find\n" + " The sharded beetle in a safer hold\n" + " Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O, this life\n" + " Is nobler than attending for a cheque,\n" + " Richer than doing nothing for a bauble,\n" + " Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk:\n" + " Such gain the cap of him that makes 'em fine,\n" + " Yet keeps his book uncross'd: no life to ours.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Out of your proof you speak: we, poor unfledged,\n" + " Have never wing'd from view o' the nest, nor know not\n" + " What air's from home. Haply this life is best,\n" + " If quiet life be best; sweeter to you\n" + " That have a sharper known; well corresponding\n" + " With your stiff age: but unto us it is\n" + " A cell of ignorance; travelling a-bed;\n" + " A prison for a debtor, that not dares\n" + " To stride a limit.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS What should we speak of\n" + " When we are old as you? when we shall hear\n" + " The rain and wind beat dark December, how,\n" + " In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse\n" + " The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing;\n" + " We are beastly, subtle as the fox for prey,\n" + " Like warlike as the wolf for what we eat;\n" + " Our valour is to chase what flies; our cage\n" + " We make a quire, as doth the prison'd bird,\n" + " And sing our bondage freely.\n\n" + "BELARIUS How you speak!\n" + " Did you but know the city's usuries\n" + " And felt them knowingly; the art o' the court\n" + " As hard to leave as keep; whose top to climb\n" + " Is certain falling, or so slippery that\n" + " The fear's as bad as falling; the toil o' the war,\n" + " A pain that only seems to seek out danger\n" + " I' the name of fame and honour; which dies i'\n" + " the search,\n" + " And hath as oft a slanderous epitaph\n" + " As record of fair act; nay, many times,\n" + " Doth ill deserve by doing well; what's worse,\n" + " Must court'sy at the censure:--O boys, this story\n" + " The world may read in me: my body's mark'd\n" + " With Roman swords, and my report was once\n" + " First with the best of note: Cymbeline loved me,\n" + " And when a soldier was the theme, my name\n" + " Was not far off: then was I as a tree\n" + " Whose boughs did bend with fruit: but in one night,\n" + " A storm or robbery, call it what you will,\n" + " Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves,\n" + " And left me bare to weather.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Uncertain favour!\n\n" + "BELARIUS My fault being nothing--as I have told you oft--\n" + " But that two villains, whose false oaths prevail'd\n" + " Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline\n" + " I was confederate with the Romans: so\n" + " Follow'd my banishment, and this twenty years\n" + " This rock and these demesnes have been my world;\n" + " Where I have lived at honest freedom, paid\n" + " More pious debts to heaven than in all\n" + " The fore-end of my time. But up to the mountains!\n" + " This is not hunters' language: he that strikes\n" + " The venison first shall be the lord o' the feast;\n" + " To him the other two shall minister;\n" + " And we will fear no poison, which attends\n" + " In place of greater state. I'll meet you in the valleys.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS]\n\n" + " How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature!\n" + " These boys know little they are sons to the king;\n" + " Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive.\n" + " They think they are mine; and though train'd\n" + " up thus meanly\n" + " I' the cave wherein they bow, their thoughts do hit\n" + " The roofs of palaces, and nature prompts them\n" + " In simple and low things to prince it much\n" + " Beyond the trick of others. This Polydore,\n" + " The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, who\n" + " The king his father call'd Guiderius,--Jove!\n" + " When on my three-foot stool I sit and tell\n" + " The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly out\n" + " Into my story: say 'Thus, mine enemy fell,\n" + " And thus I set my foot on 's neck;' even then\n" + " The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats,\n" + " Strains his young nerves and puts himself in posture\n" + " That acts my words. The younger brother, Cadwal,\n" + " Once Arviragus, in as like a figure,\n" + " Strikes life into my speech and shows much more\n" + " His own conceiving.--Hark, the game is roused!\n" + " O Cymbeline! heaven and my conscience knows\n" + " Thou didst unjustly banish me: whereon,\n" + " At three and two years old, I stole these babes;\n" + " Thinking to bar thee of succession, as\n" + " Thou reft'st me of my lands. Euriphile,\n" + " Thou wast their nurse; they took thee for\n" + " their mother,\n" + " And every day do honour to her grave:\n" + " Myself, Belarius, that am Morgan call'd,\n" + " They take for natural father. The game is up.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Country near Milford-Haven.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PISANIO and IMOGEN]\n\n" + "IMOGEN Thou told'st me, when we came from horse, the place\n" + " Was near at hand: ne'er long'd my mother so\n" + " To see me first, as I have now. Pisanio! man!\n" + " Where is Posthumus? What is in thy mind,\n" + " That makes thee stare thus? Wherefore breaks that sigh\n" + " From the inward of thee? One, but painted thus,\n" + " Would be interpreted a thing perplex'd\n" + " Beyond self-explication: put thyself\n" + " Into a havior of less fear, ere wildness\n" + " Vanquish my staider senses. What's the matter?\n" + " Why tender'st thou that paper to me, with\n" + " A look untender? If't be summer news,\n" + " Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st\n" + " But keep that countenance still. My husband's hand!\n" + " That drug-damn'd Italy hath out-craftied him,\n" + " And he's at some hard point. Speak, man: thy tongue\n" + " May take off some extremity, which to read\n" + " Would be even mortal to me.\n\n" + "PISANIO Please you, read;\n" + " And you shall find me, wretched man, a thing\n" + " The most disdain'd of fortune.\n\n" + "IMOGEN [Reads] 'Thy mistress, Pisanio, hath played the\n" + " strumpet in my bed; the testimonies whereof lie\n" + " bleeding in me. I speak not out of weak surmises,\n" + " but from proof as strong as my grief and as certain\n" + " as I expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio,\n" + " must act for me, if thy faith be not tainted with\n" + " the breach of hers. Let thine own hands take away\n" + " her life: I shall give thee opportunity at\n" + " Milford-Haven. She hath my letter for the purpose\n" + " where, if thou fear to strike and to make me certain\n" + " it is done, thou art the pandar to her dishonour and\n" + " equally to me disloyal.'\n\n" + "PISANIO What shall I need to draw my sword? the paper\n" + " Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander,\n" + " Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue\n" + " Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath\n" + " Rides on the posting winds and doth belie\n" + " All corners of the world: kings, queens and states,\n" + " Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave\n" + " This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam?\n\n" + "IMOGEN False to his bed! What is it to be false?\n" + " To lie in watch there and to think on him?\n" + " To weep 'twixt clock and clock? if sleep\n" + " charge nature,\n" + " To break it with a fearful dream of him\n" + " And cry myself awake? that's false to's bed, is it?\n\n" + "PISANIO Alas, good lady!\n\n" + "IMOGEN I false! Thy conscience witness: Iachimo,\n" + " Thou didst accuse him of incontinency;\n" + " Thou then look'dst like a villain; now methinks\n" + " Thy favour's good enough. Some jay of Italy\n" + " Whose mother was her painting, hath betray'd him:\n" + " Poor I am stale, a garment out of fashion;\n" + " And, for I am richer than to hang by the walls,\n" + " I must be ripp'd:--to pieces with me!--O,\n" + " Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming,\n" + " By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought\n" + " Put on for villany; not born where't grows,\n" + " But worn a bait for ladies.\n\n" + "PISANIO Good madam, hear me.\n\n" + "IMOGEN True honest men being heard, like false Aeneas,\n" + " Were in his time thought false, and Sinon's weeping\n" + " Did scandal many a holy tear, took pity\n" + " From most true wretchedness: so thou, Posthumus,\n" + " Wilt lay the leaven on all proper men;\n" + " Goodly and gallant shall be false and perjured\n" + " From thy great fall. Come, fellow, be thou honest:\n" + " Do thou thy master's bidding: when thou see'st him,\n" + " A little witness my obedience: look!\n" + " I draw the sword myself: take it, and hit\n" + " The innocent mansion of my love, my heart;\n" + " Fear not; 'tis empty of all things but grief;\n" + " Thy master is not there, who was indeed\n" + " The riches of it: do his bidding; strike\n" + " Thou mayst be valiant in a better cause;\n" + " But now thou seem'st a coward.\n\n" + "PISANIO Hence, vile instrument!\n" + " Thou shalt not damn my hand.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Why, I must die;\n" + " And if I do not by thy hand, thou art\n" + " No servant of thy master's. Against self-slaughter\n" + " There is a prohibition so divine\n" + " That cravens my weak hand. Come, here's my heart.\n" + " Something's afore't. Soft, soft! we'll no defence;\n" + " Obedient as the scabbard. What is here?\n" + " The scriptures of the loyal Leonatus,\n" + " All turn'd to heresy? Away, away,\n" + " Corrupters of my faith! you shall no more\n" + " Be stomachers to my heart. Thus may poor fools\n" + " Believe false teachers: though those that\n" + " are betray'd\n" + " Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor\n" + " Stands in worse case of woe.\n" + " And thou, Posthumus, thou that didst set up\n" + " My disobedience 'gainst the king my father\n" + " And make me put into contempt the suits\n" + " Of princely fellows, shalt hereafter find\n" + " It is no act of common passage, but\n" + " A strain of rareness: and I grieve myself\n" + " To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her\n" + " That now thou tirest on, how thy memory\n" + " Will then be pang'd by me. Prithee, dispatch:\n" + " The lamb entreats the butcher: where's thy knife?\n" + " Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding,\n" + " When I desire it too.\n\n" + "PISANIO O gracious lady,\n" + " Since I received command to do this business\n" + " I have not slept one wink.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Do't, and to bed then.\n\n" + "PISANIO I'll wake mine eye-balls blind first.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Wherefore then\n" + " Didst undertake it? Why hast thou abused\n" + " So many miles with a pretence? this place?\n" + " Mine action and thine own? our horses' labour?\n" + " The time inviting thee? the perturb'd court,\n" + " For my being absent? whereunto I never\n" + " Purpose return. Why hast thou gone so far,\n" + " To be unbent when thou hast ta'en thy stand,\n" + " The elected deer before thee?\n\n" + "PISANIO But to win time\n" + " To lose so bad employment; in the which\n" + " I have consider'd of a course. Good lady,\n" + " Hear me with patience.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Talk thy tongue weary; speak\n" + " I have heard I am a strumpet; and mine ear\n" + " Therein false struck, can take no greater wound,\n" + " Nor tent to bottom that. But speak.\n\n" + "PISANIO Then, madam,\n" + " I thought you would not back again.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Most like;\n" + " Bringing me here to kill me.\n\n" + "PISANIO Not so, neither:\n" + " But if I were as wise as honest, then\n" + " My purpose would prove well. It cannot be\n" + " But that my master is abused:\n" + " Some villain, ay, and singular in his art.\n" + " Hath done you both this cursed injury.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Some Roman courtezan.\n\n" + "PISANIO No, on my life.\n" + " I'll give but notice you are dead and send him\n" + " Some bloody sign of it; for 'tis commanded\n" + " I should do so: you shall be miss'd at court,\n" + " And that will well confirm it.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Why good fellow,\n" + " What shall I do the where? where bide? how live?\n" + " Or in my life what comfort, when I am\n" + " Dead to my husband?\n\n" + "PISANIO If you'll back to the court--\n\n" + "IMOGEN No court, no father; nor no more ado\n" + " With that harsh, noble, simple nothing,\n" + " That Cloten, whose love-suit hath been to me\n" + " As fearful as a siege.\n\n" + "PISANIO If not at court,\n" + " Then not in Britain must you bide.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Where then\n" + " Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, night,\n" + " Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume\n" + " Our Britain seems as of it, but not in 't;\n" + " In a great pool a swan's nest: prithee, think\n" + " There's livers out of Britain.\n\n" + "PISANIO I am most glad\n" + " You think of other place. The ambassador,\n" + " Lucius the Roman, comes to Milford-Haven\n" + " To-morrow: now, if you could wear a mind\n" + " Dark as your fortune is, and but disguise\n" + " That which, to appear itself, must not yet be\n" + " But by self-danger, you should tread a course\n" + " Pretty and full of view; yea, haply, near\n" + " The residence of Posthumus; so nigh at least\n" + " That though his actions were not visible, yet\n" + " Report should render him hourly to your ear\n" + " As truly as he moves.\n\n" + "IMOGEN O, for such means!\n" + " Though peril to my modesty, not death on't,\n" + " I would adventure.\n\n" + "PISANIO Well, then, here's the point:\n" + " You must forget to be a woman; change\n" + " Command into obedience: fear and niceness--\n" + " The handmaids of all women, or, more truly,\n" + " Woman its pretty self--into a waggish courage:\n" + " Ready in gibes, quick-answer'd, saucy and\n" + " As quarrelous as the weasel; nay, you must\n" + " Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek,\n" + " Exposing it--but, O, the harder heart!\n" + " Alack, no remedy!--to the greedy touch\n" + " Of common-kissing Titan, and forget\n" + " Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein\n" + " You made great Juno angry.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Nay, be brief\n" + " I see into thy end, and am almost\n" + " A man already.\n\n" + "PISANIO First, make yourself but like one.\n" + " Fore-thinking this, I have already fit--\n" + " 'Tis in my cloak-bag--doublet, hat, hose, all\n" + " That answer to them: would you in their serving,\n" + " And with what imitation you can borrow\n" + " From youth of such a season, 'fore noble Lucius\n" + " Present yourself, desire his service, tell him\n" + " wherein you're happy,--which you'll make him know,\n" + " If that his head have ear in music,--doubtless\n" + " With joy he will embrace you, for he's honourable\n" + " And doubling that, most holy. Your means abroad,\n" + " You have me, rich; and I will never fail\n" + " Beginning nor supplyment.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Thou art all the comfort\n" + " The gods will diet me with. Prithee, away:\n" + " There's more to be consider'd; but we'll even\n" + " All that good time will give us: this attempt\n" + " I am soldier to, and will abide it with\n" + " A prince's courage. Away, I prithee.\n\n" + "PISANIO Well, madam, we must take a short farewell,\n" + " Lest, being miss'd, I be suspected of\n" + " Your carriage from the court. My noble mistress,\n" + " Here is a box; I had it from the queen:\n" + " What's in't is precious; if you are sick at sea,\n" + " Or stomach-qualm'd at land, a dram of this\n" + " Will drive away distemper. To some shade,\n" + " And fit you to your manhood. May the gods\n" + " Direct you to the best!\n\n" + "IMOGEN Amen: I thank thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A room in Cymbeline's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CYMBELINE, QUEEN, CLOTEN, LUCIUS,\n" + " Lords, and Attendants]\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Thus far; and so farewell.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Thanks, royal sir.\n" + " My emperor hath wrote, I must from hence;\n" + " And am right sorry that I must report ye\n" + " My master's enemy.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Our subjects, sir,\n" + " Will not endure his yoke; and for ourself\n" + " To show less sovereignty than they, must needs\n" + " Appear unkinglike.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS So, sir: I desire of you\n" + " A conduct over-land to Milford-Haven.\n" + " Madam, all joy befal your grace!\n\n" + "QUEEN And you!\n\n" + "CYMBELINE My lords, you are appointed for that office;\n" + " The due of honour in no point omit.\n" + " So farewell, noble Lucius.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Your hand, my lord.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Receive it friendly; but from this time forth\n" + " I wear it as your enemy.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Sir, the event\n" + " Is yet to name the winner: fare you well.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Leave not the worthy Lucius, good my lords,\n" + " Till he have cross'd the Severn. Happiness!\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCIUS and Lords]\n\n" + "QUEEN He goes hence frowning: but it honours us\n" + " That we have given him cause.\n\n" + "CLOTEN 'Tis all the better;\n" + " Your valiant Britons have their wishes in it.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Lucius hath wrote already to the emperor\n" + " How it goes here. It fits us therefore ripely\n" + " Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness:\n" + " The powers that he already hath in Gallia\n" + " Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves\n" + " His war for Britain.\n\n" + "QUEEN 'Tis not sleepy business;\n" + " But must be look'd to speedily and strongly.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Our expectation that it would be thus\n" + " Hath made us forward. But, my gentle queen,\n" + " Where is our daughter? She hath not appear'd\n" + " Before the Roman, nor to us hath tender'd\n" + " The duty of the day: she looks us like\n" + " A thing more made of malice than of duty:\n" + " We have noted it. Call her before us; for\n" + " We have been too slight in sufferance.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + "QUEEN Royal sir,\n" + " Since the exile of Posthumus, most retired\n" + " Hath her life been; the cure whereof, my lord,\n" + " 'Tis time must do. Beseech your majesty,\n" + " Forbear sharp speeches to her: she's a lady\n" + " So tender of rebukes that words are strokes\n" + " And strokes death to her.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Attendant]\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Where is she, sir? How\n" + " Can her contempt be answer'd?\n\n" + "Attendant Please you, sir,\n" + " Her chambers are all lock'd; and there's no answer\n" + " That will be given to the loudest noise we make.\n\n" + "QUEEN My lord, when last I went to visit her,\n" + " She pray'd me to excuse her keeping close,\n" + " Whereto constrain'd by her infirmity,\n" + " She should that duty leave unpaid to you,\n" + " Which daily she was bound to proffer: this\n" + " She wish'd me to make known; but our great court\n" + " Made me to blame in memory.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Her doors lock'd?\n" + " Not seen of late? Grant, heavens, that which I fear\n" + " Prove false!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "QUEEN Son, I say, follow the king.\n\n" + "CLOTEN That man of hers, Pisanio, her old servant,\n" + " have not seen these two days.\n\n" + "QUEEN Go, look after.\n\n" + " [Exit CLOTEN]\n\n" + " Pisanio, thou that stand'st so for Posthumus!\n" + " He hath a drug of mine; I pray his absence\n" + " Proceed by swallowing that, for he believes\n" + " It is a thing most precious. But for her,\n" + " Where is she gone? Haply, despair hath seized her,\n" + " Or, wing'd with fervor of her love, she's flown\n" + " To her desired Posthumus: gone she is\n" + " To death or to dishonour; and my end\n" + " Can make good use of either: she being down,\n" + " I have the placing of the British crown.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CLOTEN]\n\n" + " How now, my son!\n\n" + "CLOTEN 'Tis certain she is fled.\n" + " Go in and cheer the king: he rages; none\n" + " Dare come about him.\n\n" + "QUEEN [Aside] All the better: may\n" + " This night forestall him of the coming day!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CLOTEN I love and hate her: for she's fair and royal,\n" + " And that she hath all courtly parts more exquisite\n" + " Than lady, ladies, woman; from every one\n" + " The best she hath, and she, of all compounded,\n" + " Outsells them all; I love her therefore: but\n" + " Disdaining me and throwing favours on\n" + " The low Posthumus slanders so her judgment\n" + " That what's else rare is choked; and in that point\n" + " I will conclude to hate her, nay, indeed,\n" + " To be revenged upon her. For when fools Shall--\n\n" + " [Enter PISANIO]\n\n" + " Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah?\n" + " Come hither: ah, you precious pander! Villain,\n" + " Where is thy lady? In a word; or else\n" + " Thou art straightway with the fiends.\n\n" + "PISANIO O, good my lord!\n\n" + "CLOTEN Where is thy lady? Or, by Jupiter,--\n" + " I will not ask again. Close villain,\n" + " I'll have this secret from thy heart, or rip\n" + " Thy heart to find it. Is she with Posthumus?\n" + " From whose so many weights of baseness cannot\n" + " A dram of worth be drawn.\n\n" + "PISANIO Alas, my lord,\n" + " How can she be with him? When was she missed?\n" + " He is in Rome.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Where is she, sir? Come nearer;\n" + " No further halting: satisfy me home\n" + " What is become of her.\n\n" + "PISANIO O, my all-worthy lord!\n\n" + "CLOTEN All-worthy villain!\n" + " Discover where thy mistress is at once,\n" + " At the next word: no more of 'worthy lord!'\n" + " Speak, or thy silence on the instant is\n" + " Thy condemnation and thy death.\n\n" + "PISANIO Then, sir,\n" + " This paper is the history of my knowledge\n" + " Touching her flight.\n\n" + " [Presenting a letter]\n\n" + "CLOTEN Let's see't. I will pursue her\n" + " Even to Augustus' throne.\n\n" + "PISANIO [Aside] Or this, or perish.\n" + " She's far enough; and what he learns by this\n" + " May prove his travel, not her danger.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Hum!\n\n" + "PISANIO [Aside] I'll write to my lord she's dead. O Imogen,\n" + " Safe mayst thou wander, safe return again!\n\n" + "CLOTEN Sirrah, is this letter true?\n\n" + "PISANIO Sir, as I think.\n\n" + "CLOTEN It is Posthumus' hand; I know't. Sirrah, if thou\n" + " wouldst not be a villain, but do me true service,\n" + " undergo those employments wherein I should have\n" + " cause to use thee with a serious industry, that is,\n" + " what villany soe'er I bid thee do, to perform it\n" + " directly and truly, I would think thee an honest\n" + " man: thou shouldst neither want my means for thy\n" + " relief nor my voice for thy preferment.\n\n" + "PISANIO Well, my good lord.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Wilt thou serve me? for since patiently and\n" + " constantly thou hast stuck to the bare fortune of\n" + " that beggar Posthumus, thou canst not, in the\n" + " course of gratitude, but be a diligent follower of\n" + " mine: wilt thou serve me?\n\n" + "PISANIO Sir, I will.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Give me thy hand; here's my purse. Hast any of thy\n" + " late master's garments in thy possession?\n\n" + "PISANIO I have, my lord, at my lodging, the same suit he\n" + " wore when he took leave of my lady and mistress.\n\n" + "CLOTEN The first service thou dost me, fetch that suit\n" + " hither: let it be thy lint service; go.\n\n" + "PISANIO I shall, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CLOTEN Meet thee at Milford-Haven!--I forgot to ask him one\n" + " thing; I'll remember't anon:--even there, thou\n" + " villain Posthumus, will I kill thee. I would these\n" + " garments were come. She said upon a time--the\n" + " bitterness of it I now belch from my heart--that she\n" + " held the very garment of Posthumus in more respect\n" + " than my noble and natural person together with the\n" + " adornment of my qualities. With that suit upon my\n" + " back, will I ravish her: first kill him, and in her\n" + " eyes; there shall she see my valour, which will then\n" + " be a torment to her contempt. He on the ground, my\n" + " speech of insultment ended on his dead body, and\n" + " when my lust hath dined,--which, as I say, to vex\n" + " her I will execute in the clothes that she so\n" + " praised,--to the court I'll knock her back, foot\n" + " her home again. She hath despised me rejoicingly,\n" + " and I'll be merry in my revenge.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PISANIO, with the clothes]\n\n" + " Be those the garments?\n\n" + "PISANIO Ay, my noble lord.\n\n" + "CLOTEN How long is't since she went to Milford-Haven?\n\n" + "PISANIO She can scarce be there yet.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Bring this apparel to my chamber; that is the second\n" + " thing that I have commanded thee: the third is,\n" + " that thou wilt be a voluntary mute to my design. Be\n" + " but duteous, and true preferment shall tender itself\n" + " to thee. My revenge is now at Milford: would I had\n" + " wings to follow it! Come, and be true.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PISANIO Thou bid'st me to my loss: for true to thee\n" + " Were to prove false, which I will never be,\n" + " To him that is most true. To Milford go,\n" + " And find not her whom thou pursuest. Flow, flow,\n" + " You heavenly blessings, on her! This fool's speed\n" + " Be cross'd with slowness; labour be his meed!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Wales. Before the cave of Belarius.\n\n\n" + " [Enter IMOGEN, in boy's clothes]\n\n" + "IMOGEN I see a man's life is a tedious one:\n" + " I have tired myself, and for two nights together\n" + " Have made the ground my bed. I should be sick,\n" + " But that my resolution helps me. Milford,\n" + " When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd thee,\n" + " Thou wast within a ken: O Jove! I think\n" + " Foundations fly the wretched; such, I mean,\n" + " Where they should be relieved. Two beggars told me\n" + " I could not miss my way: will poor folks lie,\n" + " That have afflictions on them, knowing 'tis\n" + " A punishment or trial? Yes; no wonder,\n" + " When rich ones scarce tell true. To lapse in fulness\n" + " Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood\n" + " Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord!\n" + " Thou art one o' the false ones. Now I think on thee,\n" + " My hunger's gone; but even before, I was\n" + " At point to sink for food. But what is this?\n" + " Here is a path to't: 'tis some savage hold:\n" + " I were best not to call; I dare not call:\n" + " yet famine,\n" + " Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it valiant,\n" + " Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever\n" + " Of hardiness is mother. Ho! who's here?\n" + " If any thing that's civil, speak; if savage,\n" + " Take or lend. Ho! No answer? Then I'll enter.\n" + " Best draw my sword: and if mine enemy\n" + " But fear the sword like me, he'll scarcely look on't.\n" + " Such a foe, good heavens!\n\n" + " [Exit, to the cave]\n\n" + " [Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]\n\n" + "BELARIUS You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and\n" + " Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I\n" + " Will play the cook and servant; 'tis our match:\n" + " The sweat of industry would dry and die,\n" + " But for the end it works to. Come; our stomachs\n" + " Will make what's homely savoury: weariness\n" + " Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth\n" + " Finds the down pillow hard. Now peace be here,\n" + " Poor house, that keep'st thyself!\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS I am thoroughly weary.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS I am weak with toil, yet strong in appetite.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS There is cold meat i' the cave; we'll browse on that,\n" + " Whilst what we have kill'd be cook'd.\n\n" + "BELARIUS [Looking into the cave]\n\n" + " Stay; come not in.\n" + " But that it eats our victuals, I should think\n" + " Here were a fairy.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS What's the matter, sir?\n\n" + "BELARIUS By Jupiter, an angel! or, if not,\n" + " An earthly paragon! Behold divineness\n" + " No elder than a boy!\n\n" + " [Re-enter IMOGEN]\n\n" + "IMOGEN Good masters, harm me not:\n" + " Before I enter'd here, I call'd; and thought\n" + " To have begg'd or bought what I have took:\n" + " good troth,\n" + " I have stol'n nought, nor would not, though I had found\n" + " Gold strew'd i' the floor. Here's money for my meat:\n" + " I would have left it on the board so soon\n" + " As I had made my meal, and parted\n" + " With prayers for the provider.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Money, youth?\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!\n" + " As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those\n" + " Who worship dirty gods.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I see you're angry:\n" + " Know, if you kill me for my fault, I should\n" + " Have died had I not made it.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Whither bound?\n\n" + "IMOGEN To Milford-Haven.\n\n" + "BELARIUS What's your name?\n\n" + "IMOGEN Fidele, sir. I have a kinsman who\n" + " Is bound for Italy; he embark'd at Milford;\n" + " To whom being going, almost spent with hunger,\n" + " I am fall'n in this offence.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Prithee, fair youth,\n" + " Think us no churls, nor measure our good minds\n" + " By this rude place we live in. Well encounter'd!\n" + " 'Tis almost night: you shall have better cheer\n" + " Ere you depart: and thanks to stay and eat it.\n" + " Boys, bid him welcome.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Were you a woman, youth,\n" + " I should woo hard but be your groom. In honesty,\n" + " I bid for you as I'd buy.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS I'll make't my comfort\n" + " He is a man; I'll love him as my brother:\n" + " And such a welcome as I'd give to him\n" + " After long absence, such is yours: most welcome!\n" + " Be sprightly, for you fall 'mongst friends.\n\n" + "IMOGEN 'Mongst friends,\n" + " If brothers.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Would it had been so, that they\n" + " Had been my father's sons! then had my prize\n" + " Been less, and so more equal ballasting\n" + " To thee, Posthumus.\n\n" + "BELARIUS He wrings at some distress.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Would I could free't!\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Or I, whate'er it be,\n" + " What pain it cost, what danger. God's!\n\n" + "BELARIUS Hark, boys.\n\n" + " [Whispering]\n\n" + "IMOGEN Great men,\n" + " That had a court no bigger than this cave,\n" + " That did attend themselves and had the virtue\n" + " Which their own conscience seal'd them--laying by\n" + " That nothing-gift of differing multitudes--\n" + " Could not out-peer these twain. Pardon me, gods!\n" + " I'd change my sex to be companion with them,\n" + " Since Leonatus's false.\n\n" + "BELARIUS It shall be so.\n" + " Boys, we'll go dress our hunt. Fair youth, come in:\n" + " Discourse is heavy, fasting; when we have supp'd,\n" + " We'll mannerly demand thee of thy story,\n" + " So far as thou wilt speak it.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Pray, draw near.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS The night to the owl and morn to the lark\n" + " less welcome.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Thanks, sir.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS I pray, draw near.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Rome. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Senators and Tribunes]\n\n" + "First Senator This is the tenor of the emperor's writ:\n" + " That since the common men are now in action\n" + " 'Gainst the Pannonians and Dalmatians,\n" + " And that the legions now in Gallia are\n" + " Full weak to undertake our wars against\n" + " The fall'n-off Britons, that we do incite\n" + " The gentry to this business. He creates\n" + " Lucius preconsul: and to you the tribunes,\n" + " For this immediate levy, he commends\n" + " His absolute commission. Long live Caesar!\n\n" + "First Tribune Is Lucius general of the forces?\n\n" + "Second Senator Ay.\n\n" + "First Tribune Remaining now in Gallia?\n\n" + "First Senator With those legions\n" + " Which I have spoke of, whereunto your levy\n" + " Must be supplyant: the words of your commission\n" + " Will tie you to the numbers and the time\n" + " Of their dispatch.\n\n" + "First Tribune We will discharge our duty.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Wales: near the cave of Belarius.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLOTEN]\n\n" + "CLOTEN I am near to the place where they should meet, if\n" + " Pisanio have mapped it truly. How fit his garments\n" + " serve me! Why should his mistress, who was made by\n" + " him that made the tailor, not be fit too? the\n" + " rather--saving reverence of the word--for 'tis said\n" + " a woman's fitness comes by fits. Therein I must\n" + " play the workman. I dare speak it to myself--for it\n" + " is not vain-glory for a man and his glass to confer\n" + " in his own chamber--I mean, the lines of my body are\n" + " as well drawn as his; no less young, more strong,\n" + " not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the\n" + " advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike\n" + " conversant in general services, and more remarkable\n" + " in single oppositions: yet this imperceiverant\n" + " thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is!\n" + " Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy\n" + " shoulders, shall within this hour be off; thy\n" + " mistress enforced; thy garments cut to pieces before\n" + " thy face: and all this done, spurn her home to her\n" + " father; who may haply be a little angry for my so\n" + " rough usage; but my mother, having power of his\n" + " testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My\n" + " horse is tied up safe: out, sword, and to a sore\n" + " purpose! Fortune, put them into my hand! This is\n" + " the very description of their meeting-place; and\n" + " the fellow dares not deceive me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before the cave of Belarius.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from the cave, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS,\n" + " ARVIRAGUS, and IMOGEN]\n\n" + "BELARIUS [To IMOGEN] You are not well: remain here in the cave;\n" + " We'll come to you after hunting.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS [To IMOGEN] Brother, stay here\n" + " Are we not brothers?\n\n" + "IMOGEN So man and man should be;\n" + " But clay and clay differs in dignity,\n" + " Whose dust is both alike. I am very sick.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Go you to hunting; I'll abide with him.\n\n" + "IMOGEN So sick I am not, yet I am not well;\n" + " But not so citizen a wanton as\n" + " To seem to die ere sick: so please you, leave me;\n" + " Stick to your journal course: the breach of custom\n" + " Is breach of all. I am ill, but your being by me\n" + " Cannot amend me; society is no comfort\n" + " To one not sociable: I am not very sick,\n" + " Since I can reason of it. Pray you, trust me here:\n" + " I'll rob none but myself; and let me die,\n" + " Stealing so poorly.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS I love thee; I have spoke it\n" + " How much the quantity, the weight as much,\n" + " As I do love my father.\n\n" + "BELARIUS What! how! how!\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS If it be sin to say so, I yoke me\n" + " In my good brother's fault: I know not why\n" + " I love this youth; and I have heard you say,\n" + " Love's reason's without reason: the bier at door,\n" + " And a demand who is't shall die, I'd say\n" + " 'My father, not this youth.'\n\n" + "BELARIUS [Aside] O noble strain!\n" + " O worthiness of nature! breed of greatness!\n" + " Cowards father cowards and base things sire base:\n" + " Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.\n" + " I'm not their father; yet who this should be,\n" + " Doth miracle itself, loved before me.\n" + " 'Tis the ninth hour o' the morn.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Brother, farewell.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I wish ye sport.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS You health. So please you, sir.\n\n" + "IMOGEN [Aside] These are kind creatures. Gods, what lies\n" + " I have heard!\n" + " Our courtiers say all's savage but at court:\n" + " Experience, O, thou disprovest report!\n" + " The imperious seas breed monsters, for the dish\n" + " Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish.\n" + " I am sick still; heart-sick. Pisanio,\n" + " I'll now taste of thy drug.\n\n" + " [Swallows some]\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS I could not stir him:\n" + " He said he was gentle, but unfortunate;\n" + " Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Thus did he answer me: yet said, hereafter\n" + " I might know more.\n\n" + "BELARIUS To the field, to the field!\n" + " We'll leave you for this time: go in and rest.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS We'll not be long away.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Pray, be not sick,\n" + " For you must be our housewife.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Well or ill,\n" + " I am bound to you.\n\n" + "BELARIUS And shalt be ever.\n\n" + " [Exit IMOGEN, to the cave]\n\n" + " This youth, how'er distress'd, appears he hath had\n" + " Good ancestors.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS How angel-like he sings!\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS But his neat cookery! he cut our roots\n" + " In characters,\n" + " And sauced our broths, as Juno had been sick\n" + " And he her dieter.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Nobly he yokes\n" + " A smiling with a sigh, as if the sigh\n" + " Was that it was, for not being such a smile;\n" + " The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly\n" + " From so divine a temple, to commix\n" + " With winds that sailors rail at.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS I do note\n" + " That grief and patience, rooted in him both,\n" + " Mingle their spurs together.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Grow, patience!\n" + " And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine\n" + " His perishing root with the increasing vine!\n\n" + "BELARIUS It is great morning. Come, away!--\n" + " Who's there?\n\n" + " [Enter CLOTEN]\n\n" + "CLOTEN I cannot find those runagates; that villain\n" + " Hath mock'd me. I am faint.\n\n" + "BELARIUS 'Those runagates!'\n" + " Means he not us? I partly know him: 'tis\n" + " Cloten, the son o' the queen. I fear some ambush.\n" + " I saw him not these many years, and yet\n" + " I know 'tis he. We are held as outlaws: hence!\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS He is but one: you and my brother search\n" + " What companies are near: pray you, away;\n" + " Let me alone with him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS]\n\n" + "CLOTEN Soft! What are you\n" + " That fly me thus? some villain mountaineers?\n" + " I have heard of such. What slave art thou?\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS A thing\n" + " More slavish did I ne'er than answering\n" + " A slave without a knock.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Thou art a robber,\n" + " A law-breaker, a villain: yield thee, thief.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS To who? to thee? What art thou? Have not I\n" + " An arm as big as thine? a heart as big?\n" + " Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not\n" + " My dagger in my mouth. Say what thou art,\n" + " Why I should yield to thee?\n\n" + "CLOTEN Thou villain base,\n" + " Know'st me not by my clothes?\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS No, nor thy tailor, rascal,\n" + " Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes,\n" + " Which, as it seems, make thee.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Thou precious varlet,\n" + " My tailor made them not.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Hence, then, and thank\n" + " The man that gave them thee. Thou art some fool;\n" + " I am loath to beat thee.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Thou injurious thief,\n" + " Hear but my name, and tremble.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS What's thy name?\n\n" + "CLOTEN Cloten, thou villain.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Cloten, thou double villain, be thy name,\n" + " I cannot tremble at it: were it Toad, or\n" + " Adder, Spider,\n" + " 'Twould move me sooner.\n\n" + "CLOTEN To thy further fear,\n" + " Nay, to thy mere confusion, thou shalt know\n" + " I am son to the queen.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS I am sorry for 't; not seeming\n" + " So worthy as thy birth.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Art not afeard?\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Those that I reverence those I fear, the wise:\n" + " At fools I laugh, not fear them.\n\n" + "CLOTEN Die the death:\n" + " When I have slain thee with my proper hand,\n" + " I'll follow those that even now fled hence,\n" + " And on the gates of Lud's-town set your heads:\n" + " Yield, rustic mountaineer.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, fighting]\n\n" + " [Re-enter BELARIUS and ARVIRAGUS]\n\n" + "BELARIUS No companies abroad?\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS None in the world: you did mistake him, sure.\n\n" + "BELARIUS I cannot tell: long is it since I saw him,\n" + " But time hath nothing blurr'd those lines of favour\n" + " Which then he wore; the snatches in his voice,\n" + " And burst of speaking, were as his: I am absolute\n" + " 'Twas very Cloten.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS In this place we left them:\n" + " I wish my brother make good time with him,\n" + " You say he is so fell.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Being scarce made up,\n" + " I mean, to man, he had not apprehension\n" + " Of roaring terrors; for the effect of judgment\n" + " Is oft the cause of fear. But, see, thy brother.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GUIDERIUS, with CLOTEN'S head]\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS This Cloten was a fool, an empty purse;\n" + " There was no money in't: not Hercules\n" + " Could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none:\n" + " Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne\n" + " My head as I do his.\n\n" + "BELARIUS What hast thou done?\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head,\n" + " Son to the queen, after his own report;\n" + " Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer, and swore\n" + " With his own single hand he'ld take us in\n" + " Displace our heads where--thank the gods!--they grow,\n" + " And set them on Lud's-town.\n\n" + "BELARIUS We are all undone.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Why, worthy father, what have we to lose,\n" + " But that he swore to take, our lives? The law\n" + " Protects not us: then why should we be tender\n" + " To let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us,\n" + " Play judge and executioner all himself,\n" + " For we do fear the law? What company\n" + " Discover you abroad?\n\n" + "BELARIUS No single soul\n" + " Can we set eye on; but in all safe reason\n" + " He must have some attendants. Though his humour\n" + " Was nothing but mutation, ay, and that\n" + " From one bad thing to worse; not frenzy, not\n" + " Absolute madness could so far have raved\n" + " To bring him here alone; although perhaps\n" + " It may be heard at court that such as we\n" + " Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time\n" + " May make some stronger head; the which he hearing--\n" + " As it is like him--might break out, and swear\n" + " He'ld fetch us in; yet is't not probable\n" + " To come alone, either he so undertaking,\n" + " Or they so suffering: then on good ground we fear,\n" + " If we do fear this body hath a tail\n" + " More perilous than the head.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Let ordinance\n" + " Come as the gods foresay it: howsoe'er,\n" + " My brother hath done well.\n\n" + "BELARIUS I had no mind\n" + " To hunt this day: the boy Fidele's sickness\n" + " Did make my way long forth.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS With his own sword,\n" + " Which he did wave against my throat, I have ta'en\n" + " His head from him: I'll throw't into the creek\n" + " Behind our rock; and let it to the sea,\n" + " And tell the fishes he's the queen's son, Cloten:\n" + " That's all I reck.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BELARIUS I fear 'twill be revenged:\n" + " Would, Polydote, thou hadst not done't! though valour\n" + " Becomes thee well enough.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Would I had done't\n" + " So the revenge alone pursued me! Polydore,\n" + " I love thee brotherly, but envy much\n" + " Thou hast robb'd me of this deed: I would revenges,\n" + " That possible strength might meet, would seek us through\n" + " And put us to our answer.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Well, 'tis done:\n" + " We'll hunt no more to-day, nor seek for danger\n" + " Where there's no profit. I prithee, to our rock;\n" + " You and Fidele play the cooks: I'll stay\n" + " Till hasty Polydote return, and bring him\n" + " To dinner presently.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Poor sick Fidele!\n" + " I'll weringly to him: to gain his colour\n" + " I'ld let a parish of such Clotens' blood,\n" + " And praise myself for charity.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BELARIUS O thou goddess,\n" + " Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st\n" + " In these two princely boys! They are as gentle\n" + " As zephyrs blowing below the violet,\n" + " Not wagging his sweet head; and yet as rough,\n" + " Their royal blood enchafed, as the rudest wind,\n" + " That by the top doth take the mountain pine,\n" + " And make him stoop to the vale. 'Tis wonder\n" + " That an invisible instinct should frame them\n" + " To royalty unlearn'd, honour untaught,\n" + " Civility not seen from other, valour\n" + " That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop\n" + " As if it had been sow'd. Yet still it's strange\n" + " What Cloten's being here to us portends,\n" + " Or what his death will bring us.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GUIDERIUS]\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Where's my brother?\n" + " I have sent Cloten's clotpoll down the stream,\n" + " In embassy to his mother: his body's hostage\n" + " For his return.\n\n" + " [Solemn music]\n\n" + "BELARIUS My ingenious instrument!\n" + " Hark, Polydore, it sounds! But what occasion\n" + " Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark!\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Is he at home?\n\n" + "BELARIUS He went hence even now.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS What does he mean? since death of my dear'st mother\n" + " it did not speak before. All solemn things\n" + " Should answer solemn accidents. The matter?\n" + " Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys\n" + " Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.\n" + " Is Cadwal mad?\n\n" + "BELARIUS Look, here he comes,\n" + " And brings the dire occasion in his arms\n" + " Of what we blame him for.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARVIRAGUS, with IMOGEN, as dead,\n" + " bearing her in his arms]\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS The bird is dead\n" + " That we have made so much on. I had rather\n" + " Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to sixty,\n" + " To have turn'd my leaping-time into a crutch,\n" + " Than have seen this.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS O sweetest, fairest lily!\n" + " My brother wears thee not the one half so well\n" + " As when thou grew'st thyself.\n\n" + "BELARIUS O melancholy!\n" + " Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? find\n" + " The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish crare\n" + " Might easiliest harbour in? Thou blessed thing!\n" + " Jove knows what man thou mightst have made; but I,\n" + " Thou diedst, a most rare boy, of melancholy.\n" + " How found you him?\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Stark, as you see:\n" + " Thus smiling, as some fly hid tickled slumber,\n" + " Not as death's dart, being laugh'd at; his\n" + " right cheek\n" + " Reposing on a cushion.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Where?\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS O' the floor;\n" + " His arms thus leagued: I thought he slept, and put\n" + " My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness\n" + " Answer'd my steps too loud.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Why, he but sleeps:\n" + " If he be gone, he'll make his grave a bed;\n" + " With female fairies will his tomb be haunted,\n" + " And worms will not come to thee.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS With fairest flowers\n" + " Whilst summer lasts and I live here, Fidele,\n" + " I'll sweeten thy sad grave: thou shalt not lack\n" + " The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor\n" + " The azured harebell, like thy veins, no, nor\n" + " The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander,\n" + " Out-sweeten'd not thy breath: the ruddock would,\n" + " With charitable bill,--O bill, sore-shaming\n" + " Those rich-left heirs that let their fathers lie\n" + " Without a monument!--bring thee all this;\n" + " Yea, and furr'd moss besides, when flowers are none,\n" + " To winter-ground thy corse.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Prithee, have done;\n" + " And do not play in wench-like words with that\n" + " Which is so serious. Let us bury him,\n" + " And not protract with admiration what\n" + " Is now due debt. To the grave!\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Say, where shall's lay him?\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS By good Euriphile, our mother.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Be't so:\n" + " And let us, Polydore, though now our voices\n" + " Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground,\n" + " As once our mother; use like note and words,\n" + " Save that Euriphile must be Fidele.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Cadwal,\n" + " I cannot sing: I'll weep, and word it with thee;\n" + " For notes of sorrow out of tune are worse\n" + " Than priests and fanes that lie.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS We'll speak it, then.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Great griefs, I see, medicine the less; for Cloten\n" + " Is quite forgot. He was a queen's son, boys;\n" + " And though he came our enemy, remember\n" + " He was paid for that: though mean and\n" + " mighty, rotting\n" + " Together, have one dust, yet reverence,\n" + " That angel of the world, doth make distinction\n" + " Of place 'tween high and low. Our foe was princely\n" + " And though you took his life, as being our foe,\n" + " Yet bury him as a prince.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Pray You, fetch him hither.\n" + " Thersites' body is as good as Ajax',\n" + " When neither are alive.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS If you'll go fetch him,\n" + " We'll say our song the whilst. Brother, begin.\n\n" + " [Exit BELARIUS]\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east;\n" + " My father hath a reason for't.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS 'Tis true.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Come on then, and remove him.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS So. Begin.\n" + " [SONG]\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Fear no more the heat o' the sun,\n" + " Nor the furious winter's rages;\n" + " Thou thy worldly task hast done,\n" + " Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages:\n" + " Golden lads and girls all must,\n" + " As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Fear no more the frown o' the great;\n" + " Thou art past the tyrant's stroke;\n" + " Care no more to clothe and eat;\n" + " To thee the reed is as the oak:\n" + " The sceptre, learning, physic, must\n" + " All follow this, and come to dust.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Fear no more the lightning flash,\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Fear not slander, censure rash;\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Thou hast finish'd joy and moan:\n\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS |\n" + " | All lovers young, all lovers must\n" + "ARVIRAGUS | Consign to thee, and come to dust.\n\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS No exorciser harm thee!\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Nor no witchcraft charm thee!\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Ghost unlaid forbear thee!\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Nothing ill come near thee!\n\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS |\n" + " | Quiet consummation have;\n" + "ARVIRAGUS | And renowned be thy grave!\n\n\n" + " [Re-enter BELARIUS, with the body of CLOTEN]\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS We have done our obsequies: come, lay him down.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Here's a few flowers; but 'bout midnight, more:\n" + " The herbs that have on them cold dew o' the night\n" + " Are strewings fitt'st for graves. Upon their faces.\n" + " You were as flowers, now wither'd: even so\n" + " These herblets shall, which we upon you strew.\n" + " Come on, away: apart upon our knees.\n" + " The ground that gave them first has them again:\n" + " Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]\n\n" + "IMOGEN [Awaking] Yes, sir, to Milford-Haven; which is\n" + " the way?--\n" + " I thank you.--By yond bush?--Pray, how far thither?\n" + " 'Ods pittikins! can it be six mile yet?--\n" + " I have gone all night. 'Faith, I'll lie down and sleep.\n" + " But, soft! no bedfellow!--O gods and goddesses!\n\n" + " [Seeing the body of CLOTEN]\n\n" + " These flowers are like the pleasures of the world;\n" + " This bloody man, the care on't. I hope I dream;\n" + " For so I thought I was a cave-keeper,\n" + " And cook to honest creatures: but 'tis not so;\n" + " 'Twas but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing,\n" + " Which the brain makes of fumes: our very eyes\n" + " Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. Good faith,\n" + " I tremble stiff with fear: but if there be\n" + " Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity\n" + " As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it!\n" + " The dream's here still: even when I wake, it is\n" + " Without me, as within me; not imagined, felt.\n" + " A headless man! The garments of Posthumus!\n" + " I know the shape of's leg: this is his hand;\n" + " His foot Mercurial; his Martial thigh;\n" + " The brawns of Hercules: but his Jovial face\n" + " Murder in heaven?--How!--'Tis gone. Pisanio,\n" + " All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks,\n" + " And mine to boot, be darted on thee! Thou,\n" + " Conspired with that irregulous devil, Cloten,\n" + " Hast here cut off my lord. To write and read\n" + " Be henceforth treacherous! Damn'd Pisanio\n" + " Hath with his forged letters,--damn'd Pisanio--\n" + " From this most bravest vessel of the world\n" + " Struck the main-top! O Posthumus! alas,\n" + " Where is thy head? where's that? Ay me!\n" + " where's that?\n" + " Pisanio might have kill'd thee at the heart,\n" + " And left this head on. How should this be? Pisanio?\n" + " 'Tis he and Cloten: malice and lucre in them\n" + " Have laid this woe here. O, 'tis pregnant, pregnant!\n" + " The drug he gave me, which he said was precious\n" + " And cordial to me, have I not found it\n" + " Murderous to the senses? That confirms it home:\n" + " This is Pisanio's deed, and Cloten's: O!\n" + " Give colour to my pale cheek with thy blood,\n" + " That we the horrider may seem to those\n" + " Which chance to find us: O, my lord, my lord!\n\n" + " [Falls on the body]\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIUS, a Captain and other Officers,\n" + " and a Soothsayer]\n\n" + "Captain To them the legions garrison'd in Gailia,\n" + " After your will, have cross'd the sea, attending\n" + " You here at Milford-Haven with your ships:\n" + " They are in readiness.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS But what from Rome?\n\n" + "Captain The senate hath stirr'd up the confiners\n" + " And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,\n" + " That promise noble service: and they come\n" + " Under the conduct of bold Iachimo,\n" + " Syenna's brother.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS When expect you them?\n\n" + "Captain With the next benefit o' the wind.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS This forwardness\n" + " Makes our hopes fair. Command our present numbers\n" + " Be muster'd; bid the captains look to't. Now, sir,\n" + " What have you dream'd of late of this war's purpose?\n\n" + "Soothsayer Last night the very gods show'd me a vision--\n" + " I fast and pray'd for their intelligence--thus:\n" + " I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd\n" + " From the spongy south to this part of the west,\n" + " There vanish'd in the sunbeams: which portends--\n" + " Unless my sins abuse my divination--\n" + " Success to the Roman host.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Dream often so,\n" + " And never false. Soft, ho! what trunk is here\n" + " Without his top? The ruin speaks that sometime\n" + " It was a worthy building. How! a page!\n" + " Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather;\n" + " For nature doth abhor to make his bed\n" + " With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead.\n" + " Let's see the boy's face.\n\n" + "Captain He's alive, my lord.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS He'll then instruct us of this body. Young one,\n" + " Inform us of thy fortunes, for it seems\n" + " They crave to be demanded. Who is this\n" + " Thou makest thy bloody pillow? Or who was he\n" + " That, otherwise than noble nature did,\n" + " Hath alter'd that good picture? What's thy interest\n" + " In this sad wreck? How came it? Who is it?\n" + " What art thou?\n\n" + "IMOGEN I am nothing: or if not,\n" + " Nothing to be were better. This was my master,\n" + " A very valiant Briton and a good,\n" + " That here by mountaineers lies slain. Alas!\n" + " There is no more such masters: I may wander\n" + " From east to occident, cry out for service,\n" + " Try many, all good, serve truly, never\n" + " Find such another master.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS 'Lack, good youth!\n" + " Thou movest no less with thy complaining than\n" + " Thy master in bleeding: say his name, good friend.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Richard du Champ.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " If I do lie and do\n" + " No harm by it, though the gods hear, I hope\n" + " They'll pardon it.--Say you, sir?\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Thy name?\n\n" + "IMOGEN Fidele, sir.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Thou dost approve thyself the very same:\n" + " Thy name well fits thy faith, thy faith thy name.\n" + " Wilt take thy chance with me? I will not say\n" + " Thou shalt be so well master'd, but, be sure,\n" + " No less beloved. The Roman emperor's letters,\n" + " Sent by a consul to me, should not sooner\n" + " Than thine own worth prefer thee: go with me.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I'll follow, sir. But first, an't please the gods,\n" + " I'll hide my master from the flies, as deep\n" + " As these poor pickaxes can dig; and when\n" + " With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strew'd his grave,\n" + " And on it said a century of prayers,\n" + " Such as I can, twice o'er, I'll weep and sigh;\n" + " And leaving so his service, follow you,\n" + " So please you entertain me.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Ay, good youth!\n" + " And rather father thee than master thee.\n" + " My friends,\n" + " The boy hath taught us manly duties: let us\n" + " Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can,\n" + " And make him with our pikes and partisans\n" + " A grave: come, arm him. Boy, he is preferr'd\n" + " By thee to us, and he shall be interr'd\n" + " As soldiers can. Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes\n" + " Some falls are means the happier to arise.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in Cymbeline's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CYMBELINE, Lords, PISANIO, and Attendants]\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Again; and bring me word how 'tis with her.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " A fever with the absence of her son,\n" + " A madness, of which her life's in danger. Heavens,\n" + " How deeply you at once do touch me! Imogen,\n" + " The great part of my comfort, gone; my queen\n" + " Upon a desperate bed, and in a time\n" + " When fearful wars point at me; her son gone,\n" + " So needful for this present: it strikes me, past\n" + " The hope of comfort. But for thee, fellow,\n" + " Who needs must know of her departure and\n" + " Dost seem so ignorant, we'll enforce it from thee\n" + " By a sharp torture.\n\n" + "PISANIO Sir, my life is yours;\n" + " I humbly set it at your will; but, for my mistress,\n" + " I nothing know where she remains, why gone,\n" + " Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your highness,\n" + " Hold me your loyal servant.\n\n" + "First Lord Good my liege,\n" + " The day that she was missing he was here:\n" + " I dare be bound he's true and shall perform\n" + " All parts of his subjection loyally. For Cloten,\n" + " There wants no diligence in seeking him,\n" + " And will, no doubt, be found.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE The time is troublesome.\n\n" + " [To PISANIO]\n\n" + " We'll slip you for a season; but our jealousy\n" + " Does yet depend.\n\n" + "First Lord So please your majesty,\n" + " The Roman legions, all from Gallia drawn,\n" + " Are landed on your coast, with a supply\n" + " Of Roman gentlemen, by the senate sent.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Now for the counsel of my son and queen!\n" + " I am amazed with matter.\n\n" + "First Lord Good my liege,\n" + " Your preparation can affront no less\n" + " Than what you hear of: come more, for more\n" + " you're ready:\n" + " The want is but to put those powers in motion\n" + " That long to move.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE I thank you. Let's withdraw;\n" + " And meet the time as it seeks us. We fear not\n" + " What can from Italy annoy us; but\n" + " We grieve at chances here. Away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but PISANIO]\n\n" + "PISANIO I heard no letter from my master since\n" + " I wrote him Imogen was slain: 'tis strange:\n" + " Nor hear I from my mistress who did promise\n" + " To yield me often tidings: neither know I\n" + " What is betid to Cloten; but remain\n" + " Perplex'd in all. The heavens still must work.\n" + " Wherein I am false I am honest; not true, to be true.\n" + " These present wars shall find I love my country,\n" + " Even to the note o' the king, or I'll fall in them.\n" + " All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd:\n" + " Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Wales: before the cave of Belarius.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS The noise is round about us.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Let us from it.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS What pleasure, sir, find we in life, to lock it\n" + " From action and adventure?\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Nay, what hope\n" + " Have we in hiding us? This way, the Romans\n" + " Must or for Britons slay us, or receive us\n" + " For barbarous and unnatural revolts\n" + " During their use, and slay us after.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Sons,\n" + " We'll higher to the mountains; there secure us.\n" + " To the king's party there's no going: newness\n" + " Of Cloten's death--we being not known, not muster'd\n" + " Among the bands--may drive us to a render\n" + " Where we have lived, and so extort from's that\n" + " Which we have done, whose answer would be death\n" + " Drawn on with torture.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS This is, sir, a doubt\n" + " In such a time nothing becoming you,\n" + " Nor satisfying us.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS It is not likely\n" + " That when they hear the Roman horses neigh,\n" + " Behold their quarter'd fires, have both their eyes\n" + " And ears so cloy'd importantly as now,\n" + " That they will waste their time upon our note,\n" + " To know from whence we are.\n\n" + "BELARIUS O, I am known\n" + " Of many in the army: many years,\n" + " Though Cloten then but young, you see, not wore him\n" + " From my remembrance. And, besides, the king\n" + " Hath not deserved my service nor your loves;\n" + " Who find in my exile the want of breeding,\n" + " The certainty of this hard life; aye hopeless\n" + " To have the courtesy your cradle promised,\n" + " But to be still hot summer's tamings and\n" + " The shrinking slaves of winter.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Than be so\n" + " Better to cease to be. Pray, sir, to the army:\n" + " I and my brother are not known; yourself\n" + " So out of thought, and thereto so o'ergrown,\n" + " Cannot be question'd.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS By this sun that shines,\n" + " I'll thither: what thing is it that I never\n" + " Did see man die! scarce ever look'd on blood,\n" + " But that of coward hares, hot goats, and venison!\n" + " Never bestrid a horse, save one that had\n" + " A rider like myself, who ne'er wore rowel\n" + " Nor iron on his heel! I am ashamed\n" + " To look upon the holy sun, to have\n" + " The benefit of his blest beams, remaining\n" + " So long a poor unknown.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS By heavens, I'll go:\n" + " If you will bless me, sir, and give me leave,\n" + " I'll take the better care, but if you will not,\n" + " The hazard therefore due fall on me by\n" + " The hands of Romans!\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS So say I amen.\n\n" + "BELARIUS No reason I, since of your lives you set\n" + " So slight a valuation, should reserve\n" + " My crack'd one to more care. Have with you, boys!\n" + " If in your country wars you chance to die,\n" + " That is my bed too, lads, an there I'll lie:\n" + " Lead, lead.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " The time seems long; their blood\n" + " thinks scorn,\n" + " Till it fly out and show them princes born.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Britain. The Roman camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POSTHUMUS, with a bloody handkerchief]\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Yea, bloody cloth, I'll keep thee, for I wish'd\n" + " Thou shouldst be colour'd thus. You married ones,\n" + " If each of you should take this course, how many\n" + " Must murder wives much better than themselves\n" + " For wrying but a little! O Pisanio!\n" + " Every good servant does not all commands:\n" + " No bond but to do just ones. Gods! if you\n" + " Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, I never\n" + " Had lived to put on this: so had you saved\n" + " The noble Imogen to repent, and struck\n" + " Me, wretch more worth your vengeance. But, alack,\n" + " You snatch some hence for little faults; that's love,\n" + " To have them fall no more: you some permit\n" + " To second ills with ills, each elder worse,\n" + " And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift.\n" + " But Imogen is your own: do your best wills,\n" + " And make me blest to obey! I am brought hither\n" + " Among the Italian gentry, and to fight\n" + " Against my lady's kingdom: 'tis enough\n" + " That, Britain, I have kill'd thy mistress; peace!\n" + " I'll give no wound to thee. Therefore, good heavens,\n" + " Hear patiently my purpose: I'll disrobe me\n" + " Of these Italian weeds and suit myself\n" + " As does a Briton peasant: so I'll fight\n" + " Against the part I come with; so I'll die\n" + " For thee, O Imogen, even for whom my life\n" + " Is every breath a death; and thus, unknown,\n" + " Pitied nor hated, to the face of peril\n" + " Myself I'll dedicate. Let me make men know\n" + " More valour in me than my habits show.\n" + " Gods, put the strength o' the Leonati in me!\n" + " To shame the guise o' the world, I will begin\n" + " The fashion, less without and more within.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Field of battle between the British and Roman camps.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from one side, LUCIUS, IACHIMO, and\n" + " the Roman Army: from the other side, the\n" + " British Army; POSTHUMUS LEONATUS following,\n" + " like a poor soldier. They march over and go\n" + " out. Then enter again, in skirmish, IACHIMO\n" + " and POSTHUMUS LEONATUS he vanquisheth and disarmeth\n" + " IACHIMO, and then leaves him]\n\n" + "IACHIMO The heaviness and guilt within my bosom\n" + " Takes off my manhood: I have belied a lady,\n" + " The princess of this country, and the air on't\n" + " Revengingly enfeebles me; or could this carl,\n" + " A very drudge of nature's, have subdued me\n" + " In my profession? Knighthoods and honours, borne\n" + " As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn.\n" + " If that thy gentry, Britain, go before\n" + " This lout as he exceeds our lords, the odds\n" + " Is that we scarce are men and you are gods.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [The battle continues; the Britons fly; CYMBELINE is\n" + " taken: then enter, to his rescue, BELARIUS,\n" + " GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]\n\n" + "BELARIUS Stand, stand! We have the advantage of the ground;\n" + " The lane is guarded: nothing routs us but\n" + " The villany of our fears.\n\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS |\n" + " | Stand, stand, and fight!\n" + "ARVIRAGUS |\n\n\n" + " [Re-enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS, and seconds the\n" + " Britons: they rescue CYMBELINE, and exeunt. Then\n" + " re-enter LUCIUS, and IACHIMO, with IMOGEN]\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself;\n" + " For friends kill friends, and the disorder's such\n" + " As war were hoodwink'd.\n\n" + "IACHIMO 'Tis their fresh supplies.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS It is a day turn'd strangely: or betimes\n" + " Let's reinforce, or fly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and a British Lord]\n\n" + "Lord Camest thou from where they made the stand?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I did.\n" + " Though you, it seems, come from the fliers.\n\n" + "Lord I did.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS No blame be to you, sir; for all was lost,\n" + " But that the heavens fought: the king himself\n" + " Of his wings destitute, the army broken,\n" + " And but the backs of Britons seen, all flying\n" + " Through a straight lane; the enemy full-hearted,\n" + " Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having work\n" + " More plentiful than tools to do't, struck down\n" + " Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling\n" + " Merely through fear; that the straight pass was damm'd\n" + " With dead men hurt behind, and cowards living\n" + " To die with lengthen'd shame.\n\n" + "Lord Where was this lane?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Close by the battle, ditch'd, and wall'd with turf;\n" + " Which gave advantage to an ancient soldier,\n" + " An honest one, I warrant; who deserved\n" + " So long a breeding as his white beard came to,\n" + " In doing this for's country: athwart the lane,\n" + " He, with two striplings-lads more like to run\n" + " The country base than to commit such slaughter\n" + " With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer\n" + " Than those for preservation cased, or shame--\n" + " Made good the passage; cried to those that fled,\n" + " 'Our Britain s harts die flying, not our men:\n" + " To darkness fleet souls that fly backwards. Stand;\n" + " Or we are Romans and will give you that\n" + " Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save,\n" + " But to look back in frown: stand, stand.'\n" + " These three,\n" + " Three thousand confident, in act as many--\n" + " For three performers are the file when all\n" + " The rest do nothing--with this word 'Stand, stand,'\n" + " Accommodated by the place, more charming\n" + " With their own nobleness, which could have turn'd\n" + " A distaff to a lance, gilded pale looks,\n" + " Part shame, part spirit renew'd; that some,\n" + " turn'd coward\n" + " But by example--O, a sin in war,\n" + " Damn'd in the first beginners!--gan to look\n" + " The way that they did, and to grin like lions\n" + " Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began\n" + " A stop i' the chaser, a retire, anon\n" + " A rout, confusion thick; forthwith they fly\n" + " Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles; slaves,\n" + " The strides they victors made: and now our cowards,\n" + " Like fragments in hard voyages, became\n" + " The life o' the need: having found the backdoor open\n" + " Of the unguarded hearts, heavens, how they wound!\n" + " Some slain before; some dying; some their friends\n" + " O'er borne i' the former wave: ten, chased by one,\n" + " Are now each one the slaughter-man of twenty:\n" + " Those that would die or ere resist are grown\n" + " The mortal bugs o' the field.\n\n" + "Lord This was strange chance\n" + " A narrow lane, an old man, and two boys.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Nay, do not wonder at it: you are made\n" + " Rather to wonder at the things you hear\n" + " Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't,\n" + " And vent it for a mockery? Here is one:\n" + " 'Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane,\n" + " Preserved the Britons, was the Romans' bane.'\n\n" + "Lord Nay, be not angry, sir.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS 'Lack, to what end?\n" + " Who dares not stand his foe, I'll be his friend;\n" + " For if he'll do as he is made to do,\n" + " I know he'll quickly fly my friendship too.\n" + " You have put me into rhyme.\n\n" + "Lord Farewell; you're angry.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Still going?\n\n" + " [Exit Lord]\n\n" + " This is a lord! O noble misery,\n" + " To be i' the field, and ask 'what news?' of me!\n" + " To-day how many would have given their honours\n" + " To have saved their carcasses! took heel to do't,\n" + " And yet died too! I, in mine own woe charm'd,\n" + " Could not find death where I did hear him groan,\n" + " Nor feel him where he struck: being an ugly monster,\n" + " 'Tis strange he hides him in fresh cups, soft beds,\n" + " Sweet words; or hath more ministers than we\n" + " That draw his knives i' the war. Well, I will find him\n" + " For being now a favourer to the Briton,\n" + " No more a Briton, I have resumed again\n" + " The part I came in: fight I will no more,\n" + " But yield me to the veriest hind that shall\n" + " Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is\n" + " Here made by the Roman; great the answer be\n" + " Britons must take. For me, my ransom's death;\n" + " On either side I come to spend my breath;\n" + " Which neither here I'll keep nor bear again,\n" + " But end it by some means for Imogen.\n\n" + " [Enter two British Captains and Soldiers]\n\n" + "First Captain Great Jupiter be praised! Lucius is taken.\n" + " 'Tis thought the old man and his sons were angels.\n\n" + "Second Captain There was a fourth man, in a silly habit,\n" + " That gave the affront with them.\n\n" + "First Captain So 'tis reported:\n" + " But none of 'em can be found. Stand! who's there?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS A Roman,\n" + " Who had not now been drooping here, if seconds\n" + " Had answer'd him.\n\n" + "Second Captain Lay hands on him; a dog!\n" + " A leg of Rome shall not return to tell\n" + " What crows have peck'd them here. He brags\n" + " his service\n" + " As if he were of note: bring him to the king.\n\n" + " [Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS,\n" + " PISANIO, Soldiers, Attendants, and Roman Captives.\n" + " The Captains present POSTHUMUS LEONATUS to\n" + " CYMBELINE, who delivers him over to a Gaoler:\n" + " then exeunt omnes]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A British prison.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and two Gaolers]\n\n" + "First Gaoler You shall not now be stol'n, you have locks upon you;\n" + " So graze as you find pasture.\n\n" + "Second Gaoler Ay, or a stomach.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Gaolers]\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Most welcome, bondage! for thou art away,\n" + " think, to liberty: yet am I better\n" + " Than one that's sick o' the gout; since he had rather\n" + " Groan so in perpetuity than be cured\n" + " By the sure physician, death, who is the key\n" + " To unbar these locks. My conscience, thou art fetter'd\n" + " More than my shanks and wrists: you good gods, give me\n" + " The penitent instrument to pick that bolt,\n" + " Then, free for ever! Is't enough I am sorry?\n" + " So children temporal fathers do appease;\n" + " Gods are more full of mercy. Must I repent?\n" + " I cannot do it better than in gyves,\n" + " Desired more than constrain'd: to satisfy,\n" + " If of my freedom 'tis the main part, take\n" + " No stricter render of me than my all.\n" + " I know you are more clement than vile men,\n" + " Who of their broken debtors take a third,\n" + " A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again\n" + " On their abatement: that's not my desire:\n" + " For Imogen's dear life take mine; and though\n" + " 'Tis not so dear, yet 'tis a life; you coin'd it:\n" + " 'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp;\n" + " Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake:\n" + " You rather mine, being yours: and so, great powers,\n" + " If you will take this audit, take this life,\n" + " And cancel these cold bonds. O Imogen!\n" + " I'll speak to thee in silence.\n\n" + " [Sleeps]\n\n" + " [Solemn music. Enter, as in an apparition,\n" + " SICILIUS LEONATUS, father to Posthumus Leonatus,\n" + " an old man, attired like a warrior; leading in\n" + " his hand an ancient matron, his wife, and mother\n" + " to Posthumus Leonatus, with music before them:\n" + " then, after other music, follow the two young\n" + " Leonati, brothers to Posthumus Leonatus, with\n" + " wounds as they died in the wars. They circle\n" + " Posthumus Leonatus round, as he lies sleeping]\n\n" + "Sicilius Leonatus No more, thou thunder-master, show\n" + " Thy spite on mortal flies:\n" + " With Mars fall out, with Juno chide,\n" + " That thy adulteries\n" + " Rates and revenges.\n" + " Hath my poor boy done aught but well,\n" + " Whose face I never saw?\n" + " I died whilst in the womb he stay'd\n" + " Attending nature's law:\n" + " Whose father then, as men report\n" + " Thou orphans' father art,\n" + " Thou shouldst have been, and shielded him\n" + " From this earth-vexing smart.\n\n" + "Mother Lucina lent not me her aid,\n" + " But took me in my throes;\n" + " That from me was Posthumus ript,\n" + " Came crying 'mongst his foes,\n" + " A thing of pity!\n\n" + "Sicilius Leonatus Great nature, like his ancestry,\n" + " Moulded the stuff so fair,\n" + " That he deserved the praise o' the world,\n" + " As great Sicilius' heir.\n\n" + "First Brother When once he was mature for man,\n" + " In Britain where was he\n" + " That could stand up his parallel;\n" + " Or fruitful object be\n" + " In eye of Imogen, that best\n" + " Could deem his dignity?\n\n" + "Mother With marriage wherefore was he mock'd,\n" + " To be exiled, and thrown\n" + " From Leonati seat, and cast\n" + " From her his dearest one,\n" + " Sweet Imogen?\n\n" + "Sicilius Leonatus Why did you suffer Iachimo,\n" + " Slight thing of Italy,\n" + " To taint his nobler heart and brain\n" + " With needless jealosy;\n" + " And to become the geck and scorn\n" + " O' th' other's villany?\n\n" + "Second Brother For this from stiller seats we came,\n" + " Our parents and us twain,\n" + " That striking in our country's cause\n" + " Fell bravely and were slain,\n" + " Our fealty and Tenantius' right\n" + " With honour to maintain.\n\n" + "First Brother Like hardiment Posthumus hath\n" + " To Cymbeline perform'd:\n" + " Then, Jupiter, thou king of gods,\n" + " Why hast thou thus adjourn'd\n" + " The graces for his merits due,\n" + " Being all to dolours turn'd?\n\n" + "Sicilius Leonatus Thy crystal window ope; look out;\n" + " No longer exercise\n" + " Upon a valiant race thy harsh\n" + " And potent injuries.\n\n" + "Mother Since, Jupiter, our son is good,\n" + " Take off his miseries.\n\n" + "Sicilius Leonatus Peep through thy marble mansion; help;\n" + " Or we poor ghosts will cry\n" + " To the shining synod of the rest\n" + " Against thy deity.\n\n\n" + "First Brother | Help, Jupiter; or we appeal,\n" + " | And from thy justice fly.\n" + "Second Brother |\n\n\n" + " [Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting\n" + " upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The\n" + " Apparitions fall on their knees]\n\n" + "Jupiter No more, you petty spirits of region low,\n" + " Offend our hearing; hush! How dare you ghosts\n" + " Accuse the thunderer, whose bolt, you know,\n" + " Sky-planted batters all rebelling coasts?\n" + " Poor shadows of Elysium, hence, and rest\n" + " Upon your never-withering banks of flowers:\n" + " Be not with mortal accidents opprest;\n" + " No care of yours it is; you know 'tis ours.\n" + " Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift,\n" + " The more delay'd, delighted. Be content;\n" + " Your low-laid son our godhead will uplift:\n" + " His comforts thrive, his trials well are spent.\n" + " Our Jovial star reign'd at his birth, and in\n" + " Our temple was he married. Rise, and fade.\n" + " He shall be lord of lady Imogen,\n" + " And happier much by his affliction made.\n" + " This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein\n" + " Our pleasure his full fortune doth confine:\n" + " and so, away: no further with your din\n" + " Express impatience, lest you stir up mine.\n" + " Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline.\n\n" + " [Ascends]\n\n" + "Sicilius Leonatus He came in thunder; his celestial breath\n" + " Was sulphurous to smell: the holy eagle\n" + " Stoop'd as to foot us: his ascension is\n" + " More sweet than our blest fields: his royal bird\n" + " Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak,\n" + " As when his god is pleased.\n\n" + "All Thanks, Jupiter!\n\n" + "Sicilius Leonatus The marble pavement closes, he is enter'd\n" + " His radiant root. Away! and, to be blest,\n" + " Let us with care perform his great behest.\n\n" + " [The Apparitions vanish]\n\n" + "Posthumus Leonatus [Waking] Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot\n" + " A father to me; and thou hast created\n" + " A mother and two brothers: but, O scorn!\n" + " Gone! they went hence so soon as they were born:\n" + " And so I am awake. Poor wretches that depend\n" + " On greatness' favour dream as I have done,\n" + " Wake and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve:\n" + " Many dream not to find, neither deserve,\n" + " And yet are steep'd in favours: so am I,\n" + " That have this golden chance and know not why.\n" + " What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one!\n" + " Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment\n" + " Nobler than that it covers: let thy effects\n" + " So follow, to be most unlike our courtiers,\n" + " As good as promise.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself unknown,\n" + " without seeking find, and be embraced by a piece of\n" + " tender air; and when from a stately cedar shall be\n" + " lopped branches, which, being dead many years,\n" + " shall after revive, be jointed to the old stock and\n" + " freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end his miseries,\n" + " Britain be fortunate and flourish in peace and plenty.'\n" + " 'Tis still a dream, or else such stuff as madmen\n" + " Tongue and brain not; either both or nothing;\n" + " Or senseless speaking or a speaking such\n" + " As sense cannot untie. Be what it is,\n" + " The action of my life is like it, which\n" + " I'll keep, if but for sympathy.\n\n" + " [Re-enter First Gaoler]\n\n" + "First Gaoler Come, sir, are you ready for death?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Over-roasted rather; ready long ago.\n\n" + "First Gaoler Hanging is the word, sir: if\n" + " you be ready for that, you are well cooked.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS So, if I prove a good repast to the\n" + " spectators, the dish pays the shot.\n\n" + "First Gaoler A heavy reckoning for you, sir. But the comfort is,\n" + " you shall be called to no more payments, fear no\n" + " more tavern-bills; which are often the sadness of\n" + " parting, as the procuring of mirth: you come in\n" + " flint for want of meat, depart reeling with too\n" + " much drink; sorry that you have paid too much, and\n" + " sorry that you are paid too much; purse and brain\n" + " both empty; the brain the heavier for being too\n" + " light, the purse too light, being drawn of\n" + " heaviness: of this contradiction you shall now be\n" + " quit. O, the charity of a penny cord! It sums up\n" + " thousands in a trice: you have no true debitor and\n" + " creditor but it; of what's past, is, and to come,\n" + " the discharge: your neck, sir, is pen, book and\n" + " counters; so the acquittance follows.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I am merrier to die than thou art to live.\n\n" + "First Gaoler Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the\n" + " tooth-ache: but a man that were to sleep your\n" + " sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he\n" + " would change places with his officer; for, look you,\n" + " sir, you know not which way you shall go.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Yes, indeed do I, fellow.\n\n" + "First Gaoler Your death has eyes in 's head then; I have not seen\n" + " him so pictured: you must either be directed by\n" + " some that take upon them to know, or do take upon\n" + " yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or\n" + " jump the after inquiry on your own peril: and how\n" + " you shall speed in your journey's end, I think you'll\n" + " never return to tell one.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to\n" + " direct them the way I am going, but such as wink and\n" + " will not use them.\n\n" + "First Gaoler What an infinite mock is this, that a man should\n" + " have the best use of eyes to see the way of\n" + " blindness! I am sure hanging's the way of winking.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Knock off his manacles; bring your prisoner to the king.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Thou bring'st good news; I am called to be made free.\n\n" + "First Gaoler I'll be hang'd then.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Thou shalt be then freer than a gaoler; no bolts for the dead.\n\n" + " [Exeunt POSTHUMUS LEONATUS and Messenger]\n\n" + "First Gaoler Unless a man would marry a gallows and beget young\n" + " gibbets, I never saw one so prone. Yet, on my\n" + " conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live,\n" + " for all he be a Roman: and there be some of them\n" + " too that die against their wills; so should I, if I\n" + " were one. I would we were all of one mind, and one\n" + " mind good; O, there were desolation of gaolers and\n" + " gallowses! I speak against my present profit, but\n" + " my wish hath a preferment in 't.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " CYMBELINE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Cymbeline's tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CYMBELINE, BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, ARVIRAGUS,\n" + " PISANIO, Lords, Officers, and Attendants]\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Stand by my side, you whom the gods have made\n" + " Preservers of my throne. Woe is my heart\n" + " That the poor soldier that so richly fought,\n" + " Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast\n" + " Stepp'd before larges of proof, cannot be found:\n" + " He shall be happy that can find him, if\n" + " Our grace can make him so.\n\n" + "BELARIUS I never saw\n" + " Such noble fury in so poor a thing;\n" + " Such precious deeds in one that promises nought\n" + " But beggary and poor looks.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE No tidings of him?\n\n" + "PISANIO He hath been search'd among the dead and living,\n" + " But no trace of him.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE To my grief, I am\n" + " The heir of his reward;\n\n" + " [To BELARIUS, GUIDERIUS, and ARVIRAGUS]\n\n" + " which I will add\n" + " To you, the liver, heart and brain of Britain,\n" + " By whom I grant she lives. 'Tis now the time\n" + " To ask of whence you are. Report it.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Sir,\n" + " In Cambria are we born, and gentlemen:\n" + " Further to boast were neither true nor modest,\n" + " Unless I add, we are honest.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Bow your knees.\n" + " Arise my knights o' the battle: I create you\n" + " Companions to our person and will fit you\n" + " With dignities becoming your estates.\n\n" + " [Enter CORNELIUS and Ladies]\n\n" + " There's business in these faces. Why so sadly\n" + " Greet you our victory? you look like Romans,\n" + " And not o' the court of Britain.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS Hail, great king!\n" + " To sour your happiness, I must report\n" + " The queen is dead.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Who worse than a physician\n" + " Would this report become? But I consider,\n" + " By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet death\n" + " Will seize the doctor too. How ended she?\n\n" + "CORNELIUS With horror, madly dying, like her life,\n" + " Which, being cruel to the world, concluded\n" + " Most cruel to herself. What she confess'd\n" + " I will report, so please you: these her women\n" + " Can trip me, if I err; who with wet cheeks\n" + " Were present when she finish'd.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Prithee, say.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS First, she confess'd she never loved you, only\n" + " Affected greatness got by you, not you:\n" + " Married your royalty, was wife to your place;\n" + " Abhorr'd your person.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE She alone knew this;\n" + " And, but she spoke it dying, I would not\n" + " Believe her lips in opening it. Proceed.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS Your daughter, whom she bore in hand to love\n" + " With such integrity, she did confess\n" + " Was as a scorpion to her sight; whose life,\n" + " But that her flight prevented it, she had\n" + " Ta'en off by poison.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE O most delicate fiend!\n" + " Who is 't can read a woman? Is there more?\n\n" + "CORNELIUS More, sir, and worse. She did confess she had\n" + " For you a mortal mineral; which, being took,\n" + " Should by the minute feed on life and lingering\n" + " By inches waste you: in which time she purposed,\n" + " By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to\n" + " O'ercome you with her show, and in time,\n" + " When she had fitted you with her craft, to work\n" + " Her son into the adoption of the crown:\n" + " But, failing of her end by his strange absence,\n" + " Grew shameless-desperate; open'd, in despite\n" + " Of heaven and men, her purposes; repented\n" + " The evils she hatch'd were not effected; so\n" + " Despairing died.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Heard you all this, her women?\n\n" + "First Lady We did, so please your highness.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Mine eyes\n" + " Were not in fault, for she was beautiful;\n" + " Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart,\n" + " That thought her like her seeming; it had\n" + " been vicious\n" + " To have mistrusted her: yet, O my daughter!\n" + " That it was folly in me, thou mayst say,\n" + " And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all!\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIUS, IACHIMO, the Soothsayer, and other\n" + " Roman Prisoners, guarded; POSTHUMUS LEONATUS\n" + " behind, and IMOGEN]\n\n" + " Thou comest not, Caius, now for tribute that\n" + " The Britons have razed out, though with the loss\n" + " Of many a bold one; whose kinsmen have made suit\n" + " That their good souls may be appeased with slaughter\n" + " Of you their captives, which ourself have granted:\n" + " So think of your estate.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Consider, sir, the chance of war: the day\n" + " Was yours by accident; had it gone with us,\n" + " We should not, when the blood was cool,\n" + " have threaten'd\n" + " Our prisoners with the sword. But since the gods\n" + " Will have it thus, that nothing but our lives\n" + " May be call'd ransom, let it come: sufficeth\n" + " A Roman with a Roman's heart can suffer:\n" + " Augustus lives to think on't: and so much\n" + " For my peculiar care. This one thing only\n" + " I will entreat; my boy, a Briton born,\n" + " Let him be ransom'd: never master had\n" + " A page so kind, so duteous, diligent,\n" + " So tender over his occasions, true,\n" + " So feat, so nurse-like: let his virtue join\n" + " With my request, which I make bold your highness\n" + " Cannot deny; he hath done no Briton harm,\n" + " Though he have served a Roman: save him, sir,\n" + " And spare no blood beside.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE I have surely seen him:\n" + " His favour is familiar to me. Boy,\n" + " Thou hast look'd thyself into my grace,\n" + " And art mine own. I know not why, wherefore,\n" + " To say 'live, boy:' ne'er thank thy master; live:\n" + " And ask of Cymbeline what boon thou wilt,\n" + " Fitting my bounty and thy state, I'll give it;\n" + " Yea, though thou do demand a prisoner,\n" + " The noblest ta'en.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I humbly thank your highness.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad;\n" + " And yet I know thou wilt.\n\n" + "IMOGEN No, no: alack,\n" + " There's other work in hand: I see a thing\n" + " Bitter to me as death: your life, good master,\n" + " Must shuffle for itself.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS The boy disdains me,\n" + " He leaves me, scorns me: briefly die their joys\n" + " That place them on the truth of girls and boys.\n" + " Why stands he so perplex'd?\n\n" + "CYMBELINE What wouldst thou, boy?\n" + " I love thee more and more: think more and more\n" + " What's best to ask. Know'st him thou look'st on? speak,\n" + " Wilt have him live? Is he thy kin? thy friend?\n\n" + "IMOGEN He is a Roman; no more kin to me\n" + " Than I to your highness; who, being born your vassal,\n" + " Am something nearer.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Wherefore eyest him so?\n\n" + "IMOGEN I'll tell you, sir, in private, if you please\n" + " To give me hearing.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Ay, with all my heart,\n" + " And lend my best attention. What's thy name?\n\n" + "IMOGEN Fidele, sir.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Thou'rt my good youth, my page;\n" + " I'll be thy master: walk with me; speak freely.\n\n" + " [CYMBELINE and IMOGEN converse apart]\n\n" + "BELARIUS Is not this boy revived from death?\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS One sand another\n" + " Not more resembles that sweet rosy lad\n" + " Who died, and was Fidele. What think you?\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS The same dead thing alive.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Peace, peace! see further; he eyes us not; forbear;\n" + " Creatures may be alike: were 't he, I am sure\n" + " He would have spoke to us.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS But we saw him dead.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Be silent; let's see further.\n\n" + "PISANIO [Aside] It is my mistress:\n" + " Since she is living, let the time run on\n" + " To good or bad.\n\n" + " [CYMBELINE and IMOGEN come forward]\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Come, stand thou by our side;\n" + " Make thy demand aloud.\n\n" + " [To IACHIMO]\n" + " Sir, step you forth;\n" + " Give answer to this boy, and do it freely;\n" + " Or, by our greatness and the grace of it,\n" + " Which is our honour, bitter torture shall\n" + " Winnow the truth from falsehood. On, speak to him.\n\n" + "IMOGEN My boon is, that this gentleman may render\n" + " Of whom he had this ring.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS [Aside] What's that to him?\n\n" + "CYMBELINE That diamond upon your finger, say\n" + " How came it yours?\n\n" + "IACHIMO Thou'lt torture me to leave unspoken that\n" + " Which, to be spoke, would torture thee.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE How! me?\n\n" + "IACHIMO I am glad to be constrain'd to utter that\n" + " Which torments me to conceal. By villany\n" + " I got this ring: 'twas Leonatus' jewel;\n" + " Whom thou didst banish; and--which more may\n" + " grieve thee,\n" + " As it doth me--a nobler sir ne'er lived\n" + " 'Twixt sky and ground. Wilt thou hear more, my lord?\n\n" + "CYMBELINE All that belongs to this.\n\n" + "IACHIMO That paragon, thy daughter,--\n" + " For whom my heart drops blood, and my false spirits\n" + " Quail to remember--Give me leave; I faint.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE My daughter! what of her? Renew thy strength:\n" + " I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will\n" + " Than die ere I hear more: strive, man, and speak.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Upon a time,--unhappy was the clock\n" + " That struck the hour!--it was in Rome,--accursed\n" + " The mansion where!--'twas at a feast,--O, would\n" + " Our viands had been poison'd, or at least\n" + " Those which I heaved to head!--the good Posthumus--\n" + " What should I say? he was too good to be\n" + " Where ill men were; and was the best of all\n" + " Amongst the rarest of good ones,--sitting sadly,\n" + " Hearing us praise our loves of Italy\n" + " For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast\n" + " Of him that best could speak, for feature, laming\n" + " The shrine of Venus, or straight-pight Minerva.\n" + " Postures beyond brief nature, for condition,\n" + " A shop of all the qualities that man\n" + " Loves woman for, besides that hook of wiving,\n" + " Fairness which strikes the eye--\n\n" + "CYMBELINE I stand on fire:\n" + " Come to the matter.\n\n" + "IACHIMO All too soon I shall,\n" + " Unless thou wouldst grieve quickly. This Posthumus,\n" + " Most like a noble lord in love and one\n" + " That had a royal lover, took his hint;\n" + " And, not dispraising whom we praised,--therein\n" + " He was as calm as virtue--he began\n" + " His mistress' picture; which by his tongue\n" + " being made,\n" + " And then a mind put in't, either our brags\n" + " Were crack'd of kitchen-trolls, or his description\n" + " Proved us unspeaking sots.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Nay, nay, to the purpose.\n\n" + "IACHIMO Your daughter's chastity--there it begins.\n" + " He spake of her, as Dian had hot dreams,\n" + " And she alone were cold: whereat I, wretch,\n" + " Made scruple of his praise; and wager'd with him\n" + " Pieces of gold 'gainst this which then he wore\n" + " Upon his honour'd finger, to attain\n" + " In suit the place of's bed and win this ring\n" + " By hers and mine adultery. He, true knight,\n" + " No lesser of her honour confident\n" + " Than I did truly find her, stakes this ring;\n" + " And would so, had it been a carbuncle\n" + " Of Phoebus' wheel, and might so safely, had it\n" + " Been all the worth of's car. Away to Britain\n" + " Post I in this design: well may you, sir,\n" + " Remember me at court; where I was taught\n" + " Of your chaste daughter the wide difference\n" + " 'Twixt amorous and villanous. Being thus quench'd\n" + " Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain\n" + " 'Gan in your duller Britain operate\n" + " Most vilely; for my vantage, excellent:\n" + " And, to be brief, my practise so prevail'd,\n" + " That I return'd with simular proof enough\n" + " To make the noble Leonatus mad,\n" + " By wounding his belief in her renown\n" + " With tokens thus, and thus; averting notes\n" + " Of chamber-hanging, pictures, this her bracelet,--\n" + " O cunning, how I got it!--nay, some marks\n" + " Of secret on her person, that he could not\n" + " But think her bond of chastity quite crack'd,\n" + " I having ta'en the forfeit. Whereupon--\n" + " Methinks, I see him now--\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS [Advancing] Ay, so thou dost,\n" + " Italian fiend! Ay me, most credulous fool,\n" + " Egregious murderer, thief, any thing\n" + " That's due to all the villains past, in being,\n" + " To come! O, give me cord, or knife, or poison,\n" + " Some upright justicer! Thou, king, send out\n" + " For torturers ingenious: it is I\n" + " That all the abhorred things o' the earth amend\n" + " By being worse than they. I am Posthumus,\n" + " That kill'd thy daughter:--villain-like, I lie--\n" + " That caused a lesser villain than myself,\n" + " A sacrilegious thief, to do't: the temple\n" + " Of virtue was she; yea, and she herself.\n" + " Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set\n" + " The dogs o' the street to bay me: every villain\n" + " Be call'd Posthumus Leonitus; and\n" + " Be villany less than 'twas! O Imogen!\n" + " My queen, my life, my wife! O Imogen,\n" + " Imogen, Imogen!\n\n" + "IMOGEN Peace, my lord; hear, hear--\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Shall's have a play of this? Thou scornful page,\n" + " There lie thy part.\n\n" + " [Striking her: she falls]\n\n" + "PISANIO O, gentlemen, help!\n" + " Mine and your mistress! O, my lord Posthumus!\n" + " You ne'er kill'd Imogen til now. Help, help!\n" + " Mine honour'd lady!\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Does the world go round?\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS How come these staggers on me?\n\n" + "PISANIO Wake, my mistress!\n\n" + "CYMBELINE If this be so, the gods do mean to strike me\n" + " To death with mortal joy.\n\n" + "PISANIO How fares thy mistress?\n\n" + "IMOGEN O, get thee from my sight;\n" + " Thou gavest me poison: dangerous fellow, hence!\n" + " Breathe not where princes are.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE The tune of Imogen!\n\n" + "PISANIO Lady,\n" + " The gods throw stones of sulphur on me, if\n" + " That box I gave you was not thought by me\n" + " A precious thing: I had it from the queen.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE New matter still?\n\n" + "IMOGEN It poison'd me.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS O gods!\n" + " I left out one thing which the queen confess'd.\n" + " Which must approve thee honest: 'If Pisanio\n" + " Have,' said she, 'given his mistress that confection\n" + " Which I gave him for cordial, she is served\n" + " As I would serve a rat.'\n\n" + "CYMBELINE What's this, Comelius?\n\n" + "CORNELIUS The queen, sir, very oft importuned me\n" + " To temper poisons for her, still pretending\n" + " The satisfaction of her knowledge only\n" + " In killing creatures vile, as cats and dogs,\n" + " Of no esteem: I, dreading that her purpose\n" + " Was of more danger, did compound for her\n" + " A certain stuff, which, being ta'en, would cease\n" + " The present power of life, but in short time\n" + " All offices of nature should again\n" + " Do their due functions. Have you ta'en of it?\n\n" + "IMOGEN Most like I did, for I was dead.\n\n" + "BELARIUS My boys,\n" + " There was our error.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS This is, sure, Fidele.\n\n" + "IMOGEN Why did you throw your wedded lady from you?\n" + " Think that you are upon a rock; and now\n" + " Throw me again.\n\n" + " [Embracing him]\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Hang there like a fruit, my soul,\n" + " Till the tree die!\n\n" + "CYMBELINE How now, my flesh, my child!\n" + " What, makest thou me a dullard in this act?\n" + " Wilt thou not speak to me?\n\n" + "IMOGEN [Kneeling] Your blessing, sir.\n\n" + "BELARIUS [To GUIDERIUS and ARVIRAGUS] Though you did love\n" + " this youth, I blame ye not:\n" + " You had a motive for't.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE My tears that fall\n" + " Prove holy water on thee! Imogen,\n" + " Thy mother's dead.\n\n" + "IMOGEN I am sorry for't, my lord.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE O, she was nought; and long of her it was\n" + " That we meet here so strangely: but her son\n" + " Is gone, we know not how nor where.\n\n" + "PISANIO My lord,\n" + " Now fear is from me, I'll speak troth. Lord Cloten,\n" + " Upon my lady's missing, came to me\n" + " With his sword drawn; foam'd at the mouth, and swore,\n" + " If I discover'd not which way she was gone,\n" + " It was my instant death. By accident,\n" + " had a feigned letter of my master's\n" + " Then in my pocket; which directed him\n" + " To seek her on the mountains near to Milford;\n" + " Where, in a frenzy, in my master's garments,\n" + " Which he enforced from me, away he posts\n" + " With unchaste purpose and with oath to violate\n" + " My lady's honour: what became of him\n" + " I further know not.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS Let me end the story:\n" + " I slew him there.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Marry, the gods forfend!\n" + " I would not thy good deeds should from my lips\n" + " Pluck a bard sentence: prithee, valiant youth,\n" + " Deny't again.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS I have spoke it, and I did it.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE He was a prince.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS A most incivil one: the wrongs he did me\n" + " Were nothing prince-like; for he did provoke me\n" + " With language that would make me spurn the sea,\n" + " If it could so roar to me: I cut off's head;\n" + " And am right glad he is not standing here\n" + " To tell this tale of mine.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE I am sorry for thee:\n" + " By thine own tongue thou art condemn'd, and must\n" + " Endure our law: thou'rt dead.\n\n" + "IMOGEN That headless man\n" + " I thought had been my lord.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Bind the offender,\n" + " And take him from our presence.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Stay, sir king:\n" + " This man is better than the man he slew,\n" + " As well descended as thyself; and hath\n" + " More of thee merited than a band of Clotens\n" + " Had ever scar for.\n\n" + " [To the Guard]\n\n" + " Let his arms alone;\n" + " They were not born for bondage.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Why, old soldier,\n" + " Wilt thou undo the worth thou art unpaid for,\n" + " By tasting of our wrath? How of descent\n" + " As good as we?\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS In that he spake too far.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE And thou shalt die for't.\n\n" + "BELARIUS We will die all three:\n" + " But I will prove that two on's are as good\n" + " As I have given out him. My sons, I must,\n" + " For mine own part, unfold a dangerous speech,\n" + " Though, haply, well for you.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Your danger's ours.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS And our good his.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Have at it then, by leave.\n" + " Thou hadst, great king, a subject who\n" + " Was call'd Belarius.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE What of him? he is\n" + " A banish'd traitor.\n\n" + "BELARIUS He it is that hath\n" + " Assumed this age; indeed a banish'd man;\n" + " I know not how a traitor.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Take him hence:\n" + " The whole world shall not save him.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Not too hot:\n" + " First pay me for the nursing of thy sons;\n" + " And let it be confiscate all, so soon\n" + " As I have received it.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Nursing of my sons!\n\n" + "BELARIUS I am too blunt and saucy: here's my knee:\n" + " Ere I arise, I will prefer my sons;\n" + " Then spare not the old father. Mighty sir,\n" + " These two young gentlemen, that call me father\n" + " And think they are my sons, are none of mine;\n" + " They are the issue of your loins, my liege,\n" + " And blood of your begetting.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE How! my issue!\n\n" + "BELARIUS So sure as you your father's. I, old Morgan,\n" + " Am that Belarius whom you sometime banish'd:\n" + " Your pleasure was my mere offence, my punishment\n" + " Itself, and all my treason; that I suffer'd\n" + " Was all the harm I did. These gentle princes--\n" + " For such and so they are--these twenty years\n" + " Have I train'd up: those arts they have as I\n" + " Could put into them; my breeding was, sir, as\n" + " Your highness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile,\n" + " Whom for the theft I wedded, stole these children\n" + " Upon my banishment: I moved her to't,\n" + " Having received the punishment before,\n" + " For that which I did then: beaten for loyalty\n" + " Excited me to treason: their dear loss,\n" + " The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shaped\n" + " Unto my end of stealing them. But, gracious sir,\n" + " Here are your sons again; and I must lose\n" + " Two of the sweet'st companions in the world.\n" + " The benediction of these covering heavens\n" + " Fall on their heads like dew! for they are worthy\n" + " To inlay heaven with stars.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Thou weep'st, and speak'st.\n" + " The service that you three have done is more\n" + " Unlike than this thou tell'st. I lost my children:\n" + " If these be they, I know not how to wish\n" + " A pair of worthier sons.\n\n" + "BELARIUS Be pleased awhile.\n" + " This gentleman, whom I call Polydore,\n" + " Most worthy prince, as yours, is true Guiderius:\n" + " This gentleman, my Cadwal, Arviragus,\n" + " Your younger princely son; he, sir, was lapp'd\n" + " In a most curious mantle, wrought by the hand\n" + " Of his queen mother, which for more probation\n" + " I can with ease produce.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Guiderius had\n" + " Upon his neck a mole, a sanguine star;\n" + " It was a mark of wonder.\n\n" + "BELARIUS This is he;\n" + " Who hath upon him still that natural stamp:\n" + " It was wise nature's end in the donation,\n" + " To be his evidence now.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE O, what, am I\n" + " A mother to the birth of three? Ne'er mother\n" + " Rejoiced deliverance more. Blest pray you be,\n" + " That, after this strange starting from your orbs,\n" + " may reign in them now! O Imogen,\n" + " Thou hast lost by this a kingdom.\n\n" + "IMOGEN No, my lord;\n" + " I have got two worlds by 't. O my gentle brothers,\n" + " Have we thus met? O, never say hereafter\n" + " But I am truest speaker you call'd me brother,\n" + " When I was but your sister; I you brothers,\n" + " When ye were so indeed.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Did you e'er meet?\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "GUIDERIUS And at first meeting loved;\n" + " Continued so, until we thought he died.\n\n" + "CORNELIUS By the queen's dram she swallow'd.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE O rare instinct!\n" + " When shall I hear all through? This fierce\n" + " abridgement\n" + " Hath to it circumstantial branches, which\n" + " Distinction should be rich in. Where? how lived You?\n" + " And when came you to serve our Roman captive?\n" + " How parted with your brothers? how first met them?\n" + " Why fled you from the court? and whither? These,\n" + " And your three motives to the battle, with\n" + " I know not how much more, should be demanded;\n" + " And all the other by-dependencies,\n" + " From chance to chance: but nor the time nor place\n" + " Will serve our long inter'gatories. See,\n" + " Posthumus anchors upon Imogen,\n" + " And she, like harmless lightning, throws her eye\n" + " On him, her brother, me, her master, hitting\n" + " Each object with a joy: the counterchange\n" + " Is severally in all. Let's quit this ground,\n" + " And smoke the temple with our sacrifices.\n\n" + " [To BELARIUS]\n\n" + " Thou art my brother; so we'll hold thee ever.\n\n" + "IMOGEN You are my father too, and did relieve me,\n" + " To see this gracious season.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE All o'erjoy'd,\n" + " Save these in bonds: let them be joyful too,\n" + " For they shall taste our comfort.\n\n" + "IMOGEN My good master,\n" + " I will yet do you service.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Happy be you!\n\n" + "CYMBELINE The forlorn soldier, that so nobly fought,\n" + " He would have well becomed this place, and graced\n" + " The thankings of a king.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS I am, sir,\n" + " The soldier that did company these three\n" + " In poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for\n" + " The purpose I then follow'd. That I was he,\n" + " Speak, Iachimo: I had you down and might\n" + " Have made you finish.\n\n" + "IACHIMO [Kneeling] I am down again:\n" + " But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee,\n" + " As then your force did. Take that life, beseech you,\n" + " Which I so often owe: but your ring first;\n" + " And here the bracelet of the truest princess\n" + " That ever swore her faith.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Kneel not to me:\n" + " The power that I have on you is, to spare you;\n" + " The malice towards you to forgive you: live,\n" + " And deal with others better.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Nobly doom'd!\n" + " We'll learn our freeness of a son-in-law;\n" + " Pardon's the word to all.\n\n" + "ARVIRAGUS You holp us, sir,\n" + " As you did mean indeed to be our brother;\n" + " Joy'd are we that you are.\n\n" + "POSTHUMUS LEONATUS Your servant, princes. Good my lord of Rome,\n" + " Call forth your soothsayer: as I slept, methought\n" + " Great Jupiter, upon his eagle back'd,\n" + " Appear'd to me, with other spritely shows\n" + " Of mine own kindred: when I waked, I found\n" + " This label on my bosom; whose containing\n" + " Is so from sense in hardness, that I can\n" + " Make no collection of it: let him show\n" + " His skill in the construction.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Philarmonus!\n\n" + "Soothsayer Here, my good lord.\n\n" + "CAIUS LUCIUS Read, and declare the meaning.\n\n" + "Soothsayer [Reads] 'When as a lion's whelp shall, to himself\n" + " unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced by a\n" + " piece of tender air; and when from a stately cedar\n" + " shall be lopped branches, which, being dead many\n" + " years, shall after revive, be jointed to the old\n" + " stock, and freshly grow; then shall Posthumus end\n" + " his miseries, Britain be fortunate and flourish in\n" + " peace and plenty.'\n" + " Thou, Leonatus, art the lion's whelp;\n" + " The fit and apt construction of thy name,\n" + " Being Leonatus, doth import so much.\n\n" + " [To CYMBELINE]\n\n" + " The piece of tender air, thy virtuous daughter,\n" + " Which we call 'mollis aer;' and 'mollis aer'\n" + " We term it 'mulier:' which 'mulier' I divine\n" + " Is this most constant wife; who, even now,\n" + " Answering the letter of the oracle,\n" + " Unknown to you, unsought, were clipp'd about\n" + " With this most tender air.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE This hath some seeming.\n\n" + "Soothsayer The lofty cedar, royal Cymbeline,\n" + " Personates thee: and thy lopp'd branches point\n" + " Thy two sons forth; who, by Belarius stol'n,\n" + " For many years thought dead, are now revived,\n" + " To the majestic cedar join'd, whose issue\n" + " Promises Britain peace and plenty.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Well\n" + " My peace we will begin. And, Caius Lucius,\n" + " Although the victor, we submit to Caesar,\n" + " And to the Roman empire; promising\n" + " To pay our wonted tribute, from the which\n" + " We were dissuaded by our wicked queen;\n" + " Whom heavens, in justice, both on her and hers,\n" + " Have laid most heavy hand.\n\n" + "Soothsayer The fingers of the powers above do tune\n" + " The harmony of this peace. The vision\n" + " Which I made known to Lucius, ere the stroke\n" + " Of this yet scarce-cold battle, at this instant\n" + " Is full accomplish'd; for the Roman eagle,\n" + " From south to west on wing soaring aloft,\n" + " Lessen'd herself, and in the beams o' the sun\n" + " So vanish'd: which foreshow'd our princely eagle,\n" + " The imperial Caesar, should again unite\n" + " His favour with the radiant Cymbeline,\n" + " Which shines here in the west.\n\n" + "CYMBELINE Laud we the gods;\n" + " And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils\n" + " From our blest altars. Publish we this peace\n" + " To all our subjects. Set we forward: let\n" + " A Roman and a British ensign wave\n" + " Friendly together: so through Lud's-town march:\n" + " And in the temple of great Jupiter\n" + " Our peace we'll ratify; seal it with feasts.\n" + " Set on there! Never was a war did cease,\n" + " Ere bloody hands were wash'd, with such a peace.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " GLOSSARY\n\n" + "ABATE to shorten\n" + " To cast down\n" + " To blunt\n" + "ABATEMENT diminution\n" + "ABHOR protest; disgust\n" + "ABIDE to sojourn\n" + " to expiate\n" + "ABLE to uphold\n" + "ABRIDGEMENT a short play\n" + "ABROAD away, apart\n" + "ABROOK to brook, abide\n" + "ABSEY-BOOK a primer\n" + "ABSOLUTE positive, certain\n" + " Complete\n" + "ABUSE to deceive\n" + "ABUSE deception\n" + "ABY to expiate a fault\n" + "ABYSM abyss\n" + "ACCITE to cite, summon\n" + "ACCUSE accusation\n" + "ACHIEVE to obtain\n" + "ACKNOWN 'to be acknown' is to acknowledge\n" + "ACQUITTANCE a receipt or discharge\n" + "ACTION-TAKING litigious\n" + "ACTURE action\n" + "ADDITION title, attribute\n" + "ADDRESS to prepare oneself\n" + "ADDRESSED prepared\n" + "ADVANCE to prefer, promote to honour\n" + "ADVERTISEMENT admonition\n" + "ADVERTISING attentive\n" + "ADVICE consideration, discretion\n" + "ADVISE sometimes neuter, sometimes reflective, to\n" + " consider, reflect\n" + "ADVISED considerate\n" + "ADVOCATION pleading, advocacy\n" + "AFEARED afraid\n" + "AFFECT to love\n" + "AFFY to affiance\n" + " To trust\n" + "AFRONT in front\n" + "AGAZED looking in amazement\n" + "AGLET-BABY the small figure engraved on a jewel\n" + "AGNISE to acknowledge, confess\n" + "A-GOOD a good deal, plenteously\n" + "A-HOLD a sea-term\n" + "AIERIE the nest of a bird of prey\n" + "AIM a guess\n" + "ALDER-LIEFEST most loved of all\n" + "ALE alehouse\n" + "ALLOW to approve\n" + "ALLOWANCE approval\n" + "AMES-ACE two aces, the lowest throw of the dice\n" + "AMORT dead, dejected\n" + "AN if\n" + "ANCHOR an anchorite, hermit\n" + "ANCIENT an ensign-bearer\n" + "ANGEL a coin, so called because it bore the image of\n" + " an angel\n" + "ANIGHT by night\n" + "ANSWER retaliation\n" + "ANTHROPOPHAGINIAN a cannibal\n" + "ANTICK the fool in the old plays\n" + "ANTRE a cave\n" + "APPARENT heir-apparent\n" + "APPEAL accusation\n" + "APPEAL to accuse\n" + "APPEARED made apparent\n" + "APPLE-JOHN a kind of apple\n" + "APPOINTMENT preparation\n" + "APPREHENSION opinion\n" + "APPREHENSIVE apt to apprehend or understand\n" + "APPROBATION probation\n" + "APPROOF approbation, proof\n" + "APPROVE to prove\n" + " To justify, make good\n" + "APPROVER one who proves or tries\n" + "ARCH chief\n" + "ARGAL a ridiculous word intended for the Latin ergo\n" + "ARGENTINE silver\n" + "ARGIER Algiers\n" + "ARGOSY originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a\n" + " Ragosine; hence any ship of burden\n" + "ARGUMENT subject\n" + "ARMIGERO a mistake for Armiger, the Latin for Esquire\n" + "AROINT found only in the imperative mood, get thee\n" + " gone\n" + "A-ROW in a row\n" + "ARTICULATE to enter into articles of agreement\n" + " to exhibit in articles\n" + "ASK to require\n" + "ASPECT regard, looks\n" + "ASPERSION sprinkling; hence blessing, because before the\n" + " Reformation benediction was generally accompanied\n" + " by the sprinkling of holy water\n" + "ASSAY attempt\n" + "ASSAY to attempt, test, make proof of\n" + "ASSINEGO an ass\n" + "ASSUBJUGATE to subjugate\n" + "ASSURANCE deed of assurance\n" + "ASSURED betrothed\n" + "ATOMY an atom\n" + " Used in contempt of a small person\n" + "ATONE to put people at one, to reconcile\n" + " to agree\n" + "ATTACH to seize, lay hold on\n" + "ATTASKED taken to task, reprehended\n" + "ATTEND to listen to\n" + "ATTENT attentive\n" + "ATTORNEY an agent\n" + "ATTORNEY to employ as an agent\n" + " To perform by an agent\n" + "AUDACIOUS spirited, daring, but without any note of blame\n" + " attached to it\n" + "AUGUR augury\n" + "AUTHENTIC clothed with authority\n" + "AVAUNT int. be gone, a word of abhorrence\n" + "AVE the Latin for hail; hence acclamation\n" + "AVE-MARY the angelic salutation addressed to the Blessed\n" + " Virgin Mary\n" + "AVERRING confirming\n" + "AVOID get rid of\n" + "AWFUL worshipful\n" + "AWKWARD contrary\n\n\n" + "BACCARE keep back\n" + "BACKWARD the hinder part; hence, when applied to time,\n" + " the past\n" + "BAFFLE embarrass\n" + "BALKED heaped, as on a ridge\n" + "BALLOW a cudgel\n" + "BALM the oil of consecration\n" + "BAN to curse\n" + "BANK to sail by the banks\n" + "BARM yeast\n" + "BARN a child\n" + "BARNACLE a shellfish, supposed to produce the sea-bird\n" + " of the same name\n" + "BASE a game, sometimes called Prisoners' base\n" + "BASES an embroidered mantle worn by knights on\n" + " horseback, and reaching from the middle to\n" + " below the knees\n" + "BASILISK a kind of ordnance\n" + "BASTA enough\n" + "BASTARD raisin wine\n" + "BATE to flutter, as a hawk\n" + "BATE to except\n" + " To abate\n" + "BAT-FOWLING catching birds with a clap-net by night\n" + "BATLET a small bat, used for beating clothes\n" + "BATTLE army\n" + "BAVIN used as an a piece of waste wood, applied\n" + " contemptuously to anything worthless\n" + " \n" + "BAWCOCK a fine fellow\n" + "BAWD procurer\n" + "BAY the space between the main timbers of the roof\n" + "BEADSMAN one who bids bedes, that is, prays prayers\n" + " for another\n" + "BEARING-CLOTH a rich cloth in which children were wrapt at\n" + " their christening\n" + "BEAT to flutter as a falcon, to meditate, consider\n" + " earnestly\n" + "BEAVER the lower part of a helmet\n" + "BEETLE a mallet\n" + "BEING dwelling\n" + "BEING since, inasmuch as\n" + "BE-METE to measure\n" + "BE-MOILED daubed with dirt\n" + "BENDING stooping under a weight\n" + "BENVENUTO (Italian), welcome\n" + "BERGOMASK a rustic dance\n" + "BESHREW evil befal\n" + "BESTRAUGHT distraught, distracted\n" + "BETEEM to pour out\n" + "BETID happened\n" + "BEZONIAN a beggarly fellow\n" + "BIDING abiding-place\n" + "BIGGEN a night-cap\n" + "BILBERRY the whortleberry\n" + "BILBO a sword, from Bilboa, a town in Spain where\n" + " they were made\n" + "BILBOES fetters or stocks\n" + "BILL a bill-hook, a weapon\n" + "BIN been, are\n" + "BIRD-BOLT a bolt to be shot from a crossbow at birds\n" + "BIRDING part. hawking at partridges\n" + "BISSON blind\n" + "BLANK the white mark in the middle of a target;\n" + " hence, metaphorically, that which is aimed at\n" + "BLENCH to start aside, flinch\n" + "BLENT blended\n" + "BLOOD-BOLTERED smeared with blood\n" + "BLOW to inflate\n" + "BOARD to make advances to; accost\n" + "BOB a blow, metaph. a sarcasm\n" + "BOB to strike, metaph. to ridicule, or to obtain\n" + " by raillery\n" + "BODGE to botch, bungle\n" + "BODIKIN a corrupt word used as an oath. 'Od's Bodikin,'\n" + " God's little Body\n" + "BOITIER VERT green box\n" + "BOLD to embolden\n" + "BOLLEN swollen\n" + "BOLTED sifted, refined\n" + "BOLTER a sieve\n" + "BOLTING-HUTCH a hutch in which meal was sifted\n" + "BOMBARD a barrel, a drunkard\n" + "BOMBAST padding\n" + "BONA-ROBA a harlot\n" + "BOND that to which one is bound\n" + "BOOK a paper of conditions\n" + "BOOT help, use\n" + "BOOT to help, to avail\n" + "BOOTLESS without boot or advantage, useless\n" + "BOOTS bots, a kind of worm\n" + "BORE calibre of a gun; hence, metaph. size, weight,\n" + " importance\n" + "BOSKY covered with underwood\n" + "BOSOM wish, heart's desire\n" + "BOTS worms which infest horses\n" + "BOURN a boundary\n" + " A brook\n" + "BRACE armour for the arm, state of defence\n" + "BRACH a hound bitch\n" + "BRAID deceitful\n" + "BRAVE handsome, well-dressed\n" + "BRAVE boast\n" + "BRAVERY finery\n" + " Boastfulness\n" + "BRAWL a kind of dance\n" + "BREAST voice\n" + "BREATHE to exercise\n" + "BREATHING exercising\n" + "BREECHING liable to be whipt\n" + "BREED-BATE a breeder of debate, a fomenter of quarrels\n" + "BREESE the gadfly\n" + "BRIBE-BUCK a buck given away in presents\n" + "BRING to attend one on a journey\n" + "BROCK a badger, a term of contempt\n" + "BROKE to act as a procurer\n" + "BROKEN having lost some teeth by age\n" + "BROKEN MUSIC the music of stringed instruments\n" + "BROKER an agent\n" + "BROTHERHOOD trading company\n" + "BROWNIST a sectary, a follower of Brown, the founder\n" + " of the Independents\n" + "BRUIT noise, report, rumour\n" + "BRUIT to noise abroad\n" + "BRUSH rude assault\n" + "BUCK suds or lye for washing clothes in\n" + "BUCK-BASKET the basket in which clothes are carried to the\n" + " wash\n" + "BUCKING washing\n" + "BUCK-WASHING washing in lye\n" + "BUG a bugbear, a spectre\n" + "BULLY-ROOK a bragging cheater\n" + "BURGONET a kind of helmet\n" + "BURST to break\n" + "BUSKY bushy\n" + "BUTT-SHAFT a light arrow for shooting at a target\n" + " \n" + "BUXOM obedient\n" + "BY'RLAKIN by our little Lady: an oath\n\n\n" + "CADDIS worsted galloon, so called because it resembles\n" + " the caddis-worm\n" + "CADE a cask or barrel\n" + "CAGE a prison\n" + "CAIN-COLOURED red (applied to hair)\n" + "CAITIFF a captive, a slave; hence, a witch\n" + "CALCULATE prophesy\n" + "CALIVER a hand-gun\n" + "CALLET a trull\n" + "CALLING appellation\n" + "CALM qualm\n" + "CAN to know, be skillful in\n" + "CANAKIN a little can\n" + "CANARY a wine brought from the Canary Islands\n" + "CANDLE-WASTERS persons who sit up all night to drink\n" + "CANKER a caterpillar\n" + " The dog-rose\n" + "CANSTICK a candlestick\n" + "CANTLE a slice, corner\n" + "CANTON a canto\n" + "CANVAS to sift: hence, metaphorically, to prove\n" + "CAPABLE subject to\n" + " Intelligent\n" + " Capable of inheriting\n" + " Ample, capacious\n" + "CAPITULATE make a combined force\n" + "CAPOCCHIA a simpleton\n" + "CAPRICIO caprice\n" + "CAPRICIOUS lascivious\n" + "CAPTIOUS capacious\n" + "CARACK a large ship of burden\n" + "CARBONADO meat scotched for broiling\n" + "CARBONADO to scotch for broiling\n" + "CARD the taper on which the points of the compass\n" + " are marked under the mariner's needle\n" + "CAREIRE the curvetting of a horse\n" + "CARKANET a necklace\n" + "CARL a churl\n" + "CARLOT a churl\n" + "CASTILIAN a native of Castile; used as a cant term\n" + "CASTILIANO VULGO a cant term, meaning, apparently, to use discreet\n" + " language\n" + "CATAIAN a native of Cathay, a cant word\n" + "CATLING cat-gut\n" + "CAUTEL deceit\n" + "CAUTELOUS insidious\n" + "CAVALERO a cavalier, gentleman\n" + "CAVIARE the roe of sturgeon pickled; metaph. a delicacy\n" + " not appreciated by the vulgar\n" + "CEASE decease\n" + "CEASE put off, made to cease\n" + "CENSURE judgment\n" + "CENSURE to judge, criticise\n" + "CENTURY a hundred of anything, whether men, prayers, or\n" + " anything else\n" + "CEREMONY a ceremonial vestment, religious rite, or\n" + " anything ceremonial\n" + "CERTES certainly\n" + "CESS rate, reckoning\n" + "CHACE a term at tennis\n" + "CHAMBER a species of great gun\n" + "CHAMBERER an effeminate man\n" + "CHANSON a song\n" + "CHARACT affected quality\n" + "CHARACTER a letter, handwriting\n" + "CHARACTER to carve or engrave\n" + "CHARACTERY handwriting\n" + " That which is written\n" + "CHARE a turn of work\n" + "CHARGE-HOUSE a free-school\n" + "CHARLES' WAIN the constellation called also Ursa Major, or\n" + " the Great Bear\n" + "CHARNECO a species of sweet wine\n" + "CHAUDRON entrails\n" + "CHEATER for escheator, an officer who collected the\n" + " fines to be paid into the Exchequer\n" + " A decoy\n" + "CHEQUE a technical term in falconry; when a falcon\n" + " flies at a bird which is not her proper game she\n" + " is said to cheque at it\n" + "CHEQUES perhaps intended for ethics\n" + "CHEER fortune, countenance\n" + "CHERRY-PIT a game played with cherrystones\n" + "CHEVERIL kid leather\n" + "CHEWIT cough\n" + "CHILDING pregnant\n" + "CH'ILL vulgar for 'I will.' \n" + "CHIRURGEONLY in a manner becoming a surgeon\n" + "CHOPIN a high shoe or clog\n" + "CHRISTENDOM the state of being a Christian\n" + "CHRISTOM clothed with a chrisom, the white garment\n" + " which used to be put on newly-baptized children\n" + "CHUCK chicken, a term of endearment\n" + "CHUFF a coarse blunt clown\n" + "CINQUE PACE a kind of dance\n" + "CIPHER to decipher\n" + "CIRCUMSTANCE an argument\n" + "CITAL recital\n" + "CITE to incite\n" + "CITTERN a guitar\n" + "CLACK-DISH a beggar's dish\n" + "CLAP I' THE CLOUT to shoot an arrow into the bull's eye of the target\n" + "CLAW to flatter\n" + "CLEPE to call\n" + "CLIFF clef, the key in music\n" + "CLING to starve\n" + "CLINQUANT glittering\n" + "CLIP to embrace, enclose\n" + "CLOUT the mark in the middle of a target\n" + "COAST to advance\n" + "COBLOAF a big loaf\n" + "COCK a cockboat\n" + "COCK a euphemism for God\n" + "COCK-AND-PIE an oath\n" + "COCKLE tares or darnel\n" + "COCKNEY a cook\n" + "COCK-SHUT-TIME the twilight, when cocks and hens go to roost\n" + "COG to cheat, dissemble\n" + "COGNIZANCE badge, token\n" + "COIGN projecting corner stone\n" + "COIL tumult, turmoil\n" + "COLLECTION drawing a conclusion\n" + "COLLIED blackened. Othello; \n" + "COLOUR pretence\n" + "COLOURABLE specious\n" + "COLT to defraud, befool\n" + "CO-MART a joint bargain\n" + "COMBINATE betrothed\n" + "COMBINE to bind\n" + "COMMODITY interest, profit\n" + "COMMONTY used ludicrously for comedy\n" + "COMPACT compacted, composed\n" + "COMPARATIVE drawing comparisons\n" + "COMPARATIVE rival\n" + "COMPARE comparison\n" + "COMPASSIONATE moving comparison\n" + "COMPETITOR one who seeks the same thing, an associate in\n" + " any object\n" + "COMPLEMENT accomplishment\n" + "COMPLEXION passion\n" + "COMPOSE to agree\n" + "COMPOSTION composition\n" + "COMPTIBLE tractable\n" + "CON to learn by heart\n" + " To acknowledge\n" + "CONCEIT conception, opinion, fancy\n" + "CONCUPY concubine\n" + "CONDITION temper, quality\n" + "CONDOLEMENT grief\n" + "CONDUCT escort\n" + "CONFECT to make up into sweetmeats\n" + "CONFOUND to consume, destroy\n" + " Coriolanus; \n" + "CONJECT conjecture\n" + "CONSIGN to sign a common bond, to confederate\n" + "CONSORT company\n" + "CONSORT to accompany\n" + "CONSTANCY consistency\n" + "CONSTANT settled, determined\n" + "CONSTANTLY firmly\n" + "CONSTER to construe\n" + "CONTEMPTIBLE contemptuous\n" + "CONTINENT that which contains anything\n" + " That which is contained\n" + "CONTINUATE uninterrupted\n" + "CONTRACTION the marriage contract\n" + "CONTRARY to oppose\n" + "CONTRIVE to conspire\n" + " to wear away\n" + "CONTROL to confute\n" + "CONVENT to convene, summon\n" + " to be convenient\n" + "CONVERT to change\n" + "CONVERTITE a convert\n" + "CONVEY to manage\n" + " To filch\n" + "CONVEYANCE theft, fraud\n" + "CONVICT convicted\n" + "CONVICTED overpowered, vanquished\n" + " A doubtful word\n" + "CONVINCE to conquer, subdue\n" + "CONVIVE to feast together\n" + "CONVOY escort\n" + "CONY-CATCH to cheat\n" + "CONY-CATCHING poaching, pilfering\n" + "COOLING CARD used metaphorically for an insurmountable obstacle\n" + "COPATAIN HAT a high-crowned hat\n" + "COPE to reward, to give in return\n" + "COPY theme\n" + "CORAGIO courage! \n" + "CORAM an ignorant mistake for Quorum\n" + "CORANTO lively dance\n" + "CORINTH a cant term for a brothel\n" + "CORINTHIAN a wencher\n" + "CORKY dry like cork\n" + "CORNUTO a cuckold\n" + "COROLLARY a surplus\n" + "CORPORAL corporeal, bodily\n" + "CORPORAL\n" + "OF THE FIELD an aide-de-camp\n" + "CORRIVAL rival\n" + "COSTARD the head\n" + "COSTER-MONGER peddling, mercenary\n" + "COTE a cottage\n" + "COTE to quote, instance\n" + "COTE to come alongside, overtake\n" + "COT-QUEAN an effeminate man, molly-coddle\n" + "COUCHINGS crouchings\n" + "COUNT CONFECT a nobleman composed of affectation\n" + "COUNTENANCE fair shew\n" + "COUNTERFEIT portrait\n" + " A piece of base coin\n" + "COUNTERPOINT a counterpane\n" + "COUNTERVAIL to counterpoise, outweigh\n" + "COUNTRY belonging to one's country\n" + "COUNTY count, earl\n" + "COUPLEMENT union\n" + "COURT HOLY-WATER flattery\n" + "COVENT a convent\n" + "COVER to lay the table for dinner\n" + "COWISH cowardly\n" + "COWL-STAFF the staff on which a vessel is supported\n" + " between two men\n" + "COX MY PASSION an oath, a euphemism for 'God's Passion.'\n" + "COY to stroke, fondle\n" + " to condescend with difficulty\n" + "COYSTRIL a kestrel, a cowardly kind of hawk\n" + "COZEN to cheat\n" + "COZENAGE cheating\n" + "COZENER a cheater\n" + "COZIER a tailor\n" + "CRACK to boast\n" + "CRACK a loud noise, clap\n" + " A forward boy\n" + "CRACKER boaster\n" + "CRACK-HEMP a gallows-bird\n" + "CRANK a winding passage\n" + "CRANKING winding\n" + "CRANTS garlands. A doubtful word\n" + "CRARE a ship of burden\n" + "CRAVEN a dunghill cock\n" + "CREATE formed, compounded\n" + "CREDENT creditable\n" + " Credible\n" + " Credulous\n" + "CREDIT report\n" + "CRESCIVE increasing\n" + "CRESTLESS not entitled to bear arms, lowborn\n" + "CRISP curled, winding\n" + "CROSS a piece of money, so called because the coin\n" + " was formerly stamped with a cross\n" + "CROW-KEEPER one who scares crows\n" + "CROWNER a coroner\n" + "CROWNET a coronet\n" + "CRY the yelping of hounds\n" + " A pack of hounds\n" + " A company, use contemptuously\n" + "CRY AIM to encourage\n" + "CUE the last words of an actor's speech, which\n" + " is the signal for the next actor to begin\n" + "CUISSES pieces of armour to cover the thighs\n" + "CULLION a base fellow\n" + "CUNNING skill\n" + "CUNNING skilful\n" + "CURB to bend, truckle\n" + "CURRENTS occurrences\n" + "CURST \n" + "CURSTNESS shrewishness\n" + "CURTAIL a cur\n" + "CURTAL a docked horse\n" + "CURTAL-AXE a cutlass\n" + "CUSTALORUM a ludicrous mistake for Custos Rotulorum\n" + "CUSTARD-COFFIN the crust of a custard-pudding\n" + "CUSTOMER a common woman\n" + "CUT a cheat\n" + " 'To draw cuts' is to draw lots\n" + "CYPRESS a kind of crape\n\n\n" + "DAFF to befool\n" + " To put off; this seems to be a corruption of 'doff.'\n" + "DAMN to condemn\n" + "DANGER reach, control, power\n" + "DANSKER a Dane\n" + "DARE to challenge\n" + "DARKLING in the dark\n" + "DARRAIGN to set in array\n" + "DAUB to disguise\n" + "DAUBERY imposition\n" + "DAY-WOMAN a dairy-maid\n" + "DEAR dire\n" + " That which has to do with the affections\n" + " Piteous\n" + " Important\n" + "DEARN lonely\n" + "DEBOSHED debauched, drunken\n" + "DECK to bedew. This is probably a form of the verb\n" + " 'to dag,' now a provincial word\n" + "DECK a pack of cards\n" + "DECLINE to enumerate, as in going through the cases of\n" + " a noun\n" + "DECLINED fallen\n" + "DEEM doom, judgment\n" + "DEFEAT to undo, destroy\n" + "DEFEAT destruction\n" + "DEFEATURE disfigurement\n" + "DEFENCE art of fencing\n" + "DEFEND to forbid\n" + "DEFENSIBLE having the power to defend\n" + "DEFTLY dexterously\n" + "DEFY renounce\n" + "DEGREES a step\n" + "DELAY to let slip by delaying\n" + "DEMERIT merit, desert\n" + "DEMURELY solemnly\n" + "DENAY denial\n" + "DENIER the 12th part of a French sol coin\n" + "DENOTEMENT marking\n" + " Note or manifestation\n" + "DENY to refuse\n" + "DEPART departure\n" + "DEPART to part\n" + "DEPARTING parting, separation\n" + "DEPEND to be in service\n" + "DERIVED born, descended\n" + "DEROGATE degraded\n" + "DESCANT a variation upon a melody, hence,\n" + " metaphorically, a comment on a given theme\n" + "DESIGN to draw up articles\n" + "DESPATCH to deprive, bereave\n" + "DESPERATE determined, bold\n" + "DETECT to charge, blame\n" + "DETERMINE to conclude\n" + "DICH optative mood, perhaps contracted for 'do it.'\n" + "DIET food regulated by the rules of medicine\n" + "DIET to have one's food regulated by the rules of\n" + " medicine\n" + "DIFFUSED confused\n" + "DIGRESSING transgressing, going out of the right way\n" + "DIGRESSION transgression\n" + "DIG-YOU-GOOD-DEN give you good evening\n" + "DILDO the chorus or burden of a song\n" + "DINT stroke\n" + "DIRECTION judgment, skill\n" + "DISABLE to disparage\n" + "DISAPPOINTED unprepared\n" + "DISCASE to undress\n" + "DISCONTENT a malcontent\n" + "DISCOURSE power of reasoning\n" + "DISDAINED disdainful\n" + "DISLIMN to disfigure, transform\n" + "DISME a tenth or tithe\n" + "DISPARK to destroy a park\n" + "DISPONGE to squeeze out as from a sponge\n" + "DISPOSE disposal\n" + "DISPOSE to conspire\n" + "DISPOSITION maintenance\n" + "DISPUTABLE disputatious\n" + "DISPUTE to argue, examine\n" + "DISSEMBLY used ridiculously for assembly\n" + "DISTASTE to corrupt\n" + "DISTEMPERED discontented\n" + "DISTRACTION a detached troop or company of soldiers\n" + "DISTRAUGHT distracted, mad\n" + "DIVERTED turned from the natural course\n" + "DIVISION a phrase or passage in a melody\n" + "DIVULGED published, spoken of\n" + "DOFF to do off, strip\n" + " To put off with an excuse\n" + "DOLT a small Dutch coin\n" + "DOLE portion dealt\n" + " Grief, lamentation\n" + "DON to do on, put on\n" + "DONE 'done to death,' put to death\n" + "DOTANT one who dotes, a dotard\n" + "DOUT to do out, quench\n" + "DOWLAS a kind of coarse sacking\n" + "DOWLE the swirl of a feather\n" + "DOWN-GYVED hanging down like gyves or fetters\n" + "DRAB a harlot\n" + "DRABBING whoring\n" + "DRAUGHT a privy\n" + "DRAWN having his sword drawn\n" + "DRAWN drunk, having taken a good draught\n" + "DRIBBLING weak\n" + "DRIVE to rush impetuously\n" + "DROLLERY a puppet-show\n" + "DRUMBLE to dawdle\n" + "DRY thirsty\n" + "DUC-DAME perhaps the Latin duc-ad-me, bring him to me\n" + "DUDGEON a dagger\n" + "DULL soothing\n" + "DULLARD a dull person\n" + "DUMP complaint\n" + "DUP to do up, Lift up\n\n\n" + "EAGER sour\n" + " Harsh\n" + " Biting\n" + "EANLING a yeanling, a lamb\n" + "EAR to plough\n" + "ECHE to eke out\n" + "EFT ready, convenient\n" + "EISEL vinegar\n" + "ELD old age\n" + "EMBOSSED swollen into protuberances\n" + " Covered with foam\n" + "EMBOWELLED disembowelled, emptied\n" + "EMBRASURE embrace\n" + "EMINENCE exalted station\n" + "EMPERY empire\n" + "EMULATION jealousy, mutiny\n" + "EMULOUS jealous\n" + "ENCAVE to place oneself in a cave\n" + "END 'Still an end,' continually for ever\n" + "ENFEOFF to place in possession in fee simple\n" + "ENGINE a machine of war\n" + "ENGLUT to swallow speedily\n" + "ENGROSS to make gross or fat\n" + "ENGROSSMENT immoderate acquisition\n" + "ENKINDLE to make keen\n" + "ENMEW to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew\n" + "ENSCONCE to cover as with a fort\n" + "ENSEAMED fat, rank\n" + "ENSHIELD hidden\n" + "ENTERTAIN encounter\n" + " Experience\n" + "ENTERTAINMENT treatment\n" + " A disposition to entertain a proposal\n" + " Service\n" + "ENTREATMENTS interviews\n" + "EPHESIAN a toper, a cant term\n" + "EQUIPAGE attendance\n" + "EREWHILE a short time since\n" + "ESCOT to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain\n" + "ESPERANCE hope, used as a war-cry\n" + "ESPIAL a scout or spy\n" + "ESTIMATION conjecture\n" + "ESTRIDGE ostridge\n" + "ETERNE eternal\n" + "EVEN coequal\n" + "EVEN to equal\n" + "EXAMINE to question\n" + "EXCREMENT that which grows outwardly from the body\n" + " and has no sensation like the hair or nails\n" + " Any outward show\n" + "EXECUTOR an executioner\n" + "EXEMPT excluded\n" + "EXERCISE a religious service\n" + "EXHALE to hale or draw out\n" + " to draw the sword\n" + "EXHIBITION allowance, pension\n" + "EXIGENT death, ending\n" + "EXION ridiculously used for 'action.' \n" + "EXPECT expectation\n" + "EXPEDIENCE expedition, undertaking\n" + " Haste\n" + "EXPEDIENT expeditious, swift\n" + "EXPIATE completed\n" + "EXPOSTULATE to expound, discuss\n" + "EXPOSTURE exposure\n" + "EXPRESS to reveal\n" + "EXPULSE to expel\n" + "EXSUFFICATE that which has been hissed off, contemptible\n" + "EXTEND to seize\n" + "EXTENT a seizure\n" + "EXTERN outward\n" + "EXTIRP to extirpate\n" + "EXTRACTING distracting\n" + "EXTRAUGHT part. extracted, descended\n" + "EXTRAVAGANT foreign, wandering\n" + "EXTREMES extravagance of conduct\n" + " Extremities\n" + "EYAS a nestling hawk\n" + "EYAS-MUSKET a nestling of the musket or merlin, the smallest\n" + " species of British hawk\n" + "EYE a glance, oeillad\n" + "EYE a shade of colour, as in shot silk\n" + "EYNE eyes\n\n\n" + "FACINOROUS wicked\n" + "FACT guilt\n" + "FACTIOUS instant, importunate\n" + "FACULTY essential virtue or power\n" + "FADGE to suit\n" + "FADING a kind of ending to a song\n" + "FAIN glad\n" + "FAIN gladly\n" + "FAIR beauty\n" + "FAITOR a traitor\n" + "FAll to let fall\n" + "FALLOW fawn-coloured\n" + "FALSE falsehood\n" + "FALSING deceptive\n" + "FAMILIAR a familiar spirit\n" + "FANCY \n" + "FANCY-FREE untouched by love\n" + "FANG to seize in the teeth\n" + "FANTASTIC a fantastical person\n" + "FAP drunk\n" + "FAR farther\n" + "FARCED stuffed\n" + "FARDEL a burden\n" + "FARTUOUS used ridiculously for ' virtuous.'\n" + "FAST assuredly, unalterably\n" + "FAT dull\n" + "FAVOUR countenance\n" + " Complexion\n" + " Quality\n" + "FEAR the object of fear\n" + "FEAR to affright\n" + "FEARFUL subject to fear, timorous\n" + "FEAT dexterous\n" + "FEAT to make fine\n" + "FEATER comp. degree. more neatly\n" + "FEATLY nimbly, daintily\n" + "FEATURE beauty\n" + "FEDERARY confederate\n" + "FEEDER agent, servant\n" + "FEE-GRIEF a grief held, as it were, in fee-simple, or the\n" + " peculiar property of him who possesses it\n" + "FEERE a companion, husband\n" + "FEHEMENTLY used ridiculously for 'vehemently.'\n" + "FELL the hide\n" + "FENCE art or skill in defence\n" + "FEODARY one who holds an estate by suit or service to\n" + " a superior lord; hence one who acts under the\n" + " direction of another\n" + "FESTER to rankle, grow virulent\n" + "FESTINATELY quickly\n" + "FET fetched\n" + "FICO a fig\n" + "FIELDED in the field of battle\n" + "FIG to insult\n" + "FIGHTS clothes hung round a ship to conceal the men\n" + " from the enemy\n" + "FILE a list or catalogue\n" + "FILE to defile\n" + " To smooth or polish\n" + " To make even\n" + "FILL-HORSE shaft-horse\n" + "FILLS the shafts\n" + "FILTH a whore\n" + "FINE end\n" + "FINE to make fine or specious\n" + "FINELESS endless\n" + "FIRAGO ridiculously used for 'Virago.' \n" + "FIRE-DRAKE Will o' the Wisp\n" + "FIRE-NEW with the glitter of novelty on, like newly-\n" + " forged metal\n" + "FIRK to chastise\n" + "FIT a canto or division of a song\n" + " A trick or habit\n" + "FITCHEW a polecat\n" + "FIVES a disease incident to horses\n" + "FLAP-DRAGON raisins in burning brandy\n" + "FLAP-JACK a pan-cake\n" + "FLAT certain\n" + "FLATNESS lowness, depth\n" + "FLAW a gust of wind\n" + " sudden emotion, or the cause of it\n" + "FLAW to make a flaw in, to break\n" + "FLECKED spotted, streaked\n" + "FLEET to float\n" + " To pass away\n" + " to pass the time\n" + "FLEETING inconstant\n" + "FLESHMENT the act of fleshing the sword, hence the\n" + " first feat of arms\n" + "FLEWED furnished with hanging lips, as hounds are\n" + "FLIGHT a particular mode of practising archery\n" + "FLIRT-GILL a light woman\n" + "FLOTE wave, sea\n" + "FLOURISH an ornament\n" + "FLOURISH to ornament, disguise with ornament\n" + "FLUSH fresh, full of vigour\n" + "FOIL defeat, disadvantage\n" + "FOIN to fence, fight\n" + "FOISON plenty\n" + "FOND foolish, foolishly affectionate\n" + "FOOT-CLOTH a saddle-cloth hanging down to the ground\n" + "FOR for that, because\n" + "FORBID accursed, outlawed\n" + "FORBODE forbidden\n" + "FORCE to stuff, for 'farce.' \n" + "FORCED falsely attributed\n" + "FORDO to kill, destroy\n" + " To weary\n" + "FOREIGN obliged to live abroad\n" + "FOREPAST former\n" + "FORESLOW to delay\n" + "FORFEND to forbid\n" + "FORGETIVE inventive\n" + "FORKED horned\n" + "FORMAL regular, retaining its proper and essential\n" + " characteristic\n" + "FORSPEAK to speak against\n" + "FORSPENT exhausted, weary\n" + "FORTHRIGHT a straight path; forthrights and meanders,\n" + " straight paths and crooked ones\n" + "FORWEARY to weary, exhaust\n" + "FOSSET-SELLER one who sells the pipes inserted into a vessel\n" + " to give vent to the liquor, and stopped by a\n" + " spigot\n" + "FOX a sword; a cant word\n" + "FOX-SHIP the cunning of the fox\n" + "FRAMPOLD peevish, unquiet\n" + "FRANK the feeding place of swine\n" + "FRANKED confined\n" + "FRANKLIN a freeholder, a small squire\n" + "FRAUGHT freighted\n" + "FRAUGHTAGE freight\n" + "FRAUGHTING to fraught. loading or constituting the\n" + " cargo of a ship\n" + "FRESH a spring of fresh water\n" + "FRET the stop of a guitar\n" + "FRET to wear away\n" + " To variegate\n" + "FRIEND to befriend\n" + "FRIPPERY an old-clothes shop\n" + "FROM prep. contrary to\n" + "FRONT to affront, oppose\n" + "FRONTIER opposition\n" + "FRONTLET that which is worn on the forehead\n" + "FRUSH to break or bruise\n" + "FRUSTRATE frustrated\n" + "FUB OFF to put off\n" + "FULFILL to fill full\n" + "FULL complete\n" + "FULLAM a loaded die\n" + "FULSOME lustful\n" + "FURNISHED equipped\n" + "FURNITOR furnitory, an herb\n\n\n" + "GABERDINE a loose outer coat, or smock frock\n" + "GAD a pointed instrument, a goad\n" + " Upon the gad, with impetuous haste, upon the spur\n" + " of the moment\n" + "GAIN-GIVING misgiving\n" + "GAIT going, steps\n" + "GALLIARD a kind of dance\n" + "GALLIASSE a kind of ship\n" + "GALLIMAUFRY a ridiculous medley\n" + "GALLOW to scare\n" + "GALLOWGLASS the irregular infantry of Ireland, and the\n" + " Highlands of Scotland\n" + "GAMESTER a frolicsome person\n" + " A loose woman\n" + "GARBOIL disorder, uproar\n" + "GARISH gaudy, staring\n" + "GARNER to lay by, as corn in a barn\n" + "GAST frightened\n" + "GAUDY festive\n" + "GAZE an object of wonder\n" + "GEAR matter of business of any kind\n" + "GECK a fool\n" + "GENERAL the generality, common people\n" + "GENERATIONS children\n" + "GENEROSITY noble birth\n" + "GENEROUS noble\n" + "GENTILITY good manners\n" + "GENTLE gentlefolk\n" + "GENTLE noble\n" + "GENTLE to ennoble\n" + "GENTRY complaisance, conduct becoming gentlefolk\n" + "GERMAN akin\n" + " Appropriate\n" + "GERMEN seed, embryo\n" + "GEST period\n" + "GIB a he-cat\n" + "GIFTS talents, endowment\n" + "GIGLOT a wanton girl\n" + "GILDER a coin of the value of 1s. 6d. or 2s\n" + "GILT money\n" + " State of wealth\n" + "GIMMAL double\n" + "GIMMOR contrivance\n" + "GING gang\n" + "GIRD to gibe\n" + "GIRD a sarcasm or gibe\n" + "GLEEK to scoff\n" + "GLEEK a scoff\n" + "GLOSE to comment; hence, to be garrulous\n" + "GLUT to swallow\n" + "GNARL to snarl\n" + "GOOD-DEED indeed\n" + "GOOD-DEN good-evening, contracted from 'Good-even.'\n" + "GOOD-YEAR\n" + "or GOOD-JER a corruption of the French goujere; the\n" + " venereal disease\n" + "GORBELLIED corpulent\n" + "GOURD a species of game of chance\n" + "GOUT a drop\n" + "GOVERNMENT discretion\n" + "GRACIOUS abounding in grace Divine\n" + "GRAINED engrained\n" + "GRAMERCY int. grand mercy, much thanks\n" + "GRANGE the farmstead attached to a monastery, a\n" + " solitary farm-house\n" + "GRATILLITY used ridiculously for 'gratuity.'\n" + "GRATULATE to congratulate\n" + "GRAVE to bury\n" + "GREASILY grossly\n" + "GREEK a bawd\n" + "GREEN immature, fresh, unused\n" + "GREENLY foolishly\n" + "GREET to weep\n" + "GRIZE a step\n" + "GROSSLY palpably\n" + "GROUNDLING one who sits in the pit of a theatre\n" + "GROWING accruing\n" + "GUARD decoration\n" + "GUARD to decorate\n" + "GUARDAGE guardianship\n" + "GUINEA-HEN the pintado, a cant term\n" + "GULES red, a term in heraldry\n" + "GULF the throat\n" + "GUN-STONE a cannon ball\n" + "GUST taste, relish\n" + "GYVE to fetter\n\n\n" + "HACK to become common\n" + "HAGGARD a wild or unreclaimed hawk\n" + "HAG-SEED seed or offspring of a hag\n" + "HAIR course, order, grain\n" + "HALIDOM holiness, sanctification, Christian fellowship;\n" + " used as an oath, and analogous to 'By my faith.'\n" + "HALL an open space to dance in\n" + "HALLOWMAS All Hallows' Day\n" + "HAP chance, fortune\n" + "HAPPILY accidentally\n" + "HANDSAW perhaps a corruption of Heronshaw; a hern\n" + "HARDIMENT defiance, brave deeds\n" + "HARLOCK charlock, wild mustard\n" + "HARRY to annoy, harass\n" + "HAUGHT haughty\n" + "HAUNT company\n" + "HAVING property, fortune\n" + "HAVIOUR behavior\n" + "HAY a term in fencing\n" + "HEADY violent, headlong\n" + "HEAT of 'to heat,' heated\n" + "HEBENON henbane\n" + "HEFT a heaving\n" + "HEFT furnished with a handle: hence,\n" + " metaphorically, finished off, delicately formed\n" + "HELM to steer, manage\n" + "HENCE henceforward\n" + "HENCHMAN a page or attendant\n" + "HENT to seize, take\n" + "HERMIT a beadsman, one bound to pray for another\n" + "HEST command\n" + "HIGH used in composition with adjectives to heighten\n" + " or emphasize their signification, as, high-\n" + " fantastical\n" + "HIGHT called\n" + "HILD held\n" + "HILDING a paltry fellow\n" + "HINT suggestion\n" + "HIREN a prostitute. with a pun on the word 'iron.'\n" + "HIT to agree\n" + "HOISE to hoist, heave up on high\n" + "HOIST hoisted\n" + "HOLP to help; helped\n" + "HOME to the utmost\n" + "HONEST chaste\n" + "HONESTY chastity\n" + "HONEY-STALKS the red clover\n" + "HOODMAN-BLIND the game now called blindman's-buff\n" + "HORN-MAD probably, 'harn-mad,' that is, brain-mad\n" + "HOROLOGE a clock\n" + "HOT-HOUSE a brothel\n" + "HOX to hamstring\n" + "HUGGER-MUGGER secresy\n" + "HULL to drift on the sea like a wrecked ship\n" + "HUMOROUS fitful, or, perhaps, hurried\n" + "HUNT-COUNTER to follow the scent the wrong way\n" + "HUNTS-UP a holla used in hunting when the game was on\n" + " foot\n" + "HURLY noise, confusion\n" + "HURTLE to clash\n" + "HURTLING noise, confusion\n" + "HUSBANDRY frugality\n" + " Management\n" + "HUSWIFE a jilt\n\n\n" + "ICE-BROOK an icy-cold brook\n" + "I'FECKS int. in faith, a euphemism\n" + "IGNOMY ignominy\n" + "IMAGE representation\n" + "IMBARE to bare, lay open\n" + "IMMEDIACY close connexion\n" + "IMMOMENT unimportant\n" + "IMP to graft. to splice a falcon's broken feathers\n" + "IMP a scion, a child\n" + "IMPAWN to stake, compromise\n" + "IMPEACH to bring into question\n" + "IMPEACH impeachment\n" + "IMPEACHMENT cause of censure, hindrance\n" + "IMPERCEIVERANT duff of perception\n" + "IMPETICOS to pocket\n" + "IMPORTANCE importunity\n" + "IMPORTANT importunate\n" + "IMPORTING significant\n" + "IMPOSE imposition, meaning command or task imposed\n" + " upon any one\n" + "IMPOSITIONS command\n" + "IMPRESE a device with a motto\n" + "IMPRESS to compel to serve\n" + "INCAPABLE unconscious\n" + "INCARNARDINE to dye red\n" + "INCENSED incited, egged on\n" + "INCH-MEAL by inch-meal, by portions of inches\n" + "INCLINING compliant\n" + "INCLINING inclination\n" + "INCLIP to embrace\n" + "INCLUDE conclude\n" + "INCONY fine, delicate\n" + "INCORRECT ill-regulated\n" + "IND India\n" + "INDENT to compound or bargain\n" + "INDEX a preface\n" + "INDIFFERENT ordinary\n" + "INDIGEST disordered\n" + "INDITE to invite\n" + " To convict\n" + "INDUCTION introduction, beginning\n" + "INDURANCE delay\n" + "INFINITE infinite power\n" + "INGRAFT to engraff, engrafted\n" + "INHABITABLE uninhabitable\n" + "INHERIT to possess\n" + "INHOOPED penned up in hoops\n" + "INKHORN-MATE a contemptuous term for an ecclesiastic, or man\n" + " of learning\n" + "INKLE a kind of narrow fillet or tape\n" + "INLAND civilized, well-educated\n" + "INLY inward\n" + "INLY inwardly\n" + "INQUISITION enquiry\n" + "INSANE that which causes insanity\n" + "INSCONCE to arm, fortify\n" + "INSTANCE example\n" + " Information\n" + " Reason, proof\n" + "INTEND to pretend\n" + "INTENDING regarding\n" + "INTENDMENT intention\n" + "INTENTIVELY attentively\n" + "INTERESSED allied\n" + "INTERMISSION pause, delay\n" + "INTRENCHMENT not capable of being cut\n" + "INTRINSE intricate\n" + "INTRINSICATE intricate\n" + "INVENTION imagination\n" + "INWARD an intimate friend\n" + " intimate\n" + "INWARDNESS intimacy\n" + "IRREGULOUS lawless, licentious\n" + "ITERATION reiteration\n\n\n" + "JACK a mean fellow\n" + "JACK-A-LENT a puppet thrown at in Lent\n" + "JACK GUARDANT a jack in office\n" + "JADE to whip, to treat with contempt\n" + "JAR the ticking of a clock\n" + "JAR to tick as a clock\n" + "JAUNCE to prance\n" + "JESS a strap of leather attached to the talons of a\n" + " hawk, by which it is held on the fist\n" + "JEST to tilt in a tournament\n" + "JET to strut\n" + "JOURNAL daily\n" + "JOVIAL appertaining to Jove\n" + "JUDICIOUS critical\n" + "JUMP to agree\n" + " to hazard\n" + "JUMP hazard\n" + "JUMP exactly, nicely\n" + "JUSTICER a judge, magistrate\n" + "JUT to encroach\n" + "JUTTY a projection\n" + "JUTTY to jut out beyond\n" + "JUVENAL youth, young man\n\n\n" + "KAM crooked\n" + "KECKSY hemlock\n" + "KEECH a lump of tallow\n" + "KEEL to skin\n" + "KEEP to restrain\n" + "KEISAR Caesar, Emperor\n" + "KERN the rude foot soldiers of the Irish\n" + "KIBE a chilblain\n" + "KICKSHAW a made dish\n" + "KICKSY WICKSY a wife, used in disdain\n" + "KILN-HOLE the ash-hole under a kiln\n" + "KIND nature\n" + "KINDLE to bring forth young; used only of beasts\n" + "KINDLESS unnatural\n" + "KINDLY natural\n" + "KIRTLE a gown\n" + "KNAP to snap, crack\n" + "KNAVE a boy\n" + " A serving-man\n" + "KNOT a figure in garden beds\n" + "KNOW to acknowledge\n\n\n" + "LABRAS lips\n" + "LACED-MUTTON a courtesan\n" + "LAG the lowest of the people\n" + "LAG late, behindhand\n" + "LAKIN ladykin, little lady, an endearing term applied\n" + " to the Virgin Mary in the oath, 'By our lakin.' \n" + "LAND-DAMN perhaps to extirpate; Hanmer thinks it means\n" + " to kill by stopping the urine\n" + "LAPSED taken, apprehended\n" + "LARGE licentious, free\n" + "LARGESS a present\n" + "LASS-LORN deserted by a mistress\n" + "LATCH to smear\n" + " To catch\n" + "LATED belated\n" + "LATTEN made of brass\n" + "LAUND lawn\n" + "LAVOLTA a dance\n" + "LAY wager\n" + "LEAGUE besieging army\n" + "LEASING lying\n" + "LEATHER-COATS a kind of apple\n" + "LEECH a physician\n" + "LEER countenance, complexion\n" + "LEET a manor court\n" + "LEGE to allege\n" + "LEGERITY lightness\n" + "LEIGER an ambassador resident abroad\n" + "LEMAN a lover or mistress\n" + "LENTEN meagre\n" + " That which may be eaten in Lent\n" + "L'ENVOY the farewell or moral at the end of a tale or\n" + " poem\n" + "LET to hinder\n" + " to binder\n" + "LET hindrance\n" + "LETHE death\n" + "LEVEL to aim\n" + "LEVEL that which is aimed at\n" + "LEWD ignorant, foolish\n" + "LEWDLY wickedly\n" + "LEWDSTER a lewd person\n" + "LIBBARD a leopard\n" + "LIBERAL licentious\n" + "LIBERTY libertinism\n" + "LICENCE licentiousness\n" + "LIEF dear\n" + "LIFTER a thief\n" + "LIGHT O' LOVE a tune so called\n" + "LIGHTLY easily, generally\n" + "LIKE to please\n" + "LIKE to liken, compare\n" + "LIKE likely\n" + "LIKELIHOOD promise, appearance\n" + "LIKING condition\n" + "LIMBECK an alembick, a still\n" + "LIMBO or Limbo patrum, the place where good men under\n" + " the Old Testament were believed to be imprisoned till\n" + " released by Christ after his crucifixion\n" + "LIME bird-lime\n" + "LIME to entangle as with bird-lime\n" + " To smear with bird-lime\n" + " To mix lime with beer or other liquor\n" + "LIMN to draw\n" + "LINE to cover on the inside\n" + " To strengthen by inner works\n" + "LINSTOCK a staff with a match at the end of it used by\n" + " gunners in firing cannon\n" + "LIST a margin, hence a bound or enclosure\n" + "LITHER lazy\n" + "LITTLE miniature\n" + "LIVELIHOOD appearance of life\n" + "LIVERY a law phrase, signifying the act of delivering\n" + " a freehold into the possession of the heir or\n" + " purchaser\n" + "LIVING lively, convincing\n" + "LOACH a fish so called\n" + "LOB a looby\n" + "LOCKRAM a sort of coarse linen\n" + "LODE-STAR the leading-star, pole-star\n" + "LOFFE to laugh\n" + "LOGGATS the game called nine-pins\n" + "LONGLY longingly\n" + "LOOF to lull, bring a vessel up to the wind\n" + "LOON a low contemptible fellow\n" + "LOT a prize in a lottery\n" + "LOTTERY that which falls to a man by lot\n" + "LOWT a clown\n" + "LOWT to treat one as a lowt, with contempt\n" + "LOZEL a spendthrift\n" + "LUBBER a leopard\n" + "LUCE n. the pike or jack, a fresh-water fish\n" + "LUMPISH duff, dejected\n" + "LUNES fits of lunacy\n" + "LURCH to defeat, to win\n" + "LURCH to shift, to play tricks\n" + "LURE a thing stuffed to resemble a bird with which\n" + " the falconer allures a hawk\n" + "LUSH juicy, luxuriant\n" + "LUSTIG lusty, cheerful\n" + "LUXURIOUS lascivious\n" + "LUXURY lust\n" + "LYM a limer or slow hound\n\n\n" + "MADE having his fortune made\n" + "MAGNIFICO the chief magistrate at Venice\n" + "MAGOT-PIE a magpie, a pie which feeds on magots\n" + "MAIL covered as with a coat of mail\n" + "MAIN-COURSE a sea-term\n" + "MAKE to do up, bar\n" + " To do\n" + "MALKIN a familiar name for Mary; hence a servant\n" + " wench\n" + "MALLECHO mischief\n" + "MAMMERING hesitating\n" + "MAMMETS a woman's breasts\n" + " A doll\n" + "MAMMOCK to break, tear\n" + "MAN to tame a hawk\n" + "MANAGE management\n" + "MANDRAGORA or Mandrake a plant of soporiferous quality,\n" + " supposed to resemble a man\n" + "MANKIND having a masculine nature\n" + "MARCHES frontiers, borders\n" + "MARCHPANE a kind of sweet biscuit\n" + "MARGENT margin\n" + "MARRY TRAP an oath\n" + "MARTLEMAS the Feast of St. Martin, which occurs on the\n" + " 11th of Nov. when the fine weather generally ends;\n" + " hence applied to an old man\n" + "MATCH an appointment\n" + "MATE to confound, dismay\n" + "MEACOCK tame, cowardly\n" + "MEALED mingled\n" + "MEAN instrument used to promote an end\n" + "MEAN the tenor part in a harmony\n" + "MEAN opportunity, power\n" + "MEASURE reach\n" + " A stately dance\n" + "MEAZEL a leper, spoken in contempt of a mean person\n" + "MEDAL a portrait in a locket\n" + "MEDICINE a physician\n" + "MEED reward, hire\n" + " Merit\n" + "MEHERCLE by Hercules\n" + "MEINY retinue\n" + "MELL to mix, to meddle\n" + "MEMORISE to cause to be remembered\n" + "MEPHISTOPHILUS the name of a familiar spirit\n" + "MERCATANTE a foreign trader\n" + "MERELY simply, absolutely\n" + "MESS a company of four\n" + "METAPHYSICAL supernatural\n" + "METE-YARD measuring-wand\n" + "MEW UP to confine\n" + "MICHER a truant\n" + "MICKLE much\n" + "MILL-SIXPENCE a milled sixpence\n" + "MINCE to do any thing affectedly\n" + "MINCING affected\n" + "MISCREATE illegitimate\n" + "MISDOUBT to suspect\n" + "MISERY avarice\n" + "MISPRISE to despise\n" + " To mistake\n" + "MISPRISION mistake\n" + "MISSIVE messenger\n" + "MISTEMPERED angry\n" + "MISTHINK to think ill of\n" + "MISTRESS the jack in bowling\n" + "MOBLED muffled\n" + "MODERN commonplace\n" + "MODULE a model, image\n" + "MOE and more. Of frequent occurrence\n" + "MOIETY a portion\n" + "MOME a stupid person\n" + "MOMENTANY momentary\n" + "MONTHS-MIND a monthly commemoration of the dead, but used\n" + " ludicrously to mean a great mind or strong desire\n" + "MOOD anger\n" + "MOON-CALF a nick-name applied to Caliban\n" + "MOONISH inconstant\n" + "MOP nod\n" + "MORISCO a Moor\n" + "MORRIS-PIKE Moorish-pike\n" + "MORT death, applied to animals of the chase\n" + "MORT-DU-VINAIGRE a ridiculous oath\n" + "MORTAL fatal, deadly\n" + " Murderous\n" + "MORTIFIED ascetic\n" + "MOSE a doubtful word, applied to some disease\n" + " in a horse\n" + "MOTION solicitation\n" + " Emotion\n" + "MOTION a puppet\n" + "MOTIVE one who moves\n" + " That which moves\n" + "MOTLEY or the many-coloured coat of a fool, or\n" + " a fool\n" + "MOTLEY-MINDED foolish\n" + "MOUSE-HUNT a weasel\n" + "MOW to make grimaces\n" + "MOY a coin, probably a moidore\n" + "MUCH int. significant of contempt\n" + "MUCH used ironically\n" + "MURE a wall\n" + "MUST a scramble\n" + "MUTINE to mutiny\n" + "MUTINE a mutineer\n\n\n" + "NAPKIN a handkerchief\n" + "NATURAL an idiot\n" + "NAYWARD towards denial\n" + "NAYWORD a catch-word, by-word\n" + "NEB the beak\n" + "NEELD a needle\n" + "NEIF hand\n" + "NEPHEW a grandson\n" + "NETHER-STOCKS stockings\n" + "NEXT nearest\n" + "NICE foolish\n" + "NICK score or reckoning\n" + "NICK to brand with folly\n" + "NIGHTED black as night\n" + "NIGHT-RULE nightly solemnity\n" + "NINE MEN'S MORRIS a place set apart for a Moorish dance by\n" + " nine men\n" + "NINNY a fool, jester\n" + "NOBILITY nobleness\n" + "NOBLE a coin, worth 6s. 8d\n" + "NODDY a dolt\n" + "NONCE for the nonce, corrupted from 'for then once,'\n" + " for the occasion\n" + "NOOK-SHOTTEN indented with bays and creeks\n" + "NOURISH a nurse\n" + "NOVUM a game at dice\n" + "NOWL head\n" + "NUTHOOK a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief\n" + " \n\n\n" + "O a circle\n" + "OAR to row as with oars\n" + "OBSEQUIOUS behaving as becomes one who attends funeral\n" + " obsequies\n" + "OBSEQUIOUSLY funereally\n" + "OBSTACLE ridiculously used for 'obstinate.'\n" + "OCCUPATION persons occupied in business\n" + "OCCURENT an incident\n" + "OD'S BODY | 'Od's in these\n" + "OD'S HEARTLINGS | and all similar\n" + " | exclamations is\n" + "OD'S PITTIKINS | a euphemism\n" + "OD'S PLESSED WILL | for 'God's.'\n" + "OEILLIAD an amorous glance\n" + "O'ERPARTED having too important a part to act\n" + "O'ER-RAUGHT overreached\n" + " overtasked\n" + "OFFERING challenging\n" + "OFFICE benefit, kindness\n" + " use, function\n" + "OLD a cant term for great, as we say fine, or pretty\n" + "ONCE some time\n" + "ONEYER a banker. A doubtful word\n" + "OPE open\n" + "OPE to open\n" + " to open\n" + "OPEN plain\n" + " Public\n" + "OPEN to give tongue as a hound\n" + "OPERANT active\n" + "OPINIONED used ridiculously for pinioned\n" + "OPPOSITE adversary\n" + "OPPOSITION combat\n" + "OR before\n" + "ORDER measures\n" + "ORDINANCE rank, order\n" + "ORGULOUS proud\n" + "ORT leaving, refuse\n" + "OSTENT show, appearance\n" + "OSTENTATION show, appearance\n" + " \n" + "OUNCE a beast of prey of the tiger kind\n" + "OUPHE a fairy\n" + "OUSEL-COCK the blackbird\n" + "OUT all out, fully\n" + "OUT-LOOK to face down\n" + "OUTWARD not in the secret of affairs\n" + "OUTWARD outside\n" + "OWE to own\n\n\n" + "PACK to practise unlawful confederacy\n" + "PACK a number of people confederated\n" + "PADDOCK a toad\n" + "PAID punished\n" + "PALABRAS words, a cant term, from the Spanish\n" + "PALE to enclose\n" + "PALL to wrap as with a pall\n" + "PALLED impaired\n" + "PALMER one who bears a palm-branch, in token of having\n" + " made a pilgrimage to Palestine\n" + "PALMY victorious\n" + "PARCELLED belonging to individuals\n" + "PARD the leopard\n" + "PARITOR an apparitor\n" + "PARLE talk\n" + "PARLOUS perilous\n" + " keen, shrewd\n" + "PARTED endowed, gifted\n" + "PARTIZAN a pike\n" + "PASH the face\n" + "PASH to strike violently, to bruise, crush\n" + "PASS to practise\n" + " To surpass expectation\n" + "PASSANT a term of heraldry, applied to animals\n" + " represented on the shield as passing by at a trot\n" + "PASSING surpassingly, exceedingly\n" + "PASSION to have feelings\n" + "PASSIONATE to suffer\n" + "PASSY-MEASURE a kind of dance\n" + "PASTRY the room where pastry was made\n" + "PATCH a mean fellow\n" + "PATCHED dressed in motley\n" + "PATCHERY trickery\n" + "PATH to walk\n" + "PATHETICAL affected, hypocritical\n" + "PATIENT to make patient, to compose\n" + "PATINE the metal disc on which the bread is placed in\n" + " the administration of the Eucharist\n" + "PATTERN to give an example of\n" + " Afford a pattern for\n" + "PAUCA VERBA few words\n" + "PAUCAS few, a cant word\n" + "PAVIN a dance\n" + "PAX a small image of Christ\n" + "PAY to despatch\n" + "PEAT a term of endearment for a child\n" + "PEDASCULE a pedant, schoolmaster\n" + "PEER to peep out\n" + "PEIZE to balance, weigh down\n" + "PELTING paltry\n" + "PERDU lost\n" + "PERDURABLE durable\n" + "PERDY a euphemism for Par Dieu\n" + "PERFECT certain\n" + "PERFECT to inform perfectly\n" + "PERIAPTS charms worn round the neck\n" + "PERJURE a perjured person\n" + "PERSEVER to persevere\n" + "PERSPECTIVE a telescope, or some sort of optical glass\n" + "PEW-FELLOW a comrade\n" + "PHEEZE to comb, fleece, curry\n" + "PIA-MATER the membrane covering the brain, the brain\n" + " itself\n" + "PICK to pitch, throw\n" + "PICKED chosen, selected\n" + "PICKERS (and stealers), the fingers, used ridiculously\n" + "PICKING insignificant\n" + "PICKT-HATCH a place noted for brothels. Merry Wives\n" + " of Windsor\n" + "PIED motley-coated, wearing the motley coat of a\n" + " jester\n" + "PIELED shaven\n" + "PLIGHT pitched\n" + "PILCHER a scabbard\n" + "PILL to pillage\n" + "PIN a malady of the eye\n" + " The centre of a target\n" + "PINFOLD a pound, a place to confine lost cattle\n" + "PIONED digged\n" + "PLACKET a petticoat-front\n" + "PLAIN SONG a simple air\n" + "PLAITED intricate\n" + "PLANCHED made of boards\n" + "PLANTATION colonizing, planting a colony\n" + "PLAUSIVE plausible\n" + "PLEACHED interwoven\n" + "POINT a lace furnished with a tag by which the\n" + " breeches were held up\n" + "POINT-DE-VICE faultless\n" + "POISE balance\n" + " Doubt\n" + "POLLED bare\n" + "POMANDER a perfumed ball\n" + "POMEWATER a kind of apple\n" + "POOR-JOHN a herring\n" + "POPINJAY a parrot\n" + "PORT pomp, state\n" + "PORT a gate\n" + "PORTABLE bearable\n" + "PORTANCE conduct, behavior\n" + "POSSESS to inform\n" + "POTCH to push violently\n" + "POTENT a potentate\n" + "POUNCET-BOX a box for holding perfumes\n" + "POWER forces, army\n" + "PRACTISE wicked stratagem\n" + "PRACTISANT a confederate\n" + "PRANK to dress up\n" + "PRECEPT a justice's summons\n" + "PRECIOUSLY in business of great importance\n" + "PREGNANCY fertility of invention\n" + "PREGNANT fertile of invention\n" + " Ready\n" + " Obvious\n" + "PRENOMINATE to name beforehand, to prophesy\n" + "PRE-ORDINANCE old-established law\n" + "PRESENCE the presence-chamber\n" + " High bearing\n" + "PREST ready\n" + "PRETENCE design\n" + "PRETEND to portend\n" + " To intend\n" + "PREVENT to anticipate\n" + "PRICK the mark denoting the hour on a dial\n" + "PRICK to incite\n" + " To choose by pricking a hole with a pin opposite the\n" + " name\n" + "PRICK-SONG music sung in parts by note\n" + "PRICKET a stag of two years\n" + "PRIDE heat\n" + "PRIG to steal\n" + "PRIME rank, lecherous\n" + "PRIMER more-important\n" + "PRIMERO a game at cards\n" + "PRINCIPALITY that which holds the highest place\n" + "PRINCOX a coxcomb\n" + "PRISER a prize-fighter\n" + "PROCURE to bring\n" + "PREFACE interj. much good may it do you\n" + "PROFANE outspoken\n" + "PROGRESS a royal ceremonial journey\n" + "PROJECT to shape or contrive\n" + "PROMPTURE suggestion\n" + "PRONE ready, willing\n" + "PROOF strength of manhood\n" + "PROPAGATE to advance, to forward\n" + "PROPAGATION obtaining\n" + "PROPER-FALSE natural falsehood\n" + "PROPERTIED endowed with the properties of\n" + "PROPERTIES scenes, dresses, &c. used in a theatre\n" + " \n" + "PROPERTY to take possession of\n" + "PROPOSE to suppose, for the sake of argument\n" + " To converse\n" + "PROPOSE conversation\n" + "PROROGUE to defer\n" + "PROVAND provender\n" + "PROVISION forecast\n" + "PUCELLE a virgin, the name given to Joan of Arc\n" + "PUDENCY modesty\n" + "PUGGING thieving\n" + "PUN to pound\n" + "PURCHASE to acquire, win\n" + "PURCHASE gain, winnings\n" + "PUT to compel\n" + "PUTTER-ON an instigator\n" + "PUTTER-OUT one who lends money at interest\n" + "PUTTING-ON instigation\n" + "PUTTOCK a kite\n\n\n" + "QUAIL to faint, be languid, be afraid\n" + " to cause to quail\n" + "QUAINT curiously beautiful\n" + "QUAKE to cause to quake or tremble\n" + "QUALIFY to moderate\n" + "QUALITY those of the same nature\n" + " Rank or condition\n" + "QUARREL a suit, cause\n" + "QUARRY game, a heap of game\n" + "QUART D'ECU a quarter crown\n" + "QUARTER the post allotted to a soldier\n" + "QUAT a pimple; used in contempt of a person\n" + "QUEASY squeamish, unsettled\n" + " \n" + "QUELL murder\n" + "QUENCH to grow cool\n" + "QUERN a hand-mill\n" + "QUEST enquiry, search, inquest, jury\n" + "QUESTRIST one who goes in search of another\n" + "QUICK so far gone in pregnancy that the child is\n" + " alive\n" + "QUICKEN to come to life\n" + "QUIDDIT | a subtle question\n" + "QUIDDITY |\n" + "QUILLET quidebet, a subtle case in law\n" + "QUINTAIN a post for tilting at\n" + "QUIP sharp jest, a taunt\n" + "QUIRE to sing in concert\n" + "QUIT to requite, respond\n" + "QUIT past tense of the verb to quit, quitted\n" + "QUITANCE requital\n" + "QUIVER active\n" + "QUOTE to note\n\n\n" + "RABATO a ruff\n" + "RABBIT-SUCKER a weasel\n" + "RACE breed; inherited nature\n" + "RACK wreck\n" + "RACK to enhance the price of anything\n" + " To drive as clouds\n" + "RAG a term of contempt applied to persons\n" + "RAKE to cover\n" + "RAPT transported with emotion\n" + "RAPTURE a fit\n" + "RASCAL a lean deer\n" + "RASH quick, violent\n" + "RATE opinion, judgment\n" + "RATE to assign, to value\n" + " To scold\n" + "RATOLORUM a ludicrous mistake for Rotulorum\n" + "RAUGHT past tense of reach\n" + "RAVIN ravenous\n" + "RAVIN to devour\n" + "RAWLY inadequately\n" + "RAWNESS unprovided state\n" + "RAYED arrayed, served\n" + "RAZED slashed\n" + "REAR-MOUSE the bat\n" + "REBATE to deprive of keenness\n" + "REBECK a three-stringed fiddle\n" + "RECEIPT money received\n" + "RECEIVING capacity\n" + "RECHEAT a point of the chase to call back the hounds\n" + "RECORD to sing\n" + "RECORDER a flute\n" + "RECURE to cure, recover\n" + "RED-LATTICE suitable to an ale-house, because ale-houses\n" + " had commonly red lattices\n" + "RED-PLAGUE erysipelas\n" + "REDUCE to bring back\n" + "REECHY smoky, dirty\n" + "REFELL to refute\n" + "REFER to reserve to\n" + "REGIMENT government\n" + "REGREET a salutation\n" + "REGREET to salute\n" + "REGUERDON requital\n" + "RELATIVE applicable\n" + "REMEMBER to remind\n" + "REMORSE pity\n" + "REMORSEFUL full of pity, compassionate\n" + "REMOTION removal\n" + "REMOVED sequestered, remote\n" + "RENDER to describe you\n" + "RENDER account\n" + "RENEGE to renounce, to deny\n" + "REPAIR to renovate, comfort\n" + "REPEAL to reverse the sentence of exile. Two\n" + " Gentlemen of Verona\n" + "REPROOF confutation\n" + "REPUGN to resist\n" + "REQUIEM mass for the dead, so called because it begins\n" + " with the words, Requiem eternam dona eis, Domine\n" + "RESOLVE to satisfy\n" + " To dissolve\n" + "RESPECT consideration\n" + "RESPECTIVE respectful, thoughtful\n" + "RESPECTIVE corresponding\n" + "RESPECTIVELY respectfully\n" + "RETAILED handed down\n" + "RETIRE retreat\n" + "RETIRE to draw back\n" + "REVERB to echo\n" + "REVOLT a rebel\n" + "RIB to enclose as within ribs\n" + "RID to destroy\n" + "RIFT to split\n" + " to split\n" + "RIFT a split\n" + "RIGGISH wanton\n" + "RIGOL a circle\n" + "RIPE drunk\n" + "RIVAGE the shore\n" + "RIVAL a partner\n" + "RIVALITY equal rank\n" + "RIVE to fire\n" + "ROAD the high road, applied to a common woman\n" + "ROISTING roistering, violent\n" + "ROMAGE unusual stir\n" + "RONVON a term of contempt applied to a woman\n" + "ROOD the crucifix\n" + "ROOK a cheater\n" + "ROPERY roguery\n" + "ROPE-TRICKS tricks such as are played by a rope-dancer\n" + "ROUND to whisper\n" + " To become great with child\n" + " to finish off\n" + "ROUND a diadem\n" + "ROUND unceremonious\n" + "ROUNDEL a dance or song\n" + "ROUNDURE an enclosure\n" + "ROUSE carousal\n" + "ROYNISH mangy\n" + "RUBIOUS ruddy\n" + "RUDDOCK the redbreast\n" + "RUSH to push\n" + "RUSHLING rustling\n\n\n" + "SACRIFICIAL reverent, as words used in religious worship\n" + "SACRING-BELL the little bell rung at mass to give notice\n" + " that the elements are consecrated\n" + "SAD serious\n" + "SADLY seriously\n" + "SADNESS seriousness\n" + "SAFE to make safe\n" + "SAG to hang down\n" + "SALT lascivious\n" + "SALT taste\n" + "SANDED marked with yellow spots\n" + "SANS without\n" + "SAUCY lascivious\n" + "SAW a moral saying\n" + "SAY silken\n" + "SAY assay, taste, relish\n" + "SCAFFOLDAGE the gallery of a theatre\n" + "SCALD scurvy, scabby\n" + "SCALE to weigh in scales\n" + "SCALL a scab, a word of reproach\n" + "SCAMBLE to scramble\n" + "SCAMEL probably a misprint for sea-mel, sea-mew\n" + "SCAN to examine subtly\n" + "SCANT to cut short, to spare\n" + "SCANT scanty, short\n" + " scarcely\n" + "SCANTLING a small portion\n" + "SCAPE to escape\n" + "SCAPE a sally\n" + "SCATHE injury\n" + "SCATHE to injure\n" + "SCATHFUL destructive\n" + "SCONCE the head\n" + "SCOTCH to bruise or cut slightly\n" + "SCRIMER a fencer\n" + "SCROYLE a scabby fellow\n" + "SCULL a shoal of fish\n" + "SCURVY scabby; metaph. mean\n" + "SEAL to set one's seal to a deed; hence, to confirm\n" + "SEAM fat\n" + "SEAMY showing the seam or sewing\n" + "SEAR scorched, withered\n" + "SEAR to stigmatise\n" + "SEARCH to probe; hence, to apply a healing remedy\n" + " \n" + "SEATED fixed, confirmed\n" + "SECT a slip or scion\n" + " A political party\n" + "SECURELY inconsiderately\n" + "SEEL to close\n" + "SEELING closing, blinding\n" + "SEEMING seemly, becomingly\n" + "SEEMING outward manner and appearance\n" + "SEEN versed, instructed\n" + "SELD seldom\n" + "SELF-BOUNTY native goodness\n" + "SEMBLABLY alike\n" + "SENIORY seniority\n" + "SENNET a flourish of trumpets\n" + "SEPULCHRE to bury\n" + "SEQUESTRATION separation\n" + "SERE dry\n" + "SERJEANT a bailiff\n" + "SERPIGO a cutaneous disease\n" + "SERVICEABLE 'serviceable vows,' vows that you will do\n" + " her service, or be her servant\n" + "SETEBOS the name of a fiend\n" + "SETTER one who watches travellers to give information\n" + " to thieves\n" + "SEVERAL land which is not common but appropriated\n" + "SHAME to be ashamed\n" + "SHAME modesty\n" + "SHARDS shreds, broken fragments of pottery\n" + "SHARDS the wing cases of beetles; hence 'sharded,'\n" + " and 'shard-borne,' \n" + "SHARKED snatched up, as a shark does his prey\n" + "SHEEN brilliancy\n" + "SHEER pure\n" + " Unmixed\n" + "SHENT rebuked, blamed\n" + " Hurt\n" + "SHERIFF'S-POST a post at the door of a sheriff, to which royal\n" + " proclamations were fixed\n" + "SHIVE slice\n" + "SHOT the reckoning at an ale-house\n" + "SHOUGHS shaggy dogs\n" + "SHOULDERED plunged\n" + "SHOVEL-BOARD game played by sliding metal pieces along\n" + " a board at a mark\n" + "SHREWD mischievous\n" + "SHRIFT confession\n" + " Absolution\n" + "SHRIVE to confess\n" + "SHRIVING-TIME time for confession\n" + "SHROUD to enshroud oneself, cover oneself up\n" + "SIDE-SLEEVES loose hanging sleeves\n" + "SIEGE seat\n" + " Stool\n" + " Rank\n" + "SIGHT an aperture in a helmet\n" + "SIGHTLESS invisible\n" + " Unsightly\n" + "SIGN to give an omen\n" + "SILLY simple, rustic\n" + "SIMULAR counterfeit, feigned\n" + "SINGLE feeble\n" + "SIR a title applied to a bachelor of arts at the\n" + " Universities\n" + "SITH since\n" + "SITHENCE since\n" + "SIZES allowances\n" + "SKAINS-MATES scapegraces\n" + "SKILL to be of importance\n" + "SKILLESS ignorant\n" + "SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE rambling, disjointed\n" + "SKINKER a drawer of liquor\n" + "SKIRR to scour\n" + "SLACK slacken\n" + "SLAVE to turn to slavish uses\n" + "SLEAVE floss-silk\n" + "SLEDDED sledged\n" + "SLEIDED untwisted, raw, applied to silk\n" + " (Gower)\n" + "SLEIGHTS artifices\n" + "SLIPPER slippery\n" + "SLIPS a kind of noose, or leash\n" + " A piece of base money\n" + "SLIVER to slice\n" + "SLIVER a slice\n" + "SLOPS loose breeches\n" + "SLUBBER to slur over\n" + "SMIRCHED smeared, soiled\n" + "SMOOTH to flatter\n" + "SMOOTHED flattered, fawned upon\n" + "SNEAP taunt, sarcasm\n" + "SNEAPED pinched\n" + "SNECK-UP go hang! \n" + "SNUFF anger\n" + " 'To take in snuff' is to take offence\n" + "SOFTLY gently\n" + "SOIL spot, taint\n" + "SOLICIT solicitation\n" + "SOLIDARE a small coin\n" + "SOLVE solution\n" + "SOMETIMES formerly\n" + "SOOTH truth\n" + " Conciliation\n" + "SOOTH true\n" + "SOREL a buck of the third year\n" + "SORRIEST most sorrowful\n" + "SORRY sorrowful, dismal\n" + "SORT a company\n" + " Rank, condition\n" + " Lot\n" + " 'In a sort,' in a manner\n" + "SORT to choose\n" + " to suit\n" + " To consort\n" + "SOT fool\n" + "SOUL-FEARING soul-terrifying\n" + "SOWL to lug, drag\n" + "SOWTER name of a dog\n" + "SPECIALLY a special contract\n" + "SPED settled, done for\n" + "SPEED fortune\n" + "SPERR to bolt, fasten\n" + "SPIAL spy\n" + "SPILL to destroy\n" + "SPILTH spilling\n" + "SPLEEN violent haste\n" + " Used of the lightning flash\n" + "SPRAG quick\n" + "SPRING shoot, bud\n" + " Beginning\n" + "SPRINGHALT stringhalt, a disease of horses\n" + "SPRITED haunted\n" + "SPURS roots of trees\n" + "SQUANDERED scattered\n" + "SQUARE to quarrel\n" + "SQUARE the front part of a woman's dress, stomacher\n" + "SQUARE equitable\n" + "SQUARER quarreller\n" + "SQUASH an unripe peascod\n" + "SQUIER a square or rule\n" + "SQUINY to squint\n" + "STAGGERS a disease in horses, attended with giddiness:\n" + " hence any bewildering distress\n" + "STAIN to disfigure\n" + "STALE a decoy\n" + " A gull\n" + " A prostitute\n" + "STALE to make stale, deprive anything of its\n" + " freshness\n" + "STAND UPON to be incumbent on\n" + "STANIEL an inferior kind of hawk\n" + "STARK stiff\n" + "STARKLY stiffly\n" + "STATE a canopied chair\n" + "STATION attitude\n" + " Act of standing\n" + "STATIST a statesman\n" + "STATUA a statue\n" + "STATUE image, picture\n" + "STATUTE security, obligation\n" + "STATUTE-CAPS woollen caps worn by citizens\n" + "STAY a cheque\n" + "STEAD to profit\n" + "STEELED set or fixed\n" + "STERNAGE steerage, course\n" + "STICKLER an arbitrator in combats\n" + "STIGMATIC a deformed person\n" + "STIGMATICAL deformed\n" + "STILL constant\n" + "STILL constantly\n" + "STILLY softly\n" + "STINT to stop\n" + " to stop\n" + "STITHY a smith's forge\n" + "STITHY to forge\n" + "STOCCADO a stoccata, or thrust in fencing\n" + "STOCK a stocking\n" + "STOMACH courage, stubbornness\n" + " Appetite, inclination\n" + "STONE-BOW a cross-bow for throwing stones\n" + "STOUP a cup\n" + "STOUT strong, healthy\n" + "STOVER fodder\n" + "STRACHY A word of doubtful meaning\n" + "STRAIGHT immediately\n" + "STRAIN lineage\n" + " Disposition\n" + "STRAITED straitened\n" + "STRANGE foreign\n" + " Coy, reserved\n" + " Marvellous\n" + "STRANGENESS coyness, reserve\n" + "STRANGER foreigner\n" + "STRAPPADO a kind of punishment\n" + "STRICTURE strictness\n" + "STROSSERS trowsers\n" + "STUCK a thrust of a sword\n" + "STUCK IN corruption of stoccata\n" + "STUFF baggage\n" + " Material, substance\n" + "STUFFED filled, stored\n" + "STY to lodge as in a sty\n" + "SUBSCRIBE to yield\n" + " to succumb\n" + "SUCCESS issue, consequence\n" + " Succession\n" + "SUCCESSIVE succeeding\n" + "SUCCESSIVELY in succession\n" + "SUDDEN hasty, rash\n" + "SUDDENLY hastily\n" + "SUFFERANCE suffering\n" + "SUGGEST to tempt, entice\n" + "SUGGESTION temptation, enticement\n" + "SUITED dressed\n" + "SULLEN doleful, melancholy\n" + "SUMPTER a horse that carries provisions on a journey\n" + "SUPPOSE a trick, imposition\n" + "SUPPOSED counterfeit\n" + "SURCEASE to cease\n" + "SURCEASE cessation, end\n" + "SURPRISE to capture by surprise\n" + "SUR-REINED over-worked\n" + "SUSPECT suspicion\n" + "SUSPIRE to breathe\n" + "SWABBER a sweeper of the deck of a ship\n" + "SWARTH black\n" + "SWARTH quantity of grass cut down by one sweep of the\n" + " scythe\n" + "SWASHER swaggerer\n" + "SWASHING dashing, smashing\n" + "SWATH The same as 'swarth.' \n" + "SWATHLING swaddling\n" + "SWAY to move on\n" + "SWEAR to adjure\n" + "SWEAR OVER to out-swear\n" + "SWIFT ready, quick\n" + "SWINGE-BUCKLER a bully\n\n\n" + "TABLE a tablet, note-book\n" + "TABLE-BOOK note-book\n" + "TABLES the game of backgammon\n" + " A note-book\n" + "TABOUR a small side-drum\n" + "TABOURER a player on the tabour\n" + "TABOURINE tambourine, drum\n" + "TAG the rabble\n" + "TAINT tainted\n" + "TAINTURE defilement\n" + "TAKE to infect, blast, bewitch\n" + "TAKE IN to conquer\n" + "TAKE OUT to copy\n" + "TAKE UP to borrow money, or buy on credit\n" + " To make up a quarrel\n" + "TAKING infection, malignant influence\n" + "TAKING UP buying on credit\n" + "TALE counting, reckoning\n" + "TALL strong, valiant\n" + "TALLOW-CATCH a lump of tallow\n" + "TANG twang, sound\n" + "TANG to sound\n" + "TANLING anything tanned by the sun\n" + "TARRE to excite, urge on\n" + "TARRIANCE delay\n" + "TARTAR Tartarus\n" + "TASK to tax\n" + " Challenge\n" + "TASKING challenging\n" + "TASTE to try\n" + "TAWDRY-LACE a rustic necklace\n" + "TAXATION satire, sarcasm\n" + "TAXING satire\n" + "TEEN grief\n" + "TELL to count\n" + "TEMPER to mix\n" + "TEMPERANCE temperature\n" + "TEMPERED mixed\n" + "TEND to attend to\n" + "TENDER to hold, to esteem\n" + " To have consideration for\n" + "TENT to probe as a wound\n" + "TENT a probe for searching a wound\n" + "TERCEL the male of the goshawk\n" + "TERMAGANT a ranting character in old plays\n" + "TESTED pure, assayed\n" + "TESTERN to reward with a tester, or six-pence\n" + "THARBOROUGH a constable\n" + "THEORICK theory\n" + "THEWES sinews, muscles\n" + "THICK rapidly\n" + "THICK-PLEACHED thickly intertwined\n" + "THIRD-BOROUGH a constable\n" + "THOUGHT anxiety, grief\n" + " So 'to take thought' is to give way to grief\n" + "THRASONICAL boastful\n" + "THREE-MAN BEETLE a wooden mallet worked by three men\n" + "THREE-MAN-SONG-MEN singers of glees in three parts\n" + "THREE-PILE three-piled velvet\n" + "THRENE lament\n" + "THRID thread, fibre\n" + "THROE to put in agonies\n" + "THRUM the tufted end of a thread in weaving\n" + "THRUMMED made od coarse ends or tufts\n" + "TICKLE ticklish\n" + "TIGHT nimble, active\n" + "TIGHTLY briskly, promptly\n" + "TIKE a cur\n" + "TILLY-VALLY int. an exclamation of contempt\n" + "TILTH tillage\n" + "TIMELESS untimely\n" + "TINCT stain, dye\n" + "TIRE attire, head-dress\n" + "TIRE to tear as a bird of prey\n" + " Hence, metaphorically, to feed\n" + "TIRE to attire, dress\n" + "TANG twang, sound\n" + "TOD to yield a tod of wool\n" + "TOKENED marked with plague spots\n" + "TOKENS plague spots\n" + "TOLL to exact toll\n" + " To pay toll\n" + "TOO TOO excessively\n" + "TOPLESS supreme, without superior\n" + "TOUCH touchstone for testing gold\n" + " Trait\n" + " An acute feeling\n" + "TOUCHED pricked\n" + "TOUSE to pull, drag\n" + "TOWARD nearly ready\n" + "TOWARDS nearly ready\n" + "TOYS trifles, foolish tricks\n" + "TRADE beaten path\n" + "TRANECT a ferry\n" + "TRANSLATED transformed\n" + "TRASH to cheque, as a huntsman his hounds\n" + "TRAVAIL labour, toil\n" + "TRAY-TRIP an old game played with dice\n" + "TREACHERS traitors\n" + "TREATIES entreaties\n" + "TRENCHED carved\n" + "TRICK technically, a copy of a coat of arms; hence,\n" + " any peculiarity which distinguishes voice or\n" + " feature\n" + "TRICK to dress up\n" + "TRICKED blazoned\n" + "TRICKING ornament\n" + "TRICKSY elegantly quaint\n" + "TRIPLE third\n" + "TROJAN a cant word for a thief\n" + "TROL-MY-DAMES the name of a game; also called\n" + " pigeon-holes\n" + "TROTH-PLIGHT betrothed\n" + "TROW to trust, think\n" + "TRUE honest\n" + "TRUNDLE-TAIL a long-tailed dog\n" + "TUCKET-SONANCE a flourish on the trumpet\n" + "TUNDISH a funnel\n" + "TURLYGOOD a name adopted by bedlam-beggars\n" + "TURN to modulate\n" + "TWANGLING twanging\n" + "TWIGGEN made of twigs, wicker\n" + "TWILLED Retained by woven branches\n" + "TWINK a twinkling\n" + "TWIRE to peep, twinkle\n\n\n" + "UMBERED stained, dark, as with umber\n" + "UNANELED without extreme unction\n" + "UNAVOIDED unavoidable\n" + "UNBARBED untrimmed\n" + "UNBATED unblunted\n" + "UNBOLT to disclose\n" + "UNBOLTED unsifted, unrefined\n" + "UNBREATHED unpractised\n" + "UNCAPE to throw off the hounds\n" + "UNCHARGED undefended, applied to the gates of a city\n" + "UNCLEW to unravel, undo\n" + "UNCOINED unalloyed, unfeigned\n" + "UNDERGO to undertake\n" + "UNDERTAKER one who takes up another's quarrel\n" + "UNDER-WROUGHT undermined\n" + "UNEATH hardly\n" + "UNEXPRESSIVE inexpressible\n" + "UNFAIR to deprive of beauty\n" + "UNHAPPILY censoriously\n" + "UNHAPPY mischievous\n" + "UNHATCHED undisclosed\n" + "UNHOUSELED without receiving the sacrament\n" + "UNIMPROVED unreproved\n" + "UNION a pearl\n" + "UNJUST dishonest\n" + "UNKIND unnatural\n" + "UNLIVED bereft of life\n" + "UNMANNED untamed, applied to a hawk\n" + "UNOWED unowned\n" + "UNPREGNANT stupid\n" + "UNPROPER common to all\n" + "UNQUESTIONABLE not inquisitive\n" + "UNREADY undressed\n" + "UNRESPECTIVE inconsiderate\n" + "UNSISTING unresting\n" + "UNSTANCHED incontinent\n" + "UNTEMPERING unsoftening\n" + "UNTENTED unsearchable\n" + "UNTRADED unused, uncommon\n" + "UNTRIMMED spoiled of grace or ornament\n" + "UNTRUE untruth\n" + "UNVALUED invaluable\n" + "UPSPRING REEL a boisterous dance\n" + "URCHIN the hedge-hog\n" + "USANCE usury\n" + "USE interest\n" + "UTIS riotous merriment, which accompanied the eighth\n" + " day of a festival\n" + "UTTER to expel, put forth\n" + "UTTERANCE extremity\n\n\n" + "VADE to fade\n" + "VAIL to lower\n" + "VAILING lowering\n" + "VAINNESS vanity\n" + "VALANCED adorned with a valence or fringe; applied\n" + " to the beard\n" + "VALIDITY value\n" + "VANTAGE advantage\n" + "VANTBRACE armour for the front of the arm\n" + "VARLET a servant, valet\n" + "VAST properly a waste-place, metaphorically, the dead\n" + " of night\n" + " A gulf\n" + "VASTIDITY immensity\n" + "VASTLY like a waste\n" + "VASTY vast, waste\n" + "VAUNT the van, that which precedes\n" + "VAUNT-COURIERS forerunners\n" + "VAWARD the van, vanguard, advanced guard of an army\n" + " Hence, metaphorically, the first of anything\n" + "VEGETIVES herbs\n" + "VELURE velvet\n" + "VELVET-GUARDS literally, velvet trimmings; applied\n" + " metaphorically to the citizens who wore them\n" + "VENEW a bout in fencing, metaphorically applied to\n" + " repartee and sallies of wit\n" + "VENEY a bout at fencing\n" + "VENGE to avenge\n" + "VENTAGES holes in a flute or flageolet\n" + "VERBAL wordy\n" + "VERY true, real\n" + "VIA int. off with you! \n" + "VICE to screw\n" + "VICE the buffoon in the old morality plays\n" + "VIE to challenge; a term at cards\n" + " To play as for a wager\n" + "VIEWLESS invisible\n" + "VILLAIN a lowborn man\n" + "VINEWED mouldy\n" + "VIOL-DE-GAMBOYS a bass viol\n" + "VIRGINALLING playing as on the virginals, a kind of a\n" + " spinet\n" + "VIRTUE the essential excellence\n" + " valour\n" + "VIRTUOUS excellent\n" + " Endowed with virtues\n" + "VIZAMENT advisement\n" + "VOLUBLE fickle\n" + "VOLUNTARY volunteer\n" + "VOTARIST votary, one who has taken a vow\n" + "VULGAR the common people\n" + "VULGAR common\n" + "VULGARLY publicly\n\n\n" + "WAFT to wave, beckon\n" + " To turn\n" + "WAFTAGE passage\n" + "WAFTURE waving, beckoning\n" + "WAGE to reward as with wages\n" + "WAILFUL lamentable\n" + "WAIST the middle of a ship\n" + "WANNION 'with a vengeance.' \n" + "WAPPENED withered, overworn\n" + "WARD guard\n" + " Prison\n" + "WARDEN a large pear used for baking\n" + "WARDER truncheon\n" + "WARN to summon\n" + "WASSAIL a drinking bout\n" + " Festivity\n" + "WAT a familiar word for a hare\n" + "WATCH a watch light\n" + "WATCH to tame by keeping constantly awake\n" + "WATER-GALL a secondary rainbow\n" + "WATER-RUG a kind of dog\n" + "WATER-WORK painting in distemper\n" + "WAX to grow\n" + "WAXEN perhaps, to hiccough\n" + "WEALTH weal, advantage\n" + "WEAR fashion\n" + "WEATHER-FEND to defend from the weather\n" + "WEB AND PIN the cataract in the eye\n" + "WEE small, tiny\n" + "WEE to think\n" + "WEED garment\n" + "WEET to wit, know\n" + "WEIGH OUT to outweigh\n" + "WELKIN the sky\n" + "WELKIN sky-blue\n" + "WELL-LIKING in good condition\n" + "WELL SAID int. well done! \n" + "WEND to go\n" + "WESAND the wind-pipe\n" + "WHELK a weal\n" + "WHELKED marked with whelks or protuberances\n" + "WHEN an exclamation of impatience\n" + "WHEN AS when\n" + "WHERE whereas\n" + "WHERE a place\n" + "WHIFFLER an officer who clears the way in processions\n" + "WHILE-ERE a little while ago\n" + "WHILES until\n" + "WHIP-STOCK handle of a whip\n" + "WHIST hushed, silent\n" + "WHITE the centre of an archery butt\n" + "WHITELY pale-faced. A doubtful word\n" + "WHITING-TIME bleaching time\n" + "WHITSTER bleacher\n" + "WHITTLE a clasp knife\n" + "WHOO-BUB hubbub\n" + "WHOOP to cry out with astonishment\n" + "WICKED noisome, baneful\n" + "WIDOW to give a jointure to\n" + "WIDOWHOOD widow's jointure\n" + "WIGHT person\n" + "WILD weald\n" + "WILDERNESS wildness\n" + "WIMPLED veiled, hooded\n" + "WINDOW-BARS lattice-work across a woman's stomacher\n" + "WINDRING winding\n" + "WINTER-GROUND to protect (a plant) from frost\n" + "WIS in the compound 'I wis,' certainly\n" + "WISH to commend\n" + "WISTLY wistfully\n" + "WIT knowledge, wisdom\n" + "WITHOUT beyond\n" + "WITS five, the five senses\n" + "WITTOL a contented cuckold\n" + "WITTY intelligent\n" + "WOMAN-TIRED hen-pecked\n" + "WONDERED marvellously gifted\n" + "WOOD mad\n" + "WOODCOCK a simpleton\n" + "WOODMAN a forester, huntsman\n" + " A cant term for a wencher\n" + "WOOLWARD shirtless\n" + "WORD to flatter or put off with words\n" + " To repeat the words of a song\n" + "WORLD 'To go to the world' is to get married\n" + " So 'a woman of the world' is a married woman\n" + "WORM a serpent\n" + "WORSER worse\n" + "WORSHIP to honour\n" + "WORTH wealth, fortune\n" + "WORTS cabbages\n" + "WOT to know\n" + "WOUND twisted about\n" + "WREAK vengeance\n" + "WREAK to avenge\n" + "WREAKFUL revengeful, avenging\n" + "WREST an instrument used for tuning a harp\n" + "WRIT gospel, truth\n" + "WRITHLED shrivelled\n" + "WROTH calamity, misfortune\n" + "WRUNG twisted, strained\n" + "WRY to swerve\n\n" + "XANTHIPPE Socrate's scolding wife\n\n" + "YARE ready, being understood\n" + "YARELY readily\n" + "YAW out of control\n" + "Y-CLAD clad\n" + "Y-CLEPED called, named\n" + "YEARN to grieve, vex\n" + " \n" + "YELLOWNESS jealousy\n" + "YELLOWS a disease of horses\n" + "YEOMAN a sheriff's officer\n" + "YIELD to reward\n" + " To report\n" + "YOND and yonder\n" + "YOUNKER tyro\n\n\n" + "ZANY a clown, gull\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "CLAUDIUS king of Denmark. (KING CLAUDIUS:)\n\n" + "HAMLET son to the late, and nephew to the present king.\n\n" + "POLONIUS lord chamberlain. (LORD POLONIUS:)\n\n" + "HORATIO friend to Hamlet.\n\n" + "LAERTES son to Polonius.\n\n" + "LUCIANUS nephew to the king.\n\n\n" + "VOLTIMAND |\n" + " |\n" + "CORNELIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ | courtiers.\n" + " |\n" + "GUILDENSTERN |\n" + " |\n" + "OSRIC |\n\n\n" + " A Gentleman, (Gentlemen:)\n\n" + " A Priest. (First Priest:)\n\n\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n" + " | officers.\n" + "BERNARDO |\n\n\n" + "FRANCISCO a soldier.\n\n" + "REYNALDO servant to Polonius.\n" + " Players.\n" + " (First Player:)\n" + " (Player King:)\n" + " (Player Queen:)\n\n" + " Two Clowns, grave-diggers.\n" + " (First Clown:)\n" + " (Second Clown:)\n\n" + "FORTINBRAS prince of Norway. (PRINCE FORTINBRAS:)\n\n" + " A Captain.\n\n" + " English Ambassadors. (First Ambassador:)\n\n" + "GERTRUDE queen of Denmark, and mother to Hamlet.\n" + " (QUEEN GERTRUDE:)\n\n" + "OPHELIA daughter to Polonius.\n\n" + " Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Sailors, Messengers,\n" + " and other Attendants. (Lord:)\n" + " (First Sailor:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n" + " Ghost of Hamlet's Father. (Ghost:)\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE Denmark.\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Elsinore. A platform before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him BERNARDO]\n\n" + "BERNARDO Who's there?\n\n" + "FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand, and unfold yourself.\n\n" + "BERNARDO Long live the king!\n\n" + "FRANCISCO Bernardo?\n\n" + "BERNARDO He.\n\n" + "FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour.\n\n" + "BERNARDO 'Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.\n\n" + "FRANCISCO For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,\n" + " And I am sick at heart.\n\n" + "BERNARDO Have you had quiet guard?\n\n" + "FRANCISCO Not a mouse stirring.\n\n" + "BERNARDO Well, good night.\n" + " If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus,\n" + " The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.\n\n" + "FRANCISCO I think I hear them. Stand, ho! Who's there?\n\n" + " [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS]\n\n" + "HORATIO Friends to this ground.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS And liegemen to the Dane.\n\n" + "FRANCISCO Give you good night.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS O, farewell, honest soldier:\n" + " Who hath relieved you?\n\n" + "FRANCISCO Bernardo has my place.\n" + " Give you good night.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Holla! Bernardo!\n\n" + "BERNARDO Say,\n" + " What, is Horatio there?\n\n" + "HORATIO A piece of him.\n\n" + "BERNARDO Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS What, has this thing appear'd again to-night?\n\n" + "BERNARDO I have seen nothing.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,\n" + " And will not let belief take hold of him\n" + " Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us:\n" + " Therefore I have entreated him along\n" + " With us to watch the minutes of this night;\n" + " That if again this apparition come,\n" + " He may approve our eyes and speak to it.\n\n" + "HORATIO Tush, tush, 'twill not appear.\n\n" + "BERNARDO Sit down awhile;\n" + " And let us once again assail your ears,\n" + " That are so fortified against our story\n" + " What we have two nights seen.\n\n" + "HORATIO Well, sit we down,\n" + " And let us hear Bernardo speak of this.\n\n" + "BERNARDO Last night of all,\n" + " When yond same star that's westward from the pole\n" + " Had made his course to illume that part of heaven\n" + " Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself,\n" + " The bell then beating one,--\n\n" + " [Enter Ghost]\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Peace, break thee off; look, where it comes again!\n\n" + "BERNARDO In the same figure, like the king that's dead.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.\n\n" + "BERNARDO Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.\n\n" + "HORATIO Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.\n\n" + "BERNARDO It would be spoke to.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Question it, Horatio.\n\n" + "HORATIO What art thou that usurp'st this time of night,\n" + " Together with that fair and warlike form\n" + " In which the majesty of buried Denmark\n" + " Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge thee, speak!\n\n" + "MARCELLUS It is offended.\n\n" + "BERNARDO See, it stalks away!\n\n" + "HORATIO Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!\n\n" + " [Exit Ghost]\n\n" + "MARCELLUS 'Tis gone, and will not answer.\n\n" + "BERNARDO How now, Horatio! you tremble and look pale:\n" + " Is not this something more than fantasy?\n" + " What think you on't?\n\n" + "HORATIO Before my God, I might not this believe\n" + " Without the sensible and true avouch\n" + " Of mine own eyes.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Is it not like the king?\n\n" + "HORATIO As thou art to thyself:\n" + " Such was the very armour he had on\n" + " When he the ambitious Norway combated;\n" + " So frown'd he once, when, in an angry parle,\n" + " He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice.\n" + " 'Tis strange.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour,\n" + " With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.\n\n" + "HORATIO In what particular thought to work I know not;\n" + " But in the gross and scope of my opinion,\n" + " This bodes some strange eruption to our state.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,\n" + " Why this same strict and most observant watch\n" + " So nightly toils the subject of the land,\n" + " And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,\n" + " And foreign mart for implements of war;\n" + " Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task\n" + " Does not divide the Sunday from the week;\n" + " What might be toward, that this sweaty haste\n" + " Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day:\n" + " Who is't that can inform me?\n\n" + "HORATIO That can I;\n" + " At least, the whisper goes so. Our last king,\n" + " Whose image even but now appear'd to us,\n" + " Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway,\n" + " Thereto prick'd on by a most emulate pride,\n" + " Dared to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet--\n" + " For so this side of our known world esteem'd him--\n" + " Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal'd compact,\n" + " Well ratified by law and heraldry,\n" + " Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands\n" + " Which he stood seized of, to the conqueror:\n" + " Against the which, a moiety competent\n" + " Was gaged by our king; which had return'd\n" + " To the inheritance of Fortinbras,\n" + " Had he been vanquisher; as, by the same covenant,\n" + " And carriage of the article design'd,\n" + " His fell to Hamlet. Now, sir, young Fortinbras,\n" + " Of unimproved mettle hot and full,\n" + " Hath in the skirts of Norway here and there\n" + " Shark'd up a list of lawless resolutes,\n" + " For food and diet, to some enterprise\n" + " That hath a stomach in't; which is no other--\n" + " As it doth well appear unto our state--\n" + " But to recover of us, by strong hand\n" + " And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands\n" + " So by his father lost: and this, I take it,\n" + " Is the main motive of our preparations,\n" + " The source of this our watch and the chief head\n" + " Of this post-haste and romage in the land.\n\n" + "BERNARDO I think it be no other but e'en so:\n" + " Well may it sort that this portentous figure\n" + " Comes armed through our watch; so like the king\n" + " That was and is the question of these wars.\n\n" + "HORATIO A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.\n" + " In the most high and palmy state of Rome,\n" + " A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,\n" + " The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead\n" + " Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets:\n" + " As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,\n" + " Disasters in the sun; and the moist star\n" + " Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands\n" + " Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse:\n" + " And even the like precurse of fierce events,\n" + " As harbingers preceding still the fates\n" + " And prologue to the omen coming on,\n" + " Have heaven and earth together demonstrated\n" + " Unto our climatures and countrymen.--\n" + " But soft, behold! lo, where it comes again!\n\n" + " [Re-enter Ghost]\n\n" + " I'll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!\n" + " If thou hast any sound, or use of voice,\n" + " Speak to me:\n" + " If there be any good thing to be done,\n" + " That may to thee do ease and grace to me,\n" + " Speak to me:\n\n" + " [Cock crows]\n\n" + " If thou art privy to thy country's fate,\n" + " Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O, speak!\n" + " Or if thou hast uphoarded in thy life\n" + " Extorted treasure in the womb of earth,\n" + " For which, they say, you spirits oft walk in death,\n" + " Speak of it: stay, and speak! Stop it, Marcellus.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Shall I strike at it with my partisan?\n\n" + "HORATIO Do, if it will not stand.\n\n" + "BERNARDO 'Tis here!\n\n" + "HORATIO 'Tis here!\n\n" + "MARCELLUS 'Tis gone!\n\n" + " [Exit Ghost]\n\n" + " We do it wrong, being so majestical,\n" + " To offer it the show of violence;\n" + " For it is, as the air, invulnerable,\n" + " And our vain blows malicious mockery.\n\n" + "BERNARDO It was about to speak, when the cock crew.\n\n" + "HORATIO And then it started like a guilty thing\n" + " Upon a fearful summons. I have heard,\n" + " The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn,\n" + " Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat\n" + " Awake the god of day; and, at his warning,\n" + " Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air,\n" + " The extravagant and erring spirit hies\n" + " To his confine: and of the truth herein\n" + " This present object made probation.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock.\n" + " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes\n" + " Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,\n" + " The bird of dawning singeth all night long:\n" + " And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;\n" + " The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,\n" + " No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,\n" + " So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.\n\n" + "HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it.\n" + " But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,\n" + " Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill:\n" + " Break we our watch up; and by my advice,\n" + " Let us impart what we have seen to-night\n" + " Unto young Hamlet; for, upon my life,\n" + " This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him.\n" + " Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it,\n" + " As needful in our loves, fitting our duty?\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Let's do't, I pray; and I this morning know\n" + " Where we shall find him most conveniently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room of state in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, HAMLET,\n" + " POLONIUS, LAERTES, VOLTIMAND, CORNELIUS, Lords,\n" + " and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death\n" + " The memory be green, and that it us befitted\n" + " To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom\n" + " To be contracted in one brow of woe,\n" + " Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature\n" + " That we with wisest sorrow think on him,\n" + " Together with remembrance of ourselves.\n" + " Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,\n" + " The imperial jointress to this warlike state,\n" + " Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy,--\n" + " With an auspicious and a dropping eye,\n" + " With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage,\n" + " In equal scale weighing delight and dole,--\n" + " Taken to wife: nor have we herein barr'd\n" + " Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone\n" + " With this affair along. For all, our thanks.\n" + " Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,\n" + " Holding a weak supposal of our worth,\n" + " Or thinking by our late dear brother's death\n" + " Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,\n" + " Colleagued with the dream of his advantage,\n" + " He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,\n" + " Importing the surrender of those lands\n" + " Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,\n" + " To our most valiant brother. So much for him.\n" + " Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:\n" + " Thus much the business is: we have here writ\n" + " To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras,--\n" + " Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears\n" + " Of this his nephew's purpose,--to suppress\n" + " His further gait herein; in that the levies,\n" + " The lists and full proportions, are all made\n" + " Out of his subject: and we here dispatch\n" + " You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,\n" + " For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;\n" + " Giving to you no further personal power\n" + " To business with the king, more than the scope\n" + " Of these delated articles allow.\n" + " Farewell, and let your haste commend your duty.\n\n\n" + "CORNELIUS |\n" + " | In that and all things will we show our duty.\n" + "VOLTIMAND |\n\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS We doubt it nothing: heartily farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS]\n\n" + " And now, Laertes, what's the news with you?\n" + " You told us of some suit; what is't, Laertes?\n" + " You cannot speak of reason to the Dane,\n" + " And loose your voice: what wouldst thou beg, Laertes,\n" + " That shall not be my offer, not thy asking?\n" + " The head is not more native to the heart,\n" + " The hand more instrumental to the mouth,\n" + " Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father.\n" + " What wouldst thou have, Laertes?\n\n" + "LAERTES My dread lord,\n" + " Your leave and favour to return to France;\n" + " From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,\n" + " To show my duty in your coronation,\n" + " Yet now, I must confess, that duty done,\n" + " My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France\n" + " And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Have you your father's leave? What says Polonius?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS He hath, my lord, wrung from me my slow leave\n" + " By laboursome petition, and at last\n" + " Upon his will I seal'd my hard consent:\n" + " I do beseech you, give him leave to go.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,\n" + " And thy best graces spend it at thy will!\n" + " But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,--\n\n" + "HAMLET [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than kind.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you?\n\n" + "HAMLET Not so, my lord; I am too much i' the sun.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off,\n" + " And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark.\n" + " Do not for ever with thy vailed lids\n" + " Seek for thy noble father in the dust:\n" + " Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die,\n" + " Passing through nature to eternity.\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, madam, it is common.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE If it be,\n" + " Why seems it so particular with thee?\n\n" + "HAMLET Seems, madam! nay it is; I know not 'seems.'\n" + " 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,\n" + " Nor customary suits of solemn black,\n" + " Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,\n" + " No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,\n" + " Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,\n" + " Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,\n" + " That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,\n" + " For they are actions that a man might play:\n" + " But I have that within which passeth show;\n" + " These but the trappings and the suits of woe.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet,\n" + " To give these mourning duties to your father:\n" + " But, you must know, your father lost a father;\n" + " That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound\n" + " In filial obligation for some term\n" + " To do obsequious sorrow: but to persever\n" + " In obstinate condolement is a course\n" + " Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief;\n" + " It shows a will most incorrect to heaven,\n" + " A heart unfortified, a mind impatient,\n" + " An understanding simple and unschool'd:\n" + " For what we know must be and is as common\n" + " As any the most vulgar thing to sense,\n" + " Why should we in our peevish opposition\n" + " Take it to heart? Fie! 'tis a fault to heaven,\n" + " A fault against the dead, a fault to nature,\n" + " To reason most absurd: whose common theme\n" + " Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried,\n" + " From the first corse till he that died to-day,\n" + " 'This must be so.' We pray you, throw to earth\n" + " This unprevailing woe, and think of us\n" + " As of a father: for let the world take note,\n" + " You are the most immediate to our throne;\n" + " And with no less nobility of love\n" + " Than that which dearest father bears his son,\n" + " Do I impart toward you. For your intent\n" + " In going back to school in Wittenberg,\n" + " It is most retrograde to our desire:\n" + " And we beseech you, bend you to remain\n" + " Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye,\n" + " Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet:\n" + " I pray thee, stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.\n\n" + "HAMLET I shall in all my best obey you, madam.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Why, 'tis a loving and a fair reply:\n" + " Be as ourself in Denmark. Madam, come;\n" + " This gentle and unforced accord of Hamlet\n" + " Sits smiling to my heart: in grace whereof,\n" + " No jocund health that Denmark drinks to-day,\n" + " But the great cannon to the clouds shall tell,\n" + " And the king's rouse the heavens all bruit again,\n" + " Re-speaking earthly thunder. Come away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but HAMLET]\n\n" + "HAMLET O, that this too too solid flesh would melt\n" + " Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!\n" + " Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd\n" + " His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!\n" + " How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,\n" + " Seem to me all the uses of this world!\n" + " Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,\n" + " That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature\n" + " Possess it merely. That it should come to this!\n" + " But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:\n" + " So excellent a king; that was, to this,\n" + " Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother\n" + " That he might not beteem the winds of heaven\n" + " Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!\n" + " Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,\n" + " As if increase of appetite had grown\n" + " By what it fed on: and yet, within a month--\n" + " Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman!--\n" + " A little month, or ere those shoes were old\n" + " With which she follow'd my poor father's body,\n" + " Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she--\n" + " O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,\n" + " Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,\n" + " My father's brother, but no more like my father\n" + " Than I to Hercules: within a month:\n" + " Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears\n" + " Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,\n" + " She married. O, most wicked speed, to post\n" + " With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!\n" + " It is not nor it cannot come to good:\n" + " But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue.\n\n" + " [Enter HORATIO, MARCELLUS, and BERNARDO]\n\n" + "HORATIO Hail to your lordship!\n\n" + "HAMLET I am glad to see you well:\n" + " Horatio,--or I do forget myself.\n\n" + "HORATIO The same, my lord, and your poor servant ever.\n\n" + "HAMLET Sir, my good friend; I'll change that name with you:\n" + " And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? Marcellus?\n\n" + "MARCELLUS My good lord--\n\n" + "HAMLET I am very glad to see you. Good even, sir.\n" + " But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?\n\n" + "HORATIO A truant disposition, good my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET I would not hear your enemy say so,\n" + " Nor shall you do mine ear that violence,\n" + " To make it truster of your own report\n" + " Against yourself: I know you are no truant.\n" + " But what is your affair in Elsinore?\n" + " We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart.\n\n" + "HORATIO My lord, I came to see your father's funeral.\n\n" + "HAMLET I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student;\n" + " I think it was to see my mother's wedding.\n\n" + "HORATIO Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard upon.\n\n" + "HAMLET Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats\n" + " Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.\n" + " Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven\n" + " Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!\n" + " My father!--methinks I see my father.\n\n" + "HORATIO Where, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET In my mind's eye, Horatio.\n\n" + "HORATIO I saw him once; he was a goodly king.\n\n" + "HAMLET He was a man, take him for all in all,\n" + " I shall not look upon his like again.\n\n" + "HORATIO My lord, I think I saw him yesternight.\n\n" + "HAMLET Saw? who?\n\n" + "HORATIO My lord, the king your father.\n\n" + "HAMLET The king my father!\n\n" + "HORATIO Season your admiration for awhile\n" + " With an attent ear, till I may deliver,\n" + " Upon the witness of these gentlemen,\n" + " This marvel to you.\n\n" + "HAMLET For God's love, let me hear.\n\n" + "HORATIO Two nights together had these gentlemen,\n" + " Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch,\n" + " In the dead vast and middle of the night,\n" + " Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your father,\n" + " Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe,\n" + " Appears before them, and with solemn march\n" + " Goes slow and stately by them: thrice he walk'd\n" + " By their oppress'd and fear-surprised eyes,\n" + " Within his truncheon's length; whilst they, distilled\n" + " Almost to jelly with the act of fear,\n" + " Stand dumb and speak not to him. This to me\n" + " In dreadful secrecy impart they did;\n" + " And I with them the third night kept the watch;\n" + " Where, as they had deliver'd, both in time,\n" + " Form of the thing, each word made true and good,\n" + " The apparition comes: I knew your father;\n" + " These hands are not more like.\n\n" + "HAMLET But where was this?\n\n" + "MARCELLUS My lord, upon the platform where we watch'd.\n\n" + "HAMLET Did you not speak to it?\n\n" + "HORATIO My lord, I did;\n" + " But answer made it none: yet once methought\n" + " It lifted up its head and did address\n" + " Itself to motion, like as it would speak;\n" + " But even then the morning cock crew loud,\n" + " And at the sound it shrunk in haste away,\n" + " And vanish'd from our sight.\n\n" + "HAMLET 'Tis very strange.\n\n" + "HORATIO As I do live, my honour'd lord, 'tis true;\n" + " And we did think it writ down in our duty\n" + " To let you know of it.\n\n" + "HAMLET Indeed, indeed, sirs, but this troubles me.\n" + " Hold you the watch to-night?\n\n\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n" + " | We do, my lord.\n" + "BERNARDO |\n\n\n" + "HAMLET Arm'd, say you?\n\n\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n" + " | Arm'd, my lord.\n" + "BERNARDO |\n\n\n" + "HAMLET From top to toe?\n\n\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n" + " | My lord, from head to foot.\n" + "BERNARDO |\n\n\n" + "HAMLET Then saw you not his face?\n\n" + "HORATIO O, yes, my lord; he wore his beaver up.\n\n" + "HAMLET What, look'd he frowningly?\n\n" + "HORATIO A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.\n\n" + "HAMLET Pale or red?\n\n" + "HORATIO Nay, very pale.\n\n" + "HAMLET And fix'd his eyes upon you?\n\n" + "HORATIO Most constantly.\n\n" + "HAMLET I would I had been there.\n\n" + "HORATIO It would have much amazed you.\n\n" + "HAMLET Very like, very like. Stay'd it long?\n\n" + "HORATIO While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.\n\n\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n" + " | Longer, longer.\n" + "BERNARDO |\n\n\n" + "HORATIO Not when I saw't.\n\n" + "HAMLET His beard was grizzled--no?\n\n" + "HORATIO It was, as I have seen it in his life,\n" + " A sable silver'd.\n\n" + "HAMLET I will watch to-night;\n" + " Perchance 'twill walk again.\n\n" + "HORATIO I warrant it will.\n\n" + "HAMLET If it assume my noble father's person,\n" + " I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape\n" + " And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,\n" + " If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight,\n" + " Let it be tenable in your silence still;\n" + " And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,\n" + " Give it an understanding, but no tongue:\n" + " I will requite your loves. So, fare you well:\n" + " Upon the platform, 'twixt eleven and twelve,\n" + " I'll visit you.\n\n" + "All Our duty to your honour.\n\n" + "HAMLET Your loves, as mine to you: farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but HAMLET]\n\n" + " My father's spirit in arms! all is not well;\n" + " I doubt some foul play: would the night were come!\n" + " Till then sit still, my soul: foul deeds will rise,\n" + " Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in Polonius' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LAERTES and OPHELIA]\n\n" + "LAERTES My necessaries are embark'd: farewell:\n" + " And, sister, as the winds give benefit\n" + " And convoy is assistant, do not sleep,\n" + " But let me hear from you.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Do you doubt that?\n\n" + "LAERTES For Hamlet and the trifling of his favour,\n" + " Hold it a fashion and a toy in blood,\n" + " A violet in the youth of primy nature,\n" + " Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,\n" + " The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.\n\n" + "OPHELIA No more but so?\n\n" + "LAERTES Think it no more;\n" + " For nature, crescent, does not grow alone\n" + " In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,\n" + " The inward service of the mind and soul\n" + " Grows wide withal. Perhaps he loves you now,\n" + " And now no soil nor cautel doth besmirch\n" + " The virtue of his will: but you must fear,\n" + " His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own;\n" + " For he himself is subject to his birth:\n" + " He may not, as unvalued persons do,\n" + " Carve for himself; for on his choice depends\n" + " The safety and health of this whole state;\n" + " And therefore must his choice be circumscribed\n" + " Unto the voice and yielding of that body\n" + " Whereof he is the head. Then if he says he loves you,\n" + " It fits your wisdom so far to believe it\n" + " As he in his particular act and place\n" + " May give his saying deed; which is no further\n" + " Than the main voice of Denmark goes withal.\n" + " Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain,\n" + " If with too credent ear you list his songs,\n" + " Or lose your heart, or your chaste treasure open\n" + " To his unmaster'd importunity.\n" + " Fear it, Ophelia, fear it, my dear sister,\n" + " And keep you in the rear of your affection,\n" + " Out of the shot and danger of desire.\n" + " The chariest maid is prodigal enough,\n" + " If she unmask her beauty to the moon:\n" + " Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes:\n" + " The canker galls the infants of the spring,\n" + " Too oft before their buttons be disclosed,\n" + " And in the morn and liquid dew of youth\n" + " Contagious blastments are most imminent.\n" + " Be wary then; best safety lies in fear:\n" + " Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.\n\n" + "OPHELIA I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,\n" + " As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother,\n" + " Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,\n" + " Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;\n" + " Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,\n" + " Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,\n" + " And recks not his own rede.\n\n" + "LAERTES O, fear me not.\n" + " I stay too long: but here my father comes.\n\n" + " [Enter POLONIUS]\n\n" + " A double blessing is a double grace,\n" + " Occasion smiles upon a second leave.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame!\n" + " The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,\n" + " And you are stay'd for. There; my blessing with thee!\n" + " And these few precepts in thy memory\n" + " See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,\n" + " Nor any unproportioned thought his act.\n" + " Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.\n" + " Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,\n" + " Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;\n" + " But do not dull thy palm with entertainment\n" + " Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware\n" + " Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,\n" + " Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.\n" + " Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;\n" + " Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.\n" + " Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,\n" + " But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;\n" + " For the apparel oft proclaims the man,\n" + " And they in France of the best rank and station\n" + " Are of a most select and generous chief in that.\n" + " Neither a borrower nor a lender be;\n" + " For loan oft loses both itself and friend,\n" + " And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.\n" + " This above all: to thine ownself be true,\n" + " And it must follow, as the night the day,\n" + " Thou canst not then be false to any man.\n" + " Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!\n\n" + "LAERTES Most humbly do I take my leave, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS The time invites you; go; your servants tend.\n\n" + "LAERTES Farewell, Ophelia; and remember well\n" + " What I have said to you.\n\n" + "OPHELIA 'Tis in my memory lock'd,\n" + " And you yourself shall keep the key of it.\n\n" + "LAERTES Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS What is't, Ophelia, be hath said to you?\n\n" + "OPHELIA So please you, something touching the Lord Hamlet.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Marry, well bethought:\n" + " 'Tis told me, he hath very oft of late\n" + " Given private time to you; and you yourself\n" + " Have of your audience been most free and bounteous:\n" + " If it be so, as so 'tis put on me,\n" + " And that in way of caution, I must tell you,\n" + " You do not understand yourself so clearly\n" + " As it behoves my daughter and your honour.\n" + " What is between you? give me up the truth.\n\n" + "OPHELIA He hath, my lord, of late made many tenders\n" + " Of his affection to me.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Affection! pooh! you speak like a green girl,\n" + " Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.\n" + " Do you believe his tenders, as you call them?\n\n" + "OPHELIA I do not know, my lord, what I should think.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Marry, I'll teach you: think yourself a baby;\n" + " That you have ta'en these tenders for true pay,\n" + " Which are not sterling. Tender yourself more dearly;\n" + " Or--not to crack the wind of the poor phrase,\n" + " Running it thus--you'll tender me a fool.\n\n" + "OPHELIA My lord, he hath importuned me with love\n" + " In honourable fashion.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Ay, fashion you may call it; go to, go to.\n\n" + "OPHELIA And hath given countenance to his speech, my lord,\n" + " With almost all the holy vows of heaven.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know,\n" + " When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul\n" + " Lends the tongue vows: these blazes, daughter,\n" + " Giving more light than heat, extinct in both,\n" + " Even in their promise, as it is a-making,\n" + " You must not take for fire. From this time\n" + " Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence;\n" + " Set your entreatments at a higher rate\n" + " Than a command to parley. For Lord Hamlet,\n" + " Believe so much in him, that he is young\n" + " And with a larger tether may he walk\n" + " Than may be given you: in few, Ophelia,\n" + " Do not believe his vows; for they are brokers,\n" + " Not of that dye which their investments show,\n" + " But mere implorators of unholy suits,\n" + " Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds,\n" + " The better to beguile. This is for all:\n" + " I would not, in plain terms, from this time forth,\n" + " Have you so slander any moment leisure,\n" + " As to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet.\n" + " Look to't, I charge you: come your ways.\n\n" + "OPHELIA I shall obey, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The platform.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET, HORATIO, and MARCELLUS]\n\n" + "HAMLET The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold.\n\n" + "HORATIO It is a nipping and an eager air.\n\n" + "HAMLET What hour now?\n\n" + "HORATIO I think it lacks of twelve.\n\n" + "HAMLET No, it is struck.\n\n" + "HORATIO Indeed? I heard it not: then it draws near the season\n" + " Wherein the spirit held his wont to walk.\n\n" + " [A flourish of trumpets, and ordnance shot off, within]\n\n" + " What does this mean, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET The king doth wake to-night and takes his rouse,\n" + " Keeps wassail, and the swaggering up-spring reels;\n" + " And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,\n" + " The kettle-drum and trumpet thus bray out\n" + " The triumph of his pledge.\n\n" + "HORATIO Is it a custom?\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, marry, is't:\n" + " But to my mind, though I am native here\n" + " And to the manner born, it is a custom\n" + " More honour'd in the breach than the observance.\n" + " This heavy-headed revel east and west\n" + " Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:\n" + " They clepe us drunkards, and with swinish phrase\n" + " Soil our addition; and indeed it takes\n" + " From our achievements, though perform'd at height,\n" + " The pith and marrow of our attribute.\n" + " So, oft it chances in particular men,\n" + " That for some vicious mole of nature in them,\n" + " As, in their birth--wherein they are not guilty,\n" + " Since nature cannot choose his origin--\n" + " By the o'ergrowth of some complexion,\n" + " Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason,\n" + " Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens\n" + " The form of plausive manners, that these men,\n" + " Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect,\n" + " Being nature's livery, or fortune's star,--\n" + " Their virtues else--be they as pure as grace,\n" + " As infinite as man may undergo--\n" + " Shall in the general censure take corruption\n" + " From that particular fault: the dram of eale\n" + " Doth all the noble substance of a doubt\n" + " To his own scandal.\n\n" + "HORATIO Look, my lord, it comes!\n\n" + " [Enter Ghost]\n\n" + "HAMLET Angels and ministers of grace defend us!\n" + " Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,\n" + " Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,\n" + " Be thy intents wicked or charitable,\n" + " Thou comest in such a questionable shape\n" + " That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,\n" + " King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!\n" + " Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell\n" + " Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,\n" + " Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,\n" + " Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,\n" + " Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,\n" + " To cast thee up again. What may this mean,\n" + " That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel\n" + " Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,\n" + " Making night hideous; and we fools of nature\n" + " So horridly to shake our disposition\n" + " With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?\n" + " Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?\n\n" + " [Ghost beckons HAMLET]\n\n" + "HORATIO It beckons you to go away with it,\n" + " As if it some impartment did desire\n" + " To you alone.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Look, with what courteous action\n" + " It waves you to a more removed ground:\n" + " But do not go with it.\n\n" + "HORATIO No, by no means.\n\n" + "HAMLET It will not speak; then I will follow it.\n\n" + "HORATIO Do not, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, what should be the fear?\n" + " I do not set my life in a pin's fee;\n" + " And for my soul, what can it do to that,\n" + " Being a thing immortal as itself?\n" + " It waves me forth again: I'll follow it.\n\n" + "HORATIO What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord,\n" + " Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff\n" + " That beetles o'er his base into the sea,\n" + " And there assume some other horrible form,\n" + " Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason\n" + " And draw you into madness? think of it:\n" + " The very place puts toys of desperation,\n" + " Without more motive, into every brain\n" + " That looks so many fathoms to the sea\n" + " And hears it roar beneath.\n\n" + "HAMLET It waves me still.\n" + " Go on; I'll follow thee.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS You shall not go, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Hold off your hands.\n\n" + "HORATIO Be ruled; you shall not go.\n\n" + "HAMLET My fate cries out,\n" + " And makes each petty artery in this body\n" + " As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.\n" + " Still am I call'd. Unhand me, gentlemen.\n" + " By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me!\n" + " I say, away! Go on; I'll follow thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Ghost and HAMLET]\n\n" + "HORATIO He waxes desperate with imagination.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him.\n\n" + "HORATIO Have after. To what issue will this come?\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.\n\n" + "HORATIO Heaven will direct it.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Nay, let's follow him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the platform.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GHOST and HAMLET]\n\n" + "HAMLET Where wilt thou lead me? speak; I'll go no further.\n\n" + "Ghost Mark me.\n\n" + "HAMLET I will.\n\n" + "Ghost My hour is almost come,\n" + " When I to sulphurous and tormenting flames\n" + " Must render up myself.\n\n" + "HAMLET Alas, poor ghost!\n\n" + "Ghost Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing\n" + " To what I shall unfold.\n\n" + "HAMLET Speak; I am bound to hear.\n\n" + "Ghost So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear.\n\n" + "HAMLET What?\n\n" + "Ghost I am thy father's spirit,\n" + " Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night,\n" + " And for the day confined to fast in fires,\n" + " Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature\n" + " Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid\n" + " To tell the secrets of my prison-house,\n" + " I could a tale unfold whose lightest word\n" + " Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,\n" + " Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,\n" + " Thy knotted and combined locks to part\n" + " And each particular hair to stand on end,\n" + " Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:\n" + " But this eternal blazon must not be\n" + " To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list!\n" + " If thou didst ever thy dear father love--\n\n" + "HAMLET O God!\n\n" + "Ghost Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.\n\n" + "HAMLET Murder!\n\n" + "Ghost Murder most foul, as in the best it is;\n" + " But this most foul, strange and unnatural.\n\n" + "HAMLET Haste me to know't, that I, with wings as swift\n" + " As meditation or the thoughts of love,\n" + " May sweep to my revenge.\n\n" + "Ghost I find thee apt;\n" + " And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed\n" + " That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf,\n" + " Wouldst thou not stir in this. Now, Hamlet, hear:\n" + " 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard,\n" + " A serpent stung me; so the whole ear of Denmark\n" + " Is by a forged process of my death\n" + " Rankly abused: but know, thou noble youth,\n" + " The serpent that did sting thy father's life\n" + " Now wears his crown.\n\n" + "HAMLET O my prophetic soul! My uncle!\n\n" + "Ghost Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,\n" + " With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts,--\n" + " O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power\n" + " So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust\n" + " The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen:\n" + " O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!\n" + " From me, whose love was of that dignity\n" + " That it went hand in hand even with the vow\n" + " I made to her in marriage, and to decline\n" + " Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor\n" + " To those of mine!\n" + " But virtue, as it never will be moved,\n" + " Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven,\n" + " So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd,\n" + " Will sate itself in a celestial bed,\n" + " And prey on garbage.\n" + " But, soft! methinks I scent the morning air;\n" + " Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard,\n" + " My custom always of the afternoon,\n" + " Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole,\n" + " With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial,\n" + " And in the porches of my ears did pour\n" + " The leperous distilment; whose effect\n" + " Holds such an enmity with blood of man\n" + " That swift as quicksilver it courses through\n" + " The natural gates and alleys of the body,\n" + " And with a sudden vigour doth posset\n" + " And curd, like eager droppings into milk,\n" + " The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine;\n" + " And a most instant tetter bark'd about,\n" + " Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust,\n" + " All my smooth body.\n" + " Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand\n" + " Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:\n" + " Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin,\n" + " Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd,\n" + " No reckoning made, but sent to my account\n" + " With all my imperfections on my head:\n" + " O, horrible! O, horrible! most horrible!\n" + " If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not;\n" + " Let not the royal bed of Denmark be\n" + " A couch for luxury and damned incest.\n" + " But, howsoever thou pursuest this act,\n" + " Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive\n" + " Against thy mother aught: leave her to heaven\n" + " And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,\n" + " To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once!\n" + " The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,\n" + " And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire:\n" + " Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HAMLET O all you host of heaven! O earth! what else?\n" + " And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart;\n" + " And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,\n" + " But bear me stiffly up. Remember thee!\n" + " Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat\n" + " In this distracted globe. Remember thee!\n" + " Yea, from the table of my memory\n" + " I'll wipe away all trivial fond records,\n" + " All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,\n" + " That youth and observation copied there;\n" + " And thy commandment all alone shall live\n" + " Within the book and volume of my brain,\n" + " Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!\n" + " O most pernicious woman!\n" + " O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!\n" + " My tables,--meet it is I set it down,\n" + " That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain;\n" + " At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark:\n\n" + " [Writing]\n\n" + " So, uncle, there you are. Now to my word;\n" + " It is 'Adieu, adieu! remember me.'\n" + " I have sworn 't.\n\n\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n" + " | [Within] My lord, my lord,--\n" + "HORATIO |\n\n\n" + "MARCELLUS [Within] Lord Hamlet,--\n\n" + "HORATIO [Within] Heaven secure him!\n\n" + "HAMLET So be it!\n\n" + "HORATIO [Within] Hillo, ho, ho, my lord!\n\n" + "HAMLET Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come.\n\n" + " [Enter HORATIO and MARCELLUS]\n\n" + "MARCELLUS How is't, my noble lord?\n\n" + "HORATIO What news, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET O, wonderful!\n\n" + "HORATIO Good my lord, tell it.\n\n" + "HAMLET No; you'll reveal it.\n\n" + "HORATIO Not I, my lord, by heaven.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET How say you, then; would heart of man once think it?\n" + " But you'll be secret?\n\n\n" + "HORATIO |\n" + " | Ay, by heaven, my lord.\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n\n\n" + "HAMLET There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark\n" + " But he's an arrant knave.\n\n" + "HORATIO There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave\n" + " To tell us this.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, right; you are i' the right;\n" + " And so, without more circumstance at all,\n" + " I hold it fit that we shake hands and part:\n" + " You, as your business and desire shall point you;\n" + " For every man has business and desire,\n" + " Such as it is; and for mine own poor part,\n" + " Look you, I'll go pray.\n\n" + "HORATIO These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET I'm sorry they offend you, heartily;\n" + " Yes, 'faith heartily.\n\n" + "HORATIO There's no offence, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio,\n" + " And much offence too. Touching this vision here,\n" + " It is an honest ghost, that let me tell you:\n" + " For your desire to know what is between us,\n" + " O'ermaster 't as you may. And now, good friends,\n" + " As you are friends, scholars and soldiers,\n" + " Give me one poor request.\n\n" + "HORATIO What is't, my lord? we will.\n\n" + "HAMLET Never make known what you have seen to-night.\n\n\n" + "HORATIO |\n" + " | My lord, we will not.\n" + "MARCELLUS |\n\n\n" + "HAMLET Nay, but swear't.\n\n" + "HORATIO In faith,\n" + " My lord, not I.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS Nor I, my lord, in faith.\n\n" + "HAMLET Upon my sword.\n\n" + "MARCELLUS We have sworn, my lord, already.\n\n" + "HAMLET Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.\n\n" + "Ghost [Beneath] Swear.\n\n" + "HAMLET Ah, ha, boy! say'st thou so? art thou there,\n" + " truepenny?\n" + " Come on--you hear this fellow in the cellarage--\n" + " Consent to swear.\n\n" + "HORATIO Propose the oath, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Never to speak of this that you have seen,\n" + " Swear by my sword.\n\n" + "Ghost [Beneath] Swear.\n\n" + "HAMLET Hic et ubique? then we'll shift our ground.\n" + " Come hither, gentlemen,\n" + " And lay your hands again upon my sword:\n" + " Never to speak of this that you have heard,\n" + " Swear by my sword.\n\n" + "Ghost [Beneath] Swear.\n\n" + "HAMLET Well said, old mole! canst work i' the earth so fast?\n" + " A worthy pioner! Once more remove, good friends.\n\n" + "HORATIO O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!\n\n" + "HAMLET And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.\n" + " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,\n" + " Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. But come;\n" + " Here, as before, never, so help you mercy,\n" + " How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself,\n" + " As I perchance hereafter shall think meet\n" + " To put an antic disposition on,\n" + " That you, at such times seeing me, never shall,\n" + " With arms encumber'd thus, or this headshake,\n" + " Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase,\n" + " As 'Well, well, we know,' or 'We could, an if we would,'\n" + " Or 'If we list to speak,' or 'There be, an if they might,'\n" + " Or such ambiguous giving out, to note\n" + " That you know aught of me: this not to do,\n" + " So grace and mercy at your most need help you, Swear.\n\n" + "Ghost [Beneath] Swear.\n\n" + "HAMLET Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!\n\n" + " [They swear]\n\n" + " So, gentlemen,\n" + " With all my love I do commend me to you:\n" + " And what so poor a man as Hamlet is\n" + " May do, to express his love and friending to you,\n" + " God willing, shall not lack. Let us go in together;\n" + " And still your fingers on your lips, I pray.\n" + " The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,\n" + " That ever I was born to set it right!\n" + " Nay, come, let's go together.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in POLONIUS' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Give him this money and these notes, Reynaldo.\n\n" + "REYNALDO I will, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS You shall do marvellous wisely, good Reynaldo,\n" + " Before you visit him, to make inquire\n" + " Of his behavior.\n\n" + "REYNALDO My lord, I did intend it.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Marry, well said; very well said. Look you, sir,\n" + " Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris;\n" + " And how, and who, what means, and where they keep,\n" + " What company, at what expense; and finding\n" + " By this encompassment and drift of question\n" + " That they do know my son, come you more nearer\n" + " Than your particular demands will touch it:\n" + " Take you, as 'twere, some distant knowledge of him;\n" + " As thus, 'I know his father and his friends,\n" + " And in part him: ' do you mark this, Reynaldo?\n\n" + "REYNALDO Ay, very well, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS 'And in part him; but' you may say 'not well:\n" + " But, if't be he I mean, he's very wild;\n" + " Addicted so and so:' and there put on him\n" + " What forgeries you please; marry, none so rank\n" + " As may dishonour him; take heed of that;\n" + " But, sir, such wanton, wild and usual slips\n" + " As are companions noted and most known\n" + " To youth and liberty.\n\n" + "REYNALDO As gaming, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Ay, or drinking, fencing, swearing, quarrelling,\n" + " Drabbing: you may go so far.\n\n" + "REYNALDO My lord, that would dishonour him.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS 'Faith, no; as you may season it in the charge\n" + " You must not put another scandal on him,\n" + " That he is open to incontinency;\n" + " That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly\n" + " That they may seem the taints of liberty,\n" + " The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,\n" + " A savageness in unreclaimed blood,\n" + " Of general assault.\n\n" + "REYNALDO But, my good lord,--\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Wherefore should you do this?\n\n" + "REYNALDO Ay, my lord,\n" + " I would know that.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Marry, sir, here's my drift;\n" + " And I believe, it is a fetch of wit:\n" + " You laying these slight sullies on my son,\n" + " As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you,\n" + " Your party in converse, him you would sound,\n" + " Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes\n" + " The youth you breathe of guilty, be assured\n" + " He closes with you in this consequence;\n" + " 'Good sir,' or so, or 'friend,' or 'gentleman,'\n" + " According to the phrase or the addition\n" + " Of man and country.\n\n" + "REYNALDO Very good, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS And then, sir, does he this--he does--what was I\n" + " about to say? By the mass, I was about to say\n" + " something: where did I leave?\n\n" + "REYNALDO At 'closes in the consequence,' at 'friend or so,'\n" + " and 'gentleman.'\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS At 'closes in the consequence,' ay, marry;\n" + " He closes thus: 'I know the gentleman;\n" + " I saw him yesterday, or t' other day,\n" + " Or then, or then; with such, or such; and, as you say,\n" + " There was a' gaming; there o'ertook in's rouse;\n" + " There falling out at tennis:' or perchance,\n" + " 'I saw him enter such a house of sale,'\n" + " Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth.\n" + " See you now;\n" + " Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth:\n" + " And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,\n" + " With windlasses and with assays of bias,\n" + " By indirections find directions out:\n" + " So by my former lecture and advice,\n" + " Shall you my son. You have me, have you not?\n\n" + "REYNALDO My lord, I have.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS God be wi' you; fare you well.\n\n" + "REYNALDO Good my lord!\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Observe his inclination in yourself.\n\n" + "REYNALDO I shall, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS And let him ply his music.\n\n" + "REYNALDO Well, my lord.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Farewell!\n\n" + " [Exit REYNALDO]\n\n" + " [Enter OPHELIA]\n\n" + " How now, Ophelia! what's the matter?\n\n" + "OPHELIA O, my lord, my lord, I have been so affrighted!\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS With what, i' the name of God?\n\n" + "OPHELIA My lord, as I was sewing in my closet,\n" + " Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced;\n" + " No hat upon his head; his stockings foul'd,\n" + " Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle;\n" + " Pale as his shirt; his knees knocking each other;\n" + " And with a look so piteous in purport\n" + " As if he had been loosed out of hell\n" + " To speak of horrors,--he comes before me.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Mad for thy love?\n\n" + "OPHELIA My lord, I do not know;\n" + " But truly, I do fear it.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS What said he?\n\n" + "OPHELIA He took me by the wrist and held me hard;\n" + " Then goes he to the length of all his arm;\n" + " And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow,\n" + " He falls to such perusal of my face\n" + " As he would draw it. Long stay'd he so;\n" + " At last, a little shaking of mine arm\n" + " And thrice his head thus waving up and down,\n" + " He raised a sigh so piteous and profound\n" + " As it did seem to shatter all his bulk\n" + " And end his being: that done, he lets me go:\n" + " And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd,\n" + " He seem'd to find his way without his eyes;\n" + " For out o' doors he went without their helps,\n" + " And, to the last, bended their light on me.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Come, go with me: I will go seek the king.\n" + " This is the very ecstasy of love,\n" + " Whose violent property fordoes itself\n" + " And leads the will to desperate undertakings\n" + " As oft as any passion under heaven\n" + " That does afflict our natures. I am sorry.\n" + " What, have you given him any hard words of late?\n\n" + "OPHELIA No, my good lord, but, as you did command,\n" + " I did repel his fetters and denied\n" + " His access to me.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS That hath made him mad.\n" + " I am sorry that with better heed and judgment\n" + " I had not quoted him: I fear'd he did but trifle,\n" + " And meant to wreck thee; but, beshrew my jealousy!\n" + " By heaven, it is as proper to our age\n" + " To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions\n" + " As it is common for the younger sort\n" + " To lack discretion. Come, go we to the king:\n" + " This must be known; which, being kept close, might\n" + " move\n" + " More grief to hide than hate to utter love.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ,\n" + " GUILDENSTERN, and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern!\n" + " Moreover that we much did long to see you,\n" + " The need we have to use you did provoke\n" + " Our hasty sending. Something have you heard\n" + " Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it,\n" + " Sith nor the exterior nor the inward man\n" + " Resembles that it was. What it should be,\n" + " More than his father's death, that thus hath put him\n" + " So much from the understanding of himself,\n" + " I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,\n" + " That, being of so young days brought up with him,\n" + " And sith so neighbour'd to his youth and havior,\n" + " That you vouchsafe your rest here in our court\n" + " Some little time: so by your companies\n" + " To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,\n" + " So much as from occasion you may glean,\n" + " Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,\n" + " That, open'd, lies within our remedy.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Good gentlemen, he hath much talk'd of you;\n" + " And sure I am two men there are not living\n" + " To whom he more adheres. If it will please you\n" + " To show us so much gentry and good will\n" + " As to expend your time with us awhile,\n" + " For the supply and profit of our hope,\n" + " Your visitation shall receive such thanks\n" + " As fits a king's remembrance.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Both your majesties\n" + " Might, by the sovereign power you have of us,\n" + " Put your dread pleasures more into command\n" + " Than to entreaty.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN But we both obey,\n" + " And here give up ourselves, in the full bent\n" + " To lay our service freely at your feet,\n" + " To be commanded.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz:\n" + " And I beseech you instantly to visit\n" + " My too much changed son. Go, some of you,\n" + " And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Heavens make our presence and our practises\n" + " Pleasant and helpful to him!\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay, amen!\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and some\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + " [Enter POLONIUS]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS The ambassadors from Norway, my good lord,\n" + " Are joyfully return'd.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Thou still hast been the father of good news.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege,\n" + " I hold my duty, as I hold my soul,\n" + " Both to my God and to my gracious king:\n" + " And I do think, or else this brain of mine\n" + " Hunts not the trail of policy so sure\n" + " As it hath used to do, that I have found\n" + " The very cause of Hamlet's lunacy.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS O, speak of that; that do I long to hear.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Give first admittance to the ambassadors;\n" + " My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Thyself do grace to them, and bring them in.\n\n" + " [Exit POLONIUS]\n\n" + " He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found\n" + " The head and source of all your son's distemper.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE I doubt it is no other but the main;\n" + " His father's death, and our o'erhasty marriage.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Well, we shall sift him.\n\n" + " [Re-enter POLONIUS, with VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS]\n\n" + " Welcome, my good friends!\n" + " Say, Voltimand, what from our brother Norway?\n\n" + "VOLTIMAND Most fair return of greetings and desires.\n" + " Upon our first, he sent out to suppress\n" + " His nephew's levies; which to him appear'd\n" + " To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack;\n" + " But, better look'd into, he truly found\n" + " It was against your highness: whereat grieved,\n" + " That so his sickness, age and impotence\n" + " Was falsely borne in hand, sends out arrests\n" + " On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys;\n" + " Receives rebuke from Norway, and in fine\n" + " Makes vow before his uncle never more\n" + " To give the assay of arms against your majesty.\n" + " Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,\n" + " Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee,\n" + " And his commission to employ those soldiers,\n" + " So levied as before, against the Polack:\n" + " With an entreaty, herein further shown,\n\n" + " [Giving a paper]\n\n" + " That it might please you to give quiet pass\n" + " Through your dominions for this enterprise,\n" + " On such regards of safety and allowance\n" + " As therein are set down.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS It likes us well;\n" + " And at our more consider'd time well read,\n" + " Answer, and think upon this business.\n" + " Meantime we thank you for your well-took labour:\n" + " Go to your rest; at night we'll feast together:\n" + " Most welcome home!\n\n" + " [Exeunt VOLTIMAND and CORNELIUS]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS This business is well ended.\n" + " My liege, and madam, to expostulate\n" + " What majesty should be, what duty is,\n" + " Why day is day, night night, and time is time,\n" + " Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.\n" + " Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,\n" + " And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,\n" + " I will be brief: your noble son is mad:\n" + " Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,\n" + " What is't but to be nothing else but mad?\n" + " But let that go.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE More matter, with less art.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Madam, I swear I use no art at all.\n" + " That he is mad, 'tis true: 'tis true 'tis pity;\n" + " And pity 'tis 'tis true: a foolish figure;\n" + " But farewell it, for I will use no art.\n" + " Mad let us grant him, then: and now remains\n" + " That we find out the cause of this effect,\n" + " Or rather say, the cause of this defect,\n" + " For this effect defective comes by cause:\n" + " Thus it remains, and the remainder thus. Perpend.\n" + " I have a daughter--have while she is mine--\n" + " Who, in her duty and obedience, mark,\n" + " Hath given me this: now gather, and surmise.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'To the celestial and my soul's idol, the most\n" + " beautified Ophelia,'--\n" + " That's an ill phrase, a vile phrase; 'beautified' is\n" + " a vile phrase: but you shall hear. Thus:\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'In her excellent white bosom, these, &c.'\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Came this from Hamlet to her?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Good madam, stay awhile; I will be faithful.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Doubt thou the stars are fire;\n" + " Doubt that the sun doth move;\n" + " Doubt truth to be a liar;\n" + " But never doubt I love.\n" + " 'O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers;\n" + " I have not art to reckon my groans: but that\n" + " I love thee best, O most best, believe it. Adieu.\n" + " 'Thine evermore most dear lady, whilst\n" + " this machine is to him, HAMLET.'\n" + " This, in obedience, hath my daughter shown me,\n" + " And more above, hath his solicitings,\n" + " As they fell out by time, by means and place,\n" + " All given to mine ear.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS But how hath she\n" + " Received his love?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS What do you think of me?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS As of a man faithful and honourable.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS I would fain prove so. But what might you think,\n" + " When I had seen this hot love on the wing--\n" + " As I perceived it, I must tell you that,\n" + " Before my daughter told me--what might you,\n" + " Or my dear majesty your queen here, think,\n" + " If I had play'd the desk or table-book,\n" + " Or given my heart a winking, mute and dumb,\n" + " Or look'd upon this love with idle sight;\n" + " What might you think? No, I went round to work,\n" + " And my young mistress thus I did bespeak:\n" + " 'Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star;\n" + " This must not be:' and then I precepts gave her,\n" + " That she should lock herself from his resort,\n" + " Admit no messengers, receive no tokens.\n" + " Which done, she took the fruits of my advice;\n" + " And he, repulsed--a short tale to make--\n" + " Fell into a sadness, then into a fast,\n" + " Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,\n" + " Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension,\n" + " Into the madness wherein now he raves,\n" + " And all we mourn for.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Do you think 'tis this?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE It may be, very likely.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Hath there been such a time--I'd fain know that--\n" + " That I have positively said 'Tis so,'\n" + " When it proved otherwise?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Not that I know.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS [Pointing to his head and shoulder]\n\n" + " Take this from this, if this be otherwise:\n" + " If circumstances lead me, I will find\n" + " Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed\n" + " Within the centre.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS How may we try it further?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS You know, sometimes he walks four hours together\n" + " Here in the lobby.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE So he does indeed.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him:\n" + " Be you and I behind an arras then;\n" + " Mark the encounter: if he love her not\n" + " And be not from his reason fall'n thereon,\n" + " Let me be no assistant for a state,\n" + " But keep a farm and carters.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS We will try it.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE But, look, where sadly the poor wretch comes reading.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Away, I do beseech you, both away:\n" + " I'll board him presently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET, reading]\n\n" + " O, give me leave:\n" + " How does my good Lord Hamlet?\n\n" + "HAMLET Well, God-a-mercy.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Do you know me, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Not I, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Then I would you were so honest a man.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Honest, my lord!\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be\n" + " one man picked out of ten thousand.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS That's very true, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a\n" + " god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS I have, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Let her not walk i' the sun: conception is a\n" + " blessing: but not as your daughter may conceive.\n" + " Friend, look to 't.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS [Aside] How say you by that? Still harping on my\n" + " daughter: yet he knew me not at first; he said I\n" + " was a fishmonger: he is far gone, far gone: and\n" + " truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for\n" + " love; very near this. I'll speak to him again.\n" + " What do you read, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Words, words, words.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS What is the matter, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Between who?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here\n" + " that old men have grey beards, that their faces are\n" + " wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and\n" + " plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of\n" + " wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir,\n" + " though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet\n" + " I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for\n" + " yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if like a crab\n" + " you could go backward.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method\n" + " in 't. Will you walk out of the air, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Into my grave.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Indeed, that is out o' the air.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness\n" + " that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity\n" + " could not so prosperously be delivered of. I will\n" + " leave him, and suddenly contrive the means of\n" + " meeting between him and my daughter.--My honourable\n" + " lord, I will most humbly take my leave of you.\n\n" + "HAMLET You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will\n" + " more willingly part withal: except my life, except\n" + " my life, except my life.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Fare you well, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET These tedious old fools!\n\n" + " [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS You go to seek the Lord Hamlet; there he is.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ [To POLONIUS] God save you, sir!\n\n" + " [Exit POLONIUS]\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN My honoured lord!\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ My most dear lord!\n\n" + "HAMLET My excellent good friends! How dost thou,\n" + " Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! Good lads, how do ye both?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ As the indifferent children of the earth.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Happy, in that we are not over-happy;\n" + " On fortune's cap we are not the very button.\n\n" + "HAMLET Nor the soles of her shoe?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Neither, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of\n" + " her favours?\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN 'Faith, her privates we.\n\n" + "HAMLET In the secret parts of fortune? O, most true; she\n" + " is a strumpet. What's the news?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest.\n\n" + "HAMLET Then is doomsday near: but your news is not true.\n" + " Let me question more in particular: what have you,\n" + " my good friends, deserved at the hands of fortune,\n" + " that she sends you to prison hither?\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord!\n\n" + "HAMLET Denmark's a prison.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one.\n\n" + "HAMLET A goodly one; in which there are many confines,\n" + " wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ We think not so, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing\n" + " either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me\n" + " it is a prison.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too\n" + " narrow for your mind.\n\n" + "HAMLET O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count\n" + " myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I\n" + " have bad dreams.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very\n" + " substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.\n\n" + "HAMLET A dream itself is but a shadow.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a\n" + " quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.\n\n" + "HAMLET Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and\n" + " outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we\n" + " to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.\n\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ |\n" + " | We'll wait upon you.\n" + "GUILDENSTERN |\n\n\n" + "HAMLET No such matter: I will not sort you with the rest\n" + " of my servants, for, to speak to you like an honest\n" + " man, I am most dreadfully attended. But, in the\n" + " beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ To visit you, my lord; no other occasion.\n\n" + "HAMLET Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I\n" + " thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are\n" + " too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it\n" + " your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come,\n" + " deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN What should we say, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, any thing, but to the purpose. You were sent\n" + " for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks\n" + " which your modesties have not craft enough to colour:\n" + " I know the good king and queen have sent for you.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ To what end, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by\n" + " the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of\n" + " our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved\n" + " love, and by what more dear a better proposer could\n" + " charge you withal, be even and direct with me,\n" + " whether you were sent for, or no?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ [Aside to GUILDENSTERN] What say you?\n\n" + "HAMLET [Aside] Nay, then, I have an eye of you.--If you\n" + " love me, hold not off.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN My lord, we were sent for.\n\n" + "HAMLET I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation\n" + " prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the king\n" + " and queen moult no feather. I have of late--but\n" + " wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all\n" + " custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily\n" + " with my disposition that this goodly frame, the\n" + " earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most\n" + " excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave\n" + " o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted\n" + " with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to\n" + " me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.\n" + " What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!\n" + " how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how\n" + " express and admirable! in action how like an angel!\n" + " in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the\n" + " world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,\n" + " what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not\n" + " me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling\n" + " you seem to say so.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ My lord, there was no such stuff in my thoughts.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why did you laugh then, when I said 'man delights not me'?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ To think, my lord, if you delight not in man, what\n" + " lenten entertainment the players shall receive from\n" + " you: we coted them on the way; and hither are they\n" + " coming, to offer you service.\n\n" + "HAMLET He that plays the king shall be welcome; his majesty\n" + " shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight\n" + " shall use his foil and target; the lover shall not\n" + " sigh gratis; the humourous man shall end his part\n" + " in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose\n" + " lungs are tickled o' the sere; and the lady shall\n" + " say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt\n" + " for't. What players are they?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Even those you were wont to take delight in, the\n" + " tragedians of the city.\n\n" + "HAMLET How chances it they travel? their residence, both\n" + " in reputation and profit, was better both ways.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ I think their inhibition comes by the means of the\n" + " late innovation.\n\n" + "HAMLET Do they hold the same estimation they did when I was\n" + " in the city? are they so followed?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ No, indeed, are they not.\n\n" + "HAMLET How comes it? do they grow rusty?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace: but\n" + " there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases,\n" + " that cry out on the top of question, and are most\n" + " tyrannically clapped for't: these are now the\n" + " fashion, and so berattle the common stages--so they\n" + " call them--that many wearing rapiers are afraid of\n" + " goose-quills and dare scarce come thither.\n\n" + "HAMLET What, are they children? who maintains 'em? how are\n" + " they escoted? Will they pursue the quality no\n" + " longer than they can sing? will they not say\n" + " afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common\n" + " players--as it is most like, if their means are no\n" + " better--their writers do them wrong, to make them\n" + " exclaim against their own succession?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ 'Faith, there has been much to do on both sides; and\n" + " the nation holds it no sin to tarre them to\n" + " controversy: there was, for a while, no money bid\n" + " for argument, unless the poet and the player went to\n" + " cuffs in the question.\n\n" + "HAMLET Is't possible?\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN O, there has been much throwing about of brains.\n\n" + "HAMLET Do the boys carry it away?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Ay, that they do, my lord; Hercules and his load too.\n\n" + "HAMLET It is not very strange; for mine uncle is king of\n" + " Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while\n" + " my father lived, give twenty, forty, fifty, an\n" + " hundred ducats a-piece for his picture in little.\n" + " 'Sblood, there is something in this more than\n" + " natural, if philosophy could find it out.\n\n" + " [Flourish of trumpets within]\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN There are the players.\n\n" + "HAMLET Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands,\n" + " come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion\n" + " and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb,\n" + " lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you,\n" + " must show fairly outward, should more appear like\n" + " entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my\n" + " uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN In what, my dear lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is\n" + " southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.\n\n" + " [Enter POLONIUS]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Well be with you, gentlemen!\n\n" + "HAMLET Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too: at each ear a\n" + " hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet\n" + " out of his swaddling-clouts.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Happily he's the second time come to them; for they\n" + " say an old man is twice a child.\n\n" + "HAMLET I will prophesy he comes to tell me of the players;\n" + " mark it. You say right, sir: o' Monday morning;\n" + " 'twas so indeed.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS My lord, I have news to tell you.\n\n" + "HAMLET My lord, I have news to tell you.\n" + " When Roscius was an actor in Rome,--\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS The actors are come hither, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Buz, buz!\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Upon mine honour,--\n\n" + "HAMLET Then came each actor on his ass,--\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS The best actors in the world, either for tragedy,\n" + " comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical,\n" + " historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-\n" + " comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or\n" + " poem unlimited: Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor\n" + " Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the\n" + " liberty, these are the only men.\n\n" + "HAMLET O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS What a treasure had he, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Why,\n" + " 'One fair daughter and no more,\n" + " The which he loved passing well.'\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS [Aside] Still on my daughter.\n\n" + "HAMLET Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter\n" + " that I love passing well.\n\n" + "HAMLET Nay, that follows not.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS What follows, then, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Why,\n" + " 'As by lot, God wot,'\n" + " and then, you know,\n" + " 'It came to pass, as most like it was,'--\n" + " the first row of the pious chanson will show you\n" + " more; for look, where my abridgement comes.\n\n" + " [Enter four or five Players]\n\n" + " You are welcome, masters; welcome, all. I am glad\n" + " to see thee well. Welcome, good friends. O, my old\n" + " friend! thy face is valenced since I saw thee last:\n" + " comest thou to beard me in Denmark? What, my young\n" + " lady and mistress! By'r lady, your ladyship is\n" + " nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the\n" + " altitude of a chopine. Pray God, your voice, like\n" + " apiece of uncurrent gold, be not cracked within the\n" + " ring. Masters, you are all welcome. We'll e'en\n" + " to't like French falconers, fly at any thing we see:\n" + " we'll have a speech straight: come, give us a taste\n" + " of your quality; come, a passionate speech.\n\n" + "First Player What speech, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET I heard thee speak me a speech once, but it was\n" + " never acted; or, if it was, not above once; for the\n" + " play, I remember, pleased not the million; 'twas\n" + " caviare to the general: but it was--as I received\n" + " it, and others, whose judgments in such matters\n" + " cried in the top of mine--an excellent play, well\n" + " digested in the scenes, set down with as much\n" + " modesty as cunning. I remember, one said there\n" + " were no sallets in the lines to make the matter\n" + " savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might\n" + " indict the author of affectation; but called it an\n" + " honest method, as wholesome as sweet, and by very\n" + " much more handsome than fine. One speech in it I\n" + " chiefly loved: 'twas Aeneas' tale to Dido; and\n" + " thereabout of it especially, where he speaks of\n" + " Priam's slaughter: if it live in your memory, begin\n" + " at this line: let me see, let me see--\n" + " 'The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,'--\n" + " it is not so:--it begins with Pyrrhus:--\n" + " 'The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms,\n" + " Black as his purpose, did the night resemble\n" + " When he lay couched in the ominous horse,\n" + " Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd\n" + " With heraldry more dismal; head to foot\n" + " Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd\n" + " With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,\n" + " Baked and impasted with the parching streets,\n" + " That lend a tyrannous and damned light\n" + " To their lord's murder: roasted in wrath and fire,\n" + " And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,\n" + " With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus\n" + " Old grandsire Priam seeks.'\n" + " So, proceed you.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken, with good accent and\n" + " good discretion.\n\n" + "First Player 'Anon he finds him\n" + " Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,\n" + " Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,\n" + " Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,\n" + " Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide;\n" + " But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword\n" + " The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,\n" + " Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top\n" + " Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash\n" + " Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword,\n" + " Which was declining on the milky head\n" + " Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:\n" + " So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,\n" + " And like a neutral to his will and matter,\n" + " Did nothing.\n" + " But, as we often see, against some storm,\n" + " A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,\n" + " The bold winds speechless and the orb below\n" + " As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder\n" + " Doth rend the region, so, after Pyrrhus' pause,\n" + " Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;\n" + " And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall\n" + " On Mars's armour forged for proof eterne\n" + " With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword\n" + " Now falls on Priam.\n" + " Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,\n" + " In general synod 'take away her power;\n" + " Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,\n" + " And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven,\n" + " As low as to the fiends!'\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS This is too long.\n\n" + "HAMLET It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,\n" + " say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he\n" + " sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba.\n\n" + "First Player 'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--'\n\n" + "HAMLET 'The mobled queen?'\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS That's good; 'mobled queen' is good.\n\n" + "First Player 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames\n" + " With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head\n" + " Where late the diadem stood, and for a robe,\n" + " About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins,\n" + " A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up;\n" + " Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd,\n" + " 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have\n" + " pronounced:\n" + " But if the gods themselves did see her then\n" + " When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport\n" + " In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,\n" + " The instant burst of clamour that she made,\n" + " Unless things mortal move them not at all,\n" + " Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven,\n" + " And passion in the gods.'\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Look, whether he has not turned his colour and has\n" + " tears in's eyes. Pray you, no more.\n\n" + "HAMLET 'Tis well: I'll have thee speak out the rest soon.\n" + " Good my lord, will you see the players well\n" + " bestowed? Do you hear, let them be well used; for\n" + " they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the\n" + " time: after your death you were better have a bad\n" + " epitaph than their ill report while you live.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS My lord, I will use them according to their desert.\n\n" + "HAMLET God's bodykins, man, much better: use every man\n" + " after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?\n" + " Use them after your own honour and dignity: the less\n" + " they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.\n" + " Take them in.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Come, sirs.\n\n" + "HAMLET Follow him, friends: we'll hear a play to-morrow.\n\n" + " [Exit POLONIUS with all the Players but the First]\n\n" + " Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the\n" + " Murder of Gonzago?\n\n" + "First Player Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET We'll ha't to-morrow night. You could, for a need,\n" + " study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which\n" + " I would set down and insert in't, could you not?\n\n" + "First Player Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Very well. Follow that lord; and look you mock him\n" + " not.\n\n" + " [Exit First Player]\n\n" + " My good friends, I'll leave you till night: you are\n" + " welcome to Elsinore.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord!\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, so, God be wi' ye;\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + " Now I am alone.\n" + " O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!\n" + " Is it not monstrous that this player here,\n" + " But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,\n" + " Could force his soul so to his own conceit\n" + " That from her working all his visage wann'd,\n" + " Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect,\n" + " A broken voice, and his whole function suiting\n" + " With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!\n" + " For Hecuba!\n" + " What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,\n" + " That he should weep for her? What would he do,\n" + " Had he the motive and the cue for passion\n" + " That I have? He would drown the stage with tears\n" + " And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,\n" + " Make mad the guilty and appal the free,\n" + " Confound the ignorant, and amaze indeed\n" + " The very faculties of eyes and ears. Yet I,\n" + " A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,\n" + " Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,\n" + " And can say nothing; no, not for a king,\n" + " Upon whose property and most dear life\n" + " A damn'd defeat was made. Am I a coward?\n" + " Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?\n" + " Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face?\n" + " Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i' the throat,\n" + " As deep as to the lungs? who does me this?\n" + " Ha!\n" + " 'Swounds, I should take it: for it cannot be\n" + " But I am pigeon-liver'd and lack gall\n" + " To make oppression bitter, or ere this\n" + " I should have fatted all the region kites\n" + " With this slave's offal: bloody, bawdy villain!\n" + " Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!\n" + " O, vengeance!\n" + " Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave,\n" + " That I, the son of a dear father murder'd,\n" + " Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,\n" + " Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,\n" + " And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,\n" + " A scullion!\n" + " Fie upon't! foh! About, my brain! I have heard\n" + " That guilty creatures sitting at a play\n" + " Have by the very cunning of the scene\n" + " Been struck so to the soul that presently\n" + " They have proclaim'd their malefactions;\n" + " For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak\n" + " With most miraculous organ. I'll have these players\n" + " Play something like the murder of my father\n" + " Before mine uncle: I'll observe his looks;\n" + " I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench,\n" + " I know my course. The spirit that I have seen\n" + " May be the devil: and the devil hath power\n" + " To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps\n" + " Out of my weakness and my melancholy,\n" + " As he is very potent with such spirits,\n" + " Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds\n" + " More relative than this: the play 's the thing\n" + " Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS,\n" + " OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS And can you, by no drift of circumstance,\n" + " Get from him why he puts on this confusion,\n" + " Grating so harshly all his days of quiet\n" + " With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ He does confess he feels himself distracted;\n" + " But from what cause he will by no means speak.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,\n" + " But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,\n" + " When we would bring him on to some confession\n" + " Of his true state.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Did he receive you well?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Most like a gentleman.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN But with much forcing of his disposition.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Niggard of question; but, of our demands,\n" + " Most free in his reply.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Did you assay him?\n" + " To any pastime?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Madam, it so fell out, that certain players\n" + " We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him;\n" + " And there did seem in him a kind of joy\n" + " To hear of it: they are about the court,\n" + " And, as I think, they have already order\n" + " This night to play before him.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS 'Tis most true:\n" + " And he beseech'd me to entreat your majesties\n" + " To hear and see the matter.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS With all my heart; and it doth much content me\n" + " To hear him so inclined.\n" + " Good gentlemen, give him a further edge,\n" + " And drive his purpose on to these delights.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ We shall, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Sweet Gertrude, leave us too;\n" + " For we have closely sent for Hamlet hither,\n" + " That he, as 'twere by accident, may here\n" + " Affront Ophelia:\n" + " Her father and myself, lawful espials,\n" + " Will so bestow ourselves that, seeing, unseen,\n" + " We may of their encounter frankly judge,\n" + " And gather by him, as he is behaved,\n" + " If 't be the affliction of his love or no\n" + " That thus he suffers for.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE I shall obey you.\n" + " And for your part, Ophelia, I do wish\n" + " That your good beauties be the happy cause\n" + " Of Hamlet's wildness: so shall I hope your virtues\n" + " Will bring him to his wonted way again,\n" + " To both your honours.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Madam, I wish it may.\n\n" + " [Exit QUEEN GERTRUDE]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Ophelia, walk you here. Gracious, so please you,\n" + " We will bestow ourselves.\n\n" + " [To OPHELIA]\n\n" + " Read on this book;\n" + " That show of such an exercise may colour\n" + " Your loneliness. We are oft to blame in this,--\n" + " 'Tis too much proved--that with devotion's visage\n" + " And pious action we do sugar o'er\n" + " The devil himself.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] O, 'tis too true!\n" + " How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience!\n" + " The harlot's cheek, beautied with plastering art,\n" + " Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it\n" + " Than is my deed to my most painted word:\n" + " O heavy burthen!\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS I hear him coming: let's withdraw, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS]\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET]\n\n" + "HAMLET To be, or not to be: that is the question:\n" + " Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer\n" + " The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,\n" + " Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,\n" + " And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;\n" + " No more; and by a sleep to say we end\n" + " The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks\n" + " That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation\n" + " Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;\n" + " To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;\n" + " For in that sleep of death what dreams may come\n" + " When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,\n" + " Must give us pause: there's the respect\n" + " That makes calamity of so long life;\n" + " For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,\n" + " The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,\n" + " The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,\n" + " The insolence of office and the spurns\n" + " That patient merit of the unworthy takes,\n" + " When he himself might his quietus make\n" + " With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,\n" + " To grunt and sweat under a weary life,\n" + " But that the dread of something after death,\n" + " The undiscover'd country from whose bourn\n" + " No traveller returns, puzzles the will\n" + " And makes us rather bear those ills we have\n" + " Than fly to others that we know not of?\n" + " Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;\n" + " And thus the native hue of resolution\n" + " Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,\n" + " And enterprises of great pith and moment\n" + " With this regard their currents turn awry,\n" + " And lose the name of action.--Soft you now!\n" + " The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons\n" + " Be all my sins remember'd.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Good my lord,\n" + " How does your honour for this many a day?\n\n" + "HAMLET I humbly thank you; well, well, well.\n\n" + "OPHELIA My lord, I have remembrances of yours,\n" + " That I have longed long to re-deliver;\n" + " I pray you, now receive them.\n\n" + "HAMLET No, not I;\n" + " I never gave you aught.\n\n" + "OPHELIA My honour'd lord, you know right well you did;\n" + " And, with them, words of so sweet breath composed\n" + " As made the things more rich: their perfume lost,\n" + " Take these again; for to the noble mind\n" + " Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.\n" + " There, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Ha, ha! are you honest?\n\n" + "OPHELIA My lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Are you fair?\n\n" + "OPHELIA What means your lordship?\n\n" + "HAMLET That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should\n" + " admit no discourse to your beauty.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than\n" + " with honesty?\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner\n" + " transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the\n" + " force of honesty can translate beauty into his\n" + " likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the\n" + " time gives it proof. I did love you once.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.\n\n" + "HAMLET You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot\n" + " so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of\n" + " it: I loved you not.\n\n" + "OPHELIA I was the more deceived.\n\n" + "HAMLET Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a\n" + " breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;\n" + " but yet I could accuse me of such things that it\n" + " were better my mother had not borne me: I am very\n" + " proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at\n" + " my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,\n" + " imagination to give them shape, or time to act them\n" + " in. What should such fellows as I do crawling\n" + " between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,\n" + " all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.\n" + " Where's your father?\n\n" + "OPHELIA At home, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the\n" + " fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.\n\n" + "OPHELIA O, help him, you sweet heavens!\n\n" + "HAMLET If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for\n" + " thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as\n" + " snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a\n" + " nunnery, go: farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs\n" + " marry, marry a fool; for wise men know well enough\n" + " what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go,\n" + " and quickly too. Farewell.\n\n" + "OPHELIA O heavenly powers, restore him!\n\n" + "HAMLET I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God\n" + " has given you one face, and you make yourselves\n" + " another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and\n" + " nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness\n" + " your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath\n" + " made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages:\n" + " those that are married already, all but one, shall\n" + " live; the rest shall keep as they are. To a\n" + " nunnery, go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OPHELIA O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!\n" + " The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword;\n" + " The expectancy and rose of the fair state,\n" + " The glass of fashion and the mould of form,\n" + " The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!\n" + " And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,\n" + " That suck'd the honey of his music vows,\n" + " Now see that noble and most sovereign reason,\n" + " Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh;\n" + " That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth\n" + " Blasted with ecstasy: O, woe is me,\n" + " To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!\n\n" + " [Re-enter KING CLAUDIUS and POLONIUS]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Love! his affections do not that way tend;\n" + " Nor what he spake, though it lack'd form a little,\n" + " Was not like madness. There's something in his soul,\n" + " O'er which his melancholy sits on brood;\n" + " And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose\n" + " Will be some danger: which for to prevent,\n" + " I have in quick determination\n" + " Thus set it down: he shall with speed to England,\n" + " For the demand of our neglected tribute\n" + " Haply the seas and countries different\n" + " With variable objects shall expel\n" + " This something-settled matter in his heart,\n" + " Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus\n" + " From fashion of himself. What think you on't?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS It shall do well: but yet do I believe\n" + " The origin and commencement of his grief\n" + " Sprung from neglected love. How now, Ophelia!\n" + " You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said;\n" + " We heard it all. My lord, do as you please;\n" + " But, if you hold it fit, after the play\n" + " Let his queen mother all alone entreat him\n" + " To show his grief: let her be round with him;\n" + " And I'll be placed, so please you, in the ear\n" + " Of all their conference. If she find him not,\n" + " To England send him, or confine him where\n" + " Your wisdom best shall think.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS It shall be so:\n" + " Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A hall in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET and Players]\n\n" + "HAMLET Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to\n" + " you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it,\n" + " as many of your players do, I had as lief the\n" + " town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air\n" + " too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently;\n" + " for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say,\n" + " the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget\n" + " a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it\n" + " offends me to the soul to hear a robustious\n" + " periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to\n" + " very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who\n" + " for the most part are capable of nothing but\n" + " inexplicable dumbshows and noise: I would have such\n" + " a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it\n" + " out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it.\n\n" + "First Player I warrant your honour.\n\n" + "HAMLET Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion\n" + " be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the\n" + " word to the action; with this special o'erstep not\n" + " the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is\n" + " from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the\n" + " first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the\n" + " mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature,\n" + " scorn her own image, and the very age and body of\n" + " the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone,\n" + " or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful\n" + " laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the\n" + " censure of the which one must in your allowance\n" + " o'erweigh a whole theatre of others. O, there be\n" + " players that I have seen play, and heard others\n" + " praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely,\n" + " that, neither having the accent of Christians nor\n" + " the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so\n" + " strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of\n" + " nature's journeymen had made men and not made them\n" + " well, they imitated humanity so abominably.\n\n" + "First Player I hope we have reformed that indifferently with us,\n" + " sir.\n\n" + "HAMLET O, reform it altogether. And let those that play\n" + " your clowns speak no more than is set down for them;\n" + " for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to\n" + " set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh\n" + " too; though, in the mean time, some necessary\n" + " question of the play be then to be considered:\n" + " that's villanous, and shows a most pitiful ambition\n" + " in the fool that uses it. Go, make you ready.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Players]\n\n" + " [Enter POLONIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + " How now, my lord! I will the king hear this piece of work?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS And the queen too, and that presently.\n\n" + "HAMLET Bid the players make haste.\n\n" + " [Exit POLONIUS]\n\n" + " Will you two help to hasten them?\n\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ |\n" + " | We will, my lord.\n" + "GUILDENSTERN |\n\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "HAMLET What ho! Horatio!\n\n" + " [Enter HORATIO]\n\n" + "HORATIO Here, sweet lord, at your service.\n\n" + "HAMLET Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man\n" + " As e'er my conversation coped withal.\n\n" + "HORATIO O, my dear lord,--\n\n" + "HAMLET Nay, do not think I flatter;\n" + " For what advancement may I hope from thee\n" + " That no revenue hast but thy good spirits,\n" + " To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd?\n" + " No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,\n" + " And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee\n" + " Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear?\n" + " Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice\n" + " And could of men distinguish, her election\n" + " Hath seal'd thee for herself; for thou hast been\n" + " As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing,\n" + " A man that fortune's buffets and rewards\n" + " Hast ta'en with equal thanks: and blest are those\n" + " Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,\n" + " That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger\n" + " To sound what stop she please. Give me that man\n" + " That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him\n" + " In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,\n" + " As I do thee.--Something too much of this.--\n" + " There is a play to-night before the king;\n" + " One scene of it comes near the circumstance\n" + " Which I have told thee of my father's death:\n" + " I prithee, when thou seest that act afoot,\n" + " Even with the very comment of thy soul\n" + " Observe mine uncle: if his occulted guilt\n" + " Do not itself unkennel in one speech,\n" + " It is a damned ghost that we have seen,\n" + " And my imaginations are as foul\n" + " As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note;\n" + " For I mine eyes will rivet to his face,\n" + " And after we will both our judgments join\n" + " In censure of his seeming.\n\n" + "HORATIO Well, my lord:\n" + " If he steal aught the whilst this play is playing,\n" + " And 'scape detecting, I will pay the theft.\n\n" + "HAMLET They are coming to the play; I must be idle:\n" + " Get you a place.\n\n" + " [Danish march. A flourish. Enter KING CLAUDIUS,\n" + " QUEEN GERTRUDE, POLONIUS, OPHELIA, ROSENCRANTZ,\n" + " GUILDENSTERN, and others]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS How fares our cousin Hamlet?\n\n" + "HAMLET Excellent, i' faith; of the chameleon's dish: I eat\n" + " the air, promise-crammed: you cannot feed capons so.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS I have nothing with this answer, Hamlet; these words\n" + " are not mine.\n\n" + "HAMLET No, nor mine now.\n\n" + " [To POLONIUS]\n\n" + " My lord, you played once i' the university, you say?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS That did I, my lord; and was accounted a good actor.\n\n" + "HAMLET What did you enact?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS I did enact Julius Caesar: I was killed i' the\n" + " Capitol; Brutus killed me.\n\n" + "HAMLET It was a brute part of him to kill so capital a calf\n" + " there. Be the players ready?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Ay, my lord; they stay upon your patience.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by me.\n\n" + "HAMLET No, good mother, here's metal more attractive.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS [To KING CLAUDIUS] O, ho! do you mark that?\n\n" + "HAMLET Lady, shall I lie in your lap?\n\n" + " [Lying down at OPHELIA's feet]\n\n" + "OPHELIA No, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET I mean, my head upon your lap?\n\n" + "OPHELIA Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Do you think I meant country matters?\n\n" + "OPHELIA I think nothing, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.\n\n" + "OPHELIA What is, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Nothing.\n\n" + "OPHELIA You are merry, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Who, I?\n\n" + "OPHELIA Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do\n" + " but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my\n" + " mother looks, and my father died within these two hours.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET So long? Nay then, let the devil wear black, for\n" + " I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two\n" + " months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's\n" + " hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half\n" + " a year: but, by'r lady, he must build churches,\n" + " then; or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with\n" + " the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is 'For, O, for, O,\n" + " the hobby-horse is forgot.'\n\n" + " [Hautboys play. The dumb-show enters]\n\n" + " [Enter a King and a Queen very lovingly; the Queen\n" + " embracing him, and he her. She kneels, and makes\n" + " show of protestation unto him. He takes her up,\n" + " and declines his head upon her neck: lays him down\n" + " upon a bank of flowers: she, seeing him asleep,\n" + " leaves him. Anon comes in a fellow, takes off his\n" + " crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the King's\n" + " ears, and exit. The Queen returns; finds the King\n" + " dead, and makes passionate action. The Poisoner,\n" + " with some two or three Mutes, comes in again,\n" + " seeming to lament with her. The dead body is\n" + " carried away. The Poisoner wooes the Queen with\n" + " gifts: she seems loath and unwilling awhile, but\n" + " in the end accepts his love]\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + "OPHELIA What means this, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Belike this show imports the argument of the play.\n\n" + " [Enter Prologue]\n\n" + "HAMLET We shall know by this fellow: the players cannot\n" + " keep counsel; they'll tell all.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Will he tell us what this show meant?\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, or any show that you'll show him: be not you\n" + " ashamed to show, he'll not shame to tell you what it means.\n\n" + "OPHELIA You are naught, you are naught: I'll mark the play.\n\n" + "Prologue For us, and for our tragedy,\n" + " Here stooping to your clemency,\n" + " We beg your hearing patiently.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HAMLET Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?\n\n" + "OPHELIA 'Tis brief, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET As woman's love.\n\n" + " [Enter two Players, King and Queen]\n\n" + "Player King Full thirty times hath Phoebus' cart gone round\n" + " Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground,\n" + " And thirty dozen moons with borrow'd sheen\n" + " About the world have times twelve thirties been,\n" + " Since love our hearts and Hymen did our hands\n" + " Unite commutual in most sacred bands.\n\n" + "Player Queen So many journeys may the sun and moon\n" + " Make us again count o'er ere love be done!\n" + " But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,\n" + " So far from cheer and from your former state,\n" + " That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,\n" + " Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must:\n" + " For women's fear and love holds quantity;\n" + " In neither aught, or in extremity.\n" + " Now, what my love is, proof hath made you know;\n" + " And as my love is sized, my fear is so:\n" + " Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;\n" + " Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.\n\n" + "Player King 'Faith, I must leave thee, love, and shortly too;\n" + " My operant powers their functions leave to do:\n" + " And thou shalt live in this fair world behind,\n" + " Honour'd, beloved; and haply one as kind\n" + " For husband shalt thou--\n\n" + "Player Queen O, confound the rest!\n" + " Such love must needs be treason in my breast:\n" + " In second husband let me be accurst!\n" + " None wed the second but who kill'd the first.\n\n" + "HAMLET [Aside] Wormwood, wormwood.\n\n" + "Player Queen The instances that second marriage move\n" + " Are base respects of thrift, but none of love:\n" + " A second time I kill my husband dead,\n" + " When second husband kisses me in bed.\n\n" + "Player King I do believe you think what now you speak;\n" + " But what we do determine oft we break.\n" + " Purpose is but the slave to memory,\n" + " Of violent birth, but poor validity;\n" + " Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree;\n" + " But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be.\n" + " Most necessary 'tis that we forget\n" + " To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt:\n" + " What to ourselves in passion we propose,\n" + " The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.\n" + " The violence of either grief or joy\n" + " Their own enactures with themselves destroy:\n" + " Where joy most revels, grief doth most lament;\n" + " Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident.\n" + " This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange\n" + " That even our loves should with our fortunes change;\n" + " For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,\n" + " Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.\n" + " The great man down, you mark his favourite flies;\n" + " The poor advanced makes friends of enemies.\n" + " And hitherto doth love on fortune tend;\n" + " For who not needs shall never lack a friend,\n" + " And who in want a hollow friend doth try,\n" + " Directly seasons him his enemy.\n" + " But, orderly to end where I begun,\n" + " Our wills and fates do so contrary run\n" + " That our devices still are overthrown;\n" + " Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own:\n" + " So think thou wilt no second husband wed;\n" + " But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.\n\n" + "Player Queen Nor earth to me give food, nor heaven light!\n" + " Sport and repose lock from me day and night!\n" + " To desperation turn my trust and hope!\n" + " An anchor's cheer in prison be my scope!\n" + " Each opposite that blanks the face of joy\n" + " Meet what I would have well and it destroy!\n" + " Both here and hence pursue me lasting strife,\n" + " If, once a widow, ever I be wife!\n\n" + "HAMLET If she should break it now!\n\n" + "Player King 'Tis deeply sworn. Sweet, leave me here awhile;\n" + " My spirits grow dull, and fain I would beguile\n" + " The tedious day with sleep.\n\n" + " [Sleeps]\n\n" + "Player Queen Sleep rock thy brain,\n" + " And never come mischance between us twain!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HAMLET Madam, how like you this play?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE The lady protests too much, methinks.\n\n" + "HAMLET O, but she'll keep her word.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Have you heard the argument? Is there no offence in 't?\n\n" + "HAMLET No, no, they do but jest, poison in jest; no offence\n" + " i' the world.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS What do you call the play?\n\n" + "HAMLET The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play\n" + " is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is\n" + " the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see\n" + " anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o'\n" + " that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it\n" + " touches us not: let the galled jade wince, our\n" + " withers are unwrung.\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIANUS]\n\n" + " This is one Lucianus, nephew to the king.\n\n" + "OPHELIA You are as good as a chorus, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET I could interpret between you and your love, if I\n" + " could see the puppets dallying.\n\n" + "OPHELIA You are keen, my lord, you are keen.\n\n" + "HAMLET It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Still better, and worse.\n\n" + "HAMLET So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer;\n" + " pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin. Come:\n" + " 'the croaking raven doth bellow for revenge.'\n\n" + "LUCIANUS Thoughts black, hands apt, drugs fit, and time agreeing;\n" + " Confederate season, else no creature seeing;\n" + " Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected,\n" + " With Hecate's ban thrice blasted, thrice infected,\n" + " Thy natural magic and dire property,\n" + " On wholesome life usurp immediately.\n\n" + " [Pours the poison into the sleeper's ears]\n\n" + "HAMLET He poisons him i' the garden for's estate. His\n" + " name's Gonzago: the story is extant, and writ in\n" + " choice Italian: you shall see anon how the murderer\n" + " gets the love of Gonzago's wife.\n\n" + "OPHELIA The king rises.\n\n" + "HAMLET What, frighted with false fire!\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE How fares my lord?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Give o'er the play.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Give me some light: away!\n\n" + "All Lights, lights, lights!\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but HAMLET and HORATIO]\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, let the stricken deer go weep,\n" + " The hart ungalled play;\n" + " For some must watch, while some must sleep:\n" + " So runs the world away.\n" + " Would not this, sir, and a forest of feathers-- if\n" + " the rest of my fortunes turn Turk with me--with two\n" + " Provincial roses on my razed shoes, get me a\n" + " fellowship in a cry of players, sir?\n\n" + "HORATIO Half a share.\n\n" + "HAMLET A whole one, I.\n" + " For thou dost know, O Damon dear,\n" + " This realm dismantled was\n" + " Of Jove himself; and now reigns here\n" + " A very, very--pajock.\n\n" + "HORATIO You might have rhymed.\n\n" + "HAMLET O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a\n" + " thousand pound. Didst perceive?\n\n" + "HORATIO Very well, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Upon the talk of the poisoning?\n\n" + "HORATIO I did very well note him.\n\n" + "HAMLET Ah, ha! Come, some music! come, the recorders!\n" + " For if the king like not the comedy,\n" + " Why then, belike, he likes it not, perdy.\n" + " Come, some music!\n\n" + " [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, vouchsafe me a word with you.\n\n" + "HAMLET Sir, a whole history.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN The king, sir,--\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, sir, what of him?\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Is in his retirement marvellous distempered.\n\n" + "HAMLET With drink, sir?\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN No, my lord, rather with choler.\n\n" + "HAMLET Your wisdom should show itself more richer to\n" + " signify this to his doctor; for, for me to put him\n" + " to his purgation would perhaps plunge him into far\n" + " more choler.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Good my lord, put your discourse into some frame and\n" + " start not so wildly from my affair.\n\n" + "HAMLET I am tame, sir: pronounce.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN The queen, your mother, in most great affliction of\n" + " spirit, hath sent me to you.\n\n" + "HAMLET You are welcome.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right\n" + " breed. If it shall please you to make me a\n" + " wholesome answer, I will do your mother's\n" + " commandment: if not, your pardon and my return\n" + " shall be the end of my business.\n\n" + "HAMLET Sir, I cannot.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN What, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Make you a wholesome answer; my wit's diseased: but,\n" + " sir, such answer as I can make, you shall command;\n" + " or, rather, as you say, my mother: therefore no\n" + " more, but to the matter: my mother, you say,--\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Then thus she says; your behavior hath struck her\n" + " into amazement and admiration.\n\n" + "HAMLET O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! But\n" + " is there no sequel at the heels of this mother's\n" + " admiration? Impart.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ She desires to speak with you in her closet, ere you\n" + " go to bed.\n\n" + "HAMLET We shall obey, were she ten times our mother. Have\n" + " you any further trade with us?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you once did love me.\n\n" + "HAMLET So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you\n" + " do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty, if\n" + " you deny your griefs to your friend.\n\n" + "HAMLET Sir, I lack advancement.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ How can that be, when you have the voice of the king\n" + " himself for your succession in Denmark?\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,'--the proverb\n" + " is something musty.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Players with recorders]\n\n" + " O, the recorders! let me see one. To withdraw with\n" + " you:--why do you go about to recover the wind of me,\n" + " as if you would drive me into a toil?\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN O, my lord, if my duty be too bold, my love is too\n" + " unmannerly.\n\n" + "HAMLET I do not well understand that. Will you play upon\n" + " this pipe?\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN My lord, I cannot.\n\n" + "HAMLET I pray you.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN Believe me, I cannot.\n\n" + "HAMLET I do beseech you.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN I know no touch of it, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET 'Tis as easy as lying: govern these ventages with\n" + " your lingers and thumb, give it breath with your\n" + " mouth, and it will discourse most eloquent music.\n" + " Look you, these are the stops.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN But these cannot I command to any utterance of\n" + " harmony; I have not the skill.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of\n" + " me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know\n" + " my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my\n" + " mystery; you would sound me from my lowest note to\n" + " the top of my compass: and there is much music,\n" + " excellent voice, in this little organ; yet cannot\n" + " you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am\n" + " easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what\n" + " instrument you will, though you can fret me, yet you\n" + " cannot play upon me.\n\n" + " [Enter POLONIUS]\n\n" + " God bless you, sir!\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS My lord, the queen would speak with you, and\n" + " presently.\n\n" + "HAMLET Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.\n\n" + "HAMLET Methinks it is like a weasel.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS It is backed like a weasel.\n\n" + "HAMLET Or like a whale?\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS Very like a whale.\n\n" + "HAMLET Then I will come to my mother by and by. They fool\n" + " me to the top of my bent. I will come by and by.\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS I will say so.\n\n" + "HAMLET By and by is easily said.\n\n" + " [Exit POLONIUS]\n\n" + " Leave me, friends.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but HAMLET]\n\n" + " Tis now the very witching time of night,\n" + " When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out\n" + " Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,\n" + " And do such bitter business as the day\n" + " Would quake to look on. Soft! now to my mother.\n" + " O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever\n" + " The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom:\n" + " Let me be cruel, not unnatural:\n" + " I will speak daggers to her, but use none;\n" + " My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites;\n" + " How in my words soever she be shent,\n" + " To give them seals never, my soul, consent!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS I like him not, nor stands it safe with us\n" + " To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you;\n" + " I your commission will forthwith dispatch,\n" + " And he to England shall along with you:\n" + " The terms of our estate may not endure\n" + " Hazard so dangerous as doth hourly grow\n" + " Out of his lunacies.\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN We will ourselves provide:\n" + " Most holy and religious fear it is\n" + " To keep those many many bodies safe\n" + " That live and feed upon your majesty.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ The single and peculiar life is bound,\n" + " With all the strength and armour of the mind,\n" + " To keep itself from noyance; but much more\n" + " That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest\n" + " The lives of many. The cease of majesty\n" + " Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw\n" + " What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,\n" + " Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,\n" + " To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things\n" + " Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,\n" + " Each small annexment, petty consequence,\n" + " Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone\n" + " Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage;\n" + " For we will fetters put upon this fear,\n" + " Which now goes too free-footed.\n\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ |\n" + " | We will haste us.\n" + "GUILDENSTERN |\n\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + " [Enter POLONIUS]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS My lord, he's going to his mother's closet:\n" + " Behind the arras I'll convey myself,\n" + " To hear the process; and warrant she'll tax him home:\n" + " And, as you said, and wisely was it said,\n" + " 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother,\n" + " Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear\n" + " The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege:\n" + " I'll call upon you ere you go to bed,\n" + " And tell you what I know.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Thanks, dear my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit POLONIUS]\n\n" + " O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;\n" + " It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,\n" + " A brother's murder. Pray can I not,\n" + " Though inclination be as sharp as will:\n" + " My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent;\n" + " And, like a man to double business bound,\n" + " I stand in pause where I shall first begin,\n" + " And both neglect. What if this cursed hand\n" + " Were thicker than itself with brother's blood,\n" + " Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens\n" + " To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy\n" + " But to confront the visage of offence?\n" + " And what's in prayer but this two-fold force,\n" + " To be forestalled ere we come to fall,\n" + " Or pardon'd being down? Then I'll look up;\n" + " My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer\n" + " Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder'?\n" + " That cannot be; since I am still possess'd\n" + " Of those effects for which I did the murder,\n" + " My crown, mine own ambition and my queen.\n" + " May one be pardon'd and retain the offence?\n" + " In the corrupted currents of this world\n" + " Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,\n" + " And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself\n" + " Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above;\n" + " There is no shuffling, there the action lies\n" + " In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd,\n" + " Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults,\n" + " To give in evidence. What then? what rests?\n" + " Try what repentance can: what can it not?\n" + " Yet what can it when one can not repent?\n" + " O wretched state! O bosom black as death!\n" + " O limed soul, that, struggling to be free,\n" + " Art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay!\n" + " Bow, stubborn knees; and, heart with strings of steel,\n" + " Be soft as sinews of the newborn babe!\n" + " All may be well.\n\n" + " [Retires and kneels]\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET]\n\n" + "HAMLET Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;\n" + " And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven;\n" + " And so am I revenged. That would be scann'd:\n" + " A villain kills my father; and for that,\n" + " I, his sole son, do this same villain send\n" + " To heaven.\n" + " O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.\n" + " He took my father grossly, full of bread;\n" + " With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;\n" + " And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?\n" + " But in our circumstance and course of thought,\n" + " 'Tis heavy with him: and am I then revenged,\n" + " To take him in the purging of his soul,\n" + " When he is fit and season'd for his passage?\n" + " No!\n" + " Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid hent:\n" + " When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,\n" + " Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed;\n" + " At gaming, swearing, or about some act\n" + " That has no relish of salvation in't;\n" + " Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven,\n" + " And that his soul may be as damn'd and black\n" + " As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays:\n" + " This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS [Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:\n" + " Words without thoughts never to heaven go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The Queen's closet.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN MARGARET and POLONIUS]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS He will come straight. Look you lay home to him:\n" + " Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with,\n" + " And that your grace hath screen'd and stood between\n" + " Much heat and him. I'll sconce me even here.\n" + " Pray you, be round with him.\n\n" + "HAMLET [Within] Mother, mother, mother!\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE I'll warrant you,\n" + " Fear me not: withdraw, I hear him coming.\n\n" + " [POLONIUS hides behind the arras]\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET]\n\n" + "HAMLET Now, mother, what's the matter?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.\n\n" + "HAMLET Mother, you have my father much offended.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue.\n\n" + "HAMLET Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Why, how now, Hamlet!\n\n" + "HAMLET What's the matter now?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Have you forgot me?\n\n" + "HAMLET No, by the rood, not so:\n" + " You are the queen, your husband's brother's wife;\n" + " And--would it were not so!--you are my mother.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, then, I'll set those to you that can speak.\n\n" + "HAMLET Come, come, and sit you down; you shall not budge;\n" + " You go not till I set you up a glass\n" + " Where you may see the inmost part of you.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me?\n" + " Help, help, ho!\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS [Behind] What, ho! help, help, help!\n\n" + "HAMLET [Drawing] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!\n\n" + " [Makes a pass through the arras]\n\n" + "LORD POLONIUS [Behind] O, I am slain!\n\n" + " [Falls and dies]\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE O me, what hast thou done?\n\n" + "HAMLET Nay, I know not:\n" + " Is it the king?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE O, what a rash and bloody deed is this!\n\n" + "HAMLET A bloody deed! almost as bad, good mother,\n" + " As kill a king, and marry with his brother.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE As kill a king!\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, lady, 'twas my word.\n\n" + " [Lifts up the array and discovers POLONIUS]\n\n" + " Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell!\n" + " I took thee for thy better: take thy fortune;\n" + " Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.\n" + " Leave wringing of your hands: peace! sit you down,\n" + " And let me wring your heart; for so I shall,\n" + " If it be made of penetrable stuff,\n" + " If damned custom have not brass'd it so\n" + " That it is proof and bulwark against sense.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE What have I done, that thou darest wag thy tongue\n" + " In noise so rude against me?\n\n" + "HAMLET Such an act\n" + " That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,\n" + " Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose\n" + " From the fair forehead of an innocent love\n" + " And sets a blister there, makes marriage-vows\n" + " As false as dicers' oaths: O, such a deed\n" + " As from the body of contraction plucks\n" + " The very soul, and sweet religion makes\n" + " A rhapsody of words: heaven's face doth glow:\n" + " Yea, this solidity and compound mass,\n" + " With tristful visage, as against the doom,\n" + " Is thought-sick at the act.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Ay me, what act,\n" + " That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?\n\n" + "HAMLET Look here, upon this picture, and on this,\n" + " The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.\n" + " See, what a grace was seated on this brow;\n" + " Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;\n" + " An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;\n" + " A station like the herald Mercury\n" + " New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill;\n" + " A combination and a form indeed,\n" + " Where every god did seem to set his seal,\n" + " To give the world assurance of a man:\n" + " This was your husband. Look you now, what follows:\n" + " Here is your husband; like a mildew'd ear,\n" + " Blasting his wholesome brother. Have you eyes?\n" + " Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,\n" + " And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes?\n" + " You cannot call it love; for at your age\n" + " The hey-day in the blood is tame, it's humble,\n" + " And waits upon the judgment: and what judgment\n" + " Would step from this to this? Sense, sure, you have,\n" + " Else could you not have motion; but sure, that sense\n" + " Is apoplex'd; for madness would not err,\n" + " Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd\n" + " But it reserved some quantity of choice,\n" + " To serve in such a difference. What devil was't\n" + " That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?\n" + " Eyes without feeling, feeling without sight,\n" + " Ears without hands or eyes, smelling sans all,\n" + " Or but a sickly part of one true sense\n" + " Could not so mope.\n" + " O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,\n" + " If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,\n" + " To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,\n" + " And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shame\n" + " When the compulsive ardour gives the charge,\n" + " Since frost itself as actively doth burn\n" + " And reason panders will.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, speak no more:\n" + " Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul;\n" + " And there I see such black and grained spots\n" + " As will not leave their tinct.\n\n" + "HAMLET Nay, but to live\n" + " In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,\n" + " Stew'd in corruption, honeying and making love\n" + " Over the nasty sty,--\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE O, speak to me no more;\n" + " These words, like daggers, enter in mine ears;\n" + " No more, sweet Hamlet!\n\n" + "HAMLET A murderer and a villain;\n" + " A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe\n" + " Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings;\n" + " A cutpurse of the empire and the rule,\n" + " That from a shelf the precious diadem stole,\n" + " And put it in his pocket!\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE No more!\n\n" + "HAMLET A king of shreds and patches,--\n\n" + " [Enter Ghost]\n\n" + " Save me, and hover o'er me with your wings,\n" + " You heavenly guards! What would your gracious figure?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, he's mad!\n\n" + "HAMLET Do you not come your tardy son to chide,\n" + " That, lapsed in time and passion, lets go by\n" + " The important acting of your dread command? O, say!\n\n" + "Ghost Do not forget: this visitation\n" + " Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.\n" + " But, look, amazement on thy mother sits:\n" + " O, step between her and her fighting soul:\n" + " Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works:\n" + " Speak to her, Hamlet.\n\n" + "HAMLET How is it with you, lady?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, how is't with you,\n" + " That you do bend your eye on vacancy\n" + " And with the incorporal air do hold discourse?\n" + " Forth at your eyes your spirits wildly peep;\n" + " And, as the sleeping soldiers in the alarm,\n" + " Your bedded hair, like life in excrements,\n" + " Starts up, and stands on end. O gentle son,\n" + " Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper\n" + " Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look?\n\n" + "HAMLET On him, on him! Look you, how pale he glares!\n" + " His form and cause conjoin'd, preaching to stones,\n" + " Would make them capable. Do not look upon me;\n" + " Lest with this piteous action you convert\n" + " My stern effects: then what I have to do\n" + " Will want true colour; tears perchance for blood.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE To whom do you speak this?\n\n" + "HAMLET Do you see nothing there?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Nothing at all; yet all that is I see.\n\n" + "HAMLET Nor did you nothing hear?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE No, nothing but ourselves.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, look you there! look, how it steals away!\n" + " My father, in his habit as he lived!\n" + " Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal!\n\n" + " [Exit Ghost]\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE This the very coinage of your brain:\n" + " This bodiless creation ecstasy\n" + " Is very cunning in.\n\n" + "HAMLET Ecstasy!\n" + " My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,\n" + " And makes as healthful music: it is not madness\n" + " That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,\n" + " And I the matter will re-word; which madness\n" + " Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace,\n" + " Lay not that mattering unction to your soul,\n" + " That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:\n" + " It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,\n" + " Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,\n" + " Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;\n" + " Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;\n" + " And do not spread the compost on the weeds,\n" + " To make them ranker. Forgive me this my virtue;\n" + " For in the fatness of these pursy times\n" + " Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg,\n" + " Yea, curb and woo for leave to do him good.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.\n\n" + "HAMLET O, throw away the worser part of it,\n" + " And live the purer with the other half.\n" + " Good night: but go not to mine uncle's bed;\n" + " Assume a virtue, if you have it not.\n" + " That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,\n" + " Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,\n" + " That to the use of actions fair and good\n" + " He likewise gives a frock or livery,\n" + " That aptly is put on. Refrain to-night,\n" + " And that shall lend a kind of easiness\n" + " To the next abstinence: the next more easy;\n" + " For use almost can change the stamp of nature,\n" + " And either [ ] the devil, or throw him out\n" + " With wondrous potency. Once more, good night:\n" + " And when you are desirous to be bless'd,\n" + " I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord,\n\n" + " [Pointing to POLONIUS]\n\n" + " I do repent: but heaven hath pleased it so,\n" + " To punish me with this and this with me,\n" + " That I must be their scourge and minister.\n" + " I will bestow him, and will answer well\n" + " The death I gave him. So, again, good night.\n" + " I must be cruel, only to be kind:\n" + " Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.\n" + " One word more, good lady.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE What shall I do?\n\n" + "HAMLET Not this, by no means, that I bid you do:\n" + " Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed;\n" + " Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you his mouse;\n" + " And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses,\n" + " Or paddling in your neck with his damn'd fingers,\n" + " Make you to ravel all this matter out,\n" + " That I essentially am not in madness,\n" + " But mad in craft. 'Twere good you let him know;\n" + " For who, that's but a queen, fair, sober, wise,\n" + " Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib,\n" + " Such dear concernings hide? who would do so?\n" + " No, in despite of sense and secrecy,\n" + " Unpeg the basket on the house's top.\n" + " Let the birds fly, and, like the famous ape,\n" + " To try conclusions, in the basket creep,\n" + " And break your own neck down.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Be thou assured, if words be made of breath,\n" + " And breath of life, I have no life to breathe\n" + " What thou hast said to me.\n\n" + "HAMLET I must to England; you know that?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack,\n" + " I had forgot: 'tis so concluded on.\n\n" + "HAMLET There's letters seal'd: and my two schoolfellows,\n" + " Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd,\n" + " They bear the mandate; they must sweep my way,\n" + " And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;\n" + " For 'tis the sport to have the engineer\n" + " Hoist with his own petard: and 't shall go hard\n" + " But I will delve one yard below their mines,\n" + " And blow them at the moon: O, 'tis most sweet,\n" + " When in one line two crafts directly meet.\n" + " This man shall set me packing:\n" + " I'll lug the guts into the neighbour room.\n" + " Mother, good night. Indeed this counsellor\n" + " Is now most still, most secret and most grave,\n" + " Who was in life a foolish prating knave.\n" + " Come, sir, to draw toward an end with you.\n" + " Good night, mother.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally; HAMLET dragging in POLONIUS]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ,\n" + " and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:\n" + " You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them.\n" + " Where is your son?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Bestow this place on us a little while.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + " Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to-night!\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend\n" + " Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,\n" + " Behind the arras hearing something stir,\n" + " Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!'\n" + " And, in this brainish apprehension, kills\n" + " The unseen good old man.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS O heavy deed!\n" + " It had been so with us, had we been there:\n" + " His liberty is full of threats to all;\n" + " To you yourself, to us, to every one.\n" + " Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?\n" + " It will be laid to us, whose providence\n" + " Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,\n" + " This mad young man: but so much was our love,\n" + " We would not understand what was most fit;\n" + " But, like the owner of a foul disease,\n" + " To keep it from divulging, let it feed\n" + " Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE To draw apart the body he hath kill'd:\n" + " O'er whom his very madness, like some ore\n" + " Among a mineral of metals base,\n" + " Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS O Gertrude, come away!\n" + " The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,\n" + " But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed\n" + " We must, with all our majesty and skill,\n" + " Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!\n\n" + " [Re-enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + " Friends both, go join you with some further aid:\n" + " Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,\n" + " And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:\n" + " Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body\n" + " Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + " Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;\n" + " And let them know, both what we mean to do,\n" + " And what's untimely done [ ]\n" + " Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,\n" + " As level as the cannon to his blank,\n" + " Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name,\n" + " And hit the woundless air. O, come away!\n" + " My soul is full of discord and dismay.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET]\n\n" + "HAMLET Safely stowed.\n\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ: |\n" + " | [Within] Hamlet! Lord Hamlet!\n" + "GUILDENSTERN: |\n\n\n" + "HAMLET What noise? who calls on Hamlet?\n" + " O, here they come.\n\n" + " [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body?\n\n" + "HAMLET Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence\n" + " And bear it to the chapel.\n\n" + "HAMLET Do not believe it.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Believe what?\n\n" + "HAMLET That I can keep your counsel and not mine own.\n" + " Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what\n" + " replication should be made by the son of a king?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Take you me for a sponge, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his\n" + " rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the\n" + " king best service in the end: he keeps them, like\n" + " an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to\n" + " be last swallowed: when he needs what you have\n" + " gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you\n" + " shall be dry again.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ I understand you not, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a\n" + " foolish ear.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go\n" + " with us to the king.\n\n" + "HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with\n" + " the body. The king is a thing--\n\n" + "GUILDENSTERN A thing, my lord!\n\n" + "HAMLET Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, attended]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS I have sent to seek him, and to find the body.\n" + " How dangerous is it that this man goes loose!\n" + " Yet must not we put the strong law on him:\n" + " He's loved of the distracted multitude,\n" + " Who like not in their judgment, but their eyes;\n" + " And where tis so, the offender's scourge is weigh'd,\n" + " But never the offence. To bear all smooth and even,\n" + " This sudden sending him away must seem\n" + " Deliberate pause: diseases desperate grown\n" + " By desperate appliance are relieved,\n" + " Or not at all.\n\n" + " [Enter ROSENCRANTZ]\n\n" + " How now! what hath befall'n?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Where the dead body is bestow'd, my lord,\n" + " We cannot get from him.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS But where is he?\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Without, my lord; guarded, to know your pleasure.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Bring him before us.\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Ho, Guildenstern! bring in my lord.\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius?\n\n" + "HAMLET At supper.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where?\n\n" + "HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain\n" + " convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your\n" + " worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all\n" + " creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for\n" + " maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but\n" + " variable service, two dishes, but to one table:\n" + " that's the end.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Alas, alas!\n\n" + "HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a\n" + " king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS What dost you mean by this?\n\n" + "HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a\n" + " progress through the guts of a beggar.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Where is Polonius?\n\n" + "HAMLET In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger\n" + " find him not there, seek him i' the other place\n" + " yourself. But indeed, if you find him not within\n" + " this month, you shall nose him as you go up the\n" + " stairs into the lobby.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Go seek him there.\n\n" + " [To some Attendants]\n\n" + "HAMLET He will stay till ye come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Attendants]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,--\n" + " Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve\n" + " For that which thou hast done,--must send thee hence\n" + " With fiery quickness: therefore prepare thyself;\n" + " The bark is ready, and the wind at help,\n" + " The associates tend, and every thing is bent\n" + " For England.\n\n" + "HAMLET For England!\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Ay, Hamlet.\n\n" + "HAMLET Good.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.\n\n" + "HAMLET I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for\n" + " England! Farewell, dear mother.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Thy loving father, Hamlet.\n\n" + "HAMLET My mother: father and mother is man and wife; man\n" + " and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Follow him at foot; tempt him with speed aboard;\n" + " Delay it not; I'll have him hence to-night:\n" + " Away! for every thing is seal'd and done\n" + " That else leans on the affair: pray you, make haste.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]\n\n" + " And, England, if my love thou hold'st at aught--\n" + " As my great power thereof may give thee sense,\n" + " Since yet thy cicatrice looks raw and red\n" + " After the Danish sword, and thy free awe\n" + " Pays homage to us--thou mayst not coldly set\n" + " Our sovereign process; which imports at full,\n" + " By letters congruing to that effect,\n" + " The present death of Hamlet. Do it, England;\n" + " For like the hectic in my blood he rages,\n" + " And thou must cure me: till I know 'tis done,\n" + " Howe'er my haps, my joys were ne'er begun.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A plain in Denmark.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FORTINBRAS, a Captain, and Soldiers, marching]\n\n" + "PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go, captain, from me greet the Danish king;\n" + " Tell him that, by his licence, Fortinbras\n" + " Craves the conveyance of a promised march\n" + " Over his kingdom. You know the rendezvous.\n" + " If that his majesty would aught with us,\n" + " We shall express our duty in his eye;\n" + " And let him know so.\n\n" + "Captain I will do't, my lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE FORTINBRAS Go softly on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FORTINBRAS and Soldiers]\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, and others]\n\n" + "HAMLET Good sir, whose powers are these?\n\n" + "Captain They are of Norway, sir.\n\n" + "HAMLET How purposed, sir, I pray you?\n\n" + "Captain Against some part of Poland.\n\n" + "HAMLET Who commands them, sir?\n\n" + "Captain The nephews to old Norway, Fortinbras.\n\n" + "HAMLET Goes it against the main of Poland, sir,\n" + " Or for some frontier?\n\n" + "Captain Truly to speak, and with no addition,\n" + " We go to gain a little patch of ground\n" + " That hath in it no profit but the name.\n" + " To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it;\n" + " Nor will it yield to Norway or the Pole\n" + " A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, then the Polack never will defend it.\n\n" + "Captain Yes, it is already garrison'd.\n\n" + "HAMLET Two thousand souls and twenty thousand ducats\n" + " Will not debate the question of this straw:\n" + " This is the imposthume of much wealth and peace,\n" + " That inward breaks, and shows no cause without\n" + " Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.\n\n" + "Captain God be wi' you, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ROSENCRANTZ Wilt please you go, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET I'll be with you straight go a little before.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except HAMLET]\n\n" + " How all occasions do inform against me,\n" + " And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,\n" + " If his chief good and market of his time\n" + " Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.\n" + " Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,\n" + " Looking before and after, gave us not\n" + " That capability and god-like reason\n" + " To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be\n" + " Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple\n" + " Of thinking too precisely on the event,\n" + " A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom\n" + " And ever three parts coward, I do not know\n" + " Why yet I live to say 'This thing's to do;'\n" + " Sith I have cause and will and strength and means\n" + " To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:\n" + " Witness this army of such mass and charge\n" + " Led by a delicate and tender prince,\n" + " Whose spirit with divine ambition puff'd\n" + " Makes mouths at the invisible event,\n" + " Exposing what is mortal and unsure\n" + " To all that fortune, death and danger dare,\n" + " Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great\n" + " Is not to stir without great argument,\n" + " But greatly to find quarrel in a straw\n" + " When honour's at the stake. How stand I then,\n" + " That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,\n" + " Excitements of my reason and my blood,\n" + " And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see\n" + " The imminent death of twenty thousand men,\n" + " That, for a fantasy and trick of fame,\n" + " Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot\n" + " Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause,\n" + " Which is not tomb enough and continent\n" + " To hide the slain? O, from this time forth,\n" + " My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Elsinore. A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE, HORATIO, and a Gentleman]\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE I will not speak with her.\n\n" + "Gentleman She is importunate, indeed distract:\n" + " Her mood will needs be pitied.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE What would she have?\n\n" + "Gentleman She speaks much of her father; says she hears\n" + " There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart;\n" + " Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,\n" + " That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing,\n" + " Yet the unshaped use of it doth move\n" + " The hearers to collection; they aim at it,\n" + " And botch the words up fit to their own thoughts;\n" + " Which, as her winks, and nods, and gestures\n" + " yield them,\n" + " Indeed would make one think there might be thought,\n" + " Though nothing sure, yet much unhappily.\n\n" + "HORATIO 'Twere good she were spoken with; for she may strew\n" + " Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Let her come in.\n\n" + " [Exit HORATIO]\n\n" + " To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is,\n" + " Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss:\n" + " So full of artless jealousy is guilt,\n" + " It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.\n\n" + " [Re-enter HORATIO, with OPHELIA]\n\n" + "OPHELIA Where is the beauteous majesty of Denmark?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE How now, Ophelia!\n\n" + "OPHELIA [Sings]\n\n" + " How should I your true love know\n" + " From another one?\n" + " By his cockle hat and staff,\n" + " And his sandal shoon.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song?\n\n" + "OPHELIA Say you? nay, pray you, mark.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " He is dead and gone, lady,\n" + " He is dead and gone;\n" + " At his head a grass-green turf,\n" + " At his heels a stone.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Nay, but, Ophelia,--\n\n" + "OPHELIA Pray you, mark.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " White his shroud as the mountain snow,--\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS]\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Alas, look here, my lord.\n\n" + "OPHELIA [Sings]\n\n" + " Larded with sweet flowers\n" + " Which bewept to the grave did go\n" + " With true-love showers.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS How do you, pretty lady?\n\n" + "OPHELIA Well, God 'ild you! They say the owl was a baker's\n" + " daughter. Lord, we know what we are, but know not\n" + " what we may be. God be at your table!\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Conceit upon her father.\n\n" + "OPHELIA Pray you, let's have no words of this; but when they\n" + " ask you what it means, say you this:\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,\n" + " All in the morning betime,\n" + " And I a maid at your window,\n" + " To be your Valentine.\n" + " Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,\n" + " And dupp'd the chamber-door;\n" + " Let in the maid, that out a maid\n" + " Never departed more.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Pretty Ophelia!\n\n" + "OPHELIA Indeed, la, without an oath, I'll make an end on't:\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " By Gis and by Saint Charity,\n" + " Alack, and fie for shame!\n" + " Young men will do't, if they come to't;\n" + " By cock, they are to blame.\n" + " Quoth she, before you tumbled me,\n" + " You promised me to wed.\n" + " So would I ha' done, by yonder sun,\n" + " An thou hadst not come to my bed.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS How long hath she been thus?\n\n" + "OPHELIA I hope all will be well. We must be patient: but I\n" + " cannot choose but weep, to think they should lay him\n" + " i' the cold ground. My brother shall know of it:\n" + " and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my\n" + " coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies;\n" + " good night, good night.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Follow her close; give her good watch,\n" + " I pray you.\n\n" + " [Exit HORATIO]\n\n" + " O, this is the poison of deep grief; it springs\n" + " All from her father's death. O Gertrude, Gertrude,\n" + " When sorrows come, they come not single spies\n" + " But in battalions. First, her father slain:\n" + " Next, your son gone; and he most violent author\n" + " Of his own just remove: the people muddied,\n" + " Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers,\n" + " For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly,\n" + " In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia\n" + " Divided from herself and her fair judgment,\n" + " Without the which we are pictures, or mere beasts:\n" + " Last, and as much containing as all these,\n" + " Her brother is in secret come from France;\n" + " Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds,\n" + " And wants not buzzers to infect his ear\n" + " With pestilent speeches of his father's death;\n" + " Wherein necessity, of matter beggar'd,\n" + " Will nothing stick our person to arraign\n" + " In ear and ear. O my dear Gertrude, this,\n" + " Like to a murdering-piece, in many places\n" + " Gives me superfluous death.\n\n" + " [A noise within]\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Alack, what noise is this?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door.\n\n" + " [Enter another Gentleman]\n\n" + " What is the matter?\n\n" + "Gentleman Save yourself, my lord:\n" + " The ocean, overpeering of his list,\n" + " Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste\n" + " Than young Laertes, in a riotous head,\n" + " O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord;\n" + " And, as the world were now but to begin,\n" + " Antiquity forgot, custom not known,\n" + " The ratifiers and props of every word,\n" + " They cry 'Choose we: Laertes shall be king:'\n" + " Caps, hands, and tongues, applaud it to the clouds:\n" + " 'Laertes shall be king, Laertes king!'\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE How cheerfully on the false trail they cry!\n" + " O, this is counter, you false Danish dogs!\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS The doors are broke.\n\n" + " [Noise within]\n\n" + " [Enter LAERTES, armed; Danes following]\n\n" + "LAERTES Where is this king? Sirs, stand you all without.\n\n" + "Danes No, let's come in.\n\n" + "LAERTES I pray you, give me leave.\n\n" + "Danes We will, we will.\n\n" + " [They retire without the door]\n\n" + "LAERTES I thank you: keep the door. O thou vile king,\n" + " Give me my father!\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Calmly, good Laertes.\n\n" + "LAERTES That drop of blood that's calm proclaims me bastard,\n" + " Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot\n" + " Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brow\n" + " Of my true mother.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS What is the cause, Laertes,\n" + " That thy rebellion looks so giant-like?\n" + " Let him go, Gertrude; do not fear our person:\n" + " There's such divinity doth hedge a king,\n" + " That treason can but peep to what it would,\n" + " Acts little of his will. Tell me, Laertes,\n" + " Why thou art thus incensed. Let him go, Gertrude.\n" + " Speak, man.\n\n" + "LAERTES Where is my father?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Dead.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE But not by him.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Let him demand his fill.\n\n" + "LAERTES How came he dead? I'll not be juggled with:\n" + " To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!\n" + " Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!\n" + " I dare damnation. To this point I stand,\n" + " That both the worlds I give to negligence,\n" + " Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged\n" + " Most thoroughly for my father.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Who shall stay you?\n\n" + "LAERTES My will, not all the world:\n" + " And for my means, I'll husband them so well,\n" + " They shall go far with little.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Good Laertes,\n" + " If you desire to know the certainty\n" + " Of your dear father's death, is't writ in your revenge,\n" + " That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe,\n" + " Winner and loser?\n\n" + "LAERTES None but his enemies.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Will you know them then?\n\n" + "LAERTES To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms;\n" + " And like the kind life-rendering pelican,\n" + " Repast them with my blood.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Why, now you speak\n" + " Like a good child and a true gentleman.\n" + " That I am guiltless of your father's death,\n" + " And am most sensible in grief for it,\n" + " It shall as level to your judgment pierce\n" + " As day does to your eye.\n\n" + "Danes [Within] Let her come in.\n\n" + "LAERTES How now! what noise is that?\n\n" + " [Re-enter OPHELIA]\n\n" + " O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt,\n" + " Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye!\n" + " By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight,\n" + " Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May!\n" + " Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia!\n" + " O heavens! is't possible, a young maid's wits\n" + " Should be as moral as an old man's life?\n" + " Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine,\n" + " It sends some precious instance of itself\n" + " After the thing it loves.\n\n" + "OPHELIA [Sings]\n\n" + " They bore him barefaced on the bier;\n" + " Hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny;\n" + " And in his grave rain'd many a tear:--\n" + " Fare you well, my dove!\n\n" + "LAERTES Hadst thou thy wits, and didst persuade revenge,\n" + " It could not move thus.\n\n" + "OPHELIA [Sings]\n\n" + " You must sing a-down a-down,\n" + " An you call him a-down-a.\n" + " O, how the wheel becomes it! It is the false\n" + " steward, that stole his master's daughter.\n\n" + "LAERTES This nothing's more than matter.\n\n" + "OPHELIA There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray,\n" + " love, remember: and there is pansies. that's for thoughts.\n\n" + "LAERTES A document in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted.\n\n" + "OPHELIA There's fennel for you, and columbines: there's rue\n" + " for you; and here's some for me: we may call it\n" + " herb-grace o' Sundays: O you must wear your rue with\n" + " a difference. There's a daisy: I would give you\n" + " some violets, but they withered all when my father\n" + " died: they say he made a good end,--\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.\n\n" + "LAERTES Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,\n" + " She turns to favour and to prettiness.\n\n" + "OPHELIA [Sings]\n\n" + " And will he not come again?\n" + " And will he not come again?\n" + " No, no, he is dead:\n" + " Go to thy death-bed:\n" + " He never will come again.\n\n" + " His beard was as white as snow,\n" + " All flaxen was his poll:\n" + " He is gone, he is gone,\n" + " And we cast away moan:\n" + " God ha' mercy on his soul!\n\n" + " And of all Christian souls, I pray God. God be wi' ye.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LAERTES Do you see this, O God?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, I must commune with your grief,\n" + " Or you deny me right. Go but apart,\n" + " Make choice of whom your wisest friends you will.\n" + " And they shall hear and judge 'twixt you and me:\n" + " If by direct or by collateral hand\n" + " They find us touch'd, we will our kingdom give,\n" + " Our crown, our life, and all that we can ours,\n" + " To you in satisfaction; but if not,\n" + " Be you content to lend your patience to us,\n" + " And we shall jointly labour with your soul\n" + " To give it due content.\n\n" + "LAERTES Let this be so;\n" + " His means of death, his obscure funeral--\n" + " No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones,\n" + " No noble rite nor formal ostentation--\n" + " Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heaven to earth,\n" + " That I must call't in question.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS So you shall;\n" + " And where the offence is let the great axe fall.\n" + " I pray you, go with me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Another room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HORATIO and a Servant]\n\n" + "HORATIO What are they that would speak with me?\n\n" + "Servant Sailors, sir: they say they have letters for you.\n\n" + "HORATIO Let them come in.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " I do not know from what part of the world\n" + " I should be greeted, if not from Lord Hamlet.\n\n" + " [Enter Sailors]\n\n" + "First Sailor God bless you, sir.\n\n" + "HORATIO Let him bless thee too.\n\n" + "First Sailor He shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for\n" + " you, sir; it comes from the ambassador that was\n" + " bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am\n" + " let to know it is.\n\n" + "HORATIO [Reads] 'Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked\n" + " this, give these fellows some means to the king:\n" + " they have letters for him. Ere we were two days old\n" + " at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us\n" + " chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on\n" + " a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded\n" + " them: on the instant they got clear of our ship; so\n" + " I alone became their prisoner. They have dealt with\n" + " me like thieves of mercy: but they knew what they\n" + " did; I am to do a good turn for them. Let the king\n" + " have the letters I have sent; and repair thou to me\n" + " with as much speed as thou wouldst fly death. I\n" + " have words to speak in thine ear will make thee\n" + " dumb; yet are they much too light for the bore of\n" + " the matter. These good fellows will bring thee\n" + " where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern hold their\n" + " course for England: of them I have much to tell\n" + " thee. Farewell.\n" + " 'He that thou knowest thine, HAMLET.'\n" + " Come, I will make you way for these your letters;\n" + " And do't the speedier, that you may direct me\n" + " To him from whom you brought them.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Another room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS and LAERTES]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Now must your conscience my acquaintance seal,\n" + " And you must put me in your heart for friend,\n" + " Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear,\n" + " That he which hath your noble father slain\n" + " Pursued my life.\n\n" + "LAERTES It well appears: but tell me\n" + " Why you proceeded not against these feats,\n" + " So crimeful and so capital in nature,\n" + " As by your safety, wisdom, all things else,\n" + " You mainly were stirr'd up.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS O, for two special reasons;\n" + " Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd,\n" + " But yet to me they are strong. The queen his mother\n" + " Lives almost by his looks; and for myself--\n" + " My virtue or my plague, be it either which--\n" + " She's so conjunctive to my life and soul,\n" + " That, as the star moves not but in his sphere,\n" + " I could not but by her. The other motive,\n" + " Why to a public count I might not go,\n" + " Is the great love the general gender bear him;\n" + " Who, dipping all his faults in their affection,\n" + " Would, like the spring that turneth wood to stone,\n" + " Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows,\n" + " Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind,\n" + " Would have reverted to my bow again,\n" + " And not where I had aim'd them.\n\n" + "LAERTES And so have I a noble father lost;\n" + " A sister driven into desperate terms,\n" + " Whose worth, if praises may go back again,\n" + " Stood challenger on mount of all the age\n" + " For her perfections: but my revenge will come.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Break not your sleeps for that: you must not think\n" + " That we are made of stuff so flat and dull\n" + " That we can let our beard be shook with danger\n" + " And think it pastime. You shortly shall hear more:\n" + " I loved your father, and we love ourself;\n" + " And that, I hope, will teach you to imagine--\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " How now! what news?\n\n" + "Messenger Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:\n" + " This to your majesty; this to the queen.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS From Hamlet! who brought them?\n\n" + "Messenger Sailors, my lord, they say; I saw them not:\n" + " They were given me by Claudio; he received them\n" + " Of him that brought them.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, you shall hear them. Leave us.\n\n" + " [Exit Messenger]\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'High and mighty, You shall know I am set naked on\n" + " your kingdom. To-morrow shall I beg leave to see\n" + " your kingly eyes: when I shall, first asking your\n" + " pardon thereunto, recount the occasion of my sudden\n" + " and more strange return. 'HAMLET.'\n" + " What should this mean? Are all the rest come back?\n" + " Or is it some abuse, and no such thing?\n\n" + "LAERTES Know you the hand?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS 'Tis Hamlets character. 'Naked!\n" + " And in a postscript here, he says 'alone.'\n" + " Can you advise me?\n\n" + "LAERTES I'm lost in it, my lord. But let him come;\n" + " It warms the very sickness in my heart,\n" + " That I shall live and tell him to his teeth,\n" + " 'Thus didest thou.'\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS If it be so, Laertes--\n" + " As how should it be so? how otherwise?--\n" + " Will you be ruled by me?\n\n" + "LAERTES Ay, my lord;\n" + " So you will not o'errule me to a peace.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS To thine own peace. If he be now return'd,\n" + " As checking at his voyage, and that he means\n" + " No more to undertake it, I will work him\n" + " To an exploit, now ripe in my device,\n" + " Under the which he shall not choose but fall:\n" + " And for his death no wind of blame shall breathe,\n" + " But even his mother shall uncharge the practise\n" + " And call it accident.\n\n" + "LAERTES My lord, I will be ruled;\n" + " The rather, if you could devise it so\n" + " That I might be the organ.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS It falls right.\n" + " You have been talk'd of since your travel much,\n" + " And that in Hamlet's hearing, for a quality\n" + " Wherein, they say, you shine: your sum of parts\n" + " Did not together pluck such envy from him\n" + " As did that one, and that, in my regard,\n" + " Of the unworthiest siege.\n\n" + "LAERTES What part is that, my lord?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS A very riband in the cap of youth,\n" + " Yet needful too; for youth no less becomes\n" + " The light and careless livery that it wears\n" + " Than settled age his sables and his weeds,\n" + " Importing health and graveness. Two months since,\n" + " Here was a gentleman of Normandy:--\n" + " I've seen myself, and served against, the French,\n" + " And they can well on horseback: but this gallant\n" + " Had witchcraft in't; he grew unto his seat;\n" + " And to such wondrous doing brought his horse,\n" + " As he had been incorpsed and demi-natured\n" + " With the brave beast: so far he topp'd my thought,\n" + " That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks,\n" + " Come short of what he did.\n\n" + "LAERTES A Norman was't?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS A Norman.\n\n" + "LAERTES Upon my life, Lamond.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS The very same.\n\n" + "LAERTES I know him well: he is the brooch indeed\n" + " And gem of all the nation.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS He made confession of you,\n" + " And gave you such a masterly report\n" + " For art and exercise in your defence\n" + " And for your rapier most especially,\n" + " That he cried out, 'twould be a sight indeed,\n" + " If one could match you: the scrimers of their nation,\n" + " He swore, had had neither motion, guard, nor eye,\n" + " If you opposed them. Sir, this report of his\n" + " Did Hamlet so envenom with his envy\n" + " That he could nothing do but wish and beg\n" + " Your sudden coming o'er, to play with him.\n" + " Now, out of this,--\n\n" + "LAERTES What out of this, my lord?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Laertes, was your father dear to you?\n" + " Or are you like the painting of a sorrow,\n" + " A face without a heart?\n\n" + "LAERTES Why ask you this?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Not that I think you did not love your father;\n" + " But that I know love is begun by time;\n" + " And that I see, in passages of proof,\n" + " Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.\n" + " There lives within the very flame of love\n" + " A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;\n" + " And nothing is at a like goodness still;\n" + " For goodness, growing to a plurisy,\n" + " Dies in his own too much: that we would do\n" + " We should do when we would; for this 'would' changes\n" + " And hath abatements and delays as many\n" + " As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;\n" + " And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,\n" + " That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer:--\n" + " Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake,\n" + " To show yourself your father's son in deed\n" + " More than in words?\n\n" + "LAERTES To cut his throat i' the church.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS No place, indeed, should murder sanctuarize;\n" + " Revenge should have no bounds. But, good Laertes,\n" + " Will you do this, keep close within your chamber.\n" + " Hamlet return'd shall know you are come home:\n" + " We'll put on those shall praise your excellence\n" + " And set a double varnish on the fame\n" + " The Frenchman gave you, bring you in fine together\n" + " And wager on your heads: he, being remiss,\n" + " Most generous and free from all contriving,\n" + " Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease,\n" + " Or with a little shuffling, you may choose\n" + " A sword unbated, and in a pass of practise\n" + " Requite him for your father.\n\n" + "LAERTES I will do't:\n" + " And, for that purpose, I'll anoint my sword.\n" + " I bought an unction of a mountebank,\n" + " So mortal that, but dip a knife in it,\n" + " Where it draws blood no cataplasm so rare,\n" + " Collected from all simples that have virtue\n" + " Under the moon, can save the thing from death\n" + " That is but scratch'd withal: I'll touch my point\n" + " With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly,\n" + " It may be death.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Let's further think of this;\n" + " Weigh what convenience both of time and means\n" + " May fit us to our shape: if this should fail,\n" + " And that our drift look through our bad performance,\n" + " 'Twere better not assay'd: therefore this project\n" + " Should have a back or second, that might hold,\n" + " If this should blast in proof. Soft! let me see:\n" + " We'll make a solemn wager on your cunnings: I ha't.\n" + " When in your motion you are hot and dry--\n" + " As make your bouts more violent to that end--\n" + " And that he calls for drink, I'll have prepared him\n" + " A chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping,\n" + " If he by chance escape your venom'd stuck,\n" + " Our purpose may hold there.\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN GERTRUDE]\n\n" + " How now, sweet queen!\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE One woe doth tread upon another's heel,\n" + " So fast they follow; your sister's drown'd, Laertes.\n\n" + "LAERTES Drown'd! O, where?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE There is a willow grows aslant a brook,\n" + " That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;\n" + " There with fantastic garlands did she come\n" + " Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples\n" + " That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,\n" + " But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:\n" + " There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds\n" + " Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;\n" + " When down her weedy trophies and herself\n" + " Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;\n" + " And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:\n" + " Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;\n" + " As one incapable of her own distress,\n" + " Or like a creature native and indued\n" + " Unto that element: but long it could not be\n" + " Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,\n" + " Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay\n" + " To muddy death.\n\n" + "LAERTES Alas, then, she is drown'd?\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Drown'd, drown'd.\n\n" + "LAERTES Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,\n" + " And therefore I forbid my tears: but yet\n" + " It is our trick; nature her custom holds,\n" + " Let shame say what it will: when these are gone,\n" + " The woman will be out. Adieu, my lord:\n" + " I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze,\n" + " But that this folly douts it.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Let's follow, Gertrude:\n" + " How much I had to do to calm his rage!\n" + " Now fear I this will give it start again;\n" + " Therefore let's follow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A churchyard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c]\n\n" + "First Clown Is she to be buried in Christian burial that\n" + " wilfully seeks her own salvation?\n\n" + "Second Clown I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave\n" + " straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it\n" + " Christian burial.\n\n" + "First Clown How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her\n" + " own defence?\n\n" + "Second Clown Why, 'tis found so.\n\n" + "First Clown It must be 'se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For\n" + " here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly,\n" + " it argues an act: and an act hath three branches: it\n" + " is, to act, to do, to perform: argal, she drowned\n" + " herself wittingly.\n\n" + "Second Clown Nay, but hear you, goodman delver,--\n\n" + "First Clown Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here\n" + " stands the man; good; if the man go to this water,\n" + " and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he\n" + " goes,--mark you that; but if the water come to him\n" + " and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he\n" + " that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.\n\n" + "Second Clown But is this law?\n\n" + "First Clown Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law.\n\n" + "Second Clown Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had not been\n" + " a gentlewoman, she should have been buried out o'\n" + " Christian burial.\n\n" + "First Clown Why, there thou say'st: and the more pity that\n" + " great folk should have countenance in this world to\n" + " drown or hang themselves, more than their even\n" + " Christian. Come, my spade. There is no ancient\n" + " gentleman but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers:\n" + " they hold up Adam's profession.\n\n" + "Second Clown Was he a gentleman?\n\n" + "First Clown He was the first that ever bore arms.\n\n" + "Second Clown Why, he had none.\n\n" + "First Clown What, art a heathen? How dost thou understand the\n" + " Scripture? The Scripture says 'Adam digged:'\n" + " could he dig without arms? I'll put another\n" + " question to thee: if thou answerest me not to the\n" + " purpose, confess thyself--\n\n" + "Second Clown Go to.\n\n" + "First Clown What is he that builds stronger than either the\n" + " mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?\n\n" + "Second Clown The gallows-maker; for that frame outlives a\n" + " thousand tenants.\n\n" + "First Clown I like thy wit well, in good faith: the gallows\n" + " does well; but how does it well? it does well to\n" + " those that do in: now thou dost ill to say the\n" + " gallows is built stronger than the church: argal,\n" + " the gallows may do well to thee. To't again, come.\n\n" + "Second Clown 'Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or\n" + " a carpenter?'\n\n" + "First Clown Ay, tell me that, and unyoke.\n\n" + "Second Clown Marry, now I can tell.\n\n" + "First Clown To't.\n\n" + "Second Clown Mass, I cannot tell.\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO, at a distance]\n\n" + "First Clown Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull\n" + " ass will not mend his pace with beating; and, when\n" + " you are asked this question next, say 'a\n" + " grave-maker: 'the houses that he makes last till\n" + " doomsday. Go, get thee to Yaughan: fetch me a\n" + " stoup of liquor.\n\n" + " [Exit Second Clown]\n\n" + " [He digs and sings]\n\n" + " In youth, when I did love, did love,\n" + " Methought it was very sweet,\n" + " To contract, O, the time, for, ah, my behove,\n" + " O, methought, there was nothing meet.\n\n" + "HAMLET Has this fellow no feeling of his business, that he\n" + " sings at grave-making?\n\n" + "HORATIO Custom hath made it in him a property of easiness.\n\n" + "HAMLET 'Tis e'en so: the hand of little employment hath\n" + " the daintier sense.\n\n" + "First Clown [Sings]\n\n" + " But age, with his stealing steps,\n" + " Hath claw'd me in his clutch,\n" + " And hath shipped me intil the land,\n" + " As if I had never been such.\n\n" + " [Throws up a skull]\n\n" + "HAMLET That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once:\n" + " how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were\n" + " Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It\n" + " might be the pate of a politician, which this ass\n" + " now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God,\n" + " might it not?\n\n" + "HORATIO It might, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Or of a courtier; which could say 'Good morrow,\n" + " sweet lord! How dost thou, good lord?' This might\n" + " be my lord such-a-one, that praised my lord\n" + " such-a-one's horse, when he meant to beg it; might it not?\n\n" + "HORATIO Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and\n" + " knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade:\n" + " here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to\n" + " see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding,\n" + " but to play at loggats with 'em? mine ache to think on't.\n\n" + "First Clown: [Sings]\n\n" + " A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade,\n" + " For and a shrouding sheet:\n" + " O, a pit of clay for to be made\n" + " For such a guest is meet.\n\n" + " [Throws up another skull]\n\n" + "HAMLET There's another: why may not that be the skull of a\n" + " lawyer? Where be his quiddities now, his quillets,\n" + " his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? why does he\n" + " suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the\n" + " sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of\n" + " his action of battery? Hum! This fellow might be\n" + " in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes,\n" + " his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers,\n" + " his recoveries: is this the fine of his fines, and\n" + " the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine\n" + " pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him\n" + " no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than\n" + " the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The\n" + " very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in\n" + " this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?\n\n" + "HORATIO Not a jot more, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Is not parchment made of sheepskins?\n\n" + "HORATIO Ay, my lord, and of calf-skins too.\n\n" + "HAMLET They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance\n" + " in that. I will speak to this fellow. Whose\n" + " grave's this, sirrah?\n\n" + "First Clown Mine, sir.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " O, a pit of clay for to be made\n" + " For such a guest is meet.\n\n" + "HAMLET I think it be thine, indeed; for thou liest in't.\n\n" + "First Clown You lie out on't, sir, and therefore it is not\n" + " yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, and yet it is mine.\n\n" + "HAMLET 'Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine:\n" + " 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.\n\n" + "First Clown 'Tis a quick lie, sir; 'twill away gain, from me to\n" + " you.\n\n" + "HAMLET What man dost thou dig it for?\n\n" + "First Clown For no man, sir.\n\n" + "HAMLET What woman, then?\n\n" + "First Clown For none, neither.\n\n" + "HAMLET Who is to be buried in't?\n\n" + "First Clown One that was a woman, sir; but, rest her soul, she's dead.\n\n" + "HAMLET How absolute the knave is! we must speak by the\n" + " card, or equivocation will undo us. By the Lord,\n" + " Horatio, these three years I have taken a note of\n" + " it; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the\n" + " peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he\n" + " gaffs his kibe. How long hast thou been a\n" + " grave-maker?\n\n" + "First Clown Of all the days i' the year, I came to't that day\n" + " that our last king Hamlet overcame Fortinbras.\n\n" + "HAMLET How long is that since?\n\n" + "First Clown Cannot you tell that? every fool can tell that: it\n" + " was the very day that young Hamlet was born; he that\n" + " is mad, and sent into England.\n\n" + "HAMLET Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?\n\n" + "First Clown Why, because he was mad: he shall recover his wits\n" + " there; or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why?\n\n" + "First Clown 'Twill, a not be seen in him there; there the men\n" + " are as mad as he.\n\n" + "HAMLET How came he mad?\n\n" + "First Clown Very strangely, they say.\n\n" + "HAMLET How strangely?\n\n" + "First Clown Faith, e'en with losing his wits.\n\n" + "HAMLET Upon what ground?\n\n" + "First Clown Why, here in Denmark: I have been sexton here, man\n" + " and boy, thirty years.\n\n" + "HAMLET How long will a man lie i' the earth ere he rot?\n\n" + "First Clown I' faith, if he be not rotten before he die--as we\n" + " have many pocky corses now-a-days, that will scarce\n" + " hold the laying in--he will last you some eight year\n" + " or nine year: a tanner will last you nine year.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why he more than another?\n\n" + "First Clown Why, sir, his hide is so tanned with his trade, that\n" + " he will keep out water a great while; and your water\n" + " is a sore decayer of your whoreson dead body.\n" + " Here's a skull now; this skull has lain in the earth\n" + " three and twenty years.\n\n" + "HAMLET Whose was it?\n\n" + "First Clown A whoreson mad fellow's it was: whose do you think it was?\n\n" + "HAMLET Nay, I know not.\n\n" + "First Clown A pestilence on him for a mad rogue! a' poured a\n" + " flagon of Rhenish on my head once. This same skull,\n" + " sir, was Yorick's skull, the king's jester.\n\n" + "HAMLET This?\n\n" + "First Clown E'en that.\n\n" + "HAMLET Let me see.\n\n" + " [Takes the skull]\n\n" + " Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow\n" + " of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath\n" + " borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how\n" + " abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at\n" + " it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know\n" + " not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your\n" + " gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,\n" + " that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one\n" + " now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?\n" + " Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let\n" + " her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must\n" + " come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell\n" + " me one thing.\n\n" + "HORATIO What's that, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i'\n" + " the earth?\n\n" + "HORATIO E'en so.\n\n" + "HAMLET And smelt so? pah!\n\n" + " [Puts down the skull]\n\n" + "HORATIO E'en so, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may\n" + " not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,\n" + " till he find it stopping a bung-hole?\n\n" + "HORATIO 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.\n\n" + "HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with\n" + " modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as\n" + " thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,\n" + " Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of\n" + " earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he\n" + " was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?\n" + " Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,\n" + " Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:\n" + " O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,\n" + " Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!\n" + " But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king.\n\n" + " [Enter Priest, &c. in procession; the Corpse of\n" + " OPHELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following; KING\n" + " CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their trains, &c]\n\n" + " The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow?\n" + " And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken\n" + " The corse they follow did with desperate hand\n" + " Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate.\n" + " Couch we awhile, and mark.\n\n" + " [Retiring with HORATIO]\n\n" + "LAERTES What ceremony else?\n\n" + "HAMLET That is Laertes,\n" + " A very noble youth: mark.\n\n" + "LAERTES What ceremony else?\n\n" + "First Priest Her obsequies have been as far enlarged\n" + " As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful;\n" + " And, but that great command o'ersways the order,\n" + " She should in ground unsanctified have lodged\n" + " Till the last trumpet: for charitable prayers,\n" + " Shards, flints and pebbles should be thrown on her;\n" + " Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants,\n" + " Her maiden strewments and the bringing home\n" + " Of bell and burial.\n\n" + "LAERTES Must there no more be done?\n\n" + "First Priest No more be done:\n" + " We should profane the service of the dead\n" + " To sing a requiem and such rest to her\n" + " As to peace-parted souls.\n\n" + "LAERTES Lay her i' the earth:\n" + " And from her fair and unpolluted flesh\n" + " May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest,\n" + " A ministering angel shall my sister be,\n" + " When thou liest howling.\n\n" + "HAMLET What, the fair Ophelia!\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Sweets to the sweet: farewell!\n\n" + " [Scattering flowers]\n\n" + " I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet's wife;\n" + " I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid,\n" + " And not have strew'd thy grave.\n\n" + "LAERTES O, treble woe\n" + " Fall ten times treble on that cursed head,\n" + " Whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense\n" + " Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,\n" + " Till I have caught her once more in mine arms:\n\n" + " [Leaps into the grave]\n\n" + " Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead,\n" + " Till of this flat a mountain you have made,\n" + " To o'ertop old Pelion, or the skyish head\n" + " Of blue Olympus.\n\n" + "HAMLET [Advancing] What is he whose grief\n" + " Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow\n" + " Conjures the wandering stars, and makes them stand\n" + " Like wonder-wounded hearers? This is I,\n" + " Hamlet the Dane.\n\n" + " [Leaps into the grave]\n\n" + "LAERTES The devil take thy soul!\n\n" + " [Grappling with him]\n\n" + "HAMLET Thou pray'st not well.\n" + " I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat;\n" + " For, though I am not splenitive and rash,\n" + " Yet have I something in me dangerous,\n" + " Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Pluck them asunder.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Hamlet, Hamlet!\n\n" + "All Gentlemen,--\n\n" + "HORATIO Good my lord, be quiet.\n\n" + " [The Attendants part them, and they come out of the grave]\n\n" + "HAMLET Why I will fight with him upon this theme\n" + " Until my eyelids will no longer wag.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE O my son, what theme?\n\n" + "HAMLET I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers\n" + " Could not, with all their quantity of love,\n" + " Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS O, he is mad, Laertes.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE For love of God, forbear him.\n\n" + "HAMLET 'Swounds, show me what thou'lt do:\n" + " Woo't weep? woo't fight? woo't fast? woo't tear thyself?\n" + " Woo't drink up eisel? eat a crocodile?\n" + " I'll do't. Dost thou come here to whine?\n" + " To outface me with leaping in her grave?\n" + " Be buried quick with her, and so will I:\n" + " And, if thou prate of mountains, let them throw\n" + " Millions of acres on us, till our ground,\n" + " Singeing his pate against the burning zone,\n" + " Make Ossa like a wart! Nay, an thou'lt mouth,\n" + " I'll rant as well as thou.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE This is mere madness:\n" + " And thus awhile the fit will work on him;\n" + " Anon, as patient as the female dove,\n" + " When that her golden couplets are disclosed,\n" + " His silence will sit drooping.\n\n" + "HAMLET Hear you, sir;\n" + " What is the reason that you use me thus?\n" + " I loved you ever: but it is no matter;\n" + " Let Hercules himself do what he may,\n" + " The cat will mew and dog will have his day.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS I pray you, good Horatio, wait upon him.\n\n" + " [Exit HORATIO]\n\n" + " [To LAERTES]\n\n" + " Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech;\n" + " We'll put the matter to the present push.\n" + " Good Gertrude, set some watch over your son.\n" + " This grave shall have a living monument:\n" + " An hour of quiet shortly shall we see;\n" + " Till then, in patience our proceeding be.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n" + " HAMLET\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A hall in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HAMLET and HORATIO]\n\n" + "HAMLET So much for this, sir: now shall you see the other;\n" + " You do remember all the circumstance?\n\n" + "HORATIO Remember it, my lord?\n\n" + "HAMLET Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,\n" + " That would not let me sleep: methought I lay\n" + " Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,\n" + " And praised be rashness for it, let us know,\n" + " Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,\n" + " When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us\n" + " There's a divinity that shapes our ends,\n" + " Rough-hew them how we will,--\n\n" + "HORATIO That is most certain.\n\n" + "HAMLET Up from my cabin,\n" + " My sea-gown scarf'd about me, in the dark\n" + " Groped I to find out them; had my desire.\n" + " Finger'd their packet, and in fine withdrew\n" + " To mine own room again; making so bold,\n" + " My fears forgetting manners, to unseal\n" + " Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio,--\n" + " O royal knavery!--an exact command,\n" + " Larded with many several sorts of reasons\n" + " Importing Denmark's health and England's too,\n" + " With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life,\n" + " That, on the supervise, no leisure bated,\n" + " No, not to stay the grinding of the axe,\n" + " My head should be struck off.\n\n" + "HORATIO Is't possible?\n\n" + "HAMLET Here's the commission: read it at more leisure.\n" + " But wilt thou hear me how I did proceed?\n\n" + "HORATIO I beseech you.\n\n" + "HAMLET Being thus be-netted round with villanies,--\n" + " Ere I could make a prologue to my brains,\n" + " They had begun the play--I sat me down,\n" + " Devised a new commission, wrote it fair:\n" + " I once did hold it, as our statists do,\n" + " A baseness to write fair and labour'd much\n" + " How to forget that learning, but, sir, now\n" + " It did me yeoman's service: wilt thou know\n" + " The effect of what I wrote?\n\n" + "HORATIO Ay, good my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET An earnest conjuration from the king,\n" + " As England was his faithful tributary,\n" + " As love between them like the palm might flourish,\n" + " As peace should stiff her wheaten garland wear\n" + " And stand a comma 'tween their amities,\n" + " And many such-like 'As'es of great charge,\n" + " That, on the view and knowing of these contents,\n" + " Without debatement further, more or less,\n" + " He should the bearers put to sudden death,\n" + " Not shriving-time allow'd.\n\n" + "HORATIO How was this seal'd?\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, even in that was heaven ordinant.\n" + " I had my father's signet in my purse,\n" + " Which was the model of that Danish seal;\n" + " Folded the writ up in form of the other,\n" + " Subscribed it, gave't the impression, placed it safely,\n" + " The changeling never known. Now, the next day\n" + " Was our sea-fight; and what to this was sequent\n" + " Thou know'st already.\n\n" + "HORATIO So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't.\n\n" + "HAMLET Why, man, they did make love to this employment;\n" + " They are not near my conscience; their defeat\n" + " Does by their own insinuation grow:\n" + " 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes\n" + " Between the pass and fell incensed points\n" + " Of mighty opposites.\n\n" + "HORATIO Why, what a king is this!\n\n" + "HAMLET Does it not, think'st thee, stand me now upon--\n" + " He that hath kill'd my king and whored my mother,\n" + " Popp'd in between the election and my hopes,\n" + " Thrown out his angle for my proper life,\n" + " And with such cozenage--is't not perfect conscience,\n" + " To quit him with this arm? and is't not to be damn'd,\n" + " To let this canker of our nature come\n" + " In further evil?\n\n" + "HORATIO It must be shortly known to him from England\n" + " What is the issue of the business there.\n\n" + "HAMLET It will be short: the interim is mine;\n" + " And a man's life's no more than to say 'One.'\n" + " But I am very sorry, good Horatio,\n" + " That to Laertes I forgot myself;\n" + " For, by the image of my cause, I see\n" + " The portraiture of his: I'll court his favours.\n" + " But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me\n" + " Into a towering passion.\n\n" + "HORATIO Peace! who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter OSRIC]\n\n" + "OSRIC Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.\n\n" + "HAMLET I humbly thank you, sir. Dost know this water-fly?\n\n" + "HORATIO No, my good lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET Thy state is the more gracious; for 'tis a vice to\n" + " know him. He hath much land, and fertile: let a\n" + " beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall stand at\n" + " the king's mess: 'tis a chough; but, as I say,\n" + " spacious in the possession of dirt.\n\n" + "OSRIC Sweet lord, if your lordship were at leisure, I\n" + " should impart a thing to you from his majesty.\n\n" + "HAMLET I will receive it, sir, with all diligence of\n" + " spirit. Put your bonnet to his right use; 'tis for the head.\n\n" + "OSRIC I thank your lordship, it is very hot.\n\n" + "HAMLET No, believe me, 'tis very cold; the wind is\n" + " northerly.\n\n" + "OSRIC It is indifferent cold, my lord, indeed.\n\n" + "HAMLET But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot for my\n" + " complexion.\n\n" + "OSRIC Exceedingly, my lord; it is very sultry,--as\n" + " 'twere,--I cannot tell how. But, my lord, his\n" + " majesty bade me signify to you that he has laid a\n" + " great wager on your head: sir, this is the matter,--\n\n" + "HAMLET I beseech you, remember--\n\n" + " [HAMLET moves him to put on his hat]\n\n" + "OSRIC Nay, good my lord; for mine ease, in good faith.\n" + " Sir, here is newly come to court Laertes; believe\n" + " me, an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent\n" + " differences, of very soft society and great showing:\n" + " indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the card or\n" + " calendar of gentry, for you shall find in him the\n" + " continent of what part a gentleman would see.\n\n" + "HAMLET Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you;\n" + " though, I know, to divide him inventorially would\n" + " dizzy the arithmetic of memory, and yet but yaw\n" + " neither, in respect of his quick sail. But, in the\n" + " verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of\n" + " great article; and his infusion of such dearth and\n" + " rareness, as, to make true diction of him, his\n" + " semblable is his mirror; and who else would trace\n" + " him, his umbrage, nothing more.\n\n" + "OSRIC Your lordship speaks most infallibly of him.\n\n" + "HAMLET The concernancy, sir? why do we wrap the gentleman\n" + " in our more rawer breath?\n\n" + "OSRIC Sir?\n\n" + "HORATIO Is't not possible to understand in another tongue?\n" + " You will do't, sir, really.\n\n" + "HAMLET What imports the nomination of this gentleman?\n\n" + "OSRIC Of Laertes?\n\n" + "HORATIO His purse is empty already; all's golden words are spent.\n\n" + "HAMLET Of him, sir.\n\n" + "OSRIC I know you are not ignorant--\n\n" + "HAMLET I would you did, sir; yet, in faith, if you did,\n" + " it would not much approve me. Well, sir?\n\n" + "OSRIC You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes is--\n\n" + "HAMLET I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with\n" + " him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to\n" + " know himself.\n\n" + "OSRIC I mean, sir, for his weapon; but in the imputation\n" + " laid on him by them, in his meed he's unfellowed.\n\n" + "HAMLET What's his weapon?\n\n" + "OSRIC Rapier and dagger.\n\n" + "HAMLET That's two of his weapons: but, well.\n\n" + "OSRIC The king, sir, hath wagered with him six Barbary\n" + " horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take\n" + " it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their\n" + " assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the\n" + " carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very\n" + " responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages,\n" + " and of very liberal conceit.\n\n" + "HAMLET What call you the carriages?\n\n" + "HORATIO I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.\n\n" + "OSRIC The carriages, sir, are the hangers.\n\n" + "HAMLET The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we\n" + " could carry cannon by our sides: I would it might\n" + " be hangers till then. But, on: six Barbary horses\n" + " against six French swords, their assigns, and three\n" + " liberal-conceited carriages; that's the French bet\n" + " against the Danish. Why is this 'imponed,' as you call it?\n\n" + "OSRIC The king, sir, hath laid, that in a dozen passes\n" + " between yourself and him, he shall not exceed you\n" + " three hits: he hath laid on twelve for nine; and it\n" + " would come to immediate trial, if your lordship\n" + " would vouchsafe the answer.\n\n" + "HAMLET How if I answer 'no'?\n\n" + "OSRIC I mean, my lord, the opposition of your person in trial.\n\n" + "HAMLET Sir, I will walk here in the hall: if it please his\n" + " majesty, 'tis the breathing time of day with me; let\n" + " the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the\n" + " king hold his purpose, I will win for him an I can;\n" + " if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.\n\n" + "OSRIC Shall I re-deliver you e'en so?\n\n" + "HAMLET To this effect, sir; after what flourish your nature will.\n\n" + "OSRIC I commend my duty to your lordship.\n\n" + "HAMLET Yours, yours.\n\n" + " [Exit OSRIC]\n\n" + " He does well to commend it himself; there are no\n" + " tongues else for's turn.\n\n" + "HORATIO This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.\n\n" + "HAMLET He did comply with his dug, before he sucked it.\n" + " Thus has he--and many more of the same bevy that I\n" + " know the dressy age dotes on--only got the tune of\n" + " the time and outward habit of encounter; a kind of\n" + " yesty collection, which carries them through and\n" + " through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do\n" + " but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out.\n\n" + " [Enter a Lord]\n\n" + "Lord My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young\n" + " Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in\n" + " the hall: he sends to know if your pleasure hold to\n" + " play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.\n\n" + "HAMLET I am constant to my purpose; they follow the king's\n" + " pleasure: if his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now\n" + " or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.\n\n" + "Lord The king and queen and all are coming down.\n\n" + "HAMLET In happy time.\n\n" + "Lord The queen desires you to use some gentle\n" + " entertainment to Laertes before you fall to play.\n\n" + "HAMLET She well instructs me.\n\n" + " [Exit Lord]\n\n" + "HORATIO You will lose this wager, my lord.\n\n" + "HAMLET I do not think so: since he went into France, I\n" + " have been in continual practise: I shall win at the\n" + " odds. But thou wouldst not think how ill all's here\n" + " about my heart: but it is no matter.\n\n" + "HORATIO Nay, good my lord,--\n\n" + "HAMLET It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of\n" + " gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.\n\n" + "HORATIO If your mind dislike any thing, obey it: I will\n" + " forestall their repair hither, and say you are not\n" + " fit.\n\n" + "HAMLET Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special\n" + " providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,\n" + " 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be\n" + " now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the\n" + " readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he\n" + " leaves, what is't to leave betimes?\n\n" + " [Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, LAERTES,\n" + " Lords, OSRIC, and Attendants with foils, &c]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Come, Hamlet, come, and take this hand from me.\n\n" + " [KING CLAUDIUS puts LAERTES' hand into HAMLET's]\n\n" + "HAMLET Give me your pardon, sir: I've done you wrong;\n" + " But pardon't, as you are a gentleman.\n" + " This presence knows,\n" + " And you must needs have heard, how I am punish'd\n" + " With sore distraction. What I have done,\n" + " That might your nature, honour and exception\n" + " Roughly awake, I here proclaim was madness.\n" + " Was't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never Hamlet:\n" + " If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away,\n" + " And when he's not himself does wrong Laertes,\n" + " Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it.\n" + " Who does it, then? His madness: if't be so,\n" + " Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;\n" + " His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.\n" + " Sir, in this audience,\n" + " Let my disclaiming from a purposed evil\n" + " Free me so far in your most generous thoughts,\n" + " That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,\n" + " And hurt my brother.\n\n" + "LAERTES I am satisfied in nature,\n" + " Whose motive, in this case, should stir me most\n" + " To my revenge: but in my terms of honour\n" + " I stand aloof; and will no reconcilement,\n" + " Till by some elder masters, of known honour,\n" + " I have a voice and precedent of peace,\n" + " To keep my name ungored. But till that time,\n" + " I do receive your offer'd love like love,\n" + " And will not wrong it.\n\n" + "HAMLET I embrace it freely;\n" + " And will this brother's wager frankly play.\n" + " Give us the foils. Come on.\n\n" + "LAERTES Come, one for me.\n\n" + "HAMLET I'll be your foil, Laertes: in mine ignorance\n" + " Your skill shall, like a star i' the darkest night,\n" + " Stick fiery off indeed.\n\n" + "LAERTES You mock me, sir.\n\n" + "HAMLET No, by this hand.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Give them the foils, young Osric. Cousin Hamlet,\n" + " You know the wager?\n\n" + "HAMLET Very well, my lord\n" + " Your grace hath laid the odds o' the weaker side.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS I do not fear it; I have seen you both:\n" + " But since he is better'd, we have therefore odds.\n\n" + "LAERTES This is too heavy, let me see another.\n\n" + "HAMLET This likes me well. These foils have all a length?\n\n" + " [They prepare to play]\n\n" + "OSRIC Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Set me the stoops of wine upon that table.\n" + " If Hamlet give the first or second hit,\n" + " Or quit in answer of the third exchange,\n" + " Let all the battlements their ordnance fire:\n" + " The king shall drink to Hamlet's better breath;\n" + " And in the cup an union shall he throw,\n" + " Richer than that which four successive kings\n" + " In Denmark's crown have worn. Give me the cups;\n" + " And let the kettle to the trumpet speak,\n" + " The trumpet to the cannoneer without,\n" + " The cannons to the heavens, the heavens to earth,\n" + " 'Now the king dunks to Hamlet.' Come, begin:\n" + " And you, the judges, bear a wary eye.\n\n" + "HAMLET Come on, sir.\n\n" + "LAERTES Come, my lord.\n\n" + " [They play]\n\n" + "HAMLET One.\n\n" + "LAERTES No.\n\n" + "HAMLET Judgment.\n\n" + "OSRIC A hit, a very palpable hit.\n\n" + "LAERTES Well; again.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Stay; give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine;\n" + " Here's to thy health.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound, and cannon shot off within]\n\n" + " Give him the cup.\n\n" + "HAMLET I'll play this bout first; set it by awhile. Come.\n\n" + " [They play]\n\n" + " Another hit; what say you?\n\n" + "LAERTES A touch, a touch, I do confess.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Our son shall win.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE He's fat, and scant of breath.\n" + " Here, Hamlet, take my napkin, rub thy brows;\n" + " The queen carouses to thy fortune, Hamlet.\n\n" + "HAMLET Good madam!\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Gertrude, do not drink.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE I will, my lord; I pray you, pardon me.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS [Aside] It is the poison'd cup: it is too late.\n\n" + "HAMLET I dare not drink yet, madam; by and by.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE Come, let me wipe thy face.\n\n" + "LAERTES My lord, I'll hit him now.\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS I do not think't.\n\n" + "LAERTES [Aside] And yet 'tis almost 'gainst my conscience.\n\n" + "HAMLET Come, for the third, Laertes: you but dally;\n" + " I pray you, pass with your best violence;\n" + " I am afeard you make a wanton of me.\n\n" + "LAERTES Say you so? come on.\n\n" + " [They play]\n\n" + "OSRIC Nothing, neither way.\n\n" + "LAERTES Have at you now!\n\n" + " [LAERTES wounds HAMLET; then in scuffling, they\n" + " change rapiers, and HAMLET wounds LAERTES]\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS Part them; they are incensed.\n\n" + "HAMLET Nay, come, again.\n\n" + " [QUEEN GERTRUDE falls]\n\n" + "OSRIC Look to the queen there, ho!\n\n" + "HORATIO They bleed on both sides. How is it, my lord?\n\n" + "OSRIC How is't, Laertes?\n\n" + "LAERTES Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric;\n" + " I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery.\n\n" + "HAMLET How does the queen?\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS She swounds to see them bleed.\n\n" + "QUEEN GERTRUDE No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--\n" + " The drink, the drink! I am poison'd.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "HAMLET O villany! Ho! let the door be lock'd:\n" + " Treachery! Seek it out.\n\n" + "LAERTES It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain;\n" + " No medicine in the world can do thee good;\n" + " In thee there is not half an hour of life;\n" + " The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,\n" + " Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise\n" + " Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie,\n" + " Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd:\n" + " I can no more: the king, the king's to blame.\n\n" + "HAMLET The point!--envenom'd too!\n" + " Then, venom, to thy work.\n\n" + " [Stabs KING CLAUDIUS]\n\n" + "All Treason! treason!\n\n" + "KING CLAUDIUS O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.\n\n" + "HAMLET Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,\n" + " Drink off this potion. Is thy union here?\n" + " Follow my mother.\n\n" + " [KING CLAUDIUS dies]\n\n" + "LAERTES He is justly served;\n" + " It is a poison temper'd by himself.\n" + " Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:\n" + " Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,\n" + " Nor thine on me.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "HAMLET Heaven make thee free of it! I follow thee.\n" + " I am dead, Horatio. Wretched queen, adieu!\n" + " You that look pale and tremble at this chance,\n" + " That are but mutes or audience to this act,\n" + " Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,\n" + " Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you--\n" + " But let it be. Horatio, I am dead;\n" + " Thou livest; report me and my cause aright\n" + " To the unsatisfied.\n\n" + "HORATIO Never believe it:\n" + " I am more an antique Roman than a Dane:\n" + " Here's yet some liquor left.\n\n" + "HAMLET As thou'rt a man,\n" + " Give me the cup: let go; by heaven, I'll have't.\n" + " O good Horatio, what a wounded name,\n" + " Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!\n" + " If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart\n" + " Absent thee from felicity awhile,\n" + " And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,\n" + " To tell my story.\n\n" + " [March afar off, and shot within]\n\n" + " What warlike noise is this?\n\n" + "OSRIC Young Fortinbras, with conquest come from Poland,\n" + " To the ambassadors of England gives\n" + " This warlike volley.\n\n" + "HAMLET O, I die, Horatio;\n" + " The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:\n" + " I cannot live to hear the news from England;\n" + " But I do prophesy the election lights\n" + " On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;\n" + " So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,\n" + " Which have solicited. The rest is silence.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "HORATIO Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:\n" + " And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!\n" + " Why does the drum come hither?\n\n" + " [March within]\n\n" + " [Enter FORTINBRAS, the English Ambassadors,\n" + " and others]\n\n" + "PRINCE FORTINBRAS Where is this sight?\n\n" + "HORATIO What is it ye would see?\n" + " If aught of woe or wonder, cease your search.\n\n" + "PRINCE FORTINBRAS This quarry cries on havoc. O proud death,\n" + " What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,\n" + " That thou so many princes at a shot\n" + " So bloodily hast struck?\n\n" + "First Ambassador The sight is dismal;\n" + " And our affairs from England come too late:\n" + " The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,\n" + " To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,\n" + " That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:\n" + " Where should we have our thanks?\n\n" + "HORATIO Not from his mouth,\n" + " Had it the ability of life to thank you:\n" + " He never gave commandment for their death.\n" + " But since, so jump upon this bloody question,\n" + " You from the Polack wars, and you from England,\n" + " Are here arrived give order that these bodies\n" + " High on a stage be placed to the view;\n" + " And let me speak to the yet unknowing world\n" + " How these things came about: so shall you hear\n" + " Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,\n" + " Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,\n" + " Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,\n" + " And, in this upshot, purposes mistook\n" + " Fall'n on the inventors' reads: all this can I\n" + " Truly deliver.\n\n" + "PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let us haste to hear it,\n" + " And call the noblest to the audience.\n" + " For me, with sorrow I embrace my fortune:\n" + " I have some rights of memory in this kingdom,\n" + " Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.\n\n" + "HORATIO Of that I shall have also cause to speak,\n" + " And from his mouth whose voice will draw on more;\n" + " But let this same be presently perform'd,\n" + " Even while men's minds are wild; lest more mischance\n" + " On plots and errors, happen.\n\n" + "PRINCE FORTINBRAS Let four captains\n" + " Bear Hamlet, like a soldier, to the stage;\n" + " For he was likely, had he been put on,\n" + " To have proved most royally: and, for his passage,\n" + " The soldiers' music and the rites of war\n" + " Speak loudly for him.\n" + " Take up the bodies: such a sight as this\n" + " Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss.\n" + " Go, bid the soldiers shoot.\n\n" + " [A dead march. Exeunt, bearing off the dead\n" + " bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off]\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "JULIUS CAESAR (CAESAR:)\n\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS CAESAR (OCTAVIUS:) |\n" + " |\n" + "MARCUS ANTONIUS (ANTONY:) | triumvirs after death of Julius Caesar.\n" + " |\n" + "M. AEMILIUS |\n" + "LEPIDUS (LEPIDUS:) |\n\n\n" + "CICERO |\n" + " |\n" + "PUBLIUS | senators.\n" + " |\n" + "POPILIUS LENA (POPILIUS:) |\n\n\n" + "MARCUS BRUTUS (BRUTUS:) |\n" + " |\n" + "CASSIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "CASCA |\n" + " |\n" + "TREBONIUS |\n" + " | conspirators against Julius Caesar.\n" + "LIGARIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS |\n" + " |\n" + "METELLUS CIMBER |\n" + " |\n" + "CINNA |\n\n\n" + "FLAVIUS |\n" + " | tribunes.\n" + "MARULLUS |\n\n\n" + "ARTEMIDORUS\n" + "Of Cnidos a teacher of rhetoric. (ARTEMIDORUS:)\n\n" + "A Soothsayer (Soothsayer:)\n\n" + "CINNA a poet. (CINNA THE POET:)\n\n" + "Another Poet (Poet:)\n\n\n" + "LUCILIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "TITINIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "MESSALA | friends to Brutus and Cassius.\n" + " |\n" + "Young CATO (CATO:) |\n" + " |\n" + "VOLUMNIUS |\n\n\n" + "VARRO |\n" + " |\n" + "CLITUS |\n" + " |\n" + "CLAUDIUS |\n" + " | servants to Brutus.\n" + "STRATO |\n" + " |\n" + "LUCIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "DARDANIUS |\n\n\n" + "PINDARUS servant to Cassius.\n\n" + "CALPURNIA wife to Caesar.\n\n" + "PORTIA wife to Brutus.\n\n" + " Senators, Citizens, Guards, Attendants, &c.\n" + " (First Citizen:)\n" + " (Second Citizen:)\n" + " (Third Citizen:)\n" + " (Fourth Citizen:)\n" + " (First Commoner:)\n" + " (Second Commoner:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (First Soldier:)\n" + " (Second Soldier:)\n" + " (Third Soldier:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Rome: the neighbourhood of Sardis: the neighbourhood\n" + " of Philippi.\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners]\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:\n" + " Is this a holiday? what! know you not,\n" + " Being mechanical, you ought not walk\n" + " Upon a labouring day without the sign\n" + " Of your profession? Speak, what trade art thou?\n\n" + "First Commoner Why, sir, a carpenter.\n\n" + "MARULLUS Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?\n" + " What dost thou with thy best apparel on?\n" + " You, sir, what trade are you?\n\n" + "Second Commoner Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but,\n" + " as you would say, a cobbler.\n\n" + "MARULLUS But what trade art thou? answer me directly.\n\n" + "Second Commoner A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may use with a safe\n" + " conscience; which is, indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.\n\n" + "MARULLUS What trade, thou knave? thou naughty knave, what trade?\n\n" + "Second Commoner Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me: yet,\n" + " if you be out, sir, I can mend you.\n\n" + "MARULLUS What meanest thou by that? mend me, thou saucy fellow!\n\n" + "Second Commoner Why, sir, cobble you.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Thou art a cobbler, art thou?\n\n" + "Second Commoner Truly, sir, all that I live by is with the awl: I\n" + " meddle with no tradesman's matters, nor women's\n" + " matters, but with awl. I am, indeed, sir, a surgeon\n" + " to old shoes; when they are in great danger, I\n" + " recover them. As proper men as ever trod upon\n" + " neat's leather have gone upon my handiwork.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS But wherefore art not in thy shop today?\n" + " Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?\n\n" + "Second Commoner Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself\n" + " into more work. But, indeed, sir, we make holiday,\n" + " to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.\n\n" + "MARULLUS Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?\n" + " What tributaries follow him to Rome,\n" + " To grace in captive bonds his chariot-wheels?\n" + " You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!\n" + " O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,\n" + " Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft\n" + " Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements,\n" + " To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops,\n" + " Your infants in your arms, and there have sat\n" + " The livelong day, with patient expectation,\n" + " To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome:\n" + " And when you saw his chariot but appear,\n" + " Have you not made an universal shout,\n" + " That Tiber trembled underneath her banks,\n" + " To hear the replication of your sounds\n" + " Made in her concave shores?\n" + " And do you now put on your best attire?\n" + " And do you now cull out a holiday?\n" + " And do you now strew flowers in his way\n" + " That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? Be gone!\n" + " Run to your houses, fall upon your knees,\n" + " Pray to the gods to intermit the plague\n" + " That needs must light on this ingratitude.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Go, go, good countrymen, and, for this fault,\n" + " Assemble all the poor men of your sort;\n" + " Draw them to Tiber banks, and weep your tears\n" + " Into the channel, till the lowest stream\n" + " Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all the Commoners]\n\n" + " See whether their basest metal be not moved;\n" + " They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness.\n" + " Go you down that way towards the Capitol;\n" + " This way will I disrobe the images,\n" + " If you do find them deck'd with ceremonies.\n\n" + "MARULLUS May we do so?\n" + " You know it is the feast of Lupercal.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS It is no matter; let no images\n" + " Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I'll about,\n" + " And drive away the vulgar from the streets:\n" + " So do you too, where you perceive them thick.\n" + " These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing\n" + " Will make him fly an ordinary pitch,\n" + " Who else would soar above the view of men\n" + " And keep us all in servile fearfulness.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A public place.\n\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter CAESAR; ANTONY, for the course;\n" + " CALPURNIA, PORTIA, DECIUS BRUTUS, CICERO, BRUTUS,\n" + " CASSIUS, and CASCA; a great crowd following, among\n" + " them a Soothsayer]\n\n" + "CAESAR Calpurnia!\n\n" + "CASCA Peace, ho! Caesar speaks.\n\n" + "CAESAR Calpurnia!\n\n" + "CALPURNIA Here, my lord.\n\n" + "CAESAR Stand you directly in Antonius' way,\n" + " When he doth run his course. Antonius!\n\n" + "ANTONY Caesar, my lord?\n\n" + "CAESAR Forget not, in your speed, Antonius,\n" + " To touch Calpurnia; for our elders say,\n" + " The barren, touched in this holy chase,\n" + " Shake off their sterile curse.\n\n" + "ANTONY I shall remember:\n" + " When Caesar says 'do this,' it is perform'd.\n\n" + "CAESAR Set on; and leave no ceremony out.\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n" + "Soothsayer Caesar!\n\n" + "CAESAR Ha! who calls?\n\n" + "CASCA Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!\n\n" + "CAESAR Who is it in the press that calls on me?\n" + " I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,\n" + " Cry 'Caesar!' Speak; Caesar is turn'd to hear.\n\n" + "Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.\n\n" + "CAESAR What man is that?\n\n" + "BRUTUS A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.\n\n" + "CAESAR Set him before me; let me see his face.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.\n\n" + "CAESAR What say'st thou to me now? speak once again.\n\n" + "Soothsayer Beware the ides of March.\n\n" + "CAESAR He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.\n\n" + " [Sennet. Exeunt all except BRUTUS and CASSIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS Will you go see the order of the course?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Not I.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I pray you, do.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I am not gamesome: I do lack some part\n" + " Of that quick spirit that is in Antony.\n" + " Let me not hinder, Cassius, your desires;\n" + " I'll leave you.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Brutus, I do observe you now of late:\n" + " I have not from your eyes that gentleness\n" + " And show of love as I was wont to have:\n" + " You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand\n" + " Over your friend that loves you.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Cassius,\n" + " Be not deceived: if I have veil'd my look,\n" + " I turn the trouble of my countenance\n" + " Merely upon myself. Vexed I am\n" + " Of late with passions of some difference,\n" + " Conceptions only proper to myself,\n" + " Which give some soil perhaps to my behaviors;\n" + " But let not therefore my good friends be grieved--\n" + " Among which number, Cassius, be you one--\n" + " Nor construe any further my neglect,\n" + " Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war,\n" + " Forgets the shows of love to other men.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Then, Brutus, I have much mistook your passion;\n" + " By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried\n" + " Thoughts of great value, worthy cogitations.\n" + " Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?\n\n" + "BRUTUS No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself,\n" + " But by reflection, by some other things.\n\n" + "CASSIUS 'Tis just:\n" + " And it is very much lamented, Brutus,\n" + " That you have no such mirrors as will turn\n" + " Your hidden worthiness into your eye,\n" + " That you might see your shadow. I have heard,\n" + " Where many of the best respect in Rome,\n" + " Except immortal Caesar, speaking of Brutus\n" + " And groaning underneath this age's yoke,\n" + " Have wish'd that noble Brutus had his eyes.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius,\n" + " That you would have me seek into myself\n" + " For that which is not in me?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Therefore, good Brutus, be prepared to hear:\n" + " And since you know you cannot see yourself\n" + " So well as by reflection, I, your glass,\n" + " Will modestly discover to yourself\n" + " That of yourself which you yet know not of.\n" + " And be not jealous on me, gentle Brutus:\n" + " Were I a common laugher, or did use\n" + " To stale with ordinary oaths my love\n" + " To every new protester; if you know\n" + " That I do fawn on men and hug them hard\n" + " And after scandal them, or if you know\n" + " That I profess myself in banqueting\n" + " To all the rout, then hold me dangerous.\n\n" + " [Flourish, and shout]\n\n" + "BRUTUS What means this shouting? I do fear, the people\n" + " Choose Caesar for their king.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Ay, do you fear it?\n" + " Then must I think you would not have it so.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well.\n" + " But wherefore do you hold me here so long?\n" + " What is it that you would impart to me?\n" + " If it be aught toward the general good,\n" + " Set honour in one eye and death i' the other,\n" + " And I will look on both indifferently,\n" + " For let the gods so speed me as I love\n" + " The name of honour more than I fear death.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I know that virtue to be in you, Brutus,\n" + " As well as I do know your outward favour.\n" + " Well, honour is the subject of my story.\n" + " I cannot tell what you and other men\n" + " Think of this life; but, for my single self,\n" + " I had as lief not be as live to be\n" + " In awe of such a thing as I myself.\n" + " I was born free as Caesar; so were you:\n" + " We both have fed as well, and we can both\n" + " Endure the winter's cold as well as he:\n" + " For once, upon a raw and gusty day,\n" + " The troubled Tiber chafing with her shores,\n" + " Caesar said to me 'Darest thou, Cassius, now\n" + " Leap in with me into this angry flood,\n" + " And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word,\n" + " Accoutred as I was, I plunged in\n" + " And bade him follow; so indeed he did.\n" + " The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it\n" + " With lusty sinews, throwing it aside\n" + " And stemming it with hearts of controversy;\n" + " But ere we could arrive the point proposed,\n" + " Caesar cried 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'\n" + " I, as Aeneas, our great ancestor,\n" + " Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder\n" + " The old Anchises bear, so from the waves of Tiber\n" + " Did I the tired Caesar. And this man\n" + " Is now become a god, and Cassius is\n" + " A wretched creature and must bend his body,\n" + " If Caesar carelessly but nod on him.\n" + " He had a fever when he was in Spain,\n" + " And when the fit was on him, I did mark\n" + " How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake;\n" + " His coward lips did from their colour fly,\n" + " And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world\n" + " Did lose his lustre: I did hear him groan:\n" + " Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans\n" + " Mark him and write his speeches in their books,\n" + " Alas, it cried 'Give me some drink, Titinius,'\n" + " As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me\n" + " A man of such a feeble temper should\n" + " So get the start of the majestic world\n" + " And bear the palm alone.\n\n" + " [Shout. Flourish]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Another general shout!\n" + " I do believe that these applauses are\n" + " For some new honours that are heap'd on Caesar.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world\n" + " Like a Colossus, and we petty men\n" + " Walk under his huge legs and peep about\n" + " To find ourselves dishonourable graves.\n" + " Men at some time are masters of their fates:\n" + " The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,\n" + " But in ourselves, that we are underlings.\n" + " Brutus and Caesar: what should be in that 'Caesar'?\n" + " Why should that name be sounded more than yours?\n" + " Write them together, yours is as fair a name;\n" + " Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well;\n" + " Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em,\n" + " Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.\n" + " Now, in the names of all the gods at once,\n" + " Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,\n" + " That he is grown so great? Age, thou art shamed!\n" + " Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!\n" + " When went there by an age, since the great flood,\n" + " But it was famed with more than with one man?\n" + " When could they say till now, that talk'd of Rome,\n" + " That her wide walls encompass'd but one man?\n" + " Now is it Rome indeed and room enough,\n" + " When there is in it but one only man.\n" + " O, you and I have heard our fathers say,\n" + " There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd\n" + " The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome\n" + " As easily as a king.\n\n" + "BRUTUS That you do love me, I am nothing jealous;\n" + " What you would work me to, I have some aim:\n" + " How I have thought of this and of these times,\n" + " I shall recount hereafter; for this present,\n" + " I would not, so with love I might entreat you,\n" + " Be any further moved. What you have said\n" + " I will consider; what you have to say\n" + " I will with patience hear, and find a time\n" + " Both meet to hear and answer such high things.\n" + " Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this:\n" + " Brutus had rather be a villager\n" + " Than to repute himself a son of Rome\n" + " Under these hard conditions as this time\n" + " Is like to lay upon us.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I am glad that my weak words\n" + " Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.\n\n" + "BRUTUS The games are done and Caesar is returning.\n\n" + "CASSIUS As they pass by, pluck Casca by the sleeve;\n" + " And he will, after his sour fashion, tell you\n" + " What hath proceeded worthy note to-day.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CAESAR and his Train]\n\n" + "BRUTUS I will do so. But, look you, Cassius,\n" + " The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow,\n" + " And all the rest look like a chidden train:\n" + " Calpurnia's cheek is pale; and Cicero\n" + " Looks with such ferret and such fiery eyes\n" + " As we have seen him in the Capitol,\n" + " Being cross'd in conference by some senators.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Casca will tell us what the matter is.\n\n" + "CAESAR Antonius!\n\n" + "ANTONY Caesar?\n\n" + "CAESAR Let me have men about me that are fat;\n" + " Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights:\n" + " Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;\n" + " He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.\n\n" + "ANTONY Fear him not, Caesar; he's not dangerous;\n" + " He is a noble Roman and well given.\n\n" + "CAESAR Would he were fatter! But I fear him not:\n" + " Yet if my name were liable to fear,\n" + " I do not know the man I should avoid\n" + " So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much;\n" + " He is a great observer and he looks\n" + " Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays,\n" + " As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;\n" + " Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort\n" + " As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit\n" + " That could be moved to smile at any thing.\n" + " Such men as he be never at heart's ease\n" + " Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,\n" + " And therefore are they very dangerous.\n" + " I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd\n" + " Than what I fear; for always I am Caesar.\n" + " Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,\n" + " And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.\n\n" + " [Sennet. Exeunt CAESAR and all his Train, but CASCA]\n\n" + "CASCA You pull'd me by the cloak; would you speak with me?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Ay, Casca; tell us what hath chanced to-day,\n" + " That Caesar looks so sad.\n\n" + "CASCA Why, you were with him, were you not?\n\n" + "BRUTUS I should not then ask Casca what had chanced.\n\n" + "CASCA Why, there was a crown offered him: and being\n" + " offered him, he put it by with the back of his hand,\n" + " thus; and then the people fell a-shouting.\n\n" + "BRUTUS What was the second noise for?\n\n" + "CASCA Why, for that too.\n\n" + "CASSIUS They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?\n\n" + "CASCA Why, for that too.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Was the crown offered him thrice?\n\n" + "CASCA Ay, marry, was't, and he put it by thrice, every\n" + " time gentler than other, and at every putting-by\n" + " mine honest neighbours shouted.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Who offered him the crown?\n\n" + "CASCA Why, Antony.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Tell us the manner of it, gentle Casca.\n\n" + "CASCA I can as well be hanged as tell the manner of it:\n" + " it was mere foolery; I did not mark it. I saw Mark\n" + " Antony offer him a crown;--yet 'twas not a crown\n" + " neither, 'twas one of these coronets;--and, as I told\n" + " you, he put it by once: but, for all that, to my\n" + " thinking, he would fain have had it. Then he\n" + " offered it to him again; then he put it by again:\n" + " but, to my thinking, he was very loath to lay his\n" + " fingers off it. And then he offered it the third\n" + " time; he put it the third time by: and still as he\n" + " refused it, the rabblement hooted and clapped their\n" + " chapped hands and threw up their sweaty night-caps\n" + " and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because\n" + " Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked\n" + " Caesar; for he swounded and fell down at it: and\n" + " for mine own part, I durst not laugh, for fear of\n" + " opening my lips and receiving the bad air.\n\n" + "CASSIUS But, soft, I pray you: what, did Caesar swound?\n\n" + "CASCA He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at\n" + " mouth, and was speechless.\n\n" + "BRUTUS 'Tis very like: he hath the failing sickness.\n\n" + "CASSIUS No, Caesar hath it not; but you and I,\n" + " And honest Casca, we have the falling sickness.\n\n" + "CASCA I know not what you mean by that; but, I am sure,\n" + " Caesar fell down. If the tag-rag people did not\n" + " clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and\n" + " displeased them, as they use to do the players in\n" + " the theatre, I am no true man.\n\n" + "BRUTUS What said he when he came unto himself?\n\n" + "CASCA Marry, before he fell down, when he perceived the\n" + " common herd was glad he refused the crown, he\n" + " plucked me ope his doublet and offered them his\n" + " throat to cut. An I had been a man of any\n" + " occupation, if I would not have taken him at a word,\n" + " I would I might go to hell among the rogues. And so\n" + " he fell. When he came to himself again, he said,\n" + " If he had done or said any thing amiss, he desired\n" + " their worships to think it was his infirmity. Three\n" + " or four wenches, where I stood, cried 'Alas, good\n" + " soul!' and forgave him with all their hearts: but\n" + " there's no heed to be taken of them; if Caesar had\n" + " stabbed their mothers, they would have done no less.\n\n" + "BRUTUS And after that, he came, thus sad, away?\n\n" + "CASCA Ay.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Did Cicero say any thing?\n\n" + "CASCA Ay, he spoke Greek.\n\n" + "CASSIUS To what effect?\n\n" + "CASCA Nay, an I tell you that, Ill ne'er look you i' the\n" + " face again: but those that understood him smiled at\n" + " one another and shook their heads; but, for mine own\n" + " part, it was Greek to me. I could tell you more\n" + " news too: Marullus and Flavius, for pulling scarfs\n" + " off Caesar's images, are put to silence. Fare you\n" + " well. There was more foolery yet, if I could\n" + " remember it.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Will you sup with me to-night, Casca?\n\n" + "CASCA No, I am promised forth.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Will you dine with me to-morrow?\n\n" + "CASCA Ay, if I be alive and your mind hold and your dinner\n" + " worth the eating.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Good: I will expect you.\n\n" + "CASCA Do so. Farewell, both.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BRUTUS What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!\n" + " He was quick mettle when he went to school.\n\n" + "CASSIUS So is he now in execution\n" + " Of any bold or noble enterprise,\n" + " However he puts on this tardy form.\n" + " This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit,\n" + " Which gives men stomach to digest his words\n" + " With better appetite.\n\n" + "BRUTUS And so it is. For this time I will leave you:\n" + " To-morrow, if you please to speak with me,\n" + " I will come home to you; or, if you will,\n" + " Come home to me, and I will wait for you.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I will do so: till then, think of the world.\n\n" + " [Exit BRUTUS]\n\n" + " Well, Brutus, thou art noble; yet, I see,\n" + " Thy honourable metal may be wrought\n" + " From that it is disposed: therefore it is meet\n" + " That noble minds keep ever with their likes;\n" + " For who so firm that cannot be seduced?\n" + " Caesar doth bear me hard; but he loves Brutus:\n" + " If I were Brutus now and he were Cassius,\n" + " He should not humour me. I will this night,\n" + " In several hands, in at his windows throw,\n" + " As if they came from several citizens,\n" + " Writings all tending to the great opinion\n" + " That Rome holds of his name; wherein obscurely\n" + " Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at:\n" + " And after this let Caesar seat him sure;\n" + " For we will shake him, or worse days endure.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. A street.\n\n\n\n\n" + " [Thunder and lightning. Enter from opposite sides,\n" + " CASCA, with his sword drawn, and CICERO]\n\n" + "CICERO Good even, Casca: brought you Caesar home?\n" + " Why are you breathless? and why stare you so?\n\n" + "CASCA Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth\n" + " Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,\n" + " I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds\n" + " Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen\n" + " The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,\n" + " To be exalted with the threatening clouds:\n" + " But never till to-night, never till now,\n" + " Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.\n" + " Either there is a civil strife in heaven,\n" + " Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,\n" + " Incenses them to send destruction.\n\n" + "CICERO Why, saw you any thing more wonderful?\n\n" + "CASCA A common slave--you know him well by sight--\n" + " Held up his left hand, which did flame and burn\n" + " Like twenty torches join'd, and yet his hand,\n" + " Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd.\n" + " Besides--I ha' not since put up my sword--\n" + " Against the Capitol I met a lion,\n" + " Who glared upon me, and went surly by,\n" + " Without annoying me: and there were drawn\n" + " Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women,\n" + " Transformed with their fear; who swore they saw\n" + " Men all in fire walk up and down the streets.\n" + " And yesterday the bird of night did sit\n" + " Even at noon-day upon the market-place,\n" + " Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies\n" + " Do so conjointly meet, let not men say\n" + " 'These are their reasons; they are natural;'\n" + " For, I believe, they are portentous things\n" + " Unto the climate that they point upon.\n\n" + "CICERO Indeed, it is a strange-disposed time:\n" + " But men may construe things after their fashion,\n" + " Clean from the purpose of the things themselves.\n" + " Come Caesar to the Capitol to-morrow?\n\n" + "CASCA He doth; for he did bid Antonius\n" + " Send word to you he would be there to-morrow.\n\n" + "CICERO Good night then, Casca: this disturbed sky\n" + " Is not to walk in.\n\n" + "CASCA Farewell, Cicero.\n\n" + " [Exit CICERO]\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS Who's there?\n\n" + "CASCA A Roman.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Casca, by your voice.\n\n" + "CASCA Your ear is good. Cassius, what night is this!\n\n" + "CASSIUS A very pleasing night to honest men.\n\n" + "CASCA Who ever knew the heavens menace so?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Those that have known the earth so full of faults.\n" + " For my part, I have walk'd about the streets,\n" + " Submitting me unto the perilous night,\n" + " And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see,\n" + " Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone;\n" + " And when the cross blue lightning seem'd to open\n" + " The breast of heaven, I did present myself\n" + " Even in the aim and very flash of it.\n\n" + "CASCA But wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?\n" + " It is the part of men to fear and tremble,\n" + " When the most mighty gods by tokens send\n" + " Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.\n\n" + "CASSIUS You are dull, Casca, and those sparks of life\n" + " That should be in a Roman you do want,\n" + " Or else you use not. You look pale and gaze\n" + " And put on fear and cast yourself in wonder,\n" + " To see the strange impatience of the heavens:\n" + " But if you would consider the true cause\n" + " Why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts,\n" + " Why birds and beasts from quality and kind,\n" + " Why old men fool and children calculate,\n" + " Why all these things change from their ordinance\n" + " Their natures and preformed faculties\n" + " To monstrous quality,--why, you shall find\n" + " That heaven hath infused them with these spirits,\n" + " To make them instruments of fear and warning\n" + " Unto some monstrous state.\n" + " Now could I, Casca, name to thee a man\n" + " Most like this dreadful night,\n" + " That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and roars\n" + " As doth the lion in the Capitol,\n" + " A man no mightier than thyself or me\n" + " In personal action, yet prodigious grown\n" + " And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.\n\n" + "CASCA 'Tis Caesar that you mean; is it not, Cassius?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Let it be who it is: for Romans now\n" + " Have thews and limbs like to their ancestors;\n" + " But, woe the while! our fathers' minds are dead,\n" + " And we are govern'd with our mothers' spirits;\n" + " Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.\n\n" + "CASCA Indeed, they say the senators tomorrow\n" + " Mean to establish Caesar as a king;\n" + " And he shall wear his crown by sea and land,\n" + " In every place, save here in Italy.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I know where I will wear this dagger then;\n" + " Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius:\n" + " Therein, ye gods, you make the weak most strong;\n" + " Therein, ye gods, you tyrants do defeat:\n" + " Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,\n" + " Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,\n" + " Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;\n" + " But life, being weary of these worldly bars,\n" + " Never lacks power to dismiss itself.\n" + " If I know this, know all the world besides,\n" + " That part of tyranny that I do bear\n" + " I can shake off at pleasure.\n\n" + " [Thunder still]\n\n" + "CASCA So can I:\n" + " So every bondman in his own hand bears\n" + " The power to cancel his captivity.\n\n" + "CASSIUS And why should Caesar be a tyrant then?\n" + " Poor man! I know he would not be a wolf,\n" + " But that he sees the Romans are but sheep:\n" + " He were no lion, were not Romans hinds.\n" + " Those that with haste will make a mighty fire\n" + " Begin it with weak straws: what trash is Rome,\n" + " What rubbish and what offal, when it serves\n" + " For the base matter to illuminate\n" + " So vile a thing as Caesar! But, O grief,\n" + " Where hast thou led me? I perhaps speak this\n" + " Before a willing bondman; then I know\n" + " My answer must be made. But I am arm'd,\n" + " And dangers are to me indifferent.\n\n" + "CASCA You speak to Casca, and to such a man\n" + " That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold, my hand:\n" + " Be factious for redress of all these griefs,\n" + " And I will set this foot of mine as far\n" + " As who goes farthest.\n\n" + "CASSIUS There's a bargain made.\n" + " Now know you, Casca, I have moved already\n" + " Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans\n" + " To undergo with me an enterprise\n" + " Of honourable-dangerous consequence;\n" + " And I do know, by this, they stay for me\n" + " In Pompey's porch: for now, this fearful night,\n" + " There is no stir or walking in the streets;\n" + " And the complexion of the element\n" + " In favour's like the work we have in hand,\n" + " Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible.\n\n" + "CASCA Stand close awhile, for here comes one in haste.\n\n" + "CASSIUS 'Tis Cinna; I do know him by his gait;\n" + " He is a friend.\n\n" + " [Enter CINNA]\n\n" + " Cinna, where haste you so?\n\n" + "CINNA To find out you. Who's that? Metellus Cimber?\n\n" + "CASSIUS No, it is Casca; one incorporate\n" + " To our attempts. Am I not stay'd for, Cinna?\n\n" + "CINNA I am glad on 't. What a fearful night is this!\n" + " There's two or three of us have seen strange sights.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Am I not stay'd for? tell me.\n\n" + "CINNA Yes, you are.\n" + " O Cassius, if you could\n" + " But win the noble Brutus to our party--\n\n" + "CASSIUS Be you content: good Cinna, take this paper,\n" + " And look you lay it in the praetor's chair,\n" + " Where Brutus may but find it; and throw this\n" + " In at his window; set this up with wax\n" + " Upon old Brutus' statue: all this done,\n" + " Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find us.\n" + " Is Decius Brutus and Trebonius there?\n\n" + "CINNA All but Metellus Cimber; and he's gone\n" + " To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie,\n" + " And so bestow these papers as you bade me.\n\n" + "CASSIUS That done, repair to Pompey's theatre.\n\n" + " [Exit CINNA]\n\n" + " Come, Casca, you and I will yet ere day\n" + " See Brutus at his house: three parts of him\n" + " Is ours already, and the man entire\n" + " Upon the next encounter yields him ours.\n\n" + "CASCA O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:\n" + " And that which would appear offence in us,\n" + " His countenance, like richest alchemy,\n" + " Will change to virtue and to worthiness.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Him and his worth and our great need of him\n" + " You have right well conceited. Let us go,\n" + " For it is after midnight; and ere day\n" + " We will awake him and be sure of him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. BRUTUS's orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BRUTUS]\n\n" + "BRUTUS What, Lucius, ho!\n" + " I cannot, by the progress of the stars,\n" + " Give guess how near to day. Lucius, I say!\n" + " I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.\n" + " When, Lucius, when? awake, I say! what, Lucius!\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIUS]\n\n" + "LUCIUS Call'd you, my lord?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Get me a taper in my study, Lucius:\n" + " When it is lighted, come and call me here.\n\n" + "LUCIUS I will, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BRUTUS It must be by his death: and for my part,\n" + " I know no personal cause to spurn at him,\n" + " But for the general. He would be crown'd:\n" + " How that might change his nature, there's the question.\n" + " It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;\n" + " And that craves wary walking. Crown him?--that;--\n" + " And then, I grant, we put a sting in him,\n" + " That at his will he may do danger with.\n" + " The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins\n" + " Remorse from power: and, to speak truth of Caesar,\n" + " I have not known when his affections sway'd\n" + " More than his reason. But 'tis a common proof,\n" + " That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,\n" + " Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;\n" + " But when he once attains the upmost round.\n" + " He then unto the ladder turns his back,\n" + " Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees\n" + " By which he did ascend. So Caesar may.\n" + " Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel\n" + " Will bear no colour for the thing he is,\n" + " Fashion it thus; that what he is, augmented,\n" + " Would run to these and these extremities:\n" + " And therefore think him as a serpent's egg\n" + " Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,\n" + " And kill him in the shell.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS]\n\n" + "LUCIUS The taper burneth in your closet, sir.\n" + " Searching the window for a flint, I found\n" + " This paper, thus seal'd up; and, I am sure,\n" + " It did not lie there when I went to bed.\n\n" + " [Gives him the letter]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Get you to bed again; it is not day.\n" + " Is not to-morrow, boy, the ides of March?\n\n" + "LUCIUS I know not, sir.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Look in the calendar, and bring me word.\n\n" + "LUCIUS I will, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BRUTUS The exhalations whizzing in the air\n" + " Give so much light that I may read by them.\n\n" + " [Opens the letter and reads]\n\n" + " 'Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself.\n" + " Shall Rome, &c. Speak, strike, redress!\n" + " Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake!'\n" + " Such instigations have been often dropp'd\n" + " Where I have took them up.\n" + " 'Shall Rome, &c.' Thus must I piece it out:\n" + " Shall Rome stand under one man's awe? What, Rome?\n" + " My ancestors did from the streets of Rome\n" + " The Tarquin drive, when he was call'd a king.\n" + " 'Speak, strike, redress!' Am I entreated\n" + " To speak and strike? O Rome, I make thee promise:\n" + " If the redress will follow, thou receivest\n" + " Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS]\n\n" + "LUCIUS Sir, March is wasted fourteen days.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + "BRUTUS 'Tis good. Go to the gate; somebody knocks.\n\n" + " [Exit LUCIUS]\n\n" + " Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar,\n" + " I have not slept.\n" + " Between the acting of a dreadful thing\n" + " And the first motion, all the interim is\n" + " Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:\n" + " The Genius and the mortal instruments\n" + " Are then in council; and the state of man,\n" + " Like to a little kingdom, suffers then\n" + " The nature of an insurrection.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS]\n\n" + "LUCIUS Sir, 'tis your brother Cassius at the door,\n" + " Who doth desire to see you.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Is he alone?\n\n" + "LUCIUS No, sir, there are moe with him.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Do you know them?\n\n" + "LUCIUS No, sir; their hats are pluck'd about their ears,\n" + " And half their faces buried in their cloaks,\n" + " That by no means I may discover them\n" + " By any mark of favour.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Let 'em enter.\n\n" + " [Exit LUCIUS]\n\n" + " They are the faction. O conspiracy,\n" + " Shamest thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,\n" + " When evils are most free? O, then by day\n" + " Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough\n" + " To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy;\n" + " Hide it in smiles and affability:\n" + " For if thou path, thy native semblance on,\n" + " Not Erebus itself were dim enough\n" + " To hide thee from prevention.\n\n" + " [Enter the conspirators, CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS\n" + " BRUTUS, CINNA, METELLUS CIMBER, and TREBONIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS I think we are too bold upon your rest:\n" + " Good morrow, Brutus; do we trouble you?\n\n" + "BRUTUS I have been up this hour, awake all night.\n" + " Know I these men that come along with you?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Yes, every man of them, and no man here\n" + " But honours you; and every one doth wish\n" + " You had but that opinion of yourself\n" + " Which every noble Roman bears of you.\n" + " This is Trebonius.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He is welcome hither.\n\n" + "CASSIUS This, Decius Brutus.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He is welcome too.\n\n" + "CASSIUS This, Casca; this, Cinna; and this, Metellus Cimber.\n\n" + "BRUTUS They are all welcome.\n" + " What watchful cares do interpose themselves\n" + " Betwixt your eyes and night?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Shall I entreat a word?\n\n" + " [BRUTUS and CASSIUS whisper]\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?\n\n" + "CASCA No.\n\n" + "CINNA O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon gray lines\n" + " That fret the clouds are messengers of day.\n\n" + "CASCA You shall confess that you are both deceived.\n" + " Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,\n" + " Which is a great way growing on the south,\n" + " Weighing the youthful season of the year.\n" + " Some two months hence up higher toward the north\n" + " He first presents his fire; and the high east\n" + " Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Give me your hands all over, one by one.\n\n" + "CASSIUS And let us swear our resolution.\n\n" + "BRUTUS No, not an oath: if not the face of men,\n" + " The sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse,--\n" + " If these be motives weak, break off betimes,\n" + " And every man hence to his idle bed;\n" + " So let high-sighted tyranny range on,\n" + " Till each man drop by lottery. But if these,\n" + " As I am sure they do, bear fire enough\n" + " To kindle cowards and to steel with valour\n" + " The melting spirits of women, then, countrymen,\n" + " What need we any spur but our own cause,\n" + " To prick us to redress? what other bond\n" + " Than secret Romans, that have spoke the word,\n" + " And will not palter? and what other oath\n" + " Than honesty to honesty engaged,\n" + " That this shall be, or we will fall for it?\n" + " Swear priests and cowards and men cautelous,\n" + " Old feeble carrions and such suffering souls\n" + " That welcome wrongs; unto bad causes swear\n" + " Such creatures as men doubt; but do not stain\n" + " The even virtue of our enterprise,\n" + " Nor the insuppressive mettle of our spirits,\n" + " To think that or our cause or our performance\n" + " Did need an oath; when every drop of blood\n" + " That every Roman bears, and nobly bears,\n" + " Is guilty of a several bastardy,\n" + " If he do break the smallest particle\n" + " Of any promise that hath pass'd from him.\n\n" + "CASSIUS But what of Cicero? shall we sound him?\n" + " I think he will stand very strong with us.\n\n" + "CASCA Let us not leave him out.\n\n" + "CINNA No, by no means.\n\n" + "METELLUS CIMBER O, let us have him, for his silver hairs\n" + " Will purchase us a good opinion\n" + " And buy men's voices to commend our deeds:\n" + " It shall be said, his judgment ruled our hands;\n" + " Our youths and wildness shall no whit appear,\n" + " But all be buried in his gravity.\n\n" + "BRUTUS O, name him not: let us not break with him;\n" + " For he will never follow any thing\n" + " That other men begin.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Then leave him out.\n\n" + "CASCA Indeed he is not fit.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Shall no man else be touch'd but only Caesar?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Decius, well urged: I think it is not meet,\n" + " Mark Antony, so well beloved of Caesar,\n" + " Should outlive Caesar: we shall find of him\n" + " A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his means,\n" + " If he improve them, may well stretch so far\n" + " As to annoy us all: which to prevent,\n" + " Let Antony and Caesar fall together.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,\n" + " To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,\n" + " Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;\n" + " For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:\n" + " Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.\n" + " We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar;\n" + " And in the spirit of men there is no blood:\n" + " O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit,\n" + " And not dismember Caesar! But, alas,\n" + " Caesar must bleed for it! And, gentle friends,\n" + " Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully;\n" + " Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,\n" + " Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds:\n" + " And let our hearts, as subtle masters do,\n" + " Stir up their servants to an act of rage,\n" + " And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make\n" + " Our purpose necessary and not envious:\n" + " Which so appearing to the common eyes,\n" + " We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers.\n" + " And for Mark Antony, think not of him;\n" + " For he can do no more than Caesar's arm\n" + " When Caesar's head is off.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Yet I fear him;\n" + " For in the ingrafted love he bears to Caesar--\n\n" + "BRUTUS Alas, good Cassius, do not think of him:\n" + " If he love Caesar, all that he can do\n" + " Is to himself, take thought and die for Caesar:\n" + " And that were much he should; for he is given\n" + " To sports, to wildness and much company.\n\n" + "TREBONIUS There is no fear in him; let him not die;\n" + " For he will live, and laugh at this hereafter.\n\n" + " [Clock strikes]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Peace! count the clock.\n\n" + "CASSIUS The clock hath stricken three.\n\n" + "TREBONIUS 'Tis time to part.\n\n" + "CASSIUS But it is doubtful yet,\n" + " Whether Caesar will come forth to-day, or no;\n" + " For he is superstitious grown of late,\n" + " Quite from the main opinion he held once\n" + " Of fantasy, of dreams and ceremonies:\n" + " It may be, these apparent prodigies,\n" + " The unaccustom'd terror of this night,\n" + " And the persuasion of his augurers,\n" + " May hold him from the Capitol to-day.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Never fear that: if he be so resolved,\n" + " I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear\n" + " That unicorns may be betray'd with trees,\n" + " And bears with glasses, elephants with holes,\n" + " Lions with toils and men with flatterers;\n" + " But when I tell him he hates flatterers,\n" + " He says he does, being then most flattered.\n" + " Let me work;\n" + " For I can give his humour the true bent,\n" + " And I will bring him to the Capitol.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Nay, we will all of us be there to fetch him.\n\n" + "BRUTUS By the eighth hour: is that the uttermost?\n\n" + "CINNA Be that the uttermost, and fail not then.\n\n" + "METELLUS CIMBER Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard,\n" + " Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey:\n" + " I wonder none of you have thought of him.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Now, good Metellus, go along by him:\n" + " He loves me well, and I have given him reasons;\n" + " Send him but hither, and I'll fashion him.\n\n" + "CASSIUS The morning comes upon 's: we'll leave you, Brutus.\n" + " And, friends, disperse yourselves; but all remember\n" + " What you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Good gentlemen, look fresh and merrily;\n" + " Let not our looks put on our purposes,\n" + " But bear it as our Roman actors do,\n" + " With untired spirits and formal constancy:\n" + " And so good morrow to you every one.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but BRUTUS]\n\n" + " Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;\n" + " Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:\n" + " Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,\n" + " Which busy care draws in the brains of men;\n" + " Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.\n\n" + " [Enter PORTIA]\n\n" + "PORTIA Brutus, my lord!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Portia, what mean you? wherefore rise you now?\n" + " It is not for your health thus to commit\n" + " Your weak condition to the raw cold morning.\n\n" + "PORTIA Nor for yours neither. You've ungently, Brutus,\n" + " Stole from my bed: and yesternight, at supper,\n" + " You suddenly arose, and walk'd about,\n" + " Musing and sighing, with your arms across,\n" + " And when I ask'd you what the matter was,\n" + " You stared upon me with ungentle looks;\n" + " I urged you further; then you scratch'd your head,\n" + " And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot;\n" + " Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not,\n" + " But, with an angry wafture of your hand,\n" + " Gave sign for me to leave you: so I did;\n" + " Fearing to strengthen that impatience\n" + " Which seem'd too much enkindled, and withal\n" + " Hoping it was but an effect of humour,\n" + " Which sometime hath his hour with every man.\n" + " It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep,\n" + " And could it work so much upon your shape\n" + " As it hath much prevail'd on your condition,\n" + " I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my lord,\n" + " Make me acquainted with your cause of grief.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I am not well in health, and that is all.\n\n" + "PORTIA Brutus is wise, and, were he not in health,\n" + " He would embrace the means to come by it.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why, so I do. Good Portia, go to bed.\n\n" + "PORTIA Is Brutus sick? and is it physical\n" + " To walk unbraced and suck up the humours\n" + " Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick,\n" + " And will he steal out of his wholesome bed,\n" + " To dare the vile contagion of the night\n" + " And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air\n" + " To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus;\n" + " You have some sick offence within your mind,\n" + " Which, by the right and virtue of my place,\n" + " I ought to know of: and, upon my knees,\n" + " I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,\n" + " By all your vows of love and that great vow\n" + " Which did incorporate and make us one,\n" + " That you unfold to me, yourself, your half,\n" + " Why you are heavy, and what men to-night\n" + " Have had to resort to you: for here have been\n" + " Some six or seven, who did hide their faces\n" + " Even from darkness.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Kneel not, gentle Portia.\n\n" + "PORTIA I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus.\n" + " Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus,\n" + " Is it excepted I should know no secrets\n" + " That appertain to you? Am I yourself\n" + " But, as it were, in sort or limitation,\n" + " To keep with you at meals, comfort your bed,\n" + " And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but in the suburbs\n" + " Of your good pleasure? If it be no more,\n" + " Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.\n\n" + "BRUTUS You are my true and honourable wife,\n" + " As dear to me as are the ruddy drops\n" + " That visit my sad heart\n\n" + "PORTIA If this were true, then should I know this secret.\n" + " I grant I am a woman; but withal\n" + " A woman that Lord Brutus took to wife:\n" + " I grant I am a woman; but withal\n" + " A woman well-reputed, Cato's daughter.\n" + " Think you I am no stronger than my sex,\n" + " Being so father'd and so husbanded?\n" + " Tell me your counsels, I will not disclose 'em:\n" + " I have made strong proof of my constancy,\n" + " Giving myself a voluntary wound\n" + " Here, in the thigh: can I bear that with patience.\n" + " And not my husband's secrets?\n\n" + "BRUTUS O ye gods,\n\n" + " Render me worthy of this noble wife!\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " Hark, hark! one knocks: Portia, go in awhile;\n" + " And by and by thy bosom shall partake\n" + " The secrets of my heart.\n" + " All my engagements I will construe to thee,\n" + " All the charactery of my sad brows:\n" + " Leave me with haste.\n\n" + " [Exit PORTIA]\n\n" + " Lucius, who's that knocks?\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS with LIGARIUS]\n\n" + "LUCIUS He is a sick man that would speak with you.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Caius Ligarius, that Metellus spake of.\n" + " Boy, stand aside. Caius Ligarius! how?\n\n" + "LIGARIUS Vouchsafe good morrow from a feeble tongue.\n\n" + "BRUTUS O, what a time have you chose out, brave Caius,\n" + " To wear a kerchief! Would you were not sick!\n\n" + "LIGARIUS I am not sick, if Brutus have in hand\n" + " Any exploit worthy the name of honour.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius,\n" + " Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.\n\n" + "LIGARIUS By all the gods that Romans bow before,\n" + " I here discard my sickness! Soul of Rome!\n" + " Brave son, derived from honourable loins!\n" + " Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up\n" + " My mortified spirit. Now bid me run,\n" + " And I will strive with things impossible;\n" + " Yea, get the better of them. What's to do?\n\n" + "BRUTUS A piece of work that will make sick men whole.\n\n" + "LIGARIUS But are not some whole that we must make sick?\n\n" + "BRUTUS That must we also. What it is, my Caius,\n" + " I shall unfold to thee, as we are going\n" + " To whom it must be done.\n\n" + "LIGARIUS Set on your foot,\n" + " And with a heart new-fired I follow you,\n" + " To do I know not what: but it sufficeth\n" + " That Brutus leads me on.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Follow me, then.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II CAESAR's house.\n\n\n" + " [Thunder and lightning. Enter CAESAR, in his\n" + " night-gown]\n\n" + "CAESAR Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night:\n" + " Thrice hath Calpurnia in her sleep cried out,\n" + " 'Help, ho! they murder Caesar!' Who's within?\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant My lord?\n\n" + "CAESAR Go bid the priests do present sacrifice\n" + " And bring me their opinions of success.\n\n" + "Servant I will, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter CALPURNIA]\n\n" + "CALPURNIA What mean you, Caesar? think you to walk forth?\n" + " You shall not stir out of your house to-day.\n\n" + "CAESAR Caesar shall forth: the things that threaten'd me\n" + " Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see\n" + " The face of Caesar, they are vanished.\n\n" + "CALPURNIA Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies,\n" + " Yet now they fright me. There is one within,\n" + " Besides the things that we have heard and seen,\n" + " Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch.\n" + " A lioness hath whelped in the streets;\n" + " And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead;\n" + " Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,\n" + " In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,\n" + " Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;\n" + " The noise of battle hurtled in the air,\n" + " Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,\n" + " And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.\n" + " O Caesar! these things are beyond all use,\n" + " And I do fear them.\n\n" + "CAESAR What can be avoided\n" + " Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?\n" + " Yet Caesar shall go forth; for these predictions\n" + " Are to the world in general as to Caesar.\n\n" + "CALPURNIA When beggars die, there are no comets seen;\n" + " The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.\n\n" + "CAESAR Cowards die many times before their deaths;\n" + " The valiant never taste of death but once.\n" + " Of all the wonders that I yet have heard.\n" + " It seems to me most strange that men should fear;\n" + " Seeing that death, a necessary end,\n" + " Will come when it will come.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servant]\n\n" + " What say the augurers?\n\n" + "Servant They would not have you to stir forth to-day.\n" + " Plucking the entrails of an offering forth,\n" + " They could not find a heart within the beast.\n\n" + "CAESAR The gods do this in shame of cowardice:\n" + " Caesar should be a beast without a heart,\n" + " If he should stay at home to-day for fear.\n" + " No, Caesar shall not: danger knows full well\n" + " That Caesar is more dangerous than he:\n" + " We are two lions litter'd in one day,\n" + " And I the elder and more terrible:\n" + " And Caesar shall go forth.\n\n" + "CALPURNIA Alas, my lord,\n" + " Your wisdom is consumed in confidence.\n" + " Do not go forth to-day: call it my fear\n" + " That keeps you in the house, and not your own.\n" + " We'll send Mark Antony to the senate-house:\n" + " And he shall say you are not well to-day:\n" + " Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this.\n\n" + "CAESAR Mark Antony shall say I am not well,\n" + " And, for thy humour, I will stay at home.\n\n" + " [Enter DECIUS BRUTUS]\n\n" + " Here's Decius Brutus, he shall tell them so.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Caesar, all hail! good morrow, worthy Caesar:\n" + " I come to fetch you to the senate-house.\n\n" + "CAESAR And you are come in very happy time,\n" + " To bear my greeting to the senators\n" + " And tell them that I will not come to-day:\n" + " Cannot, is false, and that I dare not, falser:\n" + " I will not come to-day: tell them so, Decius.\n\n" + "CALPURNIA Say he is sick.\n\n" + "CAESAR Shall Caesar send a lie?\n" + " Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so far,\n" + " To be afraid to tell graybeards the truth?\n" + " Decius, go tell them Caesar will not come.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Most mighty Caesar, let me know some cause,\n" + " Lest I be laugh'd at when I tell them so.\n\n" + "CAESAR The cause is in my will: I will not come;\n" + " That is enough to satisfy the senate.\n" + " But for your private satisfaction,\n" + " Because I love you, I will let you know:\n" + " Calpurnia here, my wife, stays me at home:\n" + " She dreamt to-night she saw my statua,\n" + " Which, like a fountain with an hundred spouts,\n" + " Did run pure blood: and many lusty Romans\n" + " Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in it:\n" + " And these does she apply for warnings, and portents,\n" + " And evils imminent; and on her knee\n" + " Hath begg'd that I will stay at home to-day.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS This dream is all amiss interpreted;\n" + " It was a vision fair and fortunate:\n" + " Your statue spouting blood in many pipes,\n" + " In which so many smiling Romans bathed,\n" + " Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck\n" + " Reviving blood, and that great men shall press\n" + " For tinctures, stains, relics and cognizance.\n" + " This by Calpurnia's dream is signified.\n\n" + "CAESAR And this way have you well expounded it.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS I have, when you have heard what I can say:\n" + " And know it now: the senate have concluded\n" + " To give this day a crown to mighty Caesar.\n" + " If you shall send them word you will not come,\n" + " Their minds may change. Besides, it were a mock\n" + " Apt to be render'd, for some one to say\n" + " 'Break up the senate till another time,\n" + " When Caesar's wife shall meet with better dreams.'\n" + " If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whisper\n" + " 'Lo, Caesar is afraid'?\n" + " Pardon me, Caesar; for my dear dear love\n" + " To our proceeding bids me tell you this;\n" + " And reason to my love is liable.\n\n" + "CAESAR How foolish do your fears seem now, Calpurnia!\n" + " I am ashamed I did yield to them.\n" + " Give me my robe, for I will go.\n\n" + " [Enter PUBLIUS, BRUTUS, LIGARIUS, METELLUS, CASCA,\n" + " TREBONIUS, and CINNA]\n\n" + " And look where Publius is come to fetch me.\n\n" + "PUBLIUS Good morrow, Caesar.\n\n" + "CAESAR Welcome, Publius.\n" + " What, Brutus, are you stirr'd so early too?\n" + " Good morrow, Casca. Caius Ligarius,\n" + " Caesar was ne'er so much your enemy\n" + " As that same ague which hath made you lean.\n" + " What is 't o'clock?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Caesar, 'tis strucken eight.\n\n" + "CAESAR I thank you for your pains and courtesy.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONY]\n\n" + " See! Antony, that revels long o' nights,\n" + " Is notwithstanding up. Good morrow, Antony.\n\n" + "ANTONY So to most noble Caesar.\n\n" + "CAESAR Bid them prepare within:\n" + " I am to blame to be thus waited for.\n" + " Now, Cinna: now, Metellus: what, Trebonius!\n" + " I have an hour's talk in store for you;\n" + " Remember that you call on me to-day:\n" + " Be near me, that I may remember you.\n\n" + "TREBONIUS Caesar, I will:\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " and so near will I be,\n" + " That your best friends shall wish I had been further.\n\n" + "CAESAR Good friends, go in, and taste some wine with me;\n" + " And we, like friends, will straightway go together.\n\n" + "BRUTUS [Aside] That every like is not the same, O Caesar,\n" + " The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A street near the Capitol.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ARTEMIDORUS, reading a paper]\n\n" + "ARTEMIDORUS 'Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of Cassius;\n" + " come not near Casca; have an eye to Cinna, trust not\n" + " Trebonius: mark well Metellus Cimber: Decius Brutus\n" + " loves thee not: thou hast wronged Caius Ligarius.\n" + " There is but one mind in all these men, and it is\n" + " bent against Caesar. If thou beest not immortal,\n" + " look about you: security gives way to conspiracy.\n" + " The mighty gods defend thee! Thy lover,\n" + " 'ARTEMIDORUS.'\n" + " Here will I stand till Caesar pass along,\n" + " And as a suitor will I give him this.\n" + " My heart laments that virtue cannot live\n" + " Out of the teeth of emulation.\n" + " If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayst live;\n" + " If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the same street, before the house of BRUTUS.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PORTIA and LUCIUS]\n\n" + "PORTIA I prithee, boy, run to the senate-house;\n" + " Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone:\n" + " Why dost thou stay?\n\n" + "LUCIUS To know my errand, madam.\n\n" + "PORTIA I would have had thee there, and here again,\n" + " Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do there.\n" + " O constancy, be strong upon my side,\n" + " Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!\n" + " I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.\n" + " How hard it is for women to keep counsel!\n" + " Art thou here yet?\n\n" + "LUCIUS Madam, what should I do?\n" + " Run to the Capitol, and nothing else?\n" + " And so return to you, and nothing else?\n\n" + "PORTIA Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy lord look well,\n" + " For he went sickly forth: and take good note\n" + " What Caesar doth, what suitors press to him.\n" + " Hark, boy! what noise is that?\n\n" + "LUCIUS I hear none, madam.\n\n" + "PORTIA Prithee, listen well;\n" + " I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray,\n" + " And the wind brings it from the Capitol.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Sooth, madam, I hear nothing.\n\n" + " [Enter the Soothsayer]\n\n" + "PORTIA Come hither, fellow: which way hast thou been?\n\n" + "Soothsayer At mine own house, good lady.\n\n" + "PORTIA What is't o'clock?\n\n" + "Soothsayer About the ninth hour, lady.\n\n" + "PORTIA Is Caesar yet gone to the Capitol?\n\n" + "Soothsayer Madam, not yet: I go to take my stand,\n" + " To see him pass on to the Capitol.\n\n" + "PORTIA Thou hast some suit to Caesar, hast thou not?\n\n" + "Soothsayer That I have, lady: if it will please Caesar\n" + " To be so good to Caesar as to hear me,\n" + " I shall beseech him to befriend himself.\n\n" + "PORTIA Why, know'st thou any harm's intended towards him?\n\n" + "Soothsayer None that I know will be, much that I fear may chance.\n" + " Good morrow to you. Here the street is narrow:\n" + " The throng that follows Caesar at the heels,\n" + " Of senators, of praetors, common suitors,\n" + " Will crowd a feeble man almost to death:\n" + " I'll get me to a place more void, and there\n" + " Speak to great Caesar as he comes along.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PORTIA I must go in. Ay me, how weak a thing\n" + " The heart of woman is! O Brutus,\n" + " The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise!\n" + " Sure, the boy heard me: Brutus hath a suit\n" + " That Caesar will not grant. O, I grow faint.\n" + " Run, Lucius, and commend me to my lord;\n" + " Say I am merry: come to me again,\n" + " And bring me word what he doth say to thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.\n\n\n" + " [A crowd of people; among them ARTEMIDORUS and the\n" + " Soothsayer. Flourish. Enter CAESAR, BRUTUS,\n" + " CASSIUS, CASCA, DECIUS BRUTUS, METELLUS CIMBER,\n" + " TREBONIUS, CINNA, ANTONY, LEPIDUS, POPILIUS,\n" + " PUBLIUS, and others]\n\n" + "CAESAR [To the Soothsayer] The ides of March are come.\n\n" + "Soothsayer Ay, Caesar; but not gone.\n\n" + "ARTEMIDORUS Hail, Caesar! read this schedule.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Trebonius doth desire you to o'erread,\n" + " At your best leisure, this his humble suit.\n\n" + "ARTEMIDORUS O Caesar, read mine first; for mine's a suit\n" + " That touches Caesar nearer: read it, great Caesar.\n\n" + "CAESAR What touches us ourself shall be last served.\n\n" + "ARTEMIDORUS Delay not, Caesar; read it instantly.\n\n" + "CAESAR What, is the fellow mad?\n\n" + "PUBLIUS Sirrah, give place.\n\n" + "CASSIUS What, urge you your petitions in the street?\n" + " Come to the Capitol.\n\n" + " [CAESAR goes up to the Senate-House, the rest\n" + " following]\n\n" + "POPILIUS I wish your enterprise to-day may thrive.\n\n" + "CASSIUS What enterprise, Popilius?\n\n" + "POPILIUS Fare you well.\n\n" + " [Advances to CAESAR]\n\n" + "BRUTUS What said Popilius Lena?\n\n" + "CASSIUS He wish'd to-day our enterprise might thrive.\n" + " I fear our purpose is discovered.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Look, how he makes to Caesar; mark him.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Casca, be sudden, for we fear prevention.\n" + " Brutus, what shall be done? If this be known,\n" + " Cassius or Caesar never shall turn back,\n" + " For I will slay myself.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Cassius, be constant:\n" + " Popilius Lena speaks not of our purposes;\n" + " For, look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Trebonius knows his time; for, look you, Brutus.\n" + " He draws Mark Antony out of the way.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ANTONY and TREBONIUS]\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go,\n" + " And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He is address'd: press near and second him.\n\n" + "CINNA Casca, you are the first that rears your hand.\n\n" + "CAESAR Are we all ready? What is now amiss\n" + " That Caesar and his senate must redress?\n\n" + "METELLUS CIMBER Most high, most mighty, and most puissant Caesar,\n" + " Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat\n" + " An humble heart,--\n\n" + " [Kneeling]\n\n" + "CAESAR I must prevent thee, Cimber.\n" + " These couchings and these lowly courtesies\n" + " Might fire the blood of ordinary men,\n" + " And turn pre-ordinance and first decree\n" + " Into the law of children. Be not fond,\n" + " To think that Caesar bears such rebel blood\n" + " That will be thaw'd from the true quality\n" + " With that which melteth fools; I mean, sweet words,\n" + " Low-crooked court'sies and base spaniel-fawning.\n" + " Thy brother by decree is banished:\n" + " If thou dost bend and pray and fawn for him,\n" + " I spurn thee like a cur out of my way.\n" + " Know, Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause\n" + " Will he be satisfied.\n\n" + "METELLUS CIMBER Is there no voice more worthy than my own\n" + " To sound more sweetly in great Caesar's ear\n" + " For the repealing of my banish'd brother?\n\n" + "BRUTUS I kiss thy hand, but not in flattery, Caesar;\n" + " Desiring thee that Publius Cimber may\n" + " Have an immediate freedom of repeal.\n\n" + "CAESAR What, Brutus!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Pardon, Caesar; Caesar, pardon:\n" + " As low as to thy foot doth Cassius fall,\n" + " To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I could be well moved, if I were as you:\n" + " If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:\n" + " But I am constant as the northern star,\n" + " Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality\n" + " There is no fellow in the firmament.\n" + " The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks,\n" + " They are all fire and every one doth shine,\n" + " But there's but one in all doth hold his place:\n" + " So in the world; 'tis furnish'd well with men,\n" + " And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;\n" + " Yet in the number I do know but one\n" + " That unassailable holds on his rank,\n" + " Unshaked of motion: and that I am he,\n" + " Let me a little show it, even in this;\n" + " That I was constant Cimber should be banish'd,\n" + " And constant do remain to keep him so.\n\n" + "CINNA O Caesar,--\n\n" + "CAESAR Hence! wilt thou lift up Olympus?\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS Great Caesar,--\n\n" + "CAESAR Doth not Brutus bootless kneel?\n\n" + "CASCA Speak, hands for me!\n\n" + " [CASCA first, then the other Conspirators and\n" + " BRUTUS stab CAESAR]\n\n" + "CAESAR Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "CINNA Liberty! Freedom! Tyranny is dead!\n" + " Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Some to the common pulpits, and cry out\n" + " 'Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!'\n\n" + "BRUTUS People and senators, be not affrighted;\n" + " Fly not; stand stiff: ambition's debt is paid.\n\n" + "CASCA Go to the pulpit, Brutus.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS And Cassius too.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Where's Publius?\n\n" + "CINNA Here, quite confounded with this mutiny.\n\n" + "METELLUS CIMBER Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's\n" + " Should chance--\n\n" + "BRUTUS Talk not of standing. Publius, good cheer;\n" + " There is no harm intended to your person,\n" + " Nor to no Roman else: so tell them, Publius.\n\n" + "CASSIUS And leave us, Publius; lest that the people,\n" + " Rushing on us, should do your age some mischief.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Do so: and let no man abide this deed,\n" + " But we the doers.\n\n" + " [Re-enter TREBONIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS Where is Antony?\n\n" + "TREBONIUS Fled to his house amazed:\n" + " Men, wives and children stare, cry out and run\n" + " As it were doomsday.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Fates, we will know your pleasures:\n" + " That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time\n" + " And drawing days out, that men stand upon.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life\n" + " Cuts off so many years of fearing death.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Grant that, and then is death a benefit:\n" + " So are we Caesar's friends, that have abridged\n" + " His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop,\n" + " And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood\n" + " Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords:\n" + " Then walk we forth, even to the market-place,\n" + " And, waving our red weapons o'er our heads,\n" + " Let's all cry 'Peace, freedom and liberty!'\n\n" + "CASSIUS Stoop, then, and wash. How many ages hence\n" + " Shall this our lofty scene be acted over\n" + " In states unborn and accents yet unknown!\n\n" + "BRUTUS How many times shall Caesar bleed in sport,\n" + " That now on Pompey's basis lies along\n" + " No worthier than the dust!\n\n" + "CASSIUS So oft as that shall be,\n" + " So often shall the knot of us be call'd\n" + " The men that gave their country liberty.\n\n" + "DECIUS BRUTUS What, shall we forth?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Ay, every man away:\n" + " Brutus shall lead; and we will grace his heels\n" + " With the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Soft! who comes here? A friend of Antony's.\n\n" + "Servant Thus, Brutus, did my master bid me kneel:\n" + " Thus did Mark Antony bid me fall down;\n" + " And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say:\n" + " Brutus is noble, wise, valiant, and honest;\n" + " Caesar was mighty, bold, royal, and loving:\n" + " Say I love Brutus, and I honour him;\n" + " Say I fear'd Caesar, honour'd him and loved him.\n" + " If Brutus will vouchsafe that Antony\n" + " May safely come to him, and be resolved\n" + " How Caesar hath deserved to lie in death,\n" + " Mark Antony shall not love Caesar dead\n" + " So well as Brutus living; but will follow\n" + " The fortunes and affairs of noble Brutus\n" + " Thorough the hazards of this untrod state\n" + " With all true faith. So says my master Antony.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Thy master is a wise and valiant Roman;\n" + " I never thought him worse.\n" + " Tell him, so please him come unto this place,\n" + " He shall be satisfied; and, by my honour,\n" + " Depart untouch'd.\n\n" + "Servant I'll fetch him presently.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BRUTUS I know that we shall have him well to friend.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I wish we may: but yet have I a mind\n" + " That fears him much; and my misgiving still\n" + " Falls shrewdly to the purpose.\n\n" + "BRUTUS But here comes Antony.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ANTONY]\n\n" + " Welcome, Mark Antony.\n\n" + "ANTONY O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?\n" + " Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,\n" + " Shrunk to this little measure? Fare thee well.\n" + " I know not, gentlemen, what you intend,\n" + " Who else must be let blood, who else is rank:\n" + " If I myself, there is no hour so fit\n" + " As Caesar's death hour, nor no instrument\n" + " Of half that worth as those your swords, made rich\n" + " With the most noble blood of all this world.\n" + " I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard,\n" + " Now, whilst your purpled hands do reek and smoke,\n" + " Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years,\n" + " I shall not find myself so apt to die:\n" + " No place will please me so, no mean of death,\n" + " As here by Caesar, and by you cut off,\n" + " The choice and master spirits of this age.\n\n" + "BRUTUS O Antony, beg not your death of us.\n" + " Though now we must appear bloody and cruel,\n" + " As, by our hands and this our present act,\n" + " You see we do, yet see you but our hands\n" + " And this the bleeding business they have done:\n" + " Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;\n" + " And pity to the general wrong of Rome--\n" + " As fire drives out fire, so pity pity--\n" + " Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your part,\n" + " To you our swords have leaden points, Mark Antony:\n" + " Our arms, in strength of malice, and our hearts\n" + " Of brothers' temper, do receive you in\n" + " With all kind love, good thoughts, and reverence.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Your voice shall be as strong as any man's\n" + " In the disposing of new dignities.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Only be patient till we have appeased\n" + " The multitude, beside themselves with fear,\n" + " And then we will deliver you the cause,\n" + " Why I, that did love Caesar when I struck him,\n" + " Have thus proceeded.\n\n" + "ANTONY I doubt not of your wisdom.\n" + " Let each man render me his bloody hand:\n" + " First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you;\n" + " Next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand;\n" + " Now, Decius Brutus, yours: now yours, Metellus;\n" + " Yours, Cinna; and, my valiant Casca, yours;\n" + " Though last, not last in love, yours, good Trebonius.\n" + " Gentlemen all,--alas, what shall I say?\n" + " My credit now stands on such slippery ground,\n" + " That one of two bad ways you must conceit me,\n" + " Either a coward or a flatterer.\n" + " That I did love thee, Caesar, O, 'tis true:\n" + " If then thy spirit look upon us now,\n" + " Shall it not grieve thee dearer than thy death,\n" + " To see thy thy Anthony making his peace,\n" + " Shaking the bloody fingers of thy foes,\n" + " Most noble! in the presence of thy corse?\n" + " Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds,\n" + " Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy blood,\n" + " It would become me better than to close\n" + " In terms of friendship with thine enemies.\n" + " Pardon me, Julius! Here wast thou bay'd, brave hart;\n" + " Here didst thou fall; and here thy hunters stand,\n" + " Sign'd in thy spoil, and crimson'd in thy lethe.\n" + " O world, thou wast the forest to this hart;\n" + " And this, indeed, O world, the heart of thee.\n" + " How like a deer, strucken by many princes,\n" + " Dost thou here lie!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Mark Antony,--\n\n" + "ANTONY Pardon me, Caius Cassius:\n" + " The enemies of Caesar shall say this;\n" + " Then, in a friend, it is cold modesty.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I blame you not for praising Caesar so;\n" + " But what compact mean you to have with us?\n" + " Will you be prick'd in number of our friends;\n" + " Or shall we on, and not depend on you?\n\n" + "ANTONY Therefore I took your hands, but was, indeed,\n" + " Sway'd from the point, by looking down on Caesar.\n" + " Friends am I with you all and love you all,\n" + " Upon this hope, that you shall give me reasons\n" + " Why and wherein Caesar was dangerous.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Or else were this a savage spectacle:\n" + " Our reasons are so full of good regard\n" + " That were you, Antony, the son of Caesar,\n" + " You should be satisfied.\n\n" + "ANTONY That's all I seek:\n" + " And am moreover suitor that I may\n" + " Produce his body to the market-place;\n" + " And in the pulpit, as becomes a friend,\n" + " Speak in the order of his funeral.\n\n" + "BRUTUS You shall, Mark Antony.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Brutus, a word with you.\n\n" + " [Aside to BRUTUS]\n\n" + " You know not what you do: do not consent\n" + " That Antony speak in his funeral:\n" + " Know you how much the people may be moved\n" + " By that which he will utter?\n\n" + "BRUTUS By your pardon;\n" + " I will myself into the pulpit first,\n" + " And show the reason of our Caesar's death:\n" + " What Antony shall speak, I will protest\n" + " He speaks by leave and by permission,\n" + " And that we are contented Caesar shall\n" + " Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies.\n" + " It shall advantage more than do us wrong.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I know not what may fall; I like it not.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Mark Antony, here, take you Caesar's body.\n" + " You shall not in your funeral speech blame us,\n" + " But speak all good you can devise of Caesar,\n" + " And say you do't by our permission;\n" + " Else shall you not have any hand at all\n" + " About his funeral: and you shall speak\n" + " In the same pulpit whereto I am going,\n" + " After my speech is ended.\n\n" + "ANTONY Be it so.\n" + " I do desire no more.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Prepare the body then, and follow us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but ANTONY]\n\n" + "ANTONY O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,\n" + " That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!\n" + " Thou art the ruins of the noblest man\n" + " That ever lived in the tide of times.\n" + " Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!\n" + " Over thy wounds now do I prophesy,--\n" + " Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ruby lips,\n" + " To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue--\n" + " A curse shall light upon the limbs of men;\n" + " Domestic fury and fierce civil strife\n" + " Shall cumber all the parts of Italy;\n" + " Blood and destruction shall be so in use\n" + " And dreadful objects so familiar\n" + " That mothers shall but smile when they behold\n" + " Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war;\n" + " All pity choked with custom of fell deeds:\n" + " And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,\n" + " With Ate by his side come hot from hell,\n" + " Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice\n" + " Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;\n" + " That this foul deed shall smell above the earth\n" + " With carrion men, groaning for burial.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + " You serve Octavius Caesar, do you not?\n\n" + "Servant I do, Mark Antony.\n\n" + "ANTONY Caesar did write for him to come to Rome.\n\n" + "Servant He did receive his letters, and is coming;\n" + " And bid me say to you by word of mouth--\n" + " O Caesar!--\n\n" + " [Seeing the body]\n\n" + "ANTONY Thy heart is big, get thee apart and weep.\n" + " Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes,\n" + " Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,\n" + " Began to water. Is thy master coming?\n\n" + "Servant He lies to-night within seven leagues of Rome.\n\n" + "ANTONY Post back with speed, and tell him what hath chanced:\n" + " Here is a mourning Rome, a dangerous Rome,\n" + " No Rome of safety for Octavius yet;\n" + " Hie hence, and tell him so. Yet, stay awhile;\n" + " Thou shalt not back till I have borne this corse\n" + " Into the market-place: there shall I try\n" + " In my oration, how the people take\n" + " The cruel issue of these bloody men;\n" + " According to the which, thou shalt discourse\n" + " To young Octavius of the state of things.\n" + " Lend me your hand.\n\n" + " [Exeunt with CAESAR's body]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The Forum.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS, and a throng of Citizens]\n\n" + "Citizens We will be satisfied; let us be satisfied.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Then follow me, and give me audience, friends.\n" + " Cassius, go you into the other street,\n" + " And part the numbers.\n" + " Those that will hear me speak, let 'em stay here;\n" + " Those that will follow Cassius, go with him;\n" + " And public reasons shall be rendered\n" + " Of Caesar's death.\n\n" + "First Citizen I will hear Brutus speak.\n\n" + "Second Citizen I will hear Cassius; and compare their reasons,\n" + " When severally we hear them rendered.\n\n" + " [Exit CASSIUS, with some of the Citizens. BRUTUS\n" + " goes into the pulpit]\n\n" + "Third Citizen The noble Brutus is ascended: silence!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Be patient till the last.\n\n" + " Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my\n" + " cause, and be silent, that you may hear: believe me\n" + " for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that\n" + " you may believe: censure me in your wisdom, and\n" + " awake your senses, that you may the better judge.\n" + " If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of\n" + " Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar\n" + " was no less than his. If then that friend demand\n" + " why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer:\n" + " --Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved\n" + " Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and\n" + " die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live\n" + " all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him;\n" + " as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was\n" + " valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I\n" + " slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his\n" + " fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his\n" + " ambition. Who is here so base that would be a\n" + " bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended.\n" + " Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If\n" + " any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so\n" + " vile that will not love his country? If any, speak;\n" + " for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.\n\n" + "All None, Brutus, none.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Then none have I offended. I have done no more to\n" + " Caesar than you shall do to Brutus. The question of\n" + " his death is enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not\n" + " extenuated, wherein he was worthy, nor his offences\n" + " enforced, for which he suffered death.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONY and others, with CAESAR's body]\n\n" + " Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who,\n" + " though he had no hand in his death, shall receive\n" + " the benefit of his dying, a place in the\n" + " commonwealth; as which of you shall not? With this\n" + " I depart,--that, as I slew my best lover for the\n" + " good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself,\n" + " when it shall please my country to need my death.\n\n" + "All Live, Brutus! live, live!\n\n" + "First Citizen Bring him with triumph home unto his house.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Give him a statue with his ancestors.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Let him be Caesar.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Caesar's better parts\n" + " Shall be crown'd in Brutus.\n\n" + "First Citizen We'll bring him to his house\n" + " With shouts and clamours.\n\n" + "BRUTUS My countrymen,--\n\n" + "Second Citizen Peace, silence! Brutus speaks.\n\n" + "First Citizen Peace, ho!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Good countrymen, let me depart alone,\n" + " And, for my sake, stay here with Antony:\n" + " Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his speech\n" + " Tending to Caesar's glories; which Mark Antony,\n" + " By our permission, is allow'd to make.\n" + " I do entreat you, not a man depart,\n" + " Save I alone, till Antony have spoke.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Citizen Stay, ho! and let us hear Mark Antony.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Let him go up into the public chair;\n" + " We'll hear him. Noble Antony, go up.\n\n" + "ANTONY For Brutus' sake, I am beholding to you.\n\n" + " [Goes into the pulpit]\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen What does he say of Brutus?\n\n" + "Third Citizen He says, for Brutus' sake,\n" + " He finds himself beholding to us all.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen 'Twere best he speak no harm of Brutus here.\n\n" + "First Citizen This Caesar was a tyrant.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Nay, that's certain:\n" + " We are blest that Rome is rid of him.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Peace! let us hear what Antony can say.\n\n" + "ANTONY You gentle Romans,--\n\n" + "Citizens Peace, ho! let us hear him.\n\n" + "ANTONY Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;\n" + " I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.\n" + " The evil that men do lives after them;\n" + " The good is oft interred with their bones;\n" + " So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus\n" + " Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:\n" + " If it were so, it was a grievous fault,\n" + " And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.\n" + " Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--\n" + " For Brutus is an honourable man;\n" + " So are they all, all honourable men--\n" + " Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.\n" + " He was my friend, faithful and just to me:\n" + " But Brutus says he was ambitious;\n" + " And Brutus is an honourable man.\n" + " He hath brought many captives home to Rome\n" + " Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:\n" + " Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?\n" + " When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:\n" + " Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:\n" + " Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;\n" + " And Brutus is an honourable man.\n" + " You all did see that on the Lupercal\n" + " I thrice presented him a kingly crown,\n" + " Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?\n" + " Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;\n" + " And, sure, he is an honourable man.\n" + " I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,\n" + " But here I am to speak what I do know.\n" + " You all did love him once, not without cause:\n" + " What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?\n" + " O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,\n" + " And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;\n" + " My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,\n" + " And I must pause till it come back to me.\n\n" + "First Citizen Methinks there is much reason in his sayings.\n\n" + "Second Citizen If thou consider rightly of the matter,\n" + " Caesar has had great wrong.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Has he, masters?\n" + " I fear there will a worse come in his place.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Mark'd ye his words? He would not take the crown;\n" + " Therefore 'tis certain he was not ambitious.\n\n" + "First Citizen If it be found so, some will dear abide it.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Poor soul! his eyes are red as fire with weeping.\n\n" + "Third Citizen There's not a nobler man in Rome than Antony.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Now mark him, he begins again to speak.\n\n" + "ANTONY But yesterday the word of Caesar might\n" + " Have stood against the world; now lies he there.\n" + " And none so poor to do him reverence.\n" + " O masters, if I were disposed to stir\n" + " Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage,\n" + " I should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong,\n" + " Who, you all know, are honourable men:\n" + " I will not do them wrong; I rather choose\n" + " To wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you,\n" + " Than I will wrong such honourable men.\n" + " But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar;\n" + " I found it in his closet, 'tis his will:\n" + " Let but the commons hear this testament--\n" + " Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read--\n" + " And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds\n" + " And dip their napkins in his sacred blood,\n" + " Yea, beg a hair of him for memory,\n" + " And, dying, mention it within their wills,\n" + " Bequeathing it as a rich legacy\n" + " Unto their issue.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen We'll hear the will: read it, Mark Antony.\n\n" + "All The will, the will! we will hear Caesar's will.\n\n" + "ANTONY Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;\n" + " It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.\n" + " You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;\n" + " And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,\n" + " It will inflame you, it will make you mad:\n" + " 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;\n" + " For, if you should, O, what would come of it!\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Read the will; we'll hear it, Antony;\n" + " You shall read us the will, Caesar's will.\n\n" + "ANTONY Will you be patient? will you stay awhile?\n" + " I have o'ershot myself to tell you of it:\n" + " I fear I wrong the honourable men\n" + " Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do fear it.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen They were traitors: honourable men!\n\n" + "All The will! the testament!\n\n" + "Second Citizen They were villains, murderers: the will! read the will.\n\n" + "ANTONY You will compel me, then, to read the will?\n" + " Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar,\n" + " And let me show you him that made the will.\n" + " Shall I descend? and will you give me leave?\n\n" + "Several Citizens Come down.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Descend.\n\n" + "Third Citizen You shall have leave.\n\n" + " [ANTONY comes down]\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen A ring; stand round.\n\n" + "First Citizen Stand from the hearse, stand from the body.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Room for Antony, most noble Antony.\n\n" + "ANTONY Nay, press not so upon me; stand far off.\n\n" + "Several Citizens Stand back; room; bear back.\n\n" + "ANTONY If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.\n" + " You all do know this mantle: I remember\n" + " The first time ever Caesar put it on;\n" + " 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent,\n" + " That day he overcame the Nervii:\n" + " Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through:\n" + " See what a rent the envious Casca made:\n" + " Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd;\n" + " And as he pluck'd his cursed steel away,\n" + " Mark how the blood of Caesar follow'd it,\n" + " As rushing out of doors, to be resolved\n" + " If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no;\n" + " For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:\n" + " Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!\n" + " This was the most unkindest cut of all;\n" + " For when the noble Caesar saw him stab,\n" + " Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms,\n" + " Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart;\n" + " And, in his mantle muffling up his face,\n" + " Even at the base of Pompey's statua,\n" + " Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.\n" + " O, what a fall was there, my countrymen!\n" + " Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,\n" + " Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.\n" + " O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel\n" + " The dint of pity: these are gracious drops.\n" + " Kind souls, what, weep you when you but behold\n" + " Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here,\n" + " Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.\n\n" + "First Citizen O piteous spectacle!\n\n" + "Second Citizen O noble Caesar!\n\n" + "Third Citizen O woful day!\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen O traitors, villains!\n\n" + "First Citizen O most bloody sight!\n\n" + "Second Citizen We will be revenged.\n\n" + "All Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay!\n" + " Let not a traitor live!\n\n" + "ANTONY Stay, countrymen.\n\n" + "First Citizen Peace there! hear the noble Antony.\n\n" + "Second Citizen We'll hear him, we'll follow him, we'll die with him.\n\n" + "ANTONY Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up\n" + " To such a sudden flood of mutiny.\n" + " They that have done this deed are honourable:\n" + " What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,\n" + " That made them do it: they are wise and honourable,\n" + " And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.\n" + " I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts:\n" + " I am no orator, as Brutus is;\n" + " But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man,\n" + " That love my friend; and that they know full well\n" + " That gave me public leave to speak of him:\n" + " For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth,\n" + " Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech,\n" + " To stir men's blood: I only speak right on;\n" + " I tell you that which you yourselves do know;\n" + " Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,\n" + " And bid them speak for me: but were I Brutus,\n" + " And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony\n" + " Would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue\n" + " In every wound of Caesar that should move\n" + " The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.\n\n" + "All We'll mutiny.\n\n" + "First Citizen We'll burn the house of Brutus.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Away, then! come, seek the conspirators.\n\n" + "ANTONY Yet hear me, countrymen; yet hear me speak.\n\n" + "All Peace, ho! Hear Antony. Most noble Antony!\n\n" + "ANTONY Why, friends, you go to do you know not what:\n" + " Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves?\n" + " Alas, you know not: I must tell you then:\n" + " You have forgot the will I told you of.\n\n" + "All Most true. The will! Let's stay and hear the will.\n\n" + "ANTONY Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal.\n" + " To every Roman citizen he gives,\n" + " To every several man, seventy-five drachmas.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Most noble Caesar! We'll revenge his death.\n\n" + "Third Citizen O royal Caesar!\n\n" + "ANTONY Hear me with patience.\n\n" + "All Peace, ho!\n\n" + "ANTONY Moreover, he hath left you all his walks,\n" + " His private arbours and new-planted orchards,\n" + " On this side Tiber; he hath left them you,\n" + " And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures,\n" + " To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves.\n" + " Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?\n\n" + "First Citizen Never, never. Come, away, away!\n" + " We'll burn his body in the holy place,\n" + " And with the brands fire the traitors' houses.\n" + " Take up the body.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Go fetch fire.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Pluck down benches.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Pluck down forms, windows, any thing.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Citizens with the body]\n\n" + "ANTONY Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot,\n" + " Take thou what course thou wilt!\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + " How now, fellow!\n\n" + "Servant Sir, Octavius is already come to Rome.\n\n" + "ANTONY Where is he?\n\n" + "Servant He and Lepidus are at Caesar's house.\n\n" + "ANTONY And thither will I straight to visit him:\n" + " He comes upon a wish. Fortune is merry,\n" + " And in this mood will give us any thing.\n\n" + "Servant I heard him say, Brutus and Cassius\n" + " Are rid like madmen through the gates of Rome.\n\n" + "ANTONY Belike they had some notice of the people,\n" + " How I had moved them. Bring me to Octavius.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CINNA the poet]\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET I dreamt to-night that I did feast with Caesar,\n" + " And things unlucky charge my fantasy:\n" + " I have no will to wander forth of doors,\n" + " Yet something leads me forth.\n\n" + " [Enter Citizens]\n\n" + "First Citizen What is your name?\n\n" + "Second Citizen Whither are you going?\n\n" + "Third Citizen Where do you dwell?\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Are you a married man or a bachelor?\n\n" + "Second Citizen Answer every man directly.\n\n" + "First Citizen Ay, and briefly.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Ay, and wisely.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Ay, and truly, you were best.\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET What is my name? Whither am I going? Where do I\n" + " dwell? Am I a married man or a bachelor? Then, to\n" + " answer every man directly and briefly, wisely and\n" + " truly: wisely I say, I am a bachelor.\n\n" + "Second Citizen That's as much as to say, they are fools that marry:\n" + " you'll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed; directly.\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET Directly, I am going to Caesar's funeral.\n\n" + "First Citizen As a friend or an enemy?\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET As a friend.\n\n" + "Second Citizen That matter is answered directly.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen For your dwelling,--briefly.\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET Briefly, I dwell by the Capitol.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Your name, sir, truly.\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET Truly, my name is Cinna.\n\n" + "First Citizen Tear him to pieces; he's a conspirator.\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET I am Cinna the poet, I am Cinna the poet.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.\n\n" + "CINNA THE POET I am not Cinna the conspirator.\n\n" + "Fourth Citizen It is no matter, his name's Cinna; pluck but his\n" + " name out of his heart, and turn him going.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Tear him, tear him! Come, brands ho! fire-brands:\n" + " to Brutus', to Cassius'; burn all: some to Decius'\n" + " house, and some to Casca's; some to Ligarius': away, go!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A house in Rome.\n\n\n" + " [ANTONY, OCTAVIUS, and LEPIDUS, seated at a table]\n\n" + "ANTONY These many, then, shall die; their names are prick'd.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?\n\n" + "LEPIDUS I do consent--\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Prick him down, Antony.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS Upon condition Publius shall not live,\n" + " Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony.\n\n" + "ANTONY He shall not live; look, with a spot I damn him.\n" + " But, Lepidus, go you to Caesar's house;\n" + " Fetch the will hither, and we shall determine\n" + " How to cut off some charge in legacies.\n\n" + "LEPIDUS What, shall I find you here?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Or here, or at the Capitol.\n\n" + " [Exit LEPIDUS]\n\n" + "ANTONY This is a slight unmeritable man,\n" + " Meet to be sent on errands: is it fit,\n" + " The three-fold world divided, he should stand\n" + " One of the three to share it?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS So you thought him;\n" + " And took his voice who should be prick'd to die,\n" + " In our black sentence and proscription.\n\n" + "ANTONY Octavius, I have seen more days than you:\n" + " And though we lay these honours on this man,\n" + " To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads,\n" + " He shall but bear them as the ass bears gold,\n" + " To groan and sweat under the business,\n" + " Either led or driven, as we point the way;\n" + " And having brought our treasure where we will,\n" + " Then take we down his load, and turn him off,\n" + " Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears,\n" + " And graze in commons.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS You may do your will;\n" + " But he's a tried and valiant soldier.\n\n" + "ANTONY So is my horse, Octavius; and for that\n" + " I do appoint him store of provender:\n" + " It is a creature that I teach to fight,\n" + " To wind, to stop, to run directly on,\n" + " His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit.\n" + " And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so;\n" + " He must be taught and train'd and bid go forth;\n" + " A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds\n" + " On abjects, orts and imitations,\n" + " Which, out of use and staled by other men,\n" + " Begin his fashion: do not talk of him,\n" + " But as a property. And now, Octavius,\n" + " Listen great things:--Brutus and Cassius\n" + " Are levying powers: we must straight make head:\n" + " Therefore let our alliance be combined,\n" + " Our best friends made, our means stretch'd\n" + " And let us presently go sit in council,\n" + " How covert matters may be best disclosed,\n" + " And open perils surest answered.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Let us do so: for we are at the stake,\n" + " And bay'd about with many enemies;\n" + " And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear,\n" + " Millions of mischiefs.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Camp near Sardis. Before BRUTUS's tent.\n\n\n" + " [Drum. Enter BRUTUS, LUCILIUS, LUCIUS, and\n" + " Soldiers; TITINIUS and PINDARUS meeting them]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Stand, ho!\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Give the word, ho! and stand.\n\n" + "BRUTUS What now, Lucilius! is Cassius near?\n\n" + "LUCILIUS He is at hand; and Pindarus is come\n" + " To do you salutation from his master.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He greets me well. Your master, Pindarus,\n" + " In his own change, or by ill officers,\n" + " Hath given me some worthy cause to wish\n" + " Things done, undone: but, if he be at hand,\n" + " I shall be satisfied.\n\n" + "PINDARUS I do not doubt\n" + " But that my noble master will appear\n" + " Such as he is, full of regard and honour.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He is not doubted. A word, Lucilius;\n" + " How he received you, let me be resolved.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS With courtesy and with respect enough;\n" + " But not with such familiar instances,\n" + " Nor with such free and friendly conference,\n" + " As he hath used of old.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Thou hast described\n" + " A hot friend cooling: ever note, Lucilius,\n" + " When love begins to sicken and decay,\n" + " It useth an enforced ceremony.\n" + " There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;\n" + " But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,\n" + " Make gallant show and promise of their mettle;\n" + " But when they should endure the bloody spur,\n" + " They fall their crests, and, like deceitful jades,\n" + " Sink in the trial. Comes his army on?\n\n" + "LUCILIUS They mean this night in Sardis to be quarter'd;\n" + " The greater part, the horse in general,\n" + " Are come with Cassius.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Hark! he is arrived.\n\n" + " [Low march within]\n\n" + " March gently on to meet him.\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIUS and his powers]\n\n" + "CASSIUS Stand, ho!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Stand, ho! Speak the word along.\n\n" + "First Soldier Stand!\n\n" + "Second Soldier Stand!\n\n" + "Third Soldier Stand!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Most noble brother, you have done me wrong.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Judge me, you gods! wrong I mine enemies?\n" + " And, if not so, how should I wrong a brother?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Brutus, this sober form of yours hides wrongs;\n" + " And when you do them--\n\n" + "BRUTUS Cassius, be content.\n" + " Speak your griefs softly: I do know you well.\n" + " Before the eyes of both our armies here,\n" + " Which should perceive nothing but love from us,\n" + " Let us not wrangle: bid them move away;\n" + " Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your griefs,\n" + " And I will give you audience.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Pindarus,\n" + " Bid our commanders lead their charges off\n" + " A little from this ground.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Lucilius, do you the like; and let no man\n" + " Come to our tent till we have done our conference.\n" + " Let Lucius and Titinius guard our door.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Brutus's tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BRUTUS and CASSIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS That you have wrong'd me doth appear in this:\n" + " You have condemn'd and noted Lucius Pella\n" + " For taking bribes here of the Sardians;\n" + " Wherein my letters, praying on his side,\n" + " Because I knew the man, were slighted off.\n\n" + "BRUTUS You wronged yourself to write in such a case.\n\n" + "CASSIUS In such a time as this it is not meet\n" + " That every nice offence should bear his comment.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself\n" + " Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm;\n" + " To sell and mart your offices for gold\n" + " To undeservers.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I an itching palm!\n" + " You know that you are Brutus that speak this,\n" + " Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.\n\n" + "BRUTUS The name of Cassius honours this corruption,\n" + " And chastisement doth therefore hide his head.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Chastisement!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Remember March, the ides of March remember:\n" + " Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake?\n" + " What villain touch'd his body, that did stab,\n" + " And not for justice? What, shall one of us\n" + " That struck the foremost man of all this world\n" + " But for supporting robbers, shall we now\n" + " Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,\n" + " And sell the mighty space of our large honours\n" + " For so much trash as may be grasped thus?\n" + " I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,\n" + " Than such a Roman.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Brutus, bay not me;\n" + " I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,\n" + " To hedge me in; I am a soldier, I,\n" + " Older in practise, abler than yourself\n" + " To make conditions.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Go to; you are not, Cassius.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I am.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I say you are not.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Urge me no more, I shall forget myself;\n" + " Have mind upon your health, tempt me no further.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Away, slight man!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Is't possible?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Hear me, for I will speak.\n" + " Must I give way and room to your rash choler?\n" + " Shall I be frighted when a madman stares?\n\n" + "CASSIUS O ye gods, ye gods! must I endure all this?\n\n" + "BRUTUS All this! ay, more: fret till your proud heart break;\n" + " Go show your slaves how choleric you are,\n" + " And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge?\n" + " Must I observe you? must I stand and crouch\n" + " Under your testy humour? By the gods\n" + " You shall digest the venom of your spleen,\n" + " Though it do split you; for, from this day forth,\n" + " I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,\n" + " When you are waspish.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Is it come to this?\n\n" + "BRUTUS You say you are a better soldier:\n" + " Let it appear so; make your vaunting true,\n" + " And it shall please me well: for mine own part,\n" + " I shall be glad to learn of noble men.\n\n" + "CASSIUS You wrong me every way; you wrong me, Brutus;\n" + " I said, an elder soldier, not a better:\n" + " Did I say 'better'?\n\n" + "BRUTUS If you did, I care not.\n\n" + "CASSIUS When Caesar lived, he durst not thus have moved me.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Peace, peace! you durst not so have tempted him.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I durst not!\n\n" + "BRUTUS No.\n\n" + "CASSIUS What, durst not tempt him!\n\n" + "BRUTUS For your life you durst not!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Do not presume too much upon my love;\n" + " I may do that I shall be sorry for.\n\n" + "BRUTUS You have done that you should be sorry for.\n" + " There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats,\n" + " For I am arm'd so strong in honesty\n" + " That they pass by me as the idle wind,\n" + " Which I respect not. I did send to you\n" + " For certain sums of gold, which you denied me:\n" + " For I can raise no money by vile means:\n" + " By heaven, I had rather coin my heart,\n" + " And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring\n" + " From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash\n" + " By any indirection: I did send\n" + " To you for gold to pay my legions,\n" + " Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?\n" + " Should I have answer'd Caius Cassius so?\n" + " When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,\n" + " To lock such rascal counters from his friends,\n" + " Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;\n" + " Dash him to pieces!\n\n" + "CASSIUS I denied you not.\n\n" + "BRUTUS You did.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I did not: he was but a fool that brought\n" + " My answer back. Brutus hath rived my heart:\n" + " A friend should bear his friend's infirmities,\n" + " But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I do not, till you practise them on me.\n\n" + "CASSIUS You love me not.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I do not like your faults.\n\n" + "CASSIUS A friendly eye could never see such faults.\n\n" + "BRUTUS A flatterer's would not, though they do appear\n" + " As huge as high Olympus.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Come, Antony, and young Octavius, come,\n" + " Revenge yourselves alone on Cassius,\n" + " For Cassius is aweary of the world;\n" + " Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;\n" + " Cheque'd like a bondman; all his faults observed,\n" + " Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote,\n" + " To cast into my teeth. O, I could weep\n" + " My spirit from mine eyes! There is my dagger,\n" + " And here my naked breast; within, a heart\n" + " Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold:\n" + " If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth;\n" + " I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart:\n" + " Strike, as thou didst at Caesar; for, I know,\n" + " When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better\n" + " Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Sheathe your dagger:\n" + " Be angry when you will, it shall have scope;\n" + " Do what you will, dishonour shall be humour.\n" + " O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb\n" + " That carries anger as the flint bears fire;\n" + " Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark,\n" + " And straight is cold again.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Hath Cassius lived\n" + " To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus,\n" + " When grief, and blood ill-temper'd, vexeth him?\n\n" + "BRUTUS When I spoke that, I was ill-temper'd too.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.\n\n" + "BRUTUS And my heart too.\n\n" + "CASSIUS O Brutus!\n\n" + "BRUTUS What's the matter?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Have not you love enough to bear with me,\n" + " When that rash humour which my mother gave me\n" + " Makes me forgetful?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Yes, Cassius; and, from henceforth,\n" + " When you are over-earnest with your Brutus,\n" + " He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.\n\n" + "Poet [Within] Let me go in to see the generals;\n" + " There is some grudge between 'em, 'tis not meet\n" + " They be alone.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS [Within] You shall not come to them.\n\n" + "Poet [Within] Nothing but death shall stay me.\n\n" + " [Enter Poet, followed by LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, and LUCIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS How now! what's the matter?\n\n" + "Poet For shame, you generals! what do you mean?\n" + " Love, and be friends, as two such men should be;\n" + " For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Ha, ha! how vilely doth this cynic rhyme!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Get you hence, sirrah; saucy fellow, hence!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Bear with him, Brutus; 'tis his fashion.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I'll know his humour, when he knows his time:\n" + " What should the wars do with these jigging fools?\n" + " Companion, hence!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Away, away, be gone.\n\n" + " [Exit Poet]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Lucilius and Titinius, bid the commanders\n" + " Prepare to lodge their companies to-night.\n\n" + "CASSIUS And come yourselves, and bring Messala with you\n" + " Immediately to us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCILIUS and TITINIUS]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Lucius, a bowl of wine!\n\n" + " [Exit LUCIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS I did not think you could have been so angry.\n\n" + "BRUTUS O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Of your philosophy you make no use,\n" + " If you give place to accidental evils.\n\n" + "BRUTUS No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Ha! Portia!\n\n" + "BRUTUS She is dead.\n\n" + "CASSIUS How 'scaped I killing when I cross'd you so?\n" + " O insupportable and touching loss!\n" + " Upon what sickness?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Impatient of my absence,\n" + " And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony\n" + " Have made themselves so strong:--for with her death\n" + " That tidings came;--with this she fell distract,\n" + " And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire.\n\n" + "CASSIUS And died so?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Even so.\n\n" + "CASSIUS O ye immortal gods!\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS, with wine and taper]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Speak no more of her. Give me a bowl of wine.\n" + " In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius.\n\n" + "CASSIUS My heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.\n" + " Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup;\n" + " I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Come in, Titinius!\n\n" + " [Exit LUCIUS]\n\n" + " [Re-enter TITINIUS, with MESSALA]\n\n" + " Welcome, good Messala.\n" + " Now sit we close about this taper here,\n" + " And call in question our necessities.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Portia, art thou gone?\n\n" + "BRUTUS No more, I pray you.\n" + " Messala, I have here received letters,\n" + " That young Octavius and Mark Antony\n" + " Come down upon us with a mighty power,\n" + " Bending their expedition toward Philippi.\n\n" + "MESSALA Myself have letters of the selfsame tenor.\n\n" + "BRUTUS With what addition?\n\n" + "MESSALA That by proscription and bills of outlawry,\n" + " Octavius, Antony, and Lepidus,\n" + " Have put to death an hundred senators.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Therein our letters do not well agree;\n" + " Mine speak of seventy senators that died\n" + " By their proscriptions, Cicero being one.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Cicero one!\n\n" + "MESSALA Cicero is dead,\n" + " And by that order of proscription.\n" + " Had you your letters from your wife, my lord?\n\n" + "BRUTUS No, Messala.\n\n" + "MESSALA Nor nothing in your letters writ of her?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Nothing, Messala.\n\n" + "MESSALA That, methinks, is strange.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why ask you? hear you aught of her in yours?\n\n" + "MESSALA No, my lord.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Now, as you are a Roman, tell me true.\n\n" + "MESSALA Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell:\n" + " For certain she is dead, and by strange manner.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why, farewell, Portia. We must die, Messala:\n" + " With meditating that she must die once,\n" + " I have the patience to endure it now.\n\n" + "MESSALA Even so great men great losses should endure.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I have as much of this in art as you,\n" + " But yet my nature could not bear it so.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Well, to our work alive. What do you think\n" + " Of marching to Philippi presently?\n\n" + "CASSIUS I do not think it good.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Your reason?\n\n" + "CASSIUS This it is:\n" + " 'Tis better that the enemy seek us:\n" + " So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,\n" + " Doing himself offence; whilst we, lying still,\n" + " Are full of rest, defense, and nimbleness.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Good reasons must, of force, give place to better.\n" + " The people 'twixt Philippi and this ground\n" + " Do stand but in a forced affection;\n" + " For they have grudged us contribution:\n" + " The enemy, marching along by them,\n" + " By them shall make a fuller number up,\n" + " Come on refresh'd, new-added, and encouraged;\n" + " From which advantage shall we cut him off,\n" + " If at Philippi we do face him there,\n" + " These people at our back.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Hear me, good brother.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Under your pardon. You must note beside,\n" + " That we have tried the utmost of our friends,\n" + " Our legions are brim-full, our cause is ripe:\n" + " The enemy increaseth every day;\n" + " We, at the height, are ready to decline.\n" + " There is a tide in the affairs of men,\n" + " Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;\n" + " Omitted, all the voyage of their life\n" + " Is bound in shallows and in miseries.\n" + " On such a full sea are we now afloat;\n" + " And we must take the current when it serves,\n" + " Or lose our ventures.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Then, with your will, go on;\n" + " We'll along ourselves, and meet them at Philippi.\n\n" + "BRUTUS The deep of night is crept upon our talk,\n" + " And nature must obey necessity;\n" + " Which we will niggard with a little rest.\n" + " There is no more to say?\n\n" + "CASSIUS No more. Good night:\n" + " Early to-morrow will we rise, and hence.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Lucius!\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIUS]\n" + " My gown.\n\n" + " [Exit LUCIUS]\n\n" + " Farewell, good Messala:\n" + " Good night, Titinius. Noble, noble Cassius,\n" + " Good night, and good repose.\n\n" + "CASSIUS O my dear brother!\n" + " This was an ill beginning of the night:\n" + " Never come such division 'tween our souls!\n" + " Let it not, Brutus.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Every thing is well.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Good night, my lord.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Good night, good brother.\n\n\n" + "TITINIUS |\n" + " | Good night, Lord Brutus.\n" + "MESSALA |\n\n\n" + "BRUTUS Farewell, every one.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but BRUTUS]\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS, with the gown]\n\n" + " Give me the gown. Where is thy instrument?\n\n" + "LUCIUS Here in the tent.\n\n" + "BRUTUS What, thou speak'st drowsily?\n" + " Poor knave, I blame thee not; thou art o'er-watch'd.\n" + " Call Claudius and some other of my men:\n" + " I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Varro and Claudius!\n\n" + " [Enter VARRO and CLAUDIUS]\n\n" + "VARRO Calls my lord?\n\n" + "BRUTUS I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep;\n" + " It may be I shall raise you by and by\n" + " On business to my brother Cassius.\n\n" + "VARRO So please you, we will stand and watch your pleasure.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I will not have it so: lie down, good sirs;\n" + " It may be I shall otherwise bethink me.\n" + " Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so;\n" + " I put it in the pocket of my gown.\n\n" + " [VARRO and CLAUDIUS lie down]\n\n" + "LUCIUS I was sure your lordship did not give it me.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Bear with me, good boy, I am much forgetful.\n" + " Canst thou hold up thy heavy eyes awhile,\n" + " And touch thy instrument a strain or two?\n\n" + "LUCIUS Ay, my lord, an't please you.\n\n" + "BRUTUS It does, my boy:\n" + " I trouble thee too much, but thou art willing.\n\n" + "LUCIUS It is my duty, sir.\n\n" + "BRUTUS I should not urge thy duty past thy might;\n" + " I know young bloods look for a time of rest.\n\n" + "LUCIUS I have slept, my lord, already.\n\n" + "BRUTUS It was well done; and thou shalt sleep again;\n" + " I will not hold thee long: if I do live,\n" + " I will be good to thee.\n\n" + " [Music, and a song]\n\n" + " This is a sleepy tune. O murderous slumber,\n" + " Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy,\n" + " That plays thee music? Gentle knave, good night;\n" + " I will not do thee so much wrong to wake thee:\n" + " If thou dost nod, thou break'st thy instrument;\n" + " I'll take it from thee; and, good boy, good night.\n" + " Let me see, let me see; is not the leaf turn'd down\n" + " Where I left reading? Here it is, I think.\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghost of CAESAR]\n\n" + " How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here?\n" + " I think it is the weakness of mine eyes\n" + " That shapes this monstrous apparition.\n" + " It comes upon me. Art thou any thing?\n" + " Art thou some god, some angel, or some devil,\n" + " That makest my blood cold and my hair to stare?\n" + " Speak to me what thou art.\n\n" + "GHOST Thy evil spirit, Brutus.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why comest thou?\n\n" + "GHOST To tell thee thou shalt see me at Philippi.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Well; then I shall see thee again?\n\n" + "GHOST Ay, at Philippi.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why, I will see thee at Philippi, then.\n\n" + " [Exit Ghost]\n\n" + " Now I have taken heart thou vanishest:\n" + " Ill spirit, I would hold more talk with thee.\n" + " Boy, Lucius! Varro! Claudius! Sirs, awake! Claudius!\n\n" + "LUCIUS The strings, my lord, are false.\n\n" + "BRUTUS He thinks he still is at his instrument.\n" + " Lucius, awake!\n\n" + "LUCIUS My lord?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Didst thou dream, Lucius, that thou so criedst out?\n\n" + "LUCIUS My lord, I do not know that I did cry.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Yes, that thou didst: didst thou see any thing?\n\n" + "LUCIUS Nothing, my lord.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius!\n\n" + " [To VARRO]\n\n" + " Fellow thou, awake!\n\n" + "VARRO My lord?\n\n" + "CLAUDIUS My lord?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep?\n\n\n" + "VARRO |\n" + " | Did we, my lord?\n" + "CLAUDIUS |\n\n\n" + "BRUTUS Ay: saw you any thing?\n\n" + "VARRO No, my lord, I saw nothing.\n\n" + "CLAUDIUS Nor I, my lord.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Go and commend me to my brother Cassius;\n" + " Bid him set on his powers betimes before,\n" + " And we will follow.\n\n\n" + "VARRO |\n" + " | It shall be done, my lord.\n" + "CLAUDIUS |\n\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The plains of Philippi.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Now, Antony, our hopes are answered:\n" + " You said the enemy would not come down,\n" + " But keep the hills and upper regions;\n" + " It proves not so: their battles are at hand;\n" + " They mean to warn us at Philippi here,\n" + " Answering before we do demand of them.\n\n" + "ANTONY Tut, I am in their bosoms, and I know\n" + " Wherefore they do it: they could be content\n" + " To visit other places; and come down\n" + " With fearful bravery, thinking by this face\n" + " To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage;\n" + " But 'tis not so.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Prepare you, generals:\n" + " The enemy comes on in gallant show;\n" + " Their bloody sign of battle is hung out,\n" + " And something to be done immediately.\n\n" + "ANTONY Octavius, lead your battle softly on,\n" + " Upon the left hand of the even field.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Upon the right hand I; keep thou the left.\n\n" + "ANTONY Why do you cross me in this exigent?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS I do not cross you; but I will do so.\n\n" + " [March]\n\n" + " [Drum. Enter BRUTUS, CASSIUS, and their Army;\n" + " LUCILIUS, TITINIUS, MESSALA, and others]\n\n" + "BRUTUS They stand, and would have parley.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Stand fast, Titinius: we must out and talk.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Mark Antony, shall we give sign of battle?\n\n" + "ANTONY No, Caesar, we will answer on their charge.\n" + " Make forth; the generals would have some words.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Stir not until the signal.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Words before blows: is it so, countrymen?\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Not that we love words better, as you do.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Good words are better than bad strokes, Octavius.\n\n" + "ANTONY In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words:\n" + " Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart,\n" + " Crying 'Long live! hail, Caesar!'\n\n" + "CASSIUS Antony,\n" + " The posture of your blows are yet unknown;\n" + " But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,\n" + " And leave them honeyless.\n\n" + "ANTONY Not stingless too.\n\n" + "BRUTUS O, yes, and soundless too;\n" + " For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony,\n" + " And very wisely threat before you sting.\n\n" + "ANTONY Villains, you did not so, when your vile daggers\n" + " Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar:\n" + " You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd like hounds,\n" + " And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet;\n" + " Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind\n" + " Struck Caesar on the neck. O you flatterers!\n\n" + "CASSIUS Flatterers! Now, Brutus, thank yourself:\n" + " This tongue had not offended so to-day,\n" + " If Cassius might have ruled.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Come, come, the cause: if arguing make us sweat,\n" + " The proof of it will turn to redder drops. Look;\n" + " I draw a sword against conspirators;\n" + " When think you that the sword goes up again?\n" + " Never, till Caesar's three and thirty wounds\n" + " Be well avenged; or till another Caesar\n" + " Have added slaughter to the sword of traitors.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Caesar, thou canst not die by traitors' hands,\n" + " Unless thou bring'st them with thee.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS So I hope;\n" + " I was not born to die on Brutus' sword.\n\n" + "BRUTUS O, if thou wert the noblest of thy strain,\n" + " Young man, thou couldst not die more honourable.\n\n" + "CASSIUS A peevish schoolboy, worthless of such honour,\n" + " Join'd with a masker and a reveller!\n\n" + "ANTONY Old Cassius still!\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Come, Antony, away!\n" + " Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth:\n" + " If you dare fight to-day, come to the field;\n" + " If not, when you have stomachs.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, and their army]\n\n" + "CASSIUS Why, now, blow wind, swell billow and swim bark!\n" + " The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Ho, Lucilius! hark, a word with you.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS [Standing forth] My lord?\n\n" + " [BRUTUS and LUCILIUS converse apart]\n\n" + "CASSIUS Messala!\n\n" + "MESSALA [Standing forth] What says my general?\n\n" + "CASSIUS Messala,\n" + " This is my birth-day; as this very day\n" + " Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, Messala:\n" + " Be thou my witness that against my will,\n" + " As Pompey was, am I compell'd to set\n" + " Upon one battle all our liberties.\n" + " You know that I held Epicurus strong\n" + " And his opinion: now I change my mind,\n" + " And partly credit things that do presage.\n" + " Coming from Sardis, on our former ensign\n" + " Two mighty eagles fell, and there they perch'd,\n" + " Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands;\n" + " Who to Philippi here consorted us:\n" + " This morning are they fled away and gone;\n" + " And in their steads do ravens, crows and kites,\n" + " Fly o'er our heads and downward look on us,\n" + " As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem\n" + " A canopy most fatal, under which\n" + " Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.\n\n" + "MESSALA Believe not so.\n\n" + "CASSIUS I but believe it partly;\n" + " For I am fresh of spirit and resolved\n" + " To meet all perils very constantly.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Even so, Lucilius.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Now, most noble Brutus,\n" + " The gods to-day stand friendly, that we may,\n" + " Lovers in peace, lead on our days to age!\n" + " But since the affairs of men rest still incertain,\n" + " Let's reason with the worst that may befall.\n" + " If we do lose this battle, then is this\n" + " The very last time we shall speak together:\n" + " What are you then determined to do?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Even by the rule of that philosophy\n" + " By which I did blame Cato for the death\n" + " Which he did give himself, I know not how,\n" + " But I do find it cowardly and vile,\n" + " For fear of what might fall, so to prevent\n" + " The time of life: arming myself with patience\n" + " To stay the providence of some high powers\n" + " That govern us below.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Then, if we lose this battle,\n" + " You are contented to be led in triumph\n" + " Thorough the streets of Rome?\n\n" + "BRUTUS No, Cassius, no: think not, thou noble Roman,\n" + " That ever Brutus will go bound to Rome;\n" + " He bears too great a mind. But this same day\n" + " Must end that work the ides of March begun;\n" + " And whether we shall meet again I know not.\n" + " Therefore our everlasting farewell take:\n" + " For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius!\n" + " If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;\n" + " If not, why then, this parting was well made.\n\n" + "CASSIUS For ever, and for ever, farewell, Brutus!\n" + " If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed;\n" + " If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why, then, lead on. O, that a man might know\n" + " The end of this day's business ere it come!\n" + " But it sufficeth that the day will end,\n" + " And then the end is known. Come, ho! away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. The field of battle.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter BRUTUS and MESSALA]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills\n" + " Unto the legions on the other side.\n\n" + " [Loud alarum]\n\n" + " Let them set on at once; for I perceive\n" + " But cold demeanor in Octavius' wing,\n" + " And sudden push gives them the overthrow.\n" + " Ride, ride, Messala: let them all come down.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter CASSIUS and TITINIUS]\n\n" + "CASSIUS O, look, Titinius, look, the villains fly!\n" + " Myself have to mine own turn'd enemy:\n" + " This ensign here of mine was turning back;\n" + " I slew the coward, and did take it from him.\n\n" + "TITINIUS O Cassius, Brutus gave the word too early;\n" + " Who, having some advantage on Octavius,\n" + " Took it too eagerly: his soldiers fell to spoil,\n" + " Whilst we by Antony are all enclosed.\n\n" + " [Enter PINDARUS]\n\n" + "PINDARUS Fly further off, my lord, fly further off;\n" + " Mark Antony is in your tents, my lord\n" + " Fly, therefore, noble Cassius, fly far off.\n\n" + "CASSIUS This hill is far enough. Look, look, Titinius;\n" + " Are those my tents where I perceive the fire?\n\n" + "TITINIUS They are, my lord.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Titinius, if thou lovest me,\n" + " Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him,\n" + " Till he have brought thee up to yonder troops,\n" + " And here again; that I may rest assured\n" + " Whether yond troops are friend or enemy.\n\n" + "TITINIUS I will be here again, even with a thought.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CASSIUS Go, Pindarus, get higher on that hill;\n" + " My sight was ever thick; regard Titinius,\n" + " And tell me what thou notest about the field.\n\n" + " [PINDARUS ascends the hill]\n\n" + " This day I breathed first: time is come round,\n" + " And where I did begin, there shall I end;\n" + " My life is run his compass. Sirrah, what news?\n\n" + "PINDARUS [Above] O my lord!\n\n" + "CASSIUS What news?\n\n" + "PINDARUS [Above] Titinius is enclosed round about\n" + " With horsemen, that make to him on the spur;\n" + " Yet he spurs on. Now they are almost on him.\n" + " Now, Titinius! Now some light. O, he lights too.\n" + " He's ta'en.\n\n" + " [Shout]\n\n" + " And, hark! they shout for joy.\n\n" + "CASSIUS Come down, behold no more.\n" + " O, coward that I am, to live so long,\n" + " To see my best friend ta'en before my face!\n\n" + " [PINDARUS descends]\n\n" + " Come hither, sirrah:\n" + " In Parthia did I take thee prisoner;\n" + " And then I swore thee, saving of thy life,\n" + " That whatsoever I did bid thee do,\n" + " Thou shouldst attempt it. Come now, keep thine oath;\n" + " Now be a freeman: and with this good sword,\n" + " That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom.\n" + " Stand not to answer: here, take thou the hilts;\n" + " And, when my face is cover'd, as 'tis now,\n" + " Guide thou the sword.\n\n" + " [PINDARUS stabs him]\n\n" + " Caesar, thou art revenged,\n" + " Even with the sword that kill'd thee.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "PINDARUS So, I am free; yet would not so have been,\n" + " Durst I have done my will. O Cassius,\n" + " Far from this country Pindarus shall run,\n" + " Where never Roman shall take note of him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter TITINIUS with MESSALA]\n\n" + "MESSALA It is but change, Titinius; for Octavius\n" + " Is overthrown by noble Brutus' power,\n" + " As Cassius' legions are by Antony.\n\n" + "TITINIUS These tidings will well comfort Cassius.\n\n" + "MESSALA Where did you leave him?\n\n" + "TITINIUS All disconsolate,\n" + " With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill.\n\n" + "MESSALA Is not that he that lies upon the ground?\n\n" + "TITINIUS He lies not like the living. O my heart!\n\n" + "MESSALA Is not that he?\n\n" + "TITINIUS No, this was he, Messala,\n" + " But Cassius is no more. O setting sun,\n" + " As in thy red rays thou dost sink to-night,\n" + " So in his red blood Cassius' day is set;\n" + " The sun of Rome is set! Our day is gone;\n" + " Clouds, dews, and dangers come; our deeds are done!\n" + " Mistrust of my success hath done this deed.\n\n" + "MESSALA Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.\n" + " O hateful error, melancholy's child,\n" + " Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men\n" + " The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,\n" + " Thou never comest unto a happy birth,\n" + " But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee!\n\n" + "TITINIUS What, Pindarus! where art thou, Pindarus?\n\n" + "MESSALA Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet\n" + " The noble Brutus, thrusting this report\n" + " Into his ears; I may say, thrusting it;\n" + " For piercing steel and darts envenomed\n" + " Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus\n" + " As tidings of this sight.\n\n" + "TITINIUS Hie you, Messala,\n" + " And I will seek for Pindarus the while.\n\n" + " [Exit MESSALA]\n\n" + " Why didst thou send me forth, brave Cassius?\n" + " Did I not meet thy friends? and did not they\n" + " Put on my brows this wreath of victory,\n" + " And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?\n" + " Alas, thou hast misconstrued every thing!\n" + " But, hold thee, take this garland on thy brow;\n" + " Thy Brutus bid me give it thee, and I\n" + " Will do his bidding. Brutus, come apace,\n" + " And see how I regarded Caius Cassius.\n" + " By your leave, gods:--this is a Roman's part\n" + " Come, Cassius' sword, and find Titinius' heart.\n\n" + " [Kills himself]\n\n" + " [Alarum. Re-enter MESSALA, with BRUTUS, CATO,\n" + " STRATO, VOLUMNIUS, and LUCILIUS]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Where, where, Messala, doth his body lie?\n\n" + "MESSALA Lo, yonder, and Titinius mourning it.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Titinius' face is upward.\n\n" + "CATO He is slain.\n\n" + "BRUTUS O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet!\n" + " Thy spirit walks abroad and turns our swords\n" + " In our own proper entrails.\n\n" + " [Low alarums]\n\n" + "CATO Brave Titinius!\n" + " Look, whether he have not crown'd dead Cassius!\n\n" + "BRUTUS Are yet two Romans living such as these?\n" + " The last of all the Romans, fare thee well!\n" + " It is impossible that ever Rome\n" + " Should breed thy fellow. Friends, I owe more tears\n" + " To this dead man than you shall see me pay.\n" + " I shall find time, Cassius, I shall find time.\n" + " Come, therefore, and to Thasos send his body:\n" + " His funerals shall not be in our camp,\n" + " Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come;\n" + " And come, young Cato; let us to the field.\n" + " Labeo and Flavius, set our battles on:\n" + " 'Tis three o'clock; and, Romans, yet ere night\n" + " We shall try fortune in a second fight.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter fighting, Soldiers of both armies;\n" + " then BRUTUS, CATO, LUCILIUS, and others]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Yet, countrymen, O, yet hold up your heads!\n\n" + "CATO What bastard doth not? Who will go with me?\n" + " I will proclaim my name about the field:\n" + " I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!\n" + " A foe to tyrants, and my country's friend;\n" + " I am the son of Marcus Cato, ho!\n\n" + "BRUTUS And I am Brutus, Marcus Brutus, I;\n" + " Brutus, my country's friend; know me for Brutus!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LUCILIUS O young and noble Cato, art thou down?\n" + " Why, now thou diest as bravely as Titinius;\n" + " And mayst be honour'd, being Cato's son.\n\n" + "First Soldier Yield, or thou diest.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Only I yield to die:\n" + " There is so much that thou wilt kill me straight;\n\n" + " [Offering money]\n\n" + " Kill Brutus, and be honour'd in his death.\n\n" + "First Soldier We must not. A noble prisoner!\n\n" + "Second Soldier Room, ho! Tell Antony, Brutus is ta'en.\n\n" + "First Soldier I'll tell the news. Here comes the general.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONY]\n\n" + " Brutus is ta'en, Brutus is ta'en, my lord.\n\n" + "ANTONY Where is he?\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Safe, Antony; Brutus is safe enough:\n" + " I dare assure thee that no enemy\n" + " Shall ever take alive the noble Brutus:\n" + " The gods defend him from so great a shame!\n" + " When you do find him, or alive or dead,\n" + " He will be found like Brutus, like himself.\n\n" + "ANTONY This is not Brutus, friend; but, I assure you,\n" + " A prize no less in worth: keep this man safe;\n" + " Give him all kindness: I had rather have\n" + " Such men my friends than enemies. Go on,\n" + " And see whether Brutus be alive or dead;\n" + " And bring us word unto Octavius' tent\n" + " How every thing is chanced.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " JULIUS CAESAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BRUTUS, DARDANIUS, CLITUS, STRATO, and\n" + " VOLUMNIUS]\n\n" + "BRUTUS Come, poor remains of friends, rest on this rock.\n\n" + "CLITUS Statilius show'd the torch-light, but, my lord,\n" + " He came not back: he is or ta'en or slain.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Sit thee down, Clitus: slaying is the word;\n" + " It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus.\n\n" + " [Whispers]\n\n" + "CLITUS What, I, my lord? No, not for all the world.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Peace then! no words.\n\n" + "CLITUS I'll rather kill myself.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Hark thee, Dardanius.\n\n" + " [Whispers]\n\n" + "DARDANIUS Shall I do such a deed?\n\n" + "CLITUS O Dardanius!\n\n" + "DARDANIUS O Clitus!\n\n" + "CLITUS What ill request did Brutus make to thee?\n\n" + "DARDANIUS To kill him, Clitus. Look, he meditates.\n\n" + "CLITUS Now is that noble vessel full of grief,\n" + " That it runs over even at his eyes.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Come hither, good Volumnius; list a word.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIUS What says my lord?\n\n" + "BRUTUS Why, this, Volumnius:\n" + " The ghost of Caesar hath appear'd to me\n" + " Two several times by night; at Sardis once,\n" + " And, this last night, here in Philippi fields:\n" + " I know my hour is come.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIUS Not so, my lord.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius.\n" + " Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it goes;\n" + " Our enemies have beat us to the pit:\n\n" + " [Low alarums]\n\n" + " It is more worthy to leap in ourselves,\n" + " Than tarry till they push us. Good Volumnius,\n" + " Thou know'st that we two went to school together:\n" + " Even for that our love of old, I prithee,\n" + " Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on it.\n\n" + "VOLUMNIUS That's not an office for a friend, my lord.\n\n" + " [Alarum still]\n\n" + "CLITUS Fly, fly, my lord; there is no tarrying here.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Farewell to you; and you; and you, Volumnius.\n" + " Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep;\n" + " Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen,\n" + " My heart doth joy that yet in all my life\n" + " I found no man but he was true to me.\n" + " I shall have glory by this losing day\n" + " More than Octavius and Mark Antony\n" + " By this vile conquest shall attain unto.\n" + " So fare you well at once; for Brutus' tongue\n" + " Hath almost ended his life's history:\n" + " Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest,\n" + " That have but labour'd to attain this hour.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Cry within, 'Fly, fly, fly!']\n\n" + "CLITUS Fly, my lord, fly.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Hence! I will follow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CLITUS, DARDANIUS, and VOLUMNIUS]\n\n" + " I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord:\n" + " Thou art a fellow of a good respect;\n" + " Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it:\n" + " Hold then my sword, and turn away thy face,\n" + " While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato?\n\n" + "STRATO Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord.\n\n" + "BRUTUS Farewell, good Strato.\n\n" + " [Runs on his sword]\n\n" + " Caesar, now be still:\n" + " I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + " [Alarum. Retreat. Enter OCTAVIUS, ANTONY, MESSALA,\n" + " LUCILIUS, and the army]\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS What man is that?\n\n" + "MESSALA My master's man. Strato, where is thy master?\n\n" + "STRATO Free from the bondage you are in, Messala:\n" + " The conquerors can but make a fire of him;\n" + " For Brutus only overcame himself,\n" + " And no man else hath honour by his death.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS So Brutus should be found. I thank thee, Brutus,\n" + " That thou hast proved Lucilius' saying true.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS All that served Brutus, I will entertain them.\n" + " Fellow, wilt thou bestow thy time with me?\n\n" + "STRATO Ay, if Messala will prefer me to you.\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS Do so, good Messala.\n\n" + "MESSALA How died my master, Strato?\n\n" + "STRATO I held the sword, and he did run on it.\n\n" + "MESSALA Octavius, then take him to follow thee,\n" + " That did the latest service to my master.\n\n" + "ANTONY This was the noblest Roman of them all:\n" + " All the conspirators save only he\n" + " Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;\n" + " He only, in a general honest thought\n" + " And common good to all, made one of them.\n" + " His life was gentle, and the elements\n" + " So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up\n" + " And say to all the world 'This was a man!'\n\n" + "OCTAVIUS According to his virtue let us use him,\n" + " With all respect and rites of burial.\n" + " Within my tent his bones to-night shall lie,\n" + " Most like a soldier, order'd honourably.\n" + " So call the field to rest; and let's away,\n" + " To part the glories of this happy day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING HENRY the Fifth. (KING HENRY V)\n\n" + "DUKE OF GLOUCESTER (GLOUCESTER:) |\n" + " | brothers to the King.\n" + "DUKE OF BEDFORD (BEDFORD:) |\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF EXETER uncle to the King. (EXETER:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK cousin to the King. (YORK:)\n\n" + "EARL OF SALISBURY (SALISBURY:)\n\n" + "EARL OF\n" + "WESTMORELAND (WESTMORELAND:)\n\n" + "EARL OF WARWICK (WARWICK:)\n\n" + "BISHOP OF\n" + "CANTERBURY (CANTERBURY:)\n\n" + "BISHOP OF ELY (ELY:)\n\n" + "EARL OF CAMBRIDGE (CAMBRIDGE:)\n\n" + "LORD SCROOP (SCROOP:)\n\n" + "SIR THOMAS GREY (GREY:)\n\n\n" + "SIR\n" + "THOMAS ERPINGHAM (ERPINGHAM:) |\n" + " |\n" + "GOWER |\n" + " |\n" + "FLUELLEN | Officers in King Henry's army.\n" + " |\n" + "MACMORRIS |\n" + " |\n" + "JAMY |\n\n\n" + "BATES |\n" + " |\n" + "COURT | soldiers in the same.\n" + " |\n" + "WILLIAMS |\n\n\n" + "PISTOL:\n\n" + "NYM:\n\n" + "BARDOLPH:\n\n" + " Boy\n" + " A Herald.\n\n" + "CHARLES the Sixth King of France. (KING OF FRANCE:) (FRENCH KING:)\n\n" + "LEWIS the Dauphin. (DAUPHIN:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF BURGUNDY (BURGUNDY:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF ORLEANS (ORLEANS:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF BOURBON (BOURBON:)\n\n" + " The Constable of France. (Constable:)\n\n\n" + "RAMBURES |\n" + " | French Lords.\n" + "GRANDPRE |\n\n\n" + "GOVERNOR of Harfleur.\n\n" + "MONTJOY a French Herald.\n\n" + " Ambassadors to the King of England.\n\n" + "ISABEL Queen of France. (QUEEN ISABEL:)\n\n" + "KATHARINE daughter to Charles and Isabel.\n\n" + "ALICE a lady attending on her.\n\n" + " Hostess of a tavern in Eastcheap formerly\n" + " Mistress Quickly, and now married to Pistol.\n" + " Lords, Ladies, Officers, Soldiers, Citizens,\n" + " Messengers, and Attendants. Chorus.\n" + " (Hostess:)\n" + " (First Ambassador:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (French Soldier:)\n\n" + "SCENE England; afterwards France.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n" + " PROLOGUE\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chorus]\n\n" + "Chorus O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend\n" + " The brightest heaven of invention,\n" + " A kingdom for a stage, princes to act\n" + " And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!\n" + " Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,\n" + " Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,\n" + " Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire\n" + " Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all,\n" + " The flat unraised spirits that have dared\n" + " On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth\n" + " So great an object: can this cockpit hold\n" + " The vasty fields of France? or may we cram\n" + " Within this wooden O the very casques\n" + " That did affright the air at Agincourt?\n" + " O, pardon! since a crooked figure may\n" + " Attest in little place a million;\n" + " And let us, ciphers to this great accompt,\n" + " On your imaginary forces work.\n" + " Suppose within the girdle of these walls\n" + " Are now confined two mighty monarchies,\n" + " Whose high upreared and abutting fronts\n" + " The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder:\n" + " Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts;\n" + " Into a thousand parts divide on man,\n" + " And make imaginary puissance;\n" + " Think when we talk of horses, that you see them\n" + " Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth;\n" + " For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings,\n" + " Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times,\n" + " Turning the accomplishment of many years\n" + " Into an hour-glass: for the which supply,\n" + " Admit me Chorus to this history;\n" + " Who prologue-like your humble patience pray,\n" + " Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. An ante-chamber in the KING'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP OF ELY]\n\n" + "CANTERBURY My lord, I'll tell you; that self bill is urged,\n" + " Which in the eleventh year of the last king's reign\n" + " Was like, and had indeed against us pass'd,\n" + " But that the scambling and unquiet time\n" + " Did push it out of farther question.\n\n" + "ELY But how, my lord, shall we resist it now?\n\n" + "CANTERBURY It must be thought on. If it pass against us,\n" + " We lose the better half of our possession:\n" + " For all the temporal lands which men devout\n" + " By testament have given to the church\n" + " Would they strip from us; being valued thus:\n" + " As much as would maintain, to the king's honour,\n" + " Full fifteen earls and fifteen hundred knights,\n" + " Six thousand and two hundred good esquires;\n" + " And, to relief of lazars and weak age,\n" + " Of indigent faint souls past corporal toil.\n" + " A hundred almshouses right well supplied;\n" + " And to the coffers of the king beside,\n" + " A thousand pounds by the year: thus runs the bill.\n\n" + "ELY This would drink deep.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY 'Twould drink the cup and all.\n\n" + "ELY But what prevention?\n\n" + "CANTERBURY The king is full of grace and fair regard.\n\n" + "ELY And a true lover of the holy church.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY The courses of his youth promised it not.\n" + " The breath no sooner left his father's body,\n" + " But that his wildness, mortified in him,\n" + " Seem'd to die too; yea, at that very moment\n" + " Consideration, like an angel, came\n" + " And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,\n" + " Leaving his body as a paradise,\n" + " To envelop and contain celestial spirits.\n" + " Never was such a sudden scholar made;\n" + " Never came reformation in a flood,\n" + " With such a heady currance, scouring faults\n" + " Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness\n" + " So soon did lose his seat and all at once\n" + " As in this king.\n\n" + "ELY We are blessed in the change.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY Hear him but reason in divinity,\n" + " And all-admiring with an inward wish\n" + " You would desire the king were made a prelate:\n" + " Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,\n" + " You would say it hath been all in all his study:\n" + " List his discourse of war, and you shall hear\n" + " A fearful battle render'd you in music:\n" + " Turn him to any cause of policy,\n" + " The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,\n" + " Familiar as his garter: that, when he speaks,\n" + " The air, a charter'd libertine, is still,\n" + " And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears,\n" + " To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences;\n" + " So that the art and practic part of life\n" + " Must be the mistress to this theoric:\n" + " Which is a wonder how his grace should glean it,\n" + " Since his addiction was to courses vain,\n" + " His companies unletter'd, rude and shallow,\n" + " His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, sports,\n" + " And never noted in him any study,\n" + " Any retirement, any sequestration\n" + " From open haunts and popularity.\n\n" + "ELY The strawberry grows underneath the nettle\n" + " And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best\n" + " Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality:\n" + " And so the prince obscured his contemplation\n" + " Under the veil of wildness; which, no doubt,\n" + " Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night,\n" + " Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY It must be so; for miracles are ceased;\n" + " And therefore we must needs admit the means\n" + " How things are perfected.\n\n" + "ELY But, my good lord,\n" + " How now for mitigation of this bill\n" + " Urged by the commons? Doth his majesty\n" + " Incline to it, or no?\n\n" + "CANTERBURY He seems indifferent,\n" + " Or rather swaying more upon our part\n" + " Than cherishing the exhibiters against us;\n" + " For I have made an offer to his majesty,\n" + " Upon our spiritual convocation\n" + " And in regard of causes now in hand,\n" + " Which I have open'd to his grace at large,\n" + " As touching France, to give a greater sum\n" + " Than ever at one time the clergy yet\n" + " Did to his predecessors part withal.\n\n" + "ELY How did this offer seem received, my lord?\n\n" + "CANTERBURY With good acceptance of his majesty;\n" + " Save that there was not time enough to hear,\n" + " As I perceived his grace would fain have done,\n" + " The severals and unhidden passages\n" + " Of his true titles to some certain dukedoms\n" + " And generally to the crown and seat of France\n" + " Derived from Edward, his great-grandfather.\n\n" + "ELY What was the impediment that broke this off?\n\n" + "CANTERBURY The French ambassador upon that instant\n" + " Craved audience; and the hour, I think, is come\n" + " To give him hearing: is it four o'clock?\n\n" + "ELY It is.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY Then go we in, to know his embassy;\n" + " Which I could with a ready guess declare,\n" + " Before the Frenchman speak a word of it.\n\n" + "ELY I'll wait upon you, and I long to hear it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. The Presence chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY V, GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER,\n" + " WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Where is my gracious Lord of Canterbury?\n\n" + "EXETER Not here in presence.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Send for him, good uncle.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Shall we call in the ambassador, my liege?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Not yet, my cousin: we would be resolved,\n" + " Before we hear him, of some things of weight\n" + " That task our thoughts, concerning us and France.\n\n" + " [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, and the BISHOP of ELY]\n\n" + "CANTERBURY God and his angels guard your sacred throne\n" + " And make you long become it!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Sure, we thank you.\n" + " My learned lord, we pray you to proceed\n" + " And justly and religiously unfold\n" + " Why the law Salique that they have in France\n" + " Or should, or should not, bar us in our claim:\n" + " And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord,\n" + " That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading,\n" + " Or nicely charge your understanding soul\n" + " With opening titles miscreate, whose right\n" + " Suits not in native colours with the truth;\n" + " For God doth know how many now in health\n" + " Shall drop their blood in approbation\n" + " Of what your reverence shall incite us to.\n" + " Therefore take heed how you impawn our person,\n" + " How you awake our sleeping sword of war:\n" + " We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;\n" + " For never two such kingdoms did contend\n" + " Without much fall of blood; whose guiltless drops\n" + " Are every one a woe, a sore complaint\n" + " 'Gainst him whose wrong gives edge unto the swords\n" + " That make such waste in brief mortality.\n" + " Under this conjuration, speak, my lord;\n" + " For we will hear, note and believe in heart\n" + " That what you speak is in your conscience wash'd\n" + " As pure as sin with baptism.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY Then hear me, gracious sovereign, and you peers,\n" + " That owe yourselves, your lives and services\n" + " To this imperial throne. There is no bar\n" + " To make against your highness' claim to France\n" + " But this, which they produce from Pharamond,\n" + " 'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant:'\n" + " 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land:'\n" + " Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze\n" + " To be the realm of France, and Pharamond\n" + " The founder of this law and female bar.\n" + " Yet their own authors faithfully affirm\n" + " That the land Salique is in Germany,\n" + " Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe;\n" + " Where Charles the Great, having subdued the Saxons,\n" + " There left behind and settled certain French;\n" + " Who, holding in disdain the German women\n" + " For some dishonest manners of their life,\n" + " Establish'd then this law; to wit, no female\n" + " Should be inheritrix in Salique land:\n" + " Which Salique, as I said, 'twixt Elbe and Sala,\n" + " Is at this day in Germany call'd Meisen.\n" + " Then doth it well appear that Salique law\n" + " Was not devised for the realm of France:\n" + " Nor did the French possess the Salique land\n" + " Until four hundred one and twenty years\n" + " After defunction of King Pharamond,\n" + " Idly supposed the founder of this law;\n" + " Who died within the year of our redemption\n" + " Four hundred twenty-six; and Charles the Great\n" + " Subdued the Saxons, and did seat the French\n" + " Beyond the river Sala, in the year\n" + " Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say,\n" + " King Pepin, which deposed Childeric,\n" + " Did, as heir general, being descended\n" + " Of Blithild, which was daughter to King Clothair,\n" + " Make claim and title to the crown of France.\n" + " Hugh Capet also, who usurped the crown\n" + " Of Charles the duke of Lorraine, sole heir male\n" + " Of the true line and stock of Charles the Great,\n" + " To find his title with some shows of truth,\n" + " 'Through, in pure truth, it was corrupt and naught,\n" + " Convey'd himself as heir to the Lady Lingare,\n" + " Daughter to Charlemain, who was the son\n" + " To Lewis the emperor, and Lewis the son\n" + " Of Charles the Great. Also King Lewis the Tenth,\n" + " Who was sole heir to the usurper Capet,\n" + " Could not keep quiet in his conscience,\n" + " Wearing the crown of France, till satisfied\n" + " That fair Queen Isabel, his grandmother,\n" + " Was lineal of the Lady Ermengare,\n" + " Daughter to Charles the foresaid duke of Lorraine:\n" + " By the which marriage the line of Charles the Great\n" + " Was re-united to the crown of France.\n" + " So that, as clear as is the summer's sun.\n" + " King Pepin's title and Hugh Capet's claim,\n" + " King Lewis his satisfaction, all appear\n" + " To hold in right and title of the female:\n" + " So do the kings of France unto this day;\n" + " Howbeit they would hold up this Salique law\n" + " To bar your highness claiming from the female,\n" + " And rather choose to hide them in a net\n" + " Than amply to imbar their crooked titles\n" + " Usurp'd from you and your progenitors.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V May I with right and conscience make this claim?\n\n" + "CANTERBURY The sin upon my head, dread sovereign!\n" + " For in the book of Numbers is it writ,\n" + " When the man dies, let the inheritance\n" + " Descend unto the daughter. Gracious lord,\n" + " Stand for your own; unwind your bloody flag;\n" + " Look back into your mighty ancestors:\n" + " Go, my dread lord, to your great-grandsire's tomb,\n" + " From whom you claim; invoke his warlike spirit,\n" + " And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince,\n" + " Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy,\n" + " Making defeat on the full power of France,\n" + " Whiles his most mighty father on a hill\n" + " Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp\n" + " Forage in blood of French nobility.\n" + " O noble English. that could entertain\n" + " With half their forces the full Pride of France\n" + " And let another half stand laughing by,\n" + " All out of work and cold for action!\n\n" + "ELY Awake remembrance of these valiant dead\n" + " And with your puissant arm renew their feats:\n" + " You are their heir; you sit upon their throne;\n" + " The blood and courage that renowned them\n" + " Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege\n" + " Is in the very May-morn of his youth,\n" + " Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises.\n\n" + "EXETER Your brother kings and monarchs of the earth\n" + " Do all expect that you should rouse yourself,\n" + " As did the former lions of your blood.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND They know your grace hath cause and means and might;\n" + " So hath your highness; never king of England\n" + " Had nobles richer and more loyal subjects,\n" + " Whose hearts have left their bodies here in England\n" + " And lie pavilion'd in the fields of France.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY O, let their bodies follow, my dear liege,\n" + " With blood and sword and fire to win your right;\n" + " In aid whereof we of the spiritualty\n" + " Will raise your highness such a mighty sum\n" + " As never did the clergy at one time\n" + " Bring in to any of your ancestors.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We must not only arm to invade the French,\n" + " But lay down our proportions to defend\n" + " Against the Scot, who will make road upon us\n" + " With all advantages.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY They of those marches, gracious sovereign,\n" + " Shall be a wall sufficient to defend\n" + " Our inland from the pilfering borderers.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We do not mean the coursing snatchers only,\n" + " But fear the main intendment of the Scot,\n" + " Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to us;\n" + " For you shall read that my great-grandfather\n" + " Never went with his forces into France\n" + " But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd kingdom\n" + " Came pouring, like the tide into a breach,\n" + " With ample and brim fulness of his force,\n" + " Galling the gleaned land with hot assays,\n" + " Girding with grievous siege castles and towns;\n" + " That England, being empty of defence,\n" + " Hath shook and trembled at the ill neighbourhood.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY She hath been then more fear'd than harm'd, my liege;\n" + " For hear her but exampled by herself:\n" + " When all her chivalry hath been in France\n" + " And she a mourning widow of her nobles,\n" + " She hath herself not only well defended\n" + " But taken and impounded as a stray\n" + " The King of Scots; whom she did send to France,\n" + " To fill King Edward's fame with prisoner kings\n" + " And make her chronicle as rich with praise\n" + " As is the ooze and bottom of the sea\n" + " With sunken wreck and sunless treasuries.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND But there's a saying very old and true,\n" + " 'If that you will France win,\n" + " Then with Scotland first begin:'\n" + " For once the eagle England being in prey,\n" + " To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot\n" + " Comes sneaking and so sucks her princely eggs,\n" + " Playing the mouse in absence of the cat,\n" + " To tear and havoc more than she can eat.\n\n" + "EXETER It follows then the cat must stay at home:\n" + " Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,\n" + " Since we have locks to safeguard necessaries,\n" + " And pretty traps to catch the petty thieves.\n" + " While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,\n" + " The advised head defends itself at home;\n" + " For government, though high and low and lower,\n" + " Put into parts, doth keep in one consent,\n" + " Congreeing in a full and natural close,\n" + " Like music.\n\n" + "CANTERBURY Therefore doth heaven divide\n" + " The state of man in divers functions,\n" + " Setting endeavour in continual motion;\n" + " To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,\n" + " Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,\n" + " Creatures that by a rule in nature teach\n" + " The act of order to a peopled kingdom.\n" + " They have a king and officers of sorts;\n" + " Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,\n" + " Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,\n" + " Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,\n" + " Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,\n" + " Which pillage they with merry march bring home\n" + " To the tent-royal of their emperor;\n" + " Who, busied in his majesty, surveys\n" + " The singing masons building roofs of gold,\n" + " The civil citizens kneading up the honey,\n" + " The poor mechanic porters crowding in\n" + " Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,\n" + " The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,\n" + " Delivering o'er to executors pale\n" + " The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,\n" + " That many things, having full reference\n" + " To one consent, may work contrariously:\n" + " As many arrows, loosed several ways,\n" + " Come to one mark; as many ways meet in one town;\n" + " As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea;\n" + " As many lines close in the dial's centre;\n" + " So may a thousand actions, once afoot.\n" + " End in one purpose, and be all well borne\n" + " Without defeat. Therefore to France, my liege.\n" + " Divide your happy England into four;\n" + " Whereof take you one quarter into France,\n" + " And you withal shall make all Gallia shake.\n" + " If we, with thrice such powers left at home,\n" + " Cannot defend our own doors from the dog,\n" + " Let us be worried and our nation lose\n" + " The name of hardiness and policy.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Call in the messengers sent from the Dauphin.\n\n" + " [Exeunt some Attendants]\n\n" + " Now are we well resolved; and, by God's help,\n" + " And yours, the noble sinews of our power,\n" + " France being ours, we'll bend it to our awe,\n" + " Or break it all to pieces: or there we'll sit,\n" + " Ruling in large and ample empery\n" + " O'er France and all her almost kingly dukedoms,\n" + " Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn,\n" + " Tombless, with no remembrance over them:\n" + " Either our history shall with full mouth\n" + " Speak freely of our acts, or else our grave,\n" + " Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,\n" + " Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph.\n\n" + " [Enter Ambassadors of France]\n\n" + " Now are we well prepared to know the pleasure\n" + " Of our fair cousin Dauphin; for we hear\n" + " Your greeting is from him, not from the king.\n\n" + "First Ambassador May't please your majesty to give us leave\n" + " Freely to render what we have in charge;\n" + " Or shall we sparingly show you far off\n" + " The Dauphin's meaning and our embassy?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We are no tyrant, but a Christian king;\n" + " Unto whose grace our passion is as subject\n" + " As are our wretches fetter'd in our prisons:\n" + " Therefore with frank and with uncurbed plainness\n" + " Tell us the Dauphin's mind.\n\n" + "First Ambassador Thus, then, in few.\n" + " Your highness, lately sending into France,\n" + " Did claim some certain dukedoms, in the right\n" + " Of your great predecessor, King Edward the Third.\n" + " In answer of which claim, the prince our master\n" + " Says that you savour too much of your youth,\n" + " And bids you be advised there's nought in France\n" + " That can be with a nimble galliard won;\n" + " You cannot revel into dukedoms there.\n" + " He therefore sends you, meeter for your spirit,\n" + " This tun of treasure; and, in lieu of this,\n" + " Desires you let the dukedoms that you claim\n" + " Hear no more of you. This the Dauphin speaks.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V What treasure, uncle?\n\n" + "EXETER Tennis-balls, my liege.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us;\n" + " His present and your pains we thank you for:\n" + " When we have march'd our rackets to these balls,\n" + " We will, in France, by God's grace, play a set\n" + " Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard.\n" + " Tell him he hath made a match with such a wrangler\n" + " That all the courts of France will be disturb'd\n" + " With chaces. And we understand him well,\n" + " How he comes o'er us with our wilder days,\n" + " Not measuring what use we made of them.\n" + " We never valued this poor seat of England;\n" + " And therefore, living hence, did give ourself\n" + " To barbarous licence; as 'tis ever common\n" + " That men are merriest when they are from home.\n" + " But tell the Dauphin I will keep my state,\n" + " Be like a king and show my sail of greatness\n" + " When I do rouse me in my throne of France:\n" + " For that I have laid by my majesty\n" + " And plodded like a man for working-days,\n" + " But I will rise there with so full a glory\n" + " That I will dazzle all the eyes of France,\n" + " Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.\n" + " And tell the pleasant prince this mock of his\n" + " Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul\n" + " Shall stand sore charged for the wasteful vengeance\n" + " That shall fly with them: for many a thousand widows\n" + " Shall this his mock mock out of their dear husbands;\n" + " Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down;\n" + " And some are yet ungotten and unborn\n" + " That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's scorn.\n" + " But this lies all within the will of God,\n" + " To whom I do appeal; and in whose name\n" + " Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,\n" + " To venge me as I may and to put forth\n" + " My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.\n" + " So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin\n" + " His jest will savour but of shallow wit,\n" + " When thousands weep more than did laugh at it.\n" + " Convey them with safe conduct. Fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Ambassadors]\n\n" + "EXETER This was a merry message.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We hope to make the sender blush at it.\n" + " Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour\n" + " That may give furtherance to our expedition;\n" + " For we have now no thought in us but France,\n" + " Save those to God, that run before our business.\n" + " Therefore let our proportions for these wars\n" + " Be soon collected and all things thought upon\n" + " That may with reasonable swiftness add\n" + " More feathers to our wings; for, God before,\n" + " We'll chide this Dauphin at his father's door.\n" + " Therefore let every man now task his thought,\n" + " That this fair action may on foot be brought.\n\n" + " [Exeunt. Flourish]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + " PROLOGUE\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chorus]\n\n" + "Chorus Now all the youth of England are on fire,\n" + " And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies:\n" + " Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought\n" + " Reigns solely in the breast of every man:\n" + " They sell the pasture now to buy the horse,\n" + " Following the mirror of all Christian kings,\n" + " With winged heels, as English Mercuries.\n" + " For now sits Expectation in the air,\n" + " And hides a sword from hilts unto the point\n" + " With crowns imperial, crowns and coronets,\n" + " Promised to Harry and his followers.\n" + " The French, advised by good intelligence\n" + " Of this most dreadful preparation,\n" + " Shake in their fear and with pale policy\n" + " Seek to divert the English purposes.\n" + " O England! model to thy inward greatness,\n" + " Like little body with a mighty heart,\n" + " What mightst thou do, that honour would thee do,\n" + " Were all thy children kind and natural!\n" + " But see thy fault! France hath in thee found out\n" + " A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills\n" + " With treacherous crowns; and three corrupted men,\n" + " One, Richard Earl of Cambridge, and the second,\n" + " Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third,\n" + " Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland,\n" + " Have, for the gilt of France,--O guilt indeed!\n" + " Confirm'd conspiracy with fearful France;\n" + " And by their hands this grace of kings must die,\n" + " If hell and treason hold their promises,\n" + " Ere he take ship for France, and in Southampton.\n" + " Linger your patience on; and we'll digest\n" + " The abuse of distance; force a play:\n" + " The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed;\n" + " The king is set from London; and the scene\n" + " Is now transported, gentles, to Southampton;\n" + " There is the playhouse now, there must you sit:\n" + " And thence to France shall we convey you safe,\n" + " And bring you back, charming the narrow seas\n" + " To give you gentle pass; for, if we may,\n" + " We'll not offend one stomach with our play.\n" + " But, till the king come forth, and not till then,\n" + " Unto Southampton do we shift our scene.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Corporal NYM and Lieutenant BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Well met, Corporal Nym.\n\n" + "NYM Good morrow, Lieutenant Bardolph.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH What, are Ancient Pistol and you friends yet?\n\n" + "NYM For my part, I care not: I say little; but when\n" + " time shall serve, there shall be smiles; but that\n" + " shall be as it may. I dare not fight; but I will\n" + " wink and hold out mine iron: it is a simple one; but\n" + " what though? it will toast cheese, and it will\n" + " endure cold as another man's sword will: and\n" + " there's an end.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH I will bestow a breakfast to make you friends; and\n" + " we'll be all three sworn brothers to France: let it\n" + " be so, good Corporal Nym.\n\n" + "NYM Faith, I will live so long as I may, that's the\n" + " certain of it; and when I cannot live any longer, I\n" + " will do as I may: that is my rest, that is the\n" + " rendezvous of it.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH It is certain, corporal, that he is married to Nell\n" + " Quickly: and certainly she did you wrong; for you\n" + " were troth-plight to her.\n\n" + "NYM I cannot tell: things must be as they may: men may\n" + " sleep, and they may have their throats about them at\n" + " that time; and some say knives have edges. It must\n" + " be as it may: though patience be a tired mare, yet\n" + " she will plod. There must be conclusions. Well, I\n" + " cannot tell.\n\n" + " [Enter PISTOL and Hostess]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Here comes Ancient Pistol and his wife: good\n" + " corporal, be patient here. How now, mine host Pistol!\n\n" + "PISTOL Base tike, call'st thou me host? Now, by this hand,\n" + " I swear, I scorn the term; Nor shall my Nell keep lodgers.\n\n" + "Hostess No, by my troth, not long; for we cannot lodge and\n" + " board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live\n" + " honestly by the prick of their needles, but it will\n" + " be thought we keep a bawdy house straight.\n\n" + " [NYM and PISTOL draw]\n\n" + " O well a day, Lady, if he be not drawn now! we\n" + " shall see wilful adultery and murder committed.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Good lieutenant! good corporal! offer nothing here.\n\n" + "NYM Pish!\n\n" + "PISTOL Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!\n\n" + "Hostess Good Corporal Nym, show thy valour, and put up your sword.\n\n" + "NYM Will you shog off? I would have you solus.\n\n" + "PISTOL 'Solus,' egregious dog? O viper vile!\n" + " The 'solus' in thy most mervailous face;\n" + " The 'solus' in thy teeth, and in thy throat,\n" + " And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, perdy,\n" + " And, which is worse, within thy nasty mouth!\n" + " I do retort the 'solus' in thy bowels;\n" + " For I can take, and Pistol's cock is up,\n" + " And flashing fire will follow.\n\n" + "NYM I am not Barbason; you cannot conjure me. I have an\n" + " humour to knock you indifferently well. If you grow\n" + " foul with me, Pistol, I will scour you with my\n" + " rapier, as I may, in fair terms: if you would walk\n" + " off, I would prick your guts a little, in good\n" + " terms, as I may: and that's the humour of it.\n\n" + "PISTOL O braggart vile and damned furious wight!\n" + " The grave doth gape, and doting death is near;\n" + " Therefore exhale.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Hear me, hear me what I say: he that strikes the\n" + " first stroke, I'll run him up to the hilts, as I am a soldier.\n\n" + " [Draws]\n\n" + "PISTOL An oath of mickle might; and fury shall abate.\n" + " Give me thy fist, thy fore-foot to me give:\n" + " Thy spirits are most tall.\n\n" + "NYM I will cut thy throat, one time or other, in fair\n" + " terms: that is the humour of it.\n\n" + "PISTOL 'Couple a gorge!'\n" + " That is the word. I thee defy again.\n" + " O hound of Crete, think'st thou my spouse to get?\n" + " No; to the spital go,\n" + " And from the powdering tub of infamy\n" + " Fetch forth the lazar kite of Cressid's kind,\n" + " Doll Tearsheet she by name, and her espouse:\n" + " I have, and I will hold, the quondam Quickly\n" + " For the only she; and--pauca, there's enough. Go to.\n\n" + " [Enter the Boy]\n\n" + "Boy Mine host Pistol, you must come to my master, and\n" + " you, hostess: he is very sick, and would to bed.\n" + " Good Bardolph, put thy face between his sheets, and\n" + " do the office of a warming-pan. Faith, he's very ill.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Away, you rogue!\n\n" + "Hostess By my troth, he'll yield the crow a pudding one of\n" + " these days. The king has killed his heart. Good\n" + " husband, come home presently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Hostess and Boy]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Come, shall I make you two friends? We must to\n" + " France together: why the devil should we keep\n" + " knives to cut one another's throats?\n\n" + "PISTOL Let floods o'erswell, and fiends for food howl on!\n\n" + "NYM You'll pay me the eight shillings I won of you at betting?\n\n" + "PISTOL Base is the slave that pays.\n\n" + "NYM That now I will have: that's the humour of it.\n\n" + "PISTOL As manhood shall compound: push home.\n\n" + " [They draw]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH By this sword, he that makes the first thrust, I'll\n" + " kill him; by this sword, I will.\n\n" + "PISTOL Sword is an oath, and oaths must have their course.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Corporal Nym, an thou wilt be friends, be friends:\n" + " an thou wilt not, why, then, be enemies with me too.\n" + " Prithee, put up.\n\n" + "NYM I shall have my eight shillings I won of you at betting?\n\n" + "PISTOL A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;\n" + " And liquor likewise will I give to thee,\n" + " And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood:\n" + " I'll live by Nym, and Nym shall live by me;\n" + " Is not this just? for I shall sutler be\n" + " Unto the camp, and profits will accrue.\n" + " Give me thy hand.\n\n" + "NYM I shall have my noble?\n\n" + "PISTOL In cash most justly paid.\n\n" + "NYM Well, then, that's the humour of't.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Hostess]\n\n" + "Hostess As ever you came of women, come in quickly to Sir\n" + " John. Ah, poor heart! he is so shaked of a burning\n" + " quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to\n" + " behold. Sweet men, come to him.\n\n" + "NYM The king hath run bad humours on the knight; that's\n" + " the even of it.\n\n" + "PISTOL Nym, thou hast spoke the right;\n" + " His heart is fracted and corroborate.\n\n" + "NYM The king is a good king: but it must be as it may;\n" + " he passes some humours and careers.\n\n" + "PISTOL Let us condole the knight; for, lambkins we will live.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Southampton. A council-chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EXETER, BEDFORD, and WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "BEDFORD 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors.\n\n" + "EXETER They shall be apprehended by and by.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND How smooth and even they do bear themselves!\n" + " As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,\n" + " Crowned with faith and constant loyalty.\n\n" + "BEDFORD The king hath note of all that they intend,\n" + " By interception which they dream not of.\n\n" + "EXETER Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow,\n" + " Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours,\n" + " That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell\n" + " His sovereign's life to death and treachery.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY V, SCROOP,\n" + " CAMBRIDGE, GREY, and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard.\n" + " My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham,\n" + " And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:\n" + " Think you not that the powers we bear with us\n" + " Will cut their passage through the force of France,\n" + " Doing the execution and the act\n" + " For which we have in head assembled them?\n\n" + "SCROOP No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded\n" + " We carry not a heart with us from hence\n" + " That grows not in a fair consent with ours,\n" + " Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish\n" + " Success and conquest to attend on us.\n\n" + "CAMBRIDGE Never was monarch better fear'd and loved\n" + " Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject\n" + " That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness\n" + " Under the sweet shade of your government.\n\n" + "GREY True: those that were your father's enemies\n" + " Have steep'd their galls in honey and do serve you\n" + " With hearts create of duty and of zeal.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We therefore have great cause of thankfulness;\n" + " And shall forget the office of our hand,\n" + " Sooner than quittance of desert and merit\n" + " According to the weight and worthiness.\n\n" + "SCROOP So service shall with steeled sinews toil,\n" + " And labour shall refresh itself with hope,\n" + " To do your grace incessant services.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter,\n" + " Enlarge the man committed yesterday,\n" + " That rail'd against our person: we consider\n" + " it was excess of wine that set him on;\n" + " And on his more advice we pardon him.\n\n" + "SCROOP That's mercy, but too much security:\n" + " Let him be punish'd, sovereign, lest example\n" + " Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V O, let us yet be merciful.\n\n" + "CAMBRIDGE So may your highness, and yet punish too.\n\n" + "GREY Sir,\n" + " You show great mercy, if you give him life,\n" + " After the taste of much correction.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Alas, your too much love and care of me\n" + " Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch!\n" + " If little faults, proceeding on distemper,\n" + " Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye\n" + " When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested,\n" + " Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man,\n" + " Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care\n" + " And tender preservation of our person,\n" + " Would have him punished. And now to our French causes:\n" + " Who are the late commissioners?\n\n" + "CAMBRIDGE I one, my lord:\n" + " Your highness bade me ask for it to-day.\n\n" + "SCROOP So did you me, my liege.\n\n" + "GREY And I, my royal sovereign.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours;\n" + " There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight,\n" + " Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours:\n" + " Read them; and know, I know your worthiness.\n" + " My Lord of Westmoreland, and uncle Exeter,\n" + " We will aboard to night. Why, how now, gentlemen!\n" + " What see you in those papers that you lose\n" + " So much complexion? Look ye, how they change!\n" + " Their cheeks are paper. Why, what read you there\n" + " That hath so cowarded and chased your blood\n" + " Out of appearance?\n\n" + "CAMBRIDGE I do confess my fault;\n" + " And do submit me to your highness' mercy.\n\n\n" + "GREY |\n" + " | To which we all appeal.\n" + "SCROOP |\n\n\n" + "KING HENRY V The mercy that was quick in us but late,\n" + " By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd:\n" + " You must not dare, for shame, to talk of mercy;\n" + " For your own reasons turn into your bosoms,\n" + " As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.\n" + " See you, my princes, and my noble peers,\n" + " These English monsters! My Lord of Cambridge here,\n" + " You know how apt our love was to accord\n" + " To furnish him with all appertinents\n" + " Belonging to his honour; and this man\n" + " Hath, for a few light crowns, lightly conspired,\n" + " And sworn unto the practises of France,\n" + " To kill us here in Hampton: to the which\n" + " This knight, no less for bounty bound to us\n" + " Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O,\n" + " What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel,\n" + " Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature!\n" + " Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels,\n" + " That knew'st the very bottom of my soul,\n" + " That almost mightst have coin'd me into gold,\n" + " Wouldst thou have practised on me for thy use,\n" + " May it be possible, that foreign hire\n" + " Could out of thee extract one spark of evil\n" + " That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange,\n" + " That, though the truth of it stands off as gross\n" + " As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.\n" + " Treason and murder ever kept together,\n" + " As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,\n" + " Working so grossly in a natural cause,\n" + " That admiration did not whoop at them:\n" + " But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in\n" + " Wonder to wait on treason and on murder:\n" + " And whatsoever cunning fiend it was\n" + " That wrought upon thee so preposterously\n" + " Hath got the voice in hell for excellence:\n" + " All other devils that suggest by treasons\n" + " Do botch and bungle up damnation\n" + " With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd\n" + " From glistering semblances of piety;\n" + " But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up,\n" + " Gave thee no instance why thou shouldst do treason,\n" + " Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor.\n" + " If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus\n" + " Should with his lion gait walk the whole world,\n" + " He might return to vasty Tartar back,\n" + " And tell the legions 'I can never win\n" + " A soul so easy as that Englishman's.'\n" + " O, how hast thou with 'jealousy infected\n" + " The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful?\n" + " Why, so didst thou: seem they grave and learned?\n" + " Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family?\n" + " Why, so didst thou: seem they religious?\n" + " Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet,\n" + " Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger,\n" + " Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,\n" + " Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,\n" + " Not working with the eye without the ear,\n" + " And but in purged judgment trusting neither?\n" + " Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem:\n" + " And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot,\n" + " To mark the full-fraught man and best indued\n" + " With some suspicion. I will weep for thee;\n" + " For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like\n" + " Another fall of man. Their faults are open:\n" + " Arrest them to the answer of the law;\n" + " And God acquit them of their practises!\n\n" + "EXETER I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of\n" + " Richard Earl of Cambridge.\n" + " I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of\n" + " Henry Lord Scroop of Masham.\n" + " I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of\n" + " Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland.\n\n" + "SCROOP Our purposes God justly hath discover'd;\n" + " And I repent my fault more than my death;\n" + " Which I beseech your highness to forgive,\n" + " Although my body pay the price of it.\n\n" + "CAMBRIDGE For me, the gold of France did not seduce;\n" + " Although I did admit it as a motive\n" + " The sooner to effect what I intended:\n" + " But God be thanked for prevention;\n" + " Which I in sufferance heartily will rejoice,\n" + " Beseeching God and you to pardon me.\n\n" + "GREY Never did faithful subject more rejoice\n" + " At the discovery of most dangerous treason\n" + " Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself.\n" + " Prevented from a damned enterprise:\n" + " My fault, but not my body, pardon, sovereign.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V God quit you in his mercy! Hear your sentence.\n" + " You have conspired against our royal person,\n" + " Join'd with an enemy proclaim'd and from his coffers\n" + " Received the golden earnest of our death;\n" + " Wherein you would have sold your king to slaughter,\n" + " His princes and his peers to servitude,\n" + " His subjects to oppression and contempt\n" + " And his whole kingdom into desolation.\n" + " Touching our person seek we no revenge;\n" + " But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,\n" + " Whose ruin you have sought, that to her laws\n" + " We do deliver you. Get you therefore hence,\n" + " Poor miserable wretches, to your death:\n" + " The taste whereof, God of his mercy give\n" + " You patience to endure, and true repentance\n" + " Of all your dear offences! Bear them hence.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CAMBRIDGE, SCROOP and GREY, guarded]\n\n" + " Now, lords, for France; the enterprise whereof\n" + " Shall be to you, as us, like glorious.\n" + " We doubt not of a fair and lucky war,\n" + " Since God so graciously hath brought to light\n" + " This dangerous treason lurking in our way\n" + " To hinder our beginnings. We doubt not now\n" + " But every rub is smoothed on our way.\n" + " Then forth, dear countrymen: let us deliver\n" + " Our puissance into the hand of God,\n" + " Putting it straight in expedition.\n" + " Cheerly to sea; the signs of war advance:\n" + " No king of England, if not king of France.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III London. Before a tavern.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PISTOL, Hostess, NYM, BARDOLPH, and Boy]\n\n" + "Hostess Prithee, honey-sweet husband, let me bring thee to Staines.\n\n" + "PISTOL No; for my manly heart doth yearn.\n" + " Bardolph, be blithe: Nym, rouse thy vaunting veins:\n" + " Boy, bristle thy courage up; for Falstaff he is dead,\n" + " And we must yearn therefore.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in\n" + " heaven or in hell!\n\n" + "Hostess Nay, sure, he's not in hell: he's in Arthur's\n" + " bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. A' made\n" + " a finer end and went away an it had been any\n" + " christom child; a' parted even just between twelve\n" + " and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after\n" + " I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with\n" + " flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew\n" + " there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as\n" + " a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,\n" + " sir John!' quoth I 'what, man! be o' good\n" + " cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or\n" + " four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'\n" + " should not think of God; I hoped there was no need\n" + " to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So\n" + " a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my\n" + " hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as\n" + " cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and\n" + " they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and\n" + " upward, and all was as cold as any stone.\n\n" + "NYM They say he cried out of sack.\n\n" + "Hostess Ay, that a' did.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH And of women.\n\n" + "Hostess Nay, that a' did not.\n\n" + "Boy Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils\n" + " incarnate.\n\n" + "Hostess A' could never abide carnation; 'twas a colour he\n" + " never liked.\n\n" + "Boy A' said once, the devil would have him about women.\n\n" + "Hostess A' did in some sort, indeed, handle women; but then\n" + " he was rheumatic, and talked of the whore of Babylon.\n\n" + "Boy Do you not remember, a' saw a flea stick upon\n" + " Bardolph's nose, and a' said it was a black soul\n" + " burning in hell-fire?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Well, the fuel is gone that maintained that fire:\n" + " that's all the riches I got in his service.\n\n" + "NYM Shall we shog? the king will be gone from\n" + " Southampton.\n\n" + "PISTOL Come, let's away. My love, give me thy lips.\n" + " Look to my chattels and my movables:\n" + " Let senses rule; the word is 'Pitch and Pay:'\n" + " Trust none;\n" + " For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,\n" + " And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck:\n" + " Therefore, Caveto be thy counsellor.\n" + " Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms,\n" + " Let us to France; like horse-leeches, my boys,\n" + " To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck!\n\n" + "Boy And that's but unwholesome food they say.\n\n" + "PISTOL Touch her soft mouth, and march.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Farewell, hostess.\n\n" + " [Kissing her]\n\n" + "NYM I cannot kiss, that is the humour of it; but, adieu.\n\n" + "PISTOL Let housewifery appear: keep close, I thee command.\n\n" + "Hostess Farewell; adieu.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV France. The KING'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter the FRENCH KING, the DAUPHIN, the\n" + " DUKES of BERRI and BRETAGNE, the Constable, and others]\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Thus comes the English with full power upon us;\n" + " And more than carefully it us concerns\n" + " To answer royally in our defences.\n" + " Therefore the Dukes of Berri and of Bretagne,\n" + " Of Brabant and of Orleans, shall make forth,\n" + " And you, Prince Dauphin, with all swift dispatch,\n" + " To line and new repair our towns of war\n" + " With men of courage and with means defendant;\n" + " For England his approaches makes as fierce\n" + " As waters to the sucking of a gulf.\n" + " It fits us then to be as provident\n" + " As fear may teach us out of late examples\n" + " Left by the fatal and neglected English\n" + " Upon our fields.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN My most redoubted father,\n" + " It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe;\n" + " For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom,\n" + " Though war nor no known quarrel were in question,\n" + " But that defences, musters, preparations,\n" + " Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected,\n" + " As were a war in expectation.\n" + " Therefore, I say 'tis meet we all go forth\n" + " To view the sick and feeble parts of France:\n" + " And let us do it with no show of fear;\n" + " No, with no more than if we heard that England\n" + " Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance:\n" + " For, my good liege, she is so idly king'd,\n" + " Her sceptre so fantastically borne\n" + " By a vain, giddy, shallow, humorous youth,\n" + " That fear attends her not.\n\n" + "Constable O peace, Prince Dauphin!\n" + " You are too much mistaken in this king:\n" + " Question your grace the late ambassadors,\n" + " With what great state he heard their embassy,\n" + " How well supplied with noble counsellors,\n" + " How modest in exception, and withal\n" + " How terrible in constant resolution,\n" + " And you shall find his vanities forespent\n" + " Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,\n" + " Covering discretion with a coat of folly;\n" + " As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots\n" + " That shall first spring and be most delicate.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Well, 'tis not so, my lord high constable;\n" + " But though we think it so, it is no matter:\n" + " In cases of defence 'tis best to weigh\n" + " The enemy more mighty than he seems:\n" + " So the proportions of defence are fill'd;\n" + " Which of a weak or niggardly projection\n" + " Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting\n" + " A little cloth.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Think we King Harry strong;\n" + " And, princes, look you strongly arm to meet him.\n" + " The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us;\n" + " And he is bred out of that bloody strain\n" + " That haunted us in our familiar paths:\n" + " Witness our too much memorable shame\n" + " When Cressy battle fatally was struck,\n" + " And all our princes captiv'd by the hand\n" + " Of that black name, Edward, Black Prince of Wales;\n" + " Whiles that his mountain sire, on mountain standing,\n" + " Up in the air, crown'd with the golden sun,\n" + " Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him,\n" + " Mangle the work of nature and deface\n" + " The patterns that by God and by French fathers\n" + " Had twenty years been made. This is a stem\n" + " Of that victorious stock; and let us fear\n" + " The native mightiness and fate of him.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Ambassadors from Harry King of England\n" + " Do crave admittance to your majesty.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE We'll give them present audience. Go, and bring them.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Messenger and certain Lords]\n\n" + " You see this chase is hotly follow'd, friends.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Turn head, and stop pursuit; for coward dogs\n" + " Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten\n" + " Runs far before them. Good my sovereign,\n" + " Take up the English short, and let them know\n" + " Of what a monarchy you are the head:\n" + " Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin\n" + " As self-neglecting.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Lords, with EXETER and train]\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE From our brother England?\n\n" + "EXETER From him; and thus he greets your majesty.\n" + " He wills you, in the name of God Almighty,\n" + " That you divest yourself, and lay apart\n" + " The borrow'd glories that by gift of heaven,\n" + " By law of nature and of nations, 'long\n" + " To him and to his heirs; namely, the crown\n" + " And all wide-stretched honours that pertain\n" + " By custom and the ordinance of times\n" + " Unto the crown of France. That you may know\n" + " 'Tis no sinister nor no awkward claim,\n" + " Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd days,\n" + " Nor from the dust of old oblivion raked,\n" + " He sends you this most memorable line,\n" + " In every branch truly demonstrative;\n" + " Willing to overlook this pedigree:\n" + " And when you find him evenly derived\n" + " From his most famed of famous ancestors,\n" + " Edward the Third, he bids you then resign\n" + " Your crown and kingdom, indirectly held\n" + " From him the native and true challenger.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Or else what follows?\n\n" + "EXETER Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown\n" + " Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it:\n" + " Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming,\n" + " In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove,\n" + " That, if requiring fail, he will compel;\n" + " And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord,\n" + " Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy\n" + " On the poor souls for whom this hungry war\n" + " Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head\n" + " Turning the widows' tears, the orphans' cries\n" + " The dead men's blood, the pining maidens groans,\n" + " For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers,\n" + " That shall be swallow'd in this controversy.\n" + " This is his claim, his threatening and my message;\n" + " Unless the Dauphin be in presence here,\n" + " To whom expressly I bring greeting too.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE For us, we will consider of this further:\n" + " To-morrow shall you bear our full intent\n" + " Back to our brother England.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN For the Dauphin,\n" + " I stand here for him: what to him from England?\n\n" + "EXETER Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,\n" + " And any thing that may not misbecome\n" + " The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.\n" + " Thus says my king; an' if your father's highness\n" + " Do not, in grant of all demands at large,\n" + " Sweeten the bitter mock you sent his majesty,\n" + " He'll call you to so hot an answer of it,\n" + " That caves and womby vaultages of France\n" + " Shall chide your trespass and return your mock\n" + " In second accent of his ordnance.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Say, if my father render fair return,\n" + " It is against my will; for I desire\n" + " Nothing but odds with England: to that end,\n" + " As matching to his youth and vanity,\n" + " I did present him with the Paris balls.\n\n" + "EXETER He'll make your Paris Louvre shake for it,\n" + " Were it the mistress-court of mighty Europe:\n" + " And, be assured, you'll find a difference,\n" + " As we his subjects have in wonder found,\n" + " Between the promise of his greener days\n" + " And these he masters now: now he weighs time\n" + " Even to the utmost grain: that you shall read\n" + " In your own losses, if he stay in France.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE To-morrow shall you know our mind at full.\n\n" + "EXETER Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our king\n" + " Come here himself to question our delay;\n" + " For he is footed in this land already.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE You shall be soon dispatch's with fair conditions:\n" + " A night is but small breath and little pause\n" + " To answer matters of this consequence.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n" + " PROLOGUE.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chorus]\n\n" + "Chorus Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies\n" + " In motion of no less celerity\n" + " Than that of thought. Suppose that you have seen\n" + " The well-appointed king at Hampton pier\n" + " Embark his royalty; and his brave fleet\n" + " With silken streamers the young Phoebus fanning:\n" + " Play with your fancies, and in them behold\n" + " Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;\n" + " Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give\n" + " To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,\n" + " Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,\n" + " Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,\n" + " Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think\n" + " You stand upon the ravage and behold\n" + " A city on the inconstant billows dancing;\n" + " For so appears this fleet majestical,\n" + " Holding due course to Harfleur. Follow, follow:\n" + " Grapple your minds to sternage of this navy,\n" + " And leave your England, as dead midnight still,\n" + " Guarded with grandsires, babies and old women,\n" + " Either past or not arrived to pith and puissance;\n" + " For who is he, whose chin is but enrich'd\n" + " With one appearing hair, that will not follow\n" + " These cull'd and choice-drawn cavaliers to France?\n" + " Work, work your thoughts, and therein see a siege;\n" + " Behold the ordnance on their carriages,\n" + " With fatal mouths gaping on girded Harfleur.\n" + " Suppose the ambassador from the French comes back;\n" + " Tells Harry that the king doth offer him\n" + " Katharine his daughter, and with her, to dowry,\n" + " Some petty and unprofitable dukedoms.\n" + " The offer likes not: and the nimble gunner\n" + " With linstock now the devilish cannon touches,\n\n" + " [Alarum, and chambers go off]\n\n" + " And down goes all before them. Still be kind,\n" + " And eke out our performance with your mind.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I France. Before Harfleur.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD,\n" + " GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers, with scaling-ladders]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;\n" + " Or close the wall up with our English dead.\n" + " In peace there's nothing so becomes a man\n" + " As modest stillness and humility:\n" + " But when the blast of war blows in our ears,\n" + " Then imitate the action of the tiger;\n" + " Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,\n" + " Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;\n" + " Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;\n" + " Let pry through the portage of the head\n" + " Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it\n" + " As fearfully as doth a galled rock\n" + " O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,\n" + " Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.\n" + " Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,\n" + " Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit\n" + " To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.\n" + " Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!\n" + " Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,\n" + " Have in these parts from morn till even fought\n" + " And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:\n" + " Dishonour not your mothers; now attest\n" + " That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.\n" + " Be copy now to men of grosser blood,\n" + " And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,\n" + " Whose limbs were made in England, show us here\n" + " The mettle of your pasture; let us swear\n" + " That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;\n" + " For there is none of you so mean and base,\n" + " That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.\n" + " I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,\n" + " Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:\n" + " Follow your spirit, and upon this charge\n" + " Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'\n\n" + " [Exeunt. Alarum, and chambers go off]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and Boy]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH On, on, on, on, on! to the breach, to the breach!\n\n" + "NYM Pray thee, corporal, stay: the knocks are too hot;\n" + " and, for mine own part, I have not a case of lives:\n" + " the humour of it is too hot, that is the very\n" + " plain-song of it.\n\n" + "PISTOL The plain-song is most just: for humours do abound:\n" + " Knocks go and come; God's vassals drop and die;\n" + " And sword and shield,\n" + " In bloody field,\n" + " Doth win immortal fame.\n\n" + "Boy Would I were in an alehouse in London! I would give\n" + " all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.\n\n" + "PISTOL And I:\n" + " If wishes would prevail with me,\n" + " My purpose should not fail with me,\n" + " But thither would I hie.\n\n" + "Boy As duly, but not as truly,\n" + " As bird doth sing on bough.\n\n" + " [Enter FLUELLEN]\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Up to the breach, you dogs! avaunt, you cullions!\n\n" + " [Driving them forward]\n\n" + "PISTOL Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.\n" + " Abate thy rage, abate thy manly rage,\n" + " Abate thy rage, great duke!\n" + " Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!\n\n" + "NYM These be good humours! your honour wins bad humours.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but Boy]\n\n" + "Boy As young as I am, I have observed these three\n" + " swashers. I am boy to them all three: but all they\n" + " three, though they would serve me, could not be man\n" + " to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to\n" + " a man. For Bardolph, he is white-livered and\n" + " red-faced; by the means whereof a' faces it out, but\n" + " fights not. For Pistol, he hath a killing tongue\n" + " and a quiet sword; by the means whereof a' breaks\n" + " words, and keeps whole weapons. For Nym, he hath\n" + " heard that men of few words are the best men; and\n" + " therefore he scorns to say his prayers, lest a'\n" + " should be thought a coward: but his few bad words\n" + " are matched with as few good deeds; for a' never\n" + " broke any man's head but his own, and that was\n" + " against a post when he was drunk. They will steal\n" + " any thing, and call it purchase. Bardolph stole a\n" + " lute-case, bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for\n" + " three half pence. Nym and Bardolph are sworn\n" + " brothers in filching, and in Calais they stole a\n" + " fire-shovel: I knew by that piece of service the\n" + " men would carry coals. They would have me as\n" + " familiar with men's pockets as their gloves or their\n" + " handkerchers: which makes much against my manhood,\n" + " if I should take from another's pocket to put into\n" + " mine; for it is plain pocketing up of wrongs. I\n" + " must leave them, and seek some better service:\n" + " their villany goes against my weak stomach, and\n" + " therefore I must cast it up.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter FLUELLEN, GOWER following]\n\n" + "GOWER Captain Fluellen, you must come presently to the\n" + " mines; the Duke of Gloucester would speak with you.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN To the mines! tell you the duke, it is not so good\n" + " to come to the mines; for, look you, the mines is\n" + " not according to the disciplines of the war: the\n" + " concavities of it is not sufficient; for, look you,\n" + " the athversary, you may discuss unto the duke, look\n" + " you, is digt himself four yard under the\n" + " countermines: by Cheshu, I think a' will plough up\n" + " all, if there is not better directions.\n\n" + "GOWER The Duke of Gloucester, to whom the order of the\n" + " siege is given, is altogether directed by an\n" + " Irishman, a very valiant gentleman, i' faith.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN It is Captain Macmorris, is it not?\n\n" + "GOWER I think it be.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will\n" + " verify as much in his beard: be has no more\n" + " directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look\n" + " you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.\n\n" + " [Enter MACMORRIS and Captain JAMY]\n\n" + "GOWER Here a' comes; and the Scots captain, Captain Jamy, with him.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Captain Jamy is a marvellous falourous gentleman,\n" + " that is certain; and of great expedition and\n" + " knowledge in th' aunchient wars, upon my particular\n" + " knowledge of his directions: by Cheshu, he will\n" + " maintain his argument as well as any military man in\n" + " the world, in the disciplines of the pristine wars\n" + " of the Romans.\n\n" + "JAMY I say gud-day, Captain Fluellen.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN God-den to your worship, good Captain James.\n\n" + "GOWER How now, Captain Macmorris! have you quit the\n" + " mines? have the pioneers given o'er?\n\n" + "MACMORRIS By Chrish, la! tish ill done: the work ish give\n" + " over, the trompet sound the retreat. By my hand, I\n" + " swear, and my father's soul, the work ish ill done;\n" + " it ish give over: I would have blowed up the town, so\n" + " Chrish save me, la! in an hour: O, tish ill done,\n" + " tish ill done; by my hand, tish ill done!\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Captain Macmorris, I beseech you now, will you\n" + " voutsafe me, look you, a few disputations with you,\n" + " as partly touching or concerning the disciplines of\n" + " the war, the Roman wars, in the way of argument,\n" + " look you, and friendly communication; partly to\n" + " satisfy my opinion, and partly for the satisfaction,\n" + " look you, of my mind, as touching the direction of\n" + " the military discipline; that is the point.\n\n" + "JAMY It sall be vary gud, gud feith, gud captains bath:\n" + " and I sall quit you with gud leve, as I may pick\n" + " occasion; that sall I, marry.\n\n" + "MACMORRIS It is no time to discourse, so Chrish save me: the\n" + " day is hot, and the weather, and the wars, and the\n" + " king, and the dukes: it is no time to discourse. The\n" + " town is beseeched, and the trumpet call us to the\n" + " breach; and we talk, and, be Chrish, do nothing:\n" + " 'tis shame for us all: so God sa' me, 'tis shame to\n" + " stand still; it is shame, by my hand: and there is\n" + " throats to be cut, and works to be done; and there\n" + " ish nothing done, so Chrish sa' me, la!\n\n" + "JAMY By the mess, ere theise eyes of mine take themselves\n" + " to slomber, ay'll de gud service, or ay'll lig i'\n" + " the grund for it; ay, or go to death; and ay'll pay\n" + " 't as valourously as I may, that sall I suerly do,\n" + " that is the breff and the long. Marry, I wad full\n" + " fain hear some question 'tween you tway.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Captain Macmorris, I think, look you, under your\n" + " correction, there is not many of your nation--\n\n" + "MACMORRIS Of my nation! What ish my nation? Ish a villain,\n" + " and a bastard, and a knave, and a rascal. What ish\n" + " my nation? Who talks of my nation?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Look you, if you take the matter otherwise than is\n" + " meant, Captain Macmorris, peradventure I shall think\n" + " you do not use me with that affability as in\n" + " discretion you ought to use me, look you: being as\n" + " good a man as yourself, both in the disciplines of\n" + " war, and in the derivation of my birth, and in\n" + " other particularities.\n\n" + "MACMORRIS I do not know you so good a man as myself: so\n" + " Chrish save me, I will cut off your head.\n\n" + "GOWER Gentlemen both, you will mistake each other.\n\n" + "JAMY A! that's a foul fault.\n\n" + " [A parley sounded]\n\n" + "GOWER The town sounds a parley.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Captain Macmorris, when there is more better\n" + " opportunity to be required, look you, I will be so\n" + " bold as to tell you I know the disciplines of war;\n" + " and there is an end.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. Before the gates.\n\n\n" + " [The Governor and some Citizens on the walls; the\n" + " English forces below. Enter KING HENRY and his train]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V How yet resolves the governor of the town?\n" + " This is the latest parle we will admit;\n" + " Therefore to our best mercy give yourselves;\n" + " Or like to men proud of destruction\n" + " Defy us to our worst: for, as I am a soldier,\n" + " A name that in my thoughts becomes me best,\n" + " If I begin the battery once again,\n" + " I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur\n" + " Till in her ashes she lie buried.\n" + " The gates of mercy shall be all shut up,\n" + " And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart,\n" + " In liberty of bloody hand shall range\n" + " With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass\n" + " Your fresh-fair virgins and your flowering infants.\n" + " What is it then to me, if impious war,\n" + " Array'd in flames like to the prince of fiends,\n" + " Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell feats\n" + " Enlink'd to waste and desolation?\n" + " What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause,\n" + " If your pure maidens fall into the hand\n" + " Of hot and forcing violation?\n" + " What rein can hold licentious wickedness\n" + " When down the hill he holds his fierce career?\n" + " We may as bootless spend our vain command\n" + " Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil\n" + " As send precepts to the leviathan\n" + " To come ashore. Therefore, you men of Harfleur,\n" + " Take pity of your town and of your people,\n" + " Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;\n" + " Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace\n" + " O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds\n" + " Of heady murder, spoil and villany.\n" + " If not, why, in a moment look to see\n" + " The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand\n" + " Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;\n" + " Your fathers taken by the silver beards,\n" + " And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,\n" + " Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,\n" + " Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused\n" + " Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry\n" + " At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.\n" + " What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,\n" + " Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?\n\n" + "GOVERNOR Our expectation hath this day an end:\n" + " The Dauphin, whom of succors we entreated,\n" + " Returns us that his powers are yet not ready\n" + " To raise so great a siege. Therefore, great king,\n" + " We yield our town and lives to thy soft mercy.\n" + " Enter our gates; dispose of us and ours;\n" + " For we no longer are defensible.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Open your gates. Come, uncle Exeter,\n" + " Go you and enter Harfleur; there remain,\n" + " And fortify it strongly 'gainst the French:\n" + " Use mercy to them all. For us, dear uncle,\n" + " The winter coming on and sickness growing\n" + " Upon our soldiers, we will retire to Calais.\n" + " To-night in Harfleur we will be your guest;\n" + " To-morrow for the march are we addrest.\n\n" + " [Flourish. The King and his train enter the town]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The FRENCH KING's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KATHARINE and ALICE]\n\n" + "KATHARINE Alice, tu as ete en Angleterre, et tu parles bien le langage.\n\n" + "ALICE Un peu, madame.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Je te prie, m'enseignez: il faut que j'apprenne a\n" + " parler. Comment appelez-vous la main en Anglois?\n\n" + "ALICE La main? elle est appelee de hand.\n\n" + "KATHARINE De hand. Et les doigts?\n\n" + "ALICE Les doigts? ma foi, j'oublie les doigts; mais je me\n" + " souviendrai. Les doigts? je pense qu'ils sont\n" + " appeles de fingres; oui, de fingres.\n\n" + "KATHARINE La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense\n" + " que je suis le bon ecolier; j'ai gagne deux mots\n" + " d'Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?\n\n" + "ALICE Les ongles? nous les appelons de nails.\n\n" + "KATHARINE De nails. Ecoutez; dites-moi, si je parle bien: de\n" + " hand, de fingres, et de nails.\n\n" + "ALICE C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglois.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Dites-moi l'Anglois pour le bras.\n\n" + "ALICE De arm, madame.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Et le coude?\n\n" + "ALICE De elbow.\n\n" + "KATHARINE De elbow. Je m'en fais la repetition de tous les\n" + " mots que vous m'avez appris des a present.\n\n" + "ALICE Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Excusez-moi, Alice; ecoutez: de hand, de fingres,\n" + " de nails, de arma, de bilbow.\n\n" + "ALICE De elbow, madame.\n\n" + "KATHARINE O Seigneur Dieu, je m'en oublie! de elbow. Comment\n" + " appelez-vous le col?\n\n" + "ALICE De neck, madame.\n\n" + "KATHARINE De nick. Et le menton?\n\n" + "ALICE De chin.\n\n" + "KATHARINE De sin. Le col, de nick; de menton, de sin.\n\n" + "ALICE Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en verite, vous prononcez\n" + " les mots aussi droit que les natifs d'Angleterre.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Je ne doute point d'apprendre, par la grace de Dieu,\n" + " et en peu de temps.\n\n" + "ALICE N'avez vous pas deja oublie ce que je vous ai enseigne?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Non, je reciterai a vous promptement: de hand, de\n" + " fingres, de mails--\n\n" + "ALICE De nails, madame.\n\n" + "KATHARINE De nails, de arm, de ilbow.\n\n" + "ALICE Sauf votre honneur, de elbow.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Ainsi dis-je; de elbow, de nick, et de sin. Comment\n" + " appelez-vous le pied et la robe?\n\n" + "ALICE De foot, madame; et de coun.\n\n" + "KATHARINE De foot et de coun! O Seigneur Dieu! ce sont mots\n" + " de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, et\n" + " non pour les dames d'honneur d'user: je ne voudrais\n" + " prononcer ces mots devant les seigneurs de France\n" + " pour tout le monde. Foh! le foot et le coun!\n" + " Neanmoins, je reciterai une autre fois ma lecon\n" + " ensemble: de hand, de fingres, de nails, de arm, de\n" + " elbow, de nick, de sin, de foot, de coun.\n\n" + "ALICE Excellent, madame!\n\n" + "KATHARINE C'est assez pour une fois: allons-nous a diner.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the KING OF FRANCE, the DAUPHIN, the DUKE oF\n" + " BOURBON, the Constable Of France, and others]\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE 'Tis certain he hath pass'd the river Somme.\n\n" + "Constable And if he be not fought withal, my lord,\n" + " Let us not live in France; let us quit all\n" + " And give our vineyards to a barbarous people.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN O Dieu vivant! shall a few sprays of us,\n" + " The emptying of our fathers' luxury,\n" + " Our scions, put in wild and savage stock,\n" + " Spirt up so suddenly into the clouds,\n" + " And overlook their grafters?\n\n" + "BOURBON Normans, but bastard Normans, Norman bastards!\n" + " Mort de ma vie! if they march along\n" + " Unfought withal, but I will sell my dukedom,\n" + " To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm\n" + " In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.\n\n" + "Constable Dieu de batailles! where have they this mettle?\n" + " Is not their climate foggy, raw and dull,\n" + " On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale,\n" + " Killing their fruit with frowns? Can sodden water,\n" + " A drench for sur-rein'd jades, their barley-broth,\n" + " Decoct their cold blood to such valiant heat?\n" + " And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine,\n" + " Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land,\n" + " Let us not hang like roping icicles\n" + " Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more frosty people\n" + " Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields!\n" + " Poor we may call them in their native lords.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN By faith and honour,\n" + " Our madams mock at us, and plainly say\n" + " Our mettle is bred out and they will give\n" + " Their bodies to the lust of English youth\n" + " To new-store France with bastard warriors.\n\n" + "BOURBON They bid us to the English dancing-schools,\n" + " And teach lavoltas high and swift corantos;\n" + " Saying our grace is only in our heels,\n" + " And that we are most lofty runaways.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Where is Montjoy the herald? speed him hence:\n" + " Let him greet England with our sharp defiance.\n" + " Up, princes! and, with spirit of honour edged\n" + " More sharper than your swords, hie to the field:\n" + " Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;\n" + " You Dukes of Orleans, Bourbon, and of Berri,\n" + " Alencon, Brabant, Bar, and Burgundy;\n" + " Jaques Chatillon, Rambures, Vaudemont,\n" + " Beaumont, Grandpre, Roussi, and Fauconberg,\n" + " Foix, Lestrale, Bouciqualt, and Charolois;\n" + " High dukes, great princes, barons, lords and knights,\n" + " For your great seats now quit you of great shames.\n" + " Bar Harry England, that sweeps through our land\n" + " With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur:\n" + " Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow\n" + " Upon the valleys, whose low vassal seat\n" + " The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon:\n" + " Go down upon him, you have power enough,\n" + " And in a captive chariot into Rouen\n" + " Bring him our prisoner.\n\n" + "Constable This becomes the great.\n" + " Sorry am I his numbers are so few,\n" + " His soldiers sick and famish'd in their march,\n" + " For I am sure, when he shall see our army,\n" + " He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear\n" + " And for achievement offer us his ransom.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Therefore, lord constable, haste on Montjoy.\n" + " And let him say to England that we send\n" + " To know what willing ransom he will give.\n" + " Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Not so, I do beseech your majesty.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Be patient, for you shall remain with us.\n" + " Now forth, lord constable and princes all,\n" + " And quickly bring us word of England's fall.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The English camp in Picardy.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER and FLUELLEN, meeting]\n\n" + "GOWER How now, Captain Fluellen! come you from the bridge?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I assure you, there is very excellent services\n" + " committed at the bridge.\n\n" + "GOWER Is the Duke of Exeter safe?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon;\n" + " and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my\n" + " heart, and my duty, and my life, and my living, and\n" + " my uttermost power: he is not-God be praised and\n" + " blessed!--any hurt in the world; but keeps the\n" + " bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline.\n" + " There is an aunchient lieutenant there at the\n" + " pridge, I think in my very conscience he is as\n" + " valiant a man as Mark Antony; and he is a man of no\n" + " estimation in the world; but did see him do as\n" + " gallant service.\n\n" + "GOWER What do you call him?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN He is called Aunchient Pistol.\n\n" + "GOWER I know him not.\n\n" + " [Enter PISTOL]\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Here is the man.\n\n" + "PISTOL Captain, I thee beseech to do me favours:\n" + " The Duke of Exeter doth love thee well.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Ay, I praise God; and I have merited some love at\n" + " his hands.\n\n" + "PISTOL Bardolph, a soldier, firm and sound of heart,\n" + " And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate,\n" + " And giddy Fortune's furious fickle wheel,\n" + " That goddess blind,\n" + " That stands upon the rolling restless stone--\n\n" + "FLUELLEN By your patience, Aunchient Pistol. Fortune is\n" + " painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to\n" + " signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is\n" + " painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which\n" + " is the moral of it, that she is turning, and\n" + " inconstant, and mutability, and variation: and her\n" + " foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone,\n" + " which rolls, and rolls, and rolls: in good truth,\n" + " the poet makes a most excellent description of it:\n" + " Fortune is an excellent moral.\n\n" + "PISTOL Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;\n" + " For he hath stolen a pax, and hanged must a' be:\n" + " A damned death!\n" + " Let gallows gape for dog; let man go free\n" + " And let not hemp his wind-pipe suffocate:\n" + " But Exeter hath given the doom of death\n" + " For pax of little price.\n" + " Therefore, go speak: the duke will hear thy voice:\n" + " And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut\n" + " With edge of penny cord and vile reproach:\n" + " Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Aunchient Pistol, I do partly understand your meaning.\n\n" + "PISTOL Why then, rejoice therefore.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice\n" + " at: for if, look you, he were my brother, I would\n" + " desire the duke to use his good pleasure, and put\n" + " him to execution; for discipline ought to be used.\n\n" + "PISTOL Die and be damn'd! and figo for thy friendship!\n\n" + "FLUELLEN It is well.\n\n" + "PISTOL The fig of Spain!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Very good.\n\n" + "GOWER Why, this is an arrant counterfeit rascal; I\n" + " remember him now; a bawd, a cutpurse.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I'll assure you, a' uttered as brave words at the\n" + " bridge as you shall see in a summer's day. But it\n" + " is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well,\n" + " I warrant you, when time is serve.\n\n" + "GOWER Why, 'tis a gull, a fool, a rogue, that now and then\n" + " goes to the wars, to grace himself at his return\n" + " into London under the form of a soldier. And such\n" + " fellows are perfect in the great commanders' names:\n" + " and they will learn you by rote where services were\n" + " done; at such and such a sconce, at such a breach,\n" + " at such a convoy; who came off bravely, who was\n" + " shot, who disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on;\n" + " and this they con perfectly in the phrase of war,\n" + " which they trick up with new-tuned oaths: and what\n" + " a beard of the general's cut and a horrid suit of\n" + " the camp will do among foaming bottles and\n" + " ale-washed wits, is wonderful to be thought on. But\n" + " you must learn to know such slanders of the age, or\n" + " else you may be marvellously mistook.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I tell you what, Captain Gower; I do perceive he is\n" + " not the man that he would gladly make show to the\n" + " world he is: if I find a hole in his coat, I will\n" + " tell him my mind.\n\n" + " [Drum heard]\n\n" + " Hark you, the king is coming, and I must speak with\n" + " him from the pridge.\n\n" + " [Drum and colours. Enter KING HENRY, GLOUCESTER, and Soldiers]\n\n" + " God pless your majesty!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V How now, Fluellen! camest thou from the bridge?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Ay, so please your majesty. The Duke of Exeter has\n" + " very gallantly maintained the pridge: the French is\n" + " gone off, look you; and there is gallant and most\n" + " prave passages; marry, th' athversary was have\n" + " possession of the pridge; but he is enforced to\n" + " retire, and the Duke of Exeter is master of the\n" + " pridge: I can tell your majesty, the duke is a\n" + " prave man.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V What men have you lost, Fluellen?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN The perdition of th' athversary hath been very\n" + " great, reasonable great: marry, for my part, I\n" + " think the duke hath lost never a man, but one that\n" + " is like to be executed for robbing a church, one\n" + " Bardolph, if your majesty know the man: his face is\n" + " all bubukles, and whelks, and knobs, and flames o'\n" + " fire: and his lips blows at his nose, and it is like\n" + " a coal of fire, sometimes plue and sometimes red;\n" + " but his nose is executed and his fire's out.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We would have all such offenders so cut off: and we\n" + " give express charge, that in our marches through the\n" + " country, there be nothing compelled from the\n" + " villages, nothing taken but paid for, none of the\n" + " French upbraided or abused in disdainful language;\n" + " for when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the\n" + " gentler gamester is the soonest winner.\n\n" + " [Tucket. Enter MONTJOY]\n\n" + "MONTJOY You know me by my habit.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Well then I know thee: what shall I know of thee?\n\n" + "MONTJOY My master's mind.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Unfold it.\n\n" + "MONTJOY Thus says my king: Say thou to Harry of England:\n" + " Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep: advantage\n" + " is a better soldier than rashness. Tell him we\n" + " could have rebuked him at Harfleur, but that we\n" + " thought not good to bruise an injury till it were\n" + " full ripe: now we speak upon our cue, and our voice\n" + " is imperial: England shall repent his folly, see\n" + " his weakness, and admire our sufferance. Bid him\n" + " therefore consider of his ransom; which must\n" + " proportion the losses we have borne, the subjects we\n" + " have lost, the disgrace we have digested; which in\n" + " weight to re-answer, his pettiness would bow under.\n" + " For our losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the\n" + " effusion of our blood, the muster of his kingdom too\n" + " faint a number; and for our disgrace, his own\n" + " person, kneeling at our feet, but a weak and\n" + " worthless satisfaction. To this add defiance: and\n" + " tell him, for conclusion, he hath betrayed his\n" + " followers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far\n" + " my king and master; so much my office.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V What is thy name? I know thy quality.\n\n" + "MONTJOY Montjoy.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Thou dost thy office fairly. Turn thee back.\n" + " And tell thy king I do not seek him now;\n" + " But could be willing to march on to Calais\n" + " Without impeachment: for, to say the sooth,\n" + " Though 'tis no wisdom to confess so much\n" + " Unto an enemy of craft and vantage,\n" + " My people are with sickness much enfeebled,\n" + " My numbers lessened, and those few I have\n" + " Almost no better than so many French;\n" + " Who when they were in health, I tell thee, herald,\n" + " I thought upon one pair of English legs\n" + " Did march three Frenchmen. Yet, forgive me, God,\n" + " That I do brag thus! This your air of France\n" + " Hath blown that vice in me: I must repent.\n" + " Go therefore, tell thy master here I am;\n" + " My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk,\n" + " My army but a weak and sickly guard;\n" + " Yet, God before, tell him we will come on,\n" + " Though France himself and such another neighbour\n" + " Stand in our way. There's for thy labour, Montjoy.\n" + " Go bid thy master well advise himself:\n" + " If we may pass, we will; if we be hinder'd,\n" + " We shall your tawny ground with your red blood\n" + " Discolour: and so Montjoy, fare you well.\n" + " The sum of all our answer is but this:\n" + " We would not seek a battle, as we are;\n" + " Nor, as we are, we say we will not shun it:\n" + " So tell your master.\n\n" + "MONTJOY I shall deliver so. Thanks to your highness.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I hope they will not come upon us now.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V We are in God's hand, brother, not in theirs.\n" + " March to the bridge; it now draws toward night:\n" + " Beyond the river we'll encamp ourselves,\n" + " And on to-morrow, bid them march away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII The French camp, near Agincourt:\n\n\n" + " [Enter the Constable of France, the LORD RAMBURES,\n" + " ORLEANS, DAUPHIN, with others]\n\n" + "Constable Tut! I have the best armour of the world. Would it were day!\n\n" + "ORLEANS You have an excellent armour; but let my horse have his due.\n\n" + "Constable It is the best horse of Europe.\n\n" + "ORLEANS Will it never be morning?\n\n" + "DAUPHIN My lord of Orleans, and my lord high constable, you\n" + " talk of horse and armour?\n\n" + "ORLEANS You are as well provided of both as any prince in the world.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN What a long night is this! I will not change my\n" + " horse with any that treads but on four pasterns.\n" + " Ca, ha! he bounds from the earth, as if his\n" + " entrails were hairs; le cheval volant, the Pegasus,\n" + " chez les narines de feu! When I bestride him, I\n" + " soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth\n" + " sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his\n" + " hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.\n\n" + "ORLEANS He's of the colour of the nutmeg.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for\n" + " Perseus: he is pure air and fire; and the dull\n" + " elements of earth and water never appear in him, but\n" + " only in Patient stillness while his rider mounts\n" + " him: he is indeed a horse; and all other jades you\n" + " may call beasts.\n\n" + "Constable Indeed, my lord, it is a most absolute and excellent horse.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the\n" + " bidding of a monarch and his countenance enforces homage.\n\n" + "ORLEANS No more, cousin.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Nay, the man hath no wit that cannot, from the\n" + " rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary\n" + " deserved praise on my palfrey: it is a theme as\n" + " fluent as the sea: turn the sands into eloquent\n" + " tongues, and my horse is argument for them all:\n" + " 'tis a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and for\n" + " a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and for the\n" + " world, familiar to us and unknown to lay apart\n" + " their particular functions and wonder at him. I\n" + " once writ a sonnet in his praise and began thus:\n" + " 'Wonder of nature,'--\n\n" + "ORLEANS I have heard a sonnet begin so to one's mistress.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Then did they imitate that which I composed to my\n" + " courser, for my horse is my mistress.\n\n" + "ORLEANS Your mistress bears well.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Me well; which is the prescript praise and\n" + " perfection of a good and particular mistress.\n\n" + "Constable Nay, for methought yesterday your mistress shrewdly\n" + " shook your back.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN So perhaps did yours.\n\n" + "Constable Mine was not bridled.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode,\n" + " like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off, and in\n" + " your straight strossers.\n\n" + "Constable You have good judgment in horsemanship.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Be warned by me, then: they that ride so and ride\n" + " not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have\n" + " my horse to my mistress.\n\n" + "Constable I had as lief have my mistress a jade.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN I tell thee, constable, my mistress wears his own hair.\n\n" + "Constable I could make as true a boast as that, if I had a sow\n" + " to my mistress.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN 'Le chien est retourne a son propre vomissement, et\n" + " la truie lavee au bourbier;' thou makest use of any thing.\n\n" + "Constable Yet do I not use my horse for my mistress, or any\n" + " such proverb so little kin to the purpose.\n\n" + "RAMBURES My lord constable, the armour that I saw in your tent\n" + " to-night, are those stars or suns upon it?\n\n" + "Constable Stars, my lord.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Some of them will fall to-morrow, I hope.\n\n" + "Constable And yet my sky shall not want.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN That may be, for you bear a many superfluously, and\n" + " 'twere more honour some were away.\n\n" + "Constable Even as your horse bears your praises; who would\n" + " trot as well, were some of your brags dismounted.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Would I were able to load him with his desert! Will\n" + " it never be day? I will trot to-morrow a mile, and\n" + " my way shall be paved with English faces.\n\n" + "Constable I will not say so, for fear I should be faced out of\n" + " my way: but I would it were morning; for I would\n" + " fain be about the ears of the English.\n\n" + "RAMBURES Who will go to hazard with me for twenty prisoners?\n\n" + "Constable You must first go yourself to hazard, ere you have them.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN 'Tis midnight; I'll go arm myself.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ORLEANS The Dauphin longs for morning.\n\n" + "RAMBURES He longs to eat the English.\n\n" + "Constable I think he will eat all he kills.\n\n" + "ORLEANS By the white hand of my lady, he's a gallant prince.\n\n" + "Constable Swear by her foot, that she may tread out the oath.\n\n" + "ORLEANS He is simply the most active gentleman of France.\n\n" + "Constable Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.\n\n" + "ORLEANS He never did harm, that I heard of.\n\n" + "Constable Nor will do none to-morrow: he will keep that good name still.\n\n" + "ORLEANS I know him to be valiant.\n\n" + "Constable I was told that by one that knows him better than\n" + " you.\n\n" + "ORLEANS What's he?\n\n" + "Constable Marry, he told me so himself; and he said he cared\n" + " not who knew it\n\n" + "ORLEANS He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him.\n\n" + "Constable By my faith, sir, but it is; never any body saw it\n" + " but his lackey: 'tis a hooded valour; and when it\n" + " appears, it will bate.\n\n" + "ORLEANS Ill will never said well.\n\n" + "Constable I will cap that proverb with 'There is flattery in friendship.'\n\n" + "ORLEANS And I will take up that with 'Give the devil his due.'\n\n" + "Constable Well placed: there stands your friend for the\n" + " devil: have at the very eye of that proverb with 'A\n" + " pox of the devil.'\n\n" + "ORLEANS You are the better at proverbs, by how much 'A\n" + " fool's bolt is soon shot.'\n\n" + "Constable You have shot over.\n\n" + "ORLEANS 'Tis not the first time you were overshot.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord high constable, the English lie within\n" + " fifteen hundred paces of your tents.\n\n" + "Constable Who hath measured the ground?\n\n" + "Messenger The Lord Grandpre.\n\n" + "Constable A valiant and most expert gentleman. Would it were\n" + " day! Alas, poor Harry of England! he longs not for\n" + " the dawning as we do.\n\n" + "ORLEANS What a wretched and peevish fellow is this king of\n" + " England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so\n" + " far out of his knowledge!\n\n" + "Constable If the English had any apprehension, they would run away.\n\n" + "ORLEANS That they lack; for if their heads had any\n" + " intellectual armour, they could never wear such heavy\n" + " head-pieces.\n\n" + "RAMBURES That island of England breeds very valiant\n" + " creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.\n\n" + "ORLEANS Foolish curs, that run winking into the mouth of a\n" + " Russian bear and have their heads crushed like\n" + " rotten apples! You may as well say, that's a\n" + " valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.\n\n" + "Constable Just, just; and the men do sympathize with the\n" + " mastiffs in robustious and rough coming on, leaving\n" + " their wits with their wives: and then give them\n" + " great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will\n" + " eat like wolves and fight like devils.\n\n" + "ORLEANS Ay, but these English are shrewdly out of beef.\n\n" + "Constable Then shall we find to-morrow they have only stomachs\n" + " to eat and none to fight. Now is it time to arm:\n" + " come, shall we about it?\n\n" + "ORLEANS It is now two o'clock: but, let me see, by ten\n" + " We shall have each a hundred Englishmen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + " PROLOGUE.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chorus]\n\n" + "Chorus Now entertain conjecture of a time\n" + " When creeping murmur and the poring dark\n" + " Fills the wide vessel of the universe.\n" + " From camp to camp through the foul womb of night\n" + " The hum of either army stilly sounds,\n" + " That the fixed sentinels almost receive\n" + " The secret whispers of each other's watch:\n" + " Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames\n" + " Each battle sees the other's umber'd face;\n" + " Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs\n" + " Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents\n" + " The armourers, accomplishing the knights,\n" + " With busy hammers closing rivets up,\n" + " Give dreadful note of preparation:\n" + " The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll,\n" + " And the third hour of drowsy morning name.\n" + " Proud of their numbers and secure in soul,\n" + " The confident and over-lusty French\n" + " Do the low-rated English play at dice;\n" + " And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night\n" + " Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp\n" + " So tediously away. The poor condemned English,\n" + " Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires\n" + " Sit patiently and inly ruminate\n" + " The morning's danger, and their gesture sad\n" + " Investing lank-lean; cheeks and war-worn coats\n" + " Presenteth them unto the gazing moon\n" + " So many horrid ghosts. O now, who will behold\n" + " The royal captain of this ruin'd band\n" + " Walking from watch to watch, from tent to tent,\n" + " Let him cry 'Praise and glory on his head!'\n" + " For forth he goes and visits all his host.\n" + " Bids them good morrow with a modest smile\n" + " And calls them brothers, friends and countrymen.\n" + " Upon his royal face there is no note\n" + " How dread an army hath enrounded him;\n" + " Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour\n" + " Unto the weary and all-watched night,\n" + " But freshly looks and over-bears attaint\n" + " With cheerful semblance and sweet majesty;\n" + " That every wretch, pining and pale before,\n" + " Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks:\n" + " A largess universal like the sun\n" + " His liberal eye doth give to every one,\n" + " Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all,\n" + " Behold, as may unworthiness define,\n" + " A little touch of Harry in the night.\n" + " And so our scene must to the battle fly;\n" + " Where--O for pity!--we shall much disgrace\n" + " With four or five most vile and ragged foils,\n" + " Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous,\n" + " The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see,\n" + " Minding true things by what their mockeries be.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The English camp at Agincourt.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY, BEDFORD, and GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Gloucester, 'tis true that we are in great danger;\n" + " The greater therefore should our courage be.\n" + " Good morrow, brother Bedford. God Almighty!\n" + " There is some soul of goodness in things evil,\n" + " Would men observingly distil it out.\n" + " For our bad neighbour makes us early stirrers,\n" + " Which is both healthful and good husbandry:\n" + " Besides, they are our outward consciences,\n" + " And preachers to us all, admonishing\n" + " That we should dress us fairly for our end.\n" + " Thus may we gather honey from the weed,\n" + " And make a moral of the devil himself.\n\n" + " [Enter ERPINGHAM]\n\n" + " Good morrow, old Sir Thomas Erpingham:\n" + " A good soft pillow for that good white head\n" + " Were better than a churlish turf of France.\n\n" + "ERPINGHAM Not so, my liege: this lodging likes me better,\n" + " Since I may say 'Now lie I like a king.'\n\n" + "KING HENRY V 'Tis good for men to love their present pains\n" + " Upon example; so the spirit is eased:\n" + " And when the mind is quicken'd, out of doubt,\n" + " The organs, though defunct and dead before,\n" + " Break up their drowsy grave and newly move,\n" + " With casted slough and fresh legerity.\n" + " Lend me thy cloak, Sir Thomas. Brothers both,\n" + " Commend me to the princes in our camp;\n" + " Do my good morrow to them, and anon\n" + " Desire them an to my pavilion.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER We shall, my liege.\n\n" + "ERPINGHAM Shall I attend your grace?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No, my good knight;\n" + " Go with my brothers to my lords of England:\n" + " I and my bosom must debate awhile,\n" + " And then I would no other company.\n\n" + "ERPINGHAM The Lord in heaven bless thee, noble Harry!\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but KING HENRY]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V God-a-mercy, old heart! thou speak'st cheerfully.\n\n" + " [Enter PISTOL]\n\n" + "PISTOL Qui va la?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V A friend.\n\n" + "PISTOL Discuss unto me; art thou officer?\n" + " Or art thou base, common and popular?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I am a gentleman of a company.\n\n" + "PISTOL Trail'st thou the puissant pike?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Even so. What are you?\n\n" + "PISTOL As good a gentleman as the emperor.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Then you are a better than the king.\n\n" + "PISTOL The king's a bawcock, and a heart of gold,\n" + " A lad of life, an imp of fame;\n" + " Of parents good, of fist most valiant.\n" + " I kiss his dirty shoe, and from heart-string\n" + " I love the lovely bully. What is thy name?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Harry le Roy.\n\n" + "PISTOL Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No, I am a Welshman.\n\n" + "PISTOL Know'st thou Fluellen?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Yes.\n\n" + "PISTOL Tell him, I'll knock his leek about his pate\n" + " Upon Saint Davy's day.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Do not you wear your dagger in your cap that day,\n" + " lest he knock that about yours.\n\n" + "PISTOL Art thou his friend?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V And his kinsman too.\n\n" + "PISTOL The figo for thee, then!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I thank you: God be with you!\n\n" + "PISTOL My name is Pistol call'd.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V It sorts well with your fierceness.\n\n" + " [Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER]\n\n" + "GOWER Captain Fluellen!\n\n" + "FLUELLEN So! in the name of Jesu Christ, speak lower. It is\n" + " the greatest admiration of the universal world, when\n" + " the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the\n" + " wars is not kept: if you would take the pains but to\n" + " examine the wars of Pompey the Great, you shall\n" + " find, I warrant you, that there is no tiddle toddle\n" + " nor pibble pabble in Pompey's camp; I warrant you,\n" + " you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the\n" + " cares of it, and the forms of it, and the sobriety\n" + " of it, and the modesty of it, to be otherwise.\n\n" + "GOWER Why, the enemy is loud; you hear him all night.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN If the enemy is an ass and a fool and a prating\n" + " coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also,\n" + " look you, be an ass and a fool and a prating\n" + " coxcomb? in your own conscience, now?\n\n" + "GOWER I will speak lower.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I pray you and beseech you that you will.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GOWER and FLUELLEN]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Though it appear a little out of fashion,\n" + " There is much care and valour in this Welshman.\n\n" + " [Enter three soldiers, JOHN BATES, ALEXANDER COURT,\n" + " and MICHAEL WILLIAMS]\n\n" + "COURT Brother John Bates, is not that the morning which\n" + " breaks yonder?\n\n" + "BATES I think it be: but we have no great cause to desire\n" + " the approach of day.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS We see yonder the beginning of the day, but I think\n" + " we shall never see the end of it. Who goes there?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V A friend.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Under what captain serve you?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Under Sir Thomas Erpingham.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS A good old commander and a most kind gentleman: I\n" + " pray you, what thinks he of our estate?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Even as men wrecked upon a sand, that look to be\n" + " washed off the next tide.\n\n" + "BATES He hath not told his thought to the king?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No; nor it is not meet he should. For, though I\n" + " speak it to you, I think the king is but a man, as I\n" + " am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me: the\n" + " element shows to him as it doth to me; all his\n" + " senses have but human conditions: his ceremonies\n" + " laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and\n" + " though his affections are higher mounted than ours,\n" + " yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like\n" + " wing. Therefore when he sees reason of fears, as we\n" + " do, his fears, out of doubt, be of the same relish\n" + " as ours are: yet, in reason, no man should possess\n" + " him with any appearance of fear, lest he, by showing\n" + " it, should dishearten his army.\n\n" + "BATES He may show what outward courage he will; but I\n" + " believe, as cold a night as 'tis, he could wish\n" + " himself in Thames up to the neck; and so I would he\n" + " were, and I by him, at all adventures, so we were quit here.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V By my troth, I will speak my conscience of the king:\n" + " I think he would not wish himself any where but\n" + " where he is.\n\n" + "BATES Then I would he were here alone; so should he be\n" + " sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men's lives saved.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I dare say you love him not so ill, to wish him here\n" + " alone, howsoever you speak this to feel other men's\n" + " minds: methinks I could not die any where so\n" + " contented as in the king's company; his cause being\n" + " just and his quarrel honourable.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS That's more than we know.\n\n" + "BATES Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know\n" + " enough, if we know we are the kings subjects: if\n" + " his cause be wrong, our obedience to the king wipes\n" + " the crime of it out of us.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath\n" + " a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and\n" + " arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join\n" + " together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at\n" + " such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a\n" + " surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind\n" + " them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their\n" + " children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die\n" + " well that die in a battle; for how can they\n" + " charitably dispose of any thing, when blood is their\n" + " argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it\n" + " will be a black matter for the king that led them to\n" + " it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of\n" + " subjection.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V So, if a son that is by his father sent about\n" + " merchandise do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the\n" + " imputation of his wickedness by your rule, should be\n" + " imposed upon his father that sent him: or if a\n" + " servant, under his master's command transporting a\n" + " sum of money, be assailed by robbers and die in\n" + " many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the\n" + " business of the master the author of the servant's\n" + " damnation: but this is not so: the king is not\n" + " bound to answer the particular endings of his\n" + " soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of\n" + " his servant; for they purpose not their death, when\n" + " they purpose their services. Besides, there is no\n" + " king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to\n" + " the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all\n" + " unspotted soldiers: some peradventure have on them\n" + " the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder;\n" + " some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of\n" + " perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that\n" + " have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with\n" + " pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have\n" + " defeated the law and outrun native punishment,\n" + " though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to\n" + " fly from God: war is his beadle, war is vengeance;\n" + " so that here men are punished for before-breach of\n" + " the king's laws in now the king's quarrel: where\n" + " they feared the death, they have borne life away;\n" + " and where they would be safe, they perish: then if\n" + " they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of\n" + " their damnation than he was before guilty of those\n" + " impieties for the which they are now visited. Every\n" + " subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's\n" + " soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in\n" + " the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every\n" + " mote out of his conscience: and dying so, death\n" + " is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was\n" + " blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained:\n" + " and in him that escapes, it were not sin to think\n" + " that, making God so free an offer, He let him\n" + " outlive that day to see His greatness and to teach\n" + " others how they should prepare.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS 'Tis certain, every man that dies ill, the ill upon\n" + " his own head, the king is not to answer it.\n\n" + "BATES But I do not desire he should answer for me; and\n" + " yet I determine to fight lustily for him.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I myself heard the king say he would not be ransomed.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Ay, he said so, to make us fight cheerfully: but\n" + " when our throats are cut, he may be ransomed, and we\n" + " ne'er the wiser.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V If I live to see it, I will never trust his word after.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS You pay him then. That's a perilous shot out of an\n" + " elder-gun, that a poor and private displeasure can\n" + " do against a monarch! you may as well go about to\n" + " turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a\n" + " peacock's feather. You'll never trust his word\n" + " after! come, 'tis a foolish saying.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Your reproof is something too round: I should be\n" + " angry with you, if the time were convenient.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Let it be a quarrel between us, if you live.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I embrace it.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS How shall I know thee again?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Give me any gage of thine, and I will wear it in my\n" + " bonnet: then, if ever thou darest acknowledge it, I\n" + " will make it my quarrel.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Here's my glove: give me another of thine.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V There.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS This will I also wear in my cap: if ever thou come\n" + " to me and say, after to-morrow, 'This is my glove,'\n" + " by this hand, I will take thee a box on the ear.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V If ever I live to see it, I will challenge it.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Thou darest as well be hanged.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Well. I will do it, though I take thee in the\n" + " king's company.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Keep thy word: fare thee well.\n\n" + "BATES Be friends, you English fools, be friends: we have\n" + " French quarrels enow, if you could tell how to reckon.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Indeed, the French may lay twenty French crowns to\n" + " one, they will beat us; for they bear them on their\n" + " shoulders: but it is no English treason to cut\n" + " French crowns, and to-morrow the king himself will\n" + " be a clipper.\n\n" + " [Exeunt soldiers]\n\n" + " Upon the king! let us our lives, our souls,\n" + " Our debts, our careful wives,\n" + " Our children and our sins lay on the king!\n" + " We must bear all. O hard condition,\n" + " Twin-born with greatness, subject to the breath\n" + " Of every fool, whose sense no more can feel\n" + " But his own wringing! What infinite heart's-ease\n" + " Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!\n" + " And what have kings, that privates have not too,\n" + " Save ceremony, save general ceremony?\n" + " And what art thou, thou idle ceremony?\n" + " What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more\n" + " Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?\n" + " What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?\n" + " O ceremony, show me but thy worth!\n" + " What is thy soul of adoration?\n" + " Art thou aught else but place, degree and form,\n" + " Creating awe and fear in other men?\n" + " Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd\n" + " Than they in fearing.\n" + " What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet,\n" + " But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness,\n" + " And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!\n" + " Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out\n" + " With titles blown from adulation?\n" + " Will it give place to flexure and low bending?\n" + " Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee,\n" + " Command the health of it? No, thou proud dream,\n" + " That play'st so subtly with a king's repose;\n" + " I am a king that find thee, and I know\n" + " 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre and the ball,\n" + " The sword, the mace, the crown imperial,\n" + " The intertissued robe of gold and pearl,\n" + " The farced title running 'fore the king,\n" + " The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp\n" + " That beats upon the high shore of this world,\n" + " No, not all these, thrice-gorgeous ceremony,\n" + " Not all these, laid in bed majestical,\n" + " Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave,\n" + " Who with a body fill'd and vacant mind\n" + " Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful bread;\n" + " Never sees horrid night, the child of hell,\n" + " But, like a lackey, from the rise to set\n" + " Sweats in the eye of Phoebus and all night\n" + " Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn,\n" + " Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,\n" + " And follows so the ever-running year,\n" + " With profitable labour, to his grave:\n" + " And, but for ceremony, such a wretch,\n" + " Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,\n" + " Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king.\n" + " The slave, a member of the country's peace,\n" + " Enjoys it; but in gross brain little wots\n" + " What watch the king keeps to maintain the peace,\n" + " Whose hours the peasant best advantages.\n\n" + " [Enter ERPINGHAM]\n\n" + "ERPINGHAM My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence,\n" + " Seek through your camp to find you.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Good old knight,\n" + " Collect them all together at my tent:\n" + " I'll be before thee.\n\n" + "ERPINGHAM I shall do't, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts;\n" + " Possess them not with fear; take from them now\n" + " The sense of reckoning, if the opposed numbers\n" + " Pluck their hearts from them. Not to-day, O Lord,\n" + " O, not to-day, think not upon the fault\n" + " My father made in compassing the crown!\n" + " I Richard's body have interred anew;\n" + " And on it have bestow'd more contrite tears\n" + " Than from it issued forced drops of blood:\n" + " Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay,\n" + " Who twice a-day their wither'd hands hold up\n" + " Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I have built\n" + " Two chantries, where the sad and solemn priests\n" + " Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I do;\n" + " Though all that I can do is nothing worth,\n" + " Since that my penitence comes after all,\n" + " Imploring pardon.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My liege!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V My brother Gloucester's voice? Ay;\n" + " I know thy errand, I will go with thee:\n" + " The day, my friends and all things stay for me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The French camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the DAUPHIN, ORLEANS, RAMBURES, and others]\n\n" + "ORLEANS The sun doth gild our armour; up, my lords!\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Montez A cheval! My horse! varlet! laquais! ha!\n\n" + "ORLEANS O brave spirit!\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Via! les eaux et la terre.\n\n" + "ORLEANS Rien puis? L'air et la feu.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Ciel, cousin Orleans.\n\n" + " [Enter Constable]\n\n" + " Now, my lord constable!\n\n" + "Constable Hark, how our steeds for present service neigh!\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Mount them, and make incision in their hides,\n" + " That their hot blood may spin in English eyes,\n" + " And dout them with superfluous courage, ha!\n\n" + "RAMBURES What, will you have them weep our horses' blood?\n" + " How shall we, then, behold their natural tears?\n\n" + " [Enter Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger The English are embattled, you French peers.\n\n" + "Constable To horse, you gallant princes! straight to horse!\n" + " Do but behold yon poor and starved band,\n" + " And your fair show shall suck away their souls,\n" + " Leaving them but the shales and husks of men.\n" + " There is not work enough for all our hands;\n" + " Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins\n" + " To give each naked curtle-axe a stain,\n" + " That our French gallants shall to-day draw out,\n" + " And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them,\n" + " The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them.\n" + " 'Tis positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords,\n" + " That our superfluous lackeys and our peasants,\n" + " Who in unnecessary action swarm\n" + " About our squares of battle, were enow\n" + " To purge this field of such a hilding foe,\n" + " Though we upon this mountain's basis by\n" + " Took stand for idle speculation:\n" + " But that our honours must not. What's to say?\n" + " A very little little let us do.\n" + " And all is done. Then let the trumpets sound\n" + " The tucket sonance and the note to mount;\n" + " For our approach shall so much dare the field\n" + " That England shall couch down in fear and yield.\n\n" + " [Enter GRANDPRE]\n\n" + "GRANDPRE Why do you stay so long, my lords of France?\n" + " Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones,\n" + " Ill-favouredly become the morning field:\n" + " Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose,\n" + " And our air shakes them passing scornfully:\n" + " Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd host\n" + " And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps:\n" + " The horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks,\n" + " With torch-staves in their hand; and their poor jades\n" + " Lob down their heads, dropping the hides and hips,\n" + " The gum down-roping from their pale-dead eyes\n" + " And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal bit\n" + " Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motionless;\n" + " And their executors, the knavish crows,\n" + " Fly o'er them, all impatient for their hour.\n" + " Description cannot suit itself in words\n" + " To demonstrate the life of such a battle\n" + " In life so lifeless as it shows itself.\n\n" + "Constable They have said their prayers, and they stay for death.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Shall we go send them dinners and fresh suits\n" + " And give their fasting horses provender,\n" + " And after fight with them?\n\n" + "Constable I stay but for my guidon: to the field!\n" + " I will the banner from a trumpet take,\n" + " And use it for my haste. Come, come, away!\n" + " The sun is high, and we outwear the day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The English camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, BEDFORD, EXETER, ERPINGHAM, with\n" + " all his host: SALISBURY and WESTMORELAND]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Where is the king?\n\n" + "BEDFORD The king himself is rode to view their battle.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Of fighting men they have full three score thousand.\n\n" + "EXETER There's five to one; besides, they all are fresh.\n\n" + "SALISBURY God's arm strike with us! 'tis a fearful odds.\n" + " God be wi' you, princes all; I'll to my charge:\n" + " If we no more meet till we meet in heaven,\n" + " Then, joyfully, my noble Lord of Bedford,\n" + " My dear Lord Gloucester, and my good Lord Exeter,\n" + " And my kind kinsman, warriors all, adieu!\n\n" + "BEDFORD Farewell, good Salisbury; and good luck go with thee!\n\n" + "EXETER Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day:\n" + " And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it,\n" + " For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.\n\n" + " [Exit SALISBURY]\n\n" + "BEDFORD He is full of valour as of kindness;\n" + " Princely in both.\n\n" + " [Enter the KING]\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND O that we now had here\n" + " But one ten thousand of those men in England\n" + " That do no work to-day!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V What's he that wishes so?\n" + " My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:\n" + " If we are mark'd to die, we are enow\n" + " To do our country loss; and if to live,\n" + " The fewer men, the greater share of honour.\n" + " God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.\n" + " By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,\n" + " Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;\n" + " It yearns me not if men my garments wear;\n" + " Such outward things dwell not in my desires:\n" + " But if it be a sin to covet honour,\n" + " I am the most offending soul alive.\n" + " No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:\n" + " God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour\n" + " As one man more, methinks, would share from me\n" + " For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!\n" + " Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,\n" + " That he which hath no stomach to this fight,\n" + " Let him depart; his passport shall be made\n" + " And crowns for convoy put into his purse:\n" + " We would not die in that man's company\n" + " That fears his fellowship to die with us.\n" + " This day is called the feast of Crispian:\n" + " He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,\n" + " Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,\n" + " And rouse him at the name of Crispian.\n" + " He that shall live this day, and see old age,\n" + " Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,\n" + " And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'\n" + " Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.\n" + " And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'\n" + " Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,\n" + " But he'll remember with advantages\n" + " What feats he did that day: then shall our names.\n" + " Familiar in his mouth as household words\n" + " Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,\n" + " Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,\n" + " Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.\n" + " This story shall the good man teach his son;\n" + " And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,\n" + " From this day to the ending of the world,\n" + " But we in it shall be remember'd;\n" + " We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;\n" + " For he to-day that sheds his blood with me\n" + " Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,\n" + " This day shall gentle his condition:\n" + " And gentlemen in England now a-bed\n" + " Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,\n" + " And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks\n" + " That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.\n\n" + " [Re-enter SALISBURY]\n\n" + "SALISBURY My sovereign lord, bestow yourself with speed:\n" + " The French are bravely in their battles set,\n" + " And will with all expedience charge on us.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V All things are ready, if our minds be so.\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND Perish the man whose mind is backward now!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Thou dost not wish more help from England, coz?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND God's will! my liege, would you and I alone,\n" + " Without more help, could fight this royal battle!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Why, now thou hast unwish'd five thousand men;\n" + " Which likes me better than to wish us one.\n" + " You know your places: God be with you all!\n\n" + " [Tucket. Enter MONTJOY]\n\n" + "MONTJOY Once more I come to know of thee, King Harry,\n" + " If for thy ransom thou wilt now compound,\n" + " Before thy most assured overthrow:\n" + " For certainly thou art so near the gulf,\n" + " Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy,\n" + " The constable desires thee thou wilt mind\n" + " Thy followers of repentance; that their souls\n" + " May make a peaceful and a sweet retire\n" + " From off these fields, where, wretches, their poor bodies\n" + " Must lie and fester.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Who hath sent thee now?\n\n" + "MONTJOY The Constable of France.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I pray thee, bear my former answer back:\n" + " Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.\n" + " Good God! why should they mock poor fellows thus?\n" + " The man that once did sell the lion's skin\n" + " While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him.\n" + " A many of our bodies shall no doubt\n" + " Find native graves; upon the which, I trust,\n" + " Shall witness live in brass of this day's work:\n" + " And those that leave their valiant bones in France,\n" + " Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills,\n" + " They shall be famed; for there the sun shall greet them,\n" + " And draw their honours reeking up to heaven;\n" + " Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime,\n" + " The smell whereof shall breed a plague in France.\n" + " Mark then abounding valour in our English,\n" + " That being dead, like to the bullet's grazing,\n" + " Break out into a second course of mischief,\n" + " Killing in relapse of mortality.\n" + " Let me speak proudly: tell the constable\n" + " We are but warriors for the working-day;\n" + " Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd\n" + " With rainy marching in the painful field;\n" + " There's not a piece of feather in our host--\n" + " Good argument, I hope, we will not fly--\n" + " And time hath worn us into slovenry:\n" + " But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim;\n" + " And my poor soldiers tell me, yet ere night\n" + " They'll be in fresher robes, or they will pluck\n" + " The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' heads\n" + " And turn them out of service. If they do this,--\n" + " As, if God please, they shall,--my ransom then\n" + " Will soon be levied. Herald, save thou thy labour;\n" + " Come thou no more for ransom, gentle herald:\n" + " They shall have none, I swear, but these my joints;\n" + " Which if they have as I will leave 'em them,\n" + " Shall yield them little, tell the constable.\n\n" + "MONTJOY I shall, King Harry. And so fare thee well:\n" + " Thou never shalt hear herald any more.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I fear thou'lt once more come again for ransom.\n\n" + " [Enter YORK]\n\n" + "YORK My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg\n" + " The leading of the vaward.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Take it, brave York. Now, soldiers, march away:\n" + " And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The field of battle.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Excursions. Enter PISTOL, French Soldier, and Boy]\n\n" + "PISTOL Yield, cur!\n\n" + "French Soldier Je pense que vous etes gentilhomme de bonne qualite.\n\n" + "PISTOL Qualtitie calmie custure me! Art thou a gentleman?\n" + " what is thy name? discuss.\n\n" + "French Soldier O Seigneur Dieu!\n\n" + "PISTOL O, Signieur Dew should be a gentleman:\n" + " Perpend my words, O Signieur Dew, and mark;\n" + " O Signieur Dew, thou diest on point of fox,\n" + " Except, O signieur, thou do give to me\n" + " Egregious ransom.\n\n" + "French Soldier O, prenez misericorde! ayez pitie de moi!\n\n" + "PISTOL Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys;\n" + " Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat\n" + " In drops of crimson blood.\n\n" + "French Soldier Est-il impossible d'echapper la force de ton bras?\n\n" + "PISTOL Brass, cur!\n" + " Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat,\n" + " Offer'st me brass?\n\n" + "French Soldier O pardonnez moi!\n\n" + "PISTOL Say'st thou me so? is that a ton of moys?\n" + " Come hither, boy: ask me this slave in French\n" + " What is his name.\n\n" + "Boy Ecoutez: comment etes-vous appele?\n\n" + "French Soldier Monsieur le Fer.\n\n" + "Boy He says his name is Master Fer.\n\n" + "PISTOL Master Fer! I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret\n" + " him: discuss the same in French unto him.\n\n" + "Boy I do not know the French for fer, and ferret, and firk.\n\n" + "PISTOL Bid him prepare; for I will cut his throat.\n\n" + "French Soldier Que dit-il, monsieur?\n\n" + "Boy Il me commande de vous dire que vous faites vous\n" + " pret; car ce soldat ici est dispose tout a cette\n" + " heure de couper votre gorge.\n\n" + "PISTOL Owy, cuppele gorge, permafoy,\n" + " Peasant, unless thou give me crowns, brave crowns;\n" + " Or mangled shalt thou be by this my sword.\n\n" + "French Soldier O, je vous supplie, pour l'amour de Dieu, me\n" + " pardonner! Je suis gentilhomme de bonne maison:\n" + " gardez ma vie, et je vous donnerai deux cents ecus.\n\n" + "PISTOL What are his words?\n\n" + "Boy He prays you to save his life: he is a gentleman of\n" + " a good house; and for his ransom he will give you\n" + " two hundred crowns.\n\n" + "PISTOL Tell him my fury shall abate, and I the crowns will take.\n\n" + "French Soldier Petit monsieur, que dit-il?\n\n" + "Boy Encore qu'il est contre son jurement de pardonner\n" + " aucun prisonnier, neanmoins, pour les ecus que vous\n" + " l'avez promis, il est content de vous donner la\n" + " liberte, le franchisement.\n\n" + "French Soldier Sur mes genoux je vous donne mille remercimens; et\n" + " je m'estime heureux que je suis tombe entre les\n" + " mains d'un chevalier, je pense, le plus brave,\n" + " vaillant, et tres distingue seigneur d'Angleterre.\n\n" + "PISTOL Expound unto me, boy.\n\n" + "Boy He gives you, upon his knees, a thousand thanks; and\n" + " he esteems himself happy that he hath fallen into\n" + " the hands of one, as he thinks, the most brave,\n" + " valorous, and thrice-worthy signieur of England.\n\n" + "PISTOL As I suck blood, I will some mercy show.\n" + " Follow me!\n\n" + "Boy Suivez-vous le grand capitaine.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PISTOL, and French Soldier]\n\n" + " I did never know so full a voice issue from so\n" + " empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty\n" + " vessel makes the greatest sound.' Bardolph and Nym\n" + " had ten times more valour than this roaring devil i'\n" + " the old play, that every one may pare his nails with\n" + " a wooden dagger; and they are both hanged; and so\n" + " would this be, if he durst steal any thing\n" + " adventurously. I must stay with the lackeys, with\n" + " the luggage of our camp: the French might have a\n" + " good prey of us, if he knew of it; for there is\n" + " none to guard it but boys.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Constable, ORLEANS, BOURBON, DAUPHIN, and RAMBURES]\n\n" + "Constable O diable!\n\n" + "ORLEANS O seigneur! le jour est perdu, tout est perdu!\n\n" + "DAUPHIN Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all!\n" + " Reproach and everlasting shame\n" + " Sits mocking in our plumes. O merchante fortune!\n" + " Do not run away.\n\n" + " [A short alarum]\n\n" + "Constable Why, all our ranks are broke.\n\n" + "DAUPHIN O perdurable shame! let's stab ourselves.\n" + " Be these the wretches that we play'd at dice for?\n\n" + "ORLEANS Is this the king we sent to for his ransom?\n\n" + "BOURBON Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!\n" + " Let us die in honour: once more back again;\n" + " And he that will not follow Bourbon now,\n" + " Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand,\n" + " Like a base pander, hold the chamber-door\n" + " Whilst by a slave, no gentler than my dog,\n" + " His fairest daughter is contaminated.\n\n" + "Constable Disorder, that hath spoil'd us, friend us now!\n" + " Let us on heaps go offer up our lives.\n\n" + "ORLEANS We are enow yet living in the field\n" + " To smother up the English in our throngs,\n" + " If any order might be thought upon.\n\n" + "BOURBON The devil take order now! I'll to the throng:\n" + " Let life be short; else shame will be too long.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter KING HENRY and forces, EXETER, and others]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Well have we done, thrice valiant countrymen:\n" + " But all's not done; yet keep the French the field.\n\n" + "EXETER The Duke of York commends him to your majesty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour\n" + " I saw him down; thrice up again and fighting;\n" + " From helmet to the spur all blood he was.\n\n" + "EXETER In which array, brave soldier, doth he lie,\n" + " Larding the plain; and by his bloody side,\n" + " Yoke-fellow to his honour-owing wounds,\n" + " The noble Earl of Suffolk also lies.\n" + " Suffolk first died: and York, all haggled over,\n" + " Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteep'd,\n" + " And takes him by the beard; kisses the gashes\n" + " That bloodily did spawn upon his face;\n" + " And cries aloud 'Tarry, dear cousin Suffolk!\n" + " My soul shall thine keep company to heaven;\n" + " Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,\n" + " As in this glorious and well-foughten field\n" + " We kept together in our chivalry!'\n" + " Upon these words I came and cheer'd him up:\n" + " He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand,\n" + " And, with a feeble gripe, says 'Dear my lord,\n" + " Commend my service to me sovereign.'\n" + " So did he turn and over Suffolk's neck\n" + " He threw his wounded arm and kiss'd his lips;\n" + " And so espoused to death, with blood he seal'd\n" + " A testament of noble-ending love.\n" + " The pretty and sweet manner of it forced\n" + " Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd;\n" + " But I had not so much of man in me,\n" + " And all my mother came into mine eyes\n" + " And gave me up to tears.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I blame you not;\n" + " For, hearing this, I must perforce compound\n" + " With mistful eyes, or they will issue too.\n\n" + " [Alarum]\n\n" + " But, hark! what new alarum is this same?\n" + " The French have reinforced their scatter'd men:\n" + " Then every soldier kill his prisoners:\n" + " Give the word through.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER]\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Kill the poys and the luggage! 'tis expressly\n" + " against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of\n" + " knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't; in your\n" + " conscience, now, is it not?\n\n" + "GOWER 'Tis certain there's not a boy left alive; and the\n" + " cowardly rascals that ran from the battle ha' done\n" + " this slaughter: besides, they have burned and\n" + " carried away all that was in the king's tent;\n" + " wherefore the king, most worthily, hath caused every\n" + " soldier to cut his prisoner's throat. O, 'tis a\n" + " gallant king!\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What\n" + " call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born!\n\n" + "GOWER Alexander the Great.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the\n" + " great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the\n" + " magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase\n" + " is a little variations.\n\n" + "GOWER I think Alexander the Great was born in Macedon; his\n" + " father was called Philip of Macedon, as I take it.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I think it is in Macedon where Alexander is porn. I\n" + " tell you, captain, if you look in the maps of the\n" + " 'orld, I warrant you sall find, in the comparisons\n" + " between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations,\n" + " look you, is both alike. There is a river in\n" + " Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at\n" + " Monmouth: it is called Wye at Monmouth; but it is\n" + " out of my prains what is the name of the other\n" + " river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is\n" + " to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. If you\n" + " mark Alexander's life well, Harry of Monmouth's life\n" + " is come after it indifferent well; for there is\n" + " figures in all things. Alexander, God knows, and\n" + " you know, in his rages, and his furies, and his\n" + " wraths, and his cholers, and his moods, and his\n" + " displeasures, and his indignations, and also being a\n" + " little intoxicates in his prains, did, in his ales and\n" + " his angers, look you, kill his best friend, Cleitus.\n\n" + "GOWER Our king is not like him in that: he never killed\n" + " any of his friends.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN It is not well done, mark you now take the tales out\n" + " of my mouth, ere it is made and finished. I speak\n" + " but in the figures and comparisons of it: as\n" + " Alexander killed his friend Cleitus, being in his\n" + " ales and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, being in\n" + " his right wits and his good judgments, turned away\n" + " the fat knight with the great belly-doublet: he\n" + " was full of jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and\n" + " mocks; I have forgot his name.\n\n" + "GOWER Sir John Falstaff.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN That is he: I'll tell you there is good men porn at Monmouth.\n\n" + "GOWER Here comes his majesty.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter KING HENRY, and forces; WARWICK,\n" + " GLOUCESTER, EXETER, and others]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I was not angry since I came to France\n" + " Until this instant. Take a trumpet, herald;\n" + " Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill:\n" + " If they will fight with us, bid them come down,\n" + " Or void the field; they do offend our sight:\n" + " If they'll do neither, we will come to them,\n" + " And make them skirr away, as swift as stones\n" + " Enforced from the old Assyrian slings:\n" + " Besides, we'll cut the throats of those we have,\n" + " And not a man of them that we shall take\n" + " Shall taste our mercy. Go and tell them so.\n\n" + " [Enter MONTJOY]\n\n" + "EXETER Here comes the herald of the French, my liege.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER His eyes are humbler than they used to be.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V How now! what means this, herald? know'st thou not\n" + " That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom?\n" + " Comest thou again for ransom?\n\n" + "MONTJOY No, great king:\n" + " I come to thee for charitable licence,\n" + " That we may wander o'er this bloody field\n" + " To look our dead, and then to bury them;\n" + " To sort our nobles from our common men.\n" + " For many of our princes--woe the while!--\n" + " Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood;\n" + " So do our vulgar drench their peasant limbs\n" + " In blood of princes; and their wounded steeds\n" + " Fret fetlock deep in gore and with wild rage\n" + " Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters,\n" + " Killing them twice. O, give us leave, great king,\n" + " To view the field in safety and dispose\n" + " Of their dead bodies!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I tell thee truly, herald,\n" + " I know not if the day be ours or no;\n" + " For yet a many of your horsemen peer\n" + " And gallop o'er the field.\n\n" + "MONTJOY The day is yours.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Praised be God, and not our strength, for it!\n" + " What is this castle call'd that stands hard by?\n\n" + "MONTJOY They call it Agincourt.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Then call we this the field of Agincourt,\n" + " Fought on the day of Crispin Crispianus.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Your grandfather of famous memory, an't please your\n" + " majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack\n" + " Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles,\n" + " fought a most prave pattle here in France.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V They did, Fluellen.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is\n" + " remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a\n" + " garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their\n" + " Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this\n" + " hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do\n" + " believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek\n" + " upon Saint Tavy's day.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I wear it for a memorable honour;\n" + " For I am Welsh, you know, good countryman.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN All the water in Wye cannot wash your majesty's\n" + " Welsh plood out of your pody, I can tell you that:\n" + " God pless it and preserve it, as long as it pleases\n" + " his grace, and his majesty too!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Thanks, good my countryman.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN By Jeshu, I am your majesty's countryman, I care not\n" + " who know it; I will confess it to all the 'orld: I\n" + " need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be\n" + " God, so long as your majesty is an honest man.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V God keep me so! Our heralds go with him:\n" + " Bring me just notice of the numbers dead\n" + " On both our parts. Call yonder fellow hither.\n\n" + " [Points to WILLIAMS. Exeunt Heralds with Montjoy]\n\n" + "EXETER Soldier, you must come to the king.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Soldier, why wearest thou that glove in thy cap?\n\n" + "WILLIAMS An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one that\n" + " I should fight withal, if he be alive.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V An Englishman?\n\n" + "WILLIAMS An't please your majesty, a rascal that swaggered\n" + " with me last night; who, if alive and ever dare to\n" + " challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box\n" + " o' th' ear: or if I can see my glove in his cap,\n" + " which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear\n" + " if alive, I will strike it out soundly.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V What think you, Captain Fluellen? is it fit this\n" + " soldier keep his oath?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN He is a craven and a villain else, an't please your\n" + " majesty, in my conscience.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V It may be his enemy is a gentleman of great sort,\n" + " quite from the answer of his degree.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Though he be as good a gentleman as the devil is, as\n" + " Lucifer and Belzebub himself, it is necessary, look\n" + " your grace, that he keep his vow and his oath: if\n" + " he be perjured, see you now, his reputation is as\n" + " arrant a villain and a Jacksauce, as ever his black\n" + " shoe trod upon God's ground and his earth, in my\n" + " conscience, la!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Then keep thy vow, sirrah, when thou meetest the fellow.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS So I will, my liege, as I live.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Who servest thou under?\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Under Captain Gower, my liege.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Gower is a good captain, and is good knowledge and\n" + " literatured in the wars.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Call him hither to me, soldier.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS I will, my liege.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me and\n" + " stick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself were\n" + " down together, I plucked this glove from his helm:\n" + " if any man challenge this, he is a friend to\n" + " Alencon, and an enemy to our person; if thou\n" + " encounter any such, apprehend him, an thou dost me love.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Your grace doo's me as great honours as can be\n" + " desired in the hearts of his subjects: I would fain\n" + " see the man, that has but two legs, that shall find\n" + " himself aggrieved at this glove; that is all; but I\n" + " would fain see it once, an please God of his grace\n" + " that I might see.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Knowest thou Gower?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN He is my dear friend, an please you.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Pray thee, go seek him, and bring him to my tent.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I will fetch him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V My Lord of Warwick, and my brother Gloucester,\n" + " Follow Fluellen closely at the heels:\n" + " The glove which I have given him for a favour\n" + " May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear;\n" + " It is the soldier's; I by bargain should\n" + " Wear it myself. Follow, good cousin Warwick:\n" + " If that the soldier strike him, as I judge\n" + " By his blunt bearing he will keep his word,\n" + " Some sudden mischief may arise of it;\n" + " For I do know Fluellen valiant\n" + " And, touched with choler, hot as gunpowder,\n" + " And quickly will return an injury:\n" + " Follow and see there be no harm between them.\n" + " Go you with me, uncle of Exeter.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII Before KING HENRY'S pavilion.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER and WILLIAMS]\n\n" + "WILLIAMS I warrant it is to knight you, captain.\n\n" + " [Enter FLUELLEN]\n\n" + "FLUELLEN God's will and his pleasure, captain, I beseech you\n" + " now, come apace to the king: there is more good\n" + " toward you peradventure than is in your knowledge to dream of.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Sir, know you this glove?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Know the glove! I know the glove is glove.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS I know this; and thus I challenge it.\n\n" + " [Strikes him]\n\n" + "FLUELLEN 'Sblood! an arrant traitor as any is in the\n" + " universal world, or in France, or in England!\n\n" + "GOWER How now, sir! you villain!\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Do you think I'll be forsworn?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Stand away, Captain Gower; I will give treason his\n" + " payment into ploughs, I warrant you.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS I am no traitor.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN That's a lie in thy throat. I charge you in his\n" + " majesty's name, apprehend him: he's a friend of the\n" + " Duke Alencon's.\n\n" + " [Enter WARWICK and GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "WARWICK How now, how now! what's the matter?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN My Lord of Warwick, here is--praised be God for it!\n" + " --a most contagious treason come to light, look\n" + " you, as you shall desire in a summer's day. Here is\n" + " his majesty.\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY and EXETER]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V How now! what's the matter?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN My liege, here is a villain and a traitor, that,\n" + " look your grace, has struck the glove which your\n" + " majesty is take out of the helmet of Alencon.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS My liege, this was my glove; here is the fellow of\n" + " it; and he that I gave it to in change promised to\n" + " wear it in his cap: I promised to strike him, if he\n" + " did: I met this man with my glove in his cap, and I\n" + " have been as good as my word.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Your majesty hear now, saving your majesty's\n" + " manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy\n" + " knave it is: I hope your majesty is pear me\n" + " testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that\n" + " this is the glove of Alencon, that your majesty is\n" + " give me; in your conscience, now?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Give me thy glove, soldier: look, here is the\n" + " fellow of it.\n" + " 'Twas I, indeed, thou promised'st to strike;\n" + " And thou hast given me most bitter terms.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN An please your majesty, let his neck answer for it,\n" + " if there is any martial law in the world.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V How canst thou make me satisfaction?\n\n" + "WILLIAMS All offences, my lord, come from the heart: never\n" + " came any from mine that might offend your majesty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V It was ourself thou didst abuse.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS Your majesty came not like yourself: you appeared to\n" + " me but as a common man; witness the night, your\n" + " garments, your lowliness; and what your highness\n" + " suffered under that shape, I beseech you take it for\n" + " your own fault and not mine: for had you been as I\n" + " took you for, I made no offence; therefore, I\n" + " beseech your highness, pardon me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Here, uncle Exeter, fill this glove with crowns,\n" + " And give it to this fellow. Keep it, fellow;\n" + " And wear it for an honour in thy cap\n" + " Till I do challenge it. Give him the crowns:\n" + " And, captain, you must needs be friends with him.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle\n" + " enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence\n" + " for you; and I pray you to serve Got, and keep you\n" + " out of prawls, and prabbles' and quarrels, and\n" + " dissensions, and, I warrant you, it is the better for you.\n\n" + "WILLIAMS I will none of your money.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN It is with a good will; I can tell you, it will\n" + " serve you to mend your shoes: come, wherefore should\n" + " you be so pashful? your shoes is not so good: 'tis\n" + " a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.\n\n" + " [Enter an English Herald]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Now, herald, are the dead number'd?\n\n" + "Herald Here is the number of the slaughter'd French.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V What prisoners of good sort are taken, uncle?\n\n" + "EXETER Charles Duke of Orleans, nephew to the king;\n" + " John Duke of Bourbon, and Lord Bouciqualt:\n" + " Of other lords and barons, knights and squires,\n" + " Full fifteen hundred, besides common men.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V This note doth tell me of ten thousand French\n" + " That in the field lie slain: of princes, in this number,\n" + " And nobles bearing banners, there lie dead\n" + " One hundred twenty six: added to these,\n" + " Of knights, esquires, and gallant gentlemen,\n" + " Eight thousand and four hundred; of the which,\n" + " Five hundred were but yesterday dubb'd knights:\n" + " So that, in these ten thousand they have lost,\n" + " There are but sixteen hundred mercenaries;\n" + " The rest are princes, barons, lords, knights, squires,\n" + " And gentlemen of blood and quality.\n" + " The names of those their nobles that lie dead:\n" + " Charles Delabreth, high constable of France;\n" + " Jaques of Chatillon, admiral of France;\n" + " The master of the cross-bows, Lord Rambures;\n" + " Great Master of France, the brave Sir Guichard Dolphin,\n" + " John Duke of Alencon, Anthony Duke of Brabant,\n" + " The brother of the Duke of Burgundy,\n" + " And Edward Duke of Bar: of lusty earls,\n" + " Grandpre and Roussi, Fauconberg and Foix,\n" + " Beaumont and Marle, Vaudemont and Lestrale.\n" + " Here was a royal fellowship of death!\n" + " Where is the number of our English dead?\n\n" + " [Herald shews him another paper]\n\n" + " Edward the Duke of York, the Earl of Suffolk,\n" + " Sir Richard Ketly, Davy Gam, esquire:\n" + " None else of name; and of all other men\n" + " But five and twenty. O God, thy arm was here;\n" + " And not to us, but to thy arm alone,\n" + " Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem,\n" + " But in plain shock and even play of battle,\n" + " Was ever known so great and little loss\n" + " On one part and on the other? Take it, God,\n" + " For it is none but thine!\n\n" + "EXETER 'Tis wonderful!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Come, go we in procession to the village.\n" + " And be it death proclaimed through our host\n" + " To boast of this or take the praise from God\n" + " Which is his only.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Is it not lawful, an please your majesty, to tell\n" + " how many is killed?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Yes, captain; but with this acknowledgement,\n" + " That God fought for us.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Yes, my conscience, he did us great good.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Do we all holy rites;\n" + " Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'\n" + " The dead with charity enclosed in clay:\n" + " And then to Calais; and to England then:\n" + " Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n" + " PROLOGUE.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chorus]\n\n" + "Chorus Vouchsafe to those that have not read the story,\n" + " That I may prompt them: and of such as have,\n" + " I humbly pray them to admit the excuse\n" + " Of time, of numbers and due course of things,\n" + " Which cannot in their huge and proper life\n" + " Be here presented. Now we bear the king\n" + " Toward Calais: grant him there; there seen,\n" + " Heave him away upon your winged thoughts\n" + " Athwart the sea. Behold, the English beach\n" + " Pales in the flood with men, with wives and boys,\n" + " Whose shouts and claps out-voice the deep mouth'd sea,\n" + " Which like a mighty whiffler 'fore the king\n" + " Seems to prepare his way: so let him land,\n" + " And solemnly see him set on to London.\n" + " So swift a pace hath thought that even now\n" + " You may imagine him upon Blackheath;\n" + " Where that his lords desire him to have borne\n" + " His bruised helmet and his bended sword\n" + " Before him through the city: he forbids it,\n" + " Being free from vainness and self-glorious pride;\n" + " Giving full trophy, signal and ostent\n" + " Quite from himself to God. But now behold,\n" + " In the quick forge and working-house of thought,\n" + " How London doth pour out her citizens!\n" + " The mayor and all his brethren in best sort,\n" + " Like to the senators of the antique Rome,\n" + " With the plebeians swarming at their heels,\n" + " Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in:\n" + " As, by a lower but loving likelihood,\n" + " Were now the general of our gracious empress,\n" + " As in good time he may, from Ireland coming,\n" + " Bringing rebellion broached on his sword,\n" + " How many would the peaceful city quit,\n" + " To welcome him! much more, and much more cause,\n" + " Did they this Harry. Now in London place him;\n" + " As yet the lamentation of the French\n" + " Invites the King of England's stay at home;\n" + " The emperor's coming in behalf of France,\n" + " To order peace between them; and omit\n" + " All the occurrences, whatever chanced,\n" + " Till Harry's back-return again to France:\n" + " There must we bring him; and myself have play'd\n" + " The interim, by remembering you 'tis past.\n" + " Then brook abridgment, and your eyes advance,\n" + " After your thoughts, straight back again to France.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I France. The English camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FLUELLEN and GOWER]\n\n" + "GOWER Nay, that's right; but why wear you your leek today?\n" + " Saint Davy's day is past.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in\n" + " all things: I will tell you, asse my friend,\n" + " Captain Gower: the rascally, scald, beggarly,\n" + " lousy, pragging knave, Pistol, which you and\n" + " yourself and all the world know to be no petter\n" + " than a fellow, look you now, of no merits, he is\n" + " come to me and prings me pread and salt yesterday,\n" + " look you, and bid me eat my leek: it was in place\n" + " where I could not breed no contention with him; but\n" + " I will be so bold as to wear it in my cap till I see\n" + " him once again, and then I will tell him a little\n" + " piece of my desires.\n\n" + " [Enter PISTOL]\n\n" + "GOWER Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his\n" + " turkey-cocks. God pless you, Aunchient Pistol! you\n" + " scurvy, lousy knave, God pless you!\n\n" + "PISTOL Ha! art thou bedlam? dost thou thirst, base Trojan,\n" + " To have me fold up Parca's fatal web?\n" + " Hence! I am qualmish at the smell of leek.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my\n" + " desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat,\n" + " look you, this leek: because, look you, you do not\n" + " love it, nor your affections and your appetites and\n" + " your digestions doo's not agree with it, I would\n" + " desire you to eat it.\n\n" + "PISTOL Not for Cadwallader and all his goats.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN There is one goat for you.\n\n" + " [Strikes him]\n\n" + " Will you be so good, scauld knave, as eat it?\n\n" + "PISTOL Base Trojan, thou shalt die.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN You say very true, scauld knave, when God's will is:\n" + " I will desire you to live in the mean time, and eat\n" + " your victuals: come, there is sauce for it.\n\n" + " [Strikes him]\n\n" + " You called me yesterday mountain-squire; but I will\n" + " make you to-day a squire of low degree. I pray you,\n" + " fall to: if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.\n\n" + "GOWER Enough, captain: you have astonished him.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or\n" + " I will peat his pate four days. Bite, I pray you; it\n" + " is good for your green wound and your ploody coxcomb.\n\n" + "PISTOL Must I bite?\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Yes, certainly, and out of doubt and out of question\n" + " too, and ambiguities.\n\n" + "PISTOL By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat\n" + " and eat, I swear--\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Eat, I pray you: will you have some more sauce to\n" + " your leek? there is not enough leek to swear by.\n\n" + "PISTOL Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see I eat.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Much good do you, scauld knave, heartily. Nay, pray\n" + " you, throw none away; the skin is good for your\n" + " broken coxcomb. When you take occasions to see leeks\n" + " hereafter, I pray you, mock at 'em; that is all.\n\n" + "PISTOL Good.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Ay, leeks is good: hold you, there is a groat to\n" + " heal your pate.\n\n" + "PISTOL Me a groat!\n\n" + "FLUELLEN Yes, verily and in truth, you shall take it; or I\n" + " have another leek in my pocket, which you shall eat.\n\n" + "PISTOL I take thy groat in earnest of revenge.\n\n" + "FLUELLEN If I owe you any thing, I will pay you in cudgels:\n" + " you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing of me but\n" + " cudgels. God b' wi' you, and keep you, and heal your pate.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PISTOL All hell shall stir for this.\n\n" + "GOWER Go, go; you are a counterfeit cowardly knave. Will\n" + " you mock at an ancient tradition, begun upon an\n" + " honourable respect, and worn as a memorable trophy of\n" + " predeceased valour and dare not avouch in your deeds\n" + " any of your words? I have seen you gleeking and\n" + " galling at this gentleman twice or thrice. You\n" + " thought, because he could not speak English in the\n" + " native garb, he could not therefore handle an\n" + " English cudgel: you find it otherwise; and\n" + " henceforth let a Welsh correction teach you a good\n" + " English condition. Fare ye well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PISTOL Doth Fortune play the huswife with me now?\n" + " News have I, that my Nell is dead i' the spital\n" + " Of malady of France;\n" + " And there my rendezvous is quite cut off.\n" + " Old I do wax; and from my weary limbs\n" + " Honour is cudgelled. Well, bawd I'll turn,\n" + " And something lean to cutpurse of quick hand.\n" + " To England will I steal, and there I'll steal:\n" + " And patches will I get unto these cudgell'd scars,\n" + " And swear I got them in the Gallia wars.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II France. A royal palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, at one door KING HENRY, EXETER, BEDFORD,\n" + " GLOUCESTER, WARWICK, WESTMORELAND, and other Lords;\n" + " at another, the FRENCH KING, QUEEN ISABEL, the\n" + " PRINCESS KATHARINE, ALICE and other Ladies; the\n" + " DUKE of BURGUNDY, and his train]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Peace to this meeting, wherefore we are met!\n" + " Unto our brother France, and to our sister,\n" + " Health and fair time of day; joy and good wishes\n" + " To our most fair and princely cousin Katharine;\n" + " And, as a branch and member of this royalty,\n" + " By whom this great assembly is contrived,\n" + " We do salute you, Duke of Burgundy;\n" + " And, princes French, and peers, health to you all!\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Right joyous are we to behold your face,\n" + " Most worthy brother England; fairly met:\n" + " So are you, princes English, every one.\n\n" + "QUEEN ISABEL So happy be the issue, brother England,\n" + " Of this good day and of this gracious meeting,\n" + " As we are now glad to behold your eyes;\n" + " Your eyes, which hitherto have borne in them\n" + " Against the French, that met them in their bent,\n" + " The fatal balls of murdering basilisks:\n" + " The venom of such looks, we fairly hope,\n" + " Have lost their quality, and that this day\n" + " Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V To cry amen to that, thus we appear.\n\n" + "QUEEN ISABEL You English princes all, I do salute you.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY My duty to you both, on equal love,\n" + " Great Kings of France and England! That I have labour'd,\n" + " With all my wits, my pains and strong endeavours,\n" + " To bring your most imperial majesties\n" + " Unto this bar and royal interview,\n" + " Your mightiness on both parts best can witness.\n" + " Since then my office hath so far prevail'd\n" + " That, face to face and royal eye to eye,\n" + " You have congreeted, let it not disgrace me,\n" + " If I demand, before this royal view,\n" + " What rub or what impediment there is,\n" + " Why that the naked, poor and mangled Peace,\n" + " Dear nurse of arts and joyful births,\n" + " Should not in this best garden of the world\n" + " Our fertile France, put up her lovely visage?\n" + " Alas, she hath from France too long been chased,\n" + " And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps,\n" + " Corrupting in its own fertility.\n" + " Her vine, the merry cheerer of the heart,\n" + " Unpruned dies; her hedges even-pleach'd,\n" + " Like prisoners wildly overgrown with hair,\n" + " Put forth disorder'd twigs; her fallow leas\n" + " The darnel, hemlock and rank fumitory\n" + " Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts\n" + " That should deracinate such savagery;\n" + " The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth\n" + " The freckled cowslip, burnet and green clover,\n" + " Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank,\n" + " Conceives by idleness and nothing teems\n" + " But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,\n" + " Losing both beauty and utility.\n" + " And as our vineyards, fallows, meads and hedges,\n" + " Defective in their natures, grow to wildness,\n" + " Even so our houses and ourselves and children\n" + " Have lost, or do not learn for want of time,\n" + " The sciences that should become our country;\n" + " But grow like savages,--as soldiers will\n" + " That nothing do but meditate on blood,--\n" + " To swearing and stern looks, diffused attire\n" + " And every thing that seems unnatural.\n" + " Which to reduce into our former favour\n" + " You are assembled: and my speech entreats\n" + " That I may know the let, why gentle Peace\n" + " Should not expel these inconveniences\n" + " And bless us with her former qualities.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V If, Duke of Burgundy, you would the peace,\n" + " Whose want gives growth to the imperfections\n" + " Which you have cited, you must buy that peace\n" + " With full accord to all our just demands;\n" + " Whose tenors and particular effects\n" + " You have enscheduled briefly in your hands.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY The king hath heard them; to the which as yet\n" + " There is no answer made.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Well then the peace,\n" + " Which you before so urged, lies in his answer.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE I have but with a cursorary eye\n" + " O'erglanced the articles: pleaseth your grace\n" + " To appoint some of your council presently\n" + " To sit with us once more, with better heed\n" + " To re-survey them, we will suddenly\n" + " Pass our accept and peremptory answer.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Brother, we shall. Go, uncle Exeter,\n" + " And brother Clarence, and you, brother Gloucester,\n" + " Warwick and Huntingdon, go with the king;\n" + " And take with you free power to ratify,\n" + " Augment, or alter, as your wisdoms best\n" + " Shall see advantageable for our dignity,\n" + " Any thing in or out of our demands,\n" + " And we'll consign thereto. Will you, fair sister,\n" + " Go with the princes, or stay here with us?\n\n" + "QUEEN ISABEL Our gracious brother, I will go with them:\n" + " Haply a woman's voice may do some good,\n" + " When articles too nicely urged be stood on.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Yet leave our cousin Katharine here with us:\n" + " She is our capital demand, comprised\n" + " Within the fore-rank of our articles.\n\n" + "QUEEN ISABEL She hath good leave.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except HENRY, KATHARINE, and ALICE]\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Fair Katharine, and most fair,\n" + " Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms\n" + " Such as will enter at a lady's ear\n" + " And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Your majesty shall mock at me; I cannot speak your England.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V O fair Katharine, if you will love me soundly with\n" + " your French heart, I will be glad to hear you\n" + " confess it brokenly with your English tongue. Do\n" + " you like me, Kate?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Pardonnez-moi, I cannot tell vat is 'like me.'\n\n" + "KING HENRY V An angel is like you, Kate, and you are like an angel.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Que dit-il? que je suis semblable a les anges?\n\n" + "ALICE Oui, vraiment, sauf votre grace, ainsi dit-il.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I said so, dear Katharine; and I must not blush to\n" + " affirm it.\n\n" + "KATHARINE O bon Dieu! les langues des hommes sont pleines de\n" + " tromperies.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V What says she, fair one? that the tongues of men\n" + " are full of deceits?\n\n" + "ALICE Oui, dat de tongues of de mans is be full of\n" + " deceits: dat is de princess.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V The princess is the better Englishwoman. I' faith,\n" + " Kate, my wooing is fit for thy understanding: I am\n" + " glad thou canst speak no better English; for, if\n" + " thou couldst, thou wouldst find me such a plain king\n" + " that thou wouldst think I had sold my farm to buy my\n" + " crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but\n" + " directly to say 'I love you:' then if you urge me\n" + " farther than to say 'do you in faith?' I wear out\n" + " my suit. Give me your answer; i' faith, do: and so\n" + " clap hands and a bargain: how say you, lady?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Sauf votre honneur, me understand vell.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Marry, if you would put me to verses or to dance for\n" + " your sake, Kate, why you undid me: for the one, I\n" + " have neither words nor measure, and for the other, I\n" + " have no strength in measure, yet a reasonable\n" + " measure in strength. If I could win a lady at\n" + " leap-frog, or by vaulting into my saddle with my\n" + " armour on my back, under the correction of bragging\n" + " be it spoken. I should quickly leap into a wife.\n" + " Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse\n" + " for her favours, I could lay on like a butcher and\n" + " sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God,\n" + " Kate, I cannot look greenly nor gasp out my\n" + " eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation;\n" + " only downright oaths, which I never use till urged,\n" + " nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a\n" + " fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not worth\n" + " sun-burning, that never looks in his glass for love\n" + " of any thing he sees there, let thine eye be thy\n" + " cook. I speak to thee plain soldier: If thou canst\n" + " love me for this, take me: if not, to say to thee\n" + " that I shall die, is true; but for thy love, by the\n" + " Lord, no; yet I love thee too. And while thou\n" + " livest, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and\n" + " uncoined constancy; for he perforce must do thee\n" + " right, because he hath not the gift to woo in other\n" + " places: for these fellows of infinite tongue, that\n" + " can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do\n" + " always reason themselves out again. What! a\n" + " speaker is but a prater; a rhyme is but a ballad. A\n" + " good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a\n" + " black beard will turn white; a curled pate will grow\n" + " bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax\n" + " hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the\n" + " moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it\n" + " shines bright and never changes, but keeps his\n" + " course truly. If thou would have such a one, take\n" + " me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier,\n" + " take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love?\n" + " speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Is it possible dat I sould love de enemy of France?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of\n" + " France, Kate: but, in loving me, you should love\n" + " the friend of France; for I love France so well that\n" + " I will not part with a village of it; I will have it\n" + " all mine: and, Kate, when France is mine and I am\n" + " yours, then yours is France and you are mine.\n\n" + "KATHARINE I cannot tell vat is dat.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No, Kate? I will tell thee in French; which I am\n" + " sure will hang upon my tongue like a new-married\n" + " wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook\n" + " off. Je quand sur le possession de France, et quand\n" + " vous avez le possession de moi,--let me see, what\n" + " then? Saint Denis be my speed!--donc votre est\n" + " France et vous etes mienne. It is as easy for me,\n" + " Kate, to conquer the kingdom as to speak so much\n" + " more French: I shall never move thee in French,\n" + " unless it be to laugh at me.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Sauf votre honneur, le Francois que vous parlez, il\n" + " est meilleur que l'Anglois lequel je parle.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No, faith, is't not, Kate: but thy speaking of my\n" + " tongue, and I thine, most truly-falsely, must needs\n" + " be granted to be much at one. But, Kate, dost thou\n" + " understand thus much English, canst thou love me?\n\n" + "KATHARINE I cannot tell.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask\n" + " them. Come, I know thou lovest me: and at night,\n" + " when you come into your closet, you'll question this\n" + " gentlewoman about me; and I know, Kate, you will to\n" + " her dispraise those parts in me that you love with\n" + " your heart: but, good Kate, mock me mercifully; the\n" + " rather, gentle princess, because I love thee\n" + " cruelly. If ever thou beest mine, Kate, as I have a\n" + " saving faith within me tells me thou shalt, I get\n" + " thee with scambling, and thou must therefore needs\n" + " prove a good soldier-breeder: shall not thou and I,\n" + " between Saint Denis and Saint George, compound a\n" + " boy, half French, half English, that shall go to\n" + " Constantinople and take the Turk by the beard?\n" + " shall we not? what sayest thou, my fair\n" + " flower-de-luce?\n\n" + "KATHARINE I do not know dat\n\n" + "KING HENRY V No; 'tis hereafter to know, but now to promise: do\n" + " but now promise, Kate, you will endeavour for your\n" + " French part of such a boy; and for my English moiety\n" + " take the word of a king and a bachelor. How answer\n" + " you, la plus belle Katharine du monde, mon tres cher\n" + " et devin deesse?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Your majestee ave fausse French enough to deceive de\n" + " most sage demoiselle dat is en France.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Now, fie upon my false French! By mine honour, in\n" + " true English, I love thee, Kate: by which honour I\n" + " dare not swear thou lovest me; yet my blood begins to\n" + " flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the poor\n" + " and untempering effect of my visage. Now, beshrew\n" + " my father's ambition! he was thinking of civil wars\n" + " when he got me: therefore was I created with a\n" + " stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that, when\n" + " I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith,\n" + " Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear:\n" + " my comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of\n" + " beauty, can do no more, spoil upon my face: thou\n" + " hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou\n" + " shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better:\n" + " and therefore tell me, most fair Katharine, will you\n" + " have me? Put off your maiden blushes; avouch the\n" + " thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress;\n" + " take me by the hand, and say 'Harry of England I am\n" + " thine:' which word thou shalt no sooner bless mine\n" + " ear withal, but I will tell thee aloud 'England is\n" + " thine, Ireland is thine, France is thine, and Harry\n" + " Plantagenet is thine;' who though I speak it before\n" + " his face, if he be not fellow with the best king,\n" + " thou shalt find the best king of good fellows.\n" + " Come, your answer in broken music; for thy voice is\n" + " music and thy English broken; therefore, queen of\n" + " all, Katharine, break thy mind to me in broken\n" + " English; wilt thou have me?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Dat is as it sall please de roi mon pere.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Nay, it will please him well, Kate it shall please\n" + " him, Kate.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Den it sall also content me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Upon that I kiss your hand, and I call you my queen.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Laissez, mon seigneur, laissez, laissez: ma foi, je\n" + " ne veux point que vous abaissiez votre grandeur en\n" + " baisant la main d'une de votre seigeurie indigne\n" + " serviteur; excusez-moi, je vous supplie, mon\n" + " tres-puissant seigneur.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Then I will kiss your lips, Kate.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Les dames et demoiselles pour etre baisees devant\n" + " leur noces, il n'est pas la coutume de France.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Madam my interpreter, what says she?\n\n" + "ALICE Dat it is not be de fashion pour les ladies of\n" + " France,--I cannot tell vat is baiser en Anglish.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V To kiss.\n\n" + "ALICE Your majesty entendre bettre que moi.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V It is not a fashion for the maids in France to kiss\n" + " before they are married, would she say?\n\n" + "ALICE Oui, vraiment.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. Dear\n" + " Kate, you and I cannot be confined within the weak\n" + " list of a country's fashion: we are the makers of\n" + " manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our\n" + " places stops the mouth of all find-faults; as I will\n" + " do yours, for upholding the nice fashion of your\n" + " country in denying me a kiss: therefore, patiently\n" + " and yielding.\n\n" + " [Kissing her]\n\n" + " You have witchcraft in your lips, Kate: there is\n" + " more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the\n" + " tongues of the French council; and they should\n" + " sooner persuade Harry of England than a general\n" + " petition of monarchs. Here comes your father.\n\n" + " [Re-enter the FRENCH KING and his QUEEN, BURGUNDY,\n" + " and other Lords]\n\n" + "BURGUNDY God save your majesty! my royal cousin, teach you\n" + " our princess English?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I would have her learn, my fair cousin, how\n" + " perfectly I love her; and that is good English.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Is she not apt?\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Our tongue is rough, coz, and my condition is not\n" + " smooth; so that, having neither the voice nor the\n" + " heart of flattery about me, I cannot so conjure up\n" + " the spirit of love in her, that he will appear in\n" + " his true likeness.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Pardon the frankness of my mirth, if I answer you\n" + " for that. If you would conjure in her, you must\n" + " make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true\n" + " likeness, he must appear naked and blind. Can you\n" + " blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the\n" + " virgin crimson of modesty, if she deny the\n" + " appearance of a naked blind boy in her naked seeing\n" + " self? It were, my lord, a hard condition for a maid\n" + " to consign to.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind and enforces.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY They are then excused, my lord, when they see not\n" + " what they do.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Then, good my lord, teach your cousin to consent winking.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY I will wink on her to consent, my lord, if you will\n" + " teach her to know my meaning: for maids, well\n" + " summered and warm kept, are like flies at\n" + " Bartholomew-tide, blind, though they have their\n" + " eyes; and then they will endure handling, which\n" + " before would not abide looking on.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V This moral ties me over to time and a hot summer;\n" + " and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the\n" + " latter end and she must be blind too.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY As love is, my lord, before it loves.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V It is so: and you may, some of you, thank love for\n" + " my blindness, who cannot see many a fair French city\n" + " for one fair French maid that stands in my way.\n\n" + "FRENCH KING Yes, my lord, you see them perspectively, the cities\n" + " turned into a maid; for they are all girdled with\n" + " maiden walls that war hath never entered.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Shall Kate be my wife?\n\n" + "FRENCH KING So please you.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I am content; so the maiden cities you talk of may\n" + " wait on her: so the maid that stood in the way for\n" + " my wish shall show me the way to my will.\n\n" + "FRENCH KING We have consented to all terms of reason.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Is't so, my lords of England?\n\n" + "WESTMORELAND The king hath granted every article:\n" + " His daughter first, and then in sequel all,\n" + " According to their firm proposed natures.\n\n" + "EXETER Only he hath not yet subscribed this:\n" + " Where your majesty demands, that the King of France,\n" + " having any occasion to write for matter of grant,\n" + " shall name your highness in this form and with this\n" + " addition in French, Notre trescher fils Henri, Roi\n" + " d'Angleterre, Heritier de France; and thus in\n" + " Latin, Praeclarissimus filius noster Henricus, Rex\n" + " Angliae, et Haeres Franciae.\n\n" + "FRENCH KING Nor this I have not, brother, so denied,\n" + " But your request shall make me let it pass.\n\n" + "KING HENRY V I pray you then, in love and dear alliance,\n" + " Let that one article rank with the rest;\n" + " And thereupon give me your daughter.\n\n" + "FRENCH KING Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up\n" + " Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms\n" + " Of France and England, whose very shores look pale\n" + " With envy of each other's happiness,\n" + " May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction\n" + " Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord\n" + " In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance\n" + " His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.\n\n" + "ALL Amen!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Now, welcome, Kate: and bear me witness all,\n" + " That here I kiss her as my sovereign queen.\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n" + "QUEEN ISABEL God, the best maker of all marriages,\n" + " Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one!\n" + " As man and wife, being two, are one in love,\n" + " So be there 'twixt your kingdoms such a spousal,\n" + " That never may ill office, or fell jealousy,\n" + " Which troubles oft the bed of blessed marriage,\n" + " Thrust in between the paction of these kingdoms,\n" + " To make divorce of their incorporate league;\n" + " That English may as French, French Englishmen,\n" + " Receive each other. God speak this Amen!\n\n" + "ALL Amen!\n\n" + "KING HENRY V Prepare we for our marriage--on which day,\n" + " My Lord of Burgundy, we'll take your oath,\n" + " And all the peers', for surety of our leagues.\n" + " Then shall I swear to Kate, and you to me;\n" + " And may our oaths well kept and prosperous be!\n\n" + " [Sennet. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY V\n\n" + " EPILOGUE\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chorus]\n\n" + "Chorus Thus far, with rough and all-unable pen,\n" + " Our bending author hath pursued the story,\n" + " In little room confining mighty men,\n" + " Mangling by starts the full course of their glory.\n" + " Small time, but in that small most greatly lived\n" + " This star of England: Fortune made his sword;\n" + " By which the world's best garden be achieved,\n" + " And of it left his son imperial lord.\n" + " Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King\n" + " Of France and England, did this king succeed;\n" + " Whose state so many had the managing,\n" + " That they lost France and made his England bleed:\n" + " Which oft our stage hath shown; and, for their sake,\n" + " In your fair minds let this acceptance take.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING HENRY\n" + "the Eighth (KING HENRY VIII:)\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY:\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS:\n\n" + "CAPUCIUS Ambassador from the Emperor Charles V\n\n" + "CRANMER Archbishop of Canterbury.\n\n" + "DUKE OF NORFOLK (NORFOLK:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (BUCKINGHAM:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF SUFFOLK (SUFFOLK:)\n\n" + "EARL OF SURREY (SURREY:)\n\n" + "Lord Chamberlain (Chamberlain:)\n\n" + "Lord Chancellor (Chancellor:)\n\n" + "GARDINER Bishop of Winchester.\n\n" + " Bishop of Lincoln. (LINCOLN:)\n\n" + "LORD ABERGAVENNY (ABERGAVENNY:)\n\n" + "LORD SANDS (SANDS:)\n\n" + "SIR HENRY\n" + "GUILDFORD (GUILDFORD:)\n\n" + "SIR THOMAS LOVELL (LOVELL:)\n\n" + "SIR ANTHONY DENNY (DENNY:)\n\n" + "SIR NICHOLAS VAUX (VAUX:)\n\n" + " Secretaries to Wolsey.\n" + " (First Secretary:)\n" + " (Second Secretary:)\n\n" + "CROMWELL Servant to Wolsey.\n\n" + "GRIFFITH Gentleman-usher to Queen Katharine.\n\n" + " Three Gentlemen.\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n" + " (Third Gentleman:)\n\n" + "DOCTOR BUTTS Physician to the King.\n\n" + " Garter King-at-Arms. (Garter:)\n\n" + " Surveyor to the Duke of Buckingham. (Surveyor:)\n\n" + "BRANDON:\n\n" + " A Sergeant-at-Arms. (Sergeant:)\n\n" + " Door-keeper of the Council-chamber. Porter, (Porter:)\n" + " and his Man. (Man:)\n\n" + " Page to Gardiner. (Boy:)\n" + " A Crier. (Crier:)\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE (QUEEN KATHARINE:) Wife to King Henry, afterwards\n" + " divorced. (KATHARINE:)\n\n" + "ANNE BULLEN (ANNE:) her Maid of Honour, afterwards Queen. (QUEEN ANNE:)\n\n" + " An old Lady, friend to Anne Bullen. (Old Lady:)\n\n" + "PATIENCE woman to Queen Katharine.\n\n" + " Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women\n" + " attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards,\n" + " and other Attendants.\n" + " Spirits.\n\n" + " (Scribe:)\n" + " (Keeper:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE London; Westminster; Kimbolton\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + " THE PROLOGUE\n\n\n" + " I come no more to make you laugh: things now,\n" + " That bear a weighty and a serious brow,\n" + " Sad, high, and working, full of state and woe,\n" + " Such noble scenes as draw the eye to flow,\n" + " We now present. Those that can pity, here\n" + " May, if they think it well, let fall a tear;\n" + " The subject will deserve it. Such as give\n" + " Their money out of hope they may believe,\n" + " May here find truth too. Those that come to see\n" + " Only a show or two, and so agree\n" + " The play may pass, if they be still and willing,\n" + " I'll undertake may see away their shilling\n" + " Richly in two short hours. Only they\n" + " That come to hear a merry bawdy play,\n" + " A noise of targets, or to see a fellow\n" + " In a long motley coat guarded with yellow,\n" + " Will be deceived; for, gentle hearers, know,\n" + " To rank our chosen truth with such a show\n" + " As fool and fight is, beside forfeiting\n" + " Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring,\n" + " To make that only true we now intend,\n" + " Will leave us never an understanding friend.\n" + " Therefore, for goodness' sake, and as you are known\n" + " The first and happiest hearers of the town,\n" + " Be sad, as we would make ye: think ye see\n" + " The very persons of our noble story\n" + " As they were living; think you see them great,\n" + " And follow'd with the general throng and sweat\n" + " Of thousand friends; then in a moment, see\n" + " How soon this mightiness meets misery:\n" + " And, if you can be merry then, I'll say\n" + " A man may weep upon his wedding-day.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. An ante-chamber in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter NORFOLK at one door; at the other, BUCKINGHAM\n" + " and ABERGAVENNY]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Good morrow, and well met. How have ye done\n" + " Since last we saw in France?\n\n" + "NORFOLK I thank your grace,\n" + " Healthful; and ever since a fresh admirer\n" + " Of what I saw there.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM An untimely ague\n" + " Stay'd me a prisoner in my chamber when\n" + " Those suns of glory, those two lights of men,\n" + " Met in the vale of Andren.\n\n" + "NORFOLK 'Twixt Guynes and Arde:\n" + " I was then present, saw them salute on horseback;\n" + " Beheld them, when they lighted, how they clung\n" + " In their embracement, as they grew together;\n" + " Which had they, what four throned ones could have weigh'd\n" + " Such a compounded one?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM All the whole time\n" + " I was my chamber's prisoner.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Then you lost\n" + " The view of earthly glory: men might say,\n" + " Till this time pomp was single, but now married\n" + " To one above itself. Each following day\n" + " Became the next day's master, till the last\n" + " Made former wonders its. To-day the French,\n" + " All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods,\n" + " Shone down the English; and, to-morrow, they\n" + " Made Britain India: every man that stood\n" + " Show'd like a mine. Their dwarfish pages were\n" + " As cherubins, all guilt: the madams too,\n" + " Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear\n" + " The pride upon them, that their very labour\n" + " Was to them as a painting: now this masque\n" + " Was cried incomparable; and the ensuing night\n" + " Made it a fool and beggar. The two kings,\n" + " Equal in lustre, were now best, now worst,\n" + " As presence did present them; him in eye,\n" + " Still him in praise: and, being present both\n" + " 'Twas said they saw but one; and no discerner\n" + " Durst wag his tongue in censure. When these suns--\n" + " For so they phrase 'em--by their heralds challenged\n" + " The noble spirits to arms, they did perform\n" + " Beyond thought's compass; that former fabulous story,\n" + " Being now seen possible enough, got credit,\n" + " That Bevis was believed.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM O, you go far.\n\n" + "NORFOLK As I belong to worship and affect\n" + " In honour honesty, the tract of every thing\n" + " Would by a good discourser lose some life,\n" + " Which action's self was tongue to. All was royal;\n" + " To the disposing of it nought rebell'd.\n" + " Order gave each thing view; the office did\n" + " Distinctly his full function.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Who did guide,\n" + " I mean, who set the body and the limbs\n" + " Of this great sport together, as you guess?\n\n" + "NORFOLK One, certes, that promises no element\n" + " In such a business.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I pray you, who, my lord?\n\n" + "NORFOLK All this was order'd by the good discretion\n" + " Of the right reverend Cardinal of York.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM The devil speed him! no man's pie is freed\n" + " From his ambitious finger. What had he\n" + " To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder\n" + " That such a keech can with his very bulk\n" + " Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun\n" + " And keep it from the earth.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Surely, sir,\n" + " There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;\n" + " For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose grace\n" + " Chalks successors their way, nor call'd upon\n" + " For high feats done to the crown; neither allied\n" + " For eminent assistants; but, spider-like,\n" + " Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us note,\n" + " The force of his own merit makes his way\n" + " A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys\n" + " A place next to the king.\n\n" + "ABERGAVENNY I cannot tell\n" + " What heaven hath given him,--let some graver eye\n" + " Pierce into that; but I can see his pride\n" + " Peep through each part of him: whence has he that,\n" + " If not from hell? the devil is a niggard,\n" + " Or has given all before, and he begins\n" + " A new hell in himself.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Why the devil,\n" + " Upon this French going out, took he upon him,\n" + " Without the privity o' the king, to appoint\n" + " Who should attend on him? He makes up the file\n" + " Of all the gentry; for the most part such\n" + " To whom as great a charge as little honour\n" + " He meant to lay upon: and his own letter,\n" + " The honourable board of council out,\n" + " Must fetch him in the papers.\n\n" + "ABERGAVENNY I do know\n" + " Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have\n" + " By this so sickened their estates, that never\n" + " They shall abound as formerly.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM O, many\n" + " Have broke their backs with laying manors on 'em\n" + " For this great journey. What did this vanity\n" + " But minister communication of\n" + " A most poor issue?\n\n" + "NORFOLK Grievingly I think,\n" + " The peace between the French and us not values\n" + " The cost that did conclude it.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Every man,\n" + " After the hideous storm that follow'd, was\n" + " A thing inspired; and, not consulting, broke\n" + " Into a general prophecy; That this tempest,\n" + " Dashing the garment of this peace, aboded\n" + " The sudden breach on't.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Which is budded out;\n" + " For France hath flaw'd the league, and hath attach'd\n" + " Our merchants' goods at Bourdeaux.\n\n" + "ABERGAVENNY Is it therefore\n" + " The ambassador is silenced?\n\n" + "NORFOLK Marry, is't.\n\n" + "ABERGAVENNY A proper title of a peace; and purchased\n" + " At a superfluous rate!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Why, all this business\n" + " Our reverend cardinal carried.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Like it your grace,\n" + " The state takes notice of the private difference\n" + " Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you--\n" + " And take it from a heart that wishes towards you\n" + " Honour and plenteous safety--that you read\n" + " The cardinal's malice and his potency\n" + " Together; to consider further that\n" + " What his high hatred would effect wants not\n" + " A minister in his power. You know his nature,\n" + " That he's revengeful, and I know his sword\n" + " Hath a sharp edge: it's long and, 't may be said,\n" + " It reaches far, and where 'twill not extend,\n" + " Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel,\n" + " You'll find it wholesome. Lo, where comes that rock\n" + " That I advise your shunning.\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, the purse borne before him,\n" + " certain of the Guard, and two Secretaries with\n" + " papers. CARDINAL WOLSEY in his passage fixeth his\n" + " eye on BUCKINGHAM, and BUCKINGHAM on him, both full\n" + " of disdain]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY The Duke of Buckingham's surveyor, ha?\n" + " Where's his examination?\n\n" + "First Secretary Here, so please you.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Is he in person ready?\n\n" + "First Secretary Ay, please your grace.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Well, we shall then know more; and Buckingham\n" + " Shall lessen this big look.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CARDINAL WOLSEY and his Train]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM This butcher's cur is venom-mouth'd, and I\n" + " Have not the power to muzzle him; therefore best\n" + " Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book\n" + " Outworths a noble's blood.\n\n" + "NORFOLK What, are you chafed?\n" + " Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only\n" + " Which your disease requires.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I read in's looks\n" + " Matter against me; and his eye reviled\n" + " Me, as his abject object: at this instant\n" + " He bores me with some trick: he's gone to the king;\n" + " I'll follow and outstare him.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Stay, my lord,\n" + " And let your reason with your choler question\n" + " What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills\n" + " Requires slow pace at first: anger is like\n" + " A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way,\n" + " Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England\n" + " Can advise me like you: be to yourself\n" + " As you would to your friend.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I'll to the king;\n" + " And from a mouth of honour quite cry down\n" + " This Ipswich fellow's insolence; or proclaim\n" + " There's difference in no persons.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Be advised;\n" + " Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot\n" + " That it do singe yourself: we may outrun,\n" + " By violent swiftness, that which we run at,\n" + " And lose by over-running. Know you not,\n" + " The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er,\n" + " In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised:\n" + " I say again, there is no English soul\n" + " More stronger to direct you than yourself,\n" + " If with the sap of reason you would quench,\n" + " Or but allay, the fire of passion.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Sir,\n" + " I am thankful to you; and I'll go along\n" + " By your prescription: but this top-proud fellow,\n" + " Whom from the flow of gall I name not but\n" + " From sincere motions, by intelligence,\n" + " And proofs as clear as founts in July when\n" + " We see each grain of gravel, I do know\n" + " To be corrupt and treasonous.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Say not 'treasonous.'\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM To the king I'll say't; and make my vouch as strong\n" + " As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox,\n" + " Or wolf, or both,--for he is equal ravenous\n" + " As he is subtle, and as prone to mischief\n" + " As able to perform't; his mind and place\n" + " Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally--\n" + " Only to show his pomp as well in France\n" + " As here at home, suggests the king our master\n" + " To this last costly treaty, the interview,\n" + " That swallow'd so much treasure, and like a glass\n" + " Did break i' the rinsing.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Faith, and so it did.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Pray, give me favour, sir. This cunning cardinal\n" + " The articles o' the combination drew\n" + " As himself pleased; and they were ratified\n" + " As he cried 'Thus let be': to as much end\n" + " As give a crutch to the dead: but our count-cardinal\n" + " Has done this, and 'tis well; for worthy Wolsey,\n" + " Who cannot err, he did it. Now this follows,--\n" + " Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy\n" + " To the old dam, treason,--Charles the emperor,\n" + " Under pretence to see the queen his aunt--\n" + " For 'twas indeed his colour, but he came\n" + " To whisper Wolsey,--here makes visitation:\n" + " His fears were, that the interview betwixt\n" + " England and France might, through their amity,\n" + " Breed him some prejudice; for from this league\n" + " Peep'd harms that menaced him: he privily\n" + " Deals with our cardinal; and, as I trow,--\n" + " Which I do well; for I am sure the emperor\n" + " Paid ere he promised; whereby his suit was granted\n" + " Ere it was ask'd; but when the way was made,\n" + " And paved with gold, the emperor thus desired,\n" + " That he would please to alter the king's course,\n" + " And break the foresaid peace. Let the king know,\n" + " As soon he shall by me, that thus the cardinal\n" + " Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases,\n" + " And for his own advantage.\n\n" + "NORFOLK I am sorry\n" + " To hear this of him; and could wish he were\n" + " Something mistaken in't.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM No, not a syllable:\n" + " I do pronounce him in that very shape\n" + " He shall appear in proof.\n\n" + " [Enter BRANDON, a Sergeant-at-arms before him, and\n" + " two or three of the Guard]\n\n" + "BRANDON Your office, sergeant; execute it.\n\n" + "Sergeant Sir,\n" + " My lord the Duke of Buckingham, and Earl\n" + " Of Hereford, Stafford, and Northampton, I\n" + " Arrest thee of high treason, in the name\n" + " Of our most sovereign king.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Lo, you, my lord,\n" + " The net has fall'n upon me! I shall perish\n" + " Under device and practise.\n\n" + "BRANDON I am sorry\n" + " To see you ta'en from liberty, to look on\n" + " The business present: 'tis his highness' pleasure\n" + " You shall to the Tower.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM It will help me nothing\n" + " To plead mine innocence; for that dye is on me\n" + " Which makes my whitest part black. The will of heaven\n" + " Be done in this and all things! I obey.\n" + " O my Lord Abergavenny, fare you well!\n\n" + "BRANDON Nay, he must bear you company. The king\n\n" + " [To ABERGAVENNY]\n\n" + " Is pleased you shall to the Tower, till you know\n" + " How he determines further.\n\n" + "ABERGAVENNY As the duke said,\n" + " The will of heaven be done, and the king's pleasure\n" + " By me obey'd!\n\n" + "BRANDON Here is a warrant from\n" + " The king to attach Lord Montacute; and the bodies\n" + " Of the duke's confessor, John de la Car,\n" + " One Gilbert Peck, his chancellor--\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM So, so;\n" + " These are the limbs o' the plot: no more, I hope.\n\n" + "BRANDON A monk o' the Chartreux.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM O, Nicholas Hopkins?\n\n" + "BRANDON He.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My surveyor is false; the o'er-great cardinal\n" + " Hath show'd him gold; my life is spann'd already:\n" + " I am the shadow of poor Buckingham,\n" + " Whose figure even this instant cloud puts on,\n" + " By darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. The council-chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Cornets. Enter KING HENRY VIII, leaning on\n" + " CARDINAL WOLSEY's shoulder, the Nobles, and LOVELL;\n" + " CARDINAL WOLSEY places himself under KING HENRY\n" + " VIII's feet on his right side]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII My life itself, and the best heart of it,\n" + " Thanks you for this great care: I stood i' the level\n" + " Of a full-charged confederacy, and give thanks\n" + " To you that choked it. Let be call'd before us\n" + " That gentleman of Buckingham's; in person\n" + " I'll hear him his confessions justify;\n" + " And point by point the treasons of his master\n" + " He shall again relate.\n\n" + " [A noise within, crying 'Room for the Queen!' Enter\n" + " QUEEN KATHARINE, ushered by NORFOLK, and SUFFOLK:\n" + " she kneels. KING HENRY VIII riseth from his state,\n" + " takes her up, kisses and placeth her by him]\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Nay, we must longer kneel: I am a suitor.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Arise, and take place by us: half your suit\n" + " Never name to us; you have half our power:\n" + " The other moiety, ere you ask, is given;\n" + " Repeat your will and take it.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Thank your majesty.\n" + " That you would love yourself, and in that love\n" + " Not unconsider'd leave your honour, nor\n" + " The dignity of your office, is the point\n" + " Of my petition.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Lady mine, proceed.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE I am solicited, not by a few,\n" + " And those of true condition, that your subjects\n" + " Are in great grievance: there have been commissions\n" + " Sent down among 'em, which hath flaw'd the heart\n" + " Of all their loyalties: wherein, although,\n" + " My good lord cardinal, they vent reproaches\n" + " Most bitterly on you, as putter on\n" + " Of these exactions, yet the king our master--\n" + " Whose honour heaven shield from soil!--even he\n" + " escapes not\n" + " Language unmannerly, yea, such which breaks\n" + " The sides of loyalty, and almost appears\n" + " In loud rebellion.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Not almost appears,\n" + " It doth appear; for, upon these taxations,\n" + " The clothiers all, not able to maintain\n" + " The many to them longing, have put off\n" + " The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who,\n" + " Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger\n" + " And lack of other means, in desperate manner\n" + " Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar,\n" + " And danger serves among then!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Taxation!\n" + " Wherein? and what taxation? My lord cardinal,\n" + " You that are blamed for it alike with us,\n" + " Know you of this taxation?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Please you, sir,\n" + " I know but of a single part, in aught\n" + " Pertains to the state; and front but in that file\n" + " Where others tell steps with me.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE No, my lord,\n" + " You know no more than others; but you frame\n" + " Things that are known alike; which are not wholesome\n" + " To those which would not know them, and yet must\n" + " Perforce be their acquaintance. These exactions,\n" + " Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are\n" + " Most pestilent to the bearing; and, to bear 'em,\n" + " The back is sacrifice to the load. They say\n" + " They are devised by you; or else you suffer\n" + " Too hard an exclamation.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Still exaction!\n" + " The nature of it? in what kind, let's know,\n" + " Is this exaction?\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE I am much too venturous\n" + " In tempting of your patience; but am bolden'd\n" + " Under your promised pardon. The subjects' grief\n" + " Comes through commissions, which compel from each\n" + " The sixth part of his substance, to be levied\n" + " Without delay; and the pretence for this\n" + " Is named, your wars in France: this makes bold mouths:\n" + " Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze\n" + " Allegiance in them; their curses now\n" + " Live where their prayers did: and it's come to pass,\n" + " This tractable obedience is a slave\n" + " To each incensed will. I would your highness\n" + " Would give it quick consideration, for\n" + " There is no primer business.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII By my life,\n" + " This is against our pleasure.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY And for me,\n" + " I have no further gone in this than by\n" + " A single voice; and that not pass'd me but\n" + " By learned approbation of the judges. If I am\n" + " Traduced by ignorant tongues, which neither know\n" + " My faculties nor person, yet will be\n" + " The chronicles of my doing, let me say\n" + " 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake\n" + " That virtue must go through. We must not stint\n" + " Our necessary actions, in the fear\n" + " To cope malicious censurers; which ever,\n" + " As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow\n" + " That is new-trimm'd, but benefit no further\n" + " Than vainly longing. What we oft do best,\n" + " By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is\n" + " Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,\n" + " Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up\n" + " For our best act. If we shall stand still,\n" + " In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd at,\n" + " We should take root here where we sit, or sit\n" + " State-statues only.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Things done well,\n" + " And with a care, exempt themselves from fear;\n" + " Things done without example, in their issue\n" + " Are to be fear'd. Have you a precedent\n" + " Of this commission? I believe, not any.\n" + " We must not rend our subjects from our laws,\n" + " And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each?\n" + " A trembling contribution! Why, we take\n" + " From every tree lop, bark, and part o' the timber;\n" + " And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack'd,\n" + " The air will drink the sap. To every county\n" + " Where this is question'd send our letters, with\n" + " Free pardon to each man that has denied\n" + " The force of this commission: pray, look to't;\n" + " I put it to your care.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY A word with you.\n\n" + " [To the Secretary]\n\n" + " Let there be letters writ to every shire,\n" + " Of the king's grace and pardon. The grieved commons\n" + " Hardly conceive of me; let it be noised\n" + " That through our intercession this revokement\n" + " And pardon comes: I shall anon advise you\n" + " Further in the proceeding.\n\n" + " [Exit Secretary]\n\n" + " [Enter Surveyor]\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE I am sorry that the Duke of Buckingham\n" + " Is run in your displeasure.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII It grieves many:\n" + " The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare speaker;\n" + " To nature none more bound; his training such,\n" + " That he may furnish and instruct great teachers,\n" + " And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see,\n" + " When these so noble benefits shall prove\n" + " Not well disposed, the mind growing once corrupt,\n" + " They turn to vicious forms, ten times more ugly\n" + " Than ever they were fair. This man so complete,\n" + " Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and when we,\n" + " Almost with ravish'd listening, could not find\n" + " His hour of speech a minute; he, my lady,\n" + " Hath into monstrous habits put the graces\n" + " That once were his, and is become as black\n" + " As if besmear'd in hell. Sit by us; you shall hear--\n" + " This was his gentleman in trust--of him\n" + " Things to strike honour sad. Bid him recount\n" + " The fore-recited practises; whereof\n" + " We cannot feel too little, hear too much.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate what you,\n" + " Most like a careful subject, have collected\n" + " Out of the Duke of Buckingham.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Speak freely.\n\n" + "Surveyor First, it was usual with him, every day\n" + " It would infect his speech, that if the king\n" + " Should without issue die, he'll carry it so\n" + " To make the sceptre his: these very words\n" + " I've heard him utter to his son-in-law,\n" + " Lord Abergavenny; to whom by oath he menaced\n" + " Revenge upon the cardinal.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Please your highness, note\n" + " This dangerous conception in this point.\n" + " Not friended by by his wish, to your high person\n" + " His will is most malignant; and it stretches\n" + " Beyond you, to your friends.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE My learn'd lord cardinal,\n" + " Deliver all with charity.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Speak on:\n" + " How grounded he his title to the crown,\n" + " Upon our fail? to this point hast thou heard him\n" + " At any time speak aught?\n\n" + "Surveyor He was brought to this\n" + " By a vain prophecy of Nicholas Hopkins.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII What was that Hopkins?\n\n" + "Surveyor Sir, a Chartreux friar,\n" + " His confessor, who fed him every minute\n" + " With words of sovereignty.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII How know'st thou this?\n\n" + "Surveyor Not long before your highness sped to France,\n" + " The duke being at the Rose, within the parish\n" + " Saint Lawrence Poultney, did of me demand\n" + " What was the speech among the Londoners\n" + " Concerning the French journey: I replied,\n" + " Men fear'd the French would prove perfidious,\n" + " To the king's danger. Presently the duke\n" + " Said, 'twas the fear, indeed; and that he doubted\n" + " 'Twould prove the verity of certain words\n" + " Spoke by a holy monk; 'that oft,' says he,\n" + " 'Hath sent to me, wishing me to permit\n" + " John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour\n" + " To hear from him a matter of some moment:\n" + " Whom after under the confession's seal\n" + " He solemnly had sworn, that what he spoke\n" + " My chaplain to no creature living, but\n" + " To me, should utter, with demure confidence\n" + " This pausingly ensued: neither the king nor's heirs,\n" + " Tell you the duke, shall prosper: bid him strive\n" + " To gain the love o' the commonalty: the duke\n" + " Shall govern England.'\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE If I know you well,\n" + " You were the duke's surveyor, and lost your office\n" + " On the complaint o' the tenants: take good heed\n" + " You charge not in your spleen a noble person\n" + " And spoil your nobler soul: I say, take heed;\n" + " Yes, heartily beseech you.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Let him on.\n" + " Go forward.\n\n" + "Surveyor On my soul, I'll speak but truth.\n" + " I told my lord the duke, by the devil's illusions\n" + " The monk might be deceived; and that 'twas dangerous for him\n" + " To ruminate on this so far, until\n" + " It forged him some design, which, being believed,\n" + " It was much like to do: he answer'd, 'Tush,\n" + " It can do me no damage;' adding further,\n" + " That, had the king in his last sickness fail'd,\n" + " The cardinal's and Sir Thomas Lovell's heads\n" + " Should have gone off.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Ha! what, so rank? Ah ha!\n" + " There's mischief in this man: canst thou say further?\n\n" + "Surveyor I can, my liege.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Proceed.\n\n" + "Surveyor Being at Greenwich,\n" + " After your highness had reproved the duke\n" + " About Sir William Blomer,--\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII I remember\n" + " Of such a time: being my sworn servant,\n" + " The duke retain'd him his. But on; what hence?\n\n" + "Surveyor 'If,' quoth he, 'I for this had been committed,\n" + " As, to the Tower, I thought, I would have play'd\n" + " The part my father meant to act upon\n" + " The usurper Richard; who, being at Salisbury,\n" + " Made suit to come in's presence; which if granted,\n" + " As he made semblance of his duty, would\n" + " Have put his knife to him.'\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII A giant traitor!\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Now, madam, may his highness live in freedom,\n" + " and this man out of prison?\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE God mend all!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII There's something more would out of thee; what say'st?\n\n" + "Surveyor After 'the duke his father,' with 'the knife,'\n" + " He stretch'd him, and, with one hand on his dagger,\n" + " Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes\n" + " He did discharge a horrible oath; whose tenor\n" + " Was,--were he evil used, he would outgo\n" + " His father by as much as a performance\n" + " Does an irresolute purpose.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII There's his period,\n" + " To sheathe his knife in us. He is attach'd;\n" + " Call him to present trial: if he may\n" + " Find mercy in the law, 'tis his: if none,\n" + " Let him not seek 't of us: by day and night,\n" + " He's traitor to the height.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III An ante-chamber in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chamberlain and SANDS]\n\n" + "Chamberlain Is't possible the spells of France should juggle\n" + " Men into such strange mysteries?\n\n" + "SANDS New customs,\n" + " Though they be never so ridiculous,\n" + " Nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are follow'd.\n\n" + "Chamberlain As far as I see, all the good our English\n" + " Have got by the late voyage is but merely\n" + " A fit or two o' the face; but they are shrewd ones;\n" + " For when they hold 'em, you would swear directly\n" + " Their very noses had been counsellors\n" + " To Pepin or Clotharius, they keep state so.\n\n" + "SANDS They have all new legs, and lame ones: one would take it,\n" + " That never saw 'em pace before, the spavin\n" + " Or springhalt reign'd among 'em.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Death! my lord,\n" + " Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too,\n" + " That, sure, they've worn out Christendom.\n\n" + " [Enter LOVELL]\n\n" + " How now!\n" + " What news, Sir Thomas Lovell?\n\n" + "LOVELL Faith, my lord,\n" + " I hear of none, but the new proclamation\n" + " That's clapp'd upon the court-gate.\n\n" + "Chamberlain What is't for?\n\n" + "LOVELL The reformation of our travell'd gallants,\n" + " That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.\n\n" + "Chamberlain I'm glad 'tis there: now I would pray our monsieurs\n" + " To think an English courtier may be wise,\n" + " And never see the Louvre.\n\n" + "LOVELL They must either,\n" + " For so run the conditions, leave those remnants\n" + " Of fool and feather that they got in France,\n" + " With all their honourable point of ignorance\n" + " Pertaining thereunto, as fights and fireworks,\n" + " Abusing better men than they can be,\n" + " Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean\n" + " The faith they have in tennis, and tall stockings,\n" + " Short blister'd breeches, and those types of travel,\n" + " And understand again like honest men;\n" + " Or pack to their old playfellows: there, I take it,\n" + " They may, 'cum privilegio,' wear away\n" + " The lag end of their lewdness and be laugh'd at.\n\n" + "SANDS 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases\n" + " Are grown so catching.\n\n" + "Chamberlain What a loss our ladies\n" + " Will have of these trim vanities!\n\n" + "LOVELL Ay, marry,\n" + " There will be woe indeed, lords: the sly whoresons\n" + " Have got a speeding trick to lay down ladies;\n" + " A French song and a fiddle has no fellow.\n\n" + "SANDS The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going,\n" + " For, sure, there's no converting of 'em: now\n" + " An honest country lord, as I am, beaten\n" + " A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong\n" + " And have an hour of hearing; and, by'r lady,\n" + " Held current music too.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Well said, Lord Sands;\n" + " Your colt's tooth is not cast yet.\n\n" + "SANDS No, my lord;\n" + " Nor shall not, while I have a stump.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Sir Thomas,\n" + " Whither were you a-going?\n\n" + "LOVELL To the cardinal's:\n" + " Your lordship is a guest too.\n\n" + "Chamberlain O, 'tis true:\n" + " This night he makes a supper, and a great one,\n" + " To many lords and ladies; there will be\n" + " The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you.\n\n" + "LOVELL That churchman bears a bounteous mind indeed,\n" + " A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us;\n" + " His dews fall every where.\n\n" + "Chamberlain No doubt he's noble;\n" + " He had a black mouth that said other of him.\n\n" + "SANDS He may, my lord; has wherewithal: in him\n" + " Sparing would show a worse sin than ill doctrine:\n" + " Men of his way should be most liberal;\n" + " They are set here for examples.\n\n" + "Chamberlain True, they are so:\n" + " But few now give so great ones. My barge stays;\n" + " Your lordship shall along. Come, good Sir Thomas,\n" + " We shall be late else; which I would not be,\n" + " For I was spoke to, with Sir Henry Guildford\n" + " This night to be comptrollers.\n\n" + "SANDS I am your lordship's.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A Hall in York Place.\n\n\n" + " [Hautboys. A small table under a state for CARDINAL\n" + " WOLSEY, a longer table for the guests. Then enter\n" + " ANNE and divers other Ladies and Gentlemen as\n" + " guests, at one door; at another door, enter\n" + " GUILDFORD]\n\n" + "GUILDFORD Ladies, a general welcome from his grace\n" + " Salutes ye all; this night he dedicates\n" + " To fair content and you: none here, he hopes,\n" + " In all this noble bevy, has brought with her\n" + " One care abroad; he would have all as merry\n" + " As, first, good company, good wine, good welcome,\n" + " Can make good people. O, my lord, you're tardy:\n\n" + " [Enter Chamberlain, SANDS, and LOVELL]\n\n" + " The very thought of this fair company\n" + " Clapp'd wings to me.\n\n" + "Chamberlain You are young, Sir Harry Guildford.\n\n" + "SANDS Sir Thomas Lovell, had the cardinal\n" + " But half my lay thoughts in him, some of these\n" + " Should find a running banquet ere they rested,\n" + " I think would better please 'em: by my life,\n" + " They are a sweet society of fair ones.\n\n" + "LOVELL O, that your lordship were but now confessor\n" + " To one or two of these!\n\n" + "SANDS I would I were;\n" + " They should find easy penance.\n\n" + "LOVELL Faith, how easy?\n\n" + "SANDS As easy as a down-bed would afford it.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Sweet ladies, will it please you sit? Sir Harry,\n" + " Place you that side; I'll take the charge of this:\n" + " His grace is entering. Nay, you must not freeze;\n" + " Two women placed together makes cold weather:\n" + " My Lord Sands, you are one will keep 'em waking;\n" + " Pray, sit between these ladies.\n\n" + "SANDS By my faith,\n" + " And thank your lordship. By your leave, sweet ladies:\n" + " If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;\n" + " I had it from my father.\n\n" + "ANNE Was he mad, sir?\n\n" + "SANDS O, very mad, exceeding mad, in love too:\n" + " But he would bite none; just as I do now,\n" + " He would kiss you twenty with a breath.\n\n" + " [Kisses her]\n\n" + "Chamberlain Well said, my lord.\n" + " So, now you're fairly seated. Gentlemen,\n" + " The penance lies on you, if these fair ladies\n" + " Pass away frowning.\n\n" + "SANDS For my little cure,\n" + " Let me alone.\n\n" + " [Hautboys. Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, and takes his state]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY You're welcome, my fair guests: that noble lady,\n" + " Or gentleman, that is not freely merry,\n" + " Is not my friend: this, to confirm my welcome;\n" + " And to you all, good health.\n\n" + " [Drinks]\n\n" + "SANDS Your grace is noble:\n" + " Let me have such a bowl may hold my thanks,\n" + " And save me so much talking.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY My Lord Sands,\n" + " I am beholding to you: cheer your neighbours.\n" + " Ladies, you are not merry: gentlemen,\n" + " Whose fault is this?\n\n" + "SANDS The red wine first must rise\n" + " In their fair cheeks, my lord; then we shall have 'em\n" + " Talk us to silence.\n\n" + "ANNE You are a merry gamester,\n" + " My Lord Sands.\n\n" + "SANDS Yes, if I make my play.\n" + " Here's to your ladyship: and pledge it, madam,\n" + " For 'tis to such a thing,--\n\n" + "ANNE You cannot show me.\n\n" + "SANDS I told your grace they would talk anon.\n\n" + " [Drum and trumpet, chambers discharged]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY What's that?\n\n" + "Chamberlain Look out there, some of ye.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY What warlike voice,\n" + " And to what end is this? Nay, ladies, fear not;\n" + " By all the laws of war you're privileged.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servant]\n\n" + "Chamberlain How now! what is't?\n\n" + "Servant A noble troop of strangers;\n" + " For so they seem: they've left their barge and landed;\n" + " And hither make, as great ambassadors\n" + " From foreign princes.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Good lord chamberlain,\n" + " Go, give 'em welcome; you can speak the French tongue;\n" + " And, pray, receive 'em nobly, and conduct 'em\n" + " Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty\n" + " Shall shine at full upon them. Some attend him.\n\n" + " [Exit Chamberlain, attended. All rise, and tables removed]\n\n" + " You have now a broken banquet; but we'll mend it.\n" + " A good digestion to you all: and once more\n" + " I shower a welcome on ye; welcome all.\n\n" + " [Hautboys. Enter KING HENRY VIII and others, as\n" + " masquers, habited like shepherds, ushered by the\n" + " Chamberlain. They pass directly before CARDINAL\n" + " WOLSEY, and gracefully salute him]\n\n" + " A noble company! what are their pleasures?\n\n" + "Chamberlain Because they speak no English, thus they pray'd\n" + " To tell your grace, that, having heard by fame\n" + " Of this so noble and so fair assembly\n" + " This night to meet here, they could do no less\n" + " Out of the great respect they bear to beauty,\n" + " But leave their flocks; and, under your fair conduct,\n" + " Crave leave to view these ladies and entreat\n" + " An hour of revels with 'em.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Say, lord chamberlain,\n" + " They have done my poor house grace; for which I pay 'em\n" + " A thousand thanks, and pray 'em take their pleasures.\n\n" + " [They choose Ladies for the dance. KING HENRY VIII\n" + " chooses ANNE]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII The fairest hand I ever touch'd! O beauty,\n" + " Till now I never knew thee!\n\n" + " [Music. Dance]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY My lord!\n\n" + "Chamberlain Your grace?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Pray, tell 'em thus much from me:\n" + " There should be one amongst 'em, by his person,\n" + " More worthy this place than myself; to whom,\n" + " If I but knew him, with my love and duty\n" + " I would surrender it.\n\n" + "Chamberlain I will, my lord.\n\n" + " [Whispers the Masquers]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY What say they?\n\n" + "Chamberlain Such a one, they all confess,\n" + " There is indeed; which they would have your grace\n" + " Find out, and he will take it.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Let me see, then.\n" + " By all your good leaves, gentlemen; here I'll make\n" + " My royal choice.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Ye have found him, cardinal:\n\n" + " [Unmasking]\n\n" + " You hold a fair assembly; you do well, lord:\n" + " You are a churchman, or, I'll tell you, cardinal,\n" + " I should judge now unhappily.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY I am glad\n" + " Your grace is grown so pleasant.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII My lord chamberlain,\n" + " Prithee, come hither: what fair lady's that?\n\n" + "Chamberlain An't please your grace, Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter--\n" + " The Viscount Rochford,--one of her highness' women.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart,\n" + " I were unmannerly, to take you out,\n" + " And not to kiss you. A health, gentlemen!\n" + " Let it go round.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Sir Thomas Lovell, is the banquet ready\n" + " I' the privy chamber?\n\n" + "LOVELL Yes, my lord.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Your grace,\n" + " I fear, with dancing is a little heated.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII I fear, too much.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY There's fresher air, my lord,\n" + " In the next chamber.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Lead in your ladies, every one: sweet partner,\n" + " I must not yet forsake you: let's be merry:\n" + " Good my lord cardinal, I have half a dozen healths\n" + " To drink to these fair ladies, and a measure\n" + " To lead 'em once again; and then let's dream\n" + " Who's best in favour. Let the music knock it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt with trumpets]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Westminster. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Gentlemen, meeting]\n\n" + "First Gentleman Whither away so fast?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman O, God save ye!\n" + " Even to the hall, to hear what shall become\n" + " Of the great Duke of Buckingham.\n\n" + "First Gentleman I'll save you\n" + " That labour, sir. All's now done, but the ceremony\n" + " Of bringing back the prisoner.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Were you there?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Yes, indeed, was I.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Pray, speak what has happen'd.\n\n" + "First Gentleman You may guess quickly what.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Is he found guilty?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Yes, truly is he, and condemn'd upon't.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I am sorry for't.\n\n" + "First Gentleman So are a number more.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman But, pray, how pass'd it?\n\n" + "First Gentleman I'll tell you in a little. The great duke\n" + " Came to the bar; where to his accusations\n" + " He pleaded still not guilty and alleged\n" + " Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.\n" + " The king's attorney on the contrary\n" + " Urged on the examinations, proofs, confessions\n" + " Of divers witnesses; which the duke desired\n" + " To have brought viva voce to his face:\n" + " At which appear'd against him his surveyor;\n" + " Sir Gilbert Peck his chancellor; and John Car,\n" + " Confessor to him; with that devil-monk,\n" + " Hopkins, that made this mischief.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman That was he\n" + " That fed him with his prophecies?\n\n" + "First Gentleman The same.\n" + " All these accused him strongly; which he fain\n" + " Would have flung from him, but, indeed, he could not:\n" + " And so his peers, upon this evidence,\n" + " Have found him guilty of high treason. Much\n" + " He spoke, and learnedly, for life; but all\n" + " Was either pitied in him or forgotten.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman After all this, how did he bear himself?\n\n" + "First Gentleman When he was brought again to the bar, to hear\n" + " His knell rung out, his judgment, he was stirr'd\n" + " With such an agony, he sweat extremely,\n" + " And something spoke in choler, ill, and hasty:\n" + " But he fell to himself again, and sweetly\n" + " In all the rest show'd a most noble patience.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I do not think he fears death.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Sure, he does not:\n" + " He never was so womanish; the cause\n" + " He may a little grieve at.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Certainly\n" + " The cardinal is the end of this.\n\n" + "First Gentleman 'Tis likely,\n" + " By all conjectures: first, Kildare's attainder,\n" + " Then deputy of Ireland; who removed,\n" + " Earl Surrey was sent thither, and in haste too,\n" + " Lest he should help his father.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman That trick of state\n" + " Was a deep envious one.\n\n" + "First Gentleman At his return\n" + " No doubt he will requite it. This is noted,\n" + " And generally, whoever the king favours,\n" + " The cardinal instantly will find employment,\n" + " And far enough from court too.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman All the commons\n" + " Hate him perniciously, and, o' my conscience,\n" + " Wish him ten fathom deep: this duke as much\n" + " They love and dote on; call him bounteous Buckingham,\n" + " The mirror of all courtesy;--\n\n" + "First Gentleman Stay there, sir,\n" + " And see the noble ruin'd man you speak of.\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM from his arraignment; tip-staves\n" + " before him; the axe with the edge towards him;\n" + " halberds on each side: accompanied with LOVELL,\n" + " VAUX, SANDS, and common people]\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Let's stand close, and behold him.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM All good people,\n" + " You that thus far have come to pity me,\n" + " Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.\n" + " I have this day received a traitor's judgment,\n" + " And by that name must die: yet, heaven bear witness,\n" + " And if I have a conscience, let it sink me,\n" + " Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful!\n" + " The law I bear no malice for my death;\n" + " 'T has done, upon the premises, but justice:\n" + " But those that sought it I could wish more Christians:\n" + " Be what they will, I heartily forgive 'em:\n" + " Yet let 'em look they glory not in mischief,\n" + " Nor build their evils on the graves of great men;\n" + " For then my guiltless blood must cry against 'em.\n" + " For further life in this world I ne'er hope,\n" + " Nor will I sue, although the king have mercies\n" + " More than I dare make faults. You few that loved me,\n" + " And dare be bold to weep for Buckingham,\n" + " His noble friends and fellows, whom to leave\n" + " Is only bitter to him, only dying,\n" + " Go with me, like good angels, to my end;\n" + " And, as the long divorce of steel falls on me,\n" + " Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice,\n" + " And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name.\n\n" + "LOVELL I do beseech your grace, for charity,\n" + " If ever any malice in your heart\n" + " Were hid against me, now to forgive me frankly.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free forgive you\n" + " As I would be forgiven: I forgive all;\n" + " There cannot be those numberless offences\n" + " 'Gainst me, that I cannot take peace with:\n" + " no black envy\n" + " Shall mark my grave. Commend me to his grace;\n" + " And if he speak of Buckingham, pray, tell him\n" + " You met him half in heaven: my vows and prayers\n" + " Yet are the king's; and, till my soul forsake,\n" + " Shall cry for blessings on him: may he live\n" + " Longer than I have time to tell his years!\n" + " Ever beloved and loving may his rule be!\n" + " And when old time shall lead him to his end,\n" + " Goodness and he fill up one monument!\n\n" + "LOVELL To the water side I must conduct your grace;\n" + " Then give my charge up to Sir Nicholas Vaux,\n" + " Who undertakes you to your end.\n\n" + "VAUX Prepare there,\n" + " The duke is coming: see the barge be ready;\n" + " And fit it with such furniture as suits\n" + " The greatness of his person.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Nay, Sir Nicholas,\n" + " Let it alone; my state now will but mock me.\n" + " When I came hither, I was lord high constable\n" + " And Duke of Buckingham; now, poor Edward Bohun:\n" + " Yet I am richer than my base accusers,\n" + " That never knew what truth meant: I now seal it;\n" + " And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for't.\n" + " My noble father, Henry of Buckingham,\n" + " Who first raised head against usurping Richard,\n" + " Flying for succor to his servant Banister,\n" + " Being distress'd, was by that wretch betray'd,\n" + " And without trial fell; God's peace be with him!\n" + " Henry the Seventh succeeding, truly pitying\n" + " My father's loss, like a most royal prince,\n" + " Restored me to my honours, and, out of ruins,\n" + " Made my name once more noble. Now his son,\n" + " Henry the Eighth, life, honour, name and all\n" + " That made me happy at one stroke has taken\n" + " For ever from the world. I had my trial,\n" + " And, must needs say, a noble one; which makes me,\n" + " A little happier than my wretched father:\n" + " Yet thus far we are one in fortunes: both\n" + " Fell by our servants, by those men we loved most;\n" + " A most unnatural and faithless service!\n" + " Heaven has an end in all: yet, you that hear me,\n" + " This from a dying man receive as certain:\n" + " Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels\n" + " Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends\n" + " And give your hearts to, when they once perceive\n" + " The least rub in your fortunes, fall away\n" + " Like water from ye, never found again\n" + " But where they mean to sink ye. All good people,\n" + " Pray for me! I must now forsake ye: the last hour\n" + " Of my long weary life is come upon me. Farewell:\n" + " And when you would say something that is sad,\n" + " Speak how I fell. I have done; and God forgive me!\n\n" + " [Exeunt BUCKINGHAM and Train]\n\n" + "First Gentleman O, this is full of pity! Sir, it calls,\n" + " I fear, too many curses on their beads\n" + " That were the authors.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman If the duke be guiltless,\n" + " 'Tis full of woe: yet I can give you inkling\n" + " Of an ensuing evil, if it fall,\n" + " Greater than this.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Good angels keep it from us!\n" + " What may it be? You do not doubt my faith, sir?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman This secret is so weighty, 'twill require\n" + " A strong faith to conceal it.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Let me have it;\n" + " I do not talk much.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I am confident,\n" + " You shall, sir: did you not of late days hear\n" + " A buzzing of a separation\n" + " Between the king and Katharine?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Yes, but it held not:\n" + " For when the king once heard it, out of anger\n" + " He sent command to the lord mayor straight\n" + " To stop the rumor, and allay those tongues\n" + " That durst disperse it.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman But that slander, sir,\n" + " Is found a truth now: for it grows again\n" + " Fresher than e'er it was; and held for certain\n" + " The king will venture at it. Either the cardinal,\n" + " Or some about him near, have, out of malice\n" + " To the good queen, possess'd him with a scruple\n" + " That will undo her: to confirm this too,\n" + " Cardinal Campeius is arrived, and lately;\n" + " As all think, for this business.\n\n" + "First Gentleman 'Tis the cardinal;\n" + " And merely to revenge him on the emperor\n" + " For not bestowing on him, at his asking,\n" + " The archbishopric of Toledo, this is purposed.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I think you have hit the mark: but is't not cruel\n" + " That she should feel the smart of this? The cardinal\n" + " Will have his will, and she must fall.\n\n" + "First Gentleman 'Tis woful.\n" + " We are too open here to argue this;\n" + " Let's think in private more.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II An ante-chamber in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chamberlain, reading a letter]\n\n" + "Chamberlain 'My lord, the horses your lordship sent for, with\n" + " all the care I had, I saw well chosen, ridden, and\n" + " furnished. They were young and handsome, and of the\n" + " best breed in the north. When they were ready to\n" + " set out for London, a man of my lord cardinal's, by\n" + " commission and main power, took 'em from me; with\n" + " this reason: His master would be served before a\n" + " subject, if not before the king; which stopped our\n" + " mouths, sir.'\n" + " I fear he will indeed: well, let him have them:\n" + " He will have all, I think.\n\n" + " [Enter, to Chamberlain, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]\n\n" + "NORFOLK Well met, my lord chamberlain.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Good day to both your graces.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK How is the king employ'd?\n\n" + "Chamberlain I left him private,\n" + " Full of sad thoughts and troubles.\n\n" + "NORFOLK What's the cause?\n\n" + "Chamberlain It seems the marriage with his brother's wife\n" + " Has crept too near his conscience.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK No, his conscience\n" + " Has crept too near another lady.\n\n" + "NORFOLK 'Tis so:\n" + " This is the cardinal's doing, the king-cardinal:\n" + " That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune,\n" + " Turns what he list. The king will know him one day.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Pray God he do! he'll never know himself else.\n\n" + "NORFOLK How holily he works in all his business!\n" + " And with what zeal! for, now he has crack'd the league\n" + " Between us and the emperor, the queen's great nephew,\n" + " He dives into the king's soul, and there scatters\n" + " Dangers, doubts, wringing of the conscience,\n" + " Fears, and despairs; and all these for his marriage:\n" + " And out of all these to restore the king,\n" + " He counsels a divorce; a loss of her\n" + " That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years\n" + " About his neck, yet never lost her lustre;\n" + " Of her that loves him with that excellence\n" + " That angels love good men with; even of her\n" + " That, when the greatest stroke of fortune falls,\n" + " Will bless the king: and is not this course pious?\n\n" + "Chamberlain Heaven keep me from such counsel! 'Tis most true\n" + " These news are every where; every tongue speaks 'em,\n" + " And every true heart weeps for't: all that dare\n" + " Look into these affairs see this main end,\n" + " The French king's sister. Heaven will one day open\n" + " The king's eyes, that so long have slept upon\n" + " This bold bad man.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK And free us from his slavery.\n\n" + "NORFOLK We had need pray,\n" + " And heartily, for our deliverance;\n" + " Or this imperious man will work us all\n" + " From princes into pages: all men's honours\n" + " Lie like one lump before him, to be fashion'd\n" + " Into what pitch he please.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK For me, my lords,\n" + " I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed:\n" + " As I am made without him, so I'll stand,\n" + " If the king please; his curses and his blessings\n" + " Touch me alike, they're breath I not believe in.\n" + " I knew him, and I know him; so I leave him\n" + " To him that made him proud, the pope.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Let's in;\n" + " And with some other business put the king\n" + " From these sad thoughts, that work too much upon him:\n" + " My lord, you'll bear us company?\n\n" + "Chamberlain Excuse me;\n" + " The king has sent me otherwhere: besides,\n" + " You'll find a most unfit time to disturb him:\n" + " Health to your lordships.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Thanks, my good lord chamberlain.\n\n" + " [Exit Chamberlain; and KING HENRY VIII draws the\n" + " curtain, and sits reading pensively]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK How sad he looks! sure, he is much afflicted.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Who's there, ha?\n\n" + "NORFOLK Pray God he be not angry.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves\n" + " Into my private meditations?\n" + " Who am I? ha?\n\n" + "NORFOLK A gracious king that pardons all offences\n" + " Malice ne'er meant: our breach of duty this way\n" + " Is business of estate; in which we come\n" + " To know your royal pleasure.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Ye are too bold:\n" + " Go to; I'll make ye know your times of business:\n" + " Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha?\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS, with\n" + " a commission]\n\n" + " Who's there? my good lord cardinal? O my Wolsey,\n" + " The quiet of my wounded conscience;\n" + " Thou art a cure fit for a king.\n\n" + " [To CARDINAL CAMPEIUS]\n\n" + " You're welcome,\n" + " Most learned reverend sir, into our kingdom:\n" + " Use us and it.\n\n" + " [To CARDINAL WOLSEY]\n\n" + " My good lord, have great care\n" + " I be not found a talker.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Sir, you cannot.\n" + " I would your grace would give us but an hour\n" + " Of private conference.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII [To NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]\n" + " We are busy; go.\n\n" + "NORFOLK [Aside to SUFFOLK]\n" + " This priest has no pride in him?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK [Aside to NORFOLK] Not to speak of:\n" + " I would not be so sick though for his place:\n" + " But this cannot continue.\n\n" + "NORFOLK [Aside to SUFFOLK] If it do,\n" + " I'll venture one have-at-him.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK [Aside to NORFOLK] I another.\n\n" + " [Exeunt NORFOLK and SUFFOLK]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Your grace has given a precedent of wisdom\n" + " Above all princes, in committing freely\n" + " Your scruple to the voice of Christendom:\n" + " Who can be angry now? what envy reach you?\n" + " The Spaniard, tied blood and favour to her,\n" + " Must now confess, if they have any goodness,\n" + " The trial just and noble. All the clerks,\n" + " I mean the learned ones, in Christian kingdoms\n" + " Have their free voices: Rome, the nurse of judgment,\n" + " Invited by your noble self, hath sent\n" + " One general tongue unto us, this good man,\n" + " This just and learned priest, Cardinal Campeius;\n" + " Whom once more I present unto your highness.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII And once more in mine arms I bid him welcome,\n" + " And thank the holy conclave for their loves:\n" + " They have sent me such a man I would have wish'd for.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves,\n" + " You are so noble. To your highness' hand\n" + " I tender my commission; by whose virtue,\n" + " The court of Rome commanding, you, my lord\n" + " Cardinal of York, are join'd with me their servant\n" + " In the unpartial judging of this business.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Two equal men. The queen shall be acquainted\n" + " Forthwith for what you come. Where's Gardiner?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY I know your majesty has always loved her\n" + " So dear in heart, not to deny her that\n" + " A woman of less place might ask by law:\n" + " Scholars allow'd freely to argue for her.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Ay, and the best she shall have; and my favour\n" + " To him that does best: God forbid else. Cardinal,\n" + " Prithee, call Gardiner to me, my new secretary:\n" + " I find him a fit fellow.\n\n" + " [Exit CARDINAL WOLSEY]\n\n" + " [Re-enter CARDINAL WOLSEY, with GARDINER]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY [Aside to GARDINER] Give me your hand much joy and\n" + " favour to you;\n" + " You are the king's now.\n\n" + "GARDINER [Aside to CARDINAL WOLSEY]\n" + " But to be commanded\n" + " For ever by your grace, whose hand has raised me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Come hither, Gardiner.\n\n" + " [Walks and whispers]\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS My Lord of York, was not one Doctor Pace\n" + " In this man's place before him?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Yes, he was.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Was he not held a learned man?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Yes, surely.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Believe me, there's an ill opinion spread then\n" + " Even of yourself, lord cardinal.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY How! of me?\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS They will not stick to say you envied him,\n" + " And fearing he would rise, he was so virtuous,\n" + " Kept him a foreign man still; which so grieved him,\n" + " That he ran mad and died.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Heaven's peace be with him!\n" + " That's Christian care enough: for living murmurers\n" + " There's places of rebuke. He was a fool;\n" + " For he would needs be virtuous: that good fellow,\n" + " If I command him, follows my appointment:\n" + " I will have none so near else. Learn this, brother,\n" + " We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Deliver this with modesty to the queen.\n\n" + " [Exit GARDINER]\n\n" + " The most convenient place that I can think of\n" + " For such receipt of learning is Black-Friars;\n" + " There ye shall meet about this weighty business.\n" + " My Wolsey, see it furnish'd. O, my lord,\n" + " Would it not grieve an able man to leave\n" + " So sweet a bedfellow? But, conscience, conscience!\n" + " O, 'tis a tender place; and I must leave her.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III An ante-chamber of the QUEEN'S apartments.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANNE and an Old Lady]\n\n" + "ANNE Not for that neither: here's the pang that pinches:\n" + " His highness having lived so long with her, and she\n" + " So good a lady that no tongue could ever\n" + " Pronounce dishonour of her; by my life,\n" + " She never knew harm-doing: O, now, after\n" + " So many courses of the sun enthroned,\n" + " Still growing in a majesty and pomp, the which\n" + " To leave a thousand-fold more bitter than\n" + " 'Tis sweet at first to acquire,--after this process,\n" + " To give her the avaunt! it is a pity\n" + " Would move a monster.\n\n" + "Old Lady Hearts of most hard temper\n" + " Melt and lament for her.\n\n" + "ANNE O, God's will! much better\n" + " She ne'er had known pomp: though't be temporal,\n" + " Yet, if that quarrel, fortune, do divorce\n" + " It from the bearer, 'tis a sufferance panging\n" + " As soul and body's severing.\n\n" + "Old Lady Alas, poor lady!\n" + " She's a stranger now again.\n\n" + "ANNE So much the more\n" + " Must pity drop upon her. Verily,\n" + " I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born,\n" + " And range with humble livers in content,\n" + " Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief,\n" + " And wear a golden sorrow.\n\n" + "Old Lady Our content\n" + " Is our best having.\n\n" + "ANNE By my troth and maidenhead,\n" + " I would not be a queen.\n\n" + "Old Lady Beshrew me, I would,\n" + " And venture maidenhead for't; and so would you,\n" + " For all this spice of your hypocrisy:\n" + " You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,\n" + " Have too a woman's heart; which ever yet\n" + " Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty;\n" + " Which, to say sooth, are blessings; and which gifts,\n" + " Saving your mincing, the capacity\n" + " Of your soft cheveril conscience would receive,\n" + " If you might please to stretch it.\n\n" + "ANNE Nay, good troth.\n\n" + "Old Lady Yes, troth, and troth; you would not be a queen?\n\n" + "ANNE No, not for all the riches under heaven.\n\n" + "Old Lady: 'Tis strange: a three-pence bow'd would hire me,\n" + " Old as I am, to queen it: but, I pray you,\n" + " What think you of a duchess? have you limbs\n" + " To bear that load of title?\n\n" + "ANNE No, in truth.\n\n" + "Old Lady Then you are weakly made: pluck off a little;\n" + " I would not be a young count in your way,\n" + " For more than blushing comes to: if your back\n" + " Cannot vouchsafe this burthen,'tis too weak\n" + " Ever to get a boy.\n\n" + "ANNE How you do talk!\n" + " I swear again, I would not be a queen\n" + " For all the world.\n\n" + "Old Lady In faith, for little England\n" + " You'ld venture an emballing: I myself\n" + " Would for Carnarvonshire, although there long'd\n" + " No more to the crown but that. Lo, who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter Chamberlain]\n\n" + "Chamberlain Good morrow, ladies. What were't worth to know\n" + " The secret of your conference?\n\n" + "ANNE My good lord,\n" + " Not your demand; it values not your asking:\n" + " Our mistress' sorrows we were pitying.\n\n" + "Chamberlain It was a gentle business, and becoming\n" + " The action of good women: there is hope\n" + " All will be well.\n\n" + "ANNE Now, I pray God, amen!\n\n" + "Chamberlain You bear a gentle mind, and heavenly blessings\n" + " Follow such creatures. That you may, fair lady,\n" + " Perceive I speak sincerely, and high note's\n" + " Ta'en of your many virtues, the king's majesty\n" + " Commends his good opinion of you, and\n" + " Does purpose honour to you no less flowing\n" + " Than Marchioness of Pembroke: to which title\n" + " A thousand pound a year, annual support,\n" + " Out of his grace he adds.\n\n" + "ANNE I do not know\n" + " What kind of my obedience I should tender;\n" + " More than my all is nothing: nor my prayers\n" + " Are not words duly hallow'd, nor my wishes\n" + " More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes\n" + " Are all I can return. Beseech your lordship,\n" + " Vouchsafe to speak my thanks and my obedience,\n" + " As from a blushing handmaid, to his highness;\n" + " Whose health and royalty I pray for.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Lady,\n" + " I shall not fail to approve the fair conceit\n" + " The king hath of you.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I have perused her well;\n" + " Beauty and honour in her are so mingled\n" + " That they have caught the king: and who knows yet\n" + " But from this lady may proceed a gem\n" + " To lighten all this isle? I'll to the king,\n" + " And say I spoke with you.\n\n" + " [Exit Chamberlain]\n\n" + "ANNE My honour'd lord.\n\n" + "Old Lady Why, this it is; see, see!\n" + " I have been begging sixteen years in court,\n" + " Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could\n" + " Come pat betwixt too early and too late\n" + " For any suit of pounds; and you, O fate!\n" + " A very fresh-fish here--fie, fie, fie upon\n" + " This compell'd fortune!--have your mouth fill'd up\n" + " Before you open it.\n\n" + "ANNE This is strange to me.\n\n" + "Old Lady How tastes it? is it bitter? forty pence, no.\n" + " There was a lady once, 'tis an old story,\n" + " That would not be a queen, that would she not,\n" + " For all the mud in Egypt: have you heard it?\n\n" + "ANNE Come, you are pleasant.\n\n" + "Old Lady With your theme, I could\n" + " O'ermount the lark. The Marchioness of Pembroke!\n" + " A thousand pounds a year for pure respect!\n" + " No other obligation! By my life,\n" + " That promises moe thousands: honour's train\n" + " Is longer than his foreskirt. By this time\n" + " I know your back will bear a duchess: say,\n" + " Are you not stronger than you were?\n\n" + "ANNE Good lady,\n" + " Make yourself mirth with your particular fancy,\n" + " And leave me out on't. Would I had no being,\n" + " If this salute my blood a jot: it faints me,\n" + " To think what follows.\n" + " The queen is comfortless, and we forgetful\n" + " In our long absence: pray, do not deliver\n" + " What here you've heard to her.\n\n" + "Old Lady What do you think me?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A hall in Black-Friars.\n\n\n" + " [Trumpets, sennet, and cornets. Enter two Vergers,\n" + " with short silver wands; next them, two Scribes, in\n" + " the habit of doctors; after them, CANTERBURY alone;\n" + " after him, LINCOLN, Ely, Rochester, and Saint\n" + " Asaph; next them, with some small distance, follows\n" + " a Gentleman bearing the purse, with the great seal,\n" + " and a cardinal's hat; then two Priests, bearing\n" + " each a silver cross; then a Gentleman-usher\n" + " bare-headed, accompanied with a Sergeant-at-arms\n" + " bearing a silver mace; then two Gentlemen bearing\n" + " two great silver pillars; after them, side by side,\n" + " CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS; two Noblemen\n" + " with the sword and mace. KING HENRY VIII takes\n" + " place under the cloth of state; CARDINAL WOLSEY and\n" + " CARDINAL CAMPEIUS sit under him as judges. QUEEN\n" + " KATHARINE takes place some distance from KING\n" + " HENRY VIII. The Bishops place themselves on each\n" + " side the court, in manner of a consistory; below\n" + " them, the Scribes. The Lords sit next the Bishops.\n" + " The rest of the Attendants stand in convenient\n" + " order about the stage]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Whilst our commission from Rome is read,\n" + " Let silence be commanded.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII What's the need?\n" + " It hath already publicly been read,\n" + " And on all sides the authority allow'd;\n" + " You may, then, spare that time.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Be't so. Proceed.\n\n" + "Scribe Say, Henry King of England, come into the court.\n\n" + "Crier Henry King of England, &c.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Here.\n\n" + "Scribe Say, Katharine Queen of England, come into the court.\n\n" + "Crier Katharine Queen of England, &c.\n\n" + " [QUEEN KATHARINE makes no answer, rises out of her\n" + " chair, goes about the court, comes to KING HENRY\n" + " VIII, and kneels at his feet; then speaks]\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Sir, I desire you do me right and justice;\n" + " And to bestow your pity on me: for\n" + " I am a most poor woman, and a stranger,\n" + " Born out of your dominions; having here\n" + " No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance\n" + " Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, sir,\n" + " In what have I offended you? what cause\n" + " Hath my behavior given to your displeasure,\n" + " That thus you should proceed to put me off,\n" + " And take your good grace from me? Heaven witness,\n" + " I have been to you a true and humble wife,\n" + " At all times to your will conformable;\n" + " Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,\n" + " Yea, subject to your countenance, glad or sorry\n" + " As I saw it inclined: when was the hour\n" + " I ever contradicted your desire,\n" + " Or made it not mine too? Or which of your friends\n" + " Have I not strove to love, although I knew\n" + " He were mine enemy? what friend of mine\n" + " That had to him derived your anger, did I\n" + " Continue in my liking? nay, gave notice\n" + " He was from thence discharged. Sir, call to mind\n" + " That I have been your wife, in this obedience,\n" + " Upward of twenty years, and have been blest\n" + " With many children by you: if, in the course\n" + " And process of this time, you can report,\n" + " And prove it too, against mine honour aught,\n" + " My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty,\n" + " Against your sacred person, in God's name,\n" + " Turn me away; and let the foul'st contempt\n" + " Shut door upon me, and so give me up\n" + " To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you sir,\n" + " The king, your father, was reputed for\n" + " A prince most prudent, of an excellent\n" + " And unmatch'd wit and judgment: Ferdinand,\n" + " My father, king of Spain, was reckon'd one\n" + " The wisest prince that there had reign'd by many\n" + " A year before: it is not to be question'd\n" + " That they had gather'd a wise council to them\n" + " Of every realm, that did debate this business,\n" + " Who deem'd our marriage lawful: wherefore I humbly\n" + " Beseech you, sir, to spare me, till I may\n" + " Be by my friends in Spain advised; whose counsel\n" + " I will implore: if not, i' the name of God,\n" + " Your pleasure be fulfill'd!\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY You have here, lady,\n" + " And of your choice, these reverend fathers; men\n" + " Of singular integrity and learning,\n" + " Yea, the elect o' the land, who are assembled\n" + " To plead your cause: it shall be therefore bootless\n" + " That longer you desire the court; as well\n" + " For your own quiet, as to rectify\n" + " What is unsettled in the king.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS His grace\n" + " Hath spoken well and justly: therefore, madam,\n" + " It's fit this royal session do proceed;\n" + " And that, without delay, their arguments\n" + " Be now produced and heard.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Lord cardinal,\n" + " To you I speak.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Your pleasure, madam?\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Sir,\n" + " I am about to weep; but, thinking that\n" + " We are a queen, or long have dream'd so, certain\n" + " The daughter of a king, my drops of tears\n" + " I'll turn to sparks of fire.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Be patient yet.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE I will, when you are humble; nay, before,\n" + " Or God will punish me. I do believe,\n" + " Induced by potent circumstances, that\n" + " You are mine enemy, and make my challenge\n" + " You shall not be my judge: for it is you\n" + " Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and me;\n" + " Which God's dew quench! Therefore I say again,\n" + " I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul\n" + " Refuse you for my judge; whom, yet once more,\n" + " I hold my most malicious foe, and think not\n" + " At all a friend to truth.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY I do profess\n" + " You speak not like yourself; who ever yet\n" + " Have stood to charity, and display'd the effects\n" + " Of disposition gentle, and of wisdom\n" + " O'ertopping woman's power. Madam, you do me wrong:\n" + " I have no spleen against you; nor injustice\n" + " For you or any: how far I have proceeded,\n" + " Or how far further shall, is warranted\n" + " By a commission from the consistory,\n" + " Yea, the whole consistory of Rome. You charge me\n" + " That I have blown this coal: I do deny it:\n" + " The king is present: if it be known to him\n" + " That I gainsay my deed, how may he wound,\n" + " And worthily, my falsehood! yea, as much\n" + " As you have done my truth. If he know\n" + " That I am free of your report, he knows\n" + " I am not of your wrong. Therefore in him\n" + " It lies to cure me: and the cure is, to\n" + " Remove these thoughts from you: the which before\n" + " His highness shall speak in, I do beseech\n" + " You, gracious madam, to unthink your speaking\n" + " And to say so no more.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE My lord, my lord,\n" + " I am a simple woman, much too weak\n" + " To oppose your cunning. You're meek and\n" + " humble-mouth'd;\n" + " You sign your place and calling, in full seeming,\n" + " With meekness and humility; but your heart\n" + " Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride.\n" + " You have, by fortune and his highness' favours,\n" + " Gone slightly o'er low steps and now are mounted\n" + " Where powers are your retainers, and your words,\n" + " Domestics to you, serve your will as't please\n" + " Yourself pronounce their office. I must tell you,\n" + " You tender more your person's honour than\n" + " Your high profession spiritual: that again\n" + " I do refuse you for my judge; and here,\n" + " Before you all, appeal unto the pope,\n" + " To bring my whole cause 'fore his holiness,\n" + " And to be judged by him.\n\n" + " [She curtsies to KING HENRY VIII, and offers to depart]\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS The queen is obstinate,\n" + " Stubborn to justice, apt to accuse it, and\n" + " Disdainful to be tried by't: 'tis not well.\n" + " She's going away.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Call her again.\n\n" + "Crier Katharine Queen of England, come into the court.\n\n" + "GRIFFITH Madam, you are call'd back.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE What need you note it? pray you, keep your way:\n" + " When you are call'd, return. Now, the Lord help,\n" + " They vex me past my patience! Pray you, pass on:\n" + " I will not tarry; no, nor ever more\n" + " Upon this business my appearance make\n" + " In any of their courts.\n\n" + " [Exeunt QUEEN KATHARINE and her Attendants]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Go thy ways, Kate:\n" + " That man i' the world who shall report he has\n" + " A better wife, let him in nought be trusted,\n" + " For speaking false in that: thou art, alone,\n" + " If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness,\n" + " Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government,\n" + " Obeying in commanding, and thy parts\n" + " Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out,\n" + " The queen of earthly queens: she's noble born;\n" + " And, like her true nobility, she has\n" + " Carried herself towards me.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Most gracious sir,\n" + " In humblest manner I require your highness,\n" + " That it shall please you to declare, in hearing\n" + " Of all these ears,--for where I am robb'd and bound,\n" + " There must I be unloosed, although not there\n" + " At once and fully satisfied,--whether ever I\n" + " Did broach this business to your highness; or\n" + " Laid any scruple in your way, which might\n" + " Induce you to the question on't? or ever\n" + " Have to you, but with thanks to God for such\n" + " A royal lady, spake one the least word that might\n" + " Be to the prejudice of her present state,\n" + " Or touch of her good person?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII My lord cardinal,\n" + " I do excuse you; yea, upon mine honour,\n" + " I free you from't. You are not to be taught\n" + " That you have many enemies, that know not\n" + " Why they are so, but, like to village-curs,\n" + " Bark when their fellows do: by some of these\n" + " The queen is put in anger. You're excused:\n" + " But will you be more justified? You ever\n" + " Have wish'd the sleeping of this business; never desired\n" + " It to be stirr'd; but oft have hinder'd, oft,\n" + " The passages made toward it: on my honour,\n" + " I speak my good lord cardinal to this point,\n" + " And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to't,\n" + " I will be bold with time and your attention:\n" + " Then mark the inducement. Thus it came; give heed to't:\n" + " My conscience first received a tenderness,\n" + " Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches utter'd\n" + " By the Bishop of Bayonne, then French ambassador;\n" + " Who had been hither sent on the debating\n" + " A marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleans and\n" + " Our daughter Mary: i' the progress of this business,\n" + " Ere a determinate resolution, he,\n" + " I mean the bishop, did require a respite;\n" + " Wherein he might the king his lord advertise\n" + " Whether our daughter were legitimate,\n" + " Respecting this our marriage with the dowager,\n" + " Sometimes our brother's wife. This respite shook\n" + " The bosom of my conscience, enter'd me,\n" + " Yea, with a splitting power, and made to tremble\n" + " The region of my breast; which forced such way,\n" + " That many mazed considerings did throng\n" + " And press'd in with this caution. First, methought\n" + " I stood not in the smile of heaven; who had\n" + " Commanded nature, that my lady's womb,\n" + " If it conceived a male child by me, should\n" + " Do no more offices of life to't than\n" + " The grave does to the dead; for her male issue\n" + " Or died where they were made, or shortly after\n" + " This world had air'd them: hence I took a thought,\n" + " This was a judgment on me; that my kingdom,\n" + " Well worthy the best heir o' the world, should not\n" + " Be gladded in't by me: then follows, that\n" + " I weigh'd the danger which my realms stood in\n" + " By this my issue's fail; and that gave to me\n" + " Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in\n" + " The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer\n" + " Toward this remedy, whereupon we are\n" + " Now present here together: that's to say,\n" + " I meant to rectify my conscience,--which\n" + " I then did feel full sick, and yet not well,--\n" + " By all the reverend fathers of the land\n" + " And doctors learn'd: first I began in private\n" + " With you, my Lord of Lincoln; you remember\n" + " How under my oppression I did reek,\n" + " When I first moved you.\n\n" + "LINCOLN Very well, my liege.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII I have spoke long: be pleased yourself to say\n" + " How far you satisfied me.\n\n" + "LINCOLN So please your highness,\n" + " The question did at first so stagger me,\n" + " Bearing a state of mighty moment in't\n" + " And consequence of dread, that I committed\n" + " The daring'st counsel which I had to doubt;\n" + " And did entreat your highness to this course\n" + " Which you are running here.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII I then moved you,\n" + " My Lord of Canterbury; and got your leave\n" + " To make this present summons: unsolicited\n" + " I left no reverend person in this court;\n" + " But by particular consent proceeded\n" + " Under your hands and seals: therefore, go on:\n" + " For no dislike i' the world against the person\n" + " Of the good queen, but the sharp thorny points\n" + " Of my alleged reasons, drive this forward:\n" + " Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life\n" + " And kingly dignity, we are contented\n" + " To wear our mortal state to come with her,\n" + " Katharine our queen, before the primest creature\n" + " That's paragon'd o' the world.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS So please your highness,\n" + " The queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness\n" + " That we adjourn this court till further day:\n" + " Meanwhile must be an earnest motion\n" + " Made to the queen, to call back her appeal\n" + " She intends unto his holiness.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII [Aside] I may perceive\n" + " These cardinals trifle with me: I abhor\n" + " This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.\n" + " My learn'd and well-beloved servant, Cranmer,\n" + " Prithee, return: with thy approach, I know,\n" + " My comfort comes along. Break up the court:\n" + " I say, set on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt in manner as they entered]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. QUEEN KATHARINE's apartments.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN KATHARINE and her Women, as at work]\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Take thy lute, wench: my soul grows sad with troubles;\n" + " Sing, and disperse 'em, if thou canst: leave working.\n" + " [SONG]\n\n" + " Orpheus with his lute made trees,\n" + " And the mountain tops that freeze,\n" + " Bow themselves when he did sing:\n" + " To his music plants and flowers\n" + " Ever sprung; as sun and showers\n" + " There had made a lasting spring.\n\n" + " Every thing that heard him play,\n" + " Even the billows of the sea,\n" + " Hung their heads, and then lay by.\n" + " In sweet music is such art,\n" + " Killing care and grief of heart\n" + " Fall asleep, or hearing, die.\n\n" + " [Enter a Gentleman]\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE How now!\n\n" + "Gentleman An't please your grace, the two great cardinals\n" + " Wait in the presence.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Would they speak with me?\n\n" + "Gentleman They will'd me say so, madam.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Pray their graces\n" + " To come near.\n\n" + " [Exit Gentleman]\n\n" + " What can be their business\n" + " With me, a poor weak woman, fall'n from favour?\n" + " I do not like their coming. Now I think on't,\n" + " They should be good men; their affairs as righteous:\n" + " But all hoods make not monks.\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CARDINAL CAMPEIUS]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Peace to your highness!\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Your graces find me here part of a housewife,\n" + " I would be all, against the worst may happen.\n" + " What are your pleasures with me, reverend lords?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY May it please you noble madam, to withdraw\n" + " Into your private chamber, we shall give you\n" + " The full cause of our coming.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Speak it here:\n" + " There's nothing I have done yet, o' my conscience,\n" + " Deserves a corner: would all other women\n" + " Could speak this with as free a soul as I do!\n" + " My lords, I care not, so much I am happy\n" + " Above a number, if my actions\n" + " Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw 'em,\n" + " Envy and base opinion set against 'em,\n" + " I know my life so even. If your business\n" + " Seek me out, and that way I am wife in,\n" + " Out with it boldly: truth loves open dealing.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, regina\n" + " serenissima,--\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE O, good my lord, no Latin;\n" + " I am not such a truant since my coming,\n" + " As not to know the language I have lived in:\n" + " A strange tongue makes my cause more strange,\n" + " suspicious;\n" + " Pray, speak in English: here are some will thank you,\n" + " If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake;\n" + " Believe me, she has had much wrong: lord cardinal,\n" + " The willing'st sin I ever yet committed\n" + " May be absolved in English.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Noble lady,\n" + " I am sorry my integrity should breed,\n" + " And service to his majesty and you,\n" + " So deep suspicion, where all faith was meant.\n" + " We come not by the way of accusation,\n" + " To taint that honour every good tongue blesses,\n" + " Nor to betray you any way to sorrow,\n" + " You have too much, good lady; but to know\n" + " How you stand minded in the weighty difference\n" + " Between the king and you; and to deliver,\n" + " Like free and honest men, our just opinions\n" + " And comforts to your cause.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Most honour'd madam,\n" + " My Lord of York, out of his noble nature,\n" + " Zeal and obedience he still bore your grace,\n" + " Forgetting, like a good man your late censure\n" + " Both of his truth and him, which was too far,\n" + " Offers, as I do, in a sign of peace,\n" + " His service and his counsel.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE [Aside] To betray me.--\n" + " My lords, I thank you both for your good wills;\n" + " Ye speak like honest men; pray God, ye prove so!\n" + " But how to make ye suddenly an answer,\n" + " In such a point of weight, so near mine honour,--\n" + " More near my life, I fear,--with my weak wit,\n" + " And to such men of gravity and learning,\n" + " In truth, I know not. I was set at work\n" + " Among my maids: full little, God knows, looking\n" + " Either for such men or such business.\n" + " For her sake that I have been,--for I feel\n" + " The last fit of my greatness,--good your graces,\n" + " Let me have time and counsel for my cause:\n" + " Alas, I am a woman, friendless, hopeless!\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Madam, you wrong the king's love with these fears:\n" + " Your hopes and friends are infinite.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE In England\n" + " But little for my profit: can you think, lords,\n" + " That any Englishman dare give me counsel?\n" + " Or be a known friend, 'gainst his highness' pleasure,\n" + " Though he be grown so desperate to be honest,\n" + " And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends,\n" + " They that must weigh out my afflictions,\n" + " They that my trust must grow to, live not here:\n" + " They are, as all my other comforts, far hence\n" + " In mine own country, lords.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS I would your grace\n" + " Would leave your griefs, and take my counsel.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE How, sir?\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Put your main cause into the king's protection;\n" + " He's loving and most gracious: 'twill be much\n" + " Both for your honour better and your cause;\n" + " For if the trial of the law o'ertake ye,\n" + " You'll part away disgraced.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY He tells you rightly.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Ye tell me what ye wish for both,--my ruin:\n" + " Is this your Christian counsel? out upon ye!\n" + " Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge\n" + " That no king can corrupt.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Your rage mistakes us.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE The more shame for ye: holy men I thought ye,\n" + " Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues;\n" + " But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye:\n" + " Mend 'em, for shame, my lords. Is this your comfort?\n" + " The cordial that ye bring a wretched lady,\n" + " A woman lost among ye, laugh'd at, scorn'd?\n" + " I will not wish ye half my miseries;\n" + " I have more charity: but say, I warn'd ye;\n" + " Take heed, for heaven's sake, take heed, lest at once\n" + " The burthen of my sorrows fall upon ye.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Madam, this is a mere distraction;\n" + " You turn the good we offer into envy.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Ye turn me into nothing: woe upon ye\n" + " And all such false professors! would you have me--\n" + " If you have any justice, any pity;\n" + " If ye be any thing but churchmen's habits--\n" + " Put my sick cause into his hands that hates me?\n" + " Alas, has banish'd me his bed already,\n" + " His love, too long ago! I am old, my lords,\n" + " And all the fellowship I hold now with him\n" + " Is only my obedience. What can happen\n" + " To me above this wretchedness? all your studies\n" + " Make me a curse like this.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Your fears are worse.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Have I lived thus long--let me speak myself,\n" + " Since virtue finds no friends--a wife, a true one?\n" + " A woman, I dare say without vain-glory,\n" + " Never yet branded with suspicion?\n" + " Have I with all my full affections\n" + " Still met the king? loved him next heaven?\n" + " obey'd him?\n" + " Been, out of fondness, superstitious to him?\n" + " Almost forgot my prayers to content him?\n" + " And am I thus rewarded? 'tis not well, lords.\n" + " Bring me a constant woman to her husband,\n" + " One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure;\n" + " And to that woman, when she has done most,\n" + " Yet will I add an honour, a great patience.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Madam, you wander from the good we aim at.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE My lord, I dare not make myself so guilty,\n" + " To give up willingly that noble title\n" + " Your master wed me to: nothing but death\n" + " Shall e'er divorce my dignities.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Pray, hear me.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Would I had never trod this English earth,\n" + " Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it!\n" + " Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows your hearts.\n" + " What will become of me now, wretched lady!\n" + " I am the most unhappy woman living.\n" + " Alas, poor wenches, where are now your fortunes!\n" + " Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no pity,\n" + " No friend, no hope; no kindred weep for me;\n" + " Almost no grave allow'd me: like the lily,\n" + " That once was mistress of the field and flourish'd,\n" + " I'll hang my head and perish.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY If your grace\n" + " Could but be brought to know our ends are honest,\n" + " You'ld feel more comfort: why should we, good lady,\n" + " Upon what cause, wrong you? alas, our places,\n" + " The way of our profession is against it:\n" + " We are to cure such sorrows, not to sow 'em.\n" + " For goodness' sake, consider what you do;\n" + " How you may hurt yourself, ay, utterly\n" + " Grow from the king's acquaintance, by this carriage.\n" + " The hearts of princes kiss obedience,\n" + " So much they love it; but to stubborn spirits\n" + " They swell, and grow as terrible as storms.\n" + " I know you have a gentle, noble temper,\n" + " A soul as even as a calm: pray, think us\n" + " Those we profess, peace-makers, friends, and servants.\n\n" + "CARDINAL CAMPEIUS Madam, you'll find it so. You wrong your virtues\n" + " With these weak women's fears: a noble spirit,\n" + " As yours was put into you, ever casts\n" + " Such doubts, as false coin, from it. The king loves you;\n" + " Beware you lose it not: for us, if you please\n" + " To trust us in your business, we are ready\n" + " To use our utmost studies in your service.\n\n" + "QUEEN KATHARINE Do what ye will, my lords: and, pray, forgive me,\n" + " If I have used myself unmannerly;\n" + " You know I am a woman, lacking wit\n" + " To make a seemly answer to such persons.\n" + " Pray, do my service to his majesty:\n" + " He has my heart yet; and shall have my prayers\n" + " While I shall have my life. Come, reverend fathers,\n" + " Bestow your counsels on me: she now begs,\n" + " That little thought, when she set footing here,\n" + " She should have bought her dignities so dear.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Ante-chamber to KING HENRY VIII's apartment.\n\n\n" + " [Enter NORFOLK, SUFFOLK, SURREY, and Chamberlain]\n\n" + "NORFOLK If you will now unite in your complaints,\n" + " And force them with a constancy, the cardinal\n" + " Cannot stand under them: if you omit\n" + " The offer of this time, I cannot promise\n" + " But that you shall sustain moe new disgraces,\n" + " With these you bear already.\n\n" + "SURREY I am joyful\n" + " To meet the least occasion that may give me\n" + " Remembrance of my father-in-law, the duke,\n" + " To be revenged on him.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Which of the peers\n" + " Have uncontemn'd gone by him, or at least\n" + " Strangely neglected? when did he regard\n" + " The stamp of nobleness in any person\n" + " Out of himself?\n\n" + "Chamberlain My lords, you speak your pleasures:\n" + " What he deserves of you and me I know;\n" + " What we can do to him, though now the time\n" + " Gives way to us, I much fear. If you cannot\n" + " Bar his access to the king, never attempt\n" + " Any thing on him; for he hath a witchcraft\n" + " Over the king in's tongue.\n\n" + "NORFOLK O, fear him not;\n" + " His spell in that is out: the king hath found\n" + " Matter against him that for ever mars\n" + " The honey of his language. No, he's settled,\n" + " Not to come off, in his displeasure.\n\n" + "SURREY Sir,\n" + " I should be glad to hear such news as this\n" + " Once every hour.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Believe it, this is true:\n" + " In the divorce his contrary proceedings\n" + " Are all unfolded wherein he appears\n" + " As I would wish mine enemy.\n\n" + "SURREY How came\n" + " His practises to light?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Most strangely.\n\n" + "SURREY O, how, how?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried,\n" + " And came to the eye o' the king: wherein was read,\n" + " How that the cardinal did entreat his holiness\n" + " To stay the judgment o' the divorce; for if\n" + " It did take place, 'I do,' quoth he, 'perceive\n" + " My king is tangled in affection to\n" + " A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.'\n\n" + "SURREY Has the king this?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Believe it.\n\n" + "SURREY Will this work?\n\n" + "Chamberlain The king in this perceives him, how he coasts\n" + " And hedges his own way. But in this point\n" + " All his tricks founder, and he brings his physic\n" + " After his patient's death: the king already\n" + " Hath married the fair lady.\n\n" + "SURREY Would he had!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK May you be happy in your wish, my lord\n" + " For, I profess, you have it.\n\n" + "SURREY Now, all my joy\n" + " Trace the conjunction!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK My amen to't!\n\n" + "NORFOLK All men's!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK There's order given for her coronation:\n" + " Marry, this is yet but young, and may be left\n" + " To some ears unrecounted. But, my lords,\n" + " She is a gallant creature, and complete\n" + " In mind and feature: I persuade me, from her\n" + " Will fall some blessing to this land, which shall\n" + " In it be memorised.\n\n" + "SURREY But, will the king\n" + " Digest this letter of the cardinal's?\n" + " The Lord forbid!\n\n" + "NORFOLK Marry, amen!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK No, no;\n" + " There be moe wasps that buzz about his nose\n" + " Will make this sting the sooner. Cardinal Campeius\n" + " Is stol'n away to Rome; hath ta'en no leave;\n" + " Has left the cause o' the king unhandled; and\n" + " Is posted, as the agent of our cardinal,\n" + " To second all his plot. I do assure you\n" + " The king cried Ha! at this.\n\n" + "Chamberlain Now, God incense him,\n" + " And let him cry Ha! louder!\n\n" + "NORFOLK But, my lord,\n" + " When returns Cranmer?\n\n" + "SUFFOLK He is return'd in his opinions; which\n" + " Have satisfied the king for his divorce,\n" + " Together with all famous colleges\n" + " Almost in Christendom: shortly, I believe,\n" + " His second marriage shall be publish'd, and\n" + " Her coronation. Katharine no more\n" + " Shall be call'd queen, but princess dowager\n" + " And widow to Prince Arthur.\n\n" + "NORFOLK This same Cranmer's\n" + " A worthy fellow, and hath ta'en much pain\n" + " In the king's business.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK He has; and we shall see him\n" + " For it an archbishop.\n\n" + "NORFOLK So I hear.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK 'Tis so.\n" + " The cardinal!\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL WOLSEY and CROMWELL]\n\n" + "NORFOLK Observe, observe, he's moody.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY The packet, Cromwell.\n" + " Gave't you the king?\n\n" + "CROMWELL To his own hand, in's bedchamber.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Look'd he o' the inside of the paper?\n\n" + "CROMWELL Presently\n" + " He did unseal them: and the first he view'd,\n" + " He did it with a serious mind; a heed\n" + " Was in his countenance. You he bade\n" + " Attend him here this morning.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Is he ready\n" + " To come abroad?\n\n" + "CROMWELL I think, by this he is.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Leave me awhile.\n\n" + " [Exit CROMWELL]\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " It shall be to the Duchess of Alencon,\n" + " The French king's sister: he shall marry her.\n" + " Anne Bullen! No; I'll no Anne Bullens for him:\n" + " There's more in't than fair visage. Bullen!\n" + " No, we'll no Bullens. Speedily I wish\n" + " To hear from Rome. The Marchioness of Pembroke!\n\n" + "NORFOLK He's discontented.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK May be, he hears the king\n" + " Does whet his anger to him.\n\n" + "SURREY Sharp enough,\n" + " Lord, for thy justice!\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY [Aside] The late queen's gentlewoman,\n" + " a knight's daughter,\n" + " To be her mistress' mistress! the queen's queen!\n" + " This candle burns not clear: 'tis I must snuff it;\n" + " Then out it goes. What though I know her virtuous\n" + " And well deserving? yet I know her for\n" + " A spleeny Lutheran; and not wholesome to\n" + " Our cause, that she should lie i' the bosom of\n" + " Our hard-ruled king. Again, there is sprung up\n" + " An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer; one\n" + " Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king,\n" + " And is his oracle.\n\n" + "NORFOLK He is vex'd at something.\n\n" + "SURREY I would 'twere something that would fret the string,\n" + " The master-cord on's heart!\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VIII, reading of a schedule, and LOVELL]\n\n" + "SUFFOLK The king, the king!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII What piles of wealth hath he accumulated\n" + " To his own portion! and what expense by the hour\n" + " Seems to flow from him! How, i' the name of thrift,\n" + " Does he rake this together! Now, my lords,\n" + " Saw you the cardinal?\n\n" + "NORFOLK My lord, we have\n" + " Stood here observing him: some strange commotion\n" + " Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts;\n" + " Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,\n" + " Then lays his finger on his temple, straight\n" + " Springs out into fast gait; then stops again,\n" + " Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts\n" + " His eye against the moon: in most strange postures\n" + " We have seen him set himself.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII It may well be;\n" + " There is a mutiny in's mind. This morning\n" + " Papers of state he sent me to peruse,\n" + " As I required: and wot you what I found\n" + " There,--on my conscience, put unwittingly?\n" + " Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing;\n" + " The several parcels of his plate, his treasure,\n" + " Rich stuffs, and ornaments of household; which\n" + " I find at such proud rate, that it out-speaks\n" + " Possession of a subject.\n\n" + "NORFOLK It's heaven's will:\n" + " Some spirit put this paper in the packet,\n" + " To bless your eye withal.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII If we did think\n" + " His contemplation were above the earth,\n" + " And fix'd on spiritual object, he should still\n" + " Dwell in his musings: but I am afraid\n" + " His thinkings are below the moon, not worth\n" + " His serious considering.\n\n" + " [King HENRY VIII takes his seat; whispers LOVELL,\n" + " who goes to CARDINAL WOLSEY]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Heaven forgive me!\n" + " Ever God bless your highness!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Good my lord,\n" + " You are full of heavenly stuff, and bear the inventory\n" + " Of your best graces in your mind; the which\n" + " You were now running o'er: you have scarce time\n" + " To steal from spiritual leisure a brief span\n" + " To keep your earthly audit: sure, in that\n" + " I deem you an ill husband, and am glad\n" + " To have you therein my companion.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Sir,\n" + " For holy offices I have a time; a time\n" + " To think upon the part of business which\n" + " I bear i' the state; and nature does require\n" + " Her times of preservation, which perforce\n" + " I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal,\n" + " Must give my tendence to.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII You have said well.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY And ever may your highness yoke together,\n" + " As I will lend you cause, my doing well\n" + " With my well saying!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII 'Tis well said again;\n" + " And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well:\n" + " And yet words are no deeds. My father loved you:\n" + " His said he did; and with his deed did crown\n" + " His word upon you. Since I had my office,\n" + " I have kept you next my heart; have not alone\n" + " Employ'd you where high profits might come home,\n" + " But pared my present havings, to bestow\n" + " My bounties upon you.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY [Aside] What should this mean?\n\n" + "SURREY [Aside] The Lord increase this business!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Have I not made you,\n" + " The prime man of the state? I pray you, tell me,\n" + " If what I now pronounce you have found true:\n" + " And, if you may confess it, say withal,\n" + " If you are bound to us or no. What say you?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY My sovereign, I confess your royal graces,\n" + " Shower'd on me daily, have been more than could\n" + " My studied purposes requite; which went\n" + " Beyond all man's endeavours: my endeavours\n" + " Have ever come too short of my desires,\n" + " Yet filed with my abilities: mine own ends\n" + " Have been mine so that evermore they pointed\n" + " To the good of your most sacred person and\n" + " The profit of the state. For your great graces\n" + " Heap'd upon me, poor undeserver, I\n" + " Can nothing render but allegiant thanks,\n" + " My prayers to heaven for you, my loyalty,\n" + " Which ever has and ever shall be growing,\n" + " Till death, that winter, kill it.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Fairly answer'd;\n" + " A loyal and obedient subject is\n" + " Therein illustrated: the honour of it\n" + " Does pay the act of it; as, i' the contrary,\n" + " The foulness is the punishment. I presume\n" + " That, as my hand has open'd bounty to you,\n" + " My heart dropp'd love, my power rain'd honour, more\n" + " On you than any; so your hand and heart,\n" + " Your brain, and every function of your power,\n" + " Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty,\n" + " As 'twere in love's particular, be more\n" + " To me, your friend, than any.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY I do profess\n" + " That for your highness' good I ever labour'd\n" + " More than mine own; that am, have, and will be--\n" + " Though all the world should crack their duty to you,\n" + " And throw it from their soul; though perils did\n" + " Abound, as thick as thought could make 'em, and\n" + " Appear in forms more horrid,--yet my duty,\n" + " As doth a rock against the chiding flood,\n" + " Should the approach of this wild river break,\n" + " And stand unshaken yours.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII 'Tis nobly spoken:\n" + " Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast,\n" + " For you have seen him open't. Read o'er this;\n\n" + " [Giving him papers]\n\n" + " And after, this: and then to breakfast with\n" + " What appetite you have.\n\n" + " [Exit KING HENRY VIII, frowning upon CARDINAL WOLSEY:\n" + " the Nobles throng after him, smiling and whispering]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY What should this mean?\n" + " What sudden anger's this? how have I reap'd it?\n" + " He parted frowning from me, as if ruin\n" + " Leap'd from his eyes: so looks the chafed lion\n" + " Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd him;\n" + " Then makes him nothing. I must read this paper;\n" + " I fear, the story of his anger. 'Tis so;\n" + " This paper has undone me: 'tis the account\n" + " Of all that world of wealth I have drawn together\n" + " For mine own ends; indeed, to gain the popedom,\n" + " And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence!\n" + " Fit for a fool to fall by: what cross devil\n" + " Made me put this main secret in the packet\n" + " I sent the king? Is there no way to cure this?\n" + " No new device to beat this from his brains?\n" + " I know 'twill stir him strongly; yet I know\n" + " A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune\n" + " Will bring me off again. What's this? 'To the Pope!'\n" + " The letter, as I live, with all the business\n" + " I writ to's holiness. Nay then, farewell!\n" + " I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;\n" + " And, from that full meridian of my glory,\n" + " I haste now to my setting: I shall fall\n" + " Like a bright exhalation m the evening,\n" + " And no man see me more.\n\n" + " [Re-enter to CARDINAL WOLSEY, NORFOLK and SUFFOLK, SURREY,\n" + " and the Chamberlain]\n\n" + "NORFOLK Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal: who commands you\n" + " To render up the great seal presently\n" + " Into our hands; and to confine yourself\n" + " To Asher House, my Lord of Winchester's,\n" + " Till you hear further from his highness.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Stay:\n" + " Where's your commission, lords? words cannot carry\n" + " Authority so weighty.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Who dare cross 'em,\n" + " Bearing the king's will from his mouth expressly?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Till I find more than will or words to do it,\n" + " I mean your malice, know, officious lords,\n" + " I dare and must deny it. Now I feel\n" + " Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, envy:\n" + " How eagerly ye follow my disgraces,\n" + " As if it fed ye! and how sleek and wanton\n" + " Ye appear in every thing may bring my ruin!\n" + " Follow your envious courses, men of malice;\n" + " You have Christian warrant for 'em, and, no doubt,\n" + " In time will find their fit rewards. That seal,\n" + " You ask with such a violence, the king,\n" + " Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me;\n" + " Bade me enjoy it, with the place and honours,\n" + " During my life; and, to confirm his goodness,\n" + " Tied it by letters-patents: now, who'll take it?\n\n" + "SURREY The king, that gave it.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY It must be himself, then.\n\n" + "SURREY Thou art a proud traitor, priest.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Proud lord, thou liest:\n" + " Within these forty hours Surrey durst better\n" + " Have burnt that tongue than said so.\n\n" + "SURREY Thy ambition,\n" + " Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land\n" + " Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law:\n" + " The heads of all thy brother cardinals,\n" + " With thee and all thy best parts bound together,\n" + " Weigh'd not a hair of his. Plague of your policy!\n" + " You sent me deputy for Ireland;\n" + " Far from his succor, from the king, from all\n" + " That might have mercy on the fault thou gavest him;\n" + " Whilst your great goodness, out of holy pity,\n" + " Absolved him with an axe.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY This, and all else\n" + " This talking lord can lay upon my credit,\n" + " I answer is most false. The duke by law\n" + " Found his deserts: how innocent I was\n" + " From any private malice in his end,\n" + " His noble jury and foul cause can witness.\n" + " If I loved many words, lord, I should tell you\n" + " You have as little honesty as honour,\n" + " That in the way of loyalty and truth\n" + " Toward the king, my ever royal master,\n" + " Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be,\n" + " And all that love his follies.\n\n" + "SURREY By my soul,\n" + " Your long coat, priest, protects you; thou\n" + " shouldst feel\n" + " My sword i' the life-blood of thee else. My lords,\n" + " Can ye endure to hear this arrogance?\n" + " And from this fellow? if we live thus tamely,\n" + " To be thus jaded by a piece of scarlet,\n" + " Farewell nobility; let his grace go forward,\n" + " And dare us with his cap like larks.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY All goodness\n" + " Is poison to thy stomach.\n\n" + "SURREY Yes, that goodness\n" + " Of gleaning all the land's wealth into one,\n" + " Into your own hands, cardinal, by extortion;\n" + " The goodness of your intercepted packets\n" + " You writ to the pope against the king: your goodness,\n" + " Since you provoke me, shall be most notorious.\n" + " My Lord of Norfolk, as you are truly noble,\n" + " As you respect the common good, the state\n" + " Of our despised nobility, our issues,\n" + " Who, if he live, will scarce be gentlemen,\n" + " Produce the grand sum of his sins, the articles\n" + " Collected from his life. I'll startle you\n" + " Worse than the scaring bell, when the brown wench\n" + " Lay kissing in your arms, lord cardinal.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY How much, methinks, I could despise this man,\n" + " But that I am bound in charity against it!\n\n" + "NORFOLK Those articles, my lord, are in the king's hand:\n" + " But, thus much, they are foul ones.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY So much fairer\n" + " And spotless shall mine innocence arise,\n" + " When the king knows my truth.\n\n" + "SURREY This cannot save you:\n" + " I thank my memory, I yet remember\n" + " Some of these articles; and out they shall.\n" + " Now, if you can blush and cry 'guilty,' cardinal,\n" + " You'll show a little honesty.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Speak on, sir;\n" + " I dare your worst objections: if I blush,\n" + " It is to see a nobleman want manners.\n\n" + "SURREY I had rather want those than my head. Have at you!\n" + " First, that, without the king's assent or knowledge,\n" + " You wrought to be a legate; by which power\n" + " You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Then, that in all you writ to Rome, or else\n" + " To foreign princes, 'Ego et Rex meus'\n" + " Was still inscribed; in which you brought the king\n" + " To be your servant.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Then that, without the knowledge\n" + " Either of king or council, when you went\n" + " Ambassador to the emperor, you made bold\n" + " To carry into Flanders the great seal.\n\n" + "SURREY Item, you sent a large commission\n" + " To Gregory de Cassado, to conclude,\n" + " Without the king's will or the state's allowance,\n" + " A league between his highness and Ferrara.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK That, out of mere ambition, you have caused\n" + " Your holy hat to be stamp'd on the king's coin.\n\n" + "SURREY Then that you have sent innumerable substance--\n" + " By what means got, I leave to your own conscience--\n" + " To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways\n" + " You have for dignities; to the mere undoing\n" + " Of all the kingdom. Many more there are;\n" + " Which, since they are of you, and odious,\n" + " I will not taint my mouth with.\n\n" + "Chamberlain O my lord,\n" + " Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:\n" + " His faults lie open to the laws; let them,\n" + " Not you, correct him. My heart weeps to see him\n" + " So little of his great self.\n\n" + "SURREY I forgive him.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Lord cardinal, the king's further pleasure is,\n" + " Because all those things you have done of late,\n" + " By your power legatine, within this kingdom,\n" + " Fall into the compass of a praemunire,\n" + " That therefore such a writ be sued against you;\n" + " To forfeit all your goods, lands, tenements,\n" + " Chattels, and whatsoever, and to be\n" + " Out of the king's protection. This is my charge.\n\n" + "NORFOLK And so we'll leave you to your meditations\n" + " How to live better. For your stubborn answer\n" + " About the giving back the great seal to us,\n" + " The king shall know it, and, no doubt, shall thank you.\n" + " So fare you well, my little good lord cardinal.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but CARDINAL WOLSEY]\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY So farewell to the little good you bear me.\n" + " Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness!\n" + " This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth\n" + " The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms,\n" + " And bears his blushing honours thick upon him;\n" + " The third day comes a frost, a killing frost,\n" + " And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely\n" + " His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root,\n" + " And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured,\n" + " Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,\n" + " This many summers in a sea of glory,\n" + " But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride\n" + " At length broke under me and now has left me,\n" + " Weary and old with service, to the mercy\n" + " Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.\n" + " Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye:\n" + " I feel my heart new open'd. O, how wretched\n" + " Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours!\n" + " There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,\n" + " That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,\n" + " More pangs and fears than wars or women have:\n" + " And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,\n" + " Never to hope again.\n\n" + " [Enter CROMWELL, and stands amazed]\n\n" + " Why, how now, Cromwell!\n\n" + "CROMWELL I have no power to speak, sir.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY What, amazed\n" + " At my misfortunes? can thy spirit wonder\n" + " A great man should decline? Nay, an you weep,\n" + " I am fall'n indeed.\n\n" + "CROMWELL How does your grace?\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Why, well;\n" + " Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell.\n" + " I know myself now; and I feel within me\n" + " A peace above all earthly dignities,\n" + " A still and quiet conscience. The king has cured me,\n" + " I humbly thank his grace; and from these shoulders,\n" + " These ruin'd pillars, out of pity, taken\n" + " A load would sink a navy, too much honour:\n" + " O, 'tis a burthen, Cromwell, 'tis a burthen\n" + " Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven!\n\n" + "CROMWELL I am glad your grace has made that right use of it.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY I hope I have: I am able now, methinks,\n" + " Out of a fortitude of soul I feel,\n" + " To endure more miseries and greater far\n" + " Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer.\n" + " What news abroad?\n\n" + "CROMWELL The heaviest and the worst\n" + " Is your displeasure with the king.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY God bless him!\n\n" + "CROMWELL The next is, that Sir Thomas More is chosen\n" + " Lord chancellor in your place.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY That's somewhat sudden:\n" + " But he's a learned man. May he continue\n" + " Long in his highness' favour, and do justice\n" + " For truth's sake and his conscience; that his bones,\n" + " When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings,\n" + " May have a tomb of orphans' tears wept on em! What more?\n\n" + "CROMWELL That Cranmer is return'd with welcome,\n" + " Install'd lord archbishop of Canterbury.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY That's news indeed.\n\n" + "CROMWELL Last, that the Lady Anne,\n" + " Whom the king hath in secrecy long married,\n" + " This day was view'd in open as his queen,\n" + " Going to chapel; and the voice is now\n" + " Only about her coronation.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY There was the weight that pull'd me down. O Cromwell,\n" + " The king has gone beyond me: all my glories\n" + " In that one woman I have lost for ever:\n" + " No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours,\n" + " Or gild again the noble troops that waited\n" + " Upon my smiles. Go, get thee from me, Cromwell;\n" + " I am a poor fall'n man, unworthy now\n" + " To be thy lord and master: seek the king;\n" + " That sun, I pray, may never set! I have told him\n" + " What and how true thou art: he will advance thee;\n" + " Some little memory of me will stir him--\n" + " I know his noble nature--not to let\n" + " Thy hopeful service perish too: good Cromwell,\n" + " Neglect him not; make use now, and provide\n" + " For thine own future safety.\n\n" + "CROMWELL O my lord,\n" + " Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego\n" + " So good, so noble and so true a master?\n" + " Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron,\n" + " With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord.\n" + " The king shall have my service: but my prayers\n" + " For ever and for ever shall be yours.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear\n" + " In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me,\n" + " Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman.\n" + " Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell;\n" + " And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be,\n" + " And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention\n" + " Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee,\n" + " Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,\n" + " And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour,\n" + " Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in;\n" + " A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it.\n" + " Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me.\n" + " Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition:\n" + " By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then,\n" + " The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?\n" + " Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;\n" + " Corruption wins not more than honesty.\n" + " Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,\n" + " To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not:\n" + " Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,\n" + " Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st,\n" + " O Cromwell,\n" + " Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! Serve the king;\n" + " And,--prithee, lead me in:\n" + " There take an inventory of all I have,\n" + " To the last penny; 'tis the king's: my robe,\n" + " And my integrity to heaven, is all\n" + " I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell!\n" + " Had I but served my God with half the zeal\n" + " I served my king, he would not in mine age\n" + " Have left me naked to mine enemies.\n\n" + "CROMWELL Good sir, have patience.\n\n" + "CARDINAL WOLSEY So I have. Farewell\n" + " The hopes of court! my hopes in heaven do dwell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A street in Westminster.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Gentlemen, meeting one another]\n\n" + "First Gentleman You're well met once again.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman So are you.\n\n" + "First Gentleman You come to take your stand here, and behold\n" + " The Lady Anne pass from her coronation?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman 'Tis all my business. At our last encounter,\n" + " The Duke of Buckingham came from his trial.\n\n" + "First Gentleman 'Tis very true: but that time offer'd sorrow;\n" + " This, general joy.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman 'Tis well: the citizens,\n" + " I am sure, have shown at full their royal minds--\n" + " As, let 'em have their rights, they are ever forward--\n" + " In celebration of this day with shows,\n" + " Pageants and sights of honour.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Never greater,\n" + " Nor, I'll assure you, better taken, sir.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman May I be bold to ask at what that contains,\n" + " That paper in your hand?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Yes; 'tis the list\n" + " Of those that claim their offices this day\n" + " By custom of the coronation.\n" + " The Duke of Suffolk is the first, and claims\n" + " To be high-steward; next, the Duke of Norfolk,\n" + " He to be earl marshal: you may read the rest.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I thank you, sir: had I not known those customs,\n" + " I should have been beholding to your paper.\n" + " But, I beseech you, what's become of Katharine,\n" + " The princess dowager? how goes her business?\n\n" + "First Gentleman That I can tell you too. The Archbishop\n" + " Of Canterbury, accompanied with other\n" + " Learned and reverend fathers of his order,\n" + " Held a late court at Dunstable, six miles off\n" + " From Ampthill where the princess lay; to which\n" + " She was often cited by them, but appear'd not:\n" + " And, to be short, for not appearance and\n" + " The king's late scruple, by the main assent\n" + " Of all these learned men she was divorced,\n" + " And the late marriage made of none effect\n" + " Since which she was removed to Kimbolton,\n" + " Where she remains now sick.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Alas, good lady!\n\n" + " [Trumpets]\n\n" + " The trumpets sound: stand close, the queen is coming.\n\n" + " [Hautboys]\n\n" + " [THE ORDER OF THE CORONATION]\n\n" + " 1. A lively flourish of Trumpets.\n\n" + " 2. Then, two Judges.\n\n" + " 3. Lord Chancellor, with the purse and mace\n" + " before him.\n\n" + " 4. Choristers, singing.\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + " 5. Mayor of London, bearing the mace. Then\n" + " Garter, in his coat of arms, and on his\n" + " head a gilt copper crown.\n\n" + " 6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold,\n" + " on his head a demi-coronal of gold. With\n" + " him, SURREY, bearing the rod of silver with\n" + " the dove, crowned with an earl's coronet.\n" + " Collars of SS.\n\n" + " 7. SUFFOLK, in his robe of estate, his coronet\n" + " on his head, bearing a long white wand, as\n" + " high-steward. With him, NORFOLK, with the\n" + " rod of marshalship, a coronet on his head.\n" + " Collars of SS.\n\n" + " 8. A canopy borne by four of the Cinque-ports;\n" + " under it, QUEEN ANNE in her robe; in her hair\n" + " richly adorned with pearl, crowned. On each\n" + " side her, the Bishops of London and\n" + " Winchester.\n\n" + " 9. The old Duchess of Norfolk, in a coronal of\n" + " gold, wrought with flowers, bearing QUEEN\n" + " ANNE's train.\n\n" + " 10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain\n" + " circlets of gold without flowers.\n\n" + " [They pass over the stage in order and state]\n\n" + "Second Gentleman A royal train, believe me. These I know:\n" + " Who's that that bears the sceptre?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Marquess Dorset:\n" + " And that the Earl of Surrey, with the rod.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman A bold brave gentleman. That should be\n" + " The Duke of Suffolk?\n\n" + "First Gentleman 'Tis the same: high-steward.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman And that my Lord of Norfolk?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Yes;\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Heaven bless thee!\n\n" + " [Looking on QUEEN ANNE]\n\n" + " Thou hast the sweetest face I ever look'd on.\n" + " Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel;\n" + " Our king has all the Indies in his arms,\n" + " And more and richer, when he strains that lady:\n" + " I cannot blame his conscience.\n\n" + "First Gentleman They that bear\n" + " The cloth of honour over her, are four barons\n" + " Of the Cinque-ports.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Those men are happy; and so are all are near her.\n" + " I take it, she that carries up the train\n" + " Is that old noble lady, Duchess of Norfolk.\n\n" + "First Gentleman It is; and all the rest are countesses.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Their coronets say so. These are stars indeed;\n" + " And sometimes falling ones.\n\n" + "First Gentleman No more of that.\n\n" + " [Exit procession, and then a great flourish of trumpets]\n\n" + " [Enter a third Gentleman]\n\n" + "First Gentleman God save you, sir! where have you been broiling?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Among the crowd i' the Abbey; where a finger\n" + " Could not be wedged in more: I am stifled\n" + " With the mere rankness of their joy.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman You saw\n" + " The ceremony?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman That I did.\n\n" + "First Gentleman How was it?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Well worth the seeing.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Good sir, speak it to us.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman As well as I am able. The rich stream\n" + " Of lords and ladies, having brought the queen\n" + " To a prepared place in the choir, fell off\n" + " A distance from her; while her grace sat down\n" + " To rest awhile, some half an hour or so,\n" + " In a rich chair of state, opposing freely\n" + " The beauty of her person to the people.\n" + " Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman\n" + " That ever lay by man: which when the people\n" + " Had the full view of, such a noise arose\n" + " As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,\n" + " As loud, and to as many tunes: hats, cloaks--\n" + " Doublets, I think,--flew up; and had their faces\n" + " Been loose, this day they had been lost. Such joy\n" + " I never saw before. Great-bellied women,\n" + " That had not half a week to go, like rams\n" + " In the old time of war, would shake the press,\n" + " And make 'em reel before 'em. No man living\n" + " Could say 'This is my wife' there; all were woven\n" + " So strangely in one piece.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman But, what follow'd?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman At length her grace rose, and with modest paces\n" + " Came to the altar; where she kneel'd, and saint-like\n" + " Cast her fair eyes to heaven and pray'd devoutly.\n" + " Then rose again and bow'd her to the people:\n" + " When by the Archbishop of Canterbury\n" + " She had all the royal makings of a queen;\n" + " As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,\n" + " The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems\n" + " Laid nobly on her: which perform'd, the choir,\n" + " With all the choicest music of the kingdom,\n" + " Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted,\n" + " And with the same full state paced back again\n" + " To York-place, where the feast is held.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Sir,\n" + " You must no more call it York-place, that's past;\n" + " For, since the cardinal fell, that title's lost:\n" + " 'Tis now the king's, and call'd Whitehall.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman I know it;\n" + " But 'tis so lately alter'd, that the old name\n" + " Is fresh about me.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman What two reverend bishops\n" + " Were those that went on each side of the queen?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Stokesly and Gardiner; the one of Winchester,\n" + " Newly preferr'd from the king's secretary,\n" + " The other, London.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman He of Winchester\n" + " Is held no great good lover of the archbishop's,\n" + " The virtuous Cranmer.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman All the land knows that:\n" + " However, yet there is no great breach; when it comes,\n" + " Cranmer will find a friend will not shrink from him.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Who may that be, I pray you?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Thomas Cromwell;\n" + " A man in much esteem with the king, and truly\n" + " A worthy friend. The king has made him master\n" + " O' the jewel house,\n" + " And one, already, of the privy council.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman He will deserve more.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Yes, without all doubt.\n" + " Come, gentlemen, ye shall go my way, which\n" + " Is to the court, and there ye shall be my guests:\n" + " Something I can command. As I walk thither,\n" + " I'll tell ye more.\n\n" + "Both You may command us, sir.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Kimbolton.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KATHARINE, Dowager, sick; led between\n" + " GRIFFITH, her gentleman usher, and PATIENCE, her woman]\n\n" + "GRIFFITH How does your grace?\n\n" + "KATHARINE O Griffith, sick to death!\n" + " My legs, like loaden branches, bow to the earth,\n" + " Willing to leave their burthen. Reach a chair:\n" + " So; now, methinks, I feel a little ease.\n" + " Didst thou not tell me, Griffith, as thou led'st me,\n" + " That the great child of honour, Cardinal Wolsey, Was dead?\n\n" + "GRIFFITH Yes, madam; but I think your grace,\n" + " Out of the pain you suffer'd, gave no ear to't.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Prithee, good Griffith, tell me how he died:\n" + " If well, he stepp'd before me, happily\n" + " For my example.\n\n" + "GRIFFITH Well, the voice goes, madam:\n" + " For after the stout Earl Northumberland\n" + " Arrested him at York, and brought him forward,\n" + " As a man sorely tainted, to his answer,\n" + " He fell sick suddenly, and grew so ill\n" + " He could not sit his mule.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Alas, poor man!\n\n" + "GRIFFITH At last, with easy roads, he came to Leicester,\n" + " Lodged in the abbey; where the reverend abbot,\n" + " With all his covent, honourably received him;\n" + " To whom he gave these words, 'O, father abbot,\n" + " An old man, broken with the storms of state,\n" + " Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;\n" + " Give him a little earth for charity!'\n" + " So went to bed; where eagerly his sickness\n" + " Pursued him still: and, three nights after this,\n" + " About the hour of eight, which he himself\n" + " Foretold should be his last, full of repentance,\n" + " Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows,\n" + " He gave his honours to the world again,\n" + " His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.\n\n" + "KATHARINE So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!\n" + " Yet thus far, Griffith, give me leave to speak him,\n" + " And yet with charity. He was a man\n" + " Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking\n" + " Himself with princes; one that, by suggestion,\n" + " Tied all the kingdom: simony was fair-play;\n" + " His own opinion was his law: i' the presence\n" + " He would say untruths; and be ever double\n" + " Both in his words and meaning: he was never,\n" + " But where he meant to ruin, pitiful:\n" + " His promises were, as he then was, mighty;\n" + " But his performance, as he is now, nothing:\n" + " Of his own body he was ill, and gave\n" + " The clergy in example.\n\n" + "GRIFFITH Noble madam,\n" + " Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues\n" + " We write in water. May it please your highness\n" + " To hear me speak his good now?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Yes, good Griffith;\n" + " I were malicious else.\n\n" + "GRIFFITH This cardinal,\n" + " Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly\n" + " Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle.\n" + " He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;\n" + " Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading:\n" + " Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;\n" + " But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.\n" + " And though he were unsatisfied in getting,\n" + " Which was a sin, yet in bestowing, madam,\n" + " He was most princely: ever witness for him\n" + " Those twins Of learning that he raised in you,\n" + " Ipswich and Oxford! one of which fell with him,\n" + " Unwilling to outlive the good that did it;\n" + " The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous,\n" + " So excellent in art, and still so rising,\n" + " That Christendom shall ever speak his virtue.\n" + " His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him;\n" + " For then, and not till then, he felt himself,\n" + " And found the blessedness of being little:\n" + " And, to add greater honours to his age\n" + " Than man could give him, he died fearing God.\n\n" + "KATHARINE After my death I wish no other herald,\n" + " No other speaker of my living actions,\n" + " To keep mine honour from corruption,\n" + " But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.\n" + " Whom I most hated living, thou hast made me,\n" + " With thy religious truth and modesty,\n" + " Now in his ashes honour: peace be with him!\n" + " Patience, be near me still; and set me lower:\n" + " I have not long to trouble thee. Good Griffith,\n" + " Cause the musicians play me that sad note\n" + " I named my knell, whilst I sit meditating\n" + " On that celestial harmony I go to.\n\n" + " [Sad and solemn music]\n\n" + "GRIFFITH She is asleep: good wench, let's sit down quiet,\n" + " For fear we wake her: softly, gentle Patience.\n\n" + " [The vision. Enter, solemnly tripping one after\n" + " another, six personages, clad in white robes,\n" + " wearing on their heads garlands of bays, and golden\n" + " vizards on their faces; branches of bays or palm in\n" + " their hands. They first congee unto her, then\n" + " dance; and, at certain changes, the first two hold\n" + " a spare garland over her head; at which the other\n" + " four make reverent curtsies; then the two that held\n" + " the garland deliver the same to the other next two,\n" + " who observe the same order in their changes, and\n" + " holding the garland over her head: which done,\n" + " they deliver the same garland to the last two, who\n" + " likewise observe the same order: at which, as it\n" + " were by inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs\n" + " of rejoicing, and holdeth up her hands to heaven:\n" + " and so in their dancing vanish, carrying the\n" + " garland with them. The music continues]\n\n" + "KATHARINE Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone,\n" + " And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye?\n\n" + "GRIFFITH Madam, we are here.\n\n" + "KATHARINE It is not you I call for:\n" + " Saw ye none enter since I slept?\n\n" + "GRIFFITH None, madam.\n\n" + "KATHARINE No? Saw you not, even now, a blessed troop\n" + " Invite me to a banquet; whose bright faces\n" + " Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun?\n" + " They promised me eternal happiness;\n" + " And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I feel\n" + " I am not worthy yet to wear: I shall, assuredly.\n\n" + "GRIFFITH I am most joyful, madam, such good dreams\n" + " Possess your fancy.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Bid the music leave,\n" + " They are harsh and heavy to me.\n\n" + " [Music ceases]\n\n" + "PATIENCE Do you note\n" + " How much her grace is alter'd on the sudden?\n" + " How long her face is drawn? how pale she looks,\n" + " And of an earthy cold? Mark her eyes!\n\n" + "GRIFFITH She is going, wench: pray, pray.\n\n" + "PATIENCE Heaven comfort her!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger An't like your grace,--\n\n" + "KATHARINE You are a saucy fellow:\n" + " Deserve we no more reverence?\n\n" + "GRIFFITH You are to blame,\n" + " Knowing she will not lose her wonted greatness,\n" + " To use so rude behavior; go to, kneel.\n\n" + "Messenger I humbly do entreat your highness' pardon;\n" + " My haste made me unmannerly. There is staying\n" + " A gentleman, sent from the king, to see you.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Admit him entrance, Griffith: but this fellow\n" + " Let me ne'er see again.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GRIFFITH and Messenger]\n\n" + " [Re-enter GRIFFITH, with CAPUCIUS]\n\n" + " If my sight fail not,\n" + " You should be lord ambassador from the emperor,\n" + " My royal nephew, and your name Capucius.\n\n" + "CAPUCIUS Madam, the same; your servant.\n\n" + "KATHARINE O, my lord,\n" + " The times and titles now are alter'd strangely\n" + " With me since first you knew me. But, I pray you,\n" + " What is your pleasure with me?\n\n" + "CAPUCIUS Noble lady,\n" + " First mine own service to your grace; the next,\n" + " The king's request that I would visit you;\n" + " Who grieves much for your weakness, and by me\n" + " Sends you his princely commendations,\n" + " And heartily entreats you take good comfort.\n\n" + "KATHARINE O my good lord, that comfort comes too late;\n" + " 'Tis like a pardon after execution:\n" + " That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;\n" + " But now I am past an comforts here, but prayers.\n" + " How does his highness?\n\n" + "CAPUCIUS Madam, in good health.\n\n" + "KATHARINE So may he ever do! and ever flourish,\n" + " When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name\n" + " Banish'd the kingdom! Patience, is that letter,\n" + " I caused you write, yet sent away?\n\n" + "PATIENCE No, madam.\n\n" + " [Giving it to KATHARINE]\n\n" + "KATHARINE Sir, I most humbly pray you to deliver\n" + " This to my lord the king.\n\n" + "CAPUCIUS Most willing, madam.\n\n" + "KATHARINE In which I have commended to his goodness\n" + " The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter;\n" + " The dews of heaven fall thick in blessings on her!\n" + " Beseeching him to give her virtuous breeding--\n" + " She is young, and of a noble modest nature,\n" + " I hope she will deserve well,--and a little\n" + " To love her for her mother's sake, that loved him,\n" + " Heaven knows how dearly. My next poor petition\n" + " Is, that his noble grace would have some pity\n" + " Upon my wretched women, that so long\n" + " Have follow'd both my fortunes faithfully:\n" + " Of which there is not one, I dare avow,\n" + " And now I should not lie, but will deserve\n" + " For virtue and true beauty of the soul,\n" + " For honesty and decent carriage,\n" + " A right good husband, let him be a noble\n" + " And, sure, those men are happy that shall have 'em.\n" + " The last is, for my men; they are the poorest,\n" + " But poverty could never draw 'em from me;\n" + " That they may have their wages duly paid 'em,\n" + " And something over to remember me by:\n" + " If heaven had pleased to have given me longer life\n" + " And able means, we had not parted thus.\n" + " These are the whole contents: and, good my lord,\n" + " By that you love the dearest in this world,\n" + " As you wish Christian peace to souls departed,\n" + " Stand these poor people's friend, and urge the king\n" + " To do me this last right.\n\n" + "CAPUCIUS By heaven, I will,\n" + " Or let me lose the fashion of a man!\n\n" + "KATHARINE I thank you, honest lord. Remember me\n" + " In all humility unto his highness:\n" + " Say his long trouble now is passing\n" + " Out of this world; tell him, in death I bless'd him,\n" + " For so I will. Mine eyes grow dim. Farewell,\n" + " My lord. Griffith, farewell. Nay, Patience,\n" + " You must not leave me yet: I must to bed;\n" + " Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench,\n" + " Let me be used with honour: strew me over\n" + " With maiden flowers, that all the world may know\n" + " I was a chaste wife to my grave: embalm me,\n" + " Then lay me forth: although unqueen'd, yet like\n" + " A queen, and daughter to a king, inter me.\n" + " I can no more.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, leading KATHARINE]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. A gallery in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GARDINER, Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a\n" + " torch before him, met by LOVELL]\n\n" + "GARDINER It's one o'clock, boy, is't not?\n\n" + "Boy It hath struck.\n\n" + "GARDINER These should be hours for necessities,\n" + " Not for delights; times to repair our nature\n" + " With comforting repose, and not for us\n" + " To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas!\n" + " Whither so late?\n\n" + "LOVELL Came you from the king, my lord\n\n" + "GARDINER I did, Sir Thomas: and left him at primero\n" + " With the Duke of Suffolk.\n\n" + "LOVELL I must to him too,\n" + " Before he go to bed. I'll take my leave.\n\n" + "GARDINER Not yet, Sir Thomas Lovell. What's the matter?\n" + " It seems you are in haste: an if there be\n" + " No great offence belongs to't, give your friend\n" + " Some touch of your late business: affairs, that walk,\n" + " As they say spirits do, at midnight, have\n" + " In them a wilder nature than the business\n" + " That seeks dispatch by day.\n\n" + "LOVELL My lord, I love you;\n" + " And durst commend a secret to your ear\n" + " Much weightier than this work. The queen's in labour,\n" + " They say, in great extremity; and fear'd\n" + " She'll with the labour end.\n\n" + "GARDINER The fruit she goes with\n" + " I pray for heartily, that it may find\n" + " Good time, and live: but for the stock, Sir Thomas,\n" + " I wish it grubb'd up now.\n\n" + "LOVELL Methinks I could\n" + " Cry the amen; and yet my conscience says\n" + " She's a good creature, and, sweet lady, does\n" + " Deserve our better wishes.\n\n" + "GARDINER But, sir, sir,\n" + " Hear me, Sir Thomas: you're a gentleman\n" + " Of mine own way; I know you wise, religious;\n" + " And, let me tell you, it will ne'er be well,\n" + " 'Twill not, Sir Thomas Lovell, take't of me,\n" + " Till Cranmer, Cromwell, her two hands, and she,\n" + " Sleep in their graves.\n\n" + "LOVELL Now, sir, you speak of two\n" + " The most remark'd i' the kingdom. As for Cromwell,\n" + " Beside that of the jewel house, is made master\n" + " O' the rolls, and the king's secretary; further, sir,\n" + " Stands in the gap and trade of moe preferments,\n" + " With which the time will load him. The archbishop\n" + " Is the king's hand and tongue; and who dare speak\n" + " One syllable against him?\n\n" + "GARDINER Yes, yes, Sir Thomas,\n" + " There are that dare; and I myself have ventured\n" + " To speak my mind of him: and indeed this day,\n" + " Sir, I may tell it you, I think I have\n" + " Incensed the lords o' the council, that he is,\n" + " For so I know he is, they know he is,\n" + " A most arch heretic, a pestilence\n" + " That does infect the land: with which they moved\n" + " Have broken with the king; who hath so far\n" + " Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace\n" + " And princely care foreseeing those fell mischiefs\n" + " Our reasons laid before him, hath commanded\n" + " To-morrow morning to the council-board\n" + " He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas,\n" + " And we must root him out. From your affairs\n" + " I hinder you too long: good night, Sir Thomas.\n\n" + "LOVELL Many good nights, my lord: I rest your servant.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GARDINER and Page]\n\n" + " [Enter KING HENRY VIII and SUFFOLK]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Charles, I will play no more tonight;\n" + " My mind's not on't; you are too hard for me.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Sir, I did never win of you before.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII But little, Charles;\n" + " Nor shall not, when my fancy's on my play.\n" + " Now, Lovell, from the queen what is the news?\n\n" + "LOVELL I could not personally deliver to her\n" + " What you commanded me, but by her woman\n" + " I sent your message; who return'd her thanks\n" + " In the great'st humbleness, and desired your highness\n" + " Most heartily to pray for her.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII What say'st thou, ha?\n" + " To pray for her? what, is she crying out?\n\n" + "LOVELL So said her woman; and that her sufferance made\n" + " Almost each pang a death.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Alas, good lady!\n\n" + "SUFFOLK God safely quit her of her burthen, and\n" + " With gentle travail, to the gladding of\n" + " Your highness with an heir!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII 'Tis midnight, Charles;\n" + " Prithee, to bed; and in thy prayers remember\n" + " The estate of my poor queen. Leave me alone;\n" + " For I must think of that which company\n" + " Would not be friendly to.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK I wish your highness\n" + " A quiet night; and my good mistress will\n" + " Remember in my prayers.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Charles, good night.\n\n" + " [Exit SUFFOLK]\n\n" + " [Enter DENNY]\n\n" + " Well, sir, what follows?\n\n" + "DENNY Sir, I have brought my lord the archbishop,\n" + " As you commanded me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Ha! Canterbury?\n\n" + "DENNY Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII 'Tis true: where is he, Denny?\n\n" + "DENNY He attends your highness' pleasure.\n\n" + " [Exit DENNY]\n\n" + "LOVELL [Aside] This is about that which the bishop spake:\n" + " I am happily come hither.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DENNY, with CRANMER]\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Avoid the gallery.\n\n" + " [LOVELL seems to stay]\n\n" + " Ha! I have said. Be gone. What!\n\n" + " [Exeunt LOVELL and DENNY]\n\n" + "CRANMER [Aside]\n" + " I am fearful: wherefore frowns he thus?\n" + " 'Tis his aspect of terror. All's not well.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII How now, my lord! you desire to know\n" + " Wherefore I sent for you.\n\n" + "CRANMER [Kneeling] It is my duty\n" + " To attend your highness' pleasure.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Pray you, arise,\n" + " My good and gracious Lord of Canterbury.\n" + " Come, you and I must walk a turn together;\n" + " I have news to tell you: come, come, give me your hand.\n" + " Ah, my good lord, I grieve at what I speak,\n" + " And am right sorry to repeat what follows\n" + " I have, and most unwillingly, of late\n" + " Heard many grievous, I do say, my lord,\n" + " Grievous complaints of you; which, being consider'd,\n" + " Have moved us and our council, that you shall\n" + " This morning come before us; where, I know,\n" + " You cannot with such freedom purge yourself,\n" + " But that, till further trial in those charges\n" + " Which will require your answer, you must take\n" + " Your patience to you, and be well contented\n" + " To make your house our Tower: you a brother of us,\n" + " It fits we thus proceed, or else no witness\n" + " Would come against you.\n\n" + "CRANMER [Kneeling]\n\n" + " I humbly thank your highness;\n" + " And am right glad to catch this good occasion\n" + " Most throughly to be winnow'd, where my chaff\n" + " And corn shall fly asunder: for, I know,\n" + " There's none stands under more calumnious tongues\n" + " Than I myself, poor man.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Stand up, good Canterbury:\n" + " Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted\n" + " In us, thy friend: give me thy hand, stand up:\n" + " Prithee, let's walk. Now, by my holidame.\n" + " What manner of man are you? My lord, I look'd\n" + " You would have given me your petition, that\n" + " I should have ta'en some pains to bring together\n" + " Yourself and your accusers; and to have heard you,\n" + " Without indurance, further.\n\n" + "CRANMER Most dread liege,\n" + " The good I stand on is my truth and honesty:\n" + " If they shall fail, I, with mine enemies,\n" + " Will triumph o'er my person; which I weigh not,\n" + " Being of those virtues vacant. I fear nothing\n" + " What can be said against me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Know you not\n" + " How your state stands i' the world, with the whole world?\n" + " Your enemies are many, and not small; their practises\n" + " Must bear the same proportion; and not ever\n" + " The justice and the truth o' the question carries\n" + " The due o' the verdict with it: at what ease\n" + " Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt\n" + " To swear against you? such things have been done.\n" + " You are potently opposed; and with a malice\n" + " Of as great size. Ween you of better luck,\n" + " I mean, in perjured witness, than your master,\n" + " Whose minister you are, whiles here he lived\n" + " Upon this naughty earth? Go to, go to;\n" + " You take a precipice for no leap of danger,\n" + " And woo your own destruction.\n\n" + "CRANMER God and your majesty\n" + " Protect mine innocence, or I fall into\n" + " The trap is laid for me!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Be of good cheer;\n" + " They shall no more prevail than we give way to.\n" + " Keep comfort to you; and this morning see\n" + " You do appear before them: if they shall chance,\n" + " In charging you with matters, to commit you,\n" + " The best persuasions to the contrary\n" + " Fail not to use, and with what vehemency\n" + " The occasion shall instruct you: if entreaties\n" + " Will render you no remedy, this ring\n" + " Deliver them, and your appeal to us\n" + " There make before them. Look, the good man weeps!\n" + " He's honest, on mine honour. God's blest mother!\n" + " I swear he is true--hearted; and a soul\n" + " None better in my kingdom. Get you gone,\n" + " And do as I have bid you.\n\n" + " [Exit CRANMER]\n\n" + " He has strangled\n" + " His language in his tears.\n\n" + " [Enter Old Lady, LOVELL following]\n\n" + "Gentleman [Within] Come back: what mean you?\n\n" + "Old Lady I'll not come back; the tidings that I bring\n" + " Will make my boldness manners. Now, good angels\n" + " Fly o'er thy royal head, and shade thy person\n" + " Under their blessed wings!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Now, by thy looks\n" + " I guess thy message. Is the queen deliver'd?\n" + " Say, ay; and of a boy.\n\n" + "Old Lady Ay, ay, my liege;\n" + " And of a lovely boy: the God of heaven\n" + " Both now and ever bless her! 'tis a girl,\n" + " Promises boys hereafter. Sir, your queen\n" + " Desires your visitation, and to be\n" + " Acquainted with this stranger 'tis as like you\n" + " As cherry is to cherry.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Lovell!\n\n" + "LOVELL Sir?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Give her an hundred marks. I'll to the queen.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Old Lady An hundred marks! By this light, I'll ha' more.\n" + " An ordinary groom is for such payment.\n" + " I will have more, or scold it out of him.\n" + " Said I for this, the girl was like to him?\n" + " I will have more, or else unsay't; and now,\n" + " While it is hot, I'll put it to the issue.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before the council-chamber. Pursuivants, Pages, &c.\n" + " attending.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CRANMER]\n\n" + "CRANMER I hope I am not too late; and yet the gentleman,\n" + " That was sent to me from the council, pray'd me\n" + " To make great haste. All fast? what means this? Ho!\n" + " Who waits there? Sure, you know me?\n\n" + " [Enter Keeper]\n\n" + "Keeper Yes, my lord;\n" + " But yet I cannot help you.\n\n" + "CRANMER Why?\n\n" + " [Enter DOCTOR BUTTS]\n\n" + "Keeper Your grace must wait till you be call'd for.\n\n" + "CRANMER So.\n\n" + "DOCTOR BUTTS [Aside] This is a piece of malice. I am glad\n" + " I came this way so happily: the king\n" + " Shall understand it presently.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CRANMER [Aside] 'Tis Butts,\n" + " The king's physician: as he pass'd along,\n" + " How earnestly he cast his eyes upon me!\n" + " Pray heaven, he sound not my disgrace! For certain,\n" + " This is of purpose laid by some that hate me--\n" + " God turn their hearts! I never sought their malice--\n" + " To quench mine honour: they would shame to make me\n" + " Wait else at door, a fellow-counsellor,\n" + " 'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures\n" + " Must be fulfill'd, and I attend with patience.\n\n" + " [Enter the KING HENRY VIII and DOCTOR BUTTS at a window above]\n\n" + "DOCTOR BUTTS I'll show your grace the strangest sight--\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII What's that, Butts?\n\n" + "DOCTOR BUTTS I think your highness saw this many a day.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Body o' me, where is it?\n\n" + "DOCTOR BUTTS There, my lord:\n" + " The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury;\n" + " Who holds his state at door, 'mongst pursuivants,\n" + " Pages, and footboys.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Ha! 'tis he, indeed:\n" + " Is this the honour they do one another?\n" + " 'Tis well there's one above 'em yet. I had thought\n" + " They had parted so much honesty among 'em\n" + " At least, good manners, as not thus to suffer\n" + " A man of his place, and so near our favour,\n" + " To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures,\n" + " And at the door too, like a post with packets.\n" + " By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery:\n" + " Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close:\n" + " We shall hear more anon.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The Council-Chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chancellor; places himself at the upper end\n" + " of the table on the left hand; a seat being left\n" + " void above him, as for CRANMER's seat. SUFFOLK,\n" + " NORFOLK, SURREY, Chamberlain, GARDINER, seat\n" + " themselves in order on each side. CROMWELL at\n" + " lower end, as secretary. Keeper at the door]\n\n" + "Chancellor Speak to the business, master-secretary:\n" + " Why are we met in council?\n\n" + "CROMWELL Please your honours,\n" + " The chief cause concerns his grace of Canterbury.\n\n" + "GARDINER Has he had knowledge of it?\n\n" + "CROMWELL Yes.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Who waits there?\n\n" + "Keeper Without, my noble lords?\n\n" + "GARDINER Yes.\n\n" + "Keeper My lord archbishop;\n" + " And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures.\n\n" + "Chancellor Let him come in.\n\n" + "Keeper Your grace may enter now.\n\n" + " [CRANMER enters and approaches the council-table]\n\n" + "Chancellor My good lord archbishop, I'm very sorry\n" + " To sit here at this present, and behold\n" + " That chair stand empty: but we all are men,\n" + " In our own natures frail, and capable\n" + " Of our flesh; few are angels: out of which frailty\n" + " And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us,\n" + " Have misdemean'd yourself, and not a little,\n" + " Toward the king first, then his laws, in filling\n" + " The whole realm, by your teaching and your chaplains,\n" + " For so we are inform'd, with new opinions,\n" + " Divers and dangerous; which are heresies,\n" + " And, not reform'd, may prove pernicious.\n\n" + "GARDINER Which reformation must be sudden too,\n" + " My noble lords; for those that tame wild horses\n" + " Pace 'em not in their hands to make 'em gentle,\n" + " But stop their mouths with stubborn bits, and spur 'em,\n" + " Till they obey the manage. If we suffer,\n" + " Out of our easiness and childish pity\n" + " To one man's honour, this contagious sickness,\n" + " Farewell all physic: and what follows then?\n" + " Commotions, uproars, with a general taint\n" + " Of the whole state: as, of late days, our neighbours,\n" + " The upper Germany, can dearly witness,\n" + " Yet freshly pitied in our memories.\n\n" + "CRANMER My good lords, hitherto, in all the progress\n" + " Both of my life and office, I have labour'd,\n" + " And with no little study, that my teaching\n" + " And the strong course of my authority\n" + " Might go one way, and safely; and the end\n" + " Was ever, to do well: nor is there living,\n" + " I speak it with a single heart, my lords,\n" + " A man that more detests, more stirs against,\n" + " Both in his private conscience and his place,\n" + " Defacers of a public peace, than I do.\n" + " Pray heaven, the king may never find a heart\n" + " With less allegiance in it! Men that make\n" + " Envy and crooked malice nourishment\n" + " Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lordships,\n" + " That, in this case of justice, my accusers,\n" + " Be what they will, may stand forth face to face,\n" + " And freely urge against me.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK Nay, my lord,\n" + " That cannot be: you are a counsellor,\n" + " And, by that virtue, no man dare accuse you.\n\n" + "GARDINER My lord, because we have business of more moment,\n" + " We will be short with you. 'Tis his highness' pleasure,\n" + " And our consent, for better trial of you,\n" + " From hence you be committed to the Tower;\n" + " Where, being but a private man again,\n" + " You shall know many dare accuse you boldly,\n" + " More than, I fear, you are provided for.\n\n" + "CRANMER Ah, my good Lord of Winchester, I thank you;\n" + " You are always my good friend; if your will pass,\n" + " I shall both find your lordship judge and juror,\n" + " You are so merciful: I see your end;\n" + " 'Tis my undoing: love and meekness, lord,\n" + " Become a churchman better than ambition:\n" + " Win straying souls with modesty again,\n" + " Cast none away. That I shall clear myself,\n" + " Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience,\n" + " I make as little doubt, as you do conscience\n" + " In doing daily wrongs. I could say more,\n" + " But reverence to your calling makes me modest.\n\n" + "GARDINER My lord, my lord, you are a sectary,\n" + " That's the plain truth: your painted gloss discovers,\n" + " To men that understand you, words and weakness.\n\n" + "CROMWELL My Lord of Winchester, you are a little,\n" + " By your good favour, too sharp; men so noble,\n" + " However faulty, yet should find respect\n" + " For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty\n" + " To load a falling man.\n\n" + "GARDINER Good master secretary,\n" + " I cry your honour mercy; you may, worst\n" + " Of all this table, say so.\n\n" + "CROMWELL Why, my lord?\n\n" + "GARDINER Do not I know you for a favourer\n" + " Of this new sect? ye are not sound.\n\n" + "CROMWELL Not sound?\n\n" + "GARDINER Not sound, I say.\n\n" + "CROMWELL Would you were half so honest!\n" + " Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears.\n\n" + "GARDINER I shall remember this bold language.\n\n" + "CROMWELL Do.\n" + " Remember your bold life too.\n\n" + "Chancellor This is too much;\n" + " Forbear, for shame, my lords.\n\n" + "GARDINER I have done.\n\n" + "CROMWELL And I.\n\n" + "Chancellor Then thus for you, my lord: it stands agreed,\n" + " I take it, by all voices, that forthwith\n" + " You be convey'd to the Tower a prisoner;\n" + " There to remain till the king's further pleasure\n" + " Be known unto us: are you all agreed, lords?\n\n" + "All We are.\n\n" + "CRANMER Is there no other way of mercy,\n" + " But I must needs to the Tower, my lords?\n\n" + "GARDINER What other\n" + " Would you expect? you are strangely troublesome.\n" + " Let some o' the guard be ready there.\n\n" + " [Enter Guard]\n\n" + "CRANMER For me?\n" + " Must I go like a traitor thither?\n\n" + "GARDINER Receive him,\n" + " And see him safe i' the Tower.\n\n" + "CRANMER Stay, good my lords,\n" + " I have a little yet to say. Look there, my lords;\n" + " By virtue of that ring, I take my cause\n" + " Out of the gripes of cruel men, and give it\n" + " To a most noble judge, the king my master.\n\n" + "Chamberlain This is the king's ring.\n\n" + "SURREY 'Tis no counterfeit.\n\n" + "SUFFOLK 'Tis the right ring, by heaven: I told ye all,\n" + " When ye first put this dangerous stone a-rolling,\n" + " 'Twould fall upon ourselves.\n\n" + "NORFOLK Do you think, my lords,\n" + " The king will suffer but the little finger\n" + " Of this man to be vex'd?\n\n" + "Chancellor 'Tis now too certain:\n" + " How much more is his life in value with him?\n" + " Would I were fairly out on't!\n\n" + "CROMWELL My mind gave me,\n" + " In seeking tales and informations\n" + " Against this man, whose honesty the devil\n" + " And his disciples only envy at,\n" + " Ye blew the fire that burns ye: now have at ye!\n\n" + " [Enter KING, frowning on them; takes his seat]\n\n" + "GARDINER Dread sovereign, how much are we bound to heaven\n" + " In daily thanks, that gave us such a prince;\n" + " Not only good and wise, but most religious:\n" + " One that, in all obedience, makes the church\n" + " The chief aim of his honour; and, to strengthen\n" + " That holy duty, out of dear respect,\n" + " His royal self in judgment comes to hear\n" + " The cause betwixt her and this great offender.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII You were ever good at sudden commendations,\n" + " Bishop of Winchester. But know, I come not\n" + " To hear such flattery now, and in my presence;\n" + " They are too thin and bare to hide offences.\n" + " To me you cannot reach, you play the spaniel,\n" + " And think with wagging of your tongue to win me;\n" + " But, whatsoe'er thou takest me for, I'm sure\n" + " Thou hast a cruel nature and a bloody.\n\n" + " [To CRANMER]\n\n" + " Good man, sit down. Now let me see the proudest\n" + " He, that dares most, but wag his finger at thee:\n" + " By all that's holy, he had better starve\n" + " Than but once think this place becomes thee not.\n\n" + "SURREY May it please your grace,--\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII No, sir, it does not please me.\n" + " I had thought I had had men of some understanding\n" + " And wisdom of my council; but I find none.\n" + " Was it discretion, lords, to let this man,\n" + " This good man,--few of you deserve that title,--\n" + " This honest man, wait like a lousy footboy\n" + " At chamber--door? and one as great as you are?\n" + " Why, what a shame was this! Did my commission\n" + " Bid ye so far forget yourselves? I gave ye\n" + " Power as he was a counsellor to try him,\n" + " Not as a groom: there's some of ye, I see,\n" + " More out of malice than integrity,\n" + " Would try him to the utmost, had ye mean;\n" + " Which ye shall never have while I live.\n\n" + "Chancellor Thus far,\n" + " My most dread sovereign, may it like your grace\n" + " To let my tongue excuse all. What was purposed\n" + " Concerning his imprisonment, was rather,\n" + " If there be faith in men, meant for his trial,\n" + " And fair purgation to the world, than malice,\n" + " I'm sure, in me.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Well, well, my lords, respect him;\n" + " Take him, and use him well, he's worthy of it.\n" + " I will say thus much for him, if a prince\n" + " May be beholding to a subject, I\n" + " Am, for his love and service, so to him.\n" + " Make me no more ado, but all embrace him:\n" + " Be friends, for shame, my lords! My Lord of\n" + " Canterbury,\n" + " I have a suit which you must not deny me;\n" + " That is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism,\n" + " You must be godfather, and answer for her.\n\n" + "CRANMER The greatest monarch now alive may glory\n" + " In such an honour: how may I deserve it\n" + " That am a poor and humble subject to you?\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Come, come, my lord, you'ld spare your spoons: you\n" + " shall have two noble partners with you; the old\n" + " Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will\n" + " these please you?\n" + " Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge you,\n" + " Embrace and love this man.\n\n" + "GARDINER With a true heart\n" + " And brother-love I do it.\n\n" + "CRANMER And let heaven\n" + " Witness, how dear I hold this confirmation.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Good man, those joyful tears show thy true heart:\n" + " The common voice, I see, is verified\n" + " Of thee, which says thus, 'Do my Lord of Canterbury\n" + " A shrewd turn, and he is your friend for ever.'\n" + " Come, lords, we trifle time away; I long\n" + " To have this young one made a Christian.\n" + " As I have made ye one, lords, one remain;\n" + " So I grow stronger, you more honour gain.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The palace yard.\n\n\n" + " [Noise and tumult within. Enter Porter and his Man]\n\n" + "Porter You'll leave your noise anon, ye rascals: do you\n" + " take the court for Paris-garden? ye rude slaves,\n" + " leave your gaping.\n\n" + " [Within]\n\n" + " Good master porter, I belong to the larder.\n\n" + "Porter Belong to the gallows, and be hanged, ye rogue! is\n" + " this a place to roar in? Fetch me a dozen crab-tree\n" + " staves, and strong ones: these are but switches to\n" + " 'em. I'll scratch your heads: you must be seeing\n" + " christenings? do you look for ale and cakes here,\n" + " you rude rascals?\n\n" + "Man Pray, sir, be patient: 'tis as much impossible--\n" + " Unless we sweep 'em from the door with cannons--\n" + " To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleep\n" + " On May-day morning; which will never be:\n" + " We may as well push against Powle's, as stir em.\n\n" + "Porter How got they in, and be hang'd?\n\n" + "Man Alas, I know not; how gets the tide in?\n" + " As much as one sound cudgel of four foot--\n" + " You see the poor remainder--could distribute,\n" + " I made no spare, sir.\n\n" + "Porter You did nothing, sir.\n\n" + "Man I am not Samson, nor Sir Guy, nor Colbrand,\n" + " To mow 'em down before me: but if I spared any\n" + " That had a head to hit, either young or old,\n" + " He or she, cuckold or cuckold-maker,\n" + " Let me ne'er hope to see a chine again\n" + " And that I would not for a cow, God save her!\n\n" + " [Within]\n\n" + " Do you hear, master porter?\n\n" + "Porter I shall be with you presently, good master puppy.\n" + " Keep the door close, sirrah.\n\n" + "Man What would you have me do?\n\n" + "Porter What should you do, but knock 'em down by the\n" + " dozens? Is this Moorfields to muster in? or have\n" + " we some strange Indian with the great tool come to\n" + " court, the women so besiege us? Bless me, what a\n" + " fry of fornication is at door! On my Christian\n" + " conscience, this one christening will beget a\n" + " thousand; here will be father, godfather, and all together.\n\n" + "Man The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a\n" + " fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a\n" + " brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty\n" + " of the dog-days now reign in's nose; all that stand\n" + " about him are under the line, they need no other\n" + " penance: that fire-drake did I hit three times on\n" + " the head, and three times was his nose discharged\n" + " against me; he stands there, like a mortar-piece, to\n" + " blow us. There was a haberdasher's wife of small\n" + " wit near him, that railed upon me till her pinked\n" + " porringer fell off her head, for kindling such a\n" + " combustion in the state. I missed the meteor once,\n" + " and hit that woman; who cried out 'Clubs!' when I\n" + " might see from far some forty truncheoners draw to\n" + " her succor, which were the hope o' the Strand, where\n" + " she was quartered. They fell on; I made good my\n" + " place: at length they came to the broom-staff to\n" + " me; I defied 'em still: when suddenly a file of\n" + " boys behind 'em, loose shot, delivered such a shower\n" + " of pebbles, that I was fain to draw mine honour in,\n" + " and let 'em win the work: the devil was amongst\n" + " 'em, I think, surely.\n\n" + "Porter These are the youths that thunder at a playhouse,\n" + " and fight for bitten apples; that no audience, but\n" + " the tribulation of Tower-hill, or the limbs of\n" + " Limehouse, their dear brothers, are able to endure.\n" + " I have some of 'em in Limbo Patrum, and there they\n" + " are like to dance these three days; besides the\n" + " running banquet of two beadles that is to come.\n\n" + " [Enter Chamberlain]\n\n" + "Chamberlain Mercy o' me, what a multitude are here!\n" + " They grow still too; from all parts they are coming,\n" + " As if we kept a fair here! Where are these porters,\n" + " These lazy knaves? Ye have made a fine hand, fellows:\n" + " There's a trim rabble let in: are all these\n" + " Your faithful friends o' the suburbs? We shall have\n" + " Great store of room, no doubt, left for the ladies,\n" + " When they pass back from the christening.\n\n" + "Porter An't please\n" + " your honour,\n" + " We are but men; and what so many may do,\n" + " Not being torn a-pieces, we have done:\n" + " An army cannot rule 'em.\n\n" + "Chamberlain As I live,\n" + " If the king blame me for't, I'll lay ye all\n" + " By the heels, and suddenly; and on your heads\n" + " Clap round fines for neglect: ye are lazy knaves;\n" + " And here ye lie baiting of bombards, when\n" + " Ye should do service. Hark! the trumpets sound;\n" + " They're come already from the christening:\n" + " Go, break among the press, and find a way out\n" + " To let the troop pass fairly; or I'll find\n" + " A Marshalsea shall hold ye play these two months.\n\n" + "Porter Make way there for the princess.\n\n" + "Man You great fellow,\n" + " Stand close up, or I'll make your head ache.\n\n" + "Porter You i' the camlet, get up o' the rail;\n" + " I'll peck you o'er the pales else.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter trumpets, sounding; then two Aldermen, Lord\n" + " Mayor, Garter, CRANMER, NORFOLK with his marshal's\n" + " staff, SUFFOLK, two Noblemen bearing great\n" + " standing-bowls for the christening-gifts; then\n" + " four Noblemen bearing a canopy, under which the\n" + " Duchess of Norfolk, godmother, bearing the child\n" + " richly habited in a mantle, &c., train borne by a\n" + " Lady; then follows the Marchioness Dorset, the\n" + " other godmother, and Ladies. The troop pass once\n" + " about the stage, and Garter speaks]\n\n" + "Garter Heaven, from thy endless goodness, send prosperous\n" + " life, long, and ever happy, to the high and mighty\n" + " princess of England, Elizabeth!\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VIII and Guard]\n\n" + "CRANMER [Kneeling] And to your royal grace, and the good queen,\n" + " My noble partners, and myself, thus pray:\n" + " All comfort, joy, in this most gracious lady,\n" + " Heaven ever laid up to make parents happy,\n" + " May hourly fall upon ye!\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Thank you, good lord archbishop:\n" + " What is her name?\n\n" + "CRANMER Elizabeth.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Stand up, lord.\n\n" + " [KING HENRY VIII kisses the child]\n\n" + " With this kiss take my blessing: God protect thee!\n" + " Into whose hand I give thy life.\n\n" + "CRANMER Amen.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII My noble gossips, ye have been too prodigal:\n" + " I thank ye heartily; so shall this lady,\n" + " When she has so much English.\n\n" + "CRANMER Let me speak, sir,\n" + " For heaven now bids me; and the words I utter\n" + " Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth.\n" + " This royal infant--heaven still move about her!--\n" + " Though in her cradle, yet now promises\n" + " Upon this land a thousand thousand blessings,\n" + " Which time shall bring to ripeness: she shall be--\n" + " But few now living can behold that goodness--\n" + " A pattern to all princes living with her,\n" + " And all that shall succeed: Saba was never\n" + " More covetous of wisdom and fair virtue\n" + " Than this pure soul shall be: all princely graces,\n" + " That mould up such a mighty piece as this is,\n" + " With all the virtues that attend the good,\n" + " Shall still be doubled on her: truth shall nurse her,\n" + " Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her:\n" + " She shall be loved and fear'd: her own shall bless her;\n" + " Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn,\n" + " And hang their heads with sorrow: good grows with her:\n" + " In her days every man shall eat in safety,\n" + " Under his own vine, what he plants; and sing\n" + " The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours:\n" + " God shall be truly known; and those about her\n" + " From her shall read the perfect ways of honour,\n" + " And by those claim their greatness, not by blood.\n" + " Nor shall this peace sleep with her: but as when\n" + " The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix,\n" + " Her ashes new create another heir,\n" + " As great in admiration as herself;\n" + " So shall she leave her blessedness to one,\n" + " When heaven shall call her from this cloud of darkness,\n" + " Who from the sacred ashes of her honour\n" + " Shall star-like rise, as great in fame as she was,\n" + " And so stand fix'd: peace, plenty, love, truth, terror,\n" + " That were the servants to this chosen infant,\n" + " Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him:\n" + " Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,\n" + " His honour and the greatness of his name\n" + " Shall be, and make new nations: he shall flourish,\n" + " And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches\n" + " To all the plains about him: our children's children\n" + " Shall see this, and bless heaven.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII Thou speakest wonders.\n\n" + "CRANMER She shall be, to the happiness of England,\n" + " An aged princess; many days shall see her,\n" + " And yet no day without a deed to crown it.\n" + " Would I had known no more! but she must die,\n" + " She must, the saints must have her; yet a virgin,\n" + " A most unspotted lily shall she pass\n" + " To the ground, and all the world shall mourn her.\n\n" + "KING HENRY VIII O lord archbishop,\n" + " Thou hast made me now a man! never, before\n" + " This happy child, did I get any thing:\n" + " This oracle of comfort has so pleased me,\n" + " That when I am in heaven I shall desire\n" + " To see what this child does, and praise my Maker.\n" + " I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor,\n" + " And your good brethren, I am much beholding;\n" + " I have received much honour by your presence,\n" + " And ye shall find me thankful. Lead the way, lords:\n" + " Ye must all see the queen, and she must thank ye,\n" + " She will be sick else. This day, no man think\n" + " Has business at his house; for all shall stay:\n" + " This little one shall make it holiday.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING HENRY VIII\n\n" + " EPILOGUE\n\n\n" + " 'Tis ten to one this play can never please\n" + " All that are here: some come to take their ease,\n" + " And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear,\n" + " We have frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear,\n" + " They'll say 'tis naught: others, to hear the city\n" + " Abused extremely, and to cry 'That's witty!'\n" + " Which we have not done neither: that, I fear,\n" + " All the expected good we're like to hear\n" + " For this play at this time, is only in\n" + " The merciful construction of good women;\n" + " For such a one we show'd 'em: if they smile,\n" + " And say 'twill do, I know, within a while\n" + " All the best men are ours; for 'tis ill hap,\n" + " If they hold when their ladies bid 'em clap.\n" + " KING JOHN\n" + " \n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING JOHN:\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY son to the king.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Duke of Bretagne, nephew to the king.\n\n" + "The Earl of\n" + "PEMBROKE (PEMBROKE:)\n\n" + "The Earl of ESSEX (ESSEX:)\n\n" + "The Earl of\n" + "SALISBURY (SALISBURY:)\n\n" + "The Lord BIGOT (BIGOT:)\n\n" + "HUBERT DE BURGH (HUBERT:)\n\n" + "ROBERT\n" + "FAULCONBRIDGE Son to Sir Robert Faulconbridge. (ROBERT:)\n\n" + "PHILIP the BASTARD his half-brother. (BASTARD:)\n\n" + "JAMES GURNEY servant to Lady Faulconbridge. (GURNEY:)\n\n" + "PETER Of Pomfret a prophet. (PETER:)\n\n" + "PHILIP King of France. (KING PHILIP:)\n\n" + "LEWIS the Dauphin.\n\n" + "LYMOGES Duke of AUSTRIA. (AUSTRIA:)\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH the Pope's legate.\n\n" + "MELUN a French Lord.\n\n" + "CHATILLON ambassador from France to King John.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR mother to King John.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE mother to Arthur.\n\n" + "BLANCH of Spain niece to King John. (BLANCH:)\n\n" + "LADY FAULCONBRIDGE:\n\n" + " Lords, Citizens of Angiers, Sheriff, Heralds,\n" + " Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.\n" + " (First Citizen:)\n" + " (French Herald:)\n" + " (English Herald:)\n" + " (First Executioner:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Partly in England, and partly in France.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I KING JOHN'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX,\n" + " SALISBURY, and others, with CHATILLON]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?\n\n" + "CHATILLON Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France\n" + " In my behavior to the majesty,\n" + " The borrow'd majesty, of England here.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR A strange beginning: 'borrow'd majesty!'\n\n" + "KING JOHN Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.\n\n" + "CHATILLON Philip of France, in right and true behalf\n" + " Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,\n" + " Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim\n" + " To this fair island and the territories,\n" + " To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,\n" + " Desiring thee to lay aside the sword\n" + " Which sways usurpingly these several titles,\n" + " And put these same into young Arthur's hand,\n" + " Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.\n\n" + "KING JOHN What follows if we disallow of this?\n\n" + "CHATILLON The proud control of fierce and bloody war,\n" + " To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Here have we war for war and blood for blood,\n" + " Controlment for controlment: so answer France.\n\n" + "CHATILLON Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,\n" + " The farthest limit of my embassy.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:\n" + " Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;\n" + " For ere thou canst report I will be there,\n" + " The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:\n" + " So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath\n" + " And sullen presage of your own decay.\n" + " An honourable conduct let him have:\n" + " Pembroke, look to 't. Farewell, Chatillon.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE]\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR What now, my son! have I not ever said\n" + " How that ambitious Constance would not cease\n" + " Till she had kindled France and all the world,\n" + " Upon the right and party of her son?\n" + " This might have been prevented and made whole\n" + " With very easy arguments of love,\n" + " Which now the manage of two kingdoms must\n" + " With fearful bloody issue arbitrate.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Our strong possession and our right for us.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Your strong possession much more than your right,\n" + " Or else it must go wrong with you and me:\n" + " So much my conscience whispers in your ear,\n" + " Which none but heaven and you and I shall hear.\n\n" + " [Enter a Sheriff]\n\n" + "ESSEX My liege, here is the strangest controversy\n" + " Come from country to be judged by you,\n" + " That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?\n\n" + "KING JOHN Let them approach.\n" + " Our abbeys and our priories shall pay\n" + " This expedition's charge.\n\n" + " [Enter ROBERT and the BASTARD]\n\n" + " What men are you?\n\n" + "BASTARD Your faithful subject I, a gentleman\n" + " Born in Northamptonshire and eldest son,\n" + " As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,\n" + " A soldier, by the honour-giving hand\n" + " Of Coeur-de-lion knighted in the field.\n\n" + "KING JOHN What art thou?\n\n" + "ROBERT The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Is that the elder, and art thou the heir?\n" + " You came not of one mother then, it seems.\n\n" + "BASTARD Most certain of one mother, mighty king;\n" + " That is well known; and, as I think, one father:\n" + " But for the certain knowledge of that truth\n" + " I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother:\n" + " Of that I doubt, as all men's children may.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Out on thee, rude man! thou dost shame thy mother\n" + " And wound her honour with this diffidence.\n\n" + "BASTARD I, madam? no, I have no reason for it;\n" + " That is my brother's plea and none of mine;\n" + " The which if he can prove, a' pops me out\n" + " At least from fair five hundred pound a year:\n" + " Heaven guard my mother's honour and my land!\n\n" + "KING JOHN A good blunt fellow. Why, being younger born,\n" + " Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?\n\n" + "BASTARD I know not why, except to get the land.\n" + " But once he slander'd me with bastardy:\n" + " But whether I be as true begot or no,\n" + " That still I lay upon my mother's head,\n" + " But that I am as well begot, my liege,--\n" + " Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!--\n" + " Compare our faces and be judge yourself.\n" + " If old sir Robert did beget us both\n" + " And were our father and this son like him,\n" + " O old sir Robert, father, on my knee\n" + " I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!\n\n" + "KING JOHN Why, what a madcap hath heaven lent us here!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's face;\n" + " The accent of his tongue affecteth him.\n" + " Do you not read some tokens of my son\n" + " In the large composition of this man?\n\n" + "KING JOHN Mine eye hath well examined his parts\n" + " And finds them perfect Richard. Sirrah, speak,\n" + " What doth move you to claim your brother's land?\n\n" + "BASTARD Because he hath a half-face, like my father.\n" + " With half that face would he have all my land:\n" + " A half-faced groat five hundred pound a year!\n\n" + "ROBERT My gracious liege, when that my father lived,\n" + " Your brother did employ my father much,--\n\n" + "BASTARD Well, sir, by this you cannot get my land:\n" + " Your tale must be how he employ'd my mother.\n\n" + "ROBERT And once dispatch'd him in an embassy\n" + " To Germany, there with the emperor\n" + " To treat of high affairs touching that time.\n" + " The advantage of his absence took the king\n" + " And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's;\n" + " Where how he did prevail I shame to speak,\n" + " But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores\n" + " Between my father and my mother lay,\n" + " As I have heard my father speak himself,\n" + " When this same lusty gentleman was got.\n" + " Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd\n" + " His lands to me, and took it on his death\n" + " That this my mother's son was none of his;\n" + " And if he were, he came into the world\n" + " Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.\n" + " Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,\n" + " My father's land, as was my father's will.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Sirrah, your brother is legitimate;\n" + " Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him,\n" + " And if she did play false, the fault was hers;\n" + " Which fault lies on the hazards of all husbands\n" + " That marry wives. Tell me, how if my brother,\n" + " Who, as you say, took pains to get this son,\n" + " Had of your father claim'd this son for his?\n" + " In sooth, good friend, your father might have kept\n" + " This calf bred from his cow from all the world;\n" + " In sooth he might; then, if he were my brother's,\n" + " My brother might not claim him; nor your father,\n" + " Being none of his, refuse him: this concludes;\n" + " My mother's son did get your father's heir;\n" + " Your father's heir must have your father's land.\n\n" + "ROBERT Shall then my father's will be of no force\n" + " To dispossess that child which is not his?\n\n" + "BASTARD Of no more force to dispossess me, sir,\n" + " Than was his will to get me, as I think.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge\n" + " And like thy brother, to enjoy thy land,\n" + " Or the reputed son of Coeur-de-lion,\n" + " Lord of thy presence and no land beside?\n\n" + "BASTARD Madam, an if my brother had my shape,\n" + " And I had his, sir Robert's his, like him;\n" + " And if my legs were two such riding-rods,\n" + " My arms such eel-skins stuff'd, my face so thin\n" + " That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose\n" + " Lest men should say 'Look, where three-farthings goes!'\n" + " And, to his shape, were heir to all this land,\n" + " Would I might never stir from off this place,\n" + " I would give it every foot to have this face;\n" + " I would not be sir Nob in any case.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR I like thee well: wilt thou forsake thy fortune,\n" + " Bequeath thy land to him and follow me?\n" + " I am a soldier and now bound to France.\n\n" + "BASTARD Brother, take you my land, I'll take my chance.\n" + " Your face hath got five hundred pound a year,\n" + " Yet sell your face for five pence and 'tis dear.\n" + " Madam, I'll follow you unto the death.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Nay, I would have you go before me thither.\n\n" + "BASTARD Our country manners give our betters way.\n\n" + "KING JOHN What is thy name?\n\n" + "BASTARD Philip, my liege, so is my name begun,\n" + " Philip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son.\n\n" + "KING JOHN From henceforth bear his name whose form thou bear'st:\n" + " Kneel thou down Philip, but rise more great,\n" + " Arise sir Richard and Plantagenet.\n\n" + "BASTARD Brother by the mother's side, give me your hand:\n" + " My father gave me honour, yours gave land.\n" + " Now blessed by the hour, by night or day,\n" + " When I was got, sir Robert was away!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR The very spirit of Plantagenet!\n" + " I am thy grandam, Richard; call me so.\n\n" + "BASTARD Madam, by chance but not by truth; what though?\n" + " Something about, a little from the right,\n" + " In at the window, or else o'er the hatch:\n" + " Who dares not stir by day must walk by night,\n" + " And have is have, however men do catch:\n" + " Near or far off, well won is still well shot,\n" + " And I am I, howe'er I was begot.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Go, Faulconbridge: now hast thou thy desire;\n" + " A landless knight makes thee a landed squire.\n" + " Come, madam, and come, Richard, we must speed\n" + " For France, for France, for it is more than need.\n\n" + "BASTARD Brother, adieu: good fortune come to thee!\n" + " For thou wast got i' the way of honesty.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but BASTARD]\n\n" + " A foot of honour better than I was;\n" + " But many a many foot of land the worse.\n" + " Well, now can I make any Joan a lady.\n" + " 'Good den, sir Richard!'--'God-a-mercy, fellow!'--\n" + " And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter;\n" + " For new-made honour doth forget men's names;\n" + " 'Tis too respective and too sociable\n" + " For your conversion. Now your traveller,\n" + " He and his toothpick at my worship's mess,\n" + " And when my knightly stomach is sufficed,\n" + " Why then I suck my teeth and catechise\n" + " My picked man of countries: 'My dear sir,'\n" + " Thus, leaning on mine elbow, I begin,\n" + " 'I shall beseech you'--that is question now;\n" + " And then comes answer like an Absey book:\n" + " 'O sir,' says answer, 'at your best command;\n" + " At your employment; at your service, sir;'\n" + " 'No, sir,' says question, 'I, sweet sir, at yours:'\n" + " And so, ere answer knows what question would,\n" + " Saving in dialogue of compliment,\n" + " And talking of the Alps and Apennines,\n" + " The Pyrenean and the river Po,\n" + " It draws toward supper in conclusion so.\n" + " But this is worshipful society\n" + " And fits the mounting spirit like myself,\n" + " For he is but a bastard to the time\n" + " That doth not smack of observation;\n" + " And so am I, whether I smack or no;\n" + " And not alone in habit and device,\n" + " Exterior form, outward accoutrement,\n" + " But from the inward motion to deliver\n" + " Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth:\n" + " Which, though I will not practise to deceive,\n" + " Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn;\n" + " For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising.\n" + " But who comes in such haste in riding-robes?\n" + " What woman-post is this? hath she no husband\n" + " That will take pains to blow a horn before her?\n\n" + " [Enter LADY FAULCONBRIDGE and GURNEY]\n\n" + " O me! it is my mother. How now, good lady!\n" + " What brings you here to court so hastily?\n\n" + "LADY FAULCONBRIDGE Where is that slave, thy brother? where is he,\n" + " That holds in chase mine honour up and down?\n\n" + "BASTARD My brother Robert? old sir Robert's son?\n" + " Colbrand the giant, that same mighty man?\n" + " Is it sir Robert's son that you seek so?\n\n" + "LADY FAULCONBRIDGE Sir Robert's son! Ay, thou unreverend boy,\n" + " Sir Robert's son: why scorn'st thou at sir Robert?\n" + " He is sir Robert's son, and so art thou.\n\n" + "BASTARD James Gurney, wilt thou give us leave awhile?\n\n" + "GURNEY Good leave, good Philip.\n\n" + "BASTARD Philip! sparrow: James,\n" + " There's toys abroad: anon I'll tell thee more.\n\n" + " [Exit GURNEY]\n\n" + " Madam, I was not old sir Robert's son:\n" + " Sir Robert might have eat his part in me\n" + " Upon Good-Friday and ne'er broke his fast:\n" + " Sir Robert could do well: marry, to confess,\n" + " Could he get me? Sir Robert could not do it:\n" + " We know his handiwork: therefore, good mother,\n" + " To whom am I beholding for these limbs?\n" + " Sir Robert never holp to make this leg.\n\n" + "LADY FAULCONBRIDGE Hast thou conspired with thy brother too,\n" + " That for thine own gain shouldst defend mine honour?\n" + " What means this scorn, thou most untoward knave?\n\n" + "BASTARD Knight, knight, good mother, Basilisco-like.\n" + " What! I am dubb'd! I have it on my shoulder.\n" + " But, mother, I am not sir Robert's son;\n" + " I have disclaim'd sir Robert and my land;\n" + " Legitimation, name and all is gone:\n" + " Then, good my mother, let me know my father;\n" + " Some proper man, I hope: who was it, mother?\n\n" + "LADY FAULCONBRIDGE Hast thou denied thyself a Faulconbridge?\n\n" + "BASTARD As faithfully as I deny the devil.\n\n" + "LADY FAULCONBRIDGE King Richard Coeur-de-lion was thy father:\n" + " By long and vehement suit I was seduced\n" + " To make room for him in my husband's bed:\n" + " Heaven lay not my transgression to my charge!\n" + " Thou art the issue of my dear offence,\n" + " Which was so strongly urged past my defence.\n\n" + "BASTARD Now, by this light, were I to get again,\n" + " Madam, I would not wish a better father.\n" + " Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,\n" + " And so doth yours; your fault was not your folly:\n" + " Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose,\n" + " Subjected tribute to commanding love,\n" + " Against whose fury and unmatched force\n" + " The aweless lion could not wage the fight,\n" + " Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand.\n" + " He that perforce robs lions of their hearts\n" + " May easily win a woman's. Ay, my mother,\n" + " With all my heart I thank thee for my father!\n" + " Who lives and dares but say thou didst not well\n" + " When I was got, I'll send his soul to hell.\n" + " Come, lady, I will show thee to my kin;\n" + " And they shall say, when Richard me begot,\n" + " If thou hadst said him nay, it had been sin:\n" + " Who says it was, he lies; I say 'twas not.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I France. Before Angiers.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AUSTRIA and forces, drums, etc. on one side:\n" + " on the other KING PHILIP and his power; LEWIS,\n" + " ARTHUR, CONSTANCE and attendants]\n\n" + "LEWIS Before Angiers well met, brave Austria.\n" + " Arthur, that great forerunner of thy blood,\n" + " Richard, that robb'd the lion of his heart\n" + " And fought the holy wars in Palestine,\n" + " By this brave duke came early to his grave:\n" + " And for amends to his posterity,\n" + " At our importance hither is he come,\n" + " To spread his colours, boy, in thy behalf,\n" + " And to rebuke the usurpation\n" + " Of thy unnatural uncle, English John:\n" + " Embrace him, love him, give him welcome hither.\n\n" + "ARTHUR God shall forgive you Coeur-de-lion's death\n" + " The rather that you give his offspring life,\n" + " Shadowing their right under your wings of war:\n" + " I give you welcome with a powerless hand,\n" + " But with a heart full of unstained love:\n" + " Welcome before the gates of Angiers, duke.\n\n" + "LEWIS A noble boy! Who would not do thee right?\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous kiss,\n" + " As seal to this indenture of my love,\n" + " That to my home I will no more return,\n" + " Till Angiers and the right thou hast in France,\n" + " Together with that pale, that white-faced shore,\n" + " Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring tides\n" + " And coops from other lands her islanders,\n" + " Even till that England, hedged in with the main,\n" + " That water-walled bulwark, still secure\n" + " And confident from foreign purposes,\n" + " Even till that utmost corner of the west\n" + " Salute thee for her king: till then, fair boy,\n" + " Will I not think of home, but follow arms.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O, take his mother's thanks, a widow's thanks,\n" + " Till your strong hand shall help to give him strength\n" + " To make a more requital to your love!\n\n" + "AUSTRIA The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords\n" + " In such a just and charitable war.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Well then, to work: our cannon shall be bent\n" + " Against the brows of this resisting town.\n" + " Call for our chiefest men of discipline,\n" + " To cull the plots of best advantages:\n" + " We'll lay before this town our royal bones,\n" + " Wade to the market-place in Frenchmen's blood,\n" + " But we will make it subject to this boy.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Stay for an answer to your embassy,\n" + " Lest unadvised you stain your swords with blood:\n" + " My Lord Chatillon may from England bring,\n" + " That right in peace which here we urge in war,\n" + " And then we shall repent each drop of blood\n" + " That hot rash haste so indirectly shed.\n\n" + " [Enter CHATILLON]\n\n" + "KING PHILIP A wonder, lady! lo, upon thy wish,\n" + " Our messenger Chatillon is arrived!\n" + " What England says, say briefly, gentle lord;\n" + " We coldly pause for thee; Chatillon, speak.\n\n" + "CHATILLON Then turn your forces from this paltry siege\n" + " And stir them up against a mightier task.\n" + " England, impatient of your just demands,\n" + " Hath put himself in arms: the adverse winds,\n" + " Whose leisure I have stay'd, have given him time\n" + " To land his legions all as soon as I;\n" + " His marches are expedient to this town,\n" + " His forces strong, his soldiers confident.\n" + " With him along is come the mother-queen,\n" + " An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife;\n" + " With her her niece, the Lady Blanch of Spain;\n" + " With them a bastard of the king's deceased,\n" + " And all the unsettled humours of the land,\n" + " Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries,\n" + " With ladies' faces and fierce dragons' spleens,\n" + " Have sold their fortunes at their native homes,\n" + " Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,\n" + " To make hazard of new fortunes here:\n" + " In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits\n" + " Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er\n" + " Did nearer float upon the swelling tide,\n" + " To do offence and scath in Christendom.\n\n" + " [Drum beats]\n\n" + " The interruption of their churlish drums\n" + " Cuts off more circumstance: they are at hand,\n" + " To parley or to fight; therefore prepare.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP How much unlook'd for is this expedition!\n\n" + "AUSTRIA By how much unexpected, by so much\n" + " We must awake endavour for defence;\n" + " For courage mounteth with occasion:\n" + " Let them be welcome then: we are prepared.\n\n" + " [Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, BLANCH, the BASTARD,\n" + " Lords, and forces]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Peace be to France, if France in peace permit\n" + " Our just and lineal entrance to our own;\n" + " If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven,\n" + " Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct\n" + " Their proud contempt that beats His peace to heaven.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Peace be to England, if that war return\n" + " From France to England, there to live in peace.\n" + " England we love; and for that England's sake\n" + " With burden of our armour here we sweat.\n" + " This toil of ours should be a work of thine;\n" + " But thou from loving England art so far,\n" + " That thou hast under-wrought his lawful king\n" + " Cut off the sequence of posterity,\n" + " Out-faced infant state and done a rape\n" + " Upon the maiden virtue of the crown.\n" + " Look here upon thy brother Geffrey's face;\n" + " These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his:\n" + " This little abstract doth contain that large\n" + " Which died in Geffrey, and the hand of time\n" + " Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume.\n" + " That Geffrey was thy elder brother born,\n" + " And this his son; England was Geffrey's right\n" + " And this is Geffrey's: in the name of God\n" + " How comes it then that thou art call'd a king,\n" + " When living blood doth in these temples beat,\n" + " Which owe the crown that thou o'ermasterest?\n\n" + "KING JOHN From whom hast thou this great commission, France,\n" + " To draw my answer from thy articles?\n\n" + "KING PHILIP From that supernal judge, that stirs good thoughts\n" + " In any breast of strong authority,\n" + " To look into the blots and stains of right:\n" + " That judge hath made me guardian to this boy:\n" + " Under whose warrant I impeach thy wrong\n" + " And by whose help I mean to chastise it.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Alack, thou dost usurp authority.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Excuse; it is to beat usurping down.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Who is it thou dost call usurper, France?\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Let me make answer; thy usurping son.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Out, insolent! thy bastard shall be king,\n" + " That thou mayst be a queen, and cheque the world!\n\n" + "CONSTANCE My bed was ever to thy son as true\n" + " As thine was to thy husband; and this boy\n" + " Liker in feature to his father Geffrey\n" + " Than thou and John in manners; being as like\n" + " As rain to water, or devil to his dam.\n" + " My boy a bastard! By my soul, I think\n" + " His father never was so true begot:\n" + " It cannot be, an if thou wert his mother.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR There's a good mother, boy, that blots thy father.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE There's a good grandam, boy, that would blot thee.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Peace!\n\n" + "BASTARD Hear the crier.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA What the devil art thou?\n\n" + "BASTARD One that will play the devil, sir, with you,\n" + " An a' may catch your hide and you alone:\n" + " You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,\n" + " Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard;\n" + " I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right;\n" + " Sirrah, look to't; i' faith, I will, i' faith.\n\n" + "BLANCH O, well did he become that lion's robe\n" + " That did disrobe the lion of that robe!\n\n" + "BASTARD It lies as sightly on the back of him\n" + " As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:\n" + " But, ass, I'll take that burthen from your back,\n" + " Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA What craker is this same that deafs our ears\n" + " With this abundance of superfluous breath?\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Lewis, determine what we shall do straight.\n\n" + "LEWIS Women and fools, break off your conference.\n" + " King John, this is the very sum of all;\n" + " England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,\n" + " In right of Arthur do I claim of thee:\n" + " Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?\n\n" + "KING JOHN My life as soon: I do defy thee, France.\n" + " Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand;\n" + " And out of my dear love I'll give thee more\n" + " Than e'er the coward hand of France can win:\n" + " Submit thee, boy.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Come to thy grandam, child.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Do, child, go to it grandam, child:\n" + " Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will\n" + " Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:\n" + " There's a good grandam.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Good my mother, peace!\n" + " I would that I were low laid in my grave:\n" + " I am not worth this coil that's made for me.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Now shame upon you, whether she does or no!\n" + " His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,\n" + " Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,\n" + " Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee;\n" + " Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed\n" + " To do him justice and revenge on you.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth!\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth!\n" + " Call not me slanderer; thou and thine usurp\n" + " The dominations, royalties and rights\n" + " Of this oppressed boy: this is thy eld'st son's son,\n" + " Infortunate in nothing but in thee:\n" + " Thy sins are visited in this poor child;\n" + " The canon of the law is laid on him,\n" + " Being but the second generation\n" + " Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Bedlam, have done.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE I have but this to say,\n" + " That he is not only plagued for her sin,\n" + " But God hath made her sin and her the plague\n" + " On this removed issue, plague for her\n" + " And with her plague; her sin his injury,\n" + " Her injury the beadle to her sin,\n" + " All punish'd in the person of this child,\n" + " And all for her; a plague upon her!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Thou unadvised scold, I can produce\n" + " A will that bars the title of thy son.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Ay, who doubts that? a will! a wicked will:\n" + " A woman's will; a canker'd grandam's will!\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Peace, lady! pause, or be more temperate:\n" + " It ill beseems this presence to cry aim\n" + " To these ill-tuned repetitions.\n" + " Some trumpet summon hither to the walls\n" + " These men of Angiers: let us hear them speak\n" + " Whose title they admit, Arthur's or John's.\n\n" + " [Trumpet sounds. Enter certain Citizens upon the walls]\n\n" + "First Citizen Who is it that hath warn'd us to the walls?\n\n" + "KING PHILIP 'Tis France, for England.\n\n" + "KING JOHN England, for itself.\n" + " You men of Angiers, and my loving subjects--\n\n" + "KING PHILIP You loving men of Angiers, Arthur's subjects,\n" + " Our trumpet call'd you to this gentle parle--\n\n" + "KING JOHN For our advantage; therefore hear us first.\n" + " These flags of France, that are advanced here\n" + " Before the eye and prospect of your town,\n" + " Have hither march'd to your endamagement:\n" + " The cannons have their bowels full of wrath,\n" + " And ready mounted are they to spit forth\n" + " Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls:\n" + " All preparation for a bloody siege\n" + " All merciless proceeding by these French\n" + " Confronts your city's eyes, your winking gates;\n" + " And but for our approach those sleeping stones,\n" + " That as a waist doth girdle you about,\n" + " By the compulsion of their ordinance\n" + " By this time from their fixed beds of lime\n" + " Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made\n" + " For bloody power to rush upon your peace.\n" + " But on the sight of us your lawful king,\n" + " Who painfully with much expedient march\n" + " Have brought a countercheque before your gates,\n" + " To save unscratch'd your city's threatened cheeks,\n" + " Behold, the French amazed vouchsafe a parle;\n" + " And now, instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire,\n" + " To make a shaking fever in your walls,\n" + " They shoot but calm words folded up in smoke,\n" + " To make a faithless error in your ears:\n" + " Which trust accordingly, kind citizens,\n" + " And let us in, your king, whose labour'd spirits,\n" + " Forwearied in this action of swift speed,\n" + " Crave harbourage within your city walls.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP When I have said, make answer to us both.\n" + " Lo, in this right hand, whose protection\n" + " Is most divinely vow'd upon the right\n" + " Of him it holds, stands young Plantagenet,\n" + " Son to the elder brother of this man,\n" + " And king o'er him and all that he enjoys:\n" + " For this down-trodden equity, we tread\n" + " In warlike march these greens before your town,\n" + " Being no further enemy to you\n" + " Than the constraint of hospitable zeal\n" + " In the relief of this oppressed child\n" + " Religiously provokes. Be pleased then\n" + " To pay that duty which you truly owe\n" + " To that owes it, namely this young prince:\n" + " And then our arms, like to a muzzled bear,\n" + " Save in aspect, hath all offence seal'd up;\n" + " Our cannons' malice vainly shall be spent\n" + " Against the invulnerable clouds of heaven;\n" + " And with a blessed and unvex'd retire,\n" + " With unhack'd swords and helmets all unbruised,\n" + " We will bear home that lusty blood again\n" + " Which here we came to spout against your town,\n" + " And leave your children, wives and you in peace.\n" + " But if you fondly pass our proffer'd offer,\n" + " 'Tis not the roundure of your old-faced walls\n" + " Can hide you from our messengers of war,\n" + " Though all these English and their discipline\n" + " Were harbour'd in their rude circumference.\n" + " Then tell us, shall your city call us lord,\n" + " In that behalf which we have challenged it?\n" + " Or shall we give the signal to our rage\n" + " And stalk in blood to our possession?\n\n" + "First Citizen In brief, we are the king of England's subjects:\n" + " For him, and in his right, we hold this town.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Acknowledge then the king, and let me in.\n\n" + "First Citizen That can we not; but he that proves the king,\n" + " To him will we prove loyal: till that time\n" + " Have we ramm'd up our gates against the world.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Doth not the crown of England prove the king?\n" + " And if not that, I bring you witnesses,\n" + " Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed,--\n\n" + "BASTARD Bastards, and else.\n\n" + "KING JOHN To verify our title with their lives.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP As many and as well-born bloods as those,--\n\n" + "BASTARD Some bastards too.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Stand in his face to contradict his claim.\n\n" + "First Citizen Till you compound whose right is worthiest,\n" + " We for the worthiest hold the right from both.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Then God forgive the sin of all those souls\n" + " That to their everlasting residence,\n" + " Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet,\n" + " In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king!\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Amen, amen! Mount, chevaliers! to arms!\n\n" + "BASTARD Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since\n" + " Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door,\n" + " Teach us some fence!\n\n" + " [To AUSTRIA]\n\n" + " Sirrah, were I at home,\n" + " At your den, sirrah, with your lioness\n" + " I would set an ox-head to your lion's hide,\n" + " And make a monster of you.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Peace! no more.\n\n" + "BASTARD O tremble, for you hear the lion roar.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Up higher to the plain; where we'll set forth\n" + " In best appointment all our regiments.\n\n" + "BASTARD Speed then, to take advantage of the field.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP It shall be so; and at the other hill\n" + " Command the rest to stand. God and our right!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Here after excursions, enter the Herald of France,\n" + " with trumpets, to the gates]\n\n" + "French Herald You men of Angiers, open wide your gates,\n" + " And let young Arthur, Duke of Bretagne, in,\n" + " Who by the hand of France this day hath made\n" + " Much work for tears in many an English mother,\n" + " Whose sons lie scattered on the bleeding ground;\n" + " Many a widow's husband grovelling lies,\n" + " Coldly embracing the discolour'd earth;\n" + " And victory, with little loss, doth play\n" + " Upon the dancing banners of the French,\n" + " Who are at hand, triumphantly display'd,\n" + " To enter conquerors and to proclaim\n" + " Arthur of Bretagne England's king and yours.\n\n" + " [Enter English Herald, with trumpet]\n\n" + "English Herald Rejoice, you men of Angiers, ring your bells:\n" + " King John, your king and England's doth approach,\n" + " Commander of this hot malicious day:\n" + " Their armours, that march'd hence so silver-bright,\n" + " Hither return all gilt with Frenchmen's blood;\n" + " There stuck no plume in any English crest\n" + " That is removed by a staff of France;\n" + " Our colours do return in those same hands\n" + " That did display them when we first march'd forth;\n" + " And, like a troop of jolly huntsmen, come\n" + " Our lusty English, all with purpled hands,\n" + " Dyed in the dying slaughter of their foes:\n" + " Open your gates and gives the victors way.\n\n" + "First Citizen Heralds, from off our towers we might behold,\n" + " From first to last, the onset and retire\n" + " Of both your armies; whose equality\n" + " By our best eyes cannot be censured:\n" + " Blood hath bought blood and blows have answered blows;\n" + " Strength match'd with strength, and power confronted power:\n" + " Both are alike; and both alike we like.\n" + " One must prove greatest: while they weigh so even,\n" + " We hold our town for neither, yet for both.\n\n" + " [Re-enter KING JOHN and KING PHILIP, with their\n" + " powers, severally]\n\n" + "KING JOHN France, hast thou yet more blood to cast away?\n" + " Say, shall the current of our right run on?\n" + " Whose passage, vex'd with thy impediment,\n" + " Shall leave his native channel and o'erswell\n" + " With course disturb'd even thy confining shores,\n" + " Unless thou let his silver water keep\n" + " A peaceful progress to the ocean.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP England, thou hast not saved one drop of blood,\n" + " In this hot trial, more than we of France;\n" + " Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear,\n" + " That sways the earth this climate overlooks,\n" + " Before we will lay down our just-borne arms,\n" + " We'll put thee down, 'gainst whom these arms we bear,\n" + " Or add a royal number to the dead,\n" + " Gracing the scroll that tells of this war's loss\n" + " With slaughter coupled to the name of kings.\n\n" + "BASTARD Ha, majesty! how high thy glory towers,\n" + " When the rich blood of kings is set on fire!\n" + " O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;\n" + " The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs;\n" + " And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men,\n" + " In undetermined differences of kings.\n" + " Why stand these royal fronts amazed thus?\n" + " Cry, 'havoc!' kings; back to the stained field,\n" + " You equal potents, fiery kindled spirits!\n" + " Then let confusion of one part confirm\n" + " The other's peace: till then, blows, blood and death!\n\n" + "KING JOHN Whose party do the townsmen yet admit?\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Speak, citizens, for England; who's your king?\n\n" + "First Citizen The king of England; when we know the king.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Know him in us, that here hold up his right.\n\n" + "KING JOHN In us, that are our own great deputy\n" + " And bear possession of our person here,\n" + " Lord of our presence, Angiers, and of you.\n\n" + "First Citizen A greater power then we denies all this;\n" + " And till it be undoubted, we do lock\n" + " Our former scruple in our strong-barr'd gates;\n" + " King'd of our fears, until our fears, resolved,\n" + " Be by some certain king purged and deposed.\n\n" + "BASTARD By heaven, these scroyles of Angiers flout you, kings,\n" + " And stand securely on their battlements,\n" + " As in a theatre, whence they gape and point\n" + " At your industrious scenes and acts of death.\n" + " Your royal presences be ruled by me:\n" + " Do like the mutines of Jerusalem,\n" + " Be friends awhile and both conjointly bend\n" + " Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town:\n" + " By east and west let France and England mount\n" + " Their battering cannon charged to the mouths,\n" + " Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd down\n" + " The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city:\n" + " I'ld play incessantly upon these jades,\n" + " Even till unfenced desolation\n" + " Leave them as naked as the vulgar air.\n" + " That done, dissever your united strengths,\n" + " And part your mingled colours once again;\n" + " Turn face to face and bloody point to point;\n" + " Then, in a moment, Fortune shall cull forth\n" + " Out of one side her happy minion,\n" + " To whom in favour she shall give the day,\n" + " And kiss him with a glorious victory.\n" + " How like you this wild counsel, mighty states?\n" + " Smacks it not something of the policy?\n\n" + "KING JOHN Now, by the sky that hangs above our heads,\n" + " I like it well. France, shall we knit our powers\n" + " And lay this Angiers even to the ground;\n" + " Then after fight who shall be king of it?\n\n" + "BASTARD An if thou hast the mettle of a king,\n" + " Being wronged as we are by this peevish town,\n" + " Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery,\n" + " As we will ours, against these saucy walls;\n" + " And when that we have dash'd them to the ground,\n" + " Why then defy each other and pell-mell\n" + " Make work upon ourselves, for heaven or hell.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Let it be so. Say, where will you assault?\n\n" + "KING JOHN We from the west will send destruction\n" + " Into this city's bosom.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA I from the north.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Our thunder from the south\n" + " Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town.\n\n" + "BASTARD O prudent discipline! From north to south:\n" + " Austria and France shoot in each other's mouth:\n" + " I'll stir them to it. Come, away, away!\n\n" + "First Citizen Hear us, great kings: vouchsafe awhile to stay,\n" + " And I shall show you peace and fair-faced league;\n" + " Win you this city without stroke or wound;\n" + " Rescue those breathing lives to die in beds,\n" + " That here come sacrifices for the field:\n" + " Persever not, but hear me, mighty kings.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Speak on with favour; we are bent to hear.\n\n" + "First Citizen That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch,\n" + " Is niece to England: look upon the years\n" + " Of Lewis the Dauphin and that lovely maid:\n" + " If lusty love should go in quest of beauty,\n" + " Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?\n" + " If zealous love should go in search of virtue,\n" + " Where should he find it purer than in Blanch?\n" + " If love ambitious sought a match of birth,\n" + " Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady Blanch?\n" + " Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth,\n" + " Is the young Dauphin every way complete:\n" + " If not complete of, say he is not she;\n" + " And she again wants nothing, to name want,\n" + " If want it be not that she is not he:\n" + " He is the half part of a blessed man,\n" + " Left to be finished by such as she;\n" + " And she a fair divided excellence,\n" + " Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.\n" + " O, two such silver currents, when they join,\n" + " Do glorify the banks that bound them in;\n" + " And two such shores to two such streams made one,\n" + " Two such controlling bounds shall you be, kings,\n" + " To these two princes, if you marry them.\n" + " This union shall do more than battery can\n" + " To our fast-closed gates; for at this match,\n" + " With swifter spleen than powder can enforce,\n" + " The mouth of passage shall we fling wide ope,\n" + " And give you entrance: but without this match,\n" + " The sea enraged is not half so deaf,\n" + " Lions more confident, mountains and rocks\n" + " More free from motion, no, not Death himself\n" + " In moral fury half so peremptory,\n" + " As we to keep this city.\n\n" + "BASTARD Here's a stay\n" + " That shakes the rotten carcass of old Death\n" + " Out of his rags! Here's a large mouth, indeed,\n" + " That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas,\n" + " Talks as familiarly of roaring lions\n" + " As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs!\n" + " What cannoneer begot this lusty blood?\n" + " He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce;\n" + " He gives the bastinado with his tongue:\n" + " Our ears are cudgell'd; not a word of his\n" + " But buffets better than a fist of France:\n" + " Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words\n" + " Since I first call'd my brother's father dad.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Son, list to this conjunction, make this match;\n" + " Give with our niece a dowry large enough:\n" + " For by this knot thou shalt so surely tie\n" + " Thy now unsured assurance to the crown,\n" + " That yon green boy shall have no sun to ripe\n" + " The bloom that promiseth a mighty fruit.\n" + " I see a yielding in the looks of France;\n" + " Mark, how they whisper: urge them while their souls\n" + " Are capable of this ambition,\n" + " Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath\n" + " Of soft petitions, pity and remorse,\n" + " Cool and congeal again to what it was.\n\n" + "First Citizen Why answer not the double majesties\n" + " This friendly treaty of our threaten'd town?\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Speak England first, that hath been forward first\n" + " To speak unto this city: what say you?\n\n" + "KING JOHN If that the Dauphin there, thy princely son,\n" + " Can in this book of beauty read 'I love,'\n" + " Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen:\n" + " For Anjou and fair Touraine, Maine, Poictiers,\n" + " And all that we upon this side the sea,\n" + " Except this city now by us besieged,\n" + " Find liable to our crown and dignity,\n" + " Shall gild her bridal bed and make her rich\n" + " In titles, honours and promotions,\n" + " As she in beauty, education, blood,\n" + " Holds hand with any princess of the world.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP What say'st thou, boy? look in the lady's face.\n\n" + "LEWIS I do, my lord; and in her eye I find\n" + " A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,\n" + " The shadow of myself form'd in her eye:\n" + " Which being but the shadow of your son,\n" + " Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow:\n" + " I do protest I never loved myself\n" + " Till now infixed I beheld myself\n" + " Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.\n\n" + " [Whispers with BLANCH]\n\n" + "BASTARD Drawn in the flattering table of her eye!\n" + " Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow!\n" + " And quarter'd in her heart! he doth espy\n" + " Himself love's traitor: this is pity now,\n" + " That hang'd and drawn and quartered, there should be\n" + " In such a love so vile a lout as he.\n\n" + "BLANCH My uncle's will in this respect is mine:\n" + " If he see aught in you that makes him like,\n" + " That any thing he sees, which moves his liking,\n" + " I can with ease translate it to my will;\n" + " Or if you will, to speak more properly,\n" + " I will enforce it easily to my love.\n" + " Further I will not flatter you, my lord,\n" + " That all I see in you is worthy love,\n" + " Than this; that nothing do I see in you,\n" + " Though churlish thoughts themselves should be your judge,\n" + " That I can find should merit any hate.\n\n" + "KING JOHN What say these young ones? What say you my niece?\n\n" + "BLANCH That she is bound in honour still to do\n" + " What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Speak then, prince Dauphin; can you love this lady?\n\n" + "LEWIS Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love;\n" + " For I do love her most unfeignedly.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine,\n" + " Poictiers and Anjou, these five provinces,\n" + " With her to thee; and this addition more,\n" + " Full thirty thousand marks of English coin.\n" + " Philip of France, if thou be pleased withal,\n" + " Command thy son and daughter to join hands.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP It likes us well; young princes, close your hands.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA And your lips too; for I am well assured\n" + " That I did so when I was first assured.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates,\n" + " Let in that amity which you have made;\n" + " For at Saint Mary's chapel presently\n" + " The rites of marriage shall be solemnized.\n" + " Is not the Lady Constance in this troop?\n" + " I know she is not, for this match made up\n" + " Her presence would have interrupted much:\n" + " Where is she and her son? tell me, who knows.\n\n" + "LEWIS She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP And, by my faith, this league that we have made\n" + " Will give her sadness very little cure.\n" + " Brother of England, how may we content\n" + " This widow lady? In her right we came;\n" + " Which we, God knows, have turn'd another way,\n" + " To our own vantage.\n\n" + "KING JOHN We will heal up all;\n" + " For we'll create young Arthur Duke of Bretagne\n" + " And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town\n" + " We make him lord of. Call the Lady Constance;\n" + " Some speedy messenger bid her repair\n" + " To our solemnity: I trust we shall,\n" + " If not fill up the measure of her will,\n" + " Yet in some measure satisfy her so\n" + " That we shall stop her exclamation.\n" + " Go we, as well as haste will suffer us,\n" + " To this unlook'd for, unprepared pomp.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but the BASTARD]\n\n" + "BASTARD Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!\n" + " John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole,\n" + " Hath willingly departed with a part,\n" + " And France, whose armour conscience buckled on,\n" + " Whom zeal and charity brought to the field\n" + " As God's own soldier, rounded in the ear\n" + " With that same purpose-changer, that sly devil,\n" + " That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith,\n" + " That daily break-vow, he that wins of all,\n" + " Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids,\n" + " Who, having no external thing to lose\n" + " But the word 'maid,' cheats the poor maid of that,\n" + " That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling Commodity,\n" + " Commodity, the bias of the world,\n" + " The world, who of itself is peised well,\n" + " Made to run even upon even ground,\n" + " Till this advantage, this vile-drawing bias,\n" + " This sway of motion, this Commodity,\n" + " Makes it take head from all indifferency,\n" + " From all direction, purpose, course, intent:\n" + " And this same bias, this Commodity,\n" + " This bawd, this broker, this all-changing word,\n" + " Clapp'd on the outward eye of fickle France,\n" + " Hath drawn him from his own determined aid,\n" + " From a resolved and honourable war,\n" + " To a most base and vile-concluded peace.\n" + " And why rail I on this Commodity?\n" + " But for because he hath not woo'd me yet:\n" + " Not that I have the power to clutch my hand,\n" + " When his fair angels would salute my palm;\n" + " But for my hand, as unattempted yet,\n" + " Like a poor beggar, raileth on the rich.\n" + " Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail\n" + " And say there is no sin but to be rich;\n" + " And being rich, my virtue then shall be\n" + " To say there is no vice but beggary.\n" + " Since kings break faith upon commodity,\n" + " Gain, be my lord, for I will worship thee.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The French King's pavilion.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CONSTANCE, ARTHUR, and SALISBURY]\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Gone to be married! gone to swear a peace!\n" + " False blood to false blood join'd! gone to be friends!\n" + " Shall Lewis have Blanch, and Blanch those provinces?\n" + " It is not so; thou hast misspoke, misheard:\n" + " Be well advised, tell o'er thy tale again:\n" + " It cannot be; thou dost but say 'tis so:\n" + " I trust I may not trust thee; for thy word\n" + " Is but the vain breath of a common man:\n" + " Believe me, I do not believe thee, man;\n" + " I have a king's oath to the contrary.\n" + " Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me,\n" + " For I am sick and capable of fears,\n" + " Oppress'd with wrongs and therefore full of fears,\n" + " A widow, husbandless, subject to fears,\n" + " A woman, naturally born to fears;\n" + " And though thou now confess thou didst but jest,\n" + " With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce,\n" + " But they will quake and tremble all this day.\n" + " What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head?\n" + " Why dost thou look so sadly on my son?\n" + " What means that hand upon that breast of thine?\n" + " Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum,\n" + " Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds?\n" + " Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words?\n" + " Then speak again; not all thy former tale,\n" + " But this one word, whether thy tale be true.\n\n" + "SALISBURY As true as I believe you think them false\n" + " That give you cause to prove my saying true.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O, if thou teach me to believe this sorrow,\n" + " Teach thou this sorrow how to make me die,\n" + " And let belief and life encounter so\n" + " As doth the fury of two desperate men\n" + " Which in the very meeting fall and die.\n" + " Lewis marry Blanch! O boy, then where art thou?\n" + " France friend with England, what becomes of me?\n" + " Fellow, be gone: I cannot brook thy sight:\n" + " This news hath made thee a most ugly man.\n\n" + "SALISBURY What other harm have I, good lady, done,\n" + " But spoke the harm that is by others done?\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Which harm within itself so heinous is\n" + " As it makes harmful all that speak of it.\n\n" + "ARTHUR I do beseech you, madam, be content.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE If thou, that bid'st me be content, wert grim,\n" + " Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb,\n" + " Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains,\n" + " Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,\n" + " Patch'd with foul moles and eye-offending marks,\n" + " I would not care, I then would be content,\n" + " For then I should not love thee, no, nor thou\n" + " Become thy great birth nor deserve a crown.\n" + " But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,\n" + " Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:\n" + " Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,\n" + " And with the half-blown rose. But Fortune, O,\n" + " She is corrupted, changed and won from thee;\n" + " She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John,\n" + " And with her golden hand hath pluck'd on France\n" + " To tread down fair respect of sovereignty,\n" + " And made his majesty the bawd to theirs.\n" + " France is a bawd to Fortune and King John,\n" + " That strumpet Fortune, that usurping John!\n" + " Tell me, thou fellow, is not France forsworn?\n" + " Envenom him with words, or get thee gone\n" + " And leave those woes alone which I alone\n" + " Am bound to under-bear.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Pardon me, madam,\n" + " I may not go without you to the kings.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Thou mayst, thou shalt; I will not go with thee:\n" + " I will instruct my sorrows to be proud;\n" + " For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.\n" + " To me and to the state of my great grief\n" + " Let kings assemble; for my grief's so great\n" + " That no supporter but the huge firm earth\n" + " Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit;\n" + " Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.\n\n" + " [Seats herself on the ground]\n\n" + " [Enter KING JOHN, KING PHILLIP, LEWIS, BLANCH,\n" + " QUEEN ELINOR, the BASTARD, AUSTRIA, and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING PHILIP 'Tis true, fair daughter; and this blessed day\n" + " Ever in France shall be kept festival:\n" + " To solemnize this day the glorious sun\n" + " Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,\n" + " Turning with splendor of his precious eye\n" + " The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold:\n" + " The yearly course that brings this day about\n" + " Shall never see it but a holiday.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE A wicked day, and not a holy day!\n\n" + " [Rising]\n\n" + " What hath this day deserved? what hath it done,\n" + " That it in golden letters should be set\n" + " Among the high tides in the calendar?\n" + " Nay, rather turn this day out of the week,\n" + " This day of shame, oppression, perjury.\n" + " Or, if it must stand still, let wives with child\n" + " Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,\n" + " Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd:\n" + " But on this day let seamen fear no wreck;\n" + " No bargains break that are not this day made:\n" + " This day, all things begun come to ill end,\n" + " Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change!\n\n" + "KING PHILIP By heaven, lady, you shall have no cause\n" + " To curse the fair proceedings of this day:\n" + " Have I not pawn'd to you my majesty?\n\n" + "CONSTANCE You have beguiled me with a counterfeit\n" + " Resembling majesty, which, being touch'd and tried,\n" + " Proves valueless: you are forsworn, forsworn;\n" + " You came in arms to spill mine enemies' blood,\n" + " But now in arms you strengthen it with yours:\n" + " The grappling vigour and rough frown of war\n" + " Is cold in amity and painted peace,\n" + " And our oppression hath made up this league.\n" + " Arm, arm, you heavens, against these perjured kings!\n" + " A widow cries; be husband to me, heavens!\n" + " Let not the hours of this ungodly day\n" + " Wear out the day in peace; but, ere sunset,\n" + " Set armed discord 'twixt these perjured kings!\n" + " Hear me, O, hear me!\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Lady Constance, peace!\n\n" + "CONSTANCE War! war! no peace! peace is to me a war\n" + " O Lymoges! O Austria! thou dost shame\n" + " That bloody spoil: thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!\n" + " Thou little valiant, great in villany!\n" + " Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!\n" + " Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight\n" + " But when her humorous ladyship is by\n" + " To teach thee safety! thou art perjured too,\n" + " And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou,\n" + " A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear\n" + " Upon my party! Thou cold-blooded slave,\n" + " Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side,\n" + " Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend\n" + " Upon thy stars, thy fortune and thy strength,\n" + " And dost thou now fall over to my fores?\n" + " Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,\n" + " And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA O, that a man should speak those words to me!\n\n" + "BASTARD And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Thou darest not say so, villain, for thy life.\n\n" + "BASTARD And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs.\n\n" + "KING JOHN We like not this; thou dost forget thyself.\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH]\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Here comes the holy legate of the pope.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Hail, you anointed deputies of heaven!\n" + " To thee, King John, my holy errand is.\n" + " I Pandulph, of fair Milan cardinal,\n" + " And from Pope Innocent the legate here,\n" + " Do in his name religiously demand\n" + " Why thou against the church, our holy mother,\n" + " So wilfully dost spurn; and force perforce\n" + " Keep Stephen Langton, chosen archbishop\n" + " Of Canterbury, from that holy see?\n" + " This, in our foresaid holy father's name,\n" + " Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee.\n\n" + "KING JOHN What earthy name to interrogatories\n" + " Can task the free breath of a sacred king?\n" + " Thou canst not, cardinal, devise a name\n" + " So slight, unworthy and ridiculous,\n" + " To charge me to an answer, as the pope.\n" + " Tell him this tale; and from the mouth of England\n" + " Add thus much more, that no Italian priest\n" + " Shall tithe or toll in our dominions;\n" + " But as we, under heaven, are supreme head,\n" + " So under Him that great supremacy,\n" + " Where we do reign, we will alone uphold,\n" + " Without the assistance of a mortal hand:\n" + " So tell the pope, all reverence set apart\n" + " To him and his usurp'd authority.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Brother of England, you blaspheme in this.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Though you and all the kings of Christendom\n" + " Are led so grossly by this meddling priest,\n" + " Dreading the curse that money may buy out;\n" + " And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust,\n" + " Purchase corrupted pardon of a man,\n" + " Who in that sale sells pardon from himself,\n" + " Though you and all the rest so grossly led\n" + " This juggling witchcraft with revenue cherish,\n" + " Yet I alone, alone do me oppose\n" + " Against the pope and count his friends my foes.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Then, by the lawful power that I have,\n" + " Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate.\n" + " And blessed shall he be that doth revolt\n" + " From his allegiance to an heretic;\n" + " And meritorious shall that hand be call'd,\n" + " Canonized and worshipped as a saint,\n" + " That takes away by any secret course\n" + " Thy hateful life.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O, lawful let it be\n" + " That I have room with Rome to curse awhile!\n" + " Good father cardinal, cry thou amen\n" + " To my keen curses; for without my wrong\n" + " There is no tongue hath power to curse him right.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH There's law and warrant, lady, for my curse.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE And for mine too: when law can do no right,\n" + " Let it be lawful that law bar no wrong:\n" + " Law cannot give my child his kingdom here,\n" + " For he that holds his kingdom holds the law;\n" + " Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong,\n" + " How can the law forbid my tongue to curse?\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Philip of France, on peril of a curse,\n" + " Let go the hand of that arch-heretic;\n" + " And raise the power of France upon his head,\n" + " Unless he do submit himself to Rome.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Look'st thou pale, France? do not let go thy hand.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Look to that, devil; lest that France repent,\n" + " And by disjoining hands, hell lose a soul.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA King Philip, listen to the cardinal.\n\n" + "BASTARD And hang a calf's-skin on his recreant limbs.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Well, ruffian, I must pocket up these wrongs, Because--\n\n" + "BASTARD Your breeches best may carry them.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Philip, what say'st thou to the cardinal?\n\n" + "CONSTANCE What should he say, but as the cardinal?\n\n" + "LEWIS Bethink you, father; for the difference\n" + " Is purchase of a heavy curse from Rome,\n" + " Or the light loss of England for a friend:\n" + " Forego the easier.\n\n" + "BLANCH That's the curse of Rome.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O Lewis, stand fast! the devil tempts thee here\n" + " In likeness of a new untrimmed bride.\n\n" + "BLANCH The Lady Constance speaks not from her faith,\n" + " But from her need.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O, if thou grant my need,\n" + " Which only lives but by the death of faith,\n" + " That need must needs infer this principle,\n" + " That faith would live again by death of need.\n" + " O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up;\n" + " Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down!\n\n" + "KING JOHN The king is moved, and answers not to this.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O, be removed from him, and answer well!\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Do so, King Philip; hang no more in doubt.\n\n" + "BASTARD Hang nothing but a calf's-skin, most sweet lout.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP I am perplex'd, and know not what to say.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH What canst thou say but will perplex thee more,\n" + " If thou stand excommunicate and cursed?\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Good reverend father, make my person yours,\n" + " And tell me how you would bestow yourself.\n" + " This royal hand and mine are newly knit,\n" + " And the conjunction of our inward souls\n" + " Married in league, coupled and linked together\n" + " With all religious strength of sacred vows;\n" + " The latest breath that gave the sound of words\n" + " Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love\n" + " Between our kingdoms and our royal selves,\n" + " And even before this truce, but new before,\n" + " No longer than we well could wash our hands\n" + " To clap this royal bargain up of peace,\n" + " Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and over-stain'd\n" + " With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint\n" + " The fearful difference of incensed kings:\n" + " And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,\n" + " So newly join'd in love, so strong in both,\n" + " Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?\n" + " Play fast and loose with faith? so jest with heaven,\n" + " Make such unconstant children of ourselves,\n" + " As now again to snatch our palm from palm,\n" + " Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage-bed\n" + " Of smiling peace to march a bloody host,\n" + " And make a riot on the gentle brow\n" + " Of true sincerity? O, holy sir,\n" + " My reverend father, let it not be so!\n" + " Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose\n" + " Some gentle order; and then we shall be blest\n" + " To do your pleasure and continue friends.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH All form is formless, order orderless,\n" + " Save what is opposite to England's love.\n" + " Therefore to arms! be champion of our church,\n" + " Or let the church, our mother, breathe her curse,\n" + " A mother's curse, on her revolting son.\n" + " France, thou mayst hold a serpent by the tongue,\n" + " A chafed lion by the mortal paw,\n" + " A fasting tiger safer by the tooth,\n" + " Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP I may disjoin my hand, but not my faith.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH So makest thou faith an enemy to faith;\n" + " And like a civil war set'st oath to oath,\n" + " Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy vow\n" + " First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd,\n" + " That is, to be the champion of our church!\n" + " What since thou sworest is sworn against thyself\n" + " And may not be performed by thyself,\n" + " For that which thou hast sworn to do amiss\n" + " Is not amiss when it is truly done,\n" + " And being not done, where doing tends to ill,\n" + " The truth is then most done not doing it:\n" + " The better act of purposes mistook\n" + " Is to mistake again; though indirect,\n" + " Yet indirection thereby grows direct,\n" + " And falsehood falsehood cures, as fire cools fire\n" + " Within the scorched veins of one new-burn'd.\n" + " It is religion that doth make vows kept;\n" + " But thou hast sworn against religion,\n" + " By what thou swear'st against the thing thou swear'st,\n" + " And makest an oath the surety for thy truth\n" + " Against an oath: the truth thou art unsure\n" + " To swear, swears only not to be forsworn;\n" + " Else what a mockery should it be to swear!\n" + " But thou dost swear only to be forsworn;\n" + " And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost swear.\n" + " Therefore thy later vows against thy first\n" + " Is in thyself rebellion to thyself;\n" + " And better conquest never canst thou make\n" + " Than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts\n" + " Against these giddy loose suggestions:\n" + " Upon which better part our prayers come in,\n" + " If thou vouchsafe them. But if not, then know\n" + " The peril of our curses light on thee\n" + " So heavy as thou shalt not shake them off,\n" + " But in despair die under their black weight.\n\n" + "AUSTRIA Rebellion, flat rebellion!\n\n" + "BASTARD Will't not be?\n" + " Will not a calfs-skin stop that mouth of thine?\n\n" + "LEWIS Father, to arms!\n\n" + "BLANCH Upon thy wedding-day?\n" + " Against the blood that thou hast married?\n" + " What, shall our feast be kept with slaughter'd men?\n" + " Shall braying trumpets and loud churlish drums,\n" + " Clamours of hell, be measures to our pomp?\n" + " O husband, hear me! ay, alack, how new\n" + " Is husband in my mouth! even for that name,\n" + " Which till this time my tongue did ne'er pronounce,\n" + " Upon my knee I beg, go not to arms\n" + " Against mine uncle.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O, upon my knee,\n" + " Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee,\n" + " Thou virtuous Dauphin, alter not the doom\n" + " Forethought by heaven!\n\n" + "BLANCH Now shall I see thy love: what motive may\n" + " Be stronger with thee than the name of wife?\n\n" + "CONSTANCE That which upholdeth him that thee upholds,\n" + " His honour: O, thine honour, Lewis, thine honour!\n\n" + "LEWIS I muse your majesty doth seem so cold,\n" + " When such profound respects do pull you on.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH I will denounce a curse upon his head.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE O fair return of banish'd majesty!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR O foul revolt of French inconstancy!\n\n" + "KING JOHN France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour.\n\n" + "BASTARD Old Time the clock-setter, that bald sexton Time,\n" + " Is it as he will? well then, France shall rue.\n\n" + "BLANCH The sun's o'ercast with blood: fair day, adieu!\n" + " Which is the side that I must go withal?\n" + " I am with both: each army hath a hand;\n" + " And in their rage, I having hold of both,\n" + " They swirl asunder and dismember me.\n" + " Husband, I cannot pray that thou mayst win;\n" + " Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose;\n" + " Father, I may not wish the fortune thine;\n" + " Grandam, I will not wish thy fortunes thrive:\n" + " Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose\n" + " Assured loss before the match be play'd.\n\n" + "LEWIS Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies.\n\n" + "BLANCH There where my fortune lives, there my life dies.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Cousin, go draw our puissance together.\n\n" + " [Exit BASTARD]\n\n" + " France, I am burn'd up with inflaming wrath;\n" + " A rage whose heat hath this condition,\n" + " That nothing can allay, nothing but blood,\n" + " The blood, and dearest-valued blood, of France.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Thy rage sham burn thee up, and thou shalt turn\n" + " To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that fire:\n" + " Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy.\n\n" + "KING JOHN No more than he that threats. To arms let's hie!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. Plains near Angiers.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums, excursions. Enter the BASTARD, with\n" + " AUSTRIA'S head]\n\n" + "BASTARD Now, by my life, this day grows wondrous hot;\n" + " Some airy devil hovers in the sky\n" + " And pours down mischief. Austria's head lie there,\n" + " While Philip breathes.\n\n" + " [Enter KING JOHN, ARTHUR, and HUBERT]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Hubert, keep this boy. Philip, make up:\n" + " My mother is assailed in our tent,\n" + " And ta'en, I fear.\n\n" + "BASTARD My lord, I rescued her;\n" + " Her highness is in safety, fear you not:\n" + " But on, my liege; for very little pains\n" + " Will bring this labour to an happy end.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums, excursions, retreat. Enter KING JOHN,\n" + " QUEEN ELINOR, ARTHUR, the BASTARD, HUBERT,\n" + " and Lords]\n\n" + "KING JOHN [To QUEEN ELINOR] So shall it be; your grace shall\n" + " stay behind\n" + " So strongly guarded.\n\n" + " [To ARTHUR]\n\n" + " Cousin, look not sad:\n" + " Thy grandam loves thee; and thy uncle will\n" + " As dear be to thee as thy father was.\n\n" + "ARTHUR O, this will make my mother die with grief!\n\n" + "KING JOHN [To the BASTARD] Cousin, away for England!\n" + " haste before:\n" + " And, ere our coming, see thou shake the bags\n" + " Of hoarding abbots; imprisoned angels\n" + " Set at liberty: the fat ribs of peace\n" + " Must by the hungry now be fed upon:\n" + " Use our commission in his utmost force.\n\n" + "BASTARD Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back,\n" + " When gold and silver becks me to come on.\n" + " I leave your highness. Grandam, I will pray,\n" + " If ever I remember to be holy,\n" + " For your fair safety; so, I kiss your hand.\n\n" + "ELINOR Farewell, gentle cousin.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Coz, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit the BASTARD]\n\n" + "QUEEN ELINOR Come hither, little kinsman; hark, a word.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Come hither, Hubert. O my gentle Hubert,\n" + " We owe thee much! within this wall of flesh\n" + " There is a soul counts thee her creditor\n" + " And with advantage means to pay thy love:\n" + " And my good friend, thy voluntary oath\n" + " Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished.\n" + " Give me thy hand. I had a thing to say,\n" + " But I will fit it with some better time.\n" + " By heaven, Hubert, I am almost ashamed\n" + " To say what good respect I have of thee.\n\n" + "HUBERT I am much bounden to your majesty.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Good friend, thou hast no cause to say so yet,\n" + " But thou shalt have; and creep time ne'er so slow,\n" + " Yet it shall come from me to do thee good.\n" + " I had a thing to say, but let it go:\n" + " The sun is in the heaven, and the proud day,\n" + " Attended with the pleasures of the world,\n" + " Is all too wanton and too full of gawds\n" + " To give me audience: if the midnight bell\n" + " Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth,\n" + " Sound on into the drowsy race of night;\n" + " If this same were a churchyard where we stand,\n" + " And thou possessed with a thousand wrongs,\n" + " Or if that surly spirit, melancholy,\n" + " Had baked thy blood and made it heavy-thick,\n" + " Which else runs tickling up and down the veins,\n" + " Making that idiot, laughter, keep men's eyes\n" + " And strain their cheeks to idle merriment,\n" + " A passion hateful to my purposes,\n" + " Or if that thou couldst see me without eyes,\n" + " Hear me without thine ears, and make reply\n" + " Without a tongue, using conceit alone,\n" + " Without eyes, ears and harmful sound of words;\n" + " Then, in despite of brooded watchful day,\n" + " I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts:\n" + " But, ah, I will not! yet I love thee well;\n" + " And, by my troth, I think thou lovest me well.\n\n" + "HUBERT So well, that what you bid me undertake,\n" + " Though that my death were adjunct to my act,\n" + " By heaven, I would do it.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Do not I know thou wouldst?\n" + " Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine eye\n" + " On yon young boy: I'll tell thee what, my friend,\n" + " He is a very serpent in my way;\n" + " And whereso'er this foot of mine doth tread,\n" + " He lies before me: dost thou understand me?\n" + " Thou art his keeper.\n\n" + "HUBERT And I'll keep him so,\n" + " That he shall not offend your majesty.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Death.\n\n" + "HUBERT My lord?\n\n" + "KING JOHN A grave.\n\n" + "HUBERT He shall not live.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Enough.\n" + " I could be merry now. Hubert, I love thee;\n" + " Well, I'll not say what I intend for thee:\n" + " Remember. Madam, fare you well:\n" + " I'll send those powers o'er to your majesty.\n\n" + "ELINOR My blessing go with thee!\n\n" + "KING JOHN For England, cousin, go:\n" + " Hubert shall be your man, attend on you\n" + " With all true duty. On toward Calais, ho!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. KING PHILIP'S tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING PHILIP, LEWIS, CARDINAL PANDULPH,\n" + " and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING PHILIP So, by a roaring tempest on the flood,\n" + " A whole armado of convicted sail\n" + " Is scatter'd and disjoin'd from fellowship.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Courage and comfort! all shall yet go well.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP What can go well, when we have run so ill?\n" + " Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost?\n" + " Arthur ta'en prisoner? divers dear friends slain?\n" + " And bloody England into England gone,\n" + " O'erbearing interruption, spite of France?\n\n" + "LEWIS What he hath won, that hath he fortified:\n" + " So hot a speed with such advice disposed,\n" + " Such temperate order in so fierce a cause,\n" + " Doth want example: who hath read or heard\n" + " Of any kindred action like to this?\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Well could I bear that England had this praise,\n" + " So we could find some pattern of our shame.\n\n" + " [Enter CONSTANCE]\n\n" + " Look, who comes here! a grave unto a soul;\n" + " Holding the eternal spirit against her will,\n" + " In the vile prison of afflicted breath.\n" + " I prithee, lady, go away with me.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Lo, now I now see the issue of your peace.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Patience, good lady! comfort, gentle Constance!\n\n" + "CONSTANCE No, I defy all counsel, all redress,\n" + " But that which ends all counsel, true redress,\n" + " Death, death; O amiable lovely death!\n" + " Thou odouriferous stench! sound rottenness!\n" + " Arise forth from the couch of lasting night,\n" + " Thou hate and terror to prosperity,\n" + " And I will kiss thy detestable bones\n" + " And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows\n" + " And ring these fingers with thy household worms\n" + " And stop this gap of breath with fulsome dust\n" + " And be a carrion monster like thyself:\n" + " Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest\n" + " And buss thee as thy wife. Misery's love,\n" + " O, come to me!\n\n" + "KING PHILIP O fair affliction, peace!\n\n" + "CONSTANCE No, no, I will not, having breath to cry:\n" + " O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth!\n" + " Then with a passion would I shake the world;\n" + " And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy\n" + " Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice,\n" + " Which scorns a modern invocation.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Thou art not holy to belie me so;\n" + " I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine;\n" + " My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife;\n" + " Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost:\n" + " I am not mad: I would to heaven I were!\n" + " For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:\n" + " O, if I could, what grief should I forget!\n" + " Preach some philosophy to make me mad,\n" + " And thou shalt be canonized, cardinal;\n" + " For being not mad but sensible of grief,\n" + " My reasonable part produces reason\n" + " How I may be deliver'd of these woes,\n" + " And teaches me to kill or hang myself:\n" + " If I were mad, I should forget my son,\n" + " Or madly think a babe of clouts were he:\n" + " I am not mad; too well, too well I feel\n" + " The different plague of each calamity.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Bind up those tresses. O, what love I note\n" + " In the fair multitude of those her hairs!\n" + " Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen,\n" + " Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends\n" + " Do glue themselves in sociable grief,\n" + " Like true, inseparable, faithful loves,\n" + " Sticking together in calamity.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE To England, if you will.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP Bind up your hairs.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Yes, that I will; and wherefore will I do it?\n" + " I tore them from their bonds and cried aloud\n" + " 'O that these hands could so redeem my son,\n" + " As they have given these hairs their liberty!'\n" + " But now I envy at their liberty,\n" + " And will again commit them to their bonds,\n" + " Because my poor child is a prisoner.\n" + " And, father cardinal, I have heard you say\n" + " That we shall see and know our friends in heaven:\n" + " If that be true, I shall see my boy again;\n" + " For since the birth of Cain, the first male child,\n" + " To him that did but yesterday suspire,\n" + " There was not such a gracious creature born.\n" + " But now will canker-sorrow eat my bud\n" + " And chase the native beauty from his cheek\n" + " And he will look as hollow as a ghost,\n" + " As dim and meagre as an ague's fit,\n" + " And so he'll die; and, rising so again,\n" + " When I shall meet him in the court of heaven\n" + " I shall not know him: therefore never, never\n" + " Must I behold my pretty Arthur more.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH You hold too heinous a respect of grief.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE He talks to me that never had a son.\n\n" + "KING PHILIP You are as fond of grief as of your child.\n\n" + "CONSTANCE Grief fills the room up of my absent child,\n" + " Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,\n" + " Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,\n" + " Remembers me of all his gracious parts,\n" + " Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;\n" + " Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?\n" + " Fare you well: had you such a loss as I,\n" + " I could give better comfort than you do.\n" + " I will not keep this form upon my head,\n" + " When there is such disorder in my wit.\n" + " O Lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son!\n" + " My life, my joy, my food, my all the world!\n" + " My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING PHILIP I fear some outrage, and I'll follow her.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LEWIS There's nothing in this world can make me joy:\n" + " Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale\n" + " Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man;\n" + " And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste\n" + " That it yields nought but shame and bitterness.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Before the curing of a strong disease,\n" + " Even in the instant of repair and health,\n" + " The fit is strongest; evils that take leave,\n" + " On their departure most of all show evil:\n" + " What have you lost by losing of this day?\n\n" + "LEWIS All days of glory, joy and happiness.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH If you had won it, certainly you had.\n" + " No, no; when Fortune means to men most good,\n" + " She looks upon them with a threatening eye.\n" + " 'Tis strange to think how much King John hath lost\n" + " In this which he accounts so clearly won:\n" + " Are not you grieved that Arthur is his prisoner?\n\n" + "LEWIS As heartily as he is glad he hath him.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Your mind is all as youthful as your blood.\n" + " Now hear me speak with a prophetic spirit;\n" + " For even the breath of what I mean to speak\n" + " Shall blow each dust, each straw, each little rub,\n" + " Out of the path which shall directly lead\n" + " Thy foot to England's throne; and therefore mark.\n" + " John hath seized Arthur; and it cannot be\n" + " That, whiles warm life plays in that infant's veins,\n" + " The misplaced John should entertain an hour,\n" + " One minute, nay, one quiet breath of rest.\n" + " A sceptre snatch'd with an unruly hand\n" + " Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd;\n" + " And he that stands upon a slippery place\n" + " Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up:\n" + " That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall;\n" + " So be it, for it cannot be but so.\n\n" + "LEWIS But what shall I gain by young Arthur's fall?\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH You, in the right of Lady Blanch your wife,\n" + " May then make all the claim that Arthur did.\n\n" + "LEWIS And lose it, life and all, as Arthur did.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH How green you are and fresh in this old world!\n" + " John lays you plots; the times conspire with you;\n" + " For he that steeps his safety in true blood\n" + " Shall find but bloody safety and untrue.\n" + " This act so evilly born shall cool the hearts\n" + " Of all his people and freeze up their zeal,\n" + " That none so small advantage shall step forth\n" + " To cheque his reign, but they will cherish it;\n" + " No natural exhalation in the sky,\n" + " No scope of nature, no distemper'd day,\n" + " No common wind, no customed event,\n" + " But they will pluck away his natural cause\n" + " And call them meteors, prodigies and signs,\n" + " Abortives, presages and tongues of heaven,\n" + " Plainly denouncing vengeance upon John.\n\n" + "LEWIS May be he will not touch young Arthur's life,\n" + " But hold himself safe in his prisonment.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH O, sir, when he shall hear of your approach,\n" + " If that young Arthur be not gone already,\n" + " Even at that news he dies; and then the hearts\n" + " Of all his people shall revolt from him\n" + " And kiss the lips of unacquainted change\n" + " And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath\n" + " Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John.\n" + " Methinks I see this hurly all on foot:\n" + " And, O, what better matter breeds for you\n" + " Than I have named! The bastard Faulconbridge\n" + " Is now in England, ransacking the church,\n" + " Offending charity: if but a dozen French\n" + " Were there in arms, they would be as a call\n" + " To train ten thousand English to their side,\n" + " Or as a little snow, tumbled about,\n" + " Anon becomes a mountain. O noble Dauphin,\n" + " Go with me to the king: 'tis wonderful\n" + " What may be wrought out of their discontent,\n" + " Now that their souls are topful of offence.\n" + " For England go: I will whet on the king.\n\n" + "LEWIS Strong reasons make strong actions: let us go:\n" + " If you say ay, the king will not say no.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in a castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HUBERT and Executioners]\n\n" + "HUBERT Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand\n" + " Within the arras: when I strike my foot\n" + " Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth,\n" + " And bind the boy which you shall find with me\n" + " Fast to the chair: be heedful: hence, and watch.\n\n" + "First Executioner I hope your warrant will bear out the deed.\n\n" + "HUBERT Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to't.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Executioners]\n\n" + " Young lad, come forth; I have to say with you.\n\n" + " [Enter ARTHUR]\n\n" + "ARTHUR Good morrow, Hubert.\n\n" + "HUBERT Good morrow, little prince.\n\n" + "ARTHUR As little prince, having so great a title\n" + " To be more prince, as may be. You are sad.\n\n" + "HUBERT Indeed, I have been merrier.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Mercy on me!\n" + " Methinks no body should be sad but I:\n" + " Yet, I remember, when I was in France,\n" + " Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,\n" + " Only for wantonness. By my christendom,\n" + " So I were out of prison and kept sheep,\n" + " I should be as merry as the day is long;\n" + " And so I would be here, but that I doubt\n" + " My uncle practises more harm to me:\n" + " He is afraid of me and I of him:\n" + " Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son?\n" + " No, indeed, is't not; and I would to heaven\n" + " I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.\n\n" + "HUBERT [Aside] If I talk to him, with his innocent prate\n" + " He will awake my mercy which lies dead:\n" + " Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Are you sick, Hubert? you look pale to-day:\n" + " In sooth, I would you were a little sick,\n" + " That I might sit all night and watch with you:\n" + " I warrant I love you more than you do me.\n\n" + "HUBERT [Aside] His words do take possession of my bosom.\n" + " Read here, young Arthur.\n\n" + " [Showing a paper]\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " How now, foolish rheum!\n" + " Turning dispiteous torture out of door!\n" + " I must be brief, lest resolution drop\n" + " Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.\n" + " Can you not read it? Is it not fair writ?\n\n" + "ARTHUR Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect:\n" + " Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?\n\n" + "HUBERT Young boy, I must.\n\n" + "ARTHUR And will you?\n\n" + "HUBERT And I will.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,\n" + " I knit my handercher about your brows,\n" + " The best I had, a princess wrought it me,\n" + " And I did never ask it you again;\n" + " And with my hand at midnight held your head,\n" + " And like the watchful minutes to the hour,\n" + " Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,\n" + " Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'\n" + " Or 'What good love may I perform for you?'\n" + " Many a poor man's son would have lien still\n" + " And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you;\n" + " But you at your sick service had a prince.\n" + " Nay, you may think my love was crafty love\n" + " And call it cunning: do, an if you will:\n" + " If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,\n" + " Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?\n" + " These eyes that never did nor never shall\n" + " So much as frown on you.\n\n" + "HUBERT I have sworn to do it;\n" + " And with hot irons must I burn them out.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Ah, none but in this iron age would do it!\n" + " The iron of itself, though heat red-hot,\n" + " Approaching near these eyes, would drink my tears\n" + " And quench his fiery indignation\n" + " Even in the matter of mine innocence;\n" + " Nay, after that, consume away in rust\n" + " But for containing fire to harm mine eye.\n" + " Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd iron?\n" + " An if an angel should have come to me\n" + " And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,\n" + " I would not have believed him,--no tongue but Hubert's.\n\n" + "HUBERT Come forth.\n\n" + " [Stamps]\n\n" + " [Re-enter Executioners, with a cord, irons, &c]\n\n" + " Do as I bid you do.\n\n" + "ARTHUR O, save me, Hubert, save me! my eyes are out\n" + " Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.\n\n" + "HUBERT Give me the iron, I say, and bind him here.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough?\n" + " I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still.\n" + " For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!\n" + " Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive these men away,\n" + " And I will sit as quiet as a lamb;\n" + " I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,\n" + " Nor look upon the iron angerly:\n" + " Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you,\n" + " Whatever torment you do put me to.\n\n" + "HUBERT Go, stand within; let me alone with him.\n\n" + "First Executioner I am best pleased to be from such a deed.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Executioners]\n\n" + "ARTHUR Alas, I then have chid away my friend!\n" + " He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart:\n" + " Let him come back, that his compassion may\n" + " Give life to yours.\n\n" + "HUBERT Come, boy, prepare yourself.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Is there no remedy?\n\n" + "HUBERT None, but to lose your eyes.\n\n" + "ARTHUR O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours,\n" + " A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,\n" + " Any annoyance in that precious sense!\n" + " Then feeling what small things are boisterous there,\n" + " Your vile intent must needs seem horrible.\n\n" + "HUBERT Is this your promise? go to, hold your tongue.\n\n" + "ARTHUR Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues\n" + " Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes:\n" + " Let me not hold my tongue, let me not, Hubert;\n" + " Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,\n" + " So I may keep mine eyes: O, spare mine eyes.\n" + " Though to no use but still to look on you!\n" + " Lo, by my truth, the instrument is cold\n" + " And would not harm me.\n\n" + "HUBERT I can heat it, boy.\n\n" + "ARTHUR No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief,\n" + " Being create for comfort, to be used\n" + " In undeserved extremes: see else yourself;\n" + " There is no malice in this burning coal;\n" + " The breath of heaven has blown his spirit out\n" + " And strew'd repentent ashes on his head.\n\n" + "HUBERT But with my breath I can revive it, boy.\n\n" + "ARTHUR An if you do, you will but make it blush\n" + " And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert:\n" + " Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes;\n" + " And like a dog that is compell'd to fight,\n" + " Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.\n" + " All things that you should use to do me wrong\n" + " Deny their office: only you do lack\n" + " That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,\n" + " Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.\n\n" + "HUBERT Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eye\n" + " For all the treasure that thine uncle owes:\n" + " Yet am I sworn and I did purpose, boy,\n" + " With this same very iron to burn them out.\n\n" + "ARTHUR O, now you look like Hubert! all this while\n" + " You were disguised.\n\n" + "HUBERT Peace; no more. Adieu.\n" + " Your uncle must not know but you are dead;\n" + " I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports:\n" + " And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure,\n" + " That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,\n" + " Will not offend thee.\n\n" + "ARTHUR O heaven! I thank you, Hubert.\n\n" + "HUBERT Silence; no more: go closely in with me:\n" + " Much danger do I undergo for thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II KING JOHN'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING JOHN, PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and other Lords]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Here once again we sit, once again crown'd,\n" + " And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE This 'once again,' but that your highness pleased,\n" + " Was once superfluous: you were crown'd before,\n" + " And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off,\n" + " The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt;\n" + " Fresh expectation troubled not the land\n" + " With any long'd-for change or better state.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp,\n" + " To guard a title that was rich before,\n" + " To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,\n" + " To throw a perfume on the violet,\n" + " To smooth the ice, or add another hue\n" + " Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light\n" + " To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,\n" + " Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE But that your royal pleasure must be done,\n" + " This act is as an ancient tale new told,\n" + " And in the last repeating troublesome,\n" + " Being urged at a time unseasonable.\n\n" + "SALISBURY In this the antique and well noted face\n" + " Of plain old form is much disfigured;\n" + " And, like a shifted wind unto a sail,\n" + " It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about,\n" + " Startles and frights consideration,\n" + " Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected,\n" + " For putting on so new a fashion'd robe.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE When workmen strive to do better than well,\n" + " They do confound their skill in covetousness;\n" + " And oftentimes excusing of a fault\n" + " Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,\n" + " As patches set upon a little breach\n" + " Discredit more in hiding of the fault\n" + " Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.\n\n" + "SALISBURY To this effect, before you were new crown'd,\n" + " We breathed our counsel: but it pleased your highness\n" + " To overbear it, and we are all well pleased,\n" + " Since all and every part of what we would\n" + " Doth make a stand at what your highness will.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Some reasons of this double coronation\n" + " I have possess'd you with and think them strong;\n" + " And more, more strong, then lesser is my fear,\n" + " I shall indue you with: meantime but ask\n" + " What you would have reform'd that is not well,\n" + " And well shall you perceive how willingly\n" + " I will both hear and grant you your requests.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE Then I, as one that am the tongue of these,\n" + " To sound the purpose of all their hearts,\n" + " Both for myself and them, but, chief of all,\n" + " Your safety, for the which myself and them\n" + " Bend their best studies, heartily request\n" + " The enfranchisement of Arthur; whose restraint\n" + " Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent\n" + " To break into this dangerous argument,--\n" + " If what in rest you have in right you hold,\n" + " Why then your fears, which, as they say, attend\n" + " The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up\n" + " Your tender kinsman and to choke his days\n" + " With barbarous ignorance and deny his youth\n" + " The rich advantage of good exercise?\n" + " That the time's enemies may not have this\n" + " To grace occasions, let it be our suit\n" + " That you have bid us ask his liberty;\n" + " Which for our goods we do no further ask\n" + " Than whereupon our weal, on you depending,\n" + " Counts it your weal he have his liberty.\n\n" + " [Enter HUBERT]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Let it be so: I do commit his youth\n" + " To your direction. Hubert, what news with you?\n\n" + " [Taking him apart]\n\n" + "PEMBROKE This is the man should do the bloody deed;\n" + " He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine:\n" + " The image of a wicked heinous fault\n" + " Lives in his eye; that close aspect of his\n" + " Does show the mood of a much troubled breast;\n" + " And I do fearfully believe 'tis done,\n" + " What we so fear'd he had a charge to do.\n\n" + "SALISBURY The colour of the king doth come and go\n" + " Between his purpose and his conscience,\n" + " Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:\n" + " His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE And when it breaks, I fear will issue thence\n" + " The foul corruption of a sweet child's death.\n\n" + "KING JOHN We cannot hold mortality's strong hand:\n" + " Good lords, although my will to give is living,\n" + " The suit which you demand is gone and dead:\n" + " He tells us Arthur is deceased to-night.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Indeed we fear'd his sickness was past cure.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE Indeed we heard how near his death he was\n" + " Before the child himself felt he was sick:\n" + " This must be answer'd either here or hence.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Why do you bend such solemn brows on me?\n" + " Think you I bear the shears of destiny?\n" + " Have I commandment on the pulse of life?\n\n" + "SALISBURY It is apparent foul play; and 'tis shame\n" + " That greatness should so grossly offer it:\n" + " So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE Stay yet, Lord Salisbury; I'll go with thee,\n" + " And find the inheritance of this poor child,\n" + " His little kingdom of a forced grave.\n" + " That blood which owed the breadth of all this isle,\n" + " Three foot of it doth hold: bad world the while!\n" + " This must not be thus borne: this will break out\n" + " To all our sorrows, and ere long I doubt.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Lords]\n\n" + "KING JOHN They burn in indignation. I repent:\n" + " There is no sure foundation set on blood,\n" + " No certain life achieved by others' death.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " A fearful eye thou hast: where is that blood\n" + " That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks?\n" + " So foul a sky clears not without a storm:\n" + " Pour down thy weather: how goes all in France?\n\n" + "Messenger From France to England. Never such a power\n" + " For any foreign preparation\n" + " Was levied in the body of a land.\n" + " The copy of your speed is learn'd by them;\n" + " For when you should be told they do prepare,\n" + " The tidings come that they are all arrived.\n\n" + "KING JOHN O, where hath our intelligence been drunk?\n" + " Where hath it slept? Where is my mother's care,\n" + " That such an army could be drawn in France,\n" + " And she not hear of it?\n\n" + "Messenger My liege, her ear\n" + " Is stopp'd with dust; the first of April died\n" + " Your noble mother: and, as I hear, my lord,\n" + " The Lady Constance in a frenzy died\n" + " Three days before: but this from rumour's tongue\n" + " I idly heard; if true or false I know not.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Withhold thy speed, dreadful occasion!\n" + " O, make a league with me, till I have pleased\n" + " My discontented peers! What! mother dead!\n" + " How wildly then walks my estate in France!\n" + " Under whose conduct came those powers of France\n" + " That thou for truth givest out are landed here?\n\n" + "Messenger Under the Dauphin.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Thou hast made me giddy\n" + " With these ill tidings.\n\n" + " [Enter the BASTARD and PETER of Pomfret]\n\n" + " Now, what says the world\n" + " To your proceedings? do not seek to stuff\n" + " My head with more ill news, for it is full.\n\n" + "BASTARD But if you be afeard to hear the worst,\n" + " Then let the worst unheard fall on your bead.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Bear with me cousin, for I was amazed\n" + " Under the tide: but now I breathe again\n" + " Aloft the flood, and can give audience\n" + " To any tongue, speak it of what it will.\n\n" + "BASTARD How I have sped among the clergymen,\n" + " The sums I have collected shall express.\n" + " But as I travell'd hither through the land,\n" + " I find the people strangely fantasied;\n" + " Possess'd with rumours, full of idle dreams,\n" + " Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear:\n" + " And here a prophet, that I brought with me\n" + " From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I found\n" + " With many hundreds treading on his heels;\n" + " To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes,\n" + " That, ere the next Ascension-day at noon,\n" + " Your highness should deliver up your crown.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so?\n\n" + "PETER Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Hubert, away with him; imprison him;\n" + " And on that day at noon whereon he says\n" + " I shall yield up my crown, let him be hang'd.\n" + " Deliver him to safety; and return,\n" + " For I must use thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt HUBERT with PETER]\n\n" + " O my gentle cousin,\n" + " Hear'st thou the news abroad, who are arrived?\n\n" + "BASTARD The French, my lord; men's mouths are full of it:\n" + " Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury,\n" + " With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,\n" + " And others more, going to seek the grave\n" + " Of Arthur, who they say is kill'd to-night\n" + " On your suggestion.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Gentle kinsman, go,\n" + " And thrust thyself into their companies:\n" + " I have a way to win their loves again;\n" + " Bring them before me.\n\n" + "BASTARD I will seek them out.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Nay, but make haste; the better foot before.\n" + " O, let me have no subject enemies,\n" + " When adverse foreigners affright my towns\n" + " With dreadful pomp of stout invasion!\n" + " Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels,\n" + " And fly like thought from them to me again.\n\n" + "BASTARD The spirit of the time shall teach me speed.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman.\n" + " Go after him; for he perhaps shall need\n" + " Some messenger betwixt me and the peers;\n" + " And be thou he.\n\n" + "Messenger With all my heart, my liege.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING JOHN My mother dead!\n\n" + " [Re-enter HUBERT]\n\n" + "HUBERT My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night;\n" + " Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about\n" + " The other four in wondrous motion.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Five moons!\n\n" + "HUBERT Old men and beldams in the streets\n" + " Do prophesy upon it dangerously:\n" + " Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths:\n" + " And when they talk of him, they shake their heads\n" + " And whisper one another in the ear;\n" + " And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist,\n" + " Whilst he that hears makes fearful action,\n" + " With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.\n" + " I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,\n" + " The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,\n" + " With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news;\n" + " Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,\n" + " Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste\n" + " Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,\n" + " Told of a many thousand warlike French\n" + " That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent:\n" + " Another lean unwash'd artificer\n" + " Cuts off his tale and talks of Arthur's death.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Why seek'st thou to possess me with these fears?\n" + " Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's death?\n" + " Thy hand hath murder'd him: I had a mighty cause\n" + " To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to kill him.\n\n" + "HUBERT No had, my lord! why, did you not provoke me?\n\n" + "KING JOHN It is the curse of kings to be attended\n" + " By slaves that take their humours for a warrant\n" + " To break within the bloody house of life,\n" + " And on the winking of authority\n" + " To understand a law, to know the meaning\n" + " Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns\n" + " More upon humour than advised respect.\n\n" + "HUBERT Here is your hand and seal for what I did.\n\n" + "KING JOHN O, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth\n" + " Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal\n" + " Witness against us to damnation!\n" + " How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds\n" + " Make deeds ill done! Hadst not thou been by,\n" + " A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd,\n" + " Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of shame,\n" + " This murder had not come into my mind:\n" + " But taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect,\n" + " Finding thee fit for bloody villany,\n" + " Apt, liable to be employ'd in danger,\n" + " I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death;\n" + " And thou, to be endeared to a king,\n" + " Made it no conscience to destroy a prince.\n\n" + "HUBERT My lord--\n\n" + "KING JOHN Hadst thou but shook thy head or made a pause\n" + " When I spake darkly what I purposed,\n" + " Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face,\n" + " As bid me tell my tale in express words,\n" + " Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me break off,\n" + " And those thy fears might have wrought fears in me:\n" + " But thou didst understand me by my signs\n" + " And didst in signs again parley with sin;\n" + " Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart consent,\n" + " And consequently thy rude hand to act\n" + " The deed, which both our tongues held vile to name.\n" + " Out of my sight, and never see me more!\n" + " My nobles leave me; and my state is braved,\n" + " Even at my gates, with ranks of foreign powers:\n" + " Nay, in the body of this fleshly land,\n" + " This kingdom, this confine of blood and breath,\n" + " Hostility and civil tumult reigns\n" + " Between my conscience and my cousin's death.\n\n" + "HUBERT Arm you against your other enemies,\n" + " I'll make a peace between your soul and you.\n" + " Young Arthur is alive: this hand of mine\n" + " Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand,\n" + " Not painted with the crimson spots of blood.\n" + " Within this bosom never enter'd yet\n" + " The dreadful motion of a murderous thought;\n" + " And you have slander'd nature in my form,\n" + " Which, howsoever rude exteriorly,\n" + " Is yet the cover of a fairer mind\n" + " Than to be butcher of an innocent child.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers,\n" + " Throw this report on their incensed rage,\n" + " And make them tame to their obedience!\n" + " Forgive the comment that my passion made\n" + " Upon thy feature; for my rage was blind,\n" + " And foul imaginary eyes of blood\n" + " Presented thee more hideous than thou art.\n" + " O, answer not, but to my closet bring\n" + " The angry lords with all expedient haste.\n" + " I conjure thee but slowly; run more fast.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ARTHUR, on the walls]\n\n" + "ARTHUR The wall is high, and yet will I leap down:\n" + " Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!\n" + " There's few or none do know me: if they did,\n" + " This ship-boy's semblance hath disguised me quite.\n" + " I am afraid; and yet I'll venture it.\n" + " If I get down, and do not break my limbs,\n" + " I'll find a thousand shifts to get away:\n" + " As good to die and go, as die and stay.\n\n" + " [Leaps down]\n\n" + " O me! my uncle's spirit is in these stones:\n" + " Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + " [Enter PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and BIGOT]\n\n" + "SALISBURY Lords, I will meet him at Saint Edmundsbury:\n" + " It is our safety, and we must embrace\n" + " This gentle offer of the perilous time.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE Who brought that letter from the cardinal?\n\n" + "SALISBURY The Count Melun, a noble lord of France,\n" + " Whose private with me of the Dauphin's love\n" + " Is much more general than these lines import.\n\n" + "BIGOT To-morrow morning let us meet him then.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Or rather then set forward; for 'twill be\n" + " Two long days' journey, lords, or ere we meet.\n\n" + " [Enter the BASTARD]\n\n" + "BASTARD Once more to-day well met, distemper'd lords!\n" + " The king by me requests your presence straight.\n\n" + "SALISBURY The king hath dispossess'd himself of us:\n" + " We will not line his thin bestained cloak\n" + " With our pure honours, nor attend the foot\n" + " That leaves the print of blood where'er it walks.\n" + " Return and tell him so: we know the worst.\n\n" + "BASTARD Whate'er you think, good words, I think, were best.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now.\n\n" + "BASTARD But there is little reason in your grief;\n" + " Therefore 'twere reason you had manners now.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE Sir, sir, impatience hath his privilege.\n\n" + "BASTARD 'Tis true, to hurt his master, no man else.\n\n" + "SALISBURY This is the prison. What is he lies here?\n\n" + " [Seeing ARTHUR]\n\n" + "PEMBROKE O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!\n" + " The earth had not a hole to hide this deed.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Murder, as hating what himself hath done,\n" + " Doth lay it open to urge on revenge.\n\n" + "BIGOT Or, when he doom'd this beauty to a grave,\n" + " Found it too precious-princely for a grave.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Sir Richard, what think you? have you beheld,\n" + " Or have you read or heard? or could you think?\n" + " Or do you almost think, although you see,\n" + " That you do see? could thought, without this object,\n" + " Form such another? This is the very top,\n" + " The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest,\n" + " Of murder's arms: this is the bloodiest shame,\n" + " The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,\n" + " That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage\n" + " Presented to the tears of soft remorse.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE All murders past do stand excused in this:\n" + " And this, so sole and so unmatchable,\n" + " Shall give a holiness, a purity,\n" + " To the yet unbegotten sin of times;\n" + " And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest,\n" + " Exampled by this heinous spectacle.\n\n" + "BASTARD It is a damned and a bloody work;\n" + " The graceless action of a heavy hand,\n" + " If that it be the work of any hand.\n\n" + "SALISBURY If that it be the work of any hand!\n" + " We had a kind of light what would ensue:\n" + " It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand;\n" + " The practise and the purpose of the king:\n" + " From whose obedience I forbid my soul,\n" + " Kneeling before this ruin of sweet life,\n" + " And breathing to his breathless excellence\n" + " The incense of a vow, a holy vow,\n" + " Never to taste the pleasures of the world,\n" + " Never to be infected with delight,\n" + " Nor conversant with ease and idleness,\n" + " Till I have set a glory to this hand,\n" + " By giving it the worship of revenge.\n\n\n" + "PEMBROKE |\n" + " | Our souls religiously confirm thy words.\n" + "BIGOT |\n\n\n" + " [Enter HUBERT]\n\n" + "HUBERT Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you:\n" + " Arthur doth live; the king hath sent for you.\n\n" + "SALISBURY O, he is old and blushes not at death.\n" + " Avaunt, thou hateful villain, get thee gone!\n\n" + "HUBERT I am no villain.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Must I rob the law?\n\n" + " [Drawing his sword]\n\n" + "BASTARD Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin.\n\n" + "HUBERT Stand back, Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say;\n" + " By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours:\n" + " I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,\n" + " Nor tempt the danger of my true defence;\n" + " Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget\n" + " Your worth, your greatness and nobility.\n\n" + "BIGOT Out, dunghill! darest thou brave a nobleman?\n\n" + "HUBERT Not for my life: but yet I dare defend\n" + " My innocent life against an emperor.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Thou art a murderer.\n\n" + "HUBERT Do not prove me so;\n" + " Yet I am none: whose tongue soe'er speaks false,\n" + " Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE Cut him to pieces.\n\n" + "BASTARD Keep the peace, I say.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Stand by, or I shall gall you, Faulconbridge.\n\n" + "BASTARD Thou wert better gall the devil, Salisbury:\n" + " If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot,\n" + " Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame,\n" + " I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime;\n" + " Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron,\n" + " That you shall think the devil is come from hell.\n\n" + "BIGOT What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?\n" + " Second a villain and a murderer?\n\n" + "HUBERT Lord Bigot, I am none.\n\n" + "BIGOT Who kill'd this prince?\n\n" + "HUBERT 'Tis not an hour since I left him well:\n" + " I honour'd him, I loved him, and will weep\n" + " My date of life out for his sweet life's loss.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,\n" + " For villany is not without such rheum;\n" + " And he, long traded in it, makes it seem\n" + " Like rivers of remorse and innocency.\n" + " Away with me, all you whose souls abhor\n" + " The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house;\n" + " For I am stifled with this smell of sin.\n\n" + "BIGOT Away toward Bury, to the Dauphin there!\n\n" + "PEMBROKE There tell the king he may inquire us out.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Lords]\n\n" + "BASTARD Here's a good world! Knew you of this fair work?\n" + " Beyond the infinite and boundless reach\n" + " Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death,\n" + " Art thou damn'd, Hubert.\n\n" + "HUBERT Do but hear me, sir.\n\n" + "BASTARD Ha! I'll tell thee what;\n" + " Thou'rt damn'd as black--nay, nothing is so black;\n" + " Thou art more deep damn'd than Prince Lucifer:\n" + " There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell\n" + " As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child.\n\n" + "HUBERT Upon my soul--\n\n" + "BASTARD If thou didst but consent\n" + " To this most cruel act, do but despair;\n" + " And if thou want'st a cord, the smallest thread\n" + " That ever spider twisted from her womb\n" + " Will serve to strangle thee, a rush will be a beam\n" + " To hang thee on; or wouldst thou drown thyself,\n" + " Put but a little water in a spoon,\n" + " And it shall be as all the ocean,\n" + " Enough to stifle such a villain up.\n" + " I do suspect thee very grievously.\n\n" + "HUBERT If I in act, consent, or sin of thought,\n" + " Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath\n" + " Which was embounded in this beauteous clay,\n" + " Let hell want pains enough to torture me.\n" + " I left him well.\n\n" + "BASTARD Go, bear him in thine arms.\n" + " I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way\n" + " Among the thorns and dangers of this world.\n" + " How easy dost thou take all England up!\n" + " From forth this morsel of dead royalty,\n" + " The life, the right and truth of all this realm\n" + " Is fled to heaven; and England now is left\n" + " To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth\n" + " The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.\n" + " Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty\n" + " Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest\n" + " And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace:\n" + " Now powers from home and discontents at home\n" + " Meet in one line; and vast confusion waits,\n" + " As doth a raven on a sick-fall'n beast,\n" + " The imminent decay of wrested pomp.\n" + " Now happy he whose cloak and cincture can\n" + " Hold out this tempest. Bear away that child\n" + " And follow me with speed: I'll to the king:\n" + " A thousand businesses are brief in hand,\n" + " And heaven itself doth frown upon the land.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I KING JOHN'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING JOHN, CARDINAL PANDULPH, and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Thus have I yielded up into your hand\n" + " The circle of my glory.\n\n" + " [Giving the crown]\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Take again\n" + " From this my hand, as holding of the pope\n" + " Your sovereign greatness and authority.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,\n" + " And from his holiness use all your power\n" + " To stop their marches 'fore we are inflamed.\n" + " Our discontented counties do revolt;\n" + " Our people quarrel with obedience,\n" + " Swearing allegiance and the love of soul\n" + " To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.\n" + " This inundation of mistemper'd humour\n" + " Rests by you only to be qualified:\n" + " Then pause not; for the present time's so sick,\n" + " That present medicine must be minister'd,\n" + " Or overthrow incurable ensues.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH It was my breath that blew this tempest up,\n" + " Upon your stubborn usage of the pope;\n" + " But since you are a gentle convertite,\n" + " My tongue shall hush again this storm of war\n" + " And make fair weather in your blustering land.\n" + " On this Ascension-day, remember well,\n" + " Upon your oath of service to the pope,\n" + " Go I to make the French lay down their arms.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Is this Ascension-day? Did not the prophet\n" + " Say that before Ascension-day at noon\n" + " My crown I should give off? Even so I have:\n" + " I did suppose it should be on constraint:\n" + " But, heaven be thank'd, it is but voluntary.\n\n" + " [Enter the BASTARD]\n\n" + "BASTARD All Kent hath yielded; nothing there holds out\n" + " But Dover castle: London hath received,\n" + " Like a kind host, the Dauphin and his powers:\n" + " Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone\n" + " To offer service to your enemy,\n" + " And wild amazement hurries up and down\n" + " The little number of your doubtful friends.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Would not my lords return to me again,\n" + " After they heard young Arthur was alive?\n\n" + "BASTARD They found him dead and cast into the streets,\n" + " An empty casket, where the jewel of life\n" + " By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en away.\n\n" + "KING JOHN That villain Hubert told me he did live.\n\n" + "BASTARD So, on my soul, he did, for aught he knew.\n" + " But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?\n" + " Be great in act, as you have been in thought;\n" + " Let not the world see fear and sad distrust\n" + " Govern the motion of a kingly eye:\n" + " Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire;\n" + " Threaten the threatener and outface the brow\n" + " Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,\n" + " That borrow their behaviors from the great,\n" + " Grow great by your example and put on\n" + " The dauntless spirit of resolution.\n" + " Away, and glister like the god of war,\n" + " When he intendeth to become the field:\n" + " Show boldness and aspiring confidence.\n" + " What, shall they seek the lion in his den,\n" + " And fright him there? and make him tremble there?\n" + " O, let it not be said: forage, and run\n" + " To meet displeasure farther from the doors,\n" + " And grapple with him ere he comes so nigh.\n\n" + "KING JOHN The legate of the pope hath been with me,\n" + " And I have made a happy peace with him;\n" + " And he hath promised to dismiss the powers\n" + " Led by the Dauphin.\n\n" + "BASTARD O inglorious league!\n" + " Shall we, upon the footing of our land,\n" + " Send fair-play orders and make compromise,\n" + " Insinuation, parley and base truce\n" + " To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy,\n" + " A cocker'd silken wanton, brave our fields,\n" + " And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,\n" + " Mocking the air with colours idly spread,\n" + " And find no cheque? Let us, my liege, to arms:\n" + " Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace;\n" + " Or if he do, let it at least be said\n" + " They saw we had a purpose of defence.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Have thou the ordering of this present time.\n\n" + "BASTARD Away, then, with good courage! yet, I know,\n" + " Our party may well meet a prouder foe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II LEWIS's camp at St. Edmundsbury.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE,\n" + " BIGOT, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "LEWIS My Lord Melun, let this be copied out,\n" + " And keep it safe for our remembrance:\n" + " Return the precedent to these lords again;\n" + " That, having our fair order written down,\n" + " Both they and we, perusing o'er these notes,\n" + " May know wherefore we took the sacrament\n" + " And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Upon our sides it never shall be broken.\n" + " And, noble Dauphin, albeit we swear\n" + " A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith\n" + " To your proceedings; yet believe me, prince,\n" + " I am not glad that such a sore of time\n" + " Should seek a plaster by contemn'd revolt,\n" + " And heal the inveterate canker of one wound\n" + " By making many. O, it grieves my soul,\n" + " That I must draw this metal from my side\n" + " To be a widow-maker! O, and there\n" + " Where honourable rescue and defence\n" + " Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!\n" + " But such is the infection of the time,\n" + " That, for the health and physic of our right,\n" + " We cannot deal but with the very hand\n" + " Of stern injustice and confused wrong.\n" + " And is't not pity, O my grieved friends,\n" + " That we, the sons and children of this isle,\n" + " Were born to see so sad an hour as this;\n" + " Wherein we step after a stranger march\n" + " Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up\n" + " Her enemies' ranks,--I must withdraw and weep\n" + " Upon the spot of this enforced cause,--\n" + " To grace the gentry of a land remote,\n" + " And follow unacquainted colours here?\n" + " What, here? O nation, that thou couldst remove!\n" + " That Neptune's arms, who clippeth thee about,\n" + " Would bear thee from the knowledge of thyself,\n" + " And grapple thee unto a pagan shore;\n" + " Where these two Christian armies might combine\n" + " The blood of malice in a vein of league,\n" + " And not to spend it so unneighbourly!\n\n" + "LEWIS A noble temper dost thou show in this;\n" + " And great affections wrestling in thy bosom\n" + " Doth make an earthquake of nobility.\n" + " O, what a noble combat hast thou fought\n" + " Between compulsion and a brave respect!\n" + " Let me wipe off this honourable dew,\n" + " That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks:\n" + " My heart hath melted at a lady's tears,\n" + " Being an ordinary inundation;\n" + " But this effusion of such manly drops,\n" + " This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul,\n" + " Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amazed\n" + " Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven\n" + " Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.\n" + " Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury,\n" + " And with a great heart heave away the storm:\n" + " Commend these waters to those baby eyes\n" + " That never saw the giant world enraged;\n" + " Nor met with fortune other than at feasts,\n" + " Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossiping.\n" + " Come, come; for thou shalt thrust thy hand as deep\n" + " Into the purse of rich prosperity\n" + " As Lewis himself: so, nobles, shall you all,\n" + " That knit your sinews to the strength of mine.\n" + " And even there, methinks, an angel spake:\n\n" + " [Enter CARDINAL PANDULPH]\n\n" + " Look, where the holy legate comes apace,\n" + " To give us warrant from the hand of heaven\n" + " And on our actions set the name of right\n" + " With holy breath.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Hail, noble prince of France!\n" + " The next is this, King John hath reconciled\n" + " Himself to Rome; his spirit is come in,\n" + " That so stood out against the holy church,\n" + " The great metropolis and see of Rome:\n" + " Therefore thy threatening colours now wind up;\n" + " And tame the savage spirit of wild war,\n" + " That like a lion foster'd up at hand,\n" + " It may lie gently at the foot of peace,\n" + " And be no further harmful than in show.\n\n" + "LEWIS Your grace shall pardon me, I will not back:\n" + " I am too high-born to be propertied,\n" + " To be a secondary at control,\n" + " Or useful serving-man and instrument,\n" + " To any sovereign state throughout the world.\n" + " Your breath first kindled the dead coal of wars\n" + " Between this chastised kingdom and myself,\n" + " And brought in matter that should feed this fire;\n" + " And now 'tis far too huge to be blown out\n" + " With that same weak wind which enkindled it.\n" + " You taught me how to know the face of right,\n" + " Acquainted me with interest to this land,\n" + " Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart;\n" + " And come ye now to tell me John hath made\n" + " His peace with Rome? What is that peace to me?\n" + " I, by the honour of my marriage-bed,\n" + " After young Arthur, claim this land for mine;\n" + " And, now it is half-conquer'd, must I back\n" + " Because that John hath made his peace with Rome?\n" + " Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath Rome borne,\n" + " What men provided, what munition sent,\n" + " To underprop this action? Is't not I\n" + " That undergo this charge? who else but I,\n" + " And such as to my claim are liable,\n" + " Sweat in this business and maintain this war?\n" + " Have I not heard these islanders shout out\n" + " 'Vive le roi!' as I have bank'd their towns?\n" + " Have I not here the best cards for the game,\n" + " To win this easy match play'd for a crown?\n" + " And shall I now give o'er the yielded set?\n" + " No, no, on my soul, it never shall be said.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH You look but on the outside of this work.\n\n" + "LEWIS Outside or inside, I will not return\n" + " Till my attempt so much be glorified\n" + " As to my ample hope was promised\n" + " Before I drew this gallant head of war,\n" + " And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world,\n" + " To outlook conquest and to win renown\n" + " Even in the jaws of danger and of death.\n\n" + " [Trumpet sounds]\n\n" + " What lusty trumpet thus doth summon us?\n\n" + " [Enter the BASTARD, attended]\n\n" + "BASTARD According to the fair play of the world,\n" + " Let me have audience; I am sent to speak:\n" + " My holy lord of Milan, from the king\n" + " I come, to learn how you have dealt for him;\n" + " And, as you answer, I do know the scope\n" + " And warrant limited unto my tongue.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH The Dauphin is too wilful-opposite,\n" + " And will not temporize with my entreaties;\n" + " He flatly says he'll not lay down his arms.\n\n" + "BASTARD By all the blood that ever fury breathed,\n" + " The youth says well. Now hear our English king;\n" + " For thus his royalty doth speak in me.\n" + " He is prepared, and reason too he should:\n" + " This apish and unmannerly approach,\n" + " This harness'd masque and unadvised revel,\n" + " This unhair'd sauciness and boyish troops,\n" + " The king doth smile at; and is well prepared\n" + " To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy arms,\n" + " From out the circle of his territories.\n" + " That hand which had the strength, even at your door,\n" + " To cudgel you and make you take the hatch,\n" + " To dive like buckets in concealed wells,\n" + " To crouch in litter of your stable planks,\n" + " To lie like pawns lock'd up in chests and trunks,\n" + " To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out\n" + " In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake\n" + " Even at the crying of your nation's crow,\n" + " Thinking his voice an armed Englishman;\n" + " Shall that victorious hand be feebled here,\n" + " That in your chambers gave you chastisement?\n" + " No: know the gallant monarch is in arms\n" + " And like an eagle o'er his aery towers,\n" + " To souse annoyance that comes near his nest.\n" + " And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts,\n" + " You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb\n" + " Of your dear mother England, blush for shame;\n" + " For your own ladies and pale-visaged maids\n" + " Like Amazons come tripping after drums,\n" + " Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change,\n" + " Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts\n" + " To fierce and bloody inclination.\n\n" + "LEWIS There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace;\n" + " We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well;\n" + " We hold our time too precious to be spent\n" + " With such a brabbler.\n\n" + "CARDINAL PANDULPH Give me leave to speak.\n\n" + "BASTARD No, I will speak.\n\n" + "LEWIS We will attend to neither.\n" + " Strike up the drums; and let the tongue of war\n" + " Plead for our interest and our being here.\n\n" + "BASTARD Indeed your drums, being beaten, will cry out;\n" + " And so shall you, being beaten: do but start\n" + " An echo with the clamour of thy drum,\n" + " And even at hand a drum is ready braced\n" + " That shall reverberate all as loud as thine;\n" + " Sound but another, and another shall\n" + " As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear\n" + " And mock the deep-mouth'd thunder: for at hand,\n" + " Not trusting to this halting legate here,\n" + " Whom he hath used rather for sport than need\n" + " Is warlike John; and in his forehead sits\n" + " A bare-ribb'd death, whose office is this day\n" + " To feast upon whole thousands of the French.\n\n" + "LEWIS Strike up our drums, to find this danger out.\n\n" + "BASTARD And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The field of battle.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter KING JOHN and HUBERT]\n\n" + "KING JOHN How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.\n\n" + "HUBERT Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?\n\n" + "KING JOHN This fever, that hath troubled me so long,\n" + " Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,\n" + " Desires your majesty to leave the field\n" + " And send him word by me which way you go.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.\n\n" + "Messenger Be of good comfort; for the great supply\n" + " That was expected by the Dauphin here,\n" + " Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.\n" + " This news was brought to Richard but even now:\n" + " The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.\n\n" + "KING JOHN Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,\n" + " And will not let me welcome this good news.\n" + " Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;\n" + " Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, and BIGOT]\n\n" + "SALISBURY I did not think the king so stored with friends.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE Up once again; put spirit in the French:\n" + " If they miscarry, we miscarry too.\n\n" + "SALISBURY That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge,\n" + " In spite of spite, alone upholds the day.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE They say King John sore sick hath left the field.\n\n" + " [Enter MELUN, wounded]\n\n" + "MELUN Lead me to the revolts of England here.\n\n" + "SALISBURY When we were happy we had other names.\n\n" + "PEMBROKE It is the Count Melun.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Wounded to death.\n\n" + "MELUN Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold;\n" + " Unthread the rude eye of rebellion\n" + " And welcome home again discarded faith.\n" + " Seek out King John and fall before his feet;\n" + " For if the French be lords of this loud day,\n" + " He means to recompense the pains you take\n" + " By cutting off your heads: thus hath he sworn\n" + " And I with him, and many moe with me,\n" + " Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury;\n" + " Even on that altar where we swore to you\n" + " Dear amity and everlasting love.\n\n" + "SALISBURY May this be possible? may this be true?\n\n" + "MELUN Have I not hideous death within my view,\n" + " Retaining but a quantity of life,\n" + " Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax\n" + " Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire?\n" + " What in the world should make me now deceive,\n" + " Since I must lose the use of all deceit?\n" + " Why should I then be false, since it is true\n" + " That I must die here and live hence by truth?\n" + " I say again, if Lewis do win the day,\n" + " He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours\n" + " Behold another day break in the east:\n" + " But even this night, whose black contagious breath\n" + " Already smokes about the burning crest\n" + " Of the old, feeble and day-wearied sun,\n" + " Even this ill night, your breathing shall expire,\n" + " Paying the fine of rated treachery\n" + " Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives,\n" + " If Lewis by your assistance win the day.\n" + " Commend me to one Hubert with your king:\n" + " The love of him, and this respect besides,\n" + " For that my grandsire was an Englishman,\n" + " Awakes my conscience to confess all this.\n" + " In lieu whereof, I pray you, bear me hence\n" + " From forth the noise and rumour of the field,\n" + " Where I may think the remnant of my thoughts\n" + " In peace, and part this body and my soul\n" + " With contemplation and devout desires.\n\n" + "SALISBURY We do believe thee: and beshrew my soul\n" + " But I do love the favour and the form\n" + " Of this most fair occasion, by the which\n" + " We will untread the steps of damned flight,\n" + " And like a bated and retired flood,\n" + " Leaving our rankness and irregular course,\n" + " Stoop low within those bounds we have o'erlook'd\n" + " And cabby run on in obedience\n" + " Even to our ocean, to our great King John.\n" + " My arm shall give thee help to bear thee hence;\n" + " For I do see the cruel pangs of death\n" + " Right in thine eye. Away, my friends! New flight;\n" + " And happy newness, that intends old right.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, leading off MELUN]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The French camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEWIS and his train]\n\n" + "LEWIS The sun of heaven methought was loath to set,\n" + " But stay'd and made the western welkin blush,\n" + " When English measure backward their own ground\n" + " In faint retire. O, bravely came we off,\n" + " When with a volley of our needless shot,\n" + " After such bloody toil, we bid good night;\n" + " And wound our tattering colours clearly up,\n" + " Last in the field, and almost lords of it!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Where is my prince, the Dauphin?\n\n" + "LEWIS Here: what news?\n\n" + "Messenger The Count Melun is slain; the English lords\n" + " By his persuasion are again fall'n off,\n" + " And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,\n" + " Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands.\n\n" + "LEWIS Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart!\n" + " I did not think to be so sad to-night\n" + " As this hath made me. Who was he that said\n" + " King John did fly an hour or two before\n" + " The stumbling night did part our weary powers?\n\n" + "Messenger Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord.\n\n" + "LEWIS Well; keep good quarter and good care to-night:\n" + " The day shall not be up so soon as I,\n" + " To try the fair adventure of to-morrow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, severally]\n\n" + "HUBERT Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot.\n\n" + "BASTARD A friend. What art thou?\n\n" + "HUBERT Of the part of England.\n\n" + "BASTARD Whither dost thou go?\n\n" + "HUBERT What's that to thee? why may not I demand\n" + " Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?\n\n" + "BASTARD Hubert, I think?\n\n" + "HUBERT Thou hast a perfect thought:\n" + " I will upon all hazards well believe\n" + " Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well.\n" + " Who art thou?\n\n" + "BASTARD Who thou wilt: and if thou please,\n" + " Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think\n" + " I come one way of the Plantagenets.\n\n" + "HUBERT Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night\n" + " Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me,\n" + " That any accent breaking from thy tongue\n" + " Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.\n\n" + "BASTARD Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?\n\n" + "HUBERT Why, here walk I in the black brow of night,\n" + " To find you out.\n\n" + "BASTARD Brief, then; and what's the news?\n\n" + "HUBERT O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,\n" + " Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible.\n\n" + "BASTARD Show me the very wound of this ill news:\n" + " I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.\n\n" + "HUBERT The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:\n" + " I left him almost speechless; and broke out\n" + " To acquaint you with this evil, that you might\n" + " The better arm you to the sudden time,\n" + " Than if you had at leisure known of this.\n\n" + "BASTARD How did he take it? who did taste to him?\n\n" + "HUBERT A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain,\n" + " Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king\n" + " Yet speaks and peradventure may recover.\n\n" + "BASTARD Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?\n\n" + "HUBERT Why, know you not? the lords are all come back,\n" + " And brought Prince Henry in their company;\n" + " At whose request the king hath pardon'd them,\n" + " And they are all about his majesty.\n\n" + "BASTARD Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,\n" + " And tempt us not to bear above our power!\n" + " I'll tell tree, Hubert, half my power this night,\n" + " Passing these flats, are taken by the tide;\n" + " These Lincoln Washes have devoured them;\n" + " Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped.\n" + " Away before: conduct me to the king;\n" + " I doubt he will be dead or ere I come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING JOHN\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII The orchard in Swinstead Abbey.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE HENRY, SALISBURY, and BIGOT]\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY It is too late: the life of all his blood\n" + " Is touch'd corruptibly, and his pure brain,\n" + " Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house,\n" + " Doth by the idle comments that it makes\n" + " Foretell the ending of mortality.\n\n" + " [Enter PEMBROKE]\n\n" + "PEMBROKE His highness yet doth speak, and holds belief\n" + " That, being brought into the open air,\n" + " It would allay the burning quality\n" + " Of that fell poison which assaileth him.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Let him be brought into the orchard here.\n" + " Doth he still rage?\n\n" + " [Exit BIGOT]\n\n" + "PEMBROKE He is more patient\n" + " Than when you left him; even now he sung.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O vanity of sickness! fierce extremes\n" + " In their continuance will not feel themselves.\n" + " Death, having prey'd upon the outward parts,\n" + " Leaves them invisible, and his siege is now\n" + " Against the mind, the which he pricks and wounds\n" + " With many legions of strange fantasies,\n" + " Which, in their throng and press to that last hold,\n" + " Confound themselves. 'Tis strange that death\n" + " should sing.\n" + " I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,\n" + " Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,\n" + " And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings\n" + " His soul and body to their lasting rest.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Be of good comfort, prince; for you are born\n" + " To set a form upon that indigest\n" + " Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude.\n\n" + " [Enter Attendants, and BIGOT, carrying KING JOHN in a chair]\n\n" + "KING JOHN Ay, marry, now my soul hath elbow-room;\n" + " It would not out at windows nor at doors.\n" + " There is so hot a summer in my bosom,\n" + " That all my bowels crumble up to dust:\n" + " I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen\n" + " Upon a parchment, and against this fire\n" + " Do I shrink up.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY How fares your majesty?\n\n" + "KING JOHN Poison'd,--ill fare--dead, forsook, cast off:\n" + " And none of you will bid the winter come\n" + " To thrust his icy fingers in my maw,\n" + " Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their course\n" + " Through my burn'd bosom, nor entreat the north\n" + " To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips\n" + " And comfort me with cold. I do not ask you much,\n" + " I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait\n" + " And so ingrateful, you deny me that.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY O that there were some virtue in my tears,\n" + " That might relieve you!\n\n" + "KING JOHN The salt in them is hot.\n" + " Within me is a hell; and there the poison\n" + " Is as a fiend confined to tyrannize\n" + " On unreprievable condemned blood.\n\n" + " [Enter the BASTARD]\n\n" + "BASTARD O, I am scalded with my violent motion,\n" + " And spleen of speed to see your majesty!\n\n" + "KING JOHN O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye:\n" + " The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd,\n" + " And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail\n" + " Are turned to one thread, one little hair:\n" + " My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,\n" + " Which holds but till thy news be uttered;\n" + " And then all this thou seest is but a clod\n" + " And module of confounded royalty.\n\n" + "BASTARD The Dauphin is preparing hitherward,\n" + " Where heaven He knows how we shall answer him;\n" + " For in a night the best part of my power,\n" + " As I upon advantage did remove,\n" + " Were in the Washes all unwarily\n" + " Devoured by the unexpected flood.\n\n" + " [KING JOHN dies]\n\n" + "SALISBURY You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.\n" + " My liege! my lord! but now a king, now thus.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY Even so must I run on, and even so stop.\n" + " What surety of the world, what hope, what stay,\n" + " When this was now a king, and now is clay?\n\n" + "BASTARD Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind\n" + " To do the office for thee of revenge,\n" + " And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,\n" + " As it on earth hath been thy servant still.\n" + " Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres,\n" + " Where be your powers? show now your mended faiths,\n" + " And instantly return with me again,\n" + " To push destruction and perpetual shame\n" + " Out of the weak door of our fainting land.\n" + " Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought;\n" + " The Dauphin rages at our very heels.\n\n" + "SALISBURY It seems you know not, then, so much as we:\n" + " The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest,\n" + " Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin,\n" + " And brings from him such offers of our peace\n" + " As we with honour and respect may take,\n" + " With purpose presently to leave this war.\n\n" + "BASTARD He will the rather do it when he sees\n" + " Ourselves well sinewed to our defence.\n\n" + "SALISBURY Nay, it is in a manner done already;\n" + " For many carriages he hath dispatch'd\n" + " To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel\n" + " To the disposing of the cardinal:\n" + " With whom yourself, myself and other lords,\n" + " If you think meet, this afternoon will post\n" + " To consummate this business happily.\n\n" + "BASTARD Let it be so: and you, my noble prince,\n" + " With other princes that may best be spared,\n" + " Shall wait upon your father's funeral.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY At Worcester must his body be interr'd;\n" + " For so he will'd it.\n\n" + "BASTARD Thither shall it then:\n" + " And happily may your sweet self put on\n" + " The lineal state and glory of the land!\n" + " To whom with all submission, on my knee\n" + " I do bequeath my faithful services\n" + " And true subjection everlastingly.\n\n" + "SALISBURY And the like tender of our love we make,\n" + " To rest without a spot for evermore.\n\n" + "PRINCE HENRY I have a kind soul that would give you thanks\n" + " And knows not how to do it but with tears.\n\n" + "BASTARD O, let us pay the time but needful woe,\n" + " Since it hath been beforehand with our griefs.\n" + " This England never did, nor never shall,\n" + " Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,\n" + " But when it first did help to wound itself.\n" + " Now these her princes are come home again,\n" + " Come the three corners of the world in arms,\n" + " And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue,\n" + " If England to itself do rest but true.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "LEAR king of Britain (KING LEAR:)\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE:\n\n" + "DUKE OF BURGUNDY (BURGUNDY:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF CORNWALL (CORNWALL:)\n\n" + "DUKE OF ALBANY (ALBANY:)\n\n" + "EARL OF KENT (KENT:)\n\n" + "EARL OF GLOUCESTER (GLOUCESTER:)\n\n" + "EDGAR son to Gloucester.\n\n" + "EDMUND bastard son to Gloucester.\n\n" + "CURAN a courtier.\n\n" + "Old Man tenant to Gloucester.\n\n" + "Doctor:\n\n" + "Fool:\n\n" + "OSWALD steward to Goneril.\n\n" + " A Captain employed by Edmund. (Captain:)\n\n" + " Gentleman attendant on Cordelia. (Gentleman:)\n" + " A Herald.\n\n" + " Servants to Cornwall.\n" + " (First Servant:)\n" + " (Second Servant:)\n" + " (Third Servant:)\n\n\n" + "GONERIL |\n" + " |\n" + "REGAN | daughters to Lear.\n" + " |\n" + "CORDELIA |\n\n\n" + " Knights of Lear's train, Captains, Messengers,\n" + " Soldiers, and Attendants\n" + " (Knight:)\n" + " (Captain:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE Britain.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I King Lear's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND]\n\n" + "KENT I thought the king had more affected the Duke of\n" + " Albany than Cornwall.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER It did always seem so to us: but now, in the\n" + " division of the kingdom, it appears not which of\n" + " the dukes he values most; for equalities are so\n" + " weighed, that curiosity in neither can make choice\n" + " of either's moiety.\n\n" + "KENT Is not this your son, my lord?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER His breeding, sir, hath been at my charge: I have\n" + " so often blushed to acknowledge him, that now I am\n" + " brazed to it.\n\n" + "KENT I cannot conceive you.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sir, this young fellow's mother could: whereupon\n" + " she grew round-wombed, and had, indeed, sir, a son\n" + " for her cradle ere she had a husband for her bed.\n" + " Do you smell a fault?\n\n" + "KENT I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it\n" + " being so proper.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But I have, sir, a son by order of law, some year\n" + " elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account:\n" + " though this knave came something saucily into the\n" + " world before he was sent for, yet was his mother\n" + " fair; there was good sport at his making, and the\n" + " whoreson must be acknowledged. Do you know this\n" + " noble gentleman, Edmund?\n\n" + "EDMUND No, my lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My lord of Kent: remember him hereafter as my\n" + " honourable friend.\n\n" + "EDMUND My services to your lordship.\n\n" + "KENT I must love you, and sue to know you better.\n\n" + "EDMUND Sir, I shall study deserving.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He hath been out nine years, and away he shall\n" + " again. The king is coming.\n\n" + " [Sennet. Enter KING LEAR, CORNWALL, ALBANY,\n" + " GONERIL, REGAN, CORDELIA, and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I shall, my liege.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GLOUCESTER and EDMUND]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Meantime we shall express our darker purpose.\n" + " Give me the map there. Know that we have divided\n" + " In three our kingdom: and 'tis our fast intent\n" + " To shake all cares and business from our age;\n" + " Conferring them on younger strengths, while we\n" + " Unburthen'd crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall,\n" + " And you, our no less loving son of Albany,\n" + " We have this hour a constant will to publish\n" + " Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife\n" + " May be prevented now. The princes, France and Burgundy,\n" + " Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,\n" + " Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,\n" + " And here are to be answer'd. Tell me, my daughters,--\n" + " Since now we will divest us both of rule,\n" + " Interest of territory, cares of state,--\n" + " Which of you shall we say doth love us most?\n" + " That we our largest bounty may extend\n" + " Where nature doth with merit challenge. Goneril,\n" + " Our eldest-born, speak first.\n\n" + "GONERIL Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter;\n" + " Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty;\n" + " Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare;\n" + " No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour;\n" + " As much as child e'er loved, or father found;\n" + " A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable;\n" + " Beyond all manner of so much I love you.\n\n" + "CORDELIA [Aside] What shall Cordelia do?\n" + " Love, and be silent.\n\n" + "LEAR Of all these bounds, even from this line to this,\n" + " With shadowy forests and with champains rich'd,\n" + " With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads,\n" + " We make thee lady: to thine and Albany's issue\n" + " Be this perpetual. What says our second daughter,\n" + " Our dearest Regan, wife to Cornwall? Speak.\n\n" + "REGAN Sir, I am made\n" + " Of the self-same metal that my sister is,\n" + " And prize me at her worth. In my true heart\n" + " I find she names my very deed of love;\n" + " Only she comes too short: that I profess\n" + " Myself an enemy to all other joys,\n" + " Which the most precious square of sense possesses;\n" + " And find I am alone felicitate\n" + " In your dear highness' love.\n\n" + "CORDELIA [Aside] Then poor Cordelia!\n" + " And yet not so; since, I am sure, my love's\n" + " More richer than my tongue.\n\n" + "KING LEAR To thee and thine hereditary ever\n" + " Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom;\n" + " No less in space, validity, and pleasure,\n" + " Than that conferr'd on Goneril. Now, our joy,\n" + " Although the last, not least; to whose young love\n" + " The vines of France and milk of Burgundy\n" + " Strive to be interess'd; what can you say to draw\n" + " A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Nothing, my lord.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Nothing!\n\n" + "CORDELIA Nothing.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Nothing will come of nothing: speak again.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave\n" + " My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty\n" + " According to my bond; nor more nor less.\n\n" + "KING LEAR How, how, Cordelia! mend your speech a little,\n" + " Lest it may mar your fortunes.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Good my lord,\n" + " You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I\n" + " Return those duties back as are right fit,\n" + " Obey you, love you, and most honour you.\n" + " Why have my sisters husbands, if they say\n" + " They love you all? Haply, when I shall wed,\n" + " That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry\n" + " Half my love with him, half my care and duty:\n" + " Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters,\n" + " To love my father all.\n\n" + "KING LEAR But goes thy heart with this?\n\n" + "CORDELIA Ay, good my lord.\n\n" + "KING LEAR So young, and so untender?\n\n" + "CORDELIA So young, my lord, and true.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Let it be so; thy truth, then, be thy dower:\n" + " For, by the sacred radiance of the sun,\n" + " The mysteries of Hecate, and the night;\n" + " By all the operation of the orbs\n" + " From whom we do exist, and cease to be;\n" + " Here I disclaim all my paternal care,\n" + " Propinquity and property of blood,\n" + " And as a stranger to my heart and me\n" + " Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barbarous Scythian,\n" + " Or he that makes his generation messes\n" + " To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom\n" + " Be as well neighbour'd, pitied, and relieved,\n" + " As thou my sometime daughter.\n\n" + "KENT Good my liege,--\n\n" + "KING LEAR Peace, Kent!\n" + " Come not between the dragon and his wrath.\n" + " I loved her most, and thought to set my rest\n" + " On her kind nursery. Hence, and avoid my sight!\n" + " So be my grave my peace, as here I give\n" + " Her father's heart from her! Call France; who stirs?\n" + " Call Burgundy. Cornwall and Albany,\n" + " With my two daughters' dowers digest this third:\n" + " Let pride, which she calls plainness, marry her.\n" + " I do invest you jointly with my power,\n" + " Pre-eminence, and all the large effects\n" + " That troop with majesty. Ourself, by monthly course,\n" + " With reservation of an hundred knights,\n" + " By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode\n" + " Make with you by due turns. Only we still retain\n" + " The name, and all the additions to a king;\n" + " The sway, revenue, execution of the rest,\n" + " Beloved sons, be yours: which to confirm,\n" + " This coronet part betwixt you.\n\n" + " [Giving the crown]\n\n" + "KENT Royal Lear,\n" + " Whom I have ever honour'd as my king,\n" + " Loved as my father, as my master follow'd,\n" + " As my great patron thought on in my prayers,--\n\n" + "KING LEAR The bow is bent and drawn, make from the shaft.\n\n" + "KENT Let it fall rather, though the fork invade\n" + " The region of my heart: be Kent unmannerly,\n" + " When Lear is mad. What wilt thou do, old man?\n" + " Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak,\n" + " When power to flattery bows? To plainness honour's bound,\n" + " When majesty stoops to folly. Reverse thy doom;\n" + " And, in thy best consideration, cheque\n" + " This hideous rashness: answer my life my judgment,\n" + " Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least;\n" + " Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound\n" + " Reverbs no hollowness.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Kent, on thy life, no more.\n\n" + "KENT My life I never held but as a pawn\n" + " To wage against thy enemies; nor fear to lose it,\n" + " Thy safety being the motive.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Out of my sight!\n\n" + "KENT See better, Lear; and let me still remain\n" + " The true blank of thine eye.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Now, by Apollo,--\n\n" + "KENT Now, by Apollo, king,\n" + " Thou swear'st thy gods in vain.\n\n" + "KING LEAR O, vassal! miscreant!\n\n" + " [Laying his hand on his sword]\n\n\n" + "ALBANY |\n" + " | Dear sir, forbear.\n" + "CORNWALL |\n\n\n" + "KENT Do:\n" + " Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow\n" + " Upon thy foul disease. Revoke thy doom;\n" + " Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat,\n" + " I'll tell thee thou dost evil.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Hear me, recreant!\n" + " On thine allegiance, hear me!\n" + " Since thou hast sought to make us break our vow,\n" + " Which we durst never yet, and with strain'd pride\n" + " To come between our sentence and our power,\n" + " Which nor our nature nor our place can bear,\n" + " Our potency made good, take thy reward.\n" + " Five days we do allot thee, for provision\n" + " To shield thee from diseases of the world;\n" + " And on the sixth to turn thy hated back\n" + " Upon our kingdom: if, on the tenth day following,\n" + " Thy banish'd trunk be found in our dominions,\n" + " The moment is thy death. Away! by Jupiter,\n" + " This shall not be revoked.\n\n" + "KENT Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear,\n" + " Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here.\n\n" + " [To CORDELIA]\n\n" + " The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid,\n" + " That justly think'st, and hast most rightly said!\n\n" + " [To REGAN and GONERIL]\n\n" + " And your large speeches may your deeds approve,\n" + " That good effects may spring from words of love.\n" + " Thus Kent, O princes, bids you all adieu;\n" + " He'll shape his old course in a country new.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Flourish. Re-enter GLOUCESTER, with KING OF FRANCE,\n" + " BURGUNDY, and Attendants]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Here's France and Burgundy, my noble lord.\n\n" + "KING LEAR My lord of Burgundy.\n" + " We first address towards you, who with this king\n" + " Hath rivall'd for our daughter: what, in the least,\n" + " Will you require in present dower with her,\n" + " Or cease your quest of love?\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Most royal majesty,\n" + " I crave no more than what your highness offer'd,\n" + " Nor will you tender less.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Right noble Burgundy,\n" + " When she was dear to us, we did hold her so;\n" + " But now her price is fall'n. Sir, there she stands:\n" + " If aught within that little seeming substance,\n" + " Or all of it, with our displeasure pieced,\n" + " And nothing more, may fitly like your grace,\n" + " She's there, and she is yours.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY I know no answer.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Will you, with those infirmities she owes,\n" + " Unfriended, new-adopted to our hate,\n" + " Dower'd with our curse, and stranger'd with our oath,\n" + " Take her, or leave her?\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Pardon me, royal sir;\n" + " Election makes not up on such conditions.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Then leave her, sir; for, by the power that made me,\n" + " I tell you all her wealth.\n\n" + " [To KING OF FRANCE]\n\n" + " For you, great king,\n" + " I would not from your love make such a stray,\n" + " To match you where I hate; therefore beseech you\n" + " To avert your liking a more worthier way\n" + " Than on a wretch whom nature is ashamed\n" + " Almost to acknowledge hers.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE This is most strange,\n" + " That she, that even but now was your best object,\n" + " The argument of your praise, balm of your age,\n" + " Most best, most dearest, should in this trice of time\n" + " Commit a thing so monstrous, to dismantle\n" + " So many folds of favour. Sure, her offence\n" + " Must be of such unnatural degree,\n" + " That monsters it, or your fore-vouch'd affection\n" + " Fall'n into taint: which to believe of her,\n" + " Must be a faith that reason without miracle\n" + " Could never plant in me.\n\n" + "CORDELIA I yet beseech your majesty,--\n" + " If for I want that glib and oily art,\n" + " To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend,\n" + " I'll do't before I speak,--that you make known\n" + " It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness,\n" + " No unchaste action, or dishonour'd step,\n" + " That hath deprived me of your grace and favour;\n" + " But even for want of that for which I am richer,\n" + " A still-soliciting eye, and such a tongue\n" + " As I am glad I have not, though not to have it\n" + " Hath lost me in your liking.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Better thou\n" + " Hadst not been born than not to have pleased me better.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Is it but this,--a tardiness in nature\n" + " Which often leaves the history unspoke\n" + " That it intends to do? My lord of Burgundy,\n" + " What say you to the lady? Love's not love\n" + " When it is mingled with regards that stand\n" + " Aloof from the entire point. Will you have her?\n" + " She is herself a dowry.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY Royal Lear,\n" + " Give but that portion which yourself proposed,\n" + " And here I take Cordelia by the hand,\n" + " Duchess of Burgundy.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Nothing: I have sworn; I am firm.\n\n" + "BURGUNDY I am sorry, then, you have so lost a father\n" + " That you must lose a husband.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Peace be with Burgundy!\n" + " Since that respects of fortune are his love,\n" + " I shall not be his wife.\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor;\n" + " Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised!\n" + " Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon:\n" + " Be it lawful I take up what's cast away.\n" + " Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect\n" + " My love should kindle to inflamed respect.\n" + " Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance,\n" + " Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France:\n" + " Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy\n" + " Can buy this unprized precious maid of me.\n" + " Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind:\n" + " Thou losest here, a better where to find.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Thou hast her, France: let her be thine; for we\n" + " Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see\n" + " That face of hers again. Therefore be gone\n" + " Without our grace, our love, our benison.\n" + " Come, noble Burgundy.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt all but KING OF FRANCE, GONERIL,\n" + " REGAN, and CORDELIA]\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Bid farewell to your sisters.\n\n" + "CORDELIA The jewels of our father, with wash'd eyes\n" + " Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are;\n" + " And like a sister am most loath to call\n" + " Your faults as they are named. Use well our father:\n" + " To your professed bosoms I commit him\n" + " But yet, alas, stood I within his grace,\n" + " I would prefer him to a better place.\n" + " So, farewell to you both.\n\n" + "REGAN Prescribe not us our duties.\n\n" + "GONERIL Let your study\n" + " Be to content your lord, who hath received you\n" + " At fortune's alms. You have obedience scanted,\n" + " And well are worth the want that you have wanted.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides:\n" + " Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.\n" + " Well may you prosper!\n\n" + "KING OF FRANCE Come, my fair Cordelia.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING OF FRANCE and CORDELIA]\n\n" + "GONERIL Sister, it is not a little I have to say of what\n" + " most nearly appertains to us both. I think our\n" + " father will hence to-night.\n\n" + "REGAN That's most certain, and with you; next month with us.\n\n" + "GONERIL You see how full of changes his age is; the\n" + " observation we have made of it hath not been\n" + " little: he always loved our sister most; and\n" + " with what poor judgment he hath now cast her off\n" + " appears too grossly.\n\n" + "REGAN 'Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever\n" + " but slenderly known himself.\n\n" + "GONERIL The best and soundest of his time hath been but\n" + " rash; then must we look to receive from his age,\n" + " not alone the imperfections of long-engraffed\n" + " condition, but therewithal the unruly waywardness\n" + " that infirm and choleric years bring with them.\n\n" + "REGAN Such unconstant starts are we like to have from\n" + " him as this of Kent's banishment.\n\n" + "GONERIL There is further compliment of leavetaking\n" + " between France and him. Pray you, let's hit\n" + " together: if our father carry authority with\n" + " such dispositions as he bears, this last\n" + " surrender of his will but offend us.\n\n" + "REGAN We shall further think on't.\n\n" + "GONERIL We must do something, and i' the heat.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The Earl of Gloucester's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EDMUND, with a letter]\n\n" + "EDMUND Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law\n" + " My services are bound. Wherefore should I\n" + " Stand in the plague of custom, and permit\n" + " The curiosity of nations to deprive me,\n" + " For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines\n" + " Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base?\n" + " When my dimensions are as well compact,\n" + " My mind as generous, and my shape as true,\n" + " As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us\n" + " With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?\n" + " Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take\n" + " More composition and fierce quality\n" + " Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed,\n" + " Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops,\n" + " Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well, then,\n" + " Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land:\n" + " Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund\n" + " As to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!\n" + " Well, my legitimate, if this letter speed,\n" + " And my invention thrive, Edmund the base\n" + " Shall top the legitimate. I grow; I prosper:\n" + " Now, gods, stand up for bastards!\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Kent banish'd thus! and France in choler parted!\n" + " And the king gone to-night! subscribed his power!\n" + " Confined to exhibition! All this done\n" + " Upon the gad! Edmund, how now! what news?\n\n" + "EDMUND So please your lordship, none.\n\n" + " [Putting up the letter]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?\n\n" + "EDMUND I know no news, my lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What paper were you reading?\n\n" + "EDMUND Nothing, my lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No? What needed, then, that terrible dispatch of\n" + " it into your pocket? the quality of nothing hath\n" + " not such need to hide itself. Let's see: come,\n" + " if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.\n\n" + "EDMUND I beseech you, sir, pardon me: it is a letter\n" + " from my brother, that I have not all o'er-read;\n" + " and for so much as I have perused, I find it not\n" + " fit for your o'er-looking.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Give me the letter, sir.\n\n" + "EDMUND I shall offend, either to detain or give it. The\n" + " contents, as in part I understand them, are to blame.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Let's see, let's see.\n\n" + "EDMUND I hope, for my brother's justification, he wrote\n" + " this but as an essay or taste of my virtue.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Reads] 'This policy and reverence of age makes\n" + " the world bitter to the best of our times; keeps\n" + " our fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish\n" + " them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage\n" + " in the oppression of aged tyranny; who sways, not\n" + " as it hath power, but as it is suffered. Come to\n" + " me, that of this I may speak more. If our father\n" + " would sleep till I waked him, you should half his\n" + " revenue for ever, and live the beloved of your\n" + " brother, EDGAR.'\n\n" + " Hum--conspiracy!--'Sleep till I waked him,--you\n" + " should enjoy half his revenue,'--My son Edgar!\n" + " Had he a hand to write this? a heart and brain\n" + " to breed it in?--When came this to you? who\n" + " brought it?\n\n" + "EDMUND It was not brought me, my lord; there's the\n" + " cunning of it; I found it thrown in at the\n" + " casement of my closet.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER You know the character to be your brother's?\n\n" + "EDMUND If the matter were good, my lord, I durst swear\n" + " it were his; but, in respect of that, I would\n" + " fain think it were not.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER It is his.\n\n" + "EDMUND It is his hand, my lord; but I hope his heart is\n" + " not in the contents.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Hath he never heretofore sounded you in this business?\n\n" + "EDMUND Never, my lord: but I have heard him oft\n" + " maintain it to be fit, that, sons at perfect age,\n" + " and fathers declining, the father should be as\n" + " ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O villain, villain! His very opinion in the\n" + " letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested,\n" + " brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah,\n" + " seek him; I'll apprehend him: abominable villain!\n" + " Where is he?\n\n" + "EDMUND I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please\n" + " you to suspend your indignation against my\n" + " brother till you can derive from him better\n" + " testimony of his intent, you shall run a certain\n" + " course; where, if you violently proceed against\n" + " him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great\n" + " gap in your own honour, and shake in pieces the\n" + " heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life\n" + " for him, that he hath wrote this to feel my\n" + " affection to your honour, and to no further\n" + " pretence of danger.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Think you so?\n\n" + "EDMUND If your honour judge it meet, I will place you\n" + " where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an\n" + " auricular assurance have your satisfaction; and\n" + " that without any further delay than this very evening.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He cannot be such a monster--\n\n" + "EDMUND Nor is not, sure.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER To his father, that so tenderly and entirely\n" + " loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him\n" + " out: wind me into him, I pray you: frame the\n" + " business after your own wisdom. I would unstate\n" + " myself, to be in a due resolution.\n\n" + "EDMUND I will seek him, sir, presently: convey the\n" + " business as I shall find means and acquaint you withal.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend\n" + " no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can\n" + " reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself\n" + " scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,\n" + " friendship falls off, brothers divide: in\n" + " cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in\n" + " palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son\n" + " and father. This villain of mine comes under the\n" + " prediction; there's son against father: the king\n" + " falls from bias of nature; there's father against\n" + " child. We have seen the best of our time:\n" + " machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all\n" + " ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our\n" + " graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall\n" + " lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the\n" + " noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his\n" + " offence, honesty! 'Tis strange.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EDMUND This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,\n" + " when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit\n" + " of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our\n" + " disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as\n" + " if we were villains by necessity; fools by\n" + " heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and\n" + " treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards,\n" + " liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of\n" + " planetary influence; and all that we are evil in,\n" + " by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion\n" + " of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish\n" + " disposition to the charge of a star! My\n" + " father compounded with my mother under the\n" + " dragon's tail; and my nativity was under Ursa\n" + " major; so that it follows, I am rough and\n" + " lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am,\n" + " had the maidenliest star in the firmament\n" + " twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar--\n\n" + " [Enter EDGAR]\n\n" + " And pat he comes like the catastrophe of the old\n" + " comedy: my cue is villanous melancholy, with a\n" + " sigh like Tom o' Bedlam. O, these eclipses do\n" + " portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi.\n\n" + "EDGAR How now, brother Edmund! what serious\n" + " contemplation are you in?\n\n" + "EDMUND I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read\n" + " this other day, what should follow these eclipses.\n\n" + "EDGAR Do you busy yourself about that?\n\n" + "EDMUND I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed\n" + " unhappily; as of unnaturalness between the child\n" + " and the parent; death, dearth, dissolutions of\n" + " ancient amities; divisions in state, menaces and\n" + " maledictions against king and nobles; needless\n" + " diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation\n" + " of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.\n\n" + "EDGAR How long have you been a sectary astronomical?\n\n" + "EDMUND Come, come; when saw you my father last?\n\n" + "EDGAR Why, the night gone by.\n\n" + "EDMUND Spake you with him?\n\n" + "EDGAR Ay, two hours together.\n\n" + "EDMUND Parted you in good terms? Found you no\n" + " displeasure in him by word or countenance?\n\n" + "EDGAR None at all.\n\n" + "EDMUND Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended\n" + " him: and at my entreaty forbear his presence\n" + " till some little time hath qualified the heat of\n" + " his displeasure; which at this instant so rageth\n" + " in him, that with the mischief of your person it\n" + " would scarcely allay.\n\n" + "EDGAR Some villain hath done me wrong.\n\n" + "EDMUND That's my fear. I pray you, have a continent\n" + " forbearance till the spied of his rage goes\n" + " slower; and, as I say, retire with me to my\n" + " lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to\n" + " hear my lord speak: pray ye, go; there's my key:\n" + " if you do stir abroad, go armed.\n\n" + "EDGAR Armed, brother!\n\n" + "EDMUND Brother, I advise you to the best; go armed: I\n" + " am no honest man if there be any good meaning\n" + " towards you: I have told you what I have seen\n" + " and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image\n" + " and horror of it: pray you, away.\n\n" + "EDGAR Shall I hear from you anon?\n\n" + "EDMUND I do serve you in this business.\n\n" + " [Exit EDGAR]\n\n" + " A credulous father! and a brother noble,\n" + " Whose nature is so far from doing harms,\n" + " That he suspects none: on whose foolish honesty\n" + " My practises ride easy! I see the business.\n" + " Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:\n" + " All with me's meet that I can fashion fit.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The Duke of Albany's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GONERIL, and OSWALD, her steward]\n\n" + "GONERIL Did my father strike my gentleman for chiding of his fool?\n\n" + "OSWALD Yes, madam.\n\n" + "GONERIL By day and night he wrongs me; every hour\n" + " He flashes into one gross crime or other,\n" + " That sets us all at odds: I'll not endure it:\n" + " His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us\n" + " On every trifle. When he returns from hunting,\n" + " I will not speak with him; say I am sick:\n" + " If you come slack of former services,\n" + " You shall do well; the fault of it I'll answer.\n\n" + "OSWALD He's coming, madam; I hear him.\n\n" + " [Horns within]\n\n" + "GONERIL Put on what weary negligence you please,\n" + " You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question:\n" + " If he dislike it, let him to our sister,\n" + " Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one,\n" + " Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man,\n" + " That still would manage those authorities\n" + " That he hath given away! Now, by my life,\n" + " Old fools are babes again; and must be used\n" + " With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused.\n" + " Remember what I tell you.\n\n" + "OSWALD Well, madam.\n\n" + "GONERIL And let his knights have colder looks among you;\n" + " What grows of it, no matter; advise your fellows so:\n" + " I would breed from hence occasions, and I shall,\n" + " That I may speak: I'll write straight to my sister,\n" + " To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A hall in the same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KENT, disguised]\n\n" + "KENT If but as well I other accents borrow,\n" + " That can my speech defuse, my good intent\n" + " May carry through itself to that full issue\n" + " For which I razed my likeness. Now, banish'd Kent,\n" + " If thou canst serve where thou dost stand condemn'd,\n" + " So may it come, thy master, whom thou lovest,\n" + " Shall find thee full of labours.\n\n" + " [Horns within. Enter KING LEAR, Knights, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Let me not stay a jot for dinner; go get it ready.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " How now! what art thou?\n\n" + "KENT A man, sir.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What dost thou profess? what wouldst thou with us?\n\n" + "KENT I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve\n" + " him truly that will put me in trust: to love him\n" + " that is honest; to converse with him that is wise,\n" + " and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I\n" + " cannot choose; and to eat no fish.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What art thou?\n\n" + "KENT A very honest-hearted fellow, and as poor as the king.\n\n" + "KING LEAR If thou be as poor for a subject as he is for a\n" + " king, thou art poor enough. What wouldst thou?\n\n" + "KENT Service.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Who wouldst thou serve?\n\n" + "KENT You.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Dost thou know me, fellow?\n\n" + "KENT No, sir; but you have that in your countenance\n" + " which I would fain call master.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What's that?\n\n" + "KENT Authority.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What services canst thou do?\n\n" + "KENT I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious\n" + " tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message\n" + " bluntly: that which ordinary men are fit for, I am\n" + " qualified in; and the best of me is diligence.\n\n" + "KING LEAR How old art thou?\n\n" + "KENT Not so young, sir, to love a woman for singing, nor\n" + " so old to dote on her for any thing: I have years\n" + " on my back forty eight.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Follow me; thou shalt serve me: if I like thee no\n" + " worse after dinner, I will not part from thee yet.\n" + " Dinner, ho, dinner! Where's my knave? my fool?\n" + " Go you, and call my fool hither.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " [Enter OSWALD]\n\n" + " You, you, sirrah, where's my daughter?\n\n" + "OSWALD So please you,--\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING LEAR What says the fellow there? Call the clotpoll back.\n\n" + " [Exit a Knight]\n\n" + " Where's my fool, ho? I think the world's asleep.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Knight]\n\n" + " How now! where's that mongrel?\n\n" + "Knight He says, my lord, your daughter is not well.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Why came not the slave back to me when I called him.\n\n" + "Knight Sir, he answered me in the roundest manner, he would\n" + " not.\n\n" + "KING LEAR He would not!\n\n" + "Knight My lord, I know not what the matter is; but, to my\n" + " judgment, your highness is not entertained with that\n" + " ceremonious affection as you were wont; there's a\n" + " great abatement of kindness appears as well in the\n" + " general dependants as in the duke himself also and\n" + " your daughter.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ha! sayest thou so?\n\n" + "Knight I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, if I be mistaken;\n" + " for my duty cannot be silent when I think your\n" + " highness wronged.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Thou but rememberest me of mine own conception: I\n" + " have perceived a most faint neglect of late; which I\n" + " have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity\n" + " than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness:\n" + " I will look further into't. But where's my fool? I\n" + " have not seen him this two days.\n\n" + "Knight Since my young lady's going into France, sir, the\n" + " fool hath much pined away.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No more of that; I have noted it well. Go you, and\n" + " tell my daughter I would speak with her.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " Go you, call hither my fool.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " [Re-enter OSWALD]\n\n" + " O, you sir, you, come you hither, sir: who am I,\n" + " sir?\n\n" + "OSWALD My lady's father.\n\n" + "KING LEAR 'My lady's father'! my lord's knave: your\n" + " whoreson dog! you slave! you cur!\n\n" + "OSWALD I am none of these, my lord; I beseech your pardon.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Do you bandy looks with me, you rascal?\n\n" + " [Striking him]\n\n" + "OSWALD I'll not be struck, my lord.\n\n" + "KENT Nor tripped neither, you base football player.\n\n" + " [Tripping up his heels]\n\n" + "KING LEAR I thank thee, fellow; thou servest me, and I'll\n" + " love thee.\n\n" + "KENT Come, sir, arise, away! I'll teach you differences:\n" + " away, away! if you will measure your lubber's\n" + " length again, tarry: but away! go to; have you\n" + " wisdom? so.\n\n" + " [Pushes OSWALD out]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Now, my friendly knave, I thank thee: there's\n" + " earnest of thy service.\n\n" + " [Giving KENT money]\n\n" + " [Enter Fool]\n\n" + "Fool Let me hire him too: here's my coxcomb.\n\n" + " [Offering KENT his cap]\n\n" + "KING LEAR How now, my pretty knave! how dost thou?\n\n" + "Fool Sirrah, you were best take my coxcomb.\n\n" + "KENT Why, fool?\n\n" + "Fool Why, for taking one's part that's out of favour:\n" + " nay, an thou canst not smile as the wind sits,\n" + " thou'lt catch cold shortly: there, take my coxcomb:\n" + " why, this fellow has banished two on's daughters,\n" + " and did the third a blessing against his will; if\n" + " thou follow him, thou must needs wear my coxcomb.\n" + " How now, nuncle! Would I had two coxcombs and two daughters!\n\n" + "KING LEAR Why, my boy?\n\n" + "Fool If I gave them all my living, I'ld keep my coxcombs\n" + " myself. There's mine; beg another of thy daughters.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Take heed, sirrah; the whip.\n\n" + "Fool Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped\n" + " out, when Lady the brach may stand by the fire and stink.\n\n" + "KING LEAR A pestilent gall to me!\n\n" + "Fool Sirrah, I'll teach thee a speech.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Do.\n\n" + "Fool Mark it, nuncle:\n" + " Have more than thou showest,\n" + " Speak less than thou knowest,\n" + " Lend less than thou owest,\n" + " Ride more than thou goest,\n" + " Learn more than thou trowest,\n" + " Set less than thou throwest;\n" + " Leave thy drink and thy whore,\n" + " And keep in-a-door,\n" + " And thou shalt have more\n" + " Than two tens to a score.\n\n" + "KENT This is nothing, fool.\n\n" + "Fool Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer; you\n" + " gave me nothing for't. Can you make no use of\n" + " nothing, nuncle?\n\n" + "KING LEAR Why, no, boy; nothing can be made out of nothing.\n\n" + "Fool [To KENT] Prithee, tell him, so much the rent of\n" + " his land comes to: he will not believe a fool.\n\n" + "KING LEAR A bitter fool!\n\n" + "Fool Dost thou know the difference, my boy, between a\n" + " bitter fool and a sweet fool?\n\n" + "KING LEAR No, lad; teach me.\n\n" + "Fool That lord that counsell'd thee\n" + " To give away thy land,\n" + " Come place him here by me,\n" + " Do thou for him stand:\n" + " The sweet and bitter fool\n" + " Will presently appear;\n" + " The one in motley here,\n" + " The other found out there.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Dost thou call me fool, boy?\n\n" + "Fool All thy other titles thou hast given away; that\n" + " thou wast born with.\n\n" + "KENT This is not altogether fool, my lord.\n\n" + "Fool No, faith, lords and great men will not let me; if\n" + " I had a monopoly out, they would have part on't:\n" + " and ladies too, they will not let me have all fool\n" + " to myself; they'll be snatching. Give me an egg,\n" + " nuncle, and I'll give thee two crowns.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What two crowns shall they be?\n\n" + "Fool Why, after I have cut the egg i' the middle, and eat\n" + " up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou\n" + " clovest thy crown i' the middle, and gavest away\n" + " both parts, thou borest thy ass on thy back o'er\n" + " the dirt: thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown,\n" + " when thou gavest thy golden one away. If I speak\n" + " like myself in this, let him be whipped that first\n" + " finds it so.\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " Fools had ne'er less wit in a year;\n" + " For wise men are grown foppish,\n" + " They know not how their wits to wear,\n" + " Their manners are so apish.\n\n" + "KING LEAR When were you wont to be so full of songs, sirrah?\n\n" + "Fool I have used it, nuncle, ever since thou madest thy\n" + " daughters thy mothers: for when thou gavest them\n" + " the rod, and put'st down thine own breeches,\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " Then they for sudden joy did weep,\n" + " And I for sorrow sung,\n" + " That such a king should play bo-peep,\n" + " And go the fools among.\n\n" + " Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach\n" + " thy fool to lie: I would fain learn to lie.\n\n" + "KING LEAR An you lie, sirrah, we'll have you whipped.\n\n" + "Fool I marvel what kin thou and thy daughters are:\n" + " they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt\n" + " have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am\n" + " whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any\n" + " kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be\n" + " thee, nuncle; thou hast pared thy wit o' both sides,\n" + " and left nothing i' the middle: here comes one o'\n" + " the parings.\n\n" + " [Enter GONERIL]\n\n" + "KING LEAR How now, daughter! what makes that frontlet on?\n" + " Methinks you are too much of late i' the frown.\n\n" + "Fool Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to\n" + " care for her frowning; now thou art an O without a\n" + " figure: I am better than thou art now; I am a fool,\n" + " thou art nothing.\n\n" + " [To GONERIL]\n\n" + " Yes, forsooth, I will hold my tongue; so your face\n" + " bids me, though you say nothing. Mum, mum,\n" + " He that keeps nor crust nor crum,\n" + " Weary of all, shall want some.\n\n" + " [Pointing to KING LEAR]\n\n" + " That's a shealed peascod.\n\n" + "GONERIL Not only, sir, this your all-licensed fool,\n" + " But other of your insolent retinue\n" + " Do hourly carp and quarrel; breaking forth\n" + " In rank and not-to-be endured riots. Sir,\n" + " I had thought, by making this well known unto you,\n" + " To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful,\n" + " By what yourself too late have spoke and done.\n" + " That you protect this course, and put it on\n" + " By your allowance; which if you should, the fault\n" + " Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep,\n" + " Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal,\n" + " Might in their working do you that offence,\n" + " Which else were shame, that then necessity\n" + " Will call discreet proceeding.\n\n" + "Fool For, you trow, nuncle,\n" + " The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,\n" + " That it's had it head bit off by it young.\n" + " So, out went the candle, and we were left darkling.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Are you our daughter?\n\n" + "GONERIL Come, sir,\n" + " I would you would make use of that good wisdom,\n" + " Whereof I know you are fraught; and put away\n" + " These dispositions, that of late transform you\n" + " From what you rightly are.\n\n" + "Fool May not an ass know when the cart\n" + " draws the horse? Whoop, Jug! I love thee.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Doth any here know me? This is not Lear:\n" + " Doth Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes?\n" + " Either his notion weakens, his discernings\n" + " Are lethargied--Ha! waking? 'tis not so.\n" + " Who is it that can tell me who I am?\n\n" + "Fool Lear's shadow.\n\n" + "KING LEAR I would learn that; for, by the\n" + " marks of sovereignty, knowledge, and reason,\n" + " I should be false persuaded I had daughters.\n\n" + "Fool Which they will make an obedient father.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Your name, fair gentlewoman?\n\n" + "GONERIL This admiration, sir, is much o' the savour\n" + " Of other your new pranks. I do beseech you\n" + " To understand my purposes aright:\n" + " As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.\n" + " Here do you keep a hundred knights and squires;\n" + " Men so disorder'd, so debosh'd and bold,\n" + " That this our court, infected with their manners,\n" + " Shows like a riotous inn: epicurism and lust\n" + " Make it more like a tavern or a brothel\n" + " Than a graced palace. The shame itself doth speak\n" + " For instant remedy: be then desired\n" + " By her, that else will take the thing she begs,\n" + " A little to disquantity your train;\n" + " And the remainder, that shall still depend,\n" + " To be such men as may besort your age,\n" + " And know themselves and you.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Darkness and devils!\n" + " Saddle my horses; call my train together:\n" + " Degenerate bastard! I'll not trouble thee.\n" + " Yet have I left a daughter.\n\n" + "GONERIL You strike my people; and your disorder'd rabble\n" + " Make servants of their betters.\n\n" + " [Enter ALBANY]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Woe, that too late repents,--\n\n" + " [To ALBANY]\n\n" + " O, sir, are you come?\n" + " Is it your will? Speak, sir. Prepare my horses.\n" + " Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend,\n" + " More hideous when thou show'st thee in a child\n" + " Than the sea-monster!\n\n" + "ALBANY Pray, sir, be patient.\n\n" + "KING LEAR [To GONERIL] Detested kite! thou liest.\n" + " My train are men of choice and rarest parts,\n" + " That all particulars of duty know,\n" + " And in the most exact regard support\n" + " The worships of their name. O most small fault,\n" + " How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!\n" + " That, like an engine, wrench'd my frame of nature\n" + " From the fix'd place; drew from heart all love,\n" + " And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear!\n" + " Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in,\n\n" + " [Striking his head]\n\n" + " And thy dear judgment out! Go, go, my people.\n\n" + "ALBANY My lord, I am guiltless, as I am ignorant\n" + " Of what hath moved you.\n\n" + "KING LEAR It may be so, my lord.\n" + " Hear, nature, hear; dear goddess, hear!\n" + " Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend\n" + " To make this creature fruitful!\n" + " Into her womb convey sterility!\n" + " Dry up in her the organs of increase;\n" + " And from her derogate body never spring\n" + " A babe to honour her! If she must teem,\n" + " Create her child of spleen; that it may live,\n" + " And be a thwart disnatured torment to her!\n" + " Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth;\n" + " With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks;\n" + " Turn all her mother's pains and benefits\n" + " To laughter and contempt; that she may feel\n" + " How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is\n" + " To have a thankless child! Away, away!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ALBANY Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?\n\n" + "GONERIL Never afflict yourself to know the cause;\n" + " But let his disposition have that scope\n" + " That dotage gives it.\n\n" + " [Re-enter KING LEAR]\n\n" + "KING LEAR What, fifty of my followers at a clap!\n" + " Within a fortnight!\n\n" + "ALBANY What's the matter, sir?\n\n\n" + "KING LEAR I'll tell thee:\n\n" + " [To GONERIL]\n\n" + " Life and death! I am ashamed\n" + " That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus;\n" + " That these hot tears, which break from me perforce,\n" + " Should make thee worth them. Blasts and fogs upon thee!\n" + " The untented woundings of a father's curse\n" + " Pierce every sense about thee! Old fond eyes,\n" + " Beweep this cause again, I'll pluck ye out,\n" + " And cast you, with the waters that you lose,\n" + " To temper clay. Yea, it is come to this?\n" + " Let is be so: yet have I left a daughter,\n" + " Who, I am sure, is kind and comfortable:\n" + " When she shall hear this of thee, with her nails\n" + " She'll flay thy wolvish visage. Thou shalt find\n" + " That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think\n" + " I have cast off for ever: thou shalt,\n" + " I warrant thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING LEAR, KENT, and Attendants]\n\n" + "GONERIL Do you mark that, my lord?\n\n" + "ALBANY I cannot be so partial, Goneril,\n" + " To the great love I bear you,--\n\n" + "GONERIL Pray you, content. What, Oswald, ho!\n\n" + " [To the Fool]\n\n" + " You, sir, more knave than fool, after your master.\n\n" + "Fool Nuncle Lear, nuncle Lear, tarry and take the fool\n" + " with thee.\n" + " A fox, when one has caught her,\n" + " And such a daughter,\n" + " Should sure to the slaughter,\n" + " If my cap would buy a halter:\n" + " So the fool follows after.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GONERIL This man hath had good counsel:--a hundred knights!\n" + " 'Tis politic and safe to let him keep\n" + " At point a hundred knights: yes, that, on every dream,\n" + " Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike,\n" + " He may enguard his dotage with their powers,\n" + " And hold our lives in mercy. Oswald, I say!\n\n" + "ALBANY Well, you may fear too far.\n\n" + "GONERIL Safer than trust too far:\n" + " Let me still take away the harms I fear,\n" + " Not fear still to be taken: I know his heart.\n" + " What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister\n" + " If she sustain him and his hundred knights\n" + " When I have show'd the unfitness,--\n\n" + " [Re-enter OSWALD]\n\n" + " How now, Oswald!\n" + " What, have you writ that letter to my sister?\n\n" + "OSWALD Yes, madam.\n\n" + "GONERIL Take you some company, and away to horse:\n" + " Inform her full of my particular fear;\n" + " And thereto add such reasons of your own\n" + " As may compact it more. Get you gone;\n" + " And hasten your return.\n\n" + " [Exit OSWALD]\n\n" + " No, no, my lord,\n" + " This milky gentleness and course of yours\n" + " Though I condemn not, yet, under pardon,\n" + " You are much more attask'd for want of wisdom\n" + " Than praised for harmful mildness.\n\n" + "ALBANY How far your eyes may pierce I can not tell:\n" + " Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.\n\n" + "GONERIL Nay, then--\n\n" + "ALBANY Well, well; the event.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Court before the same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Go you before to Gloucester with these letters.\n" + " Acquaint my daughter no further with any thing you\n" + " know than comes from her demand out of the letter.\n" + " If your diligence be not speedy, I shall be there afore you.\n\n" + "KENT I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered\n" + " your letter.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Fool If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in\n" + " danger of kibes?\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ay, boy.\n\n" + "Fool Then, I prithee, be merry; thy wit shall ne'er go\n" + " slip-shod.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ha, ha, ha!\n\n" + "Fool Shalt see thy other daughter will use thee kindly;\n" + " for though she's as like this as a crab's like an\n" + " apple, yet I can tell what I can tell.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Why, what canst thou tell, my boy?\n\n" + "Fool She will taste as like this as a crab does to a\n" + " crab. Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'\n" + " the middle on's face?\n\n" + "KING LEAR No.\n\n" + "Fool Why, to keep one's eyes of either side's nose; that\n" + " what a man cannot smell out, he may spy into.\n\n" + "KING LEAR I did her wrong--\n\n" + "Fool Canst tell how an oyster makes his shell?\n\n" + "KING LEAR No.\n\n" + "Fool Nor I neither; but I can tell why a snail has a house.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Why?\n\n" + "Fool Why, to put his head in; not to give it away to his\n" + " daughters, and leave his horns without a case.\n\n" + "KING LEAR I will forget my nature. So kind a father! Be my\n" + " horses ready?\n\n" + "Fool Thy asses are gone about 'em. The reason why the\n" + " seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Because they are not eight?\n\n" + "Fool Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool.\n\n" + "KING LEAR To take 't again perforce! Monster ingratitude!\n\n" + "Fool If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten\n" + " for being old before thy time.\n\n" + "KING LEAR How's that?\n\n" + "Fool Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst\n" + " been wise.\n\n" + "KING LEAR O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven\n" + " Keep me in temper: I would not be mad!\n\n" + " [Enter Gentleman]\n\n" + " How now! are the horses ready?\n\n" + "Gentleman Ready, my lord.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Come, boy.\n\n" + "Fool She that's a maid now, and laughs at my departure,\n" + " Shall not be a maid long, unless things be cut shorter.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I GLOUCESTER's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EDMUND, and CURAN meets him]\n\n" + "EDMUND Save thee, Curan.\n\n" + "CURAN And you, sir. I have been with your father, and\n" + " given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan\n" + " his duchess will be here with him this night.\n\n" + "EDMUND How comes that?\n\n" + "CURAN Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad;\n" + " I mean the whispered ones, for they are yet but\n" + " ear-kissing arguments?\n\n" + "EDMUND Not I pray you, what are they?\n\n" + "CURAN Have you heard of no likely wars toward, 'twixt the\n" + " Dukes of Cornwall and Albany?\n\n" + "EDMUND Not a word.\n\n" + "CURAN You may do, then, in time. Fare you well, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EDMUND The duke be here to-night? The better! best!\n" + " This weaves itself perforce into my business.\n" + " My father hath set guard to take my brother;\n" + " And I have one thing, of a queasy question,\n" + " Which I must act: briefness and fortune, work!\n" + " Brother, a word; descend: brother, I say!\n\n" + " [Enter EDGAR]\n\n" + " My father watches: O sir, fly this place;\n" + " Intelligence is given where you are hid;\n" + " You have now the good advantage of the night:\n" + " Have you not spoken 'gainst the Duke of Cornwall?\n" + " He's coming hither: now, i' the night, i' the haste,\n" + " And Regan with him: have you nothing said\n" + " Upon his party 'gainst the Duke of Albany?\n" + " Advise yourself.\n\n" + "EDGAR I am sure on't, not a word.\n\n" + "EDMUND I hear my father coming: pardon me:\n" + " In cunning I must draw my sword upon you\n" + " Draw; seem to defend yourself; now quit you well.\n" + " Yield: come before my father. Light, ho, here!\n" + " Fly, brother. Torches, torches! So, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit EDGAR]\n\n" + " Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion.\n\n" + " [Wounds his arm]\n\n" + " Of my more fierce endeavour: I have seen drunkards\n" + " Do more than this in sport. Father, father!\n" + " Stop, stop! No help?\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, and Servants with torches]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now, Edmund, where's the villain?\n\n" + "EDMUND Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out,\n" + " Mumbling of wicked charms, conjuring the moon\n" + " To stand auspicious mistress,--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But where is he?\n\n" + "EDMUND Look, sir, I bleed.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Where is the villain, Edmund?\n\n" + "EDMUND Fled this way, sir. When by no means he could--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Pursue him, ho! Go after.\n\n" + " [Exeunt some Servants]\n\n" + " By no means what?\n\n" + "EDMUND Persuade me to the murder of your lordship;\n" + " But that I told him, the revenging gods\n" + " 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;\n" + " Spoke, with how manifold and strong a bond\n" + " The child was bound to the father; sir, in fine,\n" + " Seeing how loathly opposite I stood\n" + " To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion,\n" + " With his prepared sword, he charges home\n" + " My unprovided body, lanced mine arm:\n" + " But when he saw my best alarum'd spirits,\n" + " Bold in the quarrel's right, roused to the encounter,\n" + " Or whether gasted by the noise I made,\n" + " Full suddenly he fled.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Let him fly far:\n" + " Not in this land shall he remain uncaught;\n" + " And found--dispatch. The noble duke my master,\n" + " My worthy arch and patron, comes to-night:\n" + " By his authority I will proclaim it,\n" + " That he which finds him shall deserve our thanks,\n" + " Bringing the murderous coward to the stake;\n" + " He that conceals him, death.\n\n" + "EDMUND When I dissuaded him from his intent,\n" + " And found him pight to do it, with curst speech\n" + " I threaten'd to discover him: he replied,\n" + " 'Thou unpossessing bastard! dost thou think,\n" + " If I would stand against thee, would the reposal\n" + " Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee\n" + " Make thy words faith'd? No: what I should deny,--\n" + " As this I would: ay, though thou didst produce\n" + " My very character,--I'ld turn it all\n" + " To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practise:\n" + " And thou must make a dullard of the world,\n" + " If they not thought the profits of my death\n" + " Were very pregnant and potential spurs\n" + " To make thee seek it.'\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Strong and fasten'd villain\n" + " Would he deny his letter? I never got him.\n\n" + " [Tucket within]\n\n" + " Hark, the duke's trumpets! I know not why he comes.\n" + " All ports I'll bar; the villain shall not 'scape;\n" + " The duke must grant me that: besides, his picture\n" + " I will send far and near, that all the kingdom\n" + " May have the due note of him; and of my land,\n" + " Loyal and natural boy, I'll work the means\n" + " To make thee capable.\n\n" + " [Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, and Attendants]\n\n" + "CORNWALL How now, my noble friend! since I came hither,\n" + " Which I can call but now, I have heard strange news.\n\n" + "REGAN If it be true, all vengeance comes too short\n" + " Which can pursue the offender. How dost, my lord?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O, madam, my old heart is crack'd, it's crack'd!\n\n" + "REGAN What, did my father's godson seek your life?\n" + " He whom my father named? your Edgar?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O, lady, lady, shame would have it hid!\n\n" + "REGAN Was he not companion with the riotous knights\n" + " That tend upon my father?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I know not, madam: 'tis too bad, too bad.\n\n" + "EDMUND Yes, madam, he was of that consort.\n\n" + "REGAN No marvel, then, though he were ill affected:\n" + " 'Tis they have put him on the old man's death,\n" + " To have the expense and waste of his revenues.\n" + " I have this present evening from my sister\n" + " Been well inform'd of them; and with such cautions,\n" + " That if they come to sojourn at my house,\n" + " I'll not be there.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Nor I, assure thee, Regan.\n" + " Edmund, I hear that you have shown your father\n" + " A child-like office.\n\n" + "EDMUND 'Twas my duty, sir.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He did bewray his practise; and received\n" + " This hurt you see, striving to apprehend him.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Is he pursued?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "CORNWALL If he be taken, he shall never more\n" + " Be fear'd of doing harm: make your own purpose,\n" + " How in my strength you please. For you, Edmund,\n" + " Whose virtue and obedience doth this instant\n" + " So much commend itself, you shall be ours:\n" + " Natures of such deep trust we shall much need;\n" + " You we first seize on.\n\n" + "EDMUND I shall serve you, sir,\n" + " Truly, however else.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER For him I thank your grace.\n\n" + "CORNWALL You know not why we came to visit you,--\n\n" + "REGAN Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night:\n" + " Occasions, noble Gloucester, of some poise,\n" + " Wherein we must have use of your advice:\n" + " Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister,\n" + " Of differences, which I least thought it fit\n" + " To answer from our home; the several messengers\n" + " From hence attend dispatch. Our good old friend,\n" + " Lay comforts to your bosom; and bestow\n" + " Your needful counsel to our business,\n" + " Which craves the instant use.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I serve you, madam:\n" + " Your graces are right welcome.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before Gloucester's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KENT and OSWALD, severally]\n\n" + "OSWALD Good dawning to thee, friend: art of this house?\n\n" + "KENT Ay.\n\n" + "OSWALD Where may we set our horses?\n\n" + "KENT I' the mire.\n\n" + "OSWALD Prithee, if thou lovest me, tell me.\n\n" + "KENT I love thee not.\n\n" + "OSWALD Why, then, I care not for thee.\n\n" + "KENT If I had thee in Lipsbury pinfold, I would make thee\n" + " care for me.\n\n" + "OSWALD Why dost thou use me thus? I know thee not.\n\n" + "KENT Fellow, I know thee.\n\n" + "OSWALD What dost thou know me for?\n\n" + "KENT A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a\n" + " base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited,\n" + " hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a\n" + " lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson,\n" + " glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue;\n" + " one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a\n" + " bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but\n" + " the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar,\n" + " and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I\n" + " will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest\n" + " the least syllable of thy addition.\n\n" + "OSWALD Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou, thus to rail\n" + " on one that is neither known of thee nor knows thee!\n\n" + "KENT What a brazen-faced varlet art thou, to deny thou\n" + " knowest me! Is it two days ago since I tripped up\n" + " thy heels, and beat thee before the king? Draw, you\n" + " rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon\n" + " shines; I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you:\n" + " draw, you whoreson cullionly barber-monger, draw.\n\n" + " [Drawing his sword]\n\n" + "OSWALD Away! I have nothing to do with thee.\n\n" + "KENT Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the\n" + " king; and take vanity the puppet's part against the\n" + " royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so\n" + " carbonado your shanks: draw, you rascal; come your ways.\n\n" + "OSWALD Help, ho! murder! help!\n\n" + "KENT Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat\n" + " slave, strike.\n\n" + " [Beating him]\n\n" + "OSWALD Help, ho! murder! murder!\n\n" + " [Enter EDMUND, with his rapier drawn, CORNWALL,\n" + " REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and Servants]\n\n" + "EDMUND How now! What's the matter?\n\n" + "KENT With you, goodman boy, an you please: come, I'll\n" + " flesh ye; come on, young master.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Weapons! arms! What 's the matter here?\n\n" + "CORNWALL Keep peace, upon your lives:\n" + " He dies that strikes again. What is the matter?\n\n" + "REGAN The messengers from our sister and the king.\n\n" + "CORNWALL What is your difference? speak.\n\n" + "OSWALD I am scarce in breath, my lord.\n\n" + "KENT No marvel, you have so bestirred your valour. You\n" + " cowardly rascal, nature disclaims in thee: a\n" + " tailor made thee.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man?\n\n" + "KENT Ay, a tailor, sir: a stone-cutter or painter could\n" + " not have made him so ill, though he had been but two\n" + " hours at the trade.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Speak yet, how grew your quarrel?\n\n" + "OSWALD This ancient ruffian, sir, whose life I have spared\n" + " at suit of his gray beard,--\n\n" + "KENT Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! My\n" + " lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this\n" + " unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of\n" + " a jakes with him. Spare my gray beard, you wagtail?\n\n" + "CORNWALL Peace, sirrah!\n" + " You beastly knave, know you no reverence?\n\n" + "KENT Yes, sir; but anger hath a privilege.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Why art thou angry?\n\n" + "KENT That such a slave as this should wear a sword,\n" + " Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,\n" + " Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain\n" + " Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion\n" + " That in the natures of their lords rebel;\n" + " Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods;\n" + " Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks\n" + " With every gale and vary of their masters,\n" + " Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.\n" + " A plague upon your epileptic visage!\n" + " Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool?\n" + " Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain,\n" + " I'ld drive ye cackling home to Camelot.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Why, art thou mad, old fellow?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER How fell you out? say that.\n\n" + "KENT No contraries hold more antipathy\n" + " Than I and such a knave.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Why dost thou call him a knave? What's his offence?\n\n" + "KENT His countenance likes me not.\n\n" + "CORNWALL No more, perchance, does mine, nor his, nor hers.\n\n" + "KENT Sir, 'tis my occupation to be plain:\n" + " I have seen better faces in my time\n" + " Than stands on any shoulder that I see\n" + " Before me at this instant.\n\n" + "CORNWALL This is some fellow,\n" + " Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect\n" + " A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb\n" + " Quite from his nature: he cannot flatter, he,\n" + " An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth!\n" + " An they will take it, so; if not, he's plain.\n" + " These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness\n" + " Harbour more craft and more corrupter ends\n" + " Than twenty silly ducking observants\n" + " That stretch their duties nicely.\n\n" + "KENT Sir, in good sooth, in sincere verity,\n" + " Under the allowance of your great aspect,\n" + " Whose influence, like the wreath of radiant fire\n" + " On flickering Phoebus' front,--\n\n" + "CORNWALL What mean'st by this?\n\n" + "KENT To go out of my dialect, which you\n" + " discommend so much. I know, sir, I am no\n" + " flatterer: he that beguiled you in a plain\n" + " accent was a plain knave; which for my part\n" + " I will not be, though I should win your displeasure\n" + " to entreat me to 't.\n\n" + "CORNWALL What was the offence you gave him?\n\n" + "OSWALD I never gave him any:\n" + " It pleased the king his master very late\n" + " To strike at me, upon his misconstruction;\n" + " When he, conjunct and flattering his displeasure,\n" + " Tripp'd me behind; being down, insulted, rail'd,\n" + " And put upon him such a deal of man,\n" + " That worthied him, got praises of the king\n" + " For him attempting who was self-subdued;\n" + " And, in the fleshment of this dread exploit,\n" + " Drew on me here again.\n\n" + "KENT None of these rogues and cowards\n" + " But Ajax is their fool.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Fetch forth the stocks!\n" + " You stubborn ancient knave, you reverend braggart,\n" + " We'll teach you--\n\n" + "KENT Sir, I am too old to learn:\n" + " Call not your stocks for me: I serve the king;\n" + " On whose employment I was sent to you:\n" + " You shall do small respect, show too bold malice\n" + " Against the grace and person of my master,\n" + " Stocking his messenger.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Fetch forth the stocks! As I have life and honour,\n" + " There shall he sit till noon.\n\n" + "REGAN Till noon! till night, my lord; and all night too.\n\n" + "KENT Why, madam, if I were your father's dog,\n" + " You should not use me so.\n\n" + "REGAN Sir, being his knave, I will.\n\n" + "CORNWALL This is a fellow of the self-same colour\n" + " Our sister speaks of. Come, bring away the stocks!\n\n" + " [Stocks brought out]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Let me beseech your grace not to do so:\n" + " His fault is much, and the good king his master\n" + " Will cheque him for 't: your purposed low correction\n" + " Is such as basest and contemned'st wretches\n" + " For pilferings and most common trespasses\n" + " Are punish'd with: the king must take it ill,\n" + " That he's so slightly valued in his messenger,\n" + " Should have him thus restrain'd.\n\n" + "CORNWALL I'll answer that.\n\n" + "REGAN My sister may receive it much more worse,\n" + " To have her gentleman abused, assaulted,\n" + " For following her affairs. Put in his legs.\n\n" + " [KENT is put in the stocks]\n\n" + " Come, my good lord, away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER and KENT]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I am sorry for thee, friend; 'tis the duke's pleasure,\n" + " Whose disposition, all the world well knows,\n" + " Will not be rubb'd nor stopp'd: I'll entreat for thee.\n\n" + "KENT Pray, do not, sir: I have watched and travell'd hard;\n" + " Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle.\n" + " A good man's fortune may grow out at heels:\n" + " Give you good morrow!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The duke's to blame in this; 'twill be ill taken.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KENT Good king, that must approve the common saw,\n" + " Thou out of heaven's benediction comest\n" + " To the warm sun!\n" + " Approach, thou beacon to this under globe,\n" + " That by thy comfortable beams I may\n" + " Peruse this letter! Nothing almost sees miracles\n" + " But misery: I know 'tis from Cordelia,\n" + " Who hath most fortunately been inform'd\n" + " Of my obscured course; and shall find time\n" + " From this enormous state, seeking to give\n" + " Losses their remedies. All weary and o'erwatch'd,\n" + " Take vantage, heavy eyes, not to behold\n" + " This shameful lodging.\n" + " Fortune, good night: smile once more: turn thy wheel!\n\n" + " [Sleeps]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A wood.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EDGAR]\n\n" + "EDGAR I heard myself proclaim'd;\n" + " And by the happy hollow of a tree\n" + " Escaped the hunt. No port is free; no place,\n" + " That guard, and most unusual vigilance,\n" + " Does not attend my taking. Whiles I may 'scape,\n" + " I will preserve myself: and am bethought\n" + " To take the basest and most poorest shape\n" + " That ever penury, in contempt of man,\n" + " Brought near to beast: my face I'll grime with filth;\n" + " Blanket my loins: elf all my hair in knots;\n" + " And with presented nakedness out-face\n" + " The winds and persecutions of the sky.\n" + " The country gives me proof and precedent\n" + " Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices,\n" + " Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare arms\n" + " Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary;\n" + " And with this horrible object, from low farms,\n" + " Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes, and mills,\n" + " Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,\n" + " Enforce their charity. Poor Turlygod! poor Tom!\n" + " That's something yet: Edgar I nothing am.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Before GLOUCESTER's castle. KENT in the stocks.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING LEAR, Fool, and Gentleman]\n\n" + "KING LEAR 'Tis strange that they should so depart from home,\n" + " And not send back my messenger.\n\n" + "Gentleman As I learn'd,\n" + " The night before there was no purpose in them\n" + " Of this remove.\n\n" + "KENT Hail to thee, noble master!\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ha!\n" + " Makest thou this shame thy pastime?\n\n" + "KENT No, my lord.\n\n" + "Fool Ha, ha! he wears cruel garters. Horses are tied\n" + " by the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by\n" + " the loins, and men by the legs: when a man's\n" + " over-lusty at legs, then he wears wooden\n" + " nether-stocks.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What's he that hath so much thy place mistook\n" + " To set thee here?\n\n" + "KENT It is both he and she;\n" + " Your son and daughter.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No.\n\n" + "KENT Yes.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No, I say.\n\n" + "KENT I say, yea.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No, no, they would not.\n\n" + "KENT Yes, they have.\n\n" + "KING LEAR By Jupiter, I swear, no.\n\n" + "KENT By Juno, I swear, ay.\n\n" + "KING LEAR They durst not do 't;\n" + " They could not, would not do 't; 'tis worse than murder,\n" + " To do upon respect such violent outrage:\n" + " Resolve me, with all modest haste, which way\n" + " Thou mightst deserve, or they impose, this usage,\n" + " Coming from us.\n\n" + "KENT My lord, when at their home\n" + " I did commend your highness' letters to them,\n" + " Ere I was risen from the place that show'd\n" + " My duty kneeling, came there a reeking post,\n" + " Stew'd in his haste, half breathless, panting forth\n" + " From Goneril his mistress salutations;\n" + " Deliver'd letters, spite of intermission,\n" + " Which presently they read: on whose contents,\n" + " They summon'd up their meiny, straight took horse;\n" + " Commanded me to follow, and attend\n" + " The leisure of their answer; gave me cold looks:\n" + " And meeting here the other messenger,\n" + " Whose welcome, I perceived, had poison'd mine,--\n" + " Being the very fellow that of late\n" + " Display'd so saucily against your highness,--\n" + " Having more man than wit about me, drew:\n" + " He raised the house with loud and coward cries.\n" + " Your son and daughter found this trespass worth\n" + " The shame which here it suffers.\n\n" + "Fool Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.\n" + " Fathers that wear rags\n" + " Do make their children blind;\n" + " But fathers that bear bags\n" + " Shall see their children kind.\n" + " Fortune, that arrant whore,\n" + " Ne'er turns the key to the poor.\n" + " But, for all this, thou shalt have as many dolours\n" + " for thy daughters as thou canst tell in a year.\n\n" + "KING LEAR O, how this mother swells up toward my heart!\n" + " Hysterica passio, down, thou climbing sorrow,\n" + " Thy element's below! Where is this daughter?\n\n" + "KENT With the earl, sir, here within.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Follow me not;\n" + " Stay here.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Gentleman Made you no more offence but what you speak of?\n\n" + "KENT None.\n" + " How chance the king comes with so small a train?\n\n" + "Fool And thou hadst been set i' the stocks for that\n" + " question, thou hadst well deserved it.\n\n" + "KENT Why, fool?\n\n" + "Fool We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee\n" + " there's no labouring i' the winter. All that follow\n" + " their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and\n" + " there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him\n" + " that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel\n" + " runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with\n" + " following it: but the great one that goes up the\n" + " hill, let him draw thee after. When a wise man\n" + " gives thee better counsel, give me mine again: I\n" + " would have none but knaves follow it, since a fool gives it.\n" + " That sir which serves and seeks for gain,\n" + " And follows but for form,\n" + " Will pack when it begins to rain,\n" + " And leave thee in the storm,\n" + " But I will tarry; the fool will stay,\n" + " And let the wise man fly:\n" + " The knave turns fool that runs away;\n" + " The fool no knave, perdy.\n\n" + "KENT Where learned you this, fool?\n\n" + "Fool Not i' the stocks, fool.\n\n" + " [Re-enter KING LEAR with GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Deny to speak with me? They are sick? they are weary?\n" + " They have travell'd all the night? Mere fetches;\n" + " The images of revolt and flying off.\n" + " Fetch me a better answer.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My dear lord,\n" + " You know the fiery quality of the duke;\n" + " How unremoveable and fix'd he is\n" + " In his own course.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Vengeance! plague! death! confusion!\n" + " Fiery? what quality? Why, Gloucester, Gloucester,\n" + " I'ld speak with the Duke of Cornwall and his wife.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well, my good lord, I have inform'd them so.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Inform'd them! Dost thou understand me, man?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "KING LEAR The king would speak with Cornwall; the dear father\n" + " Would with his daughter speak, commands her service:\n" + " Are they inform'd of this? My breath and blood!\n" + " Fiery? the fiery duke? Tell the hot duke that--\n" + " No, but not yet: may be he is not well:\n" + " Infirmity doth still neglect all office\n" + " Whereto our health is bound; we are not ourselves\n" + " When nature, being oppress'd, commands the mind\n" + " To suffer with the body: I'll forbear;\n" + " And am fall'n out with my more headier will,\n" + " To take the indisposed and sickly fit\n" + " For the sound man. Death on my state! wherefore\n\n" + " [Looking on KENT]\n\n" + " Should he sit here? This act persuades me\n" + " That this remotion of the duke and her\n" + " Is practise only. Give me my servant forth.\n" + " Go tell the duke and 's wife I'ld speak with them,\n" + " Now, presently: bid them come forth and hear me,\n" + " Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum\n" + " Till it cry sleep to death.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I would have all well betwixt you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING LEAR O me, my heart, my rising heart! but, down!\n\n" + "Fool Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels\n" + " when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em\n" + " o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried 'Down,\n" + " wantons, down!' 'Twas her brother that, in pure\n" + " kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.\n\n" + " [Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GLOUCESTER, and Servants]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Good morrow to you both.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Hail to your grace!\n\n" + " [KENT is set at liberty]\n\n" + "REGAN I am glad to see your highness.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Regan, I think you are; I know what reason\n" + " I have to think so: if thou shouldst not be glad,\n" + " I would divorce me from thy mother's tomb,\n" + " Sepulchring an adultress.\n\n" + " [To KENT]\n\n" + " O, are you free?\n" + " Some other time for that. Beloved Regan,\n" + " Thy sister's naught: O Regan, she hath tied\n" + " Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, here:\n\n" + " [Points to his heart]\n\n" + " I can scarce speak to thee; thou'lt not believe\n" + " With how depraved a quality--O Regan!\n\n" + "REGAN I pray you, sir, take patience: I have hope.\n" + " You less know how to value her desert\n" + " Than she to scant her duty.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Say, how is that?\n\n" + "REGAN I cannot think my sister in the least\n" + " Would fail her obligation: if, sir, perchance\n" + " She have restrain'd the riots of your followers,\n" + " 'Tis on such ground, and to such wholesome end,\n" + " As clears her from all blame.\n\n" + "KING LEAR My curses on her!\n\n" + "REGAN O, sir, you are old.\n" + " Nature in you stands on the very verge\n" + " Of her confine: you should be ruled and led\n" + " By some discretion, that discerns your state\n" + " Better than you yourself. Therefore, I pray you,\n" + " That to our sister you do make return;\n" + " Say you have wrong'd her, sir.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ask her forgiveness?\n" + " Do you but mark how this becomes the house:\n" + " 'Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;\n\n" + " [Kneeling]\n\n" + " Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg\n" + " That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.'\n\n" + "REGAN Good sir, no more; these are unsightly tricks:\n" + " Return you to my sister.\n\n" + "KING LEAR [Rising] Never, Regan:\n" + " She hath abated me of half my train;\n" + " Look'd black upon me; struck me with her tongue,\n" + " Most serpent-like, upon the very heart:\n" + " All the stored vengeances of heaven fall\n" + " On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones,\n" + " You taking airs, with lameness!\n\n" + "CORNWALL Fie, sir, fie!\n\n" + "KING LEAR You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames\n" + " Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty,\n" + " You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun,\n" + " To fall and blast her pride!\n\n" + "REGAN O the blest gods! so will you wish on me,\n" + " When the rash mood is on.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No, Regan, thou shalt never have my curse:\n" + " Thy tender-hefted nature shall not give\n" + " Thee o'er to harshness: her eyes are fierce; but thine\n" + " Do comfort and not burn. 'Tis not in thee\n" + " To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train,\n" + " To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes,\n" + " And in conclusion to oppose the bolt\n" + " Against my coming in: thou better know'st\n" + " The offices of nature, bond of childhood,\n" + " Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude;\n" + " Thy half o' the kingdom hast thou not forgot,\n" + " Wherein I thee endow'd.\n\n" + "REGAN Good sir, to the purpose.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Who put my man i' the stocks?\n\n" + " [Tucket within]\n\n" + "CORNWALL What trumpet's that?\n\n" + "REGAN I know't, my sister's: this approves her letter,\n" + " That she would soon be here.\n\n" + " [Enter OSWALD]\n\n" + " Is your lady come?\n\n" + "KING LEAR This is a slave, whose easy-borrow'd pride\n" + " Dwells in the fickle grace of her he follows.\n" + " Out, varlet, from my sight!\n\n" + "CORNWALL What means your grace?\n\n" + "KING LEAR Who stock'd my servant? Regan, I have good hope\n" + " Thou didst not know on't. Who comes here? O heavens,\n\n" + " [Enter GONERIL]\n\n" + " If you do love old men, if your sweet sway\n" + " Allow obedience, if yourselves are old,\n" + " Make it your cause; send down, and take my part!\n\n" + " [To GONERIL]\n\n" + " Art not ashamed to look upon this beard?\n" + " O Regan, wilt thou take her by the hand?\n\n" + "GONERIL Why not by the hand, sir? How have I offended?\n" + " All's not offence that indiscretion finds\n" + " And dotage terms so.\n\n" + "KING LEAR O sides, you are too tough;\n" + " Will you yet hold? How came my man i' the stocks?\n\n" + "CORNWALL I set him there, sir: but his own disorders\n" + " Deserved much less advancement.\n\n" + "KING LEAR You! did you?\n\n" + "REGAN I pray you, father, being weak, seem so.\n" + " If, till the expiration of your month,\n" + " You will return and sojourn with my sister,\n" + " Dismissing half your train, come then to me:\n" + " I am now from home, and out of that provision\n" + " Which shall be needful for your entertainment.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Return to her, and fifty men dismiss'd?\n" + " No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose\n" + " To wage against the enmity o' the air;\n" + " To be a comrade with the wolf and owl,--\n" + " Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her?\n" + " Why, the hot-blooded France, that dowerless took\n" + " Our youngest born, I could as well be brought\n" + " To knee his throne, and, squire-like; pension beg\n" + " To keep base life afoot. Return with her?\n" + " Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter\n" + " To this detested groom.\n\n" + " [Pointing at OSWALD]\n\n" + "GONERIL At your choice, sir.\n\n" + "KING LEAR I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad:\n" + " I will not trouble thee, my child; farewell:\n" + " We'll no more meet, no more see one another:\n" + " But yet thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter;\n" + " Or rather a disease that's in my flesh,\n" + " Which I must needs call mine: thou art a boil,\n" + " A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle,\n" + " In my corrupted blood. But I'll not chide thee;\n" + " Let shame come when it will, I do not call it:\n" + " I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot,\n" + " Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove:\n" + " Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure:\n" + " I can be patient; I can stay with Regan,\n" + " I and my hundred knights.\n\n" + "REGAN Not altogether so:\n" + " I look'd not for you yet, nor am provided\n" + " For your fit welcome. Give ear, sir, to my sister;\n" + " For those that mingle reason with your passion\n" + " Must be content to think you old, and so--\n" + " But she knows what she does.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Is this well spoken?\n\n" + "REGAN I dare avouch it, sir: what, fifty followers?\n" + " Is it not well? What should you need of more?\n" + " Yea, or so many, sith that both charge and danger\n" + " Speak 'gainst so great a number? How, in one house,\n" + " Should many people, under two commands,\n" + " Hold amity? 'Tis hard; almost impossible.\n\n" + "GONERIL Why might not you, my lord, receive attendance\n" + " From those that she calls servants or from mine?\n\n" + "REGAN Why not, my lord? If then they chanced to slack you,\n" + " We could control them. If you will come to me,--\n" + " For now I spy a danger,--I entreat you\n" + " To bring but five and twenty: to no more\n" + " Will I give place or notice.\n\n" + "KING LEAR I gave you all--\n\n" + "REGAN And in good time you gave it.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Made you my guardians, my depositaries;\n" + " But kept a reservation to be follow'd\n" + " With such a number. What, must I come to you\n" + " With five and twenty, Regan? said you so?\n\n" + "REGAN And speak't again, my lord; no more with me.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Those wicked creatures yet do look well-favour'd,\n" + " When others are more wicked: not being the worst\n" + " Stands in some rank of praise.\n\n" + " [To GONERIL]\n\n" + " I'll go with thee:\n" + " Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty,\n" + " And thou art twice her love.\n\n" + "GONERIL Hear me, my lord;\n" + " What need you five and twenty, ten, or five,\n" + " To follow in a house where twice so many\n" + " Have a command to tend you?\n\n" + "REGAN What need one?\n\n" + "KING LEAR O, reason not the need: our basest beggars\n" + " Are in the poorest thing superfluous:\n" + " Allow not nature more than nature needs,\n" + " Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;\n" + " If only to go warm were gorgeous,\n" + " Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,\n" + " Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But, for true need,--\n" + " You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need!\n" + " You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,\n" + " As full of grief as age; wretched in both!\n" + " If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts\n" + " Against their father, fool me not so much\n" + " To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,\n" + " And let not women's weapons, water-drops,\n" + " Stain my man's cheeks! No, you unnatural hags,\n" + " I will have such revenges on you both,\n" + " That all the world shall--I will do such things,--\n" + " What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be\n" + " The terrors of the earth. You think I'll weep\n" + " No, I'll not weep:\n" + " I have full cause of weeping; but this heart\n" + " Shall break into a hundred thousand flaws,\n" + " Or ere I'll weep. O fool, I shall go mad!\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING LEAR, GLOUCESTER, KENT, and Fool]\n\n" + " [Storm and tempest]\n\n" + "CORNWALL Let us withdraw; 'twill be a storm.\n\n" + "REGAN This house is little: the old man and his people\n" + " Cannot be well bestow'd.\n\n" + "GONERIL 'Tis his own blame; hath put himself from rest,\n" + " And must needs taste his folly.\n\n" + "REGAN For his particular, I'll receive him gladly,\n" + " But not one follower.\n\n" + "GONERIL So am I purposed.\n" + " Where is my lord of Gloucester?\n\n" + "CORNWALL Follow'd the old man forth: he is return'd.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The king is in high rage.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Whither is he going?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.\n\n" + "CORNWALL 'Tis best to give him way; he leads himself.\n\n" + "GONERIL My lord, entreat him by no means to stay.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds\n" + " Do sorely ruffle; for many miles about\n" + " There's scarce a bush.\n\n" + "REGAN O, sir, to wilful men,\n" + " The injuries that they themselves procure\n" + " Must be their schoolmasters. Shut up your doors:\n" + " He is attended with a desperate train;\n" + " And what they may incense him to, being apt\n" + " To have his ear abused, wisdom bids fear.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Shut up your doors, my lord; 'tis a wild night:\n" + " My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A heath.\n\n\n" + " [Storm still. Enter KENT and a Gentleman, meeting]\n\n" + "KENT Who's there, besides foul weather?\n\n" + "Gentleman One minded like the weather, most unquietly.\n\n" + "KENT I know you. Where's the king?\n\n" + "Gentleman Contending with the fretful element:\n" + " Bids the winds blow the earth into the sea,\n" + " Or swell the curled water 'bove the main,\n" + " That things might change or cease; tears his white hair,\n" + " Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage,\n" + " Catch in their fury, and make nothing of;\n" + " Strives in his little world of man to out-scorn\n" + " The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.\n" + " This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch,\n" + " The lion and the belly-pinched wolf\n" + " Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs,\n" + " And bids what will take all.\n\n" + "KENT But who is with him?\n\n" + "Gentleman None but the fool; who labours to out-jest\n" + " His heart-struck injuries.\n\n" + "KENT Sir, I do know you;\n" + " And dare, upon the warrant of my note,\n" + " Commend a dear thing to you. There is division,\n" + " Although as yet the face of it be cover'd\n" + " With mutual cunning, 'twixt Albany and Cornwall;\n" + " Who have--as who have not, that their great stars\n" + " Throned and set high?--servants, who seem no less,\n" + " Which are to France the spies and speculations\n" + " Intelligent of our state; what hath been seen,\n" + " Either in snuffs and packings of the dukes,\n" + " Or the hard rein which both of them have borne\n" + " Against the old kind king; or something deeper,\n" + " Whereof perchance these are but furnishings;\n" + " But, true it is, from France there comes a power\n" + " Into this scatter'd kingdom; who already,\n" + " Wise in our negligence, have secret feet\n" + " In some of our best ports, and are at point\n" + " To show their open banner. Now to you:\n" + " If on my credit you dare build so far\n" + " To make your speed to Dover, you shall find\n" + " Some that will thank you, making just report\n" + " Of how unnatural and bemadding sorrow\n" + " The king hath cause to plain.\n" + " I am a gentleman of blood and breeding;\n" + " And, from some knowledge and assurance, offer\n" + " This office to you.\n\n" + "Gentleman I will talk further with you.\n\n" + "KENT No, do not.\n" + " For confirmation that I am much more\n" + " Than my out-wall, open this purse, and take\n" + " What it contains. If you shall see Cordelia,--\n" + " As fear not but you shall,--show her this ring;\n" + " And she will tell you who your fellow is\n" + " That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm!\n" + " I will go seek the king.\n\n" + "Gentleman Give me your hand: have you no more to say?\n\n" + "KENT Few words, but, to effect, more than all yet;\n" + " That, when we have found the king,--in which your pain\n" + " That way, I'll this,--he that first lights on him\n" + " Holla the other.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another part of the heath. Storm still.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING LEAR and Fool]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!\n" + " You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout\n" + " Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!\n" + " You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,\n" + " Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,\n" + " Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,\n" + " Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!\n" + " Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,\n" + " That make ingrateful man!\n\n" + "Fool O nuncle, court holy-water in a dry\n" + " house is better than this rain-water out o' door.\n" + " Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters' blessing:\n" + " here's a night pities neither wise man nor fool.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! spout, rain!\n" + " Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:\n" + " I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;\n" + " I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,\n" + " You owe me no subscription: then let fall\n" + " Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,\n" + " A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:\n" + " But yet I call you servile ministers,\n" + " That have with two pernicious daughters join'd\n" + " Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head\n" + " So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!\n\n" + "Fool He that has a house to put's head in has a good\n" + " head-piece.\n" + " The cod-piece that will house\n" + " Before the head has any,\n" + " The head and he shall louse;\n" + " So beggars marry many.\n" + " The man that makes his toe\n" + " What he his heart should make\n" + " Shall of a corn cry woe,\n" + " And turn his sleep to wake.\n" + " For there was never yet fair woman but she made\n" + " mouths in a glass.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No, I will be the pattern of all patience;\n" + " I will say nothing.\n\n" + " [Enter KENT]\n\n" + "KENT Who's there?\n\n" + "Fool Marry, here's grace and a cod-piece; that's a wise\n" + " man and a fool.\n\n" + "KENT Alas, sir, are you here? things that love night\n" + " Love not such nights as these; the wrathful skies\n" + " Gallow the very wanderers of the dark,\n" + " And make them keep their caves: since I was man,\n" + " Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder,\n" + " Such groans of roaring wind and rain, I never\n" + " Remember to have heard: man's nature cannot carry\n" + " The affliction nor the fear.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Let the great gods,\n" + " That keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads,\n" + " Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou wretch,\n" + " That hast within thee undivulged crimes,\n" + " Unwhipp'd of justice: hide thee, thou bloody hand;\n" + " Thou perjured, and thou simular man of virtue\n" + " That art incestuous: caitiff, to pieces shake,\n" + " That under covert and convenient seeming\n" + " Hast practised on man's life: close pent-up guilts,\n" + " Rive your concealing continents, and cry\n" + " These dreadful summoners grace. I am a man\n" + " More sinn'd against than sinning.\n\n" + "KENT Alack, bare-headed!\n" + " Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel;\n" + " Some friendship will it lend you 'gainst the tempest:\n" + " Repose you there; while I to this hard house--\n" + " More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised;\n" + " Which even but now, demanding after you,\n" + " Denied me to come in--return, and force\n" + " Their scanted courtesy.\n\n" + "KING LEAR My wits begin to turn.\n" + " Come on, my boy: how dost, my boy? art cold?\n" + " I am cold myself. Where is this straw, my fellow?\n" + " The art of our necessities is strange,\n" + " That can make vile things precious. Come,\n" + " your hovel.\n" + " Poor fool and knave, I have one part in my heart\n" + " That's sorry yet for thee.\n\n" + "Fool [Singing]\n\n" + " He that has and a little tiny wit--\n" + " With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--\n" + " Must make content with his fortunes fit,\n" + " For the rain it raineth every day.\n\n" + "KING LEAR True, my good boy. Come, bring us to this hovel.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING LEAR and KENT]\n\n" + "Fool This is a brave night to cool a courtezan.\n" + " I'll speak a prophecy ere I go:\n" + " When priests are more in word than matter;\n" + " When brewers mar their malt with water;\n" + " When nobles are their tailors' tutors;\n" + " No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors;\n" + " When every case in law is right;\n" + " No squire in debt, nor no poor knight;\n" + " When slanders do not live in tongues;\n" + " Nor cutpurses come not to throngs;\n" + " When usurers tell their gold i' the field;\n" + " And bawds and whores do churches build;\n" + " Then shall the realm of Albion\n" + " Come to great confusion:\n" + " Then comes the time, who lives to see't,\n" + " That going shall be used with feet.\n" + " This prophecy Merlin shall make; for I live before his time.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Gloucester's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER and EDMUND]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Alack, alack, Edmund, I like not this unnatural\n" + " dealing. When I desire their leave that I might\n" + " pity him, they took from me the use of mine own\n" + " house; charged me, on pain of their perpetual\n" + " displeasure, neither to speak of him, entreat for\n" + " him, nor any way sustain him.\n\n" + "EDMUND Most savage and unnatural!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Go to; say you nothing. There's a division betwixt\n" + " the dukes; and a worse matter than that: I have\n" + " received a letter this night; 'tis dangerous to be\n" + " spoken; I have locked the letter in my closet:\n" + " these injuries the king now bears will be revenged\n" + " home; there's part of a power already footed: we\n" + " must incline to the king. I will seek him, and\n" + " privily relieve him: go you and maintain talk with\n" + " the duke, that my charity be not of him perceived:\n" + " if he ask for me. I am ill, and gone to bed.\n" + " Though I die for it, as no less is threatened me,\n" + " the king my old master must be relieved. There is\n" + " some strange thing toward, Edmund; pray you, be careful.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EDMUND This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the duke\n" + " Instantly know; and of that letter too:\n" + " This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me\n" + " That which my father loses; no less than all:\n" + " The younger rises when the old doth fall.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The heath. Before a hovel.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING LEAR, KENT, and Fool]\n\n" + "KENT Here is the place, my lord; good my lord, enter:\n" + " The tyranny of the open night's too rough\n" + " For nature to endure.\n\n" + " [Storm still]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Let me alone.\n\n" + "KENT Good my lord, enter here.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Wilt break my heart?\n\n" + "KENT I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Thou think'st 'tis much that this contentious storm\n" + " Invades us to the skin: so 'tis to thee;\n" + " But where the greater malady is fix'd,\n" + " The lesser is scarce felt. Thou'ldst shun a bear;\n" + " But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea,\n" + " Thou'ldst meet the bear i' the mouth. When the\n" + " mind's free,\n" + " The body's delicate: the tempest in my mind\n" + " Doth from my senses take all feeling else\n" + " Save what beats there. Filial ingratitude!\n" + " Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand\n" + " For lifting food to't? But I will punish home:\n" + " No, I will weep no more. In such a night\n" + " To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure.\n" + " In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril!\n" + " Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all,--\n" + " O, that way madness lies; let me shun that;\n" + " No more of that.\n\n" + "KENT Good my lord, enter here.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:\n" + " This tempest will not give me leave to ponder\n" + " On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.\n\n" + " [To the Fool]\n\n" + " In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--\n" + " Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.\n\n" + " [Fool goes in]\n\n" + " Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,\n" + " That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,\n" + " How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,\n" + " Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you\n" + " From seasons such as these? O, I have ta'en\n" + " Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp;\n" + " Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,\n" + " That thou mayst shake the superflux to them,\n" + " And show the heavens more just.\n\n" + "EDGAR [Within] Fathom and half, fathom and half! Poor Tom!\n\n" + " [The Fool runs out from the hovel]\n\n" + "Fool Come not in here, nuncle, here's a spirit\n" + " Help me, help me!\n\n" + "KENT Give me thy hand. Who's there?\n\n" + "Fool A spirit, a spirit: he says his name's poor Tom.\n\n" + "KENT What art thou that dost grumble there i' the straw?\n" + " Come forth.\n\n" + " [Enter EDGAR disguised as a mad man]\n\n" + "EDGAR Away! the foul fiend follows me!\n" + " Through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind.\n" + " Hum! go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Hast thou given all to thy two daughters?\n" + " And art thou come to this?\n\n" + "EDGAR Who gives any thing to poor Tom? whom the foul\n" + " fiend hath led through fire and through flame, and\n" + " through ford and whirlipool e'er bog and quagmire;\n" + " that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters\n" + " in his pew; set ratsbane by his porridge; made film\n" + " proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting-horse over\n" + " four-inched bridges, to course his own shadow for a\n" + " traitor. Bless thy five wits! Tom's a-cold,--O, do\n" + " de, do de, do de. Bless thee from whirlwinds,\n" + " star-blasting, and taking! Do poor Tom some\n" + " charity, whom the foul fiend vexes: there could I\n" + " have him now,--and there,--and there again, and there.\n\n" + " [Storm still]\n\n" + "KING LEAR What, have his daughters brought him to this pass?\n" + " Couldst thou save nothing? Didst thou give them all?\n\n" + "Fool Nay, he reserved a blanket, else we had been all shamed.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air\n" + " Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters!\n\n" + "KENT He hath no daughters, sir.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Death, traitor! nothing could have subdued nature\n" + " To such a lowness but his unkind daughters.\n" + " Is it the fashion, that discarded fathers\n" + " Should have thus little mercy on their flesh?\n" + " Judicious punishment! 'twas this flesh begot\n" + " Those pelican daughters.\n\n" + "EDGAR Pillicock sat on Pillicock-hill:\n" + " Halloo, halloo, loo, loo!\n\n" + "Fool This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen.\n\n" + "EDGAR Take heed o' the foul fiend: obey thy parents;\n" + " keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with\n" + " man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud\n" + " array. Tom's a-cold.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What hast thou been?\n\n" + "EDGAR A serving-man, proud in heart and mind; that curled\n" + " my hair; wore gloves in my cap; served the lust of\n" + " my mistress' heart, and did the act of darkness with\n" + " her; swore as many oaths as I spake words, and\n" + " broke them in the sweet face of heaven: one that\n" + " slept in the contriving of lust, and waked to do it:\n" + " wine loved I deeply, dice dearly: and in woman\n" + " out-paramoured the Turk: false of heart, light of\n" + " ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth,\n" + " wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey.\n" + " Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of\n" + " silks betray thy poor heart to woman: keep thy foot\n" + " out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen\n" + " from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.\n" + " Still through the hawthorn blows the cold wind:\n" + " Says suum, mun, ha, no, nonny.\n" + " Dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa! let him trot by.\n\n" + " [Storm still]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer\n" + " with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.\n" + " Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou\n" + " owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep\n" + " no wool, the cat no perfume. Ha! here's three on\n" + " 's are sophisticated! Thou art the thing itself:\n" + " unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare,\n" + " forked animal as thou art. Off, off, you lendings!\n" + " come unbutton here.\n\n" + " [Tearing off his clothes]\n\n" + "Fool Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night\n" + " to swim in. Now a little fire in a wild field were\n" + " like an old lecher's heart; a small spark, all the\n" + " rest on's body cold. Look, here comes a walking fire.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, with a torch]\n\n" + "EDGAR This is the foul fiend Flibbertigibbet: he begins\n" + " at curfew, and walks till the first cock; he gives\n" + " the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the\n" + " hare-lip; mildews the white wheat, and hurts the\n" + " poor creature of earth.\n" + " S. Withold footed thrice the old;\n" + " He met the night-mare, and her nine-fold;\n" + " Bid her alight,\n" + " And her troth plight,\n" + " And, aroint thee, witch, aroint thee!\n\n" + "KENT How fares your grace?\n\n" + "KING LEAR What's he?\n\n" + "KENT Who's there? What is't you seek?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What are you there? Your names?\n\n" + "EDGAR Poor Tom; that eats the swimming frog, the toad,\n" + " the tadpole, the wall-newt and the water; that in\n" + " the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages,\n" + " eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and\n" + " the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the\n" + " standing pool; who is whipped from tithing to\n" + " tithing, and stock- punished, and imprisoned; who\n" + " hath had three suits to his back, six shirts to his\n" + " body, horse to ride, and weapon to wear;\n" + " But mice and rats, and such small deer,\n" + " Have been Tom's food for seven long year.\n" + " Beware my follower. Peace, Smulkin; peace, thou fiend!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, hath your grace no better company?\n\n" + "EDGAR The prince of darkness is a gentleman:\n" + " Modo he's call'd, and Mahu.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Our flesh and blood is grown so vile, my lord,\n" + " That it doth hate what gets it.\n\n" + "EDGAR Poor Tom's a-cold.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Go in with me: my duty cannot suffer\n" + " To obey in all your daughters' hard commands:\n" + " Though their injunction be to bar my doors,\n" + " And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you,\n" + " Yet have I ventured to come seek you out,\n" + " And bring you where both fire and food is ready.\n\n" + "KING LEAR First let me talk with this philosopher.\n" + " What is the cause of thunder?\n\n" + "KENT Good my lord, take his offer; go into the house.\n\n" + "KING LEAR I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.\n" + " What is your study?\n\n" + "EDGAR How to prevent the fiend, and to kill vermin.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Let me ask you one word in private.\n\n" + "KENT Importune him once more to go, my lord;\n" + " His wits begin to unsettle.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Canst thou blame him?\n\n" + " [Storm still]\n\n" + " His daughters seek his death: ah, that good Kent!\n" + " He said it would be thus, poor banish'd man!\n" + " Thou say'st the king grows mad; I'll tell thee, friend,\n" + " I am almost mad myself: I had a son,\n" + " Now outlaw'd from my blood; he sought my life,\n" + " But lately, very late: I loved him, friend;\n" + " No father his son dearer: truth to tell thee,\n" + " The grief hath crazed my wits. What a night's this!\n" + " I do beseech your grace,--\n\n" + "KING LEAR O, cry your mercy, sir.\n" + " Noble philosopher, your company.\n\n" + "EDGAR Tom's a-cold.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER In, fellow, there, into the hovel: keep thee warm.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Come let's in all.\n\n" + "KENT This way, my lord.\n\n" + "KING LEAR With him;\n" + " I will keep still with my philosopher.\n\n" + "KENT Good my lord, soothe him; let him take the fellow.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Take him you on.\n\n" + "KENT Sirrah, come on; go along with us.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Come, good Athenian.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No words, no words: hush.\n\n" + "EDGAR Child Rowland to the dark tower came,\n" + " His word was still,--Fie, foh, and fum,\n" + " I smell the blood of a British man.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Gloucester's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CORNWALL and EDMUND]\n\n" + "CORNWALL I will have my revenge ere I depart his house.\n\n" + "EDMUND How, my lord, I may be censured, that nature thus\n" + " gives way to loyalty, something fears me to think\n" + " of.\n\n" + "CORNWALL I now perceive, it was not altogether your\n" + " brother's evil disposition made him seek his death;\n" + " but a provoking merit, set a-work by a reprovable\n" + " badness in himself.\n\n" + "EDMUND How malicious is my fortune, that I must repent to\n" + " be just! This is the letter he spoke of, which\n" + " approves him an intelligent party to the advantages\n" + " of France: O heavens! that this treason were not,\n" + " or not I the detector!\n\n" + "CORNWALL o with me to the duchess.\n\n" + "EDMUND If the matter of this paper be certain, you have\n" + " mighty business in hand.\n\n" + "CORNWALL True or false, it hath made thee earl of\n" + " Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he\n" + " may be ready for our apprehension.\n\n" + "EDMUND [Aside] If I find him comforting the king, it will\n" + " stuff his suspicion more fully.--I will persevere in\n" + " my course of loyalty, though the conflict be sore\n" + " between that and my blood.\n\n" + "CORNWALL I will lay trust upon thee; and thou shalt find a\n" + " dearer father in my love.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI A chamber in a farmhouse adjoining the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, KING LEAR, KENT, Fool, and EDGAR]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Here is better than the open air; take it\n" + " thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what\n" + " addition I can: I will not be long from you.\n\n" + "KENT All the power of his wits have given way to his\n" + " impatience: the gods reward your kindness!\n\n" + " [Exit GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "EDGAR Frateretto calls me; and tells me\n" + " Nero is an angler in the lake of darkness.\n" + " Pray, innocent, and beware the foul fiend.\n\n" + "Fool Prithee, nuncle, tell me whether a madman be a\n" + " gentleman or a yeoman?\n\n" + "KING LEAR A king, a king!\n\n" + "Fool No, he's a yeoman that has a gentleman to his son;\n" + " for he's a mad yeoman that sees his son a gentleman\n" + " before him.\n\n" + "KING LEAR To have a thousand with red burning spits\n" + " Come hissing in upon 'em,--\n\n" + "EDGAR The foul fiend bites my back.\n\n" + "Fool He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a\n" + " horse's health, a boy's love, or a whore's oath.\n\n" + "KING LEAR It shall be done; I will arraign them straight.\n\n" + " [To EDGAR]\n\n" + " Come, sit thou here, most learned justicer;\n\n" + " [To the Fool]\n\n" + " Thou, sapient sir, sit here. Now, you she foxes!\n\n" + "EDGAR Look, where he stands and glares!\n" + " Wantest thou eyes at trial, madam?\n" + " Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,--\n\n" + "Fool Her boat hath a leak,\n" + " And she must not speak\n" + " Why she dares not come over to thee.\n\n" + "EDGAR The foul fiend haunts poor Tom in the voice of a\n" + " nightingale. Hopdance cries in Tom's belly for two\n" + " white herring. Croak not, black angel; I have no\n" + " food for thee.\n\n" + "KENT How do you, sir? Stand you not so amazed:\n" + " Will you lie down and rest upon the cushions?\n\n" + "KING LEAR I'll see their trial first. Bring in the evidence.\n\n" + " [To EDGAR]\n\n" + " Thou robed man of justice, take thy place;\n\n" + " [To the Fool]\n\n" + " And thou, his yoke-fellow of equity,\n" + " Bench by his side:\n\n" + " [To KENT]\n\n" + " you are o' the commission,\n" + " Sit you too.\n\n" + "EDGAR Let us deal justly.\n" + " Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd?\n" + " Thy sheep be in the corn;\n" + " And for one blast of thy minikin mouth,\n" + " Thy sheep shall take no harm.\n" + " Pur! the cat is gray.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Arraign her first; 'tis Goneril. I here take my\n" + " oath before this honourable assembly, she kicked the\n" + " poor king her father.\n\n" + "Fool Come hither, mistress. Is your name Goneril?\n\n" + "KING LEAR She cannot deny it.\n\n" + "Fool Cry you mercy, I took you for a joint-stool.\n\n" + "KING LEAR And here's another, whose warp'd looks proclaim\n" + " What store her heart is made on. Stop her there!\n" + " Arms, arms, sword, fire! Corruption in the place!\n" + " False justicer, why hast thou let her 'scape?\n\n" + "EDGAR Bless thy five wits!\n\n" + "KENT O pity! Sir, where is the patience now,\n" + " That thou so oft have boasted to retain?\n\n" + "EDGAR [Aside] My tears begin to take his part so much,\n" + " They'll mar my counterfeiting.\n\n" + "KING LEAR The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and\n" + " Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me.\n\n" + "EDGAR Tom will throw his head at them. Avaunt, you curs!\n" + " Be thy mouth or black or white,\n" + " Tooth that poisons if it bite;\n" + " Mastiff, grey-hound, mongrel grim,\n" + " Hound or spaniel, brach or lym,\n" + " Or bobtail tike or trundle-tail,\n" + " Tom will make them weep and wail:\n" + " For, with throwing thus my head,\n" + " Dogs leap the hatch, and all are fled.\n" + " Do de, de, de. Sessa! Come, march to wakes and\n" + " fairs and market-towns. Poor Tom, thy horn is dry.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds\n" + " about her heart. Is there any cause in nature that\n" + " makes these hard hearts?\n\n" + " [To EDGAR]\n\n" + " You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I\n" + " do not like the fashion of your garments: you will\n" + " say they are Persian attire: but let them be changed.\n\n" + "KENT Now, good my lord, lie here and rest awhile.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:\n" + " so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' he morning. So, so, so.\n\n" + "Fool And I'll go to bed at noon.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Come hither, friend: where is the king my master?\n\n" + "KENT Here, sir; but trouble him not, his wits are gone.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Good friend, I prithee, take him in thy arms;\n" + " I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him:\n" + " There is a litter ready; lay him in 't,\n" + " And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet\n" + " Both welcome and protection. Take up thy master:\n" + " If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,\n" + " With thine, and all that offer to defend him,\n" + " Stand in assured loss: take up, take up;\n" + " And follow me, that will to some provision\n" + " Give thee quick conduct.\n\n" + "KENT Oppressed nature sleeps:\n" + " This rest might yet have balm'd thy broken senses,\n" + " Which, if convenience will not allow,\n" + " Stand in hard cure.\n\n" + " [To the Fool]\n\n" + " Come, help to bear thy master;\n" + " Thou must not stay behind.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Come, come, away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but EDGAR]\n\n" + "EDGAR When we our betters see bearing our woes,\n" + " We scarcely think our miseries our foes.\n" + " Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,\n" + " Leaving free things and happy shows behind:\n" + " But then the mind much sufferance doth o'er skip,\n" + " When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.\n" + " How light and portable my pain seems now,\n" + " When that which makes me bend makes the king bow,\n" + " He childed as I father'd! Tom, away!\n" + " Mark the high noises; and thyself bewray,\n" + " When false opinion, whose wrong thought defiles thee,\n" + " In thy just proof, repeals and reconciles thee.\n" + " What will hap more to-night, safe 'scape the king!\n" + " Lurk, lurk.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Gloucester's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CORNWALL, REGAN, GONERIL, EDMUND, and Servants]\n\n" + "CORNWALL Post speedily to my lord your husband; show him\n" + " this letter: the army of France is landed. Seek\n" + " out the villain Gloucester.\n\n" + " [Exeunt some of the Servants]\n\n" + "REGAN Hang him instantly.\n\n" + "GONERIL Pluck out his eyes.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Leave him to my displeasure. Edmund, keep you our\n" + " sister company: the revenges we are bound to take\n" + " upon your traitorous father are not fit for your\n" + " beholding. Advise the duke, where you are going, to\n" + " a most festinate preparation: we are bound to the\n" + " like. Our posts shall be swift and intelligent\n" + " betwixt us. Farewell, dear sister: farewell, my\n" + " lord of Gloucester.\n\n" + " [Enter OSWALD]\n\n" + " How now! where's the king?\n\n" + "OSWALD My lord of Gloucester hath convey'd him hence:\n" + " Some five or six and thirty of his knights,\n" + " Hot questrists after him, met him at gate;\n" + " Who, with some other of the lords dependants,\n" + " Are gone with him towards Dover; where they boast\n" + " To have well-armed friends.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Get horses for your mistress.\n\n" + "GONERIL Farewell, sweet lord, and sister.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Edmund, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GONERIL, EDMUND, and OSWALD]\n\n" + " Go seek the traitor Gloucester,\n" + " Pinion him like a thief, bring him before us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt other Servants]\n\n" + " Though well we may not pass upon his life\n" + " Without the form of justice, yet our power\n" + " Shall do a courtesy to our wrath, which men\n" + " May blame, but not control. Who's there? the traitor?\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, brought in by two or three]\n\n" + "REGAN Ingrateful fox! 'tis he.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Bind fast his corky arms.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What mean your graces? Good my friends, consider\n" + " You are my guests: do me no foul play, friends.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Bind him, I say.\n\n" + " [Servants bind him]\n\n" + "REGAN Hard, hard. O filthy traitor!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Unmerciful lady as you are, I'm none.\n\n" + "CORNWALL To this chair bind him. Villain, thou shalt find--\n\n" + " [REGAN plucks his beard]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER By the kind gods, 'tis most ignobly done\n" + " To pluck me by the beard.\n\n" + "REGAN So white, and such a traitor!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Naughty lady,\n" + " These hairs, which thou dost ravish from my chin,\n" + " Will quicken, and accuse thee: I am your host:\n" + " With robbers' hands my hospitable favours\n" + " You should not ruffle thus. What will you do?\n\n" + "CORNWALL Come, sir, what letters had you late from France?\n\n" + "REGAN Be simple answerer, for we know the truth.\n\n" + "CORNWALL And what confederacy have you with the traitors\n" + " Late footed in the kingdom?\n\n" + "REGAN To whose hands have you sent the lunatic king? Speak.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I have a letter guessingly set down,\n" + " Which came from one that's of a neutral heart,\n" + " And not from one opposed.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Cunning.\n\n" + "REGAN And false.\n\n" + "CORNWALL Where hast thou sent the king?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER To Dover.\n\n" + "REGAN Wherefore to Dover? Wast thou not charged at peril--\n\n" + "CORNWALL Wherefore to Dover? Let him first answer that.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course.\n\n" + "REGAN Wherefore to Dover, sir?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Because I would not see thy cruel nails\n" + " Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister\n" + " In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.\n" + " The sea, with such a storm as his bare head\n" + " In hell-black night endured, would have buoy'd up,\n" + " And quench'd the stelled fires:\n" + " Yet, poor old heart, he holp the heavens to rain.\n" + " If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern time,\n" + " Thou shouldst have said 'Good porter, turn the key,'\n" + " All cruels else subscribed: but I shall see\n" + " The winged vengeance overtake such children.\n\n" + "CORNWALL See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair.\n" + " Upon these eyes of thine I'll set my foot.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He that will think to live till he be old,\n" + " Give me some help! O cruel! O you gods!\n\n" + "REGAN One side will mock another; the other too.\n\n" + "CORNWALL If you see vengeance,--\n\n" + "First Servant Hold your hand, my lord:\n" + " I have served you ever since I was a child;\n" + " But better service have I never done you\n" + " Than now to bid you hold.\n\n" + "REGAN How now, you dog!\n\n" + "First Servant If you did wear a beard upon your chin,\n" + " I'd shake it on this quarrel. What do you mean?\n\n" + "CORNWALL My villain!\n\n" + " [They draw and fight]\n\n" + "First Servant Nay, then, come on, and take the chance of anger.\n\n" + "REGAN Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus!\n\n" + " [Takes a sword, and runs at him behind]\n\n" + "First Servant O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left\n" + " To see some mischief on him. O!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "CORNWALL Lest it see more, prevent it. Out, vile jelly!\n" + " Where is thy lustre now?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER All dark and comfortless. Where's my son Edmund?\n" + " Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature,\n" + " To quit this horrid act.\n\n" + "REGAN Out, treacherous villain!\n" + " Thou call'st on him that hates thee: it was he\n" + " That made the overture of thy treasons to us;\n" + " Who is too good to pity thee.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O my follies! then Edgar was abused.\n" + " Kind gods, forgive me that, and prosper him!\n\n" + "REGAN Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell\n" + " His way to Dover.\n\n" + " [Exit one with GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + " How is't, my lord? how look you?\n\n" + "CORNWALL I have received a hurt: follow me, lady.\n" + " Turn out that eyeless villain; throw this slave\n" + " Upon the dunghill. Regan, I bleed apace:\n" + " Untimely comes this hurt: give me your arm.\n\n" + " [Exit CORNWALL, led by REGAN]\n\n" + "Second Servant I'll never care what wickedness I do,\n" + " If this man come to good.\n\n" + "Third Servant If she live long,\n" + " And in the end meet the old course of death,\n" + " Women will all turn monsters.\n\n" + "Second Servant Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam\n" + " To lead him where he would: his roguish madness\n" + " Allows itself to any thing.\n\n" + "Third Servant Go thou: I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs\n" + " To apply to his bleeding face. Now, heaven help him!\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The heath.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EDGAR]\n\n" + "EDGAR Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd,\n" + " Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be worst,\n" + " The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune,\n" + " Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear:\n" + " The lamentable change is from the best;\n" + " The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,\n" + " Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!\n" + " The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst\n" + " Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, led by an Old Man]\n\n" + " My father, poorly led? World, world, O world!\n" + " But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee,\n" + " Lie would not yield to age.\n\n" + "Old Man O, my good lord, I have been your tenant, and\n" + " your father's tenant, these fourscore years.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Away, get thee away; good friend, be gone:\n" + " Thy comforts can do me no good at all;\n" + " Thee they may hurt.\n\n" + "Old Man Alack, sir, you cannot see your way.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I have no way, and therefore want no eyes;\n" + " I stumbled when I saw: full oft 'tis seen,\n" + " Our means secure us, and our mere defects\n" + " Prove our commodities. O dear son Edgar,\n" + " The food of thy abused father's wrath!\n" + " Might I but live to see thee in my touch,\n" + " I'ld say I had eyes again!\n\n" + "Old Man How now! Who's there?\n\n" + "EDGAR [Aside] O gods! Who is't can say 'I am at\n" + " the worst'?\n" + " I am worse than e'er I was.\n\n" + "Old Man 'Tis poor mad Tom.\n\n" + "EDGAR [Aside] And worse I may be yet: the worst is not\n" + " So long as we can say 'This is the worst.'\n\n" + "Old Man Fellow, where goest?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Is it a beggar-man?\n\n" + "Old Man Madman and beggar too.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He has some reason, else he could not beg.\n" + " I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw;\n" + " Which made me think a man a worm: my son\n" + " Came then into my mind; and yet my mind\n" + " Was then scarce friends with him: I have heard\n" + " more since.\n" + " As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods.\n" + " They kill us for their sport.\n\n" + "EDGAR [Aside] How should this be?\n" + " Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,\n" + " Angering itself and others.--Bless thee, master!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Is that the naked fellow?\n\n" + "Old Man Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Then, prithee, get thee gone: if, for my sake,\n" + " Thou wilt o'ertake us, hence a mile or twain,\n" + " I' the way toward Dover, do it for ancient love;\n" + " And bring some covering for this naked soul,\n" + " Who I'll entreat to lead me.\n\n" + "Old Man Alack, sir, he is mad.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER 'Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.\n" + " Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure;\n" + " Above the rest, be gone.\n\n" + "Old Man I'll bring him the best 'parel that I have,\n" + " Come on't what will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sirrah, naked fellow,--\n\n" + "EDGAR Poor Tom's a-cold.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I cannot daub it further.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Come hither, fellow.\n\n" + "EDGAR [Aside] And yet I must.--Bless thy sweet eyes, they bleed.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Know'st thou the way to Dover?\n\n" + "EDGAR Both stile and gate, horse-way and foot-path. Poor\n" + " Tom hath been scared out of his good wits: bless\n" + " thee, good man's son, from the foul fiend! five\n" + " fiends have been in poor Tom at once; of lust, as\n" + " Obidicut; Hobbididence, prince of dumbness; Mahu, of\n" + " stealing; Modo, of murder; Flibbertigibbet, of\n" + " mopping and mowing, who since possesses chambermaids\n" + " and waiting-women. So, bless thee, master!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Here, take this purse, thou whom the heavens' plagues\n" + " Have humbled to all strokes: that I am wretched\n" + " Makes thee the happier: heavens, deal so still!\n" + " Let the superfluous and lust-dieted man,\n" + " That slaves your ordinance, that will not see\n" + " Because he doth not feel, feel your power quickly;\n" + " So distribution should undo excess,\n" + " And each man have enough. Dost thou know Dover?\n\n" + "EDGAR Ay, master.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER There is a cliff, whose high and bending head\n" + " Looks fearfully in the confined deep:\n" + " Bring me but to the very brim of it,\n" + " And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear\n" + " With something rich about me: from that place\n" + " I shall no leading need.\n\n" + "EDGAR Give me thy arm:\n" + " Poor Tom shall lead thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before ALBANY's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GONERIL and EDMUND]\n\n" + "GONERIL Welcome, my lord: I marvel our mild husband\n" + " Not met us on the way.\n\n" + " [Enter OSWALD]\n\n" + " Now, where's your master'?\n\n" + "OSWALD Madam, within; but never man so changed.\n" + " I told him of the army that was landed;\n" + " He smiled at it: I told him you were coming:\n" + " His answer was 'The worse:' of Gloucester's treachery,\n" + " And of the loyal service of his son,\n" + " When I inform'd him, then he call'd me sot,\n" + " And told me I had turn'd the wrong side out:\n" + " What most he should dislike seems pleasant to him;\n" + " What like, offensive.\n\n" + "GONERIL [To EDMUND] Then shall you go no further.\n" + " It is the cowish terror of his spirit,\n" + " That dares not undertake: he'll not feel wrongs\n" + " Which tie him to an answer. Our wishes on the way\n" + " May prove effects. Back, Edmund, to my brother;\n" + " Hasten his musters and conduct his powers:\n" + " I must change arms at home, and give the distaff\n" + " Into my husband's hands. This trusty servant\n" + " Shall pass between us: ere long you are like to hear,\n" + " If you dare venture in your own behalf,\n" + " A mistress's command. Wear this; spare speech;\n\n" + " [Giving a favour]\n\n" + " Decline your head: this kiss, if it durst speak,\n" + " Would stretch thy spirits up into the air:\n" + " Conceive, and fare thee well.\n\n" + "EDMUND Yours in the ranks of death.\n\n" + "GONERIL My most dear Gloucester!\n\n" + " [Exit EDMUND]\n\n" + " O, the difference of man and man!\n" + " To thee a woman's services are due:\n" + " My fool usurps my body.\n\n" + "OSWALD Madam, here comes my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter ALBANY]\n\n" + "GONERIL I have been worth the whistle.\n\n" + "ALBANY O Goneril!\n" + " You are not worth the dust which the rude wind\n" + " Blows in your face. I fear your disposition:\n" + " That nature, which contemns its origin,\n" + " Cannot be border'd certain in itself;\n" + " She that herself will sliver and disbranch\n" + " From her material sap, perforce must wither\n" + " And come to deadly use.\n\n" + "GONERIL No more; the text is foolish.\n\n" + "ALBANY Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile:\n" + " Filths savour but themselves. What have you done?\n" + " Tigers, not daughters, what have you perform'd?\n" + " A father, and a gracious aged man,\n" + " Whose reverence even the head-lugg'd bear would lick,\n" + " Most barbarous, most degenerate! have you madded.\n" + " Could my good brother suffer you to do it?\n" + " A man, a prince, by him so benefited!\n" + " If that the heavens do not their visible spirits\n" + " Send quickly down to tame these vile offences,\n" + " It will come,\n" + " Humanity must perforce prey on itself,\n" + " Like monsters of the deep.\n\n" + "GONERIL Milk-liver'd man!\n" + " That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs;\n" + " Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning\n" + " Thine honour from thy suffering; that not know'st\n" + " Fools do those villains pity who are punish'd\n" + " Ere they have done their mischief. Where's thy drum?\n" + " France spreads his banners in our noiseless land;\n" + " With plumed helm thy slayer begins threats;\n" + " Whiles thou, a moral fool, sit'st still, and criest\n" + " 'Alack, why does he so?'\n\n" + "ALBANY See thyself, devil!\n" + " Proper deformity seems not in the fiend\n" + " So horrid as in woman.\n\n" + "GONERIL O vain fool!\n\n" + "ALBANY Thou changed and self-cover'd thing, for shame,\n" + " Be-monster not thy feature. Were't my fitness\n" + " To let these hands obey my blood,\n" + " They are apt enough to dislocate and tear\n" + " Thy flesh and bones: howe'er thou art a fiend,\n" + " A woman's shape doth shield thee.\n\n" + "GONERIL Marry, your manhood now--\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "ALBANY What news?\n\n" + "Messenger O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall's dead:\n" + " Slain by his servant, going to put out\n" + " The other eye of Gloucester.\n\n" + "ALBANY Gloucester's eye!\n\n" + "Messenger A servant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse,\n" + " Opposed against the act, bending his sword\n" + " To his great master; who, thereat enraged,\n" + " Flew on him, and amongst them fell'd him dead;\n" + " But not without that harmful stroke, which since\n" + " Hath pluck'd him after.\n\n" + "ALBANY This shows you are above,\n" + " You justicers, that these our nether crimes\n" + " So speedily can venge! But, O poor Gloucester!\n" + " Lost he his other eye?\n\n" + "Messenger Both, both, my lord.\n" + " This letter, madam, craves a speedy answer;\n" + " 'Tis from your sister.\n\n" + "GONERIL [Aside] One way I like this well;\n" + " But being widow, and my Gloucester with her,\n" + " May all the building in my fancy pluck\n" + " Upon my hateful life: another way,\n" + " The news is not so tart.--I'll read, and answer.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ALBANY Where was his son when they did take his eyes?\n\n" + "Messenger Come with my lady hither.\n\n" + "ALBANY He is not here.\n\n" + "Messenger No, my good lord; I met him back again.\n\n" + "ALBANY Knows he the wickedness?\n\n" + "Messenger Ay, my good lord; 'twas he inform'd against him;\n" + " And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment\n" + " Might have the freer course.\n\n" + "ALBANY Gloucester, I live\n" + " To thank thee for the love thou show'dst the king,\n" + " And to revenge thine eyes. Come hither, friend:\n" + " Tell me what more thou know'st.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The French camp near Dover.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KENT and a Gentleman]\n\n" + "KENT Why the King of France is so suddenly gone back\n" + " know you the reason?\n\n" + "Gentleman Something he left imperfect in the\n" + " state, which since his coming forth is thought\n" + " of; which imports to the kingdom so much\n" + " fear and danger, that his personal return was\n" + " most required and necessary.\n\n" + "KENT Who hath he left behind him general?\n\n" + "Gentleman The Marshal of France, Monsieur La Far.\n\n" + "KENT Did your letters pierce the queen to any\n" + " demonstration of grief?\n\n" + "Gentleman Ay, sir; she took them, read them in my presence;\n" + " And now and then an ample tear trill'd down\n" + " Her delicate cheek: it seem'd she was a queen\n" + " Over her passion; who, most rebel-like,\n" + " Sought to be king o'er her.\n\n" + "KENT O, then it moved her.\n\n" + "Gentleman Not to a rage: patience and sorrow strove\n" + " Who should express her goodliest. You have seen\n" + " Sunshine and rain at once: her smiles and tears\n" + " Were like a better way: those happy smilets,\n" + " That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know\n" + " What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,\n" + " As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. In brief,\n" + " Sorrow would be a rarity most beloved,\n" + " If all could so become it.\n\n" + "KENT Made she no verbal question?\n\n" + "Gentleman 'Faith, once or twice she heaved the name of 'father'\n" + " Pantingly forth, as if it press'd her heart:\n" + " Cried 'Sisters! sisters! Shame of ladies! sisters!\n" + " Kent! father! sisters! What, i' the storm? i' the night?\n" + " Let pity not be believed!' There she shook\n" + " The holy water from her heavenly eyes,\n" + " And clamour moisten'd: then away she started\n" + " To deal with grief alone.\n\n" + "KENT It is the stars,\n" + " The stars above us, govern our conditions;\n" + " Else one self mate and mate could not beget\n" + " Such different issues. You spoke not with her since?\n\n" + "Gentleman No.\n\n" + "KENT Was this before the king return'd?\n\n" + "Gentleman No, since.\n\n" + "KENT Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear's i' the town;\n" + " Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers\n" + " What we are come about, and by no means\n" + " Will yield to see his daughter.\n\n" + "Gentleman Why, good sir?\n\n" + "KENT A sovereign shame so elbows him: his own unkindness,\n" + " That stripp'd her from his benediction, turn'd her\n" + " To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights\n" + " To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting\n" + " His mind so venomously, that burning shame\n" + " Detains him from Cordelia.\n\n" + "Gentleman Alack, poor gentleman!\n\n" + "KENT Of Albany's and Cornwall's powers you heard not?\n\n" + "Gentleman 'Tis so, they are afoot.\n\n" + "KENT Well, sir, I'll bring you to our master Lear,\n" + " And leave you to attend him: some dear cause\n" + " Will in concealment wrap me up awhile;\n" + " When I am known aright, you shall not grieve\n" + " Lending me this acquaintance. I pray you, go\n" + " Along with me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. A tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, with drum and colours, CORDELIA, Doctor, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "CORDELIA Alack, 'tis he: why, he was met even now\n" + " As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud;\n" + " Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,\n" + " With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,\n" + " Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow\n" + " In our sustaining corn. A century send forth;\n" + " Search every acre in the high-grown field,\n" + " And bring him to our eye.\n\n" + " [Exit an Officer]\n\n" + " What can man's wisdom\n" + " In the restoring his bereaved sense?\n" + " He that helps him take all my outward worth.\n\n" + "Doctor There is means, madam:\n" + " Our foster-nurse of nature is repose,\n" + " The which he lacks; that to provoke in him,\n" + " Are many simples operative, whose power\n" + " Will close the eye of anguish.\n\n" + "CORDELIA All blest secrets,\n" + " All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,\n" + " Spring with my tears! be aidant and remediate\n" + " In the good man's distress! Seek, seek for him;\n" + " Lest his ungovern'd rage dissolve the life\n" + " That wants the means to lead it.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger News, madam;\n" + " The British powers are marching hitherward.\n\n" + "CORDELIA 'Tis known before; our preparation stands\n" + " In expectation of them. O dear father,\n" + " It is thy business that I go about;\n" + " Therefore great France\n" + " My mourning and important tears hath pitied.\n" + " No blown ambition doth our arms incite,\n" + " But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:\n" + " Soon may I hear and see him!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Gloucester's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter REGAN and OSWALD]\n\n" + "REGAN But are my brother's powers set forth?\n\n" + "OSWALD Ay, madam.\n\n" + "REGAN Himself in person there?\n\n" + "OSWALD Madam, with much ado:\n" + " Your sister is the better soldier.\n\n" + "REGAN Lord Edmund spake not with your lord at home?\n\n" + "OSWALD No, madam.\n\n" + "REGAN What might import my sister's letter to him?\n\n" + "OSWALD I know not, lady.\n\n" + "REGAN 'Faith, he is posted hence on serious matter.\n" + " It was great ignorance, Gloucester's eyes being out,\n" + " To let him live: where he arrives he moves\n" + " All hearts against us: Edmund, I think, is gone,\n" + " In pity of his misery, to dispatch\n" + " His nighted life: moreover, to descry\n" + " The strength o' the enemy.\n\n" + "OSWALD I must needs after him, madam, with my letter.\n\n" + "REGAN Our troops set forth to-morrow: stay with us;\n" + " The ways are dangerous.\n\n" + "OSWALD I may not, madam:\n" + " My lady charged my duty in this business.\n\n" + "REGAN Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you\n" + " Transport her purposes by word? Belike,\n" + " Something--I know not what: I'll love thee much,\n" + " Let me unseal the letter.\n\n" + "OSWALD Madam, I had rather--\n\n" + "REGAN I know your lady does not love her husband;\n" + " I am sure of that: and at her late being here\n" + " She gave strange oeillades and most speaking looks\n" + " To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom.\n\n" + "OSWALD I, madam?\n\n" + "REGAN I speak in understanding; you are; I know't:\n" + " Therefore I do advise you, take this note:\n" + " My lord is dead; Edmund and I have talk'd;\n" + " And more convenient is he for my hand\n" + " Than for your lady's: you may gather more.\n" + " If you do find him, pray you, give him this;\n" + " And when your mistress hears thus much from you,\n" + " I pray, desire her call her wisdom to her.\n" + " So, fare you well.\n" + " If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor,\n" + " Preferment falls on him that cuts him off.\n\n" + "OSWALD Would I could meet him, madam! I should show\n" + " What party I do follow.\n\n" + "REGAN Fare thee well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Fields near Dover.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, and EDGAR dressed like a peasant]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER When shall we come to the top of that same hill?\n\n" + "EDGAR You do climb up it now: look, how we labour.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Methinks the ground is even.\n\n" + "EDGAR Horrible steep.\n" + " Hark, do you hear the sea?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No, truly.\n\n" + "EDGAR Why, then, your other senses grow imperfect\n" + " By your eyes' anguish.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER So may it be, indeed:\n" + " Methinks thy voice is alter'd; and thou speak'st\n" + " In better phrase and matter than thou didst.\n\n" + "EDGAR You're much deceived: in nothing am I changed\n" + " But in my garments.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Methinks you're better spoken.\n\n" + "EDGAR Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful\n" + " And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!\n" + " The crows and choughs that wing the midway air\n" + " Show scarce so gross as beetles: half way down\n" + " Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!\n" + " Methinks he seems no bigger than his head:\n" + " The fishermen, that walk upon the beach,\n" + " Appear like mice; and yond tall anchoring bark,\n" + " Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy\n" + " Almost too small for sight: the murmuring surge,\n" + " That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes,\n" + " Cannot be heard so high. I'll look no more;\n" + " Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight\n" + " Topple down headlong.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Set me where you stand.\n\n" + "EDGAR Give me your hand: you are now within a foot\n" + " Of the extreme verge: for all beneath the moon\n" + " Would I not leap upright.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Let go my hand.\n" + " Here, friend, 's another purse; in it a jewel\n" + " Well worth a poor man's taking: fairies and gods\n" + " Prosper it with thee! Go thou farther off;\n" + " Bid me farewell, and let me hear thee going.\n\n" + "EDGAR Now fare you well, good sir.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER With all my heart.\n\n" + "EDGAR Why I do trifle thus with his despair\n" + " Is done to cure it.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Kneeling] O you mighty gods!\n" + " This world I do renounce, and, in your sights,\n" + " Shake patiently my great affliction off:\n" + " If I could bear it longer, and not fall\n" + " To quarrel with your great opposeless wills,\n" + " My snuff and loathed part of nature should\n" + " Burn itself out. If Edgar live, O, bless him!\n" + " Now, fellow, fare thee well.\n\n" + " [He falls forward]\n\n" + "EDGAR Gone, sir: farewell.\n" + " And yet I know not how conceit may rob\n" + " The treasury of life, when life itself\n" + " Yields to the theft: had he been where he thought,\n" + " By this, had thought been past. Alive or dead?\n" + " Ho, you sir! friend! Hear you, sir! speak!\n" + " Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives.\n" + " What are you, sir?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Away, and let me die.\n\n" + "EDGAR Hadst thou been aught but gossamer, feathers, air,\n" + " So many fathom down precipitating,\n" + " Thou'dst shiver'd like an egg: but thou dost breathe;\n" + " Hast heavy substance; bleed'st not; speak'st; art sound.\n" + " Ten masts at each make not the altitude\n" + " Which thou hast perpendicularly fell:\n" + " Thy life's a miracle. Speak yet again.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But have I fall'n, or no?\n\n" + "EDGAR From the dread summit of this chalky bourn.\n" + " Look up a-height; the shrill-gorged lark so far\n" + " Cannot be seen or heard: do but look up.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Alack, I have no eyes.\n" + " Is wretchedness deprived that benefit,\n" + " To end itself by death? 'Twas yet some comfort,\n" + " When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage,\n" + " And frustrate his proud will.\n\n" + "EDGAR Give me your arm:\n" + " Up: so. How is 't? Feel you your legs? You stand.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Too well, too well.\n\n" + "EDGAR This is above all strangeness.\n" + " Upon the crown o' the cliff, what thing was that\n" + " Which parted from you?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER A poor unfortunate beggar.\n\n" + "EDGAR As I stood here below, methought his eyes\n" + " Were two full moons; he had a thousand noses,\n" + " Horns whelk'd and waved like the enridged sea:\n" + " It was some fiend; therefore, thou happy father,\n" + " Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours\n" + " Of men's impossibilities, have preserved thee.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I do remember now: henceforth I'll bear\n" + " Affliction till it do cry out itself\n" + " 'Enough, enough,' and die. That thing you speak of,\n" + " I took it for a man; often 'twould say\n" + " 'The fiend, the fiend:' he led me to that place.\n\n" + "EDGAR Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter KING LEAR, fantastically dressed with wild flowers]\n\n" + " The safer sense will ne'er accommodate\n" + " His master thus.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No, they cannot touch me for coining; I am the\n" + " king himself.\n\n" + "EDGAR O thou side-piercing sight!\n\n" + "KING LEAR Nature's above art in that respect. There's your\n" + " press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a\n" + " crow-keeper: draw me a clothier's yard. Look,\n" + " look, a mouse! Peace, peace; this piece of toasted\n" + " cheese will do 't. There's my gauntlet; I'll prove\n" + " it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well\n" + " flown, bird! i' the clout, i' the clout: hewgh!\n" + " Give the word.\n\n" + "EDGAR Sweet marjoram.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Pass.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I know that voice.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ha! Goneril, with a white beard! They flattered\n" + " me like a dog; and told me I had white hairs in my\n" + " beard ere the black ones were there. To say 'ay'\n" + " and 'no' to every thing that I said!--'Ay' and 'no'\n" + " too was no good divinity. When the rain came to\n" + " wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when\n" + " the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I\n" + " found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. Go to, they are\n" + " not men o' their words: they told me I was every\n" + " thing; 'tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The trick of that voice I do well remember:\n" + " Is 't not the king?\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ay, every inch a king:\n" + " When I do stare, see how the subject quakes.\n" + " I pardon that man's life. What was thy cause? Adultery?\n" + " Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:\n" + " The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly\n" + " Does lecher in my sight.\n" + " Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son\n" + " Was kinder to his father than my daughters\n" + " Got 'tween the lawful sheets.\n" + " To 't, luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.\n" + " Behold yond simpering dame,\n" + " Whose face between her forks presages snow;\n" + " That minces virtue, and does shake the head\n" + " To hear of pleasure's name;\n" + " The fitchew, nor the soiled horse, goes to 't\n" + " With a more riotous appetite.\n" + " Down from the waist they are Centaurs,\n" + " Though women all above:\n" + " But to the girdle do the gods inherit,\n" + " Beneath is all the fiends';\n" + " There's hell, there's darkness, there's the\n" + " sulphurous pit,\n" + " Burning, scalding, stench, consumption; fie,\n" + " fie, fie! pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet,\n" + " good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination:\n" + " there's money for thee.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O, let me kiss that hand!\n\n" + "KING LEAR Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world\n" + " Shall so wear out to nought. Dost thou know me?\n\n" + "KING LEAR I remember thine eyes well enough. Dost thou squiny\n" + " at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid! I'll not\n" + " love. Read thou this challenge; mark but the\n" + " penning of it.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Were all the letters suns, I could not see one.\n\n" + "EDGAR I would not take this from report; it is,\n" + " And my heart breaks at it.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Read.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, with the case of eyes?\n\n" + "KING LEAR O, ho, are you there with me? No eyes in your\n" + " head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in\n" + " a heavy case, your purse in a light; yet you see how\n" + " this world goes.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I see it feelingly.\n\n" + "KING LEAR What, art mad? A man may see how this world goes\n" + " with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond\n" + " justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in\n" + " thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which\n" + " is the justice, which is the thief? Thou hast seen\n" + " a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ay, sir.\n\n" + "KING LEAR And the creature run from the cur? There thou\n" + " mightst behold the great image of authority: a\n" + " dog's obeyed in office.\n" + " Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!\n" + " Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;\n" + " Thou hotly lust'st to use her in that kind\n" + " For which thou whipp'st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.\n" + " Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;\n" + " Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,\n" + " And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks:\n" + " Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.\n" + " None does offend, none, I say, none; I'll able 'em:\n" + " Take that of me, my friend, who have the power\n" + " To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes;\n" + " And like a scurvy politician, seem\n" + " To see the things thou dost not. Now, now, now, now:\n" + " Pull off my boots: harder, harder: so.\n\n" + "EDGAR O, matter and impertinency mix'd! Reason in madness!\n\n" + "KING LEAR If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take my eyes.\n" + " I know thee well enough; thy name is Gloucester:\n" + " Thou must be patient; we came crying hither:\n" + " Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,\n" + " We wawl and cry. I will preach to thee: mark.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Alack, alack the day!\n\n" + "KING LEAR When we are born, we cry that we are come\n" + " To this great stage of fools: this a good block;\n" + " It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe\n" + " A troop of horse with felt: I'll put 't in proof;\n" + " And when I have stol'n upon these sons-in-law,\n" + " Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!\n\n" + " [Enter a Gentleman, with Attendants]\n\n" + "Gentleman O, here he is: lay hand upon him. Sir,\n" + " Your most dear daughter--\n\n" + "KING LEAR No rescue? What, a prisoner? I am even\n" + " The natural fool of fortune. Use me well;\n" + " You shall have ransom. Let me have surgeons;\n" + " I am cut to the brains.\n\n" + "Gentleman You shall have any thing.\n\n" + "KING LEAR No seconds? all myself?\n" + " Why, this would make a man a man of salt,\n" + " To use his eyes for garden water-pots,\n" + " Ay, and laying autumn's dust.\n\n" + "Gentleman Good sir,--\n\n" + "KING LEAR I will die bravely, like a bridegroom. What!\n" + " I will be jovial: come, come; I am a king,\n" + " My masters, know you that.\n\n" + "Gentleman You are a royal one, and we obey you.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Then there's life in't. Nay, if you get it, you\n" + " shall get it with running. Sa, sa, sa, sa.\n\n" + " [Exit running; Attendants follow]\n\n" + "Gentleman A sight most pitiful in the meanest wretch,\n" + " Past speaking of in a king! Thou hast one daughter,\n" + " Who redeems nature from the general curse\n" + " Which twain have brought her to.\n\n" + "EDGAR Hail, gentle sir.\n\n" + "Gentleman Sir, speed you: what's your will?\n\n" + "EDGAR Do you hear aught, sir, of a battle toward?\n\n" + "Gentleman Most sure and vulgar: every one hears that,\n" + " Which can distinguish sound.\n\n" + "EDGAR But, by your favour,\n" + " How near's the other army?\n\n" + "Gentleman Near and on speedy foot; the main descry\n" + " Stands on the hourly thought.\n\n" + "EDGAR I thank you, sir: that's all.\n\n" + "Gentleman Though that the queen on special cause is here,\n" + " Her army is moved on.\n\n" + "EDGAR I thank you, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit Gentleman]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER You ever-gentle gods, take my breath from me:\n" + " Let not my worser spirit tempt me again\n" + " To die before you please!\n\n" + "EDGAR Well pray you, father.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now, good sir, what are you?\n\n" + "EDGAR A most poor man, made tame to fortune's blows;\n" + " Who, by the art of known and feeling sorrows,\n" + " Am pregnant to good pity. Give me your hand,\n" + " I'll lead you to some biding.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Hearty thanks:\n" + " The bounty and the benison of heaven\n" + " To boot, and boot!\n\n" + " [Enter OSWALD]\n\n" + "OSWALD A proclaim'd prize! Most happy!\n" + " That eyeless head of thine was first framed flesh\n" + " To raise my fortunes. Thou old unhappy traitor,\n" + " Briefly thyself remember: the sword is out\n" + " That must destroy thee.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now let thy friendly hand\n" + " Put strength enough to't.\n\n" + " [EDGAR interposes]\n\n" + "OSWALD Wherefore, bold peasant,\n" + " Darest thou support a publish'd traitor? Hence;\n" + " Lest that the infection of his fortune take\n" + " Like hold on thee. Let go his arm.\n\n" + "EDGAR Ch'ill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion.\n\n" + "OSWALD Let go, slave, or thou diest!\n\n" + "EDGAR Good gentleman, go your gait, and let poor volk\n" + " pass. An chud ha' bin zwaggered out of my life,\n" + " 'twould not ha' bin zo long as 'tis by a vortnight.\n" + " Nay, come not near th' old man; keep out, che vor\n" + " ye, or ise try whether your costard or my ballow be\n" + " the harder: ch'ill be plain with you.\n\n" + "OSWALD Out, dunghill!\n\n" + "EDGAR Ch'ill pick your teeth, zir: come; no matter vor\n" + " your foins.\n\n" + " [They fight, and EDGAR knocks him down]\n\n" + "OSWALD Slave, thou hast slain me: villain, take my purse:\n" + " If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body;\n" + " And give the letters which thou find'st about me\n" + " To Edmund earl of Gloucester; seek him out\n" + " Upon the British party: O, untimely death!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "EDGAR I know thee well: a serviceable villain;\n" + " As duteous to the vices of thy mistress\n" + " As badness would desire.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, is he dead?\n\n" + "EDGAR Sit you down, father; rest you\n" + " Let's see these pockets: the letters that he speaks of\n" + " May be my friends. He's dead; I am only sorry\n" + " He had no other death's-man. Let us see:\n" + " Leave, gentle wax; and, manners, blame us not:\n" + " To know our enemies' minds, we'ld rip their hearts;\n" + " Their papers, is more lawful.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have\n" + " many opportunities to cut him off: if your will\n" + " want not, time and place will be fruitfully offered.\n" + " There is nothing done, if he return the conqueror:\n" + " then am I the prisoner, and his bed my goal; from\n" + " the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply\n" + " the place for your labour.\n" + " 'Your--wife, so I would say--\n" + " 'Affectionate servant,\n" + " 'GONERIL.'\n" + " O undistinguish'd space of woman's will!\n" + " A plot upon her virtuous husband's life;\n" + " And the exchange my brother! Here, in the sands,\n" + " Thee I'll rake up, the post unsanctified\n" + " Of murderous lechers: and in the mature time\n" + " With this ungracious paper strike the sight\n" + " Of the death practised duke: for him 'tis well\n" + " That of thy death and business I can tell.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The king is mad: how stiff is my vile sense,\n" + " That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling\n" + " Of my huge sorrows! Better I were distract:\n" + " So should my thoughts be sever'd from my griefs,\n" + " And woes by wrong imaginations lose\n" + " The knowledge of themselves.\n\n" + "EDGAR Give me your hand:\n\n" + " [Drum afar off]\n\n" + " Far off, methinks, I hear the beaten drum:\n" + " Come, father, I'll bestow you with a friend.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII A tent in the French camp. LEAR on a bed asleep,\n" + " soft music playing; Gentleman, and others attending.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CORDELIA, KENT, and Doctor]\n\n" + "CORDELIA O thou good Kent, how shall I live and work,\n" + " To match thy goodness? My life will be too short,\n" + " And every measure fail me.\n\n" + "KENT To be acknowledged, madam, is o'erpaid.\n" + " All my reports go with the modest truth;\n" + " Nor more nor clipp'd, but so.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Be better suited:\n" + " These weeds are memories of those worser hours:\n" + " I prithee, put them off.\n\n" + "KENT Pardon me, dear madam;\n" + " Yet to be known shortens my made intent:\n" + " My boon I make it, that you know me not\n" + " Till time and I think meet.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Then be't so, my good lord.\n\n" + " [To the Doctor]\n\n" + " How does the king?\n\n" + "Doctor Madam, sleeps still.\n\n" + "CORDELIA O you kind gods,\n" + " Cure this great breach in his abused nature!\n" + " The untuned and jarring senses, O, wind up\n" + " Of this child-changed father!\n\n" + "Doctor So please your majesty\n" + " That we may wake the king: he hath slept long.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Be govern'd by your knowledge, and proceed\n" + " I' the sway of your own will. Is he array'd?\n\n" + "Gentleman Ay, madam; in the heaviness of his sleep\n" + " We put fresh garments on him.\n\n" + "Doctor Be by, good madam, when we do awake him;\n" + " I doubt not of his temperance.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Very well.\n\n" + "Doctor Please you, draw near. Louder the music there!\n\n" + "CORDELIA O my dear father! Restoration hang\n" + " Thy medicine on my lips; and let this kiss\n" + " Repair those violent harms that my two sisters\n" + " Have in thy reverence made!\n\n" + "KENT Kind and dear princess!\n\n" + "CORDELIA Had you not been their father, these white flakes\n" + " Had challenged pity of them. Was this a face\n" + " To be opposed against the warring winds?\n" + " To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder?\n" + " In the most terrible and nimble stroke\n" + " Of quick, cross lightning? to watch--poor perdu!--\n" + " With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog,\n" + " Though he had bit me, should have stood that night\n" + " Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father,\n" + " To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn,\n" + " In short and musty straw? Alack, alack!\n" + " 'Tis wonder that thy life and wits at once\n" + " Had not concluded all. He wakes; speak to him.\n\n" + "Doctor Madam, do you; 'tis fittest.\n\n" + "CORDELIA How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty?\n\n" + "KING LEAR You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:\n" + " Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound\n" + " Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears\n" + " Do scald like moulten lead.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Sir, do you know me?\n\n" + "KING LEAR You are a spirit, I know: when did you die?\n\n" + "CORDELIA Still, still, far wide!\n\n" + "Doctor He's scarce awake: let him alone awhile.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Where have I been? Where am I? Fair daylight?\n" + " I am mightily abused. I should e'en die with pity,\n" + " To see another thus. I know not what to say.\n" + " I will not swear these are my hands: let's see;\n" + " I feel this pin prick. Would I were assured\n" + " Of my condition!\n\n" + "CORDELIA O, look upon me, sir,\n" + " And hold your hands in benediction o'er me:\n" + " No, sir, you must not kneel.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Pray, do not mock me:\n" + " I am a very foolish fond old man,\n" + " Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;\n" + " And, to deal plainly,\n" + " I fear I am not in my perfect mind.\n" + " Methinks I should know you, and know this man;\n" + " Yet I am doubtful for I am mainly ignorant\n" + " What place this is; and all the skill I have\n" + " Remembers not these garments; nor I know not\n" + " Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me;\n" + " For, as I am a man, I think this lady\n" + " To be my child Cordelia.\n\n" + "CORDELIA And so I am, I am.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Be your tears wet? yes, 'faith. I pray, weep not:\n" + " If you have poison for me, I will drink it.\n" + " I know you do not love me; for your sisters\n" + " Have, as I do remember, done me wrong:\n" + " You have some cause, they have not.\n\n" + "CORDELIA No cause, no cause.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Am I in France?\n\n" + "KENT In your own kingdom, sir.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Do not abuse me.\n\n" + "Doctor Be comforted, good madam: the great rage,\n" + " You see, is kill'd in him: and yet it is danger\n" + " To make him even o'er the time he has lost.\n" + " Desire him to go in; trouble him no more\n" + " Till further settling.\n\n" + "CORDELIA Will't please your highness walk?\n\n" + "KING LEAR You must bear with me:\n" + " Pray you now, forget and forgive: I am old and foolish.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but KENT and Gentleman]\n\n" + "Gentleman Holds it true, sir, that the Duke of Cornwall was so slain?\n\n" + "KENT Most certain, sir.\n\n" + "Gentleman Who is conductor of his people?\n\n" + "KENT As 'tis said, the bastard son of Gloucester.\n\n" + "Gentleman They say Edgar, his banished son, is with the Earl\n" + " of Kent in Germany.\n\n" + "KENT Report is changeable. 'Tis time to look about; the\n" + " powers of the kingdom approach apace.\n\n" + "Gentleman The arbitrement is like to be bloody. Fare you\n" + " well, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KENT My point and period will be throughly wrought,\n" + " Or well or ill, as this day's battle's fought.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The British camp, near Dover.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, with drum and colours, EDMUND, REGAN,\n" + " Gentlemen, and Soldiers.\n\n" + "EDMUND Know of the duke if his last purpose hold,\n" + " Or whether since he is advised by aught\n" + " To change the course: he's full of alteration\n" + " And self-reproving: bring his constant pleasure.\n\n" + " [To a Gentleman, who goes out]\n\n" + "REGAN Our sister's man is certainly miscarried.\n\n" + "EDMUND 'Tis to be doubted, madam.\n\n" + "REGAN Now, sweet lord,\n" + " You know the goodness I intend upon you:\n" + " Tell me--but truly--but then speak the truth,\n" + " Do you not love my sister?\n\n" + "EDMUND In honour'd love.\n\n" + "REGAN But have you never found my brother's way\n" + " To the forfended place?\n\n" + "EDMUND That thought abuses you.\n\n" + "REGAN I am doubtful that you have been conjunct\n" + " And bosom'd with her, as far as we call hers.\n\n" + "EDMUND No, by mine honour, madam.\n\n" + "REGAN I never shall endure her: dear my lord,\n" + " Be not familiar with her.\n\n" + "EDMUND Fear me not:\n" + " She and the duke her husband!\n\n" + " [Enter, with drum and colours, ALBANY, GONERIL, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "GONERIL [Aside] I had rather lose the battle than that sister\n" + " Should loosen him and me.\n\n" + "ALBANY Our very loving sister, well be-met.\n" + " Sir, this I hear; the king is come to his daughter,\n" + " With others whom the rigor of our state\n" + " Forced to cry out. Where I could not be honest,\n" + " I never yet was valiant: for this business,\n" + " It toucheth us, as France invades our land,\n" + " Not bolds the king, with others, whom, I fear,\n" + " Most just and heavy causes make oppose.\n\n" + "EDMUND Sir, you speak nobly.\n\n" + "REGAN Why is this reason'd?\n\n" + "GONERIL Combine together 'gainst the enemy;\n" + " For these domestic and particular broils\n" + " Are not the question here.\n\n" + "ALBANY Let's then determine\n" + " With the ancient of war on our proceedings.\n\n" + "EDMUND I shall attend you presently at your tent.\n\n" + "REGAN Sister, you'll go with us?\n\n" + "GONERIL No.\n\n" + "REGAN 'Tis most convenient; pray you, go with us.\n\n" + "GONERIL [Aside] O, ho, I know the riddle.--I will go.\n\n" + " [As they are going out, enter EDGAR disguised]\n\n" + "EDGAR If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor,\n" + " Hear me one word.\n\n" + "ALBANY I'll overtake you. Speak.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but ALBANY and EDGAR]\n\n" + "EDGAR Before you fight the battle, ope this letter.\n" + " If you have victory, let the trumpet sound\n" + " For him that brought it: wretched though I seem,\n" + " I can produce a champion that will prove\n" + " What is avouched there. If you miscarry,\n" + " Your business of the world hath so an end,\n" + " And machination ceases. Fortune love you.\n\n" + "ALBANY Stay till I have read the letter.\n\n" + "EDGAR I was forbid it.\n" + " When time shall serve, let but the herald cry,\n" + " And I'll appear again.\n\n" + "ALBANY Why, fare thee well: I will o'erlook thy paper.\n\n" + " [Exit EDGAR]\n\n" + " [Re-enter EDMUND]\n\n" + "EDMUND The enemy's in view; draw up your powers.\n" + " Here is the guess of their true strength and forces\n" + " By diligent discovery; but your haste\n" + " Is now urged on you.\n\n" + "ALBANY We will greet the time.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EDMUND To both these sisters have I sworn my love;\n" + " Each jealous of the other, as the stung\n" + " Are of the adder. Which of them shall I take?\n" + " Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoy'd,\n" + " If both remain alive: to take the widow\n" + " Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;\n" + " And hardly shall I carry out my side,\n" + " Her husband being alive. Now then we'll use\n" + " His countenance for the battle; which being done,\n" + " Let her who would be rid of him devise\n" + " His speedy taking off. As for the mercy\n" + " Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia,\n" + " The battle done, and they within our power,\n" + " Shall never see his pardon; for my state\n" + " Stands on me to defend, not to debate.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A field between the two camps.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum within. Enter, with drum and colours,\n" + " KING LEAR, CORDELIA, and Soldiers, over the stage;\n" + " and exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter EDGAR and GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "EDGAR Here, father, take the shadow of this tree\n" + " For your good host; pray that the right may thrive:\n" + " If ever I return to you again,\n" + " I'll bring you comfort.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Grace go with you, sir!\n\n" + " [Exit EDGAR]\n\n" + " [Alarum and retreat within. Re-enter EDGAR]\n\n" + "EDGAR Away, old man; give me thy hand; away!\n" + " King Lear hath lost, he and his daughter ta'en:\n" + " Give me thy hand; come on.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No farther, sir; a man may rot even here.\n\n" + "EDGAR What, in ill thoughts again? Men must endure\n" + " Their going hence, even as their coming hither;\n" + " Ripeness is all: come on.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And that's true too.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING LEAR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The British camp near Dover.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, in conquest, with drum and colours, EDMUND,\n" + " KING LEAR and CORDELIA, prisoners; Captain,\n" + " Soldiers, &c]\n\n" + "EDMUND Some officers take them away: good guard,\n" + " Until their greater pleasures first be known\n" + " That are to censure them.\n\n" + "CORDELIA We are not the first\n" + " Who, with best meaning, have incurr'd the worst.\n" + " For thee, oppressed king, am I cast down;\n" + " Myself could else out-frown false fortune's frown.\n" + " Shall we not see these daughters and these sisters?\n\n" + "KING LEAR No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:\n" + " We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:\n" + " When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,\n" + " And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,\n" + " And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh\n" + " At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues\n" + " Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,\n" + " Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;\n" + " And take upon's the mystery of things,\n" + " As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,\n" + " In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,\n" + " That ebb and flow by the moon.\n\n" + "EDMUND Take them away.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,\n" + " The gods themselves throw incense. Have I caught thee?\n" + " He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven,\n" + " And fire us hence like foxes. Wipe thine eyes;\n" + " The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell,\n" + " Ere they shall make us weep: we'll see 'em starve\n" + " first. Come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING LEAR and CORDELIA, guarded]\n\n" + "EDMUND Come hither, captain; hark.\n" + " Take thou this note;\n\n" + " [Giving a paper]\n\n" + " go follow them to prison:\n" + " One step I have advanced thee; if thou dost\n" + " As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy way\n" + " To noble fortunes: know thou this, that men\n" + " Are as the time is: to be tender-minded\n" + " Does not become a sword: thy great employment\n" + " Will not bear question; either say thou'lt do 't,\n" + " Or thrive by other means.\n\n" + "Captain I'll do 't, my lord.\n\n" + "EDMUND About it; and write happy when thou hast done.\n" + " Mark, I say, instantly; and carry it so\n" + " As I have set it down.\n\n" + "Captain I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;\n" + " If it be man's work, I'll do 't.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter ALBANY, GONERIL, REGAN, another\n" + " Captain, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "ALBANY Sir, you have shown to-day your valiant strain,\n" + " And fortune led you well: you have the captives\n" + " That were the opposites of this day's strife:\n" + " We do require them of you, so to use them\n" + " As we shall find their merits and our safety\n" + " May equally determine.\n\n" + "EDMUND Sir, I thought it fit\n" + " To send the old and miserable king\n" + " To some retention and appointed guard;\n" + " Whose age has charms in it, whose title more,\n" + " To pluck the common bosom on his side,\n" + " An turn our impress'd lances in our eyes\n" + " Which do command them. With him I sent the queen;\n" + " My reason all the same; and they are ready\n" + " To-morrow, or at further space, to appear\n" + " Where you shall hold your session. At this time\n" + " We sweat and bleed: the friend hath lost his friend;\n" + " And the best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed\n" + " By those that feel their sharpness:\n" + " The question of Cordelia and her father\n" + " Requires a fitter place.\n\n" + "ALBANY Sir, by your patience,\n" + " I hold you but a subject of this war,\n" + " Not as a brother.\n\n" + "REGAN That's as we list to grace him.\n" + " Methinks our pleasure might have been demanded,\n" + " Ere you had spoke so far. He led our powers;\n" + " Bore the commission of my place and person;\n" + " The which immediacy may well stand up,\n" + " And call itself your brother.\n\n" + "GONERIL Not so hot:\n" + " In his own grace he doth exalt himself,\n" + " More than in your addition.\n\n" + "REGAN In my rights,\n" + " By me invested, he compeers the best.\n\n" + "GONERIL That were the most, if he should husband you.\n\n" + "REGAN Jesters do oft prove prophets.\n\n" + "GONERIL Holla, holla!\n" + " That eye that told you so look'd but a-squint.\n\n" + "REGAN Lady, I am not well; else I should answer\n" + " From a full-flowing stomach. General,\n" + " Take thou my soldiers, prisoners, patrimony;\n" + " Dispose of them, of me; the walls are thine:\n" + " Witness the world, that I create thee here\n" + " My lord and master.\n\n" + "GONERIL Mean you to enjoy him?\n\n" + "ALBANY The let-alone lies not in your good will.\n\n" + "EDMUND Nor in thine, lord.\n\n" + "ALBANY Half-blooded fellow, yes.\n\n" + "REGAN [To EDMUND] Let the drum strike, and prove my title thine.\n\n" + "ALBANY Stay yet; hear reason. Edmund, I arrest thee\n" + " On capital treason; and, in thine attaint,\n" + " This gilded serpent\n\n" + " [Pointing to Goneril]\n\n" + " For your claim, fair sister,\n" + " I bar it in the interest of my wife:\n" + " 'Tis she is sub-contracted to this lord,\n" + " And I, her husband, contradict your bans.\n" + " If you will marry, make your loves to me,\n" + " My lady is bespoke.\n\n" + "GONERIL An interlude!\n\n" + "ALBANY Thou art arm'd, Gloucester: let the trumpet sound:\n" + " If none appear to prove upon thy head\n" + " Thy heinous, manifest, and many treasons,\n" + " There is my pledge;\n\n" + " [Throwing down a glove]\n\n" + " I'll prove it on thy heart,\n" + " Ere I taste bread, thou art in nothing less\n" + " Than I have here proclaim'd thee.\n\n" + "REGAN Sick, O, sick!\n\n" + "GONERIL [Aside] If not, I'll ne'er trust medicine.\n\n" + "EDMUND There's my exchange:\n\n" + " [Throwing down a glove]\n\n" + " what in the world he is\n" + " That names me traitor, villain-like he lies:\n" + " Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach,\n" + " On him, on you, who not? I will maintain\n" + " My truth and honour firmly.\n\n" + "ALBANY A herald, ho!\n\n" + "EDMUND A herald, ho, a herald!\n\n" + "ALBANY Trust to thy single virtue; for thy soldiers,\n" + " All levied in my name, have in my name\n" + " Took their discharge.\n\n" + "REGAN My sickness grows upon me.\n\n" + "ALBANY She is not well; convey her to my tent.\n\n" + " [Exit Regan, led]\n\n" + " [Enter a Herald]\n\n" + " Come hither, herald,--Let the trumpet sound,\n" + " And read out this.\n\n" + "Captain Sound, trumpet!\n\n" + " [A trumpet sounds]\n\n" + "Herald [Reads] 'If any man of quality or degree within\n" + " the lists of the army will maintain upon Edmund,\n" + " supposed Earl of Gloucester, that he is a manifold\n" + " traitor, let him appear by the third sound of the\n" + " trumpet: he is bold in his defence.'\n\n" + "EDMUND Sound!\n\n" + " [First trumpet]\n\n" + "Herald Again!\n\n" + " [Second trumpet]\n\n" + "Herald Again!\n\n" + " [Third trumpet]\n\n" + " [Trumpet answers within]\n\n" + " [Enter EDGAR, at the third sound, armed, with a\n" + " trumpet before him]\n\n" + "ALBANY Ask him his purposes, why he appears\n" + " Upon this call o' the trumpet.\n\n" + "Herald What are you?\n" + " Your name, your quality? and why you answer\n" + " This present summons?\n\n" + "EDGAR Know, my name is lost;\n" + " By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit:\n" + " Yet am I noble as the adversary\n" + " I come to cope.\n\n" + "ALBANY Which is that adversary?\n\n" + "EDGAR What's he that speaks for Edmund Earl of Gloucester?\n\n" + "EDMUND Himself: what say'st thou to him?\n\n" + "EDGAR Draw thy sword,\n" + " That, if my speech offend a noble heart,\n" + " Thy arm may do thee justice: here is mine.\n" + " Behold, it is the privilege of mine honours,\n" + " My oath, and my profession: I protest,\n" + " Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and eminence,\n" + " Despite thy victor sword and fire-new fortune,\n" + " Thy valour and thy heart, thou art a traitor;\n" + " False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy father;\n" + " Conspirant 'gainst this high-illustrious prince;\n" + " And, from the extremest upward of thy head\n" + " To the descent and dust below thy foot,\n" + " A most toad-spotted traitor. Say thou 'No,'\n" + " This sword, this arm, and my best spirits, are bent\n" + " To prove upon thy heart, whereto I speak,\n" + " Thou liest.\n\n" + "EDMUND In wisdom I should ask thy name;\n" + " But, since thy outside looks so fair and warlike,\n" + " And that thy tongue some say of breeding breathes,\n" + " What safe and nicely I might well delay\n" + " By rule of knighthood, I disdain and spurn:\n" + " Back do I toss these treasons to thy head;\n" + " With the hell-hated lie o'erwhelm thy heart;\n" + " Which, for they yet glance by and scarcely bruise,\n" + " This sword of mine shall give them instant way,\n" + " Where they shall rest for ever. Trumpets, speak!\n\n" + " [Alarums. They fight. EDMUND falls]\n\n" + "ALBANY Save him, save him!\n\n" + "GONERIL This is practise, Gloucester:\n" + " By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer\n" + " An unknown opposite; thou art not vanquish'd,\n" + " But cozen'd and beguiled.\n\n" + "ALBANY Shut your mouth, dame,\n" + " Or with this paper shall I stop it: Hold, sir:\n" + " Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil:\n" + " No tearing, lady: I perceive you know it.\n\n" + " [Gives the letter to EDMUND]\n\n" + "GONERIL Say, if I do, the laws are mine, not thine:\n" + " Who can arraign me for't.\n\n" + "ALBANY Most monstrous! oh!\n" + " Know'st thou this paper?\n\n" + "GONERIL Ask me not what I know.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ALBANY Go after her: she's desperate; govern her.\n\n" + "EDMUND What you have charged me with, that have I done;\n" + " And more, much more; the time will bring it out:\n" + " 'Tis past, and so am I. But what art thou\n" + " That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble,\n" + " I do forgive thee.\n\n" + "EDGAR Let's exchange charity.\n" + " I am no less in blood than thou art, Edmund;\n" + " If more, the more thou hast wrong'd me.\n" + " My name is Edgar, and thy father's son.\n" + " The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices\n" + " Make instruments to plague us:\n" + " The dark and vicious place where thee he got\n" + " Cost him his eyes.\n\n" + "EDMUND Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true;\n" + " The wheel is come full circle: I am here.\n\n" + "ALBANY Methought thy very gait did prophesy\n" + " A royal nobleness: I must embrace thee:\n" + " Let sorrow split my heart, if ever I\n" + " Did hate thee or thy father!\n\n" + "EDGAR Worthy prince, I know't.\n\n" + "ALBANY Where have you hid yourself?\n" + " How have you known the miseries of your father?\n\n" + "EDGAR By nursing them, my lord. List a brief tale;\n" + " And when 'tis told, O, that my heart would burst!\n" + " The bloody proclamation to escape,\n" + " That follow'd me so near,--O, our lives' sweetness!\n" + " That we the pain of death would hourly die\n" + " Rather than die at once!--taught me to shift\n" + " Into a madman's rags; to assume a semblance\n" + " That very dogs disdain'd: and in this habit\n" + " Met I my father with his bleeding rings,\n" + " Their precious stones new lost: became his guide,\n" + " Led him, begg'd for him, saved him from despair;\n" + " Never,--O fault!--reveal'd myself unto him,\n" + " Until some half-hour past, when I was arm'd:\n" + " Not sure, though hoping, of this good success,\n" + " I ask'd his blessing, and from first to last\n" + " Told him my pilgrimage: but his flaw'd heart,\n" + " Alack, too weak the conflict to support!\n" + " 'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and grief,\n" + " Burst smilingly.\n\n" + "EDMUND This speech of yours hath moved me,\n" + " And shall perchance do good: but speak you on;\n" + " You look as you had something more to say.\n\n" + "ALBANY If there be more, more woeful, hold it in;\n" + " For I am almost ready to dissolve,\n" + " Hearing of this.\n\n" + "EDGAR This would have seem'd a period\n" + " To such as love not sorrow; but another,\n" + " To amplify too much, would make much more,\n" + " And top extremity.\n" + " Whilst I was big in clamour came there in a man,\n" + " Who, having seen me in my worst estate,\n" + " Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding\n" + " Who 'twas that so endured, with his strong arms\n" + " He fastened on my neck, and bellow'd out\n" + " As he'ld burst heaven; threw him on my father;\n" + " Told the most piteous tale of Lear and him\n" + " That ever ear received: which in recounting\n" + " His grief grew puissant and the strings of life\n" + " Began to crack: twice then the trumpets sounded,\n" + " And there I left him tranced.\n\n" + "ALBANY But who was this?\n\n" + "EDGAR Kent, sir, the banish'd Kent; who in disguise\n" + " Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service\n" + " Improper for a slave.\n\n" + " [Enter a Gentleman, with a bloody knife]\n\n" + "Gentleman Help, help, O, help!\n\n" + "EDGAR What kind of help?\n\n" + "ALBANY Speak, man.\n\n" + "EDGAR What means that bloody knife?\n\n" + "Gentleman 'Tis hot, it smokes;\n" + " It came even from the heart of--O, she's dead!\n\n" + "ALBANY Who dead? speak, man.\n\n" + "Gentleman Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister\n" + " By her is poisoned; she hath confess'd it.\n\n" + "EDMUND I was contracted to them both: all three\n" + " Now marry in an instant.\n\n" + "EDGAR Here comes Kent.\n\n" + "ALBANY Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead:\n" + " This judgment of the heavens, that makes us tremble,\n" + " Touches us not with pity.\n\n" + " [Exit Gentleman]\n\n" + " [Enter KENT]\n\n" + " O, is this he?\n" + " The time will not allow the compliment\n" + " Which very manners urges.\n\n" + "KENT I am come\n" + " To bid my king and master aye good night:\n" + " Is he not here?\n\n" + "ALBANY Great thing of us forgot!\n" + " Speak, Edmund, where's the king? and where's Cordelia?\n" + " See'st thou this object, Kent?\n\n" + " [The bodies of GONERIL and REGAN are brought in]\n\n" + "KENT Alack, why thus?\n\n" + "EDMUND Yet Edmund was beloved:\n" + " The one the other poison'd for my sake,\n" + " And after slew herself.\n\n" + "ALBANY Even so. Cover their faces.\n\n" + "EDMUND I pant for life: some good I mean to do,\n" + " Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send,\n" + " Be brief in it, to the castle; for my writ\n" + " Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia:\n" + " Nay, send in time.\n\n" + "ALBANY Run, run, O, run!\n\n" + "EDGAR To who, my lord? Who hath the office? send\n" + " Thy token of reprieve.\n\n" + "EDMUND Well thought on: take my sword,\n" + " Give it the captain.\n\n" + "ALBANY Haste thee, for thy life.\n\n" + " [Exit EDGAR]\n\n" + "EDMUND He hath commission from thy wife and me\n" + " To hang Cordelia in the prison, and\n" + " To lay the blame upon her own despair,\n" + " That she fordid herself.\n\n" + "ALBANY The gods defend her! Bear him hence awhile.\n\n" + " [EDMUND is borne off]\n\n" + " [Re-enter KING LEAR, with CORDELIA dead in his arms;\n" + " EDGAR, Captain, and others following]\n\n" + "KING LEAR Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones:\n" + " Had I your tongues and eyes, I'ld use them so\n" + " That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever!\n" + " I know when one is dead, and when one lives;\n" + " She's dead as earth. Lend me a looking-glass;\n" + " If that her breath will mist or stain the stone,\n" + " Why, then she lives.\n\n" + "KENT Is this the promised end\n\n" + "EDGAR Or image of that horror?\n\n" + "ALBANY Fall, and cease!\n\n" + "KING LEAR This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so,\n" + " It is a chance which does redeem all sorrows\n" + " That ever I have felt.\n\n" + "KENT [Kneeling] O my good master!\n\n" + "KING LEAR Prithee, away.\n\n" + "EDGAR 'Tis noble Kent, your friend.\n\n" + "KING LEAR A plague upon you, murderers, traitors all!\n" + " I might have saved her; now she's gone for ever!\n" + " Cordelia, Cordelia! stay a little. Ha!\n" + " What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft,\n" + " Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman.\n" + " I kill'd the slave that was a-hanging thee.\n\n" + "Captain 'Tis true, my lords, he did.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Did I not, fellow?\n" + " I have seen the day, with my good biting falchion\n" + " I would have made them skip: I am old now,\n" + " And these same crosses spoil me. Who are you?\n" + " Mine eyes are not o' the best: I'll tell you straight.\n\n" + "KENT If fortune brag of two she loved and hated,\n" + " One of them we behold.\n\n" + "KING LEAR This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?\n\n" + "KENT The same,\n" + " Your servant Kent: Where is your servant Caius?\n\n" + "KING LEAR He's a good fellow, I can tell you that;\n" + " He'll strike, and quickly too: he's dead and rotten.\n\n" + "KENT No, my good lord; I am the very man,--\n\n" + "KING LEAR I'll see that straight.\n\n" + "KENT That, from your first of difference and decay,\n" + " Have follow'd your sad steps.\n\n" + "KING LEAR You are welcome hither.\n\n" + "KENT Nor no man else: all's cheerless, dark, and deadly.\n" + " Your eldest daughters have fordone them selves,\n" + " And desperately are dead.\n\n" + "KING LEAR Ay, so I think.\n\n" + "ALBANY He knows not what he says: and vain it is\n" + " That we present us to him.\n\n" + "EDGAR Very bootless.\n\n" + " [Enter a Captain]\n\n" + "Captain Edmund is dead, my lord.\n\n" + "ALBANY That's but a trifle here.\n" + " You lords and noble friends, know our intent.\n" + " What comfort to this great decay may come\n" + " Shall be applied: for us we will resign,\n" + " During the life of this old majesty,\n" + " To him our absolute power:\n\n" + " [To EDGAR and KENT]\n\n" + " you, to your rights:\n" + " With boot, and such addition as your honours\n" + " Have more than merited. All friends shall taste\n" + " The wages of their virtue, and all foes\n" + " The cup of their deservings. O, see, see!\n\n" + "KING LEAR And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!\n" + " Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,\n" + " And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,\n" + " Never, never, never, never, never!\n" + " Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.\n" + " Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,\n" + " Look there, look there!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "EDGAR He faints! My lord, my lord!\n\n" + "KENT Break, heart; I prithee, break!\n\n" + "EDGAR Look up, my lord.\n\n" + "KENT Vex not his ghost: O, let him pass! he hates him much\n" + " That would upon the rack of this tough world\n" + " Stretch him out longer.\n\n" + "EDGAR He is gone, indeed.\n\n" + "KENT The wonder is, he hath endured so long:\n" + " He but usurp'd his life.\n\n" + "ALBANY Bear them from hence. Our present business\n" + " Is general woe.\n\n" + " [To KENT and EDGAR]\n\n" + " Friends of my soul, you twain\n" + " Rule in this realm, and the gored state sustain.\n\n" + "KENT I have a journey, sir, shortly to go;\n" + " My master calls me, I must not say no.\n\n" + "ALBANY The weight of this sad time we must obey;\n" + " Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.\n" + " The oldest hath borne most: we that are young\n" + " Shall never see so much, nor live so long.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, with a dead march]\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING RICHARD the Second. (KING RICHARD II:)\n\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Duke of Lancaster |\n" + " | uncles to the King.\n" + "EDMUND OF LANGLEY Duke of York (DUKE OF YORK:) |\n\n\n" + "HENRY, surnamed\n" + "BOLINGBROKE (HENRY BOLINGBROKE:) Duke of Hereford,\n" + " son to John of Gaunt; afterwards King Henry IV.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE son to the Duke of York.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY Duke of Norfolk.\n\n" + "DUKE OF SURREY:\n\n" + "EARL OF SALISBURY:\n\n" + "LORD BERKELEY:\n\n\n" + "BUSHY |\n" + " |\n" + "BAGOT | servants to King Richard.\n" + " |\n" + "GREEN |\n\n\n" + "EARL\n" + "OF NORTHUMBERLAND (NORTHUMBERLAND:)\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY,\n" + "surnamed HOTSPUR his son. (HENRY PERCY:)\n\n" + "LORD ROSS:\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY:\n\n" + "LORD FITZWATER:\n\n" + "BISHOP OF CARLISLE:\n\n" + "Abbot Of\n" + "Westminster (Abbot:)\n\n" + "LORD MARSHAL (Lord Marshal:)\n\n" + "SIR STEPHEN SCROOP:\n\n" + "SIR\n" + "PIERCE OF EXTON (EXTON:)\n\n" + " Captain of a band of Welshmen. (Captain:)\n\n" + "QUEEN\n" + "to King Richard (QUEEN:)\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK (DUCHESS OF YORK:)\n\n" + "DUCHESS\n" + "OF GLOUCESTER (DUCHESS:)\n\n" + " Lady attending on the Queen. (Lady:)\n\n" + " Lords, Heralds, Officers, Soldiers, two Gardeners,\n" + " Keeper, Messenger, Groom, and other Attendants. (Lord:)\n" + " (First Herald:)\n" + " (Second Herald:)\n" + " (Gardener:)\n" + " (Keeper:)\n" + " (Groom:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE England and Wales.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. KING RICHARD II's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD II, JOHN OF GAUNT, with other\n" + " Nobles and Attendants]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster,\n" + " Hast thou, according to thy oath and band,\n" + " Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son,\n" + " Here to make good the boisterous late appeal,\n" + " Which then our leisure would not let us hear,\n" + " Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT I have, my liege.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Tell me, moreover, hast thou sounded him,\n" + " If he appeal the duke on ancient malice;\n" + " Or worthily, as a good subject should,\n" + " On some known ground of treachery in him?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT As near as I could sift him on that argument,\n" + " On some apparent danger seen in him\n" + " Aim'd at your highness, no inveterate malice.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Then call them to our presence; face to face,\n" + " And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear\n" + " The accuser and the accused freely speak:\n" + " High-stomach'd are they both, and full of ire,\n" + " In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire.\n\n" + " [Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and THOMAS MOWBRAY]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Many years of happy days befal\n" + " My gracious sovereign, my most loving liege!\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY Each day still better other's happiness;\n" + " Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap,\n" + " Add an immortal title to your crown!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II We thank you both: yet one but flatters us,\n" + " As well appeareth by the cause you come;\n" + " Namely to appeal each other of high treason.\n" + " Cousin of Hereford, what dost thou object\n" + " Against the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray?\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE First, heaven be the record to my speech!\n" + " In the devotion of a subject's love,\n" + " Tendering the precious safety of my prince,\n" + " And free from other misbegotten hate,\n" + " Come I appellant to this princely presence.\n" + " Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee,\n" + " And mark my greeting well; for what I speak\n" + " My body shall make good upon this earth,\n" + " Or my divine soul answer it in heaven.\n" + " Thou art a traitor and a miscreant,\n" + " Too good to be so and too bad to live,\n" + " Since the more fair and crystal is the sky,\n" + " The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly.\n" + " Once more, the more to aggravate the note,\n" + " With a foul traitor's name stuff I thy throat;\n" + " And wish, so please my sovereign, ere I move,\n" + " What my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal:\n" + " 'Tis not the trial of a woman's war,\n" + " The bitter clamour of two eager tongues,\n" + " Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain;\n" + " The blood is hot that must be cool'd for this:\n" + " Yet can I not of such tame patience boast\n" + " As to be hush'd and nought at all to say:\n" + " First, the fair reverence of your highness curbs me\n" + " From giving reins and spurs to my free speech;\n" + " Which else would post until it had return'd\n" + " These terms of treason doubled down his throat.\n" + " Setting aside his high blood's royalty,\n" + " And let him be no kinsman to my liege,\n" + " I do defy him, and I spit at him;\n" + " Call him a slanderous coward and a villain:\n" + " Which to maintain I would allow him odds,\n" + " And meet him, were I tied to run afoot\n" + " Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps,\n" + " Or any other ground inhabitable,\n" + " Where ever Englishman durst set his foot.\n" + " Mean time let this defend my loyalty,\n" + " By all my hopes, most falsely doth he lie.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Pale trembling coward, there I throw my gage,\n" + " Disclaiming here the kindred of the king,\n" + " And lay aside my high blood's royalty,\n" + " Which fear, not reverence, makes thee to except.\n" + " If guilty dread have left thee so much strength\n" + " As to take up mine honour's pawn, then stoop:\n" + " By that and all the rites of knighthood else,\n" + " Will I make good against thee, arm to arm,\n" + " What I have spoke, or thou canst worse devise.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY I take it up; and by that sword I swear\n" + " Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder,\n" + " I'll answer thee in any fair degree,\n" + " Or chivalrous design of knightly trial:\n" + " And when I mount, alive may I not light,\n" + " If I be traitor or unjustly fight!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II What doth our cousin lay to Mowbray's charge?\n" + " It must be great that can inherit us\n" + " So much as of a thought of ill in him.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true;\n" + " That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles\n" + " In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers,\n" + " The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments,\n" + " Like a false traitor and injurious villain.\n" + " Besides I say and will in battle prove,\n" + " Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge\n" + " That ever was survey'd by English eye,\n" + " That all the treasons for these eighteen years\n" + " Complotted and contrived in this land\n" + " Fetch from false Mowbray their first head and spring.\n" + " Further I say and further will maintain\n" + " Upon his bad life to make all this good,\n" + " That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death,\n" + " Suggest his soon-believing adversaries,\n" + " And consequently, like a traitor coward,\n" + " Sluiced out his innocent soul through streams of blood:\n" + " Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries,\n" + " Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth,\n" + " To me for justice and rough chastisement;\n" + " And, by the glorious worth of my descent,\n" + " This arm shall do it, or this life be spent.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II How high a pitch his resolution soars!\n" + " Thomas of Norfolk, what say'st thou to this?\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY O, let my sovereign turn away his face\n" + " And bid his ears a little while be deaf,\n" + " Till I have told this slander of his blood,\n" + " How God and good men hate so foul a liar.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Mowbray, impartial are our eyes and ears:\n" + " Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir,\n" + " As he is but my father's brother's son,\n" + " Now, by my sceptre's awe, I make a vow,\n" + " Such neighbour nearness to our sacred blood\n" + " Should nothing privilege him, nor partialize\n" + " The unstooping firmness of my upright soul:\n" + " He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou:\n" + " Free speech and fearless I to thee allow.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart,\n" + " Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest.\n" + " Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais\n" + " Disbursed I duly to his highness' soldiers;\n" + " The other part reserved I by consent,\n" + " For that my sovereign liege was in my debt\n" + " Upon remainder of a dear account,\n" + " Since last I went to France to fetch his queen:\n" + " Now swallow down that lie. For Gloucester's death,\n" + " I slew him not; but to my own disgrace\n" + " Neglected my sworn duty in that case.\n" + " For you, my noble Lord of Lancaster,\n" + " The honourable father to my foe\n" + " Once did I lay an ambush for your life,\n" + " A trespass that doth vex my grieved soul\n" + " But ere I last received the sacrament\n" + " I did confess it, and exactly begg'd\n" + " Your grace's pardon, and I hope I had it.\n" + " This is my fault: as for the rest appeall'd,\n" + " It issues from the rancour of a villain,\n" + " A recreant and most degenerate traitor\n" + " Which in myself I boldly will defend;\n" + " And interchangeably hurl down my gage\n" + " Upon this overweening traitor's foot,\n" + " To prove myself a loyal gentleman\n" + " Even in the best blood chamber'd in his bosom.\n" + " In haste whereof, most heartily I pray\n" + " Your highness to assign our trial day.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me;\n" + " Let's purge this choler without letting blood:\n" + " This we prescribe, though no physician;\n" + " Deep malice makes too deep incision;\n" + " Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed;\n" + " Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.\n" + " Good uncle, let this end where it begun;\n" + " We'll calm the Duke of Norfolk, you your son.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT To be a make-peace shall become my age:\n" + " Throw down, my son, the Duke of Norfolk's gage.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II And, Norfolk, throw down his.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT When, Harry, when?\n" + " Obedience bids I should not bid again.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Norfolk, throw down, we bid; there is no boot.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY Myself I throw, dread sovereign, at thy foot.\n" + " My life thou shalt command, but not my shame:\n" + " The one my duty owes; but my fair name,\n" + " Despite of death that lives upon my grave,\n" + " To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not have.\n" + " I am disgraced, impeach'd and baffled here,\n" + " Pierced to the soul with slander's venom'd spear,\n" + " The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood\n" + " Which breathed this poison.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Rage must be withstood:\n" + " Give me his gage: lions make leopards tame.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY Yea, but not change his spots: take but my shame.\n" + " And I resign my gage. My dear dear lord,\n" + " The purest treasure mortal times afford\n" + " Is spotless reputation: that away,\n" + " Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.\n" + " A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest\n" + " Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.\n" + " Mine honour is my life; both grow in one:\n" + " Take honour from me, and my life is done:\n" + " Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me try;\n" + " In that I live and for that will I die.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Cousin, throw up your gage; do you begin.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE O, God defend my soul from such deep sin!\n" + " Shall I seem crest-fall'n in my father's sight?\n" + " Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height\n" + " Before this out-dared dastard? Ere my tongue\n" + " Shall wound my honour with such feeble wrong,\n" + " Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear\n" + " The slavish motive of recanting fear,\n" + " And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace,\n" + " Where shame doth harbour, even in Mowbray's face.\n\n" + " [Exit JOHN OF GAUNT]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II We were not born to sue, but to command;\n" + " Which since we cannot do to make you friends,\n" + " Be ready, as your lives shall answer it,\n" + " At Coventry, upon Saint Lambert's day:\n" + " There shall your swords and lances arbitrate\n" + " The swelling difference of your settled hate:\n" + " Since we can not atone you, we shall see\n" + " Justice design the victor's chivalry.\n" + " Lord marshal, command our officers at arms\n" + " Be ready to direct these home alarms.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The DUKE OF LANCASTER'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JOHN OF GAUNT with DUCHESS]\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Alas, the part I had in Woodstock's blood\n" + " Doth more solicit me than your exclaims,\n" + " To stir against the butchers of his life!\n" + " But since correction lieth in those hands\n" + " Which made the fault that we cannot correct,\n" + " Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven;\n" + " Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth,\n" + " Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur?\n" + " Hath love in thy old blood no living fire?\n" + " Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one,\n" + " Were as seven vials of his sacred blood,\n" + " Or seven fair branches springing from one root:\n" + " Some of those seven are dried by nature's course,\n" + " Some of those branches by the Destinies cut;\n" + " But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloucester,\n" + " One vial full of Edward's sacred blood,\n" + " One flourishing branch of his most royal root,\n" + " Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt,\n" + " Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all faded,\n" + " By envy's hand and murder's bloody axe.\n" + " Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! that bed, that womb,\n" + " That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee\n" + " Made him a man; and though thou livest and breathest,\n" + " Yet art thou slain in him: thou dost consent\n" + " In some large measure to thy father's death,\n" + " In that thou seest thy wretched brother die,\n" + " Who was the model of thy father's life.\n" + " Call it not patience, Gaunt; it is despair:\n" + " In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd,\n" + " Thou showest the naked pathway to thy life,\n" + " Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee:\n" + " That which in mean men we intitle patience\n" + " Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.\n" + " What shall I say? to safeguard thine own life,\n" + " The best way is to venge my Gloucester's death.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT God's is the quarrel; for God's substitute,\n" + " His deputy anointed in His sight,\n" + " Hath caused his death: the which if wrongfully,\n" + " Let heaven revenge; for I may never lift\n" + " An angry arm against His minister.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Where then, alas, may I complain myself?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT To God, the widow's champion and defence.\n\n" + "DUCHESS Why, then, I will. Farewell, old Gaunt.\n" + " Thou goest to Coventry, there to behold\n" + " Our cousin Hereford and fell Mowbray fight:\n" + " O, sit my husband's wrongs on Hereford's spear,\n" + " That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast!\n" + " Or, if misfortune miss the first career,\n" + " Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom,\n" + " They may break his foaming courser's back,\n" + " And throw the rider headlong in the lists,\n" + " A caitiff recreant to my cousin Hereford!\n" + " Farewell, old Gaunt: thy sometimes brother's wife\n" + " With her companion grief must end her life.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Sister, farewell; I must to Coventry:\n" + " As much good stay with thee as go with me!\n\n" + "DUCHESS Yet one word more: grief boundeth where it falls,\n" + " Not with the empty hollowness, but weight:\n" + " I take my leave before I have begun,\n" + " For sorrow ends not when it seemeth done.\n" + " Commend me to thy brother, Edmund York.\n" + " Lo, this is all:--nay, yet depart not so;\n" + " Though this be all, do not so quickly go;\n" + " I shall remember more. Bid him--ah, what?--\n" + " With all good speed at Plashy visit me.\n" + " Alack, and what shall good old York there see\n" + " But empty lodgings and unfurnish'd walls,\n" + " Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones?\n" + " And what hear there for welcome but my groans?\n" + " Therefore commend me; let him not come there,\n" + " To seek out sorrow that dwells every where.\n" + " Desolate, desolate, will I hence and die:\n" + " The last leave of thee takes my weeping eye.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The lists at Coventry.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the Lord Marshal and the DUKE OF AUMERLE]\n\n" + "Lord Marshal My Lord Aumerle, is Harry Hereford arm'd?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Yea, at all points; and longs to enter in.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal The Duke of Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,\n" + " Stays but the summons of the appellant's trumpet.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Why, then, the champions are prepared, and stay\n" + " For nothing but his majesty's approach.\n\n" + " [The trumpets sound, and KING RICHARD enters with\n" + " his nobles, JOHN OF GAUNT, BUSHY, BAGOT, GREEN, and\n" + " others. When they are set, enter THOMAS MOWBRAY in\n" + " arms, defendant, with a Herald]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Marshal, demand of yonder champion\n" + " The cause of his arrival here in arms:\n" + " Ask him his name and orderly proceed\n" + " To swear him in the justice of his cause.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal In God's name and the king's, say who thou art\n" + " And why thou comest thus knightly clad in arms,\n" + " Against what man thou comest, and what thy quarrel:\n" + " Speak truly, on thy knighthood and thy oath;\n" + " As so defend thee heaven and thy valour!\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY My name is Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk;\n" + " Who hither come engaged by my oath--\n" + " Which God defend a knight should violate!--\n" + " Both to defend my loyalty and truth\n" + " To God, my king and my succeeding issue,\n" + " Against the Duke of Hereford that appeals me\n" + " And, by the grace of God and this mine arm,\n" + " To prove him, in defending of myself,\n" + " A traitor to my God, my king, and me:\n" + " And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!\n\n" + " [The trumpets sound. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE,\n" + " appellant, in armour, with a Herald]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Marshal, ask yonder knight in arms,\n" + " Both who he is and why he cometh hither\n" + " Thus plated in habiliments of war,\n" + " And formally, according to our law,\n" + " Depose him in the justice of his cause.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal What is thy name? and wherefore comest thou hither,\n" + " Before King Richard in his royal lists?\n" + " Against whom comest thou? and what's thy quarrel?\n" + " Speak like a true knight, so defend thee heaven!\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby\n" + " Am I; who ready here do stand in arms,\n" + " To prove, by God's grace and my body's valour,\n" + " In lists, on Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,\n" + " That he is a traitor, foul and dangerous,\n" + " To God of heaven, King Richard and to me;\n" + " And as I truly fight, defend me heaven!\n\n" + "Lord Marshal On pain of death, no person be so bold\n" + " Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists,\n" + " Except the marshal and such officers\n" + " Appointed to direct these fair designs.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Lord marshal, let me kiss my sovereign's hand,\n" + " And bow my knee before his majesty:\n" + " For Mowbray and myself are like two men\n" + " That vow a long and weary pilgrimage;\n" + " Then let us take a ceremonious leave\n" + " And loving farewell of our several friends.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal The appellant in all duty greets your highness,\n" + " And craves to kiss your hand and take his leave.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II We will descend and fold him in our arms.\n" + " Cousin of Hereford, as thy cause is right,\n" + " So be thy fortune in this royal fight!\n" + " Farewell, my blood; which if to-day thou shed,\n" + " Lament we may, but not revenge thee dead.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE O let no noble eye profane a tear\n" + " For me, if I be gored with Mowbray's spear:\n" + " As confident as is the falcon's flight\n" + " Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight.\n" + " My loving lord, I take my leave of you;\n" + " Of you, my noble cousin, Lord Aumerle;\n" + " Not sick, although I have to do with death,\n" + " But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing breath.\n" + " Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet\n" + " The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet:\n" + " O thou, the earthly author of my blood,\n" + " Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate,\n" + " Doth with a twofold vigour lift me up\n" + " To reach at victory above my head,\n" + " Add proof unto mine armour with thy prayers;\n" + " And with thy blessings steel my lance's point,\n" + " That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat,\n" + " And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt,\n" + " Even in the lusty havior of his son.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT God in thy good cause make thee prosperous!\n" + " Be swift like lightning in the execution;\n" + " And let thy blows, doubly redoubled,\n" + " Fall like amazing thunder on the casque\n" + " Of thy adverse pernicious enemy:\n" + " Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and live.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Mine innocency and Saint George to thrive!\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY However God or fortune cast my lot,\n" + " There lives or dies, true to King Richard's throne,\n" + " A loyal, just and upright gentleman:\n" + " Never did captive with a freer heart\n" + " Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace\n" + " His golden uncontroll'd enfranchisement,\n" + " More than my dancing soul doth celebrate\n" + " This feast of battle with mine adversary.\n" + " Most mighty liege, and my companion peers,\n" + " Take from my mouth the wish of happy years:\n" + " As gentle and as jocund as to jest\n" + " Go I to fight: truth hath a quiet breast.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Farewell, my lord: securely I espy\n" + " Virtue with valour couched in thine eye.\n" + " Order the trial, marshal, and begin.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,\n" + " Receive thy lance; and God defend the right!\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Strong as a tower in hope, I cry amen.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.\n\n" + "First Herald Harry of Hereford, Lancaster and Derby,\n" + " Stands here for God, his sovereign and himself,\n" + " On pain to be found false and recreant,\n" + " To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,\n" + " A traitor to his God, his king and him;\n" + " And dares him to set forward to the fight.\n\n" + "Second Herald Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk,\n" + " On pain to be found false and recreant,\n" + " Both to defend himself and to approve\n" + " Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby,\n" + " To God, his sovereign and to him disloyal;\n" + " Courageously and with a free desire\n" + " Attending but the signal to begin.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal Sound, trumpets; and set forward, combatants.\n\n" + " [A charge sounded]\n\n" + " Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,\n" + " And both return back to their chairs again:\n" + " Withdraw with us: and let the trumpets sound\n" + " While we return these dukes what we decree.\n\n" + " [A long flourish]\n\n" + " Draw near,\n" + " And list what with our council we have done.\n" + " For that our kingdom's earth should not be soil'd\n" + " With that dear blood which it hath fostered;\n" + " And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect\n" + " Of civil wounds plough'd up with neighbours' sword;\n" + " And for we think the eagle-winged pride\n" + " Of sky-aspiring and ambitious thoughts,\n" + " With rival-hating envy, set on you\n" + " To wake our peace, which in our country's cradle\n" + " Draws the sweet infant breath of gentle sleep;\n" + " Which so roused up with boisterous untuned drums,\n" + " With harsh resounding trumpets' dreadful bray,\n" + " And grating shock of wrathful iron arms,\n" + " Might from our quiet confines fright fair peace\n" + " And make us wade even in our kindred's blood,\n" + " Therefore, we banish you our territories:\n" + " You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life,\n" + " Till twice five summers have enrich'd our fields\n" + " Shall not regreet our fair dominions,\n" + " But tread the stranger paths of banishment.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Your will be done: this must my comfort be,\n" + " Sun that warms you here shall shine on me;\n" + " And those his golden beams to you here lent\n" + " Shall point on me and gild my banishment.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Norfolk, for thee remains a heavier doom,\n" + " Which I with some unwillingness pronounce:\n" + " The sly slow hours shall not determinate\n" + " The dateless limit of thy dear exile;\n" + " The hopeless word of 'never to return'\n" + " Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY A heavy sentence, my most sovereign liege,\n" + " And all unlook'd for from your highness' mouth:\n" + " A dearer merit, not so deep a maim\n" + " As to be cast forth in the common air,\n" + " Have I deserved at your highness' hands.\n" + " The language I have learn'd these forty years,\n" + " My native English, now I must forego:\n" + " And now my tongue's use is to me no more\n" + " Than an unstringed viol or a harp,\n" + " Or like a cunning instrument cased up,\n" + " Or, being open, put into his hands\n" + " That knows no touch to tune the harmony:\n" + " Within my mouth you have engaol'd my tongue,\n" + " Doubly portcullis'd with my teeth and lips;\n" + " And dull unfeeling barren ignorance\n" + " Is made my gaoler to attend on me.\n" + " I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,\n" + " Too far in years to be a pupil now:\n" + " What is thy sentence then but speechless death,\n" + " Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II It boots thee not to be compassionate:\n" + " After our sentence plaining comes too late.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY Then thus I turn me from my country's light,\n" + " To dwell in solemn shades of endless night.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Return again, and take an oath with thee.\n" + " Lay on our royal sword your banish'd hands;\n" + " Swear by the duty that you owe to God--\n" + " Our part therein we banish with yourselves--\n" + " To keep the oath that we administer:\n" + " You never shall, so help you truth and God!\n" + " Embrace each other's love in banishment;\n" + " Nor never look upon each other's face;\n" + " Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile\n" + " This louring tempest of your home-bred hate;\n" + " Nor never by advised purpose meet\n" + " To plot, contrive, or complot any ill\n" + " 'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our land.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE I swear.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY And I, to keep all this.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Norfolk, so far as to mine enemy:--\n" + " By this time, had the king permitted us,\n" + " One of our souls had wander'd in the air.\n" + " Banish'd this frail sepulchre of our flesh,\n" + " As now our flesh is banish'd from this land:\n" + " Confess thy treasons ere thou fly the realm;\n" + " Since thou hast far to go, bear not along\n" + " The clogging burthen of a guilty soul.\n\n" + "THOMAS MOWBRAY No, Bolingbroke: if ever I were traitor,\n" + " My name be blotted from the book of life,\n" + " And I from heaven banish'd as from hence!\n" + " But what thou art, God, thou, and I do know;\n" + " And all too soon, I fear, the king shall rue.\n" + " Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray;\n" + " Save back to England, all the world's my way.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes\n" + " I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect\n" + " Hath from the number of his banish'd years\n" + " Pluck'd four away.\n\n" + " [To HENRY BOLINGBROKE]\n\n" + " Six frozen winter spent,\n" + " Return with welcome home from banishment.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE How long a time lies in one little word!\n" + " Four lagging winters and four wanton springs\n" + " End in a word: such is the breath of kings.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT I thank my liege, that in regard of me\n" + " He shortens four years of my son's exile:\n" + " But little vantage shall I reap thereby;\n" + " For, ere the six years that he hath to spend\n" + " Can change their moons and bring their times about\n" + " My oil-dried lamp and time-bewasted light\n" + " Shall be extinct with age and endless night;\n" + " My inch of taper will be burnt and done,\n" + " And blindfold death not let me see my son.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Why uncle, thou hast many years to live.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT But not a minute, king, that thou canst give:\n" + " Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,\n" + " And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;\n" + " Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,\n" + " But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage;\n" + " Thy word is current with him for my death,\n" + " But dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my breath.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Thy son is banish'd upon good advice,\n" + " Whereto thy tongue a party-verdict gave:\n" + " Why at our justice seem'st thou then to lour?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.\n" + " You urged me as a judge; but I had rather\n" + " You would have bid me argue like a father.\n" + " O, had it been a stranger, not my child,\n" + " To smooth his fault I should have been more mild:\n" + " A partial slander sought I to avoid,\n" + " And in the sentence my own life destroy'd.\n" + " Alas, I look'd when some of you should say,\n" + " I was too strict to make mine own away;\n" + " But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue\n" + " Against my will to do myself this wrong.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Cousin, farewell; and, uncle, bid him so:\n" + " Six years we banish him, and he shall go.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II and train]\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Cousin, farewell: what presence must not know,\n" + " From where you do remain let paper show.\n\n" + "Lord Marshal My lord, no leave take I; for I will ride,\n" + " As far as land will let me, by your side.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT O, to what purpose dost thou hoard thy words,\n" + " That thou return'st no greeting to thy friends?\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE I have too few to take my leave of you,\n" + " When the tongue's office should be prodigal\n" + " To breathe the abundant dolour of the heart.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Thy grief is but thy absence for a time.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Joy absent, grief is present for that time.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT What is six winters? they are quickly gone.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Call it a travel that thou takest for pleasure.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE My heart will sigh when I miscall it so,\n" + " Which finds it an inforced pilgrimage.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT The sullen passage of thy weary steps\n" + " Esteem as foil wherein thou art to set\n" + " The precious jewel of thy home return.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Nay, rather, every tedious stride I make\n" + " Will but remember me what a deal of world\n" + " I wander from the jewels that I love.\n" + " Must I not serve a long apprenticehood\n" + " To foreign passages, and in the end,\n" + " Having my freedom, boast of nothing else\n" + " But that I was a journeyman to grief?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT All places that the eye of heaven visits\n" + " Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.\n" + " Teach thy necessity to reason thus;\n" + " There is no virtue like necessity.\n" + " Think not the king did banish thee,\n" + " But thou the king. Woe doth the heavier sit,\n" + " Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.\n" + " Go, say I sent thee forth to purchase honour\n" + " And not the king exiled thee; or suppose\n" + " Devouring pestilence hangs in our air\n" + " And thou art flying to a fresher clime:\n" + " Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it\n" + " To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou comest:\n" + " Suppose the singing birds musicians,\n" + " The grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strew'd,\n" + " The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more\n" + " Than a delightful measure or a dance;\n" + " For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite\n" + " The man that mocks at it and sets it light.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE O, who can hold a fire in his hand\n" + " By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?\n" + " Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite\n" + " By bare imagination of a feast?\n" + " Or wallow naked in December snow\n" + " By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?\n" + " O, no! the apprehension of the good\n" + " Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:\n" + " Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more\n" + " Than when he bites, but lanceth not the sore.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Come, come, my son, I'll bring thee on thy way:\n" + " Had I thy youth and cause, I would not stay.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Then, England's ground, farewell; sweet soil, adieu;\n" + " My mother, and my nurse, that bears me yet!\n" + " Where'er I wander, boast of this I can,\n" + " Though banish'd, yet a trueborn Englishman.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The court.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD II, with BAGOT and GREEN at one\n" + " door; and the DUKE OF AUMERLE at another]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II We did observe. Cousin Aumerle,\n" + " How far brought you high Hereford on his way?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE I brought high Hereford, if you call him so,\n" + " But to the next highway, and there I left him.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II And say, what store of parting tears were shed?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Faith, none for me; except the north-east wind,\n" + " Which then blew bitterly against our faces,\n" + " Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance\n" + " Did grace our hollow parting with a tear.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II What said our cousin when you parted with him?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE 'Farewell:'\n" + " And, for my heart disdained that my tongue\n" + " Should so profane the word, that taught me craft\n" + " To counterfeit oppression of such grief\n" + " That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's grave.\n" + " Marry, would the word 'farewell' have lengthen'd hours\n" + " And added years to his short banishment,\n" + " He should have had a volume of farewells;\n" + " But since it would not, he had none of me.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II He is our cousin, cousin; but 'tis doubt,\n" + " When time shall call him home from banishment,\n" + " Whether our kinsman come to see his friends.\n" + " Ourself and Bushy, Bagot here and Green\n" + " Observed his courtship to the common people;\n" + " How he did seem to dive into their hearts\n" + " With humble and familiar courtesy,\n" + " What reverence he did throw away on slaves,\n" + " Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles\n" + " And patient underbearing of his fortune,\n" + " As 'twere to banish their affects with him.\n" + " Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench;\n" + " A brace of draymen bid God speed him well\n" + " And had the tribute of his supple knee,\n" + " With 'Thanks, my countrymen, my loving friends;'\n" + " As were our England in reversion his,\n" + " And he our subjects' next degree in hope.\n\n" + "GREEN Well, he is gone; and with him go these thoughts.\n" + " Now for the rebels which stand out in Ireland,\n" + " Expedient manage must be made, my liege,\n" + " Ere further leisure yield them further means\n" + " For their advantage and your highness' loss.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II We will ourself in person to this war:\n" + " And, for our coffers, with too great a court\n" + " And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light,\n" + " We are inforced to farm our royal realm;\n" + " The revenue whereof shall furnish us\n" + " For our affairs in hand: if that come short,\n" + " Our substitutes at home shall have blank charters;\n" + " Whereto, when they shall know what men are rich,\n" + " They shall subscribe them for large sums of gold\n" + " And send them after to supply our wants;\n" + " For we will make for Ireland presently.\n\n" + " [Enter BUSHY]\n\n" + " Bushy, what news?\n\n" + "BUSHY Old John of Gaunt is grievous sick, my lord,\n" + " Suddenly taken; and hath sent post haste\n" + " To entreat your majesty to visit him.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Where lies he?\n\n" + "BUSHY At Ely House.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Now put it, God, in the physician's mind\n" + " To help him to his grave immediately!\n" + " The lining of his coffers shall make coats\n" + " To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars.\n" + " Come, gentlemen, let's all go visit him:\n" + " Pray God we may make haste, and come too late!\n\n" + "All Amen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Ely House.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JOHN OF GAUNT sick, with the DUKE OF YORK,\n" + " &c]\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Will the king come, that I may breathe my last\n" + " In wholesome counsel to his unstaid youth?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath;\n" + " For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT O, but they say the tongues of dying men\n" + " Enforce attention like deep harmony:\n" + " Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain,\n" + " For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.\n" + " He that no more must say is listen'd more\n" + " Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose;\n" + " More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before:\n" + " The setting sun, and music at the close,\n" + " As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,\n" + " Writ in remembrance more than things long past:\n" + " Though Richard my life's counsel would not hear,\n" + " My death's sad tale may yet undeaf his ear.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK No; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds,\n" + " As praises, of whose taste the wise are fond,\n" + " Lascivious metres, to whose venom sound\n" + " The open ear of youth doth always listen;\n" + " Report of fashions in proud Italy,\n" + " Whose manners still our tardy apish nation\n" + " Limps after in base imitation.\n" + " Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity--\n" + " So it be new, there's no respect how vile--\n" + " That is not quickly buzzed into his ears?\n" + " Then all too late comes counsel to be heard,\n" + " Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard.\n" + " Direct not him whose way himself will choose:\n" + " 'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Methinks I am a prophet new inspired\n" + " And thus expiring do foretell of him:\n" + " His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last,\n" + " For violent fires soon burn out themselves;\n" + " Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short;\n" + " He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes;\n" + " With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder:\n" + " Light vanity, insatiate cormorant,\n" + " Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.\n" + " This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,\n" + " This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,\n" + " This other Eden, demi-paradise,\n" + " This fortress built by Nature for herself\n" + " Against infection and the hand of war,\n" + " This happy breed of men, this little world,\n" + " This precious stone set in the silver sea,\n" + " Which serves it in the office of a wall,\n" + " Or as a moat defensive to a house,\n" + " Against the envy of less happier lands,\n" + " This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,\n" + " This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,\n" + " Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,\n" + " Renowned for their deeds as far from home,\n" + " For Christian service and true chivalry,\n" + " As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,\n" + " Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,\n" + " This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land,\n" + " Dear for her reputation through the world,\n" + " Is now leased out, I die pronouncing it,\n" + " Like to a tenement or pelting farm:\n" + " England, bound in with the triumphant sea\n" + " Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege\n" + " Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with shame,\n" + " With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds:\n" + " That England, that was wont to conquer others,\n" + " Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.\n" + " Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,\n" + " How happy then were my ensuing death!\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD II and QUEEN, DUKE OF AUMERLE,\n" + " BUSHY, GREEN, BAGOT, LORD ROSS, and LORD\n" + " WILLOUGHBY]\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK The king is come: deal mildly with his youth;\n" + " For young hot colts being raged do rage the more.\n\n" + "QUEEN How fares our noble uncle, Lancaster?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II What comfort, man? how is't with aged Gaunt?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT O how that name befits my composition!\n" + " Old Gaunt indeed, and gaunt in being old:\n" + " Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast;\n" + " And who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?\n" + " For sleeping England long time have I watch'd;\n" + " Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt:\n" + " The pleasure that some fathers feed upon,\n" + " Is my strict fast; I mean, my children's looks;\n" + " And therein fasting, hast thou made me gaunt:\n" + " Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave,\n" + " Whose hollow womb inherits nought but bones.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Can sick men play so nicely with their names?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT No, misery makes sport to mock itself:\n" + " Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me,\n" + " I mock my name, great king, to flatter thee.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Should dying men flatter with those that live?\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT No, no, men living flatter those that die.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Thou, now a-dying, say'st thou flatterest me.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT O, no! thou diest, though I the sicker be.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT Now He that made me knows I see thee ill;\n" + " Ill in myself to see, and in thee seeing ill.\n" + " Thy death-bed is no lesser than thy land\n" + " Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;\n" + " And thou, too careless patient as thou art,\n" + " Commit'st thy anointed body to the cure\n" + " Of those physicians that first wounded thee:\n" + " A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,\n" + " Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;\n" + " And yet, incaged in so small a verge,\n" + " The waste is no whit lesser than thy land.\n" + " O, had thy grandsire with a prophet's eye\n" + " Seen how his son's son should destroy his sons,\n" + " From forth thy reach he would have laid thy shame,\n" + " Deposing thee before thou wert possess'd,\n" + " Which art possess'd now to depose thyself.\n" + " Why, cousin, wert thou regent of the world,\n" + " It were a shame to let this land by lease;\n" + " But for thy world enjoying but this land,\n" + " Is it not more than shame to shame it so?\n" + " Landlord of England art thou now, not king:\n" + " Thy state of law is bondslave to the law; And thou--\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II A lunatic lean-witted fool,\n" + " Presuming on an ague's privilege,\n" + " Darest with thy frozen admonition\n" + " Make pale our cheek, chasing the royal blood\n" + " With fury from his native residence.\n" + " Now, by my seat's right royal majesty,\n" + " Wert thou not brother to great Edward's son,\n" + " This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head\n" + " Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders.\n\n" + "JOHN OF GAUNT O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,\n" + " For that I was his father Edward's son;\n" + " That blood already, like the pelican,\n" + " Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:\n" + " My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,\n" + " Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!\n" + " May be a precedent and witness good\n" + " That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood:\n" + " Join with the present sickness that I have;\n" + " And thy unkindness be like crooked age,\n" + " To crop at once a too long wither'd flower.\n" + " Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!\n" + " These words hereafter thy tormentors be!\n" + " Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:\n" + " Love they to live that love and honour have.\n\n" + " [Exit, borne off by his Attendants]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II And let them die that age and sullens have;\n" + " For both hast thou, and both become the grave.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK I do beseech your majesty, impute his words\n" + " To wayward sickliness and age in him:\n" + " He loves you, on my life, and holds you dear\n" + " As Harry Duke of Hereford, were he here.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Right, you say true: as Hereford's love, so his;\n" + " As theirs, so mine; and all be as it is.\n\n" + " [Enter NORTHUMBERLAND]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND My liege, old Gaunt commends him to your majesty.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II What says he?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Nay, nothing; all is said\n" + " His tongue is now a stringless instrument;\n" + " Words, life and all, old Lancaster hath spent.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Be York the next that must be bankrupt so!\n" + " Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he;\n" + " His time is spent, our pilgrimage must be.\n" + " So much for that. Now for our Irish wars:\n" + " We must supplant those rough rug-headed kerns,\n" + " Which live like venom where no venom else\n" + " But only they have privilege to live.\n" + " And for these great affairs do ask some charge,\n" + " Towards our assistance we do seize to us\n" + " The plate, corn, revenues and moveables,\n" + " Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK How long shall I be patient? ah, how long\n" + " Shall tender duty make me suffer wrong?\n" + " Not Gloucester's death, nor Hereford's banishment\n" + " Not Gaunt's rebukes, nor England's private wrongs,\n" + " Nor the prevention of poor Bolingbroke\n" + " About his marriage, nor my own disgrace,\n" + " Have ever made me sour my patient cheek,\n" + " Or bend one wrinkle on my sovereign's face.\n" + " I am the last of noble Edward's sons,\n" + " Of whom thy father, Prince of Wales, was first:\n" + " In war was never lion raged more fierce,\n" + " In peace was never gentle lamb more mild,\n" + " Than was that young and princely gentleman.\n" + " His face thou hast, for even so look'd he,\n" + " Accomplish'd with the number of thy hours;\n" + " But when he frown'd, it was against the French\n" + " And not against his friends; his noble hand\n" + " Did will what he did spend and spent not that\n" + " Which his triumphant father's hand had won;\n" + " His hands were guilty of no kindred blood,\n" + " But bloody with the enemies of his kin.\n" + " O Richard! York is too far gone with grief,\n" + " Or else he never would compare between.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Why, uncle, what's the matter?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK O my liege,\n" + " Pardon me, if you please; if not, I, pleased\n" + " Not to be pardon'd, am content withal.\n" + " Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands\n" + " The royalties and rights of banish'd Hereford?\n" + " Is not Gaunt dead, and doth not Hereford live?\n" + " Was not Gaunt just, and is not Harry true?\n" + " Did not the one deserve to have an heir?\n" + " Is not his heir a well-deserving son?\n" + " Take Hereford's rights away, and take from Time\n" + " His charters and his customary rights;\n" + " Let not to-morrow then ensue to-day;\n" + " Be not thyself; for how art thou a king\n" + " But by fair sequence and succession?\n" + " Now, afore God--God forbid I say true!--\n" + " If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights,\n" + " Call in the letters patent that he hath\n" + " By his attorneys-general to sue\n" + " His livery, and deny his offer'd homage,\n" + " You pluck a thousand dangers on your head,\n" + " You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts\n" + " And prick my tender patience, to those thoughts\n" + " Which honour and allegiance cannot think.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Think what you will, we seize into our hands\n" + " His plate, his goods, his money and his lands.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK I'll not be by the while: my liege, farewell:\n" + " What will ensue hereof, there's none can tell;\n" + " But by bad courses may be understood\n" + " That their events can never fall out good.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Go, Bushy, to the Earl of Wiltshire straight:\n" + " Bid him repair to us to Ely House\n" + " To see this business. To-morrow next\n" + " We will for Ireland; and 'tis time, I trow:\n" + " And we create, in absence of ourself,\n" + " Our uncle York lord governor of England;\n" + " For he is just and always loved us well.\n" + " Come on, our queen: to-morrow must we part;\n" + " Be merry, for our time of stay is short\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt KING RICHARD II, QUEEN, DUKE OF\n" + " AUMERLE, BUSHY, GREEN, and BAGOT]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Well, lords, the Duke of Lancaster is dead.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS And living too; for now his son is duke.\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY Barely in title, not in revenue.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Richly in both, if justice had her right.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS My heart is great; but it must break with silence,\n" + " Ere't be disburden'd with a liberal tongue.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Nay, speak thy mind; and let him ne'er speak more\n" + " That speaks thy words again to do thee harm!\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY Tends that thou wouldst speak to the Duke of Hereford?\n" + " If it be so, out with it boldly, man;\n" + " Quick is mine ear to hear of good towards him.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS No good at all that I can do for him;\n" + " Unless you call it good to pity him,\n" + " Bereft and gelded of his patrimony.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Now, afore God, 'tis shame such wrongs are borne\n" + " In him, a royal prince, and many moe\n" + " Of noble blood in this declining land.\n" + " The king is not himself, but basely led\n" + " By flatterers; and what they will inform,\n" + " Merely in hate, 'gainst any of us all,\n" + " That will the king severely prosecute\n" + " 'Gainst us, our lives, our children, and our heirs.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS The commons hath he pill'd with grievous taxes,\n" + " And quite lost their hearts: the nobles hath he fined\n" + " For ancient quarrels, and quite lost their hearts.\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY And daily new exactions are devised,\n" + " As blanks, benevolences, and I wot not what:\n" + " But what, o' God's name, doth become of this?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Wars have not wasted it, for warr'd he hath not,\n" + " But basely yielded upon compromise\n" + " That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows:\n" + " More hath he spent in peace than they in wars.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm.\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY The king's grown bankrupt, like a broken man.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Reproach and dissolution hangeth over him.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS He hath not money for these Irish wars,\n" + " His burthenous taxations notwithstanding,\n" + " But by the robbing of the banish'd duke.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND His noble kinsman: most degenerate king!\n" + " But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing,\n" + " Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm;\n" + " We see the wind sit sore upon our sails,\n" + " And yet we strike not, but securely perish.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS We see the very wreck that we must suffer;\n" + " And unavoided is the danger now,\n" + " For suffering so the causes of our wreck.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Not so; even through the hollow eyes of death\n" + " I spy life peering; but I dare not say\n" + " How near the tidings of our comfort is.\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY Nay, let us share thy thoughts, as thou dost ours.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS Be confident to speak, Northumberland:\n" + " We three are but thyself; and, speaking so,\n" + " Thy words are but as thoughts; therefore, be bold.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Then thus: I have from Port le Blanc, a bay\n" + " In Brittany, received intelligence\n" + " That Harry Duke of Hereford, Rainold Lord Cobham,\n" + " [ ]\n" + " That late broke from the Duke of Exeter,\n" + " His brother, Archbishop late of Canterbury,\n" + " Sir Thomas Erpingham, Sir John Ramston,\n" + " Sir John Norbery, Sir Robert Waterton and Francis Quoint,\n" + " All these well furnish'd by the Duke of Bretagne\n" + " With eight tall ships, three thousand men of war,\n" + " Are making hither with all due expedience\n" + " And shortly mean to touch our northern shore:\n" + " Perhaps they had ere this, but that they stay\n" + " The first departing of the king for Ireland.\n" + " If then we shall shake off our slavish yoke,\n" + " Imp out our drooping country's broken wing,\n" + " Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown,\n" + " Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's gilt\n" + " And make high majesty look like itself,\n" + " Away with me in post to Ravenspurgh;\n" + " But if you faint, as fearing to do so,\n" + " Stay and be secret, and myself will go.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS To horse, to horse! urge doubts to them that fear.\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY Hold out my horse, and I will first be there.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN, BUSHY, and BAGOT]\n\n" + "BUSHY Madam, your majesty is too much sad:\n" + " You promised, when you parted with the king,\n" + " To lay aside life-harming heaviness\n" + " And entertain a cheerful disposition.\n\n" + "QUEEN To please the king I did; to please myself\n" + " I cannot do it; yet I know no cause\n" + " Why I should welcome such a guest as grief,\n" + " Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest\n" + " As my sweet Richard: yet again, methinks,\n" + " Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb,\n" + " Is coming towards me, and my inward soul\n" + " With nothing trembles: at some thing it grieves,\n" + " More than with parting from my lord the king.\n\n" + "BUSHY Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,\n" + " Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;\n" + " For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,\n" + " Divides one thing entire to many objects;\n" + " Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon\n" + " Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry\n" + " Distinguish form: so your sweet majesty,\n" + " Looking awry upon your lord's departure,\n" + " Find shapes of grief, more than himself, to wail;\n" + " Which, look'd on as it is, is nought but shadows\n" + " Of what it is not. Then, thrice-gracious queen,\n" + " More than your lord's departure weep not: more's not seen;\n" + " Or if it be, 'tis with false sorrow's eye,\n" + " Which for things true weeps things imaginary.\n\n" + "QUEEN It may be so; but yet my inward soul\n" + " Persuades me it is otherwise: howe'er it be,\n" + " I cannot but be sad; so heavy sad\n" + " As, though on thinking on no thought I think,\n" + " Makes me with heavy nothing faint and shrink.\n\n" + "BUSHY 'Tis nothing but conceit, my gracious lady.\n\n" + "QUEEN 'Tis nothing less: conceit is still derived\n" + " From some forefather grief; mine is not so,\n" + " For nothing had begot my something grief;\n" + " Or something hath the nothing that I grieve:\n" + " 'Tis in reversion that I do possess;\n" + " But what it is, that is not yet known; what\n" + " I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot.\n\n" + " [Enter GREEN]\n\n" + "GREEN God save your majesty! and well met, gentlemen:\n" + " I hope the king is not yet shipp'd for Ireland.\n\n" + "QUEEN Why hopest thou so? 'tis better hope he is;\n" + " For his designs crave haste, his haste good hope:\n" + " Then wherefore dost thou hope he is not shipp'd?\n\n" + "GREEN That he, our hope, might have retired his power,\n" + " And driven into despair an enemy's hope,\n" + " Who strongly hath set footing in this land:\n" + " The banish'd Bolingbroke repeals himself,\n" + " And with uplifted arms is safe arrived\n" + " At Ravenspurgh.\n\n" + "QUEEN Now God in heaven forbid!\n\n" + "GREEN Ah, madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,\n" + " The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,\n" + " The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby,\n" + " With all their powerful friends, are fled to him.\n\n" + "BUSHY Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland\n" + " And all the rest revolted faction traitors?\n\n" + "GREEN We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester\n" + " Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship,\n" + " And all the household servants fled with him\n" + " To Bolingbroke.\n\n" + "QUEEN So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,\n" + " And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir:\n" + " Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy,\n" + " And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,\n" + " Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd.\n\n" + "BUSHY Despair not, madam.\n\n" + "QUEEN Who shall hinder me?\n" + " I will despair, and be at enmity\n" + " With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,\n" + " A parasite, a keeper back of death,\n" + " Who gently would dissolve the bands of life,\n" + " Which false hope lingers in extremity.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE OF YORK]\n\n" + "GREEN Here comes the Duke of York.\n\n" + "QUEEN With signs of war about his aged neck:\n" + " O, full of careful business are his looks!\n" + " Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:\n" + " Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,\n" + " Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.\n" + " Your husband, he is gone to save far off,\n" + " Whilst others come to make him lose at home:\n" + " Here am I left to underprop his land,\n" + " Who, weak with age, cannot support myself:\n" + " Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;\n" + " Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant My lord, your son was gone before I came.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK He was? Why, so! go all which way it will!\n" + " The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,\n" + " And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side.\n" + " Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;\n" + " Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:\n" + " Hold, take my ring.\n\n" + "Servant My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,\n" + " To-day, as I came by, I called there;\n" + " But I shall grieve you to report the rest.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK What is't, knave?\n\n" + "Servant An hour before I came, the duchess died.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK God for his mercy! what a tide of woes\n" + " Comes rushing on this woeful land at once!\n" + " I know not what to do: I would to God,\n" + " So my untruth had not provoked him to it,\n" + " The king had cut off my head with my brother's.\n" + " What, are there no posts dispatch'd for Ireland?\n" + " How shall we do for money for these wars?\n" + " Come, sister,--cousin, I would say--pray, pardon me.\n" + " Go, fellow, get thee home, provide some carts\n" + " And bring away the armour that is there.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " Gentlemen, will you go muster men?\n" + " If I know how or which way to order these affairs\n" + " Thus thrust disorderly into my hands,\n" + " Never believe me. Both are my kinsmen:\n" + " The one is my sovereign, whom both my oath\n" + " And duty bids defend; the other again\n" + " Is my kinsman, whom the king hath wrong'd,\n" + " Whom conscience and my kindred bids to right.\n" + " Well, somewhat we must do. Come, cousin, I'll\n" + " Dispose of you.\n" + " Gentlemen, go, muster up your men,\n" + " And meet me presently at Berkeley.\n" + " I should to Plashy too;\n" + " But time will not permit: all is uneven,\n" + " And every thing is left at six and seven.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DUKE OF YORK and QUEEN]\n\n" + "BUSHY The wind sits fair for news to go to Ireland,\n" + " But none returns. For us to levy power\n" + " Proportionable to the enemy\n" + " Is all unpossible.\n\n" + "GREEN Besides, our nearness to the king in love\n" + " Is near the hate of those love not the king.\n\n" + "BAGOT And that's the wavering commons: for their love\n" + " Lies in their purses, and whoso empties them\n" + " By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.\n\n" + "BUSHY Wherein the king stands generally condemn'd.\n\n" + "BAGOT If judgement lie in them, then so do we,\n" + " Because we ever have been near the king.\n\n" + "GREEN Well, I will for refuge straight to Bristol castle:\n" + " The Earl of Wiltshire is already there.\n\n" + "BUSHY Thither will I with you; for little office\n" + " The hateful commons will perform for us,\n" + " Except like curs to tear us all to pieces.\n" + " Will you go along with us?\n\n" + "BAGOT No; I will to Ireland to his majesty.\n" + " Farewell: if heart's presages be not vain,\n" + " We three here art that ne'er shall meet again.\n\n" + "BUSHY That's as York thrives to beat back Bolingbroke.\n\n" + "GREEN Alas, poor duke! the task he undertakes\n" + " Is numbering sands and drinking oceans dry:\n" + " Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.\n" + " Farewell at once, for once, for all, and ever.\n\n" + "BUSHY Well, we may meet again.\n\n" + "BAGOT I fear me, never.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Wilds in Gloucestershire.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE and NORTHUMBERLAND, with Forces]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE How far is it, my lord, to Berkeley now?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Believe me, noble lord,\n" + " I am a stranger here in Gloucestershire:\n" + " These high wild hills and rough uneven ways\n" + " Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome,\n" + " And yet your fair discourse hath been as sugar,\n" + " Making the hard way sweet and delectable.\n" + " But I bethink me what a weary way\n" + " From Ravenspurgh to Cotswold will be found\n" + " In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company,\n" + " Which, I protest, hath very much beguiled\n" + " The tediousness and process of my travel:\n" + " But theirs is sweetened with the hope to have\n" + " The present benefit which I possess;\n" + " And hope to joy is little less in joy\n" + " Than hope enjoy'd: by this the weary lords\n" + " Shall make their way seem short, as mine hath done\n" + " By sight of what I have, your noble company.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Of much less value is my company\n" + " Than your good words. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter HENRY PERCY]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND It is my son, young Harry Percy,\n" + " Sent from my brother Worcester, whencesoever.\n" + " Harry, how fares your uncle?\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY I had thought, my lord, to have learn'd his health of you.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Why, is he not with the queen?\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY No, my good Lord; he hath forsook the court,\n" + " Broken his staff of office and dispersed\n" + " The household of the king.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND What was his reason?\n" + " He was not so resolved when last we spake together.\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY Because your lordship was proclaimed traitor.\n" + " But he, my lord, is gone to Ravenspurgh,\n" + " To offer service to the Duke of Hereford,\n" + " And sent me over by Berkeley, to discover\n" + " What power the Duke of York had levied there;\n" + " Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Have you forgot the Duke of Hereford, boy?\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY No, my good lord, for that is not forgot\n" + " Which ne'er I did remember: to my knowledge,\n" + " I never in my life did look on him.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Then learn to know him now; this is the duke.\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY My gracious lord, I tender you my service,\n" + " Such as it is, being tender, raw and young:\n" + " Which elder days shall ripen and confirm\n" + " To more approved service and desert.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE I thank thee, gentle Percy; and be sure\n" + " I count myself in nothing else so happy\n" + " As in a soul remembering my good friends;\n" + " And, as my fortune ripens with thy love,\n" + " It shall be still thy true love's recompense:\n" + " My heart this covenant makes, my hand thus seals it.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND How far is it to Berkeley? and what stir\n" + " Keeps good old York there with his men of war?\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY There stands the castle, by yon tuft of trees,\n" + " Mann'd with three hundred men, as I have heard;\n" + " And in it are the Lords of York, Berkeley, and Seymour;\n" + " None else of name and noble estimate.\n\n" + " [Enter LORD ROSS and LORD WILLOUGHBY]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Here come the Lords of Ross and Willoughby,\n" + " Bloody with spurring, fiery-red with haste.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Welcome, my lords. I wot your love pursues\n" + " A banish'd traitor: all my treasury\n" + " Is yet but unfelt thanks, which more enrich'd\n" + " Shall be your love and labour's recompense.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS Your presence makes us rich, most noble lord.\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY And far surmounts our labour to attain it.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor;\n" + " Which, till my infant fortune comes to years,\n" + " Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter LORD BERKELEY]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND It is my Lord of Berkeley, as I guess.\n\n" + "LORD BERKELEY My Lord of Hereford, my message is to you.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE My lord, my answer is--to Lancaster;\n" + " And I am come to seek that name in England;\n" + " And I must find that title in your tongue,\n" + " Before I make reply to aught you say.\n\n" + "LORD BERKELEY Mistake me not, my lord; 'tis not my meaning\n" + " To raze one title of your honour out:\n" + " To you, my lord, I come, what lord you will,\n" + " From the most gracious regent of this land,\n" + " The Duke of York, to know what pricks you on\n" + " To take advantage of the absent time\n" + " And fright our native peace with self-born arms.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE OF YORK attended]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE I shall not need transport my words by you;\n" + " Here comes his grace in person. My noble uncle!\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Show me thy humble heart, and not thy knee,\n" + " Whose duty is deceiveable and false.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE My gracious uncle--\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Tut, tut!\n" + " Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle:\n" + " I am no traitor's uncle; and that word 'grace.'\n" + " In an ungracious mouth is but profane.\n" + " Why have those banish'd and forbidden legs\n" + " Dared once to touch a dust of England's ground?\n" + " But then more 'why?' why have they dared to march\n" + " So many miles upon her peaceful bosom,\n" + " Frighting her pale-faced villages with war\n" + " And ostentation of despised arms?\n" + " Comest thou because the anointed king is hence?\n" + " Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind,\n" + " And in my loyal bosom lies his power.\n" + " Were I but now the lord of such hot youth\n" + " As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and myself\n" + " Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars of men,\n" + " From forth the ranks of many thousand French,\n" + " O, then how quickly should this arm of mine.\n" + " Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee\n" + " And minister correction to thy fault!\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:\n" + " On what condition stands it and wherein?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Even in condition of the worst degree,\n" + " In gross rebellion and detested treason:\n" + " Thou art a banish'd man, and here art come\n" + " Before the expiration of thy time,\n" + " In braving arms against thy sovereign.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE As I was banish'd, I was banish'd Hereford;\n" + " But as I come, I come for Lancaster.\n" + " And, noble uncle, I beseech your grace\n" + " Look on my wrongs with an indifferent eye:\n" + " You are my father, for methinks in you\n" + " I see old Gaunt alive; O, then, my father,\n" + " Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd\n" + " A wandering vagabond; my rights and royalties\n" + " Pluck'd from my arms perforce and given away\n" + " To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born?\n" + " If that my cousin king be King of England,\n" + " It must be granted I am Duke of Lancaster.\n" + " You have a son, Aumerle, my noble cousin;\n" + " Had you first died, and he been thus trod down,\n" + " He should have found his uncle Gaunt a father,\n" + " To rouse his wrongs and chase them to the bay.\n" + " I am denied to sue my livery here,\n" + " And yet my letters-patents give me leave:\n" + " My father's goods are all distrain'd and sold,\n" + " And these and all are all amiss employ'd.\n" + " What would you have me do? I am a subject,\n" + " And I challenge law: attorneys are denied me;\n" + " And therefore, personally I lay my claim\n" + " To my inheritance of free descent.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND The noble duke hath been too much abused.\n\n" + "LORD ROSS It stands your grace upon to do him right.\n\n" + "LORD WILLOUGHBY Base men by his endowments are made great.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK My lords of England, let me tell you this:\n" + " I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs\n" + " And laboured all I could to do him right;\n" + " But in this kind to come, in braving arms,\n" + " Be his own carver and cut out his way,\n" + " To find out right with wrong, it may not be;\n" + " And you that do abet him in this kind\n" + " Cherish rebellion and are rebels all.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND The noble duke hath sworn his coming is\n" + " But for his own; and for the right of that\n" + " We all have strongly sworn to give him aid;\n" + " And let him ne'er see joy that breaks that oath!\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Well, well, I see the issue of these arms:\n" + " I cannot mend it, I must needs confess,\n" + " Because my power is weak and all ill left:\n" + " But if I could, by Him that gave me life,\n" + " I would attach you all and make you stoop\n" + " Unto the sovereign mercy of the king;\n" + " But since I cannot, be it known to you\n" + " I do remain as neuter. So, fare you well;\n" + " Unless you please to enter in the castle\n" + " And there repose you for this night.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE An offer, uncle, that we will accept:\n" + " But we must win your grace to go with us\n" + " To Bristol castle, which they say is held\n" + " By Bushy, Bagot and their complices,\n" + " The caterpillars of the commonwealth,\n" + " Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK It may be I will go with you: but yet I'll pause;\n" + " For I am loath to break our country's laws.\n" + " Nor friends nor foes, to me welcome you are:\n" + " Things past redress are now with me past care.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A camp in Wales.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EARL OF SALISBURY and a Welsh Captain]\n\n" + "Captain My lord of Salisbury, we have stay'd ten days,\n" + " And hardly kept our countrymen together,\n" + " And yet we hear no tidings from the king;\n" + " Therefore we will disperse ourselves: farewell.\n\n" + "EARL OF SALISBURY Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman:\n" + " The king reposeth all his confidence in thee.\n\n" + "Captain 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay.\n" + " The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd\n" + " And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven;\n" + " The pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth\n" + " And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change;\n" + " Rich men look sad and ruffians dance and leap,\n" + " The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,\n" + " The other to enjoy by rage and war:\n" + " These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.\n" + " Farewell: our countrymen are gone and fled,\n" + " As well assured Richard their king is dead.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EARL OF SALISBURY Ah, Richard, with the eyes of heavy mind\n" + " I see thy glory like a shooting star\n" + " Fall to the base earth from the firmament.\n" + " Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west,\n" + " Witnessing storms to come, woe and unrest:\n" + " Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes,\n" + " And crossly to thy good all fortune goes.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Bristol. Before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK,\n" + " NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD ROSS, HENRY PERCY, LORD\n" + " WILLOUGHBY, with BUSHY and GREEN, prisoners]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Bring forth these men.\n" + " Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls--\n" + " Since presently your souls must part your bodies--\n" + " With too much urging your pernicious lives,\n" + " For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood\n" + " From off my hands, here in the view of men\n" + " I will unfold some causes of your deaths.\n" + " You have misled a prince, a royal king,\n" + " A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,\n" + " By you unhappied and disfigured clean:\n" + " You have in manner with your sinful hours\n" + " Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,\n" + " Broke the possession of a royal bed\n" + " And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks\n" + " With tears drawn from her eyes by your foul wrongs.\n" + " Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,\n" + " Near to the king in blood, and near in love\n" + " Till you did make him misinterpret me,\n" + " Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,\n" + " And sigh'd my English breath in foreign clouds,\n" + " Eating the bitter bread of banishment;\n" + " Whilst you have fed upon my signories,\n" + " Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,\n" + " From my own windows torn my household coat,\n" + " Razed out my imprese, leaving me no sign,\n" + " Save men's opinions and my living blood,\n" + " To show the world I am a gentleman.\n" + " This and much more, much more than twice all this,\n" + " Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over\n" + " To execution and the hand of death.\n\n" + "BUSHY More welcome is the stroke of death to me\n" + " Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell.\n\n" + "GREEN My comfort is that heaven will take our souls\n" + " And plague injustice with the pains of hell.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE My Lord Northumberland, see them dispatch'd.\n\n" + " [Exeunt NORTHUMBERLAND and others, with the\n" + " prisoners]\n\n" + " Uncle, you say the queen is at your house;\n" + " For God's sake, fairly let her be entreated:\n" + " Tell her I send to her my kind commends;\n" + " Take special care my greetings be deliver'd.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd\n" + " With letters of your love to her at large.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Thank, gentle uncle. Come, lords, away.\n" + " To fight with Glendower and his complices:\n" + " Awhile to work, and after holiday.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The coast of Wales. A castle in view.\n\n\n" + " [Drums; flourish and colours. Enter KING RICHARD\n" + " II, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Barkloughly castle call they this at hand?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Yea, my lord. How brooks your grace the air,\n" + " After your late tossing on the breaking seas?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Needs must I like it well: I weep for joy\n" + " To stand upon my kingdom once again.\n" + " Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand,\n" + " Though rebels wound thee with their horses' hoofs:\n" + " As a long-parted mother with her child\n" + " Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,\n" + " So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth,\n" + " And do thee favours with my royal hands.\n" + " Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth,\n" + " Nor with thy sweets comfort his ravenous sense;\n" + " But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom,\n" + " And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way,\n" + " Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet\n" + " Which with usurping steps do trample thee:\n" + " Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies;\n" + " And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower,\n" + " Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder\n" + " Whose double tongue may with a mortal touch\n" + " Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies.\n" + " Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords:\n" + " This earth shall have a feeling and these stones\n" + " Prove armed soldiers, ere her native king\n" + " Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms.\n\n" + "BISHOP OF CARLISLE Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king\n" + " Hath power to keep you king in spite of all.\n" + " The means that heaven yields must be embraced,\n" + " And not neglected; else, if heaven would,\n" + " And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse,\n" + " The proffer'd means of succor and redress.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE He means, my lord, that we are too remiss;\n" + " Whilst Bolingbroke, through our security,\n" + " Grows strong and great in substance and in power.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Discomfortable cousin! know'st thou not\n" + " That when the searching eye of heaven is hid,\n" + " Behind the globe, that lights the lower world,\n" + " Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen\n" + " In murders and in outrage, boldly here;\n" + " But when from under this terrestrial ball\n" + " He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines\n" + " And darts his light through every guilty hole,\n" + " Then murders, treasons and detested sins,\n" + " The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs,\n" + " Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves?\n" + " So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke,\n" + " Who all this while hath revell'd in the night\n" + " Whilst we were wandering with the antipodes,\n" + " Shall see us rising in our throne, the east,\n" + " His treasons will sit blushing in his face,\n" + " Not able to endure the sight of day,\n" + " But self-affrighted tremble at his sin.\n" + " Not all the water in the rough rude sea\n" + " Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;\n" + " The breath of worldly men cannot depose\n" + " The deputy elected by the Lord:\n" + " For every man that Bolingbroke hath press'd\n" + " To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,\n" + " God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay\n" + " A glorious angel: then, if angels fight,\n" + " Weak men must fall, for heaven still guards the right.\n\n" + " [Enter EARL OF SALISBURY]\n\n" + " Welcome, my lord how far off lies your power?\n\n" + "EARL OF SALISBURY Nor near nor farther off, my gracious lord,\n" + " Than this weak arm: discomfort guides my tongue\n" + " And bids me speak of nothing but despair.\n" + " One day too late, I fear me, noble lord,\n" + " Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth:\n" + " O, call back yesterday, bid time return,\n" + " And thou shalt have twelve thousand fighting men!\n" + " To-day, to-day, unhappy day, too late,\n" + " O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state:\n" + " For all the Welshmen, hearing thou wert dead.\n" + " Are gone to Bolingbroke, dispersed and fled.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Comfort, my liege; why looks your grace so pale?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II But now the blood of twenty thousand men\n" + " Did triumph in my face, and they are fled;\n" + " And, till so much blood thither come again,\n" + " Have I not reason to look pale and dead?\n" + " All souls that will be safe fly from my side,\n" + " For time hath set a blot upon my pride.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Comfort, my liege; remember who you are.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II I had forgot myself; am I not king?\n" + " Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepest.\n" + " Is not the king's name twenty thousand names?\n" + " Arm, arm, my name! a puny subject strikes\n" + " At thy great glory. Look not to the ground,\n" + " Ye favourites of a king: are we not high?\n" + " High be our thoughts: I know my uncle York\n" + " Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter SIR STEPHEN SCROOP]\n\n" + "SIR STEPHEN SCROOP More health and happiness betide my liege\n" + " Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Mine ear is open and my heart prepared;\n" + " The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold.\n" + " Say, is my kingdom lost? why, 'twas my care\n" + " And what loss is it to be rid of care?\n" + " Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we?\n" + " Greater he shall not be; if he serve God,\n" + " We'll serve Him too and be his fellow so:\n" + " Revolt our subjects? that we cannot mend;\n" + " They break their faith to God as well as us:\n" + " Cry woe, destruction, ruin and decay:\n" + " The worst is death, and death will have his day.\n\n" + "SIR STEPHEN SCROOP Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd\n" + " To bear the tidings of calamity.\n" + " Like an unseasonable stormy day,\n" + " Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,\n" + " As if the world were all dissolved to tears,\n" + " So high above his limits swells the rage\n" + " Of Bolingbroke, covering your fearful land\n" + " With hard bright steel and hearts harder than steel.\n" + " White-beards have arm'd their thin and hairless scalps\n" + " Against thy majesty; boys, with women's voices,\n" + " Strive to speak big and clap their female joints\n" + " In stiff unwieldy arms against thy crown:\n" + " The very beadsmen learn to bend their bows\n" + " Of double-fatal yew against thy state;\n" + " Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills\n" + " Against thy seat: both young and old rebel,\n" + " And all goes worse than I have power to tell.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Too well, too well thou tell'st a tale so ill.\n" + " Where is the Earl of Wiltshire? where is Bagot?\n" + " What is become of Bushy? where is Green?\n" + " That they have let the dangerous enemy\n" + " Measure our confines with such peaceful steps?\n" + " If we prevail, their heads shall pay for it:\n" + " I warrant they have made peace with Bolingbroke.\n\n" + "SIR STEPHEN SCROOP Peace have they made with him indeed, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II O villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption!\n" + " Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man!\n" + " Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart!\n" + " Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas!\n" + " Would they make peace? terrible hell make war\n" + " Upon their spotted souls for this offence!\n\n" + "SIR STEPHEN SCROOP Sweet love, I see, changing his property,\n" + " Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate:\n" + " Again uncurse their souls; their peace is made\n" + " With heads, and not with hands; those whom you curse\n" + " Have felt the worst of death's destroying wound\n" + " And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Is Bushy, Green, and the Earl of Wiltshire dead?\n\n" + "SIR STEPHEN SCROOP Ay, all of them at Bristol lost their heads.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Where is the duke my father with his power?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II No matter where; of comfort no man speak:\n" + " Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;\n" + " Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes\n" + " Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,\n" + " Let's choose executors and talk of wills:\n" + " And yet not so, for what can we bequeath\n" + " Save our deposed bodies to the ground?\n" + " Our lands, our lives and all are Bolingbroke's,\n" + " And nothing can we call our own but death\n" + " And that small model of the barren earth\n" + " Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.\n" + " For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground\n" + " And tell sad stories of the death of kings;\n" + " How some have been deposed; some slain in war,\n" + " Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;\n" + " Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;\n" + " All murder'd: for within the hollow crown\n" + " That rounds the mortal temples of a king\n" + " Keeps Death his court and there the antic sits,\n" + " Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,\n" + " Allowing him a breath, a little scene,\n" + " To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks,\n" + " Infusing him with self and vain conceit,\n" + " As if this flesh which walls about our life,\n" + " Were brass impregnable, and humour'd thus\n" + " Comes at the last and with a little pin\n" + " Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!\n" + " Cover your heads and mock not flesh and blood\n" + " With solemn reverence: throw away respect,\n" + " Tradition, form and ceremonious duty,\n" + " For you have but mistook me all this while:\n" + " I live with bread like you, feel want,\n" + " Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus,\n" + " How can you say to me, I am a king?\n\n" + "BISHOP OF CARLISLE My lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes,\n" + " But presently prevent the ways to wail.\n" + " To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,\n" + " Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe,\n" + " And so your follies fight against yourself.\n" + " Fear and be slain; no worse can come to fight:\n" + " And fight and die is death destroying death;\n" + " Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE My father hath a power; inquire of him\n" + " And learn to make a body of a limb.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Thou chidest me well: proud Bolingbroke, I come\n" + " To change blows with thee for our day of doom.\n" + " This ague fit of fear is over-blown;\n" + " An easy task it is to win our own.\n" + " Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his power?\n" + " Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be sour.\n\n" + "SIR STEPHEN SCROOP Men judge by the complexion of the sky\n" + " The state and inclination of the day:\n" + " So may you by my dull and heavy eye,\n" + " My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say.\n" + " I play the torturer, by small and small\n" + " To lengthen out the worst that must be spoken:\n" + " Your uncle York is join'd with Bolingbroke,\n" + " And all your northern castles yielded up,\n" + " And all your southern gentlemen in arms\n" + " Upon his party.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Thou hast said enough.\n" + " Beshrew thee, cousin, which didst lead me forth\n\n" + " [To DUKE OF AUMERLE]\n\n" + " Of that sweet way I was in to despair!\n" + " What say you now? what comfort have we now?\n" + " By heaven, I'll hate him everlastingly\n" + " That bids me be of comfort any more.\n" + " Go to Flint castle: there I'll pine away;\n" + " A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey.\n" + " That power I have, discharge; and let them go\n" + " To ear the land that hath some hope to grow,\n" + " For I have none: let no man speak again\n" + " To alter this, for counsel is but vain.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE My liege, one word.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II He does me double wrong\n" + " That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.\n" + " Discharge my followers: let them hence away,\n" + " From Richard's night to Bolingbroke's fair day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Wales. Before Flint castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, with drum and colours, HENRY BOLINGBROKE,\n" + " DUKE OF YORK, NORTHUMBERLAND, Attendants, and forces]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE So that by this intelligence we learn\n" + " The Welshmen are dispersed, and Salisbury\n" + " Is gone to meet the king, who lately landed\n" + " With some few private friends upon this coast.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND The news is very fair and good, my lord:\n" + " Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK It would beseem the Lord Northumberland\n" + " To say 'King Richard:' alack the heavy day\n" + " When such a sacred king should hide his head.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Your grace mistakes; only to be brief\n" + " Left I his title out.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK The time hath been,\n" + " Would you have been so brief with him, he would\n" + " Have been so brief with you, to shorten you,\n" + " For taking so the head, your whole head's length.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Mistake not, uncle, further than you should.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Take not, good cousin, further than you should.\n" + " Lest you mistake the heavens are o'er our heads.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself\n" + " Against their will. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter HENRY PERCY]\n\n" + " Welcome, Harry: what, will not this castle yield?\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY The castle royally is mann'd, my lord,\n" + " Against thy entrance.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Royally!\n" + " Why, it contains no king?\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY Yes, my good lord,\n" + " It doth contain a king; King Richard lies\n" + " Within the limits of yon lime and stone:\n" + " And with him are the Lord Aumerle, Lord Salisbury,\n" + " Sir Stephen Scroop, besides a clergyman\n" + " Of holy reverence; who, I cannot learn.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND O, belike it is the Bishop of Carlisle.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Noble lords,\n" + " Go to the rude ribs of that ancient castle;\n" + " Through brazen trumpet send the breath of parley\n" + " Into his ruin'd ears, and thus deliver:\n" + " Henry Bolingbroke\n" + " On both his knees doth kiss King Richard's hand\n" + " And sends allegiance and true faith of heart\n" + " To his most royal person, hither come\n" + " Even at his feet to lay my arms and power,\n" + " Provided that my banishment repeal'd\n" + " And lands restored again be freely granted:\n" + " If not, I'll use the advantage of my power\n" + " And lay the summer's dust with showers of blood\n" + " Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd Englishmen:\n" + " The which, how far off from the mind of Bolingbroke\n" + " It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench\n" + " The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land,\n" + " My stooping duty tenderly shall show.\n" + " Go, signify as much, while here we march\n" + " Upon the grassy carpet of this plain.\n" + " Let's march without the noise of threatening drum,\n" + " That from this castle's tatter'd battlements\n" + " Our fair appointments may be well perused.\n" + " Methinks King Richard and myself should meet\n" + " With no less terror than the elements\n" + " Of fire and water, when their thundering shock\n" + " At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of heaven.\n" + " Be he the fire, I'll be the yielding water:\n" + " The rage be his, whilst on the earth I rain\n" + " My waters; on the earth, and not on him.\n" + " March on, and mark King Richard how he looks.\n\n" + " [Parle without, and answer within. Then a flourish.\n" + " Enter on the walls, KING RICHARD II, the BISHOP OF\n" + " CARLISLE, DUKE OF AUMERLE, SIR STEPHEN SCROOP, and\n" + " EARL OF SALISBURY]\n\n" + " See, see, King Richard doth himself appear,\n" + " As doth the blushing discontented sun\n" + " From out the fiery portal of the east,\n" + " When he perceives the envious clouds are bent\n" + " To dim his glory and to stain the track\n" + " Of his bright passage to the occident.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Yet looks he like a king: behold, his eye,\n" + " As bright as is the eagle's, lightens forth\n" + " Controlling majesty: alack, alack, for woe,\n" + " That any harm should stain so fair a show!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II We are amazed; and thus long have we stood\n" + " To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,\n\n" + " [To NORTHUMBERLAND]\n\n" + " Because we thought ourself thy lawful king:\n" + " And if we be, how dare thy joints forget\n" + " To pay their awful duty to our presence?\n" + " If we be not, show us the hand of God\n" + " That hath dismissed us from our stewardship;\n" + " For well we know, no hand of blood and bone\n" + " Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,\n" + " Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.\n" + " And though you think that all, as you have done,\n" + " Have torn their souls by turning them from us,\n" + " And we are barren and bereft of friends;\n" + " Yet know, my master, God omnipotent,\n" + " Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf\n" + " Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike\n" + " Your children yet unborn and unbegot,\n" + " That lift your vassal hands against my head\n" + " And threat the glory of my precious crown.\n" + " Tell Bolingbroke--for yond methinks he stands--\n" + " That every stride he makes upon my land\n" + " Is dangerous treason: he is come to open\n" + " The purple testament of bleeding war;\n" + " But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,\n" + " Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons\n" + " Shall ill become the flower of England's face,\n" + " Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace\n" + " To scarlet indignation and bedew\n" + " Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND The king of heaven forbid our lord the king\n" + " Should so with civil and uncivil arms\n" + " Be rush'd upon! Thy thrice noble cousin\n" + " Harry Bolingbroke doth humbly kiss thy hand;\n" + " And by the honourable tomb he swears,\n" + " That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones,\n" + " And by the royalties of both your bloods,\n" + " Currents that spring from one most gracious head,\n" + " And by the buried hand of warlike Gaunt,\n" + " And by the worth and honour of himself,\n" + " Comprising all that may be sworn or said,\n" + " His coming hither hath no further scope\n" + " Than for his lineal royalties and to beg\n" + " Enfranchisement immediate on his knees:\n" + " Which on thy royal party granted once,\n" + " His glittering arms he will commend to rust,\n" + " His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart\n" + " To faithful service of your majesty.\n" + " This swears he, as he is a prince, is just;\n" + " And, as I am a gentleman, I credit him.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Northumberland, say thus the king returns:\n" + " His noble cousin is right welcome hither;\n" + " And all the number of his fair demands\n" + " Shall be accomplish'd without contradiction:\n" + " With all the gracious utterance thou hast\n" + " Speak to his gentle hearing kind commends.\n" + " We do debase ourselves, cousin, do we not,\n\n" + " [To DUKE OF AUMERLE]\n\n" + " To look so poorly and to speak so fair?\n" + " Shall we call back Northumberland, and send\n" + " Defiance to the traitor, and so die?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words\n" + " Till time lend friends and friends their helpful swords.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II O God, O God! that e'er this tongue of mine,\n" + " That laid the sentence of dread banishment\n" + " On yon proud man, should take it off again\n" + " With words of sooth! O that I were as great\n" + " As is my grief, or lesser than my name!\n" + " Or that I could forget what I have been,\n" + " Or not remember what I must be now!\n" + " Swell'st thou, proud heart? I'll give thee scope to beat,\n" + " Since foes have scope to beat both thee and me.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Northumberland comes back from Bolingbroke.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II What must the king do now? must he submit?\n" + " The king shall do it: must he be deposed?\n" + " The king shall be contented: must he lose\n" + " The name of king? o' God's name, let it go:\n" + " I'll give my jewels for a set of beads,\n" + " My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,\n" + " My gay apparel for an almsman's gown,\n" + " My figured goblets for a dish of wood,\n" + " My sceptre for a palmer's walking staff,\n" + " My subjects for a pair of carved saints\n" + " And my large kingdom for a little grave,\n" + " A little little grave, an obscure grave;\n" + " Or I'll be buried in the king's highway,\n" + " Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet\n" + " May hourly trample on their sovereign's head;\n" + " For on my heart they tread now whilst I live;\n" + " And buried once, why not upon my head?\n" + " Aumerle, thou weep'st, my tender-hearted cousin!\n" + " We'll make foul weather with despised tears;\n" + " Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn,\n" + " And make a dearth in this revolting land.\n" + " Or shall we play the wantons with our woes,\n" + " And make some pretty match with shedding tears?\n" + " As thus, to drop them still upon one place,\n" + " Till they have fretted us a pair of graves\n" + " Within the earth; and, therein laid,--there lies\n" + " Two kinsmen digg'd their graves with weeping eyes.\n" + " Would not this ill do well? Well, well, I see\n" + " I talk but idly, and you laugh at me.\n" + " Most mighty prince, my Lord Northumberland,\n" + " What says King Bolingbroke? will his majesty\n" + " Give Richard leave to live till Richard die?\n" + " You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ay.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND My lord, in the base court he doth attend\n" + " To speak with you; may it please you to come down.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon,\n" + " Wanting the manage of unruly jades.\n" + " In the base court? Base court, where kings grow base,\n" + " To come at traitors' calls and do them grace.\n" + " In the base court? Come down? Down, court!\n" + " down, king!\n" + " For night-owls shriek where mounting larks\n" + " should sing.\n\n" + " [Exeunt from above]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE What says his majesty?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Sorrow and grief of heart\n" + " Makes him speak fondly, like a frantic man\n" + " Yet he is come.\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD and his attendants below]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Stand all apart,\n" + " And show fair duty to his majesty.\n\n" + " [He kneels down]\n\n" + " My gracious lord,--\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Fair cousin, you debase your princely knee\n" + " To make the base earth proud with kissing it:\n" + " Me rather had my heart might feel your love\n" + " Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.\n" + " Up, cousin, up; your heart is up, I know,\n" + " Thus high at least, although your knee be low.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE My gracious lord, I come but for mine own.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Your own is yours, and I am yours, and all.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,\n" + " As my true service shall deserve your love.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,\n" + " That know the strong'st and surest way to get.\n" + " Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes;\n" + " Tears show their love, but want their remedies.\n" + " Cousin, I am too young to be your father,\n" + " Though you are old enough to be my heir.\n" + " What you will have, I'll give, and willing too;\n" + " For do we must what force will have us do.\n" + " Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Yea, my good lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Then I must not say no.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV LANGLEY. The DUKE OF YORK's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the QUEEN and two Ladies]\n\n" + "QUEEN What sport shall we devise here in this garden,\n" + " To drive away the heavy thought of care?\n\n" + "Lady Madam, we'll play at bowls.\n\n" + "QUEEN 'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,\n" + " And that my fortune rubs against the bias.\n\n" + "Lady Madam, we'll dance.\n\n" + "QUEEN My legs can keep no measure in delight,\n" + " When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:\n" + " Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport.\n\n" + "Lady Madam, we'll tell tales.\n\n" + "QUEEN Of sorrow or of joy?\n\n" + "Lady Of either, madam.\n\n" + "QUEEN Of neither, girl:\n" + " For of joy, being altogether wanting,\n" + " It doth remember me the more of sorrow;\n" + " Or if of grief, being altogether had,\n" + " It adds more sorrow to my want of joy:\n" + " For what I have I need not to repeat;\n" + " And what I want it boots not to complain.\n\n" + "Lady Madam, I'll sing.\n\n" + "QUEEN 'Tis well that thou hast cause\n" + " But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep.\n\n" + "Lady I could weep, madam, would it do you good.\n\n" + "QUEEN And I could sing, would weeping do me good,\n" + " And never borrow any tear of thee.\n\n" + " [Enter a Gardener, and two Servants]\n\n" + " But stay, here come the gardeners:\n" + " Let's step into the shadow of these trees.\n" + " My wretchedness unto a row of pins,\n" + " They'll talk of state; for every one doth so\n" + " Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.\n\n" + " [QUEEN and Ladies retire]\n\n" + "Gardener Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,\n" + " Which, like unruly children, make their sire\n" + " Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:\n" + " Give some supportance to the bending twigs.\n" + " Go thou, and like an executioner,\n" + " Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,\n" + " That look too lofty in our commonwealth:\n" + " All must be even in our government.\n" + " You thus employ'd, I will go root away\n" + " The noisome weeds, which without profit suck\n" + " The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.\n\n" + "Servant Why should we in the compass of a pale\n" + " Keep law and form and due proportion,\n" + " Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,\n" + " When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,\n" + " Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,\n" + " Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,\n" + " Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs\n" + " Swarming with caterpillars?\n\n" + "Gardener Hold thy peace:\n" + " He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring\n" + " Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:\n" + " The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,\n" + " That seem'd in eating him to hold him up,\n" + " Are pluck'd up root and all by Bolingbroke,\n" + " I mean the Earl of Wiltshire, Bushy, Green.\n\n" + "Servant What, are they dead?\n\n" + "Gardener They are; and Bolingbroke\n" + " Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it\n" + " That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his land\n" + " As we this garden! We at time of year\n" + " Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit-trees,\n" + " Lest, being over-proud in sap and blood,\n" + " With too much riches it confound itself:\n" + " Had he done so to great and growing men,\n" + " They might have lived to bear and he to taste\n" + " Their fruits of duty: superfluous branches\n" + " We lop away, that bearing boughs may live:\n" + " Had he done so, himself had borne the crown,\n" + " Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down.\n\n" + "Servant What, think you then the king shall be deposed?\n\n" + "Gardener Depress'd he is already, and deposed\n" + " 'Tis doubt he will be: letters came last night\n" + " To a dear friend of the good Duke of York's,\n" + " That tell black tidings.\n\n" + "QUEEN O, I am press'd to death through want of speaking!\n\n" + " [Coming forward]\n\n" + " Thou, old Adam's likeness, set to dress this garden,\n" + " How dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news?\n" + " What Eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee\n" + " To make a second fall of cursed man?\n" + " Why dost thou say King Richard is deposed?\n" + " Darest thou, thou little better thing than earth,\n" + " Divine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how,\n" + " Camest thou by this ill tidings? speak, thou wretch.\n\n" + "Gardener Pardon me, madam: little joy have I\n" + " To breathe this news; yet what I say is true.\n" + " King Richard, he is in the mighty hold\n" + " Of Bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weigh'd:\n" + " In your lord's scale is nothing but himself,\n" + " And some few vanities that make him light;\n" + " But in the balance of great Bolingbroke,\n" + " Besides himself, are all the English peers,\n" + " And with that odds he weighs King Richard down.\n" + " Post you to London, and you will find it so;\n" + " I speak no more than every one doth know.\n\n" + "QUEEN Nimble mischance, that art so light of foot,\n" + " Doth not thy embassage belong to me,\n" + " And am I last that knows it? O, thou think'st\n" + " To serve me last, that I may longest keep\n" + " Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go,\n" + " To meet at London London's king in woe.\n" + " What, was I born to this, that my sad look\n" + " Should grace the triumph of great Bolingbroke?\n" + " Gardener, for telling me these news of woe,\n" + " Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt QUEEN and Ladies]\n\n" + "GARDENER Poor queen! so that thy state might be no worse,\n" + " I would my skill were subject to thy curse.\n" + " Here did she fall a tear; here in this place\n" + " I'll set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace:\n" + " Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be seen,\n" + " In the remembrance of a weeping queen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Westminster Hall.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, as to the Parliament, HENRY BOLINGBROKE,\n" + " DUKE OF AUMERLE, NORTHUMBERLAND, HENRY PERCY, LORD\n" + " FITZWATER, DUKE OF SURREY, the BISHOP OF CARLISLE,\n" + " the Abbot Of Westminster, and another Lord, Herald,\n" + " Officers, and BAGOT]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Call forth Bagot.\n" + " Now, Bagot, freely speak thy mind;\n" + " What thou dost know of noble Gloucester's death,\n" + " Who wrought it with the king, and who perform'd\n" + " The bloody office of his timeless end.\n\n" + "BAGOT Then set before my face the Lord Aumerle.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Cousin, stand forth, and look upon that man.\n\n" + "BAGOT My Lord Aumerle, I know your daring tongue\n" + " Scorns to unsay what once it hath deliver'd.\n" + " In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted,\n" + " I heard you say, 'Is not my arm of length,\n" + " That reacheth from the restful English court\n" + " As far as Calais, to mine uncle's head?'\n" + " Amongst much other talk, that very time,\n" + " I heard you say that you had rather refuse\n" + " The offer of an hundred thousand crowns\n" + " Than Bolingbroke's return to England;\n" + " Adding withal how blest this land would be\n" + " In this your cousin's death.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Princes and noble lords,\n" + " What answer shall I make to this base man?\n" + " Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars,\n" + " On equal terms to give him chastisement?\n" + " Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd\n" + " With the attainder of his slanderous lips.\n" + " There is my gage, the manual seal of death,\n" + " That marks thee out for hell: I say, thou liest,\n" + " And will maintain what thou hast said is false\n" + " In thy heart-blood, though being all too base\n" + " To stain the temper of my knightly sword.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Bagot, forbear; thou shalt not take it up.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Excepting one, I would he were the best\n" + " In all this presence that hath moved me so.\n\n" + "LORD FITZWATER If that thy valour stand on sympathy,\n" + " There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine:\n" + " By that fair sun which shows me where thou stand'st,\n" + " I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spakest it\n" + " That thou wert cause of noble Gloucester's death.\n" + " If thou deny'st it twenty times, thou liest;\n" + " And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart,\n" + " Where it was forged, with my rapier's point.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Thou darest not, coward, live to see that day.\n\n" + "LORD FITZWATER Now by my soul, I would it were this hour.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Fitzwater, thou art damn'd to hell for this.\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY Aumerle, thou liest; his honour is as true\n" + " In this appeal as thou art all unjust;\n" + " And that thou art so, there I throw my gage,\n" + " To prove it on thee to the extremest point\n" + " Of mortal breathing: seize it, if thou darest.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE An if I do not, may my hands rot off\n" + " And never brandish more revengeful steel\n" + " Over the glittering helmet of my foe!\n\n" + "Lord I task the earth to the like, forsworn Aumerle;\n" + " And spur thee on with full as many lies\n" + " As may be holloa'd in thy treacherous ear\n" + " From sun to sun: there is my honour's pawn;\n" + " Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Who sets me else? by heaven, I'll throw at all:\n" + " I have a thousand spirits in one breast,\n" + " To answer twenty thousand such as you.\n\n" + "DUKE OF SURREY My Lord Fitzwater, I do remember well\n" + " The very time Aumerle and you did talk.\n\n" + "LORD FITZWATER 'Tis very true: you were in presence then;\n" + " And you can witness with me this is true.\n\n" + "DUKE OF SURREY As false, by heaven, as heaven itself is true.\n\n" + "LORD FITZWATER Surrey, thou liest.\n\n" + "DUKE OF SURREY Dishonourable boy!\n" + " That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword,\n" + " That it shall render vengeance and revenge\n" + " Till thou the lie-giver and that lie do lie\n" + " In earth as quiet as thy father's skull:\n" + " In proof whereof, there is my honour's pawn;\n" + " Engage it to the trial, if thou darest.\n\n" + "LORD FITZWATER How fondly dost thou spur a forward horse!\n" + " If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live,\n" + " I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness,\n" + " And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies,\n" + " And lies, and lies: there is my bond of faith,\n" + " To tie thee to my strong correction.\n" + " As I intend to thrive in this new world,\n" + " Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal:\n" + " Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say\n" + " That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy men\n" + " To execute the noble duke at Calais.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Some honest Christian trust me with a gage\n" + " That Norfolk lies: here do I throw down this,\n" + " If he may be repeal'd, to try his honour.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE These differences shall all rest under gage\n" + " Till Norfolk be repeal'd: repeal'd he shall be,\n" + " And, though mine enemy, restored again\n" + " To all his lands and signories: when he's return'd,\n" + " Against Aumerle we will enforce his trial.\n\n" + "BISHOP OF CARLISLE That honourable day shall ne'er be seen.\n" + " Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought\n" + " For Jesu Christ in glorious Christian field,\n" + " Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross\n" + " Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens:\n" + " And toil'd with works of war, retired himself\n" + " To Italy; and there at Venice gave\n" + " His body to that pleasant country's earth,\n" + " And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,\n" + " Under whose colours he had fought so long.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Why, bishop, is Norfolk dead?\n\n" + "BISHOP OF CARLISLE As surely as I live, my lord.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom\n" + " Of good old Abraham! Lords appellants,\n" + " Your differences shall all rest under gage\n" + " Till we assign you to your days of trial.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE OF YORK, attended]\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Great Duke of Lancaster, I come to thee\n" + " From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with willing soul\n" + " Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields\n" + " To the possession of thy royal hand:\n" + " Ascend his throne, descending now from him;\n" + " And long live Henry, fourth of that name!\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE In God's name, I'll ascend the regal throne.\n\n" + "BISHOP OF CARLISLE Marry. God forbid!\n" + " Worst in this royal presence may I speak,\n" + " Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth.\n" + " Would God that any in this noble presence\n" + " Were enough noble to be upright judge\n" + " Of noble Richard! then true noblesse would\n" + " Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong.\n" + " What subject can give sentence on his king?\n" + " And who sits here that is not Richard's subject?\n" + " Thieves are not judged but they are by to hear,\n" + " Although apparent guilt be seen in them;\n" + " And shall the figure of God's majesty,\n" + " His captain, steward, deputy-elect,\n" + " Anointed, crowned, planted many years,\n" + " Be judged by subject and inferior breath,\n" + " And he himself not present? O, forfend it, God,\n" + " That in a Christian climate souls refined\n" + " Should show so heinous, black, obscene a deed!\n" + " I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks,\n" + " Stirr'd up by God, thus boldly for his king:\n" + " My Lord of Hereford here, whom you call king,\n" + " Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king:\n" + " And if you crown him, let me prophesy:\n" + " The blood of English shall manure the ground,\n" + " And future ages groan for this foul act;\n" + " Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels,\n" + " And in this seat of peace tumultuous wars\n" + " Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound;\n" + " Disorder, horror, fear and mutiny\n" + " Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd\n" + " The field of Golgotha and dead men's skulls.\n" + " O, if you raise this house against this house,\n" + " It will the woefullest division prove\n" + " That ever fell upon this cursed earth.\n" + " Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so,\n" + " Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe!\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Well have you argued, sir; and, for your pains,\n" + " Of capital treason we arrest you here.\n" + " My Lord of Westminster, be it your charge\n" + " To keep him safely till his day of trial.\n" + " May it please you, lords, to grant the commons' suit.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Fetch hither Richard, that in common view\n" + " He may surrender; so we shall proceed\n" + " Without suspicion.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK I will be his conduct.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Lords, you that here are under our arrest,\n" + " Procure your sureties for your days of answer.\n" + " Little are we beholding to your love,\n" + " And little look'd for at your helping hands.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DUKE OF YORK, with KING RICHARD II, and\n" + " Officers bearing the regalia]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Alack, why am I sent for to a king,\n" + " Before I have shook off the regal thoughts\n" + " Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have learn'd\n" + " To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my limbs:\n" + " Give sorrow leave awhile to tutor me\n" + " To this submission. Yet I well remember\n" + " The favours of these men: were they not mine?\n" + " Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me?\n" + " So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,\n" + " Found truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand, none.\n" + " God save the king! Will no man say amen?\n" + " Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen.\n" + " God save the king! although I be not he;\n" + " And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.\n" + " To do what service am I sent for hither?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK To do that office of thine own good will\n" + " Which tired majesty did make thee offer,\n" + " The resignation of thy state and crown\n" + " To Henry Bolingbroke.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Give me the crown. Here, cousin, seize the crown;\n" + " Here cousin:\n" + " On this side my hand, and on that side yours.\n" + " Now is this golden crown like a deep well\n" + " That owes two buckets, filling one another,\n" + " The emptier ever dancing in the air,\n" + " The other down, unseen and full of water:\n" + " That bucket down and full of tears am I,\n" + " Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on high.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE I thought you had been willing to resign.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II My crown I am; but still my griefs are mine:\n" + " You may my glories and my state depose,\n" + " But not my griefs; still am I king of those.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Part of your cares you give me with your crown.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Your cares set up do not pluck my cares down.\n" + " My care is loss of care, by old care done;\n" + " Your care is gain of care, by new care won:\n" + " The cares I give I have, though given away;\n" + " They tend the crown, yet still with me they stay.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Are you contented to resign the crown?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Ay, no; no, ay; for I must nothing be;\n" + " Therefore no no, for I resign to thee.\n" + " Now mark me, how I will undo myself;\n" + " I give this heavy weight from off my head\n" + " And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand,\n" + " The pride of kingly sway from out my heart;\n" + " With mine own tears I wash away my balm,\n" + " With mine own hands I give away my crown,\n" + " With mine own tongue deny my sacred state,\n" + " With mine own breath release all duty's rites:\n" + " All pomp and majesty I do forswear;\n" + " My manors, rents, revenues I forego;\n" + " My acts, decrees, and statutes I deny:\n" + " God pardon all oaths that are broke to me!\n" + " God keep all vows unbroke that swear to thee!\n" + " Make me, that nothing have, with nothing grieved,\n" + " And thou with all pleased, that hast all achieved!\n" + " Long mayst thou live in Richard's seat to sit,\n" + " And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit!\n" + " God save King Harry, unking'd Richard says,\n" + " And send him many years of sunshine days!\n" + " What more remains?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND No more, but that you read\n" + " These accusations and these grievous crimes\n" + " Committed by your person and your followers\n" + " Against the state and profit of this land;\n" + " That, by confessing them, the souls of men\n" + " May deem that you are worthily deposed.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Must I do so? and must I ravel out\n" + " My weaved-up folly? Gentle Northumberland,\n" + " If thy offences were upon record,\n" + " Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop\n" + " To read a lecture of them? If thou wouldst,\n" + " There shouldst thou find one heinous article,\n" + " Containing the deposing of a king\n" + " And cracking the strong warrant of an oath,\n" + " Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of heaven:\n" + " Nay, all of you that stand and look upon,\n" + " Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait myself,\n" + " Though some of you with Pilate wash your hands\n" + " Showing an outward pity; yet you Pilates\n" + " Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross,\n" + " And water cannot wash away your sin.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND My lord, dispatch; read o'er these articles.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Mine eyes are full of tears, I cannot see:\n" + " And yet salt water blinds them not so much\n" + " But they can see a sort of traitors here.\n" + " Nay, if I turn mine eyes upon myself,\n" + " I find myself a traitor with the rest;\n" + " For I have given here my soul's consent\n" + " To undeck the pompous body of a king;\n" + " Made glory base and sovereignty a slave,\n" + " Proud majesty a subject, state a peasant.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND My lord,--\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II No lord of thine, thou haught insulting man,\n" + " Nor no man's lord; I have no name, no title,\n" + " No, not that name was given me at the font,\n" + " But 'tis usurp'd: alack the heavy day,\n" + " That I have worn so many winters out,\n" + " And know not now what name to call myself!\n" + " O that I were a mockery king of snow,\n" + " Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,\n" + " To melt myself away in water-drops!\n" + " Good king, great king, and yet not greatly good,\n" + " An if my word be sterling yet in England,\n" + " Let it command a mirror hither straight,\n" + " That it may show me what a face I have,\n" + " Since it is bankrupt of his majesty.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Go some of you and fetch a looking-glass.\n\n" + " [Exit an attendant]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND Read o'er this paper while the glass doth come.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Fiend, thou torment'st me ere I come to hell!\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Urge it no more, my Lord Northumberland.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND The commons will not then be satisfied.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II They shall be satisfied: I'll read enough,\n" + " When I do see the very book indeed\n" + " Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Attendant, with a glass]\n\n" + " Give me the glass, and therein will I read.\n" + " No deeper wrinkles yet? hath sorrow struck\n" + " So many blows upon this face of mine,\n" + " And made no deeper wounds? O flattering glass,\n" + " Like to my followers in prosperity,\n" + " Thou dost beguile me! Was this face the face\n" + " That every day under his household roof\n" + " Did keep ten thousand men? was this the face\n" + " That, like the sun, did make beholders wink?\n" + " Was this the face that faced so many follies,\n" + " And was at last out-faced by Bolingbroke?\n" + " A brittle glory shineth in this face:\n" + " As brittle as the glory is the face;\n\n" + " [Dashes the glass against the ground]\n\n" + " For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers.\n" + " Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport,\n" + " How soon my sorrow hath destroy'd my face.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE The shadow of your sorrow hath destroy'd\n" + " The shadow or your face.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Say that again.\n" + " The shadow of my sorrow! ha! let's see:\n" + " 'Tis very true, my grief lies all within;\n" + " And these external manners of laments\n" + " Are merely shadows to the unseen grief\n" + " That swells with silence in the tortured soul;\n" + " There lies the substance: and I thank thee, king,\n" + " For thy great bounty, that not only givest\n" + " Me cause to wail but teachest me the way\n" + " How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon,\n" + " And then be gone and trouble you no more.\n" + " Shall I obtain it?\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Name it, fair cousin.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II 'Fair cousin'? I am greater than a king:\n" + " For when I was a king, my flatterers\n" + " Were then but subjects; being now a subject,\n" + " I have a king here to my flatterer.\n" + " Being so great, I have no need to beg.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Yet ask.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II And shall I have?\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE You shall.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Then give me leave to go.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Whither?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Whither you will, so I were from your sights.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Go, some of you convey him to the Tower.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II O, good! convey? conveyers are you all,\n" + " That rise thus nimbly by a true king's fall.\n\n" + " [Exeunt KING RICHARD II, some Lords, and a Guard]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE On Wednesday next we solemnly set down\n" + " Our coronation: lords, prepare yourselves.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except the BISHOP OF CARLISLE, the Abbot\n" + " of Westminster, and DUKE OF AUMERLE]\n\n" + "Abbot A woeful pageant have we here beheld.\n\n" + "BISHOP OF CARLISLE The woe's to come; the children yet unborn.\n" + " Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE You holy clergymen, is there no plot\n" + " To rid the realm of this pernicious blot?\n\n" + "Abbot My lord,\n" + " Before I freely speak my mind herein,\n" + " You shall not only take the sacrament\n" + " To bury mine intents, but also to effect\n" + " Whatever I shall happen to devise.\n" + " I see your brows are full of discontent,\n" + " Your hearts of sorrow and your eyes of tears:\n" + " Come home with me to supper; and I'll lay\n" + " A plot shall show us all a merry day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. A street leading to the Tower.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN and Ladies]\n\n" + "QUEEN This way the king will come; this is the way\n" + " To Julius Caesar's ill-erected tower,\n" + " To whose flint bosom my condemned lord\n" + " Is doom'd a prisoner by proud Bolingbroke:\n" + " Here let us rest, if this rebellious earth\n" + " Have any resting for her true king's queen.\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD II and Guard]\n\n" + " But soft, but see, or rather do not see,\n" + " My fair rose wither: yet look up, behold,\n" + " That you in pity may dissolve to dew,\n" + " And wash him fresh again with true-love tears.\n" + " Ah, thou, the model where old Troy did stand,\n" + " Thou map of honour, thou King Richard's tomb,\n" + " And not King Richard; thou most beauteous inn,\n" + " Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodged in thee,\n" + " When triumph is become an alehouse guest?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,\n" + " To make my end too sudden: learn, good soul,\n" + " To think our former state a happy dream;\n" + " From which awaked, the truth of what we are\n" + " Shows us but this: I am sworn brother, sweet,\n" + " To grim Necessity, and he and I\n" + " Will keep a league till death. Hie thee to France\n" + " And cloister thee in some religious house:\n" + " Our holy lives must win a new world's crown,\n" + " Which our profane hours here have stricken down.\n\n" + "QUEEN What, is my Richard both in shape and mind\n" + " Transform'd and weaken'd? hath Bolingbroke deposed\n" + " Thine intellect? hath he been in thy heart?\n" + " The lion dying thrusteth forth his paw,\n" + " And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage\n" + " To be o'erpower'd; and wilt thou, pupil-like,\n" + " Take thy correction mildly, kiss the rod,\n" + " And fawn on rage with base humility,\n" + " Which art a lion and a king of beasts?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II A king of beasts, indeed; if aught but beasts,\n" + " I had been still a happy king of men.\n" + " Good sometime queen, prepare thee hence for France:\n" + " Think I am dead and that even here thou takest,\n" + " As from my death-bed, thy last living leave.\n" + " In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire\n" + " With good old folks and let them tell thee tales\n" + " Of woeful ages long ago betid;\n" + " And ere thou bid good night, to quit their griefs,\n" + " Tell thou the lamentable tale of me\n" + " And send the hearers weeping to their beds:\n" + " For why, the senseless brands will sympathize\n" + " The heavy accent of thy moving tongue\n" + " And in compassion weep the fire out;\n" + " And some will mourn in ashes, some coal-black,\n" + " For the deposing of a rightful king.\n\n" + " [Enter NORTHUMBERLAND and others]\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND My lord, the mind of Bolingbroke is changed:\n" + " You must to Pomfret, not unto the Tower.\n" + " And, madam, there is order ta'en for you;\n" + " With all swift speed you must away to France.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal\n" + " The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne,\n" + " The time shall not be many hours of age\n" + " More than it is ere foul sin gathering head\n" + " Shalt break into corruption: thou shalt think,\n" + " Though he divide the realm and give thee half,\n" + " It is too little, helping him to all;\n" + " And he shall think that thou, which know'st the way\n" + " To plant unrightful kings, wilt know again,\n" + " Being ne'er so little urged, another way\n" + " To pluck him headlong from the usurped throne.\n" + " The love of wicked men converts to fear;\n" + " That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both\n" + " To worthy danger and deserved death.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND My guilt be on my head, and there an end.\n" + " Take leave and part; for you must part forthwith.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate\n" + " A twofold marriage, 'twixt my crown and me,\n" + " And then betwixt me and my married wife.\n" + " Let me unkiss the oath 'twixt thee and me;\n" + " And yet not so, for with a kiss 'twas made.\n" + " Part us, Northumberland; I toward the north,\n" + " Where shivering cold and sickness pines the clime;\n" + " My wife to France: from whence, set forth in pomp,\n" + " She came adorned hither like sweet May,\n" + " Sent back like Hallowmas or short'st of day.\n\n" + "QUEEN And must we be divided? must we part?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Ay, hand from hand, my love, and heart from heart.\n\n" + "QUEEN Banish us both and send the king with me.\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND That were some love but little policy.\n\n" + "QUEEN Then whither he goes, thither let me go.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II So two, together weeping, make one woe.\n" + " Weep thou for me in France, I for thee here;\n" + " Better far off than near, be ne'er the near.\n" + " Go, count thy way with sighs; I mine with groans.\n\n" + "QUEEN So longest way shall have the longest moans.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short,\n" + " And piece the way out with a heavy heart.\n" + " Come, come, in wooing sorrow let's be brief,\n" + " Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief;\n" + " One kiss shall stop our mouths, and dumbly part;\n" + " Thus give I mine, and thus take I thy heart.\n\n" + "QUEEN Give me mine own again; 'twere no good part\n" + " To take on me to keep and kill thy heart.\n" + " So, now I have mine own again, be gone,\n" + " That I might strive to kill it with a groan.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II We make woe wanton with this fond delay:\n" + " Once more, adieu; the rest let sorrow say.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The DUKE OF YORK's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE OF YORK and DUCHESS OF YORK]\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK My lord, you told me you would tell the rest,\n" + " When weeping made you break the story off,\n" + " of our two cousins coming into London.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Where did I leave?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK At that sad stop, my lord,\n" + " Where rude misgovern'd hands from windows' tops\n" + " Threw dust and rubbish on King Richard's head.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Then, as I said, the duke, great Bolingbroke,\n" + " Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed\n" + " Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know,\n" + " With slow but stately pace kept on his course,\n" + " Whilst all tongues cried 'God save thee,\n" + " Bolingbroke!'\n" + " You would have thought the very windows spake,\n" + " So many greedy looks of young and old\n" + " Through casements darted their desiring eyes\n" + " Upon his visage, and that all the walls\n" + " With painted imagery had said at once\n" + " 'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke!'\n" + " Whilst he, from the one side to the other turning,\n" + " Bareheaded, lower than his proud steed's neck,\n" + " Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen:'\n" + " And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Alack, poor Richard! where rode he the whilst?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK As in a theatre, the eyes of men,\n" + " After a well-graced actor leaves the stage,\n" + " Are idly bent on him that enters next,\n" + " Thinking his prattle to be tedious;\n" + " Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes\n" + " Did scowl on gentle Richard; no man cried 'God save him!'\n" + " No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home:\n" + " But dust was thrown upon his sacred head:\n" + " Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,\n" + " His face still combating with tears and smiles,\n" + " The badges of his grief and patience,\n" + " That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd\n" + " The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted\n" + " And barbarism itself have pitied him.\n" + " But heaven hath a hand in these events,\n" + " To whose high will we bound our calm contents.\n" + " To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects now,\n" + " Whose state and honour I for aye allow.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Here comes my son Aumerle.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Aumerle that was;\n" + " But that is lost for being Richard's friend,\n" + " And, madam, you must call him Rutland now:\n" + " I am in parliament pledge for his truth\n" + " And lasting fealty to the new-made king.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE]\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Welcome, my son: who are the violets now\n" + " That strew the green lap of the new come spring?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Madam, I know not, nor I greatly care not:\n" + " God knows I had as lief be none as one.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Well, bear you well in this new spring of time,\n" + " Lest you be cropp'd before you come to prime.\n" + " What news from Oxford? hold those justs and triumphs?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE For aught I know, my lord, they do.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK You will be there, I know.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE If God prevent not, I purpose so.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK What seal is that, that hangs without thy bosom?\n" + " Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writing.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE My lord, 'tis nothing.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK No matter, then, who see it;\n" + " I will be satisfied; let me see the writing.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE I do beseech your grace to pardon me:\n" + " It is a matter of small consequence,\n" + " Which for some reasons I would not have seen.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Which for some reasons, sir, I mean to see.\n" + " I fear, I fear,--\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK What should you fear?\n" + " 'Tis nothing but some bond, that he is enter'd into\n" + " For gay apparel 'gainst the triumph day.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Bound to himself! what doth he with a bond\n" + " That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.\n" + " Boy, let me see the writing.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE I do beseech you, pardon me; I may not show it.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK I will be satisfied; let me see it, I say.\n\n" + " [He plucks it out of his bosom and reads it]\n\n" + " Treason! foul treason! Villain! traitor! slave!\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK What is the matter, my lord?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Ho! who is within there?\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + " Saddle my horse.\n" + " God for his mercy, what treachery is here!\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Why, what is it, my lord?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Give me my boots, I say; saddle my horse.\n" + " Now, by mine honour, by my life, by my troth,\n" + " I will appeach the villain.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK What is the matter?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Peace, foolish woman.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I will not peace. What is the matter, Aumerle.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Good mother, be content; it is no more\n" + " Than my poor life must answer.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Thy life answer!\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Bring me my boots: I will unto the king.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servant with boots]\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Strike him, Aumerle. Poor boy, thou art amazed.\n" + " Hence, villain! never more come in my sight.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Give me my boots, I say.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Why, York, what wilt thou do?\n" + " Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine own?\n" + " Have we more sons? or are we like to have?\n" + " Is not my teeming date drunk up with time?\n" + " And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine age,\n" + " And rob me of a happy mother's name?\n" + " Is he not like thee? is he not thine own?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Thou fond mad woman,\n" + " Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy?\n" + " A dozen of them here have ta'en the sacrament,\n" + " And interchangeably set down their hands,\n" + " To kill the king at Oxford.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK He shall be none;\n" + " We'll keep him here: then what is that to him?\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Away, fond woman! were he twenty times my son,\n" + " I would appeach him.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Hadst thou groan'd for him\n" + " As I have done, thou wouldst be more pitiful.\n" + " But now I know thy mind; thou dost suspect\n" + " That I have been disloyal to thy bed,\n" + " And that he is a bastard, not thy son:\n" + " Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that mind:\n" + " He is as like thee as a man may be,\n" + " Not like to me, or any of my kin,\n" + " And yet I love him.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Make way, unruly woman!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK After, Aumerle! mount thee upon his horse;\n" + " Spur post, and get before him to the king,\n" + " And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee.\n" + " I'll not be long behind; though I be old,\n" + " I doubt not but to ride as fast as York:\n" + " And never will I rise up from the ground\n" + " Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee. Away, be gone!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A royal palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, HENRY PERCY, and other Lords]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?\n" + " 'Tis full three months since I did see him last;\n" + " If any plague hang over us, 'tis he.\n" + " I would to God, my lords, he might be found:\n" + " Inquire at London, 'mongst the taverns there,\n" + " For there, they say, he daily doth frequent,\n" + " With unrestrained loose companions,\n" + " Even such, they say, as stand in narrow lanes,\n" + " And beat our watch, and rob our passengers;\n" + " Which he, young wanton and effeminate boy,\n" + " Takes on the point of honour to support\n" + " So dissolute a crew.\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY My lord, some two days since I saw the prince,\n" + " And told him of those triumphs held at Oxford.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE And what said the gallant?\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY His answer was, he would unto the stews,\n" + " And from the common'st creature pluck a glove,\n" + " And wear it as a favour; and with that\n" + " He would unhorse the lustiest challenger.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE As dissolute as desperate; yet through both\n" + " I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years\n" + " May happily bring forth. But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE OF AUMERLE]\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Where is the king?\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE What means our cousin, that he stares and looks\n" + " So wildly?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE God save your grace! I do beseech your majesty,\n" + " To have some conference with your grace alone.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Withdraw yourselves, and leave us here alone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt HENRY PERCY and Lords]\n\n" + " What is the matter with our cousin now?\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE For ever may my knees grow to the earth,\n" + " My tongue cleave to my roof within my mouth\n" + " Unless a pardon ere I rise or speak.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Intended or committed was this fault?\n" + " If on the first, how heinous e'er it be,\n" + " To win thy after-love I pardon thee.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Then give me leave that I may turn the key,\n" + " That no man enter till my tale be done.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Have thy desire.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK [Within] My liege, beware; look to thyself;\n" + " Thou hast a traitor in thy presence there.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Villain, I'll make thee safe.\n\n" + " [Drawing]\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Stay thy revengeful hand; thou hast no cause to fear.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK [Within] Open the door, secure, foolhardy king:\n" + " Shall I for love speak treason to thy face?\n" + " Open the door, or I will break it open.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE OF YORK]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE What is the matter, uncle? speak;\n" + " Recover breath; tell us how near is danger,\n" + " That we may arm us to encounter it.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Peruse this writing here, and thou shalt know\n" + " The treason that my haste forbids me show.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Remember, as thou read'st, thy promise pass'd:\n" + " I do repent me; read not my name there\n" + " My heart is not confederate with my hand.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK It was, villain, ere thy hand did set it down.\n" + " I tore it from the traitor's bosom, king;\n" + " Fear, and not love, begets his penitence:\n" + " Forget to pity him, lest thy pity prove\n" + " A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE O heinous, strong and bold conspiracy!\n" + " O loyal father of a treacherous son!\n" + " Thou sheer, immaculate and silver fountain,\n" + " From when this stream through muddy passages\n" + " Hath held his current and defiled himself!\n" + " Thy overflow of good converts to bad,\n" + " And thy abundant goodness shall excuse\n" + " This deadly blot in thy digressing son.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK So shall my virtue be his vice's bawd;\n" + " And he shall spend mine honour with his shame,\n" + " As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold.\n" + " Mine honour lives when his dishonour dies,\n" + " Or my shamed life in his dishonour lies:\n" + " Thou kill'st me in his life; giving him breath,\n" + " The traitor lives, the true man's put to death.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK [Within] What ho, my liege! for God's sake,\n" + " let me in.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK A woman, and thy aunt, great king; 'tis I.\n" + " Speak with me, pity me, open the door.\n" + " A beggar begs that never begg'd before.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Our scene is alter'd from a serious thing,\n" + " And now changed to 'The Beggar and the King.'\n" + " My dangerous cousin, let your mother in:\n" + " I know she is come to pray for your foul sin.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK If thou do pardon, whosoever pray,\n" + " More sins for this forgiveness prosper may.\n" + " This fester'd joint cut off, the rest rest sound;\n" + " This let alone will all the rest confound.\n\n" + " [Enter DUCHESS OF YORK]\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK O king, believe not this hard-hearted man!\n" + " Love loving not itself none other can.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Thou frantic woman, what dost thou make here?\n" + " Shall thy old dugs once more a traitor rear?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Sweet York, be patient. Hear me, gentle liege.\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Rise up, good aunt.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Not yet, I thee beseech:\n" + " For ever will I walk upon my knees,\n" + " And never see day that the happy sees,\n" + " Till thou give joy; until thou bid me joy,\n" + " By pardoning Rutland, my transgressing boy.\n\n" + "DUKE OF AUMERLE Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Against them both my true joints bended be.\n" + " Ill mayst thou thrive, if thou grant any grace!\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Pleads he in earnest? look upon his face;\n" + " His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in jest;\n" + " His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast:\n" + " He prays but faintly and would be denied;\n" + " We pray with heart and soul and all beside:\n" + " His weary joints would gladly rise, I know;\n" + " Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow:\n" + " His prayers are full of false hypocrisy;\n" + " Ours of true zeal and deep integrity.\n" + " Our prayers do out-pray his; then let them have\n" + " That mercy which true prayer ought to have.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Good aunt, stand up.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Nay, do not say, 'stand up;'\n" + " Say, 'pardon' first, and afterwards 'stand up.'\n" + " And if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach,\n" + " 'Pardon' should be the first word of thy speech.\n" + " I never long'd to hear a word till now;\n" + " Say 'pardon,' king; let pity teach thee how:\n" + " The word is short, but not so short as sweet;\n" + " No word like 'pardon' for kings' mouths so meet.\n\n" + "DUKE OF YORK Speak it in French, king; say, 'pardonne moi.'\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Dost thou teach pardon pardon to destroy?\n" + " Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord,\n" + " That set'st the word itself against the word!\n" + " Speak 'pardon' as 'tis current in our land;\n" + " The chopping French we do not understand.\n" + " Thine eye begins to speak; set thy tongue there;\n" + " Or in thy piteous heart plant thou thine ear;\n" + " That hearing how our plaints and prayers do pierce,\n" + " Pity may move thee 'pardon' to rehearse.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Good aunt, stand up.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I do not sue to stand;\n" + " Pardon is all the suit I have in hand.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK O happy vantage of a kneeling knee!\n" + " Yet am I sick for fear: speak it again;\n" + " Twice saying 'pardon' doth not pardon twain,\n" + " But makes one pardon strong.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE With all my heart\n" + " I pardon him.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK A god on earth thou art.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE But for our trusty brother-in-law and the abbot,\n" + " With all the rest of that consorted crew,\n" + " Destruction straight shall dog them at the heels.\n" + " Good uncle, help to order several powers\n" + " To Oxford, or where'er these traitors are:\n" + " They shall not live within this world, I swear,\n" + " But I will have them, if I once know where.\n" + " Uncle, farewell: and, cousin too, adieu:\n" + " Your mother well hath pray'd, and prove you true.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Come, my old son: I pray God make thee new.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EXTON and Servant]\n\n" + "EXTON Didst thou not mark the king, what words he spake,\n" + " 'Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?'\n" + " Was it not so?\n\n" + "Servant These were his very words.\n\n" + "EXTON 'Have I no friend?' quoth he: he spake it twice,\n" + " And urged it twice together, did he not?\n\n" + "Servant He did.\n\n" + "EXTON And speaking it, he wistly look'd on me,\n" + " And who should say, 'I would thou wert the man'\n" + " That would divorce this terror from my heart;'\n" + " Meaning the king at Pomfret. Come, let's go:\n" + " I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Pomfret castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II I have been studying how I may compare\n" + " This prison where I live unto the world:\n" + " And for because the world is populous\n" + " And here is not a creature but myself,\n" + " I cannot do it; yet I'll hammer it out.\n" + " My brain I'll prove the female to my soul,\n" + " My soul the father; and these two beget\n" + " A generation of still-breeding thoughts,\n" + " And these same thoughts people this little world,\n" + " In humours like the people of this world,\n" + " For no thought is contented. The better sort,\n" + " As thoughts of things divine, are intermix'd\n" + " With scruples and do set the word itself\n" + " Against the word:\n" + " As thus, 'Come, little ones,' and then again,\n" + " 'It is as hard to come as for a camel\n" + " To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.'\n" + " Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot\n" + " Unlikely wonders; how these vain weak nails\n" + " May tear a passage through the flinty ribs\n" + " Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls,\n" + " And, for they cannot, die in their own pride.\n" + " Thoughts tending to content flatter themselves\n" + " That they are not the first of fortune's slaves,\n" + " Nor shall not be the last; like silly beggars\n" + " Who sitting in the stocks refuge their shame,\n" + " That many have and others must sit there;\n" + " And in this thought they find a kind of ease,\n" + " Bearing their own misfortunes on the back\n" + " Of such as have before endured the like.\n" + " Thus play I in one person many people,\n" + " And none contented: sometimes am I king;\n" + " Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar,\n" + " And so I am: then crushing penury\n" + " Persuades me I was better when a king;\n" + " Then am I king'd again: and by and by\n" + " Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke,\n" + " And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be,\n" + " Nor I nor any man that but man is\n" + " With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased\n" + " With being nothing. Music do I hear?\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + " Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,\n" + " When time is broke and no proportion kept!\n" + " So is it in the music of men's lives.\n" + " And here have I the daintiness of ear\n" + " To cheque time broke in a disorder'd string;\n" + " But for the concord of my state and time\n" + " Had not an ear to hear my true time broke.\n" + " I wasted time, and now doth time waste me;\n" + " For now hath time made me his numbering clock:\n" + " My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar\n" + " Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch,\n" + " Whereto my finger, like a dial's point,\n" + " Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears.\n" + " Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is\n" + " Are clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart,\n" + " Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans\n" + " Show minutes, times, and hours: but my time\n" + " Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy,\n" + " While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' the clock.\n" + " This music mads me; let it sound no more;\n" + " For though it have holp madmen to their wits,\n" + " In me it seems it will make wise men mad.\n" + " Yet blessing on his heart that gives it me!\n" + " For 'tis a sign of love; and love to Richard\n" + " Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world.\n\n" + " [Enter a Groom of the Stable]\n\n" + "Groom Hail, royal prince!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Thanks, noble peer;\n" + " The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear.\n" + " What art thou? and how comest thou hither,\n" + " Where no man never comes but that sad dog\n" + " That brings me food to make misfortune live?\n\n" + "Groom I was a poor groom of thy stable, king,\n" + " When thou wert king; who, travelling towards York,\n" + " With much ado at length have gotten leave\n" + " To look upon my sometimes royal master's face.\n" + " O, how it yearn'd my heart when I beheld\n" + " In London streets, that coronation-day,\n" + " When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary,\n" + " That horse that thou so often hast bestrid,\n" + " That horse that I so carefully have dress'd!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Rode he on Barbary? Tell me, gentle friend,\n" + " How went he under him?\n\n" + "Groom So proudly as if he disdain'd the ground.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II So proud that Bolingbroke was on his back!\n" + " That jade hath eat bread from my royal hand;\n" + " This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.\n" + " Would he not stumble? would he not fall down,\n" + " Since pride must have a fall, and break the neck\n" + " Of that proud man that did usurp his back?\n" + " Forgiveness, horse! why do I rail on thee,\n" + " Since thou, created to be awed by man,\n" + " Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse;\n" + " And yet I bear a burthen like an ass,\n" + " Spurr'd, gall'd and tired by jouncing Bolingbroke.\n\n" + " [Enter Keeper, with a dish]\n\n" + "Keeper Fellow, give place; here is no longer stay.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II If thou love me, 'tis time thou wert away.\n\n" + "Groom What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Keeper My lord, will't please you to fall to?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do.\n\n" + "Keeper My lord, I dare not: Sir Pierce of Exton, who\n" + " lately came from the king, commands the contrary.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II The devil take Henry of Lancaster and thee!\n" + " Patience is stale, and I am weary of it.\n\n" + " [Beats the keeper]\n\n" + "Keeper Help, help, help!\n\n" + " [Enter EXTON and Servants, armed]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD II How now! what means death in this rude assault?\n" + " Villain, thy own hand yields thy death's instrument.\n\n" + " [Snatching an axe from a Servant and killing him]\n\n" + " Go thou, and fill another room in hell.\n\n" + " [He kills another. Then Exton strikes him down]\n\n" + " That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire\n" + " That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand\n" + " Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land.\n" + " Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;\n" + " Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "EXTON As full of valour as of royal blood:\n" + " Both have I spill'd; O would the deed were good!\n" + " For now the devil, that told me I did well,\n" + " Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.\n" + " This dead king to the living king I'll bear\n" + " Take hence the rest, and give them burial here.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD II\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Windsor castle.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK,\n" + " with other Lords, and Attendants]\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Kind uncle York, the latest news we hear\n" + " Is that the rebels have consumed with fire\n" + " Our town of Cicester in Gloucestershire;\n" + " But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.\n\n" + " [Enter NORTHUMBERLAND]\n\n" + " Welcome, my lord what is the news?\n\n" + "NORTHUMBERLAND First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.\n" + " The next news is, I have to London sent\n" + " The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent:\n" + " The manner of their taking may appear\n" + " At large discoursed in this paper here.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;\n" + " And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.\n\n" + " [Enter LORD FITZWATER]\n\n" + "LORD FITZWATER My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London\n" + " The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,\n" + " Two of the dangerous consorted traitors\n" + " That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot;\n" + " Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.\n\n" + " [Enter HENRY PERCY, and the BISHOP OF CARLISLE]\n\n" + "HENRY PERCY The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,\n" + " With clog of conscience and sour melancholy\n" + " Hath yielded up his body to the grave;\n" + " But here is Carlisle living, to abide\n" + " Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Carlisle, this is your doom:\n" + " Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,\n" + " More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;\n" + " So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:\n" + " For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,\n" + " High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.\n\n" + " [Enter EXTON, with persons bearing a coffin]\n\n" + "EXTON Great king, within this coffin I present\n" + " Thy buried fear: herein all breathless lies\n" + " The mightiest of thy greatest enemies,\n" + " Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wrought\n" + " A deed of slander with thy fatal hand\n" + " Upon my head and all this famous land.\n\n" + "EXTON From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.\n\n" + "HENRY BOLINGBROKE They love not poison that do poison need,\n" + " Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,\n" + " I hate the murderer, love him murdered.\n" + " The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,\n" + " But neither my good word nor princely favour:\n" + " With Cain go wander through shades of night,\n" + " And never show thy head by day nor light.\n" + " Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,\n" + " That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:\n" + " Come, mourn with me for that I do lament,\n" + " And put on sullen black incontinent:\n" + " I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,\n" + " To wash this blood off from my guilty hand:\n" + " March sadly after; grace my mournings here;\n" + " In weeping after this untimely bier.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "KING EDWARD\n" + "The Fourth (KING EDWARD IV:)\n\n\n" + "EDWARD Prince of Wales, (PRINCE EDWARD:) |\n" + " afterwards King Edward V., | sons to\n" + " | the King.\n" + "RICHARD Duke of York, (YORK:) |\n\n\n" + "GEORGE Duke of Clarence, (CLARENCE:) |\n" + " |\n" + "RICHARD Duke of Gloucester, (GLOUCESTER:) | Brothers to\n" + " afterwards King Richard III., | the King.\n" + " (KING RICHARD III:) |\n\n\n" + " A young son of Clarence. (Boy:)\n\n" + "HENRY Earl of Richmond, (RICHMOND:)\n" + " afterwards King Henry VII.\n\n" + "CARDINAL BOURCHIER Archbishop of Canterbury. (CARDINAL:)\n\n" + "THOMAS ROTHERHAM Archbishop of York. (ARCHBISHOP OF YORK:)\n\n" + "JOHN MORTON Bishop of Ely. (BISHOP OF ELY:)\n\n" + "DUKE of BUCKINGHAM (BUCKINGHAM:)\n\n" + "DUKE of NORFOLK (NORFOLK:)\n\n" + "EARL of SURREY His son. (SURREY:)\n\n" + "EARL RIVERS Brother to Elizabeth. (RIVERS:)\n\n\n" + "MARQUIS OF DORSET (DORSET:) |\n" + " | Sons to Elizabeth.\n" + "LORD GREY (GREY:) |\n\n\n" + "EARL of OXFORD (OXFORD:)\n\n" + "LORD HASTINGS (HASTINGS:)\n\n" + "LORD STANLEY (STANLEY:) Called also EARL of DERBY. (DERBY:)\n\n" + "LORD LOVEL (LOVEL:)\n\n" + "SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN (VAUGHAN:)\n\n" + "SIR RICHARD\n" + "RATCLIFF (RATCLIFF:)\n\n" + "SIR WILLIAM\n" + "CATESBY (CATESBY:)\n\n" + "SIR JAMES TYRREL (TYRREL:)\n\n" + "SIR JAMES BLOUNT (BLOUNT:)\n\n" + "SIR WALTER HERBERT (HERBERT:)\n\n" + "SIR ROBERT\n" + "BRAKENBURY Lieutenant of the Tower. (BRAKENBURY:)\n\n" + "CHRISTOPHER\n" + "URSWICK A priest. (CHRISTOPHER:)\n\n" + " Another Priest. (Priest:)\n\n\n" + "TRESSEL |\n" + " | Gentlemen attending on the Lady Anne.\n" + "BERKELEY | (Gentleman:)\n\n\n" + " Lord Mayor of London. (Lord Mayor:)\n\n" + " Sheriff of Wiltshire. (Sheriff:)\n\n" + "ELIZABETH Queen to King Edward IV. (QUEEN ELIZABETH:)\n\n" + "MARGARET Widow of King Henry VI. (QUEEN MARGARET:)\n\n" + "DUCHESS of YORK Mother to King Edward IV.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Widow of Edward Prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI.;\n" + " afterwards married to Richard.\n\n" + " A young Daughter of Clarence [MARGARET PLANTAGENET] (Girl:)\n\n" + " Ghosts of those murdered by Richard III.,\n" + " Lords and other Attendants; a Pursuivant\n" + " Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers\n" + " Soldiers, &c.\n" + " (Ghost of Prince Edward:)\n" + " (Ghost of King Henry VI:)\n" + " (Ghost of CLARENCE:)\n" + " (Ghost of RIVERS:)\n" + " (Ghost of GREY:)\n" + " (Ghost of VAUGHAN:)\n" + " (Ghost of HASTING:)\n" + " (Ghosts of young Princes:)\n" + " (Ghost of LADY ANNE:)\n" + " (Ghost of BUCKINGHAM:)\n" + " (Pursuivant:)\n" + " (Scrivener:)\n" + " (First Citizen:)\n" + " (Second Citizen:)\n" + " (Third Citizen:)\n" + " (First Murderer:)\n" + " (Second Murderer:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Second Messenger:)\n" + " (Third Messenger:)\n" + " (Fourth Messenger:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE England.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. A street.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, solus]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now is the winter of our discontent\n" + " Made glorious summer by this sun of York;\n" + " And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house\n" + " In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.\n" + " Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;\n" + " Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;\n" + " Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,\n" + " Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.\n" + " Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;\n" + " And now, instead of mounting barded steeds\n" + " To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,\n" + " He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber\n" + " To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.\n" + " But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,\n" + " Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;\n" + " I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty\n" + " To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;\n" + " I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,\n" + " Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,\n" + " Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time\n" + " Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,\n" + " And that so lamely and unfashionable\n" + " That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;\n" + " Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,\n" + " Have no delight to pass away the time,\n" + " Unless to spy my shadow in the sun\n" + " And descant on mine own deformity:\n" + " And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,\n" + " To entertain these fair well-spoken days,\n" + " I am determined to prove a villain\n" + " And hate the idle pleasures of these days.\n" + " Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,\n" + " By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,\n" + " To set my brother Clarence and the king\n" + " In deadly hate the one against the other:\n" + " And if King Edward be as true and just\n" + " As I am subtle, false and treacherous,\n" + " This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,\n" + " About a prophecy, which says that 'G'\n" + " Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.\n" + " Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here\n" + " Clarence comes.\n\n" + " [Enter CLARENCE, guarded, and BRAKENBURY]\n\n" + " Brother, good day; what means this armed guard\n" + " That waits upon your grace?\n\n" + "CLARENCE His majesty\n" + " Tendering my person's safety, hath appointed\n" + " This conduct to convey me to the Tower.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Upon what cause?\n\n" + "CLARENCE Because my name is George.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Alack, my lord, that fault is none of yours;\n" + " He should, for that, commit your godfathers:\n" + " O, belike his majesty hath some intent\n" + " That you shall be new-christen'd in the Tower.\n" + " But what's the matter, Clarence? may I know?\n\n" + "CLARENCE Yea, Richard, when I know; for I protest\n" + " As yet I do not: but, as I can learn,\n" + " He hearkens after prophecies and dreams;\n" + " And from the cross-row plucks the letter G.\n" + " And says a wizard told him that by G\n" + " His issue disinherited should be;\n" + " And, for my name of George begins with G,\n" + " It follows in his thought that I am he.\n" + " These, as I learn, and such like toys as these\n" + " Have moved his highness to commit me now.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, this it is, when men are ruled by women:\n" + " 'Tis not the king that sends you to the Tower:\n" + " My Lady Grey his wife, Clarence, 'tis she\n" + " That tempers him to this extremity.\n" + " Was it not she and that good man of worship,\n" + " Anthony Woodville, her brother there,\n" + " That made him send Lord Hastings to the Tower,\n" + " From whence this present day he is deliver'd?\n" + " We are not safe, Clarence; we are not safe.\n\n" + "CLARENCE By heaven, I think there's no man is secure\n" + " But the queen's kindred and night-walking heralds\n" + " That trudge betwixt the king and Mistress Shore.\n" + " Heard ye not what an humble suppliant\n" + " Lord hastings was to her for his delivery?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Humbly complaining to her deity\n" + " Got my lord chamberlain his liberty.\n" + " I'll tell you what; I think it is our way,\n" + " If we will keep in favour with the king,\n" + " To be her men and wear her livery:\n" + " The jealous o'erworn widow and herself,\n" + " Since that our brother dubb'd them gentlewomen.\n" + " Are mighty gossips in this monarchy.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY I beseech your graces both to pardon me;\n" + " His majesty hath straitly given in charge\n" + " That no man shall have private conference,\n" + " Of what degree soever, with his brother.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,\n" + " You may partake of any thing we say:\n" + " We speak no treason, man: we say the king\n" + " Is wise and virtuous, and his noble queen\n" + " Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous;\n" + " We say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,\n" + " A cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;\n" + " And that the queen's kindred are made gentle-folks:\n" + " How say you sir? Can you deny all this?\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY With this, my lord, myself have nought to do.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Naught to do with mistress Shore! I tell thee, fellow,\n" + " He that doth naught with her, excepting one,\n" + " Were best he do it secretly, alone.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY What one, my lord?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Her husband, knave: wouldst thou betray me?\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY I beseech your grace to pardon me, and withal\n" + " Forbear your conference with the noble duke.\n\n" + "CLARENCE We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER We are the queen's abjects, and must obey.\n" + " Brother, farewell: I will unto the king;\n" + " And whatsoever you will employ me in,\n" + " Were it to call King Edward's widow sister,\n" + " I will perform it to enfranchise you.\n" + " Meantime, this deep disgrace in brotherhood\n" + " Touches me deeper than you can imagine.\n\n" + "CLARENCE I know it pleaseth neither of us well.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well, your imprisonment shall not be long;\n" + " Meantime, have patience.\n\n" + "CLARENCE I must perforce. Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CLARENCE, BRAKENBURY, and Guard]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Go, tread the path that thou shalt ne'er return.\n" + " Simple, plain Clarence! I do love thee so,\n" + " That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,\n" + " If heaven will take the present at our hands.\n" + " But who comes here? the new-deliver'd Hastings?\n\n" + " [Enter HASTINGS]\n\n" + "HASTINGS Good time of day unto my gracious lord!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER As much unto my good lord chamberlain!\n" + " Well are you welcome to the open air.\n" + " How hath your lordship brook'd imprisonment?\n\n" + "HASTINGS With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must:\n" + " But I shall live, my lord, to give them thanks\n" + " That were the cause of my imprisonment.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No doubt, no doubt; and so shall Clarence too;\n" + " For they that were your enemies are his,\n" + " And have prevail'd as much on him as you.\n\n" + "HASTINGS More pity that the eagle should be mew'd,\n" + " While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What news abroad?\n\n" + "HASTINGS No news so bad abroad as this at home;\n" + " The King is sickly, weak and melancholy,\n" + " And his physicians fear him mightily.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Now, by Saint Paul, this news is bad indeed.\n" + " O, he hath kept an evil diet long,\n" + " And overmuch consumed his royal person:\n" + " 'Tis very grievous to be thought upon.\n" + " What, is he in his bed?\n\n" + "HASTINGS He is.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Go you before, and I will follow you.\n\n" + " [Exit HASTINGS]\n\n" + " He cannot live, I hope; and must not die\n" + " Till George be pack'd with post-horse up to heaven.\n" + " I'll in, to urge his hatred more to Clarence,\n" + " With lies well steel'd with weighty arguments;\n" + " And, if I fall not in my deep intent,\n" + " Clarence hath not another day to live:\n" + " Which done, God take King Edward to his mercy,\n" + " And leave the world for me to bustle in!\n" + " For then I'll marry Warwick's youngest daughter.\n" + " What though I kill'd her husband and her father?\n" + " The readiest way to make the wench amends\n" + " Is to become her husband and her father:\n" + " The which will I; not all so much for love\n" + " As for another secret close intent,\n" + " By marrying her which I must reach unto.\n" + " But yet I run before my horse to market:\n" + " Clarence still breathes; Edward still lives and reigns:\n" + " When they are gone, then must I count my gains.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. Another street.\n\n" + " [Enter the corpse of KING HENRY the Sixth, Gentlemen\n" + " with halberds to guard it; LADY ANNE being the mourner]\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Set down, set down your honourable load,\n" + " If honour may be shrouded in a hearse,\n" + " Whilst I awhile obsequiously lament\n" + " The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster.\n" + " Poor key-cold figure of a holy king!\n" + " Pale ashes of the house of Lancaster!\n" + " Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood!\n" + " Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost,\n" + " To hear the lamentations of Poor Anne,\n" + " Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son,\n" + " Stabb'd by the selfsame hand that made these wounds!\n" + " Lo, in these windows that let forth thy life,\n" + " I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes.\n" + " Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes!\n" + " Cursed be the heart that had the heart to do it!\n" + " Cursed the blood that let this blood from hence!\n" + " More direful hap betide that hated wretch,\n" + " That makes us wretched by the death of thee,\n" + " Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads,\n" + " Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives!\n" + " If ever he have child, abortive be it,\n" + " Prodigious, and untimely brought to light,\n" + " Whose ugly and unnatural aspect\n" + " May fright the hopeful mother at the view;\n" + " And that be heir to his unhappiness!\n" + " If ever he have wife, let her he made\n" + " A miserable by the death of him\n" + " As I am made by my poor lord and thee!\n" + " Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load,\n" + " Taken from Paul's to be interred there;\n" + " And still, as you are weary of the weight,\n" + " Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE What black magician conjures up this fiend,\n" + " To stop devoted charitable deeds?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul,\n" + " I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.\n\n" + "Gentleman My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Unmanner'd dog! stand thou, when I command:\n" + " Advance thy halbert higher than my breast,\n" + " Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot,\n" + " And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE What, do you tremble? are you all afraid?\n" + " Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal,\n" + " And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil.\n" + " Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell!\n" + " Thou hadst but power over his mortal body,\n" + " His soul thou canst not have; therefore be gone.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Foul devil, for God's sake, hence, and trouble us not;\n" + " For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell,\n" + " Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims.\n" + " If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,\n" + " Behold this pattern of thy butcheries.\n" + " O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds\n" + " Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh!\n" + " Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity;\n" + " For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood\n" + " From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells;\n" + " Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural,\n" + " Provokes this deluge most unnatural.\n" + " O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death!\n" + " O earth, which this blood drink'st revenge his death!\n" + " Either heaven with lightning strike the\n" + " murderer dead,\n" + " Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick,\n" + " As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood\n" + " Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Lady, you know no rules of charity,\n" + " Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man:\n" + " No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But I know none, and therefore am no beast.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE O wonderful, when devils tell the truth!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER More wonderful, when angels are so angry.\n" + " Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman,\n" + " Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave,\n" + " By circumstance, but to acquit myself.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man,\n" + " For these known evils, but to give me leave,\n" + " By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have\n" + " Some patient leisure to excuse myself.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make\n" + " No excuse current, but to hang thyself.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER By such despair, I should accuse myself.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused;\n" + " For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,\n" + " Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Say that I slew them not?\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Why, then they are not dead:\n" + " But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I did not kill your husband.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Why, then he is alive.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw\n" + " Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;\n" + " The which thou once didst bend against her breast,\n" + " But that thy brothers beat aside the point.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,\n" + " which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.\n" + " Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:\n" + " Didst thou not kill this king?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I grant ye.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too\n" + " Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!\n" + " O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither;\n" + " For he was fitter for that place than earth.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE And thou unfit for any place but hell.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Some dungeon.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Your bed-chamber.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE I'll rest betide the chamber where thou liest!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER So will it, madam till I lie with you.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE I hope so.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,\n" + " To leave this keen encounter of our wits,\n" + " And fall somewhat into a slower method,\n" + " Is not the causer of the timeless deaths\n" + " Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,\n" + " As blameful as the executioner?\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Your beauty was the cause of that effect;\n" + " Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep\n" + " To undertake the death of all the world,\n" + " So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,\n" + " These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER These eyes could never endure sweet beauty's wreck;\n" + " You should not blemish it, if I stood by:\n" + " As all the world is cheered by the sun,\n" + " So I by that; it is my day, my life.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Black night o'ershade thy day, and death thy life!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Curse not thyself, fair creature thou art both.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE I would I were, to be revenged on thee.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER It is a quarrel most unnatural,\n" + " To be revenged on him that loveth you.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE It is a quarrel just and reasonable,\n" + " To be revenged on him that slew my husband.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He that bereft thee, lady, of thy husband,\n" + " Did it to help thee to a better husband.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE His better doth not breathe upon the earth.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He lives that loves thee better than he could.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Name him.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Plantagenet.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Why, that was he.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The selfsame name, but one of better nature.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Where is he?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Here.\n\n" + " [She spitteth at him]\n\n" + " Why dost thou spit at me?\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Would it were mortal poison, for thy sake!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Never came poison from so sweet a place.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Never hung poison on a fouler toad.\n" + " Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I would they were, that I might die at once;\n" + " For now they kill me with a living death.\n" + " Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears,\n" + " Shamed their aspect with store of childish drops:\n" + " These eyes that never shed remorseful tear,\n" + " No, when my father York and Edward wept,\n" + " To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made\n" + " When black-faced Clifford shook his sword at him;\n" + " Nor when thy warlike father, like a child,\n" + " Told the sad story of my father's death,\n" + " And twenty times made pause to sob and weep,\n" + " That all the standers-by had wet their cheeks\n" + " Like trees bedash'd with rain: in that sad time\n" + " My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear;\n" + " And what these sorrows could not thence exhale,\n" + " Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping.\n" + " I never sued to friend nor enemy;\n" + " My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word;\n" + " But now thy beauty is proposed my fee,\n" + " My proud heart sues, and prompts my tongue to speak.\n\n" + " [She looks scornfully at him]\n\n" + " Teach not thy lips such scorn, for they were made\n" + " For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.\n" + " If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive,\n" + " Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword;\n" + " Which if thou please to hide in this true bosom.\n" + " And let the soul forth that adoreth thee,\n" + " I lay it naked to the deadly stroke,\n" + " And humbly beg the death upon my knee.\n\n" + " [He lays his breast open: she offers at it with his sword]\n\n" + " Nay, do not pause; for I did kill King Henry,\n" + " But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me.\n" + " Nay, now dispatch; 'twas I that stabb'd young Edward,\n" + " But 'twas thy heavenly face that set me on.\n\n" + " [Here she lets fall the sword]\n\n" + " Take up the sword again, or take up me.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Arise, dissembler: though I wish thy death,\n" + " I will not be the executioner.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Then bid me kill myself, and I will do it.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE I have already.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Tush, that was in thy rage:\n" + " Speak it again, and, even with the word,\n" + " That hand, which, for thy love, did kill thy love,\n" + " Shall, for thy love, kill a far truer love;\n" + " To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE I would I knew thy heart.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER 'Tis figured in my tongue.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE I fear me both are false.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Then never man was true.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Well, well, put up your sword.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Say, then, my peace is made.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE That shall you know hereafter.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But shall I live in hope?\n\n" + "LADY ANNE All men, I hope, live so.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Vouchsafe to wear this ring.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE To take is not to give.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Look, how this ring encompasseth finger.\n" + " Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart;\n" + " Wear both of them, for both of them are thine.\n" + " And if thy poor devoted suppliant may\n" + " But beg one favour at thy gracious hand,\n" + " Thou dost confirm his happiness for ever.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE What is it?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER That it would please thee leave these sad designs\n" + " To him that hath more cause to be a mourner,\n" + " And presently repair to Crosby Place;\n" + " Where, after I have solemnly interr'd\n" + " At Chertsey monastery this noble king,\n" + " And wet his grave with my repentant tears,\n" + " I will with all expedient duty see you:\n" + " For divers unknown reasons. I beseech you,\n" + " Grant me this boon.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE With all my heart; and much it joys me too,\n" + " To see you are become so penitent.\n" + " Tressel and Berkeley, go along with me.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Bid me farewell.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE 'Tis more than you deserve;\n" + " But since you teach me how to flatter you,\n" + " Imagine I have said farewell already.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LADY ANNE, TRESSEL, and BERKELEY]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sirs, take up the corse.\n\n" + "GENTLEMEN Towards Chertsey, noble lord?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No, to White-Friars; there attend my coining.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + " Was ever woman in this humour woo'd?\n" + " Was ever woman in this humour won?\n" + " I'll have her; but I will not keep her long.\n" + " What! I, that kill'd her husband and his father,\n" + " To take her in her heart's extremest hate,\n" + " With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes,\n" + " The bleeding witness of her hatred by;\n" + " Having God, her conscience, and these bars\n" + " against me,\n" + " And I nothing to back my suit at all,\n" + " But the plain devil and dissembling looks,\n" + " And yet to win her, all the world to nothing!\n" + " Ha!\n" + " Hath she forgot already that brave prince,\n" + " Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,\n" + " Stabb'd in my angry mood at Tewksbury?\n" + " A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman,\n" + " Framed in the prodigality of nature,\n" + " Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal,\n" + " The spacious world cannot again afford\n" + " And will she yet debase her eyes on me,\n" + " That cropp'd the golden prime of this sweet prince,\n" + " And made her widow to a woful bed?\n" + " On me, whose all not equals Edward's moiety?\n" + " On me, that halt and am unshapen thus?\n" + " My dukedom to a beggarly denier,\n" + " I do mistake my person all this while:\n" + " Upon my life, she finds, although I cannot,\n" + " Myself to be a marvellous proper man.\n" + " I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,\n" + " And entertain some score or two of tailors,\n" + " To study fashions to adorn my body:\n" + " Since I am crept in favour with myself,\n" + " Will maintain it with some little cost.\n" + " But first I'll turn yon fellow in his grave;\n" + " And then return lamenting to my love.\n" + " Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass,\n" + " That I may see my shadow as I pass.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, RIVERS, and GREY]\n\n" + "RIVERS Have patience, madam: there's no doubt his majesty\n" + " Will soon recover his accustom'd health.\n\n" + "GREY In that you brook it in, it makes him worse:\n" + " Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good comfort,\n" + " And cheer his grace with quick and merry words.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH If he were dead, what would betide of me?\n\n" + "RIVERS No other harm but loss of such a lord.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH The loss of such a lord includes all harm.\n\n" + "GREY The heavens have bless'd you with a goodly son,\n" + " To be your comforter when he is gone.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Oh, he is young and his minority\n" + " Is put unto the trust of Richard Gloucester,\n" + " A man that loves not me, nor none of you.\n\n" + "RIVERS Is it concluded that he shall be protector?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH It is determined, not concluded yet:\n" + " But so it must be, if the king miscarry.\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM and DERBY]\n\n" + "GREY Here come the lords of Buckingham and Derby.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Good time of day unto your royal grace!\n\n" + "DERBY God make your majesty joyful as you have been!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby.\n" + " To your good prayers will scarcely say amen.\n" + " Yet, Derby, notwithstanding she's your wife,\n" + " And loves not me, be you, good lord, assured\n" + " I hate not you for her proud arrogance.\n\n" + "DERBY I do beseech you, either not believe\n" + " The envious slanders of her false accusers;\n" + " Or, if she be accused in true report,\n" + " Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds\n" + " From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.\n\n" + "RIVERS Saw you the king to-day, my Lord of Derby?\n\n" + "DERBY But now the Duke of Buckingham and I\n" + " Are come from visiting his majesty.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH What likelihood of his amendment, lords?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Madam, good hope; his grace speaks cheerfully.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH God grant him health! Did you confer with him?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Madam, we did: he desires to make atonement\n" + " Betwixt the Duke of Gloucester and your brothers,\n" + " And betwixt them and my lord chamberlain;\n" + " And sent to warn them to his royal presence.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Would all were well! but that will never be\n" + " I fear our happiness is at the highest.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, HASTINGS, and DORSET]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER They do me wrong, and I will not endure it:\n" + " Who are they that complain unto the king,\n" + " That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not?\n" + " By holy Paul, they love his grace but lightly\n" + " That fill his ears with such dissentious rumours.\n" + " Because I cannot flatter and speak fair,\n" + " Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive and cog,\n" + " Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,\n" + " I must be held a rancorous enemy.\n" + " Cannot a plain man live and think no harm,\n" + " But thus his simple truth must be abused\n" + " By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks?\n\n" + "RIVERS To whom in all this presence speaks your grace?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER To thee, that hast nor honesty nor grace.\n" + " When have I injured thee? when done thee wrong?\n" + " Or thee? or thee? or any of your faction?\n" + " A plague upon you all! His royal person,--\n" + " Whom God preserve better than you would wish!--\n" + " Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while,\n" + " But you must trouble him with lewd complaints.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Brother of Gloucester, you mistake the matter.\n" + " The king, of his own royal disposition,\n" + " And not provoked by any suitor else;\n" + " Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred,\n" + " Which in your outward actions shows itself\n" + " Against my kindred, brothers, and myself,\n" + " Makes him to send; that thereby he may gather\n" + " The ground of your ill-will, and so remove it.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I cannot tell: the world is grown so bad,\n" + " That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch:\n" + " Since every Jack became a gentleman\n" + " There's many a gentle person made a Jack.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Come, come, we know your meaning, brother\n" + " Gloucester;\n" + " You envy my advancement and my friends':\n" + " God grant we never may have need of you!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Meantime, God grants that we have need of you:\n" + " Your brother is imprison'd by your means,\n" + " Myself disgraced, and the nobility\n" + " Held in contempt; whilst many fair promotions\n" + " Are daily given to ennoble those\n" + " That scarce, some two days since, were worth a noble.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH By Him that raised me to this careful height\n" + " From that contented hap which I enjoy'd,\n" + " I never did incense his majesty\n" + " Against the Duke of Clarence, but have been\n" + " An earnest advocate to plead for him.\n" + " My lord, you do me shameful injury,\n" + " Falsely to draw me in these vile suspects.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER You may deny that you were not the cause\n" + " Of my Lord Hastings' late imprisonment.\n\n" + "RIVERS She may, my lord, for--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER She may, Lord Rivers! why, who knows not so?\n" + " She may do more, sir, than denying that:\n" + " She may help you to many fair preferments,\n" + " And then deny her aiding hand therein,\n" + " And lay those honours on your high deserts.\n" + " What may she not? She may, yea, marry, may she--\n\n" + "RIVERS What, marry, may she?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, marry, may she! marry with a king,\n" + " A bachelor, a handsome stripling too:\n" + " I wis your grandam had a worser match.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne\n" + " Your blunt upbraidings and your bitter scoffs:\n" + " By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty\n" + " With those gross taunts I often have endured.\n" + " I had rather be a country servant-maid\n" + " Than a great queen, with this condition,\n" + " To be thus taunted, scorn'd, and baited at:\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN MARGARET, behind]\n\n" + " Small joy have I in being England's queen.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And lessen'd be that small, God, I beseech thee!\n" + " Thy honour, state and seat is due to me.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What! threat you me with telling of the king?\n" + " Tell him, and spare not: look, what I have said\n" + " I will avouch in presence of the king:\n" + " I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower.\n" + " 'Tis time to speak; my pains are quite forgot.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Out, devil! I remember them too well:\n" + " Thou slewest my husband Henry in the Tower,\n" + " And Edward, my poor son, at Tewksbury.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ere you were queen, yea, or your husband king,\n" + " I was a pack-horse in his great affairs;\n" + " A weeder-out of his proud adversaries,\n" + " A liberal rewarder of his friends:\n" + " To royalize his blood I spilt mine own.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Yea, and much better blood than his or thine.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER In all which time you and your husband Grey\n" + " Were factious for the house of Lancaster;\n" + " And, Rivers, so were you. Was not your husband\n" + " In Margaret's battle at Saint Alban's slain?\n" + " Let me put in your minds, if you forget,\n" + " What you have been ere now, and what you are;\n" + " Withal, what I have been, and what I am.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET A murderous villain, and so still thou art.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Poor Clarence did forsake his father, Warwick;\n" + " Yea, and forswore himself,--which Jesu pardon!--\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Which God revenge!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER To fight on Edward's party for the crown;\n" + " And for his meed, poor lord, he is mew'd up.\n" + " I would to God my heart were flint, like Edward's;\n" + " Or Edward's soft and pitiful, like mine\n" + " I am too childish-foolish for this world.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Hie thee to hell for shame, and leave the world,\n" + " Thou cacodemon! there thy kingdom is.\n\n" + "RIVERS My Lord of Gloucester, in those busy days\n" + " Which here you urge to prove us enemies,\n" + " We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king:\n" + " So should we you, if you should be our king.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER If I should be! I had rather be a pedlar:\n" + " Far be it from my heart, the thought of it!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH As little joy, my lord, as you suppose\n" + " You should enjoy, were you this country's king,\n" + " As little joy may you suppose in me.\n" + " That I enjoy, being the queen thereof.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET A little joy enjoys the queen thereof;\n" + " For I am she, and altogether joyless.\n" + " I can no longer hold me patient.\n\n" + " [Advancing]\n\n" + " Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out\n" + " In sharing that which you have pill'd from me!\n" + " Which of you trembles not that looks on me?\n" + " If not, that, I being queen, you bow like subjects,\n" + " Yet that, by you deposed, you quake like rebels?\n" + " O gentle villain, do not turn away!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;\n" + " That will I make before I let thee go.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Wert thou not banished on pain of death?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET I was; but I do find more pain in banishment\n" + " Than death can yield me here by my abode.\n" + " A husband and a son thou owest to me;\n" + " And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:\n" + " The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,\n" + " And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER The curse my noble father laid on thee,\n" + " When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper\n" + " And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,\n" + " And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout\n" + " Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland--\n" + " His curses, then from bitterness of soul\n" + " Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee;\n" + " And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH So just is God, to right the innocent.\n\n" + "HASTINGS O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,\n" + " And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!\n\n" + "RIVERS Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.\n\n" + "DORSET No man but prophesied revenge for it.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET What were you snarling all before I came,\n" + " Ready to catch each other by the throat,\n" + " And turn you all your hatred now on me?\n" + " Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven?\n" + " That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,\n" + " Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,\n" + " Could all but answer for that peevish brat?\n" + " Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?\n" + " Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!\n" + " If not by war, by surfeit die your king,\n" + " As ours by murder, to make him a king!\n" + " Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,\n" + " For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,\n" + " Die in his youth by like untimely violence!\n" + " Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,\n" + " Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!\n" + " Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss;\n" + " And see another, as I see thee now,\n" + " Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!\n" + " Long die thy happy days before thy death;\n" + " And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,\n" + " Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!\n" + " Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,\n" + " And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son\n" + " Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,\n" + " That none of you may live your natural age,\n" + " But by some unlook'd accident cut off!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.\n" + " If heaven have any grievous plague in store\n" + " Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,\n" + " O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,\n" + " And then hurl down their indignation\n" + " On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!\n" + " The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!\n" + " Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,\n" + " And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!\n" + " No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,\n" + " Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream\n" + " Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!\n" + " Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!\n" + " Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity\n" + " The slave of nature and the son of hell!\n" + " Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!\n" + " Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!\n" + " Thou rag of honour! thou detested--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Margaret.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Richard!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ha!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET I call thee not.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I cry thee mercy then, for I had thought\n" + " That thou hadst call'd me all these bitter names.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Why, so I did; but look'd for no reply.\n" + " O, let me make the period to my curse!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER 'Tis done by me, and ends in 'Margaret.'\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Thus have you breathed your curse against yourself.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune!\n" + " Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottled spider,\n" + " Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?\n" + " Fool, fool! thou whet'st a knife to kill thyself.\n" + " The time will come when thou shalt wish for me\n" + " To help thee curse that poisonous bunchback'd toad.\n\n" + "HASTINGS False-boding woman, end thy frantic curse,\n" + " Lest to thy harm thou move our patience.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Foul shame upon you! you have all moved mine.\n\n" + "RIVERS Were you well served, you would be taught your duty.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET To serve me well, you all should do me duty,\n" + " Teach me to be your queen, and you my subjects:\n" + " O, serve me well, and teach yourselves that duty!\n\n" + "DORSET Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Peace, master marquess, you are malapert:\n" + " Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce current.\n" + " O, that your young nobility could judge\n" + " What 'twere to lose it, and be miserable!\n" + " They that stand high have many blasts to shake them;\n" + " And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Good counsel, marry: learn it, learn it, marquess.\n\n" + "DORSET It toucheth you, my lord, as much as me.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Yea, and much more: but I was born so high,\n" + " Our aery buildeth in the cedar's top,\n" + " And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET And turns the sun to shade; alas! alas!\n" + " Witness my son, now in the shade of death;\n" + " Whose bright out-shining beams thy cloudy wrath\n" + " Hath in eternal darkness folded up.\n" + " Your aery buildeth in our aery's nest.\n" + " O God, that seest it, do not suffer it!\n" + " As it was won with blood, lost be it so!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Have done! for shame, if not for charity.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Urge neither charity nor shame to me:\n" + " Uncharitably with me have you dealt,\n" + " And shamefully by you my hopes are butcher'd.\n" + " My charity is outrage, life my shame\n" + " And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Have done, have done.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET O princely Buckingham I'll kiss thy hand,\n" + " In sign of league and amity with thee:\n" + " Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!\n" + " Thy garments are not spotted with our blood,\n" + " Nor thou within the compass of my curse.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Nor no one here; for curses never pass\n" + " The lips of those that breathe them in the air.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET I'll not believe but they ascend the sky,\n" + " And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace.\n" + " O Buckingham, take heed of yonder dog!\n" + " Look, when he fawns, he bites; and when he bites,\n" + " His venom tooth will rankle to the death:\n" + " Have not to do with him, beware of him;\n" + " Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,\n" + " And all their ministers attend on him.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What doth she say, my Lord of Buckingham?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Nothing that I respect, my gracious lord.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET What, dost thou scorn me for my gentle counsel?\n" + " And soothe the devil that I warn thee from?\n" + " O, but remember this another day,\n" + " When he shall split thy very heart with sorrow,\n" + " And say poor Margaret was a prophetess!\n" + " Live each of you the subjects to his hate,\n" + " And he to yours, and all of you to God's!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HASTINGS My hair doth stand on end to hear her curses.\n\n" + "RIVERS And so doth mine: I muse why she's at liberty.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I cannot blame her: by God's holy mother,\n" + " She hath had too much wrong; and I repent\n" + " My part thereof that I have done to her.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH I never did her any, to my knowledge.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But you have all the vantage of her wrong.\n" + " I was too hot to do somebody good,\n" + " That is too cold in thinking of it now.\n" + " Marry, as for Clarence, he is well repaid,\n" + " He is frank'd up to fatting for his pains\n" + " God pardon them that are the cause of it!\n\n" + "RIVERS A virtuous and a Christian-like conclusion,\n" + " To pray for them that have done scathe to us.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER So do I ever:\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " being well-advised.\n" + " For had I cursed now, I had cursed myself.\n\n" + " [Enter CATESBY]\n\n" + "CATESBY Madam, his majesty doth call for you,\n" + " And for your grace; and you, my noble lords.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Catesby, we come. Lords, will you go with us?\n\n" + "RIVERS Madam, we will attend your grace.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.\n" + " The secret mischiefs that I set abroach\n" + " I lay unto the grievous charge of others.\n" + " Clarence, whom I, indeed, have laid in darkness,\n" + " I do beweep to many simple gulls\n" + " Namely, to Hastings, Derby, Buckingham;\n" + " And say it is the queen and her allies\n" + " That stir the king against the duke my brother.\n" + " Now, they believe it; and withal whet me\n" + " To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey:\n" + " But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,\n" + " Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:\n" + " And thus I clothe my naked villany\n" + " With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ;\n" + " And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.\n\n" + " [Enter two Murderers]\n\n" + " But, soft! here come my executioners.\n" + " How now, my hardy, stout resolved mates!\n" + " Are you now going to dispatch this deed?\n\n" + "First Murderer We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant\n" + " That we may be admitted where he is.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Well thought upon; I have it here about me.\n\n" + " [Gives the warrant]\n\n" + " When you have done, repair to Crosby Place.\n" + " But, sirs, be sudden in the execution,\n" + " Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead;\n" + " For Clarence is well-spoken, and perhaps\n" + " May move your hearts to pity if you mark him.\n\n" + "First Murderer Tush!\n" + " Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate;\n" + " Talkers are no good doers: be assured\n" + " We come to use our hands and not our tongues.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Your eyes drop millstones, when fools' eyes drop tears:\n" + " I like you, lads; about your business straight;\n" + " Go, go, dispatch.\n\n" + "First Murderer We will, my noble lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV London. The Tower.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLARENCE and BRAKENBURY]\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY Why looks your grace so heavily today?\n\n" + "CLARENCE O, I have pass'd a miserable night,\n" + " So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,\n" + " That, as I am a Christian faithful man,\n" + " I would not spend another such a night,\n" + " Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days,\n" + " So full of dismal terror was the time!\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY What was your dream? I long to hear you tell it.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Methoughts that I had broken from the Tower,\n" + " And was embark'd to cross to Burgundy;\n" + " And, in my company, my brother Gloucester;\n" + " Who from my cabin tempted me to walk\n" + " Upon the hatches: thence we looked toward England,\n" + " And cited up a thousand fearful times,\n" + " During the wars of York and Lancaster\n" + " That had befall'n us. As we paced along\n" + " Upon the giddy footing of the hatches,\n" + " Methought that Gloucester stumbled; and, in falling,\n" + " Struck me, that thought to stay him, overboard,\n" + " Into the tumbling billows of the main.\n" + " Lord, Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown!\n" + " What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!\n" + " What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!\n" + " Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks;\n" + " Ten thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon;\n" + " Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,\n" + " Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,\n" + " All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea:\n" + " Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes\n" + " Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept,\n" + " As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems,\n" + " Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep,\n" + " And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY Had you such leisure in the time of death\n" + " To gaze upon the secrets of the deep?\n\n" + "CLARENCE Methought I had; and often did I strive\n" + " To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood\n" + " Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth\n" + " To seek the empty, vast and wandering air;\n" + " But smother'd it within my panting bulk,\n" + " Which almost burst to belch it in the sea.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY Awaked you not with this sore agony?\n\n" + "CLARENCE O, no, my dream was lengthen'd after life;\n" + " O, then began the tempest to my soul,\n" + " Who pass'd, methought, the melancholy flood,\n" + " With that grim ferryman which poets write of,\n" + " Unto the kingdom of perpetual night.\n" + " The first that there did greet my stranger soul,\n" + " Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick;\n" + " Who cried aloud, 'What scourge for perjury\n" + " Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?'\n" + " And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by\n" + " A shadow like an angel, with bright hair\n" + " Dabbled in blood; and he squeak'd out aloud,\n" + " 'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence,\n" + " That stabb'd me in the field by Tewksbury;\n" + " Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!'\n" + " With that, methoughts, a legion of foul fiends\n" + " Environ'd me about, and howled in mine ears\n" + " Such hideous cries, that with the very noise\n" + " I trembling waked, and for a season after\n" + " Could not believe but that I was in hell,\n" + " Such terrible impression made the dream.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY No marvel, my lord, though it affrighted you;\n" + " I promise, I am afraid to hear you tell it.\n\n" + "CLARENCE O Brakenbury, I have done those things,\n" + " Which now bear evidence against my soul,\n" + " For Edward's sake; and see how he requites me!\n" + " O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee,\n" + " But thou wilt be avenged on my misdeeds,\n" + " Yet execute thy wrath in me alone,\n" + " O, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children!\n" + " I pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me;\n" + " My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY I will, my lord: God give your grace good rest!\n\n" + " [CLARENCE sleeps]\n\n" + " Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,\n" + " Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide night.\n" + " Princes have but their tides for their glories,\n" + " An outward honour for an inward toil;\n" + " And, for unfelt imagination,\n" + " They often feel a world of restless cares:\n" + " So that, betwixt their tides and low names,\n" + " There's nothing differs but the outward fame.\n\n" + " [Enter the two Murderers]\n\n" + "First Murderer Ho! who's here?\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY In God's name what are you, and how came you hither?\n\n" + "First Murderer I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY Yea, are you so brief?\n\n" + "Second Murderer O sir, it is better to be brief than tedious. Show\n" + " him our commission; talk no more.\n\n" + " [BRAKENBURY reads it]\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY I am, in this, commanded to deliver\n" + " The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands:\n" + " I will not reason what is meant hereby,\n" + " Because I will be guiltless of the meaning.\n" + " Here are the keys, there sits the duke asleep:\n" + " I'll to the king; and signify to him\n" + " That thus I have resign'd my charge to you.\n\n" + "First Murderer Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit BRAKENBURY]\n\n" + "Second Murderer What, shall we stab him as he sleeps?\n\n" + "First Murderer No; then he will say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes.\n\n" + "Second Murderer When he wakes! why, fool, he shall never wake till\n" + " the judgment-day.\n\n" + "First Murderer Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping.\n\n" + "Second Murderer The urging of that word 'judgment' hath bred a kind\n" + " of remorse in me.\n\n" + "First Murderer What, art thou afraid?\n\n" + "Second Murderer Not to kill him, having a warrant for it; but to be\n" + " damned for killing him, from which no warrant can defend us.\n\n" + "First Murderer I thought thou hadst been resolute.\n\n" + "Second Murderer So I am, to let him live.\n\n" + "First Murderer Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so.\n\n" + "Second Murderer I pray thee, stay a while: I hope my holy humour\n" + " will change; 'twas wont to hold me but while one\n" + " would tell twenty.\n\n" + "First Murderer How dost thou feel thyself now?\n\n" + "Second Murderer 'Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet\n" + " within me.\n\n" + "First Murderer Remember our reward, when the deed is done.\n\n" + "Second Murderer 'Zounds, he dies: I had forgot the reward.\n\n" + "First Murderer Where is thy conscience now?\n\n" + "Second Murderer In the Duke of Gloucester's purse.\n\n" + "First Murderer So when he opens his purse to give us our reward,\n" + " thy conscience flies out.\n\n" + "Second Murderer Let it go; there's few or none will entertain it.\n\n" + "First Murderer How if it come to thee again?\n\n" + "Second Murderer I'll not meddle with it: it is a dangerous thing: it\n" + " makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal, but it\n" + " accuseth him; he cannot swear, but it cheques him;\n" + " he cannot lie with his neighbour's wife, but it\n" + " detects him: 'tis a blushing shamefast spirit that\n" + " mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of\n" + " obstacles: it made me once restore a purse of gold\n" + " that I found; it beggars any man that keeps it: it\n" + " is turned out of all towns and cities for a\n" + " dangerous thing; and every man that means to live\n" + " well endeavours to trust to himself and to live\n" + " without it.\n\n" + "First Murderer 'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me\n" + " not to kill the duke.\n\n" + "Second Murderer Take the devil in thy mind, and relieve him not: he\n" + " would insinuate with thee but to make thee sigh.\n\n" + "First Murderer Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me,\n" + " I warrant thee.\n\n" + "Second Murderer Spoke like a tail fellow that respects his\n" + " reputation. Come, shall we to this gear?\n\n" + "First Murderer Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy\n" + " sword, and then we will chop him in the malmsey-butt\n" + " in the next room.\n\n" + "Second Murderer O excellent devise! make a sop of him.\n\n" + "First Murderer Hark! he stirs: shall I strike?\n\n" + "Second Murderer No, first let's reason with him.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Where art thou, keeper? give me a cup of wine.\n\n" + "Second murderer You shall have wine enough, my lord, anon.\n\n" + "CLARENCE In God's name, what art thou?\n\n" + "Second Murderer A man, as you are.\n\n" + "CLARENCE But not, as I am, royal.\n\n" + "Second Murderer Nor you, as we are, loyal.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Thy voice is thunder, but thy looks are humble.\n\n" + "Second Murderer My voice is now the king's, my looks mine own.\n\n" + "CLARENCE How darkly and how deadly dost thou speak!\n" + " Your eyes do menace me: why look you pale?\n" + " Who sent you hither? Wherefore do you come?\n\n" + "Both To, to, to--\n\n" + "CLARENCE To murder me?\n\n" + "Both Ay, ay.\n\n" + "CLARENCE You scarcely have the hearts to tell me so,\n" + " And therefore cannot have the hearts to do it.\n" + " Wherein, my friends, have I offended you?\n\n" + "First Murderer Offended us you have not, but the king.\n\n" + "CLARENCE I shall be reconciled to him again.\n\n" + "Second Murderer Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Are you call'd forth from out a world of men\n" + " To slay the innocent? What is my offence?\n" + " Where are the evidence that do accuse me?\n" + " What lawful quest have given their verdict up\n" + " Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced\n" + " The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?\n" + " Before I be convict by course of law,\n" + " To threaten me with death is most unlawful.\n" + " I charge you, as you hope to have redemption\n" + " By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,\n" + " That you depart and lay no hands on me\n" + " The deed you undertake is damnable.\n\n" + "First Murderer What we will do, we do upon command.\n\n" + "Second Murderer And he that hath commanded is the king.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings\n" + " Hath in the tables of his law commanded\n" + " That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,\n" + " Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?\n" + " Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,\n" + " To hurl upon their heads that break his law.\n\n" + "Second Murderer And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,\n" + " For false forswearing and for murder too:\n" + " Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,\n" + " To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster.\n\n" + "First Murderer And, like a traitor to the name of God,\n" + " Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade\n" + " Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son.\n\n" + "Second Murderer Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.\n\n" + "First Murderer How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,\n" + " When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?\n\n" + "CLARENCE Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?\n" + " For Edward, for my brother, for his sake: Why, sirs,\n" + " He sends ye not to murder me for this\n" + " For in this sin he is as deep as I.\n" + " If God will be revenged for this deed.\n" + " O, know you yet, he doth it publicly,\n" + " Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm;\n" + " He needs no indirect nor lawless course\n" + " To cut off those that have offended him.\n\n" + "First Murderer Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,\n" + " When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,\n" + " That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?\n\n" + "CLARENCE My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.\n\n" + "First Murderer Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,\n" + " Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me;\n" + " I am his brother, and I love him well.\n" + " If you be hired for meed, go back again,\n" + " And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,\n" + " Who shall reward you better for my life\n" + " Than Edward will for tidings of my death.\n\n" + "Second Murderer You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you.\n\n" + "CLARENCE O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:\n" + " Go you to him from me.\n\n" + "Both Ay, so we will.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Tell him, when that our princely father York\n" + " Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm,\n" + " And charged us from his soul to love each other,\n" + " He little thought of this divided friendship:\n" + " Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.\n\n" + "First Murderer Ay, millstones; as be lesson'd us to weep.\n\n" + "CLARENCE O, do not slander him, for he is kind.\n\n" + "First Murderer Right,\n" + " As snow in harvest. Thou deceivest thyself:\n" + " 'Tis he that sent us hither now to slaughter thee.\n\n" + "CLARENCE It cannot be; for when I parted with him,\n" + " He hugg'd me in his arms, and swore, with sobs,\n" + " That he would labour my delivery.\n\n" + "Second Murderer Why, so he doth, now he delivers thee\n" + " From this world's thraldom to the joys of heaven.\n\n" + "First Murderer Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Hast thou that holy feeling in thy soul,\n" + " To counsel me to make my peace with God,\n" + " And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind,\n" + " That thou wilt war with God by murdering me?\n" + " Ah, sirs, consider, he that set you on\n" + " To do this deed will hate you for the deed.\n\n" + "Second Murderer What shall we do?\n\n" + "CLARENCE Relent, and save your souls.\n\n" + "First Murderer Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish.\n\n" + "CLARENCE Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish.\n" + " Which of you, if you were a prince's son,\n" + " Being pent from liberty, as I am now,\n" + " if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,\n" + " Would not entreat for life?\n" + " My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:\n" + " O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,\n" + " Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,\n" + " As you would beg, were you in my distress\n" + " A begging prince what beggar pities not?\n\n" + "Second Murderer Look behind you, my lord.\n\n" + "First Murderer Take that, and that: if all this will not do,\n\n" + " [Stabs him]\n\n" + " I'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.\n\n" + " [Exit, with the body]\n\n" + "Second Murderer A bloody deed, and desperately dispatch'd!\n" + " How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands\n" + " Of this most grievous guilty murder done!\n\n" + " [Re-enter First Murderer]\n\n" + "First Murderer How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not?\n" + " By heavens, the duke shall know how slack thou art!\n\n" + "Second Murderer I would he knew that I had saved his brother!\n" + " Take thou the fee, and tell him what I say;\n" + " For I repent me that the duke is slain.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Murderer So do not I: go, coward as thou art.\n" + " Now must I hide his body in some hole,\n" + " Until the duke take order for his burial:\n" + " And when I have my meed, I must away;\n" + " For this will out, and here I must not stay.\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter KING EDWARD IV sick, QUEEN\n" + " ELIZABETH, DORSET, RIVERS, HASTINGS, BUCKINGHAM,\n" + " GREY, and others]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Why, so: now have I done a good day's work:\n" + " You peers, continue this united league:\n" + " I every day expect an embassage\n" + " From my Redeemer to redeem me hence;\n" + " And now in peace my soul shall part to heaven,\n" + " Since I have set my friends at peace on earth.\n" + " Rivers and Hastings, take each other's hand;\n" + " Dissemble not your hatred, swear your love.\n\n" + "RIVERS By heaven, my heart is purged from grudging hate:\n" + " And with my hand I seal my true heart's love.\n\n" + "HASTINGS So thrive I, as I truly swear the like!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Take heed you dally not before your king;\n" + " Lest he that is the supreme King of kings\n" + " Confound your hidden falsehood, and award\n" + " Either of you to be the other's end.\n\n" + "HASTINGS So prosper I, as I swear perfect love!\n\n" + "RIVERS And I, as I love Hastings with my heart!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Madam, yourself are not exempt in this,\n" + " Nor your son Dorset, Buckingham, nor you;\n" + " You have been factious one against the other,\n" + " Wife, love Lord Hastings, let him kiss your hand;\n" + " And what you do, do it unfeignedly.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Here, Hastings; I will never more remember\n" + " Our former hatred, so thrive I and mine!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Dorset, embrace him; Hastings, love lord marquess.\n\n" + "DORSET This interchange of love, I here protest,\n" + " Upon my part shall be unviolable.\n\n" + "HASTINGS And so swear I, my lord\n\n" + " [They embrace]\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Now, princely Buckingham, seal thou this league\n" + " With thy embracements to my wife's allies,\n" + " And make me happy in your unity.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Whenever Buckingham doth turn his hate\n" + " On you or yours,\n\n" + " [To the Queen]\n\n" + " but with all duteous love\n" + " Doth cherish you and yours, God punish me\n" + " With hate in those where I expect most love!\n" + " When I have most need to employ a friend,\n" + " And most assured that he is a friend\n" + " Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile,\n" + " Be he unto me! this do I beg of God,\n" + " When I am cold in zeal to yours.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV A pleasing cordial, princely Buckingham,\n" + " is this thy vow unto my sickly heart.\n" + " There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here,\n" + " To make the perfect period of this peace.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM And, in good time, here comes the noble duke.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Good morrow to my sovereign king and queen:\n" + " And, princely peers, a happy time of day!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Happy, indeed, as we have spent the day.\n" + " Brother, we done deeds of charity;\n" + " Made peace enmity, fair love of hate,\n" + " Between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER A blessed labour, my most sovereign liege:\n" + " Amongst this princely heap, if any here,\n" + " By false intelligence, or wrong surmise,\n" + " Hold me a foe;\n" + " If I unwittingly, or in my rage,\n" + " Have aught committed that is hardly borne\n" + " By any in this presence, I desire\n" + " To reconcile me to his friendly peace:\n" + " 'Tis death to me to be at enmity;\n" + " I hate it, and desire all good men's love.\n" + " First, madam, I entreat true peace of you,\n" + " Which I will purchase with my duteous service;\n" + " Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham,\n" + " If ever any grudge were lodged between us;\n" + " Of you, Lord Rivers, and, Lord Grey, of you;\n" + " That without desert have frown'd on me;\n" + " Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of all.\n" + " I do not know that Englishman alive\n" + " With whom my soul is any jot at odds\n" + " More than the infant that is born to-night\n" + " I thank my God for my humility.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH A holy day shall this be kept hereafter:\n" + " I would to God all strifes were well compounded.\n" + " My sovereign liege, I do beseech your majesty\n" + " To take our brother Clarence to your grace.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, madam, have I offer'd love for this\n" + " To be so bouted in this royal presence?\n" + " Who knows not that the noble duke is dead?\n\n" + " [They all start]\n\n" + " You do him injury to scorn his corse.\n\n" + "RIVERS Who knows not he is dead! who knows he is?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH All seeing heaven, what a world is this!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Look I so pale, Lord Dorset, as the rest?\n\n" + "DORSET Ay, my good lord; and no one in this presence\n" + " But his red colour hath forsook his cheeks.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Is Clarence dead? the order was reversed.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER But he, poor soul, by your first order died,\n" + " And that a winged Mercury did bear:\n" + " Some tardy cripple bore the countermand,\n" + " That came too lag to see him buried.\n" + " God grant that some, less noble and less loyal,\n" + " Nearer in bloody thoughts, but not in blood,\n" + " Deserve not worse than wretched Clarence did,\n" + " And yet go current from suspicion!\n\n" + " [Enter DERBY]\n\n" + "DORSET A boon, my sovereign, for my service done!\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV I pray thee, peace: my soul is full of sorrow.\n\n" + "DORSET I will not rise, unless your highness grant.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Then speak at once what is it thou demand'st.\n\n" + "DORSET The forfeit, sovereign, of my servant's life;\n" + " Who slew to-day a righteous gentleman\n" + " Lately attendant on the Duke of Norfolk.\n\n" + "KING EDWARD IV Have a tongue to doom my brother's death,\n" + " And shall the same give pardon to a slave?\n" + " My brother slew no man; his fault was thought,\n" + " And yet his punishment was cruel death.\n" + " Who sued to me for him? who, in my rage,\n" + " Kneel'd at my feet, and bade me be advised\n" + " Who spake of brotherhood? who spake of love?\n" + " Who told me how the poor soul did forsake\n" + " The mighty Warwick, and did fight for me?\n" + " Who told me, in the field by Tewksbury\n" + " When Oxford had me down, he rescued me,\n" + " And said, 'Dear brother, live, and be a king'?\n" + " Who told me, when we both lay in the field\n" + " Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me\n" + " Even in his own garments, and gave himself,\n" + " All thin and naked, to the numb cold night?\n" + " All this from my remembrance brutish wrath\n" + " Sinfully pluck'd, and not a man of you\n" + " Had so much grace to put it in my mind.\n" + " But when your carters or your waiting-vassals\n" + " Have done a drunken slaughter, and defaced\n" + " The precious image of our dear Redeemer,\n" + " You straight are on your knees for pardon, pardon;\n" + " And I unjustly too, must grant it you\n" + " But for my brother not a man would speak,\n" + " Nor I, ungracious, speak unto myself\n" + " For him, poor soul. The proudest of you all\n" + " Have been beholding to him in his life;\n" + " Yet none of you would once plead for his life.\n" + " O God, I fear thy justice will take hold\n" + " On me, and you, and mine, and yours for this!\n" + " Come, Hastings, help me to my closet.\n" + " Oh, poor Clarence!\n\n" + " [Exeunt some with KING EDWARD IV and QUEEN MARGARET]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER This is the fruit of rashness! Mark'd you not\n" + " How that the guilty kindred of the queen\n" + " Look'd pale when they did hear of Clarence' death?\n" + " O, they did urge it still unto the king!\n" + " God will revenge it. But come, let us in,\n" + " To comfort Edward with our company.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM We wait upon your grace.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE]\n\n" + "Boy Tell me, good grandam, is our father dead?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK No, boy.\n\n" + "Boy Why do you wring your hands, and beat your breast,\n" + " And cry 'O Clarence, my unhappy son!'\n\n" + "Girl Why do you look on us, and shake your head,\n" + " And call us wretches, orphans, castaways\n" + " If that our noble father be alive?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK My pretty cousins, you mistake me much;\n" + " I do lament the sickness of the king.\n" + " As loath to lose him, not your father's death;\n" + " It were lost sorrow to wail one that's lost.\n\n" + "Boy Then, grandam, you conclude that he is dead.\n" + " The king my uncle is to blame for this:\n" + " God will revenge it; whom I will importune\n" + " With daily prayers all to that effect.\n\n" + "Girl And so will I.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Peace, children, peace! the king doth love you well:\n" + " Incapable and shallow innocents,\n" + " You cannot guess who caused your father's death.\n\n" + "Boy Grandam, we can; for my good uncle Gloucester\n" + " Told me, the king, provoked by the queen,\n" + " Devised impeachments to imprison him :\n" + " And when my uncle told me so, he wept,\n" + " And hugg'd me in his arm, and kindly kiss'd my cheek;\n" + " Bade me rely on him as on my father,\n" + " And he would love me dearly as his child.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,\n" + " And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!\n" + " He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;\n" + " Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.\n\n" + "Boy Think you my uncle did dissemble, grandam?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Ay, boy.\n\n" + "Boy I cannot think it. Hark! what noise is this?\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her\n" + " ears; RIVERS, and DORSET after her]\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Oh, who shall hinder me to wail and weep,\n" + " To chide my fortune, and torment myself?\n" + " I'll join with black despair against my soul,\n" + " And to myself become an enemy.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK What means this scene of rude impatience?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH To make an act of tragic violence:\n" + " Edward, my lord, your son, our king, is dead.\n" + " Why grow the branches now the root is wither'd?\n" + " Why wither not the leaves the sap being gone?\n" + " If you will live, lament; if die, be brief,\n" + " That our swift-winged souls may catch the king's;\n" + " Or, like obedient subjects, follow him\n" + " To his new kingdom of perpetual rest.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Ah, so much interest have I in thy sorrow\n" + " As I had title in thy noble husband!\n" + " I have bewept a worthy husband's death,\n" + " And lived by looking on his images:\n" + " But now two mirrors of his princely semblance\n" + " Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death,\n" + " And I for comfort have but one false glass,\n" + " Which grieves me when I see my shame in him.\n" + " Thou art a widow; yet thou art a mother,\n" + " And hast the comfort of thy children left thee:\n" + " But death hath snatch'd my husband from mine arms,\n" + " And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble limbs,\n" + " Edward and Clarence. O, what cause have I,\n" + " Thine being but a moiety of my grief,\n" + " To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!\n\n" + "Boy Good aunt, you wept not for our father's death;\n" + " How can we aid you with our kindred tears?\n\n" + "Girl Our fatherless distress was left unmoan'd;\n" + " Your widow-dolour likewise be unwept!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Give me no help in lamentation;\n" + " I am not barren to bring forth complaints\n" + " All springs reduce their currents to mine eyes,\n" + " That I, being govern'd by the watery moon,\n" + " May send forth plenteous tears to drown the world!\n" + " Oh for my husband, for my dear lord Edward!\n\n" + "Children Oh for our father, for our dear lord Clarence!\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Alas for both, both mine, Edward and Clarence!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH What stay had I but Edward? and he's gone.\n\n" + "Children What stay had we but Clarence? and he's gone.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK What stays had I but they? and they are gone.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Was never widow had so dear a loss!\n\n" + "Children Were never orphans had so dear a loss!\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Was never mother had so dear a loss!\n" + " Alas, I am the mother of these moans!\n" + " Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general.\n" + " She for an Edward weeps, and so do I;\n" + " I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she:\n" + " These babes for Clarence weep and so do I;\n" + " I for an Edward weep, so do not they:\n" + " Alas, you three, on me, threefold distress'd,\n" + " Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse,\n" + " And I will pamper it with lamentations.\n\n" + "DORSET Comfort, dear mother: God is much displeased\n" + " That you take with unthankfulness, his doing:\n" + " In common worldly things, 'tis call'd ungrateful,\n" + " With dull unwilligness to repay a debt\n" + " Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;\n" + " Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,\n" + " For it requires the royal debt it lent you.\n\n" + "RIVERS Madam, bethink you, like a careful mother,\n" + " Of the young prince your son: send straight for him\n" + " Let him be crown'd; in him your comfort lives:\n" + " Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave,\n" + " And plant your joys in living Edward's throne.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, and RATCLIFF]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Madam, have comfort: all of us have cause\n" + " To wail the dimming of our shining star;\n" + " But none can cure their harms by wailing them.\n" + " Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy;\n" + " I did not see your grace: humbly on my knee\n" + " I crave your blessing.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind,\n" + " Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] Amen; and make me die a good old man!\n" + " That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing:\n" + " I marvel why her grace did leave it out.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM You cloudy princes and heart-sorrowing peers,\n" + " That bear this mutual heavy load of moan,\n" + " Now cheer each other in each other's love\n" + " Though we have spent our harvest of this king,\n" + " We are to reap the harvest of his son.\n" + " The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,\n" + " But lately splinter'd, knit, and join'd together,\n" + " Must gently be preserved, cherish'd, and kept:\n" + " Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,\n" + " Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch'd\n" + " Hither to London, to be crown'd our king.\n\n" + "RIVERS Why with some little train, my Lord of Buckingham?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Marry, my lord, lest, by a multitude,\n" + " The new-heal'd wound of malice should break out,\n" + " Which would be so much the more dangerous\n" + " By how much the estate is green and yet ungovern'd:\n" + " Where every horse bears his commanding rein,\n" + " And may direct his course as please himself,\n" + " As well the fear of harm, as harm apparent,\n" + " In my opinion, ought to be prevented.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I hope the king made peace with all of us\n" + " And the compact is firm and true in me.\n\n" + "RIVERS And so in me; and so, I think, in all:\n" + " Yet, since it is but green, it should be put\n" + " To no apparent likelihood of breach,\n" + " Which haply by much company might be urged:\n" + " Therefore I say with noble Buckingham,\n" + " That it is meet so few should fetch the prince.\n\n" + "HASTINGS And so say I.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Then be it so; and go we to determine\n" + " Who they shall be that straight shall post to Ludlow.\n" + " Madam, and you, my mother, will you go\n" + " To give your censures in this weighty business?\n\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH |\n" + " | With all our harts.\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK |\n\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM and GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My lord, whoever journeys to the Prince,\n" + " For God's sake, let not us two be behind;\n" + " For, by the way, I'll sort occasion,\n" + " As index to the story we late talk'd of,\n" + " To part the queen's proud kindred from the king.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My other self, my counsel's consistory,\n" + " My oracle, my prophet! My dear cousin,\n" + " I, like a child, will go by thy direction.\n" + " Towards Ludlow then, for we'll not stay behind.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III London. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Citizens meeting]\n\n" + "First Citizen Neighbour, well met: whither away so fast?\n\n" + "Second Citizen I promise you, I scarcely know myself:\n" + " Hear you the news abroad?\n\n" + "First Citizen Ay, that the king is dead.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Bad news, by'r lady; seldom comes the better:\n" + " I fear, I fear 'twill prove a troublous world.\n\n" + " [Enter another Citizen]\n\n" + "Third Citizen Neighbours, God speed!\n\n" + "First Citizen Give you good morrow, sir.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Doth this news hold of good King Edward's death?\n\n" + "Second Citizen Ay, sir, it is too true; God help the while!\n\n" + "Third Citizen Then, masters, look to see a troublous world.\n\n" + "First Citizen No, no; by God's good grace his son shall reign.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Woe to the land that's govern'd by a child!\n\n" + "Second Citizen In him there is a hope of government,\n" + " That in his nonage council under him,\n" + " And in his full and ripen'd years himself,\n" + " No doubt, shall then and till then govern well.\n\n" + "First Citizen So stood the state when Henry the Sixth\n" + " Was crown'd in Paris but at nine months old.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Stood the state so? No, no, good friends, God wot;\n" + " For then this land was famously enrich'd\n" + " With politic grave counsel; then the king\n" + " Had virtuous uncles to protect his grace.\n\n" + "First Citizen Why, so hath this, both by the father and mother.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Better it were they all came by the father,\n" + " Or by the father there were none at all;\n" + " For emulation now, who shall be nearest,\n" + " Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.\n" + " O, full of danger is the Duke of Gloucester!\n" + " And the queen's sons and brothers haught and proud:\n" + " And were they to be ruled, and not to rule,\n" + " This sickly land might solace as before.\n\n" + "First Citizen Come, come, we fear the worst; all shall be well.\n\n" + "Third Citizen When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks;\n" + " When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand;\n" + " When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?\n" + " Untimely storms make men expect a dearth.\n" + " All may be well; but, if God sort it so,\n" + " 'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.\n\n" + "Second Citizen Truly, the souls of men are full of dread:\n" + " Ye cannot reason almost with a man\n" + " That looks not heavily and full of fear.\n\n" + "Third Citizen Before the times of change, still is it so:\n" + " By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust\n" + " Ensuing dangers; as by proof, we see\n" + " The waters swell before a boisterous storm.\n" + " But leave it all to God. whither away?\n\n" + "Second Citizen Marry, we were sent for to the justices.\n\n" + "Third Citizen And so was I: I'll bear you company.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, young YORK, QUEEN\n" + " ELIZABETH, and the DUCHESS OF YORK]\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton;\n" + " At Stony-Stratford will they be to-night:\n" + " To-morrow, or next day, they will be here.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I long with all my heart to see the prince:\n" + " I hope he is much grown since last I saw him.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH But I hear, no; they say my son of York\n" + " Hath almost overta'en him in his growth.\n\n" + "YORK Ay, mother; but I would not have it so.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Why, my young cousin, it is good to grow.\n\n" + "YORK Grandam, one night, as we did sit at supper,\n" + " My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow\n" + " More than my brother: 'Ay,' quoth my uncle\n" + " Gloucester,\n" + " 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:'\n" + " And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,\n" + " Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Good faith, good faith, the saying did not hold\n" + " In him that did object the same to thee;\n" + " He was the wretched'st thing when he was young,\n" + " So long a-growing and so leisurely,\n" + " That, if this rule were true, he should be gracious.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Why, madam, so, no doubt, he is.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I hope he is; but yet let mothers doubt.\n\n" + "YORK Now, by my troth, if I had been remember'd,\n" + " I could have given my uncle's grace a flout,\n" + " To touch his growth nearer than he touch'd mine.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK How, my pretty York? I pray thee, let me hear it.\n\n" + "YORK Marry, they say my uncle grew so fast\n" + " That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old\n" + " 'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth.\n" + " Grandam, this would have been a biting jest.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I pray thee, pretty York, who told thee this?\n\n" + "YORK Grandam, his nurse.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK His nurse! why, she was dead ere thou wert born.\n\n" + "YORK If 'twere not she, I cannot tell who told me.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH A parlous boy: go to, you are too shrewd.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Good madam, be not angry with the child.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Pitchers have ears.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Here comes a messenger. What news?\n\n" + "Messenger Such news, my lord, as grieves me to unfold.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH How fares the prince?\n\n" + "Messenger Well, madam, and in health.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK What is thy news then?\n\n" + "Messenger Lord Rivers and Lord Grey are sent to Pomfret,\n" + " With them Sir Thomas Vaughan, prisoners.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Who hath committed them?\n\n" + "Messenger The mighty dukes\n" + " Gloucester and Buckingham.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH For what offence?\n\n" + "Messenger The sum of all I can, I have disclosed;\n" + " Why or for what these nobles were committed\n" + " Is all unknown to me, my gracious lady.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Ay me, I see the downfall of our house!\n" + " The tiger now hath seized the gentle hind;\n" + " Insulting tyranny begins to jet\n" + " Upon the innocent and aweless throne:\n" + " Welcome, destruction, death, and massacre!\n" + " I see, as in a map, the end of all.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Accursed and unquiet wrangling days,\n" + " How many of you have mine eyes beheld!\n" + " My husband lost his life to get the crown;\n" + " And often up and down my sons were toss'd,\n" + " For me to joy and weep their gain and loss:\n" + " And being seated, and domestic broils\n" + " Clean over-blown, themselves, the conquerors.\n" + " Make war upon themselves; blood against blood,\n" + " Self against self: O, preposterous\n" + " And frantic outrage, end thy damned spleen;\n" + " Or let me die, to look on death no more!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Come, come, my boy; we will to sanctuary.\n" + " Madam, farewell.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I'll go along with you.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH You have no cause.\n\n" + "ARCHBISHOP OF YORK My gracious lady, go;\n" + " And thither bear your treasure and your goods.\n" + " For my part, I'll resign unto your grace\n" + " The seal I keep: and so betide to me\n" + " As well I tender you and all of yours!\n" + " Come, I'll conduct you to the sanctuary.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I London. A street.\n\n\n" + " [The trumpets sound. Enter the young PRINCE EDWARD,\n" + " GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM, CARDINAL, CATESBY, and others]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Welcome, sweet prince, to London, to your chamber.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Welcome, dear cousin, my thoughts' sovereign\n" + " The weary way hath made you melancholy.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD No, uncle; but our crosses on the way\n" + " Have made it tedious, wearisome, and heavy\n" + " I want more uncles here to welcome me.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Sweet prince, the untainted virtue of your years\n" + " Hath not yet dived into the world's deceit\n" + " Nor more can you distinguish of a man\n" + " Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,\n" + " Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.\n" + " Those uncles which you want were dangerous;\n" + " Your grace attended to their sugar'd words,\n" + " But look'd not on the poison of their hearts :\n" + " God keep you from them, and from such false friends!\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD God keep me from false friends! but they were none.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.\n\n" + " [Enter the Lord Mayor and his train]\n\n" + "Lord Mayor God bless your grace with health and happy days!\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD I thank you, good my lord; and thank you all.\n" + " I thought my mother, and my brother York,\n" + " Would long ere this have met us on the way\n" + " Fie, what a slug is Hastings, that he comes not\n" + " To tell us whether they will come or no!\n\n" + " [Enter HASTINGS]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Welcome, my lord: what, will our mother come?\n\n" + "HASTINGS On what occasion, God he knows, not I,\n" + " The queen your mother, and your brother York,\n" + " Have taken sanctuary: the tender prince\n" + " Would fain have come with me to meet your grace,\n" + " But by his mother was perforce withheld.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Fie, what an indirect and peevish course\n" + " Is this of hers! Lord cardinal, will your grace\n" + " Persuade the queen to send the Duke of York\n" + " Unto his princely brother presently?\n" + " If she deny, Lord Hastings, go with him,\n" + " And from her jealous arms pluck him perforce.\n\n" + "CARDINAL My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory\n" + " Can from his mother win the Duke of York,\n" + " Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate\n" + " To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid\n" + " We should infringe the holy privilege\n" + " Of blessed sanctuary! not for all this land\n" + " Would I be guilty of so deep a sin.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM You are too senseless--obstinate, my lord,\n" + " Too ceremonious and traditional\n" + " Weigh it but with the grossness of this age,\n" + " You break not sanctuary in seizing him.\n" + " The benefit thereof is always granted\n" + " To those whose dealings have deserved the place,\n" + " And those who have the wit to claim the place:\n" + " This prince hath neither claim'd it nor deserved it;\n" + " And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it:\n" + " Then, taking him from thence that is not there,\n" + " You break no privilege nor charter there.\n" + " Oft have I heard of sanctuary men;\n" + " But sanctuary children ne'er till now.\n\n" + "CARDINAL My lord, you shall o'er-rule my mind for once.\n" + " Come on, Lord Hastings, will you go with me?\n\n" + "HASTINGS I go, my lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Good lords, make all the speedy haste you may.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CARDINAL and HASTINGS]\n\n" + " Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come,\n" + " Where shall we sojourn till our coronation?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Where it seems best unto your royal self.\n" + " If I may counsel you, some day or two\n" + " Your highness shall repose you at the Tower:\n" + " Then where you please, and shall be thought most fit\n" + " For your best health and recreation.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD I do not like the Tower, of any place.\n" + " Did Julius Caesar build that place, my lord?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM He did, my gracious lord, begin that place;\n" + " Which, since, succeeding ages have re-edified.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Is it upon record, or else reported\n" + " Successively from age to age, he built it?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Upon record, my gracious lord.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD But say, my lord, it were not register'd,\n" + " Methinks the truth should live from age to age,\n" + " As 'twere retail'd to all posterity,\n" + " Even to the general all-ending day.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] So wise so young, they say, do never\n" + " live long.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD What say you, uncle?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I say, without characters, fame lives long.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity,\n" + " I moralize two meanings in one word.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD That Julius Caesar was a famous man;\n" + " With what his valour did enrich his wit,\n" + " His wit set down to make his valour live\n" + " Death makes no conquest of this conqueror;\n" + " For now he lives in fame, though not in life.\n" + " I'll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham,--\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM What, my gracious lord?\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD An if I live until I be a man,\n" + " I'll win our ancient right in France again,\n" + " Or die a soldier, as I lived a king.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER [Aside] Short summers lightly have a forward spring.\n\n" + " [Enter young YORK, HASTINGS, and the CARDINAL]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Now, in good time, here comes the Duke of York.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Richard of York! how fares our loving brother?\n\n" + "YORK Well, my dread lord; so must I call you now.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD Ay, brother, to our grief, as it is yours:\n" + " Too late he died that might have kept that title,\n" + " Which by his death hath lost much majesty.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER How fares our cousin, noble Lord of York?\n\n" + "YORK I thank you, gentle uncle. O, my lord,\n" + " You said that idle weeds are fast in growth\n" + " The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He hath, my lord.\n\n" + "YORK And therefore is he idle?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O, my fair cousin, I must not say so.\n\n" + "YORK Then is he more beholding to you than I.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He may command me as my sovereign;\n" + " But you have power in me as in a kinsman.\n\n" + "YORK I pray you, uncle, give me this dagger.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My dagger, little cousin? with all my heart.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD A beggar, brother?\n\n" + "YORK Of my kind uncle, that I know will give;\n" + " And being but a toy, which is no grief to give.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER A greater gift than that I'll give my cousin.\n\n" + "YORK A greater gift! O, that's the sword to it.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER A gentle cousin, were it light enough.\n\n" + "YORK O, then, I see, you will part but with light gifts;\n" + " In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER It is too heavy for your grace to wear.\n\n" + "YORK I weigh it lightly, were it heavier.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, would you have my weapon, little lord?\n\n" + "YORK I would, that I might thank you as you call me.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER How?\n\n" + "YORK Little.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD My Lord of York will still be cross in talk:\n" + " Uncle, your grace knows how to bear with him.\n\n" + "YORK You mean, to bear me, not to bear with me:\n" + " Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me;\n" + " Because that I am little, like an ape,\n" + " He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons!\n" + " To mitigate the scorn he gives his uncle,\n" + " He prettily and aptly taunts himself:\n" + " So cunning and so young is wonderful.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My lord, will't please you pass along?\n" + " Myself and my good cousin Buckingham\n" + " Will to your mother, to entreat of her\n" + " To meet you at the Tower and welcome you.\n\n" + "YORK What, will you go unto the Tower, my lord?\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD My lord protector needs will have it so.\n\n" + "YORK I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Why, what should you fear?\n\n" + "YORK Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry ghost:\n" + " My grandam told me he was murdered there.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD I fear no uncles dead.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Nor none that live, I hope.\n\n" + "PRINCE EDWARD An if they live, I hope I need not fear.\n" + " But come, my lord; and with a heavy heart,\n" + " Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower.\n\n" + " [A Sennet. Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM\n" + " and CATESBY]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Think you, my lord, this little prating York\n" + " Was not incensed by his subtle mother\n" + " To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER No doubt, no doubt; O, 'tis a parlous boy;\n" + " Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable\n" + " He is all the mother's, from the top to toe.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Well, let them rest. Come hither, Catesby.\n" + " Thou art sworn as deeply to effect what we intend\n" + " As closely to conceal what we impart:\n" + " Thou know'st our reasons urged upon the way;\n" + " What think'st thou? is it not an easy matter\n" + " To make William Lord Hastings of our mind,\n" + " For the instalment of this noble duke\n" + " In the seat royal of this famous isle?\n\n" + "CATESBY He for his father's sake so loves the prince,\n" + " That he will not be won to aught against him.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM What think'st thou, then, of Stanley? what will he?\n\n" + "CATESBY He will do all in all as Hastings doth.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Well, then, no more but this: go, gentle Catesby,\n" + " And, as it were far off sound thou Lord Hastings,\n" + " How doth he stand affected to our purpose;\n" + " And summon him to-morrow to the Tower,\n" + " To sit about the coronation.\n" + " If thou dost find him tractable to us,\n" + " Encourage him, and show him all our reasons:\n" + " If he be leaden, icy-cold, unwilling,\n" + " Be thou so too; and so break off your talk,\n" + " And give us notice of his inclination:\n" + " For we to-morrow hold divided councils,\n" + " Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Commend me to Lord William: tell him, Catesby,\n" + " His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries\n" + " To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle;\n" + " And bid my friend, for joy of this good news,\n" + " Give mistress Shore one gentle kiss the more.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Good Catesby, go, effect this business soundly.\n\n" + "CATESBY My good lords both, with all the heed I may.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep?\n\n" + "CATESBY You shall, my lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER At Crosby Place, there shall you find us both.\n\n" + " [Exit CATESBY]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Now, my lord, what shall we do, if we perceive\n" + " Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Chop off his head, man; somewhat we will do:\n" + " And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me\n" + " The earldom of Hereford, and the moveables\n" + " Whereof the king my brother stood possess'd.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I'll claim that promise at your grace's hands.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And look to have it yielded with all willingness.\n" + " Come, let us sup betimes, that afterwards\n" + " We may digest our complots in some form.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before Lord Hastings' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger What, ho! my lord!\n\n" + "HASTINGS [Within] Who knocks at the door?\n\n" + "Messenger A messenger from the Lord Stanley.\n\n" + " [Enter HASTINGS]\n\n" + "HASTINGS What is't o'clock?\n\n" + "Messenger Upon the stroke of four.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Cannot thy master sleep these tedious nights?\n\n" + "Messenger So it should seem by that I have to say.\n" + " First, he commends him to your noble lordship.\n\n" + "HASTINGS And then?\n\n" + "Messenger And then he sends you word\n" + " He dreamt to-night the boar had razed his helm:\n" + " Besides, he says there are two councils held;\n" + " And that may be determined at the one\n" + " which may make you and him to rue at the other.\n" + " Therefore he sends to know your lordship's pleasure,\n" + " If presently you will take horse with him,\n" + " And with all speed post with him toward the north,\n" + " To shun the danger that his soul divines.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Go, fellow, go, return unto thy lord;\n" + " Bid him not fear the separated councils\n" + " His honour and myself are at the one,\n" + " And at the other is my servant Catesby\n" + " Where nothing can proceed that toucheth us\n" + " Whereof I shall not have intelligence.\n" + " Tell him his fears are shallow, wanting instance:\n" + " And for his dreams, I wonder he is so fond\n" + " To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers\n" + " To fly the boar before the boar pursues,\n" + " Were to incense the boar to follow us\n" + " And make pursuit where he did mean no chase.\n" + " Go, bid thy master rise and come to me\n" + " And we will both together to the Tower,\n" + " Where, he shall see, the boar will use us kindly.\n\n" + "Messenger My gracious lord, I'll tell him what you say.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter CATESBY]\n\n" + "CATESBY Many good morrows to my noble lord!\n\n" + "HASTINGS Good morrow, Catesby; you are early stirring\n" + " What news, what news, in this our tottering state?\n\n" + "CATESBY It is a reeling world, indeed, my lord;\n" + " And I believe twill never stand upright\n" + " Tim Richard wear the garland of the realm.\n\n" + "HASTINGS How! wear the garland! dost thou mean the crown?\n\n" + "CATESBY Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "HASTINGS I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders\n" + " Ere I will see the crown so foul misplaced.\n" + " But canst thou guess that he doth aim at it?\n\n" + "CATESBY Ay, on my life; and hopes to find forward\n" + " Upon his party for the gain thereof:\n" + " And thereupon he sends you this good news,\n" + " That this same very day your enemies,\n" + " The kindred of the queen, must die at Pomfret.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Indeed, I am no mourner for that news,\n" + " Because they have been still mine enemies:\n" + " But, that I'll give my voice on Richard's side,\n" + " To bar my master's heirs in true descent,\n" + " God knows I will not do it, to the death.\n\n" + "CATESBY God keep your lordship in that gracious mind!\n\n" + "HASTINGS But I shall laugh at this a twelve-month hence,\n" + " That they who brought me in my master's hate\n" + " I live to look upon their tragedy.\n" + " I tell thee, Catesby--\n\n" + "CATESBY What, my lord?\n\n" + "HASTINGS Ere a fortnight make me elder,\n" + " I'll send some packing that yet think not on it.\n\n" + "CATESBY 'Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,\n" + " When men are unprepared and look not for it.\n\n" + "HASTINGS O monstrous, monstrous! and so falls it out\n" + " With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey: and so 'twill do\n" + " With some men else, who think themselves as safe\n" + " As thou and I; who, as thou know'st, are dear\n" + " To princely Richard and to Buckingham.\n\n" + "CATESBY The princes both make high account of you;\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " For they account his head upon the bridge.\n\n" + "HASTINGS I know they do; and I have well deserved it.\n\n" + " [Enter STANLEY]\n\n" + " Come on, come on; where is your boar-spear, man?\n" + " Fear you the boar, and go so unprovided?\n\n" + "STANLEY My lord, good morrow; good morrow, Catesby:\n" + " You may jest on, but, by the holy rood,\n" + " I do not like these several councils, I.\n\n" + "HASTINGS My lord,\n" + " I hold my life as dear as you do yours;\n" + " And never in my life, I do protest,\n" + " Was it more precious to me than 'tis now:\n" + " Think you, but that I know our state secure,\n" + " I would be so triumphant as I am?\n\n" + "STANLEY The lords at Pomfret, when they rode from London,\n" + " Were jocund, and supposed their state was sure,\n" + " And they indeed had no cause to mistrust;\n" + " But yet, you see how soon the day o'ercast.\n" + " This sudden stag of rancour I misdoubt:\n" + " Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward!\n" + " What, shall we toward the Tower? the day is spent.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Come, come, have with you. Wot you what, my lord?\n" + " To-day the lords you talk of are beheaded.\n\n" + "LORD STANLEY They, for their truth, might better wear their heads\n" + " Than some that have accused them wear their hats.\n" + " But come, my lord, let us away.\n\n" + " [Enter a Pursuivant]\n\n" + "HASTINGS Go on before; I'll talk with this good fellow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt STANLEY and CATESBY]\n\n" + " How now, sirrah! how goes the world with thee?\n\n" + "Pursuivant The better that your lordship please to ask.\n\n" + "HASTINGS I tell thee, man, 'tis better with me now\n" + " Than when I met thee last where now we meet:\n" + " Then was I going prisoner to the Tower,\n" + " By the suggestion of the queen's allies;\n" + " But now, I tell thee--keep it to thyself--\n" + " This day those enemies are put to death,\n" + " And I in better state than e'er I was.\n\n" + "Pursuivant God hold it, to your honour's good content!\n\n" + "HASTINGS Gramercy, fellow: there, drink that for me.\n\n" + " [Throws him his purse]\n\n" + "Pursuivant God save your lordship!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter a Priest]\n\n" + "Priest Well met, my lord; I am glad to see your honour.\n\n" + "HASTINGS I thank thee, good Sir John, with all my heart.\n" + " I am in your debt for your last exercise;\n" + " Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you.\n\n" + " [He whispers in his ear]\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM What, talking with a priest, lord chamberlain?\n" + " Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest;\n" + " Your honour hath no shriving work in hand.\n\n" + "HASTINGS Good faith, and when I met this holy man,\n" + " Those men you talk of came into my mind.\n" + " What, go you toward the Tower?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay\n" + " I shall return before your lordship thence.\n\n" + "HASTINGS 'Tis like enough, for I stay dinner there.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM [Aside] And supper too, although thou know'st it not.\n" + " Come, will you go?\n\n" + "HASTINGS I'll wait upon your lordship.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Pomfret Castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter RATCLIFF, with halberds, carrying RIVERS,\n" + " GREY, and VAUGHAN to death]\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Come, bring forth the prisoners.\n\n" + "RIVERS Sir Richard Ratcliff, let me tell thee this:\n" + " To-day shalt thou behold a subject die\n" + " For truth, for duty, and for loyalty.\n\n" + "GREY God keep the prince from all the pack of you!\n" + " A knot you are of damned blood-suckers!\n\n" + "VAUGHAN You live that shall cry woe for this after.\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Dispatch; the limit of your lives is out.\n\n" + "RIVERS O Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,\n" + " Fatal and ominous to noble peers!\n" + " Within the guilty closure of thy walls\n" + " Richard the second here was hack'd to death;\n" + " And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,\n" + " We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink.\n\n" + "GREY Now Margaret's curse is fall'n upon our heads,\n" + " For standing by when Richard stabb'd her son.\n\n" + "RIVERS Then cursed she Hastings, then cursed she Buckingham,\n" + " Then cursed she Richard. O, remember, God\n" + " To hear her prayers for them, as now for us\n" + " And for my sister and her princely sons,\n" + " Be satisfied, dear God, with our true blood,\n" + " Which, as thou know'st, unjustly must be spilt.\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Make haste; the hour of death is expiate.\n\n" + "RIVERS Come, Grey, come, Vaughan, let us all embrace:\n" + " And take our leave, until we meet in heaven.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The Tower of London.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BUCKINGHAM, DERBY, HASTINGS, the BISHOP OF\n" + " ELY, RATCLIFF, LOVEL, with others, and take their\n" + " seats at a table]\n\n" + "HASTINGS My lords, at once: the cause why we are met\n" + " Is, to determine of the coronation.\n" + " In God's name, speak: when is the royal day?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Are all things fitting for that royal time?\n\n" + "DERBY It is, and wants but nomination.\n\n" + "BISHOP OF ELY To-morrow, then, I judge a happy day.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Who knows the lord protector's mind herein?\n" + " Who is most inward with the royal duke?\n\n" + "BISHOP OF ELY Your grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Who, I, my lord I we know each other's faces,\n" + " But for our hearts, he knows no more of mine,\n" + " Than I of yours;\n" + " Nor I no more of his, than you of mine.\n" + " Lord Hastings, you and he are near in love.\n\n" + "HASTINGS I thank his grace, I know he loves me well;\n" + " But, for his purpose in the coronation.\n" + " I have not sounded him, nor he deliver'd\n" + " His gracious pleasure any way therein:\n" + " But you, my noble lords, may name the time;\n" + " And in the duke's behalf I'll give my voice,\n" + " Which, I presume, he'll take in gentle part.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + "BISHOP OF ELY Now in good time, here comes the duke himself.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My noble lords and cousins all, good morrow.\n" + " I have been long a sleeper; but, I hope,\n" + " My absence doth neglect no great designs,\n" + " Which by my presence might have been concluded.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Had not you come upon your cue, my lord\n" + " William Lord Hastings had pronounced your part,--\n" + " I mean, your voice,--for crowning of the king.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Than my Lord Hastings no man might be bolder;\n" + " His lordship knows me well, and loves me well.\n\n" + "HASTINGS I thank your grace.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My lord of Ely!\n\n" + "BISHOP OF ELY My lord?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER When I was last in Holborn,\n" + " I saw good strawberries in your garden there\n" + " I do beseech you send for some of them.\n\n" + "BISHOP OF ELY Marry, and will, my lord, with all my heart.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Cousin of Buckingham, a word with you.\n\n" + " [Drawing him aside]\n\n" + " Catesby hath sounded Hastings in our business,\n" + " And finds the testy gentleman so hot,\n" + " As he will lose his head ere give consent\n" + " His master's son, as worshipful as he terms it,\n" + " Shall lose the royalty of England's throne.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Withdraw you hence, my lord, I'll follow you.\n\n" + " [Exit GLOUCESTER, BUCKINGHAM following]\n\n" + "DERBY We have not yet set down this day of triumph.\n" + " To-morrow, in mine opinion, is too sudden;\n" + " For I myself am not so well provided\n" + " As else I would be, were the day prolong'd.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BISHOP OF ELY]\n\n" + "BISHOP OF ELY Where is my lord protector? I have sent for these\n" + " strawberries.\n\n" + "HASTINGS His grace looks cheerfully and smooth to-day;\n" + " There's some conceit or other likes him well,\n" + " When he doth bid good morrow with such a spirit.\n" + " I think there's never a man in Christendom\n" + " That can less hide his love or hate than he;\n" + " For by his face straight shall you know his heart.\n\n" + "DERBY What of his heart perceive you in his face\n" + " By any likelihood he show'd to-day?\n\n" + "HASTINGS Marry, that with no man here he is offended;\n" + " For, were he, he had shown it in his looks.\n\n" + "DERBY I pray God he be not, I say.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I pray you all, tell me what they deserve\n" + " That do conspire my death with devilish plots\n" + " Of damned witchcraft, and that have prevail'd\n" + " Upon my body with their hellish charms?\n\n" + "HASTINGS The tender love I bear your grace, my lord,\n" + " Makes me most forward in this noble presence\n" + " To doom the offenders, whatsoever they be\n" + " I say, my lord, they have deserved death.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Then be your eyes the witness of this ill:\n" + " See how I am bewitch'd; behold mine arm\n" + " Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up:\n" + " And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous witch,\n" + " Consorted with that harlot strumpet Shore,\n" + " That by their witchcraft thus have marked me.\n\n" + "HASTINGS If they have done this thing, my gracious lord--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER If I thou protector of this damned strumpet--\n" + " Tellest thou me of 'ifs'? Thou art a traitor:\n" + " Off with his head! Now, by Saint Paul I swear,\n" + " I will not dine until I see the same.\n" + " Lovel and Ratcliff, look that it be done:\n" + " The rest, that love me, rise and follow me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but HASTINGS, RATCLIFF, and LOVEL]\n\n" + "HASTINGS Woe, woe for England! not a whit for me;\n" + " For I, too fond, might have prevented this.\n" + " Stanley did dream the boar did raze his helm;\n" + " But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly:\n" + " Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did stumble,\n" + " And startled, when he look'd upon the Tower,\n" + " As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house.\n" + " O, now I want the priest that spake to me:\n" + " I now repent I told the pursuivant\n" + " As 'twere triumphing at mine enemies,\n" + " How they at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd,\n" + " And I myself secure in grace and favour.\n" + " O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse\n" + " Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head!\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Dispatch, my lord; the duke would be at dinner:\n" + " Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head.\n\n" + "HASTINGS O momentary grace of mortal men,\n" + " Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!\n" + " Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,\n" + " Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,\n" + " Ready, with every nod, to tumble down\n" + " Into the fatal bowels of the deep.\n\n" + "LOVEL Come, come, dispatch; 'tis bootless to exclaim.\n\n" + "HASTINGS O bloody Richard! miserable England!\n" + " I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee\n" + " That ever wretched age hath look'd upon.\n" + " Come, lead me to the block; bear him my head.\n" + " They smile at me that shortly shall be dead.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The Tower-walls.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, in rotten armour,\n" + " marvellous ill-favoured]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Come, cousin, canst thou quake, and change thy colour,\n" + " Murder thy breath in the middle of a word,\n" + " And then begin again, and stop again,\n" + " As if thou wert distraught and mad with terror?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;\n" + " Speak and look back, and pry on every side,\n" + " Tremble and start at wagging of a straw,\n" + " Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks\n" + " Are at my service, like enforced smiles;\n" + " And both are ready in their offices,\n" + " At any time, to grace my stratagems.\n" + " But what, is Catesby gone?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER He is; and, see, he brings the mayor along.\n\n" + " [Enter the Lord Mayor and CATESBY]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Lord mayor,--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Look to the drawbridge there!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Hark! a drum.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Catesby, o'erlook the walls.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Lord mayor, the reason we have sent--\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Look back, defend thee, here are enemies.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM God and our innocency defend and guard us!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.\n\n" + " [Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS' head]\n\n" + "LOVEL Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,\n" + " The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER So dear I loved the man, that I must weep.\n" + " I took him for the plainest harmless creature\n" + " That breathed upon this earth a Christian;\n" + " Made him my book wherein my soul recorded\n" + " The history of all her secret thoughts:\n" + " So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue,\n" + " That, his apparent open guilt omitted,\n" + " I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife,\n" + " He lived from all attainder of suspect.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Well, well, he was the covert'st shelter'd traitor\n" + " That ever lived.\n" + " Would you imagine, or almost believe,\n" + " Were't not that, by great preservation,\n" + " We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor\n" + " This day had plotted, in the council-house\n" + " To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?\n\n" + "Lord Mayor What, had he so?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What, think You we are Turks or infidels?\n" + " Or that we would, against the form of law,\n" + " Proceed thus rashly to the villain's death,\n" + " But that the extreme peril of the case,\n" + " The peace of England and our persons' safety,\n" + " Enforced us to this execution?\n\n" + "Lord Mayor Now, fair befall you! he deserved his death;\n" + " And you my good lords, both have well proceeded,\n" + " To warn false traitors from the like attempts.\n" + " I never look'd for better at his hands,\n" + " After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Yet had not we determined he should die,\n" + " Until your lordship came to see his death;\n" + " Which now the loving haste of these our friends,\n" + " Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented:\n" + " Because, my lord, we would have had you heard\n" + " The traitor speak, and timorously confess\n" + " The manner and the purpose of his treason;\n" + " That you might well have signified the same\n" + " Unto the citizens, who haply may\n" + " Misconstrue us in him and wail his death.\n\n" + "Lord Mayor But, my good lord, your grace's word shall serve,\n" + " As well as I had seen and heard him speak\n" + " And doubt you not, right noble princes both,\n" + " But I'll acquaint our duteous citizens\n" + " With all your just proceedings in this cause.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER And to that end we wish'd your lord-ship here,\n" + " To avoid the carping censures of the world.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM But since you come too late of our intents,\n" + " Yet witness what you hear we did intend:\n" + " And so, my good lord mayor, we bid farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit Lord Mayor]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Go, after, after, cousin Buckingham.\n" + " The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in all post:\n" + " There, at your meet'st advantage of the time,\n" + " Infer the bastardy of Edward's children:\n" + " Tell them how Edward put to death a citizen,\n" + " Only for saying he would make his son\n" + " Heir to the crown; meaning indeed his house,\n" + " Which, by the sign thereof was termed so.\n" + " Moreover, urge his hateful luxury\n" + " And bestial appetite in change of lust;\n" + " Which stretched to their servants, daughters, wives,\n" + " Even where his lustful eye or savage heart,\n" + " Without control, listed to make his prey.\n" + " Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person:\n" + " Tell them, when that my mother went with child\n" + " Of that unsatiate Edward, noble York\n" + " My princely father then had wars in France\n" + " And, by just computation of the time,\n" + " Found that the issue was not his begot;\n" + " Which well appeared in his lineaments,\n" + " Being nothing like the noble duke my father:\n" + " But touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off,\n" + " Because you know, my lord, my mother lives.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Fear not, my lord, I'll play the orator\n" + " As if the golden fee for which I plead\n" + " Were for myself: and so, my lord, adieu.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER If you thrive well, bring them to Baynard's Castle;\n" + " Where you shall find me well accompanied\n" + " With reverend fathers and well-learned bishops.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I go: and towards three or four o'clock\n" + " Look for the news that the Guildhall affords.\n\n" + " [Exit BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Go, Lovel, with all speed to Doctor Shaw;\n\n" + " [To CATESBY]\n\n" + " Go thou to Friar Penker; bid them both\n" + " Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + " Now will I in, to take some privy order,\n" + " To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight;\n" + " And to give notice, that no manner of person\n" + " At any time have recourse unto the princes.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Scrivener, with a paper in his hand]\n\n" + "Scrivener This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings;\n" + " Which in a set hand fairly is engross'd,\n" + " That it may be this day read over in Paul's.\n" + " And mark how well the sequel hangs together:\n" + " Eleven hours I spent to write it over,\n" + " For yesternight by Catesby was it brought me;\n" + " The precedent was full as long a-doing:\n" + " And yet within these five hours lived Lord Hastings,\n" + " Untainted, unexamined, free, at liberty\n" + " Here's a good world the while! Why who's so gross,\n" + " That seeth not this palpable device?\n" + " Yet who's so blind, but says he sees it not?\n" + " Bad is the world; and all will come to nought,\n" + " When such bad dealings must be seen in thought.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Baynard's Castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER and BUCKINGHAM, at several doors]\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER How now, my lord, what say the citizens?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Now, by the holy mother of our Lord,\n" + " The citizens are mum and speak not a word.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Touch'd you the bastardy of Edward's children?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I did; with his contract with Lady Lucy,\n" + " And his contract by deputy in France;\n" + " The insatiate greediness of his desires,\n" + " And his enforcement of the city wives;\n" + " His tyranny for trifles; his own bastardy,\n" + " As being got, your father then in France,\n" + " His resemblance, being not like the duke;\n" + " Withal I did infer your lineaments,\n" + " Being the right idea of your father,\n" + " Both in your form and nobleness of mind;\n" + " Laid open all your victories in Scotland,\n" + " Your dicipline in war, wisdom in peace,\n" + " Your bounty, virtue, fair humility:\n" + " Indeed, left nothing fitting for the purpose\n" + " Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse\n" + " And when mine oratory grew to an end\n" + " I bid them that did love their country's good\n" + " Cry 'God save Richard, England's royal king!'\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Ah! and did they so?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM No, so God help me, they spake not a word;\n" + " But, like dumb statues or breathing stones,\n" + " Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale.\n" + " Which when I saw, I reprehended them;\n" + " And ask'd the mayor what meant this wilful silence:\n" + " His answer was, the people were not wont\n" + " To be spoke to but by the recorder.\n" + " Then he was urged to tell my tale again,\n" + " 'Thus saith the duke, thus hath the duke inferr'd;'\n" + " But nothing spake in warrant from himself.\n" + " When he had done, some followers of mine own,\n" + " At the lower end of the hall, hurl'd up their caps,\n" + " And some ten voices cried 'God save King Richard!'\n" + " And thus I took the vantage of those few,\n" + " 'Thanks, gentle citizens and friends,' quoth I;\n" + " 'This general applause and loving shout\n" + " Argues your wisdoms and your love to Richard:'\n" + " And even here brake off, and came away.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER What tongueless blocks were they! would not they speak?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM No, by my troth, my lord.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Will not the mayor then and his brethren come?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM The mayor is here at hand: intend some fear;\n" + " Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit:\n" + " And look you get a prayer-book in your hand,\n" + " And stand betwixt two churchmen, good my lord;\n" + " For on that ground I'll build a holy descant:\n" + " And be not easily won to our request:\n" + " Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I go; and if you plead as well for them\n" + " As I can say nay to thee for myself,\n" + " No doubt well bring it to a happy issue.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Go, go, up to the leads; the lord mayor knocks.\n\n" + " [Exit GLOUCESTER]\n\n" + " [Enter the Lord Mayor and Citizens]\n\n" + " Welcome my lord; I dance attendance here;\n" + " I think the duke will not be spoke withal.\n\n" + " [Enter CATESBY]\n\n" + " Here comes his servant: how now, Catesby,\n" + " What says he?\n\n" + "CATESBY My lord: he doth entreat your grace;\n" + " To visit him to-morrow or next day:\n" + " He is within, with two right reverend fathers,\n" + " Divinely bent to meditation;\n" + " And no worldly suit would he be moved,\n" + " To draw him from his holy exercise.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Return, good Catesby, to thy lord again;\n" + " Tell him, myself, the mayor and citizens,\n" + " In deep designs and matters of great moment,\n" + " No less importing than our general good,\n" + " Are come to have some conference with his grace.\n\n" + "CATESBY I'll tell him what you say, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is not an Edward!\n" + " He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed,\n" + " But on his knees at meditation;\n" + " Not dallying with a brace of courtezans,\n" + " But meditating with two deep divines;\n" + " Not sleeping, to engross his idle body,\n" + " But praying, to enrich his watchful soul:\n" + " Happy were England, would this gracious prince\n" + " Take on himself the sovereignty thereof:\n" + " But, sure, I fear, we shall ne'er win him to it.\n\n" + "Lord Mayor Marry, God forbid his grace should say us nay!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I fear he will.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CATESBY]\n\n" + " How now, Catesby, what says your lord?\n\n" + "CATESBY My lord,\n" + " He wonders to what end you have assembled\n" + " Such troops of citizens to speak with him,\n" + " His grace not being warn'd thereof before:\n" + " My lord, he fears you mean no good to him.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Sorry I am my noble cousin should\n" + " Suspect me, that I mean no good to him:\n" + " By heaven, I come in perfect love to him;\n" + " And so once more return and tell his grace.\n\n" + " [Exit CATESBY]\n\n" + " When holy and devout religious men\n" + " Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence,\n" + " So sweet is zealous contemplation.\n\n" + " [Enter GLOUCESTER aloft, between two Bishops.\n" + " CATESBY returns]\n\n" + "Lord Mayor See, where he stands between two clergymen!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Two props of virtue for a Christian prince,\n" + " To stay him from the fall of vanity:\n" + " And, see, a book of prayer in his hand,\n" + " True ornaments to know a holy man.\n" + " Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince,\n" + " Lend favourable ears to our request;\n" + " And pardon us the interruption\n" + " Of thy devotion and right Christian zeal.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER My lord, there needs no such apology:\n" + " I rather do beseech you pardon me,\n" + " Who, earnest in the service of my God,\n" + " Neglect the visitation of my friends.\n" + " But, leaving this, what is your grace's pleasure?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Even that, I hope, which pleaseth God above,\n" + " And all good men of this ungovern'd isle.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I do suspect I have done some offence\n" + " That seems disgracious in the city's eyes,\n" + " And that you come to reprehend my ignorance.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM You have, my lord: would it might please your grace,\n" + " At our entreaties, to amend that fault!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Else wherefore breathe I in a Christian land?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Then know, it is your fault that you resign\n" + " The supreme seat, the throne majestical,\n" + " The scepter'd office of your ancestors,\n" + " Your state of fortune and your due of birth,\n" + " The lineal glory of your royal house,\n" + " To the corruption of a blemished stock:\n" + " Whilst, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts,\n" + " Which here we waken to our country's good,\n" + " This noble isle doth want her proper limbs;\n" + " Her face defaced with scars of infamy,\n" + " Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants,\n" + " And almost shoulder'd in the swallowing gulf\n" + " Of blind forgetfulness and dark oblivion.\n" + " Which to recure, we heartily solicit\n" + " Your gracious self to take on you the charge\n" + " And kingly government of this your land,\n" + " Not as protector, steward, substitute,\n" + " Or lowly factor for another's gain;\n" + " But as successively from blood to blood,\n" + " Your right of birth, your empery, your own.\n" + " For this, consorted with the citizens,\n" + " Your very worshipful and loving friends,\n" + " And by their vehement instigation,\n" + " In this just suit come I to move your grace.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER I know not whether to depart in silence,\n" + " Or bitterly to speak in your reproof.\n" + " Best fitteth my degree or your condition\n" + " If not to answer, you might haply think\n" + " Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded\n" + " To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,\n" + " Which fondly you would here impose on me;\n" + " If to reprove you for this suit of yours,\n" + " So season'd with your faithful love to me.\n" + " Then, on the other side, I cheque'd my friends.\n" + " Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,\n" + " And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,\n" + " Definitively thus I answer you.\n" + " Your love deserves my thanks; but my desert\n" + " Unmeritable shuns your high request.\n" + " First if all obstacles were cut away,\n" + " And that my path were even to the crown,\n" + " As my ripe revenue and due by birth\n" + " Yet so much is my poverty of spirit,\n" + " So mighty and so many my defects,\n" + " As I had rather hide me from my greatness,\n" + " Being a bark to brook no mighty sea,\n" + " Than in my greatness covet to be hid,\n" + " And in the vapour of my glory smother'd.\n" + " But, God be thank'd, there's no need of me,\n" + " And much I need to help you, if need were;\n" + " The royal tree hath left us royal fruit,\n" + " Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time,\n" + " Will well become the seat of majesty,\n" + " And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign.\n" + " On him I lay what you would lay on me,\n" + " The right and fortune of his happy stars;\n" + " Which God defend that I should wring from him!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My lord, this argues conscience in your grace;\n" + " But the respects thereof are nice and trivial,\n" + " All circumstances well considered.\n" + " You say that Edward is your brother's son:\n" + " So say we too, but not by Edward's wife;\n" + " For first he was contract to Lady Lucy--\n" + " Your mother lives a witness to that vow--\n" + " And afterward by substitute betroth'd\n" + " To Bona, sister to the King of France.\n" + " These both put by a poor petitioner,\n" + " A care-crazed mother of a many children,\n" + " A beauty-waning and distressed widow,\n" + " Even in the afternoon of her best days,\n" + " Made prize and purchase of his lustful eye,\n" + " Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts\n" + " To base declension and loathed bigamy\n" + " By her, in his unlawful bed, he got\n" + " This Edward, whom our manners term the prince.\n" + " More bitterly could I expostulate,\n" + " Save that, for reverence to some alive,\n" + " I give a sparing limit to my tongue.\n" + " Then, good my lord, take to your royal self\n" + " This proffer'd benefit of dignity;\n" + " If non to bless us and the land withal,\n" + " Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry\n" + " From the corruption of abusing times,\n" + " Unto a lineal true-derived course.\n\n" + "Lord Mayor Do, good my lord, your citizens entreat you.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Refuse not, mighty lord, this proffer'd love.\n\n" + "CATESBY O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Alas, why would you heap these cares on me?\n" + " I am unfit for state and majesty;\n" + " I do beseech you, take it not amiss;\n" + " I cannot nor I will not yield to you.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM If you refuse it,--as, in love and zeal,\n" + " Loath to depose the child, Your brother's son;\n" + " As well we know your tenderness of heart\n" + " And gentle, kind, effeminate remorse,\n" + " Which we have noted in you to your kin,\n" + " And egally indeed to all estates,--\n" + " Yet whether you accept our suit or no,\n" + " Your brother's son shall never reign our king;\n" + " But we will plant some other in the throne,\n" + " To the disgrace and downfall of your house:\n" + " And in this resolution here we leave you.--\n" + " Come, citizens: 'zounds! I'll entreat no more.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER O, do not swear, my lord of Buckingham.\n\n" + " [Exit BUCKINGHAM with the Citizens]\n\n" + "CATESBY Call them again, my lord, and accept their suit.\n\n" + "ANOTHER Do, good my lord, lest all the land do rue it.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Would you enforce me to a world of care?\n" + " Well, call them again. I am not made of stone,\n" + " But penetrable to your. kind entreats,\n" + " Albeit against my conscience and my soul.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BUCKINGHAM and the rest]\n\n" + " Cousin of Buckingham, and you sage, grave men,\n" + " Since you will buckle fortune on my back,\n" + " To bear her burthen, whether I will or no,\n" + " I must have patience to endure the load:\n" + " But if black scandal or foul-faced reproach\n" + " Attend the sequel of your imposition,\n" + " Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me\n" + " From all the impure blots and stains thereof;\n" + " For God he knows, and you may partly see,\n" + " How far I am from the desire thereof.\n\n" + "Lord Mayor God bless your grace! we see it, and will say it.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER In saying so, you shall but say the truth.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Then I salute you with this kingly title:\n" + " Long live Richard, England's royal king!\n\n\n" + "Lord Mayor |\n" + " | Amen.\n" + "Citizens |\n\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM To-morrow will it please you to be crown'd?\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Even when you please, since you will have it so.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM To-morrow, then, we will attend your grace:\n" + " And so most joyfully we take our leave.\n\n" + "GLOUCESTER Come, let us to our holy task again.\n" + " Farewell, good cousin; farewell, gentle friends.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before the Tower.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, on one side, QUEEN ELIZABETH, DUCHESS OF\n" + " YORK, and DORSET; on the other, ANNE, Duchess of\n" + " Gloucester, leading Lady Margaret Plantagenet,\n" + " CLARENCE's young Daughter]\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Who meets us here? my niece Plantagenet\n" + " Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester?\n" + " Now, for my life, she's wandering to the Tower,\n" + " On pure heart's love to greet the tender princes.\n" + " Daughter, well met.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE God give your graces both\n" + " A happy and a joyful time of day!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH As much to you, good sister! Whither away?\n\n" + "LADY ANNE No farther than the Tower; and, as I guess,\n" + " Upon the like devotion as yourselves,\n" + " To gratulate the gentle princes there.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Kind sister, thanks: we'll enter all together.\n\n" + " [Enter BRAKENBURY]\n\n" + " And, in good time, here the lieutenant comes.\n" + " Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave,\n" + " How doth the prince, and my young son of York?\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY Right well, dear madam. By your patience,\n" + " I may not suffer you to visit them;\n" + " The king hath straitly charged the contrary.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH The king! why, who's that?\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY I cry you mercy: I mean the lord protector.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH The Lord protect him from that kingly title!\n" + " Hath he set bounds betwixt their love and me?\n" + " I am their mother; who should keep me from them?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I am their fathers mother; I will see them.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Their aunt I am in law, in love their mother:\n" + " Then bring me to their sights; I'll bear thy blame\n" + " And take thy office from thee, on my peril.\n\n" + "BRAKENBURY No, madam, no; I may not leave it so:\n" + " I am bound by oath, and therefore pardon me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter LORD STANLEY]\n\n" + "LORD STANLEY Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence,\n" + " And I'll salute your grace of York as mother,\n" + " And reverend looker on, of two fair queens.\n\n" + " [To LADY ANNE]\n\n" + " Come, madam, you must straight to Westminster,\n" + " There to be crowned Richard's royal queen.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH O, cut my lace in sunder, that my pent heart\n" + " May have some scope to beat, or else I swoon\n" + " With this dead-killing news!\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Despiteful tidings! O unpleasing news!\n\n" + "DORSET Be of good cheer: mother, how fares your grace?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH O Dorset, speak not to me, get thee hence!\n" + " Death and destruction dog thee at the heels;\n" + " Thy mother's name is ominous to children.\n" + " If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas,\n" + " And live with Richmond, from the reach of hell\n" + " Go, hie thee, hie thee from this slaughter-house,\n" + " Lest thou increase the number of the dead;\n" + " And make me die the thrall of Margaret's curse,\n" + " Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted queen.\n\n" + "LORD STANLEY Full of wise care is this your counsel, madam.\n" + " Take all the swift advantage of the hours;\n" + " You shall have letters from me to my son\n" + " To meet you on the way, and welcome you.\n" + " Be not ta'en tardy by unwise delay.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK O ill-dispersing wind of misery!\n" + " O my accursed womb, the bed of death!\n" + " A cockatrice hast thou hatch'd to the world,\n" + " Whose unavoided eye is murderous.\n\n" + "LORD STANLEY Come, madam, come; I in all haste was sent.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE And I in all unwillingness will go.\n" + " I would to God that the inclusive verge\n" + " Of golden metal that must round my brow\n" + " Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain!\n" + " Anointed let me be with deadly venom,\n" + " And die, ere men can say, God save the queen!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Go, go, poor soul, I envy not thy glory\n" + " To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE No! why? When he that is my husband now\n" + " Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse,\n" + " When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands\n" + " Which issued from my other angel husband\n" + " And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd;\n" + " O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face,\n" + " This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, ' accursed,\n" + " For making me, so young, so old a widow!\n" + " And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed;\n" + " And be thy wife--if any be so mad--\n" + " As miserable by the life of thee\n" + " As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death!\n" + " Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again,\n" + " Even in so short a space, my woman's heart\n" + " Grossly grew captive to his honey words\n" + " And proved the subject of my own soul's curse,\n" + " Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest;\n" + " For never yet one hour in his bed\n" + " Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep,\n" + " But have been waked by his timorous dreams.\n" + " Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick;\n" + " And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining.\n\n" + "LADY ANNE No more than from my soul I mourn for yours.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!\n\n" + "LADY ANNE Adieu, poor soul, that takest thy leave of it!\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK [To DORSET]\n\n" + " Go thou to Richmond, and good fortune guide thee!\n\n" + " [To LADY ANNE]\n\n" + " Go thou to Richard, and good angels guard thee!\n\n" + " [To QUEEN ELIZABETH]\n\n" + " Go thou to sanctuary, and good thoughts possess thee!\n" + " I to my grave, where peace and rest lie with me!\n" + " Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,\n" + " And each hour's joy wrecked with a week of teen.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Stay, yet look back with me unto the Tower.\n" + " Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes\n" + " Whom envy hath immured within your walls!\n" + " Rough cradle for such little pretty ones!\n" + " Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow\n" + " For tender princes, use my babies well!\n" + " So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II London. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Sennet. Enter KING RICHARD III, in pomp, crowned;\n" + " BUCKINGHAM, CATESBY, a page, and others]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Stand all apart Cousin of Buckingham!\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My gracious sovereign?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Give me thy hand.\n\n" + " [Here he ascendeth his throne]\n\n" + " Thus high, by thy advice\n" + " And thy assistance, is King Richard seated;\n" + " But shall we wear these honours for a day?\n" + " Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Still live they and for ever may they last!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III O Buckingham, now do I play the touch,\n" + " To try if thou be current gold indeed\n" + " Young Edward lives: think now what I would say.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Say on, my loving lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Why, Buckingham, I say, I would be king,\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Why, so you are, my thrice renowned liege.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Ha! am I king? 'tis so: but Edward lives.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM True, noble prince.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III O bitter consequence,\n" + " That Edward still should live! 'True, noble prince!'\n" + " Cousin, thou wert not wont to be so dull:\n" + " Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead;\n" + " And I would have it suddenly perform'd.\n" + " What sayest thou? speak suddenly; be brief.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Your grace may do your pleasure.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy kindness freezeth:\n" + " Say, have I thy consent that they shall die?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord\n" + " Before I positively herein:\n" + " I will resolve your grace immediately.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CATESBY [Aside to a stander by]\n\n" + " The king is angry: see, he bites the lip.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III I will converse with iron-witted fools\n" + " And unrespective boys: none are for me\n" + " That look into me with considerate eyes:\n" + " High-reaching Buckingham grows circumspect.\n" + " Boy!\n\n" + "Page My lord?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Know'st thou not any whom corrupting gold\n" + " Would tempt unto a close exploit of death?\n\n" + "Page My lord, I know a discontented gentleman,\n" + " Whose humble means match not his haughty mind:\n" + " Gold were as good as twenty orators,\n" + " And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III What is his name?\n\n" + "Page His name, my lord, is Tyrrel.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III I partly know the man: go, call him hither.\n\n" + " [Exit Page]\n\n" + " The deep-revolving witty Buckingham\n" + " No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel:\n" + " Hath he so long held out with me untired,\n" + " And stops he now for breath?\n\n" + " [Enter STANLEY]\n\n" + " How now! what news with you?\n\n" + "STANLEY My lord, I hear the Marquis Dorset's fled\n" + " To Richmond, in those parts beyond the sea\n" + " Where he abides.\n\n" + " [Stands apart]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Catesby!\n\n" + "CATESBY My lord?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Rumour it abroad\n" + " That Anne, my wife, is sick and like to die:\n" + " I will take order for her keeping close.\n" + " Inquire me out some mean-born gentleman,\n" + " Whom I will marry straight to Clarence' daughter:\n" + " The boy is foolish, and I fear not him.\n" + " Look, how thou dream'st! I say again, give out\n" + " That Anne my wife is sick and like to die:\n" + " About it; for it stands me much upon,\n" + " To stop all hopes whose growth may damage me.\n\n" + " [Exit CATESBY]\n\n" + " I must be married to my brother's daughter,\n" + " Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass.\n" + " Murder her brothers, and then marry her!\n" + " Uncertain way of gain! But I am in\n" + " So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin:\n" + " Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Page, with TYRREL]\n\n" + " Is thy name Tyrrel?\n\n" + "TYRREL James Tyrrel, and your most obedient subject.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Art thou, indeed?\n\n" + "TYRREL Prove me, my gracious sovereign.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Darest thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?\n\n" + "TYRREL Ay, my lord;\n" + " But I had rather kill two enemies.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Why, there thou hast it: two deep enemies,\n" + " Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers\n" + " Are they that I would have thee deal upon:\n" + " Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower.\n\n" + "TYRREL Let me have open means to come to them,\n" + " And soon I'll rid you from the fear of them.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Thou sing'st sweet music. Hark, come hither, Tyrrel\n" + " Go, by this token: rise, and lend thine ear:\n\n" + " [Whispers]\n\n" + " There is no more but so: say it is done,\n" + " And I will love thee, and prefer thee too.\n\n" + "TYRREL 'Tis done, my gracious lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Shall we hear from thee, Tyrrel, ere we sleep?\n\n" + "TYRREL Ye shall, my Lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My Lord, I have consider'd in my mind\n" + " The late demand that you did sound me in.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Well, let that pass. Dorset is fled to Richmond.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I hear that news, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Stanley, he is your wife's son well, look to it.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My lord, I claim your gift, my due by promise,\n" + " For which your honour and your faith is pawn'd;\n" + " The earldom of Hereford and the moveables\n" + " The which you promised I should possess.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Stanley, look to your wife; if she convey\n" + " Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM What says your highness to my just demand?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III As I remember, Henry the Sixth\n" + " Did prophesy that Richmond should be king,\n" + " When Richmond was a little peevish boy.\n" + " A king, perhaps, perhaps,--\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My lord!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III How chance the prophet could not at that time\n" + " Have told me, I being by, that I should kill him?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My lord, your promise for the earldom,--\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Richmond! When last I was at Exeter,\n" + " The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle,\n" + " And call'd it Rougemont: at which name I started,\n" + " Because a bard of Ireland told me once\n" + " I should not live long after I saw Richmond.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM My Lord!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Ay, what's o'clock?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM I am thus bold to put your grace in mind\n" + " Of what you promised me.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Well, but what's o'clock?\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Upon the stroke of ten.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Well, let it strike.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Why let it strike?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Because that, like a Jack, thou keep'st the stroke\n" + " Betwixt thy begging and my meditation.\n" + " I am not in the giving vein to-day.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Why, then resolve me whether you will or no.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Tut, tut,\n" + " Thou troublest me; am not in the vein.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Is it even so? rewards he my true service\n" + " With such deep contempt made I him king for this?\n" + " O, let me think on Hastings, and be gone\n" + " To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TYRREL]\n\n" + "TYRREL The tyrannous and bloody deed is done.\n" + " The most arch of piteous massacre\n" + " That ever yet this land was guilty of.\n" + " Dighton and Forrest, whom I did suborn\n" + " To do this ruthless piece of butchery,\n" + " Although they were flesh'd villains, bloody dogs,\n" + " Melting with tenderness and kind compassion\n" + " Wept like two children in their deaths' sad stories.\n" + " 'Lo, thus' quoth Dighton, 'lay those tender babes:'\n" + " 'Thus, thus,' quoth Forrest, 'girdling one another\n" + " Within their innocent alabaster arms:\n" + " Their lips were four red roses on a stalk,\n" + " Which in their summer beauty kiss'd each other.\n" + " A book of prayers on their pillow lay;\n" + " Which once,' quoth Forrest, 'almost changed my mind;\n" + " But O! the devil'--there the villain stopp'd\n" + " Whilst Dighton thus told on: 'We smothered\n" + " The most replenished sweet work of nature,\n" + " That from the prime creation e'er she framed.'\n" + " Thus both are gone with conscience and remorse;\n" + " They could not speak; and so I left them both,\n" + " To bring this tidings to the bloody king.\n" + " And here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " All hail, my sovereign liege!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Kind Tyrrel, am I happy in thy news?\n\n" + "TYRREL If to have done the thing you gave in charge\n" + " Beget your happiness, be happy then,\n" + " For it is done, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III But didst thou see them dead?\n\n" + "TYRREL I did, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III And buried, gentle Tyrrel?\n\n" + "TYRREL The chaplain of the Tower hath buried them;\n" + " But how or in what place I do not know.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Come to me, Tyrrel, soon at after supper,\n" + " And thou shalt tell the process of their death.\n" + " Meantime, but think how I may do thee good,\n" + " And be inheritor of thy desire.\n" + " Farewell till soon.\n\n" + " [Exit TYRREL]\n\n" + " The son of Clarence have I pent up close;\n" + " His daughter meanly have I match'd in marriage;\n" + " The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom,\n" + " And Anne my wife hath bid the world good night.\n" + " Now, for I know the Breton Richmond aims\n" + " At young Elizabeth, my brother's daughter,\n" + " And, by that knot, looks proudly o'er the crown,\n" + " To her I go, a jolly thriving wooer.\n\n" + " [Enter CATESBY]\n\n" + "CATESBY My lord!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Good news or bad, that thou comest in so bluntly?\n\n" + "CATESBY Bad news, my lord: Ely is fled to Richmond;\n" + " And Buckingham, back'd with the hardy Welshmen,\n" + " Is in the field, and still his power increaseth.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Ely with Richmond troubles me more near\n" + " Than Buckingham and his rash-levied army.\n" + " Come, I have heard that fearful commenting\n" + " Is leaden servitor to dull delay;\n" + " Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary\n" + " Then fiery expedition be my wing,\n" + " Jove's Mercury, and herald for a king!\n" + " Come, muster men: my counsel is my shield;\n" + " We must be brief when traitors brave the field.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Before the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN MARGARET]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET So, now prosperity begins to mellow\n" + " And drop into the rotten mouth of death.\n" + " Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd,\n" + " To watch the waning of mine adversaries.\n" + " A dire induction am I witness to,\n" + " And will to France, hoping the consequence\n" + " Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical.\n" + " Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret: who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH and the DUCHESS OF YORK]\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Ah, my young princes! ah, my tender babes!\n" + " My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets!\n" + " If yet your gentle souls fly in the air\n" + " And be not fix'd in doom perpetual,\n" + " Hover about me with your airy wings\n" + " And hear your mother's lamentation!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Hover about her; say, that right for right\n" + " Hath dimm'd your infant morn to aged night.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK So many miseries have crazed my voice,\n" + " That my woe-wearied tongue is mute and dumb,\n" + " Edward Plantagenet, why art thou dead?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Plantagenet doth quit Plantagenet.\n" + " Edward for Edward pays a dying debt.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Wilt thou, O God, fly from such gentle lambs,\n" + " And throw them in the entrails of the wolf?\n" + " When didst thou sleep when such a deed was done?\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET When holy Harry died, and my sweet son.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Blind sight, dead life, poor mortal living ghost,\n" + " Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd,\n" + " Brief abstract and record of tedious days,\n" + " Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth,\n\n" + " [Sitting down]\n\n" + " Unlawfully made drunk with innocents' blood!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH O, that thou wouldst as well afford a grave\n" + " As thou canst yield a melancholy seat!\n" + " Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here.\n" + " O, who hath any cause to mourn but I?\n\n" + " [Sitting down by her]\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET If ancient sorrow be most reverend,\n" + " Give mine the benefit of seniory,\n" + " And let my woes frown on the upper hand.\n" + " If sorrow can admit society,\n\n" + " [Sitting down with them]\n\n" + " Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine:\n" + " I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;\n" + " I had a Harry, till a Richard kill'd him:\n" + " Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him;\n" + " Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard killed him;\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I had a Richard too, and thou didst kill him;\n" + " I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill him.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Thou hadst a Clarence too, and Richard kill'd him.\n" + " From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept\n" + " A hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death:\n" + " That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes,\n" + " To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood,\n" + " That foul defacer of God's handiwork,\n" + " That excellent grand tyrant of the earth,\n" + " That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls,\n" + " Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our graves.\n" + " O upright, just, and true-disposing God,\n" + " How do I thank thee, that this carnal cur\n" + " Preys on the issue of his mother's body,\n" + " And makes her pew-fellow with others' moan!\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK O Harry's wife, triumph not in my woes!\n" + " God witness with me, I have wept for thine.\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Bear with me; I am hungry for revenge,\n" + " And now I cloy me with beholding it.\n" + " Thy Edward he is dead, that stabb'd my Edward:\n" + " Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward;\n" + " Young York he is but boot, because both they\n" + " Match not the high perfection of my loss:\n" + " Thy Clarence he is dead that kill'd my Edward;\n" + " And the beholders of this tragic play,\n" + " The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey,\n" + " Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves.\n" + " Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer,\n" + " Only reserved their factor, to buy souls\n" + " And send them thither: but at hand, at hand,\n" + " Ensues his piteous and unpitied end:\n" + " Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints pray.\n" + " To have him suddenly convey'd away.\n" + " Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I prey,\n" + " That I may live to say, The dog is dead!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH O, thou didst prophesy the time would come\n" + " That I should wish for thee to help me curse\n" + " That bottled spider, that foul bunch-back'd toad!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET I call'd thee then vain flourish of my fortune;\n" + " I call'd thee then poor shadow, painted queen;\n" + " The presentation of but what I was;\n" + " The flattering index of a direful pageant;\n" + " One heaved a-high, to be hurl'd down below;\n" + " A mother only mock'd with two sweet babes;\n" + " A dream of what thou wert, a breath, a bubble,\n" + " A sign of dignity, a garish flag,\n" + " To be the aim of every dangerous shot,\n" + " A queen in jest, only to fill the scene.\n" + " Where is thy husband now? where be thy brothers?\n" + " Where are thy children? wherein dost thou, joy?\n" + " Who sues to thee and cries 'God save the queen'?\n" + " Where be the bending peers that flatter'd thee?\n" + " Where be the thronging troops that follow'd thee?\n" + " Decline all this, and see what now thou art:\n" + " For happy wife, a most distressed widow;\n" + " For joyful mother, one that wails the name;\n" + " For queen, a very caitiff crown'd with care;\n" + " For one being sued to, one that humbly sues;\n" + " For one that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of me;\n" + " For one being fear'd of all, now fearing one;\n" + " For one commanding all, obey'd of none.\n" + " Thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about,\n" + " And left thee but a very prey to time;\n" + " Having no more but thought of what thou wert,\n" + " To torture thee the more, being what thou art.\n" + " Thou didst usurp my place, and dost thou not\n" + " Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?\n" + " Now thy proud neck bears half my burthen'd yoke;\n" + " From which even here I slip my weary neck,\n" + " And leave the burthen of it all on thee.\n" + " Farewell, York's wife, and queen of sad mischance:\n" + " These English woes will make me smile in France.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH O thou well skill'd in curses, stay awhile,\n" + " And teach me how to curse mine enemies!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days;\n" + " Compare dead happiness with living woe;\n" + " Think that thy babes were fairer than they were,\n" + " And he that slew them fouler than he is:\n" + " Bettering thy loss makes the bad causer worse:\n" + " Revolving this will teach thee how to curse.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH My words are dull; O, quicken them with thine!\n\n" + "QUEEN MARGARET Thy woes will make them sharp, and pierce like mine.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Why should calamity be full of words?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Windy attorneys to their client woes,\n" + " Airy succeeders of intestate joys,\n" + " Poor breathing orators of miseries!\n" + " Let them have scope: though what they do impart\n" + " Help not all, yet do they ease the heart.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK If so, then be not tongue-tied: go with me.\n" + " And in the breath of bitter words let's smother\n" + " My damned son, which thy two sweet sons smother'd.\n" + " I hear his drum: be copious in exclaims.\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD III, marching, with drums and trumpets]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Who intercepts my expedition?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK O, she that might have intercepted thee,\n" + " By strangling thee in her accursed womb\n" + " From all the slaughters, wretch, that thou hast done!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Hidest thou that forehead with a golden crown,\n" + " Where should be graven, if that right were right,\n" + " The slaughter of the prince that owed that crown,\n" + " And the dire death of my two sons and brothers?\n" + " Tell me, thou villain slave, where are my children?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence?\n" + " And little Ned Plantagenet, his son?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Where is kind Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums!\n" + " Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women\n" + " Rail on the Lord's enointed: strike, I say!\n\n" + " [Flourish. Alarums]\n\n" + " Either be patient, and entreat me fair,\n" + " Or with the clamorous report of war\n" + " Thus will I drown your exclamations.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Art thou my son?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Ay, I thank God, my father, and yourself.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Then patiently hear my impatience.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Madam, I have a touch of your condition,\n" + " Which cannot brook the accent of reproof.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK O, let me speak!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Do then: but I'll not hear.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I will be mild and gentle in my speech.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III And brief, good mother; for I am in haste.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Art thou so hasty? I have stay'd for thee,\n" + " God knows, in anguish, pain and agony.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III And came I not at last to comfort you?\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK No, by the holy rood, thou know'st it well,\n" + " Thou camest on earth to make the earth my hell.\n" + " A grievous burthen was thy birth to me;\n" + " Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy;\n" + " Thy school-days frightful, desperate, wild, and furious,\n" + " Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous,\n" + " Thy age confirm'd, proud, subdued, bloody,\n" + " treacherous,\n" + " More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in hatred:\n" + " What comfortable hour canst thou name,\n" + " That ever graced me in thy company?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that call'd\n" + " your grace\n" + " To breakfast once forth of my company.\n" + " If I be so disgracious in your sight,\n" + " Let me march on, and not offend your grace.\n" + " Strike the drum.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK I prithee, hear me speak.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III You speak too bitterly.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Hear me a word;\n" + " For I shall never speak to thee again.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III So.\n\n" + "DUCHESS OF YORK Either thou wilt die, by God's just ordinance,\n" + " Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror,\n" + " Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish\n" + " And never look upon thy face again.\n" + " Therefore take with thee my most heavy curse;\n" + " Which, in the day of battle, tire thee more\n" + " Than all the complete armour that thou wear'st!\n" + " My prayers on the adverse party fight;\n" + " And there the little souls of Edward's children\n" + " Whisper the spirits of thine enemies\n" + " And promise them success and victory.\n" + " Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end;\n" + " Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Though far more cause, yet much less spirit to curse\n" + " Abides in me; I say amen to all.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Stay, madam; I must speak a word with you.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH I have no more sons of the royal blood\n" + " For thee to murder: for my daughters, Richard,\n" + " They shall be praying nuns, not weeping queens;\n" + " And therefore level not to hit their lives.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III You have a daughter call'd Elizabeth,\n" + " Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH And must she die for this? O, let her live,\n" + " And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty;\n" + " Slander myself as false to Edward's bed;\n" + " Throw over her the veil of infamy:\n" + " So she may live unscarr'd of bleeding slaughter,\n" + " I will confess she was not Edward's daughter.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH To save her life, I'll say she is not so.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Her life is only safest in her birth.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH And only in that safety died her brothers.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Lo, at their births good stars were opposite.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH No, to their lives bad friends were contrary.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III All unavoided is the doom of destiny.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH True, when avoided grace makes destiny:\n" + " My babes were destined to a fairer death,\n" + " If grace had bless'd thee with a fairer life.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Cousins, indeed; and by their uncle cozen'd\n" + " Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life.\n" + " Whose hand soever lanced their tender hearts,\n" + " Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction:\n" + " No doubt the murderous knife was dull and blunt\n" + " Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart,\n" + " To revel in the entrails of my lambs.\n" + " But that still use of grief makes wild grief tame,\n" + " My tongue should to thy ears not name my boys\n" + " Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine eyes;\n" + " And I, in such a desperate bay of death,\n" + " Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,\n" + " Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Madam, so thrive I in my enterprise\n" + " And dangerous success of bloody wars,\n" + " As I intend more good to you and yours,\n" + " Than ever you or yours were by me wrong'd!\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH What good is cover'd with the face of heaven,\n" + " To be discover'd, that can do me good?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III The advancement of your children, gentle lady.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Up to some scaffold, there to lose their heads?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III No, to the dignity and height of honour\n" + " The high imperial type of this earth's glory.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Flatter my sorrows with report of it;\n" + " Tell me what state, what dignity, what honour,\n" + " Canst thou demise to any child of mine?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Even all I have; yea, and myself and all,\n" + " Will I withal endow a child of thine;\n" + " So in the Lethe of thy angry soul\n" + " Thou drown the sad remembrance of those wrongs\n" + " Which thou supposest I have done to thee.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Be brief, lest that be process of thy kindness\n" + " Last longer telling than thy kindness' date.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Then know, that from my soul I love thy daughter.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH My daughter's mother thinks it with her soul.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III What do you think?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul:\n" + " So from thy soul's love didst thou love her brothers;\n" + " And from my heart's love I do thank thee for it.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Be not so hasty to confound my meaning:\n" + " I mean, that with my soul I love thy daughter,\n" + " And mean to make her queen of England.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Say then, who dost thou mean shall be her king?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Even he that makes her queen who should be else?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH What, thou?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III I, even I: what think you of it, madam?\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH How canst thou woo her?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III That would I learn of you,\n" + " As one that are best acquainted with her humour.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH And wilt thou learn of me?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Madam, with all my heart.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Send to her, by the man that slew her brothers,\n" + " A pair of bleeding-hearts; thereon engrave\n" + " Edward and York; then haply she will weep:\n" + " Therefore present to her--as sometime Margaret\n" + " Did to thy father, steep'd in Rutland's blood,--\n" + " A handkerchief; which, say to her, did drain\n" + " The purple sap from her sweet brother's body\n" + " And bid her dry her weeping eyes therewith.\n" + " If this inducement force her not to love,\n" + " Send her a story of thy noble acts;\n" + " Tell her thou madest away her uncle Clarence,\n" + " Her uncle Rivers; yea, and, for her sake,\n" + " Madest quick conveyance with her good aunt Anne.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Come, come, you mock me; this is not the way\n" + " To win our daughter.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH There is no other way\n" + " Unless thou couldst put on some other shape,\n" + " And not be Richard that hath done all this.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Say that I did all this for love of her.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Nay, then indeed she cannot choose but hate thee,\n" + " Having bought love with such a bloody spoil.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Look, what is done cannot be now amended:\n" + " Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes,\n" + " Which after hours give leisure to repent.\n" + " If I did take the kingdom from your sons,\n" + " To make amends, Ill give it to your daughter.\n" + " If I have kill'd the issue of your womb,\n" + " To quicken your increase, I will beget\n" + " Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter\n" + " A grandam's name is little less in love\n" + " Than is the doting title of a mother;\n" + " They are as children but one step below,\n" + " Even of your mettle, of your very blood;\n" + " Of an one pain, save for a night of groans\n" + " Endured of her, for whom you bid like sorrow.\n" + " Your children were vexation to your youth,\n" + " But mine shall be a comfort to your age.\n" + " The loss you have is but a son being king,\n" + " And by that loss your daughter is made queen.\n" + " I cannot make you what amends I would,\n" + " Therefore accept such kindness as I can.\n" + " Dorset your son, that with a fearful soul\n" + " Leads discontented steps in foreign soil,\n" + " This fair alliance quickly shall call home\n" + " To high promotions and great dignity:\n" + " The king, that calls your beauteous daughter wife.\n" + " Familiarly shall call thy Dorset brother;\n" + " Again shall you be mother to a king,\n" + " And all the ruins of distressful times\n" + " Repair'd with double riches of content.\n" + " What! we have many goodly days to see:\n" + " The liquid drops of tears that you have shed\n" + " Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,\n" + " Advantaging their loan with interest\n" + " Of ten times double gain of happiness.\n" + " Go, then my mother, to thy daughter go\n" + " Make bold her bashful years with your experience;\n" + " Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale\n" + " Put in her tender heart the aspiring flame\n" + " Of golden sovereignty; acquaint the princess\n" + " With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys\n" + " And when this arm of mine hath chastised\n" + " The petty rebel, dull-brain'd Buckingham,\n" + " Bound with triumphant garlands will I come\n" + " And lead thy daughter to a conqueror's bed;\n" + " To whom I will retail my conquest won,\n" + " And she shall be sole victress, Caesar's Caesar.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH What were I best to say? her father's brother\n" + " Would be her lord? or shall I say, her uncle?\n" + " Or, he that slew her brothers and her uncles?\n" + " Under what title shall I woo for thee,\n" + " That God, the law, my honour and her love,\n" + " Can make seem pleasing to her tender years?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Infer fair England's peace by this alliance.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Which she shall purchase with still lasting war.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Say that the king, which may command, entreats.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH That at her hands which the king's King forbids.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Say, she shall be a high and mighty queen.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH To wail the tide, as her mother doth.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Say, I will love her everlastingly.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH But how long shall that title 'ever' last?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Sweetly in force unto her fair life's end.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH But how long fairly shall her sweet lie last?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III So long as heaven and nature lengthens it.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH So long as hell and Richard likes of it.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Say, I, her sovereign, am her subject love.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH But she, your subject, loathes such sovereignty.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Be eloquent in my behalf to her.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Then in plain terms tell her my loving tale.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Your reasons are too shallow and too quick.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH O no, my reasons are too deep and dead;\n" + " Too deep and dead, poor infants, in their grave.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Harp not on that string, madam; that is past.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Now, by my George, my garter, and my crown,--\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Profaned, dishonour'd, and the third usurp'd.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III I swear--\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH By nothing; for this is no oath:\n" + " The George, profaned, hath lost his holy honour;\n" + " The garter, blemish'd, pawn'd his knightly virtue;\n" + " The crown, usurp'd, disgraced his kingly glory.\n" + " if something thou wilt swear to be believed,\n" + " Swear then by something that thou hast not wrong'd.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Now, by the world--\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH 'Tis full of thy foul wrongs.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III My father's death--\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Thy life hath that dishonour'd.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Then, by myself--\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Thyself thyself misusest.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Why then, by God--\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH God's wrong is most of all.\n" + " If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,\n" + " The unity the king thy brother made\n" + " Had not been broken, nor my brother slain:\n" + " If thou hadst fear'd to break an oath by Him,\n" + " The imperial metal, circling now thy brow,\n" + " Had graced the tender temples of my child,\n" + " And both the princes had been breathing here,\n" + " Which now, two tender playfellows to dust,\n" + " Thy broken faith hath made a prey for worms.\n" + " What canst thou swear by now?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III The time to come.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH That thou hast wronged in the time o'erpast;\n" + " For I myself have many tears to wash\n" + " Hereafter time, for time past wrong'd by thee.\n" + " The children live, whose parents thou hast\n" + " slaughter'd,\n" + " Ungovern'd youth, to wail it in their age;\n" + " The parents live, whose children thou hast butcher'd,\n" + " Old wither'd plants, to wail it with their age.\n" + " Swear not by time to come; for that thou hast\n" + " Misused ere used, by time misused o'erpast.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III As I intend to prosper and repent,\n" + " So thrive I in my dangerous attempt\n" + " Of hostile arms! myself myself confound!\n" + " Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours!\n" + " Day, yield me not thy light; nor, night, thy rest!\n" + " Be opposite all planets of good luck\n" + " To my proceedings, if, with pure heart's love,\n" + " Immaculate devotion, holy thoughts,\n" + " I tender not thy beauteous princely daughter!\n" + " In her consists my happiness and thine;\n" + " Without her, follows to this land and me,\n" + " To thee, herself, and many a Christian soul,\n" + " Death, desolation, ruin and decay:\n" + " It cannot be avoided but by this;\n" + " It will not be avoided but by this.\n" + " Therefore, good mother,--I must can you so--\n" + " Be the attorney of my love to her:\n" + " Plead what I will be, not what I have been;\n" + " Not my deserts, but what I will deserve:\n" + " Urge the necessity and state of times,\n" + " And be not peevish-fond in great designs.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Ay, if the devil tempt thee to do good.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Shall I forget myself to be myself?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Ay, if yourself's remembrance wrong yourself.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH But thou didst kill my children.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III But in your daughter's womb I bury them:\n" + " Where in that nest of spicery they shall breed\n" + " Selves of themselves, to your recomforture.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III And be a happy mother by the deed.\n\n" + "QUEEN ELIZABETH I go. Write to me very shortly.\n" + " And you shall understand from me her mind.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Bear her my true love's kiss; and so, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit QUEEN ELIZABETH]\n\n" + " Relenting fool, and shallow, changing woman!\n\n" + " [Enter RATCLIFF; CATESBY following]\n\n" + " How now! what news?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF My gracious sovereign, on the western coast\n" + " Rideth a puissant navy; to the shore\n" + " Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends,\n" + " Unarm'd, and unresolved to beat them back:\n" + " 'Tis thought that Richmond is their admiral;\n" + " And there they hull, expecting but the aid\n" + " Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Some light-foot friend post to the Duke of Norfolk:\n" + " Ratcliff, thyself, or Catesby; where is he?\n\n" + "CATESBY Here, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Fly to the duke:\n\n" + " [To RATCLIFF]\n\n" + " Post thou to Salisbury\n" + " When thou comest thither--\n\n" + " [To CATESBY]\n\n" + " Dull, unmindful villain,\n" + " Why stand'st thou still, and go'st not to the duke?\n\n" + "CATESBY First, mighty sovereign, let me know your mind,\n" + " What from your grace I shall deliver to him.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III O, true, good Catesby: bid him levy straight\n" + " The greatest strength and power he can make,\n" + " And meet me presently at Salisbury.\n\n" + "CATESBY I go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "RATCLIFF What is't your highness' pleasure I shall do at\n" + " Salisbury?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Why, what wouldst thou do there before I go?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Your highness told me I should post before.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III My mind is changed, sir, my mind is changed.\n\n" + " [Enter STANLEY]\n\n" + " How now, what news with you?\n\n" + "STANLEY None good, my lord, to please you with the hearing;\n" + " Nor none so bad, but it may well be told.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Hoyday, a riddle! neither good nor bad!\n" + " Why dost thou run so many mile about,\n" + " When thou mayst tell thy tale a nearer way?\n" + " Once more, what news?\n\n" + "STANLEY Richmond is on the seas.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III There let him sink, and be the seas on him!\n" + " White-liver'd runagate, what doth he there?\n\n" + "STANLEY I know not, mighty sovereign, but by guess.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Well, sir, as you guess, as you guess?\n\n" + "STANLEY Stirr'd up by Dorset, Buckingham, and Ely,\n" + " He makes for England, there to claim the crown.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Is the chair empty? is the sword unsway'd?\n" + " Is the king dead? the empire unpossess'd?\n" + " What heir of York is there alive but we?\n" + " And who is England's king but great York's heir?\n" + " Then, tell me, what doth he upon the sea?\n\n" + "STANLEY Unless for that, my liege, I cannot guess.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Unless for that he comes to be your liege,\n" + " You cannot guess wherefore the Welshman comes.\n" + " Thou wilt revolt, and fly to him, I fear.\n\n" + "STANLEY No, mighty liege; therefore mistrust me not.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Where is thy power, then, to beat him back?\n" + " Where are thy tenants and thy followers?\n" + " Are they not now upon the western shore.\n" + " Safe-conducting the rebels from their ships!\n\n" + "STANLEY No, my good lord, my friends are in the north.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Cold friends to Richard: what do they in the north,\n" + " When they should serve their sovereign in the west?\n\n" + "STANLEY They have not been commanded, mighty sovereign:\n" + " Please it your majesty to give me leave,\n" + " I'll muster up my friends, and meet your grace\n" + " Where and what time your majesty shall please.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Ay, ay. thou wouldst be gone to join with Richmond:\n" + " I will not trust you, sir.\n\n" + "STANLEY Most mighty sovereign,\n" + " You have no cause to hold my friendship doubtful:\n" + " I never was nor never will be false.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Well,\n" + " Go muster men; but, hear you, leave behind\n" + " Your son, George Stanley: look your faith be firm.\n" + " Or else his head's assurance is but frail.\n\n" + "STANLEY So deal with him as I prove true to you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire,\n" + " As I by friends am well advertised,\n" + " Sir Edward Courtney, and the haughty prelate\n" + " Bishop of Exeter, his brother there,\n" + " With many more confederates, are in arms.\n\n" + " [Enter another Messenger]\n\n" + "Second Messenger My liege, in Kent the Guildfords are in arms;\n" + " And every hour more competitors\n" + " Flock to their aid, and still their power increaseth.\n\n" + " [Enter another Messenger]\n\n" + "Third Messenger My lord, the army of the Duke of Buckingham--\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Out on you, owls! nothing but songs of death?\n\n" + " [He striketh him]\n\n" + " Take that, until thou bring me better news.\n\n" + "Third Messenger The news I have to tell your majesty\n" + " Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters,\n" + " Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd;\n" + " And he himself wander'd away alone,\n" + " No man knows whither.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III I cry thee mercy:\n" + " There is my purse to cure that blow of thine.\n" + " Hath any well-advised friend proclaim'd\n" + " Reward to him that brings the traitor in?\n\n" + "Third Messenger Such proclamation hath been made, my liege.\n\n" + " [Enter another Messenger]\n\n" + "Fourth Messenger Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset,\n" + " 'Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms.\n" + " Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace,\n" + " The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest:\n" + " Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat\n" + " Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks\n" + " If they were his assistants, yea or no;\n" + " Who answer'd him, they came from Buckingham.\n" + " Upon his party: he, mistrusting them,\n" + " Hoisted sail and made away for Brittany.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III March on, march on, since we are up in arms;\n" + " If not to fight with foreign enemies,\n" + " Yet to beat down these rebels here at home.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CATESBY]\n\n" + "CATESBY My liege, the Duke of Buckingham is taken;\n" + " That is the best news: that the Earl of Richmond\n" + " Is with a mighty power landed at Milford,\n" + " Is colder tidings, yet they must be told.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Away towards Salisbury! while we reason here,\n" + " A royal battle might be won and lost\n" + " Some one take order Buckingham be brought\n" + " To Salisbury; the rest march on with me.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Lord Derby's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DERBY and SIR CHRISTOPHER URSWICK]\n\n" + "DERBY Sir Christopher, tell Richmond this from me:\n" + " That in the sty of this most bloody boar\n" + " My son George Stanley is frank'd up in hold:\n" + " If I revolt, off goes young George's head;\n" + " The fear of that withholds my present aid.\n" + " But, tell me, where is princely Richmond now?\n\n" + "CHRISTOPHER At Pembroke, or at Harford-west, in Wales.\n\n" + "DERBY What men of name resort to him?\n\n" + "CHRISTOPHER Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned soldier;\n" + " Sir Gilbert Talbot, Sir William Stanley;\n" + " Oxford, redoubted Pembroke, Sir James Blunt,\n" + " And Rice ap Thomas with a valiant crew;\n" + " And many more of noble fame and worth:\n" + " And towards London they do bend their course,\n" + " If by the way they be not fought withal.\n\n" + "DERBY Return unto thy lord; commend me to him:\n" + " Tell him the queen hath heartily consented\n" + " He shall espouse Elizabeth her daughter.\n" + " These letters will resolve him of my mind. Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Salisbury. An open place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the Sheriff, and BUCKINGHAM, with halberds,\n" + " led to execution]\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Will not King Richard let me speak with him?\n\n" + "Sheriff No, my good lord; therefore be patient.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Hastings, and Edward's children, Rivers, Grey,\n" + " Holy King Henry, and thy fair son Edward,\n" + " Vaughan, and all that have miscarried\n" + " By underhand corrupted foul injustice,\n" + " If that your moody discontented souls\n" + " Do through the clouds behold this present hour,\n" + " Even for revenge mock my destruction!\n" + " This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not?\n\n" + "Sheriff It is, my lord.\n\n" + "BUCKINGHAM Why, then All-Souls' day is my body's doomsday.\n" + " This is the day that, in King Edward's time,\n" + " I wish't might fall on me, when I was found\n" + " False to his children or his wife's allies\n" + " This is the day wherein I wish'd to fall\n" + " By the false faith of him I trusted most;\n" + " This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul\n" + " Is the determined respite of my wrongs:\n" + " That high All-Seer that I dallied with\n" + " Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head\n" + " And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.\n" + " Thus doth he force the swords of wicked men\n" + " To turn their own points on their masters' bosoms:\n" + " Now Margaret's curse is fallen upon my head;\n" + " 'When he,' quoth she, 'shall split thy heart with sorrow,\n" + " Remember Margaret was a prophetess.'\n" + " Come, sirs, convey me to the block of shame;\n" + " Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The camp near Tamworth.\n\n\n" + " [Enter RICHMOND, OXFORD, BLUNT, HERBERT, and others,\n" + " with drum and colours]\n\n" + "RICHMOND Fellows in arms, and my most loving friends,\n" + " Bruised underneath the yoke of tyranny,\n" + " Thus far into the bowels of the land\n" + " Have we march'd on without impediment;\n" + " And here receive we from our father Stanley\n" + " Lines of fair comfort and encouragement.\n" + " The wretched, bloody, and usurping boar,\n" + " That spoil'd your summer fields and fruitful vines,\n" + " Swills your warm blood like wash, and makes his trough\n" + " In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine\n" + " Lies now even in the centre of this isle,\n" + " Near to the town of Leicester, as we learn\n" + " From Tamworth thither is but one day's march.\n" + " In God's name, cheerly on, courageous friends,\n" + " To reap the harvest of perpetual peace\n" + " By this one bloody trial of sharp war.\n\n" + "OXFORD Every man's conscience is a thousand swords,\n" + " To fight against that bloody homicide.\n\n" + "HERBERT I doubt not but his friends will fly to us.\n\n" + "BLUNT He hath no friends but who are friends for fear.\n" + " Which in his greatest need will shrink from him.\n\n" + "RICHMOND All for our vantage. Then, in God's name, march:\n" + " True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings:\n" + " Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Bosworth Field.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KING RICHARD III in arms, with NORFOLK,\n" + " SURREY, and others]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Here pitch our tents, even here in Bosworth field.\n" + " My Lord of Surrey, why look you so sad?\n\n" + "SURREY My heart is ten times lighter than my looks.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III My Lord of Norfolk,--\n\n" + "NORFOLK Here, most gracious liege.\n\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Norfolk, we must have knocks; ha! must we not?\n\n" + "NORFOLK We must both give and take, my gracious lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Up with my tent there! here will I lie tonight;\n" + " But where to-morrow? Well, all's one for that.\n" + " Who hath descried the number of the foe?\n\n" + "NORFOLK Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Why, our battalion trebles that account:\n" + " Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,\n" + " Which they upon the adverse party want.\n" + " Up with my tent there! Valiant gentlemen,\n" + " Let us survey the vantage of the field\n" + " Call for some men of sound direction\n" + " Let's want no discipline, make no delay,\n" + " For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter, on the other side of the field, RICHMOND,\n" + " Sir William Brandon, OXFORD, and others. Some of\n" + " the Soldiers pitch RICHMOND's tent]\n\n" + "RICHMOND The weary sun hath made a golden set,\n" + " And by the bright track of his fiery car,\n" + " Gives signal, of a goodly day to-morrow.\n" + " Sir William Brandon, you shall bear my standard.\n" + " Give me some ink and paper in my tent\n" + " I'll draw the form and model of our battle,\n" + " Limit each leader to his several charge,\n" + " And part in just proportion our small strength.\n" + " My Lord of Oxford, you, Sir William Brandon,\n" + " And you, Sir Walter Herbert, stay with me.\n" + " The Earl of Pembroke keeps his regiment:\n" + " Good Captain Blunt, bear my good night to him\n" + " And by the second hour in the morning\n" + " Desire the earl to see me in my tent:\n" + " Yet one thing more, good Blunt, before thou go'st,\n" + " Where is Lord Stanley quarter'd, dost thou know?\n\n" + "BLUNT Unless I have mista'en his colours much,\n" + " Which well I am assured I have not done,\n" + " His regiment lies half a mile at least\n" + " South from the mighty power of the king.\n\n" + "RICHMOND If without peril it be possible,\n" + " Good Captain Blunt, bear my good-night to him,\n" + " And give him from me this most needful scroll.\n\n" + "BLUNT Upon my life, my lord, I'll under-take it;\n" + " And so, God give you quiet rest to-night!\n\n" + "RICHMOND Good night, good Captain Blunt. Come gentlemen,\n" + " Let us consult upon to-morrow's business\n" + " In to our tent; the air is raw and cold.\n\n" + " [They withdraw into the tent]\n\n" + " [Enter, to his tent, KING RICHARD III, NORFOLK,\n" + " RATCLIFF, CATESBY, and others]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III What is't o'clock?\n\n" + "CATESBY It's supper-time, my lord;\n" + " It's nine o'clock.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III I will not sup to-night.\n" + " Give me some ink and paper.\n" + " What, is my beaver easier than it was?\n" + " And all my armour laid into my tent?\n\n" + "CATESBY If is, my liege; and all things are in readiness.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Good Norfolk, hie thee to thy charge;\n" + " Use careful watch, choose trusty sentinels.\n\n" + "NORFOLK I go, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Stir with the lark to-morrow, gentle Norfolk.\n\n" + "NORFOLK I warrant you, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Catesby!\n\n" + "CATESBY My lord?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Send out a pursuivant at arms\n" + " To Stanley's regiment; bid him bring his power\n" + " Before sunrising, lest his son George fall\n" + " Into the blind cave of eternal night.\n\n" + " [Exit CATESBY]\n\n" + " Fill me a bowl of wine. Give me a watch.\n" + " Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow.\n" + " Look that my staves be sound, and not too heavy.\n" + " Ratcliff!\n\n" + "RATCLIFF My lord?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Saw'st thou the melancholy Lord Northumberland?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,\n" + " Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop\n" + " Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III So, I am satisfied. Give me a bowl of wine:\n" + " I have not that alacrity of spirit,\n" + " Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.\n" + " Set it down. Is ink and paper ready?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF It is, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Bid my guard watch; leave me.\n" + " Ratcliff, about the mid of night come to my tent\n" + " And help to arm me. Leave me, I say.\n\n" + " [Exeunt RATCLIFF and the other Attendants]\n\n" + " [Enter DERBY to RICHMOND in his tent, Lords and\n" + " others attending]\n\n" + "DERBY Fortune and victory sit on thy helm!\n\n" + "RICHMOND All comfort that the dark night can afford\n" + " Be to thy person, noble father-in-law!\n" + " Tell me, how fares our loving mother?\n\n" + "DERBY I, by attorney, bless thee from thy mother\n" + " Who prays continually for Richmond's good:\n" + " So much for that. The silent hours steal on,\n" + " And flaky darkness breaks within the east.\n" + " In brief,--for so the season bids us be,--\n" + " Prepare thy battle early in the morning,\n" + " And put thy fortune to the arbitrement\n" + " Of bloody strokes and mortal-staring war.\n" + " I, as I may--that which I would I cannot,--\n" + " With best advantage will deceive the time,\n" + " And aid thee in this doubtful shock of arms:\n" + " But on thy side I may not be too forward\n" + " Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George,\n" + " Be executed in his father's sight.\n" + " Farewell: the leisure and the fearful time\n" + " Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love\n" + " And ample interchange of sweet discourse,\n" + " Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell upon:\n" + " God give us leisure for these rites of love!\n" + " Once more, adieu: be valiant, and speed well!\n\n" + "RICHMOND Good lords, conduct him to his regiment:\n" + " I'll strive, with troubled thoughts, to take a nap,\n" + " Lest leaden slumber peise me down to-morrow,\n" + " When I should mount with wings of victory:\n" + " Once more, good night, kind lords and gentlemen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but RICHMOND]\n\n" + " O Thou, whose captain I account myself,\n" + " Look on my forces with a gracious eye;\n" + " Put in their hands thy bruising irons of wrath,\n" + " That they may crush down with a heavy fall\n" + " The usurping helmets of our adversaries!\n" + " Make us thy ministers of chastisement,\n" + " That we may praise thee in the victory!\n" + " To thee I do commend my watchful soul,\n" + " Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes:\n" + " Sleeping and waking, O, defend me still!\n\n" + " [Sleeps]\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghost of Prince Edward, son to King Henry VI]\n\n" + "Ghost\n" + "of Prince Edward [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!\n" + " Think, how thou stab'dst me in my prime of youth\n" + " At Tewksbury: despair, therefore, and die!\n\n" + " [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " Be cheerful, Richmond; for the wronged souls\n" + " Of butcher'd princes fight in thy behalf\n" + " King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee.\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghost of King Henry VI]\n\n" + "Ghost\n" + "of King Henry VI [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " When I was mortal, my anointed body\n" + " By thee was punched full of deadly holes\n" + " Think on the Tower and me: despair, and die!\n" + " Harry the Sixth bids thee despair, and die!\n\n" + " [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " Virtuous and holy, be thou conqueror!\n" + " Harry, that prophesied thou shouldst be king,\n" + " Doth comfort thee in thy sleep: live, and flourish!\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghost of CLARENCE]\n\n" + "Ghost of CLARENCE [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow!\n" + " I, that was wash'd to death with fulsome wine,\n" + " Poor Clarence, by thy guile betrayed to death!\n" + " To-morrow in the battle think on me,\n" + " And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!--\n\n" + " [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster\n" + " The wronged heirs of York do pray for thee\n" + " Good angels guard thy battle! live, and flourish!\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghosts of RIVERS, GRAY, and VAUGHAN]\n\n" + "Ghost of RIVERS [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow,\n" + " Rivers. that died at Pomfret! despair, and die!\n\n" + "Ghost of GREY [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair!\n\n" + "Ghost of VAUGHAN [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Think upon Vaughan, and, with guilty fear,\n" + " Let fall thy lance: despair, and die!\n\n" + "All [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom\n" + " Will conquer him! awake, and win the day!\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghost of HASTINGS]\n\n" + "Ghost of HASTINGS [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake,\n" + " And in a bloody battle end thy days!\n" + " Think on Lord Hastings: despair, and die!\n\n" + " [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake!\n" + " Arm, fight, and conquer, for fair England's sake!\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghosts of the two young Princes]\n\n" + "Ghosts\n" + "of young Princes [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Dream on thy cousins smother'd in the Tower:\n" + " Let us be led within thy bosom, Richard,\n" + " And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death!\n" + " Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair and die!\n\n" + " [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace, and wake in joy;\n" + " Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy!\n" + " Live, and beget a happy race of kings!\n" + " Edward's unhappy sons do bid thee flourish.\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghost of LADY ANNE]\n\n" + "Ghost of LADY ANNE [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife,\n" + " That never slept a quiet hour with thee,\n" + " Now fills thy sleep with perturbations\n" + " To-morrow in the battle think on me,\n" + " And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!\n\n" + " [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep\n" + " Dream of success and happy victory!\n" + " Thy adversary's wife doth pray for thee.\n\n" + " [Enter the Ghost of BUCKINGHAM]\n\n" + "Ghost\n" + "of BUCKINGHAM [To KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + " The last was I that helped thee to the crown;\n" + " The last was I that felt thy tyranny:\n" + " O, in the battle think on Buckingham,\n" + " And die in terror of thy guiltiness!\n" + " Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death:\n" + " Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath!\n\n" + " [To RICHMOND]\n\n" + " I died for hope ere I could lend thee aid:\n" + " But cheer thy heart, and be thou not dismay'd:\n" + " God and good angel fight on Richmond's side;\n" + " And Richard falls in height of all his pride.\n\n" + " [The Ghosts vanish]\n\n" + " [KING RICHARD III starts out of his dream]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Give me another horse: bind up my wounds.\n" + " Have mercy, Jesu!--Soft! I did but dream.\n" + " O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!\n" + " The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.\n" + " Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh.\n" + " What do I fear? myself? there's none else by:\n" + " Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.\n" + " Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am:\n" + " Then fly. What, from myself? Great reason why:\n" + " Lest I revenge. What, myself upon myself?\n" + " Alack. I love myself. Wherefore? for any good\n" + " That I myself have done unto myself?\n" + " O, no! alas, I rather hate myself\n" + " For hateful deeds committed by myself!\n" + " I am a villain: yet I lie. I am not.\n" + " Fool, of thyself speak well: fool, do not flatter.\n" + " My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,\n" + " And every tongue brings in a several tale,\n" + " And every tale condemns me for a villain.\n" + " Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree\n" + " Murder, stem murder, in the direst degree;\n" + " All several sins, all used in each degree,\n" + " Throng to the bar, crying all, Guilty! guilty!\n" + " I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;\n" + " And if I die, no soul shall pity me:\n" + " Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself\n" + " Find in myself no pity to myself?\n" + " Methought the souls of all that I had murder'd\n" + " Came to my tent; and every one did threat\n" + " To-morrow's vengeance on the head of Richard.\n\n" + " [Enter RATCLIFF]\n\n" + "RATCLIFF My lord!\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III 'Zounds! who is there?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Ratcliff, my lord; 'tis I. The early village-cock\n" + " Hath twice done salutation to the morn;\n" + " Your friends are up, and buckle on their armour.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III O Ratcliff, I have dream'd a fearful dream!\n" + " What thinkest thou, will our friends prove all true?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF No doubt, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III O Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,--\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Nay, good my lord, be not afraid of shadows.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night\n" + " Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard\n" + " Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers\n" + " Armed in proof, and led by shallow Richmond.\n" + " It is not yet near day. Come, go with me;\n" + " Under our tents I'll play the eaves-dropper,\n" + " To see if any mean to shrink from me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter the Lords to RICHMOND, sitting in his tent]\n\n" + "LORDS Good morrow, Richmond!\n\n" + "RICHMOND Cry mercy, lords and watchful gentlemen,\n" + " That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here.\n\n" + "LORDS How have you slept, my lord?\n\n" + "RICHMOND The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams\n" + " That ever enter'd in a drowsy head,\n" + " Have I since your departure had, my lords.\n" + " Methought their souls, whose bodies Richard murder'd,\n" + " Came to my tent, and cried on victory:\n" + " I promise you, my soul is very jocund\n" + " In the remembrance of so fair a dream.\n" + " How far into the morning is it, lords?\n\n" + "LORDS Upon the stroke of four.\n\n" + "RICHMOND Why, then 'tis time to arm and give direction.\n\n" + " [His oration to his soldiers]\n\n" + " More than I have said, loving countrymen,\n" + " The leisure and enforcement of the time\n" + " Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,\n" + " God and our good cause fight upon our side;\n" + " The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,\n" + " Like high-rear'd bulwarks, stand before our faces;\n" + " Richard except, those whom we fight against\n" + " Had rather have us win than him they follow:\n" + " For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen,\n" + " A bloody tyrant and a homicide;\n" + " One raised in blood, and one in blood establish'd;\n" + " One that made means to come by what he hath,\n" + " And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him;\n" + " Abase foul stone, made precious by the foil\n" + " Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;\n" + " One that hath ever been God's enemy:\n" + " Then, if you fight against God's enemy,\n" + " God will in justice ward you as his soldiers;\n" + " If you do sweat to put a tyrant down,\n" + " You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain;\n" + " If you do fight against your country's foes,\n" + " Your country's fat shall pay your pains the hire;\n" + " If you do fight in safeguard of your wives,\n" + " Your wives shall welcome home the conquerors;\n" + " If you do free your children from the sword,\n" + " Your children's children quit it in your age.\n" + " Then, in the name of God and all these rights,\n" + " Advance your standards, draw your willing swords.\n" + " For me, the ransom of my bold attempt\n" + " Shall be this cold corpse on the earth's cold face;\n" + " But if I thrive, the gain of my attempt\n" + " The least of you shall share his part thereof.\n" + " Sound drums and trumpets boldly and cheerfully;\n" + " God and Saint George! Richmond and victory!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter KING RICHARD, RATCLIFF, Attendants\n" + " and Forces]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III What said Northumberland as touching Richmond?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF That he was never trained up in arms.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III He said the truth: and what said Surrey then?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF He smiled and said 'The better for our purpose.'\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III He was in the right; and so indeed it is.\n\n" + " [Clock striketh]\n\n" + " Ten the clock there. Give me a calendar.\n" + " Who saw the sun to-day?\n\n" + "RATCLIFF Not I, my lord.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Then he disdains to shine; for by the book\n" + " He should have braved the east an hour ago\n" + " A black day will it be to somebody. Ratcliff!\n\n" + "RATCLIFF My lord?\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III The sun will not be seen to-day;\n" + " The sky doth frown and lour upon our army.\n" + " I would these dewy tears were from the ground.\n" + " Not shine to-day! Why, what is that to me\n" + " More than to Richmond? for the selfsame heaven\n" + " That frowns on me looks sadly upon him.\n\n" + " [Enter NORFOLK]\n\n" + "NORFOLK Arm, arm, my lord; the foe vaunts in the field.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse.\n" + " Call up Lord Stanley, bid him bring his power:\n" + " I will lead forth my soldiers to the plain,\n" + " And thus my battle shall be ordered:\n" + " My foreward shall be drawn out all in length,\n" + " Consisting equally of horse and foot;\n" + " Our archers shall be placed in the midst\n" + " John Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Earl of Surrey,\n" + " Shall have the leading of this foot and horse.\n" + " They thus directed, we will follow\n" + " In the main battle, whose puissance on either side\n" + " Shall be well winged with our chiefest horse.\n" + " This, and Saint George to boot! What think'st thou, Norfolk?\n\n" + "NORFOLK A good direction, warlike sovereign.\n" + " This found I on my tent this morning.\n\n" + " [He sheweth him a paper]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Jockey of Norfolk, be not too bold,\n" + " For Dickon thy master is bought and sold.'\n" + " A thing devised by the enemy.\n" + " Go, gentleman, every man unto his charge\n" + " Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls:\n" + " Conscience is but a word that cowards use,\n" + " Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:\n" + " Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.\n" + " March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell\n" + " If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell.\n\n" + " [His oration to his Army]\n\n" + " What shall I say more than I have inferr'd?\n" + " Remember whom you are to cope withal;\n" + " A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways,\n" + " A scum of Bretons, and base lackey peasants,\n" + " Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth\n" + " To desperate ventures and assured destruction.\n" + " You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest;\n" + " You having lands, and blest with beauteous wives,\n" + " They would restrain the one, distain the other.\n" + " And who doth lead them but a paltry fellow,\n" + " Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost?\n" + " A milk-sop, one that never in his life\n" + " Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow?\n" + " Let's whip these stragglers o'er the seas again;\n" + " Lash hence these overweening rags of France,\n" + " These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives;\n" + " Who, but for dreaming on this fond exploit,\n" + " For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd themselves:\n" + " If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us,\n" + " And not these bastard Bretons; whom our fathers\n" + " Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd,\n" + " And in record, left them the heirs of shame.\n" + " Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our wives?\n" + " Ravish our daughters?\n\n" + " [Drum afar off]\n\n" + " Hark! I hear their drum.\n" + " Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yoemen!\n" + " Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!\n" + " Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;\n" + " Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " What says Lord Stanley? will he bring his power?\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, he doth deny to come.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Off with his son George's head!\n\n" + "NORFOLK My lord, the enemy is past the marsh\n" + " After the battle let George Stanley die.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III A thousand hearts are great within my bosom:\n" + " Advance our standards, set upon our foes\n" + " Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,\n" + " Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!\n" + " Upon them! victory sits on our helms.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum: excursions. Enter NORFOLK and forces\n" + " fighting; to him CATESBY]\n\n" + "CATESBY Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue!\n" + " The king enacts more wonders than a man,\n" + " Daring an opposite to every danger:\n" + " His horse is slain, and all on foot he fights,\n" + " Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death.\n" + " Rescue, fair lord, or else the day is lost!\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter KING RICHARD III]\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!\n\n" + "CATESBY Withdraw, my lord; I'll help you to a horse.\n\n" + "KING RICHARD III Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,\n" + " And I will stand the hazard of the die:\n" + " I think there be six Richmonds in the field;\n" + " Five have I slain to-day instead of him.\n" + " A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " KING RICHARD III\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter KING RICHARD III and RICHMOND; they\n" + " fight. KING RICHARD III is slain. Retreat and\n" + " flourish. Re-enter RICHMOND, DERBY bearing the\n" + " crown, with divers other Lords]\n\n" + "RICHMOND God and your arms be praised, victorious friends,\n" + " The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.\n\n" + "DERBY Courageous Richmond, well hast thou acquit thee.\n" + " Lo, here, this long-usurped royalty\n" + " From the dead temples of this bloody wretch\n" + " Have I pluck'd off, to grace thy brows withal:\n" + " Wear it, enjoy it, and make much of it.\n\n" + "RICHMOND Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!\n" + " But, tell me, is young George Stanley living?\n\n" + "DERBY He is, my lord, and safe in Leicester town;\n" + " Whither, if it please you, we may now withdraw us.\n\n" + "RICHMOND What men of name are slain on either side?\n\n" + "DERBY John Duke of Norfolk, Walter Lord Ferrers,\n" + " Sir Robert Brakenbury, and Sir William Brandon.\n\n" + "RICHMOND Inter their bodies as becomes their births:\n" + " Proclaim a pardon to the soldiers fled\n" + " That in submission will return to us:\n" + " And then, as we have ta'en the sacrament,\n" + " We will unite the white rose and the red:\n" + " Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction,\n" + " That long have frown'd upon their enmity!\n" + " What traitor hears me, and says not amen?\n" + " England hath long been mad, and scarr'd herself;\n" + " The brother blindly shed the brother's blood,\n" + " The father rashly slaughter'd his own son,\n" + " The son, compell'd, been butcher to the sire:\n" + " All this divided York and Lancaster,\n" + " Divided in their dire division,\n" + " O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth,\n" + " The true succeeders of each royal house,\n" + " By God's fair ordinance conjoin together!\n" + " And let their heirs, God, if thy will be so.\n" + " Enrich the time to come with smooth-faced peace,\n" + " With smiling plenty and fair prosperous days!\n" + " Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,\n" + " That would reduce these bloody days again,\n" + " And make poor England weep in streams of blood!\n" + " Let them not live to taste this land's increase\n" + " That would with treason wound this fair land's peace!\n" + " Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives again:\n" + " That she may long live here, God say amen!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " A LOVER'S COMPLAINT\n\n\n\n" + "FROM off a hill whose concave womb reworded\n" + "A plaintful story from a sistering vale,\n" + "My spirits to attend this double voice accorded,\n" + "And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale;\n" + "Ere long espied a fickle maid full pale,\n" + "Tearing of papers, breaking rings a-twain,\n" + "Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.\n\n" + "Upon her head a platted hive of straw,\n" + "Which fortified her visage from the sun,\n" + "Whereon the thought might think sometime it saw\n" + "The carcass of beauty spent and done:\n" + "Time had not scythed all that youth begun,\n" + "Nor youth all quit; but, spite of heaven's fell rage,\n" + "Some beauty peep'd through lattice of sear'd age.\n\n" + "Oft did she heave her napkin to her eyne,\n" + "Which on it had conceited characters,\n" + "Laundering the silken figures in the brine\n" + "That season'd woe had pelleted in tears,\n" + "And often reading what contents it bears;\n" + "As often shrieking undistinguish'd woe,\n" + "In clamours of all size, both high and low.\n\n" + "Sometimes her levell'd eyes their carriage ride,\n" + "As they did battery to the spheres intend;\n" + "Sometime diverted their poor balls are tied\n" + "To the orbed earth; sometimes they do extend\n" + "Their view right on; anon their gazes lend\n" + "To every place at once, and, nowhere fix'd,\n" + "The mind and sight distractedly commix'd.\n\n" + "Her hair, nor loose nor tied in formal plat,\n" + "Proclaim'd in her a careless hand of pride\n" + "For some, untuck'd, descended her sheaved hat,\n" + "Hanging her pale and pined cheek beside;\n" + "Some in her threaden fillet still did bide,\n" + "And true to bondage would not break from thence,\n" + "Though slackly braided in loose negligence.\n\n" + "A thousand favours from a maund she drew\n" + "Of amber, crystal, and of beaded jet,\n" + "Which one by one she in a river threw,\n" + "Upon whose weeping margent she was set;\n" + "Like usury, applying wet to wet,\n" + "Or monarch's hands that let not bounty fall\n" + "Where want cries some, but where excess begs all.\n\n" + "Of folded schedules had she many a one,\n" + "Which she perused, sigh'd, tore, and gave the flood;\n" + "Crack'd many a ring of posied gold and bone\n" + "Bidding them find their sepulchres in mud;\n" + "Found yet moe letters sadly penn'd in blood,\n" + "With sleided silk feat and affectedly\n" + "Enswathed, and seal'd to curious secrecy.\n\n" + "These often bathed she in her fluxive eyes,\n" + "And often kiss'd, and often 'gan to tear:\n" + "Cried 'O false blood, thou register of lies,\n" + "What unapproved witness dost thou bear!\n" + "Ink would have seem'd more black and damned here!'\n" + "This said, in top of rage the lines she rents,\n" + "Big discontent so breaking their contents.\n\n" + "A reverend man that grazed his cattle nigh--\n" + "Sometime a blusterer, that the ruffle knew\n" + "Of court, of city, and had let go by\n" + "The swiftest hours, observed as they flew--\n" + "Towards this afflicted fancy fastly drew,\n" + "And, privileged by age, desires to know\n" + "In brief the grounds and motives of her woe.\n\n" + "So slides he down upon his grained bat,\n" + "And comely-distant sits he by her side;\n" + "When he again desires her, being sat,\n" + "Her grievance with his hearing to divide:\n" + "If that from him there may be aught applied\n" + "Which may her suffering ecstasy assuage,\n" + "'Tis promised in the charity of age.\n\n" + "'Father,' she says, 'though in me you behold\n" + "The injury of many a blasting hour,\n" + "Let it not tell your judgment I am old;\n" + "Not age, but sorrow, over me hath power:\n" + "I might as yet have been a spreading flower,\n" + "Fresh to myself, If I had self-applied\n" + "Love to myself and to no love beside.\n\n" + "'But, woe is me! too early I attended\n" + "A youthful suit--it was to gain my grace--\n" + "Of one by nature's outwards so commended,\n" + "That maidens' eyes stuck over all his face:\n" + "Love lack'd a dwelling, and made him her place;\n" + "And when in his fair parts she did abide,\n" + "She was new lodged and newly deified.\n\n" + "'His browny locks did hang in crooked curls;\n" + "And every light occasion of the wind\n" + "Upon his lips their silken parcels hurls.\n" + "What's sweet to do, to do will aptly find:\n" + "Each eye that saw him did enchant the mind,\n" + "For on his visage was in little drawn\n" + "What largeness thinks in Paradise was sawn.\n\n" + "'Small show of man was yet upon his chin;\n" + "His phoenix down began but to appear\n" + "Like unshorn velvet on that termless skin\n" + "Whose bare out-bragg'd the web it seem'd to wear:\n" + "Yet show'd his visage by that cost more dear;\n" + "And nice affections wavering stood in doubt\n" + "If best were as it was, or best without.\n\n" + "'His qualities were beauteous as his form,\n" + "For maiden-tongued he was, and thereof free;\n" + "Yet, if men moved him, was he such a storm\n" + "As oft 'twixt May and April is to see,\n" + "When winds breathe sweet, untidy though they be.\n" + "His rudeness so with his authorized youth\n" + "Did livery falseness in a pride of truth.\n\n" + "'Well could he ride, and often men would say\n" + "'That horse his mettle from his rider takes:\n" + "Proud of subjection, noble by the sway,\n" + "What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop\n" + "he makes!'\n" + "And controversy hence a question takes,\n" + "Whether the horse by him became his deed,\n" + "Or he his manage by the well-doing steed.\n\n" + "'But quickly on this side the verdict went:\n" + "His real habitude gave life and grace\n" + "To appertainings and to ornament,\n" + "Accomplish'd in himself, not in his case:\n" + "All aids, themselves made fairer by their place,\n" + "Came for additions; yet their purposed trim\n" + "Pieced not his grace, but were all graced by him.\n\n" + "'So on the tip of his subduing tongue\n" + "All kinds of arguments and question deep,\n" + "All replication prompt, and reason strong,\n" + "For his advantage still did wake and sleep:\n" + "To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep,\n" + "He had the dialect and different skill,\n" + "Catching all passions in his craft of will:\n\n" + "'That he did in the general bosom reign\n" + "Of young, of old; and sexes both enchanted,\n" + "To dwell with him in thoughts, or to remain\n" + "In personal duty, following where he haunted:\n" + "Consents bewitch'd, ere he desire, have granted;\n" + "And dialogued for him what he would say,\n" + "Ask'd their own wills, and made their wills obey.\n\n" + "'Many there were that did his picture get,\n" + "To serve their eyes, and in it put their mind;\n" + "Like fools that in th' imagination set\n" + "The goodly objects which abroad they find\n" + "Of lands and mansions, theirs in thought assign'd;\n" + "And labouring in moe pleasures to bestow them\n" + "Than the true gouty landlord which doth owe them:\n\n" + "'So many have, that never touch'd his hand,\n" + "Sweetly supposed them mistress of his heart.\n" + "My woeful self, that did in freedom stand,\n" + "And was my own fee-simple, not in part,\n" + "What with his art in youth, and youth in art,\n" + "Threw my affections in his charmed power,\n" + "Reserved the stalk and gave him all my flower.\n\n" + "'Yet did I not, as some my equals did,\n" + "Demand of him, nor being desired yielded;\n" + "Finding myself in honour so forbid,\n" + "With safest distance I mine honour shielded:\n" + "Experience for me many bulwarks builded\n" + "Of proofs new-bleeding, which remain'd the foil\n" + "Of this false jewel, and his amorous spoil.\n\n" + "'But, ah, who ever shunn'd by precedent\n" + "The destined ill she must herself assay?\n" + "Or forced examples, 'gainst her own content,\n" + "To put the by-past perils in her way?\n" + "Counsel may stop awhile what will not stay;\n" + "For when we rage, advice is often seen\n" + "By blunting us to make our wits more keen.\n\n" + "'Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood,\n" + "That we must curb it upon others' proof;\n" + "To be forbod the sweets that seem so good,\n" + "For fear of harms that preach in our behoof.\n" + "O appetite, from judgment stand aloof!\n" + "The one a palate hath that needs will taste,\n" + "Though Reason weep, and cry, 'It is thy last.'\n\n" + "'For further I could say 'This man's untrue,'\n" + "And knew the patterns of his foul beguiling;\n" + "Heard where his plants in others' orchards grew,\n" + "Saw how deceits were gilded in his smiling;\n" + "Knew vows were ever brokers to defiling;\n" + "Thought characters and words merely but art,\n" + "And bastards of his foul adulterate heart.\n\n" + "'And long upon these terms I held my city,\n" + "Till thus he gan besiege me: 'Gentle maid,\n" + "Have of my suffering youth some feeling pity,\n" + "And be not of my holy vows afraid:\n" + "That's to ye sworn to none was ever said;\n" + "For feasts of love I have been call'd unto,\n" + "Till now did ne'er invite, nor never woo.\n\n" + "''All my offences that abroad you see\n" + "Are errors of the blood, none of the mind;\n" + "Love made them not: with acture they may be,\n" + "Where neither party is nor true nor kind:\n" + "They sought their shame that so their shame did find;\n" + "And so much less of shame in me remains,\n" + "By how much of me their reproach contains.\n\n" + "''Among the many that mine eyes have seen,\n" + "Not one whose flame my heart so much as warm'd,\n" + "Or my affection put to the smallest teen,\n" + "Or any of my leisures ever charm'd:\n" + "Harm have I done to them, but ne'er was harm'd;\n" + "Kept hearts in liveries, but mine own was free,\n" + "And reign'd, commanding in his monarchy.\n\n" + "''Look here, what tributes wounded fancies sent me,\n" + "Of paled pearls and rubies red as blood;\n" + "Figuring that they their passions likewise lent me\n" + "Of grief and blushes, aptly understood\n" + "In bloodless white and the encrimson'd mood;\n" + "Effects of terror and dear modesty,\n" + "Encamp'd in hearts, but fighting outwardly.\n\n" + "''And, lo, behold these talents of their hair,\n" + "With twisted metal amorously impleach'd,\n" + "I have received from many a several fair,\n" + "Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd,\n" + "With the annexions of fair gems enrich'd,\n" + "And deep-brain'd sonnets that did amplify\n" + "Each stone's dear nature, worth, and quality.\n\n" + "''The diamond,--why, 'twas beautiful and hard,\n" + "Whereto his invised properties did tend;\n" + "The deep-green emerald, in whose fresh regard\n" + "Weak sights their sickly radiance do amend;\n" + "The heaven-hued sapphire and the opal blend\n" + "With objects manifold: each several stone,\n" + "With wit well blazon'd, smiled or made some moan.\n\n" + "''Lo, all these trophies of affections hot,\n" + "Of pensived and subdued desires the tender,\n" + "Nature hath charged me that I hoard them not,\n" + "But yield them up where I myself must render,\n" + "That is, to you, my origin and ender;\n" + "For these, of force, must your oblations be,\n" + "Since I their altar, you enpatron me.\n\n" + "''O, then, advance of yours that phraseless hand,\n" + "Whose white weighs down the airy scale of praise;\n" + "Take all these similes to your own command,\n" + "Hallow'd with sighs that burning lungs did raise;\n" + "What me your minister, for you obeys,\n" + "Works under you; and to your audit comes\n" + "Their distract parcels in combined sums.\n\n" + "''Lo, this device was sent me from a nun,\n" + "Or sister sanctified, of holiest note;\n" + "Which late her noble suit in court did shun,\n" + "Whose rarest havings made the blossoms dote;\n" + "For she was sought by spirits of richest coat,\n" + "But kept cold distance, and did thence remove,\n" + "To spend her living in eternal love.\n\n" + "''But, O my sweet, what labour is't to leave\n" + "The thing we have not, mastering what not strives,\n" + "Playing the place which did no form receive,\n" + "Playing patient sports in unconstrained gyves?\n" + "She that her fame so to herself contrives,\n" + "The scars of battle 'scapeth by the flight,\n" + "And makes her absence valiant, not her might.\n\n" + "''O, pardon me, in that my boast is true:\n" + "The accident which brought me to her eye\n" + "Upon the moment did her force subdue,\n" + "And now she would the caged cloister fly:\n" + "Religious love put out Religion's eye:\n" + "Not to be tempted, would she be immured,\n" + "And now, to tempt, all liberty procured.\n\n" + "''How mighty then you are, O, hear me tell!\n" + "The broken bosoms that to me belong\n" + "Have emptied all their fountains in my well,\n" + "And mine I pour your ocean all among:\n" + "I strong o'er them, and you o'er me being strong,\n" + "Must for your victory us all congest,\n" + "As compound love to physic your cold breast.\n\n" + "''My parts had power to charm a sacred nun,\n" + "Who, disciplined, ay, dieted in grace,\n" + "Believed her eyes when they to assail begun,\n" + "All vows and consecrations giving place:\n" + "O most potential love! vow, bond, nor space,\n" + "In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,\n" + "For thou art all, and all things else are thine.\n\n" + "''When thou impressest, what are precepts worth\n" + "Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,\n" + "How coldly those impediments stand forth\n" + "Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!\n" + "Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense,\n" + "'gainst shame,\n" + "And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,\n" + "The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.\n\n" + "''Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,\n" + "Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine;\n" + "And supplicant their sighs to you extend,\n" + "To leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine,\n" + "Lending soft audience to my sweet design,\n" + "And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath\n" + "That shall prefer and undertake my troth.'\n\n" + "'This said, his watery eyes he did dismount,\n" + "Whose sights till then were levell'd on my face;\n" + "Each cheek a river running from a fount\n" + "With brinish current downward flow'd apace:\n" + "O, how the channel to the stream gave grace!\n" + "Who glazed with crystal gate the glowing roses\n" + "That flame through water which their hue encloses.\n\n" + "'O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies\n" + "In the small orb of one particular tear!\n" + "But with the inundation of the eyes\n" + "What rocky heart to water will not wear?\n" + "What breast so cold that is not warmed here?\n" + "O cleft effect! cold modesty, hot wrath,\n" + "Both fire from hence and chill extincture hath.\n\n" + "'For, lo, his passion, but an art of craft,\n" + "Even there resolved my reason into tears;\n" + "There my white stole of chastity I daff'd,\n" + "Shook off my sober guards and civil fears;\n" + "Appear to him, as he to me appears,\n" + "All melting; though our drops this difference bore,\n" + "His poison'd me, and mine did him restore.\n\n" + "'In him a plenitude of subtle matter,\n" + "Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives,\n" + "Of burning blushes, or of weeping water,\n" + "Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,\n" + "In either's aptness, as it best deceives,\n" + "To blush at speeches rank to weep at woes,\n" + "Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows.\n\n" + "'That not a heart which in his level came\n" + "Could 'scape the hail of his all-hurting aim,\n" + "Showing fair nature is both kind and tame;\n" + "And, veil'd in them, did win whom he would maim:\n" + "Against the thing he sought he would exclaim;\n" + "When he most burn'd in heart-wish'd luxury,\n" + "He preach'd pure maid, and praised cold chastity.\n\n" + "'Thus merely with the garment of a Grace\n" + "The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd;\n" + "That th' unexperient gave the tempter place,\n" + "Which like a cherubin above them hover'd.\n" + "Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd?\n" + "Ay me! I fell; and yet do question make\n" + "What I should do again for such a sake.\n\n" + "'O, that infected moisture of his eye,\n" + "O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd,\n" + "O, that forced thunder from his heart did fly,\n" + "O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd,\n" + "O, all that borrow'd motion seeming owed,\n" + "Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd,\n" + "And new pervert a reconciled maid!'\n" + " LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n" + "FERDINAND king of Navarre.\n\n\n" + "BIRON |\n" + " |\n" + "LONGAVILLE | lords attending on the King.\n" + " |\n" + "DUMAIN |\n\n\n" + "BOYET |\n" + " | lords attending on the Princess of France.\n" + "MERCADE |\n\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO a fantastical Spaniard.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL a curate.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES a schoolmaster.\n\n" + "DULL a constable.\n\n" + "COSTARD a clown.\n\n" + "MOTH page to Armado.\n\n" + " A Forester.\n\n" + " The PRINCESS of France: (PRINCESS:)\n\n\n" + "ROSALINE |\n" + " |\n" + "MARIA | ladies attending on the Princess.\n" + " |\n" + "KATHARINE |\n\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA a country wench.\n\n" + " Lords, Attendants, &c.\n" + " (First Lord:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Navarre.\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The king of Navarre's park.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE\n" + " and DUMAIN]\n\n" + "FERDINAND Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,\n" + " Live register'd upon our brazen tombs\n" + " And then grace us in the disgrace of death;\n" + " When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,\n" + " The endeavor of this present breath may buy\n" + " That honour which shall bate his scythe's keen edge\n" + " And make us heirs of all eternity.\n" + " Therefore, brave conquerors,--for so you are,\n" + " That war against your own affections\n" + " And the huge army of the world's desires,--\n" + " Our late edict shall strongly stand in force:\n" + " Navarre shall be the wonder of the world;\n" + " Our court shall be a little Academe,\n" + " Still and contemplative in living art.\n" + " You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville,\n" + " Have sworn for three years' term to live with me\n" + " My fellow-scholars, and to keep those statutes\n" + " That are recorded in this schedule here:\n" + " Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names,\n" + " That his own hand may strike his honour down\n" + " That violates the smallest branch herein:\n" + " If you are arm'd to do as sworn to do,\n" + " Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep it too.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast:\n" + " The mind shall banquet, though the body pine:\n" + " Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits\n" + " Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.\n\n" + "DUMAIN My loving lord, Dumain is mortified:\n" + " The grosser manner of these world's delights\n" + " He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves:\n" + " To love, to wealth, to pomp, I pine and die;\n" + " With all these living in philosophy.\n\n" + "BIRON I can but say their protestation over;\n" + " So much, dear liege, I have already sworn,\n" + " That is, to live and study here three years.\n" + " But there are other strict observances;\n" + " As, not to see a woman in that term,\n" + " Which I hope well is not enrolled there;\n" + " And one day in a week to touch no food\n" + " And but one meal on every day beside,\n" + " The which I hope is not enrolled there;\n" + " And then, to sleep but three hours in the night,\n" + " And not be seen to wink of all the day--\n" + " When I was wont to think no harm all night\n" + " And make a dark night too of half the day--\n" + " Which I hope well is not enrolled there:\n" + " O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep,\n" + " Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Your oath is pass'd to pass away from these.\n\n" + "BIRON Let me say no, my liege, an if you please:\n" + " I only swore to study with your grace\n" + " And stay here in your court for three years' space.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE You swore to that, Biron, and to the rest.\n\n" + "BIRON By yea and nay, sir, then I swore in jest.\n" + " What is the end of study? let me know.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Why, that to know, which else we should not know.\n\n" + "BIRON Things hid and barr'd, you mean, from common sense?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Ay, that is study's godlike recompense.\n\n" + "BIRON Come on, then; I will swear to study so,\n" + " To know the thing I am forbid to know:\n" + " As thus,--to study where I well may dine,\n" + " When I to feast expressly am forbid;\n" + " Or study where to meet some mistress fine,\n" + " When mistresses from common sense are hid;\n" + " Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath,\n" + " Study to break it and not break my troth.\n" + " If study's gain be thus and this be so,\n" + " Study knows that which yet it doth not know:\n" + " Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no.\n\n" + "FERDINAND These be the stops that hinder study quite\n" + " And train our intellects to vain delight.\n\n" + "BIRON Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,\n" + " Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain:\n" + " As, painfully to pore upon a book\n" + " To seek the light of truth; while truth the while\n" + " Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look:\n" + " Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:\n" + " So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,\n" + " Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.\n" + " Study me how to please the eye indeed\n" + " By fixing it upon a fairer eye,\n" + " Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed\n" + " And give him light that it was blinded by.\n" + " Study is like the heaven's glorious sun\n" + " That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks:\n" + " Small have continual plodders ever won\n" + " Save base authority from others' books\n" + " These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights\n" + " That give a name to every fixed star\n" + " Have no more profit of their shining nights\n" + " Than those that walk and wot not what they are.\n" + " Too much to know is to know nought but fame;\n" + " And every godfather can give a name.\n\n" + "FERDINAND How well he's read, to reason against reading!\n\n" + "DUMAIN Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding!\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE He weeds the corn and still lets grow the weeding.\n\n" + "BIRON The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.\n\n" + "DUMAIN How follows that?\n\n" + "BIRON Fit in his place and time.\n\n" + "DUMAIN In reason nothing.\n\n" + "BIRON Something then in rhyme.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Biron is like an envious sneaping frost,\n" + " That bites the first-born infants of the spring.\n\n" + "BIRON Well, say I am; why should proud summer boast\n" + " Before the birds have any cause to sing?\n" + " Why should I joy in any abortive birth?\n" + " At Christmas I no more desire a rose\n" + " Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;\n" + " But like of each thing that in season grows.\n" + " So you, to study now it is too late,\n" + " Climb o'er the house to unlock the little gate.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Well, sit you out: go home, Biron: adieu.\n\n" + "BIRON No, my good lord; I have sworn to stay with you:\n" + " And though I have for barbarism spoke more\n" + " Than for that angel knowledge you can say,\n" + " Yet confident I'll keep what I have swore\n" + " And bide the penance of each three years' day.\n" + " Give me the paper; let me read the same;\n" + " And to the strict'st decrees I'll write my name.\n\n" + "FERDINAND How well this yielding rescues thee from shame!\n\n" + "BIRON [Reads] 'Item, That no woman shall come within a\n" + " mile of my court:' Hath this been proclaimed?\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Four days ago.\n\n" + "BIRON Let's see the penalty.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'On pain of losing her tongue.' Who devised this penalty?\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Marry, that did I.\n\n" + "BIRON Sweet lord, and why?\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE To fright them hence with that dread penalty.\n\n" + "BIRON A dangerous law against gentility!\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Item, If any man be seen to talk with a woman\n" + " within the term of three years, he shall endure such\n" + " public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise.'\n" + " This article, my liege, yourself must break;\n" + " For well you know here comes in embassy\n" + " The French king's daughter with yourself to speak--\n" + " A maid of grace and complete majesty--\n" + " About surrender up of Aquitaine\n" + " To her decrepit, sick and bedrid father:\n" + " Therefore this article is made in vain,\n" + " Or vainly comes the admired princess hither.\n\n" + "FERDINAND What say you, lords? Why, this was quite forgot.\n\n" + "BIRON So study evermore is overshot:\n" + " While it doth study to have what it would\n" + " It doth forget to do the thing it should,\n" + " And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,\n" + " 'Tis won as towns with fire, so won, so lost.\n\n" + "FERDINAND We must of force dispense with this decree;\n" + " She must lie here on mere necessity.\n\n" + "BIRON Necessity will make us all forsworn\n" + " Three thousand times within this three years' space;\n" + " For every man with his affects is born,\n" + " Not by might master'd but by special grace:\n" + " If I break faith, this word shall speak for me;\n" + " I am forsworn on 'mere necessity.'\n" + " So to the laws at large I write my name:\n\n" + " [Subscribes]\n\n" + " And he that breaks them in the least degree\n" + " Stands in attainder of eternal shame:\n" + " Suggestions are to other as to me;\n" + " But I believe, although I seem so loath,\n" + " I am the last that will last keep his oath.\n" + " But is there no quick recreation granted?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Ay, that there is. Our court, you know, is haunted\n" + " With a refined traveller of Spain;\n" + " A man in all the world's new fashion planted,\n" + " That hath a mint of phrases in his brain;\n" + " One whom the music of his own vain tongue\n" + " Doth ravish like enchanting harmony;\n" + " A man of complements, whom right and wrong\n" + " Have chose as umpire of their mutiny:\n" + " This child of fancy, that Armado hight,\n" + " For interim to our studies shall relate\n" + " In high-born words the worth of many a knight\n" + " From tawny Spain lost in the world's debate.\n" + " How you delight, my lords, I know not, I;\n" + " But, I protest, I love to hear him lie\n" + " And I will use him for my minstrelsy.\n\n" + "BIRON Armado is a most illustrious wight,\n" + " A man of fire-new words, fashion's own knight.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Costard the swain and he shall be our sport;\n" + " And so to study, three years is but short.\n\n" + " [Enter DULL with a letter, and COSTARD]\n\n" + "DULL Which is the duke's own person?\n\n" + "BIRON This, fellow: what wouldst?\n\n" + "DULL I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his\n" + " grace's tharborough: but I would see his own person\n" + " in flesh and blood.\n\n" + "BIRON This is he.\n\n" + "DULL Signior Arme--Arme--commends you. There's villany\n" + " abroad: this letter will tell you more.\n\n" + "COSTARD Sir, the contempts thereof are as touching me.\n\n" + "FERDINAND A letter from the magnificent Armado.\n\n" + "BIRON How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!\n\n" + "BIRON To hear? or forbear laughing?\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately; or to\n" + " forbear both.\n\n" + "BIRON Well, sir, be it as the style shall give us cause to\n" + " climb in the merriness.\n\n" + "COSTARD The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta.\n" + " The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.\n\n" + "BIRON In what manner?\n\n" + "COSTARD In manner and form following, sir; all those three:\n" + " I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with\n" + " her upon the form, and taken following her into the\n" + " park; which, put together, is in manner and form\n" + " following. Now, sir, for the manner,--it is the\n" + " manner of a man to speak to a woman: for the form,--\n" + " in some form.\n\n" + "BIRON For the following, sir?\n\n" + "COSTARD As it shall follow in my correction: and God defend\n" + " the right!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Will you hear this letter with attention?\n\n" + "BIRON As we would hear an oracle.\n\n" + "COSTARD Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after the flesh.\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'Great deputy, the welkin's vicegerent and\n" + " sole dominator of Navarre, my soul's earth's god,\n" + " and body's fostering patron.'\n\n" + "COSTARD Not a word of Costard yet.\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'So it is,'--\n\n" + "COSTARD It may be so: but if he say it is so, he is, in\n" + " telling true, but so.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Peace!\n\n" + "COSTARD Be to me and every man that dares not fight!\n\n" + "FERDINAND No words!\n\n" + "COSTARD Of other men's secrets, I beseech you.\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured\n" + " melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour\n" + " to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving\n" + " air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to\n" + " walk. The time when. About the sixth hour; when\n" + " beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down\n" + " to that nourishment which is called supper: so much\n" + " for the time when. Now for the ground which; which,\n" + " I mean, I walked upon: it is y-cleped thy park. Then\n" + " for the place where; where, I mean, I did encounter\n" + " that obscene and preposterous event, that draweth\n" + " from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink, which\n" + " here thou viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest;\n" + " but to the place where; it standeth north-north-east\n" + " and by east from the west corner of thy curious-\n" + " knotted garden: there did I see that low-spirited\n" + " swain, that base minnow of thy mirth,'--\n\n" + "COSTARD Me?\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'that unlettered small-knowing soul,'--\n\n" + "COSTARD Me?\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'that shallow vassal,'--\n\n" + "COSTARD Still me?\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'which, as I remember, hight Costard,'--\n\n" + "COSTARD O, me!\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'sorted and consorted, contrary to thy\n" + " established proclaimed edict and continent canon,\n" + " which with,--O, with--but with this I passion to say\n" + " wherewith,--\n\n" + "COSTARD With a wench.\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'with a child of our grandmother Eve, a\n" + " female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a\n" + " woman. Him I, as my ever-esteemed duty pricks me on,\n" + " have sent to thee, to receive the meed of\n" + " punishment, by thy sweet grace's officer, Anthony\n" + " Dull; a man of good repute, carriage, bearing, and\n" + " estimation.'\n\n" + "DULL 'Me, an't shall please you; I am Anthony Dull.\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads] 'For Jaquenetta,--so is the weaker vessel\n" + " called which I apprehended with the aforesaid\n" + " swain,--I keep her as a vessel of the law's fury;\n" + " and shall, at the least of thy sweet notice, bring\n" + " her to trial. Thine, in all compliments of devoted\n" + " and heart-burning heat of duty.\n" + " DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'\n\n" + "BIRON This is not so well as I looked for, but the best\n" + " that ever I heard.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say\n" + " you to this?\n\n" + "COSTARD Sir, I confess the wench.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Did you hear the proclamation?\n\n" + "COSTARD I do confess much of the hearing it but little of\n" + " the marking of it.\n\n" + "FERDINAND It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment, to be taken\n" + " with a wench.\n\n" + "COSTARD I was taken with none, sir: I was taken with a damsel.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Well, it was proclaimed 'damsel.'\n\n" + "COSTARD This was no damsel, neither, sir; she was a virgin.\n\n" + "FERDINAND It is so varied, too; for it was proclaimed 'virgin.'\n\n" + "COSTARD If it were, I deny her virginity: I was taken with a maid.\n\n" + "FERDINAND This maid will not serve your turn, sir.\n\n" + "COSTARD This maid will serve my turn, sir.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast\n" + " a week with bran and water.\n\n" + "COSTARD I had rather pray a month with mutton and porridge.\n\n" + "FERDINAND And Don Armado shall be your keeper.\n" + " My Lord Biron, see him deliver'd o'er:\n" + " And go we, lords, to put in practise that\n" + " Which each to other hath so strongly sworn.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN]\n\n" + "BIRON I'll lay my head to any good man's hat,\n" + " These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn.\n" + " Sirrah, come on.\n\n" + "COSTARD I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is, I was\n" + " taken with Jaquenetta, and Jaquenetta is a true\n" + " girl; and therefore welcome the sour cup of\n" + " prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again; and\n" + " till then, sit thee down, sorrow!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Boy, what sign is it when a man of great spirit\n" + " grows melancholy?\n\n" + "MOTH A great sign, sir, that he will look sad.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Why, sadness is one and the self-same thing, dear imp.\n\n" + "MOTH No, no; O Lord, sir, no.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my\n" + " tender juvenal?\n\n" + "MOTH By a familiar demonstration of the working, my tough senior.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Why tough senior? why tough senior?\n\n" + "MOTH Why tender juvenal? why tender juvenal?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton\n" + " appertaining to thy young days, which we may\n" + " nominate tender.\n\n" + "MOTH And I, tough senior, as an appertinent title to your\n" + " old time, which we may name tough.\n\n" + "DON ADRIANO DE\n" + "ARMADO Pretty and apt.\n\n" + "MOTH How mean you, sir? I pretty, and my saying apt? or\n" + " I apt, and my saying pretty?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Thou pretty, because little.\n\n" + "MOTH Little pretty, because little. Wherefore apt?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO And therefore apt, because quick.\n\n" + "MOTH Speak you this in my praise, master?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO In thy condign praise.\n\n" + "MOTH I will praise an eel with the same praise.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO What, that an eel is ingenious?\n\n" + "MOTH That an eel is quick.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I do say thou art quick in answers: thou heatest my blood.\n\n" + "MOTH I am answered, sir.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I love not to be crossed.\n\n" + "MOTH [Aside] He speaks the mere contrary; crosses love not him.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I have promised to study three years with the duke.\n\n" + "MOTH You may do it in an hour, sir.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Impossible.\n\n" + "MOTH How many is one thrice told?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I am ill at reckoning; it fitteth the spirit of a tapster.\n\n" + "MOTH You are a gentleman and a gamester, sir.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I confess both: they are both the varnish of a\n" + " complete man.\n\n" + "MOTH Then, I am sure, you know how much the gross sum of\n" + " deuce-ace amounts to.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO It doth amount to one more than two.\n\n" + "MOTH Which the base vulgar do call three.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO True.\n\n" + "MOTH Why, sir, is this such a piece of study? Now here\n" + " is three studied, ere ye'll thrice wink: and how\n" + " easy it is to put 'years' to the word 'three,' and\n" + " study three years in two words, the dancing horse\n" + " will tell you.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO A most fine figure!\n\n" + "MOTH To prove you a cipher.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I will hereupon confess I am in love: and as it is\n" + " base for a soldier to love, so am I in love with a\n" + " base wench. If drawing my sword against the humour\n" + " of affection would deliver me from the reprobate\n" + " thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and\n" + " ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised\n" + " courtesy. I think scorn to sigh: methinks I should\n" + " outswear Cupid. Comfort, me, boy: what great men\n" + " have been in love?\n\n" + "MOTH Hercules, master.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Most sweet Hercules! More authority, dear boy, name\n" + " more; and, sweet my child, let them be men of good\n" + " repute and carriage.\n\n" + "MOTH Samson, master: he was a man of good carriage, great\n" + " carriage, for he carried the town-gates on his back\n" + " like a porter: and he was in love.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO O well-knit Samson! strong-jointed Samson! I do\n" + " excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in\n" + " carrying gates. I am in love too. Who was Samson's\n" + " love, my dear Moth?\n\n" + "MOTH A woman, master.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Of what complexion?\n\n" + "MOTH Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Tell me precisely of what complexion.\n\n" + "MOTH Of the sea-water green, sir.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Is that one of the four complexions?\n\n" + "MOTH As I have read, sir; and the best of them too.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Green indeed is the colour of lovers; but to have a\n" + " love of that colour, methinks Samson had small reason\n" + " for it. He surely affected her for her wit.\n\n" + "MOTH It was so, sir; for she had a green wit.\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO My love is most immaculate white and red.\n\n" + "MOTH Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under\n" + " such colours.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Define, define, well-educated infant.\n\n" + "MOTH My father's wit and my mother's tongue, assist me!\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and\n" + " pathetical!\n\n" + "MOTH If she be made of white and red,\n" + " Her faults will ne'er be known,\n" + " For blushing cheeks by faults are bred\n" + " And fears by pale white shown:\n" + " Then if she fear, or be to blame,\n" + " By this you shall not know,\n" + " For still her cheeks possess the same\n" + " Which native she doth owe.\n" + " A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of\n" + " white and red.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Is there not a ballad, boy, of the King and the Beggar?\n\n" + "MOTH The world was very guilty of such a ballad some\n" + " three ages since: but I think now 'tis not to be\n" + " found; or, if it were, it would neither serve for\n" + " the writing nor the tune.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I will have that subject newly writ o'er, that I may\n" + " example my digression by some mighty precedent.\n" + " Boy, I do love that country girl that I took in the\n" + " park with the rational hind Costard: she deserves well.\n\n" + "MOTH [Aside] To be whipped; and yet a better love than\n" + " my master.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sing, boy; my spirit grows heavy in love.\n\n" + "MOTH And that's great marvel, loving a light wench.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I say, sing.\n\n" + "MOTH Forbear till this company be past.\n\n" + " [Enter DULL, COSTARD, and JAQUENETTA]\n\n" + "DULL Sir, the duke's pleasure is, that you keep Costard\n" + " safe: and you must suffer him to take no delight\n" + " nor no penance; but a' must fast three days a week.\n" + " For this damsel, I must keep her at the park: she\n" + " is allowed for the day-woman. Fare you well.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I do betray myself with blushing. Maid!\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA Man?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I will visit thee at the lodge.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA That's hereby.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I know where it is situate.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA Lord, how wise you are!\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I will tell thee wonders.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA With that face?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I love thee.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA So I heard you say.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO And so, farewell.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA Fair weather after you!\n\n" + "DULL Come, Jaquenetta, away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt DULL and JAQUENETTA]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Villain, thou shalt fast for thy offences ere thou\n" + " be pardoned.\n\n" + "COSTARD Well, sir, I hope, when I do it, I shall do it on a\n" + " full stomach.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Thou shalt be heavily punished.\n\n" + "COSTARD I am more bound to you than your fellows, for they\n" + " are but lightly rewarded.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Take away this villain; shut him up.\n\n" + "MOTH Come, you transgressing slave; away!\n\n" + "COSTARD Let me not be pent up, sir: I will fast, being loose.\n\n" + "MOTH No, sir; that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison.\n\n" + "COSTARD Well, if ever I do see the merry days of desolation\n" + " that I have seen, some shall see.\n\n" + "MOTH What shall some see?\n\n" + "COSTARD Nay, nothing, Master Moth, but what they look upon.\n" + " It is not for prisoners to be too silent in their\n" + " words; and therefore I will say nothing: I thank\n" + " God I have as little patience as another man; and\n" + " therefore I can be quiet.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MOTH and COSTARD]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I do affect the very ground, which is base, where\n" + " her shoe, which is baser, guided by her foot, which\n" + " is basest, doth tread. I shall be forsworn, which\n" + " is a great argument of falsehood, if I love. And\n" + " how can that be true love which is falsely\n" + " attempted? Love is a familiar; Love is a devil:\n" + " there is no evil angel but Love. Yet was Samson so\n" + " tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was\n" + " Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit.\n" + " Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules' club;\n" + " and therefore too much odds for a Spaniard's rapier.\n" + " The first and second cause will not serve my turn;\n" + " the passado he respects not, the duello he regards\n" + " not: his disgrace is to be called boy; but his\n" + " glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour! rust rapier!\n" + " be still, drum! for your manager is in love; yea,\n" + " he loveth. Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme,\n" + " for I am sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit;\n" + " write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA,\n" + " KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and other Attendants]\n\n" + "BOYET Now, madam, summon up your dearest spirits:\n" + " Consider who the king your father sends,\n" + " To whom he sends, and what's his embassy:\n" + " Yourself, held precious in the world's esteem,\n" + " To parley with the sole inheritor\n" + " Of all perfections that a man may owe,\n" + " Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight\n" + " Than Aquitaine, a dowry for a queen.\n" + " Be now as prodigal of all dear grace\n" + " As Nature was in making graces dear\n" + " When she did starve the general world beside\n" + " And prodigally gave them all to you.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,\n" + " Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:\n" + " Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,\n" + " Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues:\n" + " I am less proud to hear you tell my worth\n" + " Than you much willing to be counted wise\n" + " In spending your wit in the praise of mine.\n" + " But now to task the tasker: good Boyet,\n" + " You are not ignorant, all-telling fame\n" + " Doth noise abroad, Navarre hath made a vow,\n" + " Till painful study shall outwear three years,\n" + " No woman may approach his silent court:\n" + " Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course,\n" + " Before we enter his forbidden gates,\n" + " To know his pleasure; and in that behalf,\n" + " Bold of your worthiness, we single you\n" + " As our best-moving fair solicitor.\n" + " Tell him, the daughter of the King of France,\n" + " On serious business, craving quick dispatch,\n" + " Importunes personal conference with his grace:\n" + " Haste, signify so much; while we attend,\n" + " Like humble-visaged suitors, his high will.\n\n" + "BOYET Proud of employment, willingly I go.\n\n" + "PRINCESS All pride is willing pride, and yours is so.\n\n" + " [Exit BOYET]\n\n" + " Who are the votaries, my loving lords,\n" + " That are vow-fellows with this virtuous duke?\n\n" + "First Lord Lord Longaville is one.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Know you the man?\n\n" + "MARIA I know him, madam: at a marriage-feast,\n" + " Between Lord Perigort and the beauteous heir\n" + " Of Jaques Falconbridge, solemnized\n" + " In Normandy, saw I this Longaville:\n" + " A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd;\n" + " Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms:\n" + " Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.\n" + " The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,\n" + " If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,\n" + " Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will;\n" + " Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still wills\n" + " It should none spare that come within his power.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Some merry mocking lord, belike; is't so?\n\n" + "MARIA They say so most that most his humours know.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow.\n" + " Who are the rest?\n\n" + "KATHARINE The young Dumain, a well-accomplished youth,\n" + " Of all that virtue love for virtue loved:\n" + " Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill;\n" + " For he hath wit to make an ill shape good,\n" + " And shape to win grace though he had no wit.\n" + " I saw him at the Duke Alencon's once;\n" + " And much too little of that good I saw\n" + " Is my report to his great worthiness.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Another of these students at that time\n" + " Was there with him, if I have heard a truth.\n" + " Biron they call him; but a merrier man,\n" + " Within the limit of becoming mirth,\n" + " I never spent an hour's talk withal:\n" + " His eye begets occasion for his wit;\n" + " For every object that the one doth catch\n" + " The other turns to a mirth-moving jest,\n" + " Which his fair tongue, conceit's expositor,\n" + " Delivers in such apt and gracious words\n" + " That aged ears play truant at his tales\n" + " And younger hearings are quite ravished;\n" + " So sweet and voluble is his discourse.\n\n" + "PRINCESS God bless my ladies! are they all in love,\n" + " That every one her own hath garnished\n" + " With such bedecking ornaments of praise?\n\n" + "First Lord Here comes Boyet.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BOYET]\n\n" + "PRINCESS Now, what admittance, lord?\n\n" + "BOYET Navarre had notice of your fair approach;\n" + " And he and his competitors in oath\n" + " Were all address'd to meet you, gentle lady,\n" + " Before I came. Marry, thus much I have learnt:\n" + " He rather means to lodge you in the field,\n" + " Like one that comes here to besiege his court,\n" + " Than seek a dispensation for his oath,\n" + " To let you enter his unpeopled house.\n" + " Here comes Navarre.\n\n" + " [Enter FERDINAND, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN, BIRON, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "FERDINAND Fair princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.\n\n" + "PRINCESS 'Fair' I give you back again; and 'welcome' I have\n" + " not yet: the roof of this court is too high to be\n" + " yours; and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine.\n\n" + "FERDINAND You shall be welcome, madam, to my court.\n\n" + "PRINCESS I will be welcome, then: conduct me thither.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Hear me, dear lady; I have sworn an oath.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Our Lady help my lord! he'll be forsworn.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Not for the world, fair madam, by my will.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Why, will shall break it; will and nothing else.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Your ladyship is ignorant what it is.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Were my lord so, his ignorance were wise,\n" + " Where now his knowledge must prove ignorance.\n" + " I hear your grace hath sworn out house-keeping:\n" + " Tis deadly sin to keep that oath, my lord,\n" + " And sin to break it.\n" + " But pardon me. I am too sudden-bold:\n" + " To teach a teacher ill beseemeth me.\n" + " Vouchsafe to read the purpose of my coming,\n" + " And suddenly resolve me in my suit.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Madam, I will, if suddenly I may.\n\n" + "PRINCESS You will the sooner, that I were away;\n" + " For you'll prove perjured if you make me stay.\n\n" + "BIRON Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once?\n\n" + "BIRON I know you did.\n\n" + "ROSALINE How needless was it then to ask the question!\n\n" + "BIRON You must not be so quick.\n\n" + "ROSALINE 'Tis 'long of you that spur me with such questions.\n\n" + "BIRON Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Not till it leave the rider in the mire.\n\n" + "BIRON What time o' day?\n\n" + "ROSALINE The hour that fools should ask.\n\n" + "BIRON Now fair befall your mask!\n\n" + "ROSALINE Fair fall the face it covers!\n\n" + "BIRON And send you many lovers!\n\n" + "ROSALINE Amen, so you be none.\n\n" + "BIRON Nay, then will I be gone.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Madam, your father here doth intimate\n" + " The payment of a hundred thousand crowns;\n" + " Being but the one half of an entire sum\n" + " Disbursed by my father in his wars.\n" + " But say that he or we, as neither have,\n" + " Received that sum, yet there remains unpaid\n" + " A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which,\n" + " One part of Aquitaine is bound to us,\n" + " Although not valued to the money's worth.\n" + " If then the king your father will restore\n" + " But that one half which is unsatisfied,\n" + " We will give up our right in Aquitaine,\n" + " And hold fair friendship with his majesty.\n" + " But that, it seems, he little purposeth,\n" + " For here he doth demand to have repaid\n" + " A hundred thousand crowns; and not demands,\n" + " On payment of a hundred thousand crowns,\n" + " To have his title live in Aquitaine;\n" + " Which we much rather had depart withal\n" + " And have the money by our father lent\n" + " Than Aquitaine so gelded as it is.\n" + " Dear Princess, were not his requests so far\n" + " From reason's yielding, your fair self should make\n" + " A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast\n" + " And go well satisfied to France again.\n\n" + "PRINCESS You do the king my father too much wrong\n" + " And wrong the reputation of your name,\n" + " In so unseeming to confess receipt\n" + " Of that which hath so faithfully been paid.\n\n" + "FERDINAND I do protest I never heard of it;\n" + " And if you prove it, I'll repay it back\n" + " Or yield up Aquitaine.\n\n" + "PRINCESS We arrest your word.\n" + " Boyet, you can produce acquittances\n" + " For such a sum from special officers\n" + " Of Charles his father.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Satisfy me so.\n\n" + "BOYET So please your grace, the packet is not come\n" + " Where that and other specialties are bound:\n" + " To-morrow you shall have a sight of them.\n\n" + "FERDINAND It shall suffice me: at which interview\n" + " All liberal reason I will yield unto.\n" + " Meantime receive such welcome at my hand\n" + " As honour without breach of honour may\n" + " Make tender of to thy true worthiness:\n" + " You may not come, fair princess, in my gates;\n" + " But here without you shall be so received\n" + " As you shall deem yourself lodged in my heart,\n" + " Though so denied fair harbour in my house.\n" + " Your own good thoughts excuse me, and farewell:\n" + " To-morrow shall we visit you again.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Sweet health and fair desires consort your grace!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Thy own wish wish I thee in every place!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BIRON Lady, I will commend you to mine own heart.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Pray you, do my commendations; I would be glad to see it.\n\n" + "BIRON I would you heard it groan.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Is the fool sick?\n\n" + "BIRON Sick at the heart.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Alack, let it blood.\n\n" + "BIRON Would that do it good?\n\n" + "ROSALINE My physic says 'ay.'\n\n" + "BIRON Will you prick't with your eye?\n\n" + "ROSALINE No point, with my knife.\n\n" + "BIRON Now, God save thy life!\n\n" + "ROSALINE And yours from long living!\n\n" + "BIRON I cannot stay thanksgiving.\n\n" + " [Retiring]\n\n" + "DUMAIN Sir, I pray you, a word: what lady is that same?\n\n" + "BOYET The heir of Alencon, Katharine her name.\n\n" + "DUMAIN A gallant lady. Monsieur, fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE I beseech you a word: what is she in the white?\n\n" + "BOYET A woman sometimes, an you saw her in the light.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Perchance light in the light. I desire her name.\n\n" + "BOYET She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Pray you, sir, whose daughter?\n\n" + "BOYET Her mother's, I have heard.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE God's blessing on your beard!\n\n" + "BOYET Good sir, be not offended.\n" + " She is an heir of Falconbridge.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Nay, my choler is ended.\n" + " She is a most sweet lady.\n\n" + "BOYET Not unlike, sir, that may be.\n\n" + " [Exit LONGAVILLE]\n\n" + "BIRON What's her name in the cap?\n\n" + "BOYET Rosaline, by good hap.\n\n" + "BIRON Is she wedded or no?\n\n" + "BOYET To her will, sir, or so.\n\n" + "BIRON You are welcome, sir: adieu.\n\n" + "BOYET Farewell to me, sir, and welcome to you.\n\n" + " [Exit BIRON]\n\n" + "MARIA That last is Biron, the merry madcap lord:\n" + " Not a word with him but a jest.\n\n" + "BOYET And every jest but a word.\n\n" + "PRINCESS It was well done of you to take him at his word.\n\n" + "BOYET I was as willing to grapple as he was to board.\n\n" + "MARIA Two hot sheeps, marry.\n\n" + "BOYET And wherefore not ships?\n" + " No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips.\n\n" + "MARIA You sheep, and I pasture: shall that finish the jest?\n\n" + "BOYET So you grant pasture for me.\n\n" + " [Offering to kiss her]\n\n" + "MARIA Not so, gentle beast:\n" + " My lips are no common, though several they be.\n\n" + "BOYET Belonging to whom?\n\n" + "MARIA To my fortunes and me.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree:\n" + " This civil war of wits were much better used\n" + " On Navarre and his book-men; for here 'tis abused.\n\n" + "BOYET If my observation, which very seldom lies,\n" + " By the heart's still rhetoric disclosed with eyes,\n" + " Deceive me not now, Navarre is infected.\n\n" + "PRINCESS With what?\n\n" + "BOYET With that which we lovers entitle affected.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Your reason?\n\n" + "BOYET Why, all his behaviors did make their retire\n" + " To the court of his eye, peeping thorough desire:\n" + " His heart, like an agate, with your print impress'd,\n" + " Proud with his form, in his eye pride express'd:\n" + " His tongue, all impatient to speak and not see,\n" + " Did stumble with haste in his eyesight to be;\n" + " All senses to that sense did make their repair,\n" + " To feel only looking on fairest of fair:\n" + " Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye,\n" + " As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy;\n" + " Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glass'd,\n" + " Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd:\n" + " His face's own margent did quote such amazes\n" + " That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes.\n" + " I'll give you Aquitaine and all that is his,\n" + " An you give him for my sake but one loving kiss.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Come to our pavilion: Boyet is disposed.\n\n" + "BOYET But to speak that in words which his eye hath\n" + " disclosed.\n" + " I only have made a mouth of his eye,\n" + " By adding a tongue which I know will not lie.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Thou art an old love-monger and speakest skilfully.\n\n" + "MARIA He is Cupid's grandfather and learns news of him.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim.\n\n" + "BOYET Do you hear, my mad wenches?\n\n" + "MARIA No.\n\n" + "BOYET What then, do you see?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Ay, our way to be gone.\n\n" + "BOYET You are too hard for me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO and MOTH]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.\n\n" + "MOTH Concolinel.\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years; take this key,\n" + " give enlargement to the swain, bring him festinately\n" + " hither: I must employ him in a letter to my love.\n\n" + "MOTH Master, will you win your love with a French brawl?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO How meanest thou? brawling in French?\n\n" + "MOTH No, my complete master: but to jig off a tune at\n" + " the tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, humour\n" + " it with turning up your eyelids, sigh a note and\n" + " sing a note, sometime through the throat, as if you\n" + " swallowed love with singing love, sometime through\n" + " the nose, as if you snuffed up love by smelling\n" + " love; with your hat penthouse-like o'er the shop of\n" + " your eyes; with your arms crossed on your thin-belly\n" + " doublet like a rabbit on a spit; or your hands in\n" + " your pocket like a man after the old painting; and\n" + " keep not too long in one tune, but a snip and away.\n" + " These are complements, these are humours; these\n" + " betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed without\n" + " these; and make them men of note--do you note\n" + " me?--that most are affected to these.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO How hast thou purchased this experience?\n\n" + "MOTH By my penny of observation.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO But O,--but O,--\n\n" + "MOTH 'The hobby-horse is forgot.'\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Callest thou my love 'hobby-horse'?\n\n" + "MOTH No, master; the hobby-horse is but a colt, and your\n" + " love perhaps a hackney. But have you forgot your love?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Almost I had.\n\n" + "MOTH Negligent student! learn her by heart.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO By heart and in heart, boy.\n\n" + "MOTH And out of heart, master: all those three I will prove.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO What wilt thou prove?\n\n" + "MOTH A man, if I live; and this, by, in, and without, upon\n" + " the instant: by heart you love her, because your\n" + " heart cannot come by her; in heart you love her,\n" + " because your heart is in love with her; and out of\n" + " heart you love her, being out of heart that you\n" + " cannot enjoy her.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I am all these three.\n\n" + "MOTH And three times as much more, and yet nothing at\n" + " all.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Fetch hither the swain: he must carry me a letter.\n\n" + "MOTH A message well sympathized; a horse to be ambassador\n" + " for an ass.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Ha, ha! what sayest thou?\n\n" + "MOTH Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,\n" + " for he is very slow-gaited. But I go.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO The way is but short: away!\n\n" + "MOTH As swift as lead, sir.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO The meaning, pretty ingenious?\n" + " Is not lead a metal heavy, dull, and slow?\n\n" + "MOTH Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I say lead is slow.\n\n" + "MOTH You are too swift, sir, to say so:\n" + " Is that lead slow which is fired from a gun?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sweet smoke of rhetoric!\n" + " He reputes me a cannon; and the bullet, that's he:\n" + " I shoot thee at the swain.\n\n" + "MOTH Thump then and I flee.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO A most acute juvenal; voluble and free of grace!\n" + " By thy favour, sweet welkin, I must sigh in thy face:\n" + " Most rude melancholy, valour gives thee place.\n" + " My herald is return'd.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MOTH with COSTARD]\n\n" + "MOTH A wonder, master! here's a costard broken in a shin.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy; begin.\n\n" + "COSTARD No enigma, no riddle, no l'envoy; no salve in the\n" + " mail, sir: O, sir, plantain, a plain plantain! no\n" + " l'envoy, no l'envoy; no salve, sir, but a plantain!\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO By virtue, thou enforcest laughter; thy silly\n" + " thought my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes\n" + " me to ridiculous smiling. O, pardon me, my stars!\n" + " Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy, and\n" + " the word l'envoy for a salve?\n\n" + "MOTH Do the wise think them other? is not l'envoy a salve?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO No, page: it is an epilogue or discourse, to make plain\n" + " Some obscure precedence that hath tofore been sain.\n" + " I will example it:\n" + " The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,\n" + " Were still at odds, being but three.\n" + " There's the moral. Now the l'envoy.\n\n" + "MOTH I will add the l'envoy. Say the moral again.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,\n" + " Were still at odds, being but three.\n\n" + "MOTH Until the goose came out of door,\n" + " And stay'd the odds by adding four.\n" + " Now will I begin your moral, and do you follow with\n" + " my l'envoy.\n" + " The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,\n" + " Were still at odds, being but three.\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Until the goose came out of door,\n" + " Staying the odds by adding four.\n\n" + "MOTH A good l'envoy, ending in the goose: would you\n" + " desire more?\n\n" + "COSTARD The boy hath sold him a bargain, a goose, that's flat.\n" + " Sir, your pennyworth is good, an your goose be fat.\n" + " To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose:\n" + " Let me see; a fat l'envoy; ay, that's a fat goose.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Come hither, come hither. How did this argument begin?\n\n" + "MOTH By saying that a costard was broken in a shin.\n" + " Then call'd you for the l'envoy.\n\n" + "COSTARD True, and I for a plantain: thus came your\n" + " argument in;\n" + " Then the boy's fat l'envoy, the goose that you bought;\n" + " And he ended the market.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO But tell me; how was there a costard broken in a shin?\n\n" + "MOTH I will tell you sensibly.\n\n" + "COSTARD Thou hast no feeling of it, Moth: I will speak that l'envoy:\n" + " I Costard, running out, that was safely within,\n" + " Fell over the threshold and broke my shin.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO We will talk no more of this matter.\n\n" + "COSTARD Till there be more matter in the shin.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.\n\n" + "COSTARD O, marry me to one Frances: I smell some l'envoy,\n" + " some goose, in this.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO By my sweet soul, I mean setting thee at liberty,\n" + " enfreedoming thy person; thou wert immured,\n" + " restrained, captivated, bound.\n\n" + "COSTARD True, true; and now you will be my purgation and let me loose.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I give thee thy liberty, set thee from durance; and,\n" + " in lieu thereof, impose on thee nothing but this:\n" + " bear this significant\n\n" + " [Giving a letter]\n\n" + " to the country maid Jaquenetta:\n" + " there is remuneration; for the best ward of mine\n" + " honour is rewarding my dependents. Moth, follow.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MOTH Like the sequel, I. Signior Costard, adieu.\n\n" + "COSTARD My sweet ounce of man's flesh! my incony Jew!\n\n" + " [Exit MOTH]\n\n" + " Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration!\n" + " O, that's the Latin word for three farthings: three\n" + " farthings--remuneration.--'What's the price of this\n" + " inkle?'--'One penny.'--'No, I'll give you a\n" + " remuneration:' why, it carries it. Remuneration!\n" + " why, it is a fairer name than French crown. I will\n" + " never buy and sell out of this word.\n\n" + " [Enter BIRON]\n\n" + "BIRON O, my good knave Costard! exceedingly well met.\n\n" + "COSTARD Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon may a man\n" + " buy for a remuneration?\n\n" + "BIRON What is a remuneration?\n\n" + "COSTARD Marry, sir, halfpenny farthing.\n\n" + "BIRON Why, then, three-farthing worth of silk.\n\n" + "COSTARD I thank your worship: God be wi' you!\n\n" + "BIRON Stay, slave; I must employ thee:\n" + " As thou wilt win my favour, good my knave,\n" + " Do one thing for me that I shall entreat.\n\n" + "COSTARD When would you have it done, sir?\n\n" + "BIRON This afternoon.\n\n" + "COSTARD Well, I will do it, sir: fare you well.\n\n" + "BIRON Thou knowest not what it is.\n\n" + "COSTARD I shall know, sir, when I have done it.\n\n" + "BIRON Why, villain, thou must know first.\n\n" + "COSTARD I will come to your worship to-morrow morning.\n\n" + "BIRON It must be done this afternoon.\n" + " Hark, slave, it is but this:\n" + " The princess comes to hunt here in the park,\n" + " And in her train there is a gentle lady;\n" + " When tongues speak sweetly, then they name her name,\n" + " And Rosaline they call her: ask for her;\n" + " And to her white hand see thou do commend\n" + " This seal'd-up counsel. There's thy guerdon; go.\n\n" + " [Giving him a shilling]\n\n" + "COSTARD Gardon, O sweet gardon! better than remuneration,\n" + " a'leven-pence farthing better: most sweet gardon! I\n" + " will do it sir, in print. Gardon! Remuneration!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BIRON And I, forsooth, in love! I, that have been love's whip;\n" + " A very beadle to a humorous sigh;\n" + " A critic, nay, a night-watch constable;\n" + " A domineering pedant o'er the boy;\n" + " Than whom no mortal so magnificent!\n" + " This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy;\n" + " This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;\n" + " Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,\n" + " The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,\n" + " Liege of all loiterers and malcontents,\n" + " Dread prince of plackets, king of codpieces,\n" + " Sole imperator and great general\n" + " Of trotting 'paritors:--O my little heart:--\n" + " And I to be a corporal of his field,\n" + " And wear his colours like a tumbler's hoop!\n" + " What, I! I love! I sue! I seek a wife!\n" + " A woman, that is like a German clock,\n" + " Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,\n" + " And never going aright, being a watch,\n" + " But being watch'd that it may still go right!\n" + " Nay, to be perjured, which is worst of all;\n" + " And, among three, to love the worst of all;\n" + " A wightly wanton with a velvet brow,\n" + " With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for eyes;\n" + " Ay, and by heaven, one that will do the deed\n" + " Though Argus were her eunuch and her guard:\n" + " And I to sigh for her! to watch for her!\n" + " To pray for her! Go to; it is a plague\n" + " That Cupid will impose for my neglect\n" + " Of his almighty dreadful little might.\n" + " Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue and groan:\n" + " Some men must love my lady and some Joan.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester,\n" + " BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE]\n\n" + "PRINCESS Was that the king, that spurred his horse so hard\n" + " Against the steep uprising of the hill?\n\n" + "BOYET I know not; but I think it was not he.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Whoe'er a' was, a' show'd a mounting mind.\n" + " Well, lords, to-day we shall have our dispatch:\n" + " On Saturday we will return to France.\n" + " Then, forester, my friend, where is the bush\n" + " That we must stand and play the murderer in?\n\n" + "Forester Hereby, upon the edge of yonder coppice;\n" + " A stand where you may make the fairest shoot.\n\n" + "PRINCESS I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot,\n" + " And thereupon thou speak'st the fairest shoot.\n\n" + "Forester Pardon me, madam, for I meant not so.\n\n" + "PRINCESS What, what? first praise me and again say no?\n" + " O short-lived pride! Not fair? alack for woe!\n\n" + "Forester Yes, madam, fair.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Nay, never paint me now:\n" + " Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow.\n" + " Here, good my glass, take this for telling true:\n" + " Fair payment for foul words is more than due.\n\n" + "Forester Nothing but fair is that which you inherit.\n\n" + "PRINCESS See see, my beauty will be saved by merit!\n" + " O heresy in fair, fit for these days!\n" + " A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.\n" + " But come, the bow: now mercy goes to kill,\n" + " And shooting well is then accounted ill.\n" + " Thus will I save my credit in the shoot:\n" + " Not wounding, pity would not let me do't;\n" + " If wounding, then it was to show my skill,\n" + " That more for praise than purpose meant to kill.\n" + " And out of question so it is sometimes,\n" + " Glory grows guilty of detested crimes,\n" + " When, for fame's sake, for praise, an outward part,\n" + " We bend to that the working of the heart;\n" + " As I for praise alone now seek to spill\n" + " The poor deer's blood, that my heart means no ill.\n\n" + "BOYET Do not curst wives hold that self-sovereignty\n" + " Only for praise sake, when they strive to be\n" + " Lords o'er their lords?\n\n" + "PRINCESS Only for praise: and praise we may afford\n" + " To any lady that subdues a lord.\n\n" + "BOYET Here comes a member of the commonwealth.\n\n" + " [Enter COSTARD]\n\n" + "COSTARD God dig-you-den all! Pray you, which is the head lady?\n\n" + "PRINCESS Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads.\n\n" + "COSTARD Which is the greatest lady, the highest?\n\n" + "PRINCESS The thickest and the tallest.\n\n" + "COSTARD The thickest and the tallest! it is so; truth is truth.\n" + " An your waist, mistress, were as slender as my wit,\n" + " One o' these maids' girdles for your waist should be fit.\n" + " Are not you the chief woman? you are the thickest here.\n\n" + "PRINCESS What's your will, sir? what's your will?\n\n" + "COSTARD I have a letter from Monsieur Biron to one Lady Rosaline.\n\n" + "PRINCESS O, thy letter, thy letter! he's a good friend of mine:\n" + " Stand aside, good bearer. Boyet, you can carve;\n" + " Break up this capon.\n\n" + "BOYET I am bound to serve.\n" + " This letter is mistook, it importeth none here;\n" + " It is writ to Jaquenetta.\n\n" + "PRINCESS We will read it, I swear.\n" + " Break the neck of the wax, and every one give ear.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + "BOYET 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible;\n" + " true, that thou art beauteous; truth itself, that\n" + " thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful\n" + " than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have\n" + " commiseration on thy heroical vassal! The\n" + " magnanimous and most illustrate king Cophetua set\n" + " eye upon the pernicious and indubitate beggar\n" + " Zenelophon; and he it was that might rightly say,\n" + " Veni, vidi, vici; which to annothanize in the\n" + " vulgar,--O base and obscure vulgar!--videlicet, He\n" + " came, saw, and overcame: he came, one; saw two;\n" + " overcame, three. Who came? the king: why did he\n" + " come? to see: why did he see? to overcome: to\n" + " whom came he? to the beggar: what saw he? the\n" + " beggar: who overcame he? the beggar. The\n" + " conclusion is victory: on whose side? the king's.\n" + " The captive is enriched: on whose side? the\n" + " beggar's. The catastrophe is a nuptial: on whose\n" + " side? the king's: no, on both in one, or one in\n" + " both. I am the king; for so stands the comparison:\n" + " thou the beggar; for so witnesseth thy lowliness.\n" + " Shall I command thy love? I may: shall I enforce\n" + " thy love? I could: shall I entreat thy love? I\n" + " will. What shalt thou exchange for rags? robes;\n" + " for tittles? titles; for thyself? me. Thus,\n" + " expecting thy reply, I profane my lips on thy foot,\n" + " my eyes on thy picture. and my heart on thy every\n" + " part. Thine, in the dearest design of industry,\n" + " DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO.'\n\n" + " Thus dost thou hear the Nemean lion roar\n" + " 'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey.\n" + " Submissive fall his princely feet before,\n" + " And he from forage will incline to play:\n" + " But if thou strive, poor soul, what art thou then?\n" + " Food for his rage, repasture for his den.\n\n" + "PRINCESS What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?\n" + " What vane? what weathercock? did you ever hear better?\n\n" + "BOYET I am much deceived but I remember the style.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Else your memory is bad, going o'er it erewhile.\n\n" + "BOYET This Armado is a Spaniard, that keeps here in court;\n" + " A phantasime, a Monarcho, and one that makes sport\n" + " To the prince and his bookmates.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Thou fellow, a word:\n" + " Who gave thee this letter?\n\n" + "COSTARD I told you; my lord.\n\n" + "PRINCESS To whom shouldst thou give it?\n\n" + "COSTARD From my lord to my lady.\n\n" + "PRINCESS From which lord to which lady?\n\n" + "COSTARD From my lord Biron, a good master of mine,\n" + " To a lady of France that he call'd Rosaline.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Thou hast mistaken his letter. Come, lords, away.\n\n" + " [To ROSALINE]\n\n" + " Here, sweet, put up this: 'twill be thine another day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PRINCESS and train]\n\n" + "BOYET Who is the suitor? who is the suitor?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Shall I teach you to know?\n\n" + "BOYET Ay, my continent of beauty.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Why, she that bears the bow.\n" + " Finely put off!\n\n" + "BOYET My lady goes to kill horns; but, if thou marry,\n" + " Hang me by the neck, if horns that year miscarry.\n" + " Finely put on!\n\n" + "ROSALINE Well, then, I am the shooter.\n\n" + "BOYET And who is your deer?\n\n" + "ROSALINE If we choose by the horns, yourself come not near.\n" + " Finely put on, indeed!\n\n" + "MARIA You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes\n" + " at the brow.\n\n" + "BOYET But she herself is hit lower: have I hit her now?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Shall I come upon thee with an old saying, that was\n" + " a man when King Pepin of France was a little boy, as\n" + " touching the hit it?\n\n" + "BOYET So I may answer thee with one as old, that was a\n" + " woman when Queen Guinover of Britain was a little\n" + " wench, as touching the hit it.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Thou canst not hit it, hit it, hit it,\n" + " Thou canst not hit it, my good man.\n\n" + "BOYET An I cannot, cannot, cannot,\n" + " An I cannot, another can.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ROSALINE and KATHARINE]\n\n" + "COSTARD By my troth, most pleasant: how both did fit it!\n\n" + "MARIA A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.\n\n" + "BOYET A mark! O, mark but that mark! A mark, says my lady!\n" + " Let the mark have a prick in't, to mete at, if it may be.\n\n" + "MARIA Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.\n\n" + "COSTARD Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.\n\n" + "BOYET An if my hand be out, then belike your hand is in.\n\n" + "COSTARD Then will she get the upshoot by cleaving the pin.\n\n" + "MARIA Come, come, you talk greasily; your lips grow foul.\n\n" + "COSTARD She's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.\n\n" + "BOYET I fear too much rubbing. Good night, my good owl.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BOYET and MARIA]\n\n" + "COSTARD By my soul, a swain! a most simple clown!\n" + " Lord, Lord, how the ladies and I have put him down!\n" + " O' my troth, most sweet jests! most incony\n" + " vulgar wit!\n" + " When it comes so smoothly off, so obscenely, as it\n" + " were, so fit.\n" + " Armado o' th' one side,--O, a most dainty man!\n" + " To see him walk before a lady and to bear her fan!\n" + " To see him kiss his hand! and how most sweetly a'\n" + " will swear!\n" + " And his page o' t' other side, that handful of wit!\n" + " Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!\n" + " Sola, sola!\n\n" + " [Shout within]\n\n" + " [Exit COSTARD, running]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Very reverend sport, truly; and done in the testimony\n" + " of a good conscience.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood; ripe\n" + " as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a jewel in\n" + " the ear of caelo, the sky, the welkin, the heaven;\n" + " and anon falleth like a crab on the face of terra,\n" + " the soil, the land, the earth.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Truly, Master Holofernes, the epithets are sweetly\n" + " varied, like a scholar at the least: but, sir, I\n" + " assure ye, it was a buck of the first head.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.\n\n" + "DULL 'Twas not a haud credo; 'twas a pricket.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of\n" + " insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of\n" + " explication; facere, as it were, replication, or\n" + " rather, ostentare, to show, as it were, his\n" + " inclination, after his undressed, unpolished,\n" + " uneducated, unpruned, untrained, or rather,\n" + " unlettered, or ratherest, unconfirmed fashion, to\n" + " insert again my haud credo for a deer.\n\n" + "DULL I said the deer was not a haud credo; twas a pricket.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Twice-sod simplicity, his coctus!\n" + " O thou monster Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred\n" + " in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he\n" + " hath not drunk ink: his intellect is not\n" + " replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in\n" + " the duller parts:\n" + " And such barren plants are set before us, that we\n" + " thankful should be,\n" + " Which we of taste and feeling are, for those parts that\n" + " do fructify in us more than he.\n" + " For as it would ill become me to be vain, indiscreet, or a fool,\n" + " So were there a patch set on learning, to see him in a school:\n" + " But omne bene, say I; being of an old father's mind,\n" + " Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.\n\n" + "DULL You two are book-men: can you tell me by your wit\n" + " What was a month old at Cain's birth, that's not five\n" + " weeks old as yet?\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Dictynna, goodman Dull; Dictynna, goodman Dull.\n\n" + "DULL What is Dictynna?\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL A title to Phoebe, to Luna, to the moon.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES The moon was a month old when Adam was no more,\n" + " And raught not to five weeks when he came to\n" + " five-score.\n" + " The allusion holds in the exchange.\n\n" + "DULL 'Tis true indeed; the collusion holds in the exchange.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES God comfort thy capacity! I say, the allusion holds\n" + " in the exchange.\n\n" + "DULL And I say, the pollusion holds in the exchange; for\n" + " the moon is never but a month old: and I say beside\n" + " that, 'twas a pricket that the princess killed.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Sir Nathaniel, will you hear an extemporal epitaph\n" + " on the death of the deer? And, to humour the\n" + " ignorant, call I the deer the princess killed a pricket.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Perge, good Master Holofernes, perge; so it shall\n" + " please you to abrogate scurrility.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES I will something affect the letter, for it argues facility.\n" + " The preyful princess pierced and prick'd a pretty\n" + " pleasing pricket;\n" + " Some say a sore; but not a sore, till now made\n" + " sore with shooting.\n" + " The dogs did yell: put L to sore, then sorel jumps\n" + " from thicket;\n" + " Or pricket sore, or else sorel; the people fall a-hooting.\n" + " If sore be sore, then L to sore makes fifty sores\n" + " one sorel.\n" + " Of one sore I an hundred make by adding but one more L.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL A rare talent!\n\n" + "DULL [Aside] If a talent be a claw, look how he claws\n" + " him with a talent.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a\n" + " foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures,\n" + " shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,\n" + " revolutions: these are begot in the ventricle of\n" + " memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and\n" + " delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. But the\n" + " gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am\n" + " thankful for it.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Sir, I praise the Lord for you; and so may my\n" + " parishioners; for their sons are well tutored by\n" + " you, and their daughters profit very greatly under\n" + " you: you are a good member of the commonwealth.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Mehercle, if their sons be ingenuous, they shall\n" + " want no instruction; if their daughters be capable,\n" + " I will put it to them: but vir sapit qui pauca\n" + " loquitur; a soul feminine saluteth us.\n\n" + " [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD]\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA God give you good morrow, master Parson.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Master Parson, quasi pers-on. An if one should be\n" + " pierced, which is the one?\n\n" + "COSTARD Marry, master schoolmaster, he that is likest to a hogshead.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Piercing a hogshead! a good lustre of conceit in a\n" + " tuft of earth; fire enough for a flint, pearl enough\n" + " for a swine: 'tis pretty; it is well.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA Good master Parson, be so good as read me this\n" + " letter: it was given me by Costard, and sent me\n" + " from Don Armado: I beseech you, read it.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Fauste, precor gelida quando pecus omne sub umbra\n" + " Ruminat,--and so forth. Ah, good old Mantuan! I\n" + " may speak of thee as the traveller doth of Venice;\n" + " Venetia, Venetia,\n" + " Chi non ti vede non ti pretia.\n" + " Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! who understandeth thee\n" + " not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa.\n" + " Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? or rather,\n" + " as Horace says in his--What, my soul, verses?\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Ay, sir, and very learned.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse; lege, domine.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL [Reads]\n\n" + " If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?\n" + " Ah, never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd!\n" + " Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove:\n" + " Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like\n" + " osiers bow'd.\n" + " Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes,\n" + " Where all those pleasures live that art would\n" + " comprehend:\n" + " If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;\n" + " Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend,\n" + " All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;\n" + " Which is to me some praise that I thy parts admire:\n" + " Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder,\n" + " Which not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.\n" + " Celestial as thou art, O, pardon, love, this wrong,\n" + " That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES You find not the apostraphas, and so miss the\n" + " accent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are\n" + " only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy,\n" + " facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret.\n" + " Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso,\n" + " but for smelling out the odouriferous flowers of\n" + " fancy, the jerks of invention? Imitari is nothing:\n" + " so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper,\n" + " the tired horse his rider. But, damosella virgin,\n" + " was this directed to you?\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA Ay, sir, from one Monsieur Biron, one of the strange\n" + " queen's lords.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES I will overglance the superscript: 'To the\n" + " snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady\n" + " Rosaline.' I will look again on the intellect of\n" + " the letter, for the nomination of the party writing\n" + " to the person written unto: 'Your ladyship's in all\n" + " desired employment, BIRON.' Sir Nathaniel, this\n" + " Biron is one of the votaries with the king; and here\n" + " he hath framed a letter to a sequent of the stranger\n" + " queen's, which accidentally, or by the way of\n" + " progression, hath miscarried. Trip and go, my\n" + " sweet; deliver this paper into the royal hand of the\n" + " king: it may concern much. Stay not thy\n" + " compliment; I forgive thy duty; adieu.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA Good Costard, go with me. Sir, God save your life!\n\n" + "COSTARD Have with thee, my girl.\n\n" + " [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA]\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Sir, you have done this in the fear of God, very\n" + " religiously; and, as a certain father saith,--\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Sir tell me not of the father; I do fear colourable\n" + " colours. But to return to the verses: did they\n" + " please you, Sir Nathaniel?\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Marvellous well for the pen.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES I do dine to-day at the father's of a certain pupil\n" + " of mine; where, if, before repast, it shall please\n" + " you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my\n" + " privilege I have with the parents of the foresaid\n" + " child or pupil, undertake your ben venuto; where I\n" + " will prove those verses to be very unlearned,\n" + " neither savouring of poetry, wit, nor invention: I\n" + " beseech your society.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL And thank you too; for society, saith the text, is\n" + " the happiness of life.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES And, certes, the text most infallibly concludes it.\n\n" + " [To DULL]\n\n" + " Sir, I do invite you too; you shall not\n" + " say me nay: pauca verba. Away! the gentles are at\n" + " their game, and we will to our recreation.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BIRON, with a paper]\n\n" + "BIRON The king he is hunting the deer; I am coursing\n" + " myself: they have pitched a toil; I am toiling in\n" + " a pitch,--pitch that defiles: defile! a foul\n" + " word. Well, set thee down, sorrow! for so they say\n" + " the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well\n" + " proved, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as\n" + " Ajax: it kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep:\n" + " well proved again o' my side! I will not love: if\n" + " I do, hang me; i' faith, I will not. O, but her\n" + " eye,--by this light, but for her eye, I would not\n" + " love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing\n" + " in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By\n" + " heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme\n" + " and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme,\n" + " and here my melancholy. Well, she hath one o' my\n" + " sonnets already: the clown bore it, the fool sent\n" + " it, and the lady hath it: sweet clown, sweeter\n" + " fool, sweetest lady! By the world, I would not care\n" + " a pin, if the other three were in. Here comes one\n" + " with a paper: God give him grace to groan!\n\n" + " [Stands aside]\n\n" + " [Enter FERDINAND, with a paper]\n\n" + "FERDINAND Ay me!\n\n" + "BIRON [Aside] Shot, by heaven! Proceed, sweet Cupid:\n" + " thou hast thumped him with thy bird-bolt under the\n" + " left pap. In faith, secrets!\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Reads]\n\n" + " So sweet a kiss the golden sun gives not\n" + " To those fresh morning drops upon the rose,\n" + " As thy eye-beams, when their fresh rays have smote\n" + " The night of dew that on my cheeks down flows:\n" + " Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright\n" + " Through the transparent bosom of the deep,\n" + " As doth thy face through tears of mine give light;\n" + " Thou shinest in every tear that I do weep:\n" + " No drop but as a coach doth carry thee;\n" + " So ridest thou triumphing in my woe.\n" + " Do but behold the tears that swell in me,\n" + " And they thy glory through my grief will show:\n" + " But do not love thyself; then thou wilt keep\n" + " My tears for glasses, and still make me weep.\n" + " O queen of queens! how far dost thou excel,\n" + " No thought can think, nor tongue of mortal tell.\n" + " How shall she know my griefs? I'll drop the paper:\n" + " Sweet leaves, shade folly. Who is he comes here?\n\n" + " [Steps aside]\n\n" + " What, Longaville! and reading! listen, ear.\n\n" + "BIRON Now, in thy likeness, one more fool appear!\n\n" + " [Enter LONGAVILLE, with a paper]\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Ay me, I am forsworn!\n\n" + "BIRON Why, he comes in like a perjure, wearing papers.\n\n" + "FERDINAND In love, I hope: sweet fellowship in shame!\n\n" + "BIRON One drunkard loves another of the name.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Am I the first that have been perjured so?\n\n" + "BIRON I could put thee in comfort. Not by two that I know:\n" + " Thou makest the triumviry, the corner-cap of society,\n" + " The shape of Love's Tyburn that hangs up simplicity.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE I fear these stubborn lines lack power to move:\n" + " O sweet Maria, empress of my love!\n" + " These numbers will I tear, and write in prose.\n\n" + "BIRON O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose:\n" + " Disfigure not his slop.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE This same shall go.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,\n" + " 'Gainst whom the world cannot hold argument,\n" + " Persuade my heart to this false perjury?\n" + " Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.\n" + " A woman I forswore; but I will prove,\n" + " Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:\n" + " My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;\n" + " Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.\n" + " Vows are but breath, and breath a vapour is:\n" + " Then thou, fair sun, which on my earth dost shine,\n" + " Exhalest this vapour-vow; in thee it is:\n" + " If broken then, it is no fault of mine:\n" + " If by me broke, what fool is not so wise\n" + " To lose an oath to win a paradise?\n\n" + "BIRON This is the liver-vein, which makes flesh a deity,\n" + " A green goose a goddess: pure, pure idolatry.\n" + " God amend us, God amend! we are much out o' the way.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE By whom shall I send this?--Company! stay.\n\n" + " [Steps aside]\n\n" + "BIRON All hid, all hid; an old infant play.\n" + " Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.\n" + " And wretched fools' secrets heedfully o'ereye.\n" + " More sacks to the mill! O heavens, I have my wish!\n\n" + " [Enter DUMAIN, with a paper]\n\n" + " Dumain transform'd! four woodcocks in a dish!\n\n" + "DUMAIN O most divine Kate!\n\n" + "BIRON O most profane coxcomb!\n\n" + "DUMAIN By heaven, the wonder in a mortal eye!\n\n" + "BIRON By earth, she is not, corporal, there you lie.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Her amber hair for foul hath amber quoted.\n\n" + "BIRON An amber-colour'd raven was well noted.\n\n" + "DUMAIN As upright as the cedar.\n\n" + "BIRON Stoop, I say;\n" + " Her shoulder is with child.\n\n" + "DUMAIN As fair as day.\n\n" + "BIRON Ay, as some days; but then no sun must shine.\n\n" + "DUMAIN O that I had my wish!\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE And I had mine!\n\n" + "FERDINAND And I mine too, good Lord!\n\n" + "BIRON Amen, so I had mine: is not that a good word?\n\n" + "DUMAIN I would forget her; but a fever she\n" + " Reigns in my blood and will remember'd be.\n\n" + "BIRON A fever in your blood! why, then incision\n" + " Would let her out in saucers: sweet misprision!\n\n" + "DUMAIN Once more I'll read the ode that I have writ.\n\n" + "BIRON Once more I'll mark how love can vary wit.\n\n" + "DUMAIN [Reads]\n\n" + " On a day--alack the day!--\n" + " Love, whose month is ever May,\n" + " Spied a blossom passing fair\n" + " Playing in the wanton air:\n" + " Through the velvet leaves the wind,\n" + " All unseen, can passage find;\n" + " That the lover, sick to death,\n" + " Wish himself the heaven's breath.\n" + " Air, quoth he, thy cheeks may blow;\n" + " Air, would I might triumph so!\n" + " But, alack, my hand is sworn\n" + " Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn;\n" + " Vow, alack, for youth unmeet,\n" + " Youth so apt to pluck a sweet!\n" + " Do not call it sin in me,\n" + " That I am forsworn for thee;\n" + " Thou for whom Jove would swear\n" + " Juno but an Ethiope were;\n" + " And deny himself for Jove,\n" + " Turning mortal for thy love.\n" + " This will I send, and something else more plain,\n" + " That shall express my true love's fasting pain.\n" + " O, would the king, Biron, and Longaville,\n" + " Were lovers too! Ill, to example ill,\n" + " Would from my forehead wipe a perjured note;\n" + " For none offend where all alike do dote.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE [Advancing] Dumain, thy love is far from charity.\n" + " You may look pale, but I should blush, I know,\n" + " To be o'erheard and taken napping so.\n\n" + "FERDINAND [Advancing] Come, sir, you blush; as his your case is such;\n" + " You chide at him, offending twice as much;\n" + " You do not love Maria; Longaville\n" + " Did never sonnet for her sake compile,\n" + " Nor never lay his wreathed arms athwart\n" + " His loving bosom to keep down his heart.\n" + " I have been closely shrouded in this bush\n" + " And mark'd you both and for you both did blush:\n" + " I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion,\n" + " Saw sighs reek from you, noted well your passion:\n" + " Ay me! says one; O Jove! the other cries;\n" + " One, her hairs were gold, crystal the other's eyes:\n\n" + " [To LONGAVILLE]\n\n" + " You would for paradise break faith, and troth;\n\n" + " [To DUMAIN]\n\n" + " And Jove, for your love, would infringe an oath.\n" + " What will Biron say when that he shall hear\n" + " Faith so infringed, which such zeal did swear?\n" + " How will he scorn! how will he spend his wit!\n" + " How will he triumph, leap and laugh at it!\n" + " For all the wealth that ever I did see,\n" + " I would not have him know so much by me.\n\n" + "BIRON Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.\n\n" + " [Advancing]\n\n" + " Ah, good my liege, I pray thee, pardon me!\n" + " Good heart, what grace hast thou, thus to reprove\n" + " These worms for loving, that art most in love?\n" + " Your eyes do make no coaches; in your tears\n" + " There is no certain princess that appears;\n" + " You'll not be perjured, 'tis a hateful thing;\n" + " Tush, none but minstrels like of sonneting!\n" + " But are you not ashamed? nay, are you not,\n" + " All three of you, to be thus much o'ershot?\n" + " You found his mote; the king your mote did see;\n" + " But I a beam do find in each of three.\n" + " O, what a scene of foolery have I seen,\n" + " Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow and of teen!\n" + " O me, with what strict patience have I sat,\n" + " To see a king transformed to a gnat!\n" + " To see great Hercules whipping a gig,\n" + " And profound Solomon to tune a jig,\n" + " And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys,\n" + " And critic Timon laugh at idle toys!\n" + " Where lies thy grief, O, tell me, good Dumain?\n" + " And gentle Longaville, where lies thy pain?\n" + " And where my liege's? all about the breast:\n" + " A caudle, ho!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Too bitter is thy jest.\n" + " Are we betray'd thus to thy over-view?\n\n" + "BIRON Not you to me, but I betray'd by you:\n" + " I, that am honest; I, that hold it sin\n" + " To break the vow I am engaged in;\n" + " I am betray'd, by keeping company\n" + " With men like men of inconstancy.\n" + " When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme?\n" + " Or groan for love? or spend a minute's time\n" + " In pruning me? When shall you hear that I\n" + " Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye,\n" + " A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist,\n" + " A leg, a limb?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Soft! whither away so fast?\n" + " A true man or a thief that gallops so?\n\n" + "BIRON I post from love: good lover, let me go.\n\n" + " [Enter JAQUENETTA and COSTARD]\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA God bless the king!\n\n" + "FERDINAND What present hast thou there?\n\n" + "COSTARD Some certain treason.\n\n" + "FERDINAND What makes treason here?\n\n" + "COSTARD Nay, it makes nothing, sir.\n\n" + "FERDINAND If it mar nothing neither,\n" + " The treason and you go in peace away together.\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA I beseech your grace, let this letter be read:\n" + " Our parson misdoubts it; 'twas treason, he said.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Biron, read it over.\n\n" + " [Giving him the paper]\n\n" + " Where hadst thou it?\n\n" + "JAQUENETTA Of Costard.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Where hadst thou it?\n\n" + "COSTARD Of Dun Adramadio, Dun Adramadio.\n\n" + " [BIRON tears the letter]\n\n" + "FERDINAND How now! what is in you? why dost thou tear it?\n\n" + "BIRON A toy, my liege, a toy: your grace needs not fear it.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE It did move him to passion, and therefore let's hear it.\n\n" + "DUMAIN It is Biron's writing, and here is his name.\n\n" + " [Gathering up the pieces]\n\n" + "BIRON [To COSTARD] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were\n" + " born to do me shame.\n" + " Guilty, my lord, guilty! I confess, I confess.\n\n" + "FERDINAND What?\n\n" + "BIRON That you three fools lack'd me fool to make up the mess:\n" + " He, he, and you, and you, my liege, and I,\n" + " Are pick-purses in love, and we deserve to die.\n" + " O, dismiss this audience, and I shall tell you more.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Now the number is even.\n\n" + "BIRON True, true; we are four.\n" + " Will these turtles be gone?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Hence, sirs; away!\n\n" + "COSTARD Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.\n\n" + " [Exeunt COSTARD and JAQUENETTA]\n\n" + "BIRON Sweet lords, sweet lovers, O, let us embrace!\n" + " As true we are as flesh and blood can be:\n" + " The sea will ebb and flow, heaven show his face;\n" + " Young blood doth not obey an old decree:\n" + " We cannot cross the cause why we were born;\n" + " Therefore of all hands must we be forsworn.\n\n" + "FERDINAND What, did these rent lines show some love of thine?\n\n" + "BIRON Did they, quoth you? Who sees the heavenly Rosaline,\n" + " That, like a rude and savage man of Inde,\n" + " At the first opening of the gorgeous east,\n" + " Bows not his vassal head and strucken blind\n" + " Kisses the base ground with obedient breast?\n" + " What peremptory eagle-sighted eye\n" + " Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,\n" + " That is not blinded by her majesty?\n\n" + "FERDINAND What zeal, what fury hath inspired thee now?\n" + " My love, her mistress, is a gracious moon;\n" + " She an attending star, scarce seen a light.\n\n" + "BIRON My eyes are then no eyes, nor I Biron:\n" + " O, but for my love, day would turn to night!\n" + " Of all complexions the cull'd sovereignty\n" + " Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek,\n" + " Where several worthies make one dignity,\n" + " Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.\n" + " Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues,--\n" + " Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not:\n" + " To things of sale a seller's praise belongs,\n" + " She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot.\n" + " A wither'd hermit, five-score winters worn,\n" + " Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye:\n" + " Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born,\n" + " And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy:\n" + " O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.\n\n" + "FERDINAND By heaven, thy love is black as ebony.\n\n" + "BIRON Is ebony like her? O wood divine!\n" + " A wife of such wood were felicity.\n" + " O, who can give an oath? where is a book?\n" + " That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack,\n" + " If that she learn not of her eye to look:\n" + " No face is fair that is not full so black.\n\n" + "FERDINAND O paradox! Black is the badge of hell,\n" + " The hue of dungeons and the suit of night;\n" + " And beauty's crest becomes the heavens well.\n\n" + "BIRON Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.\n" + " O, if in black my lady's brows be deck'd,\n" + " It mourns that painting and usurping hair\n" + " Should ravish doters with a false aspect;\n" + " And therefore is she born to make black fair.\n" + " Her favour turns the fashion of the days,\n" + " For native blood is counted painting now;\n" + " And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,\n" + " Paints itself black, to imitate her brow.\n\n" + "DUMAIN To look like her are chimney-sweepers black.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE And since her time are colliers counted bright.\n\n" + "FERDINAND And Ethiopes of their sweet complexion crack.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light.\n\n" + "BIRON Your mistresses dare never come in rain,\n" + " For fear their colours should be wash'd away.\n\n" + "FERDINAND 'Twere good, yours did; for, sir, to tell you plain,\n" + " I'll find a fairer face not wash'd to-day.\n\n" + "BIRON I'll prove her fair, or talk till doomsday here.\n\n" + "FERDINAND No devil will fright thee then so much as she.\n\n" + "DUMAIN I never knew man hold vile stuff so dear.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Look, here's thy love: my foot and her face see.\n\n" + "BIRON O, if the streets were paved with thine eyes,\n" + " Her feet were much too dainty for such tread!\n\n" + "DUMAIN O, vile! then, as she goes, what upward lies\n" + " The street should see as she walk'd overhead.\n\n" + "FERDINAND But what of this? are we not all in love?\n\n" + "BIRON Nothing so sure; and thereby all forsworn.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Then leave this chat; and, good Biron, now prove\n" + " Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Ay, marry, there; some flattery for this evil.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE O, some authority how to proceed;\n" + " Some tricks, some quillets, how to cheat the devil.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Some salve for perjury.\n\n" + "BIRON 'Tis more than need.\n" + " Have at you, then, affection's men at arms.\n" + " Consider what you first did swear unto,\n" + " To fast, to study, and to see no woman;\n" + " Flat treason 'gainst the kingly state of youth.\n" + " Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too young;\n" + " And abstinence engenders maladies.\n" + " And where that you have vow'd to study, lords,\n" + " In that each of you have forsworn his book,\n" + " Can you still dream and pore and thereon look?\n" + " For when would you, my lord, or you, or you,\n" + " Have found the ground of study's excellence\n" + " Without the beauty of a woman's face?\n" + " [From women's eyes this doctrine I derive;\n" + " They are the ground, the books, the academes\n" + " From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire]\n" + " Why, universal plodding poisons up\n" + " The nimble spirits in the arteries,\n" + " As motion and long-during action tires\n" + " The sinewy vigour of the traveller.\n" + " Now, for not looking on a woman's face,\n" + " You have in that forsworn the use of eyes\n" + " And study too, the causer of your vow;\n" + " For where is any author in the world\n" + " Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?\n" + " Learning is but an adjunct to ourself\n" + " And where we are our learning likewise is:\n" + " Then when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes,\n" + " Do we not likewise see our learning there?\n" + " O, we have made a vow to study, lords,\n" + " And in that vow we have forsworn our books.\n" + " For when would you, my liege, or you, or you,\n" + " In leaden contemplation have found out\n" + " Such fiery numbers as the prompting eyes\n" + " Of beauty's tutors have enrich'd you with?\n" + " Other slow arts entirely keep the brain;\n" + " And therefore, finding barren practisers,\n" + " Scarce show a harvest of their heavy toil:\n" + " But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,\n" + " Lives not alone immured in the brain;\n" + " But, with the motion of all elements,\n" + " Courses as swift as thought in every power,\n" + " And gives to every power a double power,\n" + " Above their functions and their offices.\n" + " It adds a precious seeing to the eye;\n" + " A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;\n" + " A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound,\n" + " When the suspicious head of theft is stopp'd:\n" + " Love's feeling is more soft and sensible\n" + " Than are the tender horns of cockl'd snails;\n" + " Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste:\n" + " For valour, is not Love a Hercules,\n" + " Still climbing trees in the Hesperides?\n" + " Subtle as Sphinx; as sweet and musical\n" + " As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair:\n" + " And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods\n" + " Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.\n" + " Never durst poet touch a pen to write\n" + " Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;\n" + " O, then his lines would ravish savage ears\n" + " And plant in tyrants mild humility.\n" + " From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:\n" + " They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;\n" + " They are the books, the arts, the academes,\n" + " That show, contain and nourish all the world:\n" + " Else none at all in ought proves excellent.\n" + " Then fools you were these women to forswear,\n" + " Or keeping what is sworn, you will prove fools.\n" + " For wisdom's sake, a word that all men love,\n" + " Or for love's sake, a word that loves all men,\n" + " Or for men's sake, the authors of these women,\n" + " Or women's sake, by whom we men are men,\n" + " Let us once lose our oaths to find ourselves,\n" + " Or else we lose ourselves to keep our oaths.\n" + " It is religion to be thus forsworn,\n" + " For charity itself fulfills the law,\n" + " And who can sever love from charity?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Saint Cupid, then! and, soldiers, to the field!\n\n" + "BIRON Advance your standards, and upon them, lords;\n" + " Pell-mell, down with them! but be first advised,\n" + " In conflict that you get the sun of them.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by:\n" + " Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?\n\n" + "FERDINAND And win them too: therefore let us devise\n" + " Some entertainment for them in their tents.\n\n" + "BIRON First, from the park let us conduct them thither;\n" + " Then homeward every man attach the hand\n" + " Of his fair mistress: in the afternoon\n" + " We will with some strange pastime solace them,\n" + " Such as the shortness of the time can shape;\n" + " For revels, dances, masks and merry hours\n" + " Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Away, away! no time shall be omitted\n" + " That will betime, and may by us be fitted.\n\n" + "BIRON Allons! allons! Sow'd cockle reap'd no corn;\n" + " And justice always whirls in equal measure:\n" + " Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn;\n" + " If so, our copper buys no better treasure.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, and DULL]\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Satis quod sufficit.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner\n" + " have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without\n" + " scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without\n" + " impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-\n" + " out heresy. I did converse this quondam day with\n" + " a companion of the king's, who is intituled, nomi-\n" + " nated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Novi hominem tanquam te: his humour is lofty, his\n" + " discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye\n" + " ambitious, his gait majestical, and his general\n" + " behavior vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is\n" + " too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it\n" + " were, too peregrinate, as I may call it.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL A most singular and choice epithet.\n\n" + " [Draws out his table-book]\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer\n" + " than the staple of his argument. I abhor such\n" + " fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and\n" + " point-devise companions; such rackers of\n" + " orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should\n" + " say doubt; det, when he should pronounce debt,--d,\n" + " e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf;\n" + " half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebor; neigh\n" + " abbreviated ne. This is abhominable,--which he\n" + " would call abbominable: it insinuateth me of\n" + " insanie: anne intelligis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Laus Deo, bene intelligo.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Bon, bon, fort bon, Priscian! a little scratch'd,\n" + " 'twill serve.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Videsne quis venit?\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Video, et gaudeo.\n\n" + " [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, MOTH, and COSTARD]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Chirrah!\n\n" + " [To MOTH]\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Quare chirrah, not sirrah?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Men of peace, well encountered.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Most military sir, salutation.\n\n" + "MOTH [Aside to COSTARD] They have been at a great feast\n" + " of languages, and stolen the scraps.\n\n" + "COSTARD O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words.\n" + " I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word;\n" + " for thou art not so long by the head as\n" + " honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier\n" + " swallowed than a flap-dragon.\n\n" + "MOTH Peace! the peal begins.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO [To HOLOFERNES] Monsieur, are you not lettered?\n\n" + "MOTH Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a,\n" + " b, spelt backward, with the horn on his head?\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Ba, pueritia, with a horn added.\n\n" + "MOTH Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Quis, quis, thou consonant?\n\n" + "MOTH The third of the five vowels, if you repeat them; or\n" + " the fifth, if I.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES I will repeat them,--a, e, i,--\n\n" + "MOTH The sheep: the other two concludes it,--o, u.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a sweet\n" + " touch, a quick venue of wit! snip, snap, quick and\n" + " home! it rejoiceth my intellect: true wit!\n\n" + "MOTH Offered by a child to an old man; which is wit-old.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES What is the figure? what is the figure?\n\n" + "MOTH Horns.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Thou disputest like an infant: go, whip thy gig.\n\n" + "MOTH Lend me your horn to make one, and I will whip about\n" + " your infamy circum circa,--a gig of a cuckold's horn.\n\n" + "COSTARD An I had but one penny in the world, thou shouldst\n" + " have it to buy gingerbread: hold, there is the very\n" + " remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny\n" + " purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an\n" + " the heavens were so pleased that thou wert but my\n" + " bastard, what a joyful father wouldst thou make me!\n" + " Go to; thou hast it ad dunghill, at the fingers'\n" + " ends, as they say.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES O, I smell false Latin; dunghill for unguem.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Arts-man, preambulate, we will be singled from the\n" + " barbarous. Do you not educate youth at the\n" + " charge-house on the top of the mountain?\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Or mons, the hill.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO At your sweet pleasure, for the mountain.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES I do, sans question.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sir, it is the king's most sweet pleasure and\n" + " affection to congratulate the princess at her\n" + " pavilion in the posteriors of this day, which the\n" + " rude multitude call the afternoon.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES The posterior of the day, most generous sir, is\n" + " liable, congruent and measurable for the afternoon:\n" + " the word is well culled, chose, sweet and apt, I do\n" + " assure you, sir, I do assure.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sir, the king is a noble gentleman, and my familiar,\n" + " I do assure ye, very good friend: for what is\n" + " inward between us, let it pass. I do beseech thee,\n" + " remember thy courtesy; I beseech thee, apparel thy\n" + " head: and among other important and most serious\n" + " designs, and of great import indeed, too, but let\n" + " that pass: for I must tell thee, it will please his\n" + " grace, by the world, sometime to lean upon my poor\n" + " shoulder, and with his royal finger, thus, dally\n" + " with my excrement, with my mustachio; but, sweet\n" + " heart, let that pass. By the world, I recount no\n" + " fable: some certain special honours it pleaseth his\n" + " greatness to impart to Armado, a soldier, a man of\n" + " travel, that hath seen the world; but let that pass.\n" + " The very all of all is,--but, sweet heart, I do\n" + " implore secrecy,--that the king would have me\n" + " present the princess, sweet chuck, with some\n" + " delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or\n" + " antique, or firework. Now, understanding that the\n" + " curate and your sweet self are good at such\n" + " eruptions and sudden breaking out of mirth, as it\n" + " were, I have acquainted you withal, to the end to\n" + " crave your assistance.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Sir, you shall present before her the Nine Worthies.\n" + " Sir, as concerning some entertainment of time, some\n" + " show in the posterior of this day, to be rendered by\n" + " our assistants, at the king's command, and this most\n" + " gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, before\n" + " the princess; I say none so fit as to present the\n" + " Nine Worthies.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL Where will you find men worthy enough to present them?\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Joshua, yourself; myself and this gallant gentleman,\n" + " Judas Maccabaeus; this swain, because of his great\n" + " limb or joint, shall pass Pompey the Great; the\n" + " page, Hercules,--\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Pardon, sir; error: he is not quantity enough for\n" + " that Worthy's thumb: he is not so big as the end of his club.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Shall I have audience? he shall present Hercules in\n" + " minority: his enter and exit shall be strangling a\n" + " snake; and I will have an apology for that purpose.\n\n" + "MOTH An excellent device! so, if any of the audience\n" + " hiss, you may cry 'Well done, Hercules! now thou\n" + " crushest the snake!' that is the way to make an\n" + " offence gracious, though few have the grace to do it.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO For the rest of the Worthies?--\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES I will play three myself.\n\n" + "MOTH Thrice-worthy gentleman!\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Shall I tell you a thing?\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES We attend.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO We will have, if this fadge not, an antique. I\n" + " beseech you, follow.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Via, goodman Dull! thou hast spoken no word all this while.\n\n" + "DULL Nor understood none neither, sir.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Allons! we will employ thee.\n\n" + "DULL I'll make one in a dance, or so; or I will play\n" + " On the tabour to the Worthies, and let them dance the hay.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Most dull, honest Dull! To our sport, away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " LOVE'S LABOURS LOST\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the PRINCESS, KATHARINE, ROSALINE, and MARIA]\n\n" + "PRINCESS Sweet hearts, we shall be rich ere we depart,\n" + " If fairings come thus plentifully in:\n" + " A lady wall'd about with diamonds!\n" + " Look you what I have from the loving king.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Madame, came nothing else along with that?\n\n" + "PRINCESS Nothing but this! yes, as much love in rhyme\n" + " As would be cramm'd up in a sheet of paper,\n" + " Writ o' both sides the leaf, margent and all,\n" + " That he was fain to seal on Cupid's name.\n\n" + "ROSALINE That was the way to make his godhead wax,\n" + " For he hath been five thousand years a boy.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Ay, and a shrewd unhappy gallows too.\n\n" + "ROSALINE You'll ne'er be friends with him; a' kill'd your sister.\n\n" + "KATHARINE He made her melancholy, sad, and heavy;\n" + " And so she died: had she been light, like you,\n" + " Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit,\n" + " She might ha' been a grandam ere she died:\n" + " And so may you; for a light heart lives long.\n\n" + "ROSALINE What's your dark meaning, mouse, of this light word?\n\n" + "KATHARINE A light condition in a beauty dark.\n\n" + "ROSALINE We need more light to find your meaning out.\n\n" + "KATHARINE You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff;\n" + " Therefore I'll darkly end the argument.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Look what you do, you do it still i' the dark.\n\n" + "KATHARINE So do not you, for you are a light wench.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light.\n\n" + "KATHARINE You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Great reason; for 'past cure is still past care.'\n\n" + "PRINCESS Well bandied both; a set of wit well play'd.\n" + " But Rosaline, you have a favour too:\n" + " Who sent it? and what is it?\n\n" + "ROSALINE I would you knew:\n" + " An if my face were but as fair as yours,\n" + " My favour were as great; be witness this.\n" + " Nay, I have verses too, I thank Biron:\n" + " The numbers true; and, were the numbering too,\n" + " I were the fairest goddess on the ground:\n" + " I am compared to twenty thousand fairs.\n" + " O, he hath drawn my picture in his letter!\n\n" + "PRINCESS Any thing like?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Much in the letters; nothing in the praise.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Beauteous as ink; a good conclusion.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Fair as a text B in a copy-book.\n\n" + "ROSALINE 'Ware pencils, ho! let me not die your debtor,\n" + " My red dominical, my golden letter:\n" + " O, that your face were not so full of O's!\n\n" + "KATHARINE A pox of that jest! and I beshrew all shrows.\n\n" + "PRINCESS But, Katharine, what was sent to you from fair Dumain?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Madam, this glove.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Did he not send you twain?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Yes, madam, and moreover\n" + " Some thousand verses of a faithful lover,\n" + " A huge translation of hypocrisy,\n" + " Vilely compiled, profound simplicity.\n\n" + "MARIA This and these pearls to me sent Longaville:\n" + " The letter is too long by half a mile.\n\n" + "PRINCESS I think no less. Dost thou not wish in heart\n" + " The chain were longer and the letter short?\n\n" + "MARIA Ay, or I would these hands might never part.\n\n" + "PRINCESS We are wise girls to mock our lovers so.\n\n" + "ROSALINE They are worse fools to purchase mocking so.\n" + " That same Biron I'll torture ere I go:\n" + " O that I knew he were but in by the week!\n" + " How I would make him fawn and beg and seek\n" + " And wait the season and observe the times\n" + " And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes\n" + " And shape his service wholly to my hests\n" + " And make him proud to make me proud that jests!\n" + " So perttaunt-like would I o'ersway his state\n" + " That he should be my fool and I his fate.\n\n" + "PRINCESS None are so surely caught, when they are catch'd,\n" + " As wit turn'd fool: folly, in wisdom hatch'd,\n" + " Hath wisdom's warrant and the help of school\n" + " And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool.\n\n" + "ROSALINE The blood of youth burns not with such excess\n" + " As gravity's revolt to wantonness.\n\n" + "MARIA Folly in fools bears not so strong a note\n" + " As foolery in the wise, when wit doth dote;\n" + " Since all the power thereof it doth apply\n" + " To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Here comes Boyet, and mirth is in his face.\n\n" + " [Enter BOYET]\n\n" + "BOYET O, I am stabb'd with laughter! Where's her grace?\n\n" + "PRINCESS Thy news Boyet?\n\n" + "BOYET Prepare, madam, prepare!\n" + " Arm, wenches, arm! encounters mounted are\n" + " Against your peace: Love doth approach disguised,\n" + " Armed in arguments; you'll be surprised:\n" + " Muster your wits; stand in your own defence;\n" + " Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Saint Denis to Saint Cupid! What are they\n" + " That charge their breath against us? say, scout, say.\n\n" + "BOYET Under the cool shade of a sycamore\n" + " I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour;\n" + " When, lo! to interrupt my purposed rest,\n" + " Toward that shade I might behold addrest\n" + " The king and his companions: warily\n" + " I stole into a neighbour thicket by,\n" + " And overheard what you shall overhear,\n" + " That, by and by, disguised they will be here.\n" + " Their herald is a pretty knavish page,\n" + " That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage:\n" + " Action and accent did they teach him there;\n" + " 'Thus must thou speak,' and 'thus thy body bear:'\n" + " And ever and anon they made a doubt\n" + " Presence majestical would put him out,\n" + " 'For,' quoth the king, 'an angel shalt thou see;\n" + " Yet fear not thou, but speak audaciously.'\n" + " The boy replied, 'An angel is not evil;\n" + " I should have fear'd her had she been a devil.'\n" + " With that, all laugh'd and clapp'd him on the shoulder,\n" + " Making the bold wag by their praises bolder:\n" + " One rubb'd his elbow thus, and fleer'd and swore\n" + " A better speech was never spoke before;\n" + " Another, with his finger and his thumb,\n" + " Cried, 'Via! we will do't, come what will come;'\n" + " The third he caper'd, and cried, 'All goes well;'\n" + " The fourth turn'd on the toe, and down he fell.\n" + " With that, they all did tumble on the ground,\n" + " With such a zealous laughter, so profound,\n" + " That in this spleen ridiculous appears,\n" + " To cheque their folly, passion's solemn tears.\n\n" + "PRINCESS But what, but what, come they to visit us?\n\n" + "BOYET They do, they do: and are apparell'd thus.\n" + " Like Muscovites or Russians, as I guess.\n" + " Their purpose is to parle, to court and dance;\n" + " And every one his love-feat will advance\n" + " Unto his several mistress, which they'll know\n" + " By favours several which they did bestow.\n\n" + "PRINCESS And will they so? the gallants shall be task'd;\n" + " For, ladies, we shall every one be mask'd;\n" + " And not a man of them shall have the grace,\n" + " Despite of suit, to see a lady's face.\n" + " Hold, Rosaline, this favour thou shalt wear,\n" + " And then the king will court thee for his dear;\n" + " Hold, take thou this, my sweet, and give me thine,\n" + " So shall Biron take me for Rosaline.\n" + " And change your favours too; so shall your loves\n" + " Woo contrary, deceived by these removes.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Come on, then; wear the favours most in sight.\n\n" + "KATHARINE But in this changing what is your intent?\n\n" + "PRINCESS The effect of my intent is to cross theirs:\n" + " They do it but in mocking merriment;\n" + " And mock for mock is only my intent.\n" + " Their several counsels they unbosom shall\n" + " To loves mistook, and so be mock'd withal\n" + " Upon the next occasion that we meet,\n" + " With visages displayed, to talk and greet.\n\n" + "ROSALINE But shall we dance, if they desire to't?\n\n" + "PRINCESS No, to the death, we will not move a foot;\n" + " Nor to their penn'd speech render we no grace,\n" + " But while 'tis spoke each turn away her face.\n\n" + "BOYET Why, that contempt will kill the speaker's heart,\n" + " And quite divorce his memory from his part.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Therefore I do it; and I make no doubt\n" + " The rest will ne'er come in, if he be out\n" + " There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,\n" + " To make theirs ours and ours none but our own:\n" + " So shall we stay, mocking intended game,\n" + " And they, well mock'd, depart away with shame.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound within]\n\n" + "BOYET The trumpet sounds: be mask'd; the maskers come.\n\n" + " [The Ladies mask]\n\n" + " [Enter Blackamoors with music; MOTH; FERDINAND,\n" + " BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in Russian habits,\n" + " and masked]\n\n" + "MOTH All hail, the richest beauties on the earth!--\n\n" + "BOYET Beauties no richer than rich taffeta.\n\n" + "MOTH A holy parcel of the fairest dames.\n\n" + " [The Ladies turn their backs to him]\n\n" + " That ever turn'd their--backs--to mortal views!\n\n" + "BIRON [Aside to MOTH] Their eyes, villain, their eyes!\n\n" + "MOTH That ever turn'd their eyes to mortal views!--Out--\n\n" + "BOYET True; out indeed.\n\n" + "MOTH Out of your favours, heavenly spirits, vouchsafe\n" + " Not to behold--\n\n" + "BIRON [Aside to MOTH] Once to behold, rogue.\n\n" + "MOTH Once to behold with your sun-beamed eyes,\n" + " --with your sun-beamed eyes--\n\n" + "BOYET They will not answer to that epithet;\n" + " You were best call it 'daughter-beamed eyes.'\n\n" + "MOTH They do not mark me, and that brings me out.\n\n" + "BIRON Is this your perfectness? be gone, you rogue!\n\n" + " [Exit MOTH]\n\n" + "ROSALINE What would these strangers? know their minds, Boyet:\n" + " If they do speak our language, 'tis our will:\n" + " That some plain man recount their purposes\n" + " Know what they would.\n\n" + "BOYET What would you with the princess?\n\n" + "BIRON Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.\n\n" + "ROSALINE What would they, say they?\n\n" + "BOYET Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Why, that they have; and bid them so be gone.\n\n" + "BOYET She says, you have it, and you may be gone.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Say to her, we have measured many miles\n" + " To tread a measure with her on this grass.\n\n" + "BOYET They say, that they have measured many a mile\n" + " To tread a measure with you on this grass.\n\n" + "ROSALINE It is not so. Ask them how many inches\n" + " Is in one mile: if they have measured many,\n" + " The measure then of one is easily told.\n\n" + "BOYET If to come hither you have measured miles,\n" + " And many miles, the princess bids you tell\n" + " How many inches doth fill up one mile.\n\n" + "BIRON Tell her, we measure them by weary steps.\n\n" + "BOYET She hears herself.\n\n" + "ROSALINE How many weary steps,\n" + " Of many weary miles you have o'ergone,\n" + " Are number'd in the travel of one mile?\n\n" + "BIRON We number nothing that we spend for you:\n" + " Our duty is so rich, so infinite,\n" + " That we may do it still without accompt.\n" + " Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your face,\n" + " That we, like savages, may worship it.\n\n" + "ROSALINE My face is but a moon, and clouded too.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Blessed are clouds, to do as such clouds do!\n" + " Vouchsafe, bright moon, and these thy stars, to shine,\n" + " Those clouds removed, upon our watery eyne.\n\n" + "ROSALINE O vain petitioner! beg a greater matter;\n" + " Thou now request'st but moonshine in the water.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Then, in our measure do but vouchsafe one change.\n" + " Thou bid'st me beg: this begging is not strange.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Play, music, then! Nay, you must do it soon.\n\n" + " [Music plays]\n\n" + " Not yet! no dance! Thus change I like the moon.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Will you not dance? How come you thus estranged?\n\n" + "ROSALINE You took the moon at full, but now she's changed.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Yet still she is the moon, and I the man.\n" + " The music plays; vouchsafe some motion to it.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Our ears vouchsafe it.\n\n" + "FERDINAND But your legs should do it.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Since you are strangers and come here by chance,\n" + " We'll not be nice: take hands. We will not dance.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Why take we hands, then?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Only to part friends:\n" + " Curtsy, sweet hearts; and so the measure ends.\n\n" + "FERDINAND More measure of this measure; be not nice.\n\n" + "ROSALINE We can afford no more at such a price.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Prize you yourselves: what buys your company?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Your absence only.\n\n" + "FERDINAND That can never be.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Then cannot we be bought: and so, adieu;\n" + " Twice to your visor, and half once to you.\n\n" + "FERDINAND If you deny to dance, let's hold more chat.\n\n" + "ROSALINE In private, then.\n\n" + "FERDINAND I am best pleased with that.\n\n" + " [They converse apart]\n\n" + "BIRON White-handed mistress, one sweet word with thee.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Honey, and milk, and sugar; there is three.\n\n" + "BIRON Nay then, two treys, and if you grow so nice,\n" + " Metheglin, wort, and malmsey: well run, dice!\n" + " There's half-a-dozen sweets.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Seventh sweet, adieu:\n" + " Since you can cog, I'll play no more with you.\n\n" + "BIRON One word in secret.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Let it not be sweet.\n\n" + "BIRON Thou grievest my gall.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Gall! bitter.\n\n" + "BIRON Therefore meet.\n\n" + " [They converse apart]\n\n" + "DUMAIN Will you vouchsafe with me to change a word?\n\n" + "MARIA Name it.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Fair lady,--\n\n" + "MARIA Say you so? Fair lord,--\n" + " Take that for your fair lady.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Please it you,\n" + " As much in private, and I'll bid adieu.\n\n" + " [They converse apart]\n\n" + "KATHARINE What, was your vizard made without a tongue?\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE I know the reason, lady, why you ask.\n\n" + "KATHARINE O for your reason! quickly, sir; I long.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE You have a double tongue within your mask,\n" + " And would afford my speechless vizard half.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Veal, quoth the Dutchman. Is not 'veal' a calf?\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE A calf, fair lady!\n\n" + "KATHARINE No, a fair lord calf.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Let's part the word.\n\n" + "KATHARINE No, I'll not be your half\n" + " Take all, and wean it; it may prove an ox.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Look, how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks!\n" + " Will you give horns, chaste lady? do not so.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Then die a calf, before your horns do grow.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE One word in private with you, ere I die.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Bleat softly then; the butcher hears you cry.\n\n" + " [They converse apart]\n\n" + "BOYET The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen\n" + " As is the razor's edge invisible,\n" + " Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen,\n" + " Above the sense of sense; so sensible\n" + " Seemeth their conference; their conceits have wings\n" + " Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Not one word more, my maids; break off, break off.\n\n" + "BIRON By heaven, all dry-beaten with pure scoff!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Farewell, mad wenches; you have simple wits.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Twenty adieus, my frozen Muscovits.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FERDINAND, Lords, and Blackamoors]\n\n" + " Are these the breed of wits so wonder'd at?\n\n" + "BOYET Tapers they are, with your sweet breaths puff'd out.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat.\n\n" + "PRINCESS O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!\n" + " Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?\n" + " Or ever, but in vizards, show their faces?\n" + " This pert Biron was out of countenance quite.\n\n" + "ROSALINE O, they were all in lamentable cases!\n" + " The king was weeping-ripe for a good word.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Biron did swear himself out of all suit.\n\n" + "MARIA Dumain was at my service, and his sword:\n" + " No point, quoth I; my servant straight was mute.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Lord Longaville said, I came o'er his heart;\n" + " And trow you what he called me?\n\n" + "PRINCESS Qualm, perhaps.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Yes, in good faith.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Go, sickness as thou art!\n\n" + "ROSALINE Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.\n" + " But will you hear? the king is my love sworn.\n\n" + "PRINCESS And quick Biron hath plighted faith to me.\n\n" + "KATHARINE And Longaville was for my service born.\n\n" + "MARIA Dumain is mine, as sure as bark on tree.\n\n" + "BOYET Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear:\n" + " Immediately they will again be here\n" + " In their own shapes; for it can never be\n" + " They will digest this harsh indignity.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Will they return?\n\n" + "BOYET They will, they will, God knows,\n" + " And leap for joy, though they are lame with blows:\n" + " Therefore change favours; and, when they repair,\n" + " Blow like sweet roses in this summer air.\n\n" + "PRINCESS How blow? how blow? speak to be understood.\n\n" + "BOYET Fair ladies mask'd are roses in their bud;\n" + " Dismask'd, their damask sweet commixture shown,\n" + " Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Avaunt, perplexity! What shall we do,\n" + " If they return in their own shapes to woo?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Good madam, if by me you'll be advised,\n" + " Let's, mock them still, as well known as disguised:\n" + " Let us complain to them what fools were here,\n" + " Disguised like Muscovites, in shapeless gear;\n" + " And wonder what they were and to what end\n" + " Their shallow shows and prologue vilely penn'd\n" + " And their rough carriage so ridiculous,\n" + " Should be presented at our tent to us.\n\n" + "BOYET Ladies, withdraw: the gallants are at hand.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Whip to our tents, as roes run o'er land.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PRINCESS, ROSALINE, KATHARINE, and MARIA]\n\n" + " [Re-enter FERDINAND, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN,\n" + " in their proper habits]\n\n" + "FERDINAND Fair sir, God save you! Where's the princess?\n\n" + "BOYET Gone to her tent. Please it your majesty\n" + " Command me any service to her thither?\n\n" + "FERDINAND That she vouchsafe me audience for one word.\n\n" + "BOYET I will; and so will she, I know, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BIRON This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons pease,\n" + " And utters it again when God doth please:\n" + " He is wit's pedler, and retails his wares\n" + " At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs;\n" + " And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know,\n" + " Have not the grace to grace it with such show.\n" + " This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve;\n" + " Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve;\n" + " A' can carve too, and lisp: why, this is he\n" + " That kiss'd his hand away in courtesy;\n" + " This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice,\n" + " That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice\n" + " In honourable terms: nay, he can sing\n" + " A mean most meanly; and in ushering\n" + " Mend him who can: the ladies call him sweet;\n" + " The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet:\n" + " This is the flower that smiles on every one,\n" + " To show his teeth as white as whale's bone;\n" + " And consciences, that will not die in debt,\n" + " Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet.\n\n" + "FERDINAND A blister on his sweet tongue, with my heart,\n" + " That put Armado's page out of his part!\n\n" + "BIRON See where it comes! Behavior, what wert thou\n" + " Till this madman show'd thee? and what art thou now?\n\n" + " [Re-enter the PRINCESS, ushered by BOYET, ROSALINE,\n" + " MARIA, and KATHARINE]\n\n" + "FERDINAND All hail, sweet madam, and fair time of day!\n\n" + "PRINCESS 'Fair' in 'all hail' is foul, as I conceive.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Construe my speeches better, if you may.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Then wish me better; I will give you leave.\n\n" + "FERDINAND We came to visit you, and purpose now\n" + " To lead you to our court; vouchsafe it then.\n\n" + "PRINCESS This field shall hold me; and so hold your vow:\n" + " Nor God, nor I, delights in perjured men.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Rebuke me not for that which you provoke:\n" + " The virtue of your eye must break my oath.\n\n" + "PRINCESS You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke;\n" + " For virtue's office never breaks men's troth.\n" + " Now by my maiden honour, yet as pure\n" + " As the unsullied lily, I protest,\n" + " A world of torments though I should endure,\n" + " I would not yield to be your house's guest;\n" + " So much I hate a breaking cause to be\n" + " Of heavenly oaths, vow'd with integrity.\n\n" + "FERDINAND O, you have lived in desolation here,\n" + " Unseen, unvisited, much to our shame.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Not so, my lord; it is not so, I swear;\n" + " We have had pastimes here and pleasant game:\n" + " A mess of Russians left us but of late.\n\n" + "FERDINAND How, madam! Russians!\n\n" + "PRINCESS Ay, in truth, my lord;\n" + " Trim gallants, full of courtship and of state.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Madam, speak true. It is not so, my lord:\n" + " My lady, to the manner of the days,\n" + " In courtesy gives undeserving praise.\n" + " We four indeed confronted were with four\n" + " In Russian habit: here they stay'd an hour,\n" + " And talk'd apace; and in that hour, my lord,\n" + " They did not bless us with one happy word.\n" + " I dare not call them fools; but this I think,\n" + " When they are thirsty, fools would fain have drink.\n\n" + "BIRON This jest is dry to me. Fair gentle sweet,\n" + " Your wit makes wise things foolish: when we greet,\n" + " With eyes best seeing, heaven's fiery eye,\n" + " By light we lose light: your capacity\n" + " Is of that nature that to your huge store\n" + " Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor.\n\n" + "ROSALINE This proves you wise and rich, for in my eye,--\n\n" + "BIRON I am a fool, and full of poverty.\n\n" + "ROSALINE But that you take what doth to you belong,\n" + " It were a fault to snatch words from my tongue.\n\n" + "BIRON O, I am yours, and all that I possess!\n\n" + "ROSALINE All the fool mine?\n\n" + "BIRON I cannot give you less.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Which of the vizards was it that you wore?\n\n" + "BIRON Where? when? what vizard? why demand you this?\n\n" + "ROSALINE There, then, that vizard; that superfluous case\n" + " That hid the worse and show'd the better face.\n\n" + "FERDINAND We are descried; they'll mock us now downright.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Let us confess and turn it to a jest.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Amazed, my lord? why looks your highness sad?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Help, hold his brows! he'll swoon! Why look you pale?\n" + " Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy.\n\n" + "BIRON Thus pour the stars down plagues for perjury.\n" + " Can any face of brass hold longer out?\n" + " Here stand I lady, dart thy skill at me;\n" + " Bruise me with scorn, confound me with a flout;\n" + " Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance;\n" + " Cut me to pieces with thy keen conceit;\n" + " And I will wish thee never more to dance,\n" + " Nor never more in Russian habit wait.\n" + " O, never will I trust to speeches penn'd,\n" + " Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue,\n" + " Nor never come in vizard to my friend,\n" + " Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song!\n" + " Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,\n" + " Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,\n" + " Figures pedantical; these summer-flies\n" + " Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:\n" + " I do forswear them; and I here protest,\n" + " By this white glove;--how white the hand, God knows!--\n" + " Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd\n" + " In russet yeas and honest kersey noes:\n" + " And, to begin, wench,--so God help me, la!--\n" + " My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Sans sans, I pray you.\n\n" + "BIRON Yet I have a trick\n" + " Of the old rage: bear with me, I am sick;\n" + " I'll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see:\n" + " Write, 'Lord have mercy on us' on those three;\n" + " They are infected; in their hearts it lies;\n" + " They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes;\n" + " These lords are visited; you are not free,\n" + " For the Lord's tokens on you do I see.\n\n" + "PRINCESS No, they are free that gave these tokens to us.\n\n" + "BIRON Our states are forfeit: seek not to undo us.\n\n" + "ROSALINE It is not so; for how can this be true,\n" + " That you stand forfeit, being those that sue?\n\n" + "BIRON Peace! for I will not have to do with you.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Nor shall not, if I do as I intend.\n\n" + "BIRON Speak for yourselves; my wit is at an end.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression\n" + " Some fair excuse.\n\n" + "PRINCESS The fairest is confession.\n" + " Were not you here but even now disguised?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Madam, I was.\n\n" + "PRINCESS And were you well advised?\n\n" + "FERDINAND I was, fair madam.\n\n" + "PRINCESS When you then were here,\n" + " What did you whisper in your lady's ear?\n\n" + "FERDINAND That more than all the world I did respect her.\n\n" + "PRINCESS When she shall challenge this, you will reject her.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Upon mine honour, no.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Peace, peace! forbear:\n" + " Your oath once broke, you force not to forswear.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Despise me, when I break this oath of mine.\n\n" + "PRINCESS I will: and therefore keep it. Rosaline,\n" + " What did the Russian whisper in your ear?\n\n" + "ROSALINE Madam, he swore that he did hold me dear\n" + " As precious eyesight, and did value me\n" + " Above this world; adding thereto moreover\n" + " That he would wed me, or else die my lover.\n\n" + "PRINCESS God give thee joy of him! the noble lord\n" + " Most honourably doth unhold his word.\n\n" + "FERDINAND What mean you, madam? by my life, my troth,\n" + " I never swore this lady such an oath.\n\n" + "ROSALINE By heaven, you did; and to confirm it plain,\n" + " You gave me this: but take it, sir, again.\n\n" + "FERDINAND My faith and this the princess I did give:\n" + " I knew her by this jewel on her sleeve.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Pardon me, sir, this jewel did she wear;\n" + " And Lord Biron, I thank him, is my dear.\n" + " What, will you have me, or your pearl again?\n\n" + "BIRON Neither of either; I remit both twain.\n" + " I see the trick on't: here was a consent,\n" + " Knowing aforehand of our merriment,\n" + " To dash it like a Christmas comedy:\n" + " Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany,\n" + " Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, some Dick,\n" + " That smiles his cheek in years and knows the trick\n" + " To make my lady laugh when she's disposed,\n" + " Told our intents before; which once disclosed,\n" + " The ladies did change favours: and then we,\n" + " Following the signs, woo'd but the sign of she.\n" + " Now, to our perjury to add more terror,\n" + " We are again forsworn, in will and error.\n" + " Much upon this it is: and might not you\n\n" + " [To BOYET]\n\n" + " Forestall our sport, to make us thus untrue?\n" + " Do not you know my lady's foot by the squier,\n" + " And laugh upon the apple of her eye?\n" + " And stand between her back, sir, and the fire,\n" + " Holding a trencher, jesting merrily?\n" + " You put our page out: go, you are allow'd;\n" + " Die when you will, a smock shall be your shroud.\n" + " You leer upon me, do you? there's an eye\n" + " Wounds like a leaden sword.\n\n" + "BOYET Full merrily\n" + " Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.\n\n" + "BIRON Lo, he is tilting straight! Peace! I have done.\n\n" + " [Enter COSTARD]\n\n" + " Welcome, pure wit! thou partest a fair fray.\n\n" + "COSTARD O Lord, sir, they would know\n" + " Whether the three Worthies shall come in or no.\n\n" + "BIRON What, are there but three?\n\n" + "COSTARD No, sir; but it is vara fine,\n" + " For every one pursents three.\n\n" + "BIRON And three times thrice is nine.\n\n" + "COSTARD Not so, sir; under correction, sir; I hope it is not so.\n" + " You cannot beg us, sir, I can assure you, sir we know\n" + " what we know:\n" + " I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,--\n\n" + "BIRON Is not nine.\n\n" + "COSTARD Under correction, sir, we know whereuntil it doth amount.\n\n" + "BIRON By Jove, I always took three threes for nine.\n\n" + "COSTARD O Lord, sir, it were pity you should get your living\n" + " by reckoning, sir.\n\n" + "BIRON How much is it?\n\n" + "COSTARD O Lord, sir, the parties themselves, the actors,\n" + " sir, will show whereuntil it doth amount: for mine\n" + " own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man\n" + " in one poor man, Pompion the Great, sir.\n\n" + "BIRON Art thou one of the Worthies?\n\n" + "COSTARD It pleased them to think me worthy of Pompion the\n" + " Great: for mine own part, I know not the degree of\n" + " the Worthy, but I am to stand for him.\n\n" + "BIRON Go, bid them prepare.\n\n" + "COSTARD We will turn it finely off, sir; we will take\n" + " some care.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FERDINAND Biron, they will shame us: let them not approach.\n\n" + "BIRON We are shame-proof, my lord: and tis some policy\n" + " To have one show worse than the king's and his company.\n\n" + "FERDINAND I say they shall not come.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Nay, my good lord, let me o'errule you now:\n" + " That sport best pleases that doth least know how:\n" + " Where zeal strives to content, and the contents\n" + " Dies in the zeal of that which it presents:\n" + " Their form confounded makes most form in mirth,\n" + " When great things labouring perish in their birth.\n\n" + "BIRON A right description of our sport, my lord.\n\n" + " [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy royal\n" + " sweet breath as will utter a brace of words.\n\n" + " [Converses apart with FERDINAND, and delivers him a paper]\n\n" + "PRINCESS Doth this man serve God?\n\n" + "BIRON Why ask you?\n\n" + "PRINCESS He speaks not like a man of God's making.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO That is all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch; for,\n" + " I protest, the schoolmaster is exceeding\n" + " fantastical; too, too vain, too too vain: but we\n" + " will put it, as they say, to fortuna de la guerra.\n" + " I wish you the peace of mind, most royal couplement!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FERDINAND Here is like to be a good presence of Worthies. He\n" + " presents Hector of Troy; the swain, Pompey the\n" + " Great; the parish curate, Alexander; Armado's page,\n" + " Hercules; the pedant, Judas Maccabaeus: And if\n" + " these four Worthies in their first show thrive,\n" + " These four will change habits, and present the other five.\n\n" + "BIRON There is five in the first show.\n\n" + "FERDINAND You are deceived; 'tis not so.\n\n" + "BIRON The pedant, the braggart, the hedge-priest, the fool\n" + " and the boy:--\n" + " Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again\n" + " Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.\n\n" + "FERDINAND The ship is under sail, and here she comes amain.\n\n" + " [Enter COSTARD, for Pompey]\n\n" + "COSTARD I Pompey am,--\n\n" + "BOYET You lie, you are not he.\n\n" + "COSTARD I Pompey am,--\n\n" + "BOYET With libbard's head on knee.\n\n" + "BIRON Well said, old mocker: I must needs be friends\n" + " with thee.\n\n" + "COSTARD I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big--\n\n" + "DUMAIN The Great.\n\n" + "COSTARD It is, 'Great,' sir:--\n" + " Pompey surnamed the Great;\n" + " That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make\n" + " my foe to sweat:\n" + " And travelling along this coast, I here am come by chance,\n" + " And lay my arms before the legs of this sweet lass of France,\n" + " If your ladyship would say, 'Thanks, Pompey,' I had done.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Great thanks, great Pompey.\n\n" + "COSTARD 'Tis not so much worth; but I hope I was perfect: I\n" + " made a little fault in 'Great.'\n\n" + "BIRON My hat to a halfpenny, Pompey proves the best Worthy.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR NATHANIEL, for Alexander]\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL When in the world I lived, I was the world's\n" + " commander;\n" + " By east, west, north, and south, I spread my\n" + " conquering might:\n" + " My scutcheon plain declares that I am Alisander,--\n\n" + "BOYET Your nose says, no, you are not for it stands too right.\n\n" + "BIRON Your nose smells 'no' in this, most tender-smelling knight.\n\n" + "PRINCESS The conqueror is dismay'd. Proceed, good Alexander.\n\n" + "SIR NATHANIEL When in the world I lived, I was the world's\n" + " commander,--\n\n" + "BOYET Most true, 'tis right; you were so, Alisander.\n\n" + "BIRON Pompey the Great,--\n\n" + "COSTARD Your servant, and Costard.\n\n" + "BIRON Take away the conqueror, take away Alisander.\n\n" + "COSTARD [To SIR NATHANIEL] O, sir, you have overthrown\n" + " Alisander the conqueror! You will be scraped out of\n" + " the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds\n" + " his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given\n" + " to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. A conqueror,\n" + " and afeard to speak! run away for shame, Alisander.\n\n" + " [SIR NATHANIEL retires]\n\n" + " There, an't shall please you; a foolish mild man; an\n" + " honest man, look you, and soon dashed. He is a\n" + " marvellous good neighbour, faith, and a very good\n" + " bowler: but, for Alisander,--alas, you see how\n" + " 'tis,--a little o'erparted. But there are Worthies\n" + " a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.\n\n" + " [Enter HOLOFERNES, for Judas; and MOTH, for Hercules]\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Great Hercules is presented by this imp,\n" + " Whose club kill'd Cerberus, that three-headed canis;\n" + " And when he was a babe, a child, a shrimp,\n" + " Thus did he strangle serpents in his manus.\n" + " Quoniam he seemeth in minority,\n" + " Ergo I come with this apology.\n" + " Keep some state in thy exit, and vanish.\n\n" + " [MOTH retires]\n\n" + " Judas I am,--\n\n" + "DUMAIN A Judas!\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Not Iscariot, sir.\n" + " Judas I am, ycliped Maccabaeus.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Judas Maccabaeus clipt is plain Judas.\n\n" + "BIRON A kissing traitor. How art thou proved Judas?\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Judas I am,--\n\n" + "DUMAIN The more shame for you, Judas.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES What mean you, sir?\n\n" + "BOYET To make Judas hang himself.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES Begin, sir; you are my elder.\n\n" + "BIRON Well followed: Judas was hanged on an elder.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES I will not be put out of countenance.\n\n" + "BIRON Because thou hast no face.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES What is this?\n\n" + "BOYET A cittern-head.\n\n" + "DUMAIN The head of a bodkin.\n\n" + "BIRON A Death's face in a ring.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE The face of an old Roman coin, scarce seen.\n\n" + "BOYET The pommel of Caesar's falchion.\n\n" + "DUMAIN The carved-bone face on a flask.\n\n" + "BIRON Saint George's half-cheek in a brooch.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Ay, and in a brooch of lead.\n\n" + "BIRON Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer.\n" + " And now forward; for we have put thee in countenance.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES You have put me out of countenance.\n\n" + "BIRON False; we have given thee faces.\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES But you have out-faced them all.\n\n" + "BIRON An thou wert a lion, we would do so.\n\n" + "BOYET Therefore, as he is an ass, let him go.\n" + " And so adieu, sweet Jude! nay, why dost thou stay?\n\n" + "DUMAIN For the latter end of his name.\n\n" + "BIRON For the ass to the Jude; give it him:--Jud-as, away!\n\n" + "HOLOFERNES This is not generous, not gentle, not humble.\n\n" + "BOYET A light for Monsieur Judas! it grows dark, he may stumble.\n\n" + " [HOLOFERNES retires]\n\n" + "PRINCESS Alas, poor Maccabaeus, how hath he been baited!\n\n" + " [Enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO, for Hector]\n\n" + "BIRON Hide thy head, Achilles: here comes Hector in arms.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Though my mocks come home by me, I will now be merry.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Hector was but a Troyan in respect of this.\n\n" + "BOYET But is this Hector?\n\n" + "FERDINAND I think Hector was not so clean-timbered.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE His leg is too big for Hector's.\n\n" + "DUMAIN More calf, certain.\n\n" + "BOYET No; he is best endued in the small.\n\n" + "BIRON This cannot be Hector.\n\n" + "DUMAIN He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty,\n" + " Gave Hector a gift,--\n\n" + "DUMAIN A gilt nutmeg.\n\n" + "BIRON A lemon.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE Stuck with cloves.\n\n" + "DUMAIN No, cloven.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Peace!--\n" + " The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty\n" + " Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;\n" + " A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea\n" + " From morn till night, out of his pavilion.\n" + " I am that flower,--\n\n" + "DUMAIN That mint.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE That columbine.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sweet Lord Longaville, rein thy tongue.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE I must rather give it the rein, for it runs against Hector.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Ay, and Hector's a greyhound.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO The sweet war-man is dead and rotten; sweet chucks,\n" + " beat not the bones of the buried: when he breathed,\n" + " he was a man. But I will forward with my device.\n\n" + " [To the PRINCESS]\n\n" + " Sweet royalty, bestow on me the sense of hearing.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Speak, brave Hector: we are much delighted.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I do adore thy sweet grace's slipper.\n\n" + "BOYET [Aside to DUMAIN] Loves her by the foot,--\n\n" + "DUMAIN [Aside to BOYET] He may not by the yard.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO This Hector far surmounted Hannibal,--\n\n" + "COSTARD The party is gone, fellow Hector, she is gone; she\n" + " is two months on her way.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO What meanest thou?\n\n" + "COSTARD Faith, unless you play the honest Troyan, the poor\n" + " wench is cast away: she's quick; the child brags in\n" + " her belly already: tis yours.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Dost thou infamonize me among potentates? thou shalt\n" + " die.\n\n" + "COSTARD Then shall Hector be whipped for Jaquenetta that is\n" + " quick by him and hanged for Pompey that is dead by\n" + " him.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Most rare Pompey!\n\n" + "BOYET Renowned Pompey!\n\n" + "BIRON Greater than great, great, great, great Pompey!\n" + " Pompey the Huge!\n\n" + "DUMAIN Hector trembles.\n\n" + "BIRON Pompey is moved. More Ates, more Ates! stir them\n" + " on! stir them on!\n\n" + "DUMAIN Hector will challenge him.\n\n" + "BIRON Ay, if a' have no man's blood in's belly than will\n" + " sup a flea.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO By the north pole, I do challenge thee.\n\n" + "COSTARD I will not fight with a pole, like a northern man:\n" + " I'll slash; I'll do it by the sword. I bepray you,\n" + " let me borrow my arms again.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Room for the incensed Worthies!\n\n" + "COSTARD I'll do it in my shirt.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Most resolute Pompey!\n\n" + "MOTH Master, let me take you a buttonhole lower. Do you\n" + " not see Pompey is uncasing for the combat? What mean\n" + " you? You will lose your reputation.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Gentlemen and soldiers, pardon me; I will not combat\n" + " in my shirt.\n\n" + "DUMAIN You may not deny it: Pompey hath made the challenge.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sweet bloods, I both may and will.\n\n" + "BIRON What reason have you for't?\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt; I go\n" + " woolward for penance.\n\n" + "BOYET True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of\n" + " linen: since when, I'll be sworn, he wore none but\n" + " a dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that a' wears next\n" + " his heart for a favour.\n\n" + " [Enter MERCADE]\n\n" + "MERCADE God save you, madam!\n\n" + "PRINCESS Welcome, Mercade;\n" + " But that thou interrupt'st our merriment.\n\n" + "MERCADE I am sorry, madam; for the news I bring\n" + " Is heavy in my tongue. The king your father--\n\n" + "PRINCESS Dead, for my life!\n\n" + "MERCADE Even so; my tale is told.\n\n" + "BIRON Worthies, away! the scene begins to cloud.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO For mine own part, I breathe free breath. I have\n" + " seen the day of wrong through the little hole of\n" + " discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Worthies]\n\n" + "FERDINAND How fares your majesty?\n\n" + "PRINCESS Boyet, prepare; I will away tonight.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Madam, not so; I do beseech you, stay.\n\n" + "PRINCESS Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords,\n" + " For all your fair endeavors; and entreat,\n" + " Out of a new-sad soul, that you vouchsafe\n" + " In your rich wisdom to excuse or hide\n" + " The liberal opposition of our spirits,\n" + " If over-boldly we have borne ourselves\n" + " In the converse of breath: your gentleness\n" + " Was guilty of it. Farewell worthy lord!\n" + " A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue:\n" + " Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks\n" + " For my great suit so easily obtain'd.\n\n" + "FERDINAND The extreme parts of time extremely forms\n" + " All causes to the purpose of his speed,\n" + " And often at his very loose decides\n" + " That which long process could not arbitrate:\n" + " And though the mourning brow of progeny\n" + " Forbid the smiling courtesy of love\n" + " The holy suit which fain it would convince,\n" + " Yet, since love's argument was first on foot,\n" + " Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it\n" + " From what it purposed; since, to wail friends lost\n" + " Is not by much so wholesome-profitable\n" + " As to rejoice at friends but newly found.\n\n" + "PRINCESS I understand you not: my griefs are double.\n\n" + "BIRON Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief;\n" + " And by these badges understand the king.\n" + " For your fair sakes have we neglected time,\n" + " Play'd foul play with our oaths: your beauty, ladies,\n" + " Hath much deform'd us, fashioning our humours\n" + " Even to the opposed end of our intents:\n" + " And what in us hath seem'd ridiculous,--\n" + " As love is full of unbefitting strains,\n" + " All wanton as a child, skipping and vain,\n" + " Form'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,\n" + " Full of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,\n" + " Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll\n" + " To every varied object in his glance:\n" + " Which parti-coated presence of loose love\n" + " Put on by us, if, in your heavenly eyes,\n" + " Have misbecomed our oaths and gravities,\n" + " Those heavenly eyes, that look into these faults,\n" + " Suggested us to make. Therefore, ladies,\n" + " Our love being yours, the error that love makes\n" + " Is likewise yours: we to ourselves prove false,\n" + " By being once false for ever to be true\n" + " To those that make us both,--fair ladies, you:\n" + " And even that falsehood, in itself a sin,\n" + " Thus purifies itself and turns to grace.\n\n" + "PRINCESS We have received your letters full of love;\n" + " Your favours, the ambassadors of love;\n" + " And, in our maiden council, rated them\n" + " At courtship, pleasant jest and courtesy,\n" + " As bombast and as lining to the time:\n" + " But more devout than this in our respects\n" + " Have we not been; and therefore met your loves\n" + " In their own fashion, like a merriment.\n\n" + "DUMAIN Our letters, madam, show'd much more than jest.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE So did our looks.\n\n" + "ROSALINE We did not quote them so.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Now, at the latest minute of the hour,\n" + " Grant us your loves.\n\n" + "PRINCESS A time, methinks, too short\n" + " To make a world-without-end bargain in.\n" + " No, no, my lord, your grace is perjured much,\n" + " Full of dear guiltiness; and therefore this:\n" + " If for my love, as there is no such cause,\n" + " You will do aught, this shall you do for me:\n" + " Your oath I will not trust; but go with speed\n" + " To some forlorn and naked hermitage,\n" + " Remote from all the pleasures of the world;\n" + " There stay until the twelve celestial signs\n" + " Have brought about the annual reckoning.\n" + " If this austere insociable life\n" + " Change not your offer made in heat of blood;\n" + " If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds\n" + " Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love,\n" + " But that it bear this trial and last love;\n" + " Then, at the expiration of the year,\n" + " Come challenge me, challenge me by these deserts,\n" + " And, by this virgin palm now kissing thine\n" + " I will be thine; and till that instant shut\n" + " My woeful self up in a mourning house,\n" + " Raining the tears of lamentation\n" + " For the remembrance of my father's death.\n" + " If this thou do deny, let our hands part,\n" + " Neither entitled in the other's heart.\n\n" + "FERDINAND If this, or more than this, I would deny,\n" + " To flatter up these powers of mine with rest,\n" + " The sudden hand of death close up mine eye!\n" + " Hence ever then my heart is in thy breast.\n\n" + "BIRON [And what to me, my love? and what to me?\n\n" + "ROSALINE You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd,\n" + " You are attaint with faults and perjury:\n" + " Therefore if you my favour mean to get,\n" + " A twelvemonth shall you spend, and never rest,\n" + " But seek the weary beds of people sick]\n\n" + "DUMAIN But what to me, my love? but what to me? A wife?\n\n" + "KATHARINE A beard, fair health, and honesty;\n" + " With three-fold love I wish you all these three.\n\n" + "DUMAIN O, shall I say, I thank you, gentle wife?\n\n" + "KATHARINE Not so, my lord; a twelvemonth and a day\n" + " I'll mark no words that smooth-faced wooers say:\n" + " Come when the king doth to my lady come;\n" + " Then, if I have much love, I'll give you some.\n\n" + "DUMAIN I'll serve thee true and faithfully till then.\n\n" + "KATHARINE Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE What says Maria?\n\n" + "MARIA At the twelvemonth's end\n" + " I'll change my black gown for a faithful friend.\n\n" + "LONGAVILLE I'll stay with patience; but the time is long.\n\n" + "MARIA The liker you; few taller are so young.\n\n" + "BIRON Studies my lady? mistress, look on me;\n" + " Behold the window of my heart, mine eye,\n" + " What humble suit attends thy answer there:\n" + " Impose some service on me for thy love.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Oft have I heard of you, my Lord Biron,\n" + " Before I saw you; and the world's large tongue\n" + " Proclaims you for a man replete with mocks,\n" + " Full of comparisons and wounding flouts,\n" + " Which you on all estates will execute\n" + " That lie within the mercy of your wit.\n" + " To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain,\n" + " And therewithal to win me, if you please,\n" + " Without the which I am not to be won,\n" + " You shall this twelvemonth term from day to day\n" + " Visit the speechless sick and still converse\n" + " With groaning wretches; and your task shall be,\n" + " With all the fierce endeavor of your wit\n" + " To enforce the pained impotent to smile.\n\n" + "BIRON To move wild laughter in the throat of death?\n" + " It cannot be; it is impossible:\n" + " Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.\n\n" + "ROSALINE Why, that's the way to choke a gibing spirit,\n" + " Whose influence is begot of that loose grace\n" + " Which shallow laughing hearers give to fools:\n" + " A jest's prosperity lies in the ear\n" + " Of him that hears it, never in the tongue\n" + " Of him that makes it: then, if sickly ears,\n" + " Deaf'd with the clamours of their own dear groans,\n" + " Will hear your idle scorns, continue then,\n" + " And I will have you and that fault withal;\n" + " But if they will not, throw away that spirit,\n" + " And I shall find you empty of that fault,\n" + " Right joyful of your reformation.\n\n" + "BIRON A twelvemonth! well; befall what will befall,\n" + " I'll jest a twelvemonth in an hospital.\n\n" + "PRINCESS [To FERDINAND] Ay, sweet my lord; and so I take my leave.\n\n" + "FERDINAND No, madam; we will bring you on your way.\n\n" + "BIRON Our wooing doth not end like an old play;\n" + " Jack hath not Jill: these ladies' courtesy\n" + " Might well have made our sport a comedy.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day,\n" + " And then 'twill end.\n\n" + "BIRON That's too long for a play.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DON ADRIANO DE ARMADO]\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Sweet majesty, vouchsafe me,--\n\n" + "PRINCESS Was not that Hector?\n\n" + "DUMAIN The worthy knight of Troy.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO I will kiss thy royal finger, and take leave. I am\n" + " a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the\n" + " plough for her sweet love three years. But, most\n" + " esteemed greatness, will you hear the dialogue that\n" + " the two learned men have compiled in praise of the\n" + " owl and the cuckoo? It should have followed in the\n" + " end of our show.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Call them forth quickly; we will do so.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO Holla! approach.\n\n" + " [Re-enter HOLOFERNES, SIR NATHANIEL, MOTH, COSTARD,\n" + " and others]\n\n" + " This side is Hiems, Winter, this Ver, the Spring;\n" + " the one maintained by the owl, the other by the\n" + " cuckoo. Ver, begin.\n\n" + " [THE SONG]\n" + " \n" + " SPRING.\n" + " When daisies pied and violets blue\n" + " And lady-smocks all silver-white\n" + " And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue\n" + " Do paint the meadows with delight,\n" + " The cuckoo then, on every tree,\n" + " Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;\n" + " Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,\n" + " Unpleasing to a married ear!\n\n" + " When shepherds pipe on oaten straws\n" + " And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,\n" + " When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,\n" + " And maidens bleach their summer smocks\n" + " The cuckoo then, on every tree,\n" + " Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;\n" + " Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear,\n" + " Unpleasing to a married ear!\n" + " \n" + " WINTER.\n" + " When icicles hang by the wall\n" + " And Dick the shepherd blows his nail\n" + " And Tom bears logs into the hall\n" + " And milk comes frozen home in pail,\n" + " When blood is nipp'd and ways be foul,\n" + " Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit;\n" + " Tu-who, a merry note,\n" + " While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.\n\n" + " When all aloud the wind doth blow\n" + " And coughing drowns the parson's saw\n" + " And birds sit brooding in the snow\n" + " And Marian's nose looks red and raw,\n" + " When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,\n" + " Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit;\n" + " Tu-who, a merry note,\n" + " While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.\n\n" + "DON\n" + "ADRIANO DE ARMADO The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of\n" + " Apollo. You that way: we this way.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "DUNCAN king of Scotland.\n\n\n" + "MALCOLM |\n" + " | his sons.\n" + "DONALBAIN |\n\n\n" + "MACBETH |\n" + " | generals of the king's army.\n" + "BANQUO |\n\n\n" + "MACDUFF |\n" + " |\n" + "LENNOX |\n" + " |\n" + "ROSS |\n" + " | noblemen of Scotland.\n" + "MENTEITH |\n" + " |\n" + "ANGUS |\n" + " |\n" + "CAITHNESS |\n\n\n" + "FLEANCE son to Banquo.\n\n" + "SIWARD Earl of Northumberland, general of the English forces.\n\n" + "YOUNG SIWARD his son.\n\n" + "SEYTON an officer attending on Macbeth.\n\n" + " Boy, son to Macduff. (Son:)\n\n" + " An English Doctor. (Doctor:)\n\n" + " A Scotch Doctor. (Doctor:)\n\n" + " A Soldier.\n" + " A Porter.\n\n" + " An Old Man\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH:\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF:\n\n" + " Gentlewoman attending on Lady Macbeth. (Gentlewoman:)\n\n" + "HECATE:\n\n" + " Three Witches.\n" + " (First Witch:)\n" + " (Second Witch:)\n" + " (Third Witch:)\n\n" + " Apparitions.\n" + " (First Apparition:)\n" + " (Second Apparition:)\n" + " (Third Apparition:)\n\n" + " Lords, Gentlemen, Officers, Soldiers, Murderers,\n" + " Attendants, and Messengers. (Lord:)\n" + " (Sergeant:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (First Murderer:)\n" + " (Second Murderer:)\n" + " (Third Murderer:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n" + "SCENE Scotland: England.\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A desert place.\n\n\n" + " [Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches]\n\n" + "First Witch When shall we three meet again\n" + " In thunder, lightning, or in rain?\n\n" + "Second Witch When the hurlyburly's done,\n" + " When the battle's lost and won.\n\n" + "Third Witch That will be ere the set of sun.\n\n" + "First Witch Where the place?\n\n" + "Second Witch Upon the heath.\n\n" + "Third Witch There to meet with Macbeth.\n\n" + "First Witch I come, Graymalkin!\n\n" + "Second Witch Paddock calls.\n\n" + "Third Witch Anon.\n\n" + "ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair:\n" + " Hover through the fog and filthy air.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A camp near Forres.\n\n\n" + " [Alarum within. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN,\n" + " LENNOX, with Attendants, meeting a bleeding Sergeant]\n\n" + "DUNCAN What bloody man is that? He can report,\n" + " As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt\n" + " The newest state.\n\n" + "MALCOLM This is the sergeant\n" + " Who like a good and hardy soldier fought\n" + " 'Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend!\n" + " Say to the king the knowledge of the broil\n" + " As thou didst leave it.\n\n" + "Sergeant Doubtful it stood;\n" + " As two spent swimmers, that do cling together\n" + " And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald--\n" + " Worthy to be a rebel, for to that\n" + " The multiplying villanies of nature\n" + " Do swarm upon him--from the western isles\n" + " Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied;\n" + " And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling,\n" + " Show'd like a rebel's whore: but all's too weak:\n" + " For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name--\n" + " Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel,\n" + " Which smoked with bloody execution,\n" + " Like valour's minion carved out his passage\n" + " Till he faced the slave;\n" + " Which ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him,\n" + " Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,\n" + " And fix'd his head upon our battlements.\n\n" + "DUNCAN O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!\n\n" + "Sergeant As whence the sun 'gins his reflection\n" + " Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break,\n" + " So from that spring whence comfort seem'd to come\n" + " Discomfort swells. Mark, king of Scotland, mark:\n" + " No sooner justice had with valour arm'd\n" + " Compell'd these skipping kerns to trust their heels,\n" + " But the Norweyan lord surveying vantage,\n" + " With furbish'd arms and new supplies of men\n" + " Began a fresh assault.\n\n" + "DUNCAN Dismay'd not this\n" + " Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo?\n\n" + "Sergeant Yes;\n" + " As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.\n" + " If I say sooth, I must report they were\n" + " As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they\n" + " Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe:\n" + " Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds,\n" + " Or memorise another Golgotha,\n" + " I cannot tell.\n" + " But I am faint, my gashes cry for help.\n\n" + "DUNCAN So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;\n" + " They smack of honour both. Go get him surgeons.\n\n" + " [Exit Sergeant, attended]\n\n" + " Who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter ROSS]\n\n" + "MALCOLM The worthy thane of Ross.\n\n" + "LENNOX What a haste looks through his eyes! So should he look\n" + " That seems to speak things strange.\n\n" + "ROSS God save the king!\n\n" + "DUNCAN Whence camest thou, worthy thane?\n\n" + "ROSS From Fife, great king;\n" + " Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky\n" + " And fan our people cold. Norway himself,\n" + " With terrible numbers,\n" + " Assisted by that most disloyal traitor\n" + " The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;\n" + " Till that Bellona's bridegroom, lapp'd in proof,\n" + " Confronted him with self-comparisons,\n" + " Point against point rebellious, arm 'gainst arm.\n" + " Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude,\n" + " The victory fell on us.\n\n" + "DUNCAN Great happiness!\n\n" + "ROSS That now\n" + " Sweno, the Norways' king, craves composition:\n" + " Nor would we deign him burial of his men\n" + " Till he disbursed at Saint Colme's inch\n" + " Ten thousand dollars to our general use.\n\n" + "DUNCAN No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive\n" + " Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death,\n" + " And with his former title greet Macbeth.\n\n" + "ROSS I'll see it done.\n\n" + "DUNCAN What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A heath near Forres.\n\n\n" + " [Thunder. Enter the three Witches]\n\n" + "First Witch Where hast thou been, sister?\n\n" + "Second Witch Killing swine.\n\n" + "Third Witch Sister, where thou?\n\n" + "First Witch A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap,\n" + " And munch'd, and munch'd, and munch'd:--\n" + " 'Give me,' quoth I:\n" + " 'Aroint thee, witch!' the rump-fed ronyon cries.\n" + " Her husband's to Aleppo gone, master o' the Tiger:\n" + " But in a sieve I'll thither sail,\n" + " And, like a rat without a tail,\n" + " I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.\n\n" + "Second Witch I'll give thee a wind.\n\n" + "First Witch Thou'rt kind.\n\n" + "Third Witch And I another.\n\n" + "First Witch I myself have all the other,\n" + " And the very ports they blow,\n" + " All the quarters that they know\n" + " I' the shipman's card.\n" + " I will drain him dry as hay:\n" + " Sleep shall neither night nor day\n" + " Hang upon his pent-house lid;\n" + " He shall live a man forbid:\n" + " Weary se'nnights nine times nine\n" + " Shall he dwindle, peak and pine:\n" + " Though his bark cannot be lost,\n" + " Yet it shall be tempest-tost.\n" + " Look what I have.\n\n" + "Second Witch Show me, show me.\n\n" + "First Witch Here I have a pilot's thumb,\n" + " Wreck'd as homeward he did come.\n\n" + " [Drum within]\n\n" + "Third Witch A drum, a drum!\n" + " Macbeth doth come.\n\n" + "ALL The weird sisters, hand in hand,\n" + " Posters of the sea and land,\n" + " Thus do go about, about:\n" + " Thrice to thine and thrice to mine\n" + " And thrice again, to make up nine.\n" + " Peace! the charm's wound up.\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH and BANQUO]\n\n" + "MACBETH So foul and fair a day I have not seen.\n\n" + "BANQUO How far is't call'd to Forres? What are these\n" + " So wither'd and so wild in their attire,\n" + " That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth,\n" + " And yet are on't? Live you? or are you aught\n" + " That man may question? You seem to understand me,\n" + " By each at once her chappy finger laying\n" + " Upon her skinny lips: you should be women,\n" + " And yet your beards forbid me to interpret\n" + " That you are so.\n\n" + "MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you?\n\n" + "First Witch All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!\n\n" + "Second Witch All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!\n\n" + "Third Witch All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!\n\n" + "BANQUO Good sir, why do you start; and seem to fear\n" + " Things that do sound so fair? I' the name of truth,\n" + " Are ye fantastical, or that indeed\n" + " Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner\n" + " You greet with present grace and great prediction\n" + " Of noble having and of royal hope,\n" + " That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not.\n" + " If you can look into the seeds of time,\n" + " And say which grain will grow and which will not,\n" + " Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear\n" + " Your favours nor your hate.\n\n" + "First Witch Hail!\n\n" + "Second Witch Hail!\n\n" + "Third Witch Hail!\n\n" + "First Witch Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.\n\n" + "Second Witch Not so happy, yet much happier.\n\n" + "Third Witch Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:\n" + " So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!\n\n" + "First Witch Banquo and Macbeth, all hail!\n\n" + "MACBETH Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more:\n" + " By Sinel's death I know I am thane of Glamis;\n" + " But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives,\n" + " A prosperous gentleman; and to be king\n" + " Stands not within the prospect of belief,\n" + " No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence\n" + " You owe this strange intelligence? or why\n" + " Upon this blasted heath you stop our way\n" + " With such prophetic greeting? Speak, I charge you.\n\n" + " [Witches vanish]\n\n" + "BANQUO The earth hath bubbles, as the water has,\n" + " And these are of them. Whither are they vanish'd?\n\n" + "MACBETH Into the air; and what seem'd corporal melted\n" + " As breath into the wind. Would they had stay'd!\n\n" + "BANQUO Were such things here as we do speak about?\n" + " Or have we eaten on the insane root\n" + " That takes the reason prisoner?\n\n" + "MACBETH Your children shall be kings.\n\n" + "BANQUO You shall be king.\n\n" + "MACBETH And thane of Cawdor too: went it not so?\n\n" + "BANQUO To the selfsame tune and words. Who's here?\n\n" + " [Enter ROSS and ANGUS]\n\n" + "ROSS The king hath happily received, Macbeth,\n" + " The news of thy success; and when he reads\n" + " Thy personal venture in the rebels' fight,\n" + " His wonders and his praises do contend\n" + " Which should be thine or his: silenced with that,\n" + " In viewing o'er the rest o' the selfsame day,\n" + " He finds thee in the stout Norweyan ranks,\n" + " Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,\n" + " Strange images of death. As thick as hail\n" + " Came post with post; and every one did bear\n" + " Thy praises in his kingdom's great defence,\n" + " And pour'd them down before him.\n\n" + "ANGUS We are sent\n" + " To give thee from our royal master thanks;\n" + " Only to herald thee into his sight,\n" + " Not pay thee.\n\n" + "ROSS And, for an earnest of a greater honour,\n" + " He bade me, from him, call thee thane of Cawdor:\n" + " In which addition, hail, most worthy thane!\n" + " For it is thine.\n\n" + "BANQUO What, can the devil speak true?\n\n" + "MACBETH The thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me\n" + " In borrow'd robes?\n\n" + "ANGUS Who was the thane lives yet;\n" + " But under heavy judgment bears that life\n" + " Which he deserves to lose. Whether he was combined\n" + " With those of Norway, or did line the rebel\n" + " With hidden help and vantage, or that with both\n" + " He labour'd in his country's wreck, I know not;\n" + " But treasons capital, confess'd and proved,\n" + " Have overthrown him.\n\n" + "MACBETH [Aside] Glamis, and thane of Cawdor!\n" + " The greatest is behind.\n\n" + " [To ROSS and ANGUS]\n\n" + " Thanks for your pains.\n\n" + " [To BANQUO]\n\n" + " Do you not hope your children shall be kings,\n" + " When those that gave the thane of Cawdor to me\n" + " Promised no less to them?\n\n" + "BANQUO That trusted home\n" + " Might yet enkindle you unto the crown,\n" + " Besides the thane of Cawdor. But 'tis strange:\n" + " And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,\n" + " The instruments of darkness tell us truths,\n" + " Win us with honest trifles, to betray's\n" + " In deepest consequence.\n" + " Cousins, a word, I pray you.\n\n" + "MACBETH [Aside] Two truths are told,\n" + " As happy prologues to the swelling act\n" + " Of the imperial theme.--I thank you, gentlemen.\n\n" + " [Aside] This supernatural soliciting\n" + " Cannot be ill, cannot be good: if ill,\n" + " Why hath it given me earnest of success,\n" + " Commencing in a truth? I am thane of Cawdor:\n" + " If good, why do I yield to that suggestion\n" + " Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair\n" + " And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,\n" + " Against the use of nature? Present fears\n" + " Are less than horrible imaginings:\n" + " My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,\n" + " Shakes so my single state of man that function\n" + " Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is\n" + " But what is not.\n\n" + "BANQUO Look, how our partner's rapt.\n\n" + "MACBETH [Aside] If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,\n" + " Without my stir.\n\n" + "BANQUO New horrors come upon him,\n" + " Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould\n" + " But with the aid of use.\n\n" + "MACBETH [Aside] Come what come may,\n" + " Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.\n\n" + "BANQUO Worthy Macbeth, we stay upon your leisure.\n\n" + "MACBETH Give me your favour: my dull brain was wrought\n" + " With things forgotten. Kind gentlemen, your pains\n" + " Are register'd where every day I turn\n" + " The leaf to read them. Let us toward the king.\n" + " Think upon what hath chanced, and, at more time,\n" + " The interim having weigh'd it, let us speak\n" + " Our free hearts each to other.\n\n" + "BANQUO Very gladly.\n\n" + "MACBETH Till then, enough. Come, friends.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Forres. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX,\n" + " and Attendants]\n\n" + "DUNCAN Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not\n" + " Those in commission yet return'd?\n\n" + "MALCOLM My liege,\n" + " They are not yet come back. But I have spoke\n" + " With one that saw him die: who did report\n" + " That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,\n" + " Implored your highness' pardon and set forth\n" + " A deep repentance: nothing in his life\n" + " Became him like the leaving it; he died\n" + " As one that had been studied in his death\n" + " To throw away the dearest thing he owed,\n" + " As 'twere a careless trifle.\n\n" + "DUNCAN There's no art\n" + " To find the mind's construction in the face:\n" + " He was a gentleman on whom I built\n" + " An absolute trust.\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH, BANQUO, ROSS, and ANGUS]\n\n" + " O worthiest cousin!\n" + " The sin of my ingratitude even now\n" + " Was heavy on me: thou art so far before\n" + " That swiftest wing of recompense is slow\n" + " To overtake thee. Would thou hadst less deserved,\n" + " That the proportion both of thanks and payment\n" + " Might have been mine! only I have left to say,\n" + " More is thy due than more than all can pay.\n\n" + "MACBETH The service and the loyalty I owe,\n" + " In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' part\n" + " Is to receive our duties; and our duties\n" + " Are to your throne and state children and servants,\n" + " Which do but what they should, by doing every thing\n" + " Safe toward your love and honour.\n\n" + "DUNCAN Welcome hither:\n" + " I have begun to plant thee, and will labour\n" + " To make thee full of growing. Noble Banquo,\n" + " That hast no less deserved, nor must be known\n" + " No less to have done so, let me enfold thee\n" + " And hold thee to my heart.\n\n" + "BANQUO There if I grow,\n" + " The harvest is your own.\n\n" + "DUNCAN My plenteous joys,\n" + " Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves\n" + " In drops of sorrow. Sons, kinsmen, thanes,\n" + " And you whose places are the nearest, know\n" + " We will establish our estate upon\n" + " Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter\n" + " The Prince of Cumberland; which honour must\n" + " Not unaccompanied invest him only,\n" + " But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine\n" + " On all deservers. From hence to Inverness,\n" + " And bind us further to you.\n\n" + "MACBETH The rest is labour, which is not used for you:\n" + " I'll be myself the harbinger and make joyful\n" + " The hearing of my wife with your approach;\n" + " So humbly take my leave.\n\n" + "DUNCAN My worthy Cawdor!\n\n" + "MACBETH [Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step\n" + " On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,\n" + " For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;\n" + " Let not light see my black and deep desires:\n" + " The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,\n" + " Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUNCAN True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant,\n" + " And in his commendations I am fed;\n" + " It is a banquet to me. Let's after him,\n" + " Whose care is gone before to bid us welcome:\n" + " It is a peerless kinsman.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Inverness. Macbeth's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACBETH, reading a letter]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH 'They met me in the day of success: and I have\n" + " learned by the perfectest report, they have more in\n" + " them than mortal knowledge. When I burned in desire\n" + " to question them further, they made themselves air,\n" + " into which they vanished. Whiles I stood rapt in\n" + " the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who\n" + " all-hailed me 'Thane of Cawdor;' by which title,\n" + " before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred\n" + " me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that\n" + " shalt be!' This have I thought good to deliver\n" + " thee, my dearest partner of greatness, that thou\n" + " mightst not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being\n" + " ignorant of what greatness is promised thee. Lay it\n" + " to thy heart, and farewell.'\n" + " Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be\n" + " What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;\n" + " It is too full o' the milk of human kindness\n" + " To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;\n" + " Art not without ambition, but without\n" + " The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,\n" + " That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,\n" + " And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'ldst have, great Glamis,\n" + " That which cries 'Thus thou must do, if thou have it;\n" + " And that which rather thou dost fear to do\n" + " Than wishest should be undone.' Hie thee hither,\n" + " That I may pour my spirits in thine ear;\n" + " And chastise with the valour of my tongue\n" + " All that impedes thee from the golden round,\n" + " Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem\n" + " To have thee crown'd withal.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " What is your tidings?\n\n" + "Messenger The king comes here to-night.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Thou'rt mad to say it:\n" + " Is not thy master with him? who, were't so,\n" + " Would have inform'd for preparation.\n\n" + "Messenger So please you, it is true: our thane is coming:\n" + " One of my fellows had the speed of him,\n" + " Who, almost dead for breath, had scarcely more\n" + " Than would make up his message.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Give him tending;\n" + " He brings great news.\n\n" + " [Exit Messenger]\n\n" + " The raven himself is hoarse\n" + " That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan\n" + " Under my battlements. Come, you spirits\n" + " That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,\n" + " And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full\n" + " Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;\n" + " Stop up the access and passage to remorse,\n" + " That no compunctious visitings of nature\n" + " Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between\n" + " The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts,\n" + " And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,\n" + " Wherever in your sightless substances\n" + " You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,\n" + " And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,\n" + " That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,\n" + " Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,\n" + " To cry 'Hold, hold!'\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH]\n\n" + " Great Glamis! worthy Cawdor!\n" + " Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter!\n" + " Thy letters have transported me beyond\n" + " This ignorant present, and I feel now\n" + " The future in the instant.\n\n" + "MACBETH My dearest love,\n" + " Duncan comes here to-night.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH And when goes hence?\n\n" + "MACBETH To-morrow, as he purposes.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH O, never\n" + " Shall sun that morrow see!\n" + " Your face, my thane, is as a book where men\n" + " May read strange matters. To beguile the time,\n" + " Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,\n" + " Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,\n" + " But be the serpent under't. He that's coming\n" + " Must be provided for: and you shall put\n" + " This night's great business into my dispatch;\n" + " Which shall to all our nights and days to come\n" + " Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.\n\n" + "MACBETH We will speak further.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Only look up clear;\n" + " To alter favour ever is to fear:\n" + " Leave all the rest to me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Before Macbeth's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Hautboys and torches. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM,\n" + " DONALBAIN, BANQUO, LENNOX, MACDUFF, ROSS, ANGUS,\n" + " and Attendants]\n\n" + "DUNCAN This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air\n" + " Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself\n" + " Unto our gentle senses.\n\n" + "BANQUO This guest of summer,\n" + " The temple-haunting martlet, does approve,\n" + " By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath\n" + " Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze,\n" + " Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird\n" + " Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle:\n" + " Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed,\n" + " The air is delicate.\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACBETH]\n\n" + "DUNCAN See, see, our honour'd hostess!\n" + " The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,\n" + " Which still we thank as love. Herein I teach you\n" + " How you shall bid God 'ild us for your pains,\n" + " And thank us for your trouble.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH All our service\n" + " In every point twice done and then done double\n" + " Were poor and single business to contend\n" + " Against those honours deep and broad wherewith\n" + " Your majesty loads our house: for those of old,\n" + " And the late dignities heap'd up to them,\n" + " We rest your hermits.\n\n" + "DUNCAN Where's the thane of Cawdor?\n" + " We coursed him at the heels, and had a purpose\n" + " To be his purveyor: but he rides well;\n" + " And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him\n" + " To his home before us. Fair and noble hostess,\n" + " We are your guest to-night.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Your servants ever\n" + " Have theirs, themselves and what is theirs, in compt,\n" + " To make their audit at your highness' pleasure,\n" + " Still to return your own.\n\n" + "DUNCAN Give me your hand;\n" + " Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,\n" + " And shall continue our graces towards him.\n" + " By your leave, hostess.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Macbeth's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Hautboys and torches. Enter a Sewer, and divers\n" + " Servants with dishes and service, and pass over the\n" + " stage. Then enter MACBETH]\n\n" + "MACBETH If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well\n" + " It were done quickly: if the assassination\n" + " Could trammel up the consequence, and catch\n" + " With his surcease success; that but this blow\n" + " Might be the be-all and the end-all here,\n" + " But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,\n" + " We'ld jump the life to come. But in these cases\n" + " We still have judgment here; that we but teach\n" + " Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return\n" + " To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice\n" + " Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice\n" + " To our own lips. He's here in double trust;\n" + " First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,\n" + " Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,\n" + " Who should against his murderer shut the door,\n" + " Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan\n" + " Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been\n" + " So clear in his great office, that his virtues\n" + " Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against\n" + " The deep damnation of his taking-off;\n" + " And pity, like a naked new-born babe,\n" + " Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, horsed\n" + " Upon the sightless couriers of the air,\n" + " Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,\n" + " That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur\n" + " To prick the sides of my intent, but only\n" + " Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself\n" + " And falls on the other.\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACBETH]\n\n" + " How now! what news?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH He has almost supp'd: why have you left the chamber?\n\n" + "MACBETH Hath he ask'd for me?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Know you not he has?\n\n" + "MACBETH We will proceed no further in this business:\n" + " He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought\n" + " Golden opinions from all sorts of people,\n" + " Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,\n" + " Not cast aside so soon.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Was the hope drunk\n" + " Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?\n" + " And wakes it now, to look so green and pale\n" + " At what it did so freely? From this time\n" + " Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard\n" + " To be the same in thine own act and valour\n" + " As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that\n" + " Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life,\n" + " And live a coward in thine own esteem,\n" + " Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,'\n" + " Like the poor cat i' the adage?\n\n" + "MACBETH Prithee, peace:\n" + " I dare do all that may become a man;\n" + " Who dares do more is none.\n" + "LADY MACBETH What beast was't, then,\n" + " That made you break this enterprise to me?\n" + " When you durst do it, then you were a man;\n" + " And, to be more than what you were, you would\n" + " Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place\n" + " Did then adhere, and yet you would make both:\n" + " They have made themselves, and that their fitness now\n" + " Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know\n" + " How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:\n" + " I would, while it was smiling in my face,\n" + " Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,\n" + " And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you\n" + " Have done to this.\n\n" + "MACBETH If we should fail?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH We fail!\n" + " But screw your courage to the sticking-place,\n" + " And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep--\n" + " Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey\n" + " Soundly invite him--his two chamberlains\n" + " Will I with wine and wassail so convince\n" + " That memory, the warder of the brain,\n" + " Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason\n" + " A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep\n" + " Their drenched natures lie as in a death,\n" + " What cannot you and I perform upon\n" + " The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon\n" + " His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt\n" + " Of our great quell?\n\n" + "MACBETH Bring forth men-children only;\n" + " For thy undaunted mettle should compose\n" + " Nothing but males. Will it not be received,\n" + " When we have mark'd with blood those sleepy two\n" + " Of his own chamber and used their very daggers,\n" + " That they have done't?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Who dares receive it other,\n" + " As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar\n" + " Upon his death?\n\n" + "MACBETH I am settled, and bend up\n" + " Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.\n" + " Away, and mock the time with fairest show:\n" + " False face must hide what the false heart doth know.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Court of Macbeth's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him]\n\n" + "BANQUO How goes the night, boy?\n\n" + "FLEANCE The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.\n\n" + "BANQUO And she goes down at twelve.\n\n" + "FLEANCE I take't, 'tis later, sir.\n\n" + "BANQUO Hold, take my sword. There's husbandry in heaven;\n" + " Their candles are all out. Take thee that too.\n" + " A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,\n" + " And yet I would not sleep: merciful powers,\n" + " Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature\n" + " Gives way to in repose!\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH, and a Servant with a torch]\n\n" + " Give me my sword.\n" + " Who's there?\n\n" + "MACBETH A friend.\n\n" + "BANQUO What, sir, not yet at rest? The king's a-bed:\n" + " He hath been in unusual pleasure, and\n" + " Sent forth great largess to your offices.\n" + " This diamond he greets your wife withal,\n" + " By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up\n" + " In measureless content.\n\n" + "MACBETH Being unprepared,\n" + " Our will became the servant to defect;\n" + " Which else should free have wrought.\n\n" + "BANQUO All's well.\n" + " I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:\n" + " To you they have show'd some truth.\n\n" + "MACBETH I think not of them:\n" + " Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve,\n" + " We would spend it in some words upon that business,\n" + " If you would grant the time.\n\n" + "BANQUO At your kind'st leisure.\n\n" + "MACBETH If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis,\n" + " It shall make honour for you.\n\n" + "BANQUO So I lose none\n" + " In seeking to augment it, but still keep\n" + " My bosom franchised and allegiance clear,\n" + " I shall be counsell'd.\n\n" + "MACBETH Good repose the while!\n\n" + "BANQUO Thanks, sir: the like to you!\n\n" + " [Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE]\n\n" + "MACBETH Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,\n" + " She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " Is this a dagger which I see before me,\n" + " The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.\n" + " I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.\n" + " Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible\n" + " To feeling as to sight? or art thou but\n" + " A dagger of the mind, a false creation,\n" + " Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?\n" + " I see thee yet, in form as palpable\n" + " As this which now I draw.\n" + " Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going;\n" + " And such an instrument I was to use.\n" + " Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses,\n" + " Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still,\n" + " And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,\n" + " Which was not so before. There's no such thing:\n" + " It is the bloody business which informs\n" + " Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one halfworld\n" + " Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse\n" + " The curtain'd sleep; witchcraft celebrates\n" + " Pale Hecate's offerings, and wither'd murder,\n" + " Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf,\n" + " Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace.\n" + " With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design\n" + " Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth,\n" + " Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear\n" + " Thy very stones prate of my whereabout,\n" + " And take the present horror from the time,\n" + " Which now suits with it. Whiles I threat, he lives:\n" + " Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.\n\n" + " [A bell rings]\n\n" + " I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.\n" + " Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell\n" + " That summons thee to heaven or to hell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACBETH]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;\n" + " What hath quench'd them hath given me fire.\n" + " Hark! Peace!\n" + " It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,\n" + " Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it:\n" + " The doors are open; and the surfeited grooms\n" + " Do mock their charge with snores: I have drugg'd\n" + " their possets,\n" + " That death and nature do contend about them,\n" + " Whether they live or die.\n\n" + "MACBETH [Within] Who's there? what, ho!\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Alack, I am afraid they have awaked,\n" + " And 'tis not done. The attempt and not the deed\n" + " Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready;\n" + " He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled\n" + " My father as he slept, I had done't.\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH]\n\n" + " My husband!\n\n" + "MACBETH I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.\n" + " Did not you speak?\n\n" + "MACBETH When?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Now.\n\n" + "MACBETH As I descended?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Ay.\n\n" + "MACBETH Hark!\n" + " Who lies i' the second chamber?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Donalbain.\n\n" + "MACBETH This is a sorry sight.\n\n" + " [Looking on his hands]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight.\n\n" + "MACBETH There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried\n" + " 'Murder!'\n" + " That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them:\n" + " But they did say their prayers, and address'd them\n" + " Again to sleep.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH There are two lodged together.\n\n" + "MACBETH One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;\n" + " As they had seen me with these hangman's hands.\n" + " Listening their fear, I could not say 'Amen,'\n" + " When they did say 'God bless us!'\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Consider it not so deeply.\n\n" + "MACBETH But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'?\n" + " I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen'\n" + " Stuck in my throat.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH These deeds must not be thought\n" + " After these ways; so, it will make us mad.\n\n" + "MACBETH Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!\n" + " Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,\n" + " Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,\n" + " The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,\n" + " Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,\n" + " Chief nourisher in life's feast,--\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH What do you mean?\n\n" + "MACBETH Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:\n" + " 'Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor\n" + " Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane,\n" + " You do unbend your noble strength, to think\n" + " So brainsickly of things. Go get some water,\n" + " And wash this filthy witness from your hand.\n" + " Why did you bring these daggers from the place?\n" + " They must lie there: go carry them; and smear\n" + " The sleepy grooms with blood.\n\n" + "MACBETH I'll go no more:\n" + " I am afraid to think what I have done;\n" + " Look on't again I dare not.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Infirm of purpose!\n" + " Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead\n" + " Are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood\n" + " That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed,\n" + " I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal;\n" + " For it must seem their guilt.\n\n" + " [Exit. Knocking within]\n\n" + "MACBETH Whence is that knocking?\n" + " How is't with me, when every noise appals me?\n" + " What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.\n" + " Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood\n" + " Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather\n" + " The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,\n" + " Making the green one red.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LADY MACBETH]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH My hands are of your colour; but I shame\n" + " To wear a heart so white.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " I hear a knocking\n" + " At the south entry: retire we to our chamber;\n" + " A little water clears us of this deed:\n" + " How easy is it, then! Your constancy\n" + " Hath left you unattended.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " Hark! more knocking.\n" + " Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,\n" + " And show us to be watchers. Be not lost\n" + " So poorly in your thoughts.\n\n" + "MACBETH To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same.\n\n\n" + " [Knocking within. Enter a Porter]\n\n" + "Porter Here's a knocking indeed! If a\n" + " man were porter of hell-gate, he should have\n" + " old turning the key.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n" + " Knock,\n" + " knock, knock! Who's there, i' the name of\n" + " Beelzebub? Here's a farmer, that hanged\n" + " himself on the expectation of plenty: come in\n" + " time; have napkins enow about you; here\n" + " you'll sweat for't.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n" + " Knock,\n" + " knock! Who's there, in the other devil's\n" + " name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could\n" + " swear in both the scales against either scale;\n" + " who committed treason enough for God's sake,\n" + " yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come\n" + " in, equivocator.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n" + " Knock,\n" + " knock, knock! Who's there? Faith, here's an\n" + " English tailor come hither, for stealing out of\n" + " a French hose: come in, tailor; here you may\n" + " roast your goose.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n" + " Knock,\n" + " knock; never at quiet! What are you? But\n" + " this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter\n" + " it no further: I had thought to have let in\n" + " some of all professions that go the primrose\n" + " way to the everlasting bonfire.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " Anon, anon! I pray you, remember the porter.\n\n" + " [Opens the gate]\n\n" + " [Enter MACDUFF and LENNOX]\n\n" + "MACDUFF Was it so late, friend, ere you went to bed,\n" + " That you do lie so late?\n\n" + "Porter 'Faith sir, we were carousing till the\n" + " second cock: and drink, sir, is a great\n" + " provoker of three things.\n\n" + "MACDUFF What three things does drink especially provoke?\n\n" + "Porter Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and\n" + " urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;\n" + " it provokes the desire, but it takes\n" + " away the performance: therefore, much drink\n" + " may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:\n" + " it makes him, and it mars him; it sets\n" + " him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,\n" + " and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and\n" + " not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him\n" + " in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.\n\n" + "MACDUFF I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.\n\n" + "Porter That it did, sir, i' the very throat on\n" + " me: but I requited him for his lie; and, I\n" + " think, being too strong for him, though he took\n" + " up my legs sometime, yet I made a shift to cast\n" + " him.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Is thy master stirring?\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH]\n\n" + " Our knocking has awaked him; here he comes.\n\n" + "LENNOX Good morrow, noble sir.\n\n" + "MACBETH Good morrow, both.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Is the king stirring, worthy thane?\n\n" + "MACBETH Not yet.\n\n" + "MACDUFF He did command me to call timely on him:\n" + " I have almost slipp'd the hour.\n\n" + "MACBETH I'll bring you to him.\n\n" + "MACDUFF I know this is a joyful trouble to you;\n" + " But yet 'tis one.\n\n" + "MACBETH The labour we delight in physics pain.\n" + " This is the door.\n\n" + "MACDUFF I'll make so bold to call,\n" + " For 'tis my limited service.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LENNOX Goes the king hence to-day?\n\n" + "MACBETH He does: he did appoint so.\n\n" + "LENNOX The night has been unruly: where we lay,\n" + " Our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say,\n" + " Lamentings heard i' the air; strange screams of death,\n" + " And prophesying with accents terrible\n" + " Of dire combustion and confused events\n" + " New hatch'd to the woeful time: the obscure bird\n" + " Clamour'd the livelong night: some say, the earth\n" + " Was feverous and did shake.\n\n" + "MACBETH 'Twas a rough night.\n\n" + "LENNOX My young remembrance cannot parallel\n" + " A fellow to it.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MACDUFF]\n\n" + "MACDUFF O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart\n" + " Cannot conceive nor name thee!\n\n\n" + "MACBETH |\n" + " | What's the matter.\n" + "LENNOX |\n\n\n" + "MACDUFF Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!\n" + " Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope\n" + " The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence\n" + " The life o' the building!\n\n" + "MACBETH What is 't you say? the life?\n\n" + "LENNOX Mean you his majesty?\n\n" + "MACDUFF Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight\n" + " With a new Gorgon: do not bid me speak;\n" + " See, and then speak yourselves.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MACBETH and LENNOX]\n\n" + " Awake, awake!\n" + " Ring the alarum-bell. Murder and treason!\n" + " Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm! awake!\n" + " Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,\n" + " And look on death itself! up, up, and see\n" + " The great doom's image! Malcolm! Banquo!\n" + " As from your graves rise up, and walk like sprites,\n" + " To countenance this horror! Ring the bell.\n\n" + " [Bell rings]\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACBETH]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH What's the business,\n" + " That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley\n" + " The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!\n\n" + "MACDUFF O gentle lady,\n" + " 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak:\n" + " The repetition, in a woman's ear,\n" + " Would murder as it fell.\n\n" + " [Enter BANQUO]\n\n" + " O Banquo, Banquo,\n" + " Our royal master 's murder'd!\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Woe, alas!\n" + " What, in our house?\n\n" + "BANQUO Too cruel any where.\n" + " Dear Duff, I prithee, contradict thyself,\n" + " And say it is not so.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MACBETH and LENNOX, with ROSS]\n\n" + "MACBETH Had I but died an hour before this chance,\n" + " I had lived a blessed time; for, from this instant,\n" + " There 's nothing serious in mortality:\n" + " All is but toys: renown and grace is dead;\n" + " The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees\n" + " Is left this vault to brag of.\n\n" + " [Enter MALCOLM and DONALBAIN]\n\n" + "DONALBAIN What is amiss?\n\n" + "MACBETH You are, and do not know't:\n" + " The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood\n" + " Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Your royal father 's murder'd.\n\n" + "MALCOLM O, by whom?\n\n" + "LENNOX Those of his chamber, as it seem'd, had done 't:\n" + " Their hands and faces were an badged with blood;\n" + " So were their daggers, which unwiped we found\n" + " Upon their pillows:\n" + " They stared, and were distracted; no man's life\n" + " Was to be trusted with them.\n\n" + "MACBETH O, yet I do repent me of my fury,\n" + " That I did kill them.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Wherefore did you so?\n\n" + "MACBETH Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious,\n" + " Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man:\n" + " The expedition my violent love\n" + " Outrun the pauser, reason. Here lay Duncan,\n" + " His silver skin laced with his golden blood;\n" + " And his gash'd stabs look'd like a breach in nature\n" + " For ruin's wasteful entrance: there, the murderers,\n" + " Steep'd in the colours of their trade, their daggers\n" + " Unmannerly breech'd with gore: who could refrain,\n" + " That had a heart to love, and in that heart\n" + " Courage to make 's love known?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Help me hence, ho!\n\n" + "MACDUFF Look to the lady.\n\n" + "MALCOLM [Aside to DONALBAIN] Why do we hold our tongues,\n" + " That most may claim this argument for ours?\n\n" + "DONALBAIN [Aside to MALCOLM] What should be spoken here,\n" + " where our fate,\n" + " Hid in an auger-hole, may rush, and seize us?\n" + " Let 's away;\n" + " Our tears are not yet brew'd.\n\n" + "MALCOLM [Aside to DONALBAIN] Nor our strong sorrow\n" + " Upon the foot of motion.\n\n" + "BANQUO Look to the lady:\n\n" + " [LADY MACBETH is carried out]\n\n" + " And when we have our naked frailties hid,\n" + " That suffer in exposure, let us meet,\n" + " And question this most bloody piece of work,\n" + " To know it further. Fears and scruples shake us:\n" + " In the great hand of God I stand; and thence\n" + " Against the undivulged pretence I fight\n" + " Of treasonous malice.\n\n" + "MACDUFF And so do I.\n\n" + "ALL So all.\n\n" + "MACBETH Let's briefly put on manly readiness,\n" + " And meet i' the hall together.\n\n" + "ALL Well contented.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but Malcolm and Donalbain.\n\n" + "MALCOLM What will you do? Let's not consort with them:\n" + " To show an unfelt sorrow is an office\n" + " Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.\n\n" + "DONALBAIN To Ireland, I; our separated fortune\n" + " Shall keep us both the safer: where we are,\n" + " There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,\n" + " The nearer bloody.\n\n" + "MALCOLM This murderous shaft that's shot\n" + " Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way\n" + " Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse;\n" + " And let us not be dainty of leave-taking,\n" + " But shift away: there's warrant in that theft\n" + " Which steals itself, when there's no mercy left.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Outside Macbeth's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROSS and an old Man]\n\n" + "Old Man Threescore and ten I can remember well:\n" + " Within the volume of which time I have seen\n" + " Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night\n" + " Hath trifled former knowings.\n\n" + "ROSS Ah, good father,\n" + " Thou seest, the heavens, as troubled with man's act,\n" + " Threaten his bloody stage: by the clock, 'tis day,\n" + " And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp:\n" + " Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame,\n" + " That darkness does the face of earth entomb,\n" + " When living light should kiss it?\n\n" + "Old Man 'Tis unnatural,\n" + " Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last,\n" + " A falcon, towering in her pride of place,\n" + " Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.\n\n" + "ROSS And Duncan's horses--a thing most strange and certain--\n" + " Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race,\n" + " Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out,\n" + " Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would make\n" + " War with mankind.\n\n" + "Old Man 'Tis said they eat each other.\n\n" + "ROSS They did so, to the amazement of mine eyes\n" + " That look'd upon't. Here comes the good Macduff.\n\n" + " [Enter MACDUFF]\n\n" + " How goes the world, sir, now?\n\n" + "MACDUFF Why, see you not?\n\n" + "ROSS Is't known who did this more than bloody deed?\n\n" + "MACDUFF Those that Macbeth hath slain.\n\n" + "ROSS Alas, the day!\n" + " What good could they pretend?\n\n" + "MACDUFF They were suborn'd:\n" + " Malcolm and Donalbain, the king's two sons,\n" + " Are stol'n away and fled; which puts upon them\n" + " Suspicion of the deed.\n\n" + "ROSS 'Gainst nature still!\n" + " Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up\n" + " Thine own life's means! Then 'tis most like\n" + " The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth.\n\n" + "MACDUFF He is already named, and gone to Scone\n" + " To be invested.\n\n" + "ROSS Where is Duncan's body?\n\n" + "MACDUFF Carried to Colmekill,\n" + " The sacred storehouse of his predecessors,\n" + " And guardian of their bones.\n\n" + "ROSS Will you to Scone?\n\n" + "MACDUFF No, cousin, I'll to Fife.\n\n" + "ROSS Well, I will thither.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Well, may you see things well done there: adieu!\n" + " Lest our old robes sit easier than our new!\n\n" + "ROSS Farewell, father.\n\n" + "Old Man God's benison go with you; and with those\n" + " That would make good of bad, and friends of foes!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Forres. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BANQUO]\n\n" + "BANQUO Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all,\n" + " As the weird women promised, and, I fear,\n" + " Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said\n" + " It should not stand in thy posterity,\n" + " But that myself should be the root and father\n" + " Of many kings. If there come truth from them--\n" + " As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine--\n" + " Why, by the verities on thee made good,\n" + " May they not be my oracles as well,\n" + " And set me up in hope? But hush! no more.\n\n" + " [Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY\n" + " MACBETH, as queen, LENNOX, ROSS, Lords, Ladies, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "MACBETH Here's our chief guest.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH If he had been forgotten,\n" + " It had been as a gap in our great feast,\n" + " And all-thing unbecoming.\n\n" + "MACBETH To-night we hold a solemn supper sir,\n" + " And I'll request your presence.\n\n" + "BANQUO Let your highness\n" + " Command upon me; to the which my duties\n" + " Are with a most indissoluble tie\n" + " For ever knit.\n\n" + "MACBETH Ride you this afternoon?\n\n" + "BANQUO Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "MACBETH We should have else desired your good advice,\n" + " Which still hath been both grave and prosperous,\n" + " In this day's council; but we'll take to-morrow.\n" + " Is't far you ride?\n\n" + "BANQUO As far, my lord, as will fill up the time\n" + " 'Twixt this and supper: go not my horse the better,\n" + " I must become a borrower of the night\n" + " For a dark hour or twain.\n\n" + "MACBETH Fail not our feast.\n\n" + "BANQUO My lord, I will not.\n\n" + "MACBETH We hear, our bloody cousins are bestow'd\n" + " In England and in Ireland, not confessing\n" + " Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers\n" + " With strange invention: but of that to-morrow,\n" + " When therewithal we shall have cause of state\n" + " Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,\n" + " Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?\n\n" + "BANQUO Ay, my good lord: our time does call upon 's.\n\n" + "MACBETH I wish your horses swift and sure of foot;\n" + " And so I do commend you to their backs. Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit BANQUO]\n\n" + " Let every man be master of his time\n" + " Till seven at night: to make society\n" + " The sweeter welcome, we will keep ourself\n" + " Till supper-time alone: while then, God be with you!\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but MACBETH, and an attendant]\n\n" + " Sirrah, a word with you: attend those men\n" + " Our pleasure?\n\n" + "ATTENDANT They are, my lord, without the palace gate.\n\n" + "MACBETH Bring them before us.\n\n" + " [Exit Attendant]\n\n" + " To be thus is nothing;\n" + " But to be safely thus.--Our fears in Banquo\n" + " Stick deep; and in his royalty of nature\n" + " Reigns that which would be fear'd: 'tis much he dares;\n" + " And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,\n" + " He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour\n" + " To act in safety. There is none but he\n" + " Whose being I do fear: and, under him,\n" + " My Genius is rebuked; as, it is said,\n" + " Mark Antony's was by Caesar. He chid the sisters\n" + " When first they put the name of king upon me,\n" + " And bade them speak to him: then prophet-like\n" + " They hail'd him father to a line of kings:\n" + " Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,\n" + " And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,\n" + " Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,\n" + " No son of mine succeeding. If 't be so,\n" + " For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind;\n" + " For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;\n" + " Put rancours in the vessel of my peace\n" + " Only for them; and mine eternal jewel\n" + " Given to the common enemy of man,\n" + " To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!\n" + " Rather than so, come fate into the list.\n" + " And champion me to the utterance! Who's there!\n\n" + " [Re-enter Attendant, with two Murderers]\n\n" + " Now go to the door, and stay there till we call.\n\n" + " [Exit Attendant]\n\n" + " Was it not yesterday we spoke together?\n\n" + "First Murderer It was, so please your highness.\n\n" + "MACBETH Well then, now\n" + " Have you consider'd of my speeches? Know\n" + " That it was he in the times past which held you\n" + " So under fortune, which you thought had been\n" + " Our innocent self: this I made good to you\n" + " In our last conference, pass'd in probation with you,\n" + " How you were borne in hand, how cross'd,\n" + " the instruments,\n" + " Who wrought with them, and all things else that might\n" + " To half a soul and to a notion crazed\n" + " Say 'Thus did Banquo.'\n\n" + "First Murderer You made it known to us.\n\n" + "MACBETH I did so, and went further, which is now\n" + " Our point of second meeting. Do you find\n" + " Your patience so predominant in your nature\n" + " That you can let this go? Are you so gospell'd\n" + " To pray for this good man and for his issue,\n" + " Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the grave\n" + " And beggar'd yours for ever?\n\n" + "First Murderer We are men, my liege.\n\n" + "MACBETH Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;\n" + " As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,\n" + " Shoughs, water-rugs and demi-wolves, are clept\n" + " All by the name of dogs: the valued file\n" + " Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,\n" + " The housekeeper, the hunter, every one\n" + " According to the gift which bounteous nature\n" + " Hath in him closed; whereby he does receive\n" + " Particular addition. from the bill\n" + " That writes them all alike: and so of men.\n" + " Now, if you have a station in the file,\n" + " Not i' the worst rank of manhood, say 't;\n" + " And I will put that business in your bosoms,\n" + " Whose execution takes your enemy off,\n" + " Grapples you to the heart and love of us,\n" + " Who wear our health but sickly in his life,\n" + " Which in his death were perfect.\n\n" + "Second Murderer I am one, my liege,\n" + " Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world\n" + " Have so incensed that I am reckless what\n" + " I do to spite the world.\n\n" + "First Murderer And I another\n" + " So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,\n" + " That I would set my lie on any chance,\n" + " To mend it, or be rid on't.\n\n" + "MACBETH Both of you\n" + " Know Banquo was your enemy.\n\n" + "Both Murderers True, my lord.\n\n" + "MACBETH So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,\n" + " That every minute of his being thrusts\n" + " Against my near'st of life: and though I could\n" + " With barefaced power sweep him from my sight\n" + " And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,\n" + " For certain friends that are both his and mine,\n" + " Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his fall\n" + " Who I myself struck down; and thence it is,\n" + " That I to your assistance do make love,\n" + " Masking the business from the common eye\n" + " For sundry weighty reasons.\n\n" + "Second Murderer We shall, my lord,\n" + " Perform what you command us.\n\n" + "First Murderer Though our lives--\n\n" + "MACBETH Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour at most\n" + " I will advise you where to plant yourselves;\n" + " Acquaint you with the perfect spy o' the time,\n" + " The moment on't; for't must be done to-night,\n" + " And something from the palace; always thought\n" + " That I require a clearness: and with him--\n" + " To leave no rubs nor botches in the work--\n" + " Fleance his son, that keeps him company,\n" + " Whose absence is no less material to me\n" + " Than is his father's, must embrace the fate\n" + " Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart:\n" + " I'll come to you anon.\n\n" + "Both Murderers We are resolved, my lord.\n\n" + "MACBETH I'll call upon you straight: abide within.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Murderers]\n\n" + " It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight,\n" + " If it find heaven, must find it out to-night.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACBETH and a Servant]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Is Banquo gone from court?\n\n" + "Servant Ay, madam, but returns again to-night.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Say to the king, I would attend his leisure\n" + " For a few words.\n\n" + "Servant Madam, I will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Nought's had, all's spent,\n" + " Where our desire is got without content:\n" + " 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy\n" + " Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH]\n\n" + " How now, my lord! why do you keep alone,\n" + " Of sorriest fancies your companions making,\n" + " Using those thoughts which should indeed have died\n" + " With them they think on? Things without all remedy\n" + " Should be without regard: what's done is done.\n\n" + "MACBETH We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:\n" + " She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice\n" + " Remains in danger of her former tooth.\n" + " But let the frame of things disjoint, both the\n" + " worlds suffer,\n" + " Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep\n" + " In the affliction of these terrible dreams\n" + " That shake us nightly: better be with the dead,\n" + " Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,\n" + " Than on the torture of the mind to lie\n" + " In restless ecstasy. Duncan is in his grave;\n" + " After life's fitful fever he sleeps well;\n" + " Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison,\n" + " Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,\n" + " Can touch him further.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Come on;\n" + " Gentle my lord, sleek o'er your rugged looks;\n" + " Be bright and jovial among your guests to-night.\n\n" + "MACBETH So shall I, love; and so, I pray, be you:\n" + " Let your remembrance apply to Banquo;\n" + " Present him eminence, both with eye and tongue:\n" + " Unsafe the while, that we\n" + " Must lave our honours in these flattering streams,\n" + " And make our faces vizards to our hearts,\n" + " Disguising what they are.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH You must leave this.\n\n" + "MACBETH O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!\n" + " Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH But in them nature's copy's not eterne.\n\n" + "MACBETH There's comfort yet; they are assailable;\n" + " Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown\n" + " His cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summons\n" + " The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums\n" + " Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done\n" + " A deed of dreadful note.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH What's to be done?\n\n" + "MACBETH Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,\n" + " Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night,\n" + " Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;\n" + " And with thy bloody and invisible hand\n" + " Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond\n" + " Which keeps me pale! Light thickens; and the crow\n" + " Makes wing to the rooky wood:\n" + " Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;\n" + " While night's black agents to their preys do rouse.\n" + " Thou marvell'st at my words: but hold thee still;\n" + " Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.\n" + " So, prithee, go with me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A park near the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter three Murderers]\n\n" + "First Murderer But who did bid thee join with us?\n\n" + "Third Murderer Macbeth.\n\n" + "Second Murderer He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers\n" + " Our offices and what we have to do\n" + " To the direction just.\n\n" + "First Murderer Then stand with us.\n" + " The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:\n" + " Now spurs the lated traveller apace\n" + " To gain the timely inn; and near approaches\n" + " The subject of our watch.\n\n" + "Third Murderer Hark! I hear horses.\n\n" + "BANQUO [Within] Give us a light there, ho!\n\n" + "Second Murderer Then 'tis he: the rest\n" + " That are within the note of expectation\n" + " Already are i' the court.\n\n" + "First Murderer His horses go about.\n\n" + "Third Murderer Almost a mile: but he does usually,\n" + " So all men do, from hence to the palace gate\n" + " Make it their walk.\n\n" + "Second Murderer A light, a light!\n\n" + " [Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE with a torch]\n\n" + "Third Murderer 'Tis he.\n\n" + "First Murderer Stand to't.\n\n" + "BANQUO It will be rain to-night.\n\n" + "First Murderer Let it come down.\n\n" + " [They set upon BANQUO]\n\n" + "BANQUO O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!\n" + " Thou mayst revenge. O slave!\n\n" + " [Dies. FLEANCE escapes]\n\n" + "Third Murderer Who did strike out the light?\n\n" + "First Murderer Wast not the way?\n\n" + "Third Murderer There's but one down; the son is fled.\n\n" + "Second Murderer We have lost\n" + " Best half of our affair.\n\n" + "First Murderer Well, let's away, and say how much is done.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. Hall in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [A banquet prepared. Enter MACBETH, LADY MACBETH,\n" + " ROSS, LENNOX, Lords, and Attendants]\n\n" + "MACBETH You know your own degrees; sit down: at first\n" + " And last the hearty welcome.\n" + "Lords Thanks to your majesty.\n\n" + "MACBETH Ourself will mingle with society,\n" + " And play the humble host.\n" + " Our hostess keeps her state, but in best time\n" + " We will require her welcome.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Pronounce it for me, sir, to all our friends;\n" + " For my heart speaks they are welcome.\n\n" + " [First Murderer appears at the door]\n\n" + "MACBETH See, they encounter thee with their hearts' thanks.\n" + " Both sides are even: here I'll sit i' the midst:\n" + " Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure\n" + " The table round.\n\n" + " [Approaching the door]\n\n" + " There's blood on thy face.\n\n" + "First Murderer 'Tis Banquo's then.\n\n" + "MACBETH 'Tis better thee without than he within.\n" + " Is he dispatch'd?\n\n" + "First Murderer My lord, his throat is cut; that I did for him.\n\n" + "MACBETH Thou art the best o' the cut-throats: yet he's good\n" + " That did the like for Fleance: if thou didst it,\n" + " Thou art the nonpareil.\n\n" + "First Murderer Most royal sir,\n" + " Fleance is 'scaped.\n\n" + "MACBETH Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect,\n" + " Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,\n" + " As broad and general as the casing air:\n" + " But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in\n" + " To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo's safe?\n\n" + "First Murderer Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides,\n" + " With twenty trenched gashes on his head;\n" + " The least a death to nature.\n\n" + "MACBETH Thanks for that:\n" + " There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled\n" + " Hath nature that in time will venom breed,\n" + " No teeth for the present. Get thee gone: to-morrow\n" + " We'll hear, ourselves, again.\n\n" + " [Exit Murderer]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH My royal lord,\n" + " You do not give the cheer: the feast is sold\n" + " That is not often vouch'd, while 'tis a-making,\n" + " 'Tis given with welcome: to feed were best at home;\n" + " From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;\n" + " Meeting were bare without it.\n\n" + "MACBETH Sweet remembrancer!\n" + " Now, good digestion wait on appetite,\n" + " And health on both!\n\n" + "LENNOX May't please your highness sit.\n\n" + " [The GHOST OF BANQUO enters, and sits in\n" + " MACBETH's place]\n\n" + "MACBETH Here had we now our country's honour roof'd,\n" + " Were the graced person of our Banquo present;\n" + " Who may I rather challenge for unkindness\n" + " Than pity for mischance!\n\n" + "ROSS His absence, sir,\n" + " Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness\n" + " To grace us with your royal company.\n\n" + "MACBETH The table's full.\n\n" + "LENNOX Here is a place reserved, sir.\n\n" + "MACBETH Where?\n\n" + "LENNOX Here, my good lord. What is't that moves your highness?\n\n" + "MACBETH Which of you have done this?\n\n" + "Lords What, my good lord?\n\n" + "MACBETH Thou canst not say I did it: never shake\n" + " Thy gory locks at me.\n\n" + "ROSS Gentlemen, rise: his highness is not well.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Sit, worthy friends: my lord is often thus,\n" + " And hath been from his youth: pray you, keep seat;\n" + " The fit is momentary; upon a thought\n" + " He will again be well: if much you note him,\n" + " You shall offend him and extend his passion:\n" + " Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man?\n\n" + "MACBETH Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that\n" + " Which might appal the devil.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH O proper stuff!\n" + " This is the very painting of your fear:\n" + " This is the air-drawn dagger which, you said,\n" + " Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws and starts,\n" + " Impostors to true fear, would well become\n" + " A woman's story at a winter's fire,\n" + " Authorized by her grandam. Shame itself!\n" + " Why do you make such faces? When all's done,\n" + " You look but on a stool.\n\n" + "MACBETH Prithee, see there! behold! look! lo!\n" + " how say you?\n" + " Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak too.\n" + " If charnel-houses and our graves must send\n" + " Those that we bury back, our monuments\n" + " Shall be the maws of kites.\n\n" + " [GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes]\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH What, quite unmann'd in folly?\n\n" + "MACBETH If I stand here, I saw him.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Fie, for shame!\n\n" + "MACBETH Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time,\n" + " Ere human statute purged the gentle weal;\n" + " Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd\n" + " Too terrible for the ear: the times have been,\n" + " That, when the brains were out, the man would die,\n" + " And there an end; but now they rise again,\n" + " With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,\n" + " And push us from our stools: this is more strange\n" + " Than such a murder is.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH My worthy lord,\n" + " Your noble friends do lack you.\n\n" + "MACBETH I do forget.\n" + " Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends,\n" + " I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing\n" + " To those that know me. Come, love and health to all;\n" + " Then I'll sit down. Give me some wine; fill full.\n" + " I drink to the general joy o' the whole table,\n" + " And to our dear friend Banquo, whom we miss;\n" + " Would he were here! to all, and him, we thirst,\n" + " And all to all.\n\n" + "Lords Our duties, and the pledge.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GHOST OF BANQUO]\n\n" + "MACBETH Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!\n" + " Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;\n" + " Thou hast no speculation in those eyes\n" + " Which thou dost glare with!\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Think of this, good peers,\n" + " But as a thing of custom: 'tis no other;\n" + " Only it spoils the pleasure of the time.\n\n" + "MACBETH What man dare, I dare:\n" + " Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,\n" + " The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger;\n" + " Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves\n" + " Shall never tremble: or be alive again,\n" + " And dare me to the desert with thy sword;\n" + " If trembling I inhabit then, protest me\n" + " The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow!\n" + " Unreal mockery, hence!\n\n" + " [GHOST OF BANQUO vanishes]\n\n" + " Why, so: being gone,\n" + " I am a man again. Pray you, sit still.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,\n" + " With most admired disorder.\n\n" + "MACBETH Can such things be,\n" + " And overcome us like a summer's cloud,\n" + " Without our special wonder? You make me strange\n" + " Even to the disposition that I owe,\n" + " When now I think you can behold such sights,\n" + " And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,\n" + " When mine is blanched with fear.\n\n" + "ROSS What sights, my lord?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH I pray you, speak not; he grows worse and worse;\n" + " Question enrages him. At once, good night:\n" + " Stand not upon the order of your going,\n" + " But go at once.\n\n" + "LENNOX Good night; and better health\n" + " Attend his majesty!\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH A kind good night to all!\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but MACBETH and LADY MACBETH]\n\n" + "MACBETH It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:\n" + " Stones have been known to move and trees to speak;\n" + " Augurs and understood relations have\n" + " By magot-pies and choughs and rooks brought forth\n" + " The secret'st man of blood. What is the night?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Almost at odds with morning, which is which.\n\n" + "MACBETH How say'st thou, that Macduff denies his person\n" + " At our great bidding?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Did you send to him, sir?\n\n" + "MACBETH I hear it by the way; but I will send:\n" + " There's not a one of them but in his house\n" + " I keep a servant fee'd. I will to-morrow,\n" + " And betimes I will, to the weird sisters:\n" + " More shall they speak; for now I am bent to know,\n" + " By the worst means, the worst. For mine own good,\n" + " All causes shall give way: I am in blood\n" + " Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,\n" + " Returning were as tedious as go o'er:\n" + " Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;\n" + " Which must be acted ere they may be scann'd.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH You lack the season of all natures, sleep.\n\n" + "MACBETH Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse\n" + " Is the initiate fear that wants hard use:\n" + " We are yet but young in deed.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A Heath.\n\n\n" + " [Thunder. Enter the three Witches meeting HECATE]\n\n" + "First Witch Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly.\n\n" + "HECATE Have I not reason, beldams as you are,\n" + " Saucy and overbold? How did you dare\n" + " To trade and traffic with Macbeth\n" + " In riddles and affairs of death;\n" + " And I, the mistress of your charms,\n" + " The close contriver of all harms,\n" + " Was never call'd to bear my part,\n" + " Or show the glory of our art?\n" + " And, which is worse, all you have done\n" + " Hath been but for a wayward son,\n" + " Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do,\n" + " Loves for his own ends, not for you.\n" + " But make amends now: get you gone,\n" + " And at the pit of Acheron\n" + " Meet me i' the morning: thither he\n" + " Will come to know his destiny:\n" + " Your vessels and your spells provide,\n" + " Your charms and every thing beside.\n" + " I am for the air; this night I'll spend\n" + " Unto a dismal and a fatal end:\n" + " Great business must be wrought ere noon:\n" + " Upon the corner of the moon\n" + " There hangs a vaporous drop profound;\n" + " I'll catch it ere it come to ground:\n" + " And that distill'd by magic sleights\n" + " Shall raise such artificial sprites\n" + " As by the strength of their illusion\n" + " Shall draw him on to his confusion:\n" + " He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear\n" + " He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:\n" + " And you all know, security\n" + " Is mortals' chiefest enemy.\n\n" + " [Music and a song within: 'Come away, come\n" + " away,' &c]\n\n" + " Hark! I am call'd; my little spirit, see,\n" + " Sits in a foggy cloud, and stays for me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Witch Come, let's make haste; she'll soon be back again.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Forres. The palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LENNOX and another Lord]\n\n" + "LENNOX My former speeches have but hit your thoughts,\n" + " Which can interpret further: only, I say,\n" + " Things have been strangely borne. The\n" + " gracious Duncan\n" + " Was pitied of Macbeth: marry, he was dead:\n" + " And the right-valiant Banquo walk'd too late;\n" + " Whom, you may say, if't please you, Fleance kill'd,\n" + " For Fleance fled: men must not walk too late.\n" + " Who cannot want the thought how monstrous\n" + " It was for Malcolm and for Donalbain\n" + " To kill their gracious father? damned fact!\n" + " How it did grieve Macbeth! did he not straight\n" + " In pious rage the two delinquents tear,\n" + " That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?\n" + " Was not that nobly done? Ay, and wisely too;\n" + " For 'twould have anger'd any heart alive\n" + " To hear the men deny't. So that, I say,\n" + " He has borne all things well: and I do think\n" + " That had he Duncan's sons under his key--\n" + " As, an't please heaven, he shall not--they\n" + " should find\n" + " What 'twere to kill a father; so should Fleance.\n" + " But, peace! for from broad words and 'cause he fail'd\n" + " His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear\n" + " Macduff lives in disgrace: sir, can you tell\n" + " Where he bestows himself?\n\n" + "Lord The son of Duncan,\n" + " From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth\n" + " Lives in the English court, and is received\n" + " Of the most pious Edward with such grace\n" + " That the malevolence of fortune nothing\n" + " Takes from his high respect: thither Macduff\n" + " Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid\n" + " To wake Northumberland and warlike Siward:\n" + " That, by the help of these--with Him above\n" + " To ratify the work--we may again\n" + " Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights,\n" + " Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives,\n" + " Do faithful homage and receive free honours:\n" + " All which we pine for now: and this report\n" + " Hath so exasperate the king that he\n" + " Prepares for some attempt of war.\n\n" + "LENNOX Sent he to Macduff?\n\n" + "Lord He did: and with an absolute 'Sir, not I,'\n" + " The cloudy messenger turns me his back,\n" + " And hums, as who should say 'You'll rue the time\n" + " That clogs me with this answer.'\n\n" + "LENNOX And that well might\n" + " Advise him to a caution, to hold what distance\n" + " His wisdom can provide. Some holy angel\n" + " Fly to the court of England and unfold\n" + " His message ere he come, that a swift blessing\n" + " May soon return to this our suffering country\n" + " Under a hand accursed!\n\n" + "Lord I'll send my prayers with him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A cavern. In the middle, a boiling cauldron.\n\n\n" + " [Thunder. Enter the three Witches]\n\n\n" + "First Witch Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.\n\n" + "Second Witch Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.\n\n" + "Third Witch Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.\n\n" + "First Witch Round about the cauldron go;\n" + " In the poison'd entrails throw.\n" + " Toad, that under cold stone\n" + " Days and nights has thirty-one\n" + " Swelter'd venom sleeping got,\n" + " Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.\n\n" + "ALL Double, double toil and trouble;\n" + " Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.\n\n" + "Second Witch Fillet of a fenny snake,\n" + " In the cauldron boil and bake;\n" + " Eye of newt and toe of frog,\n" + " Wool of bat and tongue of dog,\n" + " Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,\n" + " Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,\n" + " For a charm of powerful trouble,\n" + " Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.\n\n" + "ALL Double, double toil and trouble;\n" + " Fire burn and cauldron bubble.\n\n" + "Third Witch Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,\n" + " Witches' mummy, maw and gulf\n" + " Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,\n" + " Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,\n" + " Liver of blaspheming Jew,\n" + " Gall of goat, and slips of yew\n" + " Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,\n" + " Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,\n" + " Finger of birth-strangled babe\n" + " Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,\n" + " Make the gruel thick and slab:\n" + " Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,\n" + " For the ingredients of our cauldron.\n\n" + "ALL Double, double toil and trouble;\n" + " Fire burn and cauldron bubble.\n\n" + "Second Witch Cool it with a baboon's blood,\n" + " Then the charm is firm and good.\n\n" + " [Enter HECATE to the other three Witches]\n\n" + "HECATE O well done! I commend your pains;\n" + " And every one shall share i' the gains;\n" + " And now about the cauldron sing,\n" + " Live elves and fairies in a ring,\n" + " Enchanting all that you put in.\n\n" + " [Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' &c]\n\n" + " [HECATE retires]\n\n" + "Second Witch By the pricking of my thumbs,\n" + " Something wicked this way comes.\n" + " Open, locks,\n" + " Whoever knocks!\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH]\n\n" + "MACBETH How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!\n" + " What is't you do?\n\n" + "ALL A deed without a name.\n\n" + "MACBETH I conjure you, by that which you profess,\n" + " Howe'er you come to know it, answer me:\n" + " Though you untie the winds and let them fight\n" + " Against the churches; though the yesty waves\n" + " Confound and swallow navigation up;\n" + " Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down;\n" + " Though castles topple on their warders' heads;\n" + " Though palaces and pyramids do slope\n" + " Their heads to their foundations; though the treasure\n" + " Of nature's germens tumble all together,\n" + " Even till destruction sicken; answer me\n" + " To what I ask you.\n\n" + "First Witch Speak.\n\n" + "Second Witch Demand.\n\n" + "Third Witch We'll answer.\n\n" + "First Witch Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,\n" + " Or from our masters?\n\n" + "MACBETH Call 'em; let me see 'em.\n\n" + "First Witch Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten\n" + " Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten\n" + " From the murderer's gibbet throw\n" + " Into the flame.\n\n" + "ALL Come, high or low;\n" + " Thyself and office deftly show!\n\n" + " [Thunder. First Apparition: an armed Head]\n\n" + "MACBETH Tell me, thou unknown power,--\n\n" + "First Witch He knows thy thought:\n" + " Hear his speech, but say thou nought.\n\n" + "First Apparition Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff;\n" + " Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.\n\n" + " [Descends]\n\n" + "MACBETH Whate'er thou art, for thy good caution, thanks;\n" + " Thou hast harp'd my fear aright: but one\n" + " word more,--\n\n" + "First Witch He will not be commanded: here's another,\n" + " More potent than the first.\n\n" + " [Thunder. Second Apparition: A bloody Child]\n\n" + "Second Apparition Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!\n\n" + "MACBETH Had I three ears, I'ld hear thee.\n\n" + "Second Apparition Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn\n" + " The power of man, for none of woman born\n" + " Shall harm Macbeth.\n\n" + " [Descends]\n\n" + "MACBETH Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?\n" + " But yet I'll make assurance double sure,\n" + " And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live;\n" + " That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies,\n" + " And sleep in spite of thunder.\n\n" + " [Thunder. Third Apparition: a Child crowned,\n" + " with a tree in his hand]\n\n" + " What is this\n" + " That rises like the issue of a king,\n" + " And wears upon his baby-brow the round\n" + " And top of sovereignty?\n\n" + "ALL Listen, but speak not to't.\n\n" + "Third Apparition Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care\n" + " Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:\n" + " Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until\n" + " Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill\n" + " Shall come against him.\n\n" + " [Descends]\n\n" + "MACBETH That will never be\n" + " Who can impress the forest, bid the tree\n" + " Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! good!\n" + " Rebellion's head, rise never till the wood\n" + " Of Birnam rise, and our high-placed Macbeth\n" + " Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath\n" + " To time and mortal custom. Yet my heart\n" + " Throbs to know one thing: tell me, if your art\n" + " Can tell so much: shall Banquo's issue ever\n" + " Reign in this kingdom?\n\n" + "ALL Seek to know no more.\n\n" + "MACBETH I will be satisfied: deny me this,\n" + " And an eternal curse fall on you! Let me know.\n" + " Why sinks that cauldron? and what noise is this?\n\n" + " [Hautboys]\n\n" + "First Witch Show!\n\n" + "Second Witch Show!\n\n" + "Third Witch Show!\n\n" + "ALL Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;\n" + " Come like shadows, so depart!\n\n" + " [A show of Eight Kings, the last with a glass in\n" + " his hand; GHOST OF BANQUO following]\n\n" + "MACBETH Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!\n" + " Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,\n" + " Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.\n" + " A third is like the former. Filthy hags!\n" + " Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!\n" + " What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?\n" + " Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:\n" + " And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass\n" + " Which shows me many more; and some I see\n" + " That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:\n" + " Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true;\n" + " For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,\n" + " And points at them for his.\n\n" + " [Apparitions vanish]\n\n" + " What, is this so?\n\n" + "First Witch Ay, sir, all this is so: but why\n" + " Stands Macbeth thus amazedly?\n" + " Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites,\n" + " And show the best of our delights:\n" + " I'll charm the air to give a sound,\n" + " While you perform your antic round:\n" + " That this great king may kindly say,\n" + " Our duties did his welcome pay.\n\n" + " [Music. The witches dance and then vanish,\n" + " with HECATE]\n\n" + "MACBETH Where are they? Gone? Let this pernicious hour\n" + " Stand aye accursed in the calendar!\n" + " Come in, without there!\n\n" + " [Enter LENNOX]\n\n" + "LENNOX What's your grace's will?\n\n" + "MACBETH Saw you the weird sisters?\n\n" + "LENNOX No, my lord.\n\n" + "MACBETH Came they not by you?\n\n" + "LENNOX No, indeed, my lord.\n\n" + "MACBETH Infected be the air whereon they ride;\n" + " And damn'd all those that trust them! I did hear\n" + " The galloping of horse: who was't came by?\n\n" + "LENNOX 'Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word\n" + " Macduff is fled to England.\n\n" + "MACBETH Fled to England!\n\n" + "LENNOX Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "MACBETH Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits:\n" + " The flighty purpose never is o'ertook\n" + " Unless the deed go with it; from this moment\n" + " The very firstlings of my heart shall be\n" + " The firstlings of my hand. And even now,\n" + " To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done:\n" + " The castle of Macduff I will surprise;\n" + " Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o' the sword\n" + " His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls\n" + " That trace him in his line. No boasting like a fool;\n" + " This deed I'll do before this purpose cool.\n" + " But no more sights!--Where are these gentlemen?\n" + " Come, bring me where they are.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Fife. Macduff's castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACDUFF, her Son, and ROSS]\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF What had he done, to make him fly the land?\n\n" + "ROSS You must have patience, madam.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF He had none:\n" + " His flight was madness: when our actions do not,\n" + " Our fears do make us traitors.\n\n" + "ROSS You know not\n" + " Whether it was his wisdom or his fear.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes,\n" + " His mansion and his titles in a place\n" + " From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;\n" + " He wants the natural touch: for the poor wren,\n" + " The most diminutive of birds, will fight,\n" + " Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.\n" + " All is the fear and nothing is the love;\n" + " As little is the wisdom, where the flight\n" + " So runs against all reason.\n\n" + "ROSS My dearest coz,\n" + " I pray you, school yourself: but for your husband,\n" + " He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows\n" + " The fits o' the season. I dare not speak\n" + " much further;\n" + " But cruel are the times, when we are traitors\n" + " And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumour\n" + " From what we fear, yet know not what we fear,\n" + " But float upon a wild and violent sea\n" + " Each way and move. I take my leave of you:\n" + " Shall not be long but I'll be here again:\n" + " Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward\n" + " To what they were before. My pretty cousin,\n" + " Blessing upon you!\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Father'd he is, and yet he's fatherless.\n\n" + "ROSS I am so much a fool, should I stay longer,\n" + " It would be my disgrace and your discomfort:\n" + " I take my leave at once.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Sirrah, your father's dead;\n" + " And what will you do now? How will you live?\n\n" + "Son As birds do, mother.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF What, with worms and flies?\n\n" + "Son With what I get, I mean; and so do they.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Poor bird! thou'ldst never fear the net nor lime,\n" + " The pitfall nor the gin.\n\n" + "Son Why should I, mother? Poor birds they are not set for.\n" + " My father is not dead, for all your saying.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Yes, he is dead; how wilt thou do for a father?\n\n" + "Son Nay, how will you do for a husband?\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Why, I can buy me twenty at any market.\n\n" + "Son Then you'll buy 'em to sell again.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Thou speak'st with all thy wit: and yet, i' faith,\n" + " With wit enough for thee.\n\n" + "Son Was my father a traitor, mother?\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Ay, that he was.\n\n" + "Son What is a traitor?\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Why, one that swears and lies.\n\n" + "Son And be all traitors that do so?\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Every one that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged.\n\n" + "Son And must they all be hanged that swear and lie?\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Every one.\n\n" + "Son Who must hang them?\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Why, the honest men.\n\n" + "Son Then the liars and swearers are fools,\n" + " for there are liars and swearers enow to beat\n" + " the honest men and hang up them.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Now, God help thee, poor monkey!\n" + " But how wilt thou do for a father?\n\n" + "Son If he were dead, you'ld weep for\n" + " him: if you would not, it were a good sign\n" + " that I should quickly have a new father.\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Poor prattler, how thou talk'st!\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Bless you, fair dame! I am not to you known,\n" + " Though in your state of honour I am perfect.\n" + " I doubt some danger does approach you nearly:\n" + " If you will take a homely man's advice,\n" + " Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.\n" + " To fright you thus, methinks, I am too savage;\n" + " To do worse to you were fell cruelty,\n" + " Which is too nigh your person. Heaven preserve you!\n" + " I dare abide no longer.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF Whither should I fly?\n" + " I have done no harm. But I remember now\n" + " I am in this earthly world; where to do harm\n" + " Is often laudable, to do good sometime\n" + " Accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas,\n" + " Do I put up that womanly defence,\n" + " To say I have done no harm?\n\n" + " [Enter Murderers]\n\n" + " What are these faces?\n\n" + "First Murderer Where is your husband?\n\n" + "LADY MACDUFF I hope, in no place so unsanctified\n" + " Where such as thou mayst find him.\n\n" + "First Murderer He's a traitor.\n\n" + "Son Thou liest, thou shag-hair'd villain!\n\n" + "First Murderer What, you egg!\n\n" + " [Stabbing him]\n\n" + " Young fry of treachery!\n\n" + "Son He has kill'd me, mother:\n" + " Run away, I pray you!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + " [Exit LADY MACDUFF, crying 'Murder!' Exeunt\n" + " Murderers, following her]\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III England. Before the King's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MALCOLM and MACDUFF]\n\n" + "MALCOLM Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there\n" + " Weep our sad bosoms empty.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Let us rather\n" + " Hold fast the mortal sword, and like good men\n" + " Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom: each new morn\n" + " New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows\n" + " Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds\n" + " As if it felt with Scotland and yell'd out\n" + " Like syllable of dolour.\n\n" + "MALCOLM What I believe I'll wail,\n" + " What know believe, and what I can redress,\n" + " As I shall find the time to friend, I will.\n" + " What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.\n" + " This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,\n" + " Was once thought honest: you have loved him well.\n" + " He hath not touch'd you yet. I am young;\n" + " but something\n" + " You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom\n" + " To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb\n" + " To appease an angry god.\n\n" + "MACDUFF I am not treacherous.\n\n" + "MALCOLM But Macbeth is.\n" + " A good and virtuous nature may recoil\n" + " In an imperial charge. But I shall crave\n" + " your pardon;\n" + " That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose:\n" + " Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell;\n" + " Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,\n" + " Yet grace must still look so.\n\n" + "MACDUFF I have lost my hopes.\n\n" + "MALCOLM Perchance even there where I did find my doubts.\n" + " Why in that rawness left you wife and child,\n" + " Those precious motives, those strong knots of love,\n" + " Without leave-taking? I pray you,\n" + " Let not my jealousies be your dishonours,\n" + " But mine own safeties. You may be rightly just,\n" + " Whatever I shall think.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Bleed, bleed, poor country!\n" + " Great tyranny! lay thou thy basis sure,\n" + " For goodness dare not cheque thee: wear thou\n" + " thy wrongs;\n" + " The title is affeer'd! Fare thee well, lord:\n" + " I would not be the villain that thou think'st\n" + " For the whole space that's in the tyrant's grasp,\n" + " And the rich East to boot.\n\n" + "MALCOLM Be not offended:\n" + " I speak not as in absolute fear of you.\n" + " I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;\n" + " It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash\n" + " Is added to her wounds: I think withal\n" + " There would be hands uplifted in my right;\n" + " And here from gracious England have I offer\n" + " Of goodly thousands: but, for all this,\n" + " When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head,\n" + " Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor country\n" + " Shall have more vices than it had before,\n" + " More suffer and more sundry ways than ever,\n" + " By him that shall succeed.\n\n" + "MACDUFF What should he be?\n\n" + "MALCOLM It is myself I mean: in whom I know\n" + " All the particulars of vice so grafted\n" + " That, when they shall be open'd, black Macbeth\n" + " Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state\n" + " Esteem him as a lamb, being compared\n" + " With my confineless harms.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Not in the legions\n" + " Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd\n" + " In evils to top Macbeth.\n\n" + "MALCOLM I grant him bloody,\n" + " Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful,\n" + " Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin\n" + " That has a name: but there's no bottom, none,\n" + " In my voluptuousness: your wives, your daughters,\n" + " Your matrons and your maids, could not fill up\n" + " The cistern of my lust, and my desire\n" + " All continent impediments would o'erbear\n" + " That did oppose my will: better Macbeth\n" + " Than such an one to reign.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Boundless intemperance\n" + " In nature is a tyranny; it hath been\n" + " The untimely emptying of the happy throne\n" + " And fall of many kings. But fear not yet\n" + " To take upon you what is yours: you may\n" + " Convey your pleasures in a spacious plenty,\n" + " And yet seem cold, the time you may so hoodwink.\n" + " We have willing dames enough: there cannot be\n" + " That vulture in you, to devour so many\n" + " As will to greatness dedicate themselves,\n" + " Finding it so inclined.\n\n" + "MALCOLM With this there grows\n" + " In my most ill-composed affection such\n" + " A stanchless avarice that, were I king,\n" + " I should cut off the nobles for their lands,\n" + " Desire his jewels and this other's house:\n" + " And my more-having would be as a sauce\n" + " To make me hunger more; that I should forge\n" + " Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,\n" + " Destroying them for wealth.\n\n" + "MACDUFF This avarice\n" + " Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root\n" + " Than summer-seeming lust, and it hath been\n" + " The sword of our slain kings: yet do not fear;\n" + " Scotland hath foisons to fill up your will.\n" + " Of your mere own: all these are portable,\n" + " With other graces weigh'd.\n\n" + "MALCOLM But I have none: the king-becoming graces,\n" + " As justice, verity, temperance, stableness,\n" + " Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,\n" + " Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,\n" + " I have no relish of them, but abound\n" + " In the division of each several crime,\n" + " Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should\n" + " Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,\n" + " Uproar the universal peace, confound\n" + " All unity on earth.\n\n" + "MACDUFF O Scotland, Scotland!\n\n" + "MALCOLM If such a one be fit to govern, speak:\n" + " I am as I have spoken.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Fit to govern!\n" + " No, not to live. O nation miserable,\n" + " With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,\n" + " When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,\n" + " Since that the truest issue of thy throne\n" + " By his own interdiction stands accursed,\n" + " And does blaspheme his breed? Thy royal father\n" + " Was a most sainted king: the queen that bore thee,\n" + " Oftener upon her knees than on her feet,\n" + " Died every day she lived. Fare thee well!\n" + " These evils thou repeat'st upon thyself\n" + " Have banish'd me from Scotland. O my breast,\n" + " Thy hope ends here!\n\n" + "MALCOLM Macduff, this noble passion,\n" + " Child of integrity, hath from my soul\n" + " Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts\n" + " To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth\n" + " By many of these trains hath sought to win me\n" + " Into his power, and modest wisdom plucks me\n" + " From over-credulous haste: but God above\n" + " Deal between thee and me! for even now\n" + " I put myself to thy direction, and\n" + " Unspeak mine own detraction, here abjure\n" + " The taints and blames I laid upon myself,\n" + " For strangers to my nature. I am yet\n" + " Unknown to woman, never was forsworn,\n" + " Scarcely have coveted what was mine own,\n" + " At no time broke my faith, would not betray\n" + " The devil to his fellow and delight\n" + " No less in truth than life: my first false speaking\n" + " Was this upon myself: what I am truly,\n" + " Is thine and my poor country's to command:\n" + " Whither indeed, before thy here-approach,\n" + " Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men,\n" + " Already at a point, was setting forth.\n" + " Now we'll together; and the chance of goodness\n" + " Be like our warranted quarrel! Why are you silent?\n\n" + "MACDUFF Such welcome and unwelcome things at once\n" + " 'Tis hard to reconcile.\n\n" + " [Enter a Doctor]\n\n" + "MALCOLM Well; more anon.--Comes the king forth, I pray you?\n\n" + "Doctor Ay, sir; there are a crew of wretched souls\n" + " That stay his cure: their malady convinces\n" + " The great assay of art; but at his touch--\n" + " Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand--\n" + " They presently amend.\n\n" + "MALCOLM I thank you, doctor.\n\n" + " [Exit Doctor]\n\n" + "MACDUFF What's the disease he means?\n\n" + "MALCOLM 'Tis call'd the evil:\n" + " A most miraculous work in this good king;\n" + " Which often, since my here-remain in England,\n" + " I have seen him do. How he solicits heaven,\n" + " Himself best knows: but strangely-visited people,\n" + " All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye,\n" + " The mere despair of surgery, he cures,\n" + " Hanging a golden stamp about their necks,\n" + " Put on with holy prayers: and 'tis spoken,\n" + " To the succeeding royalty he leaves\n" + " The healing benediction. With this strange virtue,\n" + " He hath a heavenly gift of prophecy,\n" + " And sundry blessings hang about his throne,\n" + " That speak him full of grace.\n\n" + " [Enter ROSS]\n\n" + "MACDUFF See, who comes here?\n\n" + "MALCOLM My countryman; but yet I know him not.\n\n" + "MACDUFF My ever-gentle cousin, welcome hither.\n\n" + "MALCOLM I know him now. Good God, betimes remove\n" + " The means that makes us strangers!\n\n" + "ROSS Sir, amen.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Stands Scotland where it did?\n\n" + "ROSS Alas, poor country!\n" + " Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot\n" + " Be call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing,\n" + " But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;\n" + " Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air\n" + " Are made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems\n" + " A modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell\n" + " Is there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives\n" + " Expire before the flowers in their caps,\n" + " Dying or ere they sicken.\n\n" + "MACDUFF O, relation\n" + " Too nice, and yet too true!\n\n" + "MALCOLM What's the newest grief?\n\n" + "ROSS That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker:\n" + " Each minute teems a new one.\n\n" + "MACDUFF How does my wife?\n\n" + "ROSS Why, well.\n\n" + "MACDUFF And all my children?\n\n" + "ROSS Well too.\n\n" + "MACDUFF The tyrant has not batter'd at their peace?\n\n" + "ROSS No; they were well at peace when I did leave 'em.\n\n" + "MACDUFF But not a niggard of your speech: how goes't?\n\n" + "ROSS When I came hither to transport the tidings,\n" + " Which I have heavily borne, there ran a rumour\n" + " Of many worthy fellows that were out;\n" + " Which was to my belief witness'd the rather,\n" + " For that I saw the tyrant's power a-foot:\n" + " Now is the time of help; your eye in Scotland\n" + " Would create soldiers, make our women fight,\n" + " To doff their dire distresses.\n\n" + "MALCOLM Be't their comfort\n" + " We are coming thither: gracious England hath\n" + " Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;\n" + " An older and a better soldier none\n" + " That Christendom gives out.\n\n" + "ROSS Would I could answer\n" + " This comfort with the like! But I have words\n" + " That would be howl'd out in the desert air,\n" + " Where hearing should not latch them.\n\n" + "MACDUFF What concern they?\n" + " The general cause? or is it a fee-grief\n" + " Due to some single breast?\n\n" + "ROSS No mind that's honest\n" + " But in it shares some woe; though the main part\n" + " Pertains to you alone.\n\n" + "MACDUFF If it be mine,\n" + " Keep it not from me, quickly let me have it.\n\n" + "ROSS Let not your ears despise my tongue for ever,\n" + " Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound\n" + " That ever yet they heard.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Hum! I guess at it.\n\n" + "ROSS Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes\n" + " Savagely slaughter'd: to relate the manner,\n" + " Were, on the quarry of these murder'd deer,\n" + " To add the death of you.\n\n" + "MALCOLM Merciful heaven!\n" + " What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows;\n" + " Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak\n" + " Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.\n\n" + "MACDUFF My children too?\n\n" + "ROSS Wife, children, servants, all\n" + " That could be found.\n\n" + "MACDUFF And I must be from thence!\n" + " My wife kill'd too?\n\n" + "ROSS I have said.\n\n" + "MALCOLM Be comforted:\n" + " Let's make us medicines of our great revenge,\n" + " To cure this deadly grief.\n\n" + "MACDUFF He has no children. All my pretty ones?\n" + " Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?\n" + " What, all my pretty chickens and their dam\n" + " At one fell swoop?\n\n" + "MALCOLM Dispute it like a man.\n\n" + "MACDUFF I shall do so;\n" + " But I must also feel it as a man:\n" + " I cannot but remember such things were,\n" + " That were most precious to me. Did heaven look on,\n" + " And would not take their part? Sinful Macduff,\n" + " They were all struck for thee! naught that I am,\n" + " Not for their own demerits, but for mine,\n" + " Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now!\n\n" + "MALCOLM Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief\n" + " Convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.\n\n" + "MACDUFF O, I could play the woman with mine eyes\n" + " And braggart with my tongue! But, gentle heavens,\n" + " Cut short all intermission; front to front\n" + " Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself;\n" + " Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape,\n" + " Heaven forgive him too!\n\n" + "MALCOLM This tune goes manly.\n" + " Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;\n" + " Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth\n" + " Is ripe for shaking, and the powers above\n" + " Put on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may:\n" + " The night is long that never finds the day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Dunsinane. Ante-room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Doctor of Physic and a Waiting-Gentlewoman]\n\n" + "Doctor I have two nights watched with you, but can perceive\n" + " no truth in your report. When was it she last walked?\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Since his majesty went into the field, I have seen\n" + " her rise from her bed, throw her night-gown upon\n" + " her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it,\n" + " write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again\n" + " return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep.\n\n" + "Doctor A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once\n" + " the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of\n" + " watching! In this slumbery agitation, besides her\n" + " walking and other actual performances, what, at any\n" + " time, have you heard her say?\n\n" + "Gentlewoman That, sir, which I will not report after her.\n\n" + "Doctor You may to me: and 'tis most meet you should.\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Neither to you nor any one; having no witness to\n" + " confirm my speech.\n\n" + " [Enter LADY MACBETH, with a taper]\n\n" + " Lo you, here she comes! This is her very guise;\n" + " and, upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close.\n\n" + "Doctor How came she by that light?\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Why, it stood by her: she has light by her\n" + " continually; 'tis her command.\n\n" + "Doctor You see, her eyes are open.\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Ay, but their sense is shut.\n\n" + "Doctor What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands.\n\n" + "Gentlewoman It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus\n" + " washing her hands: I have known her continue in\n" + " this a quarter of an hour.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Yet here's a spot.\n\n" + "Doctor Hark! she speaks: I will set down what comes from\n" + " her, to satisfy my remembrance the more strongly.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why,\n" + " then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is murky!--Fie, my\n" + " lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we\n" + " fear who knows it, when none can call our power to\n" + " account?--Yet who would have thought the old man\n" + " to have had so much blood in him.\n\n" + "Doctor Do you mark that?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?--\n" + " What, will these hands ne'er be clean?--No more o'\n" + " that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with\n" + " this starting.\n\n" + "Doctor Go to, go to; you have known what you should not.\n\n" + "Gentlewoman She has spoke what she should not, I am sure of\n" + " that: heaven knows what she has known.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Here's the smell of the blood still: all the\n" + " perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little\n" + " hand. Oh, oh, oh!\n\n" + "Doctor What a sigh is there! The heart is sorely charged.\n\n" + "Gentlewoman I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the\n" + " dignity of the whole body.\n\n" + "Doctor Well, well, well,--\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Pray God it be, sir.\n\n" + "Doctor This disease is beyond my practise: yet I have known\n" + " those which have walked in their sleep who have died\n" + " holily in their beds.\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so\n" + " pale.--I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried; he\n" + " cannot come out on's grave.\n\n" + "Doctor Even so?\n\n" + "LADY MACBETH To bed, to bed! there's knocking at the gate:\n" + " come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What's\n" + " done cannot be undone.--To bed, to bed, to bed!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Doctor Will she go now to bed?\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Directly.\n\n" + "Doctor Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds\n" + " Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds\n" + " To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:\n" + " More needs she the divine than the physician.\n" + " God, God forgive us all! Look after her;\n" + " Remove from her the means of all annoyance,\n" + " And still keep eyes upon her. So, good night:\n" + " My mind she has mated, and amazed my sight.\n" + " I think, but dare not speak.\n\n" + "Gentlewoman Good night, good doctor.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The country near Dunsinane.\n\n\n" + " [Drum and colours. Enter MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS,\n" + " LENNOX, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "MENTEITH The English power is near, led on by Malcolm,\n" + " His uncle Siward and the good Macduff:\n" + " Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes\n" + " Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm\n" + " Excite the mortified man.\n\n" + "ANGUS Near Birnam wood\n" + " Shall we well meet them; that way are they coming.\n\n" + "CAITHNESS Who knows if Donalbain be with his brother?\n\n" + "LENNOX For certain, sir, he is not: I have a file\n" + " Of all the gentry: there is Siward's son,\n" + " And many unrough youths that even now\n" + " Protest their first of manhood.\n\n" + "MENTEITH What does the tyrant?\n\n" + "CAITHNESS Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies:\n" + " Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him\n" + " Do call it valiant fury: but, for certain,\n" + " He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause\n" + " Within the belt of rule.\n\n" + "ANGUS Now does he feel\n" + " His secret murders sticking on his hands;\n" + " Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach;\n" + " Those he commands move only in command,\n" + " Nothing in love: now does he feel his title\n" + " Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe\n" + " Upon a dwarfish thief.\n\n" + "MENTEITH Who then shall blame\n" + " His pester'd senses to recoil and start,\n" + " When all that is within him does condemn\n" + " Itself for being there?\n\n" + "CAITHNESS Well, march we on,\n" + " To give obedience where 'tis truly owed:\n" + " Meet we the medicine of the sickly weal,\n" + " And with him pour we in our country's purge\n" + " Each drop of us.\n\n" + "LENNOX Or so much as it needs,\n" + " To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.\n" + " Make we our march towards Birnam.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, marching]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Dunsinane. A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH, Doctor, and Attendants]\n\n" + "MACBETH Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:\n" + " Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane,\n" + " I cannot taint with fear. What's the boy Malcolm?\n" + " Was he not born of woman? The spirits that know\n" + " All mortal consequences have pronounced me thus:\n" + " 'Fear not, Macbeth; no man that's born of woman\n" + " Shall e'er have power upon thee.' Then fly,\n" + " false thanes,\n" + " And mingle with the English epicures:\n" + " The mind I sway by and the heart I bear\n" + " Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + " The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!\n" + " Where got'st thou that goose look?\n\n" + "Servant There is ten thousand--\n\n" + "MACBETH Geese, villain!\n\n" + "Servant Soldiers, sir.\n\n" + "MACBETH Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear,\n" + " Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch?\n" + " Death of thy soul! those linen cheeks of thine\n" + " Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, whey-face?\n\n" + "Servant The English force, so please you.\n\n" + "MACBETH Take thy face hence.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " Seyton!--I am sick at heart,\n" + " When I behold--Seyton, I say!--This push\n" + " Will cheer me ever, or disseat me now.\n" + " I have lived long enough: my way of life\n" + " Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;\n" + " And that which should accompany old age,\n" + " As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,\n" + " I must not look to have; but, in their stead,\n" + " Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath,\n" + " Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not. Seyton!\n\n" + " [Enter SEYTON]\n\n" + "SEYTON What is your gracious pleasure?\n\n" + "MACBETH What news more?\n\n" + "SEYTON All is confirm'd, my lord, which was reported.\n\n" + "MACBETH I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack'd.\n" + " Give me my armour.\n\n" + "SEYTON 'Tis not needed yet.\n\n" + "MACBETH I'll put it on.\n" + " Send out more horses; skirr the country round;\n" + " Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour.\n" + " How does your patient, doctor?\n\n" + "Doctor Not so sick, my lord,\n" + " As she is troubled with thick coming fancies,\n" + " That keep her from her rest.\n\n" + "MACBETH Cure her of that.\n" + " Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,\n" + " Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,\n" + " Raze out the written troubles of the brain\n" + " And with some sweet oblivious antidote\n" + " Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff\n" + " Which weighs upon the heart?\n\n" + "Doctor Therein the patient\n" + " Must minister to himself.\n\n" + "MACBETH Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.\n" + " Come, put mine armour on; give me my staff.\n" + " Seyton, send out. Doctor, the thanes fly from me.\n" + " Come, sir, dispatch. If thou couldst, doctor, cast\n" + " The water of my land, find her disease,\n" + " And purge it to a sound and pristine health,\n" + " I would applaud thee to the very echo,\n" + " That should applaud again.--Pull't off, I say.--\n" + " What rhubarb, cyme, or what purgative drug,\n" + " Would scour these English hence? Hear'st thou of them?\n\n" + "Doctor Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation\n" + " Makes us hear something.\n\n" + "MACBETH Bring it after me.\n" + " I will not be afraid of death and bane,\n" + " Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.\n\n" + "Doctor [Aside] Were I from Dunsinane away and clear,\n" + " Profit again should hardly draw me here.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Country near Birnam wood.\n\n\n" + " [Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD and YOUNG\n" + " SIWARD, MACDUFF, MENTEITH, CAITHNESS, ANGUS,\n" + " LENNOX, ROSS, and Soldiers, marching]\n\n" + "MALCOLM Cousins, I hope the days are near at hand\n" + " That chambers will be safe.\n\n" + "MENTEITH We doubt it nothing.\n\n" + "SIWARD What wood is this before us?\n\n" + "MENTEITH The wood of Birnam.\n\n" + "MALCOLM Let every soldier hew him down a bough\n" + " And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow\n" + " The numbers of our host and make discovery\n" + " Err in report of us.\n\n" + "Soldiers It shall be done.\n\n" + "SIWARD We learn no other but the confident tyrant\n" + " Keeps still in Dunsinane, and will endure\n" + " Our setting down before 't.\n\n" + "MALCOLM 'Tis his main hope:\n" + " For where there is advantage to be given,\n" + " Both more and less have given him the revolt,\n" + " And none serve with him but constrained things\n" + " Whose hearts are absent too.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Let our just censures\n" + " Attend the true event, and put we on\n" + " Industrious soldiership.\n\n" + "SIWARD The time approaches\n" + " That will with due decision make us know\n" + " What we shall say we have and what we owe.\n" + " Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate,\n" + " But certain issue strokes must arbitrate:\n" + " Towards which advance the war.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, marching]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Dunsinane. Within the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum\n" + " and colours]\n\n" + "MACBETH Hang out our banners on the outward walls;\n" + " The cry is still 'They come:' our castle's strength\n" + " Will laugh a siege to scorn: here let them lie\n" + " Till famine and the ague eat them up:\n" + " Were they not forced with those that should be ours,\n" + " We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,\n" + " And beat them backward home.\n\n" + " [A cry of women within]\n\n" + " What is that noise?\n\n" + "SEYTON It is the cry of women, my good lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MACBETH I have almost forgot the taste of fears;\n" + " The time has been, my senses would have cool'd\n" + " To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair\n" + " Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir\n" + " As life were in't: I have supp'd full with horrors;\n" + " Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts\n" + " Cannot once start me.\n\n" + " [Re-enter SEYTON]\n\n" + " Wherefore was that cry?\n\n" + "SEYTON The queen, my lord, is dead.\n\n" + "MACBETH She should have died hereafter;\n" + " There would have been a time for such a word.\n" + " To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,\n" + " Creeps in this petty pace from day to day\n" + " To the last syllable of recorded time,\n" + " And all our yesterdays have lighted fools\n" + " The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!\n" + " Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player\n" + " That struts and frets his hour upon the stage\n" + " And then is heard no more: it is a tale\n" + " Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,\n" + " Signifying nothing.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " Thou comest to use thy tongue; thy story quickly.\n\n" + "Messenger Gracious my lord,\n" + " I should report that which I say I saw,\n" + " But know not how to do it.\n\n" + "MACBETH Well, say, sir.\n\n" + "Messenger As I did stand my watch upon the hill,\n" + " I look'd toward Birnam, and anon, methought,\n" + " The wood began to move.\n\n" + "MACBETH Liar and slave!\n\n" + "Messenger Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so:\n" + " Within this three mile may you see it coming;\n" + " I say, a moving grove.\n\n" + "MACBETH If thou speak'st false,\n" + " Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive,\n" + " Till famine cling thee: if thy speech be sooth,\n" + " I care not if thou dost for me as much.\n" + " I pull in resolution, and begin\n" + " To doubt the equivocation of the fiend\n" + " That lies like truth: 'Fear not, till Birnam wood\n" + " Do come to Dunsinane:' and now a wood\n" + " Comes toward Dunsinane. Arm, arm, and out!\n" + " If this which he avouches does appear,\n" + " There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.\n" + " I gin to be aweary of the sun,\n" + " And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.\n" + " Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!\n" + " At least we'll die with harness on our back.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Dunsinane. Before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Drum and colours. Enter MALCOLM, SIWARD, MACDUFF,\n" + " and their Army, with boughs]\n\n" + "MALCOLM Now near enough: your leafy screens throw down.\n" + " And show like those you are. You, worthy uncle,\n" + " Shall, with my cousin, your right-noble son,\n" + " Lead our first battle: worthy Macduff and we\n" + " Shall take upon 's what else remains to do,\n" + " According to our order.\n\n" + "SIWARD Fare you well.\n" + " Do we but find the tyrant's power to-night,\n" + " Let us be beaten, if we cannot fight.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath,\n" + " Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter MACBETH]\n\n" + "MACBETH They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,\n" + " But, bear-like, I must fight the course. What's he\n" + " That was not born of woman? Such a one\n" + " Am I to fear, or none.\n\n" + " [Enter YOUNG SIWARD]\n\n" + "YOUNG SIWARD What is thy name?\n\n" + "MACBETH Thou'lt be afraid to hear it.\n\n" + "YOUNG SIWARD No; though thou call'st thyself a hotter name\n" + " Than any is in hell.\n\n" + "MACBETH My name's Macbeth.\n\n" + "YOUNG SIWARD The devil himself could not pronounce a title\n" + " More hateful to mine ear.\n\n" + "MACBETH No, nor more fearful.\n\n" + "YOUNG SIWARD Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; with my sword\n" + " I'll prove the lie thou speak'st.\n\n" + " [They fight and YOUNG SIWARD is slain]\n\n" + "MACBETH Thou wast born of woman\n" + " But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn,\n" + " Brandish'd by man that's of a woman born.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Alarums. Enter MACDUFF]\n\n" + "MACDUFF That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face!\n" + " If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine,\n" + " My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.\n" + " I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms\n" + " Are hired to bear their staves: either thou, Macbeth,\n" + " Or else my sword with an unbatter'd edge\n" + " I sheathe again undeeded. There thou shouldst be;\n" + " By this great clatter, one of greatest note\n" + " Seems bruited. Let me find him, fortune!\n" + " And more I beg not.\n\n" + " [Exit. Alarums]\n\n" + " [Enter MALCOLM and SIWARD]\n\n" + "SIWARD This way, my lord; the castle's gently render'd:\n" + " The tyrant's people on both sides do fight;\n" + " The noble thanes do bravely in the war;\n" + " The day almost itself professes yours,\n" + " And little is to do.\n\n" + "MALCOLM We have met with foes\n" + " That strike beside us.\n\n" + "SIWARD Enter, sir, the castle.\n\n" + " [Exeunt. Alarums]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MACBETH\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII Another part of the field.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MACBETH]\n\n" + "MACBETH Why should I play the Roman fool, and die\n" + " On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the gashes\n" + " Do better upon them.\n\n" + " [Enter MACDUFF]\n\n" + "MACDUFF Turn, hell-hound, turn!\n\n" + "MACBETH Of all men else I have avoided thee:\n" + " But get thee back; my soul is too much charged\n" + " With blood of thine already.\n\n" + "MACDUFF I have no words:\n" + " My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain\n" + " Than terms can give thee out!\n\n" + " [They fight]\n\n" + "MACBETH Thou losest labour:\n" + " As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air\n" + " With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed:\n" + " Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests;\n" + " I bear a charmed life, which must not yield,\n" + " To one of woman born.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Despair thy charm;\n" + " And let the angel whom thou still hast served\n" + " Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb\n" + " Untimely ripp'd.\n\n" + "MACBETH Accursed be that tongue that tells me so,\n" + " For it hath cow'd my better part of man!\n" + " And be these juggling fiends no more believed,\n" + " That palter with us in a double sense;\n" + " That keep the word of promise to our ear,\n" + " And break it to our hope. I'll not fight with thee.\n\n" + "MACDUFF Then yield thee, coward,\n" + " And live to be the show and gaze o' the time:\n" + " We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are,\n" + " Painted on a pole, and underwrit,\n" + " 'Here may you see the tyrant.'\n\n" + "MACBETH I will not yield,\n" + " To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,\n" + " And to be baited with the rabble's curse.\n" + " Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,\n" + " And thou opposed, being of no woman born,\n" + " Yet I will try the last. Before my body\n" + " I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,\n" + " And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'\n\n" + " [Exeunt, fighting. Alarums]\n\n" + " [Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colours,\n" + " MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS, the other Thanes, and Soldiers]\n\n" + "MALCOLM I would the friends we miss were safe arrived.\n\n" + "SIWARD Some must go off: and yet, by these I see,\n" + " So great a day as this is cheaply bought.\n\n" + "MALCOLM Macduff is missing, and your noble son.\n\n" + "ROSS Your son, my lord, has paid a soldier's debt:\n" + " He only lived but till he was a man;\n" + " The which no sooner had his prowess confirm'd\n" + " In the unshrinking station where he fought,\n" + " But like a man he died.\n\n" + "SIWARD Then he is dead?\n\n" + "ROSS Ay, and brought off the field: your cause of sorrow\n" + " Must not be measured by his worth, for then\n" + " It hath no end.\n\n" + "SIWARD Had he his hurts before?\n\n" + "ROSS Ay, on the front.\n\n" + "SIWARD Why then, God's soldier be he!\n" + " Had I as many sons as I have hairs,\n" + " I would not wish them to a fairer death:\n" + " And so, his knell is knoll'd.\n\n" + "MALCOLM He's worth more sorrow,\n" + " And that I'll spend for him.\n\n" + "SIWARD He's worth no more\n" + " They say he parted well, and paid his score:\n" + " And so, God be with him! Here comes newer comfort.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MACDUFF, with MACBETH's head]\n\n" + "MACDUFF Hail, king! for so thou art: behold, where stands\n" + " The usurper's cursed head: the time is free:\n" + " I see thee compass'd with thy kingdom's pearl,\n" + " That speak my salutation in their minds;\n" + " Whose voices I desire aloud with mine:\n" + " Hail, King of Scotland!\n\n" + "ALL Hail, King of Scotland!\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n" + "MALCOLM We shall not spend a large expense of time\n" + " Before we reckon with your several loves,\n" + " And make us even with you. My thanes and kinsmen,\n" + " Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland\n" + " In such an honour named. What's more to do,\n" + " Which would be planted newly with the time,\n" + " As calling home our exiled friends abroad\n" + " That fled the snares of watchful tyranny;\n" + " Producing forth the cruel ministers\n" + " Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,\n" + " Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands\n" + " Took off her life; this, and what needful else\n" + " That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace,\n" + " We will perform in measure, time and place:\n" + " So, thanks to all at once and to each one,\n" + " Whom we invite to see us crown'd at Scone.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "VINCENTIO the Duke. (DUKE VINCENTIO:)\n\n" + "ANGELO Deputy.\n\n" + "ESCALUS an ancient Lord.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO a young gentleman.\n\n" + "LUCIO a fantastic.\n\n" + " Two other gentlemen.\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n" + " Provost.\n\n\n" + "PETER (FRIAR PETER:) |\n" + " | two friars.\n" + "THOMAS (FRIAR THOMAS:) |\n\n\n" + " A Justice.\n\n" + "VARRIUS:\n\n" + "ELBOW a simple constable.\n\n" + "FROTH a foolish gentleman.\n\n" + "POMPEY servant to Mistress Overdone.\n\n" + "ABHORSON an executioner.\n\n" + "BARNARDINE a dissolute prisoner.\n\n" + "ISABELLA sister to Claudio.\n\n" + "MARIANA betrothed to Angelo.\n\n" + "JULIET beloved of Claudio.\n\n" + "FRANCISCA a nun.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE a bawd.\n\n" + " Lords, Officers, Citizens, Boy, and Attendant.\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Vienna.\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n" + "SCENE I An apartment in the DUKE'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, ESCALUS, Lords and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Escalus.\n\n" + "ESCALUS My lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Of government the properties to unfold,\n" + " Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;\n" + " Since I am put to know that your own science\n" + " Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice\n" + " My strength can give you: then no more remains,\n" + " But that to your sufficiency [ ]\n" + " [ ] as your Worth is able,\n" + " And let them work. The nature of our people,\n" + " Our city's institutions, and the terms\n" + " For common justice, you're as pregnant in\n" + " As art and practise hath enriched any\n" + " That we remember. There is our commission,\n" + " From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,\n" + " I say, bid come before us Angelo.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " What figure of us think you he will bear?\n" + " For you must know, we have with special soul\n" + " Elected him our absence to supply,\n" + " Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,\n" + " And given his deputation all the organs\n" + " Of our own power: what think you of it?\n\n" + "ESCALUS If any in Vienna be of worth\n" + " To undergo such ample grace and honour,\n" + " It is Lord Angelo.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Look where he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter ANGELO]\n\n" + "ANGELO Always obedient to your grace's will,\n" + " I come to know your pleasure.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Angelo,\n" + " There is a kind of character in thy life,\n" + " That to the observer doth thy history\n" + " Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings\n" + " Are not thine own so proper as to waste\n" + " Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.\n" + " Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,\n" + " Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues\n" + " Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike\n" + " As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd\n" + " But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends\n" + " The smallest scruple of her excellence\n" + " But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines\n" + " Herself the glory of a creditor,\n" + " Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech\n" + " To one that can my part in him advertise;\n" + " Hold therefore, Angelo:--\n" + " In our remove be thou at full ourself;\n" + " Mortality and mercy in Vienna\n" + " Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus,\n" + " Though first in question, is thy secondary.\n" + " Take thy commission.\n\n" + "ANGELO Now, good my lord,\n" + " Let there be some more test made of my metal,\n" + " Before so noble and so great a figure\n" + " Be stamp'd upon it.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO No more evasion:\n" + " We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice\n" + " Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours.\n" + " Our haste from hence is of so quick condition\n" + " That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd\n" + " Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,\n" + " As time and our concernings shall importune,\n" + " How it goes with us, and do look to know\n" + " What doth befall you here. So, fare you well;\n" + " To the hopeful execution do I leave you\n" + " Of your commissions.\n\n" + "ANGELO Yet give leave, my lord,\n" + " That we may bring you something on the way.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO My haste may not admit it;\n" + " Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do\n" + " With any scruple; your scope is as mine own\n" + " So to enforce or qualify the laws\n" + " As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand:\n" + " I'll privily away. I love the people,\n" + " But do not like to stage me to their eyes:\n" + " Through it do well, I do not relish well\n" + " Their loud applause and Aves vehement;\n" + " Nor do I think the man of safe discretion\n" + " That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.\n\n" + "ANGELO The heavens give safety to your purposes!\n\n" + "ESCALUS Lead forth and bring you back in happiness!\n\n" + "DUKE I thank you. Fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ESCALUS I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave\n" + " To have free speech with you; and it concerns me\n" + " To look into the bottom of my place:\n" + " A power I have, but of what strength and nature\n" + " I am not yet instructed.\n\n" + "ANGELO 'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,\n" + " And we may soon our satisfaction have\n" + " Touching that point.\n\n" + "ESCALUS I'll wait upon your honour.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A Street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen]\n\n" + "LUCIO If the duke with the other dukes come not to\n" + " composition with the King of Hungary, why then all\n" + " the dukes fall upon the king.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of\n" + " Hungary's!\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Amen.\n\n" + "LUCIO Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that\n" + " went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped\n" + " one out of the table.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman 'Thou shalt not steal'?\n\n" + "LUCIO Ay, that he razed.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and\n" + " all the rest from their functions: they put forth\n" + " to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in\n" + " the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition\n" + " well that prays for peace.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I never heard any soldier dislike it.\n\n" + "LUCIO I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where\n" + " grace was said.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman No? a dozen times at least.\n\n" + "First Gentleman What, in metre?\n\n" + "LUCIO In any proportion or in any language.\n\n" + "First Gentleman I think, or in any religion.\n\n" + "LUCIO Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all\n" + " controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a\n" + " wicked villain, despite of all grace.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.\n\n" + "LUCIO I grant; as there may between the lists and the\n" + " velvet. Thou art the list.\n\n" + "First Gentleman And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt\n" + " a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief\n" + " be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou\n" + " art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak\n" + " feelingly now?\n\n" + "LUCIO I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful\n" + " feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own\n" + " confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I\n" + " live, forget to drink after thee.\n\n" + "First Gentleman I think I have done myself wrong, have I not?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.\n\n" + "LUCIO Behold, behold. where Madam Mitigation comes! I\n" + " have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to--\n\n" + "Second Gentleman To what, I pray?\n\n" + "LUCIO Judge.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman To three thousand dolours a year.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Ay, and more.\n\n" + "LUCIO A French crown more.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Thou art always figuring diseases in me; but thou\n" + " art full of error; I am sound.\n\n" + "LUCIO Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as\n" + " things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow;\n" + " impiety has made a feast of thee.\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS OVERDONE]\n\n" + "First Gentleman How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE Well, well; there's one yonder arrested and carried\n" + " to prison was worth five thousand of you all.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Who's that, I pray thee?\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior Claudio.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Claudio to prison? 'tis not so.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw him arrested, saw\n" + " him carried away; and, which is more, within these\n" + " three days his head to be chopped off.\n\n" + "LUCIO But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so.\n" + " Art thou sure of this?\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE I am too sure of it: and it is for getting Madam\n" + " Julietta with child.\n\n" + "LUCIO Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two\n" + " hours since, and he was ever precise in\n" + " promise-keeping.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Besides, you know, it draws something near to the\n" + " speech we had to such a purpose.\n\n" + "First Gentleman But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.\n\n" + "LUCIO Away! let's go learn the truth of it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCIO and Gentlemen]\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what\n" + " with the gallows and what with poverty, I am\n" + " custom-shrunk.\n\n" + " [Enter POMPEY]\n\n" + " How now! what's the news with you?\n\n" + "POMPEY Yonder man is carried to prison.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE Well; what has he done?\n\n" + "POMPEY A woman.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE But what's his offence?\n\n" + "POMPEY Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE What, is there a maid with child by him?\n\n" + "POMPEY No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have\n" + " not heard of the proclamation, have you?\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE What proclamation, man?\n\n" + "POMPEY All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE And what shall become of those in the city?\n\n" + "POMPEY They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too,\n" + " but that a wise burgher put in for them.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be\n" + " pulled down?\n\n" + "POMPEY To the ground, mistress.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth!\n" + " What shall become of me?\n\n" + "POMPEY Come; fear you not: good counsellors lack no\n" + " clients: though you change your place, you need not\n" + " change your trade; I'll be your tapster still.\n" + " Courage! there will be pity taken on you: you that\n" + " have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you\n" + " will be considered.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw.\n\n" + "POMPEY Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to\n" + " prison; and there's Madam Juliet.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter Provost, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and Officers]\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?\n" + " Bear me to prison, where I am committed.\n\n" + "Provost I do it not in evil disposition,\n" + " But from Lord Angelo by special charge.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Thus can the demigod Authority\n" + " Make us pay down for our offence by weight\n" + " The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;\n" + " On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen]\n\n" + "LUCIO Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:\n" + " As surfeit is the father of much fast,\n" + " So every scope by the immoderate use\n" + " Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,\n" + " Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,\n" + " A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.\n\n" + "LUCIO If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would\n" + " send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say\n" + " the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom\n" + " as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy\n" + " offence, Claudio?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO What but to speak of would offend again.\n\n" + "LUCIO What, is't murder?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO No.\n\n" + "LUCIO Lechery?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Call it so.\n\n" + "Provost Away, sir! you must go.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you.\n\n" + "LUCIO A hundred, if they'll do you any good.\n" + " Is lechery so look'd after?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract\n" + " I got possession of Julietta's bed:\n" + " You know the lady; she is fast my wife,\n" + " Save that we do the denunciation lack\n" + " Of outward order: this we came not to,\n" + " Only for propagation of a dower\n" + " Remaining in the coffer of her friends,\n" + " From whom we thought it meet to hide our love\n" + " Till time had made them for us. But it chances\n" + " The stealth of our most mutual entertainment\n" + " With character too gross is writ on Juliet.\n\n" + "LUCIO With child, perhaps?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Unhappily, even so.\n" + " And the new deputy now for the duke--\n" + " Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,\n" + " Or whether that the body public be\n" + " A horse whereon the governor doth ride,\n" + " Who, newly in the seat, that it may know\n" + " He can command, lets it straight feel the spur;\n" + " Whether the tyranny be in his place,\n" + " Or in his emmence that fills it up,\n" + " I stagger in:--but this new governor\n" + " Awakes me all the enrolled penalties\n" + " Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall\n" + " So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round\n" + " And none of them been worn; and, for a name,\n" + " Now puts the drowsy and neglected act\n" + " Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name.\n\n" + "LUCIO I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on\n" + " thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love,\n" + " may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to\n" + " him.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I have done so, but he's not to be found.\n" + " I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:\n" + " This day my sister should the cloister enter\n" + " And there receive her approbation:\n" + " Acquaint her with the danger of my state:\n" + " Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends\n" + " To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him:\n" + " I have great hope in that; for in her youth\n" + " There is a prone and speechless dialect,\n" + " Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art\n" + " When she will play with reason and discourse,\n" + " And well she can persuade.\n\n" + "LUCIO I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the\n" + " like, which else would stand under grievous\n" + " imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I\n" + " would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a\n" + " game of tick-tack. I'll to her.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I thank you, good friend Lucio.\n\n" + "LUCIO Within two hours.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Come, officer, away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A monastery.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO and FRIAR THOMAS]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO No, holy father; throw away that thought;\n" + " Believe not that the dribbling dart of love\n" + " Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee\n" + " To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose\n" + " More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends\n" + " Of burning youth.\n\n" + "FRIAR THOMAS May your grace speak of it?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO My holy sir, none better knows than you\n" + " How I have ever loved the life removed\n" + " And held in idle price to haunt assemblies\n" + " Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.\n" + " I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,\n" + " A man of stricture and firm abstinence,\n" + " My absolute power and place here in Vienna,\n" + " And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;\n" + " For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,\n" + " And so it is received. Now, pious sir,\n" + " You will demand of me why I do this?\n\n" + "FRIAR THOMAS Gladly, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO We have strict statutes and most biting laws.\n" + " The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,\n" + " Which for this nineteen years we have let slip;\n" + " Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave,\n" + " That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,\n" + " Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch,\n" + " Only to stick it in their children's sight\n" + " For terror, not to use, in time the rod\n" + " Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our decrees,\n" + " Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;\n" + " And liberty plucks justice by the nose;\n" + " The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart\n" + " Goes all decorum.\n\n" + "FRIAR THOMAS It rested in your grace\n" + " To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased:\n" + " And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd\n" + " Than in Lord Angelo.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I do fear, too dreadful:\n" + " Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,\n" + " 'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them\n" + " For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,\n" + " When evil deeds have their permissive pass\n" + " And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,\n" + " I have on Angelo imposed the office;\n" + " Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,\n" + " And yet my nature never in the fight\n" + " To do in slander. And to behold his sway,\n" + " I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,\n" + " Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,\n" + " Supply me with the habit and instruct me\n" + " How I may formally in person bear me\n" + " Like a true friar. More reasons for this action\n" + " At our more leisure shall I render you;\n" + " Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise;\n" + " Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses\n" + " That his blood flows, or that his appetite\n" + " Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,\n" + " If power change purpose, what our seemers be.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A nunnery.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA]\n\n" + "ISABELLA And have you nuns no farther privileges?\n\n" + "FRANCISCA Are not these large enough?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more;\n" + " But rather wishing a more strict restraint\n" + " Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Within] Ho! Peace be in this place!\n\n" + "ISABELLA Who's that which calls?\n\n" + "FRANCISCA It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,\n" + " Turn you the key, and know his business of him;\n" + " You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn.\n" + " When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men\n" + " But in the presence of the prioress:\n" + " Then, if you speak, you must not show your face,\n" + " Or, if you show your face, you must not speak.\n" + " He calls again; I pray you, answer him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ISABELLA Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIO]\n\n" + "LUCIO Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses\n" + " Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me\n" + " As bring me to the sight of Isabella,\n" + " A novice of this place and the fair sister\n" + " To her unhappy brother Claudio?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,\n" + " The rather for I now must make you know\n" + " I am that Isabella and his sister.\n\n" + "LUCIO Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:\n" + " Not to be weary with you, he's in prison.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Woe me! for what?\n\n" + "LUCIO For that which, if myself might be his judge,\n" + " He should receive his punishment in thanks:\n" + " He hath got his friend with child.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Sir, make me not your story.\n\n" + "LUCIO It is true.\n" + " I would not--though 'tis my familiar sin\n" + " With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest,\n" + " Tongue far from heart--play with all virgins so:\n" + " I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.\n" + " By your renouncement an immortal spirit,\n" + " And to be talk'd with in sincerity,\n" + " As with a saint.\n\n" + "ISABELLA You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.\n\n" + "LUCIO Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus:\n" + " Your brother and his lover have embraced:\n" + " As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time\n" + " That from the seedness the bare fallow brings\n" + " To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb\n" + " Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Some one with child by him? My cousin Juliet?\n\n" + "LUCIO Is she your cousin?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Adoptedly; as school-maids change their names\n" + " By vain though apt affection.\n\n" + "LUCIO She it is.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, let him marry her.\n\n" + "LUCIO This is the point.\n" + " The duke is very strangely gone from hence;\n" + " Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,\n" + " In hand and hope of action: but we do learn\n" + " By those that know the very nerves of state,\n" + " His givings-out were of an infinite distance\n" + " From his true-meant design. Upon his place,\n" + " And with full line of his authority,\n" + " Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood\n" + " Is very snow-broth; one who never feels\n" + " The wanton stings and motions of the sense,\n" + " But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge\n" + " With profits of the mind, study and fast.\n" + " He--to give fear to use and liberty,\n" + " Which have for long run by the hideous law,\n" + " As mice by lions--hath pick'd out an act,\n" + " Under whose heavy sense your brother's life\n" + " Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it;\n" + " And follows close the rigour of the statute,\n" + " To make him an example. All hope is gone,\n" + " Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer\n" + " To soften Angelo: and that's my pith of business\n" + " 'Twixt you and your poor brother.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Doth he so seek his life?\n\n" + "LUCIO Has censured him\n" + " Already; and, as I hear, the provost hath\n" + " A warrant for his execution.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Alas! what poor ability's in me\n" + " To do him good?\n\n" + "LUCIO Assay the power you have.\n\n" + "ISABELLA My power? Alas, I doubt--\n\n" + "LUCIO Our doubts are traitors\n" + " And make us lose the good we oft might win\n" + " By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,\n" + " And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,\n" + " Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,\n" + " All their petitions are as freely theirs\n" + " As they themselves would owe them.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I'll see what I can do.\n\n" + "LUCIO But speedily.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I will about it straight;\n" + " No longer staying but to give the mother\n" + " Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you:\n" + " Commend me to my brother: soon at night\n" + " I'll send him certain word of my success.\n\n" + "LUCIO I take my leave of you.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Good sir, adieu.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A hall In ANGELO's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a Justice, Provost,\n" + " Officers, and other Attendants, behind]\n\n" + "ANGELO We must not make a scarecrow of the law,\n" + " Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,\n" + " And let it keep one shape, till custom make it\n" + " Their perch and not their terror.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Ay, but yet\n" + " Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,\n" + " Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman\n" + " Whom I would save, had a most noble father!\n" + " Let but your honour know,\n" + " Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,\n" + " That, in the working of your own affections,\n" + " Had time cohered with place or place with wishing,\n" + " Or that the resolute acting of your blood\n" + " Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose,\n" + " Whether you had not sometime in your life\n" + " Err'd in this point which now you censure him,\n" + " And pull'd the law upon you.\n\n" + "ANGELO 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,\n" + " Another thing to fall. I not deny,\n" + " The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,\n" + " May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two\n" + " Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice,\n" + " That justice seizes: what know the laws\n" + " That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant,\n" + " The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't\n" + " Because we see it; but what we do not see\n" + " We tread upon, and never think of it.\n" + " You may not so extenuate his offence\n" + " For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,\n" + " When I, that censure him, do so offend,\n" + " Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,\n" + " And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Be it as your wisdom will.\n\n" + "ANGELO Where is the provost?\n\n" + "Provost Here, if it like your honour.\n\n" + "ANGELO See that Claudio\n" + " Be executed by nine to-morrow morning:\n" + " Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared;\n" + " For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage.\n\n" + " [Exit Provost]\n\n" + "ESCALUS [Aside] Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!\n" + " Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:\n" + " Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:\n" + " And some condemned for a fault alone.\n\n" + " [Enter ELBOW, and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY]\n\n" + "ELBOW Come, bring them away: if these be good people in\n" + " a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in\n" + " common houses, I know no law: bring them away.\n\n" + "ANGELO How now, sir! What's your name? and what's the matter?\n\n" + "ELBOW If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's\n" + " constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon\n" + " justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good\n" + " honour two notorious benefactors.\n\n" + "ANGELO Benefactors? Well; what benefactors are they? are\n" + " they not malefactors?\n\n" + "ELBOW If it? please your honour, I know not well what they\n" + " are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure\n" + " of; and void of all profanation in the world that\n" + " good Christians ought to have.\n\n" + "ESCALUS This comes off well; here's a wise officer.\n\n" + "ANGELO Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your\n" + " name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?\n\n" + "POMPEY He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.\n\n" + "ANGELO What are you, sir?\n\n" + "ELBOW He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that\n" + " serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they\n" + " say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she\n" + " professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too.\n\n" + "ESCALUS How know you that?\n\n" + "ELBOW My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,--\n\n" + "ESCALUS How? thy wife?\n\n" + "ELBOW Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--\n\n" + "ESCALUS Dost thou detest her therefore?\n\n" + "ELBOW I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as\n" + " she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house,\n" + " it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.\n\n" + "ESCALUS How dost thou know that, constable?\n\n" + "ELBOW Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman\n" + " cardinally given, might have been accused in\n" + " fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.\n\n" + "ESCALUS By the woman's means?\n\n" + "ELBOW Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she\n" + " spit in his face, so she defied him.\n\n" + "POMPEY Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so.\n\n" + "ELBOW Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable\n" + " man; prove it.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Do you hear how he misplaces?\n\n" + "POMPEY Sir, she came in great with child; and longing,\n" + " saving your honour's reverence, for stewed prunes;\n" + " sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very\n" + " distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a\n" + " dish of some three-pence; your honours have seen\n" + " such dishes; they are not China dishes, but very\n" + " good dishes,--\n\n" + "ESCALUS Go to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir.\n\n" + "POMPEY No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in\n" + " the right: but to the point. As I say, this\n" + " Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and\n" + " being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for\n" + " prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said,\n" + " Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the\n" + " rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very\n" + " honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could\n" + " not give you three-pence again.\n\n" + "FROTH No, indeed.\n\n" + "POMPEY Very well: you being then, if you be remembered,\n" + " cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes,--\n\n" + "FROTH Ay, so I did indeed.\n\n" + "POMPEY Why, very well; I telling you then, if you be\n" + " remembered, that such a one and such a one were past\n" + " cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very\n" + " good diet, as I told you,--\n\n" + "FROTH All this is true.\n\n" + "POMPEY Why, very well, then,--\n\n" + "ESCALUS Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. What\n" + " was done to Elbow's wife, that he hath cause to\n" + " complain of? Come me to what was done to her.\n\n" + "POMPEY Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet.\n\n" + "ESCALUS No, sir, nor I mean it not.\n\n" + "POMPEY Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's\n" + " leave. And, I beseech you, look into Master Froth\n" + " here, sir; a man of four-score pound a year; whose\n" + " father died at Hallowmas: was't not at Hallowmas,\n" + " Master Froth?\n\n" + "FROTH All-hallond eve.\n\n" + "POMPEY Why, very well; I hope here be truths. He, sir,\n" + " sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir; 'twas in\n" + " the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight\n" + " to sit, have you not?\n\n" + "FROTH I have so; because it is an open room and good for winter.\n\n" + "POMPEY Why, very well, then; I hope here be truths.\n\n" + "ANGELO This will last out a night in Russia,\n" + " When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave.\n" + " And leave you to the hearing of the cause;\n" + " Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all.\n\n" + "ESCALUS I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship.\n\n" + " [Exit ANGELO]\n\n" + " Now, sir, come on: what was done to Elbow's wife, once more?\n\n" + "POMPEY Once, sir? there was nothing done to her once.\n\n" + "ELBOW I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.\n\n" + "POMPEY I beseech your honour, ask me.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Well, sir; what did this gentleman to her?\n\n" + "POMPEY I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's face.\n" + " Good Master Froth, look upon his honour; 'tis for a\n" + " good purpose. Doth your honour mark his face?\n\n" + "ESCALUS Ay, sir, very well.\n\n" + "POMPEY Nay; I beseech you, mark it well.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Well, I do so.\n\n" + "POMPEY Doth your honour see any harm in his face?\n\n" + "ESCALUS Why, no.\n\n" + "POMPEY I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst\n" + " thing about him. Good, then; if his face be the\n" + " worst thing about him, how could Master Froth do the\n" + " constable's wife any harm? I would know that of\n" + " your honour.\n\n" + "ESCALUS He's in the right. Constable, what say you to it?\n\n" + "ELBOW First, an it like you, the house is a respected\n" + " house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his\n" + " mistress is a respected woman.\n\n" + "POMPEY By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected\n" + " person than any of us all.\n\n" + "ELBOW Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! the\n" + " time has yet to come that she was ever respected\n" + " with man, woman, or child.\n\n" + "POMPEY Sir, she was respected with him before he married with her.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity? Is\n" + " this true?\n\n" + "ELBOW O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked\n" + " Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married\n" + " to her! If ever I was respected with her, or she\n" + " with me, let not your worship think me the poor\n" + " duke's officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or\n" + " I'll have mine action of battery on thee.\n\n" + "ESCALUS If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your\n" + " action of slander too.\n\n" + "ELBOW Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is't\n" + " your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?\n\n" + "ESCALUS Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him\n" + " that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him\n" + " continue in his courses till thou knowest what they\n" + " are.\n\n" + "ELBOW Marry, I thank your worship for it. Thou seest, thou\n" + " wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art\n" + " to continue now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Where were you born, friend?\n\n" + "FROTH Here in Vienna, sir.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Are you of fourscore pounds a year?\n\n" + "FROTH Yes, an't please you, sir.\n\n" + "ESCALUS So. What trade are you of, sir?\n\n" + "POMPHEY Tapster; a poor widow's tapster.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Your mistress' name?\n\n" + "POMPHEY Mistress Overdone.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Hath she had any more than one husband?\n\n" + "POMPEY Nine, sir; Overdone by the last.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Nine! Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master\n" + " Froth, I would not have you acquainted with\n" + " tapsters: they will draw you, Master Froth, and you\n" + " will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no\n" + " more of you.\n\n" + "FROTH I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never\n" + " come into any room in a tap-house, but I am drawn\n" + " in.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Well, no more of it, Master Froth: farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit FROTH]\n\n" + " Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What's your\n" + " name, Master tapster?\n\n" + "POMPEY Pompey.\n\n" + "ESCALUS What else?\n\n" + "POMPEY Bum, sir.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you;\n" + " so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the\n" + " Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,\n" + " howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you\n" + " not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you.\n\n" + "POMPEY Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.\n\n" + "ESCALUS How would you live, Pompey? by being a bawd? What\n" + " do you think of the trade, Pompey? is it a lawful trade?\n\n" + "POMPEY If the law would allow it, sir.\n\n" + "ESCALUS But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall\n" + " not be allowed in Vienna.\n\n" + "POMPEY Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the\n" + " youth of the city?\n\n" + "ESCALUS No, Pompey.\n\n" + "POMPEY Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to't then.\n" + " If your worship will take order for the drabs and\n" + " the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.\n\n" + "ESCALUS There are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you:\n" + " it is but heading and hanging.\n\n" + "POMPEY If you head and hang all that offend that way but\n" + " for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a\n" + " commission for more heads: if this law hold in\n" + " Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it\n" + " after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this\n" + " come to pass, say Pompey told you so.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your\n" + " prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find\n" + " you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever;\n" + " no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey,\n" + " I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd\n" + " Caesar to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall\n" + " have you whipt: so, for this time, Pompey, fare you well.\n\n" + "POMPEY I thank your worship for your good counsel:\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall\n" + " better determine.\n" + " Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade:\n" + " The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ESCALUS Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master\n" + " constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?\n\n" + "ELBOW Seven year and a half, sir.\n\n" + "ESCALUS I thought, by your readiness in the office, you had\n" + " continued in it some time. You say, seven years together?\n\n" + "ELBOW And a half, sir.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do you\n" + " wrong to put you so oft upon 't: are there not men\n" + " in your ward sufficient to serve it?\n\n" + "ELBOW Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they\n" + " are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them; I\n" + " do it for some piece of money, and go through with\n" + " all.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven,\n" + " the most sufficient of your parish.\n\n" + "ELBOW To your worship's house, sir?\n\n" + "ESCALUS To my house. Fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit ELBOW]\n\n" + " What's o'clock, think you?\n\n" + "Justice Eleven, sir.\n\n" + "ESCALUS I pray you home to dinner with me.\n\n" + "Justice I humbly thank you.\n\n" + "ESCALUS It grieves me for the death of Claudio;\n" + " But there's no remedy.\n\n" + "Justice Lord Angelo is severe.\n\n" + "ESCALUS It is but needful:\n" + " Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;\n" + " Pardon is still the nurse of second woe:\n" + " But yet,--poor Claudio! There is no remedy.\n" + " Come, sir.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another room in the same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Provost and a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight\n" + " I'll tell him of you.\n\n" + "Provost Pray you, do.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " I'll know\n" + " His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,\n" + " He hath but as offended in a dream!\n" + " All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he\n" + " To die for't!\n\n" + " [Enter ANGELO]\n\n" + "ANGELO Now, what's the matter. Provost?\n\n" + "Provost Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?\n\n" + "ANGELO Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?\n" + " Why dost thou ask again?\n\n" + "Provost Lest I might be too rash:\n" + " Under your good correction, I have seen,\n" + " When, after execution, judgment hath\n" + " Repented o'er his doom.\n\n" + "ANGELO Go to; let that be mine:\n" + " Do you your office, or give up your place,\n" + " And you shall well be spared.\n\n" + "Provost I crave your honour's pardon.\n" + " What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?\n" + " She's very near her hour.\n\n" + "ANGELO Dispose of her\n" + " To some more fitter place, and that with speed.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Here is the sister of the man condemn'd\n" + " Desires access to you.\n\n" + "ANGELO Hath he a sister?\n\n" + "Provost Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid,\n" + " And to be shortly of a sisterhood,\n" + " If not already.\n\n" + "ANGELO Well, let her be admitted.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " See you the fornicatress be removed:\n" + " Let have needful, but not lavish, means;\n" + " There shall be order for't.\n\n" + " [Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO]\n\n" + "Provost God save your honour!\n\n" + "ANGELO Stay a little while.\n\n" + " [To ISABELLA]\n\n" + " You're welcome: what's your will?\n\n" + "ISABELLA I am a woeful suitor to your honour,\n" + " Please but your honour hear me.\n\n" + "ANGELO Well; what's your suit?\n\n" + "ISABELLA There is a vice that most I do abhor,\n" + " And most desire should meet the blow of justice;\n" + " For which I would not plead, but that I must;\n" + " For which I must not plead, but that I am\n" + " At war 'twixt will and will not.\n\n" + "ANGELO Well; the matter?\n\n" + "ISABELLA I have a brother is condemn'd to die:\n" + " I do beseech you, let it be his fault,\n" + " And not my brother.\n\n" + "Provost [Aside] Heaven give thee moving graces!\n\n" + "ANGELO Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?\n" + " Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done:\n" + " Mine were the very cipher of a function,\n" + " To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,\n" + " And let go by the actor.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O just but severe law!\n" + " I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour!\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] Give't not o'er so: to him\n" + " again, entreat him;\n" + " Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown:\n" + " You are too cold; if you should need a pin,\n" + " You could not with more tame a tongue desire it:\n" + " To him, I say!\n\n" + "ISABELLA Must he needs die?\n\n" + "ANGELO Maiden, no remedy.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Yes; I do think that you might pardon him,\n" + " And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.\n\n" + "ANGELO I will not do't.\n\n" + "ISABELLA But can you, if you would?\n\n" + "ANGELO Look, what I will not, that I cannot do.\n\n" + "ISABELLA But might you do't, and do the world no wrong,\n" + " If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse\n" + " As mine is to him?\n\n" + "ANGELO He's sentenced; 'tis too late.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] You are too cold.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word.\n" + " May call it back again. Well, believe this,\n" + " No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,\n" + " Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,\n" + " The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,\n" + " Become them with one half so good a grace\n" + " As mercy does.\n" + " If he had been as you and you as he,\n" + " You would have slipt like him; but he, like you,\n" + " Would not have been so stern.\n\n" + "ANGELO Pray you, be gone.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I would to heaven I had your potency,\n" + " And you were Isabel! should it then be thus?\n" + " No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,\n" + " And what a prisoner.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA]\n\n" + " Ay, touch him; there's the vein.\n\n" + "ANGELO Your brother is a forfeit of the law,\n" + " And you but waste your words.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Alas, alas!\n" + " Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;\n" + " And He that might the vantage best have took\n" + " Found out the remedy. How would you be,\n" + " If He, which is the top of judgment, should\n" + " But judge you as you are? O, think on that;\n" + " And mercy then will breathe within your lips,\n" + " Like man new made.\n\n" + "ANGELO Be you content, fair maid;\n" + " It is the law, not I condemn your brother:\n" + " Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,\n" + " It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow.\n\n" + "ISABELLA To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!\n" + " He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens\n" + " We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven\n" + " With less respect than we do minister\n" + " To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you;\n" + " Who is it that hath died for this offence?\n" + " There's many have committed it.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] Ay, well said.\n\n" + "ANGELO The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:\n" + " Those many had not dared to do that evil,\n" + " If the first that did the edict infringe\n" + " Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake\n" + " Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet,\n" + " Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils,\n" + " Either new, or by remissness new-conceived,\n" + " And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,\n" + " Are now to have no successive degrees,\n" + " But, ere they live, to end.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Yet show some pity.\n\n" + "ANGELO I show it most of all when I show justice;\n" + " For then I pity those I do not know,\n" + " Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall;\n" + " And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,\n" + " Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;\n" + " Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.\n\n" + "ISABELLA So you must be the first that gives this sentence,\n" + " And he, that suffer's. O, it is excellent\n" + " To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous\n" + " To use it like a giant.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] That's well said.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Could great men thunder\n" + " As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,\n" + " For every pelting, petty officer\n" + " Would use his heaven for thunder;\n" + " Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven,\n" + " Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt\n" + " Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak\n" + " Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,\n" + " Drest in a little brief authority,\n" + " Most ignorant of what he's most assured,\n" + " His glassy essence, like an angry ape,\n" + " Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven\n" + " As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,\n" + " Would all themselves laugh mortal.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] O, to him, to him, wench! he\n" + " will relent;\n" + " He's coming; I perceive 't.\n\n" + "Provost [Aside] Pray heaven she win him!\n\n" + "ISABELLA We cannot weigh our brother with ourself:\n" + " Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,\n" + " But in the less foul profanation.\n\n" + "LUCIO Thou'rt i' the right, girl; more o, that.\n\n" + "ISABELLA That in the captain's but a choleric word,\n" + " Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] Art avised o' that? more on 't.\n\n" + "ANGELO Why do you put these sayings upon me?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Because authority, though it err like others,\n" + " Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,\n" + " That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom;\n" + " Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know\n" + " That's like my brother's fault: if it confess\n" + " A natural guiltiness such as is his,\n" + " Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue\n" + " Against my brother's life.\n\n" + "ANGELO [Aside] She speaks, and 'tis\n" + " Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Gentle my lord, turn back.\n\n" + "ANGELO I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back.\n\n" + "ANGELO How! bribe me?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] You had marr'd all else.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,\n" + " Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor\n" + " As fancy values them; but with true prayers\n" + " That shall be up at heaven and enter there\n" + " Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls,\n" + " From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate\n" + " To nothing temporal.\n\n" + "ANGELO Well; come to me to-morrow.\n\n" + "LUCIO [Aside to ISABELLA] Go to; 'tis well; away!\n\n" + "ISABELLA Heaven keep your honour safe!\n\n" + "ANGELO [Aside] Amen:\n" + " For I am that way going to temptation,\n" + " Where prayers cross.\n\n" + "ISABELLA At what hour to-morrow\n" + " Shall I attend your lordship?\n\n" + "ANGELO At any time 'fore noon.\n\n" + "ISABELLA 'Save your honour!\n\n" + " [Exeunt ISABELLA, LUCIO, and Provost]\n\n" + "ANGELO From thee, even from thy virtue!\n" + " What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine?\n" + " The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?\n" + " Ha!\n" + " Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I\n" + " That, lying by the violet in the sun,\n" + " Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,\n" + " Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be\n" + " That modesty may more betray our sense\n" + " Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,\n" + " Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary\n" + " And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie!\n" + " What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?\n" + " Dost thou desire her foully for those things\n" + " That make her good? O, let her brother live!\n" + " Thieves for their robbery have authority\n" + " When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,\n" + " That I desire to hear her speak again,\n" + " And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on?\n" + " O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,\n" + " With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous\n" + " Is that temptation that doth goad us on\n" + " To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,\n" + " With all her double vigour, art and nature,\n" + " Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid\n" + " Subdues me quite. Even till now,\n" + " When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in a prison.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a\n" + " friar, and Provost]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.\n\n" + "Provost I am the provost. What's your will, good friar?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Bound by my charity and my blest order,\n" + " I come to visit the afflicted spirits\n" + " Here in the prison. Do me the common right\n" + " To let me see them and to make me know\n" + " The nature of their crimes, that I may minister\n" + " To them accordingly.\n\n" + "Provost I would do more than that, if more were needful.\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET]\n\n" + " Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,\n" + " Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,\n" + " Hath blister'd her report: she is with child;\n" + " And he that got it, sentenced; a young man\n" + " More fit to do another such offence\n" + " Than die for this.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO When must he die?\n\n" + "Provost As I do think, to-morrow.\n" + " I have provided for you: stay awhile,\n\n" + " [To JULIET]\n\n" + " And you shall be conducted.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?\n\n" + "JULIET I do; and bear the shame most patiently.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,\n" + " And try your penitence, if it be sound,\n" + " Or hollowly put on.\n\n" + "JULIET I'll gladly learn.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Love you the man that wrong'd you?\n\n" + "JULIET Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO So then it seems your most offenceful act\n" + " Was mutually committed?\n\n" + "JULIET Mutually.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.\n\n" + "JULIET I do confess it, and repent it, father.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO 'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,\n" + " As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,\n" + " Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,\n" + " Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,\n" + " But as we stand in fear,--\n\n" + "JULIET I do repent me, as it is an evil,\n" + " And take the shame with joy.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO There rest.\n" + " Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,\n" + " And I am going with instruction to him.\n" + " Grace go with you, Benedicite!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIET Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,\n" + " That respites me a life, whose very comfort\n" + " Is still a dying horror!\n\n" + "Provost 'Tis pity of him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A room in ANGELO's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANGELO]\n\n" + "ANGELO When I would pray and think, I think and pray\n" + " To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words;\n" + " Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,\n" + " Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth,\n" + " As if I did but only chew his name;\n" + " And in my heart the strong and swelling evil\n" + " Of my conception. The state, whereon I studied\n" + " Is like a good thing, being often read,\n" + " Grown fear'd and tedious; yea, my gravity,\n" + " Wherein--let no man hear me--I take pride,\n" + " Could I with boot change for an idle plume,\n" + " Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form,\n" + " How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,\n" + " Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls\n" + " To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood:\n" + " Let's write good angel on the devil's horn:\n" + " 'Tis not the devil's crest.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + " How now! who's there?\n\n" + "Servant One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.\n\n" + "ANGELO Teach her the way.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " O heavens!\n" + " Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,\n" + " Making both it unable for itself,\n" + " And dispossessing all my other parts\n" + " Of necessary fitness?\n" + " So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons;\n" + " Come all to help him, and so stop the air\n" + " By which he should revive: and even so\n" + " The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,\n" + " Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness\n" + " Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love\n" + " Must needs appear offence.\n\n" + " [Enter ISABELLA]\n\n" + " How now, fair maid?\n\n" + "ISABELLA I am come to know your pleasure.\n\n" + "ANGELO That you might know it, would much better please me\n" + " Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Even so. Heaven keep your honour!\n\n" + "ANGELO Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be,\n" + " As long as you or I yet he must die.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Under your sentence?\n\n" + "ANGELO Yea.\n\n" + "ISABELLA When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve,\n" + " Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted\n" + " That his soul sicken not.\n\n" + "ANGELO Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good\n" + " To pardon him that hath from nature stolen\n" + " A man already made, as to remit\n" + " Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image\n" + " In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy\n" + " Falsely to take away a life true made\n" + " As to put metal in restrained means\n" + " To make a false one.\n\n" + "ISABELLA 'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.\n\n" + "ANGELO Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly.\n" + " Which had you rather, that the most just law\n" + " Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him,\n" + " Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness\n" + " As she that he hath stain'd?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Sir, believe this,\n" + " I had rather give my body than my soul.\n\n" + "ANGELO I talk not of your soul: our compell'd sins\n" + " Stand more for number than for accompt.\n\n" + "ISABELLA How say you?\n\n" + "ANGELO Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak\n" + " Against the thing I say. Answer to this:\n" + " I, now the voice of the recorded law,\n" + " Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:\n" + " Might there not be a charity in sin\n" + " To save this brother's life?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Please you to do't,\n" + " I'll take it as a peril to my soul,\n" + " It is no sin at all, but charity.\n\n" + "ANGELO Pleased you to do't at peril of your soul,\n" + " Were equal poise of sin and charity.\n\n" + "ISABELLA That I do beg his life, if it be sin,\n" + " Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit,\n" + " If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer\n" + " To have it added to the faults of mine,\n" + " And nothing of your answer.\n\n" + "ANGELO Nay, but hear me.\n" + " Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,\n" + " Or seem so craftily; and that's not good.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,\n" + " But graciously to know I am no better.\n\n" + "ANGELO Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright\n" + " When it doth tax itself; as these black masks\n" + " Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder\n" + " Than beauty could, display'd. But mark me;\n" + " To be received plain, I'll speak more gross:\n" + " Your brother is to die.\n\n" + "ISABELLA So.\n\n" + "ANGELO And his offence is so, as it appears,\n" + " Accountant to the law upon that pain.\n\n" + "ISABELLA True.\n\n" + "ANGELO Admit no other way to save his life,--\n" + " As I subscribe not that, nor any other,\n" + " But in the loss of question,--that you, his sister,\n" + " Finding yourself desired of such a person,\n" + " Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,\n" + " Could fetch your brother from the manacles\n" + " Of the all-building law; and that there were\n" + " No earthly mean to save him, but that either\n" + " You must lay down the treasures of your body\n" + " To this supposed, or else to let him suffer;\n" + " What would you do?\n\n" + "ISABELLA As much for my poor brother as myself:\n" + " That is, were I under the terms of death,\n" + " The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies,\n" + " And strip myself to death, as to a bed\n" + " That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld yield\n" + " My body up to shame.\n\n" + "ANGELO Then must your brother die.\n\n" + "ISABELLA And 'twere the cheaper way:\n" + " Better it were a brother died at once,\n" + " Than that a sister, by redeeming him,\n" + " Should die for ever.\n\n" + "ANGELO Were not you then as cruel as the sentence\n" + " That you have slander'd so?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Ignomy in ransom and free pardon\n" + " Are of two houses: lawful mercy\n" + " Is nothing kin to foul redemption.\n\n" + "ANGELO You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant;\n" + " And rather proved the sliding of your brother\n" + " A merriment than a vice.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, pardon me, my lord; it oft falls out,\n" + " To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean:\n" + " I something do excuse the thing I hate,\n" + " For his advantage that I dearly love.\n\n" + "ANGELO We are all frail.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Else let my brother die,\n" + " If not a feodary, but only he\n" + " Owe and succeed thy weakness.\n\n" + "ANGELO Nay, women are frail too.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves;\n" + " Which are as easy broke as they make forms.\n" + " Women! Help Heaven! men their creation mar\n" + " In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;\n" + " For we are soft as our complexions are,\n" + " And credulous to false prints.\n\n" + "ANGELO I think it well:\n" + " And from this testimony of your own sex,--\n" + " Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger\n" + " Than faults may shake our frames,--let me be bold;\n" + " I do arrest your words. Be that you are,\n" + " That is, a woman; if you be more, you're none;\n" + " If you be one, as you are well express'd\n" + " By all external warrants, show it now,\n" + " By putting on the destined livery.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord,\n" + " Let me entreat you speak the former language.\n\n" + "ANGELO Plainly conceive, I love you.\n\n" + "ISABELLA My brother did love Juliet,\n" + " And you tell me that he shall die for it.\n\n" + "ANGELO He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I know your virtue hath a licence in't,\n" + " Which seems a little fouler than it is,\n" + " To pluck on others.\n\n" + "ANGELO Believe me, on mine honour,\n" + " My words express my purpose.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Ha! little honour to be much believed,\n" + " And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!\n" + " I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for't:\n" + " Sign me a present pardon for my brother,\n" + " Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud\n" + " What man thou art.\n\n" + "ANGELO Who will believe thee, Isabel?\n" + " My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,\n" + " My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,\n" + " Will so your accusation overweigh,\n" + " That you shall stifle in your own report\n" + " And smell of calumny. I have begun,\n" + " And now I give my sensual race the rein:\n" + " Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;\n" + " Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,\n" + " That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother\n" + " By yielding up thy body to my will;\n" + " Or else he must not only die the death,\n" + " But thy unkindness shall his death draw out\n" + " To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow,\n" + " Or, by the affection that now guides me most,\n" + " I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,\n" + " Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ISABELLA To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,\n" + " Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,\n" + " That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,\n" + " Either of condemnation or approof;\n" + " Bidding the law make court'sy to their will:\n" + " Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,\n" + " To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother:\n" + " Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,\n" + " Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.\n" + " That, had he twenty heads to tender down\n" + " On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,\n" + " Before his sister should her body stoop\n" + " To such abhorr'd pollution.\n" + " Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:\n" + " More than our brother is our chastity.\n" + " I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,\n" + " And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in the prison.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before, CLAUDIO,\n" + " and Provost]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO The miserable have no other medicine\n" + " But only hope:\n" + " I've hope to live, and am prepared to die.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Be absolute for death; either death or life\n" + " Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:\n" + " If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing\n" + " That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,\n" + " Servile to all the skyey influences,\n" + " That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,\n" + " Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;\n" + " For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun\n" + " And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble;\n" + " For all the accommodations that thou bear'st\n" + " Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant;\n" + " For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork\n" + " Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,\n" + " And that thou oft provokest; yet grossly fear'st\n" + " Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself;\n" + " For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains\n" + " That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not;\n" + " For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get,\n" + " And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain;\n" + " For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,\n" + " After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;\n" + " For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,\n" + " Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey,\n" + " And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none;\n" + " For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,\n" + " The mere effusion of thy proper loins,\n" + " Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,\n" + " For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age,\n" + " But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,\n" + " Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth\n" + " Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms\n" + " Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,\n" + " Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,\n" + " To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this\n" + " That bears the name of life? Yet in this life\n" + " Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear,\n" + " That makes these odds all even.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I humbly thank you.\n" + " To sue to live, I find I seek to die;\n" + " And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.\n\n" + "ISABELLA [Within] What, ho! Peace here; grace and good company!\n\n" + "Provost Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Most holy sir, I thank you.\n\n" + " [Enter ISABELLA]\n\n" + "ISABELLA My business is a word or two with Claudio.\n\n" + "Provost And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your sister.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Provost, a word with you.\n\n" + "Provost As many as you please.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DUKE VINCENTIO and Provost]\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Now, sister, what's the comfort?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Why,\n" + " As all comforts are; most good, most good indeed.\n" + " Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,\n" + " Intends you for his swift ambassador,\n" + " Where you shall be an everlasting leiger:\n" + " Therefore your best appointment make with speed;\n" + " To-morrow you set on.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Is there no remedy?\n\n" + "ISABELLA None, but such remedy as, to save a head,\n" + " To cleave a heart in twain.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO But is there any?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Yes, brother, you may live:\n" + " There is a devilish mercy in the judge,\n" + " If you'll implore it, that will free your life,\n" + " But fetter you till death.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Perpetual durance?\n\n" + "ISABELLA Ay, just; perpetual durance, a restraint,\n" + " Though all the world's vastidity you had,\n" + " To a determined scope.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO But in what nature?\n\n" + "ISABELLA In such a one as, you consenting to't,\n" + " Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,\n" + " And leave you naked.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Let me know the point.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake,\n" + " Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,\n" + " And six or seven winters more respect\n" + " Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die?\n" + " The sense of death is most in apprehension;\n" + " And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,\n" + " In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great\n" + " As when a giant dies.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Why give you me this shame?\n" + " Think you I can a resolution fetch\n" + " From flowery tenderness? If I must die,\n" + " I will encounter darkness as a bride,\n" + " And hug it in mine arms.\n\n" + "ISABELLA There spake my brother; there my father's grave\n" + " Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:\n" + " Thou art too noble to conserve a life\n" + " In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,\n" + " Whose settled visage and deliberate word\n" + " Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew\n" + " As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil\n" + " His filth within being cast, he would appear\n" + " A pond as deep as hell.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO The prenzie Angelo!\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,\n" + " The damned'st body to invest and cover\n" + " In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio?\n" + " If I would yield him my virginity,\n" + " Thou mightst be freed.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O heavens! it cannot be.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence,\n" + " So to offend him still. This night's the time\n" + " That I should do what I abhor to name,\n" + " Or else thou diest to-morrow.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Thou shalt not do't.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, were it but my life,\n" + " I'ld throw it down for your deliverance\n" + " As frankly as a pin.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Thanks, dear Isabel.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Yes. Has he affections in him,\n" + " That thus can make him bite the law by the nose,\n" + " When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin,\n" + " Or of the deadly seven, it is the least.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Which is the least?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If it were damnable, he being so wise,\n" + " Why would he for the momentary trick\n" + " Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!\n\n" + "ISABELLA What says my brother?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Death is a fearful thing.\n\n" + "ISABELLA And shamed life a hateful.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;\n" + " To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;\n" + " This sensible warm motion to become\n" + " A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit\n" + " To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside\n" + " In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;\n" + " To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,\n" + " And blown with restless violence round about\n" + " The pendent world; or to be worse than worst\n" + " Of those that lawless and incertain thought\n" + " Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!\n" + " The weariest and most loathed worldly life\n" + " That age, ache, penury and imprisonment\n" + " Can lay on nature is a paradise\n" + " To what we fear of death.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Alas, alas!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Sweet sister, let me live:\n" + " What sin you do to save a brother's life,\n" + " Nature dispenses with the deed so far\n" + " That it becomes a virtue.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O you beast!\n" + " O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!\n" + " Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?\n" + " Is't not a kind of incest, to take life\n" + " From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?\n" + " Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair!\n" + " For such a warped slip of wilderness\n" + " Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance!\n" + " Die, perish! Might but my bending down\n" + " Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:\n" + " I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,\n" + " No word to save thee.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Nay, hear me, Isabel.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, fie, fie, fie!\n" + " Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.\n" + " Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:\n" + " 'Tis best thou diest quickly.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O hear me, Isabella!\n\n" + " [Re-enter DUKE VINCENTIO]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.\n\n" + "ISABELLA What is your will?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and\n" + " by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I\n" + " would require is likewise your own benefit.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be\n" + " stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile.\n\n" + " [Walks apart]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Son, I have overheard what hath passed between you\n" + " and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to\n" + " corrupt her; only he hath made an essay of her\n" + " virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition\n" + " of natures: she, having the truth of honour in her,\n" + " hath made him that gracious denial which he is most\n" + " glad to receive. I am confessor to Angelo, and I\n" + " know this to be true; therefore prepare yourself to\n" + " death: do not satisfy your resolution with hopes\n" + " that are fallible: tomorrow you must die; go to\n" + " your knees and make ready.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love\n" + " with life that I will sue to be rid of it.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Hold you there: farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit CLAUDIO]\n\n" + " Provost, a word with you!\n\n" + " [Re-enter Provost]\n\n" + "Provost What's your will, father\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me\n" + " awhile with the maid: my mind promises with my\n" + " habit no loss shall touch her by my company.\n\n" + "Provost In good time.\n\n" + " [Exit Provost. ISABELLA comes forward]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good:\n" + " the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty\n" + " brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of\n" + " your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever\n" + " fair. The assault that Angelo hath made to you,\n" + " fortune hath conveyed to my understanding; and, but\n" + " that frailty hath examples for his falling, I should\n" + " wonder at Angelo. How will you do to content this\n" + " substitute, and to save your brother?\n\n" + "ISABELLA I am now going to resolve him: I had rather my\n" + " brother die by the law than my son should be\n" + " unlawfully born. But, O, how much is the good duke\n" + " deceived in Angelo! If ever he return and I can\n" + " speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or\n" + " discover his government.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO That shall not be much amiss: Yet, as the matter\n" + " now stands, he will avoid your accusation; he made\n" + " trial of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my\n" + " advisings: to the love I have in doing good a\n" + " remedy presents itself. I do make myself believe\n" + " that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged\n" + " lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from\n" + " the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious\n" + " person; and much please the absent duke, if\n" + " peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of\n" + " this business.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do\n" + " anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have\n" + " you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of\n" + " Frederick the great soldier who miscarried at sea?\n\n" + "ISABELLA I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO She should this Angelo have married; was affianced\n" + " to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between\n" + " which time of the contract and limit of the\n" + " solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea,\n" + " having in that perished vessel the dowry of his\n" + " sister. But mark how heavily this befell to the\n" + " poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and\n" + " renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most\n" + " kind and natural; with him, the portion and sinew of\n" + " her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with both, her\n" + " combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Can this be so? did Angelo so leave her?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them\n" + " with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole,\n" + " pretending in her discoveries of dishonour: in few,\n" + " bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet\n" + " wears for his sake; and he, a marble to her tears,\n" + " is washed with them, but relents not.\n\n" + "ISABELLA What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid\n" + " from the world! What corruption in this life, that\n" + " it will let this man live! But how out of this can she avail?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It is a rupture that you may easily heal: and the\n" + " cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps\n" + " you from dishonour in doing it.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Show me how, good father.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance\n" + " of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that\n" + " in all reason should have quenched her love, hath,\n" + " like an impediment in the current, made it more\n" + " violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo; answer his\n" + " requiring with a plausible obedience; agree with\n" + " his demands to the point; only refer yourself to\n" + " this advantage, first, that your stay with him may\n" + " not be long; that the time may have all shadow and\n" + " silence in it; and the place answer to convenience.\n" + " This being granted in course,--and now follows\n" + " all,--we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up\n" + " your appointment, go in your place; if the encounter\n" + " acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to\n" + " her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother\n" + " saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana\n" + " advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid\n" + " will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you\n" + " think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness\n" + " of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.\n" + " What think you of it?\n\n" + "ISABELLA The image of it gives me content already; and I\n" + " trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily\n" + " to Angelo: if for this night he entreat you to his\n" + " bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will\n" + " presently to Saint Luke's: there, at the moated\n" + " grange, resides this dejected Mariana. At that\n" + " place call upon me; and dispatch with Angelo, that\n" + " it may be quickly.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The street before the prison.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, on one side, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as\n" + " before; on the other, ELBOW, and Officers with POMPEY]\n\n" + "ELBOW Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will\n" + " needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we\n" + " shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO O heavens! what stuff is here\n\n" + "POMPEY 'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the\n" + " merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by\n" + " order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and\n" + " furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that\n" + " craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.\n\n" + "ELBOW Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO And you, good brother father. What offence hath\n" + " this man made you, sir?\n\n" + "ELBOW Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we\n" + " take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found\n" + " upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have\n" + " sent to the deputy.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!\n" + " The evil that thou causest to be done,\n" + " That is thy means to live. Do thou but think\n" + " What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back\n" + " From such a filthy vice: say to thyself,\n" + " From their abominable and beastly touches\n" + " I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.\n" + " Canst thou believe thy living is a life,\n" + " So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.\n\n" + "POMPEY Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet,\n" + " sir, I would prove--\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,\n" + " Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer:\n" + " Correction and instruction must both work\n" + " Ere this rude beast will profit.\n\n" + "ELBOW He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him\n" + " warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if\n" + " he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were\n" + " as good go a mile on his errand.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO That we were all, as some would seem to be,\n" + " From our faults, as faults from seeming, free!\n\n" + "ELBOW His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir.\n\n" + "POMPEY I spy comfort; I cry bail. Here's a gentleman and a\n" + " friend of mine.\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIO]\n\n" + "LUCIO How now, noble Pompey! What, at the wheels of\n" + " Caesar? art thou led in triumph? What, is there\n" + " none of Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be\n" + " had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and\n" + " extracting it clutch'd? What reply, ha? What\n" + " sayest thou to this tune, matter and method? Is't\n" + " not drowned i' the last rain, ha? What sayest\n" + " thou, Trot? Is the world as it was, man? Which is\n" + " the way? Is it sad, and few words? or how? The\n" + " trick of it?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Still thus, and thus; still worse!\n\n" + "LUCIO How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress? Procures she\n" + " still, ha?\n\n" + "POMPEY Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she\n" + " is herself in the tub.\n\n" + "LUCIO Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be\n" + " so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd:\n" + " an unshunned consequence; it must be so. Art going\n" + " to prison, Pompey?\n\n" + "POMPEY Yes, faith, sir.\n\n" + "LUCIO Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell: go, say I\n" + " sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or how?\n\n" + "ELBOW For being a bawd, for being a bawd.\n\n" + "LUCIO Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the\n" + " due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he\n" + " doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born.\n" + " Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison,\n" + " Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you\n" + " will keep the house.\n\n" + "POMPEY I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.\n\n" + "LUCIO No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear.\n" + " I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage: If\n" + " you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the\n" + " more. Adieu, trusty Pompey. 'Bless you, friar.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO And you.\n\n" + "LUCIO Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?\n\n" + "ELBOW Come your ways, sir; come.\n\n" + "POMPEY You will not bail me, then, sir?\n\n" + "LUCIO Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar?\n" + " what news?\n\n" + "ELBOW Come your ways, sir; come.\n\n" + "LUCIO Go to kennel, Pompey; go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ELBOW, POMPEY and Officers]\n\n" + " What news, friar, of the duke?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I know none. Can you tell me of any?\n\n" + "LUCIO Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other\n" + " some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well.\n\n" + "LUCIO It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from\n" + " the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born\n" + " to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he\n" + " puts transgression to 't.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO He does well in 't.\n\n" + "LUCIO A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in\n" + " him: something too crabbed that way, friar.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.\n\n" + "LUCIO Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred;\n" + " it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp\n" + " it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put\n" + " down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and\n" + " woman after this downright way of creation: is it\n" + " true, think you?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO How should he be made, then?\n\n" + "LUCIO Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he\n" + " was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is\n" + " certain that when he makes water his urine is\n" + " congealed ice; that I know to be true: and he is a\n" + " motion generative; that's infallible.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.\n\n" + "LUCIO Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the\n" + " rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a\n" + " man! Would the duke that is absent have done this?\n" + " Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a\n" + " hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing\n" + " a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he\n" + " knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I never heard the absent duke much detected for\n" + " women; he was not inclined that way.\n\n" + "LUCIO O, sir, you are deceived.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO 'Tis not possible.\n\n" + "LUCIO Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty; and\n" + " his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the\n" + " duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too;\n" + " that let me inform you.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You do him wrong, surely.\n\n" + "LUCIO Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the\n" + " duke: and I believe I know the cause of his\n" + " withdrawing.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO What, I prithee, might be the cause?\n\n" + "LUCIO No, pardon; 'tis a secret must be locked within the\n" + " teeth and the lips: but this I can let you\n" + " understand, the greater file of the subject held the\n" + " duke to be wise.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Wise! why, no question but he was.\n\n" + "LUCIO A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking:\n" + " the very stream of his life and the business he hath\n" + " helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better\n" + " proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own\n" + " bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the\n" + " envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier.\n" + " Therefore you speak unskilfully: or if your\n" + " knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice.\n\n" + "LUCIO Sir, I know him, and I love him.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with\n" + " dearer love.\n\n" + "LUCIO Come, sir, I know what I know.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I can hardly believe that, since you know not what\n" + " you speak. But, if ever the duke return, as our\n" + " prayers are he may, let me desire you to make your\n" + " answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke,\n" + " you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call\n" + " upon you; and, I pray you, your name?\n\n" + "LUCIO Sir, my name is Lucio; well known to the duke.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to\n" + " report you.\n\n" + "LUCIO I fear you not.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you\n" + " imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I\n" + " can do you little harm; you'll forswear this again.\n\n" + "LUCIO I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived in me,\n" + " friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if\n" + " Claudio die to-morrow or no?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Why should he die, sir?\n\n" + "LUCIO Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish. I would\n" + " the duke we talk of were returned again: the\n" + " ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with\n" + " continency; sparrows must not build in his\n" + " house-eaves, because they are lecherous. The duke\n" + " yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would\n" + " never bring them to light: would he were returned!\n" + " Marry, this Claudio is condemned for untrussing.\n" + " Farewell, good friar: I prithee, pray for me. The\n" + " duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on\n" + " Fridays. He's not past it yet, and I say to thee,\n" + " he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown\n" + " bread and garlic: say that I said so. Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO No might nor greatness in mortality\n" + " Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny\n" + " The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong\n" + " Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?\n" + " But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter ESCALUS, Provost, and Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE]\n\n" + "ESCALUS Go; away with her to prison!\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE Good my lord, be good to me; your honour is accounted\n" + " a merciful man; good my lord.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in\n" + " the same kind! This would make mercy swear and play\n" + " the tyrant.\n\n" + "Provost A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it please\n" + " your honour.\n\n" + "MISTRESS OVERDONE My lord, this is one Lucio's information against me.\n" + " Mistress Kate Keepdown was with child by him in the\n" + " duke's time; he promised her marriage: his child\n" + " is a year and a quarter old, come Philip and Jacob:\n" + " I have kept it myself; and see how he goes about to abuse me!\n\n" + "ESCALUS That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be\n" + " called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to;\n" + " no more words.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE]\n\n" + " Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered;\n" + " Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished\n" + " with divines, and have all charitable preparation.\n" + " if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be\n" + " so with him.\n\n" + "Provost So please you, this friar hath been with him, and\n" + " advised him for the entertainment of death.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Good even, good father.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Bliss and goodness on you!\n\n" + "ESCALUS Of whence are you?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Not of this country, though my chance is now\n" + " To use it for my time: I am a brother\n" + " Of gracious order, late come from the See\n" + " In special business from his holiness.\n\n" + "ESCALUS What news abroad i' the world?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO None, but that there is so great a fever on\n" + " goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it:\n" + " novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous\n" + " to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous\n" + " to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce\n" + " truth enough alive to make societies secure; but\n" + " security enough to make fellowships accurst: much\n" + " upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This\n" + " news is old enough, yet it is every day's news. I\n" + " pray you, sir, of what disposition was the duke?\n\n" + "ESCALUS One that, above all other strifes, contended\n" + " especially to know himself.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO What pleasure was he given to?\n\n" + "ESCALUS Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at\n" + " any thing which professed to make him rejoice: a\n" + " gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to\n" + " his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous;\n" + " and let me desire to know how you find Claudio\n" + " prepared. I am made to understand that you have\n" + " lent him visitation.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO He professes to have received no sinister measure\n" + " from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself\n" + " to the determination of justice: yet had he framed\n" + " to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many\n" + " deceiving promises of life; which I by my good\n" + " leisure have discredited to him, and now is he\n" + " resolved to die.\n\n" + "ESCALUS You have paid the heavens your function, and the\n" + " prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have\n" + " laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest\n" + " shore of my modesty: but my brother justice have I\n" + " found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him\n" + " he is indeed Justice.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO If his own life answer the straitness of his\n" + " proceeding, it shall become him well; wherein if he\n" + " chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself.\n\n" + "ESCALUS I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Peace be with you!\n\n" + " [Exeunt ESCALUS and Provost]\n\n" + " He who the sword of heaven will bear\n" + " Should be as holy as severe;\n" + " Pattern in himself to know,\n" + " Grace to stand, and virtue go;\n" + " More nor less to others paying\n" + " Than by self-offences weighing.\n" + " Shame to him whose cruel striking\n" + " Kills for faults of his own liking!\n" + " Twice treble shame on Angelo,\n" + " To weed my vice and let his grow!\n" + " O, what may man within him hide,\n" + " Though angel on the outward side!\n" + " How may likeness made in crimes,\n" + " Making practise on the times,\n" + " To draw with idle spiders' strings\n" + " Most ponderous and substantial things!\n" + " Craft against vice I must apply:\n" + " With Angelo to-night shall lie\n" + " His old betrothed but despised;\n" + " So disguise shall, by the disguised,\n" + " Pay with falsehood false exacting,\n" + " And perform an old contracting.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The moated grange at ST. LUKE's.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARIANA and a Boy]\n\n" + " [Boy sings]\n\n" + " Take, O, take those lips away,\n" + " That so sweetly were forsworn;\n" + " And those eyes, the break of day,\n" + " Lights that do mislead the morn:\n" + " But my kisses bring again, bring again;\n" + " Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.\n\n" + "MARIANA Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:\n" + " Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice\n" + " Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.\n\n" + " [Exit Boy]\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before]\n\n" + " I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish\n" + " You had not found me here so musical:\n" + " Let me excuse me, and believe me so,\n" + " My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO 'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm\n" + " To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.\n" + " I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired\n" + " for me here to-day? much upon this time have\n" + " I promised here to meet.\n\n" + "MARIANA You have not been inquired after:\n" + " I have sat here all day.\n\n" + " [Enter ISABELLA]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I do constantly believe you. The time is come even\n" + " now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may\n" + " be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.\n\n" + "MARIANA I am always bound to you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Very well met, and well come.\n" + " What is the news from this good deputy?\n\n" + "ISABELLA He hath a garden circummured with brick,\n" + " Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd;\n" + " And to that vineyard is a planched gate,\n" + " That makes his opening with this bigger key:\n" + " This other doth command a little door\n" + " Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;\n" + " There have I made my promise\n" + " Upon the heavy middle of the night\n" + " To call upon him.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO But shall you on your knowledge find this way?\n\n" + "ISABELLA I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't:\n" + " With whispering and most guilty diligence,\n" + " In action all of precept, he did show me\n" + " The way twice o'er.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Are there no other tokens\n" + " Between you 'greed concerning her observance?\n\n" + "ISABELLA No, none, but only a repair i' the dark;\n" + " And that I have possess'd him my most stay\n" + " Can be but brief; for I have made him know\n" + " I have a servant comes with me along,\n" + " That stays upon me, whose persuasion is\n" + " I come about my brother.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO 'Tis well borne up.\n" + " I have not yet made known to Mariana\n" + " A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARIANA]\n\n" + " I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;\n" + " She comes to do you good.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I do desire the like.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?\n\n" + "MARIANA Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Take, then, this your companion by the hand,\n" + " Who hath a story ready for your ear.\n" + " I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;\n" + " The vaporous night approaches.\n\n" + "MARIANA Will't please you walk aside?\n\n" + " [Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO O place and greatness! millions of false eyes\n" + " Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report\n" + " Run with these false and most contrarious quests\n" + " Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit\n" + " Make thee the father of their idle dreams\n" + " And rack thee in their fancies.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA]\n\n" + " Welcome, how agreed?\n\n" + "ISABELLA She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,\n" + " If you advise it.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It is not my consent,\n" + " But my entreaty too.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Little have you to say\n" + " When you depart from him, but, soft and low,\n" + " 'Remember now my brother.'\n\n" + "MARIANA Fear me not.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.\n" + " He is your husband on a pre-contract:\n" + " To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,\n" + " Sith that the justice of your title to him\n" + " Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:\n" + " Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in the prison.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Provost and POMPEY]\n\n" + "Provost Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's head?\n\n" + "POMPEY If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a\n" + " married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never\n" + " cut off a woman's head.\n\n" + "Provost Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a\n" + " direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio\n" + " and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common\n" + " executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if\n" + " you will take it on you to assist him, it shall\n" + " redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have\n" + " your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance\n" + " with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a\n" + " notorious bawd.\n\n" + "POMPEY Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind;\n" + " but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I\n" + " would be glad to receive some instruction from my\n" + " fellow partner.\n\n" + "Provost What, ho! Abhorson! Where's Abhorson, there?\n\n" + " [Enter ABHORSON]\n\n" + "ABHORSON Do you call, sir?\n\n" + "Provost Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you to-morrow in\n" + " your execution. If you think it meet, compound with\n" + " him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if\n" + " not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He\n" + " cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.\n\n" + "ABHORSON A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery.\n\n" + "Provost Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn\n" + " the scale.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "POMPEY Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for surely, sir, a\n" + " good favour you have, but that you have a hanging\n" + " look,--do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?\n\n" + "ABHORSON Ay, sir; a mystery\n\n" + "POMPEY Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and\n" + " your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,\n" + " using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:\n" + " but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I\n" + " should be hanged, I cannot imagine.\n\n" + "ABHORSON Sir, it is a mystery.\n\n" + "POMPEY Proof?\n\n" + "ABHORSON Every true man's apparel fits your thief: if it be\n" + " too little for your thief, your true man thinks it\n" + " big enough; if it be too big for your thief, your\n" + " thief thinks it little enough: so every true man's\n" + " apparel fits your thief.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Provost]\n\n" + "Provost Are you agreed?\n\n" + "POMPEY Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is\n" + " a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth\n" + " oftener ask forgiveness.\n\n" + "Provost You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe\n" + " to-morrow four o'clock.\n\n" + "ABHORSON Come on, bawd; I will instruct thee in my trade; follow.\n\n" + "POMPEY I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have\n" + " occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find\n" + " me yare; for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you\n" + " a good turn.\n\n" + "Provost Call hither Barnardine and Claudio:\n\n" + " [Exeunt POMPEY and ABHORSON]\n\n" + " The one has my pity; not a jot the other,\n" + " Being a murderer, though he were my brother.\n\n" + " [Enter CLAUDIO]\n\n" + " Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death:\n" + " 'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow\n" + " Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour\n" + " When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones:\n" + " He will not wake.\n\n" + "Provost Who can do good on him?\n" + " Well, go, prepare yourself.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " But, hark, what noise?\n" + " Heaven give your spirits comfort!\n\n" + " [Exit CLAUDIO]\n\n" + " By and by.\n" + " I hope it is some pardon or reprieve\n" + " For the most gentle Claudio.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before]\n\n" + " Welcome father.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO The best and wholesomest spirts of the night\n" + " Envelope you, good Provost! Who call'd here of late?\n\n" + "Provost None, since the curfew rung.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Not Isabel?\n\n" + "Provost No.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO They will, then, ere't be long.\n\n" + "Provost What comfort is for Claudio?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO There's some in hope.\n\n" + "Provost It is a bitter deputy.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Not so, not so; his life is parallel'd\n" + " Even with the stroke and line of his great justice:\n" + " He doth with holy abstinence subdue\n" + " That in himself which he spurs on his power\n" + " To qualify in others: were he meal'd with that\n" + " Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous;\n" + " But this being so, he's just.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " Now are they come.\n\n" + " [Exit Provost]\n\n" + " This is a gentle provost: seldom when\n" + " The steeled gaoler is the friend of men.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " How now! what noise? That spirit's possessed with haste\n" + " That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Provost]\n\n" + "Provost There he must stay until the officer\n" + " Arise to let him in: he is call'd up.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,\n" + " But he must die to-morrow?\n\n" + "Provost None, sir, none.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO As near the dawning, provost, as it is,\n" + " You shall hear more ere morning.\n\n" + "Provost Happily\n" + " You something know; yet I believe there comes\n" + " No countermand; no such example have we:\n" + " Besides, upon the very siege of justice\n" + " Lord Angelo hath to the public ear\n" + " Profess'd the contrary.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " This is his lordship's man.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO And here comes Claudio's pardon.\n\n" + "Messenger [Giving a paper]\n\n" + " My lord hath sent you this note; and by me this\n" + " further charge, that you swerve not from the\n" + " smallest article of it, neither in time, matter, or\n" + " other circumstance. Good morrow; for, as I take it,\n" + " it is almost day.\n\n" + "Provost I shall obey him.\n\n" + " [Exit Messenger]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO [Aside] This is his pardon, purchased by such sin\n" + " For which the pardoner himself is in.\n" + " Hence hath offence his quick celerity,\n" + " When it is born in high authority:\n" + " When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended,\n" + " That for the fault's love is the offender friended.\n" + " Now, sir, what news?\n\n" + "Provost I told you. Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss\n" + " in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted\n" + " putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Pray you, let's hear.\n\n" + "Provost [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let\n" + " Claudio be executed by four of the clock; and in the\n" + " afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction,\n" + " let me have Claudio's head sent me by five. Let\n" + " this be duly performed; with a thought that more\n" + " depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail\n" + " not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.'\n" + " What say you to this, sir?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in the\n" + " afternoon?\n\n" + "Provost A Bohemian born, but here nursed un and bred; one\n" + " that is a prisoner nine years old.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO How came it that the absent duke had not either\n" + " delivered him to his liberty or executed him? I\n" + " have heard it was ever his manner to do so.\n\n" + "Provost His friends still wrought reprieves for him: and,\n" + " indeed, his fact, till now in the government of Lord\n" + " Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It is now apparent?\n\n" + "Provost Most manifest, and not denied by himself.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how\n" + " seems he to be touched?\n\n" + "Provost A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but\n" + " as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless\n" + " of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of\n" + " mortality, and desperately mortal.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO He wants advice.\n\n" + "Provost He will hear none: he hath evermore had the liberty\n" + " of the prison; give him leave to escape hence, he\n" + " would not: drunk many times a day, if not many days\n" + " entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if\n" + " to carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming\n" + " warrant for it: it hath not moved him at all.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO More of him anon. There is written in your brow,\n" + " provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not\n" + " truly, my ancient skill beguiles me; but, in the\n" + " boldness of my cunning, I will lay myself in hazard.\n" + " Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is\n" + " no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath\n" + " sentenced him. To make you understand this in a\n" + " manifested effect, I crave but four days' respite;\n" + " for the which you are to do me both a present and a\n" + " dangerous courtesy.\n\n" + "Provost Pray, sir, in what?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO In the delaying death.\n\n" + "Provost A lack, how may I do it, having the hour limited,\n" + " and an express command, under penalty, to deliver\n" + " his head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case\n" + " as Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my\n" + " instructions may be your guide. Let this Barnardine\n" + " be this morning executed, and his head born to Angelo.\n\n" + "Provost Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO O, death's a great disguiser; and you may add to it.\n" + " Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was\n" + " the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his\n" + " death: you know the course is common. If any thing\n" + " fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good\n" + " fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead\n" + " against it with my life.\n\n" + "Provost Pardon me, good father; it is against my oath.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Were you sworn to the duke, or to the deputy?\n\n" + "Provost To him, and to his substitutes.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You will think you have made no offence, if the duke\n" + " avouch the justice of your dealing?\n\n" + "Provost But what likelihood is in that?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see\n" + " you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor\n" + " persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go\n" + " further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you.\n" + " Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the\n" + " duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the\n" + " signet is not strange to you.\n\n" + "Provost I know them both.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO The contents of this is the return of the duke: you\n" + " shall anon over-read it at your pleasure; where you\n" + " shall find, within these two days he will be here.\n" + " This is a thing that Angelo knows not; for he this\n" + " very day receives letters of strange tenor;\n" + " perchance of the duke's death; perchance entering\n" + " into some monastery; but, by chance, nothing of what\n" + " is writ. Look, the unfolding star calls up the\n" + " shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement how these\n" + " things should be: all difficulties are but easy\n" + " when they are known. Call your executioner, and off\n" + " with Barnardine's head: I will give him a present\n" + " shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you\n" + " are amazed; but this shall absolutely resolve you.\n" + " Come away; it is almost clear dawn.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another room in the same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POMPEY]\n\n" + "POMPEY I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house\n" + " of profession: one would think it were Mistress\n" + " Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old\n" + " customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in\n" + " for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger,\n" + " ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made\n" + " five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not\n" + " much in request, for the old women were all dead.\n" + " Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of\n" + " Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of\n" + " peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a\n" + " beggar. Then have we here young Dizy, and young\n" + " Master Deep-vow, and Master Copperspur, and Master\n" + " Starve-lackey the rapier and dagger man, and young\n" + " Drop-heir that killed lusty Pudding, and Master\n" + " Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the\n" + " great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed\n" + " Pots, and, I think, forty more; all great doers in\n" + " our trade, and are now 'for the Lord's sake.'\n\n" + " [Enter ABHORSON]\n\n" + "ABHORSON Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.\n\n" + "POMPEY Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged.\n" + " Master Barnardine!\n\n" + "ABHORSON What, ho, Barnardine!\n\n" + "BARNARDINE [Within] A pox o' your throats! Who makes that\n" + " noise there? What are you?\n\n" + "POMPEY Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so\n" + " good, sir, to rise and be put to death.\n\n" + "BARNARDINE [Within] Away, you rogue, away! I am sleepy.\n\n" + "ABHORSON Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too.\n\n" + "POMPEY Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are\n" + " executed, and sleep afterwards.\n\n" + "ABHORSON Go in to him, and fetch him out.\n\n" + "POMPEY He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle.\n\n" + "ABHORSON Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?\n\n" + "POMPEY Very ready, sir.\n\n" + " [Enter BARNARDINE]\n\n" + "BARNARDINE How now, Abhorson? what's the news with you?\n\n" + "ABHORSON Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your\n" + " prayers; for, look you, the warrant's come.\n\n" + "BARNARDINE You rogue, I have been drinking all night; I am not\n" + " fitted for 't.\n\n" + "POMPEY O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night,\n" + " and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the\n" + " sounder all the next day.\n\n" + "ABHORSON Look you, sir; here comes your ghostly father: do\n" + " we jest now, think you?\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily\n" + " you are to depart, I am come to advise you, comfort\n" + " you and pray with you.\n\n" + "BARNARDINE Friar, not I I have been drinking hard all night,\n" + " and I will have more time to prepare me, or they\n" + " shall beat out my brains with billets: I will not\n" + " consent to die this day, that's certain.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO O, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you\n" + " Look forward on the journey you shall go.\n\n" + "BARNARDINE I swear I will not die to-day for any man's\n" + " persuasion.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO But hear you.\n\n" + "BARNARDINE Not a word: if you have any thing to say to me,\n" + " come to my ward; for thence will not I to-day.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart!\n" + " After him, fellows; bring him to the block.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ABHORSON and POMPEY]\n\n" + " [Re-enter Provost]\n\n" + "Provost Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO A creature unprepared, unmeet for death;\n" + " And to transport him in the mind he is\n" + " Were damnable.\n\n" + "Provost Here in the prison, father,\n" + " There died this morning of a cruel fever\n" + " One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,\n" + " A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head\n" + " Just of his colour. What if we do omit\n" + " This reprobate till he were well inclined;\n" + " And satisfy the deputy with the visage\n" + " Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides!\n" + " Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on\n" + " Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done,\n" + " And sent according to command; whiles I\n" + " Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die.\n\n" + "Provost This shall be done, good father, presently.\n" + " But Barnardine must die this afternoon:\n" + " And how shall we continue Claudio,\n" + " To save me from the danger that might come\n" + " If he were known alive?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Let this be done.\n" + " Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio:\n" + " Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting\n" + " To the under generation, you shall find\n" + " Your safety manifested.\n\n" + "Provost I am your free dependant.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo.\n\n" + " [Exit Provost]\n\n" + " Now will I write letters to Angelo,--\n" + " The provost, he shall bear them, whose contents\n" + " Shall witness to him I am near at home,\n" + " And that, by great injunctions, I am bound\n" + " To enter publicly: him I'll desire\n" + " To meet me at the consecrated fount\n" + " A league below the city; and from thence,\n" + " By cold gradation and well-balanced form,\n" + " We shall proceed with Angelo.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Provost]\n\n" + "Provost Here is the head; I'll carry it myself.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Convenient is it. Make a swift return;\n" + " For I would commune with you of such things\n" + " That want no ear but yours.\n\n" + "Provost I'll make all speed.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ISABELLA [Within] Peace, ho, be here!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know\n" + " If yet her brother's pardon be come hither:\n" + " But I will keep her ignorant of her good,\n" + " To make her heavenly comforts of despair,\n" + " When it is least expected.\n\n" + " [Enter ISABELLA]\n\n" + "ISABELLA Ho, by your leave!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.\n\n" + "ISABELLA The better, given me by so holy a man.\n" + " Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO He hath released him, Isabel, from the world:\n" + " His head is off and sent to Angelo.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Nay, but it is not so.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter,\n" + " In your close patience.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You shall not be admitted to his sight.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Unhappy Claudio! wretched Isabel!\n" + " Injurious world! most damned Angelo!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot;\n" + " Forbear it therefore; give your cause to heaven.\n" + " Mark what I say, which you shall find\n" + " By every syllable a faithful verity:\n" + " The duke comes home to-morrow; nay, dry your eyes;\n" + " One of our convent, and his confessor,\n" + " Gives me this instance: already he hath carried\n" + " Notice to Escalus and Angelo,\n" + " Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,\n" + " There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom\n" + " In that good path that I would wish it go,\n" + " And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,\n" + " Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart,\n" + " And general honour.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I am directed by you.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO This letter, then, to Friar Peter give;\n" + " 'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return:\n" + " Say, by this token, I desire his company\n" + " At Mariana's house to-night. Her cause and yours\n" + " I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you\n" + " Before the duke, and to the head of Angelo\n" + " Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,\n" + " I am combined by a sacred vow\n" + " And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter:\n" + " Command these fretting waters from your eyes\n" + " With a light heart; trust not my holy order,\n" + " If I pervert your course. Who's here?\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIO]\n\n" + "LUCIO Good even. Friar, where's the provost?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Not within, sir.\n\n" + "LUCIO O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see\n" + " thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain\n" + " to dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for\n" + " my head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set\n" + " me to 't. But they say the duke will be here\n" + " to-morrow. By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:\n" + " if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been\n" + " at home, he had lived.\n\n" + " [Exit ISABELLA]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Sir, the duke is marvellous little beholding to your\n" + " reports; but the best is, he lives not in them.\n\n" + "LUCIO Friar, thou knowest not the duke so well as I do:\n" + " he's a better woodman than thou takest him for.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well.\n\n" + "LUCIO Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee\n" + " I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You have told me too many of him already, sir, if\n" + " they be true; if not true, none were enough.\n\n" + "LUCIO I was once before him for getting a wench with child.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Did you such a thing?\n\n" + "LUCIO Yes, marry, did I but I was fain to forswear it;\n" + " they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you well.\n\n" + "LUCIO By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end:\n" + " if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of\n" + " it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A room in ANGELO's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS]\n\n" + "ESCALUS Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.\n\n" + "ANGELO In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions\n" + " show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be\n" + " not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and\n" + " redeliver our authorities there\n\n" + "ESCALUS I guess not.\n\n" + "ANGELO And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his\n" + " entering, that if any crave redress of injustice,\n" + " they should exhibit their petitions in the street?\n\n" + "ESCALUS He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of\n" + " complaints, and to deliver us from devices\n" + " hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand\n" + " against us.\n\n" + "ANGELO Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes\n" + " i' the morn; I'll call you at your house: give\n" + " notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet\n" + " him.\n\n" + "ESCALUS I shall, sir. Fare you well.\n\n" + "ANGELO Good night.\n\n" + " [Exit ESCALUS]\n\n" + " This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant\n" + " And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid!\n" + " And by an eminent body that enforced\n" + " The law against it! But that her tender shame\n" + " Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,\n" + " How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no;\n" + " For my authority bears of a credent bulk,\n" + " That no particular scandal once can touch\n" + " But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,\n" + " Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,\n" + " Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,\n" + " By so receiving a dishonour'd life\n" + " With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!\n" + " A lack, when once our grace we have forgot,\n" + " Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Fields without the town.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO These letters at fit time deliver me\n\n" + " [Giving letters]\n\n" + " The provost knows our purpose and our plot.\n" + " The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,\n" + " And hold you ever to our special drift;\n" + " Though sometimes you do blench from this to that,\n" + " As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house,\n" + " And tell him where I stay: give the like notice\n" + " To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,\n" + " And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate;\n" + " But send me Flavius first.\n\n" + "FRIAR PETER It shall be speeded well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter VARRIUS]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste:\n" + " Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends\n" + " Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Street near the city gate.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA]\n\n" + "ISABELLA To speak so indirectly I am loath:\n" + " I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,\n" + " That is your part: yet I am advised to do it;\n" + " He says, to veil full purpose.\n\n" + "MARIANA Be ruled by him.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure\n" + " He speak against me on the adverse side,\n" + " I should not think it strange; for 'tis a physic\n" + " That's bitter to sweet end.\n\n" + "MARIANA I would Friar Peter--\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, peace! the friar is come.\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR PETER]\n\n" + "FRIAR PETER Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,\n" + " Where you may have such vantage on the duke,\n" + " He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded;\n" + " The generous and gravest citizens\n" + " Have hent the gates, and very near upon\n" + " The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MEASURE FOR MEASURE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The city gate.\n\n\n" + " [MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their\n" + " stand. Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, VARRIUS, Lords,\n" + " ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, Provost, Officers, and\n" + " Citizens, at several doors]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO My very worthy cousin, fairly met!\n" + " Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.\n\n\n" + "ANGELO |\n" + " | Happy return be to your royal grace!\n" + "ESCALUS |\n\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Many and hearty thankings to you both.\n" + " We have made inquiry of you; and we hear\n" + " Such goodness of your justice, that our soul\n" + " Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,\n" + " Forerunning more requital.\n\n" + "ANGELO You make my bonds still greater.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,\n" + " To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,\n" + " When it deserves, with characters of brass,\n" + " A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time\n" + " And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,\n" + " And let the subject see, to make them know\n" + " That outward courtesies would fain proclaim\n" + " Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,\n" + " You must walk by us on our other hand;\n" + " And good supporters are you.\n\n" + " [FRIAR PETER and ISABELLA come forward]\n\n" + "FRIAR PETER Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Justice, O royal duke! Vail your regard\n" + " Upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said, a maid!\n" + " O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye\n" + " By throwing it on any other object\n" + " Till you have heard me in my true complaint\n" + " And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Relate your wrongs; in what? by whom? be brief.\n" + " Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice:\n" + " Reveal yourself to him.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O worthy duke,\n" + " You bid me seek redemption of the devil:\n" + " Hear me yourself; for that which I must speak\n" + " Must either punish me, not being believed,\n" + " Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here!\n\n" + "ANGELO My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm:\n" + " She hath been a suitor to me for her brother\n" + " Cut off by course of justice,--\n\n" + "ISABELLA By course of justice!\n\n" + "ANGELO And she will speak most bitterly and strange.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak:\n" + " That Angelo's forsworn; is it not strange?\n" + " That Angelo's a murderer; is 't not strange?\n" + " That Angelo is an adulterous thief,\n" + " An hypocrite, a virgin-violator;\n" + " Is it not strange and strange?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Nay, it is ten times strange.\n\n" + "ISABELLA It is not truer he is Angelo\n" + " Than this is all as true as it is strange:\n" + " Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth\n" + " To the end of reckoning.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Away with her! Poor soul,\n" + " She speaks this in the infirmity of sense.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believest\n" + " There is another comfort than this world,\n" + " That thou neglect me not, with that opinion\n" + " That I am touch'd with madness! Make not impossible\n" + " That which but seems unlike: 'tis not impossible\n" + " But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground,\n" + " May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute\n" + " As Angelo; even so may Angelo,\n" + " In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,\n" + " Be an arch-villain; believe it, royal prince:\n" + " If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more,\n" + " Had I more name for badness.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO By mine honesty,\n" + " If she be mad,--as I believe no other,--\n" + " Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,\n" + " Such a dependency of thing on thing,\n" + " As e'er I heard in madness.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O gracious duke,\n" + " Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason\n" + " For inequality; but let your reason serve\n" + " To make the truth appear where it seems hid,\n" + " And hide the false seems true.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Many that are not mad\n" + " Have, sure, more lack of reason. What would you say?\n\n" + "ISABELLA I am the sister of one Claudio,\n" + " Condemn'd upon the act of fornication\n" + " To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo:\n" + " I, in probation of a sisterhood,\n" + " Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio\n" + " As then the messenger,--\n\n" + "LUCIO That's I, an't like your grace:\n" + " I came to her from Claudio, and desired her\n" + " To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo\n" + " For her poor brother's pardon.\n\n" + "ISABELLA That's he indeed.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You were not bid to speak.\n\n" + "LUCIO No, my good lord;\n" + " Nor wish'd to hold my peace.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I wish you now, then;\n" + " Pray you, take note of it: and when you have\n" + " A business for yourself, pray heaven you then\n" + " Be perfect.\n\n" + "LUCIO I warrant your honour.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO The warrants for yourself; take heed to't.\n\n" + "ISABELLA This gentleman told somewhat of my tale,--\n\n" + "LUCIO Right.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It may be right; but you are i' the wrong\n" + " To speak before your time. Proceed.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I went\n" + " To this pernicious caitiff deputy,--\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO That's somewhat madly spoken.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Pardon it;\n" + " The phrase is to the matter.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Mended again. The matter; proceed.\n\n" + "ISABELLA In brief, to set the needless process by,\n" + " How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,\n" + " How he refell'd me, and how I replied,--\n" + " For this was of much length,--the vile conclusion\n" + " I now begin with grief and shame to utter:\n" + " He would not, but by gift of my chaste body\n" + " To his concupiscible intemperate lust,\n" + " Release my brother; and, after much debatement,\n" + " My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,\n" + " And I did yield to him: but the next morn betimes,\n" + " His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant\n" + " For my poor brother's head.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO This is most likely!\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, that it were as like as it is true!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO By heaven, fond wretch, thou knowist not what thou speak'st,\n" + " Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour\n" + " In hateful practise. First, his integrity\n" + " Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason\n" + " That with such vehemency he should pursue\n" + " Faults proper to himself: if he had so offended,\n" + " He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself\n" + " And not have cut him off. Some one hath set you on:\n" + " Confess the truth, and say by whose advice\n" + " Thou camest here to complain.\n\n" + "ISABELLA And is this all?\n" + " Then, O you blessed ministers above,\n" + " Keep me in patience, and with ripen'd time\n" + " Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up\n" + " In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe,\n" + " As I, thus wrong'd, hence unbelieved go!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I know you'ld fain be gone. An officer!\n" + " To prison with her! Shall we thus permit\n" + " A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall\n" + " On him so near us? This needs must be a practise.\n" + " Who knew of Your intent and coming hither?\n\n" + "ISABELLA One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?\n\n" + "LUCIO My lord, I know him; 'tis a meddling friar;\n" + " I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord\n" + " For certain words he spake against your grace\n" + " In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Words against me? this is a good friar, belike!\n" + " And to set on this wretched woman here\n" + " Against our substitute! Let this friar be found.\n\n" + "LUCIO But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,\n" + " I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar,\n" + " A very scurvy fellow.\n\n" + "FRIAR PETER Blessed be your royal grace!\n" + " I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard\n" + " Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman\n" + " Most wrongfully accused your substitute,\n" + " Who is as free from touch or soil with her\n" + " As she from one ungot.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO We did believe no less.\n" + " Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?\n\n" + "FRIAR PETER I know him for a man divine and holy;\n" + " Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,\n" + " As he's reported by this gentleman;\n" + " And, on my trust, a man that never yet\n" + " Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace.\n\n" + "LUCIO My lord, most villanously; believe it.\n\n" + "FRIAR PETER Well, he in time may come to clear himself;\n" + " But at this instant he is sick my lord,\n" + " Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,\n" + " Being come to knowledge that there was complaint\n" + " Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither,\n" + " To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know\n" + " Is true and false; and what he with his oath\n" + " And all probation will make up full clear,\n" + " Whensoever he's convented. First, for this woman.\n" + " To justify this worthy nobleman,\n" + " So vulgarly and personally accused,\n" + " Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,\n" + " Till she herself confess it.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Good friar, let's hear it.\n\n" + " [ISABELLA is carried off guarded; and MARIANA comes forward]\n\n" + " Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?\n" + " O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!\n" + " Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;\n" + " In this I'll be impartial; be you judge\n" + " Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar?\n" + " First, let her show her face, and after speak.\n\n" + "MARIANA Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face\n" + " Until my husband bid me.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO What, are you married?\n\n" + "MARIANA No, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Are you a maid?\n\n" + "MARIANA No, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO A widow, then?\n\n" + "MARIANA Neither, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?\n\n" + "LUCIO My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are\n" + " neither maid, widow, nor wife.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause\n" + " To prattle for himself.\n\n" + "LUCIO Well, my lord.\n\n" + "MARIANA My lord; I do confess I ne'er was married;\n" + " And I confess besides I am no maid:\n" + " I have known my husband; yet my husband\n" + " Knows not that ever he knew me.\n\n" + "LUCIO He was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too!\n\n" + "LUCIO Well, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO This is no witness for Lord Angelo.\n\n" + "MARIANA Now I come to't my lord\n" + " She that accuses him of fornication,\n" + " In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,\n" + " And charges him my lord, with such a time\n" + " When I'll depose I had him in mine arms\n" + " With all the effect of love.\n\n" + "ANGELO Charges she more than me?\n\n" + "MARIANA Not that I know.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO No? you say your husband.\n\n" + "MARIANA Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,\n" + " Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body,\n" + " But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's.\n\n" + "ANGELO This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face.\n\n" + "MARIANA My husband bids me; now I will unmask.\n\n" + " [Unveiling]\n\n" + " This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,\n" + " Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on;\n" + " This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract,\n" + " Was fast belock'd in thine; this is the body\n" + " That took away the match from Isabel,\n" + " And did supply thee at thy garden-house\n" + " In her imagined person.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Know you this woman?\n\n" + "LUCIO Carnally, she says.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Sirrah, no more!\n\n" + "LUCIO Enough, my lord.\n\n" + "ANGELO My lord, I must confess I know this woman:\n" + " And five years since there was some speech of marriage\n" + " Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,\n" + " Partly for that her promised proportions\n" + " Came short of composition, but in chief\n" + " For that her reputation was disvalued\n" + " In levity: since which time of five years\n" + " I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,\n" + " Upon my faith and honour.\n\n" + "MARIANA Noble prince,\n" + " As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,\n" + " As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,\n" + " I am affianced this man's wife as strongly\n" + " As words could make up vows: and, my good lord,\n" + " But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house\n" + " He knew me as a wife. As this is true,\n" + " Let me in safety raise me from my knees\n" + " Or else for ever be confixed here,\n" + " A marble monument!\n\n" + "ANGELO I did but smile till now:\n" + " Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice\n" + " My patience here is touch'd. I do perceive\n" + " These poor informal women are no more\n" + " But instruments of some more mightier member\n" + " That sets them on: let me have way, my lord,\n" + " To find this practise out.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Ay, with my heart\n" + " And punish them to your height of pleasure.\n" + " Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,\n" + " Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths,\n" + " Though they would swear down each particular saint,\n" + " Were testimonies against his worth and credit\n" + " That's seal'd in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,\n" + " Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains\n" + " To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived.\n" + " There is another friar that set them on;\n" + " Let him be sent for.\n\n" + "FRIAR PETER Would he were here, my lord! for he indeed\n" + " Hath set the women on to this complaint:\n" + " Your provost knows the place where he abides\n" + " And he may fetch him.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Go do it instantly.\n\n" + " [Exit Provost]\n\n" + " And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,\n" + " Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,\n" + " Do with your injuries as seems you best,\n" + " In any chastisement: I for a while will leave you;\n" + " But stir not you till you have well determined\n" + " Upon these slanderers.\n\n" + "ESCALUS My lord, we'll do it throughly.\n\n" + " [Exit DUKE]\n\n" + " Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that\n" + " Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?\n\n" + "LUCIO 'Cucullus non facit monachum:' honest in nothing\n" + " but in his clothes; and one that hath spoke most\n" + " villanous speeches of the duke.\n\n" + "ESCALUS We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and\n" + " enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a\n" + " notable fellow.\n\n" + "LUCIO As any in Vienna, on my word.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Call that same Isabel here once again; I would speak with her.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you\n" + " shall see how I'll handle her.\n\n" + "LUCIO Not better than he, by her own report.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Say you?\n\n" + "LUCIO Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately,\n" + " she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly,\n" + " she'll be ashamed.\n\n" + "ESCALUS I will go darkly to work with her.\n\n" + "LUCIO That's the way; for women are light at midnight.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Officers with ISABELLA; and Provost with\n" + " the DUKE VINCENTIO in his friar's habit]\n\n" + "ESCALUS Come on, mistress: here's a gentlewoman denies all\n" + " that you have said.\n\n" + "LUCIO My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of; here with\n" + " the provost.\n\n" + "ESCALUS In very good time: speak not you to him till we\n" + " call upon you.\n\n" + "LUCIO Mum.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander\n" + " Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO 'Tis false.\n\n" + "ESCALUS How! know you where you are?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Respect to your great place! and let the devil\n" + " Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne!\n" + " Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak.\n\n" + "ESCALUS The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak:\n" + " Look you speak justly.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls,\n" + " Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?\n" + " Good night to your redress! Is the duke gone?\n" + " Then is your cause gone too. The duke's unjust,\n" + " Thus to retort your manifest appeal,\n" + " And put your trial in the villain's mouth\n" + " Which here you come to accuse.\n\n" + "LUCIO This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Why, thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar,\n" + " Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women\n" + " To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth\n" + " And in the witness of his proper ear,\n" + " To call him villain? and then to glance from him\n" + " To the duke himself, to tax him with injustice?\n" + " Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you\n" + " Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.\n" + " What 'unjust'!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Be not so hot; the duke\n" + " Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he\n" + " Dare rack his own: his subject am I not,\n" + " Nor here provincial. My business in this state\n" + " Made me a looker on here in Vienna,\n" + " Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble\n" + " Till it o'er-run the stew; laws for all faults,\n" + " But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes\n" + " Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,\n" + " As much in mock as mark.\n\n" + "ESCALUS Slander to the state! Away with him to prison!\n\n" + "ANGELO What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio?\n" + " Is this the man that you did tell us of?\n\n" + "LUCIO 'Tis he, my lord. Come hither, goodman baldpate:\n" + " do you know me?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I\n" + " met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke.\n\n" + "LUCIO O, did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Most notedly, sir.\n\n" + "LUCIO Do you so, sir? And was the duke a fleshmonger, a\n" + " fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make\n" + " that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of him; and\n" + " much more, much worse.\n\n" + "LUCIO O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the\n" + " nose for thy speeches?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I protest I love the duke as I love myself.\n\n" + "ANGELO Hark, how the villain would close now, after his\n" + " treasonable abuses!\n\n" + "ESCALUS Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away with\n" + " him to prison! Where is the provost? Away with him\n" + " to prison! lay bolts enough upon him: let him\n" + " speak no more. Away with those giglots too, and\n" + " with the other confederate companion!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO [To Provost] Stay, sir; stay awhile.\n\n" + "ANGELO What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.\n\n" + "LUCIO Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir; foh, sir! Why, you\n" + " bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must\n" + " you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you!\n" + " show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!\n" + " Will't not off?\n\n" + " [Pulls off the friar's hood, and discovers DUKE\n" + " VINCENTIO]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke.\n" + " First, provost, let me bail these gentle three.\n\n" + " [To LUCIO]\n\n" + " Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you\n" + " Must have a word anon. Lay hold on him.\n\n" + "LUCIO This may prove worse than hanging.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO [To ESCALUS] What you have spoke I pardon: sit you down:\n" + " We'll borrow place of him.\n\n" + " [To ANGELO]\n\n" + " Sir, by your leave.\n" + " Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence,\n" + " That yet can do thee office? If thou hast,\n" + " Rely upon it till my tale be heard,\n" + " And hold no longer out.\n\n" + "ANGELO O my dread lord,\n" + " I should be guiltier than my guiltiness,\n" + " To think I can be undiscernible,\n" + " When I perceive your grace, like power divine,\n" + " Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince,\n" + " No longer session hold upon my shame,\n" + " But let my trial be mine own confession:\n" + " Immediate sentence then and sequent death\n" + " Is all the grace I beg.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Come hither, Mariana.\n" + " Say, wast thou e'er contracted to this woman?\n\n" + "ANGELO I was, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Go take her hence, and marry her instantly.\n" + " Do you the office, friar; which consummate,\n" + " Return him here again. Go with him, provost.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER and Provost]\n\n" + "ESCALUS My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour\n" + " Than at the strangeness of it.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Come hither, Isabel.\n" + " Your friar is now your prince: as I was then\n" + " Advertising and holy to your business,\n" + " Not changing heart with habit, I am still\n" + " Attorney'd at your service.\n\n" + "ISABELLA O, give me pardon,\n" + " That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd\n" + " Your unknown sovereignty!\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You are pardon'd, Isabel:\n" + " And now, dear maid, be you as free to us.\n" + " Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart;\n" + " And you may marvel why I obscured myself,\n" + " Labouring to save his life, and would not rather\n" + " Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power\n" + " Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,\n" + " It was the swift celerity of his death,\n" + " Which I did think with slower foot came on,\n" + " That brain'd my purpose. But, peace be with him!\n" + " That life is better life, past fearing death,\n" + " Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort,\n" + " So happy is your brother.\n\n" + "ISABELLA I do, my lord.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER, and Provost]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO For this new-married man approaching here,\n" + " Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd\n" + " Your well defended honour, you must pardon\n" + " For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--\n" + " Being criminal, in double violation\n" + " Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach\n" + " Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,--\n" + " The very mercy of the law cries out\n" + " Most audible, even from his proper tongue,\n" + " 'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'\n" + " Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;\n" + " Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE.\n" + " Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested;\n" + " Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage.\n" + " We do condemn thee to the very block\n" + " Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with like haste.\n" + " Away with him!\n\n" + "MARIANA O my most gracious lord,\n" + " I hope you will not mock me with a husband.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO It is your husband mock'd you with a husband.\n" + " Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,\n" + " I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,\n" + " For that he knew you, might reproach your life\n" + " And choke your good to come; for his possessions,\n" + " Although by confiscation they are ours,\n" + " We do instate and widow you withal,\n" + " To buy you a better husband.\n\n" + "MARIANA O my dear lord,\n" + " I crave no other, nor no better man.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Never crave him; we are definitive.\n\n" + "MARIANA Gentle my liege,--\n\n" + " [Kneeling]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO You do but lose your labour.\n" + " Away with him to death!\n\n" + " [To LUCIO]\n\n" + " Now, sir, to you.\n\n" + "MARIANA O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part;\n" + " Lend me your knees, and all my life to come\n" + " I'll lend you all my life to do you service.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Against all sense you do importune her:\n" + " Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact,\n" + " Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break,\n" + " And take her hence in horror.\n\n" + "MARIANA Isabel,\n" + " Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me;\n" + " Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all.\n" + " They say, best men are moulded out of faults;\n" + " And, for the most, become much more the better\n" + " For being a little bad: so may my husband.\n" + " O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO He dies for Claudio's death.\n\n" + "ISABELLA Most bounteous sir,\n\n" + " [Kneeling]\n\n" + " Look, if it please you, on this man condemn'd,\n" + " As if my brother lived: I partly think\n" + " A due sincerity govern'd his deeds,\n" + " Till he did look on me: since it is so,\n" + " Let him not die. My brother had but justice,\n" + " In that he did the thing for which he died:\n" + " For Angelo,\n" + " His act did not o'ertake his bad intent,\n" + " And must be buried but as an intent\n" + " That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects;\n" + " Intents but merely thoughts.\n\n" + "MARIANA Merely, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Your suit's unprofitable; stand up, I say.\n" + " I have bethought me of another fault.\n" + " Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded\n" + " At an unusual hour?\n\n" + "Provost It was commanded so.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Had you a special warrant for the deed?\n\n" + "Provost No, my good lord; it was by private message.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO For which I do discharge you of your office:\n" + " Give up your keys.\n\n" + "Provost Pardon me, noble lord:\n" + " I thought it was a fault, but knew it not;\n" + " Yet did repent me, after more advice;\n" + " For testimony whereof, one in the prison,\n" + " That should by private order else have died,\n" + " I have reserved alive.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO What's he?\n\n" + "Provost His name is Barnardine.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO I would thou hadst done so by Claudio.\n" + " Go fetch him hither; let me look upon him.\n\n" + " [Exit Provost]\n\n" + "ESCALUS I am sorry, one so learned and so wise\n" + " As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd,\n" + " Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood.\n" + " And lack of temper'd judgment afterward.\n\n" + "ANGELO I am sorry that such sorrow I procure:\n" + " And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart\n" + " That I crave death more willingly than mercy;\n" + " 'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Provost, with BARNARDINE, CLAUDIO muffled,\n" + " and JULIET]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Which is that Barnardine?\n\n" + "Provost This, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO There was a friar told me of this man.\n" + " Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul.\n" + " That apprehends no further than this world,\n" + " And squarest thy life according. Thou'rt condemn'd:\n" + " But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all;\n" + " And pray thee take this mercy to provide\n" + " For better times to come. Friar, advise him;\n" + " I leave him to your hand. What muffled fellow's that?\n\n" + "Provost This is another prisoner that I saved.\n" + " Who should have died when Claudio lost his head;\n" + " As like almost to Claudio as himself.\n\n" + " [Unmuffles CLAUDIO]\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO [To ISABELLA] If he be like your brother, for his sake\n" + " Is he pardon'd; and, for your lovely sake,\n" + " Give me your hand and say you will be mine.\n" + " He is my brother too: but fitter time for that.\n" + " By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe;\n" + " Methinks I see a quickening in his eye.\n" + " Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well:\n" + " Look that you love your wife; her worth worth yours.\n" + " I find an apt remission in myself;\n" + " And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.\n\n" + " [To LUCIO]\n\n" + " You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,\n" + " One all of luxury, an ass, a madman;\n" + " Wherein have I so deserved of you,\n" + " That you extol me thus?\n\n" + "LUCIO 'Faith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the\n" + " trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I\n" + " had rather it would please you I might be whipt.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Whipt first, sir, and hanged after.\n" + " Proclaim it, provost, round about the city.\n" + " Is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,\n" + " As I have heard him swear himself there's one\n" + " Whom he begot with child, let her appear,\n" + " And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd,\n" + " Let him be whipt and hang'd.\n\n" + "LUCIO I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.\n" + " Your highness said even now, I made you a duke:\n" + " good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.\n" + " Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal\n" + " Remit thy other forfeits. Take him to prison;\n" + " And see our pleasure herein executed.\n\n" + "LUCIO Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,\n" + " whipping, and hanging.\n\n" + "DUKE VINCENTIO Slandering a prince deserves it.\n\n" + " [Exit Officers with LUCIO]\n\n" + " She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore.\n" + " Joy to you, Mariana! Love her, Angelo:\n" + " I have confess'd her and I know her virtue.\n" + " Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness:\n" + " There's more behind that is more gratulate.\n" + " Thanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy:\n" + " We shill employ thee in a worthier place.\n" + " Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home\n" + " The head of Ragozine for Claudio's:\n" + " The offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel,\n" + " I have a motion much imports your good;\n" + " Whereto if you'll a willing ear incline,\n" + " What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.\n" + " So, bring us to our palace; where we'll show\n" + " What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "The DUKE OF VENICE. (DUKE:)\n\n\n" + "The PRINCE OF |\n" + "MOROCCO (MOROCCO:) |\n" + " | suitors to Portia.\n" + "The PRINCE OF |\n" + "ARRAGON (ARRAGON:) |\n\n\n" + "ANTONIO a merchant of Venice.\n\n" + "BASSANIO his friend, suitor likewise to Portia.\n\n\n" + "SALANIO |\n" + " |\n" + "SALARINO |\n" + " | friends to Antonio and Bassanio.\n" + "GRATIANO |\n" + " |\n" + "SALERIO |\n\n\n" + "LORENZO in love with Jessica.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK a rich Jew.\n\n" + "TUBAL a Jew, his friend.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT GOBBO the clown, servant to SHYLOCK. (LAUNCELOT:)\n\n" + "OLD GOBBO father to Launcelot. (GOBBO:)\n\n" + "LEONARDO servant to BASSANIO.\n\n\n" + "BALTHASAR |\n" + " | servants to PORTIA.\n" + "STEPHANO |\n\n\n" + "PORTIA a rich heiress.\n\n" + "NERISSA her waiting-maid.\n\n" + "JESSICA daughter to SHYLOCK.\n\n" + " Magnificoes of Venice, Officers of the Court of Justice,\n" + " Gaoler, Servants to Portia, and other Attendants.\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (Clerk:)\n\n" + "SCENE Partly at Venice, and partly at Belmont,\n" + " the seat of PORTIA, on the Continent.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Venice. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO]\n\n" + "ANTONIO In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:\n" + " It wearies me; you say it wearies you;\n" + " But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,\n" + " What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,\n" + " I am to learn;\n" + " And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,\n" + " That I have much ado to know myself.\n\n" + "SALARINO Your mind is tossing on the ocean;\n" + " There, where your argosies with portly sail,\n" + " Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,\n" + " Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,\n" + " Do overpeer the petty traffickers,\n" + " That curtsy to them, do them reverence,\n" + " As they fly by them with their woven wings.\n\n" + "SALANIO Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,\n" + " The better part of my affections would\n" + " Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still\n" + " Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,\n" + " Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads;\n" + " And every object that might make me fear\n" + " Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt\n" + " Would make me sad.\n\n" + "SALARINO My wind cooling my broth\n" + " Would blow me to an ague, when I thought\n" + " What harm a wind too great at sea might do.\n" + " I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,\n" + " But I should think of shallows and of flats,\n" + " And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,\n" + " Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs\n" + " To kiss her burial. Should I go to church\n" + " And see the holy edifice of stone,\n" + " And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,\n" + " Which touching but my gentle vessel's side,\n" + " Would scatter all her spices on the stream,\n" + " Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,\n" + " And, in a word, but even now worth this,\n" + " And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought\n" + " To think on this, and shall I lack the thought\n" + " That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?\n" + " But tell not me; I know, Antonio\n" + " Is sad to think upon his merchandise.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,\n" + " My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,\n" + " Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate\n" + " Upon the fortune of this present year:\n" + " Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.\n\n" + "SALARINO Why, then you are in love.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Fie, fie!\n\n" + "SALARINO Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad,\n" + " Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy\n" + " For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,\n" + " Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,\n" + " Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:\n" + " Some that will evermore peep through their eyes\n" + " And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,\n" + " And other of such vinegar aspect\n" + " That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,\n" + " Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.\n\n" + " [Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO, and GRATIANO]\n\n" + "SALANIO Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,\n" + " Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:\n" + " We leave you now with better company.\n\n" + "SALARINO I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,\n" + " If worthier friends had not prevented me.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Your worth is very dear in my regard.\n" + " I take it, your own business calls on you\n" + " And you embrace the occasion to depart.\n\n" + "SALARINO Good morrow, my good lords.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?\n" + " You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?\n\n" + "SALARINO We'll make our leisures to attend on yours.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Salarino and Salanio]\n\n" + "LORENZO My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,\n" + " We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,\n" + " I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.\n\n" + "BASSANIO I will not fail you.\n\n" + "GRATIANO You look not well, Signior Antonio;\n" + " You have too much respect upon the world:\n" + " They lose it that do buy it with much care:\n" + " Believe me, you are marvellously changed.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;\n" + " A stage where every man must play a part,\n" + " And mine a sad one.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Let me play the fool:\n" + " With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,\n" + " And let my liver rather heat with wine\n" + " Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.\n" + " Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,\n" + " Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?\n" + " Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice\n" + " By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--\n" + " I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--\n" + " There are a sort of men whose visages\n" + " Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,\n" + " And do a wilful stillness entertain,\n" + " With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion\n" + " Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,\n" + " As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,\n" + " And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'\n" + " O my Antonio, I do know of these\n" + " That therefore only are reputed wise\n" + " For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,\n" + " If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,\n" + " Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.\n" + " I'll tell thee more of this another time:\n" + " But fish not, with this melancholy bait,\n" + " For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.\n" + " Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:\n" + " I'll end my exhortation after dinner.\n\n" + "LORENZO Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:\n" + " I must be one of these same dumb wise men,\n" + " For Gratiano never lets me speak.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Well, keep me company but two years moe,\n" + " Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable\n" + " In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO]\n\n" + "ANTONIO Is that any thing now?\n\n" + "BASSANIO Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more\n" + " than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two\n" + " grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you\n" + " shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you\n" + " have them, they are not worth the search.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Well, tell me now what lady is the same\n" + " To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,\n" + " That you to-day promised to tell me of?\n\n" + "BASSANIO 'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,\n" + " How much I have disabled mine estate,\n" + " By something showing a more swelling port\n" + " Than my faint means would grant continuance:\n" + " Nor do I now make moan to be abridged\n" + " From such a noble rate; but my chief care\n" + " Is to come fairly off from the great debts\n" + " Wherein my time something too prodigal\n" + " Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,\n" + " I owe the most, in money and in love,\n" + " And from your love I have a warranty\n" + " To unburden all my plots and purposes\n" + " How to get clear of all the debts I owe.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;\n" + " And if it stand, as you yourself still do,\n" + " Within the eye of honour, be assured,\n" + " My purse, my person, my extremest means,\n" + " Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.\n\n" + "BASSANIO In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,\n" + " I shot his fellow of the self-same flight\n" + " The self-same way with more advised watch,\n" + " To find the other forth, and by adventuring both\n" + " I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,\n" + " Because what follows is pure innocence.\n" + " I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,\n" + " That which I owe is lost; but if you please\n" + " To shoot another arrow that self way\n" + " Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,\n" + " As I will watch the aim, or to find both\n" + " Or bring your latter hazard back again\n" + " And thankfully rest debtor for the first.\n\n" + "ANTONIO You know me well, and herein spend but time\n" + " To wind about my love with circumstance;\n" + " And out of doubt you do me now more wrong\n" + " In making question of my uttermost\n" + " Than if you had made waste of all I have:\n" + " Then do but say to me what I should do\n" + " That in your knowledge may by me be done,\n" + " And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.\n\n" + "BASSANIO In Belmont is a lady richly left;\n" + " And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,\n" + " Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes\n" + " I did receive fair speechless messages:\n" + " Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued\n" + " To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:\n" + " Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,\n" + " For the four winds blow in from every coast\n" + " Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks\n" + " Hang on her temples like a golden fleece;\n" + " Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,\n" + " And many Jasons come in quest of her.\n" + " O my Antonio, had I but the means\n" + " To hold a rival place with one of them,\n" + " I have a mind presages me such thrift,\n" + " That I should questionless be fortunate!\n\n" + "ANTONIO Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;\n" + " Neither have I money nor commodity\n" + " To raise a present sum: therefore go forth;\n" + " Try what my credit can in Venice do:\n" + " That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,\n" + " To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.\n" + " Go, presently inquire, and so will I,\n" + " Where money is, and I no question make\n" + " To have it of my trust or for my sake.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II: Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PORTIA and NERISSA]\n\n" + "PORTIA By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of\n" + " this great world.\n\n" + "NERISSA You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in\n" + " the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and\n" + " yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit\n" + " with too much as they that starve with nothing. It\n" + " is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the\n" + " mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but\n" + " competency lives longer.\n\n" + "PORTIA Good sentences and well pronounced.\n\n" + "NERISSA They would be better, if well followed.\n\n" + "PORTIA If to do were as easy as to know what were good to\n" + " do, chapels had been churches and poor men's\n" + " cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that\n" + " follows his own instructions: I can easier teach\n" + " twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the\n" + " twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may\n" + " devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps\n" + " o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the\n" + " youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the\n" + " cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to\n" + " choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may\n" + " neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I\n" + " dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed\n" + " by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,\n" + " Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?\n\n" + "NERISSA Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their\n" + " death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,\n" + " that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,\n" + " silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning\n" + " chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any\n" + " rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what\n" + " warmth is there in your affection towards any of\n" + " these princely suitors that are already come?\n\n" + "PORTIA I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest\n" + " them, I will describe them; and, according to my\n" + " description, level at my affection.\n\n" + "NERISSA First, there is the Neapolitan prince.\n\n" + "PORTIA Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but\n" + " talk of his horse; and he makes it a great\n" + " appropriation to his own good parts, that he can\n" + " shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his\n" + " mother played false with a smith.\n\n" + "NERISSA Then there is the County Palatine.\n\n" + "PORTIA He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you\n" + " will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and\n" + " smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping\n" + " philosopher when he grows old, being so full of\n" + " unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be\n" + " married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth\n" + " than to either of these. God defend me from these\n" + " two!\n\n" + "NERISSA How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?\n\n" + "PORTIA God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.\n" + " In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,\n" + " he! why, he hath a horse better than the\n" + " Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than\n" + " the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if a\n" + " throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will\n" + " fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I\n" + " should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me\n" + " I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I\n" + " shall never requite him.\n\n" + "NERISSA What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron\n" + " of England?\n\n" + "PORTIA You know I say nothing to him, for he understands\n" + " not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French,\n" + " nor Italian, and you will come into the court and\n" + " swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.\n" + " He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can\n" + " converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!\n" + " I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round\n" + " hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his\n" + " behavior every where.\n\n" + "NERISSA What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?\n\n" + "PORTIA That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he\n" + " borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and\n" + " swore he would pay him again when he was able: I\n" + " think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed\n" + " under for another.\n\n" + "NERISSA How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?\n\n" + "PORTIA Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and\n" + " most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when\n" + " he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and\n" + " when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:\n" + " and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall\n" + " make shift to go without him.\n\n" + "NERISSA If he should offer to choose, and choose the right\n" + " casket, you should refuse to perform your father's\n" + " will, if you should refuse to accept him.\n\n" + "PORTIA Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a\n" + " deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket,\n" + " for if the devil be within and that temptation\n" + " without, I know he will choose it. I will do any\n" + " thing, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.\n\n" + "NERISSA You need not fear, lady, the having any of these\n" + " lords: they have acquainted me with their\n" + " determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their\n" + " home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless\n" + " you may be won by some other sort than your father's\n" + " imposition depending on the caskets.\n\n" + "PORTIA If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as\n" + " chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner\n" + " of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers\n" + " are so reasonable, for there is not one among them\n" + " but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant\n" + " them a fair departure.\n\n" + "NERISSA Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a\n" + " Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither\n" + " in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?\n\n" + "PORTIA Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think, he was so called.\n\n" + "NERISSA True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish\n" + " eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.\n\n" + "PORTIA I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of\n" + " thy praise.\n\n" + " [Enter a Serving-man]\n\n" + " How now! what news?\n\n" + "Servant The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take\n" + " their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a\n" + " fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the\n" + " prince his master will be here to-night.\n\n" + "PORTIA If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a\n" + " heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should\n" + " be glad of his approach: if he have the condition\n" + " of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had\n" + " rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,\n" + " Nerissa. Sirrah, go before.\n" + " Whiles we shut the gates\n" + " upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Venice. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK]\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Three thousand ducats; well.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Ay, sir, for three months.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK For three months; well.\n\n" + "BASSANIO For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Antonio shall become bound; well.\n\n" + "BASSANIO May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I\n" + " know your answer?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Your answer to that.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Antonio is a good man.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Oh, no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a\n" + " good man is to have you understand me that he is\n" + " sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition: he\n" + " hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the\n" + " Indies; I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he\n" + " hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and\n" + " other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships\n" + " are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats\n" + " and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I\n" + " mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters,\n" + " winds and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding,\n" + " sufficient. Three thousand ducats; I think I may\n" + " take his bond.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Be assured you may.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I will be assured I may; and, that I may be assured,\n" + " I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?\n\n" + "BASSANIO If it please you to dine with us.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which\n" + " your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I\n" + " will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,\n" + " walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat\n" + " with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What\n" + " news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONIO]\n\n" + "BASSANIO This is Signior Antonio.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK [Aside] How like a fawning publican he looks!\n" + " I hate him for he is a Christian,\n" + " But more for that in low simplicity\n" + " He lends out money gratis and brings down\n" + " The rate of usance here with us in Venice.\n" + " If I can catch him once upon the hip,\n" + " I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.\n" + " He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,\n" + " Even there where merchants most do congregate,\n" + " On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,\n" + " Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,\n" + " If I forgive him!\n\n" + "BASSANIO Shylock, do you hear?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I am debating of my present store,\n" + " And, by the near guess of my memory,\n" + " I cannot instantly raise up the gross\n" + " Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?\n" + " Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,\n" + " Will furnish me. But soft! how many months\n" + " Do you desire?\n\n" + " [To ANTONIO]\n\n" + " Rest you fair, good signior;\n" + " Your worship was the last man in our mouths.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Shylock, although I neither lend nor borrow\n" + " By taking nor by giving of excess,\n" + " Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,\n" + " I'll break a custom. Is he yet possess'd\n" + " How much ye would?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And for three months.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I had forgot; three months; you told me so.\n" + " Well then, your bond; and let me see; but hear you;\n" + " Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow\n" + " Upon advantage.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I do never use it.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--\n" + " This Jacob from our holy Abram was,\n" + " As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,\n" + " The third possessor; ay, he was the third--\n\n" + "ANTONIO And what of him? did he take interest?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK No, not take interest, not, as you would say,\n" + " Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.\n" + " When Laban and himself were compromised\n" + " That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied\n" + " Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,\n" + " In the end of autumn turned to the rams,\n" + " And, when the work of generation was\n" + " Between these woolly breeders in the act,\n" + " The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,\n" + " And, in the doing of the deed of kind,\n" + " He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,\n" + " Who then conceiving did in eaning time\n" + " Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.\n" + " This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:\n" + " And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.\n\n" + "ANTONIO This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for;\n" + " A thing not in his power to bring to pass,\n" + " But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven.\n" + " Was this inserted to make interest good?\n" + " Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:\n" + " But note me, signior.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Mark you this, Bassanio,\n" + " The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.\n" + " An evil soul producing holy witness\n" + " Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,\n" + " A goodly apple rotten at the heart:\n" + " O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum.\n" + " Three months from twelve; then, let me see; the rate--\n\n" + "ANTONIO Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Signior Antonio, many a time and oft\n" + " In the Rialto you have rated me\n" + " About my moneys and my usances:\n" + " Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,\n" + " For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.\n" + " You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,\n" + " And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,\n" + " And all for use of that which is mine own.\n" + " Well then, it now appears you need my help:\n" + " Go to, then; you come to me, and you say\n" + " 'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so;\n" + " You, that did void your rheum upon my beard\n" + " And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur\n" + " Over your threshold: moneys is your suit\n" + " What should I say to you? Should I not say\n" + " 'Hath a dog money? is it possible\n" + " A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or\n" + " Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,\n" + " With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;\n" + " 'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;\n" + " You spurn'd me such a day; another time\n" + " You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies\n" + " I'll lend you thus much moneys'?\n\n" + "ANTONIO I am as like to call thee so again,\n" + " To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.\n" + " If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not\n" + " As to thy friends; for when did friendship take\n" + " A breed for barren metal of his friend?\n" + " But lend it rather to thine enemy,\n" + " Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face\n" + " Exact the penalty.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Why, look you, how you storm!\n" + " I would be friends with you and have your love,\n" + " Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with,\n" + " Supply your present wants and take no doit\n" + " Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me:\n" + " This is kind I offer.\n\n\n" + "BASSANIO This were kindness.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK This kindness will I show.\n" + " Go with me to a notary, seal me there\n" + " Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,\n" + " If you repay me not on such a day,\n" + " In such a place, such sum or sums as are\n" + " Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit\n" + " Be nominated for an equal pound\n" + " Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken\n" + " In what part of your body pleaseth me.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond\n" + " And say there is much kindness in the Jew.\n\n" + "BASSANIO You shall not seal to such a bond for me:\n" + " I'll rather dwell in my necessity.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it:\n" + " Within these two months, that's a month before\n" + " This bond expires, I do expect return\n" + " Of thrice three times the value of this bond.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK O father Abram, what these Christians are,\n" + " Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect\n" + " The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this;\n" + " If he should break his day, what should I gain\n" + " By the exaction of the forfeiture?\n" + " A pound of man's flesh taken from a man\n" + " Is not so estimable, profitable neither,\n" + " As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,\n" + " To buy his favour, I extend this friendship:\n" + " If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;\n" + " And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Then meet me forthwith at the notary's;\n" + " Give him direction for this merry bond,\n" + " And I will go and purse the ducats straight,\n" + " See to my house, left in the fearful guard\n" + " Of an unthrifty knave, and presently\n" + " I will be with you.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Hie thee, gentle Jew.\n\n" + " [Exit Shylock]\n\n" + " The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.\n\n" + "BASSANIO I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Come on: in this there can be no dismay;\n" + " My ships come home a month before the day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF MOROCCO\n" + " and his train; PORTIA, NERISSA, and others\n" + " attending]\n\n" + "MOROCCO Mislike me not for my complexion,\n" + " The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun,\n" + " To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.\n" + " Bring me the fairest creature northward born,\n" + " Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,\n" + " And let us make incision for your love,\n" + " To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.\n" + " I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine\n" + " Hath fear'd the valiant: by my love I swear\n" + " The best-regarded virgins of our clime\n" + " Have loved it too: I would not change this hue,\n" + " Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.\n\n" + "PORTIA In terms of choice I am not solely led\n" + " By nice direction of a maiden's eyes;\n" + " Besides, the lottery of my destiny\n" + " Bars me the right of voluntary choosing:\n" + " But if my father had not scanted me\n" + " And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself\n" + " His wife who wins me by that means I told you,\n" + " Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair\n" + " As any comer I have look'd on yet\n" + " For my affection.\n\n" + "MOROCCO Even for that I thank you:\n" + " Therefore, I pray you, lead me to the caskets\n" + " To try my fortune. By this scimitar\n" + " That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince\n" + " That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,\n" + " I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,\n" + " Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,\n" + " Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,\n" + " Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,\n" + " To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!\n" + " If Hercules and Lichas play at dice\n" + " Which is the better man, the greater throw\n" + " May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:\n" + " So is Alcides beaten by his page;\n" + " And so may I, blind fortune leading me,\n" + " Miss that which one unworthier may attain,\n" + " And die with grieving.\n\n" + "PORTIA You must take your chance,\n" + " And either not attempt to choose at all\n" + " Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong\n" + " Never to speak to lady afterward\n" + " In way of marriage: therefore be advised.\n\n" + "MOROCCO Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.\n\n" + "PORTIA First, forward to the temple: after dinner\n" + " Your hazard shall be made.\n\n" + "MOROCCO Good fortune then!\n" + " To make me blest or cursed'st among men.\n\n" + " [Cornets, and exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Venice. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LAUNCELOT]\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from\n" + " this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and\n" + " tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good\n" + " Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot\n" + " Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away. My\n" + " conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;\n" + " take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest\n" + " Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy\n" + " heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me\n" + " pack: 'Via!' says the fiend; 'away!' says the\n" + " fiend; 'for the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,'\n" + " says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience,\n" + " hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely\n" + " to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest\n" + " man's son,' or rather an honest woman's son; for,\n" + " indeed, my father did something smack, something\n" + " grow to, he had a kind of taste; well, my conscience\n" + " says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the\n" + " fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience.\n" + " 'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'\n" + " say I, 'you counsel well:' to be ruled by my\n" + " conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,\n" + " who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and, to\n" + " run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the\n" + " fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil\n" + " himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil\n" + " incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is\n" + " but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel\n" + " me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more\n" + " friendly counsel: I will run, fiend; my heels are\n" + " at your command; I will run.\n\n" + " [Enter Old GOBBO, with a basket]\n\n" + "GOBBO Master young man, you, I pray you, which is the way\n" + " to master Jew's?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT [Aside] O heavens, this is my true-begotten father!\n" + " who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind,\n" + " knows me not: I will try confusions with him.\n\n" + "GOBBO Master young gentleman, I pray you, which is the way\n" + " to master Jew's?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but,\n" + " at the next turning of all, on your left; marry, at\n" + " the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn\n" + " down indirectly to the Jew's house.\n\n" + "GOBBO By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can\n" + " you tell me whether one Launcelot,\n" + " that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Talk you of young Master Launcelot?\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Mark me now; now will I raise the waters. Talk you\n" + " of young Master Launcelot?\n\n" + "GOBBO No master, sir, but a poor man's son: his father,\n" + " though I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man\n" + " and, God be thanked, well to live.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Well, let his father be what a' will, we talk of\n" + " young Master Launcelot.\n\n" + "GOBBO Your worship's friend and Launcelot, sir.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you,\n" + " talk you of young Master Launcelot?\n\n" + "GOBBO Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master\n" + " Launcelot, father; for the young gentleman,\n" + " according to Fates and Destinies and such odd\n" + " sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of\n" + " learning, is indeed deceased, or, as you would say\n" + " in plain terms, gone to heaven.\n\n" + "GOBBO Marry, God forbid! the boy was the very staff of my\n" + " age, my very prop.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a staff or\n" + " a prop? Do you know me, father?\n\n" + "GOBBO Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman:\n" + " but, I pray you, tell me, is my boy, God rest his\n" + " soul, alive or dead?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Do you not know me, father?\n\n" + "GOBBO Alack, sir, I am sand-blind; I know you not.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of\n" + " the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his\n" + " own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of\n" + " your son: give me your blessing: truth will come\n" + " to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man's son\n" + " may, but at the length truth will out.\n\n" + "GOBBO Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not\n" + " Launcelot, my boy.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it, but\n" + " give me your blessing: I am Launcelot, your boy\n" + " that was, your son that is, your child that shall\n" + " be.\n\n" + "GOBBO I cannot think you are my son.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT I know not what I shall think of that: but I am\n" + " Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your\n" + " wife is my mother.\n\n" + "GOBBO Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be sworn, if thou\n" + " be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh and blood.\n" + " Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou\n" + " got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than\n" + " Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT It should seem, then, that Dobbin's tail grows\n" + " backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail\n" + " than I have of my face when I last saw him.\n\n" + "GOBBO Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and thy\n" + " master agree? I have brought him a present. How\n" + " 'gree you now?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Well, well: but, for mine own part, as I have set\n" + " up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I\n" + " have run some ground. My master's a very Jew: give\n" + " him a present! give him a halter: I am famished in\n" + " his service; you may tell every finger I have with\n" + " my ribs. Father, I am glad you are come: give me\n" + " your present to one Master Bassanio, who, indeed,\n" + " gives rare new liveries: if I serve not him, I\n" + " will run as far as God has any ground. O rare\n" + " fortune! here comes the man: to him, father; for I\n" + " am a Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer.\n\n" + " [Enter BASSANIO, with LEONARDO and other followers]\n\n" + "BASSANIO You may do so; but let it be so hasted that supper\n" + " be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See\n" + " these letters delivered; put the liveries to making,\n" + " and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.\n\n" + " [Exit a Servant]\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT To him, father.\n\n" + "GOBBO God bless your worship!\n\n" + "BASSANIO Gramercy! wouldst thou aught with me?\n\n" + "GOBBO Here's my son, sir, a poor boy,--\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew's man; that\n" + " would, sir, as my father shall specify--\n\n" + "GOBBO He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve--\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Indeed, the short and the long is, I serve the Jew,\n" + " and have a desire, as my father shall specify--\n\n" + "GOBBO His master and he, saving your worship's reverence,\n" + " are scarce cater-cousins--\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having\n" + " done me wrong, doth cause me, as my father, being, I\n" + " hope, an old man, shall frutify unto you--\n\n" + "GOBBO I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon\n" + " your worship, and my suit is--\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT In very brief, the suit is impertinent to myself, as\n" + " your worship shall know by this honest old man; and,\n" + " though I say it, though old man, yet poor man, my father.\n\n" + "BASSANIO One speak for both. What would you?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Serve you, sir.\n\n" + "GOBBO That is the very defect of the matter, sir.\n\n" + "BASSANIO I know thee well; thou hast obtain'd thy suit:\n" + " Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,\n" + " And hath preferr'd thee, if it be preferment\n" + " To leave a rich Jew's service, to become\n" + " The follower of so poor a gentleman.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT The old proverb is very well parted between my\n" + " master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of\n" + " God, sir, and he hath enough.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy son.\n" + " Take leave of thy old master and inquire\n" + " My lodging out. Give him a livery\n" + " More guarded than his fellows': see it done.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Father, in. I cannot get a service, no; I have\n" + " ne'er a tongue in my head. Well, if any man in\n" + " Italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear\n" + " upon a book, I shall have good fortune. Go to,\n" + " here's a simple line of life: here's a small trifle\n" + " of wives: alas, fifteen wives is nothing! eleven\n" + " widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one\n" + " man: and then to 'scape drowning thrice, and to be\n" + " in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed;\n" + " here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune be a\n" + " woman, she's a good wench for this gear. Father,\n" + " come; I'll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Launcelot and Old Gobbo]\n\n" + "BASSANIO I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:\n" + " These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,\n" + " Return in haste, for I do feast to-night\n" + " My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go.\n\n" + "LEONARDO My best endeavours shall be done herein.\n\n" + " [Enter GRATIANO]\n\n" + "GRATIANO Where is your master?\n\n" + "LEONARDO Yonder, sir, he walks.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GRATIANO Signior Bassanio!\n\n" + "BASSANIO Gratiano!\n\n" + "GRATIANO I have a suit to you.\n\n" + "BASSANIO You have obtain'd it.\n\n" + "GRATIANO You must not deny me: I must go with you to Belmont.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano;\n" + " Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice;\n" + " Parts that become thee happily enough\n" + " And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;\n" + " But where thou art not known, why, there they show\n" + " Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain\n" + " To allay with some cold drops of modesty\n" + " Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior\n" + " I be misconstrued in the place I go to,\n" + " And lose my hopes.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Signior Bassanio, hear me:\n" + " If I do not put on a sober habit,\n" + " Talk with respect and swear but now and then,\n" + " Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,\n" + " Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes\n" + " Thus with my hat, and sigh and say 'amen,'\n" + " Use all the observance of civility,\n" + " Like one well studied in a sad ostent\n" + " To please his grandam, never trust me more.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Well, we shall see your bearing.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me\n" + " By what we do to-night.\n\n" + "BASSANIO No, that were pity:\n" + " I would entreat you rather to put on\n" + " Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends\n" + " That purpose merriment. But fare you well:\n" + " I have some business.\n\n" + "GRATIANO And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:\n" + " But we will visit you at supper-time.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. A room in SHYLOCK'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT]\n\n" + "JESSICA I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:\n" + " Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,\n" + " Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.\n" + " But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:\n" + " And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see\n" + " Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:\n" + " Give him this letter; do it secretly;\n" + " And so farewell: I would not have my father\n" + " See me in talk with thee.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue. Most beautiful\n" + " pagan, most sweet Jew! if a Christian did not play\n" + " the knave and get thee, I am much deceived. But,\n" + " adieu: these foolish drops do something drown my\n" + " manly spirit: adieu.\n\n" + "JESSICA Farewell, good Launcelot.\n\n" + " [Exit Launcelot]\n\n" + " Alack, what heinous sin is it in me\n" + " To be ashamed to be my father's child!\n" + " But though I am a daughter to his blood,\n" + " I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,\n" + " If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,\n" + " Become a Christian and thy loving wife.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GRATIANO, LORENZO, SALARINO, and SALANIO]\n\n" + "LORENZO Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,\n" + " Disguise us at my lodging and return,\n" + " All in an hour.\n\n" + "GRATIANO We have not made good preparation.\n\n" + "SALARINO We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers.\n\n" + "SALANIO 'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,\n" + " And better in my mind not undertook.\n\n" + "LORENZO 'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours\n" + " To furnish us.\n\n" + " [Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter]\n\n" + " Friend Launcelot, what's the news?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT An it shall please you to break up\n" + " this, it shall seem to signify.\n\n" + "LORENZO I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;\n" + " And whiter than the paper it writ on\n" + " Is the fair hand that writ.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Love-news, in faith.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT By your leave, sir.\n\n" + "LORENZO Whither goest thou?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Marry, sir, to bid my old master the\n" + " Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian.\n\n" + "LORENZO Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica\n" + " I will not fail her; speak it privately.\n" + " Go, gentlemen,\n\n" + " [Exit Launcelot]\n\n" + " Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?\n" + " I am provided of a torch-bearer.\n\n" + "SALANIO Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight.\n\n" + "SALANIO And so will I.\n\n" + "LORENZO Meet me and Gratiano\n" + " At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence.\n\n" + "SALARINO 'Tis good we do so.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SALARINO and SALANIO]\n\n" + "GRATIANO Was not that letter from fair Jessica?\n\n" + "LORENZO I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed\n" + " How I shall take her from her father's house,\n" + " What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,\n" + " What page's suit she hath in readiness.\n" + " If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,\n" + " It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:\n" + " And never dare misfortune cross her foot,\n" + " Unless she do it under this excuse,\n" + " That she is issue to a faithless Jew.\n" + " Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest:\n" + " Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same. Before SHYLOCK'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT]\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,\n" + " The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--\n" + " What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,\n" + " As thou hast done with me:--What, Jessica!--\n" + " And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--\n" + " Why, Jessica, I say!\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Why, Jessica!\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Your worship was wont to tell me that\n" + " I could do nothing without bidding.\n\n" + " [Enter Jessica]\n\n" + "JESSICA Call you? what is your will?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:\n" + " There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?\n" + " I am not bid for love; they flatter me:\n" + " But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon\n" + " The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,\n" + " Look to my house. I am right loath to go:\n" + " There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,\n" + " For I did dream of money-bags to-night.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect\n" + " your reproach.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK So do I his.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT An they have conspired together, I will not say you\n" + " shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not\n" + " for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on\n" + " Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning,\n" + " falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four\n" + " year, in the afternoon.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:\n" + " Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum\n" + " And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,\n" + " Clamber not you up to the casements then,\n" + " Nor thrust your head into the public street\n" + " To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,\n" + " But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:\n" + " Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter\n" + " My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,\n" + " I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:\n" + " But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;\n" + " Say I will come.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at\n" + " window, for all this, There will come a Christian\n" + " boy, will be worth a Jewess' eye.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SHYLOCK What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?\n\n\n" + "JESSICA His words were 'Farewell mistress;' nothing else.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;\n" + " Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day\n" + " More than the wild-cat: drones hive not with me;\n" + " Therefore I part with him, and part with him\n" + " To one that would have him help to waste\n" + " His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in;\n" + " Perhaps I will return immediately:\n" + " Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:\n" + " Fast bind, fast find;\n" + " A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JESSICA Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,\n" + " I have a father, you a daughter, lost.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GRATIANO and SALARINO, masqued]\n\n" + "GRATIANO This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo\n" + " Desired us to make stand.\n\n" + "SALARINO His hour is almost past.\n\n" + "GRATIANO And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,\n" + " For lovers ever run before the clock.\n\n" + "SALARINO O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly\n" + " To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont\n" + " To keep obliged faith unforfeited!\n\n" + "GRATIANO That ever holds: who riseth from a feast\n" + " With that keen appetite that he sits down?\n" + " Where is the horse that doth untread again\n" + " His tedious measures with the unbated fire\n" + " That he did pace them first? All things that are,\n" + " Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.\n" + " How like a younker or a prodigal\n" + " The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,\n" + " Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!\n" + " How like the prodigal doth she return,\n" + " With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,\n" + " Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!\n\n" + "SALARINO Here comes Lorenzo: more of this hereafter.\n\n" + " [Enter LORENZO]\n\n" + "LORENZO Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode;\n" + " Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait:\n" + " When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,\n" + " I'll watch as long for you then. Approach;\n" + " Here dwells my father Jew. Ho! who's within?\n\n" + " [Enter JESSICA, above, in boy's clothes]\n\n" + "JESSICA Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,\n" + " Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue.\n\n" + "LORENZO Lorenzo, and thy love.\n\n" + "JESSICA Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,\n" + " For who love I so much? And now who knows\n" + " But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?\n\n" + "LORENZO Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.\n\n" + "JESSICA Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.\n" + " I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,\n" + " For I am much ashamed of my exchange:\n" + " But love is blind and lovers cannot see\n" + " The pretty follies that themselves commit;\n" + " For if they could, Cupid himself would blush\n" + " To see me thus transformed to a boy.\n\n" + "LORENZO Descend, for you must be my torchbearer.\n\n" + "JESSICA What, must I hold a candle to my shames?\n" + " They in themselves, good-sooth, are too too light.\n" + " Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;\n" + " And I should be obscured.\n\n" + "LORENZO So are you, sweet,\n" + " Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.\n" + " But come at once;\n" + " For the close night doth play the runaway,\n" + " And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast.\n\n" + "JESSICA I will make fast the doors, and gild myself\n" + " With some more ducats, and be with you straight.\n\n" + " [Exit above]\n\n" + "GRATIANO Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew.\n\n" + "LORENZO Beshrew me but I love her heartily;\n" + " For she is wise, if I can judge of her,\n" + " And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,\n" + " And true she is, as she hath proved herself,\n" + " And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,\n" + " Shall she be placed in my constant soul.\n\n" + " [Enter JESSICA, below]\n\n" + " What, art thou come? On, gentlemen; away!\n" + " Our masquing mates by this time for us stay.\n\n" + " [Exit with Jessica and Salarino]\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONIO]\n\n" + "ANTONIO Who's there?\n\n" + "GRATIANO Signior Antonio!\n\n" + "ANTONIO Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?\n" + " 'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you.\n" + " No masque to-night: the wind is come about;\n" + " Bassanio presently will go aboard:\n" + " I have sent twenty out to seek for you.\n\n" + "GRATIANO I am glad on't: I desire no more delight\n" + " Than to be under sail and gone to-night.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Flourish of cornets. Enter PORTIA, with the\n" + " PRINCE OF MOROCCO, and their trains]\n\n" + "PORTIA Go draw aside the curtains and discover\n" + " The several caskets to this noble prince.\n" + " Now make your choice.\n\n" + "MOROCCO The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire;'\n" + " The second, silver, which this promise carries,\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves;'\n" + " This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,\n" + " 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'\n" + " How shall I know if I do choose the right?\n\n" + "PORTIA The one of them contains my picture, prince:\n" + " If you choose that, then I am yours withal.\n\n" + "MOROCCO Some god direct my judgment! Let me see;\n" + " I will survey the inscriptions back again.\n" + " What says this leaden casket?\n" + " 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'\n" + " Must give: for what? for lead? hazard for lead?\n" + " This casket threatens. Men that hazard all\n" + " Do it in hope of fair advantages:\n" + " A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;\n" + " I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.\n" + " What says the silver with her virgin hue?\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'\n" + " As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,\n" + " And weigh thy value with an even hand:\n" + " If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,\n" + " Thou dost deserve enough; and yet enough\n" + " May not extend so far as to the lady:\n" + " And yet to be afeard of my deserving\n" + " Were but a weak disabling of myself.\n" + " As much as I deserve! Why, that's the lady:\n" + " I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,\n" + " In graces and in qualities of breeding;\n" + " But more than these, in love I do deserve.\n" + " What if I stray'd no further, but chose here?\n" + " Let's see once more this saying graved in gold\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'\n" + " Why, that's the lady; all the world desires her;\n" + " From the four corners of the earth they come,\n" + " To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:\n" + " The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds\n" + " Of wide Arabia are as thoroughfares now\n" + " For princes to come view fair Portia:\n" + " The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head\n" + " Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar\n" + " To stop the foreign spirits, but they come,\n" + " As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia.\n" + " One of these three contains her heavenly picture.\n" + " Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation\n" + " To think so base a thought: it were too gross\n" + " To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.\n" + " Or shall I think in silver she's immured,\n" + " Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?\n" + " O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem\n" + " Was set in worse than gold. They have in England\n" + " A coin that bears the figure of an angel\n" + " Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon;\n" + " But here an angel in a golden bed\n" + " Lies all within. Deliver me the key:\n" + " Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!\n\n" + "PORTIA There, take it, prince; and if my form lie there,\n" + " Then I am yours.\n\n" + " [He unlocks the golden casket]\n\n" + "MOROCCO O hell! what have we here?\n" + " A carrion Death, within whose empty eye\n" + " There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " All that glitters is not gold;\n" + " Often have you heard that told:\n" + " Many a man his life hath sold\n" + " But my outside to behold:\n" + " Gilded tombs do worms enfold.\n" + " Had you been as wise as bold,\n" + " Young in limbs, in judgment old,\n" + " Your answer had not been inscroll'd:\n" + " Fare you well; your suit is cold.\n" + " Cold, indeed; and labour lost:\n" + " Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!\n" + " Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart\n" + " To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.\n\n" + " [Exit with his train. Flourish of cornets]\n\n" + "PORTIA A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.\n" + " Let all of his complexion choose me so.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII Venice. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SALARINO and SALANIO]\n\n" + "SALARINO Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:\n" + " With him is Gratiano gone along;\n" + " And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.\n\n" + "SALANIO The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,\n" + " Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.\n\n" + "SALARINO He came too late, the ship was under sail:\n" + " But there the duke was given to understand\n" + " That in a gondola were seen together\n" + " Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:\n" + " Besides, Antonio certified the duke\n" + " They were not with Bassanio in his ship.\n\n" + "SALANIO I never heard a passion so confused,\n" + " So strange, outrageous, and so variable,\n" + " As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:\n" + " 'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!\n" + " Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!\n" + " Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!\n" + " A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,\n" + " Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!\n" + " And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,\n" + " Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;\n" + " She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'\n\n" + "SALARINO Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,\n" + " Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.\n\n" + "SALANIO Let good Antonio look he keep his day,\n" + " Or he shall pay for this.\n\n" + "SALARINO Marry, well remember'd.\n" + " I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,\n" + " Who told me, in the narrow seas that part\n" + " The French and English, there miscarried\n" + " A vessel of our country richly fraught:\n" + " I thought upon Antonio when he told me;\n" + " And wish'd in silence that it were not his.\n\n" + "SALANIO You were best to tell Antonio what you hear;\n" + " Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.\n\n" + "SALARINO A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.\n" + " I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:\n" + " Bassanio told him he would make some speed\n" + " Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so;\n" + " Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio\n" + " But stay the very riping of the time;\n" + " And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,\n" + " Let it not enter in your mind of love:\n" + " Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts\n" + " To courtship and such fair ostents of love\n" + " As shall conveniently become you there:'\n" + " And even there, his eye being big with tears,\n" + " Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,\n" + " And with affection wondrous sensible\n" + " He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.\n\n" + "SALANIO I think he only loves the world for him.\n" + " I pray thee, let us go and find him out\n" + " And quicken his embraced heaviness\n" + " With some delight or other.\n\n" + "SALARINO Do we so.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IX Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter NERISSA with a Servitor]\n\n" + "NERISSA Quick, quick, I pray thee; draw the curtain straight:\n" + " The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath,\n" + " And comes to his election presently.\n\n" + " [Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF ARRAGON,\n" + " PORTIA, and their trains]\n\n" + "PORTIA Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince:\n" + " If you choose that wherein I am contain'd,\n" + " Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized:\n" + " But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,\n" + " You must be gone from hence immediately.\n\n" + "ARRAGON I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:\n" + " First, never to unfold to any one\n" + " Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail\n" + " Of the right casket, never in my life\n" + " To woo a maid in way of marriage: Lastly,\n" + " If I do fail in fortune of my choice,\n" + " Immediately to leave you and be gone.\n\n" + "PORTIA To these injunctions every one doth swear\n" + " That comes to hazard for my worthless self.\n\n" + "ARRAGON And so have I address'd me. Fortune now\n" + " To my heart's hope! Gold; silver; and base lead.\n" + " 'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'\n" + " You shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard.\n" + " What says the golden chest? ha! let me see:\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'\n" + " What many men desire! that 'many' may be meant\n" + " By the fool multitude, that choose by show,\n" + " Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;\n" + " Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,\n" + " Builds in the weather on the outward wall,\n" + " Even in the force and road of casualty.\n" + " I will not choose what many men desire,\n" + " Because I will not jump with common spirits\n" + " And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.\n" + " Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house;\n" + " Tell me once more what title thou dost bear:\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves:'\n" + " And well said too; for who shall go about\n" + " To cozen fortune and be honourable\n" + " Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume\n" + " To wear an undeserved dignity.\n" + " O, that estates, degrees and offices\n" + " Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour\n" + " Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!\n" + " How many then should cover that stand bare!\n" + " How many be commanded that command!\n" + " How much low peasantry would then be glean'd\n" + " From the true seed of honour! and how much honour\n" + " Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times\n" + " To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to my choice:\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'\n" + " I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,\n" + " And instantly unlock my fortunes here.\n\n" + " [He opens the silver casket]\n\n" + "PORTIA Too long a pause for that which you find there.\n\n" + "ARRAGON What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,\n" + " Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.\n" + " How much unlike art thou to Portia!\n" + " How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!\n" + " 'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'\n" + " Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?\n" + " Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?\n\n" + "PORTIA To offend, and judge, are distinct offices\n" + " And of opposed natures.\n\n" + "ARRAGON What is here?\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " The fire seven times tried this:\n" + " Seven times tried that judgment is,\n" + " That did never choose amiss.\n" + " Some there be that shadows kiss;\n" + " Such have but a shadow's bliss:\n" + " There be fools alive, I wis,\n" + " Silver'd o'er; and so was this.\n" + " Take what wife you will to bed,\n" + " I will ever be your head:\n" + " So be gone: you are sped.\n" + " Still more fool I shall appear\n" + " By the time I linger here\n" + " With one fool's head I came to woo,\n" + " But I go away with two.\n" + " Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,\n" + " Patiently to bear my wroth.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Arragon and train]\n\n" + "PORTIA Thus hath the candle singed the moth.\n" + " O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,\n" + " They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.\n\n" + "NERISSA The ancient saying is no heresy,\n" + " Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.\n\n" + "PORTIA Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Where is my lady?\n\n" + "PORTIA Here: what would my lord?\n\n" + "Servant Madam, there is alighted at your gate\n" + " A young Venetian, one that comes before\n" + " To signify the approaching of his lord;\n" + " From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,\n" + " To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,\n" + " Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen\n" + " So likely an ambassador of love:\n" + " A day in April never came so sweet,\n" + " To show how costly summer was at hand,\n" + " As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.\n\n" + "PORTIA No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard\n" + " Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,\n" + " Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.\n" + " Come, come, Nerissa; for I long to see\n" + " Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.\n\n" + "NERISSA Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Venice. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SALANIO and SALARINO]\n\n" + "SALANIO Now, what news on the Rialto?\n\n" + "SALARINO Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath\n" + " a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;\n" + " the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very\n" + " dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many\n" + " a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip\n" + " Report be an honest woman of her word.\n\n" + "SALANIO I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever\n" + " knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she\n" + " wept for the death of a third husband. But it is\n" + " true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the\n" + " plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the\n" + " honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough\n" + " to keep his name company!--\n\n" + "SALARINO Come, the full stop.\n\n" + "SALANIO Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath\n" + " lost a ship.\n\n" + "SALARINO I would it might prove the end of his losses.\n\n" + "SALANIO Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my\n" + " prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.\n\n" + " [Enter SHYLOCK]\n\n" + " How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my\n" + " daughter's flight.\n\n" + "SALARINO That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor\n" + " that made the wings she flew withal.\n\n" + "SALANIO And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was\n" + " fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all\n" + " to leave the dam.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK She is damned for it.\n\n" + "SALANIO That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK My own flesh and blood to rebel!\n\n" + "SALANIO Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.\n\n" + "SALARINO There is more difference between thy flesh and hers\n" + " than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods\n" + " than there is between red wine and rhenish. But\n" + " tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any\n" + " loss at sea or no?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a\n" + " prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the\n" + " Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon\n" + " the mart; let him look to his bond: he was wont to\n" + " call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was\n" + " wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him\n" + " look to his bond.\n\n" + "SALARINO Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take\n" + " his flesh: what's that good for?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,\n" + " it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and\n" + " hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,\n" + " mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my\n" + " bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine\n" + " enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath\n" + " not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,\n" + " dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with\n" + " the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject\n" + " to the same diseases, healed by the same means,\n" + " warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as\n" + " a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?\n" + " if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison\n" + " us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not\n" + " revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will\n" + " resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,\n" + " what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian\n" + " wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by\n" + " Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you\n" + " teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I\n" + " will better the instruction.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and\n" + " desires to speak with you both.\n\n" + "SALARINO We have been up and down to seek him.\n\n" + " [Enter TUBAL]\n\n" + "SALANIO Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be\n" + " matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SALANIO, SALARINO, and Servant]\n\n" + "SHYLOCK How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou\n" + " found my daughter?\n\n" + "TUBAL I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,\n" + " cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse\n" + " never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it\n" + " till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other\n" + " precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter\n" + " were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!\n" + " would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in\n" + " her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know\n" + " not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon\n" + " loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to\n" + " find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:\n" + " nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my\n" + " shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears\n" + " but of my shedding.\n\n" + "TUBAL Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I\n" + " heard in Genoa,--\n\n" + "SHYLOCK What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?\n\n" + "TUBAL Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?\n\n" + "TUBAL I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!\n" + " ha, ha! where? in Genoa?\n\n" + "TUBAL Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one\n" + " night fourscore ducats.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my\n" + " gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!\n" + " fourscore ducats!\n\n" + "TUBAL There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my\n" + " company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture\n" + " him: I am glad of it.\n\n" + "TUBAL One of them showed me a ring that he had of your\n" + " daughter for a monkey.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my\n" + " turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:\n" + " I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.\n\n" + "TUBAL But Antonio is certainly undone.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee\n" + " me an officer; bespeak him a fortnight before. I\n" + " will have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for, were\n" + " he out of Venice, I can make what merchandise I\n" + " will. Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue;\n" + " go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO, NERISSA, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "PORTIA I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two\n" + " Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,\n" + " I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.\n" + " There's something tells me, but it is not love,\n" + " I would not lose you; and you know yourself,\n" + " Hate counsels not in such a quality.\n" + " But lest you should not understand me well,--\n" + " And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--\n" + " I would detain you here some month or two\n" + " Before you venture for me. I could teach you\n" + " How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;\n" + " So will I never be: so may you miss me;\n" + " But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,\n" + " That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,\n" + " They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;\n" + " One half of me is yours, the other half yours,\n" + " Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,\n" + " And so all yours. O, these naughty times\n" + " Put bars between the owners and their rights!\n" + " And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,\n" + " Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.\n" + " I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,\n" + " To eke it and to draw it out in length,\n" + " To stay you from election.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Let me choose\n" + " For as I am, I live upon the rack.\n\n" + "PORTIA Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess\n" + " What treason there is mingled with your love.\n\n" + "BASSANIO None but that ugly treason of mistrust,\n" + " Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love:\n" + " There may as well be amity and life\n" + " 'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love.\n\n" + "PORTIA Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,\n" + " Where men enforced do speak anything.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.\n\n" + "PORTIA Well then, confess and live.\n\n" + "BASSANIO 'Confess' and 'love'\n" + " Had been the very sum of my confession:\n" + " O happy torment, when my torturer\n" + " Doth teach me answers for deliverance!\n" + " But let me to my fortune and the caskets.\n\n" + "PORTIA Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:\n" + " If you do love me, you will find me out.\n" + " Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.\n" + " Let music sound while he doth make his choice;\n" + " Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,\n" + " Fading in music: that the comparison\n" + " May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream\n" + " And watery death-bed for him. He may win;\n" + " And what is music then? Then music is\n" + " Even as the flourish when true subjects bow\n" + " To a new-crowned monarch: such it is\n" + " As are those dulcet sounds in break of day\n" + " That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,\n" + " And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,\n" + " With no less presence, but with much more love,\n" + " Than young Alcides, when he did redeem\n" + " The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy\n" + " To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice\n" + " The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,\n" + " With bleared visages, come forth to view\n" + " The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!\n" + " Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay\n" + " I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.\n\n" + " [Music, whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself]\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + " Tell me where is fancy bred,\n" + " Or in the heart, or in the head?\n" + " How begot, how nourished?\n" + " Reply, reply.\n" + " It is engender'd in the eyes,\n" + " With gazing fed; and fancy dies\n" + " In the cradle where it lies.\n" + " Let us all ring fancy's knell\n" + " I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell.\n\n" + "ALL Ding, dong, bell.\n\n" + "BASSANIO So may the outward shows be least themselves:\n" + " The world is still deceived with ornament.\n" + " In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,\n" + " But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,\n" + " Obscures the show of evil? In religion,\n" + " What damned error, but some sober brow\n" + " Will bless it and approve it with a text,\n" + " Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?\n" + " There is no vice so simple but assumes\n" + " Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:\n" + " How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false\n" + " As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins\n" + " The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars;\n" + " Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk;\n" + " And these assume but valour's excrement\n" + " To render them redoubted! Look on beauty,\n" + " And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;\n" + " Which therein works a miracle in nature,\n" + " Making them lightest that wear most of it:\n" + " So are those crisped snaky golden locks\n" + " Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,\n" + " Upon supposed fairness, often known\n" + " To be the dowry of a second head,\n" + " The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.\n" + " Thus ornament is but the guiled shore\n" + " To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf\n" + " Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,\n" + " The seeming truth which cunning times put on\n" + " To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,\n" + " Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee;\n" + " Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge\n" + " 'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,\n" + " Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,\n" + " Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence;\n" + " And here choose I; joy be the consequence!\n\n" + "PORTIA [Aside] How all the other passions fleet to air,\n" + " As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,\n" + " And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,\n" + " Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,\n" + " In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.\n" + " I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,\n" + " For fear I surfeit.\n\n" + "BASSANIO What find I here?\n\n" + " [Opening the leaden casket]\n\n" + " Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi-god\n" + " Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?\n" + " Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,\n" + " Seem they in motion? Here are sever'd lips,\n" + " Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar\n" + " Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs\n" + " The painter plays the spider and hath woven\n" + " A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,\n" + " Faster than gnats in cobwebs; but her eyes,--\n" + " How could he see to do them? having made one,\n" + " Methinks it should have power to steal both his\n" + " And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far\n" + " The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow\n" + " In underprizing it, so far this shadow\n" + " Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,\n" + " The continent and summary of my fortune.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " You that choose not by the view,\n" + " Chance as fair and choose as true!\n" + " Since this fortune falls to you,\n" + " Be content and seek no new,\n" + " If you be well pleased with this\n" + " And hold your fortune for your bliss,\n" + " Turn you where your lady is\n" + " And claim her with a loving kiss.\n" + " A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave;\n" + " I come by note, to give and to receive.\n" + " Like one of two contending in a prize,\n" + " That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,\n" + " Hearing applause and universal shout,\n" + " Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt\n" + " Whether these pearls of praise be his or no;\n" + " So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so;\n" + " As doubtful whether what I see be true,\n" + " Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.\n\n" + "PORTIA You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,\n" + " Such as I am: though for myself alone\n" + " I would not be ambitious in my wish,\n" + " To wish myself much better; yet, for you\n" + " I would be trebled twenty times myself;\n" + " A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich;\n" + " That only to stand high in your account,\n" + " I might in virtue, beauties, livings, friends,\n" + " Exceed account; but the full sum of me\n" + " Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,\n" + " Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;\n" + " Happy in this, she is not yet so old\n" + " But she may learn; happier than this,\n" + " She is not bred so dull but she can learn;\n" + " Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit\n" + " Commits itself to yours to be directed,\n" + " As from her lord, her governor, her king.\n" + " Myself and what is mine to you and yours\n" + " Is now converted: but now I was the lord\n" + " Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,\n" + " Queen o'er myself: and even now, but now,\n" + " This house, these servants and this same myself\n" + " Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring;\n" + " Which when you part from, lose, or give away,\n" + " Let it presage the ruin of your love\n" + " And be my vantage to exclaim on you.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Madam, you have bereft me of all words,\n" + " Only my blood speaks to you in my veins;\n" + " And there is such confusion in my powers,\n" + " As after some oration fairly spoke\n" + " By a beloved prince, there doth appear\n" + " Among the buzzing pleased multitude;\n" + " Where every something, being blent together,\n" + " Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,\n" + " Express'd and not express'd. But when this ring\n" + " Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:\n" + " O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead!\n\n" + "NERISSA My lord and lady, it is now our time,\n" + " That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,\n" + " To cry, good joy: good joy, my lord and lady!\n\n" + "GRATIANO My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,\n" + " I wish you all the joy that you can wish;\n" + " For I am sure you can wish none from me:\n" + " And when your honours mean to solemnize\n" + " The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,\n" + " Even at that time I may be married too.\n\n" + "BASSANIO With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.\n\n" + "GRATIANO I thank your lordship, you have got me one.\n" + " My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:\n" + " You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid;\n" + " You loved, I loved for intermission.\n" + " No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.\n" + " Your fortune stood upon the casket there,\n" + " And so did mine too, as the matter falls;\n" + " For wooing here until I sweat again,\n" + " And sweating until my very roof was dry\n" + " With oaths of love, at last, if promise last,\n" + " I got a promise of this fair one here\n" + " To have her love, provided that your fortune\n" + " Achieved her mistress.\n\n" + "PORTIA Is this true, Nerissa?\n\n" + "NERISSA Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.\n\n" + "BASSANIO And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?\n\n" + "GRATIANO Yes, faith, my lord.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage.\n\n" + "GRATIANO We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.\n\n" + "NERISSA What, and stake down?\n\n" + "GRATIANO No; we shall ne'er win at that sport, and stake down.\n" + " But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What,\n" + " and my old Venetian friend Salerio?\n\n" + " [Enter LORENZO, JESSICA, and SALERIO, a Messenger\n" + " from Venice]\n\n" + "BASSANIO Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither;\n" + " If that the youth of my new interest here\n" + " Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,\n" + " I bid my very friends and countrymen,\n" + " Sweet Portia, welcome.\n\n" + "PORTIA So do I, my lord:\n" + " They are entirely welcome.\n\n" + "LORENZO I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,\n" + " My purpose was not to have seen you here;\n" + " But meeting with Salerio by the way,\n" + " He did entreat me, past all saying nay,\n" + " To come with him along.\n\n" + "SALERIO I did, my lord;\n" + " And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio\n" + " Commends him to you.\n\n" + " [Gives Bassanio a letter]\n\n" + "BASSANIO Ere I ope his letter,\n" + " I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.\n\n" + "SALERIO Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;\n" + " Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there\n" + " Will show you his estate.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Nerissa, cheer yon stranger; bid her welcome.\n" + " Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?\n" + " How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?\n" + " I know he will be glad of our success;\n" + " We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.\n\n" + "SALERIO I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost.\n\n" + "PORTIA There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,\n" + " That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek:\n" + " Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world\n" + " Could turn so much the constitution\n" + " Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!\n" + " With leave, Bassanio: I am half yourself,\n" + " And I must freely have the half of anything\n" + " That this same paper brings you.\n\n" + "BASSANIO O sweet Portia,\n" + " Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words\n" + " That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,\n" + " When I did first impart my love to you,\n" + " I freely told you, all the wealth I had\n" + " Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman;\n" + " And then I told you true: and yet, dear lady,\n" + " Rating myself at nothing, you shall see\n" + " How much I was a braggart. When I told you\n" + " My state was nothing, I should then have told you\n" + " That I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,\n" + " I have engaged myself to a dear friend,\n" + " Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,\n" + " To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady;\n" + " The paper as the body of my friend,\n" + " And every word in it a gaping wound,\n" + " Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?\n" + " Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?\n" + " From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,\n" + " From Lisbon, Barbary and India?\n" + " And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch\n" + " Of merchant-marring rocks?\n\n" + "SALERIO Not one, my lord.\n" + " Besides, it should appear, that if he had\n" + " The present money to discharge the Jew,\n" + " He would not take it. Never did I know\n" + " A creature, that did bear the shape of man,\n" + " So keen and greedy to confound a man:\n" + " He plies the duke at morning and at night,\n" + " And doth impeach the freedom of the state,\n" + " If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,\n" + " The duke himself, and the magnificoes\n" + " Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him;\n" + " But none can drive him from the envious plea\n" + " Of forfeiture, of justice and his bond.\n\n" + "JESSICA When I was with him I have heard him swear\n" + " To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,\n" + " That he would rather have Antonio's flesh\n" + " Than twenty times the value of the sum\n" + " That he did owe him: and I know, my lord,\n" + " If law, authority and power deny not,\n" + " It will go hard with poor Antonio.\n\n" + "PORTIA Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?\n\n" + "BASSANIO The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,\n" + " The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit\n" + " In doing courtesies, and one in whom\n" + " The ancient Roman honour more appears\n" + " Than any that draws breath in Italy.\n\n" + "PORTIA What sum owes he the Jew?\n\n" + "BASSANIO For me three thousand ducats.\n\n" + "PORTIA What, no more?\n" + " Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;\n" + " Double six thousand, and then treble that,\n" + " Before a friend of this description\n" + " Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.\n" + " First go with me to church and call me wife,\n" + " And then away to Venice to your friend;\n" + " For never shall you lie by Portia's side\n" + " With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold\n" + " To pay the petty debt twenty times over:\n" + " When it is paid, bring your true friend along.\n" + " My maid Nerissa and myself meantime\n" + " Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!\n" + " For you shall hence upon your wedding-day:\n" + " Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer:\n" + " Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.\n" + " But let me hear the letter of your friend.\n\n" + "BASSANIO [Reads] Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all\n" + " miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is\n" + " very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit; and since\n" + " in paying it, it is impossible I should live, all\n" + " debts are cleared between you and I, if I might but\n" + " see you at my death. Notwithstanding, use your\n" + " pleasure: if your love do not persuade you to come,\n" + " let not my letter.\n\n" + "PORTIA O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!\n\n" + "BASSANIO Since I have your good leave to go away,\n" + " I will make haste: but, till I come again,\n" + " No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,\n" + " No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Venice. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SHYLOCK, SALARINO, ANTONIO, and Gaoler]\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Gaoler, look to him: tell not me of mercy;\n" + " This is the fool that lent out money gratis:\n" + " Gaoler, look to him.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Hear me yet, good Shylock.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I'll have my bond; speak not against my bond:\n" + " I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.\n" + " Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;\n" + " But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs:\n" + " The duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,\n" + " Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond\n" + " To come abroad with him at his request.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I pray thee, hear me speak.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:\n" + " I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.\n" + " I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,\n" + " To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield\n" + " To Christian intercessors. Follow not;\n" + " I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SALARINO It is the most impenetrable cur\n" + " That ever kept with men.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Let him alone:\n" + " I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.\n" + " He seeks my life; his reason well I know:\n" + " I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures\n" + " Many that have at times made moan to me;\n" + " Therefore he hates me.\n\n" + "SALARINO I am sure the duke\n" + " Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.\n\n" + "ANTONIO The duke cannot deny the course of law:\n" + " For the commodity that strangers have\n" + " With us in Venice, if it be denied,\n" + " Will much impeach the justice of his state;\n" + " Since that the trade and profit of the city\n" + " Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:\n" + " These griefs and losses have so bated me,\n" + " That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh\n" + " To-morrow to my bloody creditor.\n" + " Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come\n" + " To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PORTIA, NERISSA, LORENZO, JESSICA, and\n" + " BALTHASAR]\n\n" + "LORENZO Madam, although I speak it in your presence,\n" + " You have a noble and a true conceit\n" + " Of godlike amity; which appears most strongly\n" + " In bearing thus the absence of your lord.\n" + " But if you knew to whom you show this honour,\n" + " How true a gentleman you send relief,\n" + " How dear a lover of my lord your husband,\n" + " I know you would be prouder of the work\n" + " Than customary bounty can enforce you.\n\n" + "PORTIA I never did repent for doing good,\n" + " Nor shall not now: for in companions\n" + " That do converse and waste the time together,\n" + " Whose souls do bear an equal yoke Of love,\n" + " There must be needs a like proportion\n" + " Of lineaments, of manners and of spirit;\n" + " Which makes me think that this Antonio,\n" + " Being the bosom lover of my lord,\n" + " Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,\n" + " How little is the cost I have bestow'd\n" + " In purchasing the semblance of my soul\n" + " From out the state of hellish misery!\n" + " This comes too near the praising of myself;\n" + " Therefore no more of it: hear other things.\n" + " Lorenzo, I commit into your hands\n" + " The husbandry and manage of my house\n" + " Until my lord's return: for mine own part,\n" + " I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow\n" + " To live in prayer and contemplation,\n" + " Only attended by Nerissa here,\n" + " Until her husband and my lord's return:\n" + " There is a monastery two miles off;\n" + " And there will we abide. I do desire you\n" + " Not to deny this imposition;\n" + " The which my love and some necessity\n" + " Now lays upon you.\n\n" + "LORENZO Madam, with all my heart;\n" + " I shall obey you in all fair commands.\n\n" + "PORTIA My people do already know my mind,\n" + " And will acknowledge you and Jessica\n" + " In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.\n" + " And so farewell, till we shall meet again.\n\n" + "LORENZO Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!\n\n" + "JESSICA I wish your ladyship all heart's content.\n\n" + "PORTIA I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased\n" + " To wish it back on you: fare you well Jessica.\n\n" + " [Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO]\n\n" + " Now, Balthasar,\n" + " As I have ever found thee honest-true,\n" + " So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,\n" + " And use thou all the endeavour of a man\n" + " In speed to Padua: see thou render this\n" + " Into my cousin's hand, Doctor Bellario;\n" + " And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,\n" + " Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed\n" + " Unto the tranect, to the common ferry\n" + " Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,\n" + " But get thee gone: I shall be there before thee.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Madam, I go with all convenient speed.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PORTIA Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand\n" + " That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands\n" + " Before they think of us.\n\n" + "NERISSA Shall they see us?\n\n" + "PORTIA They shall, Nerissa; but in such a habit,\n" + " That they shall think we are accomplished\n" + " With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager,\n" + " When we are both accoutred like young men,\n" + " I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,\n" + " And wear my dagger with the braver grace,\n" + " And speak between the change of man and boy\n" + " With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps\n" + " Into a manly stride, and speak of frays\n" + " Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,\n" + " How honourable ladies sought my love,\n" + " Which I denying, they fell sick and died;\n" + " I could not do withal; then I'll repent,\n" + " And wish for all that, that I had not killed them;\n" + " And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,\n" + " That men shall swear I have discontinued school\n" + " Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind\n" + " A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,\n" + " Which I will practise.\n\n" + "NERISSA Why, shall we turn to men?\n\n" + "PORTIA Fie, what a question's that,\n" + " If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!\n" + " But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device\n" + " When I am in my coach, which stays for us\n" + " At the park gate; and therefore haste away,\n" + " For we must measure twenty miles to-day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same. A garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA]\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father\n" + " are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I\n" + " promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with\n" + " you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter:\n" + " therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you\n" + " are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do\n" + " you any good; and that is but a kind of bastard\n" + " hope neither.\n\n" + "JESSICA And what hope is that, I pray thee?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you\n" + " not, that you are not the Jew's daughter.\n\n" + "JESSICA That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the\n" + " sins of my mother should be visited upon me.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and\n" + " mother: thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I\n" + " fall into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are\n" + " gone both ways.\n\n" + "JESSICA I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a\n" + " Christian.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians\n" + " enow before; e'en as many as could well live, one by\n" + " another. This making Christians will raise the\n" + " price of hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we\n" + " shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.\n\n" + " [Enter LORENZO]\n\n" + "JESSICA I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say: here he comes.\n\n" + "LORENZO I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, if\n" + " you thus get my wife into corners.\n\n" + "JESSICA Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot and I\n" + " are out. He tells me flatly, there is no mercy for\n" + " me in heaven, because I am a Jew's daughter: and he\n" + " says, you are no good member of the commonwealth,\n" + " for in converting Jews to Christians, you raise the\n" + " price of pork.\n\n" + "LORENZO I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than\n" + " you can the getting up of the negro's belly: the\n" + " Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT It is much that the Moor should be more than reason:\n" + " but if she be less than an honest woman, she is\n" + " indeed more than I took her for.\n\n" + "LORENZO How every fool can play upon the word! I think the\n" + " best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence,\n" + " and discourse grow commendable in none only but\n" + " parrots. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT That is done, sir; they have all stomachs.\n\n" + "LORENZO Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid\n" + " them prepare dinner.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT That is done too, sir; only 'cover' is the word.\n\n" + "LORENZO Will you cover then, sir?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Not so, sir, neither; I know my duty.\n\n" + "LORENZO Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show\n" + " the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray\n" + " tree, understand a plain man in his plain meaning:\n" + " go to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve\n" + " in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT For the table, sir, it shall be served in; for the\n" + " meat, sir, it shall be covered; for your coming in\n" + " to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and\n" + " conceits shall govern.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LORENZO O dear discretion, how his words are suited!\n" + " The fool hath planted in his memory\n" + " An army of good words; and I do know\n" + " A many fools, that stand in better place,\n" + " Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word\n" + " Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?\n" + " And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,\n" + " How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?\n\n" + "JESSICA Past all expressing. It is very meet\n" + " The Lord Bassanio live an upright life;\n" + " For, having such a blessing in his lady,\n" + " He finds the joys of heaven here on earth;\n" + " And if on earth he do not mean it, then\n" + " In reason he should never come to heaven\n" + " Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match\n" + " And on the wager lay two earthly women,\n" + " And Portia one, there must be something else\n" + " Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world\n" + " Hath not her fellow.\n\n" + "LORENZO Even such a husband\n" + " Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.\n\n" + "JESSICA Nay, but ask my opinion too of that.\n\n" + "LORENZO I will anon: first, let us go to dinner.\n\n" + "JESSICA Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.\n\n" + "LORENZO No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;\n" + "' Then, howso'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things\n" + " I shall digest it.\n\n" + "JESSICA Well, I'll set you forth.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Venice. A court of justice.\n\n\n" + " [Enter the DUKE, the Magnificoes, ANTONIO, BASSANIO,\n" + " GRATIANO, SALERIO, and others]\n\n" + "DUKE What, is Antonio here?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Ready, so please your grace.\n\n" + "DUKE I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer\n" + " A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch\n" + " uncapable of pity, void and empty\n" + " From any dram of mercy.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I have heard\n" + " Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify\n" + " His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate\n" + " And that no lawful means can carry me\n" + " Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose\n" + " My patience to his fury, and am arm'd\n" + " To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,\n" + " The very tyranny and rage of his.\n\n" + "DUKE Go one, and call the Jew into the court.\n\n" + "SALERIO He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord.\n\n" + " [Enter SHYLOCK]\n\n" + "DUKE Make room, and let him stand before our face.\n" + " Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,\n" + " That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice\n" + " To the last hour of act; and then 'tis thought\n" + " Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange\n" + " Than is thy strange apparent cruelty;\n" + " And where thou now exact'st the penalty,\n" + " Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,\n" + " Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,\n" + " But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,\n" + " Forgive a moiety of the principal;\n" + " Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,\n" + " That have of late so huddled on his back,\n" + " Enow to press a royal merchant down\n" + " And pluck commiseration of his state\n" + " From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,\n" + " From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd\n" + " To offices of tender courtesy.\n" + " We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose;\n" + " And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn\n" + " To have the due and forfeit of my bond:\n" + " If you deny it, let the danger light\n" + " Upon your charter and your city's freedom.\n" + " You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have\n" + " A weight of carrion flesh than to receive\n" + " Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that:\n" + " But, say, it is my humour: is it answer'd?\n" + " What if my house be troubled with a rat\n" + " And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats\n" + " To have it baned? What, are you answer'd yet?\n" + " Some men there are love not a gaping pig;\n" + " Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;\n" + " And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,\n" + " Cannot contain their urine: for affection,\n" + " Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood\n" + " Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:\n" + " As there is no firm reason to be render'd,\n" + " Why he cannot abide a gaping pig;\n" + " Why he, a harmless necessary cat;\n" + " Why he, a woollen bagpipe; but of force\n" + " Must yield to such inevitable shame\n" + " As to offend, himself being offended;\n" + " So can I give no reason, nor I will not,\n" + " More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing\n" + " I bear Antonio, that I follow thus\n" + " A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?\n\n" + "BASSANIO This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,\n" + " To excuse the current of thy cruelty.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I am not bound to please thee with my answers.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Do all men kill the things they do not love?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Hates any man the thing he would not kill?\n\n" + "BASSANIO Every offence is not a hate at first.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?\n\n" + "ANTONIO I pray you, think you question with the Jew:\n" + " You may as well go stand upon the beach\n" + " And bid the main flood bate his usual height;\n" + " You may as well use question with the wolf\n" + " Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;\n" + " You may as well forbid the mountain pines\n" + " To wag their high tops and to make no noise,\n" + " When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;\n" + " You may as well do anything most hard,\n" + " As seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--\n" + " His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,\n" + " Make no more offers, use no farther means,\n" + " But with all brief and plain conveniency\n" + " Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.\n\n" + "BASSANIO For thy three thousand ducats here is six.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK What judgment shall I dread, doing\n" + " Were in six parts and every part a ducat,\n" + " I would not draw them; I would have my bond.\n\n" + "DUKE How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?\n" + " You have among you many a purchased slave,\n" + " Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,\n" + " You use in abject and in slavish parts,\n" + " Because you bought them: shall I say to you,\n" + " Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?\n" + " Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds\n" + " Be made as soft as yours and let their palates\n" + " Be season'd with such viands? You will answer\n" + " 'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:\n" + " The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,\n" + " Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.\n" + " If you deny me, fie upon your law!\n" + " There is no force in the decrees of Venice.\n" + " I stand for judgment: answer; shall I have it?\n\n" + "DUKE Upon my power I may dismiss this court,\n" + " Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,\n" + " Whom I have sent for to determine this,\n" + " Come here to-day.\n\n" + "SALERIO My lord, here stays without\n" + " A messenger with letters from the doctor,\n" + " New come from Padua.\n\n" + "DUKE Bring us the letter; call the messenger.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet!\n" + " The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones and all,\n" + " Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I am a tainted wether of the flock,\n" + " Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit\n" + " Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me\n" + " You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,\n" + " Than to live still and write mine epitaph.\n\n" + " [Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk]\n\n" + "DUKE Came you from Padua, from Bellario?\n\n" + "NERISSA From both, my lord. Bellario greets your grace.\n\n" + " [Presenting a letter]\n\n" + "BASSANIO Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,\n" + " Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,\n" + " No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness\n" + " Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.\n\n" + "GRATIANO O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!\n" + " And for thy life let justice be accused.\n" + " Thou almost makest me waver in my faith\n" + " To hold opinion with Pythagoras,\n" + " That souls of animals infuse themselves\n" + " Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit\n" + " Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,\n" + " Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,\n" + " And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,\n" + " Infused itself in thee; for thy desires\n" + " Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,\n" + " Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud:\n" + " Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall\n" + " To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.\n\n" + "DUKE This letter from Bellario doth commend\n" + " A young and learned doctor to our court.\n" + " Where is he?\n\n" + "NERISSA He attendeth here hard by,\n" + " To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.\n\n" + "DUKE With all my heart. Some three or four of you\n" + " Go give him courteous conduct to this place.\n" + " Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.\n\n" + "Clerk [Reads]\n\n" + " Your grace shall understand that at the receipt of\n" + " your letter I am very sick: but in the instant that\n" + " your messenger came, in loving visitation was with\n" + " me a young doctor of Rome; his name is Balthasar. I\n" + " acquainted him with the cause in controversy between\n" + " the Jew and Antonio the merchant: we turned o'er\n" + " many books together: he is furnished with my\n" + " opinion; which, bettered with his own learning, the\n" + " greatness whereof I cannot enough commend, comes\n" + " with him, at my importunity, to fill up your grace's\n" + " request in my stead. I beseech you, let his lack of\n" + " years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend\n" + " estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so\n" + " old a head. I leave him to your gracious\n" + " acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his\n" + " commendation.\n\n" + "DUKE You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:\n" + " And here, I take it, is the doctor come.\n\n" + " [Enter PORTIA, dressed like a doctor of laws]\n\n" + " Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?\n\n" + "PORTIA I did, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE You are welcome: take your place.\n" + " Are you acquainted with the difference\n" + " That holds this present question in the court?\n\n" + "PORTIA I am informed thoroughly of the cause.\n" + " Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?\n\n" + "DUKE Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.\n\n" + "PORTIA Is your name Shylock?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Shylock is my name.\n\n" + "PORTIA Of a strange nature is the suit you follow;\n" + " Yet in such rule that the Venetian law\n" + " Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.\n" + " You stand within his danger, do you not?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Ay, so he says.\n\n" + "PORTIA Do you confess the bond?\n\n" + "ANTONIO I do.\n\n" + "PORTIA Then must the Jew be merciful.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK On what compulsion must I? tell me that.\n\n" + "PORTIA The quality of mercy is not strain'd,\n" + " It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven\n" + " Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;\n" + " It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:\n" + " 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes\n" + " The throned monarch better than his crown;\n" + " His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,\n" + " The attribute to awe and majesty,\n" + " Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;\n" + " But mercy is above this sceptred sway;\n" + " It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,\n" + " It is an attribute to God himself;\n" + " And earthly power doth then show likest God's\n" + " When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,\n" + " Though justice be thy plea, consider this,\n" + " That, in the course of justice, none of us\n" + " Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;\n" + " And that same prayer doth teach us all to render\n" + " The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much\n" + " To mitigate the justice of thy plea;\n" + " Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice\n" + " Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,\n" + " The penalty and forfeit of my bond.\n\n" + "PORTIA Is he not able to discharge the money?\n\n" + "BASSANIO Yes, here I tender it for him in the court;\n" + " Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,\n" + " I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,\n" + " On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:\n" + " If this will not suffice, it must appear\n" + " That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,\n" + " Wrest once the law to your authority:\n" + " To do a great right, do a little wrong,\n" + " And curb this cruel devil of his will.\n\n" + "PORTIA It must not be; there is no power in Venice\n" + " Can alter a decree established:\n" + " 'Twill be recorded for a precedent,\n" + " And many an error by the same example\n" + " Will rush into the state: it cannot be.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!\n" + " O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!\n\n" + "PORTIA I pray you, let me look upon the bond.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.\n\n" + "PORTIA Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:\n" + " Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?\n" + " No, not for Venice.\n\n" + "PORTIA Why, this bond is forfeit;\n" + " And lawfully by this the Jew may claim\n" + " A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off\n" + " Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful:\n" + " Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK When it is paid according to the tenor.\n" + " It doth appear you are a worthy judge;\n" + " You know the law, your exposition\n" + " Hath been most sound: I charge you by the law,\n" + " Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,\n" + " Proceed to judgment: by my soul I swear\n" + " There is no power in the tongue of man\n" + " To alter me: I stay here on my bond.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Most heartily I do beseech the court\n" + " To give the judgment.\n\n" + "PORTIA Why then, thus it is:\n" + " You must prepare your bosom for his knife.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK O noble judge! O excellent young man!\n\n" + "PORTIA For the intent and purpose of the law\n" + " Hath full relation to the penalty,\n" + " Which here appeareth due upon the bond.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK 'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge!\n" + " How much more elder art thou than thy looks!\n\n" + "PORTIA Therefore lay bare your bosom.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Ay, his breast:\n" + " So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?\n" + " 'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words.\n\n" + "PORTIA It is so. Are there balance here to weigh\n" + " The flesh?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I have them ready.\n\n" + "PORTIA Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,\n" + " To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Is it so nominated in the bond?\n\n" + "PORTIA It is not so express'd: but what of that?\n" + " 'Twere good you do so much for charity.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond.\n\n" + "PORTIA You, merchant, have you any thing to say?\n\n" + "ANTONIO But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.\n" + " Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!\n" + " Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you;\n" + " For herein Fortune shows herself more kind\n" + " Than is her custom: it is still her use\n" + " To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,\n" + " To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow\n" + " An age of poverty; from which lingering penance\n" + " Of such misery doth she cut me off.\n" + " Commend me to your honourable wife:\n" + " Tell her the process of Antonio's end;\n" + " Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death;\n" + " And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge\n" + " Whether Bassanio had not once a love.\n" + " Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,\n" + " And he repents not that he pays your debt;\n" + " For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,\n" + " I'll pay it presently with all my heart.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Antonio, I am married to a wife\n" + " Which is as dear to me as life itself;\n" + " But life itself, my wife, and all the world,\n" + " Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:\n" + " I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all\n" + " Here to this devil, to deliver you.\n\n" + "PORTIA Your wife would give you little thanks for that,\n" + " If she were by, to hear you make the offer.\n\n" + "GRATIANO I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:\n" + " I would she were in heaven, so she could\n" + " Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.\n\n" + "NERISSA 'Tis well you offer it behind her back;\n" + " The wish would make else an unquiet house.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter;\n" + " Would any of the stock of Barrabas\n" + " Had been her husband rather than a Christian!\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.\n\n" + "PORTIA A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:\n" + " The court awards it, and the law doth give it.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Most rightful judge!\n\n" + "PORTIA And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:\n" + " The law allows it, and the court awards it.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare!\n\n" + "PORTIA Tarry a little; there is something else.\n" + " This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;\n" + " The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'\n" + " Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;\n" + " But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed\n" + " One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods\n" + " Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate\n" + " Unto the state of Venice.\n\n" + "GRATIANO O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Is that the law?\n\n" + "PORTIA Thyself shalt see the act:\n" + " For, as thou urgest justice, be assured\n" + " Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.\n\n" + "GRATIANO O learned judge! Mark, Jew: a learned judge!\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice\n" + " And let the Christian go.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Here is the money.\n\n" + "PORTIA Soft!\n" + " The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:\n" + " He shall have nothing but the penalty.\n\n" + "GRATIANO O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!\n\n" + "PORTIA Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.\n" + " Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more\n" + " But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more\n" + " Or less than a just pound, be it but so much\n" + " As makes it light or heavy in the substance,\n" + " Or the division of the twentieth part\n" + " Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn\n" + " But in the estimation of a hair,\n" + " Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.\n\n" + "GRATIANO A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!\n" + " Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.\n\n" + "PORTIA Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Give me my principal, and let me go.\n\n" + "BASSANIO I have it ready for thee; here it is.\n\n" + "PORTIA He hath refused it in the open court:\n" + " He shall have merely justice and his bond.\n\n" + "GRATIANO A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!\n" + " I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Shall I not have barely my principal?\n\n" + "PORTIA Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,\n" + " To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Why, then the devil give him good of it!\n" + " I'll stay no longer question.\n\n" + "PORTIA Tarry, Jew:\n" + " The law hath yet another hold on you.\n" + " It is enacted in the laws of Venice,\n" + " If it be proved against an alien\n" + " That by direct or indirect attempts\n" + " He seek the life of any citizen,\n" + " The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive\n" + " Shall seize one half his goods; the other half\n" + " Comes to the privy coffer of the state;\n" + " And the offender's life lies in the mercy\n" + " Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice.\n" + " In which predicament, I say, thou stand'st;\n" + " For it appears, by manifest proceeding,\n" + " That indirectly and directly too\n" + " Thou hast contrived against the very life\n" + " Of the defendant; and thou hast incurr'd\n" + " The danger formerly by me rehearsed.\n" + " Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:\n" + " And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,\n" + " Thou hast not left the value of a cord;\n" + " Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge.\n\n" + "DUKE That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits,\n" + " I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it:\n" + " For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's;\n" + " The other half comes to the general state,\n" + " Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.\n\n" + "PORTIA Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that:\n" + " You take my house when you do take the prop\n" + " That doth sustain my house; you take my life\n" + " When you do take the means whereby I live.\n\n" + "PORTIA What mercy can you render him, Antonio?\n\n" + "GRATIANO A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake.\n\n" + "ANTONIO So please my lord the duke and all the court\n" + " To quit the fine for one half of his goods,\n" + " I am content; so he will let me have\n" + " The other half in use, to render it,\n" + " Upon his death, unto the gentleman\n" + " That lately stole his daughter:\n" + " Two things provided more, that, for this favour,\n" + " He presently become a Christian;\n" + " The other, that he do record a gift,\n" + " Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd,\n" + " Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.\n\n" + "DUKE He shall do this, or else I do recant\n" + " The pardon that I late pronounced here.\n\n" + "PORTIA Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I am content.\n\n" + "PORTIA Clerk, draw a deed of gift.\n\n" + "SHYLOCK I pray you, give me leave to go from hence;\n" + " I am not well: send the deed after me,\n" + " And I will sign it.\n\n" + "DUKE Get thee gone, but do it.\n\n" + "GRATIANO In christening shalt thou have two god-fathers:\n" + " Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,\n" + " To bring thee to the gallows, not the font.\n\n" + " [Exit SHYLOCK]\n\n" + "DUKE Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.\n\n" + "PORTIA I humbly do desire your grace of pardon:\n" + " I must away this night toward Padua,\n" + " And it is meet I presently set forth.\n\n" + "DUKE I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.\n" + " Antonio, gratify this gentleman,\n" + " For, in my mind, you are much bound to him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Duke and his train]\n\n" + "BASSANIO Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend\n" + " Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted\n" + " Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof,\n" + " Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew,\n" + " We freely cope your courteous pains withal.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And stand indebted, over and above,\n" + " In love and service to you evermore.\n\n" + "PORTIA He is well paid that is well satisfied;\n" + " And I, delivering you, am satisfied\n" + " And therein do account myself well paid:\n" + " My mind was never yet more mercenary.\n" + " I pray you, know me when we meet again:\n" + " I wish you well, and so I take my leave.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:\n" + " Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute,\n" + " Not as a fee: grant me two things, I pray you,\n" + " Not to deny me, and to pardon me.\n\n" + "PORTIA You press me far, and therefore I will yield.\n\n" + " [To ANTONIO]\n\n" + " Give me your gloves, I'll wear them for your sake;\n\n" + " [To BASSANIO]\n\n" + " And, for your love, I'll take this ring from you:\n" + " Do not draw back your hand; I'll take no more;\n" + " And you in love shall not deny me this.\n\n" + "BASSANIO This ring, good sir, alas, it is a trifle!\n" + " I will not shame myself to give you this.\n\n" + "PORTIA I will have nothing else but only this;\n" + " And now methinks I have a mind to it.\n\n" + "BASSANIO There's more depends on this than on the value.\n" + " The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,\n" + " And find it out by proclamation:\n" + " Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.\n\n" + "PORTIA I see, sir, you are liberal in offers\n" + " You taught me first to beg; and now methinks\n" + " You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife;\n" + " And when she put it on, she made me vow\n" + " That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it.\n\n" + "PORTIA That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.\n" + " An if your wife be not a mad-woman,\n" + " And know how well I have deserved the ring,\n" + " She would not hold out enemy for ever,\n" + " For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!\n\n" + " [Exeunt Portia and Nerissa]\n\n" + "ANTONIO My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring:\n" + " Let his deservings and my love withal\n" + " Be valued against your wife's commandment.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;\n" + " Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,\n" + " Unto Antonio's house: away! make haste.\n\n" + " [Exit Gratiano]\n\n" + " Come, you and I will thither presently;\n" + " And in the morning early will we both\n" + " Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PORTIA and NERISSA]\n\n" + "PORTIA Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed\n" + " And let him sign it: we'll away to-night\n" + " And be a day before our husbands home:\n" + " This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.\n\n" + " [Enter GRATIANO]\n\n" + "GRATIANO Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en\n" + " My Lord Bassanio upon more advice\n" + " Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat\n" + " Your company at dinner.\n\n" + "PORTIA That cannot be:\n" + " His ring I do accept most thankfully:\n" + " And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,\n" + " I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.\n\n" + "GRATIANO That will I do.\n\n" + "NERISSA Sir, I would speak with you.\n\n" + " [Aside to PORTIA]\n\n" + " I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,\n" + " Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.\n\n" + "PORTIA [Aside to NERISSA] Thou mayst, I warrant.\n" + " We shall have old swearing\n" + " That they did give the rings away to men;\n" + " But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.\n\n" + " [Aloud]\n\n" + " Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.\n\n" + "NERISSA Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERCHANT OF VENICE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Belmont. Avenue to PORTIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LORENZO and JESSICA]\n\n" + "LORENZO The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,\n" + " When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees\n" + " And they did make no noise, in such a night\n" + " Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls\n" + " And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,\n" + " Where Cressid lay that night.\n\n" + "JESSICA In such a night\n" + " Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew\n" + " And saw the lion's shadow ere himself\n" + " And ran dismay'd away.\n\n" + "LORENZO In such a night\n" + " Stood Dido with a willow in her hand\n" + " Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love\n" + " To come again to Carthage.\n\n" + "JESSICA In such a night\n" + " Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs\n" + " That did renew old AEson.\n\n" + "LORENZO In such a night\n" + " Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew\n" + " And with an unthrift love did run from Venice\n" + " As far as Belmont.\n\n" + "JESSICA In such a night\n" + " Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,\n" + " Stealing her soul with many vows of faith\n" + " And ne'er a true one.\n\n" + "LORENZO In such a night\n" + " Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,\n" + " Slander her love, and he forgave it her.\n\n" + "JESSICA I would out-night you, did no body come;\n" + " But, hark, I hear the footing of a man.\n\n" + " [Enter STEPHANO]\n\n" + "LORENZO Who comes so fast in silence of the night?\n\n" + "STEPHANO A friend.\n\n" + "LORENZO A friend! what friend? your name, I pray you, friend?\n\n" + "STEPHANO Stephano is my name; and I bring word\n" + " My mistress will before the break of day\n" + " Be here at Belmont; she doth stray about\n" + " By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays\n" + " For happy wedlock hours.\n\n" + "LORENZO Who comes with her?\n\n" + "STEPHANO None but a holy hermit and her maid.\n" + " I pray you, is my master yet return'd?\n\n" + "LORENZO He is not, nor we have not heard from him.\n" + " But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,\n" + " And ceremoniously let us prepare\n" + " Some welcome for the mistress of the house.\n\n" + " [Enter LAUNCELOT]\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!\n\n" + "LORENZO Who calls?\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Sola! did you see Master Lorenzo?\n" + " Master Lorenzo, sola, sola!\n\n" + "LORENZO Leave hollaing, man: here.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Sola! where? where?\n\n" + "LORENZO Here.\n\n" + "LAUNCELOT Tell him there's a post come from my master, with\n" + " his horn full of good news: my master will be here\n" + " ere morning.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LORENZO Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming.\n" + " And yet no matter: why should we go in?\n" + " My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,\n" + " Within the house, your mistress is at hand;\n" + " And bring your music forth into the air.\n\n" + " [Exit Stephano]\n\n" + " How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!\n" + " Here will we sit and let the sounds of music\n" + " Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night\n" + " Become the touches of sweet harmony.\n" + " Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven\n" + " Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:\n" + " There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st\n" + " But in his motion like an angel sings,\n" + " Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;\n" + " Such harmony is in immortal souls;\n" + " But whilst this muddy vesture of decay\n" + " Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.\n\n" + " [Enter Musicians]\n\n" + " Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn!\n" + " With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,\n" + " And draw her home with music.\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + "JESSICA I am never merry when I hear sweet music.\n\n" + "LORENZO The reason is, your spirits are attentive:\n" + " For do but note a wild and wanton herd,\n" + " Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,\n" + " Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,\n" + " Which is the hot condition of their blood;\n" + " If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,\n" + " Or any air of music touch their ears,\n" + " You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,\n" + " Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze\n" + " By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet\n" + " Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;\n" + " Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,\n" + " But music for the time doth change his nature.\n" + " The man that hath no music in himself,\n" + " Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,\n" + " Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;\n" + " The motions of his spirit are dull as night\n" + " And his affections dark as Erebus:\n" + " Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.\n\n" + " [Enter PORTIA and NERISSA]\n\n" + "PORTIA That light we see is burning in my hall.\n" + " How far that little candle throws his beams!\n" + " So shines a good deed in a naughty world.\n\n" + "NERISSA When the moon shone, we did not see the candle.\n\n" + "PORTIA So doth the greater glory dim the less:\n" + " A substitute shines brightly as a king\n" + " Unto the king be by, and then his state\n" + " Empties itself, as doth an inland brook\n" + " Into the main of waters. Music! hark!\n\n" + "NERISSA It is your music, madam, of the house.\n\n" + "PORTIA Nothing is good, I see, without respect:\n" + " Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.\n\n" + "NERISSA Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.\n\n" + "PORTIA The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,\n" + " When neither is attended, and I think\n" + " The nightingale, if she should sing by day,\n" + " When every goose is cackling, would be thought\n" + " No better a musician than the wren.\n" + " How many things by season season'd are\n" + " To their right praise and true perfection!\n" + " Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion\n" + " And would not be awaked.\n\n" + " [Music ceases]\n\n" + "LORENZO That is the voice,\n" + " Or I am much deceived, of Portia.\n\n" + "PORTIA He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,\n" + " By the bad voice.\n\n" + "LORENZO Dear lady, welcome home.\n\n" + "PORTIA We have been praying for our husbands' healths,\n" + " Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.\n" + " Are they return'd?\n\n" + "LORENZO Madam, they are not yet;\n" + " But there is come a messenger before,\n" + " To signify their coming.\n\n" + "PORTIA Go in, Nerissa;\n" + " Give order to my servants that they take\n" + " No note at all of our being absent hence;\n" + " Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.\n\n" + " [A tucket sounds]\n\n" + "LORENZO Your husband is at hand; I hear his trumpet:\n" + " We are no tell-tales, madam; fear you not.\n\n" + "PORTIA This night methinks is but the daylight sick;\n" + " It looks a little paler: 'tis a day,\n" + " Such as the day is when the sun is hid.\n\n" + " [Enter BASSANIO, ANTONIO, GRATIANO, and\n" + " their followers]\n\n" + "BASSANIO We should hold day with the Antipodes,\n" + " If you would walk in absence of the sun.\n\n" + "PORTIA Let me give light, but let me not be light;\n" + " For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,\n" + " And never be Bassanio so for me:\n" + " But God sort all! You are welcome home, my lord.\n\n" + "BASSANIO I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.\n" + " This is the man, this is Antonio,\n" + " To whom I am so infinitely bound.\n\n" + "PORTIA You should in all sense be much bound to him.\n" + " For, as I hear, he was much bound for you.\n\n" + "ANTONIO No more than I am well acquitted of.\n\n" + "PORTIA Sir, you are very welcome to our house:\n" + " It must appear in other ways than words,\n" + " Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.\n\n" + "GRATIANO [To NERISSA] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;\n" + " In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:\n" + " Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,\n" + " Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.\n\n" + "PORTIA A quarrel, ho, already! what's the matter?\n\n" + "GRATIANO About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring\n" + " That she did give me, whose posy was\n" + " For all the world like cutler's poetry\n" + " Upon a knife, 'Love me, and leave me not.'\n\n" + "NERISSA What talk you of the posy or the value?\n" + " You swore to me, when I did give it you,\n" + " That you would wear it till your hour of death\n" + " And that it should lie with you in your grave:\n" + " Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,\n" + " You should have been respective and have kept it.\n" + " Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,\n" + " The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it.\n\n" + "GRATIANO He will, an if he live to be a man.\n\n" + "NERISSA Ay, if a woman live to be a man.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,\n" + " A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,\n" + " No higher than thyself; the judge's clerk,\n" + " A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:\n" + " I could not for my heart deny it him.\n\n" + "PORTIA You were to blame, I must be plain with you,\n" + " To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:\n" + " A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger\n" + " And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.\n" + " I gave my love a ring and made him swear\n" + " Never to part with it; and here he stands;\n" + " I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it\n" + " Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth\n" + " That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,\n" + " You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:\n" + " An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.\n\n" + "BASSANIO [Aside] Why, I were best to cut my left hand off\n" + " And swear I lost the ring defending it.\n\n" + "GRATIANO My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away\n" + " Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed\n" + " Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk,\n" + " That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine;\n" + " And neither man nor master would take aught\n" + " But the two rings.\n\n" + "PORTIA What ring gave you my lord?\n" + " Not that, I hope, which you received of me.\n\n" + "BASSANIO If I could add a lie unto a fault,\n" + " I would deny it; but you see my finger\n" + " Hath not the ring upon it; it is gone.\n\n" + "PORTIA Even so void is your false heart of truth.\n" + " By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed\n" + " Until I see the ring.\n\n" + "NERISSA Nor I in yours\n" + " Till I again see mine.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Sweet Portia,\n" + " If you did know to whom I gave the ring,\n" + " If you did know for whom I gave the ring\n" + " And would conceive for what I gave the ring\n" + " And how unwillingly I left the ring,\n" + " When nought would be accepted but the ring,\n" + " You would abate the strength of your displeasure.\n\n" + "PORTIA If you had known the virtue of the ring,\n" + " Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,\n" + " Or your own honour to contain the ring,\n" + " You would not then have parted with the ring.\n" + " What man is there so much unreasonable,\n" + " If you had pleased to have defended it\n" + " With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty\n" + " To urge the thing held as a ceremony?\n" + " Nerissa teaches me what to believe:\n" + " I'll die for't but some woman had the ring.\n\n" + "BASSANIO No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,\n" + " No woman had it, but a civil doctor,\n" + " Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me\n" + " And begg'd the ring; the which I did deny him\n" + " And suffer'd him to go displeased away;\n" + " Even he that did uphold the very life\n" + " Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?\n" + " I was enforced to send it after him;\n" + " I was beset with shame and courtesy;\n" + " My honour would not let ingratitude\n" + " So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady;\n" + " For, by these blessed candles of the night,\n" + " Had you been there, I think you would have begg'd\n" + " The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.\n\n" + "PORTIA Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:\n" + " Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,\n" + " And that which you did swear to keep for me,\n" + " I will become as liberal as you;\n" + " I'll not deny him any thing I have,\n" + " No, not my body nor my husband's bed:\n" + " Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:\n" + " Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:\n" + " If you do not, if I be left alone,\n" + " Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,\n" + " I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.\n\n" + "NERISSA And I his clerk; therefore be well advised\n" + " How you do leave me to mine own protection.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Well, do you so; let not me take him, then;\n" + " For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.\n\n" + "PORTIA Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong;\n" + " And, in the hearing of these many friends,\n" + " I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,\n" + " Wherein I see myself--\n\n" + "PORTIA Mark you but that!\n" + " In both my eyes he doubly sees himself;\n" + " In each eye, one: swear by your double self,\n" + " And there's an oath of credit.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Nay, but hear me:\n" + " Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear\n" + " I never more will break an oath with thee.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I once did lend my body for his wealth;\n" + " Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,\n" + " Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,\n" + " My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord\n" + " Will never more break faith advisedly.\n\n" + "PORTIA Then you shall be his surety. Give him this\n" + " And bid him keep it better than the other.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Here, Lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring.\n\n" + "BASSANIO By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!\n\n" + "PORTIA I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio;\n" + " For, by this ring, the doctor lay with me.\n\n" + "NERISSA And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano;\n" + " For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,\n" + " In lieu of this last night did lie with me.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Why, this is like the mending of highways\n" + " In summer, where the ways are fair enough:\n" + " What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?\n\n" + "PORTIA Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed:\n" + " Here is a letter; read it at your leisure;\n" + " It comes from Padua, from Bellario:\n" + " There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,\n" + " Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here\n" + " Shall witness I set forth as soon as you\n" + " And even but now return'd; I have not yet\n" + " Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome;\n" + " And I have better news in store for you\n" + " Than you expect: unseal this letter soon;\n" + " There you shall find three of your argosies\n" + " Are richly come to harbour suddenly:\n" + " You shall not know by what strange accident\n" + " I chanced on this letter.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I am dumb.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Were you the doctor and I knew you not?\n\n" + "GRATIANO Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?\n\n" + "NERISSA Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,\n" + " Unless he live until he be a man.\n\n" + "BASSANIO Sweet doctor, you shall be my bed-fellow:\n" + " When I am absent, then lie with my wife.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;\n" + " For here I read for certain that my ships\n" + " Are safely come to road.\n\n" + "PORTIA How now, Lorenzo!\n" + " My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.\n\n" + "NERISSA Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.\n" + " There do I give to you and Jessica,\n" + " From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,\n" + " After his death, of all he dies possess'd of.\n\n" + "LORENZO Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way\n" + " Of starved people.\n\n" + "PORTIA It is almost morning,\n" + " And yet I am sure you are not satisfied\n" + " Of these events at full. Let us go in;\n" + " And charge us there upon inter'gatories,\n" + " And we will answer all things faithfully.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Let it be so: the first inter'gatory\n" + " That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,\n" + " Whether till the next night she had rather stay,\n" + " Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:\n" + " But were the day come, I should wish it dark,\n" + " That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.\n" + " Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing\n" + " So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "SIR JOHN FALSTAFF (FALSTAFF:)\n\n" + "FENTON a gentleman.\n\n" + "SHALLOW a country justice.\n\n" + "SLENDER cousin to Shallow.\n\n\n" + "FORD |\n" + " | two gentlemen dwelling at Windsor.\n" + "PAGE |\n\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE a boy, son to Page.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS a Welsh parson.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS a French physician.\n\n" + " Host of the Garter Inn. (Host:)\n\n\n" + "BARDOLPH |\n" + " |\n" + "PISTOL | sharpers attending on Falstaff.\n" + " |\n" + "NYM |\n\n\n" + "ROBIN page to Falstaff.\n\n" + "SIMPLE servant to Slender.\n\n" + "RUGBY servant to Doctor Caius.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD:\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE:\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE her daughter.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY servant to Doctor Caius.\n\n" + " Servants to Page, Ford, &c.\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (First Servant:)\n" + " (Second Servant:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Windsor, and the neighbourhood.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Windsor. Before PAGE's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "SHALLOW Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-\n" + " chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John\n" + " Falstaffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire.\n\n" + "SLENDER In the county of Gloucester, justice of peace and\n" + " 'Coram.'\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ay, cousin Slender, and 'Custalourum.\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, and 'Rato-lorum' too; and a gentleman born,\n" + " master parson; who writes himself 'Armigero,' in any\n" + " bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, 'Armigero.'\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ay, that I do; and have done any time these three\n" + " hundred years.\n\n" + "SLENDER All his successors gone before him hath done't; and\n" + " all his ancestors that come after him may: they may\n" + " give the dozen white luces in their coat.\n\n" + "SHALLOW It is an old coat.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS The dozen white louses do become an old coat well;\n" + " it agrees well, passant; it is a familiar beast to\n" + " man, and signifies love.\n\n" + "SHALLOW The luce is the fresh fish; the salt fish is an old coat.\n\n" + "SLENDER I may quarter, coz.\n\n" + "SHALLOW You may, by marrying.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is marring indeed, if he quarter it.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Not a whit.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Yes, py'r lady; if he has a quarter of your coat,\n" + " there is but three skirts for yourself, in my\n" + " simple conjectures: but that is all one. If Sir\n" + " John Falstaff have committed disparagements unto\n" + " you, I am of the church, and will be glad to do my\n" + " benevolence to make atonements and compremises\n" + " between you.\n\n" + "SHALLOW The council shall bear it; it is a riot.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is not meet the council hear a riot; there is no\n" + " fear of Got in a riot: the council, look you, shall\n" + " desire to hear the fear of Got, and not to hear a\n" + " riot; take your vizaments in that.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ha! o' my life, if I were young again, the sword\n" + " should end it.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is petter that friends is the sword, and end it:\n" + " and there is also another device in my prain, which\n" + " peradventure prings goot discretions with it: there\n" + " is Anne Page, which is daughter to Master Thomas\n" + " Page, which is pretty virginity.\n\n" + "SLENDER Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and speaks\n" + " small like a woman.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as\n" + " you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys,\n" + " and gold and silver, is her grandsire upon his\n" + " death's-bed--Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!\n" + " --give, when she is able to overtake seventeen years\n" + " old: it were a goot motion if we leave our pribbles\n" + " and prabbles, and desire a marriage between Master\n" + " Abraham and Mistress Anne Page.\n\n" + "SLENDER Did her grandsire leave her seven hundred pound?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Ay, and her father is make her a petter penny.\n\n" + "SLENDER I know the young gentlewoman; she has good gifts.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is goot gifts.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Well, let us see honest Master Page. Is Falstaff there?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Shall I tell you a lie? I do despise a liar as I do\n" + " despise one that is false, or as I despise one that\n" + " is not true. The knight, Sir John, is there; and, I\n" + " beseech you, be ruled by your well-willers. I will\n" + " peat the door for Master Page.\n\n" + " [Knocks]\n\n" + " What, hoa! Got pless your house here!\n\n" + "PAGE [Within] Who's there?\n\n" + " [Enter PAGE]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Here is Got's plessing, and your friend, and Justice\n" + " Shallow; and here young Master Slender, that\n" + " peradventures shall tell you another tale, if\n" + " matters grow to your likings.\n\n" + "PAGE I am glad to see your worships well.\n" + " I thank you for my venison, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Master Page, I am glad to see you: much good do it\n" + " your good heart! I wished your venison better; it\n" + " was ill killed. How doth good Mistress Page?--and I\n" + " thank you always with my heart, la! with my heart.\n\n" + "PAGE Sir, I thank you.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Sir, I thank you; by yea and no, I do.\n\n" + "PAGE I am glad to see you, good Master Slender.\n\n" + "SLENDER How does your fallow greyhound, sir? I heard say he\n" + " was outrun on Cotsall.\n\n" + "PAGE It could not be judged, sir.\n\n" + "SLENDER You'll not confess, you'll not confess.\n\n" + "SHALLOW That he will not. 'Tis your fault, 'tis your fault;\n" + " 'tis a good dog.\n\n" + "PAGE A cur, sir.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog: can there be\n" + " more said? he is good and fair. Is Sir John\n" + " Falstaff here?\n\n" + "PAGE Sir, he is within; and I would I could do a good\n" + " office between you.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is spoke as a Christians ought to speak.\n\n" + "SHALLOW He hath wronged me, Master Page.\n\n" + "PAGE Sir, he doth in some sort confess it.\n\n" + "SHALLOW If it be confessed, it is not redress'd: is not that\n" + " so, Master Page? He hath wronged me; indeed he\n" + " hath, at a word, he hath, believe me: Robert\n" + " Shallow, esquire, saith, he is wronged.\n\n" + "PAGE Here comes Sir John.\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF, BARDOLPH, NYM, and PISTOL]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Knight, you have beaten my men, killed my deer, and\n" + " broke open my lodge.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF But not kissed your keeper's daughter?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Tut, a pin! this shall be answered.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I will answer it straight; I have done all this.\n" + " That is now answered.\n\n" + "SHALLOW The council shall know this.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Twere better for you if it were known in counsel:\n" + " you'll be laughed at.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Pauca verba, Sir John; goot worts.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Good worts! good cabbage. Slender, I broke your\n" + " head: what matter have you against me?\n\n" + "SLENDER Marry, sir, I have matter in my head against you;\n" + " and against your cony-catching rascals, Bardolph,\n" + " Nym, and Pistol.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH You Banbury cheese!\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, it is no matter.\n\n" + "PISTOL How now, Mephostophilus!\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, it is no matter.\n\n" + "NYM Slice, I say! pauca, pauca: slice! that's my humour.\n\n" + "SLENDER Where's Simple, my man? Can you tell, cousin?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Peace, I pray you. Now let us understand. There is\n" + " three umpires in this matter, as I understand; that\n" + " is, Master Page, fidelicet Master Page; and there is\n" + " myself, fidelicet myself; and the three party is,\n" + " lastly and finally, mine host of the Garter.\n\n" + "PAGE We three, to hear it and end it between them.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-\n" + " book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with\n" + " as great discreetly as we can.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Pistol!\n\n" + "PISTOL He hears with ears.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS The tevil and his tam! what phrase is this, 'He\n" + " hears with ear'? why, it is affectations.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Pistol, did you pick Master Slender's purse?\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, by these gloves, did he, or I would I might\n" + " never come in mine own great chamber again else, of\n" + " seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward\n" + " shovel-boards, that cost me two shilling and two\n" + " pence apiece of Yead Miller, by these gloves.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Is this true, Pistol?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS No; it is false, if it is a pick-purse.\n\n" + "PISTOL Ha, thou mountain-foreigner! Sir John and Master mine,\n" + " I combat challenge of this latten bilbo.\n" + " Word of denial in thy labras here!\n" + " Word of denial: froth and scum, thou liest!\n\n" + "SLENDER By these gloves, then, 'twas he.\n\n" + "NYM Be avised, sir, and pass good humours: I will say\n" + " 'marry trap' with you, if you run the nuthook's\n" + " humour on me; that is the very note of it.\n\n" + "SLENDER By this hat, then, he in the red face had it; for\n" + " though I cannot remember what I did when you made me\n" + " drunk, yet I am not altogether an ass.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What say you, Scarlet and John?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Why, sir, for my part I say the gentleman had drunk\n" + " himself out of his five sentences.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is his five senses: fie, what the ignorance is!\n\n" + "BARDOLPH And being fap, sir, was, as they say, cashiered; and\n" + " so conclusions passed the careires.\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, you spake in Latin then too; but 'tis no\n" + " matter: I'll ne'er be drunk whilst I live again,\n" + " but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick:\n" + " if I be drunk, I'll be drunk with those that have\n" + " the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS So Got udge me, that is a virtuous mind.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You hear all these matters denied, gentlemen; you hear it.\n\n" + " [Enter ANNE PAGE, with wine; MISTRESS FORD\n" + " and MISTRESS PAGE, following]\n\n" + "PAGE Nay, daughter, carry the wine in; we'll drink within.\n\n" + " [Exit ANNE PAGE]\n\n" + "SLENDER O heaven! this is Mistress Anne Page.\n\n" + "PAGE How now, Mistress Ford!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mistress Ford, by my troth, you are very well met:\n" + " by your leave, good mistress.\n\n" + " [Kisses her]\n\n" + "PAGE Wife, bid these gentlemen welcome. Come, we have a\n" + " hot venison pasty to dinner: come, gentlemen, I hope\n" + " we shall drink down all unkindness.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except SHALLOW, SLENDER, and SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "SLENDER I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of\n" + " Songs and Sonnets here.\n\n" + " [Enter SIMPLE]\n\n" + " How now, Simple! where have you been? I must wait\n" + " on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles\n" + " about you, have you?\n\n" + "SIMPLE Book of Riddles! why, did you not lend it to Alice\n" + " Shortcake upon All-hallowmas last, a fortnight\n" + " afore Michaelmas?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Come, coz; come, coz; we stay for you. A word with\n" + " you, coz; marry, this, coz: there is, as 'twere, a\n" + " tender, a kind of tender, made afar off by Sir Hugh\n" + " here. Do you understand me?\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, sir, you shall find me reasonable; if it be so,\n" + " I shall do that that is reason.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Nay, but understand me.\n\n" + "SLENDER So I do, sir.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Give ear to his motions, Master Slender: I will\n" + " description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.\n\n" + "SLENDER Nay, I will do as my cousin Shallow says: I pray\n" + " you, pardon me; he's a justice of peace in his\n" + " country, simple though I stand here.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS But that is not the question: the question is\n" + " concerning your marriage.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ay, there's the point, sir.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Marry, is it; the very point of it; to Mistress Anne Page.\n\n" + "SLENDER Why, if it be so, I will marry her upon any\n" + " reasonable demands.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS But can you affection the 'oman? Let us command to\n" + " know that of your mouth or of your lips; for divers\n" + " philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the\n" + " mouth. Therefore, precisely, can you carry your\n" + " good will to the maid?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Cousin Abraham Slender, can you love her?\n\n" + "SLENDER I hope, sir, I will do as it shall become one that\n" + " would do reason.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Nay, Got's lords and his ladies! you must speak\n" + " possitable, if you can carry her your desires\n" + " towards her.\n\n" + "SHALLOW That you must. Will you, upon good dowry, marry her?\n\n" + "SLENDER I will do a greater thing than that, upon your\n" + " request, cousin, in any reason.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Nay, conceive me, conceive me, sweet coz: what I do\n" + " is to pleasure you, coz. Can you love the maid?\n\n" + "SLENDER I will marry her, sir, at your request: but if there\n" + " be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may\n" + " decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are\n" + " married and have more occasion to know one another;\n" + " I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt:\n" + " but if you say, 'Marry her,' I will marry her; that\n" + " I am freely dissolved, and dissolutely.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in\n" + " the ort 'dissolutely:' the ort is, according to our\n" + " meaning, 'resolutely:' his meaning is good.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Ay, I think my cousin meant well.\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, or else I would I might be hanged, la!\n\n" + "SHALLOW Here comes fair Mistress Anne.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ANNE PAGE]\n\n" + " Would I were young for your sake, Mistress Anne!\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE The dinner is on the table; my father desires your\n" + " worships' company.\n\n" + "SHALLOW I will wait on him, fair Mistress Anne.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Od's plessed will! I will not be absence at the grace.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SHALLOW and SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Will't please your worship to come in, sir?\n\n" + "SLENDER No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily; I am very well.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE The dinner attends you, sir.\n\n" + "SLENDER I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. Go,\n" + " sirrah, for all you are my man, go wait upon my\n" + " cousin Shallow.\n\n" + " [Exit SIMPLE]\n\n" + " A justice of peace sometimes may be beholding to his\n" + " friend for a man. I keep but three men and a boy\n" + " yet, till my mother be dead: but what though? Yet I\n" + " live like a poor gentleman born.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE I may not go in without your worship: they will not\n" + " sit till you come.\n\n" + "SLENDER I' faith, I'll eat nothing; I thank you as much as\n" + " though I did.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE I pray you, sir, walk in.\n\n" + "SLENDER I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised\n" + " my shin th' other day with playing at sword and\n" + " dagger with a master of fence; three veneys for a\n" + " dish of stewed prunes; and, by my troth, I cannot\n" + " abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your\n" + " dogs bark so? be there bears i' the town?\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE I think there are, sir; I heard them talked of.\n\n" + "SLENDER I love the sport well but I shall as soon quarrel at\n" + " it as any man in England. You are afraid, if you see\n" + " the bear loose, are you not?\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Ay, indeed, sir.\n\n" + "SLENDER That's meat and drink to me, now. I have seen\n" + " Sackerson loose twenty times, and have taken him by\n" + " the chain; but, I warrant you, the women have so\n" + " cried and shrieked at it, that it passed: but women,\n" + " indeed, cannot abide 'em; they are very ill-favored\n" + " rough things.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PAGE]\n\n" + "PAGE Come, gentle Master Slender, come; we stay for you.\n\n" + "SLENDER I'll eat nothing, I thank you, sir.\n\n" + "PAGE By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir! come, come.\n\n" + "SLENDER Nay, pray you, lead the way.\n\n" + "PAGE Come on, sir.\n\n" + "SLENDER Mistress Anne, yourself shall go first.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Not I, sir; pray you, keep on.\n\n" + "SLENDER I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome.\n" + " You do yourself wrong, indeed, la!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Go your ways, and ask of Doctor Caius' house which\n" + " is the way: and there dwells one Mistress Quickly,\n" + " which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry\n" + " nurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and\n" + " his wringer.\n\n" + "SIMPLE Well, sir.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Nay, it is petter yet. Give her this letter; for it\n" + " is a 'oman that altogether's acquaintance with\n" + " Mistress Anne Page: and the letter is, to desire\n" + " and require her to solicit your master's desires to\n" + " Mistress Anne Page. I pray you, be gone: I will\n" + " make an end of my dinner; there's pippins and cheese to come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in the Garter Inn.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF, Host, BARDOLPH, NYM, PISTOL,\n" + " and ROBIN]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mine host of the Garter!\n\n" + "Host What says my bully-rook? speak scholarly and wisely.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Truly, mine host, I must turn away some of my\n" + " followers.\n\n" + "Host Discard, bully Hercules; cashier: let them wag; trot, trot.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I sit at ten pounds a week.\n\n" + "Host Thou'rt an emperor, Caesar, Keisar, and Pheezar. I\n" + " will entertain Bardolph; he shall draw, he shall\n" + " tap: said I well, bully Hector?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Do so, good mine host.\n\n" + "Host I have spoke; let him follow.\n\n" + " [To BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " Let me see thee froth and lime: I am at a word; follow.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Bardolph, follow him. A tapster is a good trade:\n" + " an old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered\n" + " serving-man a fresh tapster. Go; adieu.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH It is a life that I have desired: I will thrive.\n\n" + "PISTOL O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield?\n\n" + " [Exit BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "NYM He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox: his\n" + " thefts were too open; his filching was like an\n" + " unskilful singer; he kept not time.\n\n" + "NYM The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest.\n\n" + "PISTOL 'Convey,' the wise it call. 'Steal!' foh! a fico\n" + " for the phrase!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, sirs, I am almost out at heels.\n\n" + "PISTOL Why, then, let kibes ensue.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF There is no remedy; I must cony-catch; I must shift.\n\n" + "PISTOL Young ravens must have food.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Which of you know Ford of this town?\n\n" + "PISTOL I ken the wight: he is of substance good.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My honest lads, I will tell you what I am about.\n\n" + "PISTOL Two yards, and more.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No quips now, Pistol! Indeed, I am in the waist two\n" + " yards about; but I am now about no waste; I am about\n" + " thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to Ford's\n" + " wife: I spy entertainment in her; she discourses,\n" + " she carves, she gives the leer of invitation: I\n" + " can construe the action of her familiar style; and\n" + " the hardest voice of her behavior, to be Englished\n" + " rightly, is, 'I am Sir John Falstaff's.'\n\n" + "PISTOL He hath studied her will, and translated her will,\n" + " out of honesty into English.\n\n" + "NYM The anchor is deep: will that humour pass?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Now, the report goes she has all the rule of her\n" + " husband's purse: he hath a legion of angels.\n\n" + "PISTOL As many devils entertain; and 'To her, boy,' say I.\n\n" + "NYM The humour rises; it is good: humour me the angels.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I have writ me here a letter to her: and here\n" + " another to Page's wife, who even now gave me good\n" + " eyes too, examined my parts with most judicious\n" + " oeillades; sometimes the beam of her view gilded my\n" + " foot, sometimes my portly belly.\n\n" + "PISTOL Then did the sun on dunghill shine.\n\n" + "NYM I thank thee for that humour.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF O, she did so course o'er my exteriors with such a\n" + " greedy intention, that the appetite of her eye did\n" + " seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass! Here's\n" + " another letter to her: she bears the purse too; she\n" + " is a region in Guiana, all gold and bounty. I will\n" + " be cheater to them both, and they shall be\n" + " exchequers to me; they shall be my East and West\n" + " Indies, and I will trade to them both. Go bear thou\n" + " this letter to Mistress Page; and thou this to\n" + " Mistress Ford: we will thrive, lads, we will thrive.\n\n" + "PISTOL Shall I Sir Pandarus of Troy become,\n" + " And by my side wear steel? then, Lucifer take all!\n\n" + "NYM I will run no base humour: here, take the\n" + " humour-letter: I will keep the havior of reputation.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF [To ROBIN] Hold, sirrah, bear you these letters tightly;\n" + " Sail like my pinnace to these golden shores.\n" + " Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go;\n" + " Trudge, plod away o' the hoof; seek shelter, pack!\n" + " Falstaff will learn the humour of the age,\n" + " French thrift, you rogues; myself and skirted page.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FALSTAFF and ROBIN]\n\n" + "PISTOL Let vultures gripe thy guts! for gourd and fullam holds,\n" + " And high and low beguiles the rich and poor:\n" + " Tester I'll have in pouch when thou shalt lack,\n" + " Base Phrygian Turk!\n\n" + "NYM I have operations which be humours of revenge.\n\n" + "PISTOL Wilt thou revenge?\n\n" + "NYM By welkin and her star!\n\n" + "PISTOL With wit or steel?\n\n" + "NYM With both the humours, I:\n" + " I will discuss the humour of this love to Page.\n\n" + "PISTOL And I to Ford shall eke unfold\n" + " How Falstaff, varlet vile,\n" + " His dove will prove, his gold will hold,\n" + " And his soft couch defile.\n\n" + "NYM My humour shall not cool: I will incense Page to\n" + " deal with poison; I will possess him with\n" + " yellowness, for the revolt of mine is dangerous:\n" + " that is my true humour.\n\n" + "PISTOL Thou art the Mars of malecontents: I second thee; troop on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A room in DOCTOR CAIUS' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY, SIMPLE, and RUGBY]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY What, John Rugby! I pray thee, go to the casement,\n" + " and see if you can see my master, Master Doctor\n" + " Caius, coming. If he do, i' faith, and find any\n" + " body in the house, here will be an old abusing of\n" + " God's patience and the king's English.\n\n" + "RUGBY I'll go watch.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Go; and we'll have a posset for't soon at night, in\n" + " faith, at the latter end of a sea-coal fire.\n\n" + " [Exit RUGBY]\n\n" + " An honest, willing, kind fellow, as ever servant\n" + " shall come in house withal, and, I warrant you, no\n" + " tell-tale nor no breed-bate: his worst fault is,\n" + " that he is given to prayer; he is something peevish\n" + " that way: but nobody but has his fault; but let\n" + " that pass. Peter Simple, you say your name is?\n\n" + "SIMPLE Ay, for fault of a better.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY And Master Slender's your master?\n\n" + "SIMPLE Ay, forsooth.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Does he not wear a great round beard, like a\n" + " glover's paring-knife?\n\n" + "SIMPLE No, forsooth: he hath but a little wee face, with a\n" + " little yellow beard, a Cain-coloured beard.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY A softly-sprighted man, is he not?\n\n" + "SIMPLE Ay, forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands\n" + " as any is between this and his head; he hath fought\n" + " with a warrener.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY How say you? O, I should remember him: does he not\n" + " hold up his head, as it were, and strut in his gait?\n\n" + "SIMPLE Yes, indeed, does he.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, heaven send Anne Page no worse fortune! Tell\n" + " Master Parson Evans I will do what I can for your\n" + " master: Anne is a good girl, and I wish--\n\n" + " [Re-enter RUGBY]\n\n" + "RUGBY Out, alas! here comes my master.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY We shall all be shent. Run in here, good young man;\n" + " go into this closet: he will not stay long.\n\n" + " [Shuts SIMPLE in the closet]\n\n" + " What, John Rugby! John! what, John, I say!\n" + " Go, John, go inquire for my master; I doubt\n" + " he be not well, that he comes not home.\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " And down, down, adown-a, &c.\n\n" + " [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS]\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Vat is you sing? I do not like des toys. Pray you,\n" + " go and vetch me in my closet un boitier vert, a box,\n" + " a green-a box: do intend vat I speak? a green-a box.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Ay, forsooth; I'll fetch it you.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I am glad he went not in himself: if he had found\n" + " the young man, he would have been horn-mad.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Fe, fe, fe, fe! ma foi, il fait fort chaud. Je\n" + " m'en vais a la cour--la grande affaire.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Is it this, sir?\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Oui; mette le au mon pocket: depeche, quickly. Vere\n" + " is dat knave Rugby?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY What, John Rugby! John!\n\n" + "RUGBY Here, sir!\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. Come,\n" + " take-a your rapier, and come after my heel to the court.\n\n" + "RUGBY 'Tis ready, sir, here in the porch.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By my trot, I tarry too long. Od's me!\n" + " Qu'ai-j'oublie! dere is some simples in my closet,\n" + " dat I vill not for the varld I shall leave behind.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Ay me, he'll find the young man here, and be mad!\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS O diable, diable! vat is in my closet? Villain! larron!\n\n" + " [Pulling SIMPLE out]\n\n" + " Rugby, my rapier!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Good master, be content.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Wherefore shall I be content-a?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY The young man is an honest man.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS What shall de honest man do in my closet? dere is\n" + " no honest man dat shall come in my closet.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY I beseech you, be not so phlegmatic. Hear the truth\n" + " of it: he came of an errand to me from Parson Hugh.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Vell.\n\n" + "SIMPLE Ay, forsooth; to desire her to--\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Peace, I pray you.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Peace-a your tongue. Speak-a your tale.\n\n" + "SIMPLE To desire this honest gentlewoman, your maid, to\n" + " speak a good word to Mistress Anne Page for my\n" + " master in the way of marriage.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY This is all, indeed, la! but I'll ne'er put my\n" + " finger in the fire, and need not.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Sir Hugh send-a you? Rugby, baille me some paper.\n" + " Tarry you a little-a while.\n\n" + " [Writes]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY [Aside to SIMPLE] I am glad he is so quiet: if he\n" + " had been thoroughly moved, you should have heard him\n" + " so loud and so melancholy. But notwithstanding,\n" + " man, I'll do you your master what good I can: and\n" + " the very yea and the no is, the French doctor, my\n" + " master,--I may call him my master, look you, for I\n" + " keep his house; and I wash, wring, brew, bake,\n" + " scour, dress meat and drink, make the beds and do\n" + " all myself,--\n\n" + "SIMPLE [Aside to MISTRESS QUICKLY] 'Tis a great charge to\n" + " come under one body's hand.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY [Aside to SIMPLE] Are you avised o' that? you\n" + " shall find it a great charge: and to be up early\n" + " and down late; but notwithstanding,--to tell you in\n" + " your ear; I would have no words of it,--my master\n" + " himself is in love with Mistress Anne Page: but\n" + " notwithstanding that, I know Anne's mind,--that's\n" + " neither here nor there.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS You jack'nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh; by\n" + " gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee\n" + " park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest\n" + " to meddle or make. You may be gone; it is not good\n" + " you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two\n" + " stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw\n" + " at his dog:\n\n" + " [Exit SIMPLE]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas, he speaks but for his friend.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS It is no matter-a ver dat: do not you tell-a me\n" + " dat I shall have Anne Page for myself? By gar, I\n" + " vill kill de Jack priest; and I have appointed mine\n" + " host of de Jarteer to measure our weapon. By gar, I\n" + " will myself have Anne Page.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. We\n" + " must give folks leave to prate: what, the good-jer!\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Rugby, come to the court with me. By gar, if I have\n" + " not Anne Page, I shall turn your head out of my\n" + " door. Follow my heels, Rugby.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY You shall have An fool's-head of your own. No, I\n" + " know Anne's mind for that: never a woman in Windsor\n" + " knows more of Anne's mind than I do; nor can do more\n" + " than I do with her, I thank heaven.\n\n" + "FENTON [Within] Who's within there? ho!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Who's there, I trow! Come near the house, I pray you.\n\n" + " [Enter FENTON]\n\n" + "FENTON How now, good woman? how dost thou?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY The better that it pleases your good worship to ask.\n\n" + "FENTON What news? how does pretty Mistress Anne?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and honest, and\n" + " gentle; and one that is your friend, I can tell you\n" + " that by the way; I praise heaven for it.\n\n" + "FENTON Shall I do any good, thinkest thou? shall I not lose my suit?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Troth, sir, all is in his hands above: but\n" + " notwithstanding, Master Fenton, I'll be sworn on a\n" + " book, she loves you. Have not your worship a wart\n" + " above your eye?\n\n" + "FENTON Yes, marry, have I; what of that?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, thereby hangs a tale: good faith, it is such\n" + " another Nan; but, I detest, an honest maid as ever\n" + " broke bread: we had an hour's talk of that wart. I\n" + " shall never laugh but in that maid's company! But\n" + " indeed she is given too much to allicholy and\n" + " musing: but for you--well, go to.\n\n" + "FENTON Well, I shall see her to-day. Hold, there's money\n" + " for thee; let me have thy voice in my behalf: if\n" + " thou seest her before me, commend me.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Will I? i'faith, that we will; and I will tell your\n" + " worship more of the wart the next time we have\n" + " confidence; and of other wooers.\n\n" + "FENTON Well, farewell; I am in great haste now.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Farewell to your worship.\n\n" + " [Exit FENTON]\n\n" + " Truly, an honest gentleman: but Anne loves him not;\n" + " for I know Anne's mind as well as another does. Out\n" + " upon't! what have I forgot?\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before PAGE'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, with a letter]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday-\n" + " time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?\n" + " Let me see.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Ask me no reason why I love you; for though\n" + " Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him\n" + " not for his counsellor. You are not young, no more\n" + " am I; go to then, there's sympathy: you are merry,\n" + " so am I; ha, ha! then there's more sympathy: you\n" + " love sack, and so do I; would you desire better\n" + " sympathy? Let it suffice thee, Mistress Page,--at\n" + " the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,--\n" + " that I love thee. I will not say, pity me; 'tis\n" + " not a soldier-like phrase: but I say, love me. By me,\n" + " Thine own true knight,\n" + " By day or night,\n" + " Or any kind of light,\n" + " With all his might\n" + " For thee to fight, JOHN FALSTAFF'\n" + " What a Herod of Jewry is this! O wicked\n" + " world! One that is well-nigh worn to pieces with\n" + " age to show himself a young gallant! What an\n" + " unweighed behavior hath this Flemish drunkard\n" + " picked--with the devil's name!--out of my\n" + " conversation, that he dares in this manner assay me?\n" + " Why, he hath not been thrice in my company! What\n" + " should I say to him? I was then frugal of my\n" + " mirth: Heaven forgive me! Why, I'll exhibit a bill\n" + " in the parliament for the putting down of men. How\n" + " shall I be revenged on him? for revenged I will be,\n" + " as sure as his guts are made of puddings.\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS FORD]\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Mistress Page! trust me, I was going to your house.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE And, trust me, I was coming to you. You look very\n" + " ill.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Nay, I'll ne'er believe that; I have to show to the contrary.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Faith, but you do, in my mind.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Well, I do then; yet I say I could show you to the\n" + " contrary. O Mistress Page, give me some counsel!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE What's the matter, woman?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD O woman, if it were not for one trifling respect, I\n" + " could come to such honour!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Hang the trifle, woman! take the honour. What is\n" + " it? dispense with trifles; what is it?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD If I would but go to hell for an eternal moment or so,\n" + " I could be knighted.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE What? thou liest! Sir Alice Ford! These knights\n" + " will hack; and so thou shouldst not alter the\n" + " article of thy gentry.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD We burn daylight: here, read, read; perceive how I\n" + " might be knighted. I shall think the worse of fat\n" + " men, as long as I have an eye to make difference of\n" + " men's liking: and yet he would not swear; praised\n" + " women's modesty; and gave such orderly and\n" + " well-behaved reproof to all uncomeliness, that I\n" + " would have sworn his disposition would have gone to\n" + " the truth of his words; but they do no more adhere\n" + " and keep place together than the Hundredth Psalm to\n" + " the tune of 'Green Sleeves.' What tempest, I trow,\n" + " threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil in his\n" + " belly, ashore at Windsor? How shall I be revenged\n" + " on him? I think the best way were to entertain him\n" + " with hope, till the wicked fire of lust have melted\n" + " him in his own grease. Did you ever hear the like?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Letter for letter, but that the name of Page and\n" + " Ford differs! To thy great comfort in this mystery\n" + " of ill opinions, here's the twin-brother of thy\n" + " letter: but let thine inherit first; for, I\n" + " protest, mine never shall. I warrant he hath a\n" + " thousand of these letters, writ with blank space for\n" + " different names--sure, more,--and these are of the\n" + " second edition: he will print them, out of doubt;\n" + " for he cares not what he puts into the press, when\n" + " he would put us two. I had rather be a giantess,\n" + " and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, I will find you\n" + " twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Why, this is the very same; the very hand, the very\n" + " words. What doth he think of us?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Nay, I know not: it makes me almost ready to\n" + " wrangle with mine own honesty. I'll entertain\n" + " myself like one that I am not acquainted withal;\n" + " for, sure, unless he know some strain in me, that I\n" + " know not myself, he would never have boarded me in this fury.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD 'Boarding,' call you it? I'll be sure to keep him\n" + " above deck.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE So will I if he come under my hatches, I'll never\n" + " to sea again. Let's be revenged on him: let's\n" + " appoint him a meeting; give him a show of comfort in\n" + " his suit and lead him on with a fine-baited delay,\n" + " till he hath pawned his horses to mine host of the Garter.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Nay, I will consent to act any villany against him,\n" + " that may not sully the chariness of our honesty. O,\n" + " that my husband saw this letter! it would give\n" + " eternal food to his jealousy.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Why, look where he comes; and my good man too: he's\n" + " as far from jealousy as I am from giving him cause;\n" + " and that I hope is an unmeasurable distance.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD You are the happier woman.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Let's consult together against this greasy knight.\n" + " Come hither.\n\n" + " [They retire]\n\n" + " [Enter FORD with PISTOL, and PAGE with NYM]\n\n" + "FORD Well, I hope it be not so.\n\n" + "PISTOL Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs:\n" + " Sir John affects thy wife.\n\n" + "FORD Why, sir, my wife is not young.\n\n" + "PISTOL He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor,\n" + " Both young and old, one with another, Ford;\n" + " He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.\n\n" + "FORD Love my wife!\n\n" + "PISTOL With liver burning hot. Prevent, or go thou,\n" + " Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels:\n" + " O, odious is the name!\n\n" + "FORD What name, sir?\n\n" + "PISTOL The horn, I say. Farewell.\n" + " Take heed, have open eye, for thieves do foot by night:\n" + " Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing.\n" + " Away, Sir Corporal Nym!\n" + " Believe it, Page; he speaks sense.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FORD [Aside] I will be patient; I will find out this.\n\n" + "NYM [To PAGE] And this is true; I like not the humour\n" + " of lying. He hath wronged me in some humours: I\n" + " should have borne the humoured letter to her; but I\n" + " have a sword and it shall bite upon my necessity.\n" + " He loves your wife; there's the short and the long.\n" + " My name is Corporal Nym; I speak and I avouch; 'tis\n" + " true: my name is Nym and Falstaff loves your wife.\n" + " Adieu. I love not the humour of bread and cheese,\n" + " and there's the humour of it. Adieu.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PAGE 'The humour of it,' quoth a'! here's a fellow\n" + " frights English out of his wits.\n\n" + "FORD I will seek out Falstaff.\n\n" + "PAGE I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue.\n\n" + "FORD If I do find it: well.\n\n" + "PAGE I will not believe such a Cataian, though the priest\n" + " o' the town commended him for a true man.\n\n" + "FORD 'Twas a good sensible fellow: well.\n\n" + "PAGE How now, Meg!\n\n" + " [MISTRESS PAGE and MISTRESS FORD come forward]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Whither go you, George? Hark you.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?\n\n" + "FORD I melancholy! I am not melancholy. Get you home, go.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. Now,\n" + " will you go, Mistress Page?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Have with you. You'll come to dinner, George.\n\n" + " [Aside to MISTRESS FORD]\n\n" + " Look who comes yonder: she shall be our messenger\n" + " to this paltry knight.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD [Aside to MISTRESS PAGE] Trust me, I thought on her:\n" + " she'll fit it.\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE You are come to see my daughter Anne?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does good Mistress Anne?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Go in with us and see: we have an hour's talk with\n" + " you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + "PAGE How now, Master Ford!\n\n" + "FORD You heard what this knave told me, did you not?\n\n" + "PAGE Yes: and you heard what the other told me?\n\n" + "FORD Do you think there is truth in them?\n\n" + "PAGE Hang 'em, slaves! I do not think the knight would\n" + " offer it: but these that accuse him in his intent\n" + " towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men;\n" + " very rogues, now they be out of service.\n\n" + "FORD Were they his men?\n\n" + "PAGE Marry, were they.\n\n" + "FORD I like it never the better for that. Does he lie at\n" + " the Garter?\n\n" + "PAGE Ay, marry, does he. If he should intend this voyage\n" + " towards my wife, I would turn her loose to him; and\n" + " what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it\n" + " lie on my head.\n\n" + "FORD I do not misdoubt my wife; but I would be loath to\n" + " turn them together. A man may be too confident: I\n" + " would have nothing lie on my head: I cannot be thus satisfied.\n\n" + "PAGE Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes:\n" + " there is either liquor in his pate or money in his\n" + " purse when he looks so merrily.\n\n" + " [Enter Host]\n\n" + " How now, mine host!\n\n" + "Host How now, bully-rook! thou'rt a gentleman.\n" + " Cavaleiro-justice, I say!\n\n" + " [Enter SHALLOW]\n\n" + "SHALLOW I follow, mine host, I follow. Good even and\n" + " twenty, good Master Page! Master Page, will you go\n" + " with us? we have sport in hand.\n\n" + "Host Tell him, cavaleiro-justice; tell him, bully-rook.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Sir, there is a fray to be fought between Sir Hugh\n" + " the Welsh priest and Caius the French doctor.\n\n" + "FORD Good mine host o' the Garter, a word with you.\n\n" + " [Drawing him aside]\n\n" + "Host What sayest thou, my bully-rook?\n\n" + "SHALLOW [To PAGE] Will you go with us to behold it? My\n" + " merry host hath had the measuring of their weapons;\n" + " and, I think, hath appointed them contrary places;\n" + " for, believe me, I hear the parson is no jester.\n" + " Hark, I will tell you what our sport shall be.\n\n" + " [They converse apart]\n\n" + "Host Hast thou no suit against my knight, my\n" + " guest-cavaleire?\n\n" + "FORD None, I protest: but I'll give you a pottle of\n" + " burnt sack to give me recourse to him and tell him\n" + " my name is Brook; only for a jest.\n\n" + "Host My hand, bully; thou shalt have egress and regress;\n" + " --said I well?--and thy name shall be Brook. It is\n" + " a merry knight. Will you go, An-heires?\n\n" + "SHALLOW Have with you, mine host.\n\n" + "PAGE I have heard the Frenchman hath good skill in\n" + " his rapier.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Tut, sir, I could have told you more. In these times\n" + " you stand on distance, your passes, stoccadoes, and\n" + " I know not what: 'tis the heart, Master Page; 'tis\n" + " here, 'tis here. I have seen the time, with my long\n" + " sword I would have made you four tall fellows skip like rats.\n\n" + "Host Here, boys, here, here! shall we wag?\n\n" + "PAGE Have with you. I would rather hear them scold than fight.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Host, SHALLOW, and PAGE]\n\n" + "FORD Though Page be a secure fool, an stands so firmly\n" + " on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my\n" + " opinion so easily: she was in his company at Page's\n" + " house; and what they made there, I know not. Well,\n" + " I will look further into't: and I have a disguise\n" + " to sound Falstaff. If I find her honest, I lose not\n" + " my labour; if she be otherwise, 'tis labour well bestowed.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in the Garter Inn.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF and PISTOL]\n\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I will not lend thee a penny.\n\n" + "PISTOL Why, then the world's mine oyster.\n" + " Which I with sword will open.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should\n" + " lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my\n" + " good friends for three reprieves for you and your\n" + " coach-fellow Nym; or else you had looked through\n" + " the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in\n" + " hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were\n" + " good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress\n" + " Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took't upon\n" + " mine honour thou hadst it not.\n\n" + "PISTOL Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteen pence?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Reason, you rogue, reason: thinkest thou I'll\n" + " endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more\n" + " about me, I am no gibbet for you. Go. A short knife\n" + " and a throng! To your manor of Pickt-hatch! Go.\n" + " You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue! you\n" + " stand upon your honour! Why, thou unconfinable\n" + " baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep the\n" + " terms of my honour precise: I, I, I myself\n" + " sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand\n" + " and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to\n" + " shuffle, to hedge and to lurch; and yet you, rogue,\n" + " will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain\n" + " looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your\n" + " bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your\n" + " honour! You will not do it, you!\n\n" + "PISTOL I do relent: what would thou more of man?\n\n" + " [Enter ROBIN]\n\n" + "ROBIN Sir, here's a woman would speak with you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let her approach.\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Give your worship good morrow.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Good morrow, good wife.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Not so, an't please your worship.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Good maid, then.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY I'll be sworn,\n" + " As my mother was, the first hour I was born.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I do believe the swearer. What with me?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Shall I vouchsafe your worship a word or two?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Two thousand, fair woman: and I'll vouchsafe thee\n" + " the hearing.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY There is one Mistress Ford, sir:--I pray, come a\n" + " little nearer this ways:--I myself dwell with master\n" + " Doctor Caius,--\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, on: Mistress Ford, you say,--\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Your worship says very true: I pray your worship,\n" + " come a little nearer this ways.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I warrant thee, nobody hears; mine own people, mine\n" + " own people.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Are they so? God bless them and make them his servants!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, Mistress Ford; what of her?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Why, sir, she's a good creature. Lord Lord! your\n" + " worship's a wanton! Well, heaven forgive you and all\n" + " of us, I pray!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mistress Ford; come, Mistress Ford,--\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, this is the short and the long of it; you\n" + " have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis\n" + " wonderful. The best courtier of them all, when the\n" + " court lay at Windsor, could never have brought her\n" + " to such a canary. Yet there has been knights, and\n" + " lords, and gentlemen, with their coaches, I warrant\n" + " you, coach after coach, letter after letter, gift\n" + " after gift; smelling so sweetly, all musk, and so\n" + " rushling, I warrant you, in silk and gold; and in\n" + " such alligant terms; and in such wine and sugar of\n" + " the best and the fairest, that would have won any\n" + " woman's heart; and, I warrant you, they could never\n" + " get an eye-wink of her: I had myself twenty angels\n" + " given me this morning; but I defy all angels, in\n" + " any such sort, as they say, but in the way of\n" + " honesty: and, I warrant you, they could never get\n" + " her so much as sip on a cup with the proudest of\n" + " them all: and yet there has been earls, nay, which\n" + " is more, pensioners; but, I warrant you, all is one with her.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF But what says she to me? be brief, my good\n" + " she-Mercury.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, she hath received your letter, for the which\n" + " she thanks you a thousand times; and she gives you\n" + " to notify that her husband will be absence from his\n" + " house between ten and eleven.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ten and eleven?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Ay, forsooth; and then you may come and see the\n" + " picture, she says, that you wot of: Master Ford,\n" + " her husband, will be from home. Alas! the sweet\n" + " woman leads an ill life with him: he's a very\n" + " jealousy man: she leads a very frampold life with\n" + " him, good heart.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ten and eleven. Woman, commend me to her; I will\n" + " not fail her.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Why, you say well. But I have another messenger to\n" + " your worship. Mistress Page hath her hearty\n" + " commendations to you too: and let me tell you in\n" + " your ear, she's as fartuous a civil modest wife, and\n" + " one, I tell you, that will not miss you morning nor\n" + " evening prayer, as any is in Windsor, whoe'er be the\n" + " other: and she bade me tell your worship that her\n" + " husband is seldom from home; but she hopes there\n" + " will come a time. I never knew a woman so dote upon\n" + " a man: surely I think you have charms, la; yes, in truth.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Not I, I assure thee: setting the attractions of my\n" + " good parts aside I have no other charms.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Blessing on your heart for't!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF But, I pray thee, tell me this: has Ford's wife and\n" + " Page's wife acquainted each other how they love me?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY That were a jest indeed! they have not so little\n" + " grace, I hope: that were a trick indeed! but\n" + " Mistress Page would desire you to send her your\n" + " little page, of all loves: her husband has a\n" + " marvellous infection to the little page; and truly\n" + " Master Page is an honest man. Never a wife in\n" + " Windsor leads a better life than she does: do what\n" + " she will, say what she will, take all, pay all, go\n" + " to bed when she list, rise when she list, all is as\n" + " she will: and truly she deserves it; for if there\n" + " be a kind woman in Windsor, she is one. You must\n" + " send her your page; no remedy.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Why, I will.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Nay, but do so, then: and, look you, he may come and\n" + " go between you both; and in any case have a\n" + " nay-word, that you may know one another's mind, and\n" + " the boy never need to understand any thing; for\n" + " 'tis not good that children should know any\n" + " wickedness: old folks, you know, have discretion,\n" + " as they say, and know the world.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Fare thee well: commend me to them both: there's\n" + " my purse; I am yet thy debtor. Boy, go along with\n" + " this woman.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MISTRESS QUICKLY and ROBIN]\n\n" + " This news distracts me!\n\n" + "PISTOL This punk is one of Cupid's carriers:\n" + " Clap on more sails; pursue; up with your fights:\n" + " Give fire: she is my prize, or ocean whelm them all!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Sayest thou so, old Jack? go thy ways; I'll make\n" + " more of thy old body than I have done. Will they\n" + " yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense\n" + " of so much money, be now a gainer? Good body, I\n" + " thank thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done; so it be\n" + " fairly done, no matter.\n\n" + " [Enter BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Sir John, there's one Master Brook below would fain\n" + " speak with you, and be acquainted with you; and hath\n" + " sent your worship a morning's draught of sack.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Brook is his name?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Ay, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Call him in.\n\n" + " [Exit BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " Such Brooks are welcome to me, that o'erflow such\n" + " liquor. Ah, ha! Mistress Ford and Mistress Page\n" + " have I encompassed you? go to; via!\n\n" + " [Re-enter BARDOLPH, with FORD disguised]\n\n" + "FORD Bless you, sir!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF And you, sir! Would you speak with me?\n\n" + "FORD I make bold to press with so little preparation upon\n" + " you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You're welcome. What's your will? Give us leave, drawer.\n\n" + " [Exit BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FORD Sir, I am a gentleman that have spent much; my name is Brook.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Good Master Brook, I desire more acquaintance of you.\n\n" + "FORD Good Sir John, I sue for yours: not to charge you;\n" + " for I must let you understand I think myself in\n" + " better plight for a lender than you are: the which\n" + " hath something embolden'd me to this unseasoned\n" + " intrusion; for they say, if money go before, all\n" + " ways do lie open.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.\n\n" + "FORD Troth, and I have a bag of money here troubles me:\n" + " if you will help to bear it, Sir John, take all, or\n" + " half, for easing me of the carriage.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Sir, I know not how I may deserve to be your porter.\n\n" + "FORD I will tell you, sir, if you will give me the hearing.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Speak, good Master Brook: I shall be glad to be\n" + " your servant.\n\n" + "FORD Sir, I hear you are a scholar,--I will be brief\n" + " with you,--and you have been a man long known to me,\n" + " though I had never so good means, as desire, to make\n" + " myself acquainted with you. I shall discover a\n" + " thing to you, wherein I must very much lay open mine\n" + " own imperfection: but, good Sir John, as you have\n" + " one eye upon my follies, as you hear them unfolded,\n" + " turn another into the register of your own; that I\n" + " may pass with a reproof the easier, sith you\n" + " yourself know how easy it is to be such an offender.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Very well, sir; proceed.\n\n" + "FORD There is a gentlewoman in this town; her husband's\n" + " name is Ford.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, sir.\n\n" + "FORD I have long loved her, and, I protest to you,\n" + " bestowed much on her; followed her with a doting\n" + " observance; engrossed opportunities to meet her;\n" + " fee'd every slight occasion that could but niggardly\n" + " give me sight of her; not only bought many presents\n" + " to give her, but have given largely to many to know\n" + " what she would have given; briefly, I have pursued\n" + " her as love hath pursued me; which hath been on the\n" + " wing of all occasions. But whatsoever I have\n" + " merited, either in my mind or, in my means, meed,\n" + " I am sure, I have received none; unless experience\n" + " be a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite\n" + " rate, and that hath taught me to say this:\n\n" + " 'Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;\n" + " Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues.'\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Have you received no promise of satisfaction at her hands?\n\n" + "FORD Never.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Have you importuned her to such a purpose?\n\n" + "FORD Never.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Of what quality was your love, then?\n\n" + "FORD Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so\n" + " that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place\n" + " where I erected it.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF To what purpose have you unfolded this to me?\n\n" + "FORD When I have told you that, I have told you all.\n" + " Some say, that though she appear honest to me, yet in\n" + " other places she enlargeth her mirth so far that\n" + " there is shrewd construction made of her. Now, Sir\n" + " John, here is the heart of my purpose: you are a\n" + " gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable\n" + " discourse, of great admittance, authentic in your\n" + " place and person, generally allowed for your many\n" + " war-like, court-like, and learned preparations.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF O, sir!\n\n" + "FORD Believe it, for you know it. There is money; spend\n" + " it, spend it; spend more; spend all I have; only\n" + " give me so much of your time in exchange of it, as\n" + " to lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this\n" + " Ford's wife: use your art of wooing; win her to\n" + " consent to you: if any man may, you may as soon as\n" + " any.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Would it apply well to the vehemency of your\n" + " affection, that I should win what you would enjoy?\n" + " Methinks you prescribe to yourself very preposterously.\n\n" + "FORD O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on\n" + " the excellency of her honour, that the folly of my\n" + " soul dares not present itself: she is too bright to\n" + " be looked against. Now, could I could come to her\n" + " with any detection in my hand, my desires had\n" + " instance and argument to commend themselves: I\n" + " could drive her then from the ward of her purity,\n" + " her reputation, her marriage-vow, and a thousand\n" + " other her defences, which now are too too strongly\n" + " embattled against me. What say you to't, Sir John?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Master Brook, I will first make bold with your\n" + " money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a\n" + " gentleman, you shall, if you will, enjoy Ford's wife.\n\n" + "FORD O good sir!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I say you shall.\n\n" + "FORD Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you shall want\n" + " none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by her\n" + " own appointment; even as you came in to me, her\n" + " assistant or go-between parted from me: I say I\n" + " shall be with her between ten and eleven; for at\n" + " that time the jealous rascally knave her husband\n" + " will be forth. Come you to me at night; you shall\n" + " know how I speed.\n\n" + "FORD I am blest in your acquaintance. Do you know Ford,\n" + " sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hang him, poor cuckoldly knave! I know him not:\n" + " yet I wrong him to call him poor; they say the\n" + " jealous wittolly knave hath masses of money; for the\n" + " which his wife seems to me well-favored. I will\n" + " use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer;\n" + " and there's my harvest-home.\n\n" + "FORD I would you knew Ford, sir, that you might avoid him\n" + " if you saw him.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will\n" + " stare him out of his wits; I will awe him with my\n" + " cudgel: it shall hang like a meteor o'er the\n" + " cuckold's horns. Master Brook, thou shalt know I\n" + " will predominate over the peasant, and thou shalt\n" + " lie with his wife. Come to me soon at night.\n" + " Ford's a knave, and I will aggravate his style;\n" + " thou, Master Brook, shalt know him for knave and\n" + " cuckold. Come to me soon at night.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FORD What a damned Epicurean rascal is this! My heart is\n" + " ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is\n" + " improvident jealousy? my wife hath sent to him; the\n" + " hour is fixed; the match is made. Would any man\n" + " have thought this? See the hell of having a false\n" + " woman! My bed shall be abused, my coffers\n" + " ransacked, my reputation gnawn at; and I shall not\n" + " only receive this villanous wrong, but stand under\n" + " the adoption of abominable terms, and by him that\n" + " does me this wrong. Terms! names! Amaimon sounds\n" + " well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are\n" + " devils' additions, the names of fiends: but\n" + " Cuckold! Wittol!--Cuckold! the devil himself hath\n" + " not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass: he\n" + " will trust his wife; he will not be jealous. I will\n" + " rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh\n" + " the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman with my\n" + " aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my ambling\n" + " gelding, than my wife with herself; then she plots,\n" + " then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they\n" + " think in their hearts they may effect, they will\n" + " break their hearts but they will effect. God be\n" + " praised for my jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour.\n" + " I will prevent this, detect my wife, be revenged on\n" + " Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it;\n" + " better three hours too soon than a minute too late.\n" + " Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A field near Windsor.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS and RUGBY]\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Jack Rugby!\n\n" + "RUGBY Sir?\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Vat is de clock, Jack?\n\n" + "RUGBY 'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised to meet.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, he has save his soul, dat he is no come; he\n" + " has pray his Pible well, dat he is no come: by gar,\n" + " Jack Rugby, he is dead already, if he be come.\n\n" + "RUGBY He is wise, sir; he knew your worship would kill\n" + " him, if he came.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him.\n" + " Take your rapier, Jack; I vill tell you how I vill kill him.\n\n" + "RUGBY Alas, sir, I cannot fence.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Villany, take your rapier.\n\n" + "RUGBY Forbear; here's company.\n\n" + " [Enter Host, SHALLOW, SLENDER, and PAGE]\n\n" + "Host Bless thee, bully doctor!\n\n" + "SHALLOW Save you, Master Doctor Caius!\n\n" + "PAGE Now, good master doctor!\n\n" + "SLENDER Give you good morrow, sir.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for?\n\n" + "Host To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee\n" + " traverse; to see thee here, to see thee there; to\n" + " see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy\n" + " distance, thy montant. Is he dead, my Ethiopian? is\n" + " he dead, my Francisco? ha, bully! What says my\n" + " AEsculapius? my Galen? my heart of elder? ha! is\n" + " he dead, bully stale? is he dead?\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, he is de coward Jack priest of de vorld; he\n" + " is not show his face.\n\n" + "Host Thou art a Castalion-King-Urinal. Hector of Greece, my boy!\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS I pray you, bear vitness that me have stay six or\n" + " seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come.\n\n" + "SHALLOW He is the wiser man, master doctor: he is a curer of\n" + " souls, and you a curer of bodies; if you should\n" + " fight, you go against the hair of your professions.\n" + " Is it not true, Master Page?\n\n" + "PAGE Master Shallow, you have yourself been a great\n" + " fighter, though now a man of peace.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Bodykins, Master Page, though I now be old and of\n" + " the peace, if I see a sword out, my finger itches to\n" + " make one. Though we are justices and doctors and\n" + " churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our\n" + " youth in us; we are the sons of women, Master Page.\n\n" + "PAGE 'Tis true, Master Shallow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW It will be found so, Master Page. Master Doctor\n" + " Caius, I am come to fetch you home. I am sworn of\n" + " the peace: you have showed yourself a wise\n" + " physician, and Sir Hugh hath shown himself a wise\n" + " and patient churchman. You must go with me, master doctor.\n\n" + "Host Pardon, guest-justice. A word, Mounseur Mockwater.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Mock-vater! vat is dat?\n\n" + "Host Mock-water, in our English tongue, is valour, bully.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, den, I have as mush mock-vater as de\n" + " Englishman. Scurvy jack-dog priest! by gar, me\n" + " vill cut his ears.\n\n" + "Host He will clapper-claw thee tightly, bully.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Clapper-de-claw! vat is dat?\n\n" + "Host That is, he will make thee amends.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me;\n" + " for, by gar, me vill have it.\n\n" + "Host And I will provoke him to't, or let him wag.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Me tank you for dat.\n\n" + "Host And, moreover, bully,--but first, master guest, and\n" + " Master Page, and eke Cavaleiro Slender, go you\n" + " through the town to Frogmore.\n\n" + " [Aside to them]\n\n" + "PAGE Sir Hugh is there, is he?\n\n" + "Host He is there: see what humour he is in; and I will\n" + " bring the doctor about by the fields. Will it do well?\n\n" + "SHALLOW We will do it.\n\n\n" + "PAGE |\n" + " |\n" + "SHALLOW | Adieu, good master doctor.\n" + " |\n" + "SLENDER |\n\n\n" + " [Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, me vill kill de priest; for he speak for a\n" + " jack-an-ape to Anne Page.\n\n" + "Host Let him die: sheathe thy impatience, throw cold\n" + " water on thy choler: go about the fields with me\n" + " through Frogmore: I will bring thee where Mistress\n" + " Anne Page is, at a farm-house a-feasting; and thou\n" + " shalt woo her. Cried I aim? said I well?\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, me dank you for dat: by gar, I love you;\n" + " and I shall procure-a you de good guest, de earl,\n" + " de knight, de lords, de gentlemen, my patients.\n\n" + "Host For the which I will be thy adversary toward Anne\n" + " Page. Said I well?\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, 'tis good; vell said.\n\n" + "Host Let us wag, then.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Come at my heels, Jack Rugby.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A field near Frogmore.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS and SIMPLE]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS I pray you now, good master Slender's serving-man,\n" + " and friend Simple by your name, which way have you\n" + " looked for Master Caius, that calls himself doctor of physic?\n\n" + "SIMPLE Marry, sir, the pittie-ward, the park-ward, every\n" + " way; old Windsor way, and every way but the town\n" + " way.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS I most fehemently desire you you will also look that\n" + " way.\n\n" + "SIMPLE I will, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS 'Pless my soul, how full of chollors I am, and\n" + " trempling of mind! I shall be glad if he have\n" + " deceived me. How melancholies I am! I will knog\n" + " his urinals about his knave's costard when I have\n" + " good opportunities for the ork. 'Pless my soul!\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " To shallow rivers, to whose falls\n" + " Melodious birds sings madrigals;\n" + " There will we make our peds of roses,\n" + " And a thousand fragrant posies.\n" + " To shallow--\n\n" + " Mercy on me! I have a great dispositions to cry.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " Melodious birds sing madrigals--\n" + " When as I sat in Pabylon--\n" + " And a thousand vagram posies.\n" + " To shallow &c.\n\n" + " [Re-enter SIMPLE]\n\n" + "SIMPLE Yonder he is coming, this way, Sir Hugh.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS He's welcome.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " To shallow rivers, to whose falls-\n" + " Heaven prosper the right! What weapons is he?\n\n" + "SIMPLE No weapons, sir. There comes my master, Master\n" + " Shallow, and another gentleman, from Frogmore, over\n" + " the stile, this way.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Pray you, give me my gown; or else keep it in your arms.\n\n" + " [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]\n\n" + "SHALLOW How now, master Parson! Good morrow, good Sir Hugh.\n" + " Keep a gamester from the dice, and a good student\n" + " from his book, and it is wonderful.\n\n" + "SLENDER [Aside] Ah, sweet Anne Page!\n\n" + "PAGE 'Save you, good Sir Hugh!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS 'Pless you from his mercy sake, all of you!\n\n" + "SHALLOW What, the sword and the word! do you study them\n" + " both, master parson?\n\n" + "PAGE And youthful still! in your doublet and hose this\n" + " raw rheumatic day!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS There is reasons and causes for it.\n\n" + "PAGE We are come to you to do a good office, master parson.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Fery well: what is it?\n\n" + "PAGE Yonder is a most reverend gentleman, who, belike\n" + " having received wrong by some person, is at most\n" + " odds with his own gravity and patience that ever you\n" + " saw.\n\n" + "SHALLOW I have lived fourscore years and upward; I never\n" + " heard a man of his place, gravity and learning, so\n" + " wide of his own respect.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS What is he?\n\n" + "PAGE I think you know him; Master Doctor Caius, the\n" + " renowned French physician.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Got's will, and his passion of my heart! I had as\n" + " lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.\n\n" + "PAGE Why?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and Galen,\n" + " --and he is a knave besides; a cowardly knave as you\n" + " would desires to be acquainted withal.\n\n" + "PAGE I warrant you, he's the man should fight with him.\n\n" + "SHALLOW [Aside] O sweet Anne Page!\n\n" + "SHALLOW It appears so by his weapons. Keep them asunder:\n" + " here comes Doctor Caius.\n\n" + " [Enter Host, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]\n\n" + "PAGE Nay, good master parson, keep in your weapon.\n\n" + "SHALLOW So do you, good master doctor.\n\n" + "Host Disarm them, and let them question: let them keep\n" + " their limbs whole and hack our English.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS I pray you, let-a me speak a word with your ear.\n" + " Vherefore vill you not meet-a me?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS [Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you, use your patience:\n" + " in good time.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, you are de coward, de Jack dog, John ape.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS [Aside to DOCTOR CAIUS] Pray you let us not be\n" + " laughing-stocks to other men's humours; I desire you\n" + " in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.\n\n" + " [Aloud]\n\n" + " I will knog your urinals about your knave's cockscomb\n" + " for missing your meetings and appointments.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Diable! Jack Rugby,--mine host de Jarteer,--have I\n" + " not stay for him to kill him? have I not, at de place\n" + " I did appoint?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS As I am a Christians soul now, look you, this is the\n" + " place appointed: I'll be judgement by mine host of\n" + " the Garter.\n\n" + "Host Peace, I say, Gallia and Gaul, French and Welsh,\n" + " soul-curer and body-curer!\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Ay, dat is very good; excellent.\n\n" + "Host Peace, I say! hear mine host of the Garter. Am I\n" + " politic? am I subtle? am I a Machiavel? Shall I\n" + " lose my doctor? no; he gives me the potions and the\n" + " motions. Shall I lose my parson, my priest, my Sir\n" + " Hugh? no; he gives me the proverbs and the\n" + " no-verbs. Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so. Give me\n" + " thy hand, celestial; so. Boys of art, I have\n" + " deceived you both; I have directed you to wrong\n" + " places: your hearts are mighty, your skins are\n" + " whole, and let burnt sack be the issue. Come, lay\n" + " their swords to pawn. Follow me, lads of peace;\n" + " follow, follow, follow.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Trust me, a mad host. Follow, gentlemen, follow.\n\n" + "SLENDER [Aside] O sweet Anne Page!\n\n" + " [Exeunt SHALLOW, SLENDER, PAGE, and Host]\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Ha, do I perceive dat? have you make-a de sot of\n" + " us, ha, ha?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS This is well; he has made us his vlouting-stog. I\n" + " desire you that we may be friends; and let us knog\n" + " our prains together to be revenge on this same\n" + " scall, scurvy cogging companion, the host of the Garter.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, with all my heart. He promise to bring me\n" + " where is Anne Page; by gar, he deceive me too.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Well, I will smite his noddles. Pray you, follow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Nay, keep your way, little gallant; you were wont to\n" + " be a follower, but now you are a leader. Whether\n" + " had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your master's heels?\n\n" + "ROBIN I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man\n" + " than follow him like a dwarf.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE O, you are a flattering boy: now I see you'll be a courtier.\n\n" + " [Enter FORD]\n\n" + "FORD Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?\n\n" + "FORD Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want\n" + " of company. I think, if your husbands were dead,\n" + " you two would marry.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Be sure of that,--two other husbands.\n\n" + "FORD Where had you this pretty weather-cock?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my\n" + " husband had him of. What do you call your knight's\n" + " name, sirrah?\n\n" + "ROBIN Sir John Falstaff.\n\n" + "FORD Sir John Falstaff!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE He, he; I can never hit on's name. There is such a\n" + " league between my good man and he! Is your wife at\n" + " home indeed?\n\n" + "FORD Indeed she is.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE By your leave, sir: I am sick till I see her.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN]\n\n" + "FORD Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any\n" + " thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them.\n" + " Why, this boy will carry a letter twenty mile, as\n" + " easy as a cannon will shoot point-blank twelve\n" + " score. He pieces out his wife's inclination; he\n" + " gives her folly motion and advantage: and now she's\n" + " going to my wife, and Falstaff's boy with her. A\n" + " man may hear this shower sing in the wind. And\n" + " Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots, they are laid;\n" + " and our revolted wives share damnation together.\n" + " Well; I will take him, then torture my wife, pluck\n" + " the borrowed veil of modesty from the so seeming\n" + " Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a secure and\n" + " wilful Actaeon; and to these violent proceedings all\n" + " my neighbours shall cry aim.\n\n" + " [Clock heard]\n\n" + " The clock gives me my cue, and my assurance bids me\n" + " search: there I shall find Falstaff: I shall be\n" + " rather praised for this than mocked; for it is as\n" + " positive as the earth is firm that Falstaff is\n" + " there: I will go.\n\n" + " [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, SLENDER, Host,\n" + " SIR HUGH EVANS, DOCTOR CAIUS, and RUGBY]\n\n\n" + "SHALLOW |\n" + " |\n" + "PAGE | Well met, Master Ford.\n" + " |\n" + "&C |\n\n\n" + "FORD Trust me, a good knot: I have good cheer at home;\n" + " and I pray you all go with me.\n\n" + "SHALLOW I must excuse myself, Master Ford.\n\n" + "SLENDER And so must I, sir: we have appointed to dine with\n" + " Mistress Anne, and I would not break with her for\n" + " more money than I'll speak of.\n\n" + "SHALLOW We have lingered about a match between Anne Page and\n" + " my cousin Slender, and this day we shall have our answer.\n\n" + "SLENDER I hope I have your good will, father Page.\n\n" + "PAGE You have, Master Slender; I stand wholly for you:\n" + " but my wife, master doctor, is for you altogether.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Ay, be-gar; and de maid is love-a me: my nursh-a\n" + " Quickly tell me so mush.\n\n" + "Host What say you to young Master Fenton? he capers, he\n" + " dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he\n" + " speaks holiday, he smells April and May: he will\n" + " carry't, he will carry't; 'tis in his buttons; he\n" + " will carry't.\n\n" + "PAGE Not by my consent, I promise you. The gentleman is\n" + " of no having: he kept company with the wild prince\n" + " and Poins; he is of too high a region; he knows too\n" + " much. No, he shall not knit a knot in his fortunes\n" + " with the finger of my substance: if he take her,\n" + " let him take her simply; the wealth I have waits on\n" + " my consent, and my consent goes not that way.\n\n" + "FORD I beseech you heartily, some of you go home with me\n" + " to dinner: besides your cheer, you shall have\n" + " sport; I will show you a monster. Master doctor,\n" + " you shall go; so shall you, Master Page; and you, Sir Hugh.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Well, fare you well: we shall have the freer wooing\n" + " at Master Page's.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SHALLOW, and SLENDER]\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Go home, John Rugby; I come anon.\n\n" + " [Exit RUGBY]\n\n" + "Host Farewell, my hearts: I will to my honest knight\n" + " Falstaff, and drink canary with him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FORD [Aside] I think I shall drink in pipe wine first\n" + " with him; I'll make him dance. Will you go, gentles?\n\n" + "All Have with you to see this monster.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in FORD'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE]\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD What, John! What, Robert!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Quickly, quickly! is the buck-basket--\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I warrant. What, Robin, I say!\n\n" + " [Enter Servants with a basket]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Come, come, come.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Here, set it down.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Give your men the charge; we must be brief.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Marry, as I told you before, John and Robert, be\n" + " ready here hard by in the brew-house: and when I\n" + " suddenly call you, come forth, and without any pause\n" + " or staggering take this basket on your shoulders:\n" + " that done, trudge with it in all haste, and carry\n" + " it among the whitsters in Datchet-mead, and there\n" + " empty it in the muddy ditch close by the Thames side.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE You will do it?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I ha' told them over and over; they lack no\n" + " direction. Be gone, and come when you are called.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Servants]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Here comes little Robin.\n\n" + " [Enter ROBIN]\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD How now, my eyas-musket! what news with you?\n\n" + "ROBIN My master, Sir John, is come in at your back-door,\n" + " Mistress Ford, and requests your company.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE You little Jack-a-Lent, have you been true to us?\n\n" + "ROBIN Ay, I'll be sworn. My master knows not of your\n" + " being here and hath threatened to put me into\n" + " everlasting liberty if I tell you of it; for he\n" + " swears he'll turn me away.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of thine shall be\n" + " a tailor to thee and shall make thee a new doublet\n" + " and hose. I'll go hide me.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Do so. Go tell thy master I am alone.\n\n" + " [Exit ROBIN]\n\n" + " Mistress Page, remember you your cue.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE I warrant thee; if I do not act it, hiss me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Go to, then: we'll use this unwholesome humidity,\n" + " this gross watery pumpion; we'll teach him to know\n" + " turtles from jays.\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let\n" + " me die, for I have lived long enough: this is the\n" + " period of my ambition: O this blessed hour!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD O sweet Sir John!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate,\n" + " Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would\n" + " thy husband were dead: I'll speak it before the\n" + " best lord; I would make thee my lady.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I your lady, Sir John! alas, I should be a pitiful lady!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let the court of France show me such another. I see\n" + " how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast\n" + " the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes the\n" + " ship-tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of\n" + " Venetian admittance.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD A plain kerchief, Sir John: my brows become nothing\n" + " else; nor that well neither.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF By the Lord, thou art a traitor to say so: thou\n" + " wouldst make an absolute courtier; and the firm\n" + " fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion\n" + " to thy gait in a semi-circled farthingale. I see\n" + " what thou wert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Nature\n" + " thy friend. Come, thou canst not hide it.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Believe me, there is no such thing in me.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What made me love thee? let that persuade thee\n" + " there's something extraordinary in thee. Come, I\n" + " cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a\n" + " many of these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like\n" + " women in men's apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury\n" + " in simple time; I cannot: but I love thee; none\n" + " but thee; and thou deservest it.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Do not betray me, sir. I fear you love Mistress Page.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the\n" + " Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek\n" + " of a lime-kiln.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Well, heaven knows how I love you; and you shall one\n" + " day find it.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Keep in that mind; I'll deserve it.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Nay, I must tell you, so you do; or else I could not\n" + " be in that mind.\n\n" + "ROBIN [Within] Mistress Ford, Mistress Ford! here's\n" + " Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing and\n" + " looking wildly, and would needs speak with you presently.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Pray you, do so: she's a very tattling woman.\n\n" + " [FALSTAFF hides himself]\n\n" + " [Re-enter MISTRESS PAGE and ROBIN]\n\n" + " What's the matter? how now!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE O Mistress Ford, what have you done? You're shamed,\n" + " you're overthrown, you're undone for ever!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD What's the matter, good Mistress Page?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE O well-a-day, Mistress Ford! having an honest man\n" + " to your husband, to give him such cause of suspicion!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD What cause of suspicion?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE What cause of suspicion! Out pon you! how am I\n" + " mistook in you!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Why, alas, what's the matter?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Your husband's coming hither, woman, with all the\n" + " officers in Windsor, to search for a gentleman that\n" + " he says is here now in the house by your consent, to\n" + " take an ill advantage of his assence: you are undone.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD 'Tis not so, I hope.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Pray heaven it be not so, that you have such a man\n" + " here! but 'tis most certain your husband's coming,\n" + " with half Windsor at his heels, to search for such a\n" + " one. I come before to tell you. If you know\n" + " yourself clear, why, I am glad of it; but if you\n" + " have a friend here convey, convey him out. Be not\n" + " amazed; call all your senses to you; defend your\n" + " reputation, or bid farewell to your good life for ever.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD What shall I do? There is a gentleman my dear\n" + " friend; and I fear not mine own shame so much as his\n" + " peril: I had rather than a thousand pound he were\n" + " out of the house.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE For shame! never stand 'you had rather' and 'you\n" + " had rather:' your husband's here at hand, bethink\n" + " you of some conveyance: in the house you cannot\n" + " hide him. O, how have you deceived me! Look, here\n" + " is a basket: if he be of any reasonable stature, he\n" + " may creep in here; and throw foul linen upon him, as\n" + " if it were going to bucking: or--it is whiting-time\n" + " --send him by your two men to Datchet-mead.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF [Coming forward] Let me see't, let me see't, O, let\n" + " me see't! I'll in, I'll in. Follow your friend's\n" + " counsel. I'll in.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE What, Sir John Falstaff! Are these your letters, knight?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I love thee. Help me away. Let me creep in here.\n" + " I'll never--\n\n" + " [Gets into the basket; they cover him with foul linen]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Help to cover your master, boy. Call your men,\n" + " Mistress Ford. You dissembling knight!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD What, John! Robert! John!\n\n" + " [Exit ROBIN]\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servants]\n\n" + " Go take up these clothes here quickly. Where's the\n" + " cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! Carry them to\n" + " the laundress in Datchet-meat; quickly, come.\n\n" + " [Enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "FORD Pray you, come near: if I suspect without cause,\n" + " why then make sport at me; then let me be your jest;\n" + " I deserve it. How now! whither bear you this?\n\n" + "Servant To the laundress, forsooth.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Why, what have you to do whither they bear it? You\n" + " were best meddle with buck-washing.\n\n" + "FORD Buck! I would I could wash myself of the buck!\n" + " Buck, buck, buck! Ay, buck; I warrant you, buck;\n" + " and of the season too, it shall appear.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Servants with the basket]\n\n" + " Gentlemen, I have dreamed to-night; I'll tell you my\n" + " dream. Here, here, here be my keys: ascend my\n" + " chambers; search, seek, find out: I'll warrant\n" + " we'll unkennel the fox. Let me stop this way first.\n\n" + " [Locking the door]\n\n" + " So, now uncape.\n\n" + "PAGE Good Master Ford, be contented: you wrong yourself too much.\n\n" + "FORD True, Master Page. Up, gentlemen: you shall see\n" + " sport anon: follow me, gentlemen.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS This is fery fantastical humours and jealousies.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, 'tis no the fashion of France; it is not\n" + " jealous in France.\n\n" + "PAGE Nay, follow him, gentlemen; see the issue of his search.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Is there not a double excellency in this?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I know not which pleases me better, that my husband\n" + " is deceived, or Sir John.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE What a taking was he in when your husband asked who\n" + " was in the basket!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I am half afraid he will have need of washing; so\n" + " throwing him into the water will do him a benefit.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Hang him, dishonest rascal! I would all of the same\n" + " strain were in the same distress.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I think my husband hath some special suspicion of\n" + " Falstaff's being here; for I never saw him so gross\n" + " in his jealousy till now.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE I will lay a plot to try that; and we will yet have\n" + " more tricks with Falstaff: his dissolute disease will\n" + " scarce obey this medicine.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Shall we send that foolish carrion, Mistress\n" + " Quickly, to him, and excuse his throwing into the\n" + " water; and give him another hope, to betray him to\n" + " another punishment?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE We will do it: let him be sent for to-morrow,\n" + " eight o'clock, to have amends.\n\n" + " [Re-enter FORD, PAGE, DOCTOR CAIUS, and\n" + " SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "FORD I cannot find him: may be the knave bragged of that\n" + " he could not compass.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE [Aside to MISTRESS FORD] Heard you that?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD You use me well, Master Ford, do you?\n\n" + "FORD Ay, I do so.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Heaven make you better than your thoughts!\n\n" + "FORD Amen!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE You do yourself mighty wrong, Master Ford.\n\n" + "FORD Ay, ay; I must bear it.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS If there be any pody in the house, and in the\n" + " chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses,\n" + " heaven forgive my sins at the day of judgment!\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, nor I too: there is no bodies.\n\n" + "PAGE Fie, fie, Master Ford! are you not ashamed? What\n" + " spirit, what devil suggests this imagination? I\n" + " would not ha' your distemper in this kind for the\n" + " wealth of Windsor Castle.\n\n" + "FORD 'Tis my fault, Master Page: I suffer for it.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS You suffer for a pad conscience: your wife is as\n" + " honest a 'omans as I will desires among five\n" + " thousand, and five hundred too.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS By gar, I see 'tis an honest woman.\n\n" + "FORD Well, I promised you a dinner. Come, come, walk in\n" + " the Park: I pray you, pardon me; I will hereafter\n" + " make known to you why I have done this. Come,\n" + " wife; come, Mistress Page. I pray you, pardon me;\n" + " pray heartily, pardon me.\n\n" + "PAGE Let's go in, gentlemen; but, trust me, we'll mock\n" + " him. I do invite you to-morrow morning to my house\n" + " to breakfast: after, we'll a-birding together; I\n" + " have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so?\n\n" + "FORD Any thing.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS If there is one, I shall make two in the company.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS If dere be one or two, I shall make-a the turd.\n\n" + "FORD Pray you, go, Master Page.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS I pray you now, remembrance tomorrow on the lousy\n" + " knave, mine host.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Dat is good; by gar, with all my heart!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS A lousy knave, to have his gibes and his mockeries!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A room in PAGE'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE]\n\n" + "FENTON I see I cannot get thy father's love;\n" + " Therefore no more turn me to him, sweet Nan.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Alas, how then?\n\n" + "FENTON Why, thou must be thyself.\n" + " He doth object I am too great of birth--,\n" + " And that, my state being gall'd with my expense,\n" + " I seek to heal it only by his wealth:\n" + " Besides these, other bars he lays before me,\n" + " My riots past, my wild societies;\n" + " And tells me 'tis a thing impossible\n" + " I should love thee but as a property.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE May be he tells you true.\n\n" + "FENTON No, heaven so speed me in my time to come!\n" + " Albeit I will confess thy father's wealth\n" + " Was the first motive that I woo'd thee, Anne:\n" + " Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value\n" + " Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;\n" + " And 'tis the very riches of thyself\n" + " That now I aim at.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Gentle Master Fenton,\n" + " Yet seek my father's love; still seek it, sir:\n" + " If opportunity and humblest suit\n" + " Cannot attain it, why, then,--hark you hither!\n\n" + " [They converse apart]\n\n" + " [Enter SHALLOW, SLENDER, and MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + "SHALLOW Break their talk, Mistress Quickly: my kinsman shall\n" + " speak for himself.\n\n" + "SLENDER I'll make a shaft or a bolt on't: 'slid, 'tis but\n" + " venturing.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Be not dismayed.\n\n" + "SLENDER No, she shall not dismay me: I care not for that,\n" + " but that I am afeard.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Hark ye; Master Slender would speak a word with you.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE I come to him.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " This is my father's choice.\n" + " O, what a world of vile ill-favor'd faults\n" + " Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY And how does good Master Fenton? Pray you, a word with you.\n\n" + "SHALLOW She's coming; to her, coz. O boy, thou hadst a father!\n\n" + "SLENDER I had a father, Mistress Anne; my uncle can tell you\n" + " good jests of him. Pray you, uncle, tell Mistress\n" + " Anne the jest, how my father stole two geese out of\n" + " a pen, good uncle.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Mistress Anne, my cousin loves you.\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, that I do; as well as I love any woman in\n" + " Gloucestershire.\n\n" + "SHALLOW He will maintain you like a gentlewoman.\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, that I will, come cut and long-tail, under the\n" + " degree of a squire.\n\n" + "SHALLOW He will make you a hundred and fifty pounds jointure.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Good Master Shallow, let him woo for himself.\n\n" + "SHALLOW Marry, I thank you for it; I thank you for that good\n" + " comfort. She calls you, coz: I'll leave you.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Now, Master Slender,--\n\n" + "SLENDER Now, good Mistress Anne,--\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE What is your will?\n\n" + "SLENDER My will! 'od's heartlings, that's a pretty jest\n" + " indeed! I ne'er made my will yet, I thank heaven; I\n" + " am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE I mean, Master Slender, what would you with me?\n\n" + "SLENDER Truly, for mine own part, I would little or nothing\n" + " with you. Your father and my uncle hath made\n" + " motions: if it be my luck, so; if not, happy man be\n" + " his dole! They can tell you how things go better\n" + " than I can: you may ask your father; here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter PAGE and MISTRESS PAGE]\n\n" + "PAGE Now, Master Slender: love him, daughter Anne.\n" + " Why, how now! what does Master Fenton here?\n" + " You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house:\n" + " I told you, sir, my daughter is disposed of.\n\n" + "FENTON Nay, Master Page, be not impatient.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Good Master Fenton, come not to my child.\n\n" + "PAGE She is no match for you.\n\n" + "FENTON Sir, will you hear me?\n\n" + "PAGE No, good Master Fenton.\n" + " Come, Master Shallow; come, son Slender, in.\n" + " Knowing my mind, you wrong me, Master Fenton.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Speak to Mistress Page.\n\n" + "FENTON Good Mistress Page, for that I love your daughter\n" + " In such a righteous fashion as I do,\n" + " Perforce, against all cheques, rebukes and manners,\n" + " I must advance the colours of my love\n" + " And not retire: let me have your good will.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE I mean it not; I seek you a better husband.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY That's my master, master doctor.\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Alas, I had rather be set quick i' the earth\n" + " And bowl'd to death with turnips!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Come, trouble not yourself. Good Master Fenton,\n" + " I will not be your friend nor enemy:\n" + " My daughter will I question how she loves you,\n" + " And as I find her, so am I affected.\n" + " Till then farewell, sir: she must needs go in;\n" + " Her father will be angry.\n\n" + "FENTON Farewell, gentle mistress: farewell, Nan.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MISTRESS PAGE and ANNE PAGE]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY This is my doing, now: 'Nay,' said I, 'will you cast\n" + " away your child on a fool, and a physician? Look on\n" + " Master Fenton:' this is my doing.\n\n" + "FENTON I thank thee; and I pray thee, once to-night\n" + " Give my sweet Nan this ring: there's for thy pains.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Now heaven send thee good fortune!\n\n" + " [Exit FENTON]\n\n" + " A kind heart he hath: a woman would run through\n" + " fire and water for such a kind heart. But yet I\n" + " would my master had Mistress Anne; or I would\n" + " Master Slender had her; or, in sooth, I would Master\n" + " Fenton had her; I will do what I can for them all\n" + " three; for so I have promised, and I'll be as good\n" + " as my word; but speciously for Master Fenton. Well,\n" + " I must of another errand to Sir John Falstaff from\n" + " my two mistresses: what a beast am I to slack it!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A room in the Garter Inn.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Bardolph, I say,--\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Here, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in't.\n\n" + " [Exit BARDOLPH]\n\n" + " Have I lived to be carried in a basket, like a\n" + " barrow of butcher's offal, and to be thrown in the\n" + " Thames? Well, if I be served such another trick,\n" + " I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give\n" + " them to a dog for a new-year's gift. The rogues\n" + " slighted me into the river with as little remorse as\n" + " they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies,\n" + " fifteen i' the litter: and you may know by my size\n" + " that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the\n" + " bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had\n" + " been drowned, but that the shore was shelvy and\n" + " shallow,--a death that I abhor; for the water swells\n" + " a man; and what a thing should I have been when I\n" + " had been swelled! I should have been a mountain of mummy.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BARDOLPH with sack]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Here's Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Let me pour in some sack to the Thames water; for my\n" + " belly's as cold as if I had swallowed snowballs for\n" + " pills to cool the reins. Call her in.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Come in, woman!\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY By your leave; I cry you mercy: give your worship\n" + " good morrow.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Take away these chalices. Go brew me a pottle of\n" + " sack finely.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH With eggs, sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Simple of itself; I'll no pullet-sperm in my brewage.\n\n" + " [Exit BARDOLPH]\n" + " How now!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Marry, sir, I come to your worship from Mistress Ford.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mistress Ford! I have had ford enough; I was thrown\n" + " into the ford; I have my belly full of ford.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Alas the day! good heart, that was not her fault:\n" + " she does so take on with her men; they mistook their erection.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF So did I mine, to build upon a foolish woman's promise.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Well, she laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn\n" + " your heart to see it. Her husband goes this morning\n" + " a-birding; she desires you once more to come to her\n" + " between eight and nine: I must carry her word\n" + " quickly: she'll make you amends, I warrant you.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, I will visit her: tell her so; and bid her\n" + " think what a man is: let her consider his frailty,\n" + " and then judge of my merit.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY I will tell her.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Do so. Between nine and ten, sayest thou?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Eight and nine, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, be gone: I will not miss her.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Peace be with you, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I marvel I hear not of Master Brook; he sent me word\n" + " to stay within: I like his money well. O, here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter FORD]\n\n" + "FORD Bless you, sir!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Now, master Brook, you come to know what hath passed\n" + " between me and Ford's wife?\n\n" + "FORD That, indeed, Sir John, is my business.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Master Brook, I will not lie to you: I was at her\n" + " house the hour she appointed me.\n\n" + "FORD And sped you, sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Very ill-favoredly, Master Brook.\n\n" + "FORD How so, sir? Did she change her determination?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No, Master Brook; but the peaking Cornuto her\n" + " husband, Master Brook, dwelling in a continual\n" + " 'larum of jealousy, comes me in the instant of our\n" + " encounter, after we had embraced, kissed, protested,\n" + " and, as it were, spoke the prologue of our comedy;\n" + " and at his heels a rabble of his companions, thither\n" + " provoked and instigated by his distemper, and,\n" + " forsooth, to search his house for his wife's love.\n\n" + "FORD What, while you were there?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF While I was there.\n\n" + "FORD And did he search for you, and could not find you?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF You shall hear. As good luck would have it, comes\n" + " in one Mistress Page; gives intelligence of Ford's\n" + " approach; and, in her invention and Ford's wife's\n" + " distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.\n\n" + "FORD A buck-basket!\n\n" + "FALSTAFF By the Lord, a buck-basket! rammed me in with foul\n" + " shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy\n" + " napkins; that, Master Brook, there was the rankest\n" + " compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.\n\n" + "FORD And how long lay you there?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Nay, you shall hear, Master Brook, what I have\n" + " suffered to bring this woman to evil for your good.\n" + " Being thus crammed in the basket, a couple of Ford's\n" + " knaves, his hinds, were called forth by their\n" + " mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to\n" + " Datchet-lane: they took me on their shoulders; met\n" + " the jealous knave their master in the door, who\n" + " asked them once or twice what they had in their\n" + " basket: I quaked for fear, lest the lunatic knave\n" + " would have searched it; but fate, ordaining he\n" + " should be a cuckold, held his hand. Well: on went he\n" + " for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But\n" + " mark the sequel, Master Brook: I suffered the pangs\n" + " of three several deaths; first, an intolerable\n" + " fright, to be detected with a jealous rotten\n" + " bell-wether; next, to be compassed, like a good\n" + " bilbo, in the circumference of a peck, hilt to\n" + " point, heel to head; and then, to be stopped in,\n" + " like a strong distillation, with stinking clothes\n" + " that fretted in their own grease: think of that,--a\n" + " man of my kidney,--think of that,--that am as subject\n" + " to heat as butter; a man of continual dissolution\n" + " and thaw: it was a miracle to scape suffocation.\n" + " And in the height of this bath, when I was more than\n" + " half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be\n" + " thrown into the Thames, and cooled, glowing hot,\n" + " in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of\n" + " that,--hissing hot,--think of that, Master Brook.\n\n" + "FORD In good sadness, I am sorry that for my sake you\n" + " have sufferd all this. My suit then is desperate;\n" + " you'll undertake her no more?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Master Brook, I will be thrown into Etna, as I have\n" + " been into Thames, ere I will leave her thus. Her\n" + " husband is this morning gone a-birding: I have\n" + " received from her another embassy of meeting; 'twixt\n" + " eight and nine is the hour, Master Brook.\n\n" + "FORD 'Tis past eight already, sir.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Is it? I will then address me to my appointment.\n" + " Come to me at your convenient leisure, and you shall\n" + " know how I speed; and the conclusion shall be\n" + " crowned with your enjoying her. Adieu. You shall\n" + " have her, Master Brook; Master Brook, you shall\n" + " cuckold Ford.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FORD Hum! ha! is this a vision? is this a dream? do I\n" + " sleep? Master Ford awake! awake, Master Ford!\n" + " there's a hole made in your best coat, Master Ford.\n" + " This 'tis to be married! this 'tis to have linen\n" + " and buck-baskets! Well, I will proclaim myself\n" + " what I am: I will now take the lecher; he is at my\n" + " house; he cannot 'scape me; 'tis impossible he\n" + " should; he cannot creep into a halfpenny purse,\n" + " nor into a pepper-box: but, lest the devil that\n" + " guides him should aid him, I will search\n" + " impossible places. Though what I am I cannot avoid,\n" + " yet to be what I would not shall not make me tame:\n" + " if I have horns to make one mad, let the proverb go\n" + " with me: I'll be horn-mad.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS QUICKLY, and\n" + " WILLIAM PAGE]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Is he at Master Ford's already, think'st thou?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Sure he is by this, or will be presently: but,\n" + " truly, he is very courageous mad about his throwing\n" + " into the water. Mistress Ford desires you to come suddenly.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE I'll be with her by and by; I'll but bring my young\n" + " man here to school. Look, where his master comes;\n" + " 'tis a playing-day, I see.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + " How now, Sir Hugh! no school to-day?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS No; Master Slender is let the boys leave to play.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Blessing of his heart!\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Sir Hugh, my husband says my son profits nothing in\n" + " the world at his book. I pray you, ask him some\n" + " questions in his accidence.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Come hither, William; hold up your head; come.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Come on, sirrah; hold up your head; answer your\n" + " master, be not afraid.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS William, how many numbers is in nouns?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Two.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Truly, I thought there had been one number more,\n" + " because they say, ''Od's nouns.'\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Peace your tattlings! What is 'fair,' William?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Pulcher.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Polecats! there are fairer things than polecats, sure.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS You are a very simplicity 'oman: I pray you peace.\n" + " What is 'lapis,' William?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE A stone.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS And what is 'a stone,' William?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE A pebble.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS No, it is 'lapis:' I pray you, remember in your prain.\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Lapis.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS That is a good William. What is he, William, that\n" + " does lend articles?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Articles are borrowed of the pronoun, and be thus\n" + " declined, Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Nominativo, hig, hag, hog; pray you, mark:\n" + " genitivo, hujus. Well, what is your accusative case?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Accusativo, hinc.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS I pray you, have your remembrance, child,\n" + " accusative, hung, hang, hog.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY 'Hang-hog' is Latin for bacon, I warrant you.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Leave your prabbles, 'oman. What is the focative\n" + " case, William?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE O,--vocativo, O.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Remember, William; focative is caret.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY And that's a good root.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS 'Oman, forbear.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Peace!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS What is your genitive case plural, William?\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Genitive case!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Ay.\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Genitive,--horum, harum, horum.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Vengeance of Jenny's case! fie on her! never name\n" + " her, child, if she be a whore.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS For shame, 'oman.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY You do ill to teach the child such words: he\n" + " teaches him to hick and to hack, which they'll do\n" + " fast enough of themselves, and to call 'horum:' fie upon you!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS 'Oman, art thou lunatics? hast thou no\n" + " understandings for thy cases and the numbers of the\n" + " genders? Thou art as foolish Christian creatures as\n" + " I would desires.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Prithee, hold thy peace.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Show me now, William, some declensions of your pronouns.\n\n" + "WILLIAM PAGE Forsooth, I have forgot.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS It is qui, quae, quod: if you forget your 'quies,'\n" + " your 'quaes,' and your 'quods,' you must be\n" + " preeches. Go your ways, and play; go.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE He is a better scholar than I thought he was.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS He is a good sprag memory. Farewell, Mistress Page.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Adieu, good Sir Hugh.\n\n" + " [Exit SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + " Get you home, boy. Come, we stay too long.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in FORD'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS FORD]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Mistress Ford, your sorrow hath eaten up my\n" + " sufferance. I see you are obsequious in your love,\n" + " and I profess requital to a hair's breadth; not\n" + " only, Mistress Ford, in the simple\n" + " office of love, but in all the accoutrement,\n" + " complement and ceremony of it. But are you\n" + " sure of your husband now?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD He's a-birding, sweet Sir John.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE [Within] What, ho, gossip Ford! what, ho!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Step into the chamber, Sir John.\n\n" + " [Exit FALSTAFF]\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS PAGE]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE How now, sweetheart! who's at home besides yourself?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Why, none but mine own people.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Indeed!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD No, certainly.\n\n" + " [Aside to her]\n\n" + " Speak louder.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Truly, I am so glad you have nobody here.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Why?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Why, woman, your husband is in his old lunes again:\n" + " he so takes on yonder with my husband; so rails\n" + " against all married mankind; so curses all Eve's\n" + " daughters, of what complexion soever; and so buffets\n" + " himself on the forehead, crying, 'Peer out, peer\n" + " out!' that any madness I ever yet beheld seemed but\n" + " tameness, civility and patience, to this his\n" + " distemper he is in now: I am glad the fat knight is not here.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Why, does he talk of him?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Of none but him; and swears he was carried out, the\n" + " last time he searched for him, in a basket; protests\n" + " to my husband he is now here, and hath drawn him and\n" + " the rest of their company from their sport, to make\n" + " another experiment of his suspicion: but I am glad\n" + " the knight is not here; now he shall see his own foolery.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD How near is he, Mistress Page?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Hard by; at street end; he will be here anon.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I am undone! The knight is here.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Why then you are utterly shamed, and he's but a dead\n" + " man. What a woman are you!--Away with him, away\n" + " with him! better shame than murder.\n\n" + "FORD Which way should be go? how should I bestow him?\n" + " Shall I put him into the basket again?\n\n" + " [Re-enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF No, I'll come no more i' the basket. May I not go\n" + " out ere he come?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Alas, three of Master Ford's brothers watch the door\n" + " with pistols, that none shall issue out; otherwise\n" + " you might slip away ere he came. But what make you here?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What shall I do? I'll creep up into the chimney.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD There they always use to discharge their\n" + " birding-pieces. Creep into the kiln-hole.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Where is it?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD He will seek there, on my word. Neither press,\n" + " coffer, chest, trunk, well, vault, but he hath an\n" + " abstract for the remembrance of such places, and\n" + " goes to them by his note: there is no hiding you in the house.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I'll go out then.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE If you go out in your own semblance, you die, Sir\n" + " John. Unless you go out disguised--\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD How might we disguise him?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Alas the day, I know not! There is no woman's gown\n" + " big enough for him otherwise he might put on a hat,\n" + " a muffler and a kerchief, and so escape.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Good hearts, devise something: any extremity rather\n" + " than a mischief.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD My maid's aunt, the fat woman of Brentford, has a\n" + " gown above.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE On my word, it will serve him; she's as big as he\n" + " is: and there's her thrummed hat and her muffler\n" + " too. Run up, Sir John.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Go, go, sweet Sir John: Mistress Page and I will\n" + " look some linen for your head.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Quick, quick! we'll come dress you straight: put\n" + " on the gown the while.\n\n" + " [Exit FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I would my husband would meet him in this shape: he\n" + " cannot abide the old woman of Brentford; he swears\n" + " she's a witch; forbade her my house and hath\n" + " threatened to beat her.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Heaven guide him to thy husband's cudgel, and the\n" + " devil guide his cudgel afterwards!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD But is my husband coming?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Ah, in good sadness, is he; and talks of the basket\n" + " too, howsoever he hath had intelligence.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD We'll try that; for I'll appoint my men to carry the\n" + " basket again, to meet him at the door with it, as\n" + " they did last time.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Nay, but he'll be here presently: let's go dress him\n" + " like the witch of Brentford.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I'll first direct my men what they shall do with the\n" + " basket. Go up; I'll bring linen for him straight.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Hang him, dishonest varlet! we cannot misuse him enough.\n" + " We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do,\n" + " Wives may be merry, and yet honest too:\n" + " We do not act that often jest and laugh;\n" + " 'Tis old, but true, Still swine eat all the draff.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter MISTRESS FORD with two Servants]\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Go, sirs, take the basket again on your shoulders:\n" + " your master is hard at door; if he bid you set it\n" + " down, obey him: quickly, dispatch.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Servant Come, come, take it up.\n\n" + "Second Servant Pray heaven it be not full of knight again.\n\n" + "First Servant I hope not; I had as lief bear so much lead.\n\n" + " [Enter FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and\n" + " SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "FORD Ay, but if it prove true, Master Page, have you any\n" + " way then to unfool me again? Set down the basket,\n" + " villain! Somebody call my wife. Youth in a basket!\n" + " O you panderly rascals! there's a knot, a ging, a\n" + " pack, a conspiracy against me: now shall the devil\n" + " be shamed. What, wife, I say! Come, come forth!\n" + " Behold what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!\n\n" + "PAGE Why, this passes, Master Ford; you are not to go\n" + " loose any longer; you must be pinioned.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Why, this is lunatics! this is mad as a mad dog!\n\n" + "SHALLOW Indeed, Master Ford, this is not well, indeed.\n\n" + "FORD So say I too, sir.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MISTRESS FORD]\n\n" + " Come hither, Mistress Ford; Mistress Ford the honest\n" + " woman, the modest wife, the virtuous creature, that\n" + " hath the jealous fool to her husband! I suspect\n" + " without cause, mistress, do I?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Heaven be my witness you do, if you suspect me in\n" + " any dishonesty.\n\n" + "FORD Well said, brazen-face! hold it out. Come forth, sirrah!\n\n" + " [Pulling clothes out of the basket]\n\n" + "PAGE This passes!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Are you not ashamed? let the clothes alone.\n\n" + "FORD I shall find you anon.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS 'Tis unreasonable! Will you take up your wife's\n" + " clothes? Come away.\n\n" + "FORD Empty the basket, I say!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Why, man, why?\n\n" + "FORD Master Page, as I am a man, there was one conveyed\n" + " out of my house yesterday in this basket: why may\n" + " not he be there again? In my house I am sure he is:\n" + " my intelligence is true; my jealousy is reasonable.\n" + " Pluck me out all the linen.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD If you find a man there, he shall die a flea's death.\n\n" + "PAGE Here's no man.\n\n" + "SHALLOW By my fidelity, this is not well, Master Ford; this\n" + " wrongs you.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Master Ford, you must pray, and not follow the\n" + " imaginations of your own heart: this is jealousies.\n\n" + "FORD Well, he's not here I seek for.\n\n" + "PAGE No, nor nowhere else but in your brain.\n\n" + "FORD Help to search my house this one time. If I find\n" + " not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity; let\n" + " me for ever be your table-sport; let them say of\n" + " me, 'As jealous as Ford, Chat searched a hollow\n" + " walnut for his wife's leman.' Satisfy me once more;\n" + " once more search with me.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD What, ho, Mistress Page! come you and the old woman\n" + " down; my husband will come into the chamber.\n\n" + "FORD Old woman! what old woman's that?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Nay, it is my maid's aunt of Brentford.\n\n" + "FORD A witch, a quean, an old cozening quean! Have I not\n" + " forbid her my house? She comes of errands, does\n" + " she? We are simple men; we do not know what's\n" + " brought to pass under the profession of\n" + " fortune-telling. She works by charms, by spells,\n" + " by the figure, and such daubery as this is, beyond\n" + " our element we know nothing. Come down, you witch,\n" + " you hag, you; come down, I say!\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Nay, good, sweet husband! Good gentlemen, let him\n" + " not strike the old woman.\n\n" + " [Re-enter FALSTAFF in woman's clothes, and\n" + " MISTRESS PAGE]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Come, Mother Prat; come, give me your hand.\n\n" + "FORD I'll prat her.\n\n" + " [Beating him]\n\n" + " Out of my door, you witch, you hag, you baggage, you\n" + " polecat, you runyon! out, out! I'll conjure you,\n" + " I'll fortune-tell you.\n\n" + " [Exit FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Are you not ashamed? I think you have killed the\n" + " poor woman.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Nay, he will do it. 'Tis a goodly credit for you.\n\n" + "FORD Hang her, witch!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS By the yea and no, I think the 'oman is a witch\n" + " indeed: I like not when a 'oman has a great peard;\n" + " I spy a great peard under his muffler.\n\n" + "FORD Will you follow, gentlemen? I beseech you, follow;\n" + " see but the issue of my jealousy: if I cry out thus\n" + " upon no trail, never trust me when I open again.\n\n" + "PAGE Let's obey his humour a little further: come,\n" + " gentlemen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FORD, PAGE, SHALLOW, DOCTOR CAIUS, and\n" + " SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Trust me, he beat him most pitifully.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most\n" + " unpitifully, methought.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE I'll have the cudgel hallowed and hung o'er the\n" + " altar; it hath done meritorious service.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD What think you? may we, with the warrant of\n" + " womanhood and the witness of a good conscience,\n" + " pursue him with any further revenge?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of\n" + " him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with\n" + " fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the\n" + " way of waste, attempt us again.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Shall we tell our husbands how we have served him?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Yes, by all means; if it be but to scrape the\n" + " figures out of your husband's brains. If they can\n" + " find in their hearts the poor unvirtuous fat knight\n" + " shall be any further afflicted, we two will still be\n" + " the ministers.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD I'll warrant they'll have him publicly shamed: and\n" + " methinks there would be no period to the jest,\n" + " should he not be publicly shamed.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Come, to the forge with it then; shape it: I would\n" + " not have things cool.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in the Garter Inn.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Host and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Sir, the Germans desire to have three of your\n" + " horses: the duke himself will be to-morrow at\n" + " court, and they are going to meet him.\n\n" + "Host What duke should that be comes so secretly? I hear\n" + " not of him in the court. Let me speak with the\n" + " gentlemen: they speak English?\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Ay, sir; I'll call them to you.\n\n" + "Host They shall have my horses; but I'll make them pay;\n" + " I'll sauce them: they have had my house a week at\n" + " command; I have turned away my other guests: they\n" + " must come off; I'll sauce them. Come.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A room in FORD'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD,\n" + " and SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS 'Tis one of the best discretions of a 'oman as ever\n" + " I did look upon.\n\n" + "PAGE And did he send you both these letters at an instant?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Within a quarter of an hour.\n\n" + "FORD Pardon me, wife. Henceforth do what thou wilt;\n" + " I rather will suspect the sun with cold\n" + " Than thee with wantonness: now doth thy honour stand\n" + " In him that was of late an heretic,\n" + " As firm as faith.\n\n" + "PAGE 'Tis well, 'tis well; no more:\n" + " Be not as extreme in submission\n" + " As in offence.\n" + " But let our plot go forward: let our wives\n" + " Yet once again, to make us public sport,\n" + " Appoint a meeting with this old fat fellow,\n" + " Where we may take him and disgrace him for it.\n\n" + "FORD There is no better way than that they spoke of.\n\n" + "PAGE How? to send him word they'll meet him in the park\n" + " at midnight? Fie, fie! he'll never come.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS You say he has been thrown in the rivers and has\n" + " been grievously peaten as an old 'oman: methinks\n" + " there should be terrors in him that he should not\n" + " come; methinks his flesh is punished, he shall have\n" + " no desires.\n\n" + "PAGE So think I too.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Devise but how you'll use him when he comes,\n" + " And let us two devise to bring him thither.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE There is an old tale goes that Herne the hunter,\n" + " Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest,\n" + " Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,\n" + " Walk round about an oak, with great ragg'd horns;\n" + " And there he blasts the tree and takes the cattle\n" + " And makes milch-kine yield blood and shakes a chain\n" + " In a most hideous and dreadful manner:\n" + " You have heard of such a spirit, and well you know\n" + " The superstitious idle-headed eld\n" + " Received and did deliver to our age\n" + " This tale of Herne the hunter for a truth.\n\n" + "PAGE Why, yet there want not many that do fear\n" + " In deep of night to walk by this Herne's oak:\n" + " But what of this?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Marry, this is our device;\n" + " That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us.\n\n" + "PAGE Well, let it not be doubted but he'll come:\n" + " And in this shape when you have brought him thither,\n" + " What shall be done with him? what is your plot?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE That likewise have we thought upon, and thus:\n" + " Nan Page my daughter and my little son\n" + " And three or four more of their growth we'll dress\n" + " Like urchins, ouphes and fairies, green and white,\n" + " With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads,\n" + " And rattles in their hands: upon a sudden,\n" + " As Falstaff, she and I, are newly met,\n" + " Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once\n" + " With some diffused song: upon their sight,\n" + " We two in great amazedness will fly:\n" + " Then let them all encircle him about\n" + " And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight,\n" + " And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel,\n" + " In their so sacred paths he dares to tread\n" + " In shape profane.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD And till he tell the truth,\n" + " Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound\n" + " And burn him with their tapers.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE The truth being known,\n" + " We'll all present ourselves, dis-horn the spirit,\n" + " And mock him home to Windsor.\n\n" + "FORD The children must\n" + " Be practised well to this, or they'll ne'er do't.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS I will teach the children their behaviors; and I\n" + " will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the\n" + " knight with my taber.\n\n" + "FORD That will be excellent. I'll go and buy them vizards.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE My Nan shall be the queen of all the fairies,\n" + " Finely attired in a robe of white.\n\n" + "PAGE That silk will I go buy.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " And in that time\n" + " Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away\n" + " And marry her at Eton. Go send to Falstaff straight.\n\n" + "FORD Nay I'll to him again in name of Brook\n" + " He'll tell me all his purpose: sure, he'll come.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Fear not you that. Go get us properties\n" + " And tricking for our fairies.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Let us about it: it is admirable pleasures and fery\n" + " honest knaveries.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PAGE, FORD, and SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Go, Mistress Ford,\n" + " Send quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.\n\n" + " [Exit MISTRESS FORD]\n\n" + " I'll to the doctor: he hath my good will,\n" + " And none but he, to marry with Nan Page.\n" + " That Slender, though well landed, is an idiot;\n" + " And he my husband best of all affects.\n" + " The doctor is well money'd, and his friends\n" + " Potent at court: he, none but he, shall have her,\n" + " Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave her.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A room in the Garter Inn.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Host and SIMPLE]\n\n" + "Host What wouldst thou have, boor? what: thick-skin?\n" + " speak, breathe, discuss; brief, short, quick, snap.\n\n" + "SIMPLE Marry, sir, I come to speak with Sir John Falstaff\n" + " from Master Slender.\n\n" + "Host There's his chamber, his house, his castle, his\n" + " standing-bed and truckle-bed; 'tis painted about\n" + " with the story of the Prodigal, fresh and new. Go\n" + " knock and call; hell speak like an Anthropophaginian\n" + " unto thee: knock, I say.\n\n" + "SIMPLE There's an old woman, a fat woman, gone up into his\n" + " chamber: I'll be so bold as stay, sir, till she come\n" + " down; I come to speak with her, indeed.\n\n" + "Host Ha! a fat woman! the knight may be robbed: I'll\n" + " call. Bully knight! bully Sir John! speak from\n" + " thy lungs military: art thou there? it is thine\n" + " host, thine Ephesian, calls.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF [Above] How now, mine host!\n\n" + "Host Here's a Bohemian-Tartar tarries the coming down of\n" + " thy fat woman. Let her descend, bully, let her\n" + " descend; my chambers are honourable: fie! privacy?\n" + " fie!\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with\n" + " me; but she's gone.\n\n" + "SIMPLE Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of\n" + " Brentford?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ay, marry, was it, mussel-shell: what would you with her?\n\n" + "SIMPLE My master, sir, Master Slender, sent to her, seeing\n" + " her go through the streets, to know, sir, whether\n" + " one Nym, sir, that beguiled him of a chain, had the\n" + " chain or no.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I spake with the old woman about it.\n\n" + "SIMPLE And what says she, I pray, sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Marry, she says that the very same man that\n" + " beguiled Master Slender of his chain cozened him of\n" + " it.\n\n" + "SIMPLE I would I could have spoken with the woman herself;\n" + " I had other things to have spoken with her too from\n" + " him.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What are they? let us know.\n\n" + "Host Ay, come; quick.\n\n" + "SIMPLE I may not conceal them, sir.\n\n" + "Host Conceal them, or thou diest.\n\n" + "SIMPLE Why, sir, they were nothing but about Mistress Anne\n" + " Page; to know if it were my master's fortune to\n" + " have her or no.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Tis, 'tis his fortune.\n\n" + "SIMPLE What, sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF To have her, or no. Go; say the woman told me so.\n\n" + "SIMPLE May I be bold to say so, sir?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ay, sir; like who more bold.\n\n" + "SIMPLE I thank your worship: I shall make my master glad\n" + " with these tidings.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Host Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was\n" + " there a wise woman with thee?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Ay, that there was, mine host; one that hath taught\n" + " me more wit than ever I learned before in my life;\n" + " and I paid nothing for it neither, but was paid for\n" + " my learning.\n\n" + " [Enter BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Out, alas, sir! cozenage, mere cozenage!\n\n" + "Host Where be my horses? speak well of them, varletto.\n\n" + "BARDOLPH Run away with the cozeners; for so soon as I came\n" + " beyond Eton, they threw me off from behind one of\n" + " them, in a slough of mire; and set spurs and away,\n" + " like three German devils, three Doctor Faustuses.\n\n" + "Host They are gone but to meet the duke, villain: do not\n" + " say they be fled; Germans are honest men.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Where is mine host?\n\n" + "Host What is the matter, sir?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Have a care of your entertainments: there is a\n" + " friend of mine come to town tells me there is three\n" + " cozen-germans that has cozened all the hosts of\n" + " Readins, of Maidenhead, of Colebrook, of horses and\n" + " money. I tell you for good will, look you: you\n" + " are wise and full of gibes and vlouting-stocks, and\n" + " 'tis not convenient you should be cozened. Fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS]\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Vere is mine host de Jarteer?\n\n" + "Host Here, master doctor, in perplexity and doubtful dilemma.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS I cannot tell vat is dat: but it is tell-a me dat\n" + " you make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany: by\n" + " my trot, dere is no duke dat the court is know to\n" + " come. I tell you for good vill: adieu.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Host Hue and cry, villain, go! Assist me, knight. I am\n" + " undone! Fly, run, hue and cry, villain! I am undone!\n\n" + " [Exeunt Host and BARDOLPH]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I would all the world might be cozened; for I have\n" + " been cozened and beaten too. If it should come to\n" + " the ear of the court, how I have been transformed\n" + " and how my transformation hath been washed and\n" + " cudgelled, they would melt me out of my fat drop by\n" + " drop and liquor fishermen's boots with me; I warrant\n" + " they would whip me with their fine wits till I were\n" + " as crest-fallen as a dried pear. I never prospered\n" + " since I forswore myself at primero. Well, if my\n" + " wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent.\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + " Now, whence come you?\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY From the two parties, forsooth.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF The devil take one party and his dam the other! and\n" + " so they shall be both bestowed. I have suffered more\n" + " for their sakes, more than the villanous inconstancy\n" + " of man's disposition is able to bear.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY And have not they suffered? Yes, I warrant;\n" + " speciously one of them; Mistress Ford, good heart,\n" + " is beaten black and blue, that you cannot see a\n" + " white spot about her.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was\n" + " beaten myself into all the colours of the rainbow;\n" + " and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of\n" + " Brentford: but that my admirable dexterity of wit,\n" + " my counterfeiting the action of an old woman,\n" + " delivered me, the knave constable had set me i' the\n" + " stocks, i' the common stocks, for a witch.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Sir, let me speak with you in your chamber: you\n" + " shall hear how things go; and, I warrant, to your\n" + " content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. Good\n" + " hearts, what ado here is to bring you together!\n" + " Sure, one of you does not serve heaven well, that\n" + " you are so crossed.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Come up into my chamber.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Another room in the Garter Inn.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FENTON and Host]\n\n" + "Host Master Fenton, talk not to me; my mind is heavy: I\n" + " will give over all.\n\n" + "FENTON Yet hear me speak. Assist me in my purpose,\n" + " And, as I am a gentleman, I'll give thee\n" + " A hundred pound in gold more than your loss.\n\n" + "Host I will hear you, Master Fenton; and I will at the\n" + " least keep your counsel.\n\n" + "FENTON From time to time I have acquainted you\n" + " With the dear love I bear to fair Anne Page;\n" + " Who mutually hath answer'd my affection,\n" + " So far forth as herself might be her chooser,\n" + " Even to my wish: I have a letter from her\n" + " Of such contents as you will wonder at;\n" + " The mirth whereof so larded with my matter,\n" + " That neither singly can be manifested,\n" + " Without the show of both; fat Falstaff\n" + " Hath a great scene: the image of the jest\n" + " I'll show you here at large. Hark, good mine host.\n" + " To-night at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one,\n" + " Must my sweet Nan present the Fairy Queen;\n" + " The purpose why, is here: in which disguise,\n" + " While other jests are something rank on foot,\n" + " Her father hath commanded her to slip\n" + " Away with Slender and with him at Eton\n" + " Immediately to marry: she hath consented: Now, sir,\n" + " Her mother, ever strong against that match\n" + " And firm for Doctor Caius, hath appointed\n" + " That he shall likewise shuffle her away,\n" + " While other sports are tasking of their minds,\n" + " And at the deanery, where a priest attends,\n" + " Straight marry her: to this her mother's plot\n" + " She seemingly obedient likewise hath\n" + " Made promise to the doctor. Now, thus it rests:\n" + " Her father means she shall be all in white,\n" + " And in that habit, when Slender sees his time\n" + " To take her by the hand and bid her go,\n" + " She shall go with him: her mother hath intended,\n" + " The better to denote her to the doctor,\n" + " For they must all be mask'd and vizarded,\n" + " That quaint in green she shall be loose enrobed,\n" + " With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head;\n" + " And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,\n" + " To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token,\n" + " The maid hath given consent to go with him.\n\n" + "Host Which means she to deceive, father or mother?\n\n" + "FENTON Both, my good host, to go along with me:\n" + " And here it rests, that you'll procure the vicar\n" + " To stay for me at church 'twixt twelve and one,\n" + " And, in the lawful name of marrying,\n" + " To give our hearts united ceremony.\n\n" + "Host Well, husband your device; I'll to the vicar:\n" + " Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a priest.\n\n" + "FENTON So shall I evermore be bound to thee;\n" + " Besides, I'll make a present recompense.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in the Garter Inn.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF and MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Prithee, no more prattling; go. I'll hold. This is\n" + " the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd\n" + " numbers. Away I go. They say there is divinity in\n" + " odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. Away!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY I'll provide you a chain; and I'll do what I can to\n" + " get you a pair of horns.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Away, I say; time wears: hold up your head, and mince.\n\n" + " [Exit MISTRESS QUICKLY]\n\n" + " [Enter FORD]\n\n" + " How now, Master Brook! Master Brook, the matter\n" + " will be known to-night, or never. Be you in the\n" + " Park about midnight, at Herne's oak, and you shall\n" + " see wonders.\n\n" + "FORD Went you not to her yesterday, sir, as you told me\n" + " you had appointed?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I went to her, Master Brook, as you see, like a poor\n" + " old man: but I came from her, Master Brook, like a\n" + " poor old woman. That same knave Ford, her husband,\n" + " hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him,\n" + " Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. I will tell\n" + " you: he beat me grievously, in the shape of a\n" + " woman; for in the shape of man, Master Brook, I fear\n" + " not Goliath with a weaver's beam; because I know\n" + " also life is a shuttle. I am in haste; go along\n" + " with me: I'll tell you all, Master Brook. Since I\n" + " plucked geese, played truant and whipped top, I knew\n" + " not what 'twas to be beaten till lately. Follow\n" + " me: I'll tell you strange things of this knave\n" + " Ford, on whom to-night I will be revenged, and I\n" + " will deliver his wife into your hand. Follow.\n" + " Strange things in hand, Master Brook! Follow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Windsor Park.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PAGE, SHALLOW, and SLENDER]\n\n" + "PAGE Come, come; we'll couch i' the castle-ditch till we\n" + " see the light of our fairies. Remember, son Slender,\n" + " my daughter.\n\n" + "SLENDER Ay, forsooth; I have spoke with her and we have a\n" + " nay-word how to know one another: I come to her in\n" + " white, and cry 'mum;' she cries 'budget;' and by\n" + " that we know one another.\n\n" + "SHALLOW That's good too: but what needs either your 'mum'\n" + " or her 'budget?' the white will decipher her well\n" + " enough. It hath struck ten o'clock.\n\n" + "PAGE The night is dark; light and spirits will become it\n" + " well. Heaven prosper our sport! No man means evil\n" + " but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.\n" + " Let's away; follow me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A street leading to the Park.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS PAGE, MISTRESS FORD, and\n" + " DOCTOR CAIUS]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Master doctor, my daughter is in green: when you\n" + " see your time, take her by the band, away with her\n" + " to the deanery, and dispatch it quickly. Go before\n" + " into the Park: we two must go together.\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS I know vat I have to do. Adieu.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Fare you well, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit DOCTOR CAIUS]\n\n" + " My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of\n" + " Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor's marrying\n" + " my daughter: but 'tis no matter; better a little\n" + " chiding than a great deal of heart-break.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Where is Nan now and her troop of fairies, and the\n" + " Welsh devil Hugh?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE They are all couched in a pit hard by Herne's oak,\n" + " with obscured lights; which, at the very instant of\n" + " Falstaff's and our meeting, they will at once\n" + " display to the night.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD That cannot choose but amaze him.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE If he be not amazed, he will be mocked; if he be\n" + " amazed, he will every way be mocked.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD We'll betray him finely.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Against such lewdsters and their lechery\n" + " Those that betray them do no treachery.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Windsor Park.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised, with others as Fairies]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Trib, trib, fairies; come; and remember your parts:\n" + " be pold, I pray you; follow me into the pit; and\n" + " when I give the watch-'ords, do as I pid you:\n" + " come, come; trib, trib.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the Park.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FALSTAFF disguised as Herne]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the minute\n" + " draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist me!\n" + " Remember, Jove, thou wast a bull for thy Europa; love\n" + " set on thy horns. O powerful love! that, in some\n" + " respects, makes a beast a man, in some other, a man\n" + " a beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love\n" + " of Leda. O omnipotent Love! how near the god drew\n" + " to the complexion of a goose! A fault done first in\n" + " the form of a beast. O Jove, a beastly fault! And\n" + " then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think\n" + " on 't, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot\n" + " backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a\n" + " Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i' the\n" + " forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can\n" + " blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my\n" + " doe?\n\n" + " [Enter MISTRESS FORD and MISTRESS PAGE]\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Sir John! art thou there, my deer? my male deer?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF My doe with the black scut! Let the sky rain\n" + " potatoes; let it thunder to the tune of Green\n" + " Sleeves, hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes; let\n" + " there come a tempest of provocation, I will shelter me here.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Mistress Page is come with me, sweetheart.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Divide me like a bribe buck, each a haunch: I will\n" + " keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the fellow\n" + " of this walk, and my horns I bequeath your husbands.\n" + " Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter?\n" + " Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience; he makes\n" + " restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!\n\n" + " [Noise within]\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Alas, what noise?\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Heaven forgive our sins\n\n" + "FALSTAFF What should this be?\n\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD |\n" + " | Away, away!\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE |\n\n\n" + " [They run off]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the\n" + " oil that's in me should set hell on fire; he would\n" + " never else cross me thus.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR HUGH EVANS, disguised as before; PISTOL,\n" + " as Hobgoblin; MISTRESS QUICKLY, ANNE PAGE, and\n" + " others, as Fairies, with tapers]\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,\n" + " You moonshine revellers and shades of night,\n" + " You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,\n" + " Attend your office and your quality.\n" + " Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes.\n\n" + "PISTOL Elves, list your names; silence, you airy toys.\n" + " Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou leap:\n" + " Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept,\n" + " There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry:\n" + " Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die:\n" + " I'll wink and couch: no man their works must eye.\n\n" + " [Lies down upon his face]\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Where's Bede? Go you, and where you find a maid\n" + " That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said,\n" + " Raise up the organs of her fantasy;\n" + " Sleep she as sound as careless infancy:\n" + " But those as sleep and think not on their sins,\n" + " Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides and shins.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY About, about;\n" + " Search Windsor Castle, elves, within and out:\n" + " Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred room:\n" + " That it may stand till the perpetual doom,\n" + " In state as wholesome as in state 'tis fit,\n" + " Worthy the owner, and the owner it.\n" + " The several chairs of order look you scour\n" + " With juice of balm and every precious flower:\n" + " Each fair instalment, coat, and several crest,\n" + " With loyal blazon, evermore be blest!\n" + " And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing,\n" + " Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring:\n" + " The expressure that it bears, green let it be,\n" + " More fertile-fresh than all the field to see;\n" + " And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write\n" + " In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue and white;\n" + " Let sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery,\n" + " Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee:\n" + " Fairies use flowers for their charactery.\n" + " Away; disperse: but till 'tis one o'clock,\n" + " Our dance of custom round about the oak\n" + " Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Pray you, lock hand in hand; yourselves in order set\n" + " And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be,\n" + " To guide our measure round about the tree.\n" + " But, stay; I smell a man of middle-earth.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he\n" + " transform me to a piece of cheese!\n\n" + "PISTOL Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth.\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY With trial-fire touch me his finger-end:\n" + " If he be chaste, the flame will back descend\n" + " And turn him to no pain; but if he start,\n" + " It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.\n\n" + "PISTOL A trial, come.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Come, will this wood take fire?\n\n" + " [They burn him with their tapers]\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Oh, Oh, Oh!\n\n" + "MISTRESS QUICKLY Corrupt, corrupt, and tainted in desire!\n" + " About him, fairies; sing a scornful rhyme;\n" + " And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time.\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + " Fie on sinful fantasy!\n" + " Fie on lust and luxury!\n" + " Lust is but a bloody fire,\n" + " Kindled with unchaste desire,\n" + " Fed in heart, whose flames aspire\n" + " As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher.\n" + " Pinch him, fairies, mutually;\n" + " Pinch him for his villany;\n" + " Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,\n" + " Till candles and starlight and moonshine be out.\n\n" + " [During this song they pinch FALSTAFF. DOCTOR CAIUS\n" + " comes one way, and steals away a boy in green;\n" + " SLENDER another way, and takes off a boy in white;\n" + " and FENTON comes and steals away ANN PAGE.\n" + " A noise of hunting is heard within. All the\n" + " Fairies run away. FALSTAFF pulls off his buck's\n" + " head, and rises]\n\n" + " [Enter PAGE, FORD, MISTRESS PAGE, and MISTRESS FORD]\n\n" + "PAGE Nay, do not fly; I think we have watch'd you now\n" + " Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE I pray you, come, hold up the jest no higher\n" + " Now, good Sir John, how like you Windsor wives?\n" + " See you these, husband? do not these fair yokes\n" + " Become the forest better than the town?\n\n" + "FORD Now, sir, who's a cuckold now? Master Brook,\n" + " Falstaff's a knave, a cuckoldly knave; here are his\n" + " horns, Master Brook: and, Master Brook, he hath\n" + " enjoyed nothing of Ford's but his buck-basket, his\n" + " cudgel, and twenty pounds of money, which must be\n" + " paid to Master Brook; his horses are arrested for\n" + " it, Master Brook.\n\n" + "MISTRESS FORD Sir John, we have had ill luck; we could never meet.\n" + " I will never take you for my love again; but I will\n" + " always count you my deer.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I do begin to perceive that I am made an ass.\n\n" + "FORD Ay, and an ox too: both the proofs are extant.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF And these are not fairies? I was three or four\n" + " times in the thought they were not fairies: and yet\n" + " the guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my\n" + " powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a\n" + " received belief, in despite of the teeth of all\n" + " rhyme and reason, that they were fairies. See now\n" + " how wit may be made a Jack-a-Lent, when 'tis upon\n" + " ill employment!\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Sir John Falstaff, serve Got, and leave your\n" + " desires, and fairies will not pinse you.\n\n" + "FORD Well said, fairy Hugh.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS And leave your jealousies too, I pray you.\n\n" + "FORD I will never mistrust my wife again till thou art\n" + " able to woo her in good English.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, that\n" + " it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as\n" + " this? Am I ridden with a Welsh goat too? shall I\n" + " have a coxcomb of frize? 'Tis time I were choked\n" + " with a piece of toasted cheese.\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS Seese is not good to give putter; your belly is all putter.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF 'Seese' and 'putter'! have I lived to stand at the\n" + " taunt of one that makes fritters of English? This\n" + " is enough to be the decay of lust and late-walking\n" + " through the realm.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Why Sir John, do you think, though we would have the\n" + " virtue out of our hearts by the head and shoulders\n" + " and have given ourselves without scruple to hell,\n" + " that ever the devil could have made you our delight?\n\n" + "FORD What, a hodge-pudding? a bag of flax?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE A puffed man?\n\n" + "PAGE Old, cold, withered and of intolerable entrails?\n\n" + "FORD And one that is as slanderous as Satan?\n\n" + "PAGE And as poor as Job?\n\n" + "FORD And as wicked as his wife?\n\n" + "SIR HUGH EVANS And given to fornications, and to taverns and sack\n" + " and wine and metheglins, and to drinkings and\n" + " swearings and starings, pribbles and prabbles?\n\n" + "FALSTAFF Well, I am your theme: you have the start of me; I\n" + " am dejected; I am not able to answer the Welsh\n" + " flannel; ignorance itself is a plummet o'er me: use\n" + " me as you will.\n\n" + "FORD Marry, sir, we'll bring you to Windsor, to one\n" + " Master Brook, that you have cozened of money, to\n" + " whom you should have been a pander: over and above\n" + " that you have suffered, I think to repay that money\n" + " will be a biting affliction.\n\n" + "PAGE Yet be cheerful, knight: thou shalt eat a posset\n" + " to-night at my house; where I will desire thee to\n" + " laugh at my wife, that now laughs at thee: tell her\n" + " Master Slender hath married her daughter.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE [Aside] Doctors doubt that: if Anne Page be my\n" + " daughter, she is, by this, Doctor Caius' wife.\n\n" + " [Enter SLENDER]\n\n" + "SLENDER Whoa ho! ho, father Page!\n\n" + "PAGE Son, how now! how now, son! have you dispatched?\n\n" + "SLENDER Dispatched! I'll make the best in Gloucestershire\n" + " know on't; would I were hanged, la, else.\n\n" + "PAGE Of what, son?\n\n" + "SLENDER I came yonder at Eton to marry Mistress Anne Page,\n" + " and she's a great lubberly boy. If it had not been\n" + " i' the church, I would have swinged him, or he\n" + " should have swinged me. If I did not think it had\n" + " been Anne Page, would I might never stir!--and 'tis\n" + " a postmaster's boy.\n\n" + "PAGE Upon my life, then, you took the wrong.\n\n" + "SLENDER What need you tell me that? I think so, when I took\n" + " a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, for\n" + " all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have had\n" + " him.\n\n" + "PAGE Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you how\n" + " you should know my daughter by her garments?\n\n" + "SLENDER I went to her in white, and cried 'mum,' and she\n" + " cried 'budget,' as Anne and I had appointed; and yet\n" + " it was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Good George, be not angry: I knew of your purpose;\n" + " turned my daughter into green; and, indeed, she is\n" + " now with the doctor at the deanery, and there married.\n\n" + " [Enter DOCTOR CAIUS]\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Vere is Mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened: I ha'\n" + " married un garcon, a boy; un paysan, by gar, a boy;\n" + " it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Why, did you take her in green?\n\n" + "DOCTOR CAIUS Ay, by gar, and 'tis a boy: by gar, I'll raise all Windsor.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FORD This is strange. Who hath got the right Anne?\n\n" + "PAGE My heart misgives me: here comes Master Fenton.\n\n" + " [Enter FENTON and ANNE PAGE]\n\n" + " How now, Master Fenton!\n\n" + "ANNE PAGE Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon!\n\n" + "PAGE Now, mistress, how chance you went not with Master Slender?\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Why went you not with master doctor, maid?\n\n" + "FENTON You do amaze her: hear the truth of it.\n" + " You would have married her most shamefully,\n" + " Where there was no proportion held in love.\n" + " The truth is, she and I, long since contracted,\n" + " Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us.\n" + " The offence is holy that she hath committed;\n" + " And this deceit loses the name of craft,\n" + " Of disobedience, or unduteous title,\n" + " Since therein she doth evitate and shun\n" + " A thousand irreligious cursed hours,\n" + " Which forced marriage would have brought upon her.\n\n" + "FORD Stand not amazed; here is no remedy:\n" + " In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;\n" + " Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF I am glad, though you have ta'en a special stand to\n" + " strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced.\n\n" + "PAGE Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee joy!\n" + " What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced.\n\n" + "FALSTAFF When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are chased.\n\n" + "MISTRESS PAGE Well, I will muse no further. Master Fenton,\n" + " Heaven give you many, many merry days!\n" + " Good husband, let us every one go home,\n" + " And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire;\n" + " Sir John and all.\n\n" + "FORD Let it be so. Sir John,\n" + " To Master Brook you yet shall hold your word\n" + " For he tonight shall lie with Mistress Ford.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "THESEUS Duke of Athens.\n\n" + "EGEUS father to Hermia.\n\n\n" + "LYSANDER |\n" + " | in love with Hermia.\n" + "DEMETRIUS |\n\n\n" + "PHILOSTRATE master of the revels to Theseus.\n\n" + "QUINCE a carpenter.\n\n" + "SNUG a joiner.\n\n" + "BOTTOM a weaver.\n\n" + "FLUTE a bellows-mender.\n\n" + "SNOUT a tinker.\n\n" + "STARVELING a tailor.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus.\n\n" + "HERMIA daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander.\n\n" + "HELENA in love with Demetrius.\n\n" + "OBERON king of the fairies.\n\n" + "TITANIA queen of the fairies.\n\n" + "PUCK or Robin Goodfellow.\n\n\n" + "PEASEBLOSSOM |\n" + " |\n" + "COBWEB |\n" + " | fairies.\n" + "MOTH |\n" + " |\n" + "MUSTARDSEED |\n\n\n" + " Other fairies attending their King and Queen.\n\n" + " Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta.\n\n" + "SCENE Athens, and a wood near it.\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Athens. The palace of THESEUS.\n\n\n" + " [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "THESEUS Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour\n" + " Draws on apace; four happy days bring in\n" + " Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow\n" + " This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,\n" + " Like to a step-dame or a dowager\n" + " Long withering out a young man revenue.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;\n" + " Four nights will quickly dream away the time;\n" + " And then the moon, like to a silver bow\n" + " New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night\n" + " Of our solemnities.\n\n" + "THESEUS Go, Philostrate,\n" + " Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments;\n" + " Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth;\n" + " Turn melancholy forth to funerals;\n" + " The pale companion is not for our pomp.\n\n" + " [Exit PHILOSTRATE]\n\n" + " Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword,\n" + " And won thy love, doing thee injuries;\n" + " But I will wed thee in another key,\n" + " With pomp, with triumph and with revelling.\n\n" + " [Enter EGEUS, HERMIA, LYSANDER, and DEMETRIUS]\n\n" + "EGEUS Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke!\n\n" + "THESEUS Thanks, good Egeus: what's the news with thee?\n\n" + "EGEUS Full of vexation come I, with complaint\n" + " Against my child, my daughter Hermia.\n" + " Stand forth, Demetrius. My noble lord,\n" + " This man hath my consent to marry her.\n" + " Stand forth, Lysander: and my gracious duke,\n" + " This man hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child;\n" + " Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes,\n" + " And interchanged love-tokens with my child:\n" + " Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,\n" + " With feigning voice verses of feigning love,\n" + " And stolen the impression of her fantasy\n" + " With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,\n" + " Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, messengers\n" + " Of strong prevailment in unharden'd youth:\n" + " With cunning hast thou filch'd my daughter's heart,\n" + " Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me,\n" + " To stubborn harshness: and, my gracious duke,\n" + " Be it so she; will not here before your grace\n" + " Consent to marry with Demetrius,\n" + " I beg the ancient privilege of Athens,\n" + " As she is mine, I may dispose of her:\n" + " Which shall be either to this gentleman\n" + " Or to her death, according to our law\n" + " Immediately provided in that case.\n\n" + "THESEUS What say you, Hermia? be advised fair maid:\n" + " To you your father should be as a god;\n" + " One that composed your beauties, yea, and one\n" + " To whom you are but as a form in wax\n" + " By him imprinted and within his power\n" + " To leave the figure or disfigure it.\n" + " Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.\n\n" + "HERMIA So is Lysander.\n\n" + "THESEUS In himself he is;\n" + " But in this kind, wanting your father's voice,\n" + " The other must be held the worthier.\n\n" + "HERMIA I would my father look'd but with my eyes.\n\n" + "THESEUS Rather your eyes must with his judgment look.\n\n" + "HERMIA I do entreat your grace to pardon me.\n" + " I know not by what power I am made bold,\n" + " Nor how it may concern my modesty,\n" + " In such a presence here to plead my thoughts;\n" + " But I beseech your grace that I may know\n" + " The worst that may befall me in this case,\n" + " If I refuse to wed Demetrius.\n\n" + "THESEUS Either to die the death or to abjure\n" + " For ever the society of men.\n" + " Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;\n" + " Know of your youth, examine well your blood,\n" + " Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice,\n" + " You can endure the livery of a nun,\n" + " For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd,\n" + " To live a barren sister all your life,\n" + " Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.\n" + " Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood,\n" + " To undergo such maiden pilgrimage;\n" + " But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd,\n" + " Than that which withering on the virgin thorn\n" + " Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.\n\n" + "HERMIA So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,\n" + " Ere I will my virgin patent up\n" + " Unto his lordship, whose unwished yoke\n" + " My soul consents not to give sovereignty.\n\n" + "THESEUS Take time to pause; and, by the nest new moon--\n" + " The sealing-day betwixt my love and me,\n" + " For everlasting bond of fellowship--\n" + " Upon that day either prepare to die\n" + " For disobedience to your father's will,\n" + " Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would;\n" + " Or on Diana's altar to protest\n" + " For aye austerity and single life.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield\n" + " Thy crazed title to my certain right.\n\n" + "LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius;\n" + " Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.\n\n" + "EGEUS Scornful Lysander! true, he hath my love,\n" + " And what is mine my love shall render him.\n" + " And she is mine, and all my right of her\n" + " I do estate unto Demetrius.\n\n" + "LYSANDER I am, my lord, as well derived as he,\n" + " As well possess'd; my love is more than his;\n" + " My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd,\n" + " If not with vantage, as Demetrius';\n" + " And, which is more than all these boasts can be,\n" + " I am beloved of beauteous Hermia:\n" + " Why should not I then prosecute my right?\n" + " Demetrius, I'll avouch it to his head,\n" + " Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,\n" + " And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,\n" + " Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,\n" + " Upon this spotted and inconstant man.\n\n" + "THESEUS I must confess that I have heard so much,\n" + " And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;\n" + " But, being over-full of self-affairs,\n" + " My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come;\n" + " And come, Egeus; you shall go with me,\n" + " I have some private schooling for you both.\n" + " For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself\n" + " To fit your fancies to your father's will;\n" + " Or else the law of Athens yields you up--\n" + " Which by no means we may extenuate--\n" + " To death, or to a vow of single life.\n" + " Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?\n" + " Demetrius and Egeus, go along:\n" + " I must employ you in some business\n" + " Against our nuptial and confer with you\n" + " Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.\n\n" + "EGEUS With duty and desire we follow you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but LYSANDER and HERMIA]\n\n" + "LYSANDER How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?\n" + " How chance the roses there do fade so fast?\n\n" + "HERMIA Belike for want of rain, which I could well\n" + " Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Ay me! for aught that I could ever read,\n" + " Could ever hear by tale or history,\n" + " The course of true love never did run smooth;\n" + " But, either it was different in blood,--\n\n" + "HERMIA O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Or else misgraffed in respect of years,--\n\n" + "HERMIA O spite! too old to be engaged to young.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,--\n\n" + "HERMIA O hell! to choose love by another's eyes.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,\n" + " War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,\n" + " Making it momentany as a sound,\n" + " Swift as a shadow, short as any dream;\n" + " Brief as the lightning in the collied night,\n" + " That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,\n" + " And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'\n" + " The jaws of darkness do devour it up:\n" + " So quick bright things come to confusion.\n\n" + "HERMIA If then true lovers have been ever cross'd,\n" + " It stands as an edict in destiny:\n" + " Then let us teach our trial patience,\n" + " Because it is a customary cross,\n" + " As due to love as thoughts and dreams and sighs,\n" + " Wishes and tears, poor fancy's followers.\n\n" + "LYSANDER A good persuasion: therefore, hear me, Hermia.\n" + " I have a widow aunt, a dowager\n" + " Of great revenue, and she hath no child:\n" + " From Athens is her house remote seven leagues;\n" + " And she respects me as her only son.\n" + " There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee;\n" + " And to that place the sharp Athenian law\n" + " Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me then,\n" + " Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow night;\n" + " And in the wood, a league without the town,\n" + " Where I did meet thee once with Helena,\n" + " To do observance to a morn of May,\n" + " There will I stay for thee.\n\n" + "HERMIA My good Lysander!\n" + " I swear to thee, by Cupid's strongest bow,\n" + " By his best arrow with the golden head,\n" + " By the simplicity of Venus' doves,\n" + " By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves,\n" + " And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen,\n" + " When the false Troyan under sail was seen,\n" + " By all the vows that ever men have broke,\n" + " In number more than ever women spoke,\n" + " In that same place thou hast appointed me,\n" + " To-morrow truly will I meet with thee.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Keep promise, love. Look, here comes Helena.\n\n" + " [Enter HELENA]\n\n" + "HERMIA God speed fair Helena! whither away?\n\n" + "HELENA Call you me fair? that fair again unsay.\n" + " Demetrius loves your fair: O happy fair!\n" + " Your eyes are lode-stars; and your tongue's sweet air\n" + " More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,\n" + " When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.\n" + " Sickness is catching: O, were favour so,\n" + " Yours would I catch, fair Hermia, ere I go;\n" + " My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye,\n" + " My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.\n" + " Were the world mine, Demetrius being bated,\n" + " The rest I'd give to be to you translated.\n" + " O, teach me how you look, and with what art\n" + " You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart.\n\n" + "HERMIA I frown upon him, yet he loves me still.\n\n" + "HELENA O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill!\n\n" + "HERMIA I give him curses, yet he gives me love.\n\n" + "HELENA O that my prayers could such affection move!\n\n" + "HERMIA The more I hate, the more he follows me.\n\n" + "HELENA The more I love, the more he hateth me.\n\n" + "HERMIA His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.\n\n" + "HELENA None, but your beauty: would that fault were mine!\n\n" + "HERMIA Take comfort: he no more shall see my face;\n" + " Lysander and myself will fly this place.\n" + " Before the time I did Lysander see,\n" + " Seem'd Athens as a paradise to me:\n" + " O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,\n" + " That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!\n\n" + "LYSANDER Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:\n" + " To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold\n" + " Her silver visage in the watery glass,\n" + " Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass,\n" + " A time that lovers' flights doth still conceal,\n" + " Through Athens' gates have we devised to steal.\n\n" + "HERMIA And in the wood, where often you and I\n" + " Upon faint primrose-beds were wont to lie,\n" + " Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet,\n" + " There my Lysander and myself shall meet;\n" + " And thence from Athens turn away our eyes,\n" + " To seek new friends and stranger companies.\n" + " Farewell, sweet playfellow: pray thou for us;\n" + " And good luck grant thee thy Demetrius!\n" + " Keep word, Lysander: we must starve our sight\n" + " From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight.\n\n" + "LYSANDER I will, my Hermia.\n\n" + " [Exit HERMIA]\n\n" + " Helena, adieu:\n" + " As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HELENA How happy some o'er other some can be!\n" + " Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.\n" + " But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so;\n" + " He will not know what all but he do know:\n" + " And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,\n" + " So I, admiring of his qualities:\n" + " Things base and vile, folding no quantity,\n" + " Love can transpose to form and dignity:\n" + " Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;\n" + " And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind:\n" + " Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;\n" + " Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste:\n" + " And therefore is Love said to be a child,\n" + " Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.\n" + " As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,\n" + " So the boy Love is perjured every where:\n" + " For ere Demetrius look'd on Hermia's eyne,\n" + " He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;\n" + " And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,\n" + " So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.\n" + " I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:\n" + " Then to the wood will he to-morrow night\n" + " Pursue her; and for this intelligence\n" + " If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:\n" + " But herein mean I to enrich my pain,\n" + " To have his sight thither and back again.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Athens. QUINCE'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and\n" + " STARVELING]\n\n" + "QUINCE Is all our company here?\n\n" + "BOTTOM You were best to call them generally, man by man,\n" + " according to the scrip.\n\n" + "QUINCE Here is the scroll of every man's name, which is\n" + " thought fit, through all Athens, to play in our\n" + " interlude before the duke and the duchess, on his\n" + " wedding-day at night.\n\n" + "BOTTOM First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats\n" + " on, then read the names of the actors, and so grow\n" + " to a point.\n\n" + "QUINCE Marry, our play is, The most lamentable comedy, and\n" + " most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisby.\n\n" + "BOTTOM A very good piece of work, I assure you, and a\n" + " merry. Now, good Peter Quince, call forth your\n" + " actors by the scroll. Masters, spread yourselves.\n\n" + "QUINCE Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Ready. Name what part I am for, and proceed.\n\n" + "QUINCE You, Nick Bottom, are set down for Pyramus.\n\n" + "BOTTOM What is Pyramus? a lover, or a tyrant?\n\n" + "QUINCE A lover, that kills himself most gallant for love.\n\n" + "BOTTOM That will ask some tears in the true performing of\n" + " it: if I do it, let the audience look to their\n" + " eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some\n" + " measure. To the rest: yet my chief humour is for a\n" + " tyrant: I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to\n" + " tear a cat in, to make all split.\n" + " The raging rocks\n" + " And shivering shocks\n" + " Shall break the locks\n" + " Of prison gates;\n" + " And Phibbus' car\n" + " Shall shine from far\n" + " And make and mar\n" + " The foolish Fates.\n" + " This was lofty! Now name the rest of the players.\n" + " This is Ercles' vein, a tyrant's vein; a lover is\n" + " more condoling.\n\n" + "QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender.\n\n" + "FLUTE Here, Peter Quince.\n\n" + "QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you.\n\n" + "FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight?\n\n" + "QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love.\n\n" + "FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.\n\n" + "QUINCE That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and\n" + " you may speak as small as you will.\n\n" + "BOTTOM An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too, I'll\n" + " speak in a monstrous little voice. 'Thisne,\n" + " Thisne;' 'Ah, Pyramus, lover dear! thy Thisby dear,\n" + " and lady dear!'\n\n" + "QUINCE No, no; you must play Pyramus: and, Flute, you Thisby.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Well, proceed.\n\n" + "QUINCE Robin Starveling, the tailor.\n\n" + "STARVELING Here, Peter Quince.\n\n" + "QUINCE Robin Starveling, you must play Thisby's mother.\n" + " Tom Snout, the tinker.\n\n" + "SNOUT Here, Peter Quince.\n\n" + "QUINCE You, Pyramus' father: myself, Thisby's father:\n" + " Snug, the joiner; you, the lion's part: and, I\n" + " hope, here is a play fitted.\n\n" + "SNUG Have you the lion's part written? pray you, if it\n" + " be, give it me, for I am slow of study.\n\n" + "QUINCE You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Let me play the lion too: I will roar, that I will\n" + " do any man's heart good to hear me; I will roar,\n" + " that I will make the duke say 'Let him roar again,\n" + " let him roar again.'\n\n" + "QUINCE An you should do it too terribly, you would fright\n" + " the duchess and the ladies, that they would shriek;\n" + " and that were enough to hang us all.\n\n" + "ALL That would hang us, every mother's son.\n\n" + "BOTTOM I grant you, friends, if that you should fright the\n" + " ladies out of their wits, they would have no more\n" + " discretion but to hang us: but I will aggravate my\n" + " voice so that I will roar you as gently as any\n" + " sucking dove; I will roar you an 'twere any\n" + " nightingale.\n\n" + "QUINCE You can play no part but Pyramus; for Pyramus is a\n" + " sweet-faced man; a proper man, as one shall see in a\n" + " summer's day; a most lovely gentleman-like man:\n" + " therefore you must needs play Pyramus.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Well, I will undertake it. What beard were I best\n" + " to play it in?\n\n" + "QUINCE Why, what you will.\n\n" + "BOTTOM I will discharge it in either your straw-colour\n" + " beard, your orange-tawny beard, your purple-in-grain\n" + " beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your\n" + " perfect yellow.\n\n" + "QUINCE Some of your French crowns have no hair at all, and\n" + " then you will play bare-faced. But, masters, here\n" + " are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request\n" + " you and desire you, to con them by to-morrow night;\n" + " and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the\n" + " town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse, for if\n" + " we meet in the city, we shall be dogged with\n" + " company, and our devices known. In the meantime I\n" + " will draw a bill of properties, such as our play\n" + " wants. I pray you, fail me not.\n\n" + "BOTTOM We will meet; and there we may rehearse most\n" + " obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect: adieu.\n\n" + "QUINCE At the duke's oak we meet.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Enough; hold or cut bow-strings.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A wood near Athens.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from opposite sides, a Fairy, and PUCK]\n\n" + "PUCK How now, spirit! whither wander you?\n\n" + "Fairy Over hill, over dale,\n" + " Thorough bush, thorough brier,\n" + " Over park, over pale,\n" + " Thorough flood, thorough fire,\n" + " I do wander everywhere,\n" + " Swifter than the moon's sphere;\n" + " And I serve the fairy queen,\n" + " To dew her orbs upon the green.\n" + " The cowslips tall her pensioners be:\n" + " In their gold coats spots you see;\n" + " Those be rubies, fairy favours,\n" + " In those freckles live their savours:\n" + " I must go seek some dewdrops here\n" + " And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.\n" + " Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone:\n" + " Our queen and all our elves come here anon.\n\n" + "PUCK The king doth keep his revels here to-night:\n" + " Take heed the queen come not within his sight;\n" + " For Oberon is passing fell and wrath,\n" + " Because that she as her attendant hath\n" + " A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;\n" + " She never had so sweet a changeling;\n" + " And jealous Oberon would have the child\n" + " Knight of his train, to trace the forests wild;\n" + " But she perforce withholds the loved boy,\n" + " Crowns him with flowers and makes him all her joy:\n" + " And now they never meet in grove or green,\n" + " By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen,\n" + " But, they do square, that all their elves for fear\n" + " Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there.\n\n" + "Fairy Either I mistake your shape and making quite,\n" + " Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite\n" + " Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are not you he\n" + " That frights the maidens of the villagery;\n" + " Skim milk, and sometimes labour in the quern\n" + " And bootless make the breathless housewife churn;\n" + " And sometime make the drink to bear no barm;\n" + " Mislead night-wanderers, laughing at their harm?\n" + " Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,\n" + " You do their work, and they shall have good luck:\n" + " Are not you he?\n\n" + "PUCK Thou speak'st aright;\n" + " I am that merry wanderer of the night.\n" + " I jest to Oberon and make him smile\n" + " When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,\n" + " Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:\n" + " And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl,\n" + " In very likeness of a roasted crab,\n" + " And when she drinks, against her lips I bob\n" + " And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale.\n" + " The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale,\n" + " Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me;\n" + " Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,\n" + " And 'tailor' cries, and falls into a cough;\n" + " And then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,\n" + " And waxen in their mirth and neeze and swear\n" + " A merrier hour was never wasted there.\n" + " But, room, fairy! here comes Oberon.\n\n" + "Fairy And here my mistress. Would that he were gone!\n\n" + " [Enter, from one side, OBERON, with his train;\n" + " from the other, TITANIA, with hers]\n\n" + "OBERON Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.\n\n" + "TITANIA What, jealous Oberon! Fairies, skip hence:\n" + " I have forsworn his bed and company.\n\n" + "OBERON Tarry, rash wanton: am not I thy lord?\n\n" + "TITANIA Then I must be thy lady: but I know\n" + " When thou hast stolen away from fairy land,\n" + " And in the shape of Corin sat all day,\n" + " Playing on pipes of corn and versing love\n" + " To amorous Phillida. Why art thou here,\n" + " Come from the farthest Steppe of India?\n" + " But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon,\n" + " Your buskin'd mistress and your warrior love,\n" + " To Theseus must be wedded, and you come\n" + " To give their bed joy and prosperity.\n\n" + "OBERON How canst thou thus for shame, Titania,\n" + " Glance at my credit with Hippolyta,\n" + " Knowing I know thy love to Theseus?\n" + " Didst thou not lead him through the glimmering night\n" + " From Perigenia, whom he ravished?\n" + " And make him with fair AEgle break his faith,\n" + " With Ariadne and Antiopa?\n\n" + "TITANIA These are the forgeries of jealousy:\n" + " And never, since the middle summer's spring,\n" + " Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,\n" + " By paved fountain or by rushy brook,\n" + " Or in the beached margent of the sea,\n" + " To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,\n" + " But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.\n" + " Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain,\n" + " As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea\n" + " Contagious fogs; which falling in the land\n" + " Have every pelting river made so proud\n" + " That they have overborne their continents:\n" + " The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain,\n" + " The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn\n" + " Hath rotted ere his youth attain'd a beard;\n" + " The fold stands empty in the drowned field,\n" + " And crows are fatted with the murrion flock;\n" + " The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud,\n" + " And the quaint mazes in the wanton green\n" + " For lack of tread are undistinguishable:\n" + " The human mortals want their winter here;\n" + " No night is now with hymn or carol blest:\n" + " Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,\n" + " Pale in her anger, washes all the air,\n" + " That rheumatic diseases do abound:\n" + " And thorough this distemperature we see\n" + " The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts\n" + " Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,\n" + " And on old Hiems' thin and icy crown\n" + " An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds\n" + " Is, as in mockery, set: the spring, the summer,\n" + " The childing autumn, angry winter, change\n" + " Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,\n" + " By their increase, now knows not which is which:\n" + " And this same progeny of evils comes\n" + " From our debate, from our dissension;\n" + " We are their parents and original.\n\n" + "OBERON Do you amend it then; it lies in you:\n" + " Why should Titania cross her Oberon?\n" + " I do but beg a little changeling boy,\n" + " To be my henchman.\n\n" + "TITANIA Set your heart at rest:\n" + " The fairy land buys not the child of me.\n" + " His mother was a votaress of my order:\n" + " And, in the spiced Indian air, by night,\n" + " Full often hath she gossip'd by my side,\n" + " And sat with me on Neptune's yellow sands,\n" + " Marking the embarked traders on the flood,\n" + " When we have laugh'd to see the sails conceive\n" + " And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind;\n" + " Which she, with pretty and with swimming gait\n" + " Following,--her womb then rich with my young squire,--\n" + " Would imitate, and sail upon the land,\n" + " To fetch me trifles, and return again,\n" + " As from a voyage, rich with merchandise.\n" + " But she, being mortal, of that boy did die;\n" + " And for her sake do I rear up her boy,\n" + " And for her sake I will not part with him.\n\n" + "OBERON How long within this wood intend you stay?\n\n" + "TITANIA Perchance till after Theseus' wedding-day.\n" + " If you will patiently dance in our round\n" + " And see our moonlight revels, go with us;\n" + " If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.\n\n" + "OBERON Give me that boy, and I will go with thee.\n\n" + "TITANIA Not for thy fairy kingdom. Fairies, away!\n" + " We shall chide downright, if I longer stay.\n\n" + " [Exit TITANIA with her train]\n\n" + "OBERON Well, go thy way: thou shalt not from this grove\n" + " Till I torment thee for this injury.\n" + " My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou rememberest\n" + " Since once I sat upon a promontory,\n" + " And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back\n" + " Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath\n" + " That the rude sea grew civil at her song\n" + " And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,\n" + " To hear the sea-maid's music.\n\n" + "PUCK I remember.\n\n" + "OBERON That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,\n" + " Flying between the cold moon and the earth,\n" + " Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took\n" + " At a fair vestal throned by the west,\n" + " And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,\n" + " As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;\n" + " But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft\n" + " Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,\n" + " And the imperial votaress passed on,\n" + " In maiden meditation, fancy-free.\n" + " Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:\n" + " It fell upon a little western flower,\n" + " Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,\n" + " And maidens call it love-in-idleness.\n" + " Fetch me that flower; the herb I shew'd thee once:\n" + " The juice of it on sleeping eye-lids laid\n" + " Will make or man or woman madly dote\n" + " Upon the next live creature that it sees.\n" + " Fetch me this herb; and be thou here again\n" + " Ere the leviathan can swim a league.\n\n" + "PUCK I'll put a girdle round about the earth\n" + " In forty minutes.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OBERON Having once this juice,\n" + " I'll watch Titania when she is asleep,\n" + " And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.\n" + " The next thing then she waking looks upon,\n" + " Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,\n" + " On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,\n" + " She shall pursue it with the soul of love:\n" + " And ere I take this charm from off her sight,\n" + " As I can take it with another herb,\n" + " I'll make her render up her page to me.\n" + " But who comes here? I am invisible;\n" + " And I will overhear their conference.\n\n" + " [Enter DEMETRIUS, HELENA, following him]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I love thee not, therefore pursue me not.\n" + " Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?\n" + " The one I'll slay, the other slayeth me.\n" + " Thou told'st me they were stolen unto this wood;\n" + " And here am I, and wode within this wood,\n" + " Because I cannot meet my Hermia.\n" + " Hence, get thee gone, and follow me no more.\n\n" + "HELENA You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;\n" + " But yet you draw not iron, for my heart\n" + " Is true as steel: leave you your power to draw,\n" + " And I shall have no power to follow you.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Do I entice you? do I speak you fair?\n" + " Or, rather, do I not in plainest truth\n" + " Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?\n\n" + "HELENA And even for that do I love you the more.\n" + " I am your spaniel; and, Demetrius,\n" + " The more you beat me, I will fawn on you:\n" + " Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,\n" + " Neglect me, lose me; only give me leave,\n" + " Unworthy as I am, to follow you.\n" + " What worser place can I beg in your love,--\n" + " And yet a place of high respect with me,--\n" + " Than to be used as you use your dog?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit;\n" + " For I am sick when I do look on thee.\n\n" + "HELENA And I am sick when I look not on you.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS You do impeach your modesty too much,\n" + " To leave the city and commit yourself\n" + " Into the hands of one that loves you not;\n" + " To trust the opportunity of night\n" + " And the ill counsel of a desert place\n" + " With the rich worth of your virginity.\n\n" + "HELENA Your virtue is my privilege: for that\n" + " It is not night when I do see your face,\n" + " Therefore I think I am not in the night;\n" + " Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company,\n" + " For you in my respect are all the world:\n" + " Then how can it be said I am alone,\n" + " When all the world is here to look on me?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I'll run from thee and hide me in the brakes,\n" + " And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts.\n\n" + "HELENA The wildest hath not such a heart as you.\n" + " Run when you will, the story shall be changed:\n" + " Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;\n" + " The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind\n" + " Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,\n" + " When cowardice pursues and valour flies.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I will not stay thy questions; let me go:\n" + " Or, if thou follow me, do not believe\n" + " But I shall do thee mischief in the wood.\n\n" + "HELENA Ay, in the temple, in the town, the field,\n" + " You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius!\n" + " Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex:\n" + " We cannot fight for love, as men may do;\n" + " We should be wood and were not made to woo.\n\n" + " [Exit DEMETRIUS]\n\n" + " I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,\n" + " To die upon the hand I love so well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OBERON Fare thee well, nymph: ere he do leave this grove,\n" + " Thou shalt fly him and he shall seek thy love.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PUCK]\n\n" + " Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer.\n\n" + "PUCK Ay, there it is.\n\n" + "OBERON I pray thee, give it me.\n" + " I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,\n" + " Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,\n" + " Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,\n" + " With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:\n" + " There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,\n" + " Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight;\n" + " And there the snake throws her enamell'd skin,\n" + " Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:\n" + " And with the juice of this I'll streak her eyes,\n" + " And make her full of hateful fantasies.\n" + " Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:\n" + " A sweet Athenian lady is in love\n" + " With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;\n" + " But do it when the next thing he espies\n" + " May be the lady: thou shalt know the man\n" + " By the Athenian garments he hath on.\n" + " Effect it with some care, that he may prove\n" + " More fond on her than she upon her love:\n" + " And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow.\n\n" + "PUCK Fear not, my lord, your servant shall do so.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another part of the wood.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TITANIA, with her train]\n\n" + "TITANIA Come, now a roundel and a fairy song;\n" + " Then, for the third part of a minute, hence;\n" + " Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,\n" + " Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,\n" + " To make my small elves coats, and some keep back\n" + " The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders\n" + " At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep;\n" + " Then to your offices and let me rest.\n\n" + " [The Fairies sing]\n\n" + " You spotted snakes with double tongue,\n" + " Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;\n" + " Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong,\n" + " Come not near our fairy queen.\n" + " Philomel, with melody\n" + " Sing in our sweet lullaby;\n" + " Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby:\n" + " Never harm,\n" + " Nor spell nor charm,\n" + " Come our lovely lady nigh;\n" + " So, good night, with lullaby.\n" + " Weaving spiders, come not here;\n" + " Hence, you long-legg'd spinners, hence!\n" + " Beetles black, approach not near;\n" + " Worm nor snail, do no offence.\n" + " Philomel, with melody, &c.\n\n" + "Fairy Hence, away! now all is well:\n" + " One aloof stand sentinel.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Fairies. TITANIA sleeps]\n\n" + " [Enter OBERON and squeezes the flower on TITANIA's eyelids]\n\n" + "OBERON What thou seest when thou dost wake,\n" + " Do it for thy true-love take,\n" + " Love and languish for his sake:\n" + " Be it ounce, or cat, or bear,\n" + " Pard, or boar with bristled hair,\n" + " In thy eye that shall appear\n" + " When thou wakest, it is thy dear:\n" + " Wake when some vile thing is near.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter LYSANDER and HERMIA]\n\n" + "LYSANDER Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood;\n" + " And to speak troth, I have forgot our way:\n" + " We'll rest us, Hermia, if you think it good,\n" + " And tarry for the comfort of the day.\n\n" + "HERMIA Be it so, Lysander: find you out a bed;\n" + " For I upon this bank will rest my head.\n\n" + "LYSANDER One turf shall serve as pillow for us both;\n" + " One heart, one bed, two bosoms and one troth.\n\n" + "HERMIA Nay, good Lysander; for my sake, my dear,\n" + " Lie further off yet, do not lie so near.\n\n" + "LYSANDER O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence!\n" + " Love takes the meaning in love's conference.\n" + " I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit\n" + " So that but one heart we can make of it;\n" + " Two bosoms interchained with an oath;\n" + " So then two bosoms and a single troth.\n" + " Then by your side no bed-room me deny;\n" + " For lying so, Hermia, I do not lie.\n\n" + "HERMIA Lysander riddles very prettily:\n" + " Now much beshrew my manners and my pride,\n" + " If Hermia meant to say Lysander lied.\n" + " But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy\n" + " Lie further off; in human modesty,\n" + " Such separation as may well be said\n" + " Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,\n" + " So far be distant; and, good night, sweet friend:\n" + " Thy love ne'er alter till thy sweet life end!\n\n" + "LYSANDER Amen, amen, to that fair prayer, say I;\n" + " And then end life when I end loyalty!\n" + " Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest!\n\n" + "HERMIA With half that wish the wisher's eyes be press'd!\n\n" + " [They sleep]\n\n" + " [Enter PUCK]\n\n" + "PUCK Through the forest have I gone.\n" + " But Athenian found I none,\n" + " On whose eyes I might approve\n" + " This flower's force in stirring love.\n" + " Night and silence.--Who is here?\n" + " Weeds of Athens he doth wear:\n" + " This is he, my master said,\n" + " Despised the Athenian maid;\n" + " And here the maiden, sleeping sound,\n" + " On the dank and dirty ground.\n" + " Pretty soul! she durst not lie\n" + " Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.\n" + " Churl, upon thy eyes I throw\n" + " All the power this charm doth owe.\n" + " When thou wakest, let love forbid\n" + " Sleep his seat on thy eyelid:\n" + " So awake when I am gone;\n" + " For I must now to Oberon.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter DEMETRIUS and HELENA, running]\n\n" + "HELENA Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.\n\n" + "HELENA O, wilt thou darkling leave me? do not so.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Stay, on thy peril: I alone will go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HELENA O, I am out of breath in this fond chase!\n" + " The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace.\n" + " Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies;\n" + " For she hath blessed and attractive eyes.\n" + " How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears:\n" + " If so, my eyes are oftener wash'd than hers.\n" + " No, no, I am as ugly as a bear;\n" + " For beasts that meet me run away for fear:\n" + " Therefore no marvel though Demetrius\n" + " Do, as a monster fly my presence thus.\n" + " What wicked and dissembling glass of mine\n" + " Made me compare with Hermia's sphery eyne?\n" + " But who is here? Lysander! on the ground!\n" + " Dead? or asleep? I see no blood, no wound.\n" + " Lysander if you live, good sir, awake.\n\n" + "LYSANDER [Awaking] And run through fire I will for thy sweet sake.\n" + " Transparent Helena! Nature shows art,\n" + " That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.\n" + " Where is Demetrius? O, how fit a word\n" + " Is that vile name to perish on my sword!\n\n" + "HELENA Do not say so, Lysander; say not so\n" + " What though he love your Hermia? Lord, what though?\n" + " Yet Hermia still loves you: then be content.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Content with Hermia! No; I do repent\n" + " The tedious minutes I with her have spent.\n" + " Not Hermia but Helena I love:\n" + " Who will not change a raven for a dove?\n" + " The will of man is by his reason sway'd;\n" + " And reason says you are the worthier maid.\n" + " Things growing are not ripe until their season\n" + " So I, being young, till now ripe not to reason;\n" + " And touching now the point of human skill,\n" + " Reason becomes the marshal to my will\n" + " And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook\n" + " Love's stories written in love's richest book.\n\n" + "HELENA Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born?\n" + " When at your hands did I deserve this scorn?\n" + " Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man,\n" + " That I did never, no, nor never can,\n" + " Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye,\n" + " But you must flout my insufficiency?\n" + " Good troth, you do me wrong, good sooth, you do,\n" + " In such disdainful manner me to woo.\n" + " But fare you well: perforce I must confess\n" + " I thought you lord of more true gentleness.\n" + " O, that a lady, of one man refused.\n" + " Should of another therefore be abused!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LYSANDER She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there:\n" + " And never mayst thou come Lysander near!\n" + " For as a surfeit of the sweetest things\n" + " The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,\n" + " Or as tie heresies that men do leave\n" + " Are hated most of those they did deceive,\n" + " So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,\n" + " Of all be hated, but the most of me!\n" + " And, all my powers, address your love and might\n" + " To honour Helen and to be her knight!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HERMIA [Awaking] Help me, Lysander, help me! do thy best\n" + " To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast!\n" + " Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here!\n" + " Lysander, look how I do quake with fear:\n" + " Methought a serpent eat my heart away,\n" + " And you sat smiling at his cruel pray.\n" + " Lysander! what, removed? Lysander! lord!\n" + " What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no word?\n" + " Alack, where are you speak, an if you hear;\n" + " Speak, of all loves! I swoon almost with fear.\n" + " No? then I well perceive you all not nigh\n" + " Either death or you I'll find immediately.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The wood. TITANIA lying asleep.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUINCE, SNUG, BOTTOM, FLUTE, SNOUT, and\n" + " STARVELING]\n\n" + "BOTTOM Are we all met?\n\n" + "QUINCE Pat, pat; and here's a marvellous convenient place\n" + " for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our\n" + " stage, this hawthorn-brake our tiring-house; and we\n" + " will do it in action as we will do it before the duke.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Peter Quince,--\n\n" + "QUINCE What sayest thou, bully Bottom?\n\n" + "BOTTOM There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and\n" + " Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must\n" + " draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladies\n" + " cannot abide. How answer you that?\n\n" + "SNOUT By'r lakin, a parlous fear.\n\n" + "STARVELING I believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Not a whit: I have a device to make all well.\n" + " Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem to\n" + " say, we will do no harm with our swords, and that\n" + " Pyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the more\n" + " better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not\n" + " Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put them\n" + " out of fear.\n\n" + "QUINCE Well, we will have such a prologue; and it shall be\n" + " written in eight and six.\n\n" + "BOTTOM No, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.\n\n" + "SNOUT Will not the ladies be afeard of the lion?\n\n" + "STARVELING I fear it, I promise you.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Masters, you ought to consider with yourselves: to\n" + " bring in--God shield us!--a lion among ladies, is a\n" + " most dreadful thing; for there is not a more fearful\n" + " wild-fowl than your lion living; and we ought to\n" + " look to 't.\n\n" + "SNOUT Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Nay, you must name his name, and half his face must\n" + " be seen through the lion's neck: and he himself\n" + " must speak through, saying thus, or to the same\n" + " defect,--'Ladies,'--or 'Fair-ladies--I would wish\n" + " You,'--or 'I would request you,'--or 'I would\n" + " entreat you,--not to fear, not to tremble: my life\n" + " for yours. If you think I come hither as a lion, it\n" + " were pity of my life: no I am no such thing; I am a\n" + " man as other men are;' and there indeed let him name\n" + " his name, and tell them plainly he is Snug the joiner.\n\n" + "QUINCE Well it shall be so. But there is two hard things;\n" + " that is, to bring the moonlight into a chamber; for,\n" + " you know, Pyramus and Thisby meet by moonlight.\n\n" + "SNOUT Doth the moon shine that night we play our play?\n\n" + "BOTTOM A calendar, a calendar! look in the almanac; find\n" + " out moonshine, find out moonshine.\n\n" + "QUINCE Yes, it doth shine that night.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Why, then may you leave a casement of the great\n" + " chamber window, where we play, open, and the moon\n" + " may shine in at the casement.\n\n" + "QUINCE Ay; or else one must come in with a bush of thorns\n" + " and a lanthorn, and say he comes to disfigure, or to\n" + " present, the person of Moonshine. Then, there is\n" + " another thing: we must have a wall in the great\n" + " chamber; for Pyramus and Thisby says the story, did\n" + " talk through the chink of a wall.\n\n" + "SNOUT You can never bring in a wall. What say you, Bottom?\n\n" + "BOTTOM Some man or other must present Wall: and let him\n" + " have some plaster, or some loam, or some rough-cast\n" + " about him, to signify wall; and let him hold his\n" + " fingers thus, and through that cranny shall Pyramus\n" + " and Thisby whisper.\n\n" + "QUINCE If that may be, then all is well. Come, sit down,\n" + " every mother's son, and rehearse your parts.\n" + " Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your\n" + " speech, enter into that brake: and so every one\n" + " according to his cue.\n\n" + " [Enter PUCK behind]\n\n" + "PUCK What hempen home-spuns have we swaggering here,\n" + " So near the cradle of the fairy queen?\n" + " What, a play toward! I'll be an auditor;\n" + " An actor too, perhaps, if I see cause.\n\n" + "QUINCE Speak, Pyramus. Thisby, stand forth.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Thisby, the flowers of odious savours sweet,--\n\n" + "QUINCE Odours, odours.\n\n" + "BOTTOM --odours savours sweet:\n" + " So hath thy breath, my dearest Thisby dear.\n" + " But hark, a voice! stay thou but here awhile,\n" + " And by and by I will to thee appear.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PUCK A stranger Pyramus than e'er played here.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FLUTE Must I speak now?\n\n" + "QUINCE Ay, marry, must you; for you must understand he goes\n" + " but to see a noise that he heard, and is to come again.\n\n" + "FLUTE Most radiant Pyramus, most lily-white of hue,\n" + " Of colour like the red rose on triumphant brier,\n" + " Most brisky juvenal and eke most lovely Jew,\n" + " As true as truest horse that yet would never tire,\n" + " I'll meet thee, Pyramus, at Ninny's tomb.\n\n" + "QUINCE 'Ninus' tomb,' man: why, you must not speak that\n" + " yet; that you answer to Pyramus: you speak all your\n" + " part at once, cues and all Pyramus enter: your cue\n" + " is past; it is, 'never tire.'\n\n" + "FLUTE O,--As true as truest horse, that yet would\n" + " never tire.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PUCK, and BOTTOM with an ass's head]\n\n" + "BOTTOM If I were fair, Thisby, I were only thine.\n\n" + "QUINCE O monstrous! O strange! we are haunted. Pray,\n" + " masters! fly, masters! Help!\n\n" + " [Exeunt QUINCE, SNUG, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]\n\n" + "PUCK I'll follow you, I'll lead you about a round,\n" + " Through bog, through bush, through brake, through brier:\n" + " Sometime a horse I'll be, sometime a hound,\n" + " A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire;\n" + " And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, and burn,\n" + " Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every turn.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BOTTOM Why do they run away? this is a knavery of them to\n" + " make me afeard.\n\n" + " [Re-enter SNOUT]\n\n" + "SNOUT O Bottom, thou art changed! what do I see on thee?\n\n" + "BOTTOM What do you see? you see an asshead of your own, do\n" + " you?\n\n" + " [Exit SNOUT]\n\n" + " [Re-enter QUINCE]\n\n" + "QUINCE Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art\n" + " translated.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BOTTOM I see their knavery: this is to make an ass of me;\n" + " to fright me, if they could. But I will not stir\n" + " from this place, do what they can: I will walk up\n" + " and down here, and I will sing, that they shall hear\n" + " I am not afraid.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " The ousel cock so black of hue,\n" + " With orange-tawny bill,\n" + " The throstle with his note so true,\n" + " The wren with little quill,--\n\n" + "TITANIA [Awaking] What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?\n\n" + "BOTTOM [Sings]\n\n" + " The finch, the sparrow and the lark,\n" + " The plain-song cuckoo gray,\n" + " Whose note full many a man doth mark,\n" + " And dares not answer nay;--\n" + " for, indeed, who would set his wit to so foolish\n" + " a bird? who would give a bird the lie, though he cry\n" + " 'cuckoo' never so?\n\n" + "TITANIA I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again:\n" + " Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note;\n" + " So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape;\n" + " And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth move me\n" + " On the first view to say, to swear, I love thee.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason\n" + " for that: and yet, to say the truth, reason and\n" + " love keep little company together now-a-days; the\n" + " more the pity that some honest neighbours will not\n" + " make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.\n\n" + "TITANIA Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Not so, neither: but if I had wit enough to get out\n" + " of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn.\n\n" + "TITANIA Out of this wood do not desire to go:\n" + " Thou shalt remain here, whether thou wilt or no.\n" + " I am a spirit of no common rate;\n" + " The summer still doth tend upon my state;\n" + " And I do love thee: therefore, go with me;\n" + " I'll give thee fairies to attend on thee,\n" + " And they shall fetch thee jewels from the deep,\n" + " And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep;\n" + " And I will purge thy mortal grossness so\n" + " That thou shalt like an airy spirit go.\n" + " Peaseblossom! Cobweb! Moth! and Mustardseed!\n\n" + " [Enter PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH, and MUSTARDSEED]\n\n" + "PEASEBLOSSOM Ready.\n\n" + "COBWEB And I.\n\n" + "MOTH And I.\n\n" + "MUSTARDSEED And I.\n\n" + "ALL Where shall we go?\n\n" + "TITANIA Be kind and courteous to this gentleman;\n" + " Hop in his walks and gambol in his eyes;\n" + " Feed him with apricocks and dewberries,\n" + " With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries;\n" + " The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees,\n" + " And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs\n" + " And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes,\n" + " To have my love to bed and to arise;\n" + " And pluck the wings from Painted butterflies\n" + " To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes:\n" + " Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies.\n\n" + "PEASEBLOSSOM Hail, mortal!\n\n" + "COBWEB Hail!\n\n" + "MOTH Hail!\n\n" + "MUSTARDSEED Hail!\n\n" + "BOTTOM I cry your worship's mercy, heartily: I beseech your\n" + " worship's name.\n\n" + "COBWEB Cobweb.\n\n" + "BOTTOM I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master\n" + " Cobweb: if I cut my finger, I shall make bold with\n" + " you. Your name, honest gentleman?\n\n" + "PEASEBLOSSOM Peaseblossom.\n\n" + "BOTTOM I pray you, commend me to Mistress Squash, your\n" + " mother, and to Master Peascod, your father. Good\n" + " Master Peaseblossom, I shall desire you of more\n" + " acquaintance too. Your name, I beseech you, sir?\n\n" + "MUSTARDSEED Mustardseed.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well:\n" + " that same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath\n" + " devoured many a gentleman of your house: I promise\n" + " you your kindred had made my eyes water ere now. I\n" + " desire your more acquaintance, good Master\n" + " Mustardseed.\n\n" + "TITANIA Come, wait upon him; lead him to my bower.\n" + " The moon methinks looks with a watery eye;\n" + " And when she weeps, weeps every little flower,\n" + " Lamenting some enforced chastity.\n" + " Tie up my love's tongue bring him silently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another part of the wood.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OBERON]\n\n" + "OBERON I wonder if Titania be awaked;\n" + " Then, what it was that next came in her eye,\n" + " Which she must dote on in extremity.\n\n" + " [Enter PUCK]\n\n" + " Here comes my messenger.\n" + " How now, mad spirit!\n" + " What night-rule now about this haunted grove?\n\n" + "PUCK My mistress with a monster is in love.\n" + " Near to her close and consecrated bower,\n" + " While she was in her dull and sleeping hour,\n" + " A crew of patches, rude mechanicals,\n" + " That work for bread upon Athenian stalls,\n" + " Were met together to rehearse a play\n" + " Intended for great Theseus' nuptial-day.\n" + " The shallowest thick-skin of that barren sort,\n" + " Who Pyramus presented, in their sport\n" + " Forsook his scene and enter'd in a brake\n" + " When I did him at this advantage take,\n" + " An ass's nole I fixed on his head:\n" + " Anon his Thisbe must be answered,\n" + " And forth my mimic comes. When they him spy,\n" + " As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,\n" + " Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,\n" + " Rising and cawing at the gun's report,\n" + " Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky,\n" + " So, at his sight, away his fellows fly;\n" + " And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one falls;\n" + " He murder cries and help from Athens calls.\n" + " Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears\n" + " thus strong,\n" + " Made senseless things begin to do them wrong;\n" + " For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch;\n" + " Some sleeves, some hats, from yielders all\n" + " things catch.\n" + " I led them on in this distracted fear,\n" + " And left sweet Pyramus translated there:\n" + " When in that moment, so it came to pass,\n" + " Titania waked and straightway loved an ass.\n\n" + "OBERON This falls out better than I could devise.\n" + " But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes\n" + " With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?\n\n" + "PUCK I took him sleeping,--that is finish'd too,--\n" + " And the Athenian woman by his side:\n" + " That, when he waked, of force she must be eyed.\n\n" + " [Enter HERMIA and DEMETRIUS]\n\n" + "OBERON Stand close: this is the same Athenian.\n\n" + "PUCK This is the woman, but not this the man.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS O, why rebuke you him that loves you so?\n" + " Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe.\n\n" + "HERMIA Now I but chide; but I should use thee worse,\n" + " For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to curse,\n" + " If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep,\n" + " Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the deep,\n" + " And kill me too.\n" + " The sun was not so true unto the day\n" + " As he to me: would he have stolen away\n" + " From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon\n" + " This whole earth may be bored and that the moon\n" + " May through the centre creep and so displease\n" + " Her brother's noontide with Antipodes.\n" + " It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him;\n" + " So should a murderer look, so dead, so grim.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS So should the murder'd look, and so should I,\n" + " Pierced through the heart with your stern cruelty:\n" + " Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear,\n" + " As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere.\n\n" + "HERMIA What's this to my Lysander? where is he?\n" + " Ah, good Demetrius, wilt thou give him me?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.\n\n" + "HERMIA Out, dog! out, cur! thou drivest me past the bounds\n" + " Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him, then?\n" + " Henceforth be never number'd among men!\n" + " O, once tell true, tell true, even for my sake!\n" + " Durst thou have look'd upon him being awake,\n" + " And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O brave touch!\n" + " Could not a worm, an adder, do so much?\n" + " An adder did it; for with doubler tongue\n" + " Than thine, thou serpent, never adder stung.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS You spend your passion on a misprised mood:\n" + " I am not guilty of Lysander's blood;\n" + " Nor is he dead, for aught that I can tell.\n\n" + "HERMIA I pray thee, tell me then that he is well.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS An if I could, what should I get therefore?\n\n" + "HERMIA A privilege never to see me more.\n" + " And from thy hated presence part I so:\n" + " See me no more, whether he be dead or no.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS There is no following her in this fierce vein:\n" + " Here therefore for a while I will remain.\n" + " So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow\n" + " For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe:\n" + " Which now in some slight measure it will pay,\n" + " If for his tender here I make some stay.\n\n" + " [Lies down and sleeps]\n\n" + "OBERON What hast thou done? thou hast mistaken quite\n" + " And laid the love-juice on some true-love's sight:\n" + " Of thy misprision must perforce ensue\n" + " Some true love turn'd and not a false turn'd true.\n\n" + "PUCK Then fate o'er-rules, that, one man holding troth,\n" + " A million fail, confounding oath on oath.\n\n" + "OBERON About the wood go swifter than the wind,\n" + " And Helena of Athens look thou find:\n" + " All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer,\n" + " With sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear:\n" + " By some illusion see thou bring her here:\n" + " I'll charm his eyes against she do appear.\n\n" + "PUCK I go, I go; look how I go,\n" + " Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OBERON Flower of this purple dye,\n" + " Hit with Cupid's archery,\n" + " Sink in apple of his eye.\n" + " When his love he doth espy,\n" + " Let her shine as gloriously\n" + " As the Venus of the sky.\n" + " When thou wakest, if she be by,\n" + " Beg of her for remedy.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PUCK]\n\n" + "PUCK Captain of our fairy band,\n" + " Helena is here at hand;\n" + " And the youth, mistook by me,\n" + " Pleading for a lover's fee.\n" + " Shall we their fond pageant see?\n" + " Lord, what fools these mortals be!\n\n" + "OBERON Stand aside: the noise they make\n" + " Will cause Demetrius to awake.\n\n" + "PUCK Then will two at once woo one;\n" + " That must needs be sport alone;\n" + " And those things do best please me\n" + " That befal preposterously.\n\n" + " [Enter LYSANDER and HELENA]\n\n" + "LYSANDER Why should you think that I should woo in scorn?\n" + " Scorn and derision never come in tears:\n" + " Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born,\n" + " In their nativity all truth appears.\n" + " How can these things in me seem scorn to you,\n" + " Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?\n\n" + "HELENA You do advance your cunning more and more.\n" + " When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray!\n" + " These vows are Hermia's: will you give her o'er?\n" + " Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh:\n" + " Your vows to her and me, put in two scales,\n" + " Will even weigh, and both as light as tales.\n\n" + "LYSANDER I had no judgment when to her I swore.\n\n" + "HELENA Nor none, in my mind, now you give her o'er.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Demetrius loves her, and he loves not you.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS [Awaking] O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!\n" + " To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne?\n" + " Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show\n" + " Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!\n" + " That pure congealed white, high Taurus snow,\n" + " Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow\n" + " When thou hold'st up thy hand: O, let me kiss\n" + " This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss!\n\n" + "HELENA O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent\n" + " To set against me for your merriment:\n" + " If you we re civil and knew courtesy,\n" + " You would not do me thus much injury.\n" + " Can you not hate me, as I know you do,\n" + " But you must join in souls to mock me too?\n" + " If you were men, as men you are in show,\n" + " You would not use a gentle lady so;\n" + " To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,\n" + " When I am sure you hate me with your hearts.\n" + " You both are rivals, and love Hermia;\n" + " And now both rivals, to mock Helena:\n" + " A trim exploit, a manly enterprise,\n" + " To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes\n" + " With your derision! none of noble sort\n" + " Would so offend a virgin, and extort\n" + " A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport.\n\n" + "LYSANDER You are unkind, Demetrius; be not so;\n" + " For you love Hermia; this you know I know:\n" + " And here, with all good will, with all my heart,\n" + " In Hermia's love I yield you up my part;\n" + " And yours of Helena to me bequeath,\n" + " Whom I do love and will do till my death.\n\n" + "HELENA Never did mockers waste more idle breath.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Lysander, keep thy Hermia; I will none:\n" + " If e'er I loved her, all that love is gone.\n" + " My heart to her but as guest-wise sojourn'd,\n" + " And now to Helen is it home return'd,\n" + " There to remain.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Helen, it is not so.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Disparage not the faith thou dost not know,\n" + " Lest, to thy peril, thou aby it dear.\n" + " Look, where thy love comes; yonder is thy dear.\n\n" + " [Re-enter HERMIA]\n\n" + "HERMIA Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,\n" + " The ear more quick of apprehension makes;\n" + " Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense,\n" + " It pays the hearing double recompense.\n" + " Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found;\n" + " Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound\n" + " But why unkindly didst thou leave me so?\n\n" + "LYSANDER Why should he stay, whom love doth press to go?\n\n" + "HERMIA What love could press Lysander from my side?\n\n" + "LYSANDER Lysander's love, that would not let him bide,\n" + " Fair Helena, who more engilds the night\n" + " Than all you fiery oes and eyes of light.\n" + " Why seek'st thou me? could not this make thee know,\n" + " The hate I bear thee made me leave thee so?\n\n" + "HERMIA You speak not as you think: it cannot be.\n\n" + "HELENA Lo, she is one of this confederacy!\n" + " Now I perceive they have conjoin'd all three\n" + " To fashion this false sport, in spite of me.\n" + " Injurious Hermia! most ungrateful maid!\n" + " Have you conspired, have you with these contrived\n" + " To bait me with this foul derision?\n" + " Is all the counsel that we two have shared,\n" + " The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent,\n" + " When we have chid the hasty-footed time\n" + " For parting us,--O, is it all forgot?\n" + " All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?\n" + " We, Hermia, like two artificial gods,\n" + " Have with our needles created both one flower,\n" + " Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion,\n" + " Both warbling of one song, both in one key,\n" + " As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds,\n" + " Had been incorporate. So we grow together,\n" + " Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,\n" + " But yet an union in partition;\n" + " Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;\n" + " So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;\n" + " Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,\n" + " Due but to one and crowned with one crest.\n" + " And will you rent our ancient love asunder,\n" + " To join with men in scorning your poor friend?\n" + " It is not friendly, 'tis not maidenly:\n" + " Our sex, as well as I, may chide you for it,\n" + " Though I alone do feel the injury.\n\n" + "HERMIA I am amazed at your passionate words.\n" + " I scorn you not: it seems that you scorn me.\n\n" + "HELENA Have you not set Lysander, as in scorn,\n" + " To follow me and praise my eyes and face?\n" + " And made your other love, Demetrius,\n" + " Who even but now did spurn me with his foot,\n" + " To call me goddess, nymph, divine and rare,\n" + " Precious, celestial? Wherefore speaks he this\n" + " To her he hates? and wherefore doth Lysander\n" + " Deny your love, so rich within his soul,\n" + " And tender me, forsooth, affection,\n" + " But by your setting on, by your consent?\n" + " What thought I be not so in grace as you,\n" + " So hung upon with love, so fortunate,\n" + " But miserable most, to love unloved?\n" + " This you should pity rather than despise.\n\n" + "HERNIA I understand not what you mean by this.\n\n" + "HELENA Ay, do, persever, counterfeit sad looks,\n" + " Make mouths upon me when I turn my back;\n" + " Wink each at other; hold the sweet jest up:\n" + " This sport, well carried, shall be chronicled.\n" + " If you have any pity, grace, or manners,\n" + " You would not make me such an argument.\n" + " But fare ye well: 'tis partly my own fault;\n" + " Which death or absence soon shall remedy.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Stay, gentle Helena; hear my excuse:\n" + " My love, my life my soul, fair Helena!\n\n" + "HELENA O excellent!\n\n" + "HERMIA Sweet, do not scorn her so.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS If she cannot entreat, I can compel.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Thou canst compel no more than she entreat:\n" + " Thy threats have no more strength than her weak prayers.\n" + " Helen, I love thee; by my life, I do:\n" + " I swear by that which I will lose for thee,\n" + " To prove him false that says I love thee not.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I say I love thee more than he can do.\n\n" + "LYSANDER If thou say so, withdraw, and prove it too.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Quick, come!\n\n" + "HERMIA Lysander, whereto tends all this?\n\n" + "LYSANDER Away, you Ethiope!\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS No, no; he'll [ ]\n" + " Seem to break loose; take on as you would follow,\n" + " But yet come not: you are a tame man, go!\n\n" + "LYSANDER Hang off, thou cat, thou burr! vile thing, let loose,\n" + " Or I will shake thee from me like a serpent!\n\n" + "HERMIA Why are you grown so rude? what change is this?\n" + " Sweet love,--\n\n" + "LYSANDER Thy love! out, tawny Tartar, out!\n" + " Out, loathed medicine! hated potion, hence!\n\n" + "HERMIA Do you not jest?\n\n" + "HELENA Yes, sooth; and so do you.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Demetrius, I will keep my word with thee.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I would I had your bond, for I perceive\n" + " A weak bond holds you: I'll not trust your word.\n\n" + "LYSANDER What, should I hurt her, strike her, kill her dead?\n" + " Although I hate her, I'll not harm her so.\n\n" + "HERMIA What, can you do me greater harm than hate?\n" + " Hate me! wherefore? O me! what news, my love!\n" + " Am not I Hermia? are not you Lysander?\n" + " I am as fair now as I was erewhile.\n" + " Since night you loved me; yet since night you left\n" + " me:\n" + " Why, then you left me--O, the gods forbid!--\n" + " In earnest, shall I say?\n\n" + "LYSANDER Ay, by my life;\n" + " And never did desire to see thee more.\n" + " Therefore be out of hope, of question, of doubt;\n" + " Be certain, nothing truer; 'tis no jest\n" + " That I do hate thee and love Helena.\n\n" + "HERMIA O me! you juggler! you canker-blossom!\n" + " You thief of love! what, have you come by night\n" + " And stolen my love's heart from him?\n\n" + "HELENA Fine, i'faith!\n" + " Have you no modesty, no maiden shame,\n" + " No touch of bashfulness? What, will you tear\n" + " Impatient answers from my gentle tongue?\n" + " Fie, fie! you counterfeit, you puppet, you!\n\n" + "HERMIA Puppet? why so? ay, that way goes the game.\n" + " Now I perceive that she hath made compare\n" + " Between our statures; she hath urged her height;\n" + " And with her personage, her tall personage,\n" + " Her height, forsooth, she hath prevail'd with him.\n" + " And are you grown so high in his esteem;\n" + " Because I am so dwarfish and so low?\n" + " How low am I, thou painted maypole? speak;\n" + " How low am I? I am not yet so low\n" + " But that my nails can reach unto thine eyes.\n\n" + "HELENA I pray you, though you mock me, gentlemen,\n" + " Let her not hurt me: I was never curst;\n" + " I have no gift at all in shrewishness;\n" + " I am a right maid for my cowardice:\n" + " Let her not strike me. You perhaps may think,\n" + " Because she is something lower than myself,\n" + " That I can match her.\n\n" + "HERMIA Lower! hark, again.\n\n" + "HELENA Good Hermia, do not be so bitter with me.\n" + " I evermore did love you, Hermia,\n" + " Did ever keep your counsels, never wrong'd you;\n" + " Save that, in love unto Demetrius,\n" + " I told him of your stealth unto this wood.\n" + " He follow'd you; for love I follow'd him;\n" + " But he hath chid me hence and threaten'd me\n" + " To strike me, spurn me, nay, to kill me too:\n" + " And now, so you will let me quiet go,\n" + " To Athens will I bear my folly back\n" + " And follow you no further: let me go:\n" + " You see how simple and how fond I am.\n\n" + "HERMIA Why, get you gone: who is't that hinders you?\n\n" + "HELENA A foolish heart, that I leave here behind.\n\n" + "HERMIA What, with Lysander?\n\n" + "HELENA With Demetrius.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Be not afraid; she shall not harm thee, Helena.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS No, sir, she shall not, though you take her part.\n\n" + "HELENA O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd!\n" + " She was a vixen when she went to school;\n" + " And though she be but little, she is fierce.\n\n" + "HERMIA 'Little' again! nothing but 'low' and 'little'!\n" + " Why will you suffer her to flout me thus?\n" + " Let me come to her.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Get you gone, you dwarf;\n" + " You minimus, of hindering knot-grass made;\n" + " You bead, you acorn.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS You are too officious\n" + " In her behalf that scorns your services.\n" + " Let her alone: speak not of Helena;\n" + " Take not her part; for, if thou dost intend\n" + " Never so little show of love to her,\n" + " Thou shalt aby it.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Now she holds me not;\n" + " Now follow, if thou darest, to try whose right,\n" + " Of thine or mine, is most in Helena.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Follow! nay, I'll go with thee, cheek by jole.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LYSANDER and DEMETRIUS]\n\n" + "HERMIA You, mistress, all this coil is 'long of you:\n" + " Nay, go not back.\n\n" + "HELENA I will not trust you, I,\n" + " Nor longer stay in your curst company.\n" + " Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray,\n" + " My legs are longer though, to run away.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HERMIA I am amazed, and know not what to say.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OBERON This is thy negligence: still thou mistakest,\n" + " Or else committ'st thy knaveries wilfully.\n\n" + "PUCK Believe me, king of shadows, I mistook.\n" + " Did not you tell me I should know the man\n" + " By the Athenian garment be had on?\n" + " And so far blameless proves my enterprise,\n" + " That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes;\n" + " And so far am I glad it so did sort\n" + " As this their jangling I esteem a sport.\n\n" + "OBERON Thou see'st these lovers seek a place to fight:\n" + " Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night;\n" + " The starry welkin cover thou anon\n" + " With drooping fog as black as Acheron,\n" + " And lead these testy rivals so astray\n" + " As one come not within another's way.\n" + " Like to Lysander sometime frame thy tongue,\n" + " Then stir Demetrius up with bitter wrong;\n" + " And sometime rail thou like Demetrius;\n" + " And from each other look thou lead them thus,\n" + " Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep\n" + " With leaden legs and batty wings doth creep:\n" + " Then crush this herb into Lysander's eye;\n" + " Whose liquor hath this virtuous property,\n" + " To take from thence all error with his might,\n" + " And make his eyeballs roll with wonted sight.\n" + " When they next wake, all this derision\n" + " Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision,\n" + " And back to Athens shall the lovers wend,\n" + " With league whose date till death shall never end.\n" + " Whiles I in this affair do thee employ,\n" + " I'll to my queen and beg her Indian boy;\n" + " And then I will her charmed eye release\n" + " From monster's view, and all things shall be peace.\n\n" + "PUCK My fairy lord, this must be done with haste,\n" + " For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,\n" + " And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;\n" + " At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,\n" + " Troop home to churchyards: damned spirits all,\n" + " That in crossways and floods have burial,\n" + " Already to their wormy beds are gone;\n" + " For fear lest day should look their shames upon,\n" + " They willfully themselves exile from light\n" + " And must for aye consort with black-brow'd night.\n\n" + "OBERON But we are spirits of another sort:\n" + " I with the morning's love have oft made sport,\n" + " And, like a forester, the groves may tread,\n" + " Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red,\n" + " Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams,\n" + " Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams.\n" + " But, notwithstanding, haste; make no delay:\n" + " We may effect this business yet ere day.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PUCK Up and down, up and down,\n" + " I will lead them up and down:\n" + " I am fear'd in field and town:\n" + " Goblin, lead them up and down.\n" + " Here comes one.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LYSANDER]\n\n" + "LYSANDER Where art thou, proud Demetrius? speak thou now.\n\n" + "PUCK Here, villain; drawn and ready. Where art thou?\n\n" + "LYSANDER I will be with thee straight.\n\n" + "PUCK Follow me, then,\n" + " To plainer ground.\n\n" + " [Exit LYSANDER, as following the voice]\n\n" + " [Re-enter DEMETRIUS]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Lysander! speak again:\n" + " Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled?\n" + " Speak! In some bush? Where dost thou hide thy head?\n\n" + "PUCK Thou coward, art thou bragging to the stars,\n" + " Telling the bushes that thou look'st for wars,\n" + " And wilt not come? Come, recreant; come, thou child;\n" + " I'll whip thee with a rod: he is defiled\n" + " That draws a sword on thee.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Yea, art thou there?\n\n" + "PUCK Follow my voice: we'll try no manhood here.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter LYSANDER]\n\n" + "LYSANDER He goes before me and still dares me on:\n" + " When I come where he calls, then he is gone.\n" + " The villain is much lighter-heel'd than I:\n" + " I follow'd fast, but faster he did fly;\n" + " That fallen am I in dark uneven way,\n" + " And here will rest me.\n\n" + " [Lies down]\n\n" + " Come, thou gentle day!\n" + " For if but once thou show me thy grey light,\n" + " I'll find Demetrius and revenge this spite.\n\n" + " [Sleeps]\n\n" + " [Re-enter PUCK and DEMETRIUS]\n\n" + "PUCK Ho, ho, ho! Coward, why comest thou not?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Abide me, if thou darest; for well I wot\n" + " Thou runn'st before me, shifting every place,\n" + " And darest not stand, nor look me in the face.\n" + " Where art thou now?\n\n" + "PUCK Come hither: I am here.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Nay, then, thou mock'st me. Thou shalt buy this dear,\n" + " If ever I thy face by daylight see:\n" + " Now, go thy way. Faintness constraineth me\n" + " To measure out my length on this cold bed.\n" + " By day's approach look to be visited.\n\n" + " [Lies down and sleeps]\n\n" + " [Re-enter HELENA]\n\n" + "HELENA O weary night, O long and tedious night,\n" + " Abate thy hour! Shine comforts from the east,\n" + " That I may back to Athens by daylight,\n" + " From these that my poor company detest:\n" + " And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye,\n" + " Steal me awhile from mine own company.\n\n" + " [Lies down and sleeps]\n\n" + "PUCK Yet but three? Come one more;\n" + " Two of both kinds make up four.\n" + " Here she comes, curst and sad:\n" + " Cupid is a knavish lad,\n" + " Thus to make poor females mad.\n\n" + " [Re-enter HERMIA]\n\n" + "HERMIA Never so weary, never so in woe,\n" + " Bedabbled with the dew and torn with briers,\n" + " I can no further crawl, no further go;\n" + " My legs can keep no pace with my desires.\n" + " Here will I rest me till the break of day.\n" + " Heavens shield Lysander, if they mean a fray!\n\n" + " [Lies down and sleeps]\n\n" + "PUCK On the ground\n" + " Sleep sound:\n" + " I'll apply\n" + " To your eye,\n" + " Gentle lover, remedy.\n\n" + " [Squeezing the juice on LYSANDER's eyes]\n\n" + " When thou wakest,\n" + " Thou takest\n" + " True delight\n" + " In the sight\n" + " Of thy former lady's eye:\n" + " And the country proverb known,\n" + " That every man should take his own,\n" + " In your waking shall be shown:\n" + " Jack shall have Jill;\n" + " Nought shall go ill;\n" + " The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The same. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HELENA, and HERMIA\n" + " lying asleep.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TITANIA and BOTTOM; PEASEBLOSSOM, COBWEB, MOTH,\n" + " MUSTARDSEED, and other Fairies attending; OBERON\n" + " behind unseen]\n\n" + "TITANIA Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed,\n" + " While I thy amiable cheeks do coy,\n" + " And stick musk-roses in thy sleek smooth head,\n" + " And kiss thy fair large ears, my gentle joy.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Where's Peaseblossom?\n\n" + "PEASEBLOSSOM Ready.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Scratch my head Peaseblossom. Where's Mounsieur Cobweb?\n\n" + "COBWEB Ready.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your\n" + " weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipped\n" + " humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good\n" + " mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret\n" + " yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and,\n" + " good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not;\n" + " I would be loath to have you overflown with a\n" + " honey-bag, signior. Where's Mounsieur Mustardseed?\n\n" + "MUSTARDSEED Ready.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Give me your neaf, Mounsieur Mustardseed. Pray you,\n" + " leave your courtesy, good mounsieur.\n\n" + "MUSTARDSEED What's your Will?\n\n" + "BOTTOM Nothing, good mounsieur, but to help Cavalery Cobweb\n" + " to scratch. I must to the barber's, monsieur; for\n" + " methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face; and I\n" + " am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me,\n" + " I must scratch.\n\n" + "TITANIA What, wilt thou hear some music,\n" + " my sweet love?\n\n" + "BOTTOM I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let's have\n" + " the tongs and the bones.\n\n" + "TITANIA Or say, sweet love, what thou desirest to eat.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good\n" + " dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle\n" + " of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.\n\n" + "TITANIA I have a venturous fairy that shall seek\n" + " The squirrel's hoard, and fetch thee new nuts.\n\n" + "BOTTOM I had rather have a handful or two of dried peas.\n" + " But, I pray you, let none of your people stir me: I\n" + " have an exposition of sleep come upon me.\n\n" + "TITANIA Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms.\n" + " Fairies, begone, and be all ways away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt fairies]\n\n" + " So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle\n" + " Gently entwist; the female ivy so\n" + " Enrings the barky fingers of the elm.\n" + " O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!\n\n" + " [They sleep]\n\n" + " [Enter PUCK]\n\n" + "OBERON [Advancing] Welcome, good Robin.\n" + " See'st thou this sweet sight?\n" + " Her dotage now I do begin to pity:\n" + " For, meeting her of late behind the wood,\n" + " Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool,\n" + " I did upbraid her and fall out with her;\n" + " For she his hairy temples then had rounded\n" + " With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers;\n" + " And that same dew, which sometime on the buds\n" + " Was wont to swell like round and orient pearls,\n" + " Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes\n" + " Like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.\n" + " When I had at my pleasure taunted her\n" + " And she in mild terms begg'd my patience,\n" + " I then did ask of her her changeling child;\n" + " Which straight she gave me, and her fairy sent\n" + " To bear him to my bower in fairy land.\n" + " And now I have the boy, I will undo\n" + " This hateful imperfection of her eyes:\n" + " And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp\n" + " From off the head of this Athenian swain;\n" + " That, he awaking when the other do,\n" + " May all to Athens back again repair\n" + " And think no more of this night's accidents\n" + " But as the fierce vexation of a dream.\n" + " But first I will release the fairy queen.\n" + " Be as thou wast wont to be;\n" + " See as thou wast wont to see:\n" + " Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower\n" + " Hath such force and blessed power.\n" + " Now, my Titania; wake you, my sweet queen.\n\n" + "TITANIA My Oberon! what visions have I seen!\n" + " Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.\n\n" + "OBERON There lies your love.\n\n" + "TITANIA How came these things to pass?\n" + " O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!\n\n" + "OBERON Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head.\n" + " Titania, music call; and strike more dead\n" + " Than common sleep of all these five the sense.\n\n" + "TITANIA Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep!\n\n" + " [Music, still]\n\n" + "PUCK Now, when thou wakest, with thine\n" + " own fool's eyes peep.\n\n" + "OBERON Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me,\n" + " And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be.\n" + " Now thou and I are new in amity,\n" + " And will to-morrow midnight solemnly\n" + " Dance in Duke Theseus' house triumphantly,\n" + " And bless it to all fair prosperity:\n" + " There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be\n" + " Wedded, with Theseus, all in jollity.\n\n" + "PUCK Fairy king, attend, and mark:\n" + " I do hear the morning lark.\n\n" + "OBERON Then, my queen, in silence sad,\n" + " Trip we after the night's shade:\n" + " We the globe can compass soon,\n" + " Swifter than the wandering moon.\n\n" + "TITANIA Come, my lord, and in our flight\n" + " Tell me how it came this night\n" + " That I sleeping here was found\n" + " With these mortals on the ground.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Horns winded within]\n\n" + " [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train]\n\n" + "THESEUS Go, one of you, find out the forester;\n" + " For now our observation is perform'd;\n" + " And since we have the vaward of the day,\n" + " My love shall hear the music of my hounds.\n" + " Uncouple in the western valley; let them go:\n" + " Dispatch, I say, and find the forester.\n\n" + " [Exit an Attendant]\n\n" + " We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's top,\n" + " And mark the musical confusion\n" + " Of hounds and echo in conjunction.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA I was with Hercules and Cadmus once,\n" + " When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear\n" + " With hounds of Sparta: never did I hear\n" + " Such gallant chiding: for, besides the groves,\n" + " The skies, the fountains, every region near\n" + " Seem'd all one mutual cry: I never heard\n" + " So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.\n\n" + "THESEUS My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind,\n" + " So flew'd, so sanded, and their heads are hung\n" + " With ears that sweep away the morning dew;\n" + " Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls;\n" + " Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells,\n" + " Each under each. A cry more tuneable\n" + " Was never holla'd to, nor cheer'd with horn,\n" + " In Crete, in Sparta, nor in Thessaly:\n" + " Judge when you hear. But, soft! what nymphs are these?\n\n" + "EGEUS My lord, this is my daughter here asleep;\n" + " And this, Lysander; this Demetrius is;\n" + " This Helena, old Nedar's Helena:\n" + " I wonder of their being here together.\n\n" + "THESEUS No doubt they rose up early to observe\n" + " The rite of May, and hearing our intent,\n" + " Came here in grace our solemnity.\n" + " But speak, Egeus; is not this the day\n" + " That Hermia should give answer of her choice?\n\n" + "EGEUS It is, my lord.\n\n" + "THESEUS Go, bid the huntsmen wake them with their horns.\n\n" + " [Horns and shout within. LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS,\n" + " HELENA, and HERMIA wake and start up]\n\n" + " Good morrow, friends. Saint Valentine is past:\n" + " Begin these wood-birds but to couple now?\n\n" + "LYSANDER Pardon, my lord.\n\n" + "THESEUS I pray you all, stand up.\n" + " I know you two are rival enemies:\n" + " How comes this gentle concord in the world,\n" + " That hatred is so far from jealousy,\n" + " To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity?\n\n" + "LYSANDER My lord, I shall reply amazedly,\n" + " Half sleep, half waking: but as yet, I swear,\n" + " I cannot truly say how I came here;\n" + " But, as I think,--for truly would I speak,\n" + " And now do I bethink me, so it is,--\n" + " I came with Hermia hither: our intent\n" + " Was to be gone from Athens, where we might,\n" + " Without the peril of the Athenian law.\n\n" + "EGEUS Enough, enough, my lord; you have enough:\n" + " I beg the law, the law, upon his head.\n" + " They would have stolen away; they would, Demetrius,\n" + " Thereby to have defeated you and me,\n" + " You of your wife and me of my consent,\n" + " Of my consent that she should be your wife.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS My lord, fair Helen told me of their stealth,\n" + " Of this their purpose hither to this wood;\n" + " And I in fury hither follow'd them,\n" + " Fair Helena in fancy following me.\n" + " But, my good lord, I wot not by what power,--\n" + " But by some power it is,--my love to Hermia,\n" + " Melted as the snow, seems to me now\n" + " As the remembrance of an idle gaud\n" + " Which in my childhood I did dote upon;\n" + " And all the faith, the virtue of my heart,\n" + " The object and the pleasure of mine eye,\n" + " Is only Helena. To her, my lord,\n" + " Was I betroth'd ere I saw Hermia:\n" + " But, like in sickness, did I loathe this food;\n" + " But, as in health, come to my natural taste,\n" + " Now I do wish it, love it, long for it,\n" + " And will for evermore be true to it.\n\n" + "THESEUS Fair lovers, you are fortunately met:\n" + " Of this discourse we more will hear anon.\n" + " Egeus, I will overbear your will;\n" + " For in the temple by and by with us\n" + " These couples shall eternally be knit:\n" + " And, for the morning now is something worn,\n" + " Our purposed hunting shall be set aside.\n" + " Away with us to Athens; three and three,\n" + " We'll hold a feast in great solemnity.\n" + " Come, Hippolyta.\n\n" + " [Exeunt THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, EGEUS, and train]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS These things seem small and undistinguishable,\n" + "HERMIA Methinks I see these things with parted eye,\n" + " When every thing seems double.\n\n" + "HELENA So methinks:\n" + " And I have found Demetrius like a jewel,\n" + " Mine own, and not mine own.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Are you sure\n" + " That we are awake? It seems to me\n" + " That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think\n" + " The duke was here, and bid us follow him?\n\n" + "HERMIA Yea; and my father.\n\n" + "HELENA And Hippolyta.\n\n" + "LYSANDER And he did bid us follow to the temple.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Why, then, we are awake: let's follow him\n" + " And by the way let us recount our dreams.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + "BOTTOM [Awaking] When my cue comes, call me, and I will\n" + " answer: my next is, 'Most fair Pyramus.' Heigh-ho!\n" + " Peter Quince! Flute, the bellows-mender! Snout,\n" + " the tinker! Starveling! God's my life, stolen\n" + " hence, and left me asleep! I have had a most rare\n" + " vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to\n" + " say what dream it was: man is but an ass, if he go\n" + " about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there\n" + " is no man can tell what. Methought I was,--and\n" + " methought I had,--but man is but a patched fool, if\n" + " he will offer to say what methought I had. The eye\n" + " of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not\n" + " seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue\n" + " to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream\n" + " was. I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of\n" + " this dream: it shall be called Bottom's Dream,\n" + " because it hath no bottom; and I will sing it in the\n" + " latter end of a play, before the duke:\n" + " peradventure, to make it the more gracious, I shall\n" + " sing it at her death.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Athens. QUINCE'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter QUINCE, FLUTE, SNOUT, and STARVELING]\n\n" + "QUINCE Have you sent to Bottom's house? is he come home yet?\n\n" + "STARVELING He cannot be heard of. Out of doubt he is\n" + " transported.\n\n" + "FLUTE If he come not, then the play is marred: it goes\n" + " not forward, doth it?\n\n" + "QUINCE It is not possible: you have not a man in all\n" + " Athens able to discharge Pyramus but he.\n\n" + "FLUTE No, he hath simply the best wit of any handicraft\n" + " man in Athens.\n\n" + "QUINCE Yea and the best person too; and he is a very\n" + " paramour for a sweet voice.\n\n" + "FLUTE You must say 'paragon:' a paramour is, God bless us,\n" + " a thing of naught.\n\n" + " [Enter SNUG]\n\n" + "SNUG Masters, the duke is coming from the temple, and\n" + " there is two or three lords and ladies more married:\n" + " if our sport had gone forward, we had all been made\n" + " men.\n\n" + "FLUTE O sweet bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence a\n" + " day during his life; he could not have 'scaped\n" + " sixpence a day: an the duke had not given him\n" + " sixpence a day for playing Pyramus, I'll be hanged;\n" + " he would have deserved it: sixpence a day in\n" + " Pyramus, or nothing.\n\n" + " [Enter BOTTOM]\n\n" + "BOTTOM Where are these lads? where are these hearts?\n\n" + "QUINCE Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!\n\n" + "BOTTOM Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not\n" + " what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I\n" + " will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.\n\n" + "QUINCE Let us hear, sweet Bottom.\n\n" + "BOTTOM Not a word of me. All that I will tell you is, that\n" + " the duke hath dined. Get your apparel together,\n" + " good strings to your beards, new ribbons to your\n" + " pumps; meet presently at the palace; every man look\n" + " o'er his part; for the short and the long is, our\n" + " play is preferred. In any case, let Thisby have\n" + " clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion\n" + " pair his nails, for they shall hang out for the\n" + " lion's claws. And, most dear actors, eat no onions\n" + " nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I\n" + " do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet\n" + " comedy. No more words: away! go, away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Athens. The palace of THESEUS.\n\n\n" + " [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, Lords and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA 'Tis strange my Theseus, that these\n" + " lovers speak of.\n\n" + "THESEUS More strange than true: I never may believe\n" + " These antique fables, nor these fairy toys.\n" + " Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,\n" + " Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend\n" + " More than cool reason ever comprehends.\n" + " The lunatic, the lover and the poet\n" + " Are of imagination all compact:\n" + " One sees more devils than vast hell can hold,\n" + " That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic,\n" + " Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:\n" + " The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,\n" + " Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;\n" + " And as imagination bodies forth\n" + " The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen\n" + " Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing\n" + " A local habitation and a name.\n" + " Such tricks hath strong imagination,\n" + " That if it would but apprehend some joy,\n" + " It comprehends some bringer of that joy;\n" + " Or in the night, imagining some fear,\n" + " How easy is a bush supposed a bear!\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA But all the story of the night told over,\n" + " And all their minds transfigured so together,\n" + " More witnesseth than fancy's images\n" + " And grows to something of great constancy;\n" + " But, howsoever, strange and admirable.\n\n" + "THESEUS Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.\n\n" + " [Enter LYSANDER, DEMETRIUS, HERMIA, and HELENA]\n\n" + " Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love\n" + " Accompany your hearts!\n\n" + "LYSANDER More than to us\n" + " Wait in your royal walks, your board, your bed!\n\n" + "THESEUS Come now; what masques, what dances shall we have,\n" + " To wear away this long age of three hours\n" + " Between our after-supper and bed-time?\n" + " Where is our usual manager of mirth?\n" + " What revels are in hand? Is there no play,\n" + " To ease the anguish of a torturing hour?\n" + " Call Philostrate.\n\n" + "PHILOSTRATE Here, mighty Theseus.\n\n" + "THESEUS Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?\n" + " What masque? what music? How shall we beguile\n" + " The lazy time, if not with some delight?\n\n" + "PHILOSTRATE There is a brief how many sports are ripe:\n" + " Make choice of which your highness will see first.\n\n" + " [Giving a paper]\n\n" + "THESEUS [Reads] 'The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung\n" + " By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'\n" + " We'll none of that: that have I told my love,\n" + " In glory of my kinsman Hercules.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals,\n" + " Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage.'\n" + " That is an old device; and it was play'd\n" + " When I from Thebes came last a conqueror.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'The thrice three Muses mourning for the death\n" + " Of Learning, late deceased in beggary.'\n" + " That is some satire, keen and critical,\n" + " Not sorting with a nuptial ceremony.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus\n" + " And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth.'\n" + " Merry and tragical! tedious and brief!\n" + " That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow.\n" + " How shall we find the concord of this discord?\n\n" + "PHILOSTRATE A play there is, my lord, some ten words long,\n" + " Which is as brief as I have known a play;\n" + " But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,\n" + " Which makes it tedious; for in all the play\n" + " There is not one word apt, one player fitted:\n" + " And tragical, my noble lord, it is;\n" + " For Pyramus therein doth kill himself.\n" + " Which, when I saw rehearsed, I must confess,\n" + " Made mine eyes water; but more merry tears\n" + " The passion of loud laughter never shed.\n\n" + "THESEUS What are they that do play it?\n\n" + "PHILOSTRATE Hard-handed men that work in Athens here,\n" + " Which never labour'd in their minds till now,\n" + " And now have toil'd their unbreathed memories\n" + " With this same play, against your nuptial.\n\n" + "THESEUS And we will hear it.\n\n" + "PHILOSTRATE No, my noble lord;\n" + " It is not for you: I have heard it over,\n" + " And it is nothing, nothing in the world;\n" + " Unless you can find sport in their intents,\n" + " Extremely stretch'd and conn'd with cruel pain,\n" + " To do you service.\n\n" + "THESEUS I will hear that play;\n" + " For never anything can be amiss,\n" + " When simpleness and duty tender it.\n" + " Go, bring them in: and take your places, ladies.\n\n" + " [Exit PHILOSTRATE]\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA I love not to see wretchedness o'er charged\n" + " And duty in his service perishing.\n\n" + "THESEUS Why, gentle sweet, you shall see no such thing.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA He says they can do nothing in this kind.\n\n" + "THESEUS The kinder we, to give them thanks for nothing.\n" + " Our sport shall be to take what they mistake:\n" + " And what poor duty cannot do, noble respect\n" + " Takes it in might, not merit.\n" + " Where I have come, great clerks have purposed\n" + " To greet me with premeditated welcomes;\n" + " Where I have seen them shiver and look pale,\n" + " Make periods in the midst of sentences,\n" + " Throttle their practised accent in their fears\n" + " And in conclusion dumbly have broke off,\n" + " Not paying me a welcome. Trust me, sweet,\n" + " Out of this silence yet I pick'd a welcome;\n" + " And in the modesty of fearful duty\n" + " I read as much as from the rattling tongue\n" + " Of saucy and audacious eloquence.\n" + " Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity\n" + " In least speak most, to my capacity.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PHILOSTRATE]\n\n" + "PHILOSTRATE So please your grace, the Prologue is address'd.\n\n" + "THESEUS Let him approach.\n\n" + " [Flourish of trumpets]\n\n" + " [Enter QUINCE for the Prologue]\n\n" + "Prologue If we offend, it is with our good will.\n" + " That you should think, we come not to offend,\n" + " But with good will. To show our simple skill,\n" + " That is the true beginning of our end.\n" + " Consider then we come but in despite.\n" + " We do not come as minding to contest you,\n" + " Our true intent is. All for your delight\n" + " We are not here. That you should here repent you,\n" + " The actors are at hand and by their show\n" + " You shall know all that you are like to know.\n\n" + "THESEUS This fellow doth not stand upon points.\n\n" + "LYSANDER He hath rid his prologue like a rough colt; he knows\n" + " not the stop. A good moral, my lord: it is not\n" + " enough to speak, but to speak true.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA Indeed he hath played on his prologue like a child\n" + " on a recorder; a sound, but not in government.\n\n" + "THESEUS His speech, was like a tangled chain; nothing\n" + " impaired, but all disordered. Who is next?\n\n" + " [Enter Pyramus and Thisbe, Wall, Moonshine, and Lion]\n\n" + "Prologue Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show;\n" + " But wonder on, till truth make all things plain.\n" + " This man is Pyramus, if you would know;\n" + " This beauteous lady Thisby is certain.\n" + " This man, with lime and rough-cast, doth present\n" + " Wall, that vile Wall which did these lovers sunder;\n" + " And through Wall's chink, poor souls, they are content\n" + " To whisper. At the which let no man wonder.\n" + " This man, with lanthorn, dog, and bush of thorn,\n" + " Presenteth Moonshine; for, if you will know,\n" + " By moonshine did these lovers think no scorn\n" + " To meet at Ninus' tomb, there, there to woo.\n" + " This grisly beast, which Lion hight by name,\n" + " The trusty Thisby, coming first by night,\n" + " Did scare away, or rather did affright;\n" + " And, as she fled, her mantle she did fall,\n" + " Which Lion vile with bloody mouth did stain.\n" + " Anon comes Pyramus, sweet youth and tall,\n" + " And finds his trusty Thisby's mantle slain:\n" + " Whereat, with blade, with bloody blameful blade,\n" + " He bravely broach'd is boiling bloody breast;\n" + " And Thisby, tarrying in mulberry shade,\n" + " His dagger drew, and died. For all the rest,\n" + " Let Lion, Moonshine, Wall, and lovers twain\n" + " At large discourse, while here they do remain.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Prologue, Thisbe, Lion, and Moonshine]\n\n" + "THESEUS I wonder if the lion be to speak.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do.\n\n" + "Wall In this same interlude it doth befall\n" + " That I, one Snout by name, present a wall;\n" + " And such a wall, as I would have you think,\n" + " That had in it a crannied hole or chink,\n" + " Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisby,\n" + " Did whisper often very secretly.\n" + " This loam, this rough-cast and this stone doth show\n" + " That I am that same wall; the truth is so:\n" + " And this the cranny is, right and sinister,\n" + " Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper.\n\n" + "THESEUS Would you desire lime and hair to speak better?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard\n" + " discourse, my lord.\n\n" + " [Enter Pyramus]\n\n" + "THESEUS Pyramus draws near the wall: silence!\n\n" + "Pyramus O grim-look'd night! O night with hue so black!\n" + " O night, which ever art when day is not!\n" + " O night, O night! alack, alack, alack,\n" + " I fear my Thisby's promise is forgot!\n" + " And thou, O wall, O sweet, O lovely wall,\n" + " That stand'st between her father's ground and mine!\n" + " Thou wall, O wall, O sweet and lovely wall,\n" + " Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne!\n\n" + " [Wall holds up his fingers]\n\n" + " Thanks, courteous wall: Jove shield thee well for this!\n" + " But what see I? No Thisby do I see.\n" + " O wicked wall, through whom I see no bliss!\n" + " Cursed be thy stones for thus deceiving me!\n\n" + "THESEUS The wall, methinks, being sensible, should curse again.\n\n" + "Pyramus No, in truth, sir, he should not. 'Deceiving me'\n" + " is Thisby's cue: she is to enter now, and I am to\n" + " spy her through the wall. You shall see, it will\n" + " fall pat as I told you. Yonder she comes.\n\n" + " [Enter Thisbe]\n\n" + "Thisbe O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,\n" + " For parting my fair Pyramus and me!\n" + " My cherry lips have often kiss'd thy stones,\n" + " Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.\n\n" + "Pyramus I see a voice: now will I to the chink,\n" + " To spy an I can hear my Thisby's face. Thisby!\n\n" + "Thisbe My love thou art, my love I think.\n\n" + "Pyramus Think what thou wilt, I am thy lover's grace;\n" + " And, like Limander, am I trusty still.\n\n" + "Thisbe And I like Helen, till the Fates me kill.\n\n" + "Pyramus Not Shafalus to Procrus was so true.\n\n" + "Thisbe As Shafalus to Procrus, I to you.\n\n" + "Pyramus O kiss me through the hole of this vile wall!\n\n" + "Thisbe I kiss the wall's hole, not your lips at all.\n\n" + "Pyramus Wilt thou at Ninny's tomb meet me straightway?\n\n" + "Thisbe 'Tide life, 'tide death, I come without delay.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Pyramus and Thisbe]\n\n" + "Wall Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;\n" + " And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "THESEUS Now is the mural down between the two neighbours.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS No remedy, my lord, when walls are so wilful to hear\n" + " without warning.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA This is the silliest stuff that ever I heard.\n\n" + "THESEUS The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst\n" + " are no worse, if imagination amend them.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.\n\n" + "THESEUS If we imagine no worse of them than they of\n" + " themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here\n" + " come two noble beasts in, a man and a lion.\n\n" + " [Enter Lion and Moonshine]\n\n" + "Lion You, ladies, you, whose gentle hearts do fear\n" + " The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor,\n" + " May now perchance both quake and tremble here,\n" + " When lion rough in wildest rage doth roar.\n" + " Then know that I, one Snug the joiner, am\n" + " A lion-fell, nor else no lion's dam;\n" + " For, if I should as lion come in strife\n" + " Into this place, 'twere pity on my life.\n\n" + "THESEUS A very gentle beast, of a good conscience.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I saw.\n\n" + "LYSANDER This lion is a very fox for his valour.\n\n" + "THESEUS True; and a goose for his discretion.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Not so, my lord; for his valour cannot carry his\n" + " discretion; and the fox carries the goose.\n\n" + "THESEUS His discretion, I am sure, cannot carry his valour;\n" + " for the goose carries not the fox. It is well:\n" + " leave it to his discretion, and let us listen to the moon.\n\n" + "Moonshine This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;--\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS He should have worn the horns on his head.\n\n" + "THESEUS He is no crescent, and his horns are\n" + " invisible within the circumference.\n\n" + "Moonshine This lanthorn doth the horned moon present;\n" + " Myself the man i' the moon do seem to be.\n\n" + "THESEUS This is the greatest error of all the rest: the man\n" + " should be put into the lanthorn. How is it else the\n" + " man i' the moon?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS He dares not come there for the candle; for, you\n" + " see, it is already in snuff.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA I am aweary of this moon: would he would change!\n\n" + "THESEUS It appears, by his small light of discretion, that\n" + " he is in the wane; but yet, in courtesy, in all\n" + " reason, we must stay the time.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Proceed, Moon.\n\n" + "Moonshine All that I have to say, is, to tell you that the\n" + " lanthorn is the moon; I, the man in the moon; this\n" + " thorn-bush, my thorn-bush; and this dog, my dog.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Why, all these should be in the lanthorn; for all\n" + " these are in the moon. But, silence! here comes Thisbe.\n\n" + " [Enter Thisbe]\n\n" + "Thisbe This is old Ninny's tomb. Where is my love?\n\n" + "Lion [Roaring] Oh--\n\n" + " [Thisbe runs off]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Well roared, Lion.\n\n" + "THESEUS Well run, Thisbe.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a\n" + " good grace.\n\n" + " [The Lion shakes Thisbe's mantle, and exit]\n\n" + "THESEUS Well moused, Lion.\n\n" + "LYSANDER And so the lion vanished.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS And then came Pyramus.\n\n" + " [Enter Pyramus]\n\n" + "Pyramus Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams;\n" + " I thank thee, Moon, for shining now so bright;\n" + " For, by thy gracious, golden, glittering gleams,\n" + " I trust to take of truest Thisby sight.\n" + " But stay, O spite!\n" + " But mark, poor knight,\n" + " What dreadful dole is here!\n" + " Eyes, do you see?\n" + " How can it be?\n" + " O dainty duck! O dear!\n" + " Thy mantle good,\n" + " What, stain'd with blood!\n" + " Approach, ye Furies fell!\n" + " O Fates, come, come,\n" + " Cut thread and thrum;\n" + " Quail, crush, conclude, and quell!\n\n" + "THESEUS This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would\n" + " go near to make a man look sad.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA Beshrew my heart, but I pity the man.\n\n" + "Pyramus O wherefore, Nature, didst thou lions frame?\n" + " Since lion vile hath here deflower'd my dear:\n" + " Which is--no, no--which was the fairest dame\n" + " That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd\n" + " with cheer.\n" + " Come, tears, confound;\n" + " Out, sword, and wound\n" + " The pap of Pyramus;\n" + " Ay, that left pap,\n" + " Where heart doth hop:\n\n" + " [Stabs himself]\n\n" + " Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.\n" + " Now am I dead,\n" + " Now am I fled;\n" + " My soul is in the sky:\n" + " Tongue, lose thy light;\n" + " Moon take thy flight:\n\n" + " [Exit Moonshine]\n\n" + " Now die, die, die, die, die.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS No die, but an ace, for him; for he is but one.\n\n" + "LYSANDER Less than an ace, man; for he is dead; he is nothing.\n\n" + "THESEUS With the help of a surgeon he might yet recover, and\n" + " prove an ass.\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA How chance Moonshine is gone before Thisbe comes\n" + " back and finds her lover?\n\n" + "THESEUS She will find him by starlight. Here she comes; and\n" + " her passion ends the play.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Thisbe]\n\n" + "HIPPOLYTA Methinks she should not use a long one for such a\n" + " Pyramus: I hope she will be brief.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS A mote will turn the balance, which Pyramus, which\n" + " Thisbe, is the better; he for a man, God warrant us;\n" + " she for a woman, God bless us.\n\n" + "LYSANDER She hath spied him already with those sweet eyes.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS And thus she means, videlicet:--\n\n" + "Thisbe Asleep, my love?\n" + " What, dead, my dove?\n" + " O Pyramus, arise!\n" + " Speak, speak. Quite dumb?\n" + " Dead, dead? A tomb\n" + " Must cover thy sweet eyes.\n" + " These My lips,\n" + " This cherry nose,\n" + " These yellow cowslip cheeks,\n" + " Are gone, are gone:\n" + " Lovers, make moan:\n" + " His eyes were green as leeks.\n" + " O Sisters Three,\n" + " Come, come to me,\n" + " With hands as pale as milk;\n" + " Lay them in gore,\n" + " Since you have shore\n" + " With shears his thread of silk.\n" + " Tongue, not a word:\n" + " Come, trusty sword;\n" + " Come, blade, my breast imbrue:\n\n" + " [Stabs herself]\n\n" + " And, farewell, friends;\n" + " Thus Thisby ends:\n" + " Adieu, adieu, adieu.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "THESEUS Moonshine and Lion are left to bury the dead.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Ay, and Wall too.\n\n" + "BOTTOM [Starting up] No assure you; the wall is down that\n" + " parted their fathers. Will it please you to see the\n" + " epilogue, or to hear a Bergomask dance between two\n" + " of our company?\n\n" + "THESEUS No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no\n" + " excuse. Never excuse; for when the players are all\n" + " dead, there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he\n" + " that writ it had played Pyramus and hanged himself\n" + " in Thisbe's garter, it would have been a fine\n" + " tragedy: and so it is, truly; and very notably\n" + " discharged. But come, your Bergomask: let your\n" + " epilogue alone.\n\n" + " [A dance]\n\n" + " The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:\n" + " Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.\n" + " I fear we shall out-sleep the coming morn\n" + " As much as we this night have overwatch'd.\n" + " This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled\n" + " The heavy gait of night. Sweet friends, to bed.\n" + " A fortnight hold we this solemnity,\n" + " In nightly revels and new jollity.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter PUCK]\n\n" + "PUCK Now the hungry lion roars,\n" + " And the wolf behowls the moon;\n" + " Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,\n" + " All with weary task fordone.\n" + " Now the wasted brands do glow,\n" + " Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,\n" + " Puts the wretch that lies in woe\n" + " In remembrance of a shroud.\n" + " Now it is the time of night\n" + " That the graves all gaping wide,\n" + " Every one lets forth his sprite,\n" + " In the church-way paths to glide:\n" + " And we fairies, that do run\n" + " By the triple Hecate's team,\n" + " From the presence of the sun,\n" + " Following darkness like a dream,\n" + " Now are frolic: not a mouse\n" + " Shall disturb this hallow'd house:\n" + " I am sent with broom before,\n" + " To sweep the dust behind the door.\n\n" + " [Enter OBERON and TITANIA with their train]\n\n" + "OBERON Through the house give gathering light,\n" + " By the dead and drowsy fire:\n" + " Every elf and fairy sprite\n" + " Hop as light as bird from brier;\n" + " And this ditty, after me,\n" + " Sing, and dance it trippingly.\n\n" + "TITANIA First, rehearse your song by rote\n" + " To each word a warbling note:\n" + " Hand in hand, with fairy grace,\n" + " Will we sing, and bless this place.\n\n" + " [Song and dance]\n\n" + "OBERON Now, until the break of day,\n" + " Through this house each fairy stray.\n" + " To the best bride-bed will we,\n" + " Which by us shall blessed be;\n" + " And the issue there create\n" + " Ever shall be fortunate.\n" + " So shall all the couples three\n" + " Ever true in loving be;\n" + " And the blots of Nature's hand\n" + " Shall not in their issue stand;\n" + " Never mole, hare lip, nor scar,\n" + " Nor mark prodigious, such as are\n" + " Despised in nativity,\n" + " Shall upon their children be.\n" + " With this field-dew consecrate,\n" + " Every fairy take his gait;\n" + " And each several chamber bless,\n" + " Through this palace, with sweet peace;\n" + " And the owner of it blest\n" + " Ever shall in safety rest.\n" + " Trip away; make no stay;\n" + " Meet me all by break of day.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OBERON, TITANIA, and train]\n\n" + "PUCK If we shadows have offended,\n" + " Think but this, and all is mended,\n" + " That you have but slumber'd here\n" + " While these visions did appear.\n" + " And this weak and idle theme,\n" + " No more yielding but a dream,\n" + " Gentles, do not reprehend:\n" + " if you pardon, we will mend:\n" + " And, as I am an honest Puck,\n" + " If we have unearned luck\n" + " Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,\n" + " We will make amends ere long;\n" + " Else the Puck a liar call;\n" + " So, good night unto you all.\n" + " Give me your hands, if we be friends,\n" + " And Robin shall restore amends.\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "DON PEDRO prince of Arragon.\n\n" + "DON JOHN his bastard brother.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO a young lord of Florence.\n\n" + "BENEDICK a young lord of Padua.\n\n" + "LEONATO governor of Messina.\n\n" + "ANTONIO his brother.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR attendant on Don Pedro.\n\n\n" + "CONRADE |\n" + " | followers of Don John.\n" + "BORACHIO |\n\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS:\n\n" + "DOGBERRY a constable.\n\n" + "VERGES a headborough.\n" + " A Sexton.\n" + " A Boy.\n\n" + "HERO daughter to Leonato.\n\n" + "BEATRICE niece to Leonato.\n\n\n" + "MARGARET |\n" + " | gentlewomen attending on Hero.\n" + "URSULA |\n\n\n" + " Messengers, Watch, Attendants, &c. (Lord:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Watchman:)\n" + " (First Watchman:)\n" + " (Second Watchman:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Messina.\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before LEONATO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a\n" + " Messenger]\n\n" + "LEONATO I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon\n" + " comes this night to Messina.\n\n" + "Messenger He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off\n" + " when I left him.\n\n" + "LEONATO How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?\n\n" + "Messenger But few of any sort, and none of name.\n\n" + "LEONATO A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings\n" + " home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath\n" + " bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio.\n\n" + "Messenger Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by\n" + " Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the\n" + " promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,\n" + " the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better\n" + " bettered expectation than you must expect of me to\n" + " tell you how.\n\n" + "LEONATO He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much\n" + " glad of it.\n\n" + "Messenger I have already delivered him letters, and there\n" + " appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could\n" + " not show itself modest enough without a badge of\n" + " bitterness.\n\n" + "LEONATO Did he break out into tears?\n\n" + "Messenger In great measure.\n\n" + "LEONATO A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces\n" + " truer than those that are so washed. How much\n" + " better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!\n\n" + "BEATRICE I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the\n" + " wars or no?\n\n" + "Messenger I know none of that name, lady: there was none such\n" + " in the army of any sort.\n\n" + "LEONATO What is he that you ask for, niece?\n\n" + "HERO My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.\n\n" + "Messenger O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was.\n\n" + "BEATRICE He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged\n" + " Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading\n" + " the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged\n" + " him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he\n" + " killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath\n" + " he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.\n\n" + "LEONATO Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;\n" + " but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.\n\n" + "Messenger He hath done good service, lady, in these wars.\n\n" + "BEATRICE You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:\n" + " he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an\n" + " excellent stomach.\n\n" + "Messenger And a good soldier too, lady.\n\n" + "BEATRICE And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?\n\n" + "Messenger A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all\n" + " honourable virtues.\n\n" + "BEATRICE It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man:\n" + " but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal.\n\n" + "LEONATO You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a\n" + " kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:\n" + " they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit\n" + " between them.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last\n" + " conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and\n" + " now is the whole man governed with one: so that if\n" + " he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him\n" + " bear it for a difference between himself and his\n" + " horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,\n" + " to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his\n" + " companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.\n\n" + "Messenger Is't possible?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as\n" + " the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the\n" + " next block.\n\n" + "Messenger I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.\n\n" + "BEATRICE No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray\n" + " you, who is his companion? Is there no young\n" + " squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?\n\n" + "Messenger He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.\n\n" + "BEATRICE O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he\n" + " is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker\n" + " runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if\n" + " he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a\n" + " thousand pound ere a' be cured.\n\n" + "Messenger I will hold friends with you, lady.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Do, good friend.\n\n" + "LEONATO You will never run mad, niece.\n\n" + "BEATRICE No, not till a hot January.\n\n" + "Messenger Don Pedro is approached.\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK,\n" + " and BALTHASAR]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your\n" + " trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid\n" + " cost, and you encounter it.\n\n" + "LEONATO Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of\n" + " your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should\n" + " remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides\n" + " and happiness takes his leave.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this\n" + " is your daughter.\n\n" + "LEONATO Her mother hath many times told me so.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?\n\n" + "LEONATO Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this\n" + " what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers\n" + " herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an\n" + " honourable father.\n\n" + "BENEDICK If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not\n" + " have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as\n" + " like him as she is.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior\n" + " Benedick: nobody marks you.\n\n" + "BENEDICK What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Is it possible disdain should die while she hath\n" + " such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?\n" + " Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come\n" + " in her presence.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I\n" + " am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I\n" + " would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard\n" + " heart; for, truly, I love none.\n\n" + "BEATRICE A dear happiness to women: they would else have\n" + " been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God\n" + " and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I\n" + " had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man\n" + " swear he loves me.\n\n" + "BENEDICK God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some\n" + " gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate\n" + " scratched face.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such\n" + " a face as yours were.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.\n\n" + "BEATRICE A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and\n" + " so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's\n" + " name; I have done.\n\n" + "BEATRICE You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio\n" + " and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath\n" + " invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at\n" + " the least a month; and he heartily prays some\n" + " occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no\n" + " hypocrite, but prays from his heart.\n\n" + "LEONATO If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.\n\n" + " [To DON JOHN]\n\n" + " Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to\n" + " the prince your brother, I owe you all duty.\n\n" + "DON JOHN I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank\n" + " you.\n\n" + "LEONATO Please it your grace lead on?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO]\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?\n\n" + "BENEDICK I noted her not; but I looked on her.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Is she not a modest young lady?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for\n" + " my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak\n" + " after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high\n" + " praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little\n" + " for a great praise: only this commendation I can\n" + " afford her, that were she other than she is, she\n" + " were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I\n" + " do not like her.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me\n" + " truly how thou likest her.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Can the world buy such a jewel?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this\n" + " with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,\n" + " to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a\n" + " rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take\n" + " you, to go in the song?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I\n" + " looked on.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such\n" + " matter: there's her cousin, an she were not\n" + " possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty\n" + " as the first of May doth the last of December. But I\n" + " hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the\n" + " contrary, if Hero would be my wife.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world\n" + " one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?\n" + " Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?\n" + " Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck\n" + " into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away\n" + " Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DON PEDRO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO What secret hath held you here, that you followed\n" + " not to Leonato's?\n\n" + "BENEDICK I would your grace would constrain me to tell.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I charge thee on thy allegiance.\n\n" + "BENEDICK You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb\n" + " man; I would have you think so; but, on my\n" + " allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is\n" + " in love. With who? now that is your grace's part.\n" + " Mark how short his answer is;--With Hero, Leonato's\n" + " short daughter.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If this were so, so were it uttered.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor\n" + " 'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be\n" + " so.'\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it\n" + " should be otherwise.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO By my troth, I speak my thought.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.\n\n" + "BENEDICK And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO That I love her, I feel.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO That she is worthy, I know.\n\n" + "BENEDICK That I neither feel how she should be loved nor\n" + " know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that\n" + " fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite\n" + " of beauty.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And never could maintain his part but in the force\n" + " of his will.\n\n" + "BENEDICK That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she\n" + " brought me up, I likewise give her most humble\n" + " thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my\n" + " forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,\n" + " all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do\n" + " them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the\n" + " right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which\n" + " I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.\n\n" + "BENEDICK With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,\n" + " not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood\n" + " with love than I will get again with drinking, pick\n" + " out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me\n" + " up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of\n" + " blind Cupid.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou\n" + " wilt prove a notable argument.\n\n" + "BENEDICK If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot\n" + " at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on\n" + " the shoulder, and called Adam.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull\n" + " doth bear the yoke.'\n\n" + "BENEDICK The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible\n" + " Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set\n" + " them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,\n" + " and in such great letters as they write 'Here is\n" + " good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign\n" + " 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in\n" + " Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I look for an earthquake too, then.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Well, you temporize with the hours. In the\n" + " meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to\n" + " Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will\n" + " not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made\n" + " great preparation.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I have almost matter enough in me for such an\n" + " embassage; and so I commit you--\n\n" + "CLAUDIO To the tuition of God: From my house, if I had it,--\n\n" + "DON PEDRO The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your\n" + " discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and\n" + " the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere\n" + " you flout old ends any further, examine your\n" + " conscience: and so I leave you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CLAUDIO My liege, your highness now may do me good.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,\n" + " And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn\n" + " Any hard lesson that may do thee good.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Hath Leonato any son, my lord?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO No child but Hero; she's his only heir.\n" + " Dost thou affect her, Claudio?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O, my lord,\n" + " When you went onward on this ended action,\n" + " I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,\n" + " That liked, but had a rougher task in hand\n" + " Than to drive liking to the name of love:\n" + " But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts\n" + " Have left their places vacant, in their rooms\n" + " Come thronging soft and delicate desires,\n" + " All prompting me how fair young Hero is,\n" + " Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Thou wilt be like a lover presently\n" + " And tire the hearer with a book of words.\n" + " If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,\n" + " And I will break with her and with her father,\n" + " And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end\n" + " That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO How sweetly you do minister to love,\n" + " That know love's grief by his complexion!\n" + " But lest my liking might too sudden seem,\n" + " I would have salved it with a longer treatise.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO What need the bridge much broader than the flood?\n" + " The fairest grant is the necessity.\n" + " Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,\n" + " And I will fit thee with the remedy.\n" + " I know we shall have revelling to-night:\n" + " I will assume thy part in some disguise\n" + " And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,\n" + " And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart\n" + " And take her hearing prisoner with the force\n" + " And strong encounter of my amorous tale:\n" + " Then after to her father will I break;\n" + " And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.\n" + " In practise let us put it presently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in LEONATO's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting]\n\n" + "LEONATO How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?\n" + " hath he provided this music?\n\n" + "ANTONIO He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell\n" + " you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.\n\n" + "LEONATO Are they good?\n\n" + "ANTONIO As the event stamps them: but they have a good\n" + " cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count\n" + " Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine\n" + " orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:\n" + " the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my\n" + " niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it\n" + " this night in a dance: and if he found her\n" + " accordant, he meant to take the present time by the\n" + " top and instantly break with you of it.\n\n" + "LEONATO Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?\n\n" + "ANTONIO A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and\n" + " question him yourself.\n\n" + "LEONATO No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear\n" + " itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,\n" + " that she may be the better prepared for an answer,\n" + " if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.\n\n" + " [Enter Attendants]\n\n" + " Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you\n" + " mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your\n" + " skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DON JOHN and CONRADE]\n\n" + "CONRADE What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out\n" + " of measure sad?\n\n" + "DON JOHN There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;\n" + " therefore the sadness is without limit.\n\n" + "CONRADE You should hear reason.\n\n" + "DON JOHN And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?\n\n" + "CONRADE If not a present remedy, at least a patient\n" + " sufferance.\n\n" + "DON JOHN I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,\n" + " born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral\n" + " medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide\n" + " what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile\n" + " at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait\n" + " for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and\n" + " tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and\n" + " claw no man in his humour.\n\n" + "CONRADE Yea, but you must not make the full show of this\n" + " till you may do it without controlment. You have of\n" + " late stood out against your brother, and he hath\n" + " ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is\n" + " impossible you should take true root but by the\n" + " fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful\n" + " that you frame the season for your own harvest.\n\n" + "DON JOHN I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in\n" + " his grace, and it better fits my blood to be\n" + " disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob\n" + " love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to\n" + " be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied\n" + " but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with\n" + " a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I\n" + " have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my\n" + " mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do\n" + " my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and\n" + " seek not to alter me.\n\n" + "CONRADE Can you make no use of your discontent?\n\n" + "DON JOHN I make all use of it, for I use it only.\n" + " Who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter BORACHIO]\n\n" + " What news, Borachio?\n\n" + "BORACHIO I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your\n" + " brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I\n" + " can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?\n" + " What is he for a fool that betroths himself to\n" + " unquietness?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Marry, it is your brother's right hand.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Who? the most exquisite Claudio?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Even he.\n\n" + "DON JOHN A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks\n" + " he?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.\n\n" + "DON JOHN A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a\n" + " musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand\n" + " in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the\n" + " arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the\n" + " prince should woo Hero for himself, and having\n" + " obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to\n" + " my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the\n" + " glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I\n" + " bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?\n\n" + "CONRADE To the death, my lord.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the\n" + " greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of\n" + " my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done?\n\n" + "BORACHIO We'll wait upon your lordship.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A hall in LEONATO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others]\n\n\n" + "LEONATO Was not Count John here at supper?\n\n" + "ANTONIO I saw him not.\n\n" + "BEATRICE How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see\n" + " him but I am heart-burned an hour after.\n\n" + "HERO He is of a very melancholy disposition.\n\n" + "BEATRICE He were an excellent man that were made just in the\n" + " midway between him and Benedick: the one is too\n" + " like an image and says nothing, and the other too\n" + " like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.\n\n" + "LEONATO Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's\n" + " mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior\n" + " Benedick's face,--\n\n" + "BEATRICE With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money\n" + " enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman\n" + " in the world, if a' could get her good-will.\n\n" + "LEONATO By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a\n" + " husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.\n\n" + "ANTONIO In faith, she's too curst.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's\n" + " sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst\n" + " cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.\n\n" + "LEONATO So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Just, if he send me no husband; for the which\n" + " blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and\n" + " evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a\n" + " beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.\n\n" + "LEONATO You may light on a husband that hath no beard.\n\n" + "BEATRICE What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel\n" + " and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a\n" + " beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no\n" + " beard is less than a man: and he that is more than\n" + " a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a\n" + " man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take\n" + " sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his\n" + " apes into hell.\n\n" + "LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell?\n\n" + "BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet\n" + " me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and\n" + " say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to\n" + " heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver\n" + " I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the\n" + " heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and\n" + " there live we as merry as the day is long.\n\n" + "ANTONIO [To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled\n" + " by your father.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy\n" + " and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all\n" + " that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else\n" + " make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please\n" + " me.'\n\n" + "LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than\n" + " earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be\n" + " overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make\n" + " an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?\n" + " No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren;\n" + " and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.\n\n" + "LEONATO Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince\n" + " do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.\n\n" + "BEATRICE The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be\n" + " not wooed in good time: if the prince be too\n" + " important, tell him there is measure in every thing\n" + " and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:\n" + " wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,\n" + " a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot\n" + " and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as\n" + " fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a\n" + " measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes\n" + " repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the\n" + " cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.\n\n" + "LEONATO Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.\n\n" + "LEONATO The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.\n\n" + " [All put on their masks]\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR,\n" + " DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Lady, will you walk about with your friend?\n\n" + "HERO So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,\n" + " I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO With me in your company?\n\n" + "HERO I may say so, when I please.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO And when please you to say so?\n\n" + "HERO When I like your favour; for God defend the lute\n" + " should be like the case!\n\n" + "DON PEDRO My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove.\n\n" + "HERO Why, then, your visor should be thatched.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Speak low, if you speak love.\n\n" + " [Drawing her aside]\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Well, I would you did like me.\n\n" + "MARGARET So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many\n" + " ill-qualities.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Which is one?\n\n" + "MARGARET I say my prayers aloud.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.\n\n" + "MARGARET God match me with a good dancer!\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Amen.\n\n" + "MARGARET And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is\n" + " done! Answer, clerk.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR No more words: the clerk is answered.\n\n" + "URSULA I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.\n\n" + "ANTONIO At a word, I am not.\n\n" + "URSULA I know you by the waggling of your head.\n\n" + "ANTONIO To tell you true, I counterfeit him.\n\n" + "URSULA You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were\n" + " the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you\n" + " are he, you are he.\n\n" + "ANTONIO At a word, I am not.\n\n" + "URSULA Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your\n" + " excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,\n" + " mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an\n" + " end.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Will you not tell me who told you so?\n\n" + "BENEDICK No, you shall pardon me.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Nor will you not tell me who you are?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Not now.\n\n" + "BEATRICE That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit\n" + " out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was\n" + " Signior Benedick that said so.\n\n" + "BENEDICK What's he?\n\n" + "BEATRICE I am sure you know him well enough.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Not I, believe me.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Did he never make you laugh?\n\n" + "BENEDICK I pray you, what is he?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;\n" + " only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:\n" + " none but libertines delight in him; and the\n" + " commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;\n" + " for he both pleases men and angers them, and then\n" + " they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in\n" + " the fleet: I would he had boarded me.\n\n" + "BENEDICK When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;\n" + " which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,\n" + " strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a\n" + " partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no\n" + " supper that night.\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + " We must follow the leaders.\n\n" + "BENEDICK In every good thing.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at\n" + " the next turning.\n\n" + " [Dance. Then exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO,\n" + " and CLAUDIO]\n\n" + "DON JOHN Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath\n" + " withdrawn her father to break with him about it.\n" + " The ladies follow her and but one visor remains.\n\n" + "BORACHIO And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Are not you Signior Benedick?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO You know me well; I am he.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:\n" + " he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him\n" + " from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may\n" + " do the part of an honest man in it.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO How know you he loves her?\n\n" + "DON JOHN I heard him swear his affection.\n\n" + "BORACHIO So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Come, let us to the banquet.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DON JOHN and BORACHIO]\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,\n" + " But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.\n" + " 'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.\n" + " Friendship is constant in all other things\n" + " Save in the office and affairs of love:\n" + " Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;\n" + " Let every eye negotiate for itself\n" + " And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch\n" + " Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.\n" + " This is an accident of hourly proof,\n" + " Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!\n\n" + " [Re-enter BENEDICK]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Count Claudio?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Yea, the same.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Come, will you go with me?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Whither?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Even to the next willow, about your own business,\n" + " county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?\n" + " about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under\n" + " your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear\n" + " it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I wish him joy of her.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they\n" + " sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would\n" + " have served you thus?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I pray you, leave me.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the\n" + " boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If it will not be, I'll leave you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.\n" + " But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not\n" + " know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go\n" + " under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I\n" + " am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it\n" + " is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice\n" + " that puts the world into her person and so gives me\n" + " out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DON PEDRO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Now, signior, where's the count? did you see him?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame.\n" + " I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a\n" + " warren: I told him, and I think I told him true,\n" + " that your grace had got the good will of this young\n" + " lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree,\n" + " either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or\n" + " to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO To be whipped! What's his fault?\n\n" + "BENEDICK The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being\n" + " overjoyed with finding a birds' nest, shows it his\n" + " companion, and he steals it.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The\n" + " transgression is in the stealer.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made,\n" + " and the garland too; for the garland he might have\n" + " worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on\n" + " you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds' nest.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to\n" + " the owner.\n\n" + "BENEDICK If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,\n" + " you say honestly.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the\n" + " gentleman that danced with her told her she is much\n" + " wronged by you.\n\n" + "BENEDICK O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!\n" + " an oak but with one green leaf on it would have\n" + " answered her; my very visor began to assume life and\n" + " scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been\n" + " myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was\n" + " duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest\n" + " with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood\n" + " like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at\n" + " me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:\n" + " if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,\n" + " there were no living near her; she would infect to\n" + " the north star. I would not marry her, though she\n" + " were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before\n" + " he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have\n" + " turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make\n" + " the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find\n" + " her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God\n" + " some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while\n" + " she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a\n" + " sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they\n" + " would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror\n" + " and perturbation follows her.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Look, here she comes.\n\n" + " [Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Will your grace command me any service to the\n" + " world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now\n" + " to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;\n" + " I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the\n" + " furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of\n" + " Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great\n" + " Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,\n" + " rather than hold three words' conference with this\n" + " harpy. You have no employment for me?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO None, but to desire your good company.\n\n" + "BENEDICK O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot\n" + " endure my Lady Tongue.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of\n" + " Signior Benedick.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave\n" + " him use for it, a double heart for his single one:\n" + " marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,\n" + " therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.\n\n" + "BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I\n" + " should prove the mother of fools. I have brought\n" + " Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Not sad, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO How then? sick?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Neither, my lord.\n\n" + "BEATRICE The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor\n" + " well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and\n" + " something of that jealous complexion.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true;\n" + " though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is\n" + " false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and\n" + " fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,\n" + " and his good will obtained: name the day of\n" + " marriage, and God give thee joy!\n\n" + "LEONATO Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my\n" + " fortunes: his grace hath made the match, and an\n" + " grace say Amen to it.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Speak, count, 'tis your cue.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were\n" + " but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as\n" + " you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for\n" + " you and dote upon the exchange.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth\n" + " with a kiss, and let not him speak neither.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on\n" + " the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his\n" + " ear that he is in her heart.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And so she doth, cousin.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the\n" + " world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a\n" + " corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I would rather have one of your father's getting.\n" + " Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your\n" + " father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Will you have me, lady?\n\n" + "BEATRICE No, my lord, unless I might have another for\n" + " working-days: your grace is too costly to wear\n" + " every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I\n" + " was born to speak all mirth and no matter.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best\n" + " becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in\n" + " a merry hour.\n\n" + "BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there\n" + " was a star danced, and under that was I born.\n" + " Cousins, God give you joy!\n\n" + "LEONATO Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?\n\n" + "BEATRICE I cry you mercy, uncle. By your grace's pardon.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.\n\n" + "LEONATO There's little of the melancholy element in her, my\n" + " lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and\n" + " not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say,\n" + " she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked\n" + " herself with laughing.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.\n\n" + "LEONATO O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO She were an excellent wife for Benedict.\n\n" + "LEONATO O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,\n" + " they would talk themselves mad.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO County Claudio, when mean you to go to church?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love\n" + " have all his rites.\n\n" + "LEONATO Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just\n" + " seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all\n" + " things answer my mind.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing:\n" + " but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go\n" + " dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of\n" + " Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Signior\n" + " Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of\n" + " affection the one with the other. I would fain have\n" + " it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if\n" + " you three will but minister such assistance as I\n" + " shall give you direction.\n\n" + "LEONATO My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten\n" + " nights' watchings.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And I, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO And you too, gentle Hero?\n\n" + "HERO I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my\n" + " cousin to a good husband.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that\n" + " I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble\n" + " strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I\n" + " will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she\n" + " shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your\n" + " two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in\n" + " despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he\n" + " shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,\n" + " Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be\n" + " ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,\n" + " and I will tell you my drift.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO]\n\n" + "DON JOHN It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the\n" + " daughter of Leonato.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be\n" + " medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,\n" + " and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges\n" + " evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no\n" + " dishonesty shall appear in me.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Show me briefly how.\n\n" + "BORACHIO I think I told your lordship a year since, how much\n" + " I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting\n" + " gentlewoman to Hero.\n\n" + "DON JOHN I remember.\n\n" + "BORACHIO I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,\n" + " appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.\n\n" + "DON JOHN What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?\n\n" + "BORACHIO The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to\n" + " the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that\n" + " he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned\n" + " Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold\n" + " up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.\n\n" + "DON JOHN What proof shall I make of that?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,\n" + " to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any\n" + " other issue?\n\n" + "DON JOHN Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and\n" + " the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know\n" + " that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the\n" + " prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's\n" + " honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's\n" + " reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the\n" + " semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered\n" + " thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:\n" + " offer them instances; which shall bear no less\n" + " likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,\n" + " hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me\n" + " Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night\n" + " before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I\n" + " will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be\n" + " absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth\n" + " of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called\n" + " assurance and all the preparation overthrown.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put\n" + " it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and\n" + " thy fee is a thousand ducats.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning\n" + " shall not shame me.\n\n" + "DON JOHN I will presently go learn their day of marriage.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III LEONATO'S orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BENEDICK]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Boy!\n\n" + " [Enter Boy]\n\n" + "Boy Signior?\n\n" + "BENEDICK In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither\n" + " to me in the orchard.\n\n" + "Boy I am here already, sir.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.\n\n" + " [Exit Boy]\n\n" + " I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much\n" + " another man is a fool when he dedicates his\n" + " behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at\n" + " such shallow follies in others, become the argument\n" + " of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man\n" + " is Claudio. I have known when there was no music\n" + " with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he\n" + " rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known\n" + " when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a\n" + " good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,\n" + " carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to\n" + " speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man\n" + " and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his\n" + " words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many\n" + " strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with\n" + " these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not\n" + " be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but\n" + " I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster\n" + " of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman\n" + " is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am\n" + " well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all\n" + " graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in\n" + " my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,\n" + " or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;\n" + " fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not\n" + " near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good\n" + " discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall\n" + " be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and\n" + " Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.\n\n" + " [Withdraws]\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Come, shall we hear this music?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,\n" + " As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!\n\n" + "DON PEDRO See you where Benedick hath hid himself?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O, very well, my lord: the music ended,\n" + " We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.\n\n" + " [Enter BALTHASAR with Music]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice\n" + " To slander music any more than once.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO It is the witness still of excellency\n" + " To put a strange face on his own perfection.\n" + " I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;\n" + " Since many a wooer doth commence his suit\n" + " To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes,\n" + " Yet will he swear he loves.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Now, pray thee, come;\n" + " Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,\n" + " Do it in notes.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Note this before my notes;\n" + " There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks;\n" + " Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing.\n" + " [Air]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it\n" + " not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out\n" + " of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when\n" + " all's done.\n\n" + " [The Song]\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,\n" + " Men were deceivers ever,\n" + " One foot in sea and one on shore,\n" + " To one thing constant never:\n" + " Then sigh not so, but let them go,\n" + " And be you blithe and bonny,\n" + " Converting all your sounds of woe\n" + " Into Hey nonny, nonny.\n\n" + " Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,\n" + " Of dumps so dull and heavy;\n" + " The fraud of men was ever so,\n" + " Since summer first was leafy:\n" + " Then sigh not so, &c.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO By my troth, a good song.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR And an ill singer, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.\n\n" + "BENEDICK An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,\n" + " they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad\n" + " voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the\n" + " night-raven, come what plague could have come after\n" + " it.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,\n" + " get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we\n" + " would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR The best I can, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Do so: farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit BALTHASAR]\n\n" + " Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of\n" + " to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with\n" + " Signior Benedick?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did\n" + " never think that lady would have loved any man.\n\n" + "LEONATO No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she\n" + " should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in\n" + " all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner?\n\n" + "LEONATO By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think\n" + " of it but that she loves him with an enraged\n" + " affection: it is past the infinite of thought.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO May be she doth but counterfeit.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Faith, like enough.\n\n" + "LEONATO O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of\n" + " passion came so near the life of passion as she\n" + " discovers it.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Why, what effects of passion shows she?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Bait the hook well; this fish will bite.\n\n" + "LEONATO What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard\n" + " my daughter tell you how.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO She did, indeed.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would have I\n" + " thought her spirit had been invincible against all\n" + " assaults of affection.\n\n" + "LEONATO I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially\n" + " against Benedick.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I should think this a gull, but that the\n" + " white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot,\n" + " sure, hide himself in such reverence.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?\n\n" + "LEONATO No; and swears she never will: that's her torment.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO 'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'Shall\n" + " I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him\n" + " with scorn, write to him that I love him?'\n\n" + "LEONATO This says she now when she is beginning to write to\n" + " him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and\n" + " there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a\n" + " sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a\n" + " pretty jest your daughter told us of.\n\n" + "LEONATO O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she\n" + " found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO That.\n\n" + "LEONATO O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence;\n" + " railed at herself, that she should be so immodest\n" + " to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I\n" + " measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I\n" + " should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I\n" + " love him, I should.'\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,\n" + " beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O\n" + " sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'\n\n" + "LEONATO She doth indeed; my daughter says so: and the\n" + " ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter\n" + " is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage\n" + " to herself: it is very true.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO It were good that Benedick knew of it by some\n" + " other, if she will not discover it.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO To what end? He would make but a sport of it and\n" + " torment the poor lady worse.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She's an\n" + " excellent sweet lady; and, out of all suspicion,\n" + " she is virtuous.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And she is exceeding wise.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO In every thing but in loving Benedick.\n\n" + "LEONATO O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender\n" + " a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath\n" + " the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just\n" + " cause, being her uncle and her guardian.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would\n" + " have daffed all other respects and made her half\n" + " myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear\n" + " what a' will say.\n\n" + "LEONATO Were it good, think you?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she\n" + " will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere\n" + " she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo\n" + " her, rather than she will bate one breath of her\n" + " accustomed crossness.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO She doth well: if she should make tender of her\n" + " love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the\n" + " man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO He is a very proper man.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO He hath indeed a good outward happiness.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Before God! and, in my mind, very wise.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And I take him to be valiant.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of\n" + " quarrels you may say he is wise; for either he\n" + " avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes\n" + " them with a most Christian-like fear.\n\n" + "LEONATO If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace:\n" + " if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a\n" + " quarrel with fear and trembling.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO And so will he do; for the man doth fear God,\n" + " howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests\n" + " he will make. Well I am sorry for your niece. Shall\n" + " we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with\n" + " good counsel.\n\n" + "LEONATO Nay, that's impossible: she may wear her heart out first.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter:\n" + " let it cool the while. I love Benedick well; and I\n" + " could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see\n" + " how much he is unworthy so good a lady.\n\n" + "LEONATO My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never\n" + " trust my expectation.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Let there be the same net spread for her; and that\n" + " must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The\n" + " sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of\n" + " another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the\n" + " scene that I would see, which will be merely a\n" + " dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO]\n\n" + "BENEDICK [Coming forward] This can be no trick: the\n" + " conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of\n" + " this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it\n" + " seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!\n" + " why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:\n" + " they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive\n" + " the love come from her; they say too that she will\n" + " rather die than give any sign of affection. I did\n" + " never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy\n" + " are they that hear their detractions and can put\n" + " them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a\n" + " truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis\n" + " so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving\n" + " me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor\n" + " no great argument of her folly, for I will be\n" + " horribly in love with her. I may chance have some\n" + " odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,\n" + " because I have railed so long against marriage: but\n" + " doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat\n" + " in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.\n" + " Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of\n" + " the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?\n" + " No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would\n" + " die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I\n" + " were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!\n" + " she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in\n" + " her.\n\n" + " [Enter BEATRICE]\n\n" + "BEATRICE Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take\n" + " pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would\n" + " not have come.\n\n" + "BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's\n" + " point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,\n" + " signior: fare you well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in\n" + " to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took\n" + " no more pains for those thanks than you took pains\n" + " to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains\n" + " that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do\n" + " not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not\n" + " love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I LEONATO'S garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA]\n\n" + "HERO Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;\n" + " There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice\n" + " Proposing with the prince and Claudio:\n" + " Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula\n" + " Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse\n" + " Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;\n" + " And bid her steal into the pleached bower,\n" + " Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,\n" + " Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,\n" + " Made proud by princes, that advance their pride\n" + " Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,\n" + " To listen our purpose. This is thy office;\n" + " Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.\n\n" + "MARGARET I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HERO Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,\n" + " As we do trace this alley up and down,\n" + " Our talk must only be of Benedick.\n" + " When I do name him, let it be thy part\n" + " To praise him more than ever man did merit:\n" + " My talk to thee must be how Benedick\n" + " Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter\n" + " Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,\n" + " That only wounds by hearsay.\n\n" + " [Enter BEATRICE, behind]\n\n" + " Now begin;\n" + " For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs\n" + " Close by the ground, to hear our conference.\n\n" + "URSULA The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish\n" + " Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,\n" + " And greedily devour the treacherous bait:\n" + " So angle we for Beatrice; who even now\n" + " Is couched in the woodbine coverture.\n" + " Fear you not my part of the dialogue.\n\n" + "HERO Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing\n" + " Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.\n\n" + " [Approaching the bower]\n\n" + " No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;\n" + " I know her spirits are as coy and wild\n" + " As haggerds of the rock.\n\n" + "URSULA But are you sure\n" + " That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?\n\n" + "HERO So says the prince and my new-trothed lord.\n\n" + "URSULA And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?\n\n" + "HERO They did entreat me to acquaint her of it;\n" + " But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,\n" + " To wish him wrestle with affection,\n" + " And never to let Beatrice know of it.\n\n" + "URSULA Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman\n" + " Deserve as full as fortunate a bed\n" + " As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?\n\n" + "HERO O god of love! I know he doth deserve\n" + " As much as may be yielded to a man:\n" + " But Nature never framed a woman's heart\n" + " Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;\n" + " Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,\n" + " Misprising what they look on, and her wit\n" + " Values itself so highly that to her\n" + " All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,\n" + " Nor take no shape nor project of affection,\n" + " She is so self-endeared.\n\n" + "URSULA Sure, I think so;\n" + " And therefore certainly it were not good\n" + " She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.\n\n" + "HERO Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,\n" + " How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,\n" + " But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,\n" + " She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;\n" + " If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,\n" + " Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;\n" + " If low, an agate very vilely cut;\n" + " If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;\n" + " If silent, why, a block moved with none.\n" + " So turns she every man the wrong side out\n" + " And never gives to truth and virtue that\n" + " Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.\n\n" + "URSULA Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.\n\n" + "HERO No, not to be so odd and from all fashions\n" + " As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:\n" + " But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,\n" + " She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me\n" + " Out of myself, press me to death with wit.\n" + " Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,\n" + " Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:\n" + " It were a better death than die with mocks,\n" + " Which is as bad as die with tickling.\n\n" + "URSULA Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say.\n\n" + "HERO No; rather I will go to Benedick\n" + " And counsel him to fight against his passion.\n" + " And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders\n" + " To stain my cousin with: one doth not know\n" + " How much an ill word may empoison liking.\n\n" + "URSULA O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.\n" + " She cannot be so much without true judgment--\n" + " Having so swift and excellent a wit\n" + " As she is prized to have--as to refuse\n" + " So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.\n\n" + "HERO He is the only man of Italy.\n" + " Always excepted my dear Claudio.\n\n" + "URSULA I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,\n" + " Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,\n" + " For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,\n" + " Goes foremost in report through Italy.\n\n" + "HERO Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.\n\n" + "URSULA His excellence did earn it, ere he had it.\n" + " When are you married, madam?\n\n" + "HERO Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:\n" + " I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel\n" + " Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.\n\n" + "URSULA She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.\n\n" + "HERO If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:\n" + " Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.\n\n" + " [Exeunt HERO and URSULA]\n\n" + "BEATRICE [Coming forward]\n" + " What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?\n" + " Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?\n" + " Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!\n" + " No glory lives behind the back of such.\n" + " And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,\n" + " Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:\n" + " If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee\n" + " To bind our loves up in a holy band;\n" + " For others say thou dost deserve, and I\n" + " Believe it better than reportingly.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in LEONATO'S house\n\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and LEONATO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and\n" + " then go I toward Arragon.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll\n" + " vouchsafe me.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss\n" + " of your marriage as to show a child his new coat\n" + " and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold\n" + " with Benedick for his company; for, from the crown\n" + " of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all\n" + " mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's\n" + " bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at\n" + " him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his\n" + " tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his\n" + " tongue speaks.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Gallants, I am not as I have been.\n\n" + "LEONATO So say I methinks you are sadder.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I hope he be in love.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in\n" + " him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,\n" + " he wants money.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I have the toothache.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Draw it.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Hang it!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO What! sigh for the toothache?\n\n" + "LEONATO Where is but a humour or a worm.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Well, every one can master a grief but he that has\n" + " it.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Yet say I, he is in love.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be\n" + " a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be\n" + " a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the\n" + " shape of two countries at once, as, a German from\n" + " the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from\n" + " the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy\n" + " to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no\n" + " fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If he be not in love with some woman, there is no\n" + " believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'\n" + " mornings; what should that bode?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Hath any man seen him at the barber's?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,\n" + " and the old ornament of his cheek hath already\n" + " stuffed tennis-balls.\n\n" + "LEONATO Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him\n" + " out by that?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO The greatest note of it is his melancholy.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And when was he wont to wash his face?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear\n" + " what they say of him.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into\n" + " a lute-string and now governed by stops.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,\n" + " conclude he is in love.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Nay, but I know who loves him.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of\n" + " all, dies for him.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO She shall be buried with her face upwards.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old\n" + " signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight\n" + " or nine wise words to speak to you, which these\n" + " hobby-horses must not hear.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO 'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this\n" + " played their parts with Beatrice; and then the two\n" + " bears will not bite one another when they meet.\n\n" + " [Enter DON JOHN]\n\n" + "DON JOHN My lord and brother, God save you!\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Good den, brother.\n\n" + "DON JOHN If your leisure served, I would speak with you.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO In private?\n\n" + "DON JOHN If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear; for\n" + " what I would speak of concerns him.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO What's the matter?\n\n" + "DON JOHN [To CLAUDIO] Means your lordship to be married\n" + " to-morrow?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO You know he does.\n\n" + "DON JOHN I know not that, when he knows what I know.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.\n\n" + "DON JOHN You may think I love you not: let that appear\n" + " hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will\n" + " manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you\n" + " well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect\n" + " your ensuing marriage;--surely suit ill spent and\n" + " labour ill bestowed.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Why, what's the matter?\n\n" + "DON JOHN I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances\n" + " shortened, for she has been too long a talking of,\n" + " the lady is disloyal.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Who, Hero?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Even she; Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero:\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Disloyal?\n\n" + "DON JOHN The word is too good to paint out her wickedness; I\n" + " could say she were worse: think you of a worse\n" + " title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till\n" + " further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall\n" + " see her chamber-window entered, even the night\n" + " before her wedding-day: if you love her then,\n" + " to-morrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour\n" + " to change your mind.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO May this be so?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I will not think it.\n\n" + "DON JOHN If you dare not trust that you see, confess not\n" + " that you know: if you will follow me, I will show\n" + " you enough; and when you have seen more and heard\n" + " more, proceed accordingly.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry\n" + " her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should\n" + " wed, there will I shame her.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join\n" + " with thee to disgrace her.\n\n" + "DON JOHN I will disparage her no farther till you are my\n" + " witnesses: bear it coldly but till midnight, and\n" + " let the issue show itself.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO O day untowardly turned!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O mischief strangely thwarting!\n\n" + "DON JOHN O plague right well prevented! so will you say when\n" + " you have seen the sequel.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DOGBERRY and VERGES with the Watch]\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Are you good men and true?\n\n" + "VERGES Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer\n" + " salvation, body and soul.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if\n" + " they should have any allegiance in them, being\n" + " chosen for the prince's watch.\n\n" + "VERGES Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY First, who think you the most desertless man to be\n" + " constable?\n\n" + "First Watchman Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can\n" + " write and read.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed\n" + " you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is\n" + " the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.\n\n" + "Second Watchman Both which, master constable,--\n\n" + "DOGBERRY You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well,\n" + " for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make\n" + " no boast of it; and for your writing and reading,\n" + " let that appear when there is no need of such\n" + " vanity. You are thought here to be the most\n" + " senseless and fit man for the constable of the\n" + " watch; therefore bear you the lantern. This is your\n" + " charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are\n" + " to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.\n\n" + "Second Watchman How if a' will not stand?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and\n" + " presently call the rest of the watch together and\n" + " thank God you are rid of a knave.\n\n" + "VERGES If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none\n" + " of the prince's subjects.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY True, and they are to meddle with none but the\n" + " prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in\n" + " the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to\n" + " talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.\n\n" + "Watchman We will rather sleep than talk: we know what\n" + " belongs to a watch.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet\n" + " watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should\n" + " offend: only, have a care that your bills be not\n" + " stolen. Well, you are to call at all the\n" + " ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.\n\n" + "Watchman How if they will not?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if\n" + " they make you not then the better answer, you may\n" + " say they are not the men you took them for.\n\n" + "Watchman Well, sir.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue\n" + " of your office, to be no true man; and, for such\n" + " kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,\n" + " why the more is for your honesty.\n\n" + "Watchman If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay\n" + " hands on him?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they\n" + " that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable\n" + " way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him\n" + " show himself what he is and steal out of your company.\n\n" + "VERGES You have been always called a merciful man, partner.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more\n" + " a man who hath any honesty in him.\n\n" + "VERGES If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call\n" + " to the nurse and bid her still it.\n\n" + "Watchman How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake\n" + " her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her\n" + " lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.\n\n" + "VERGES 'Tis very true.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY This is the end of the charge:--you, constable, are\n" + " to present the prince's own person: if you meet the\n" + " prince in the night, you may stay him.\n\n" + "VERGES Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows\n" + " the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without\n" + " the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought\n" + " to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a\n" + " man against his will.\n\n" + "VERGES By'r lady, I think it be so.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be\n" + " any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your\n" + " fellows' counsels and your own; and good night.\n" + " Come, neighbour.\n\n" + "Watchman Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here\n" + " upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch\n" + " about Signior Leonato's door; for the wedding being\n" + " there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night.\n" + " Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES]\n\n" + " [Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE]\n\n" + "BORACHIO What Conrade!\n\n" + "Watchman [Aside] Peace! stir not.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Conrade, I say!\n\n" + "CONRADE Here, man; I am at thy elbow.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a\n" + " scab follow.\n\n" + "CONRADE I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward\n" + " with thy tale.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for\n" + " it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard,\n" + " utter all to thee.\n\n" + "Watchman [Aside] Some treason, masters: yet stand close.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.\n\n" + "CONRADE Is it possible that any villany should be so dear?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any\n" + " villany should be so rich; for when rich villains\n" + " have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what\n" + " price they will.\n\n" + "CONRADE I wonder at it.\n\n" + "BORACHIO That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that\n" + " the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is\n" + " nothing to a man.\n\n" + "CONRADE Yes, it is apparel.\n\n" + "BORACHIO I mean, the fashion.\n\n" + "CONRADE Yes, the fashion is the fashion.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But\n" + " seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion\n" + " is?\n\n" + "Watchman [Aside] I know that Deformed; a' has been a vile\n" + " thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a\n" + " gentleman: I remember his name.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Didst thou not hear somebody?\n\n" + "CONRADE No; 'twas the vane on the house.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this\n" + " fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot\n" + " bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?\n" + " sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers\n" + " in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's\n" + " priests in the old church-window, sometime like the\n" + " shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,\n" + " where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?\n\n" + "CONRADE All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears\n" + " out more apparel than the man. But art not thou\n" + " thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast\n" + " shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night\n" + " wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the\n" + " name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress'\n" + " chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good\n" + " night,--I tell this tale vilely:--I should first\n" + " tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master,\n" + " planted and placed and possessed by my master Don\n" + " John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.\n\n" + "CONRADE And thought they Margaret was Hero?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the\n" + " devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly\n" + " by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by\n" + " the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly\n" + " by my villany, which did confirm any slander that\n" + " Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore\n" + " he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning\n" + " at the temple, and there, before the whole\n" + " congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night\n" + " and send her home again without a husband.\n\n" + "First Watchman We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!\n\n" + "Second Watchman Call up the right master constable. We have here\n" + " recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that\n" + " ever was known in the commonwealth.\n\n" + "First Watchman And one Deformed is one of them: I know him; a'\n" + " wears a lock.\n\n" + "CONRADE Masters, masters,--\n\n" + "Second Watchman You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.\n\n" + "CONRADE Masters,--\n\n" + "First Watchman Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.\n\n" + "BORACHIO We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken\n" + " up of these men's bills.\n\n" + "CONRADE A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV HERO's apartment.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA]\n\n" + "HERO Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire\n" + " her to rise.\n\n" + "URSULA I will, lady.\n\n" + "HERO And bid her come hither.\n\n" + "URSULA Well.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARGARET Troth, I think your other rabato were better.\n\n" + "HERO No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.\n\n" + "MARGARET By my troth, 's not so good; and I warrant your\n" + " cousin will say so.\n\n" + "HERO My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear\n" + " none but this.\n\n" + "MARGARET I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair\n" + " were a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare\n" + " fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's\n" + " gown that they praise so.\n\n" + "HERO O, that exceeds, they say.\n\n" + "MARGARET By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect of\n" + " yours: cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with\n" + " silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves,\n" + " and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel:\n" + " but for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent\n" + " fashion, yours is worth ten on 't.\n\n" + "HERO God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is\n" + " exceeding heavy.\n\n" + "MARGARET 'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man.\n\n" + "HERO Fie upon thee! art not ashamed?\n\n" + "MARGARET Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not\n" + " marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord\n" + " honourable without marriage? I think you would have\n" + " me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad\n" + " thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend\n" + " nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a\n" + " husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband\n" + " and the right wife; otherwise 'tis light, and not\n" + " heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else; here she comes.\n\n" + " [Enter BEATRICE]\n\n" + "HERO Good morrow, coz.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Good morrow, sweet Hero.\n\n" + "HERO Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune?\n\n" + "BEATRICE I am out of all other tune, methinks.\n\n" + "MARGARET Clap's into 'Light o' love;' that goes without a\n" + " burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your\n" + " husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall\n" + " lack no barns.\n\n" + "MARGARET O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels.\n\n" + "BEATRICE 'Tis almost five o'clock, cousin; tis time you were\n" + " ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho!\n\n" + "MARGARET For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?\n\n" + "BEATRICE For the letter that begins them all, H.\n\n" + "MARGARET Well, and you be not turned Turk, there's no more\n" + " sailing by the star.\n\n" + "BEATRICE What means the fool, trow?\n\n" + "MARGARET Nothing I; but God send every one their heart's desire!\n\n" + "HERO These gloves the count sent me; they are an\n" + " excellent perfume.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I am stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.\n\n" + "MARGARET A maid, and stuffed! there's goodly catching of cold.\n\n" + "BEATRICE O, God help me! God help me! how long have you\n" + " professed apprehension?\n\n" + "MARGARET Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely?\n\n" + "BEATRICE It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your\n" + " cap. By my troth, I am sick.\n\n" + "MARGARET Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus,\n" + " and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm.\n\n" + "HERO There thou prickest her with a thistle.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some moral in\n" + " this Benedictus.\n\n" + "MARGARET Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I\n" + " meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance\n" + " that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am\n" + " not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list\n" + " not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think,\n" + " if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you\n" + " are in love or that you will be in love or that you\n" + " can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and\n" + " now is he become a man: he swore he would never\n" + " marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats\n" + " his meat without grudging: and how you may be\n" + " converted I know not, but methinks you look with\n" + " your eyes as other women do.\n\n" + "BEATRICE What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?\n\n" + "MARGARET Not a false gallop.\n\n" + " [Re-enter URSULA]\n\n" + "URSULA Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior\n" + " Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the\n" + " town, are come to fetch you to church.\n\n" + "HERO Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another room in LEONATO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONATO, with DOGBERRY and VERGES]\n\n" + "LEONATO What would you with me, honest neighbour?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you\n" + " that decerns you nearly.\n\n" + "LEONATO Brief, I pray you; for you see it is a busy time with me.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Marry, this it is, sir.\n\n" + "VERGES Yes, in truth it is, sir.\n\n" + "LEONATO What is it, my good friends?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the\n" + " matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so\n" + " blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but,\n" + " in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.\n\n" + "VERGES Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living\n" + " that is an old man and no honester than I.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges.\n\n" + "LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the\n" + " poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part,\n" + " if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in\n" + " my heart to bestow it all of your worship.\n\n" + "LEONATO All thy tediousness on me, ah?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis; for\n" + " I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any\n" + " man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, I\n" + " am glad to hear it.\n\n" + "VERGES And so am I.\n\n" + "LEONATO I would fain know what you have to say.\n\n" + "VERGES Marry, sir, our watch to-night, excepting your\n" + " worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant\n" + " knaves as any in Messina.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they\n" + " say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help\n" + " us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,\n" + " neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men\n" + " ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest\n" + " soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever\n" + " broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men\n" + " are not alike; alas, good neighbour!\n\n" + "LEONATO Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Gifts that God gives.\n\n" + "LEONATO I must leave you.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed\n" + " comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would\n" + " have them this morning examined before your worship.\n\n" + "LEONATO Take their examination yourself and bring it me: I\n" + " am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY It shall be suffigance.\n\n" + "LEONATO Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to\n" + " her husband.\n\n" + "LEONATO I'll wait upon them: I am ready.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger]\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole;\n" + " bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we\n" + " are now to examination these men.\n\n" + "VERGES And we must do it wisely.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here's\n" + " that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only\n" + " get the learned writer to set down our\n" + " excommunication and meet me at the gaol.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A church.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS,\n" + " CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, and Attendants]\n\n" + "LEONATO Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain\n" + " form of marriage, and you shall recount their\n" + " particular duties afterwards.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO No.\n\n" + "LEONATO To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Lady, you come hither to be married to this count.\n\n" + "HERO I do.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS If either of you know any inward impediment why you\n" + " should not be conjoined, charge you, on your souls,\n" + " to utter it.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Know you any, Hero?\n\n" + "HERO None, my lord.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Know you any, count?\n\n" + "LEONATO I dare make his answer, none.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily\n" + " do, not knowing what they do!\n\n" + "BENEDICK How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of\n" + " laughing, as, ah, ha, he!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:\n" + " Will you with free and unconstrained soul\n" + " Give me this maid, your daughter?\n\n" + "LEONATO As freely, son, as God did give her me.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And what have I to give you back, whose worth\n" + " May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Nothing, unless you render her again.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.\n" + " There, Leonato, take her back again:\n" + " Give not this rotten orange to your friend;\n" + " She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.\n" + " Behold how like a maid she blushes here!\n" + " O, what authority and show of truth\n" + " Can cunning sin cover itself withal!\n" + " Comes not that blood as modest evidence\n" + " To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,\n" + " All you that see her, that she were a maid,\n" + " By these exterior shows? But she is none:\n" + " She knows the heat of a luxurious bed;\n" + " Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.\n\n" + "LEONATO What do you mean, my lord?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Not to be married,\n" + " Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.\n\n" + "LEONATO Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,\n" + " Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth,\n" + " And made defeat of her virginity,--\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I know what you would say: if I have known her,\n" + " You will say she did embrace me as a husband,\n" + " And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:\n" + " No, Leonato,\n" + " I never tempted her with word too large;\n" + " But, as a brother to his sister, show'd\n" + " Bashful sincerity and comely love.\n\n" + "HERO And seem'd I ever otherwise to you?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:\n" + " You seem to me as Dian in her orb,\n" + " As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;\n" + " But you are more intemperate in your blood\n" + " Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals\n" + " That rage in savage sensuality.\n\n" + "HERO Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?\n\n" + "LEONATO Sweet prince, why speak not you?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO What should I speak?\n" + " I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about\n" + " To link my dear friend to a common stale.\n\n" + "LEONATO Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?\n\n" + "DON JOHN Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.\n\n" + "BENEDICK This looks not like a nuptial.\n\n" + "HERO True! O God!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Leonato, stand I here?\n" + " Is this the prince? is this the prince's brother?\n" + " Is this face Hero's? are our eyes our own?\n\n" + "LEONATO All this is so: but what of this, my lord?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Let me but move one question to your daughter;\n" + " And, by that fatherly and kindly power\n" + " That you have in her, bid her answer truly.\n\n" + "LEONATO I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.\n\n" + "HERO O, God defend me! how am I beset!\n" + " What kind of catechising call you this?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO To make you answer truly to your name.\n\n" + "HERO Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name\n" + " With any just reproach?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Marry, that can Hero;\n" + " Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.\n" + " What man was he talk'd with you yesternight\n" + " Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?\n" + " Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.\n\n" + "HERO I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,\n" + " I am sorry you must hear: upon mine honour,\n" + " Myself, my brother and this grieved count\n" + " Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night\n" + " Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window\n" + " Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,\n" + " Confess'd the vile encounters they have had\n" + " A thousand times in secret.\n\n" + "DON JOHN Fie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord,\n" + " Not to be spoke of;\n" + " There is not chastity enough in language\n" + " Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,\n" + " I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been,\n" + " If half thy outward graces had been placed\n" + " About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!\n" + " But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,\n" + " Thou pure impiety and impious purity!\n" + " For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,\n" + " And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,\n" + " To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,\n" + " And never shall it more be gracious.\n\n" + "LEONATO Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?\n\n" + " [HERO swoons]\n\n" + "BEATRICE Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down?\n\n" + "DON JOHN Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,\n" + " Smother her spirits up.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, and CLAUDIO]\n\n" + "BENEDICK How doth the lady?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Dead, I think. Help, uncle!\n" + " Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar!\n\n" + "LEONATO O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand.\n" + " Death is the fairest cover for her shame\n" + " That may be wish'd for.\n\n" + "BEATRICE How now, cousin Hero!\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Have comfort, lady.\n\n" + "LEONATO Dost thou look up?\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Yea, wherefore should she not?\n\n" + "LEONATO Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing\n" + " Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny\n" + " The story that is printed in her blood?\n" + " Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes:\n" + " For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,\n" + " Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,\n" + " Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches,\n" + " Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one?\n" + " Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?\n" + " O, one too much by thee! Why had I one?\n" + " Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?\n" + " Why had I not with charitable hand\n" + " Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,\n" + " Who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy,\n" + " I might have said 'No part of it is mine;\n" + " This shame derives itself from unknown loins'?\n" + " But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised\n" + " And mine that I was proud on, mine so much\n" + " That I myself was to myself not mine,\n" + " Valuing of her,--why, she, O, she is fallen\n" + " Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea\n" + " Hath drops too few to wash her clean again\n" + " And salt too little which may season give\n" + " To her foul-tainted flesh!\n\n" + "BENEDICK Sir, sir, be patient.\n" + " For my part, I am so attired in wonder,\n" + " I know not what to say.\n\n" + "BEATRICE O, on my soul, my cousin is belied!\n\n" + "BENEDICK Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?\n\n" + "BEATRICE No, truly not; although, until last night,\n" + " I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.\n\n" + "LEONATO Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made\n" + " Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron!\n" + " Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie,\n" + " Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness,\n" + " Wash'd it with tears? Hence from her! let her die.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Hear me a little; for I have only been\n" + " Silent so long and given way unto\n" + " This course of fortune [ ]\n" + " By noting of the lady I have mark'd\n" + " A thousand blushing apparitions\n" + " To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames\n" + " In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;\n" + " And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,\n" + " To burn the errors that these princes hold\n" + " Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;\n" + " Trust not my reading nor my observations,\n" + " Which with experimental seal doth warrant\n" + " The tenor of my book; trust not my age,\n" + " My reverence, calling, nor divinity,\n" + " If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here\n" + " Under some biting error.\n\n" + "LEONATO Friar, it cannot be.\n" + " Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left\n" + " Is that she will not add to her damnation\n" + " A sin of perjury; she not denies it:\n" + " Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse\n" + " That which appears in proper nakedness?\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Lady, what man is he you are accused of?\n\n" + "HERO They know that do accuse me; I know none:\n" + " If I know more of any man alive\n" + " Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,\n" + " Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father,\n" + " Prove you that any man with me conversed\n" + " At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight\n" + " Maintain'd the change of words with any creature,\n" + " Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS There is some strange misprision in the princes.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Two of them have the very bent of honour;\n" + " And if their wisdoms be misled in this,\n" + " The practise of it lives in John the bastard,\n" + " Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.\n\n" + "LEONATO I know not. If they speak but truth of her,\n" + " These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour,\n" + " The proudest of them shall well hear of it.\n" + " Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,\n" + " Nor age so eat up my invention,\n" + " Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,\n" + " Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,\n" + " But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,\n" + " Both strength of limb and policy of mind,\n" + " Ability in means and choice of friends,\n" + " To quit me of them throughly.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Pause awhile,\n" + " And let my counsel sway you in this case.\n" + " Your daughter here the princes left for dead:\n" + " Let her awhile be secretly kept in,\n" + " And publish it that she is dead indeed;\n" + " Maintain a mourning ostentation\n" + " And on your family's old monument\n" + " Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites\n" + " That appertain unto a burial.\n\n" + "LEONATO What shall become of this? what will this do?\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf\n" + " Change slander to remorse; that is some good:\n" + " But not for that dream I on this strange course,\n" + " But on this travail look for greater birth.\n" + " She dying, as it must so be maintain'd,\n" + " Upon the instant that she was accused,\n" + " Shall be lamented, pitied and excused\n" + " Of every hearer: for it so falls out\n" + " That what we have we prize not to the worth\n" + " Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,\n" + " Why, then we rack the value, then we find\n" + " The virtue that possession would not show us\n" + " Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:\n" + " When he shall hear she died upon his words,\n" + " The idea of her life shall sweetly creep\n" + " Into his study of imagination,\n" + " And every lovely organ of her life\n" + " Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,\n" + " More moving-delicate and full of life,\n" + " Into the eye and prospect of his soul,\n" + " Than when she lived indeed; then shall he mourn,\n" + " If ever love had interest in his liver,\n" + " And wish he had not so accused her,\n" + " No, though he thought his accusation true.\n" + " Let this be so, and doubt not but success\n" + " Will fashion the event in better shape\n" + " Than I can lay it down in likelihood.\n" + " But if all aim but this be levell'd false,\n" + " The supposition of the lady's death\n" + " Will quench the wonder of her infamy:\n" + " And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,\n" + " As best befits her wounded reputation,\n" + " In some reclusive and religious life,\n" + " Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you:\n" + " And though you know my inwardness and love\n" + " Is very much unto the prince and Claudio,\n" + " Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this\n" + " As secretly and justly as your soul\n" + " Should with your body.\n\n" + "LEONATO Being that I flow in grief,\n" + " The smallest twine may lead me.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS 'Tis well consented: presently away;\n" + " For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.\n" + " Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day\n" + " Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but BENEDICK and BEATRICE]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Yea, and I will weep a while longer.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I will not desire that.\n\n" + "BEATRICE You have no reason; I do it freely.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!\n\n" + "BENEDICK Is there any way to show such friendship?\n\n" + "BEATRICE A very even way, but no such friend.\n\n" + "BENEDICK May a man do it?\n\n" + "BEATRICE It is a man's office, but not yours.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is\n" + " not that strange?\n\n" + "BEATRICE As strange as the thing I know not. It were as\n" + " possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as\n" + " you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I\n" + " confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.\n\n" + "BENEDICK By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Do not swear, and eat it.\n\n" + "BENEDICK I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make\n" + " him eat it that says I love not you.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Will you not eat your word?\n\n" + "BENEDICK With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest\n" + " I love thee.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Why, then, God forgive me!\n\n" + "BENEDICK What offence, sweet Beatrice?\n\n" + "BEATRICE You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to\n" + " protest I loved you.\n\n" + "BENEDICK And do it with all thy heart.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I love you with so much of my heart that none is\n" + " left to protest.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Come, bid me do any thing for thee.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Kill Claudio.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Ha! not for the wide world.\n\n" + "BEATRICE You kill me to deny it. Farewell.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Tarry, sweet Beatrice.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in\n" + " you: nay, I pray you, let me go.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Beatrice,--\n\n" + "BEATRICE In faith, I will go.\n\n" + "BENEDICK We'll be friends first.\n\n" + "BEATRICE You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Is Claudio thine enemy?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Is he not approved in the height a villain, that\n" + " hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O\n" + " that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they\n" + " come to take hands; and then, with public\n" + " accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,\n" + " --O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart\n" + " in the market-place.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Hear me, Beatrice,--\n\n" + "BEATRICE Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!\n\n" + "BENEDICK Nay, but, Beatrice,--\n\n" + "BEATRICE Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Beat--\n\n" + "BEATRICE Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,\n" + " a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant,\n" + " surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I\n" + " had any friend would be a man for my sake! But\n" + " manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into\n" + " compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and\n" + " trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules\n" + " that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a\n" + " man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will\n" + " kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,\n" + " Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you\n" + " hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your\n" + " cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A prison.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and Sexton, in gowns; and\n" + " the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO]\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Is our whole dissembly appeared?\n\n" + "VERGES O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton.\n\n" + "Sexton Which be the malefactors?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Marry, that am I and my partner.\n\n" + "VERGES Nay, that's certain; we have the exhibition to examine.\n\n" + "Sexton But which are the offenders that are to be\n" + " examined? let them come before master constable.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your\n" + " name, friend?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Borachio.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah?\n\n" + "CONRADE I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do\n" + " you serve God?\n\n\n" + "CONRADE |\n" + " | Yea, sir, we hope.\n" + "BORACHIO |\n\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Write down, that they hope they serve God: and\n" + " write God first; for God defend but God should go\n" + " before such villains! Masters, it is proved already\n" + " that you are little better than false knaves; and it\n" + " will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer\n" + " you for yourselves?\n\n" + "CONRADE Marry, sir, we say we are none.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you: but I\n" + " will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a\n" + " word in your ear: sir, I say to you, it is thought\n" + " you are false knaves.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Sir, I say to you we are none.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Well, stand aside. 'Fore God, they are both in a\n" + " tale. Have you writ down, that they are none?\n\n" + "Sexton Master constable, you go not the way to examine:\n" + " you must call forth the watch that are their accusers.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch\n" + " come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's\n" + " name, accuse these men.\n\n" + "First Watchman This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince's\n" + " brother, was a villain.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat\n" + " perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.\n\n" + "BORACHIO Master constable,--\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look,\n" + " I promise thee.\n\n" + "Sexton What heard you him say else?\n\n" + "Second Watchman Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of\n" + " Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Flat burglary as ever was committed.\n\n" + "VERGES Yea, by mass, that it is.\n\n" + "Sexton What else, fellow?\n\n" + "First Watchman And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to\n" + " disgrace Hero before the whole assembly. and not marry her.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting\n" + " redemption for this.\n\n" + "Sexton What else?\n\n" + "Watchman This is all.\n\n" + "Sexton And this is more, masters, than you can deny.\n" + " Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away;\n" + " Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner\n" + " refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died.\n" + " Master constable, let these men be bound, and\n" + " brought to Leonato's: I will go before and show\n" + " him their examination.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Come, let them be opinioned.\n\n" + "VERGES Let them be in the hands--\n\n" + "CONRADE Off, coxcomb!\n\n" + "DOGBERRY God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write\n" + " down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them.\n" + " Thou naughty varlet!\n\n" + "CONRADE Away! you are an ass, you are an ass.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not\n" + " suspect my years? O that he were here to write me\n" + " down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an\n" + " ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not\n" + " that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of\n" + " piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.\n" + " I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,\n" + " and, which is more, a householder, and, which is\n" + " more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in\n" + " Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a\n" + " rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath\n" + " had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every\n" + " thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that\n" + " I had been writ down an ass!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before LEONATO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO]\n\n" + "ANTONIO If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:\n" + " And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief\n" + " Against yourself.\n\n" + "LEONATO I pray thee, cease thy counsel,\n" + " Which falls into mine ears as profitless\n" + " As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;\n" + " Nor let no comforter delight mine ear\n" + " But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.\n" + " Bring me a father that so loved his child,\n" + " Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,\n" + " And bid him speak of patience;\n" + " Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine\n" + " And let it answer every strain for strain,\n" + " As thus for thus and such a grief for such,\n" + " In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:\n" + " If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,\n" + " Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan,\n" + " Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk\n" + " With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,\n" + " And I of him will gather patience.\n" + " But there is no such man: for, brother, men\n" + " Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief\n" + " Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,\n" + " Their counsel turns to passion, which before\n" + " Would give preceptial medicine to rage,\n" + " Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,\n" + " Charm ache with air and agony with words:\n" + " No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience\n" + " To those that wring under the load of sorrow,\n" + " But no man's virtue nor sufficiency\n" + " To be so moral when he shall endure\n" + " The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:\n" + " My griefs cry louder than advertisement.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Therein do men from children nothing differ.\n\n" + "LEONATO I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood;\n" + " For there was never yet philosopher\n" + " That could endure the toothache patiently,\n" + " However they have writ the style of gods\n" + " And made a push at chance and sufferance.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself;\n" + " Make those that do offend you suffer too.\n\n" + "LEONATO There thou speak'st reason: nay, I will do so.\n" + " My soul doth tell me Hero is belied;\n" + " And that shall Claudio know; so shall the prince\n" + " And all of them that thus dishonour her.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily.\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Good den, good den.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Good day to both of you.\n\n" + "LEONATO Hear you. my lords,--\n\n" + "DON PEDRO We have some haste, Leonato.\n\n" + "LEONATO Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:\n" + " Are you so hasty now? well, all is one.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.\n\n" + "ANTONIO If he could right himself with quarreling,\n" + " Some of us would lie low.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Who wrongs him?\n\n" + "LEONATO Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou:--\n" + " Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword;\n" + " I fear thee not.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Marry, beshrew my hand,\n" + " If it should give your age such cause of fear:\n" + " In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.\n\n" + "LEONATO Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me:\n" + " I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,\n" + " As under privilege of age to brag\n" + " What I have done being young, or what would do\n" + " Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,\n" + " Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me\n" + " That I am forced to lay my reverence by\n" + " And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,\n" + " Do challenge thee to trial of a man.\n" + " I say thou hast belied mine innocent child;\n" + " Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,\n" + " And she lies buried with her ancestors;\n" + " O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,\n" + " Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO My villany?\n\n" + "LEONATO Thine, Claudio; thine, I say.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO You say not right, old man.\n\n" + "LEONATO My lord, my lord,\n" + " I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,\n" + " Despite his nice fence and his active practise,\n" + " His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Away! I will not have to do with you.\n\n" + "LEONATO Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child:\n" + " If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.\n\n" + "ANTONIO He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:\n" + " But that's no matter; let him kill one first;\n" + " Win me and wear me; let him answer me.\n" + " Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me:\n" + " Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence;\n" + " Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.\n\n" + "LEONATO Brother,--\n\n" + "ANTONIO Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece;\n" + " And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,\n" + " That dare as well answer a man indeed\n" + " As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:\n" + " Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!\n\n" + "LEONATO Brother Antony,--\n\n" + "ANTONIO Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,\n" + " And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,--\n" + " Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,\n" + " That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,\n" + " Go anticly, show outward hideousness,\n" + " And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,\n" + " How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;\n" + " And this is all.\n\n" + "LEONATO But, brother Antony,--\n\n" + "ANTONIO Come, 'tis no matter:\n" + " Do not you meddle; let me deal in this.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.\n" + " My heart is sorry for your daughter's death:\n" + " But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing\n" + " But what was true and very full of proof.\n\n" + "LEONATO My lord, my lord,--\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I will not hear you.\n\n" + "LEONATO No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And shall, or some of us will smart for it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO See, see; here comes the man we went to seek.\n\n" + " [Enter BENEDICK]\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Now, signior, what news?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Good day, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part\n" + " almost a fray.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO We had like to have had our two noses snapped off\n" + " with two old men without teeth.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had\n" + " we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.\n\n" + "BENEDICK In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came\n" + " to seek you both.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are\n" + " high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten\n" + " away. Wilt thou use thy wit?\n\n" + "BENEDICK It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Never any did so, though very many have been beside\n" + " their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the\n" + " minstrels; draw, to pleasure us.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou\n" + " sick, or angry?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,\n" + " thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you\n" + " charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was\n" + " broke cross.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO By this light, he changes more and more: I think\n" + " he be angry indeed.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Shall I speak a word in your ear?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO God bless me from a challenge!\n\n" + "BENEDICK [Aside to CLAUDIO] You are a villain; I jest not:\n" + " I will make it good how you dare, with what you\n" + " dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will\n" + " protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet\n" + " lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me\n" + " hear from you.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO What, a feast, a feast?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's\n" + " head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most\n" + " curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find\n" + " a woodcock too?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the\n" + " other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: 'True,'\n" + " said she, 'a fine little one.' 'No,' said I, 'a\n" + " great wit:' 'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.'\n" + " 'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'it\n" + " hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'the gentleman\n" + " is wise:' 'Certain,' said she, 'a wise gentleman.'\n" + " 'Nay,' said I, 'he hath the tongues:' 'That I\n" + " believe,' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on\n" + " Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning;\n" + " there's a double tongue; there's two tongues.' Thus\n" + " did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular\n" + " virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou\n" + " wast the properest man in Italy.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO For the which she wept heartily and said she cared\n" + " not.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she\n" + " did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:\n" + " the old man's daughter told us all.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he was\n" + " hid in the garden.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on\n" + " the sensible Benedick's head?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Yea, and text underneath, 'Here dwells Benedick the\n" + " married man'?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave\n" + " you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests\n" + " as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked,\n" + " hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank\n" + " you: I must discontinue your company: your brother\n" + " the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among\n" + " you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord\n" + " Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till\n" + " then, peace be with him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO He is in earnest.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant you, for\n" + " the love of Beatrice.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO And hath challenged thee.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Most sincerely.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his\n" + " doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a\n" + " doctor to such a man.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and\n" + " be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled?\n\n" + " [Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE\n" + " and BORACHIO]\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she\n" + " shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay,\n" + " an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO How now? two of my brother's men bound! Borachio\n" + " one!\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Hearken after their offence, my lord.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Officers, what offence have these men done?\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report;\n" + " moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,\n" + " they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have\n" + " belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust\n" + " things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I\n" + " ask thee what's their offence; sixth and lastly, why\n" + " they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay\n" + " to their charge.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by\n" + " my troth, there's one meaning well suited.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus\n" + " bound to your answer? this learned constable is\n" + " too cunning to be understood: what's your offence?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:\n" + " do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have\n" + " deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms\n" + " could not discover, these shallow fools have brought\n" + " to light: who in the night overheard me confessing\n" + " to this man how Don John your brother incensed me\n" + " to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into\n" + " the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's\n" + " garments, how you disgraced her, when you should\n" + " marry her: my villany they have upon record; which\n" + " I had rather seal with my death than repeat over\n" + " to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my\n" + " master's false accusation; and, briefly, I desire\n" + " nothing but the reward of a villain.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO But did my brother set thee on to this?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO He is composed and framed of treachery:\n" + " And fled he is upon this villany.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear\n" + " In the rare semblance that I loved it first.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our\n" + " sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:\n" + " and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time\n" + " and place shall serve, that I am an ass.\n\n" + "VERGES Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the\n" + " Sexton too.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton]\n\n" + "LEONATO Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,\n" + " That, when I note another man like him,\n" + " I may avoid him: which of these is he?\n\n" + "BORACHIO If you would know your wronger, look on me.\n\n" + "LEONATO Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd\n" + " Mine innocent child?\n\n" + "BORACHIO Yea, even I alone.\n\n" + "LEONATO No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself:\n" + " Here stand a pair of honourable men;\n" + " A third is fled, that had a hand in it.\n" + " I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death:\n" + " Record it with your high and worthy deeds:\n" + " 'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I know not how to pray your patience;\n" + " Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;\n" + " Impose me to what penance your invention\n" + " Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not\n" + " But in mistaking.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO By my soul, nor I:\n" + " And yet, to satisfy this good old man,\n" + " I would bend under any heavy weight\n" + " That he'll enjoin me to.\n\n" + "LEONATO I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;\n" + " That were impossible: but, I pray you both,\n" + " Possess the people in Messina here\n" + " How innocent she died; and if your love\n" + " Can labour ought in sad invention,\n" + " Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb\n" + " And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night:\n" + " To-morrow morning come you to my house,\n" + " And since you could not be my son-in-law,\n" + " Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,\n" + " Almost the copy of my child that's dead,\n" + " And she alone is heir to both of us:\n" + " Give her the right you should have given her cousin,\n" + " And so dies my revenge.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO O noble sir,\n" + " Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!\n" + " I do embrace your offer; and dispose\n" + " For henceforth of poor Claudio.\n\n" + "LEONATO To-morrow then I will expect your coming;\n" + " To-night I take my leave. This naughty man\n" + " Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,\n" + " Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong,\n" + " Hired to it by your brother.\n\n" + "BORACHIO No, by my soul, she was not,\n" + " Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,\n" + " But always hath been just and virtuous\n" + " In any thing that I do know by her.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and\n" + " black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call\n" + " me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his\n" + " punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of\n" + " one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and\n" + " a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's\n" + " name, the which he hath used so long and never paid\n" + " that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing\n" + " for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point.\n\n" + "LEONATO I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY Your worship speaks like a most thankful and\n" + " reverend youth; and I praise God for you.\n\n" + "LEONATO There's for thy pains.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY God save the foundation!\n\n" + "LEONATO Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.\n\n" + "DOGBERRY I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I\n" + " beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the\n" + " example of others. God keep your worship! I wish\n" + " your worship well; God restore you to health! I\n" + " humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry\n" + " meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES]\n\n" + "LEONATO Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO We will not fail.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO To-night I'll mourn with Hero.\n\n" + "LEONATO [To the Watch] Bring you these fellows on. We'll\n" + " talk with Margaret,\n" + " How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II LEONATO'S garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BENEDICK and MARGARET, meeting]\n\n" + "BENEDICK Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at\n" + " my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.\n\n" + "MARGARET Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?\n\n" + "BENEDICK In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living\n" + " shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou\n" + " deservest it.\n\n" + "MARGARET To have no man come over me! why, shall I always\n" + " keep below stairs?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.\n\n" + "MARGARET And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit,\n" + " but hurt not.\n\n" + "BENEDICK A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a\n" + " woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give\n" + " thee the bucklers.\n\n" + "MARGARET Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own.\n\n" + "BENEDICK If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the\n" + " pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids.\n\n" + "MARGARET Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs.\n\n" + "BENEDICK And therefore will come.\n\n" + " [Exit MARGARET]\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " The god of love,\n" + " That sits above,\n" + " And knows me, and knows me,\n" + " How pitiful I deserve,--\n\n" + " I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good\n" + " swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and\n" + " a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,\n" + " whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a\n" + " blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned\n" + " over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I\n" + " cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find\n" + " out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent\n" + " rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for,\n" + " 'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous\n" + " endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,\n" + " nor I cannot woo in festival terms.\n\n" + " [Enter BEATRICE]\n\n" + " Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.\n\n" + "BENEDICK O, stay but till then!\n\n" + "BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere\n" + " I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with\n" + " knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but\n" + " foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I\n" + " will depart unkissed.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,\n" + " so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee\n" + " plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either\n" + " I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe\n" + " him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for\n" + " which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?\n\n" + "BEATRICE For them all together; which maintained so politic\n" + " a state of evil that they will not admit any good\n" + " part to intermingle with them. But for which of my\n" + " good parts did you first suffer love for me?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love\n" + " indeed, for I love thee against my will.\n\n" + "BEATRICE In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart!\n" + " If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for\n" + " yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.\n\n" + "BEATRICE It appears not in this confession: there's not one\n" + " wise man among twenty that will praise himself.\n\n" + "BENEDICK An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in\n" + " the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect\n" + " in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live\n" + " no longer in monument than the bell rings and the\n" + " widow weeps.\n\n" + "BEATRICE And how long is that, think you?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in\n" + " rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the\n" + " wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no\n" + " impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his\n" + " own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for\n" + " praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is\n" + " praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Very ill.\n\n" + "BENEDICK And how do you?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Very ill too.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave\n" + " you too, for here comes one in haste.\n\n" + " [Enter URSULA]\n\n" + "URSULA Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old\n" + " coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been\n" + " falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily\n" + " abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is\n" + " fed and gone. Will you come presently?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Will you go hear this news, signior?\n\n" + "BENEDICK I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be\n" + " buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with\n" + " thee to thy uncle's.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A church.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and three or four\n" + " with tapers]\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Is this the monument of Leonato?\n\n" + "Lord It is, my lord.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO [Reading out of a scroll]\n" + " Done to death by slanderous tongues\n" + " Was the Hero that here lies:\n" + " Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,\n" + " Gives her fame which never dies.\n" + " So the life that died with shame\n" + " Lives in death with glorious fame.\n" + " Hang thou there upon the tomb,\n" + " Praising her when I am dumb.\n\n" + " Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.\n" + " SONG.\n\n" + " Pardon, goddess of the night,\n" + " Those that slew thy virgin knight;\n" + " For the which, with songs of woe,\n" + " Round about her tomb they go.\n" + " Midnight, assist our moan;\n" + " Help us to sigh and groan,\n" + " Heavily, heavily:\n" + " Graves, yawn and yield your dead,\n" + " Till death be uttered,\n" + " Heavily, heavily.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Now, unto thy bones good night!\n" + " Yearly will I do this rite.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Good morrow, masters; put your torches out:\n" + " The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day,\n" + " Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about\n" + " Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.\n" + " Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Good morrow, masters: each his several way.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;\n" + " And then to Leonato's we will go.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's\n" + " Than this for whom we render'd up this woe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A room in LEONATO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE,\n" + " MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO]\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS Did I not tell you she was innocent?\n\n" + "LEONATO So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her\n" + " Upon the error that you heard debated:\n" + " But Margaret was in some fault for this,\n" + " Although against her will, as it appears\n" + " In the true course of all the question.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.\n\n" + "BENEDICK And so am I, being else by faith enforced\n" + " To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.\n\n" + "LEONATO Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,\n" + " Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,\n" + " And when I send for you, come hither mask'd.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Ladies]\n\n" + " The prince and Claudio promised by this hour\n" + " To visit me. You know your office, brother:\n" + " You must be father to your brother's daughter\n" + " And give her to young Claudio.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Which I will do with confirm'd countenance.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS To do what, signior?\n\n" + "BENEDICK To bind me, or undo me; one of them.\n" + " Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,\n" + " Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.\n\n" + "LEONATO That eye my daughter lent her: 'tis most true.\n\n" + "BENEDICK And I do with an eye of love requite her.\n\n" + "LEONATO The sight whereof I think you had from me,\n" + " From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:\n" + " But, for my will, my will is your good will\n" + " May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'd\n" + " In the state of honourable marriage:\n" + " In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.\n\n" + "LEONATO My heart is with your liking.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS And my help.\n" + " Here comes the prince and Claudio.\n\n" + " [Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or\n" + " three others]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Good morrow to this fair assembly.\n\n" + "LEONATO Good morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio:\n" + " We here attend you. Are you yet determined\n" + " To-day to marry with my brother's daughter?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.\n\n" + "LEONATO Call her forth, brother; here's the friar ready.\n\n" + " [Exit ANTONIO]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter,\n" + " That you have such a February face,\n" + " So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I think he thinks upon the savage bull.\n" + " Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with gold\n" + " And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,\n" + " As once Europa did at lusty Jove,\n" + " When he would play the noble beast in love.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low;\n" + " And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow,\n" + " And got a calf in that same noble feat\n" + " Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked]\n\n" + " Which is the lady I must seize upon?\n\n" + "ANTONIO This same is she, and I do give you her.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Why, then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face.\n\n" + "LEONATO No, that you shall not, till you take her hand\n" + " Before this friar and swear to marry her.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Give me your hand: before this holy friar,\n" + " I am your husband, if you like of me.\n\n" + "HERO And when I lived, I was your other wife:\n\n" + " [Unmasking]\n\n" + " And when you loved, you were my other husband.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO Another Hero!\n\n" + "HERO Nothing certainer:\n" + " One Hero died defiled, but I do live,\n" + " And surely as I live, I am a maid.\n\n" + "DON PEDRO The former Hero! Hero that is dead!\n\n" + "LEONATO She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.\n\n" + "FRIAR FRANCIS All this amazement can I qualify:\n" + " When after that the holy rites are ended,\n" + " I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death:\n" + " Meantime let wonder seem familiar,\n" + " And to the chapel let us presently.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?\n\n" + "BEATRICE [Unmasking] I answer to that name. What is your will?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Do not you love me?\n\n" + "BEATRICE Why, no; no more than reason.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio\n" + " Have been deceived; they swore you did.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Do not you love me?\n\n" + "BENEDICK Troth, no; no more than reason.\n\n" + "BEATRICE Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula\n" + " Are much deceived; for they did swear you did.\n\n" + "BENEDICK They swore that you were almost sick for me.\n\n" + "BEATRICE They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.\n\n" + "BENEDICK 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?\n\n" + "BEATRICE No, truly, but in friendly recompense.\n\n" + "LEONATO Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO And I'll be sworn upon't that he loves her;\n" + " For here's a paper written in his hand,\n" + " A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,\n" + " Fashion'd to Beatrice.\n\n" + "HERO And here's another\n" + " Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket,\n" + " Containing her affection unto Benedick.\n\n" + "BENEDICK A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts.\n" + " Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take\n" + " thee for pity.\n\n" + "BEATRICE I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield\n" + " upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,\n" + " for I was told you were in a consumption.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Peace! I will stop your mouth.\n\n" + " [Kissing her]\n\n" + "DON PEDRO How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?\n\n" + "BENEDICK I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of\n" + " wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost\n" + " thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No:\n" + " if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear\n" + " nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do\n" + " purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any\n" + " purpose that the world can say against it; and\n" + " therefore never flout at me for what I have said\n" + " against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my\n" + " conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to\n" + " have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my\n" + " kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin.\n\n" + "CLAUDIO I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,\n" + " that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single\n" + " life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of\n" + " question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look\n" + " exceedingly narrowly to thee.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere\n" + " we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts\n" + " and our wives' heels.\n\n" + "LEONATO We'll have dancing afterward.\n\n" + "BENEDICK First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince,\n" + " thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife:\n" + " there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,\n" + " And brought with armed men back to Messina.\n\n" + "BENEDICK Think not on him till to-morrow:\n" + " I'll devise thee brave punishments for him.\n" + " Strike up, pipers.\n\n" + " [Dance]\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE:\n\n" + "BRABANTIO a senator.\n\n" + " Other Senators.\n" + " (Senator:)\n" + " (First Senator:)\n" + " (Second Senator:)\n\n" + "GRATIANO brother to Brabantio.\n\n" + "LODOVICO kinsman to Brabantio.\n\n" + "OTHELLO a noble Moor in the service of the Venetian state.\n\n" + "CASSIO his lieutenant.\n\n" + "IAGO his ancient.\n\n" + "RODERIGO a Venetian gentleman.\n\n" + "MONTANO Othello's predecessor in the government of Cyprus.\n\n" + " Clown, servant to Othello. (Clown:)\n\n" + "DESDEMONA daughter to Brabantio and wife to Othello.\n\n" + "EMILIA wife to Iago.\n\n" + "BIANCA mistress to Cassio.\n\n" + " Sailor, Messenger, Herald, Officers, Gentlemen,\n" + " Musicians, and Attendants.\n" + " (Sailor:)\n" + " (First Officer:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Gentleman:)\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n" + " (Third Gentleman:)\n" + " (First Musician:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Venice: a Sea-port in Cyprus.\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Venice. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter RODERIGO and IAGO]\n\n" + "RODERIGO Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly\n" + " That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse\n" + " As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.\n\n" + "IAGO 'Sblood, but you will not hear me:\n" + " If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.\n\n" + "IAGO Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,\n" + " In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,\n" + " Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,\n" + " I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:\n" + " But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,\n" + " Evades them, with a bombast circumstance\n" + " Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;\n" + " And, in conclusion,\n" + " Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,\n" + " 'I have already chose my officer.'\n" + " And what was he?\n" + " Forsooth, a great arithmetician,\n" + " One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,\n" + " A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;\n" + " That never set a squadron in the field,\n" + " Nor the division of a battle knows\n" + " More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,\n" + " Wherein the toged consuls can propose\n" + " As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,\n" + " Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:\n" + " And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof\n" + " At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds\n" + " Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd\n" + " By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,\n" + " He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,\n" + " And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.\n\n" + "RODERIGO By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.\n\n" + "IAGO Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,\n" + " Preferment goes by letter and affection,\n" + " And not by old gradation, where each second\n" + " Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,\n" + " Whether I in any just term am affined\n" + " To love the Moor.\n\n" + "RODERIGO I would not follow him then.\n\n" + "IAGO O, sir, content you;\n" + " I follow him to serve my turn upon him:\n" + " We cannot all be masters, nor all masters\n" + " Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark\n" + " Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,\n" + " That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,\n" + " Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,\n" + " For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:\n" + " Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are\n" + " Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,\n" + " Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,\n" + " And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,\n" + " Do well thrive by them and when they have lined\n" + " their coats\n" + " Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul;\n" + " And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,\n" + " It is as sure as you are Roderigo,\n" + " Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:\n" + " In following him, I follow but myself;\n" + " Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,\n" + " But seeming so, for my peculiar end:\n" + " For when my outward action doth demonstrate\n" + " The native act and figure of my heart\n" + " In compliment extern, 'tis not long after\n" + " But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve\n" + " For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.\n\n" + "RODERIGO What a full fortune does the thicklips owe\n" + " If he can carry't thus!\n\n" + "IAGO Call up her father,\n" + " Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,\n" + " Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,\n" + " And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,\n" + " Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,\n" + " Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,\n" + " As it may lose some colour.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud.\n\n" + "IAGO Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell\n" + " As when, by night and negligence, the fire\n" + " Is spied in populous cities.\n\n" + "RODERIGO What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!\n\n" + "IAGO Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!\n" + " Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!\n" + " Thieves! thieves!\n\n" + " [BRABANTIO appears above, at a window]\n\n" + "BRABANTIO What is the reason of this terrible summons?\n" + " What is the matter there?\n\n" + "RODERIGO Signior, is all your family within?\n\n" + "IAGO Are your doors lock'd?\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Why, wherefore ask you this?\n\n" + "IAGO 'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on\n" + " your gown;\n" + " Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;\n" + " Even now, now, very now, an old black ram\n" + " Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;\n" + " Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,\n" + " Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:\n" + " Arise, I say.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO What, have you lost your wits?\n\n" + "RODERIGO Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Not I what are you?\n\n" + "RODERIGO My name is Roderigo.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO The worser welcome:\n" + " I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:\n" + " In honest plainness thou hast heard me say\n" + " My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,\n" + " Being full of supper and distempering draughts,\n" + " Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come\n" + " To start my quiet.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Sir, sir, sir,--\n\n" + "BRABANTIO But thou must needs be sure\n" + " My spirit and my place have in them power\n" + " To make this bitter to thee.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Patience, good sir.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;\n" + " My house is not a grange.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Most grave Brabantio,\n" + " In simple and pure soul I come to you.\n\n" + "IAGO 'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not\n" + " serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to\n" + " do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll\n" + " have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;\n" + " you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have\n" + " coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO What profane wretch art thou?\n\n" + "IAGO I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter\n" + " and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Thou art a villain.\n\n" + "IAGO You are--a senator.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,\n" + " If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,\n" + " As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,\n" + " At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,\n" + " Transported, with no worse nor better guard\n" + " But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,\n" + " To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--\n" + " If this be known to you and your allowance,\n" + " We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;\n" + " But if you know not this, my manners tell me\n" + " We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe\n" + " That, from the sense of all civility,\n" + " I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:\n" + " Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,\n" + " I say again, hath made a gross revolt;\n" + " Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes\n" + " In an extravagant and wheeling stranger\n" + " Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:\n" + " If she be in her chamber or your house,\n" + " Let loose on me the justice of the state\n" + " For thus deluding you.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Strike on the tinder, ho!\n" + " Give me a taper! call up all my people!\n" + " This accident is not unlike my dream:\n" + " Belief of it oppresses me already.\n" + " Light, I say! light!\n\n" + " [Exit above]\n\n" + "IAGO Farewell; for I must leave you:\n" + " It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,\n" + " To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--\n" + " Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,\n" + " However this may gall him with some cheque,\n" + " Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd\n" + " With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,\n" + " Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,\n" + " Another of his fathom they have none,\n" + " To lead their business: in which regard,\n" + " Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.\n" + " Yet, for necessity of present life,\n" + " I must show out a flag and sign of love,\n" + " Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,\n" + " Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;\n" + " And there will I be with him. So, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches]\n\n" + "BRABANTIO It is too true an evil: gone she is;\n" + " And what's to come of my despised time\n" + " Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,\n" + " Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!\n" + " With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!\n" + " How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me\n" + " Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:\n" + " Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?\n\n" + "RODERIGO Truly, I think they are.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!\n" + " Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds\n" + " By what you see them act. Is there not charms\n" + " By which the property of youth and maidhood\n" + " May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,\n" + " Of some such thing?\n\n" + "RODERIGO Yes, sir, I have indeed.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!\n" + " Some one way, some another. Do you know\n" + " Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?\n\n" + "RODERIGO I think I can discover him, if you please,\n" + " To get good guard and go along with me.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;\n" + " I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!\n" + " And raise some special officers of night.\n" + " On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches]\n\n" + "IAGO Though in the trade of war I have slain men,\n" + " Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience\n" + " To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity\n" + " Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times\n" + " I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.\n\n" + "OTHELLO 'Tis better as it is.\n\n" + "IAGO Nay, but he prated,\n\n" + " And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms\n" + " Against your honour\n" + " That, with the little godliness I have,\n" + " I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,\n" + " Are you fast married? Be assured of this,\n" + " That the magnifico is much beloved,\n" + " And hath in his effect a voice potential\n" + " As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;\n" + " Or put upon you what restraint and grievance\n" + " The law, with all his might to enforce it on,\n" + " Will give him cable.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Let him do his spite:\n" + " My services which I have done the signiory\n" + " Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--\n" + " Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,\n" + " I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being\n" + " From men of royal siege, and my demerits\n" + " May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune\n" + " As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,\n" + " But that I love the gentle Desdemona,\n" + " I would not my unhoused free condition\n" + " Put into circumscription and confine\n" + " For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?\n\n" + "IAGO Those are the raised father and his friends:\n" + " You were best go in.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Not I I must be found:\n" + " My parts, my title and my perfect soul\n" + " Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?\n\n" + "IAGO By Janus, I think no.\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches]\n\n" + "OTHELLO The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.\n" + " The goodness of the night upon you, friends!\n" + " What is the news?\n\n" + "CASSIO The duke does greet you, general,\n" + " And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,\n" + " Even on the instant.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What is the matter, think you?\n\n" + "CASSIO Something from Cyprus as I may divine:\n" + " It is a business of some heat: the galleys\n" + " Have sent a dozen sequent messengers\n" + " This very night at one another's heels,\n" + " And many of the consuls, raised and met,\n" + " Are at the duke's already: you have been\n" + " hotly call'd for;\n" + " When, being not at your lodging to be found,\n" + " The senate hath sent about three several guests\n" + " To search you out.\n\n" + "OTHELLO 'Tis well I am found by you.\n" + " I will but spend a word here in the house,\n" + " And go with you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CASSIO Ancient, what makes he here?\n\n" + "IAGO 'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:\n" + " If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.\n\n" + "CASSIO I do not understand.\n\n" + "IAGO He's married.\n\n" + "CASSIO To who?\n\n" + " [Re-enter OTHELLO]\n\n" + "IAGO Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Have with you.\n\n" + "CASSIO Here comes another troop to seek for you.\n\n" + "IAGO It is Brabantio. General, be advised;\n" + " He comes to bad intent.\n\n" + " [Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with\n" + " torches and weapons]\n\n" + "OTHELLO Holla! stand there!\n\n" + "RODERIGO Signior, it is the Moor.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Down with him, thief!\n\n" + " [They draw on both sides]\n\n" + "IAGO You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.\n" + " Good signior, you shall more command with years\n" + " Than with your weapons.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?\n" + " Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;\n" + " For I'll refer me to all things of sense,\n" + " If she in chains of magic were not bound,\n" + " Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,\n" + " So opposite to marriage that she shunned\n" + " The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,\n" + " Would ever have, to incur a general mock,\n" + " Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom\n" + " Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.\n" + " Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense\n" + " That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,\n" + " Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals\n" + " That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;\n" + " 'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.\n" + " I therefore apprehend and do attach thee\n" + " For an abuser of the world, a practiser\n" + " Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.\n" + " Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,\n" + " Subdue him at his peril.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Hold your hands,\n" + " Both you of my inclining, and the rest:\n" + " Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it\n" + " Without a prompter. Where will you that I go\n" + " To answer this your charge?\n\n" + "BRABANTIO To prison, till fit time\n" + " Of law and course of direct session\n" + " Call thee to answer.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What if I do obey?\n" + " How may the duke be therewith satisfied,\n" + " Whose messengers are here about my side,\n" + " Upon some present business of the state\n" + " To bring me to him?\n\n" + "First Officer 'Tis true, most worthy signior;\n" + " The duke's in council and your noble self,\n" + " I am sure, is sent for.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO How! the duke in council!\n" + " In this time of the night! Bring him away:\n" + " Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,\n" + " Or any of my brothers of the state,\n" + " Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;\n" + " For if such actions may have passage free,\n" + " Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A council-chamber.\n\n\n" + " [The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table; Officers\n" + " attending]\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE There is no composition in these news\n" + " That gives them credit.\n\n" + "First Senator Indeed, they are disproportion'd;\n" + " My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE And mine, a hundred and forty.\n\n" + "Second Senator And mine, two hundred:\n" + " But though they jump not on a just account,--\n" + " As in these cases, where the aim reports,\n" + " 'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm\n" + " A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Nay, it is possible enough to judgment:\n" + " I do not so secure me in the error,\n" + " But the main article I do approve\n" + " In fearful sense.\n\n" + "Sailor [Within] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!\n\n" + "First Officer A messenger from the galleys.\n\n" + " [Enter a Sailor]\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Now, what's the business?\n\n" + "Sailor The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes;\n" + " So was I bid report here to the state\n" + " By Signior Angelo.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE How say you by this change?\n\n" + "First Senator This cannot be,\n" + " By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,\n" + " To keep us in false gaze. When we consider\n" + " The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,\n" + " And let ourselves again but understand,\n" + " That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,\n" + " So may he with more facile question bear it,\n" + " For that it stands not in such warlike brace,\n" + " But altogether lacks the abilities\n" + " That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,\n" + " We must not think the Turk is so unskilful\n" + " To leave that latest which concerns him first,\n" + " Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,\n" + " To wake and wage a danger profitless.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.\n\n" + "First Officer Here is more news.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,\n" + " Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes,\n" + " Have there injointed them with an after fleet.\n\n" + "First Senator Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?\n\n" + "Messenger Of thirty sail: and now they do restem\n" + " Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance\n" + " Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,\n" + " Your trusty and most valiant servitor,\n" + " With his free duty recommends you thus,\n" + " And prays you to believe him.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE 'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.\n" + " Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?\n\n" + "First Senator He's now in Florence.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Write from us to him; post-post-haste dispatch.\n\n" + "First Senator Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.\n\n" + " [Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers]\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you\n" + " Against the general enemy Ottoman.\n\n" + " [To BRABANTIO]\n\n" + " I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior;\n" + " We lack'd your counsel and your help tonight.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me;\n" + " Neither my place nor aught I heard of business\n" + " Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care\n" + " Take hold on me, for my particular grief\n" + " Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature\n" + " That it engluts and swallows other sorrows\n" + " And it is still itself.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Why, what's the matter?\n\n" + "BRABANTIO My daughter! O, my daughter!\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE | Dead?\n" + "Senator |\n\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Ay, to me;\n" + " She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted\n" + " By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;\n" + " For nature so preposterously to err,\n" + " Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,\n" + " Sans witchcraft could not.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding\n" + " Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself\n" + " And you of her, the bloody book of law\n" + " You shall yourself read in the bitter letter\n" + " After your own sense, yea, though our proper son\n" + " Stood in your action.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Humbly I thank your grace.\n" + " Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,\n" + " Your special mandate for the state-affairs\n" + " Hath hither brought.\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE |\n" + " | We are very sorry for't.\n" + "Senator |\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE [To OTHELLO] What, in your own part, can you say to this?\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Nothing, but this is so.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,\n" + " My very noble and approved good masters,\n" + " That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,\n" + " It is most true; true, I have married her:\n" + " The very head and front of my offending\n" + " Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,\n" + " And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:\n" + " For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,\n" + " Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used\n" + " Their dearest action in the tented field,\n" + " And little of this great world can I speak,\n" + " More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,\n" + " And therefore little shall I grace my cause\n" + " In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,\n" + " I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver\n" + " Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,\n" + " What conjuration and what mighty magic,\n" + " For such proceeding I am charged withal,\n" + " I won his daughter.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO A maiden never bold;\n" + " Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion\n" + " Blush'd at herself; and she, in spite of nature,\n" + " Of years, of country, credit, every thing,\n" + " To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!\n" + " It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect\n" + " That will confess perfection so could err\n" + " Against all rules of nature, and must be driven\n" + " To find out practises of cunning hell,\n" + " Why this should be. I therefore vouch again\n" + " That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,\n" + " Or with some dram conjured to this effect,\n" + " He wrought upon her.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE To vouch this, is no proof,\n" + " Without more wider and more overt test\n" + " Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods\n" + " Of modern seeming do prefer against him.\n\n" + "First Senator But, Othello, speak:\n" + " Did you by indirect and forced courses\n" + " Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?\n" + " Or came it by request and such fair question\n" + " As soul to soul affordeth?\n\n" + "OTHELLO I do beseech you,\n" + " Send for the lady to the Sagittary,\n" + " And let her speak of me before her father:\n" + " If you do find me foul in her report,\n" + " The trust, the office I do hold of you,\n" + " Not only take away, but let your sentence\n" + " Even fall upon my life.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Fetch Desdemona hither.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place.\n\n" + " [Exeunt IAGO and Attendants]\n\n" + " And, till she come, as truly as to heaven\n" + " I do confess the vices of my blood,\n" + " So justly to your grave ears I'll present\n" + " How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,\n" + " And she in mine.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Say it, Othello.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Her father loved me; oft invited me;\n" + " Still question'd me the story of my life,\n" + " From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,\n" + " That I have passed.\n" + " I ran it through, even from my boyish days,\n" + " To the very moment that he bade me tell it;\n" + " Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,\n" + " Of moving accidents by flood and field\n" + " Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,\n" + " Of being taken by the insolent foe\n" + " And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence\n" + " And portance in my travels' history:\n" + " Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,\n" + " Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven\n" + " It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;\n" + " And of the Cannibals that each other eat,\n" + " The Anthropophagi and men whose heads\n" + " Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear\n" + " Would Desdemona seriously incline:\n" + " But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:\n" + " Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,\n" + " She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear\n" + " Devour up my discourse: which I observing,\n" + " Took once a pliant hour, and found good means\n" + " To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart\n" + " That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,\n" + " Whereof by parcels she had something heard,\n" + " But not intentively: I did consent,\n" + " And often did beguile her of her tears,\n" + " When I did speak of some distressful stroke\n" + " That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,\n" + " She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:\n" + " She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,\n" + " 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:\n" + " She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd\n" + " That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,\n" + " And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,\n" + " I should but teach him how to tell my story.\n" + " And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:\n" + " She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,\n" + " And I loved her that she did pity them.\n" + " This only is the witchcraft I have used:\n" + " Here comes the lady; let her witness it.\n\n" + " [Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants]\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE I think this tale would win my daughter too.\n" + " Good Brabantio,\n" + " Take up this mangled matter at the best:\n" + " Men do their broken weapons rather use\n" + " Than their bare hands.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO I pray you, hear her speak:\n" + " If she confess that she was half the wooer,\n" + " Destruction on my head, if my bad blame\n" + " Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress:\n" + " Do you perceive in all this noble company\n" + " Where most you owe obedience?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My noble father,\n" + " I do perceive here a divided duty:\n" + " To you I am bound for life and education;\n" + " My life and education both do learn me\n" + " How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;\n" + " I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,\n" + " And so much duty as my mother show'd\n" + " To you, preferring you before her father,\n" + " So much I challenge that I may profess\n" + " Due to the Moor my lord.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO God be wi' you! I have done.\n" + " Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs:\n" + " I had rather to adopt a child than get it.\n" + " Come hither, Moor:\n" + " I here do give thee that with all my heart\n" + " Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart\n" + " I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,\n" + " I am glad at soul I have no other child:\n" + " For thy escape would teach me tyranny,\n" + " To hang clogs on them. I have done, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence,\n" + " Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers\n" + " Into your favour.\n" + " When remedies are past, the griefs are ended\n" + " By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.\n" + " To mourn a mischief that is past and gone\n" + " Is the next way to draw new mischief on.\n" + " What cannot be preserved when fortune takes\n" + " Patience her injury a mockery makes.\n" + " The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;\n" + " He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile;\n" + " We lose it not, so long as we can smile.\n" + " He bears the sentence well that nothing bears\n" + " But the free comfort which from thence he hears,\n" + " But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow\n" + " That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.\n" + " These sentences, to sugar, or to gall,\n" + " Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:\n" + " But words are words; I never yet did hear\n" + " That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.\n" + " I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for\n" + " Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best\n" + " known to you; and though we have there a substitute\n" + " of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a\n" + " sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer\n" + " voice on you: you must therefore be content to\n" + " slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this\n" + " more stubborn and boisterous expedition.\n\n" + "OTHELLO The tyrant custom, most grave senators,\n" + " Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war\n" + " My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnise\n" + " A natural and prompt alacrity\n" + " I find in hardness, and do undertake\n" + " These present wars against the Ottomites.\n" + " Most humbly therefore bending to your state,\n" + " I crave fit disposition for my wife.\n" + " Due reference of place and exhibition,\n" + " With such accommodation and besort\n" + " As levels with her breeding.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE If you please,\n" + " Be't at her father's.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO I'll not have it so.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Nor I.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Nor I; I would not there reside,\n" + " To put my father in impatient thoughts\n" + " By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,\n" + " To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear;\n" + " And let me find a charter in your voice,\n" + " To assist my simpleness.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE What would You, Desdemona?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA That I did love the Moor to live with him,\n" + " My downright violence and storm of fortunes\n" + " May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued\n" + " Even to the very quality of my lord:\n" + " I saw Othello's visage in his mind,\n" + " And to his honour and his valiant parts\n" + " Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.\n" + " So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,\n" + " A moth of peace, and he go to the war,\n" + " The rites for which I love him are bereft me,\n" + " And I a heavy interim shall support\n" + " By his dear absence. Let me go with him.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Let her have your voices.\n" + " Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,\n" + " To please the palate of my appetite,\n" + " Nor to comply with heat--the young affects\n" + " In me defunct--and proper satisfaction.\n" + " But to be free and bounteous to her mind:\n" + " And heaven defend your good souls, that you think\n" + " I will your serious and great business scant\n" + " For she is with me: no, when light-wing'd toys\n" + " Of feather'd Cupid seal with wanton dullness\n" + " My speculative and officed instruments,\n" + " That my disports corrupt and taint my business,\n" + " Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,\n" + " And all indign and base adversities\n" + " Make head against my estimation!\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Be it as you shall privately determine,\n" + " Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,\n" + " And speed must answer it.\n\n" + "First Senator You must away to-night.\n\n" + "OTHELLO With all my heart.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again.\n" + " Othello, leave some officer behind,\n" + " And he shall our commission bring to you;\n" + " With such things else of quality and respect\n" + " As doth import you.\n\n" + "OTHELLO So please your grace, my ancient;\n" + " A man he is of honest and trust:\n" + " To his conveyance I assign my wife,\n" + " With what else needful your good grace shall think\n" + " To be sent after me.\n\n" + "DUKE OF VENICE Let it be so.\n" + " Good night to every one.\n\n" + " [To BRABANTIO]\n\n" + " And, noble signior,\n" + " If virtue no delighted beauty lack,\n" + " Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.\n\n" + "First Senator Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well.\n\n" + "BRABANTIO Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:\n" + " She has deceived her father, and may thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DUKE OF VENICE, Senators, Officers, &c]\n\n" + "OTHELLO My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,\n" + " My Desdemona must I leave to thee:\n" + " I prithee, let thy wife attend on her:\n" + " And bring them after in the best advantage.\n\n" + " Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour\n" + " Of love, of worldly matters and direction,\n" + " To spend with thee: we must obey the time.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA]\n\n" + "RODERIGO Iago,--\n\n" + "IAGO What say'st thou, noble heart?\n\n" + "RODERIGO What will I do, thinkest thou?\n\n" + "IAGO Why, go to bed, and sleep.\n\n" + "RODERIGO I will incontinently drown myself.\n\n" + "IAGO If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,\n" + " thou silly gentleman!\n\n" + "RODERIGO It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and\n" + " then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.\n\n" + "IAGO O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four\n" + " times seven years; and since I could distinguish\n" + " betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man\n" + " that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I\n" + " would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I\n" + " would change my humanity with a baboon.\n\n" + "RODERIGO What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so\n" + " fond; but it is not in my virtue to amend it.\n\n" + "IAGO Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus\n" + " or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which\n" + " our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant\n" + " nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up\n" + " thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or\n" + " distract it with many, either to have it sterile\n" + " with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the\n" + " power and corrigible authority of this lies in our\n" + " wills. If the balance of our lives had not one\n" + " scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the\n" + " blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us\n" + " to most preposterous conclusions: but we have\n" + " reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal\n" + " stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that\n" + " you call love to be a sect or scion.\n\n" + "RODERIGO It cannot be.\n\n" + "IAGO It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of\n" + " the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown\n" + " cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy\n" + " friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with\n" + " cables of perdurable toughness; I could never\n" + " better stead thee than now. Put money in thy\n" + " purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with\n" + " an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It\n" + " cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her\n" + " love to the Moor,-- put money in thy purse,--nor he\n" + " his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou\n" + " shalt see an answerable sequestration:--put but\n" + " money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in\n" + " their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food\n" + " that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be\n" + " to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must\n" + " change for youth: when she is sated with his body,\n" + " she will find the error of her choice: she must\n" + " have change, she must: therefore put money in thy\n" + " purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a\n" + " more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money\n" + " thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt\n" + " an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not\n" + " too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou\n" + " shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of\n" + " drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek\n" + " thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than\n" + " to be drowned and go without her.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on\n" + " the issue?\n\n" + "IAGO Thou art sure of me:--go, make money:--I have told\n" + " thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I\n" + " hate the Moor: my cause is hearted; thine hath no\n" + " less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge\n" + " against him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost\n" + " thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many\n" + " events in the womb of time which will be delivered.\n" + " Traverse! go, provide thy money. We will have more\n" + " of this to-morrow. Adieu.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Where shall we meet i' the morning?\n\n" + "IAGO At my lodging.\n\n" + "RODERIGO I'll be with thee betimes.\n\n" + "IAGO Go to; farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?\n\n" + "RODERIGO What say you?\n\n" + "IAGO No more of drowning, do you hear?\n\n" + "RODERIGO I am changed: I'll go sell all my land.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IAGO Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:\n" + " For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,\n" + " If I would time expend with such a snipe.\n" + " But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:\n" + " And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets\n" + " He has done my office: I know not if't be true;\n" + " But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,\n" + " Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;\n" + " The better shall my purpose work on him.\n" + " Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:\n" + " To get his place and to plume up my will\n" + " In double knavery--How, how? Let's see:--\n" + " After some time, to abuse Othello's ear\n" + " That he is too familiar with his wife.\n" + " He hath a person and a smooth dispose\n" + " To be suspected, framed to make women false.\n" + " The Moor is of a free and open nature,\n" + " That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,\n" + " And will as tenderly be led by the nose\n" + " As asses are.\n" + " I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night\n" + " Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A Sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near the quay.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MONTANO and two Gentlemen]\n\n" + "MONTANO What from the cape can you discern at sea?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood;\n" + " I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,\n" + " Descry a sail.\n\n" + "MONTANO Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;\n" + " A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:\n" + " If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,\n" + " What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,\n" + " Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman A segregation of the Turkish fleet:\n\n" + " For do but stand upon the foaming shore,\n" + " The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;\n" + " The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,\n" + " seems to cast water on the burning bear,\n" + " And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:\n" + " I never did like molestation view\n" + " On the enchafed flood.\n\n" + "MONTANO If that the Turkish fleet\n" + " Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:\n" + " It is impossible they bear it out.\n\n" + " [Enter a third Gentleman]\n\n" + "Third Gentleman News, lads! our wars are done.\n" + " The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks,\n" + " That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice\n" + " Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance\n" + " On most part of their fleet.\n\n" + "MONTANO How! is this true?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman The ship is here put in,\n" + " A Veronesa; Michael Cassio,\n" + " Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,\n" + " Is come on shore: the Moor himself at sea,\n" + " And is in full commission here for Cyprus.\n\n" + "MONTANO I am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort\n" + " Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,\n" + " And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted\n" + " With foul and violent tempest.\n\n" + "MONTANO Pray heavens he be;\n" + " For I have served him, and the man commands\n" + " Like a full soldier. Let's to the seaside, ho!\n" + " As well to see the vessel that's come in\n" + " As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,\n" + " Even till we make the main and the aerial blue\n" + " An indistinct regard.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Come, let's do so:\n" + " For every minute is expectancy\n" + " Of more arrivance.\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIO]\n\n" + "CASSIO Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,\n" + " That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens\n" + " Give him defence against the elements,\n" + " For I have lost us him on a dangerous sea.\n\n" + "MONTANO Is he well shipp'd?\n\n" + "CASSIO His bark is stoutly timber'd, his pilot\n" + " Of very expert and approved allowance;\n" + " Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,\n" + " Stand in bold cure.\n\n" + " [A cry within 'A sail, a sail, a sail!']\n\n" + " [Enter a fourth Gentleman]\n\n" + "CASSIO What noise?\n\n" + "Fourth Gentleman The town is empty; on the brow o' the sea\n" + " Stand ranks of people, and they cry 'A sail!'\n\n" + "CASSIO My hopes do shape him for the governor.\n\n" + " [Guns heard]\n\n" + "Second Gentlemen They do discharge their shot of courtesy:\n" + " Our friends at least.\n\n" + "CASSIO I pray you, sir, go forth,\n" + " And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I shall.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MONTANO But, good lieutenant, is your general wived?\n\n" + "CASSIO Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid\n" + " That paragons description and wild fame;\n" + " One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,\n" + " And in the essential vesture of creation\n" + " Does tire the ingener.\n\n" + " [Re-enter second Gentleman]\n\n" + " How now! who has put in?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman 'Tis one Iago, ancient to the general.\n\n" + "CASSIO Has had most favourable and happy speed:\n" + " Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,\n" + " The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands--\n" + " Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,--\n" + " As having sense of beauty, do omit\n" + " Their mortal natures, letting go safely by\n" + " The divine Desdemona.\n\n" + "MONTANO What is she?\n\n" + "CASSIO She that I spake of, our great captain's captain,\n" + " Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,\n" + " Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts\n" + " A se'nnight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,\n" + " And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,\n" + " That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,\n" + " Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,\n" + " Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits\n" + " And bring all Cyprus comfort!\n\n" + " [Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, IAGO, RODERIGO, and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + " O, behold,\n" + " The riches of the ship is come on shore!\n" + " Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees.\n" + " Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,\n" + " Before, behind thee, and on every hand,\n" + " Enwheel thee round!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I thank you, valiant Cassio.\n" + " What tidings can you tell me of my lord?\n\n" + "CASSIO He is not yet arrived: nor know I aught\n" + " But that he's well and will be shortly here.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O, but I fear--How lost you company?\n\n" + "CASSIO The great contention of the sea and skies\n" + " Parted our fellowship--But, hark! a sail.\n\n" + " [Within 'A sail, a sail!' Guns heard]\n\n" + "Second Gentleman They give their greeting to the citadel;\n" + " This likewise is a friend.\n\n" + "CASSIO See for the news.\n\n" + " [Exit Gentleman]\n\n" + " Good ancient, you are welcome.\n\n" + " [To EMILIA]\n\n" + " Welcome, mistress.\n" + " Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,\n" + " That I extend my manners; 'tis my breeding\n" + " That gives me this bold show of courtesy.\n\n" + " [Kissing her]\n\n" + "IAGO Sir, would she give you so much of her lips\n" + " As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,\n" + " You'll have enough.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Alas, she has no speech.\n\n" + "IAGO In faith, too much;\n" + " I find it still, when I have list to sleep:\n" + " Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,\n" + " She puts her tongue a little in her heart,\n" + " And chides with thinking.\n\n" + "EMILIA You have little cause to say so.\n\n" + "IAGO Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,\n" + " Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,\n" + " Saints m your injuries, devils being offended,\n" + " Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O, fie upon thee, slanderer!\n\n" + "IAGO Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk:\n" + " You rise to play and go to bed to work.\n\n" + "EMILIA You shall not write my praise.\n\n" + "IAGO No, let me not.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst\n" + " praise me?\n\n" + "IAGO O gentle lady, do not put me to't;\n" + " For I am nothing, if not critical.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Come on assay. There's one gone to the harbour?\n\n" + "IAGO Ay, madam.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I am not merry; but I do beguile\n" + " The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.\n" + " Come, how wouldst thou praise me?\n\n" + "IAGO I am about it; but indeed my invention\n" + " Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;\n" + " It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours,\n" + " And thus she is deliver'd.\n" + " If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,\n" + " The one's for use, the other useth it.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Well praised! How if she be black and witty?\n\n" + "IAGO If she be black, and thereto have a wit,\n" + " She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Worse and worse.\n\n" + "EMILIA How if fair and foolish?\n\n" + "IAGO She never yet was foolish that was fair;\n" + " For even her folly help'd her to an heir.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i'\n" + " the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for\n" + " her that's foul and foolish?\n\n" + "IAGO There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,\n" + " But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst best.\n" + " But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving\n" + " woman indeed, one that, in the authority of her\n" + " merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself?\n\n" + "IAGO She that was ever fair and never proud,\n" + " Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,\n" + " Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,\n" + " Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,'\n" + " She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,\n" + " Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,\n" + " She that in wisdom never was so frail\n" + " To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail;\n" + " She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,\n" + " See suitors following and not look behind,\n" + " She was a wight, if ever such wight were,--\n\n" + "DESDEMONA To do what?\n\n" + "IAGO To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn\n" + " of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband. How say\n" + " you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberal\n" + " counsellor?\n\n" + "CASSIO He speaks home, madam: You may relish him more in\n" + " the soldier than in the scholar.\n\n" + "IAGO [Aside] He takes her by the palm: ay, well said,\n" + " whisper: with as little a web as this will I\n" + " ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon\n" + " her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship.\n" + " You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as\n" + " these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had\n" + " been better you had not kissed your three fingers so\n" + " oft, which now again you are most apt to play the\n" + " sir in. Very good; well kissed! an excellent\n" + " courtesy! 'tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers\n" + " to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!\n\n" + " [Trumpet within]\n\n" + " The Moor! I know his trumpet.\n\n" + "CASSIO 'Tis truly so.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Let's meet him and receive him.\n\n" + "CASSIO Lo, where he comes!\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO and Attendants]\n\n" + "OTHELLO O my fair warrior!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My dear Othello!\n\n" + "OTHELLO It gives me wonder great as my content\n" + " To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!\n" + " If after every tempest come such calms,\n" + " May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!\n" + " And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas\n" + " Olympus-high and duck again as low\n" + " As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die,\n" + " 'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear,\n" + " My soul hath her content so absolute\n" + " That not another comfort like to this\n" + " Succeeds in unknown fate.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA The heavens forbid\n" + " But that our loves and comforts should increase,\n" + " Even as our days do grow!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Amen to that, sweet powers!\n" + " I cannot speak enough of this content;\n" + " It stops me here; it is too much of joy:\n" + " And this, and this, the greatest discords be\n\n" + " [Kissing her]\n\n" + " That e'er our hearts shall make!\n\n" + "IAGO [Aside] O, you are well tuned now!\n" + " But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,\n" + " As honest as I am.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Come, let us to the castle.\n" + " News, friends; our wars are done, the Turks\n" + " are drown'd.\n" + " How does my old acquaintance of this isle?\n" + " Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus;\n" + " I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,\n" + " I prattle out of fashion, and I dote\n" + " In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,\n" + " Go to the bay and disembark my coffers:\n" + " Bring thou the master to the citadel;\n" + " He is a good one, and his worthiness\n" + " Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona,\n" + " Once more, well met at Cyprus.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]\n\n" + "IAGO Do thou meet me presently at the harbour. Come\n" + " hither. If thou be'st valiant,-- as, they say, base\n" + " men being in love have then a nobility in their\n" + " natures more than is native to them--list me. The\n" + " lieutenant tonight watches on the court of\n" + " guard:--first, I must tell thee this--Desdemona is\n" + " directly in love with him.\n\n\n" + "RODERIGO With him! why, 'tis not possible.\n\n" + "IAGO Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed.\n" + " Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor,\n" + " but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies:\n" + " and will she love him still for prating? let not\n" + " thy discreet heart think it. Her eye must be fed;\n" + " and what delight shall she have to look on the\n" + " devil? When the blood is made dull with the act of\n" + " sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to\n" + " give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour,\n" + " sympathy in years, manners and beauties; all which\n" + " the Moor is defective in: now, for want of these\n" + " required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will\n" + " find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge,\n" + " disrelish and abhor the Moor; very nature will\n" + " instruct her in it and compel her to some second\n" + " choice. Now, sir, this granted,--as it is a most\n" + " pregnant and unforced position--who stands so\n" + " eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio\n" + " does? a knave very voluble; no further\n" + " conscionable than in putting on the mere form of\n" + " civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing\n" + " of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why,\n" + " none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a\n" + " finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and\n" + " counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never\n" + " present itself; a devilish knave. Besides, the\n" + " knave is handsome, young, and hath all those\n" + " requisites in him that folly and green minds look\n" + " after: a pestilent complete knave; and the woman\n" + " hath found him already.\n\n" + "RODERIGO I cannot believe that in her; she's full of\n" + " most blessed condition.\n\n" + "IAGO Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made of\n" + " grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never\n" + " have loved the Moor. Blessed pudding! Didst thou\n" + " not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? didst\n" + " not mark that?\n\n" + "RODERIGO Yes, that I did; but that was but courtesy.\n\n" + "IAGO Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue\n" + " to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met\n" + " so near with their lips that their breaths embraced\n" + " together. Villanous thoughts, Roderigo! when these\n" + " mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes\n" + " the master and main exercise, the incorporate\n" + " conclusion, Pish! But, sir, be you ruled by me: I\n" + " have brought you from Venice. Watch you to-night;\n" + " for the command, I'll lay't upon you. Cassio knows\n" + " you not. I'll not be far from you: do you find\n" + " some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking\n" + " too loud, or tainting his discipline; or from what\n" + " other course you please, which the time shall more\n" + " favourably minister.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Well.\n\n" + "IAGO Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply\n" + " may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for\n" + " even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to\n" + " mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true\n" + " taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. So\n" + " shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by\n" + " the means I shall then have to prefer them; and the\n" + " impediment most profitably removed, without the\n" + " which there were no expectation of our prosperity.\n\n" + "RODERIGO I will do this, if I can bring it to any\n" + " opportunity.\n\n" + "IAGO I warrant thee. Meet me by and by at the citadel:\n" + " I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Farewell.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Adieu.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IAGO That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;\n" + " That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:\n" + " The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,\n" + " Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,\n" + " And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona\n" + " A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too;\n" + " Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure\n" + " I stand accountant for as great a sin,\n" + " But partly led to diet my revenge,\n" + " For that I do suspect the lusty Moor\n" + " Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof\n" + " Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;\n" + " And nothing can or shall content my soul\n" + " Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,\n" + " Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor\n" + " At least into a jealousy so strong\n" + " That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,\n" + " If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash\n" + " For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,\n" + " I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,\n" + " Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb--\n" + " For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too--\n" + " Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me.\n" + " For making him egregiously an ass\n" + " And practising upon his peace and quiet\n" + " Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:\n" + " Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Herald with a proclamation; People\n" + " following]\n\n" + "Herald It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant\n" + " general, that, upon certain tidings now arrived,\n" + " importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet,\n" + " every man put himself into triumph; some to dance,\n" + " some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and\n" + " revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these\n" + " beneficial news, it is the celebration of his\n" + " nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be\n" + " proclaimed. All offices are open, and there is full\n" + " liberty of feasting from this present hour of five\n" + " till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the\n" + " isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A hall in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and Attendants]\n\n" + "OTHELLO Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night:\n" + " Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,\n" + " Not to outsport discretion.\n\n" + "CASSIO Iago hath direction what to do;\n" + " But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye\n" + " Will I look to't.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Iago is most honest.\n" + " Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest\n" + " Let me have speech with you.\n\n" + " [To DESDEMONA]\n\n" + " Come, my dear love,\n" + " The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue;\n" + " That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you.\n" + " Good night.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]\n\n" + " [Enter IAGO]\n\n" + "CASSIO Welcome, Iago; we must to the watch.\n\n" + "IAGO Not this hour, lieutenant; 'tis not yet ten o' the\n" + " clock. Our general cast us thus early for the love\n" + " of his Desdemona; who let us not therefore blame:\n" + " he hath not yet made wanton the night with her; and\n" + " she is sport for Jove.\n\n" + "CASSIO She's a most exquisite lady.\n\n" + "IAGO And, I'll warrant her, fun of game.\n\n" + "CASSIO Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature.\n\n" + "IAGO What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of\n" + " provocation.\n\n" + "CASSIO An inviting eye; and yet methinks right modest.\n\n" + "IAGO And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?\n\n" + "CASSIO She is indeed perfection.\n\n" + "IAGO Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I\n" + " have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace\n" + " of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to\n" + " the health of black Othello.\n\n" + "CASSIO Not to-night, good Iago: I have very poor and\n" + " unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish\n" + " courtesy would invent some other custom of\n" + " entertainment.\n\n" + "IAGO O, they are our friends; but one cup: I'll drink for\n" + " you.\n\n" + "CASSIO I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was\n" + " craftily qualified too, and, behold, what innovation\n" + " it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity,\n" + " and dare not task my weakness with any more.\n\n" + "IAGO What, man! 'tis a night of revels: the gallants\n" + " desire it.\n\n" + "CASSIO Where are they?\n\n" + "IAGO Here at the door; I pray you, call them in.\n\n" + "CASSIO I'll do't; but it dislikes me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IAGO If I can fasten but one cup upon him,\n" + " With that which he hath drunk to-night already,\n" + " He'll be as full of quarrel and offence\n" + " As my young mistress' dog. Now, my sick fool Roderigo,\n" + " Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out,\n" + " To Desdemona hath to-night caroused\n" + " Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch:\n" + " Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,\n" + " That hold their honours in a wary distance,\n" + " The very elements of this warlike isle,\n" + " Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups,\n" + " And they watch too. Now, 'mongst this flock of drunkards,\n" + " Am I to put our Cassio in some action\n" + " That may offend the isle.--But here they come:\n" + " If consequence do but approve my dream,\n" + " My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CASSIO; with him MONTANO and Gentlemen;\n" + " servants following with wine]\n\n" + "CASSIO 'Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.\n\n" + "MONTANO Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am\n" + " a soldier.\n\n" + "IAGO Some wine, ho!\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " And let me the canakin clink, clink;\n" + " And let me the canakin clink\n" + " A soldier's a man;\n" + " A life's but a span;\n" + " Why, then, let a soldier drink.\n" + " Some wine, boys!\n\n" + "CASSIO 'Fore God, an excellent song.\n\n" + "IAGO I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are\n" + " most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and\n" + " your swag-bellied Hollander--Drink, ho!--are nothing\n" + " to your English.\n\n" + "CASSIO Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking?\n\n" + "IAGO Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead\n" + " drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he\n" + " gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle\n" + " can be filled.\n\n" + "CASSIO To the health of our general!\n\n" + "MONTANO I am for it, lieutenant; and I'll do you justice.\n\n" + "IAGO O sweet England!\n" + " King Stephen was a worthy peer,\n" + " His breeches cost him but a crown;\n" + " He held them sixpence all too dear,\n" + " With that he call'd the tailor lown.\n" + " He was a wight of high renown,\n" + " And thou art but of low degree:\n" + " 'Tis pride that pulls the country down;\n" + " Then take thine auld cloak about thee.\n" + " Some wine, ho!\n\n" + "CASSIO Why, this is a more exquisite song than the other.\n\n" + "IAGO Will you hear't again?\n\n" + "CASSIO No; for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that\n" + " does those things. Well, God's above all; and there\n" + " be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.\n\n" + "IAGO It's true, good lieutenant.\n\n" + "CASSIO For mine own part,--no offence to the general, nor\n" + " any man of quality,--I hope to be saved.\n\n" + "IAGO And so do I too, lieutenant.\n\n" + "CASSIO Ay, but, by your leave, not before me; the\n" + " lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient. Let's\n" + " have no more of this; let's to our affairs.--Forgive\n" + " us our sins!--Gentlemen, let's look to our business.\n" + " Do not think, gentlemen. I am drunk: this is my\n" + " ancient; this is my right hand, and this is my left:\n" + " I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and\n" + " speak well enough.\n\n" + "All Excellent well.\n\n" + "CASSIO Why, very well then; you must not think then that I am drunk.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MONTANO To the platform, masters; come, let's set the watch.\n\n" + "IAGO You see this fellow that is gone before;\n" + " He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar\n" + " And give direction: and do but see his vice;\n" + " 'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,\n" + " The one as long as the other: 'tis pity of him.\n" + " I fear the trust Othello puts him in.\n" + " On some odd time of his infirmity,\n" + " Will shake this island.\n\n" + "MONTANO But is he often thus?\n\n" + "IAGO 'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:\n" + " He'll watch the horologe a double set,\n" + " If drink rock not his cradle.\n\n" + "MONTANO It were well\n" + " The general were put in mind of it.\n" + " Perhaps he sees it not; or his good nature\n" + " Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,\n" + " And looks not on his evils: is not this true?\n\n" + " [Enter RODERIGO]\n\n" + "IAGO [Aside to him] How now, Roderigo!\n" + " I pray you, after the lieutenant; go.\n\n" + " [Exit RODERIGO]\n\n" + "MONTANO And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor\n" + " Should hazard such a place as his own second\n" + " With one of an ingraft infirmity:\n" + " It were an honest action to say\n" + " So to the Moor.\n\n" + "IAGO Not I, for this fair island:\n" + " I do love Cassio well; and would do much\n" + " To cure him of this evil--But, hark! what noise?\n\n" + " [Cry within: 'Help! help!']\n\n" + " [Re-enter CASSIO, driving in RODERIGO]\n\n" + "CASSIO You rogue! you rascal!\n\n" + "MONTANO What's the matter, lieutenant?\n\n" + "CASSIO A knave teach me my duty!\n" + " I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Beat me!\n\n" + "CASSIO Dost thou prate, rogue?\n\n" + " [Striking RODERIGO]\n\n" + "MONTANO Nay, good lieutenant;\n\n" + " [Staying him]\n\n" + " I pray you, sir, hold your hand.\n\n" + "CASSIO Let me go, sir,\n" + " Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard.\n\n" + "MONTANO Come, come,\n" + " you're drunk.\n\n" + "CASSIO Drunk!\n\n" + " [They fight]\n\n" + "IAGO [Aside to RODERIGO] Away, I say; go out, and cry a mutiny.\n\n" + " [Exit RODERIGO]\n\n" + " Nay, good lieutenant,--alas, gentlemen;--\n" + " Help, ho!--Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,--sir;\n" + " Help, masters!--Here's a goodly watch indeed!\n\n" + " [Bell rings]\n\n" + " Who's that which rings the bell?--Diablo, ho!\n" + " The town will rise: God's will, lieutenant, hold!\n" + " You will be shamed for ever.\n\n" + " [Re-enter OTHELLO and Attendants]\n\n" + "OTHELLO What is the matter here?\n\n" + "MONTANO 'Zounds, I bleed still; I am hurt to the death.\n\n" + " [Faints]\n\n" + "OTHELLO Hold, for your lives!\n\n" + "IAGO Hold, ho! Lieutenant,--sir--Montano,--gentlemen,--\n" + " Have you forgot all sense of place and duty?\n" + " Hold! the general speaks to you; hold, hold, for shame!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this?\n" + " Are we turn'd Turks, and to ourselves do that\n" + " Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?\n" + " For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:\n" + " He that stirs next to carve for his own rage\n" + " Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.\n" + " Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle\n" + " From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?\n" + " Honest Iago, that look'st dead with grieving,\n" + " Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee.\n\n" + "IAGO I do not know: friends all but now, even now,\n" + " In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom\n" + " Devesting them for bed; and then, but now--\n" + " As if some planet had unwitted men--\n" + " Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,\n" + " In opposition bloody. I cannot speak\n" + " Any beginning to this peevish odds;\n" + " And would in action glorious I had lost\n" + " Those legs that brought me to a part of it!\n\n" + "OTHELLO How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?\n\n" + "CASSIO I pray you, pardon me; I cannot speak.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil;\n" + " The gravity and stillness of your youth\n" + " The world hath noted, and your name is great\n" + " In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,\n" + " That you unlace your reputation thus\n" + " And spend your rich opinion for the name\n" + " Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.\n\n" + "MONTANO Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger:\n" + " Your officer, Iago, can inform you,--\n" + " While I spare speech, which something now\n" + " offends me,--\n" + " Of all that I do know: nor know I aught\n" + " By me that's said or done amiss this night;\n" + " Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,\n" + " And to defend ourselves it be a sin\n" + " When violence assails us.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Now, by heaven,\n" + " My blood begins my safer guides to rule;\n" + " And passion, having my best judgment collied,\n" + " Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,\n" + " Or do but lift this arm, the best of you\n" + " Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know\n" + " How this foul rout began, who set it on;\n" + " And he that is approved in this offence,\n" + " Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth,\n" + " Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,\n" + " Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,\n" + " To manage private and domestic quarrel,\n" + " In night, and on the court and guard of safety!\n" + " 'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began't?\n\n" + "MONTANO If partially affined, or leagued in office,\n" + " Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,\n" + " Thou art no soldier.\n\n" + "IAGO Touch me not so near:\n" + " I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth\n" + " Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio;\n" + " Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth\n" + " Shall nothing wrong him. Thus it is, general.\n" + " Montano and myself being in speech,\n" + " There comes a fellow crying out for help:\n" + " And Cassio following him with determined sword,\n" + " To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman\n" + " Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:\n" + " Myself the crying fellow did pursue,\n" + " Lest by his clamour--as it so fell out--\n" + " The town might fall in fright: he, swift of foot,\n" + " Outran my purpose; and I return'd the rather\n" + " For that I heard the clink and fall of swords,\n" + " And Cassio high in oath; which till to-night\n" + " I ne'er might say before. When I came back--\n" + " For this was brief--I found them close together,\n" + " At blow and thrust; even as again they were\n" + " When you yourself did part them.\n" + " More of this matter cannot I report:\n" + " But men are men; the best sometimes forget:\n" + " Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,\n" + " As men in rage strike those that wish them best,\n" + " Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received\n" + " From him that fled some strange indignity,\n" + " Which patience could not pass.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I know, Iago,\n" + " Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,\n" + " Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee\n" + " But never more be officer of mine.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DESDEMONA, attended]\n\n" + " Look, if my gentle love be not raised up!\n" + " I'll make thee an example.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA What's the matter?\n\n" + "OTHELLO All's well now, sweeting; come away to bed.\n" + " Sir, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon:\n" + " Lead him off.\n\n" + " [To MONTANO, who is led off]\n\n" + " Iago, look with care about the town,\n" + " And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.\n" + " Come, Desdemona: 'tis the soldiers' life\n" + " To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but IAGO and CASSIO]\n\n" + "IAGO What, are you hurt, lieutenant?\n\n" + "CASSIO Ay, past all surgery.\n\n" + "IAGO Marry, heaven forbid!\n\n" + "CASSIO Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost\n" + " my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of\n" + " myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,\n" + " Iago, my reputation!\n\n" + "IAGO As I am an honest man, I thought you had received\n" + " some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than\n" + " in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false\n" + " imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without\n" + " deserving: you have lost no reputation at all,\n" + " unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man!\n" + " there are ways to recover the general again: you\n" + " are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in\n" + " policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his\n" + " offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue\n" + " to him again, and he's yours.\n\n" + "CASSIO I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so\n" + " good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so\n" + " indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot?\n" + " and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse\n" + " fustian with one's own shadow? O thou invisible\n" + " spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,\n" + " let us call thee devil!\n\n" + "IAGO What was he that you followed with your sword? What\n" + " had he done to you?\n\n" + "CASSIO I know not.\n\n" + "IAGO Is't possible?\n\n" + "CASSIO I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly;\n" + " a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men\n" + " should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away\n" + " their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance\n" + " revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!\n\n" + "IAGO Why, but you are now well enough: how came you thus\n" + " recovered?\n\n" + "CASSIO It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place\n" + " to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me\n" + " another, to make me frankly despise myself.\n\n" + "IAGO Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time,\n" + " the place, and the condition of this country\n" + " stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen;\n" + " but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.\n\n" + "CASSIO I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me\n" + " I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra,\n" + " such an answer would stop them all. To be now a\n" + " sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a\n" + " beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is\n" + " unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.\n\n" + "IAGO Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature,\n" + " if it be well used: exclaim no more against it.\n" + " And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.\n\n" + "CASSIO I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!\n\n" + "IAGO You or any man living may be drunk! at a time, man.\n" + " I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife\n" + " is now the general: may say so in this respect, for\n" + " that he hath devoted and given up himself to the\n" + " contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and\n" + " graces: confess yourself freely to her; importune\n" + " her help to put you in your place again: she is of\n" + " so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,\n" + " she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more\n" + " than she is requested: this broken joint between\n" + " you and her husband entreat her to splinter; and, my\n" + " fortunes against any lay worth naming, this\n" + " crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before.\n\n" + "CASSIO You advise me well.\n\n" + "IAGO I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.\n\n" + "CASSIO I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will\n" + " beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me:\n" + " I am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here.\n\n" + "IAGO You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I\n" + " must to the watch.\n\n" + "CASSIO: Good night, honest Iago.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IAGO And what's he then that says I play the villain?\n" + " When this advice is free I give and honest,\n" + " Probal to thinking and indeed the course\n" + " To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy\n" + " The inclining Desdemona to subdue\n" + " In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful\n" + " As the free elements. And then for her\n" + " To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,\n" + " All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,\n" + " His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,\n" + " That she may make, unmake, do what she list,\n" + " Even as her appetite shall play the god\n" + " With his weak function. How am I then a villain\n" + " To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,\n" + " Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!\n" + " When devils will the blackest sins put on,\n" + " They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,\n" + " As I do now: for whiles this honest fool\n" + " Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes\n" + " And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,\n" + " I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,\n" + " That she repeals him for her body's lust;\n" + " And by how much she strives to do him good,\n" + " She shall undo her credit with the Moor.\n" + " So will I turn her virtue into pitch,\n" + " And out of her own goodness make the net\n" + " That shall enmesh them all.\n\n" + " [Re-enter RODERIGO]\n\n" + " How now, Roderigo!\n\n" + "RODERIGO I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that\n" + " hunts, but one that fills up the cry. My money is\n" + " almost spent; I have been to-night exceedingly well\n" + " cudgelled; and I think the issue will be, I shall\n" + " have so much experience for my pains, and so, with\n" + " no money at all and a little more wit, return again to Venice.\n\n" + "IAGO How poor are they that have not patience!\n" + " What wound did ever heal but by degrees?\n" + " Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;\n" + " And wit depends on dilatory time.\n" + " Does't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee.\n" + " And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd Cassio:\n" + " Though other things grow fair against the sun,\n" + " Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe:\n" + " Content thyself awhile. By the mass, 'tis morning;\n" + " Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.\n" + " Retire thee; go where thou art billeted:\n" + " Away, I say; thou shalt know more hereafter:\n" + " Nay, get thee gone.\n\n" + " [Exit RODERIGO]\n\n" + " Two things are to be done:\n" + " My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress;\n" + " I'll set her on;\n" + " Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,\n" + " And bring him jump when he may Cassio find\n" + " Soliciting his wife: ay, that's the way\n" + " Dull not device by coldness and delay.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIO and some Musicians]\n\n" + "CASSIO Masters, play here; I will content your pains;\n" + " Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + " [Enter Clown]\n\n" + "Clown Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,\n" + " that they speak i' the nose thus?\n\n" + "First Musician How, sir, how!\n\n" + "Clown Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?\n\n" + "First Musician Ay, marry, are they, sir.\n\n" + "Clown O, thereby hangs a tail.\n\n" + "First Musician Whereby hangs a tale, sir?\n\n" + "Clown Marry. sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know.\n" + " But, masters, here's money for you: and the general\n" + " so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's\n" + " sake, to make no more noise with it.\n\n" + "First Musician Well, sir, we will not.\n\n" + "Clown If you have any music that may not be heard, to't\n" + " again: but, as they say to hear music the general\n" + " does not greatly care.\n\n" + "First Musician We have none such, sir.\n\n" + "Clown Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:\n" + " go; vanish into air; away!\n\n" + " [Exeunt Musicians]\n\n" + "CASSIO Dost thou hear, my honest friend?\n\n" + "Clown No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.\n\n" + "CASSIO Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece\n" + " of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends\n" + " the general's wife be stirring, tell her there's\n" + " one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech:\n" + " wilt thou do this?\n\n" + "Clown She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I\n" + " shall seem to notify unto her.\n\n" + "CASSIO Do, good my friend.\n\n" + " [Exit Clown]\n\n" + " [Enter IAGO]\n\n" + " In happy time, Iago.\n\n" + "IAGO You have not been a-bed, then?\n\n" + "CASSIO Why, no; the day had broke\n" + " Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,\n" + " To send in to your wife: my suit to her\n" + " Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona\n" + " Procure me some access.\n\n" + "IAGO I'll send her to you presently;\n" + " And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor\n" + " Out of the way, that your converse and business\n" + " May be more free.\n\n" + "CASSIO I humbly thank you for't.\n\n" + " [Exit IAGO]\n\n" + " I never knew\n" + " A Florentine more kind and honest.\n\n" + " [Enter EMILIA]\n\n" + "EMILIA Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry\n" + " For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.\n" + " The general and his wife are talking of it;\n" + " And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,\n" + " That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,\n" + " And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom\n" + " He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you\n" + " And needs no other suitor but his likings\n" + " To take the safest occasion by the front\n" + " To bring you in again.\n\n" + "CASSIO Yet, I beseech you,\n" + " If you think fit, or that it may be done,\n" + " Give me advantage of some brief discourse\n" + " With Desdemona alone.\n\n" + "EMILIA Pray you, come in;\n" + " I will bestow you where you shall have time\n" + " To speak your bosom freely.\n\n" + "CASSIO I am much bound to you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen]\n\n" + "OTHELLO These letters give, Iago, to the pilot;\n" + " And by him do my duties to the senate:\n" + " That done, I will be walking on the works;\n" + " Repair there to me.\n\n" + "IAGO Well, my good lord, I'll do't.\n\n" + "OTHELLO This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see't?\n\n" + "Gentleman We'll wait upon your lordship.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The garden of the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and EMILIA]\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do\n" + " All my abilities in thy behalf.\n\n" + "EMILIA Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband,\n" + " As if the case were his.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,\n" + " But I will have my lord and you again\n" + " As friendly as you were.\n\n" + "CASSIO Bounteous madam,\n" + " Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,\n" + " He's never any thing but your true servant.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I know't; I thank you. You do love my lord:\n" + " You have known him long; and be you well assured\n" + " He shall in strangeness stand no further off\n" + " Than in a polite distance.\n\n" + "CASSIO Ay, but, lady,\n" + " That policy may either last so long,\n" + " Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,\n" + " Or breed itself so out of circumstance,\n" + " That, I being absent and my place supplied,\n" + " My general will forget my love and service.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Do not doubt that; before Emilia here\n" + " I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,\n" + " If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it\n" + " To the last article: my lord shall never rest;\n" + " I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;\n" + " His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;\n" + " I'll intermingle every thing he does\n" + " With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;\n" + " For thy solicitor shall rather die\n" + " Than give thy cause away.\n\n" + "EMILIA Madam, here comes my lord.\n\n" + "CASSIO Madam, I'll take my leave.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why, stay, and hear me speak.\n\n" + "CASSIO Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,\n" + " Unfit for mine own purposes.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Well, do your discretion.\n\n" + " [Exit CASSIO]\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO and IAGO]\n\n" + "IAGO Ha! I like not that.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What dost thou say?\n\n" + "IAGO Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?\n\n" + "IAGO Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,\n" + " That he would steal away so guilty-like,\n" + " Seeing you coming.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I do believe 'twas he.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA How now, my lord!\n" + " I have been talking with a suitor here,\n" + " A man that languishes in your displeasure.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Who is't you mean?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,\n" + " If I have any grace or power to move you,\n" + " His present reconciliation take;\n" + " For if he be not one that truly loves you,\n" + " That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,\n" + " I have no judgment in an honest face:\n" + " I prithee, call him back.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Went he hence now?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Ay, sooth; so humbled\n" + " That he hath left part of his grief with me,\n" + " To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA But shall't be shortly?\n\n" + "OTHELLO The sooner, sweet, for you.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Shall't be to-night at supper?\n\n" + "OTHELLO No, not to-night.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA To-morrow dinner, then?\n\n" + "OTHELLO I shall not dine at home;\n" + " I meet the captains at the citadel.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;\n" + " On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:\n" + " I prithee, name the time, but let it not\n" + " Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;\n" + " And yet his trespass, in our common reason--\n" + " Save that, they say, the wars must make examples\n" + " Out of their best--is not almost a fault\n" + " To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?\n" + " Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,\n" + " What you would ask me, that I should deny,\n" + " Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,\n" + " That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,\n" + " When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,\n" + " Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do\n" + " To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--\n\n" + "OTHELLO Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;\n" + " I will deny thee nothing.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why, this is not a boon;\n" + " 'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,\n" + " Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,\n" + " Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit\n" + " To your own person: nay, when I have a suit\n" + " Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,\n" + " It shall be full of poise and difficult weight\n" + " And fearful to be granted.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I will deny thee nothing:\n" + " Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,\n" + " To leave me but a little to myself.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;\n" + " Whate'er you be, I am obedient.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]\n\n" + "OTHELLO Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,\n" + " But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,\n" + " Chaos is come again.\n\n" + "IAGO My noble lord--\n\n" + "OTHELLO What dost thou say, Iago?\n\n" + "IAGO Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,\n" + " Know of your love?\n\n" + "OTHELLO He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?\n\n" + "IAGO But for a satisfaction of my thought;\n" + " No further harm.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Why of thy thought, Iago?\n\n" + "IAGO I did not think he had been acquainted with her.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O, yes; and went between us very oft.\n\n" + "IAGO Indeed!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?\n" + " Is he not honest?\n\n" + "IAGO Honest, my lord!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Honest! ay, honest.\n\n" + "IAGO My lord, for aught I know.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What dost thou think?\n\n" + "IAGO Think, my lord!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Think, my lord!\n" + " By heaven, he echoes me,\n" + " As if there were some monster in his thought\n" + " Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:\n" + " I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,\n" + " When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?\n" + " And when I told thee he was of my counsel\n" + " In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'\n" + " And didst contract and purse thy brow together,\n" + " As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain\n" + " Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,\n" + " Show me thy thought.\n\n" + "IAGO My lord, you know I love you.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I think thou dost;\n" + " And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,\n" + " And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,\n" + " Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:\n" + " For such things in a false disloyal knave\n" + " Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just\n" + " They are close delations, working from the heart\n" + " That passion cannot rule.\n\n" + "IAGO For Michael Cassio,\n" + " I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I think so too.\n\n" + "IAGO Men should be what they seem;\n" + " Or those that be not, would they might seem none!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Certain, men should be what they seem.\n\n" + "IAGO Why, then, I think Cassio's an honest man.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Nay, yet there's more in this:\n" + " I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,\n" + " As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts\n" + " The worst of words.\n\n" + "IAGO Good my lord, pardon me:\n" + " Though I am bound to every act of duty,\n" + " I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.\n" + " Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;\n" + " As where's that palace whereinto foul things\n" + " Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,\n" + " But some uncleanly apprehensions\n" + " Keep leets and law-days and in session sit\n" + " With meditations lawful?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,\n" + " If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear\n" + " A stranger to thy thoughts.\n\n" + "IAGO I do beseech you--\n" + " Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,\n" + " As, I confess, it is my nature's plague\n" + " To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy\n" + " Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,\n" + " From one that so imperfectly conceits,\n" + " Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble\n" + " Out of his scattering and unsure observance.\n" + " It were not for your quiet nor your good,\n" + " Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,\n" + " To let you know my thoughts.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What dost thou mean?\n\n" + "IAGO Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,\n" + " Is the immediate jewel of their souls:\n" + " Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;\n" + " 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:\n" + " But he that filches from me my good name\n" + " Robs me of that which not enriches him\n" + " And makes me poor indeed.\n\n" + "OTHELLO By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.\n\n" + "IAGO You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;\n" + " Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ha!\n\n" + "IAGO O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;\n" + " It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock\n" + " The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss\n" + " Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;\n" + " But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er\n" + " Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!\n\n" + "OTHELLO O misery!\n\n" + "IAGO Poor and content is rich and rich enough,\n" + " But riches fineless is as poor as winter\n" + " To him that ever fears he shall be poor.\n" + " Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend\n" + " From jealousy!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Why, why is this?\n" + " Think'st thou I'ld make a lie of jealousy,\n" + " To follow still the changes of the moon\n" + " With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt\n" + " Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,\n" + " When I shall turn the business of my soul\n" + " To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,\n" + " Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous\n" + " To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,\n" + " Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;\n" + " Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:\n" + " Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw\n" + " The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;\n" + " For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;\n" + " I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;\n" + " And on the proof, there is no more but this,--\n" + " Away at once with love or jealousy!\n\n" + "IAGO I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason\n" + " To show the love and duty that I bear you\n" + " With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,\n" + " Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.\n" + " Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;\n" + " Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:\n" + " I would not have your free and noble nature,\n" + " Out of self-bounty, be abused; look to't:\n" + " I know our country disposition well;\n" + " In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks\n" + " They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience\n" + " Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Dost thou say so?\n\n" + "IAGO She did deceive her father, marrying you;\n" + " And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,\n" + " She loved them most.\n\n" + "OTHELLO And so she did.\n\n" + "IAGO Why, go to then;\n" + " She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,\n" + " To seal her father's eyes up close as oak-\n" + " He thought 'twas witchcraft--but I am much to blame;\n" + " I humbly do beseech you of your pardon\n" + " For too much loving you.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I am bound to thee for ever.\n\n" + "IAGO I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Not a jot, not a jot.\n\n" + "IAGO I' faith, I fear it has.\n" + " I hope you will consider what is spoke\n" + " Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved:\n" + " I am to pray you not to strain my speech\n" + " To grosser issues nor to larger reach\n" + " Than to suspicion.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I will not.\n\n" + "IAGO Should you do so, my lord,\n" + " My speech should fall into such vile success\n" + " As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend--\n" + " My lord, I see you're moved.\n\n" + "OTHELLO No, not much moved:\n" + " I do not think but Desdemona's honest.\n\n" + "IAGO Long live she so! and long live you to think so!\n\n" + "OTHELLO And yet, how nature erring from itself,--\n\n" + "IAGO Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--\n" + " Not to affect many proposed matches\n" + " Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,\n" + " Whereto we see in all things nature tends--\n" + " Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,\n" + " Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.\n" + " But pardon me; I do not in position\n" + " Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear\n" + " Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,\n" + " May fall to match you with her country forms\n" + " And happily repent.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Farewell, farewell:\n" + " If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;\n" + " Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:\n\n" + "IAGO [Going] My lord, I take my leave.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless\n" + " Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.\n\n" + "IAGO [Returning] My lord, I would I might entreat\n" + " your honour\n" + " To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:\n" + " Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,\n" + " For sure, he fills it up with great ability,\n" + " Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,\n" + " You shall by that perceive him and his means:\n" + " Note, if your lady strain his entertainment\n" + " With any strong or vehement importunity;\n" + " Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,\n" + " Let me be thought too busy in my fears--\n" + " As worthy cause I have to fear I am--\n" + " And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Fear not my government.\n\n" + "IAGO I once more take my leave.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OTHELLO This fellow's of exceeding honesty,\n" + " And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,\n" + " Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,\n" + " Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,\n" + " I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,\n" + " To pray at fortune. Haply, for I am black\n" + " And have not those soft parts of conversation\n" + " That chamberers have, or for I am declined\n" + " Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--\n" + " She's gone. I am abused; and my relief\n" + " Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,\n" + " That we can call these delicate creatures ours,\n" + " And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,\n" + " And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,\n" + " Than keep a corner in the thing I love\n" + " For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones;\n" + " Prerogatived are they less than the base;\n" + " 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:\n" + " Even then this forked plague is fated to us\n" + " When we do quicken. Desdemona comes:\n\n" + " [Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA]\n\n" + " If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!\n" + " I'll not believe't.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA How now, my dear Othello!\n" + " Your dinner, and the generous islanders\n" + " By you invited, do attend your presence.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I am to blame.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why do you speak so faintly?\n" + " Are you not well?\n\n" + "OTHELLO I have a pain upon my forehead here.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA 'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:\n" + " Let me but bind it hard, within this hour\n" + " It will be well.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Your napkin is too little:\n\n" + " [He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops]\n\n" + " Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I am very sorry that you are not well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA]\n\n" + "EMILIA I am glad I have found this napkin:\n" + " This was her first remembrance from the Moor:\n" + " My wayward husband hath a hundred times\n" + " Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,\n" + " For he conjured her she should ever keep it,\n" + " That she reserves it evermore about her\n" + " To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,\n" + " And give't Iago: what he will do with it\n" + " Heaven knows, not I;\n" + " I nothing but to please his fantasy.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Iago]\n\n" + "IAGO How now! what do you here alone?\n\n" + "EMILIA Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.\n\n" + "IAGO A thing for me? it is a common thing--\n\n" + "EMILIA Ha!\n\n" + "IAGO To have a foolish wife.\n\n" + "EMILIA O, is that all? What will you give me now\n" + " For the same handkerchief?\n\n" + "IAGO What handkerchief?\n\n" + "EMILIA What handkerchief?\n" + " Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;\n" + " That which so often you did bid me steal.\n\n" + "IAGO Hast stol'n it from her?\n\n" + "EMILIA No, 'faith; she let it drop by negligence.\n" + " And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.\n" + " Look, here it is.\n\n" + "IAGO A good wench; give it me.\n\n" + "EMILIA What will you do with 't, that you have been\n" + " so earnest\n" + " To have me filch it?\n\n" + "IAGO [Snatching it] Why, what's that to you?\n\n" + "EMILIA If it be not for some purpose of import,\n" + " Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad\n" + " When she shall lack it.\n\n" + "IAGO Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it.\n" + " Go, leave me.\n\n" + " [Exit EMILIA]\n\n" + " I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,\n" + " And let him find it. Trifles light as air\n" + " Are to the jealous confirmations strong\n" + " As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.\n" + " The Moor already changes with my poison:\n" + " Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.\n" + " Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,\n" + " But with a little act upon the blood.\n" + " Burn like the mines of Sulphur. I did say so:\n" + " Look, where he comes!\n\n" + " [Re-enter OTHELLO]\n\n" + " Not poppy, nor mandragora,\n" + " Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,\n" + " Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep\n" + " Which thou owedst yesterday.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ha! ha! false to me?\n\n" + "IAGO Why, how now, general! no more of that.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:\n" + " I swear 'tis better to be much abused\n" + " Than but to know't a little.\n\n" + "IAGO How now, my lord!\n\n" + "OTHELLO What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?\n" + " I saw't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:\n" + " I slept the next night well, was free and merry;\n" + " I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:\n" + " He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,\n" + " Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.\n\n" + "IAGO I am sorry to hear this.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I had been happy, if the general camp,\n" + " Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,\n" + " So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever\n" + " Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!\n" + " Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,\n" + " That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!\n" + " Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,\n" + " The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,\n" + " The royal banner, and all quality,\n" + " Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!\n" + " And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats\n" + " The immortal Jove's dead clamours counterfeit,\n" + " Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!\n\n" + "IAGO Is't possible, my lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,\n" + " Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:\n" + " Or by the worth of man's eternal soul,\n" + " Thou hadst been better have been born a dog\n" + " Than answer my waked wrath!\n\n" + "IAGO Is't come to this?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,\n" + " That the probation bear no hinge nor loop\n" + " To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life!\n\n" + "IAGO My noble lord,--\n\n" + "OTHELLO If thou dost slander her and torture me,\n" + " Never pray more; abandon all remorse;\n" + " On horror's head horrors accumulate;\n" + " Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;\n" + " For nothing canst thou to damnation add\n" + " Greater than that.\n\n" + "IAGO O grace! O heaven forgive me!\n" + " Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?\n" + " God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool.\n" + " That livest to make thine honesty a vice!\n" + " O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,\n" + " To be direct and honest is not safe.\n" + " I thank you for this profit; and from hence\n" + " I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.\n\n" + "IAGO I should be wise, for honesty's a fool\n" + " And loses that it works for.\n\n" + "OTHELLO By the world,\n" + " I think my wife be honest and think she is not;\n" + " I think that thou art just and think thou art not.\n" + " I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh\n" + " As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black\n" + " As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,\n" + " Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,\n" + " I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!\n\n" + "IAGO I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:\n" + " I do repent me that I put it to you.\n" + " You would be satisfied?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Would! nay, I will.\n\n" + "IAGO And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?\n" + " Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on--\n" + " Behold her topp'd?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Death and damnation! O!\n\n" + "IAGO It were a tedious difficulty, I think,\n" + " To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,\n" + " If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster\n" + " More than their own! What then? how then?\n" + " What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?\n" + " It is impossible you should see this,\n" + " Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,\n" + " As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross\n" + " As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,\n" + " If imputation and strong circumstances,\n" + " Which lead directly to the door of truth,\n" + " Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Give me a living reason she's disloyal.\n\n" + "IAGO I do not like the office:\n" + " But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,\n" + " Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,\n" + " I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately;\n" + " And, being troubled with a raging tooth,\n" + " I could not sleep.\n" + " There are a kind of men so loose of soul,\n" + " That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:\n" + " One of this kind is Cassio:\n" + " In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,\n" + " Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'\n" + " And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,\n" + " Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,\n" + " As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots\n" + " That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg\n" + " Over my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and then\n" + " Cried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'\n\n" + "OTHELLO O monstrous! monstrous!\n\n" + "IAGO Nay, this was but his dream.\n\n" + "OTHELLO But this denoted a foregone conclusion:\n" + " 'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.\n\n" + "IAGO And this may help to thicken other proofs\n" + " That do demonstrate thinly.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I'll tear her all to pieces.\n\n" + "IAGO Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;\n" + " She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,\n" + " Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief\n" + " Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?\n\n" + "OTHELLO I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift.\n\n" + "IAGO I know not that; but such a handkerchief--\n" + " I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day\n" + " See Cassio wipe his beard with.\n\n" + "OTHELLO If it be that--\n\n" + "IAGO If it be that, or any that was hers,\n" + " It speaks against her with the other proofs.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!\n" + " One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.\n" + " Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago;\n" + " All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.\n" + " 'Tis gone.\n" + " Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!\n" + " Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne\n" + " To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,\n" + " For 'tis of aspics' tongues!\n\n" + "IAGO Yet be content.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O, blood, blood, blood!\n\n" + "IAGO Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic sea,\n" + " Whose icy current and compulsive course\n" + " Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on\n" + " To the Propontic and the Hellespont,\n" + " Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,\n" + " Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,\n" + " Till that a capable and wide revenge\n" + " Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + " In the due reverence of a sacred vow\n" + " I here engage my words.\n\n" + "IAGO Do not rise yet.\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + " Witness, you ever-burning lights above,\n" + " You elements that clip us round about,\n" + " Witness that here Iago doth give up\n" + " The execution of his wit, hands, heart,\n" + " To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,\n" + " And to obey shall be in me remorse,\n" + " What bloody business ever.\n\n" + " [They rise]\n\n" + "OTHELLO I greet thy love,\n" + " Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,\n" + " And will upon the instant put thee to't:\n" + " Within these three days let me hear thee say\n" + " That Cassio's not alive.\n\n" + "IAGO My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:\n" + " But let her live.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!\n" + " Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,\n" + " To furnish me with some swift means of death\n" + " For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.\n\n" + "IAGO I am your own for ever.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown]\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?\n\n" + "Clown I dare not say he lies any where.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why, man?\n\n" + "Clown He's a soldier, and for one to say a soldier lies,\n" + " is stabbing.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Go to: where lodges he?\n\n" + "Clown To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where I lie.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Can any thing be made of this?\n\n" + "Clown I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a\n" + " lodging and say he lies here or he lies there, were\n" + " to lie in mine own throat.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Can you inquire him out, and be edified by report?\n\n" + "Clown I will catechise the world for him; that is, make\n" + " questions, and by them answer.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him I have\n" + " moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well.\n\n" + "Clown To do this is within the compass of man's wit: and\n" + " therefore I will attempt the doing it.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?\n\n" + "EMILIA I know not, madam.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse\n" + " Full of crusadoes: and, but my noble Moor\n" + " Is true of mind and made of no such baseness\n" + " As jealous creatures are, it were enough\n" + " To put him to ill thinking.\n\n" + "EMILIA Is he not jealous?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Who, he? I think the sun where he was born\n" + " Drew all such humours from him.\n\n" + "EMILIA Look, where he comes.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I will not leave him now till Cassio\n" + " Be call'd to him.\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO]\n\n" + " How is't with you, my lord\n\n" + "OTHELLO Well, my good lady.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " O, hardness to dissemble!--\n" + " How do you, Desdemona?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Well, my good lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Give me your hand: this hand is moist, my lady.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA It yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow.\n\n" + "OTHELLO This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart:\n" + " Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires\n" + " A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,\n" + " Much castigation, exercise devout;\n" + " For here's a young and sweating devil here,\n" + " That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,\n" + " A frank one.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA You may, indeed, say so;\n" + " For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.\n\n" + "OTHELLO A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands;\n" + " But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What promise, chuck?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;\n" + " Lend me thy handkerchief.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Here, my lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO That which I gave you.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I have it not about me.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Not?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA No, indeed, my lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO That is a fault.\n\n" + " That handkerchief\n" + " Did an Egyptian to my mother give;\n" + " She was a charmer, and could almost read\n" + " The thoughts of people: she told her, while\n" + " she kept it,\n" + " 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father\n" + " Entirely to her love, but if she lost it\n" + " Or made gift of it, my father's eye\n" + " Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt\n" + " After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me;\n" + " And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,\n" + " To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't;\n" + " Make it a darling like your precious eye;\n" + " To lose't or give't away were such perdition\n" + " As nothing else could match.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Is't possible?\n\n" + "OTHELLO 'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it:\n" + " A sibyl, that had number'd in the world\n" + " The sun to course two hundred compasses,\n" + " In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;\n" + " The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk;\n" + " And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful\n" + " Conserved of maidens' hearts.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Indeed! is't true?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Most veritable; therefore look to't well.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Then would to God that I had never seen't!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ha! wherefore?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why do you speak so startingly and rash?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out\n" + " o' the way?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Heaven bless us!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Say you?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA It is not lost; but what an if it were?\n\n" + "OTHELLO How!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I say, it is not lost.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Fetch't, let me see't.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.\n" + " This is a trick to put me from my suit:\n" + " Pray you, let Cassio be received again.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Come, come;\n" + " You'll never meet a more sufficient man.\n\n" + "OTHELLO The handkerchief!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I pray, talk me of Cassio.\n\n" + "OTHELLO The handkerchief!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA A man that all his time\n" + " Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,\n" + " Shared dangers with you,--\n\n" + "OTHELLO The handkerchief!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA In sooth, you are to blame.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Away!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EMILIA Is not this man jealous?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I ne'er saw this before.\n" + " Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief:\n" + " I am most unhappy in the loss of it.\n\n" + "EMILIA 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:\n" + " They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;\n" + " To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,\n" + " They belch us. Look you, Cassio and my husband!\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIO and IAGO]\n\n" + "IAGO There is no other way; 'tis she must do't:\n" + " And, lo, the happiness! go, and importune her.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA How now, good Cassio! what's the news with you?\n\n" + "CASSIO Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you\n" + " That by your virtuous means I may again\n" + " Exist, and be a member of his love\n" + " Whom I with all the office of my heart\n" + " Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd.\n" + " If my offence be of such mortal kind\n" + " That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,\n" + " Nor purposed merit in futurity,\n" + " Can ransom me into his love again,\n" + " But to know so must be my benefit;\n" + " So shall I clothe me in a forced content,\n" + " And shut myself up in some other course,\n" + " To fortune's alms.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!\n" + " My advocation is not now in tune;\n" + " My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him,\n" + " Were he in favour as in humour alter'd.\n" + " So help me every spirit sanctified,\n" + " As I have spoken for you all my best\n" + " And stood within the blank of his displeasure\n" + " For my free speech! you must awhile be patient:\n" + " What I can do I will; and more I will\n" + " Than for myself I dare: let that suffice you.\n\n" + "IAGO Is my lord angry?\n\n" + "EMILIA He went hence but now,\n" + " And certainly in strange unquietness.\n\n" + "IAGO Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon,\n" + " When it hath blown his ranks into the air,\n" + " And, like the devil, from his very arm\n" + " Puff'd his own brother:--and can he be angry?\n" + " Something of moment then: I will go meet him:\n" + " There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I prithee, do so.\n\n" + " [Exit IAGO]\n\n" + " Something, sure, of state,\n" + " Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practise\n" + " Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,\n" + " Hath puddled his clear spirit: and in such cases\n" + " Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,\n" + " Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so;\n" + " For let our finger ache, and it indues\n" + " Our other healthful members even to that sense\n" + " Of pain: nay, we must think men are not gods,\n" + " Nor of them look for such observances\n" + " As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,\n" + " I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,\n" + " Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;\n" + " But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,\n" + " And he's indicted falsely.\n\n" + "EMILIA Pray heaven it be state-matters, as you think,\n" + " And no conception nor no jealous toy\n" + " Concerning you.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Alas the day! I never gave him cause.\n\n" + "EMILIA But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;\n" + " They are not ever jealous for the cause,\n" + " But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster\n" + " Begot upon itself, born on itself.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!\n\n" + "EMILIA Lady, amen.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I will go seek him. Cassio, walk hereabout:\n" + " If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit\n" + " And seek to effect it to my uttermost.\n\n" + "CASSIO I humbly thank your ladyship.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]\n\n" + " [Enter BIANCA]\n\n" + "BIANCA Save you, friend Cassio!\n\n" + "CASSIO What make you from home?\n" + " How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?\n" + " I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.\n\n" + "BIANCA And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.\n" + " What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?\n" + " Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,\n" + " More tedious than the dial eight score times?\n" + " O weary reckoning!\n\n" + "CASSIO Pardon me, Bianca:\n" + " I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd:\n" + " But I shall, in a more continuate time,\n" + " Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,\n\n" + " [Giving her DESDEMONA's handkerchief]\n\n" + " Take me this work out.\n\n" + "BIANCA O Cassio, whence came this?\n" + " This is some token from a newer friend:\n" + " To the felt absence now I feel a cause:\n" + " Is't come to this? Well, well.\n\n" + "CASSIO Go to, woman!\n" + " Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,\n" + " From whence you have them. You are jealous now\n" + " That this is from some mistress, some remembrance:\n" + " No, in good troth, Bianca.\n\n" + "BIANCA Why, whose is it?\n\n" + "CASSIO I know not, sweet: I found it in my chamber.\n" + " I like the work well: ere it be demanded--\n" + " As like enough it will--I'ld have it copied:\n" + " Take it, and do't; and leave me for this time.\n\n" + "BIANCA Leave you! wherefore?\n\n" + "CASSIO I do attend here on the general;\n" + " And think it no addition, nor my wish,\n" + " To have him see me woman'd.\n\n" + "BIANCA Why, I pray you?\n\n" + "CASSIO Not that I love you not.\n\n" + "BIANCA But that you do not love me.\n" + " I pray you, bring me on the way a little,\n" + " And say if I shall see you soon at night.\n\n" + "CASSIO 'Tis but a little way that I can bring you;\n" + " For I attend here: but I'll see you soon.\n\n" + "BIANCA 'Tis very good; I must be circumstanced.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Cyprus. Before the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO and IAGO]\n\n" + "IAGO Will you think so?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Think so, Iago!\n\n" + "IAGO What,\n" + " To kiss in private?\n\n" + "OTHELLO An unauthorized kiss.\n\n" + "IAGO Or to be naked with her friend in bed\n" + " An hour or more, not meaning any harm?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!\n" + " It is hypocrisy against the devil:\n" + " They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,\n" + " The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.\n\n" + "IAGO So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:\n" + " But if I give my wife a handkerchief,--\n\n" + "OTHELLO What then?\n\n" + "IAGO Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; and, being hers,\n" + " She may, I think, bestow't on any man.\n\n" + "OTHELLO She is protectress of her honour too:\n" + " May she give that?\n\n" + "IAGO Her honour is an essence that's not seen;\n" + " They have it very oft that have it not:\n" + " But, for the handkerchief,--\n\n" + "OTHELLO By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.\n" + " Thou said'st, it comes o'er my memory,\n" + " As doth the raven o'er the infected house,\n" + " Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.\n\n" + "IAGO Ay, what of that?\n\n" + "OTHELLO That's not so good now.\n\n" + "IAGO What,\n" + " If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?\n" + " Or heard him say,--as knaves be such abroad,\n" + " Who having, by their own importunate suit,\n" + " Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,\n" + " Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose\n" + " But they must blab--\n\n" + "OTHELLO Hath he said any thing?\n\n" + "IAGO He hath, my lord; but be you well assured,\n" + " No more than he'll unswear.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What hath he said?\n\n" + "IAGO 'Faith, that he did--I know not what he did.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What? what?\n\n" + "IAGO Lie--\n\n" + "OTHELLO With her?\n\n" + "IAGO With her, on her; what you will.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when\n" + " they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome.\n" + " --Handkerchief--confessions--handkerchief!--To\n" + " confess, and be hanged for his labour;--first, to be\n" + " hanged, and then to confess.--I tremble at it.\n" + " Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing\n" + " passion without some instruction. It is not words\n" + " that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips.\n" + " --Is't possible?--Confess--handkerchief!--O devil!--\n\n" + " [Falls in a trance]\n\n" + "IAGO Work on,\n" + " My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;\n" + " And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,\n" + " All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!\n" + " My lord, I say! Othello!\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIO]\n\n" + " How now, Cassio!\n\n" + "CASSIO What's the matter?\n\n" + "IAGO My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:\n" + " This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.\n\n" + "CASSIO Rub him about the temples.\n\n" + "IAGO No, forbear;\n" + " The lethargy must have his quiet course:\n" + " If not, he foams at mouth and by and by\n" + " Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:\n" + " Do you withdraw yourself a little while,\n" + " He will recover straight: when he is gone,\n" + " I would on great occasion speak with you.\n\n" + " [Exit CASSIO]\n\n" + " How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Dost thou mock me?\n\n" + "IAGO I mock you! no, by heaven.\n" + " Would you would bear your fortune like a man!\n\n" + "OTHELLO A horned man's a monster and a beast.\n\n" + "IAGO There's many a beast then in a populous city,\n" + " And many a civil monster.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Did he confess it?\n\n" + "IAGO Good sir, be a man;\n" + " Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked\n" + " May draw with you: there's millions now alive\n" + " That nightly lie in those unproper beds\n" + " Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.\n" + " O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,\n" + " To lip a wanton in a secure couch,\n" + " And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know;\n" + " And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O, thou art wise; 'tis certain.\n\n" + "IAGO Stand you awhile apart;\n" + " Confine yourself but in a patient list.\n" + " Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--\n" + " A passion most unsuiting such a man--\n" + " Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,\n" + " And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,\n" + " Bade him anon return and here speak with me;\n" + " The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,\n" + " And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,\n" + " That dwell in every region of his face;\n" + " For I will make him tell the tale anew,\n" + " Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when\n" + " He hath, and is again to cope your wife:\n" + " I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;\n" + " Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,\n" + " And nothing of a man.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Dost thou hear, Iago?\n" + " I will be found most cunning in my patience;\n" + " But--dost thou hear?--most bloody.\n\n" + "IAGO That's not amiss;\n" + " But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?\n\n" + " [OTHELLO retires]\n\n" + " Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,\n" + " A housewife that by selling her desires\n" + " Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature\n" + " That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague\n" + " To beguile many and be beguiled by one:\n" + " He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain\n" + " From the excess of laughter. Here he comes:\n\n" + " [Re-enter CASSIO]\n\n" + " As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;\n" + " And his unbookish jealousy must construe\n" + " Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behavior,\n" + " Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?\n\n" + "CASSIO The worser that you give me the addition\n" + " Whose want even kills me.\n\n" + "IAGO Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't.\n\n" + " [Speaking lower]\n\n" + " Now, if this suit lay in Bianco's power,\n" + " How quickly should you speed!\n\n" + "CASSIO Alas, poor caitiff!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Look, how he laughs already!\n\n" + "IAGO I never knew woman love man so.\n\n" + "CASSIO Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out.\n\n" + "IAGO Do you hear, Cassio?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Now he importunes him\n" + " To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said.\n\n" + "IAGO She gives it out that you shall marry hey:\n" + " Do you intend it?\n\n" + "CASSIO Ha, ha, ha!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?\n\n" + "CASSIO I marry her! what? a customer! Prithee, bear some\n" + " charity to my wit: do not think it so unwholesome.\n" + " Ha, ha, ha!\n\n" + "OTHELLO So, so, so, so: they laugh that win.\n\n" + "IAGO 'Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.\n\n" + "CASSIO Prithee, say true.\n\n" + "IAGO I am a very villain else.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Have you scored me? Well.\n\n" + "CASSIO This is the monkey's own giving out: she is\n" + " persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and\n" + " flattery, not out of my promise.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Iago beckons me; now he begins the story.\n\n" + "CASSIO She was here even now; she haunts me in every place.\n" + " I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with\n" + " certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble,\n" + " and, by this hand, she falls me thus about my neck--\n\n" + "OTHELLO Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were: his gesture\n" + " imports it.\n\n" + "CASSIO So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so hales,\n" + " and pulls me: ha, ha, ha!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber. O,\n" + " I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I shall\n" + " throw it to.\n\n" + "CASSIO Well, I must leave her company.\n\n" + "IAGO Before me! look, where she comes.\n\n" + "CASSIO 'Tis such another fitchew! marry a perfumed one.\n\n" + " [Enter BIANCA]\n\n" + " What do you mean by this haunting of me?\n\n" + "BIANCA Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you\n" + " mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?\n" + " I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the\n" + " work?--A likely piece of work, that you should find\n" + " it in your chamber, and not know who left it there!\n" + " This is some minx's token, and I must take out the\n" + " work? There; give it your hobby-horse: wheresoever\n" + " you had it, I'll take out no work on't.\n\n" + "CASSIO How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now!\n\n" + "OTHELLO By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!\n\n" + "BIANCA An you'll come to supper to-night, you may; an you\n" + " will not, come when you are next prepared for.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "IAGO After her, after her.\n\n" + "CASSIO 'Faith, I must; she'll rail in the street else.\n\n" + "IAGO Will you sup there?\n\n" + "CASSIO 'Faith, I intend so.\n\n" + "IAGO Well, I may chance to see you; for I would very fain\n" + " speak with you.\n\n" + "CASSIO Prithee, come; will you?\n\n" + "IAGO Go to; say no more.\n\n" + " [Exit CASSIO]\n\n" + "OTHELLO [Advancing] How shall I murder him, Iago?\n\n" + "IAGO Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?\n\n" + "OTHELLO O Iago!\n\n" + "IAGO And did you see the handkerchief?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Was that mine?\n\n" + "IAGO Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the\n" + " foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he\n" + " hath given it his whore.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I would have him nine years a-killing.\n" + " A fine woman! a fair woman! a sweet woman!\n\n" + "IAGO Nay, you must forget that.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night;\n" + " for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned to\n" + " stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the\n" + " world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by\n" + " an emperor's side and command him tasks.\n\n" + "IAGO Nay, that's not your way.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate\n" + " with her needle: an admirable musician: O! she\n" + " will sing the savageness out of a bear: of so high\n" + " and plenteous wit and invention:--\n\n" + "IAGO She's the worse for all this.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so\n" + " gentle a condition!\n\n" + "IAGO Ay, too gentle.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago!\n" + " O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!\n\n" + "IAGO If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her\n" + " patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes\n" + " near nobody.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!\n\n" + "IAGO O, 'tis foul in her.\n\n" + "OTHELLO With mine officer!\n\n" + "IAGO That's fouler.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Get me some poison, Iago; this night: I'll not\n" + " expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty\n" + " unprovide my mind again: this night, Iago.\n\n" + "IAGO Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even\n" + " the bed she hath contaminated.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.\n\n" + "IAGO And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you\n" + " shall hear more by midnight.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Excellent good.\n\n" + " [A trumpet within]\n\n" + " What trumpet is that same?\n\n" + "IAGO Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico\n" + " Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him.\n\n" + " [Enter LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]\n\n" + "LODOVICO Save you, worthy general!\n\n" + "OTHELLO With all my heart, sir.\n\n" + "LODOVICO The duke and senators of Venice greet you.\n\n" + " [Gives him a letter]\n\n" + "OTHELLO I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.\n\n" + " [Opens the letter, and reads]\n\n" + "DESDEMONA And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?\n\n" + "IAGO I am very glad to see you, signior\n" + " Welcome to Cyprus.\n\n" + "LODOVICO I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?\n\n" + "IAGO Lives, sir.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord\n" + " An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Are you sure of that?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO [Reads] 'This fail you not to do, as you will--'\n\n" + "LODOVICO He did not call; he's busy in the paper.\n" + " Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA A most unhappy one: I would do much\n" + " To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Fire and brimstone!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Are you wise?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA What, is he angry?\n\n" + "LODOVICO May be the letter moved him;\n" + " For, as I think, they do command him home,\n" + " Deputing Cassio in his government.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Trust me, I am glad on't.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Indeed!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO I am glad to see you mad.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Why, sweet Othello,--\n\n" + "OTHELLO [Striking her] Devil!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I have not deserved this.\n\n" + "LODOVICO My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,\n" + " Though I should swear I saw't: 'tis very much:\n" + " Make her amends; she weeps.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O devil, devil!\n" + " If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,\n" + " Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.\n" + " Out of my sight!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I will not stay to offend you.\n\n" + " [Going]\n\n" + "LODOVICO Truly, an obedient lady:\n" + " I do beseech your lordship, call her back.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Mistress!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO What would you with her, sir?\n\n" + "LODOVICO Who, I, my lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:\n" + " Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,\n" + " And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;\n" + " And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,\n" + " Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.\n" + " Concerning this, sir,--O well-painted passion!--\n" + " I am commanded home. Get you away;\n" + " I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,\n" + " And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt!\n\n" + " [Exit DESDEMONA]\n\n" + " Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight,\n" + " I do entreat that we may sup together:\n" + " You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.--Goats and monkeys!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LODOVICO Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate\n" + " Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature\n" + " Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue\n" + " The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,\n" + " Could neither graze nor pierce?\n\n" + "IAGO He is much changed.\n\n" + "LODOVICO Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?\n\n" + "IAGO He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure\n" + " What he might be: if what he might he is not,\n" + " I would to heaven he were!\n\n" + "LODOVICO What, strike his wife!\n\n" + "IAGO 'Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew\n" + " That stroke would prove the worst!\n\n" + "LODOVICO Is it his use?\n" + " Or did the letters work upon his blood,\n" + " And new-create this fault?\n\n" + "IAGO Alas, alas!\n" + " It is not honesty in me to speak\n" + " What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,\n" + " And his own courses will denote him so\n" + " That I may save my speech: do but go after,\n" + " And mark how he continues.\n\n" + "LODOVICO I am sorry that I am deceived in him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO and EMILIA]\n\n" + "OTHELLO You have seen nothing then?\n\n" + "EMILIA Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.\n\n" + "EMILIA But then I saw no harm, and then I heard\n" + " Each syllable that breath made up between them.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What, did they never whisper?\n\n" + "EMILIA Never, my lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Nor send you out o' the way?\n\n" + "EMILIA Never.\n\n" + "OTHELLO To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?\n\n" + "EMILIA Never, my lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO That's strange.\n\n" + "EMILIA I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,\n" + " Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,\n" + " Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.\n" + " If any wretch have put this in your head,\n" + " Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!\n" + " For, if she be not honest, chaste, and true,\n" + " There's no man happy; the purest of their wives\n" + " Is foul as slander.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Bid her come hither: go.\n\n" + " [Exit EMILIA]\n\n" + " She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd\n" + " That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,\n" + " A closet lock and key of villanous secrets\n" + " And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.\n\n" + " [Enter DESDEMONA with EMILIA]\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My lord, what is your will?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Pray, chuck, come hither.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA What is your pleasure?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Let me see your eyes;\n" + " Look in my face.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA What horrible fancy's this?\n\n" + "OTHELLO [To EMILIA] Some of your function, mistress;\n" + " Leave procreants alone and shut the door;\n" + " Cough, or cry 'hem,' if any body come:\n" + " Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch.\n\n" + " [Exit EMILIA]\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?\n" + " I understand a fury in your words.\n" + " But not the words.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Why, what art thou?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Your wife, my lord; your true\n" + " And loyal wife.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Come, swear it, damn thyself\n" + " Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves\n" + " Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double damn'd:\n" + " Swear thou art honest.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Heaven doth truly know it.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?\n\n" + "OTHELLO O Desdemona! away! away! away!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?\n" + " Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?\n" + " If haply you my father do suspect\n" + " An instrument of this your calling back,\n" + " Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him,\n" + " Why, I have lost him too.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Had it pleased heaven\n" + " To try me with affliction; had they rain'd\n" + " All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head.\n" + " Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,\n" + " Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,\n" + " I should have found in some place of my soul\n" + " A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me\n" + " A fixed figure for the time of scorn\n" + " To point his slow unmoving finger at!\n" + " Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:\n" + " But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,\n" + " Where either I must live, or bear no life;\n" + " The fountain from the which my current runs,\n" + " Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!\n" + " Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads\n" + " To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,\n" + " Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,--\n" + " Ay, there, look grim as hell!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,\n" + " That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,\n" + " Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet\n" + " That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst\n" + " ne'er been born!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,\n" + " Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed!\n" + " Committed! O thou public commoner!\n" + " I should make very forges of my cheeks,\n" + " That would to cinders burn up modesty,\n" + " Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!\n" + " Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,\n" + " The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets\n" + " Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,\n" + " And will not hear it. What committed!\n" + " Impudent strumpet!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA By heaven, you do me wrong.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Are you not a strumpet?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA No, as I am a Christian:\n" + " If to preserve this vessel for my lord\n" + " From any other foul unlawful touch\n" + " Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.\n\n" + "OTHELLO What, not a whore?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA No, as I shall be saved.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Is't possible?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O, heaven forgive us!\n\n" + "OTHELLO I cry you mercy, then:\n" + " I took you for that cunning whore of Venice\n" + " That married with Othello.\n\n" + " [Raising his voice]\n\n" + " You, mistress,\n" + " That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,\n" + " And keep the gate of hell!\n\n" + " [Re-enter EMILIA]\n\n" + " You, you, ay, you!\n" + " We have done our course; there's money for your pains:\n" + " I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "EMILIA Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?\n" + " How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA 'Faith, half asleep.\n\n" + "EMILIA Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA With who?\n\n" + "EMILIA Why, with my lord, madam.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Who is thy lord?\n\n" + "EMILIA He that is yours, sweet lady.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia;\n" + " I cannot weep; nor answer have I none,\n" + " But what should go by water. Prithee, tonight\n" + " Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember;\n" + " And call thy husband hither.\n\n" + "EMILIA Here's a change indeed!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DESDEMONA 'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.\n" + " How have I been behaved, that he might stick\n" + " The small'st opinion on my least misuse?\n\n" + " [Re-enter EMILIA with IAGO]\n\n" + "IAGO What is your pleasure, madam?\n" + " How is't with you?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes\n" + " Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:\n" + " He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,\n" + " I am a child to chiding.\n\n" + "IAGO What's the matter, lady?\n\n" + "EMILIA Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her.\n" + " Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,\n" + " As true hearts cannot bear.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Am I that name, Iago?\n\n" + "IAGO What name, fair lady?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Such as she says my lord did say I was.\n\n" + "EMILIA He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink\n" + " Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.\n\n" + "IAGO Why did he so?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I do not know; I am sure I am none such.\n\n" + "IAGO Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!\n\n" + "EMILIA Hath she forsook so many noble matches,\n" + " Her father and her country and her friends,\n" + " To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA It is my wretched fortune.\n\n" + "IAGO Beshrew him for't!\n" + " How comes this trick upon him?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Nay, heaven doth know.\n\n" + "EMILIA I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,\n" + " Some busy and insinuating rogue,\n" + " Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,\n" + " Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else.\n\n" + "IAGO Fie, there is no such man; it is impossible.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA If any such there be, heaven pardon him!\n\n" + "EMILIA A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!\n" + " Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?\n" + " What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?\n" + " The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,\n" + " Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.\n" + " O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,\n" + " And put in every honest hand a whip\n" + " To lash the rascals naked through the world\n" + " Even from the east to the west!\n\n" + "IAGO Speak within door.\n\n" + "EMILIA O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was\n" + " That turn'd your wit the seamy side without,\n" + " And made you to suspect me with the Moor.\n\n" + "IAGO You are a fool; go to.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O good Iago,\n" + " What shall I do to win my lord again?\n" + " Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,\n" + " I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:\n" + " If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,\n" + " Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,\n" + " Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,\n" + " Delighted them in any other form;\n" + " Or that I do not yet, and ever did.\n" + " And ever will--though he do shake me off\n" + " To beggarly divorcement--love him dearly,\n" + " Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;\n" + " And his unkindness may defeat my life,\n" + " But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore:'\n" + " It does abhor me now I speak the word;\n" + " To do the act that might the addition earn\n" + " Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.\n\n" + "IAGO I pray you, be content; 'tis but his humour:\n" + " The business of the state does him offence,\n" + " And he does chide with you.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA If 'twere no other--\n\n" + "IAGO 'Tis but so, I warrant.\n\n" + " [Trumpets within]\n\n" + " Hark, how these instruments summon to supper!\n" + " The messengers of Venice stay the meat;\n" + " Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]\n\n" + " [Enter RODERIGO]\n\n" + " How now, Roderigo!\n\n" + "RODERIGO I do not find that thou dealest justly with me.\n\n" + "IAGO What in the contrary?\n\n" + "RODERIGO Every day thou daffest me with some device, Iago;\n" + " and rather, as it seems to me now, keepest from me\n" + " all conveniency than suppliest me with the least\n" + " advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure\n" + " it, nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what\n" + " already I have foolishly suffered.\n\n" + "IAGO Will you hear me, Roderigo?\n\n" + "RODERIGO 'Faith, I have heard too much, for your words and\n" + " performances are no kin together.\n\n" + "IAGO You charge me most unjustly.\n\n" + "RODERIGO With nought but truth. I have wasted myself out of\n" + " my means. The jewels you have had from me to\n" + " deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a\n" + " votarist: you have told me she hath received them\n" + " and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden\n" + " respect and acquaintance, but I find none.\n\n" + "IAGO Well; go to; very well.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Very well! go to! I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis\n" + " not very well: nay, I think it is scurvy, and begin\n" + " to find myself fobbed in it.\n\n" + "IAGO Very well.\n\n" + "RODERIGO I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself\n" + " known to Desdemona: if she will return me my\n" + " jewels, I will give over my suit and repent my\n" + " unlawful solicitation; if not, assure yourself I\n" + " will seek satisfaction of you.\n\n" + "IAGO You have said now.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing.\n\n" + "IAGO Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even from\n" + " this instant to build on thee a better opinion than\n" + " ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo: thou hast\n" + " taken against me a most just exception; but yet, I\n" + " protest, I have dealt most directly in thy affair.\n\n" + "RODERIGO It hath not appeared.\n\n" + "IAGO I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your\n" + " suspicion is not without wit and judgment. But,\n" + " Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I\n" + " have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean\n" + " purpose, courage and valour, this night show it: if\n" + " thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona,\n" + " take me from this world with treachery and devise\n" + " engines for my life.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Well, what is it? is it within reason and compass?\n\n" + "IAGO Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice\n" + " to depute Cassio in Othello's place.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Is that true? why, then Othello and Desdemona\n" + " return again to Venice.\n\n" + "IAGO O, no; he goes into Mauritania and takes away with\n" + " him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be\n" + " lingered here by some accident: wherein none can be\n" + " so determinate as the removing of Cassio.\n\n" + "RODERIGO How do you mean, removing of him?\n\n" + "IAGO Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's place;\n" + " knocking out his brains.\n\n" + "RODERIGO And that you would have me to do?\n\n" + "IAGO Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right.\n" + " He sups to-night with a harlotry, and thither will I\n" + " go to him: he knows not yet of his horrorable\n" + " fortune. If you will watch his going thence, which\n" + " I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one,\n" + " you may take him at your pleasure: I will be near\n" + " to second your attempt, and he shall fall between\n" + " us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with\n" + " me; I will show you such a necessity in his death\n" + " that you shall think yourself bound to put it on\n" + " him. It is now high suppertime, and the night grows\n" + " to waste: about it.\n\n" + "RODERIGO I will hear further reason for this.\n\n" + "IAGO And you shall be satisfied.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another room in the castle.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA and\n" + " Attendants]\n\n" + "LODOVICO I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O, pardon me: 'twill do me good to walk.\n\n" + "LODOVICO Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Your honour is most welcome.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Will you walk, sir?\n" + " O,--Desdemona,--\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Get you to bed on the instant; I will be returned\n" + " forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I will, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OTHELLO, LODOVICO, and Attendants]\n\n" + "EMILIA How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA He says he will return incontinent:\n" + " He hath commanded me to go to bed,\n" + " And bade me to dismiss you.\n\n" + "EMILIA Dismiss me!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA It was his bidding: therefore, good Emilia,.\n" + " Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu:\n" + " We must not now displease him.\n\n" + "EMILIA I would you had never seen him!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA So would not I my love doth so approve him,\n" + " That even his stubbornness, his cheques, his frowns--\n" + " Prithee, unpin me,--have grace and favour in them.\n\n" + "EMILIA I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!\n" + " If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me\n" + " In one of those same sheets.\n\n" + "EMILIA Come, come you talk.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA My mother had a maid call'd Barbara:\n" + " She was in love, and he she loved proved mad\n" + " And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow;'\n" + " An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune,\n" + " And she died singing it: that song to-night\n" + " Will not go from my mind; I have much to do,\n" + " But to go hang my head all at one side,\n" + " And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch.\n\n" + "EMILIA Shall I go fetch your night-gown?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA No, unpin me here.\n" + " This Lodovico is a proper man.\n\n" + "EMILIA A very handsome man.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA He speaks well.\n\n" + "EMILIA I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot\n" + " to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA [Singing] The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,\n" + " Sing all a green willow:\n" + " Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,\n" + " Sing willow, willow, willow:\n" + " The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans;\n" + " Sing willow, willow, willow;\n" + " Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones;\n" + " Lay by these:--\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " Sing willow, willow, willow;\n" + " Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon:--\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " Sing all a green willow must be my garland.\n" + " Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,-\n" + " Nay, that's not next.--Hark! who is't that knocks?\n\n" + "EMILIA It's the wind.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA [Singing] I call'd my love false love; but what\n" + " said he then?\n" + " Sing willow, willow, willow:\n" + " If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men!\n" + " So, get thee gone; good night Ate eyes do itch;\n" + " Doth that bode weeping?\n\n" + "EMILIA 'Tis neither here nor there.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!\n" + " Dost thou in conscience think,--tell me, Emilia,--\n" + " That there be women do abuse their husbands\n" + " In such gross kind?\n\n" + "EMILIA There be some such, no question.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?\n\n" + "EMILIA Why, would not you?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA No, by this heavenly light!\n\n" + "EMILIA Nor I neither by this heavenly light;\n" + " I might do't as well i' the dark.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?\n\n" + "EMILIA The world's a huge thing: it is a great price.\n" + " For a small vice.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA In troth, I think thou wouldst not.\n\n" + "EMILIA In troth, I think I should; and undo't when I had\n" + " done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a\n" + " joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for\n" + " gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty\n" + " exhibition; but for the whole world,--why, who would\n" + " not make her husband a cuckold to make him a\n" + " monarch? I should venture purgatory for't.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong\n" + " For the whole world.\n\n" + "EMILIA Why the wrong is but a wrong i' the world: and\n" + " having the world for your labour, tis a wrong in your\n" + " own world, and you might quickly make it right.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I do not think there is any such woman.\n\n" + "EMILIA Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would\n" + " store the world they played for.\n" + " But I do think it is their husbands' faults\n" + " If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,\n" + " And pour our treasures into foreign laps,\n" + " Or else break out in peevish jealousies,\n" + " Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,\n" + " Or scant our former having in despite;\n" + " Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,\n" + " Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know\n" + " Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell\n" + " And have their palates both for sweet and sour,\n" + " As husbands have. What is it that they do\n" + " When they change us for others? Is it sport?\n" + " I think it is: and doth affection breed it?\n" + " I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?\n" + " It is so too: and have not we affections,\n" + " Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?\n" + " Then let them use us well: else let them know,\n" + " The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send,\n" + " Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Cyprus. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter IAGO and RODERIGO]\n\n" + "IAGO Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come:\n" + " Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home:\n" + " Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow:\n" + " It makes us, or it mars us; think on that,\n" + " And fix most firm thy resolution.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Be near at hand; I may miscarry in't.\n\n" + "IAGO Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.\n\n" + " [Retires]\n\n" + "RODERIGO I have no great devotion to the deed;\n" + " And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:\n" + " 'Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies.\n\n" + "IAGO I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,\n" + " And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,\n" + " Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,\n" + " Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo,\n" + " He calls me to a restitution large\n" + " Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,\n" + " As gifts to Desdemona;\n" + " It must not be: if Cassio do remain,\n" + " He hath a daily beauty in his life\n" + " That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor\n" + " May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril:\n" + " No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming.\n\n" + " [Enter CASSIO]\n\n" + "RODERIGO I know his gait, 'tis he.--Villain, thou diest!\n\n" + " [Makes a pass at CASSIO]\n\n" + "CASSIO That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,\n" + " But that my coat is better than thou know'st\n" + " I will make proof of thine.\n\n" + " [Draws, and wounds RODERIGO]\n\n" + "RODERIGO O, I am slain!\n\n" + " [IAGO from behind wounds CASSIO in the leg, and exit]\n\n" + "CASSIO I am maim'd for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!\n\n" + " [Falls]\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO]\n\n" + "OTHELLO The voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word.\n\n" + "RODERIGO O, villain that I am!\n\n" + "OTHELLO It is even so.\n\n" + "CASSIO O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!\n\n" + "OTHELLO 'Tis he:--O brave Iago, honest and just,\n" + " That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!\n" + " Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,\n" + " And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.\n" + " Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;\n" + " Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO]\n\n" + "CASSIO What, ho! no watch? no passage? murder! murder!\n\n" + "GRATIANO 'Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.\n\n" + "CASSIO O, help!\n\n" + "LODOVICO Hark!\n\n" + "RODERIGO O wretched villain!\n\n" + "LODOVICO Two or three groan: it is a heavy night:\n" + " These may be counterfeits: let's think't unsafe\n" + " To come in to the cry without more help.\n\n" + "RODERIGO Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death.\n\n" + "LODOVICO Hark!\n\n" + " [Re-enter IAGO, with a light]\n\n" + "GRATIANO Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.\n\n" + "IAGO Who's there? whose noise is this that ones on murder?\n\n" + "LODOVICO We do not know.\n\n" + "IAGO Did not you hear a cry?\n\n" + "CASSIO Here, here! for heaven's sake, help me!\n\n" + "IAGO What's the matter?\n\n" + "GRATIANO This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.\n\n" + "LODOVICO The same indeed; a very valiant fellow.\n\n" + "IAGO What are you here that cry so grievously?\n\n" + "CASSIO Iago? O, I am spoil'd, undone by villains!\n" + " Give me some help.\n\n" + "IAGO O me, lieutenant! what villains have done this?\n\n" + "CASSIO I think that one of them is hereabout,\n" + " And cannot make away.\n\n" + "IAGO O treacherous villains!\n" + " What are you there? come in, and give some help.\n\n" + " [To LODOVICO and GRATIANO]\n\n" + "RODERIGO O, help me here!\n\n" + "CASSIO That's one of them.\n\n" + "IAGO O murderous slave! O villain!\n\n" + " [Stabs RODERIGO]\n\n" + "RODERIGO O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!\n\n" + "IAGO Kill men i' the dark!--Where be these bloody thieves?--\n" + " How silent is this town!--Ho! murder! murder!--\n" + " What may you be? are you of good or evil?\n\n" + "LODOVICO As you shall prove us, praise us.\n\n" + "IAGO Signior Lodovico?\n\n" + "LODOVICO He, sir.\n\n" + "IAGO I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Cassio!\n\n" + "IAGO How is't, brother!\n\n" + "CASSIO My leg is cut in two.\n\n" + "IAGO Marry, heaven forbid!\n" + " Light, gentlemen; I'll bind it with my shirt.\n\n" + " [Enter BIANCA]\n\n" + "BIANCA What is the matter, ho? who is't that cried?\n\n" + "IAGO Who is't that cried!\n\n" + "BIANCA O my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio,\n" + " Cassio, Cassio!\n\n" + "IAGO O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect\n" + " Who they should be that have thus many led you?\n\n" + "CASSIO No.\n\n" + "GRATIANO I am to find you thus: I have been to seek you.\n\n" + "IAGO Lend me a garter. So. O, for a chair,\n" + " To bear him easily hence!\n\n" + "BIANCA Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!\n\n" + "IAGO Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash\n" + " To be a party in this injury.\n" + " Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;\n" + " Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?\n" + " Alas my friend and my dear countryman\n" + " Roderigo! no:--yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo.\n\n" + "GRATIANO What, of Venice?\n\n" + "IAGO Even he, sir; did you know him?\n\n" + "GRATIANO Know him! ay.\n\n" + "IAGO Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon;\n" + " These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,\n" + " That so neglected you.\n\n" + "GRATIANO I am glad to see you.\n\n" + "IAGO How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!\n\n" + "GRATIANO Roderigo!\n\n" + "IAGO He, he 'tis he.\n\n" + " [A chair brought in]\n\n" + " O, that's well said; the chair!\n\n" + "GRATIANO Some good man bear him carefully from hence;\n" + " I'll fetch the general's surgeon.\n\n" + " [To BIANCA]\n\n" + " For you, mistress,\n" + " Save you your labour. He that lies slain\n" + " here, Cassio,\n" + " Was my dear friend: what malice was between you?\n\n" + "CASSIO None in the world; nor do I know the man.\n\n" + "IAGO [To BIANCA] What, look you pale? O, bear him out\n" + " o' the air.\n\n" + " [CASSIO and RODERIGO are borne off]\n\n" + " Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?\n" + " Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?\n" + " Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.\n" + " Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her:\n" + " Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak,\n" + " Though tongues were out of use.\n\n" + " [Enter EMILIA]\n\n" + "EMILIA 'Las, what's the matter? what's the matter, husband?\n\n" + "IAGO Cassio hath here been set on in the dark\n" + " By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped:\n" + " He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead.\n\n" + "EMILIA Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!\n\n" + "IAGO This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,\n" + " Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night.\n\n" + " [To BIANCA]\n\n" + " What, do you shake at that?\n\n" + "BIANCA He supp'd at my house; but I therefore shake not.\n\n" + "IAGO O, did he so? I charge you, go with me.\n\n" + "EMILIA Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!\n\n" + "BIANCA I am no strumpet; but of life as honest\n" + " As you that thus abuse me.\n\n" + "EMILIA As I! foh! fie upon thee!\n\n" + "IAGO Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dress'd.\n" + " Come, mistress, you must tell's another tale.\n" + " Emilia run you to the citadel,\n" + " And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd.\n" + " Will you go on? I pray.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " This is the night\n" + " That either makes me or fordoes me quite.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " OTHELLO\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A bedchamber in the castle: DESDEMONA in bed asleep;\n" + " a light burning.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OTHELLO]\n\n" + "OTHELLO It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--\n" + " Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--\n" + " It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;\n" + " Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,\n" + " And smooth as monumental alabaster.\n" + " Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.\n" + " Put out the light, and then put out the light:\n" + " If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,\n" + " I can again thy former light restore,\n" + " Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,\n" + " Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,\n" + " I know not where is that Promethean heat\n" + " That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose,\n" + " I cannot give it vital growth again.\n" + " It must needs wither: I'll smell it on the tree.\n\n" + " [Kissing her]\n\n" + " Ah balmy breath, that dost almost persuade\n" + " Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.\n" + " Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,\n" + " And love thee after. One more, and this the last:\n" + " So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,\n" + " But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly;\n" + " It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Who's there? Othello?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay. Desdemona.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Will you come to bed, my lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO If you bethink yourself of any crime\n" + " Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,\n" + " Solicit for it straight.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Alas, my lord, what do you mean by that?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Well, do it, and be brief; I will walk by:\n" + " I would not kill thy unprepared spirit;\n" + " No; heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Talk you of killing?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay, I do.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Then heaven\n" + " Have mercy on me!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Amen, with all my heart!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Hum!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then\n" + " When your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not,\n" + " Since guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel I fear.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Think on thy sins.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA They are loves I bear to you.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay, and for that thou diest.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA That death's unnatural that kills for loving.\n" + " Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?\n" + " Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:\n" + " These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,\n" + " They do not point on me.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Peace, and be still!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA I will so. What's the matter?\n\n" + "OTHELLO That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee\n" + " Thou gavest to Cassio.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA No, by my life and soul!\n" + " Send for the man, and ask him.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Sweet soul, take heed,\n" + " Take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Ay, but not yet to die.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Yes, presently:\n" + " Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;\n" + " For to deny each article with oath\n" + " Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception\n" + " That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Then Lord have mercy on me!\n\n" + "OTHELLO I say, amen.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA And have you mercy too! I never did\n" + " Offend you in my life; never loved Cassio\n" + " But with such general warranty of heaven\n" + " As I might love: I never gave him token.\n\n" + "OTHELLO By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in's hand.\n" + " O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart,\n" + " And makest me call what I intend to do\n" + " A murder, which I thought a sacrifice:\n" + " I saw the handkerchief.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA He found it then;\n" + " I never gave it him: send for him hither;\n" + " Let him confess a truth.\n\n" + "OTHELLO He hath confess'd.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA What, my lord?\n\n" + "OTHELLO That he hath used thee.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA How? unlawfully?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA He will not say so.\n\n" + "OTHELLO No, his mouth is stopp'd;\n" + " Honest Iago hath ta'en order for't.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O! my fear interprets: what, is he dead?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge\n" + " Had stomach for them all.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Alas! he is betray'd and I undone.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him to my face?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Down, strumpet!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Nay, if you strive--\n\n" + "DESDEMONA But half an hour!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Being done, there is no pause.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA But while I say one prayer!\n\n" + "OTHELLO It is too late.\n\n" + " [He stifles her]\n\n" + "EMILIA [Within] My lord, my lord! what, ho! my lord, my lord!\n\n" + "OTHELLO What noise is this? Not dead? not yet quite dead?\n" + " I that am cruel am yet merciful;\n" + " I would not have thee linger in thy pain: So, so.\n\n" + "EMILIA [Within] What, ho! my lord, my lord!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Who's there?\n\n" + "EMILIA [Within] O, good my lord, I would speak a word with you!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Yes: 'tis Emilia. By and by. She's dead.\n" + " 'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death.--\n" + " The noise was here. Ha! no more moving?\n" + " Still as the grave. Shall she come in? were't good?--\n" + " I think she stirs again:--no. What's best to do?\n" + " If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife:\n" + " My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.\n" + " O insupportable! O heavy hour!\n" + " Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse\n" + " Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe\n" + " Should yawn at alteration.\n\n" + "EMILIA [Within] I do beseech you\n" + " That I may speak with you, O, good my lord!\n\n" + "OTHELLO I had forgot thee: O, come in, Emilia;\n" + " Soft; by and by. Let me the curtains draw.\n" + " Where art thou?\n\n" + " [Unlocks the door]\n\n" + " [Enter EMILIA]\n\n" + " What's the matter with thee now?\n\n" + "EMILIA O, my good lord, yonder's foul murders done!\n\n" + "OTHELLO What, now?\n\n" + "EMILIA But now, my lord.\n\n" + "OTHELLO It is the very error of the moon;\n" + " She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,\n" + " And makes men mad.\n\n" + "EMILIA Cassio, my lord, hath kill'd a young Venetian\n" + " Call'd Roderigo.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Roderigo kill'd!\n" + " And Cassio kill'd!\n\n" + "EMILIA No, Cassio is not kill'd.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune,\n" + " And sweet revenge grows harsh.\n\n" + "DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd!\n\n" + "EMILIA Alas, what cry is that?\n\n" + "OTHELLO That! what?\n\n" + "EMILIA Out, and alas! that was my lady's voice.\n" + " Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again!\n" + " Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!\n\n" + "DESDEMONA A guiltless death I die.\n\n" + "EMILIA O, who hath done this deed?\n\n" + "DESDEMONA Nobody; I myself. Farewell\n" + " Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "OTHELLO Why, how should she be murder'd?\n\n" + "EMILIA Alas, who knows?\n\n" + "OTHELLO You heard her say herself, it was not I.\n\n" + "EMILIA She said so: I must needs report the truth.\n\n" + "OTHELLO She's, like a liar, gone to burning hell:\n" + " 'Twas I that kill'd her.\n\n" + "EMILIA O, the more angel she,\n" + " And you the blacker devil!\n\n" + "OTHELLO She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore.\n\n" + "EMILIA Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil.\n\n" + "OTHELLO She was false as water.\n\n" + "EMILIA Thou art rash as fire, to say\n" + " That she was false: O, she was heavenly true!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Cassio did top her; ask thy husband else.\n" + " O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell,\n" + " But that I did proceed upon just grounds\n" + " To this extremity. Thy husband knew it all.\n\n" + "EMILIA My husband!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Thy husband.\n\n" + "EMILIA That she was false to wedlock?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay, with Cassio. Nay, had she been true,\n" + " If heaven would make me such another world\n" + " Of one entire and Perfect chrysolite,\n" + " I'ld not have sold her for it.\n\n" + "EMILIA My husband!\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay, 'twas he that told me first:\n" + " An honest man he is, and hates the slime\n" + " That sticks on filthy deeds.\n\n" + "EMILIA My husband!\n\n" + "OTHELLO What needs this iteration, woman? I say thy husband.\n\n" + "EMILIA O mistress, villany hath made mocks with love,\n" + " My husband say that she was false!\n\n" + "OTHELLO He, woman;\n" + " I say thy husband: dost understand the word?\n" + " My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago.\n\n" + "EMILIA If he say so, may his pernicious soul\n" + " Rot half a grain a day! he lies to the heart:\n" + " She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ha!\n\n" + "EMILIA Do thy worst:\n" + " This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven\n" + " Than thou wast worthy her.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Peace, you were best.\n\n" + "EMILIA Thou hast not half that power to do me harm\n" + " As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!\n" + " As ignorant as dirt! thou hast done a deed--\n" + " I care not for thy sword; I'll make thee known,\n" + " Though I lost twenty lives.--Help! help, ho! help!\n" + " The Moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! murder!\n\n" + " [Enter MONTANO, GRATIANO, IAGO, and others]\n\n" + "MONTANO What is the matter? How now, general!\n\n" + "EMILIA O, are you come, Iago? you have done well,\n" + " That men must lay their murders on your neck.\n\n" + "GRATIANO What is the matter?\n\n" + "EMILIA Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man:\n" + " He says thou told'st him that his wife was false:\n" + " I know thou didst not, thou'rt not such a villain:\n" + " Speak, for my heart is full.\n\n" + "IAGO I told him what I thought, and told no more\n" + " Than what he found himself was apt and true.\n\n" + "EMILIA But did you ever tell him she was false?\n\n" + "IAGO I did.\n\n" + "EMILIA You told a lie, an odious, damned lie;\n" + " Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.\n" + " She false with Cassio!--did you say with Cassio?\n\n" + "IAGO With Cassio, mistress. Go to, charm your tongue.\n\n" + "EMILIA I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak:\n" + " My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed,--\n\n" + "All O heavens forfend!\n\n" + "EMILIA And your reports have set the murder on.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Nay, stare not, masters: it is true, indeed.\n\n" + "GRATIANO 'Tis a strange truth.\n\n" + "MONTANO O monstrous act!\n\n" + "EMILIA Villany, villany, villany!\n" + " I think upon't, I think: I smell't: O villany!--\n" + " I thought so then:--I'll kill myself for grief:--\n" + " O villany, villany!\n\n" + "IAGO What, are you mad? I charge you, get you home.\n\n" + "EMILIA Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak:\n\n" + " 'Tis proper I obey him, but not now.\n" + " Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O! O! O!\n\n" + " [He falls on the bed]\n\n" + "EMILIA Nay, lay thee down and roar;\n" + " For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent\n" + " That e'er did lift up eye.\n\n" + "OTHELLO [Rising] O, she was foul!\n" + " I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your niece,\n" + " Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd:\n" + " I know this act shows horrible and grim.\n\n" + "GRATIANO Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead:\n" + " Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief\n" + " Shore his old thread in twain: did he live now,\n" + " This sight would make him do a desperate turn,\n" + " Yea, curse his better angel from his side,\n" + " And fall to reprobation.\n\n" + "OTHELLO 'Tis pitiful; but yet Iago knows\n" + " That she with Cassio hath the act of shame\n" + " A thousand times committed; Cassio confess'd it:\n" + " And she did gratify his amorous works\n" + " With that recognizance and pledge of love\n" + " Which I first gave her; I saw it in his hand:\n" + " It was a handkerchief, an antique token\n" + " My father gave my mother.\n\n" + "EMILIA O heaven! O heavenly powers!\n\n" + "IAGO Come, hold your peace.\n\n" + "EMILIA 'Twill out, 'twill out: I peace!\n" + " No, I will speak as liberal as the north:\n" + " Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,\n" + " All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.\n\n" + "IAGO Be wise, and get you home.\n\n" + "EMILIA I will not.\n\n" + " [IAGO offers to stab EMILIA]\n\n" + "GRATIANO Fie!\n" + " Your sword upon a woman?\n\n" + "EMILIA O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of\n" + " I found by fortune and did give my husband;\n" + " For often, with a solemn earnestness,\n" + " More than indeed belong'd to such a trifle,\n" + " He begg'd of me to steal it.\n\n" + "IAGO Villanous whore!\n\n" + "EMILIA She give it Cassio! no, alas! I found it,\n" + " And I did give't my husband.\n\n" + "IAGO Filth, thou liest!\n\n" + "EMILIA By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.\n" + " O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool\n" + " Do with so good a woman?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Are there no stones in heaven\n" + " But what serve for the thunder?--Precious villain!\n\n" + " [He runs at IAGO IAGO, from behind, stabs EMILIA, and exit]\n\n" + "GRATIANO The woman falls; sure, he hath kill'd his wife.\n\n" + "EMILIA Ay, ay: O, lay me by my mistress' side.\n\n" + "GRATIANO He's gone, but his wife's kill'd.\n\n" + "MONTANO 'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,\n" + " Which I have here recover'd from the Moor:\n" + " Come, guard the door without; let him not pass,\n" + " But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,\n" + " For 'tis a damned slave.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MONTANO and GRATIANO]\n\n" + "OTHELLO I am not valiant neither,\n" + " But ever puny whipster gets my sword:\n" + " But why should honour outlive honesty?\n" + " Let it go all.\n\n" + "EMILIA What did thy song bode, lady?\n" + " Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan.\n" + " And die in music.\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " Willow, willow, willow,--\n" + " Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor;\n" + " So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;\n" + " So speaking as I think, I die, I die.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "OTHELLO I have another weapon in this chamber;\n" + " It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper:--\n" + " O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth.\n\n" + "GRATIANO [Within] If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear:\n" + " Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Look in upon me then and speak with me,\n" + " Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GRATIANO]\n\n" + "GRATIANO What is the matter?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Behold, I have a weapon;\n" + " A better never did itself sustain\n" + " Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day,\n" + " That, with this little arm and this good sword,\n" + " I have made my way through more impediments\n" + " Than twenty times your stop: but, O vain boast!\n" + " Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now.\n" + " Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd;\n" + " Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,\n" + " And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.\n" + " Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear;\n" + " Man but a rush against Othello's breast,\n" + " And he retires. Where should Othello go?\n" + " Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench!\n" + " Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,\n" + " This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,\n" + " And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!\n" + " Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave!\n" + " Whip me, ye devils,\n" + " From the possession of this heavenly sight!\n" + " Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!\n" + " Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!\n" + " O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead!\n" + " Oh! Oh! Oh!\n\n" + " [Enter LODOVICO. MONTANO, CASSIO carried in a chair,\n" + " and Officers with IAGO, prisoner]\n\n" + "LODOVICO Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?\n\n" + "OTHELLO That's he that was Othello: here I am.\n\n" + "LODOVICO Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable.\n" + " If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee.\n\n" + " [Wounds IAGO]\n\n" + "LODOVICO Wrench his sword from him.\n\n" + "IAGO I bleed, sir; but not kill'd.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I am not sorry neither: I'ld have thee live;\n" + " For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.\n\n" + "LODOVICO O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,\n" + " Fall'n in the practise of a damned slave,\n" + " What shall be said to thee?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Why, any thing:\n" + " An honourable murderer, if you will;\n" + " For nought I did in hate, but all in honour.\n\n" + "LODOVICO This wretch hath part confess'd his villany:\n" + " Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?\n\n" + "OTHELLO Ay.\n\n" + "CASSIO Dear general, I never gave you cause.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.\n" + " Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil\n" + " Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?\n\n" + "IAGO Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:\n" + " From this time forth I never will speak word.\n\n" + "LODOVICO What, not to pray?\n\n" + "GRATIANO Torments will ope your lips.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Well, thou dost best.\n\n" + "LODOVICO Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,\n" + " Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter\n" + " Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;\n" + " And here another: the one of them imports\n" + " The death of Cassio to be undertook\n" + " By Roderigo.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O villain!\n\n" + "CASSIO Most heathenish and most gross!\n\n" + "LODOVICO Now here's another discontented paper,\n" + " Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,\n" + " Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;\n" + " But that belike Iago in the interim\n" + " Came in and satisfied him.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O the pernicious caitiff!\n" + " How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief\n" + " That was my wife's?\n\n" + "CASSIO I found it in my chamber:\n" + " And he himself confess'd but even now\n" + " That there he dropp'd it for a special purpose\n" + " Which wrought to his desire.\n\n" + "OTHELLO O fool! fool! fool!\n\n" + "CASSIO There is besides in Roderigo's letter,\n" + " How he upbraids Iago, that he made him\n" + " Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came\n" + " That I was cast: and even but now he spake,\n" + " After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,\n" + " Iago set him on.\n\n" + "LODOVICO You must forsake this room, and go with us:\n" + " Your power and your command is taken off,\n" + " And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,\n" + " If there be any cunning cruelty\n" + " That can torment him much and hold him long,\n" + " It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,\n" + " Till that the nature of your fault be known\n" + " To the Venetian state. Come, bring him away.\n\n" + "OTHELLO Soft you; a word or two before you go.\n" + " I have done the state some service, and they know't.\n" + " No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,\n" + " When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,\n" + " Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,\n" + " Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak\n" + " Of one that loved not wisely but too well;\n" + " Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought\n" + " Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,\n" + " Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away\n" + " Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,\n" + " Albeit unused to the melting mood,\n" + " Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees\n" + " Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;\n" + " And say besides, that in Aleppo once,\n" + " Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk\n" + " Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,\n" + " I took by the throat the circumcised dog,\n" + " And smote him, thus.\n\n" + " [Stabs himself]\n\n" + "LODOVICO O bloody period!\n\n" + "GRATIANO All that's spoke is marr'd.\n\n" + "OTHELLO I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;\n" + " Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.\n\n" + " [Falls on the bed, and dies]\n\n" + "CASSIO This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;\n" + " For he was great of heart.\n\n" + "LODOVICO [To IAGO] O Spartan dog,\n" + " More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!\n" + " Look on the tragic loading of this bed;\n" + " This is thy work: the object poisons sight;\n" + " Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,\n" + " And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,\n" + " For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,\n" + " Remains the censure of this hellish villain;\n" + " The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!\n" + " Myself will straight aboard: and to the state\n" + " This heavy act with heavy heart relate.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS king of Antioch.\n\n" + "PERICLES prince of Tyre.\n\n\n" + "HELICANUS |\n" + " | two lords of Tyre.\n" + "ESCANES |\n\n\n" + "SIMONIDES king of Pentapolis.\n\n" + "CLEON governor of Tarsus.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS governor of Mytilene.\n\n" + "CERIMON a lord of Ephesus.\n\n" + "THALIARD a lord of Antioch.\n\n" + "PHILEMON servant to Cerimon.\n\n" + "LEONINE servant to Dionyza.\n\n" + " Marshal. (Marshal:)\n\n" + " A Pandar. (Pandar:)\n\n" + "BOULT his servant.\n\n" + " The Daughter of Antiochus. (Daughter:)\n\n" + "DIONYZA wife to Cleon.\n\n" + "THAISA daughter to Simonides.\n\n" + "MARINA daughter to Pericles and Thaisa.\n\n" + "LYCHORIDA nurse to Marina.\n\n" + " A Bawd. (Bawd:)\n\n" + " Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Sailors, Pirates,\n" + " Fishermen, and Messengers. (Lord:)\n" + " (First Lord:)\n" + " (Second Lord:)\n" + " (Third Lord:)\n" + " (First Knight:)\n" + " (Second Knight:)\n" + " (Third Knight:)\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n" + " (First Sailor:)\n" + " (Second Sailor:)\n" + " (First Pirate:)\n" + " (Second Pirate:)\n" + " (Third Pirate:)\n" + " (First Fisherman:)\n" + " (Second Fisherman:)\n" + " (Third Fisherman:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n\n" + "DIANA:\n\n" + "GOWER as Chorus.\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE Dispersedly in various countries.\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER]\n\n" + " [Before the palace of Antioch]\n\n" + " To sing a song that old was sung,\n" + " From ashes ancient Gower is come;\n" + " Assuming man's infirmities,\n" + " To glad your ear, and please your eyes.\n" + " It hath been sung at festivals,\n" + " On ember-eves and holy-ales;\n" + " And lords and ladies in their lives\n" + " Have read it for restoratives:\n" + " The purchase is to make men glorious;\n" + " Et bonum quo antiquius, eo melius.\n" + " If you, born in these latter times,\n" + " When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes.\n" + " And that to hear an old man sing\n" + " May to your wishes pleasure bring\n" + " I life would wish, and that I might\n" + " Waste it for you, like taper-light.\n" + " This Antioch, then, Antiochus the Great\n" + " Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat:\n" + " The fairest in all Syria,\n" + " I tell you what mine authors say:\n" + " This king unto him took a fere,\n" + " Who died and left a female heir,\n" + " So buxom, blithe, and full of face,\n" + " As heaven had lent her all his grace;\n" + " With whom the father liking took,\n" + " And her to incest did provoke:\n" + " Bad child; worse father! to entice his own\n" + " To evil should be done by none:\n" + " But custom what they did begin\n" + " Was with long use account no sin.\n" + " The beauty of this sinful dame\n" + " Made many princes thither frame,\n" + " To seek her as a bed-fellow,\n" + " In marriage-pleasures play-fellow:\n" + " Which to prevent he made a law,\n" + " To keep her still, and men in awe,\n" + " That whoso ask'd her for his wife,\n" + " His riddle told not, lost his life:\n" + " So for her many a wight did die,\n" + " As yon grim looks do testify.\n" + " What now ensues, to the judgment of your eye\n" + " I give, my cause who best can justify.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Antioch. A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIOCHUS, Prince PERICLES, and followers]\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Young prince of Tyre, you have at large received\n" + " The danger of the task you undertake.\n\n" + "PERICLES I have, Antiochus, and, with a soul\n" + " Embolden'd with the glory of her praise,\n" + " Think death no hazard in this enterprise.\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Bring in our daughter, clothed like a bride,\n" + " For the embracements even of Jove himself;\n" + " At whose conception, till Lucina reign'd,\n" + " Nature this dowry gave, to glad her presence,\n" + " The senate-house of planets all did sit,\n" + " To knit in her their best perfections.\n\n" + " [Music. Enter the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS]\n\n" + "PERICLES See where she comes, apparell'd like the spring,\n" + " Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king\n" + " Of every virtue gives renown to men!\n" + " Her face the book of praises, where is read\n" + " Nothing but curious pleasures, as from thence\n" + " Sorrow were ever razed and testy wrath\n" + " Could never be her mild companion.\n" + " You gods that made me man, and sway in love,\n" + " That have inflamed desire in my breast\n" + " To taste the fruit of yon celestial tree,\n" + " Or die in the adventure, be my helps,\n" + " As I am son and servant to your will,\n" + " To compass such a boundless happiness!\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Prince Pericles,--\n\n" + "PERICLES That would be son to great Antiochus.\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,\n" + " With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touch'd;\n" + " For death-like dragons here affright thee hard:\n" + " Her face, like heaven, enticeth thee to view\n" + " Her countless glory, which desert must gain;\n" + " And which, without desert, because thine eye\n" + " Presumes to reach, all thy whole heap must die.\n" + " Yon sometimes famous princes, like thyself,\n" + " Drawn by report, adventurous by desire,\n" + " Tell thee, with speechless tongues and semblance pale,\n" + " That without covering, save yon field of stars,\n" + " Here they stand martyrs, slain in Cupid's wars;\n" + " And with dead cheeks advise thee to desist\n" + " For going on death's net, whom none resist.\n\n" + "PERICLES Antiochus, I thank thee, who hath taught\n" + " My frail mortality to know itself,\n" + " And by those fearful objects to prepare\n" + " This body, like to them, to what I must;\n" + " For death remember'd should be like a mirror,\n" + " Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error.\n" + " I'll make my will then, and, as sick men do\n" + " Who know the world, see heaven, but, feeling woe,\n" + " Gripe not at earthly joys as erst they did;\n" + " So I bequeath a happy peace to you\n" + " And all good men, as every prince should do;\n" + " My riches to the earth from whence they came;\n" + " But my unspotted fire of love to you.\n\n" + " [To the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS]\n\n" + " Thus ready for the way of life or death,\n" + " I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus.\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Scorning advice, read the conclusion then:\n" + " Which read and not expounded, 'tis decreed,\n" + " As these before thee thou thyself shalt bleed.\n\n" + "Daughter Of all say'd yet, mayst thou prove prosperous!\n" + " Of all say'd yet, I wish thee happiness!\n\n" + "PERICLES Like a bold champion, I assume the lists,\n" + " Nor ask advice of any other thought\n" + " But faithfulness and courage.\n\n" + " [He reads the riddle]\n\n" + " I am no viper, yet I feed\n" + " On mother's flesh which did me breed.\n" + " I sought a husband, in which labour\n" + " I found that kindness in a father:\n" + " He's father, son, and husband mild;\n" + " I mother, wife, and yet his child.\n" + " How they may be, and yet in two,\n" + " As you will live, resolve it you.\n\n" + " Sharp physic is the last: but, O you powers\n" + " That give heaven countless eyes to view men's acts,\n" + " Why cloud they not their sights perpetually,\n" + " If this be true, which makes me pale to read it?\n" + " Fair glass of light, I loved you, and could still,\n\n" + " [Takes hold of the hand of the Daughter of ANTIOCHUS]\n\n" + " Were not this glorious casket stored with ill:\n" + " But I must tell you, now my thoughts revolt\n" + " For he's no man on whom perfections wait\n" + " That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate.\n" + " You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings;\n" + " Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music,\n" + " Would draw heaven down, and all the gods, to hearken:\n" + " But being play'd upon before your time,\n" + " Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime.\n" + " Good sooth, I care not for you.\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Prince Pericles, touch not, upon thy life.\n" + " For that's an article within our law,\n" + " As dangerous as the rest. Your time's expired:\n" + " Either expound now, or receive your sentence.\n\n" + "PERICLES Great king,\n" + " Few love to hear the sins they love to act;\n" + " 'Twould braid yourself too near for me to tell it.\n" + " Who has a book of all that monarchs do,\n" + " He's more secure to keep it shut than shown:\n" + " For vice repeated is like the wandering wind.\n" + " Blows dust in other's eyes, to spread itself;\n" + " And yet the end of all is bought thus dear,\n" + " The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear:\n" + " To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts\n" + " Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell the earth is throng'd\n" + " By man's oppression; and the poor worm doth die for't.\n" + " Kings are earth's gods; in vice their law's\n" + " their will;\n" + " And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth ill?\n" + " It is enough you know; and it is fit,\n" + " What being more known grows worse, to smother it.\n" + " All love the womb that their first being bred,\n" + " Then give my tongue like leave to love my head.\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS [Aside] Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found\n" + " the meaning:\n" + " But I will gloze with him.--Young prince of Tyre,\n" + " Though by the tenor of our strict edict,\n" + " Your exposition misinterpreting,\n" + " We might proceed to cancel of your days;\n" + " Yet hope, succeeding from so fair a tree\n" + " As your fair self, doth tune us otherwise:\n" + " Forty days longer we do respite you;\n" + " If by which time our secret be undone,\n" + " This mercy shows we'll joy in such a son:\n" + " And until then your entertain shall be\n" + " As doth befit our honour and your worth.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but PERICLES]\n\n" + "PERICLES How courtesy would seem to cover sin,\n" + " When what is done is like an hypocrite,\n" + " The which is good in nothing but in sight!\n" + " If it be true that I interpret false,\n" + " Then were it certain you were not so bad\n" + " As with foul incest to abuse your soul;\n" + " Where now you're both a father and a son,\n" + " By your untimely claspings with your child,\n" + " Which pleasure fits an husband, not a father;\n" + " And she an eater of her mother's flesh,\n" + " By the defiling of her parent's bed;\n" + " And both like serpents are, who though they feed\n" + " On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed.\n" + " Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men\n" + " Blush not in actions blacker than the night,\n" + " Will shun no course to keep them from the light.\n" + " One sin, I know, another doth provoke;\n" + " Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke:\n" + " Poison and treason are the hands of sin,\n" + " Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame:\n" + " Then, lest my lie be cropp'd to keep you clear,\n" + " By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter ANTIOCHUS]\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS He hath found the meaning, for which we mean\n" + " To have his head.\n" + " He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,\n" + " Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin\n" + " In such a loathed manner;\n" + " And therefore instantly this prince must die:\n" + " For by his fall my honour must keep high.\n" + " Who attends us there?\n\n" + " [Enter THALIARD]\n\n" + "THALIARD Doth your highness call?\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Thaliard,\n" + " You are of our chamber, and our mind partakes\n" + " Her private actions to your secrecy;\n" + " And for your faithfulness we will advance you.\n" + " Thaliard, behold, here's poison, and here's gold;\n" + " We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must kill him:\n" + " It fits thee not to ask the reason why,\n" + " Because we bid it. Say, is it done?\n\n" + "THALIARD My lord,\n" + " 'Tis done.\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Enough.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + " Let your breath cool yourself, telling your haste.\n\n" + "Messenger My lord, prince Pericles is fled.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS As thou\n" + " Wilt live, fly after: and like an arrow shot\n" + " From a well-experienced archer hits the mark\n" + " His eye doth level at, so thou ne'er return\n" + " Unless thou say 'Prince Pericles is dead.'\n\n" + "THALIARD My lord,\n" + " If I can get him within my pistol's length,\n" + " I'll make him sure enough: so, farewell to your highness.\n\n" + "ANTIOCHUS Thaliard, adieu!\n\n" + " [Exit THALIARD]\n\n" + " Till Pericles be dead,\n" + " My heart can lend no succor to my head.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Tyre. A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES]\n\n" + "PERICLES [To Lords without] Let none disturb us.--Why should\n" + " this change of thoughts,\n" + " The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy,\n" + " Be my so used a guest as not an hour,\n" + " In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful night,\n" + " The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet?\n" + " Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine eyes shun them,\n" + " And danger, which I fear'd, is at Antioch,\n" + " Whose aim seems far too short to hit me here:\n" + " Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits,\n" + " Nor yet the other's distance comfort me.\n" + " Then it is thus: the passions of the mind,\n" + " That have their first conception by mis-dread,\n" + " Have after-nourishment and life by care;\n" + " And what was first but fear what might be done,\n" + " Grows elder now and cares it be not done.\n" + " And so with me: the great Antiochus,\n" + " 'Gainst whom I am too little to contend,\n" + " Since he's so great can make his will his act,\n" + " Will think me speaking, though I swear to silence;\n" + " Nor boots it me to say I honour him.\n" + " If he suspect I may dishonour him:\n" + " And what may make him blush in being known,\n" + " He'll stop the course by which it might be known;\n" + " With hostile forces he'll o'erspread the land,\n" + " And with the ostent of war will look so huge,\n" + " Amazement shall drive courage from the state;\n" + " Our men be vanquish'd ere they do resist,\n" + " And subjects punish'd that ne'er thought offence:\n" + " Which care of them, not pity of myself,\n" + " Who am no more but as the tops of trees,\n" + " Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them,\n" + " Makes both my body pine and soul to languish,\n" + " And punish that before that he would punish.\n\n" + " [Enter HELICANUS, with other Lords]\n\n" + "First Lord Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast!\n\n" + "Second Lord And keep your mind, till you return to us,\n" + " Peaceful and comfortable!\n\n" + "HELICANUS Peace, peace, and give experience tongue.\n" + " They do abuse the king that flatter him:\n" + " For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;\n" + " The thing which is flatter'd, but a spark,\n" + " To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;\n" + " Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,\n" + " Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.\n" + " When Signior Sooth here does proclaim a peace,\n" + " He flatters you, makes war upon your life.\n" + " Prince, pardon me, or strike me, if you please;\n" + " I cannot be much lower than my knees.\n\n" + "PERICLES All leave us else; but let your cares o'erlook\n" + " What shipping and what lading's in our haven,\n" + " And then return to us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Lords]\n\n" + " Helicanus, thou\n" + " Hast moved us: what seest thou in our looks?\n\n" + "HELICANUS An angry brow, dread lord.\n\n" + "PERICLES If there be such a dart in princes' frowns,\n" + " How durst thy tongue move anger to our face?\n\n" + "HELICANUS How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence\n" + " They have their nourishment?\n\n" + "PERICLES Thou know'st I have power\n" + " To take thy life from thee.\n\n" + "HELICANUS [Kneeling]\n\n" + " I have ground the axe myself;\n" + " Do you but strike the blow.\n\n" + "PERICLES Rise, prithee, rise.\n" + " Sit down: thou art no flatterer:\n" + " I thank thee for it; and heaven forbid\n" + " That kings should let their ears hear their\n" + " faults hid!\n" + " Fit counsellor and servant for a prince,\n" + " Who by thy wisdom makest a prince thy servant,\n" + " What wouldst thou have me do?\n\n" + "HELICANUS To bear with patience\n" + " Such griefs as you yourself do lay upon yourself.\n\n" + "PERICLES Thou speak'st like a physician, Helicanus,\n" + " That minister'st a potion unto me\n" + " That thou wouldst tremble to receive thyself.\n" + " Attend me, then: I went to Antioch,\n" + " Where as thou know'st, against the face of death,\n" + " I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty.\n" + " From whence an issue I might propagate,\n" + " Are arms to princes, and bring joys to subjects.\n" + " Her face was to mine eye beyond all wonder;\n" + " The rest--hark in thine ear--as black as incest:\n" + " Which by my knowledge found, the sinful father\n" + " Seem'd not to strike, but smooth: but thou\n" + " know'st this,\n" + " 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.\n" + " Such fear so grew in me, I hither fled,\n" + " Under the covering of a careful night,\n" + " Who seem'd my good protector; and, being here,\n" + " Bethought me what was past, what might succeed.\n" + " I knew him tyrannous; and tyrants' fears\n" + " Decrease not, but grow faster than the years:\n" + " And should he doubt it, as no doubt he doth,\n" + " That I should open to the listening air\n" + " How many worthy princes' bloods were shed,\n" + " To keep his bed of blackness unlaid ope,\n" + " To lop that doubt, he'll fill this land with arms,\n" + " And make pretence of wrong that I have done him:\n" + " When all, for mine, if I may call offence,\n" + " Must feel war's blow, who spares not innocence:\n" + " Which love to all, of which thyself art one,\n" + " Who now reprovest me for it,--\n\n" + "HELICANUS Alas, sir!\n\n" + "PERICLES Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks,\n" + " Musings into my mind, with thousand doubts\n" + " How I might stop this tempest ere it came;\n" + " And finding little comfort to relieve them,\n" + " I thought it princely charity to grieve them.\n\n" + "HELICANUS Well, my lord, since you have given me leave to speak.\n" + " Freely will I speak. Antiochus you fear,\n" + " And justly too, I think, you fear the tyrant,\n" + " Who either by public war or private treason\n" + " Will take away your life.\n" + " Therefore, my lord, go travel for a while,\n" + " Till that his rage and anger be forgot,\n" + " Or till the Destinies do cut his thread of life.\n" + " Your rule direct to any; if to me.\n" + " Day serves not light more faithful than I'll be.\n\n" + "PERICLES I do not doubt thy faith;\n" + " But should he wrong my liberties in my absence?\n\n" + "HELICANUS We'll mingle our bloods together in the earth,\n" + " From whence we had our being and our birth.\n\n" + "PERICLES Tyre, I now look from thee then, and to Tarsus\n" + " Intend my travel, where I'll hear from thee;\n" + " And by whose letters I'll dispose myself.\n" + " The care I had and have of subjects' good\n" + " On thee I lay whose wisdom's strength can bear it.\n" + " I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath:\n" + " Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both:\n" + " But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe,\n" + " That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince,\n" + " Thou show'dst a subject's shine, I a true prince.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Tyre. An ante-chamber in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter THALIARD]\n\n" + "THALIARD So, this is Tyre, and this the court. Here must I\n" + " kill King Pericles; and if I do it not, I am sure to\n" + " be hanged at home: 'tis dangerous. Well, I perceive\n" + " he was a wise fellow, and had good discretion, that,\n" + " being bid to ask what he would of the king, desired\n" + " he might know none of his secrets: now do I see he\n" + " had some reason for't; for if a king bid a man be a\n" + " villain, he's bound by the indenture of his oath to\n" + " be one! Hush! here come the lords of Tyre.\n\n" + " [Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES, with other Lords of Tyre]\n\n" + "HELICANUS You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre,\n" + " Further to question me of your king's departure:\n" + " His seal'd commission, left in trust with me,\n" + " Doth speak sufficiently he's gone to travel.\n\n" + "THALIARD [Aside] How! the king gone!\n\n" + "HELICANUS If further yet you will be satisfied,\n" + " Why, as it were unlicensed of your loves,\n" + " He would depart, I'll give some light unto you.\n" + " Being at Antioch--\n\n" + "THALIARD [Aside] What from Antioch?\n\n" + "HELICANUS Royal Antiochus--on what cause I know not--\n" + " Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so:\n" + " And doubting lest that he had err'd or sinn'd,\n" + " To show his sorrow, he'ld correct himself;\n" + " So puts himself unto the shipman's toil,\n" + " With whom each minute threatens life or death.\n\n" + "THALIARD [Aside] Well, I perceive\n" + " I shall not be hang'd now, although I would;\n" + " But since he's gone, the king's seas must please:\n" + " He 'scaped the land, to perish at the sea.\n" + " I'll present myself. Peace to the lords of Tyre!\n\n" + "HELICANUS Lord Thaliard from Antiochus is welcome.\n\n" + "THALIARD From him I come\n" + " With message unto princely Pericles;\n" + " But since my landing I have understood\n" + " Your lord has betook himself to unknown travels,\n" + " My message must return from whence it came.\n\n" + "HELICANUS We have no reason to desire it,\n" + " Commended to our master, not to us:\n" + " Yet, ere you shall depart, this we desire,\n" + " As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Tarsus. A room in the Governor's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEON, the governor of Tarsus, with DIONYZA,\n" + " and others]\n\n" + "CLEON My Dionyza, shall we rest us here,\n" + " And by relating tales of others' griefs,\n" + " See if 'twill teach us to forget our own?\n\n" + "DIONYZA That were to blow at fire in hope to quench it;\n" + " For who digs hills because they do aspire\n" + " Throws down one mountain to cast up a higher.\n" + " O my distressed lord, even such our griefs are;\n" + " Here they're but felt, and seen with mischief's eyes,\n" + " But like to groves, being topp'd, they higher rise.\n\n" + "CLEON O Dionyza,\n" + " Who wanteth food, and will not say he wants it,\n" + " Or can conceal his hunger till he famish?\n" + " Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep\n" + " Our woes into the air; our eyes do weep,\n" + " Till tongues fetch breath that may proclaim them louder;\n" + " That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want,\n" + " They may awake their helps to comfort them.\n" + " I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years,\n" + " And wanting breath to speak help me with tears.\n\n" + "DIONYZA I'll do my best, sir.\n\n" + "CLEON This Tarsus, o'er which I have the government,\n" + " A city on whom plenty held full hand,\n" + " For riches strew'd herself even in the streets;\n" + " Whose towers bore heads so high they kiss'd the clouds,\n" + " And strangers ne'er beheld but wondered at;\n" + " Whose men and dames so jetted and adorn'd,\n" + " Like one another's glass to trim them by:\n" + " Their tables were stored full, to glad the sight,\n" + " And not so much to feed on as delight;\n" + " All poverty was scorn'd, and pride so great,\n" + " The name of help grew odious to repeat.\n\n" + "DIONYZA O, 'tis too true.\n\n" + "CLEON But see what heaven can do! By this our change,\n" + " These mouths, who but of late, earth, sea, and air,\n" + " Were all too little to content and please,\n" + " Although they gave their creatures in abundance,\n" + " As houses are defiled for want of use,\n" + " They are now starved for want of exercise:\n" + " Those palates who, not yet two summers younger,\n" + " Must have inventions to delight the taste,\n" + " Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it:\n" + " Those mothers who, to nousle up their babes,\n" + " Thought nought too curious, are ready now\n" + " To eat those little darlings whom they loved.\n" + " So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and wife\n" + " Draw lots who first shall die to lengthen life:\n" + " Here stands a lord, and there a lady weeping;\n" + " Here many sink, yet those which see them fall\n" + " Have scarce strength left to give them burial.\n" + " Is not this true?\n\n" + "DIONYZA Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it.\n\n" + "CLEON O, let those cities that of plenty's cup\n" + " And her prosperities so largely taste,\n" + " With their superfluous riots, hear these tears!\n" + " The misery of Tarsus may be theirs.\n\n" + " [Enter a Lord]\n\n" + "Lord Where's the lord governor?\n\n" + "CLEON Here.\n" + " Speak out thy sorrows which thou bring'st in haste,\n" + " For comfort is too far for us to expect.\n\n" + "Lord We have descried, upon our neighbouring shore,\n" + " A portly sail of ships make hitherward.\n\n" + "CLEON I thought as much.\n" + " One sorrow never comes but brings an heir,\n" + " That may succeed as his inheritor;\n" + " And so in ours: some neighbouring nation,\n" + " Taking advantage of our misery,\n" + " Hath stuff'd these hollow vessels with their power,\n" + " To beat us down, the which are down already;\n" + " And make a conquest of unhappy me,\n" + " Whereas no glory's got to overcome.\n\n" + "Lord That's the least fear; for, by the semblance\n" + " Of their white flags display'd, they bring us peace,\n" + " And come to us as favourers, not as foes.\n\n" + "CLEON Thou speak'st like him's untutor'd to repeat:\n" + " Who makes the fairest show means most deceit.\n" + " But bring they what they will and what they can,\n" + " What need we fear?\n" + " The ground's the lowest, and we are half way there.\n" + " Go tell their general we attend him here,\n" + " To know for what he comes, and whence he comes,\n" + " And what he craves.\n\n" + "Lord I go, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CLEON Welcome is peace, if he on peace consist;\n" + " If wars, we are unable to resist.\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES with Attendants]\n\n" + "PERICLES Lord governor, for so we hear you are,\n" + " Let not our ships and number of our men\n" + " Be like a beacon fired to amaze your eyes.\n" + " We have heard your miseries as far as Tyre,\n" + " And seen the desolation of your streets:\n" + " Nor come we to add sorrow to your tears,\n" + " But to relieve them of their heavy load;\n" + " And these our ships, you happily may think\n" + " Are like the Trojan horse was stuff'd within\n" + " With bloody veins, expecting overthrow,\n" + " Are stored with corn to make your needy bread,\n" + " And give them life whom hunger starved half dead.\n\n" + "All The gods of Greece protect you!\n" + " And we'll pray for you.\n\n" + "PERICLES Arise, I pray you, rise:\n" + " We do not look for reverence, but to love,\n" + " And harbourage for ourself, our ships, and men.\n\n" + "CLEON The which when any shall not gratify,\n" + " Or pay you with unthankfulness in thought,\n" + " Be it our wives, our children, or ourselves,\n" + " The curse of heaven and men succeed their evils!\n" + " Till when,--the which I hope shall ne'er be seen,--\n" + " Your grace is welcome to our town and us.\n\n" + "PERICLES Which welcome we'll accept; feast here awhile,\n" + " Until our stars that frown lend us a smile.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER]\n\n" + "GOWER Here have you seen a mighty king\n" + " His child, I wis, to incest bring;\n" + " A better prince and benign lord,\n" + " That will prove awful both in deed and word.\n" + " Be quiet then as men should be,\n" + " Till he hath pass'd necessity.\n" + " I'll show you those in troubles reign,\n" + " Losing a mite, a mountain gain.\n" + " The good in conversation,\n" + " To whom I give my benison,\n" + " Is still at Tarsus, where each man\n" + " Thinks all is writ he speken can;\n" + " And, to remember what he does,\n" + " Build his statue to make him glorious:\n" + " But tidings to the contrary\n" + " Are brought your eyes; what need speak I?\n\n" + " DUMB SHOW.\n\n" + " [Enter at one door PERICLES talking with CLEON; all\n" + " the train with them. Enter at another door a\n" + " Gentleman, with a letter to PERICLES; PERICLES\n" + " shows the letter to CLEON; gives the Messenger a\n" + " reward, and knights him. Exit PERICLES at one\n" + " door, and CLEON at another]\n\n" + " Good Helicane, that stay'd at home,\n" + " Not to eat honey like a drone\n" + " From others' labours; for though he strive\n" + " To killen bad, keep good alive;\n" + " And to fulfil his prince' desire,\n" + " Sends word of all that haps in Tyre:\n" + " How Thaliard came full bent with sin\n" + " And had intent to murder him;\n" + " And that in Tarsus was not best\n" + " Longer for him to make his rest.\n" + " He, doing so, put forth to seas,\n" + " Where when men been, there's seldom ease;\n" + " For now the wind begins to blow;\n" + " Thunder above and deeps below\n" + " Make such unquiet, that the ship\n" + " Should house him safe is wreck'd and split;\n" + " And he, good prince, having all lost,\n" + " By waves from coast to coast is tost:\n" + " All perishen of man, of pelf,\n" + " Ne aught escapen but himself;\n" + " Till fortune, tired with doing bad,\n" + " Threw him ashore, to give him glad:\n" + " And here he comes. What shall be next,\n" + " Pardon old Gower,--this longs the text.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Pentapolis. An open place by the sea-side.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES, wet]\n\n" + "PERICLES Yet cease your ire, you angry stars of heaven!\n" + " Wind, rain, and thunder, remember, earthly man\n" + " Is but a substance that must yield to you;\n" + " And I, as fits my nature, do obey you:\n" + " Alas, the sea hath cast me on the rocks,\n" + " Wash'd me from shore to shore, and left me breath\n" + " Nothing to think on but ensuing death:\n" + " Let it suffice the greatness of your powers\n" + " To have bereft a prince of all his fortunes;\n" + " And having thrown him from your watery grave,\n" + " Here to have death in peace is all he'll crave.\n\n" + " [Enter three FISHERMEN]\n\n" + "First Fisherman What, ho, Pilch!\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Ha, come and bring away the nets!\n\n" + "First Fisherman What, Patch-breech, I say!\n\n" + "Third Fisherman What say you, master?\n\n" + "First Fisherman Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or I'll\n" + " fetch thee with a wanion.\n\n" + "Third Fisherman Faith, master, I am thinking of the poor men that\n" + " were cast away before us even now.\n\n" + "First Fisherman Alas, poor souls, it grieved my heart to hear what\n" + " pitiful cries they made to us to help them, when,\n" + " well-a-day, we could scarce help ourselves.\n\n" + "Third Fisherman Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the\n" + " porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say\n" + " they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them,\n" + " they ne'er come but I look to be washed. Master, I\n" + " marvel how the fishes live in the sea.\n\n" + "First Fisherman Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the\n" + " little ones: I can compare our rich misers to\n" + " nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and\n" + " tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at\n" + " last devours them all at a mouthful: such whales\n" + " have I heard on o' the land, who never leave gaping\n" + " till they've swallowed the whole parish, church,\n" + " steeple, bells, and all.\n\n" + "PERICLES [Aside] A pretty moral.\n\n" + "Third Fisherman But, master, if I had been the sexton, I would have\n" + " been that day in the belfry.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Why, man?\n\n" + "Third Fisherman Because he should have swallowed me too: and when I\n" + " had been in his belly, I would have kept such a\n" + " jangling of the bells, that he should never have\n" + " left, till he cast bells, steeple, church, and\n" + " parish up again. But if the good King Simonides\n" + " were of my mind,--\n\n" + "PERICLES [Aside] Simonides!\n\n" + "Third Fisherman We would purge the land of these drones, that rob\n" + " the bee of her honey.\n\n" + "PERICLES [Aside] How from the finny subject of the sea\n" + " These fishers tell the infirmities of men;\n" + " And from their watery empire recollect\n" + " All that may men approve or men detect!\n" + " Peace be at your labour, honest fishermen.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Honest! good fellow, what's that? If it be a day\n" + " fits you, search out of the calendar, and nobody\n" + " look after it.\n\n" + "PERICLES May see the sea hath cast upon your coast.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman What a drunken knave was the sea to cast thee in our\n" + " way!\n\n" + "PERICLES A man whom both the waters and the wind,\n" + " In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball\n" + " For them to play upon, entreats you pity him:\n" + " He asks of you, that never used to beg.\n\n" + "First Fisherman No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's them in our\n" + " country Greece gets more with begging than we can do\n" + " with working.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Canst thou catch any fishes, then?\n\n" + "PERICLES I never practised it.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Nay, then thou wilt starve, sure; for here's nothing\n" + " to be got now-a-days, unless thou canst fish for't.\n\n" + "PERICLES What I have been I have forgot to know;\n" + " But what I am, want teaches me to think on:\n" + " A man throng'd up with cold: my veins are chill,\n" + " And have no more of life than may suffice\n" + " To give my tongue that heat to ask your help;\n" + " Which if you shall refuse, when I am dead,\n" + " For that I am a man, pray see me buried.\n\n" + "First Fisherman Die quoth-a? Now gods forbid! I have a gown here;\n" + " come, put it on; keep thee warm. Now, afore me, a\n" + " handsome fellow! Come, thou shalt go home, and\n" + " we'll have flesh for holidays, fish for\n" + " fasting-days, and moreo'er puddings and flap-jacks,\n" + " and thou shalt be welcome.\n\n" + "PERICLES I thank you, sir.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Hark you, my friend; you said you could not beg.\n\n" + "PERICLES I did but crave.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman But crave! Then I'll turn craver too, and so I\n" + " shall 'scape whipping.\n\n" + "PERICLES Why, are all your beggars whipped, then?\n\n" + "Second Fisherman O, not all, my friend, not all; for if all your\n" + " beggars were whipped, I would wish no better office\n" + " than to be beadle. But, master, I'll go draw up the\n" + " net.\n\n" + " [Exit with Third Fisherman]\n\n" + "PERICLES [Aside] How well this honest mirth becomes their labour!\n\n" + "First Fisherman Hark you, sir, do you know where ye are?\n\n" + "PERICLES Not well.\n\n" + "First Fisherman Why, I'll tell you: this is called Pentapolis, and\n" + " our king the good Simonides.\n\n" + "PERICLES The good King Simonides, do you call him.\n\n" + "First Fisherman Ay, sir; and he deserves so to be called for his\n" + " peaceable reign and good government.\n\n" + "PERICLES He is a happy king, since he gains from his subjects\n" + " the name of good by his government. How far is his\n" + " court distant from this shore?\n\n" + "First Fisherman Marry, sir, half a day's journey: and I'll tell\n" + " you, he hath a fair daughter, and to-morrow is her\n" + " birth-day; and there are princes and knights come\n" + " from all parts of the world to just and tourney for her love.\n\n" + "PERICLES Were my fortunes equal to my desires, I could wish\n" + " to make one there.\n\n" + "First Fisherman O, sir, things must be as they may; and what a man\n" + " cannot get, he may lawfully deal for--his wife's soul.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Second and Third Fishermen, drawing up a net]\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net,\n" + " like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly\n" + " come out. Ha! bots on't, 'tis come at last, and\n" + " 'tis turned to a rusty armour.\n\n" + "PERICLES An armour, friends! I pray you, let me see it.\n" + " Thanks, fortune, yet, that, after all my crosses,\n" + " Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself;\n" + " And though it was mine own, part of my heritage,\n" + " Which my dead father did bequeath to me.\n" + " With this strict charge, even as he left his life,\n" + " 'Keep it, my Pericles; it hath been a shield\n" + " Twixt me and death;'--and pointed to this brace;--\n" + " 'For that it saved me, keep it; in like necessity--\n" + " The which the gods protect thee from!--may\n" + " defend thee.'\n" + " It kept where I kept, I so dearly loved it;\n" + " Till the rough seas, that spare not any man,\n" + " Took it in rage, though calm'd have given't again:\n" + " I thank thee for't: my shipwreck now's no ill,\n" + " Since I have here my father's gift in's will.\n\n" + "First Fisherman What mean you, sir?\n\n" + "PERICLES To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth,\n" + " For it was sometime target to a king;\n" + " I know it by this mark. He loved me dearly,\n" + " And for his sake I wish the having of it;\n" + " And that you'ld guide me to your sovereign's court,\n" + " Where with it I may appear a gentleman;\n" + " And if that ever my low fortune's better,\n" + " I'll pay your bounties; till then rest your debtor.\n\n" + "First Fisherman Why, wilt thou tourney for the lady?\n\n" + "PERICLES I'll show the virtue I have borne in arms.\n\n" + "First Fisherman Why, do 'e take it, and the gods give thee good on't!\n\n" + "Second Fisherman Ay, but hark you, my friend; 'twas we that made up\n" + " this garment through the rough seams of the waters:\n" + " there are certain condolements, certain vails. I\n" + " hope, sir, if you thrive, you'll remember from\n" + " whence you had it.\n\n" + "PERICLES Believe 't, I will.\n" + " By your furtherance I am clothed in steel;\n" + " And, spite of all the rapture of the sea,\n" + " This jewel holds his building on my arm:\n" + " Unto thy value I will mount myself\n" + " Upon a courser, whose delightful steps\n" + " Shall make the gazer joy to see him tread.\n" + " Only, my friend, I yet am unprovided\n" + " Of a pair of bases.\n\n" + "Second Fisherman We'll sure provide: thou shalt have my best gown to\n" + " make thee a pair; and I'll bring thee to the court myself.\n\n" + "PERICLES Then honour be but a goal to my will,\n" + " This day I'll rise, or else add ill to ill.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. A public way or platform leading to the\n" + " lists. A pavilion by the side of it for the\n" + " reception of King, Princess, Lords, &c.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, and Attendants]\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Are the knights ready to begin the triumph?\n\n" + "First Lord They are, my liege;\n" + " And stay your coming to present themselves.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Return them, we are ready; and our daughter,\n" + " In honour of whose birth these triumphs are,\n" + " Sits here, like beauty's child, whom nature gat\n" + " For men to see, and seeing wonder at.\n\n" + " [Exit a Lord]\n\n" + "THAISA It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express\n" + " My commendations great, whose merit's less.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES It's fit it should be so; for princes are\n" + " A model which heaven makes like to itself:\n" + " As jewels lose their glory if neglected,\n" + " So princes their renowns if not respected.\n" + " 'Tis now your honour, daughter, to explain\n" + " The labour of each knight in his device.\n\n" + "THAISA Which, to preserve mine honour, I'll perform.\n\n" + " [Enter a Knight; he passes over, and his Squire\n" + " presents his shield to the Princess]\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Who is the first that doth prefer himself?\n\n" + "THAISA A knight of Sparta, my renowned father;\n" + " And the device he bears upon his shield\n" + " Is a black Ethiope reaching at the sun\n" + " The word, 'Lux tua vita mihi.'\n\n" + "SIMONIDES He loves you well that holds his life of you.\n\n" + " [The Second Knight passes over]\n\n" + " Who is the second that presents himself?\n\n" + "THAISA A prince of Macedon, my royal father;\n" + " And the device he bears upon his shield\n" + " Is an arm'd knight that's conquer'd by a lady;\n" + " The motto thus, in Spanish, 'Piu por dulzura que por fuerza.'\n\n" + " [The Third Knight passes over]\n\n" + "SIMONIDES And what's the third?\n\n" + "THAISA The third of Antioch;\n" + " And his device, a wreath of chivalry;\n" + " The word, 'Me pompae provexit apex.'\n\n" + " [The Fourth Knight passes over]\n\n" + "SIMONIDES What is the fourth?\n\n" + "THAISA A burning torch that's turned upside down;\n" + " The word, 'Quod me alit, me extinguit.'\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Which shows that beauty hath his power and will,\n" + " Which can as well inflame as it can kill.\n\n" + " [The Fifth Knight passes over]\n\n" + "THAISA The fifth, an hand environed with clouds,\n" + " Holding out gold that's by the touchstone tried;\n" + " The motto thus, 'Sic spectanda fides.'\n\n" + " [The Sixth Knight, PERICLES, passes over]\n\n" + "SIMONIDES And what's\n" + " The sixth and last, the which the knight himself\n" + " With such a graceful courtesy deliver'd?\n\n" + "THAISA He seems to be a stranger; but his present is\n" + " A wither'd branch, that's only green at top;\n" + " The motto, 'In hac spe vivo.'\n\n" + "SIMONIDES A pretty moral;\n" + " From the dejected state wherein he is,\n" + " He hopes by you his fortunes yet may flourish.\n\n" + "First Lord He had need mean better than his outward show\n" + " Can any way speak in his just commend;\n" + " For by his rusty outside he appears\n" + " To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.\n\n" + "Second Lord He well may be a stranger, for he comes\n" + " To an honour'd triumph strangely furnished.\n\n" + "Third Lord And on set purpose let his armour rust\n" + " Until this day, to scour it in the dust.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan\n" + " The outward habit by the inward man.\n" + " But stay, the knights are coming: we will withdraw\n" + " Into the gallery.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Great shouts within and all cry 'The mean knight!']\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. A hall of state: a banquet prepared.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIMONIDES, THAISA, Lords, Attendants, and\n" + " Knights, from tilting]\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Knights,\n" + " To say you're welcome were superfluous.\n" + " To place upon the volume of your deeds,\n" + " As in a title-page, your worth in arms,\n" + " Were more than you expect, or more than's fit,\n" + " Since every worth in show commends itself.\n" + " Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast:\n" + " You are princes and my guests.\n\n" + "THAISA But you, my knight and guest;\n" + " To whom this wreath of victory I give,\n" + " And crown you king of this day's happiness.\n\n" + "PERICLES 'Tis more by fortune, lady, than by merit.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Call it by what you will, the day is yours;\n" + " And here, I hope, is none that envies it.\n" + " In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,\n" + " To make some good, but others to exceed;\n" + " And you are her labour'd scholar. Come, queen o'\n" + " the feast,--\n" + " For, daughter, so you are,--here take your place:\n" + " Marshal the rest, as they deserve their grace.\n\n" + "KNIGHTS We are honour'd much by good Simonides.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Your presence glads our days: honour we love;\n" + " For who hates honour hates the gods above.\n\n" + "Marshal Sir, yonder is your place.\n\n" + "PERICLES Some other is more fit.\n\n" + "First Knight Contend not, sir; for we are gentlemen\n" + " That neither in our hearts nor outward eyes\n" + " Envy the great nor do the low despise.\n\n" + "PERICLES You are right courteous knights.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Sit, sir, sit.\n\n" + "PERICLES By Jove, I wonder, that is king of thoughts,\n" + " These cates resist me, she but thought upon.\n\n" + "THAISA By Juno, that is queen of marriage,\n" + " All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury.\n" + " Wishing him my meat. Sure, he's a gallant gentleman.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES He's but a country gentleman;\n" + " Has done no more than other knights have done;\n" + " Has broken a staff or so; so let it pass.\n\n" + "THAISA To me he seems like diamond to glass.\n\n" + "PERICLES Yon king's to me like to my father's picture,\n" + " Which tells me in that glory once he was;\n" + " Had princes sit, like stars, about his throne,\n" + " And he the sun, for them to reverence;\n" + " None that beheld him, but, like lesser lights,\n" + " Did vail their crowns to his supremacy:\n" + " Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night,\n" + " The which hath fire in darkness, none in light:\n" + " Whereby I see that Time's the king of men,\n" + " He's both their parent, and he is their grave,\n" + " And gives them what he will, not what they crave.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES What, are you merry, knights?\n\n" + "Knights Who can be other in this royal presence?\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Here, with a cup that's stored unto the brim,--\n" + " As you do love, fill to your mistress' lips,--\n" + " We drink this health to you.\n\n" + "KNIGHTS We thank your grace.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Yet pause awhile:\n" + " Yon knight doth sit too melancholy,\n" + " As if the entertainment in our court\n" + " Had not a show might countervail his worth.\n" + " Note it not you, Thaisa?\n\n" + "THAISA What is it\n" + " To me, my father?\n\n" + "SIMONIDES O, attend, my daughter:\n" + " Princes in this should live like gods above,\n" + " Who freely give to every one that comes\n" + " To honour them:\n" + " And princes not doing so are like to gnats,\n" + " Which make a sound, but kill'd are wonder'd at.\n" + " Therefore to make his entrance more sweet,\n" + " Here, say we drink this standing-bowl of wine to him.\n\n" + "THAISA Alas, my father, it befits not me\n" + " Unto a stranger knight to be so bold:\n" + " He may my proffer take for an offence,\n" + " Since men take women's gifts for impudence.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES How!\n" + " Do as I bid you, or you'll move me else.\n\n" + "THAISA [Aside] Now, by the gods, he could not please me better.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES And furthermore tell him, we desire to know of him,\n" + " Of whence he is, his name and parentage.\n\n" + "THAISA The king my father, sir, has drunk to you.\n\n" + "PERICLES I thank him.\n\n" + "THAISA Wishing it so much blood unto your life.\n\n" + "PERICLES I thank both him and you, and pledge him freely.\n\n" + "THAISA And further he desires to know of you,\n" + " Of whence you are, your name and parentage.\n\n" + "PERICLES A gentleman of Tyre; my name, Pericles;\n" + " My education been in arts and arms;\n" + " Who, looking for adventures in the world,\n" + " Was by the rough seas reft of ships and men,\n" + " And after shipwreck driven upon this shore.\n\n" + "THAISA He thanks your grace; names himself Pericles,\n" + " A gentleman of Tyre,\n" + " Who only by misfortune of the seas\n" + " Bereft of ships and men, cast on this shore.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Now, by the gods, I pity his misfortune,\n" + " And will awake him from his melancholy.\n" + " Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles,\n" + " And waste the time, which looks for other revels.\n" + " Even in your armours, as you are address'd,\n" + " Will very well become a soldier's dance.\n" + " I will not have excuse, with saying this\n" + " Loud music is too harsh for ladies' heads,\n" + " Since they love men in arms as well as beds.\n\n" + " [The Knights dance]\n\n" + " So, this was well ask'd,'twas so well perform'd.\n" + " Come, sir;\n" + " Here is a lady that wants breathing too:\n" + " And I have heard, you knights of Tyre\n" + " Are excellent in making ladies trip;\n" + " And that their measures are as excellent.\n\n" + "PERICLES In those that practise them they are, my lord.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES O, that's as much as you would be denied\n" + " Of your fair courtesy.\n\n" + " [The Knights and Ladies dance]\n\n" + " Unclasp, unclasp:\n" + " Thanks, gentlemen, to all; all have done well.\n\n" + " [To PERICLES]\n\n" + " But you the best. Pages and lights, to conduct\n" + " These knights unto their several lodgings!\n\n" + " [To PERICLES]\n\n" + " Yours, sir,\n" + " We have given order to be next our own.\n\n" + "PERICLES I am at your grace's pleasure.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Princes, it is too late to talk of love;\n" + " And that's the mark I know you level at:\n" + " Therefore each one betake him to his rest;\n" + " To-morrow all for speeding do their best.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Tyre. A room in the Governor's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HELICANUS and ESCANES]\n\n" + "HELICANUS No, Escanes, know this of me,\n" + " Antiochus from incest lived not free:\n" + " For which, the most high gods not minding longer\n" + " To withhold the vengeance that they had in store,\n" + " Due to this heinous capital offence,\n" + " Even in the height and pride of all his glory,\n" + " When he was seated in a chariot\n" + " Of an inestimable value, and his daughter with him,\n" + " A fire from heaven came and shrivell'd up\n" + " Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so stunk,\n" + " That all those eyes adored them ere their fall\n" + " Scorn now their hand should give them burial.\n\n" + "ESCANES 'Twas very strange.\n\n" + "HELICANUS And yet but justice; for though\n" + " This king were great, his greatness was no guard\n" + " To bar heaven's shaft, but sin had his reward.\n\n" + "ESCANES 'Tis very true.\n\n" + " [Enter two or three Lords]\n\n" + "First Lord See, not a man in private conference\n" + " Or council has respect with him but he.\n\n" + "Second Lord It shall no longer grieve without reproof.\n\n" + "Third Lord And cursed be he that will not second it.\n\n" + "First Lord Follow me, then. Lord Helicane, a word.\n\n" + "HELICANUS With me? and welcome: happy day, my lords.\n\n" + "First Lord Know that our griefs are risen to the top,\n" + " And now at length they overflow their banks.\n\n" + "HELICANUS Your griefs! for what? wrong not your prince you love.\n\n" + "First Lord Wrong not yourself, then, noble Helicane;\n" + " But if the prince do live, let us salute him,\n" + " Or know what ground's made happy by his breath.\n" + " If in the world he live, we'll seek him out;\n" + " If in his grave he rest, we'll find him there;\n" + " And be resolved he lives to govern us,\n" + " Or dead, give's cause to mourn his funeral,\n" + " And leave us to our free election.\n\n" + "Second Lord Whose death indeed's the strongest in our censure:\n" + " And knowing this kingdom is without a head,--\n" + " Like goodly buildings left without a roof\n" + " Soon fall to ruin,--your noble self,\n" + " That best know how to rule and how to reign,\n" + " We thus submit unto,--our sovereign.\n\n" + "All Live, noble Helicane!\n\n" + "HELICANUS For honour's cause, forbear your suffrages:\n" + " If that you love Prince Pericles, forbear.\n" + " Take I your wish, I leap into the seas,\n" + " Where's hourly trouble for a minute's ease.\n" + " A twelvemonth longer, let me entreat you to\n" + " Forbear the absence of your king:\n" + " If in which time expired, he not return,\n" + " I shall with aged patience bear your yoke.\n" + " But if I cannot win you to this love,\n" + " Go search like nobles, like noble subjects,\n" + " And in your search spend your adventurous worth;\n" + " Whom if you find, and win unto return,\n" + " You shall like diamonds sit about his crown.\n\n" + "First Lord To wisdom he's a fool that will not yield;\n" + " And since Lord Helicane enjoineth us,\n" + " We with our travels will endeavour us.\n\n" + "HELICANUS Then you love us, we you, and we'll clasp hands:\n" + " When peers thus knit, a kingdom ever stands.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Pentapolis. A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIMONIDES, reading a letter, at one door:\n" + " the Knights meet him]\n\n" + "First Knight Good morrow to the good Simonides.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Knights, from my daughter this I let you know,\n" + " That for this twelvemonth she'll not undertake\n" + " A married life.\n" + " Her reason to herself is only known,\n" + " Which yet from her by no means can I get.\n\n" + "Second Knight May we not get access to her, my lord?\n\n" + "SIMONIDES 'Faith, by no means; she has so strictly tied\n" + " Her to her chamber, that 'tis impossible.\n" + " One twelve moons more she'll wear Diana's livery;\n" + " This by the eye of Cynthia hath she vow'd\n" + " And on her virgin honour will not break it.\n\n" + "Third Knight Loath to bid farewell, we take our leaves.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Knights]\n\n" + "SIMONIDES So,\n" + " They are well dispatch'd; now to my daughter's letter:\n" + " She tells me here, she'd wed the stranger knight,\n" + " Or never more to view nor day nor light.\n" + " 'Tis well, mistress; your choice agrees with mine;\n" + " I like that well: nay, how absolute she's in't,\n" + " Not minding whether I dislike or no!\n" + " Well, I do commend her choice;\n" + " And will no longer have it be delay'd.\n" + " Soft! here he comes: I must dissemble it.\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES]\n\n" + "PERICLES All fortune to the good Simonides!\n\n" + "SIMONIDES To you as much, sir! I am beholding to you\n" + " For your sweet music this last night: I do\n" + " Protest my ears were never better fed\n" + " With such delightful pleasing harmony.\n\n" + "PERICLES It is your grace's pleasure to commend;\n" + " Not my desert.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Sir, you are music's master.\n\n" + "PERICLES The worst of all her scholars, my good lord.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Let me ask you one thing:\n" + " What do you think of my daughter, sir?\n\n" + "PERICLES A most virtuous princess.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES And she is fair too, is she not?\n\n" + "PERICLES As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Sir, my daughter thinks very well of you;\n" + " Ay, so well, that you must be her master,\n" + " And she will be your scholar: therefore look to it.\n\n" + "PERICLES I am unworthy for her schoolmaster.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES She thinks not so; peruse this writing else.\n\n" + "PERICLES [Aside] What's here?\n" + " A letter, that she loves the knight of Tyre!\n" + " 'Tis the king's subtlety to have my life.\n" + " O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord,\n" + " A stranger and distressed gentleman,\n" + " That never aim'd so high to love your daughter,\n" + " But bent all offices to honour her.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Thou hast bewitch'd my daughter, and thou art\n" + " A villain.\n\n" + "PERICLES By the gods, I have not:\n" + " Never did thought of mine levy offence;\n" + " Nor never did my actions yet commence\n" + " A deed might gain her love or your displeasure.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Traitor, thou liest.\n\n" + "PERICLES Traitor!\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Ay, traitor.\n\n" + "PERICLES Even in his throat--unless it be the king--\n" + " That calls me traitor, I return the lie.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES [Aside] Now, by the gods, I do applaud his courage.\n\n" + "PERICLES My actions are as noble as my thoughts,\n" + " That never relish'd of a base descent.\n" + " I came unto your court for honour's cause,\n" + " And not to be a rebel to her state;\n" + " And he that otherwise accounts of me,\n" + " This sword shall prove he's honour's enemy.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES No?\n" + " Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.\n\n" + " [Enter THAISA]\n\n" + "PERICLES Then, as you are as virtuous as fair,\n" + " Resolve your angry father, if my tongue\n" + " Did ere solicit, or my hand subscribe\n" + " To any syllable that made love to you.\n\n" + "THAISA Why, sir, say if you had,\n" + " Who takes offence at that would make me glad?\n\n" + "SIMONIDES Yea, mistress, are you so peremptory?\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I am glad on't with all my heart.--\n" + " I'll tame you; I'll bring you in subjection.\n" + " Will you, not having my consent,\n" + " Bestow your love and your affections\n" + " Upon a stranger?\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " who, for aught I know,\n" + " May be, nor can I think the contrary,\n" + " As great in blood as I myself.--\n" + " Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame\n" + " Your will to mine,--and you, sir, hear you,\n" + " Either be ruled by me, or I will make you--\n" + " Man and wife:\n" + " Nay, come, your hands and lips must seal it too:\n" + " And being join'd, I'll thus your hopes destroy;\n" + " And for a further grief,--God give you joy!--\n" + " What, are you both pleased?\n\n" + "THAISA Yes, if you love me, sir.\n\n" + "PERICLES Even as my life, or blood that fosters it.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES What, are you both agreed?\n\n" + "BOTH Yes, if it please your majesty.\n\n" + "SIMONIDES It pleaseth me so well, that I will see you wed;\n" + " And then with what haste you can get you to bed.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER]\n\n" + "GOWER Now sleep y-slaked hath the rout;\n" + " No din but snores the house about,\n" + " Made louder by the o'er-fed breast\n" + " Of this most pompous marriage-feast.\n" + " The cat, with eyne of burning coal,\n" + " Now crouches fore the mouse's hole;\n" + " And crickets sing at the oven's mouth,\n" + " E'er the blither for their drouth.\n" + " Hymen hath brought the bride to bed.\n" + " Where, by the loss of maidenhead,\n" + " A babe is moulded. Be attent,\n" + " And time that is so briefly spent\n" + " With your fine fancies quaintly eche:\n" + " What's dumb in show I'll plain with speech.\n\n" + " DUMB SHOW.\n\n" + " [Enter, PERICLES and SIMONIDES at one door, with\n" + " Attendants; a Messenger meets them, kneels, and\n" + " gives PERICLES a letter: PERICLES shows it\n" + " SIMONIDES; the Lords kneel to him. Then enter\n" + " THAISA with child, with LYCHORIDA a nurse. The\n" + " KING shows her the letter; she rejoices: she and\n" + " PERICLES takes leave of her father, and depart with\n" + " LYCHORIDA and their Attendants. Then exeunt\n" + " SIMONIDES and the rest]\n\n" + " By many a dern and painful perch\n" + " Of Pericles the careful search,\n" + " By the four opposing coigns\n" + " Which the world together joins,\n" + " Is made with all due diligence\n" + " That horse and sail and high expense\n" + " Can stead the quest. At last from Tyre,\n" + " Fame answering the most strange inquire,\n" + " To the court of King Simonides\n" + " Are letters brought, the tenor these:\n" + " Antiochus and his daughter dead;\n" + " The men of Tyrus on the head\n" + " Of Helicanus would set on\n" + " The crown of Tyre, but he will none:\n" + " The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress;\n" + " Says to 'em, if King Pericles\n" + " Come not home in twice six moons,\n" + " He, obedient to their dooms,\n" + " Will take the crown. The sum of this,\n" + " Brought hither to Pentapolis,\n" + " Y-ravished the regions round,\n" + " And every one with claps can sound,\n" + " 'Our heir-apparent is a king!\n" + " Who dream'd, who thought of such a thing?'\n" + " Brief, he must hence depart to Tyre:\n" + " His queen with child makes her desire--\n" + " Which who shall cross?--along to go:\n" + " Omit we all their dole and woe:\n" + " Lychorida, her nurse, she takes,\n" + " And so to sea. Their vessel shakes\n" + " On Neptune's billow; half the flood\n" + " Hath their keel cut: but fortune's mood\n" + " Varies again; the grisly north\n" + " Disgorges such a tempest forth,\n" + " That, as a duck for life that dives,\n" + " So up and down the poor ship drives:\n" + " The lady shrieks, and well-a-near\n" + " Does fall in travail with her fear:\n" + " And what ensues in this fell storm\n" + " Shall for itself itself perform.\n" + " I nill relate, action may\n" + " Conveniently the rest convey;\n" + " Which might not what by me is told.\n" + " In your imagination hold\n" + " This stage the ship, upon whose deck\n" + " The sea-tost Pericles appears to speak.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I:\n\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES, on shipboard]\n\n" + "PERICLES Thou god of this great vast, rebuke these surges,\n" + " Which wash both heaven and hell; and thou, that hast\n" + " Upon the winds command, bind them in brass,\n" + " Having call'd them from the deep! O, still\n" + " Thy deafening, dreadful thunders; gently quench\n" + " Thy nimble, sulphurous flashes! O, how, Lychorida,\n" + " How does my queen? Thou stormest venomously;\n" + " Wilt thou spit all thyself? The seaman's whistle\n" + " Is as a whisper in the ears of death,\n" + " Unheard. Lychorida!--Lucina, O\n" + " Divinest patroness, and midwife gentle\n" + " To those that cry by night, convey thy deity\n" + " Aboard our dancing boat; make swift the pangs\n" + " Of my queen's travails!\n\n" + " [Enter LYCHORIDA, with an Infant]\n\n" + " Now, Lychorida!\n\n" + "LYCHORIDA Here is a thing too young for such a place,\n" + " Who, if it had conceit, would die, as I\n" + " Am like to do: take in your arms this piece\n" + " Of your dead queen.\n\n" + "PERICLES How, how, Lychorida!\n\n" + "LYCHORIDA Patience, good sir; do not assist the storm.\n" + " Here's all that is left living of your queen,\n" + " A little daughter: for the sake of it,\n" + " Be manly, and take comfort.\n\n" + "PERICLES O you gods!\n" + " Why do you make us love your goodly gifts,\n" + " And snatch them straight away? We here below\n" + " Recall not what we give, and therein may\n" + " Use honour with you.\n\n" + "LYCHORIDA Patience, good sir,\n" + " Even for this charge.\n\n" + "PERICLES Now, mild may be thy life!\n" + " For a more blustrous birth had never babe:\n" + " Quiet and gentle thy conditions! for\n" + " Thou art the rudeliest welcome to this world\n" + " That ever was prince's child. Happy what follows!\n" + " Thou hast as chiding a nativity\n" + " As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make,\n" + " To herald thee from the womb: even at the first\n" + " Thy loss is more than can thy portage quit,\n" + " With all thou canst find here. Now, the good gods\n" + " Throw their best eyes upon't!\n\n" + " [Enter two Sailors]\n\n" + "First Sailor What courage, sir? God save you!\n\n" + "PERICLES Courage enough: I do not fear the flaw;\n" + " It hath done to me the worst. Yet, for the love\n" + " Of this poor infant, this fresh-new sea-farer,\n" + " I would it would be quiet.\n\n" + "First Sailor Slack the bolins there! Thou wilt not, wilt thou?\n" + " Blow, and split thyself.\n\n" + "Second Sailor But sea-room, an the brine and cloudy billow kiss\n" + " the moon, I care not.\n\n" + "First Sailor Sir, your queen must overboard: the sea works high,\n" + " the wind is loud, and will not lie till the ship be\n" + " cleared of the dead.\n\n" + "PERICLES That's your superstition.\n\n" + "First Sailor Pardon us, sir; with us at sea it hath been still\n" + " observed: and we are strong in custom. Therefore\n" + " briefly yield her; for she must overboard straight.\n\n" + "PERICLES As you think meet. Most wretched queen!\n\n" + "LYCHORIDA Here she lies, sir.\n\n" + "PERICLES A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear;\n" + " No light, no fire: the unfriendly elements\n" + " Forgot thee utterly: nor have I time\n" + " To give thee hallow'd to thy grave, but straight\n" + " Must cast thee, scarcely coffin'd, in the ooze;\n" + " Where, for a monument upon thy bones,\n" + " And e'er-remaining lamps, the belching whale\n" + " And humming water must o'erwhelm thy corpse,\n" + " Lying with simple shells. O Lychorida,\n" + " Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper,\n" + " My casket and my jewels; and bid Nicander\n" + " Bring me the satin coffer: lay the babe\n" + " Upon the pillow: hie thee, whiles I say\n" + " A priestly farewell to her: suddenly, woman.\n\n" + " [Exit LYCHORIDA]\n\n" + "Second Sailor Sir, we have a chest beneath the hatches, caulked\n" + " and bitumed ready.\n\n" + "PERICLES I thank thee. Mariner, say what coast is this?\n\n" + "Second Sailor We are near Tarsus.\n\n" + "PERICLES Thither, gentle mariner.\n" + " Alter thy course for Tyre. When canst thou reach it?\n\n" + "Second Sailor By break of day, if the wind cease.\n\n" + "PERICLES O, make for Tarsus!\n" + " There will I visit Cleon, for the babe\n" + " Cannot hold out to Tyrus: there I'll leave it\n" + " At careful nursing. Go thy ways, good mariner:\n" + " I'll bring the body presently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CERIMON, with a Servant, and some Persons who\n" + " have been shipwrecked]\n\n" + "CERIMON Philemon, ho!\n\n" + " [Enter PHILEMON]\n\n" + "PHILEMON Doth my lord call?\n\n" + "CERIMON Get fire and meat for these poor men:\n" + " 'T has been a turbulent and stormy night.\n\n" + "Servant I have been in many; but such a night as this,\n" + " Till now, I ne'er endured.\n\n" + "CERIMON Your master will be dead ere you return;\n" + " There's nothing can be minister'd to nature\n" + " That can recover him.\n\n" + " [To PHILEMON]\n\n" + " Give this to the 'pothecary,\n" + " And tell me how it works.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but CERIMON]\n\n" + " [Enter two Gentlemen]\n\n" + "First Gentleman Good morrow.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Good morrow to your lordship.\n\n" + "CERIMON Gentlemen,\n" + " Why do you stir so early?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Sir,\n" + " Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea,\n" + " Shook as the earth did quake;\n" + " The very principals did seem to rend,\n" + " And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear\n" + " Made me to quit the house.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman That is the cause we trouble you so early;\n" + " 'Tis not our husbandry.\n\n" + "CERIMON O, you say well.\n\n" + "First Gentleman But I much marvel that your lordship, having\n" + " Rich tire about you, should at these early hours\n" + " Shake off the golden slumber of repose.\n" + " 'Tis most strange,\n" + " Nature should be so conversant with pain,\n" + " Being thereto not compell'd.\n\n" + "CERIMON I hold it ever,\n" + " Virtue and cunning were endowments greater\n" + " Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs\n" + " May the two latter darken and expend;\n" + " But immortality attends the former.\n" + " Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever\n" + " Have studied physic, through which secret art,\n" + " By turning o'er authorities, I have,\n" + " Together with my practise, made familiar\n" + " To me and to my aid the blest infusions\n" + " That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones;\n" + " And I can speak of the disturbances\n" + " That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me\n" + " A more content in course of true delight\n" + " Than to be thirsty after tottering honour,\n" + " Or tie my treasure up in silken bags,\n" + " To please the fool and death.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth\n" + " Your charity, and hundreds call themselves\n" + " Your creatures, who by you have been restored:\n" + " And not your knowledge, your personal pain, but even\n" + " Your purse, still open, hath built Lord Cerimon\n" + " Such strong renown as time shall ne'er decay.\n\n" + " [Enter two or three Servants with a chest]\n\n" + "First Servant So; lift there.\n\n" + "CERIMON What is that?\n\n" + "First Servant Sir, even now\n" + " Did the sea toss upon our shore this chest:\n" + " 'Tis of some wreck.\n\n" + "CERIMON Set 't down, let's look upon't.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman 'Tis like a coffin, sir.\n\n" + "CERIMON Whate'er it be,\n" + " 'Tis wondrous heavy. Wrench it open straight:\n" + " If the sea's stomach be o'ercharged with gold,\n" + " 'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman 'Tis so, my lord.\n\n" + "CERIMON How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed!\n" + " Did the sea cast it up?\n\n" + "First Servant I never saw so huge a billow, sir,\n" + " As toss'd it upon shore.\n\n" + "CERIMON Wrench it open;\n" + " Soft! it smells most sweetly in my sense.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman A delicate odour.\n\n" + "CERIMON As ever hit my nostril. So, up with it.\n" + " O you most potent gods! what's here? a corse!\n\n" + "First Gentleman Most strange!\n\n" + "CERIMON Shrouded in cloth of state; balm'd and entreasured\n" + " With full bags of spices! A passport too!\n" + " Apollo, perfect me in the characters!\n\n" + " [Reads from a scroll]\n\n" + " 'Here I give to understand,\n" + " If e'er this coffin drive a-land,\n" + " I, King Pericles, have lost\n" + " This queen, worth all our mundane cost.\n" + " Who finds her, give her burying;\n" + " She was the daughter of a king:\n" + " Besides this treasure for a fee,\n" + " The gods requite his charity!'\n\n" + " If thou livest, Pericles, thou hast a heart\n" + " That even cracks for woe! This chanced tonight.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Most likely, sir.\n\n" + "CERIMON Nay, certainly to-night;\n" + " For look how fresh she looks! They were too rough\n" + " That threw her in the sea. Make a fire within:\n" + " Fetch hither all my boxes in my closet.\n\n" + " [Exit a Servant]\n\n" + " Death may usurp on nature many hours,\n" + " And yet the fire of life kindle again\n" + " The o'erpress'd spirits. I heard of an Egyptian\n" + " That had nine hours lien dead,\n" + " Who was by good appliance recovered.\n\n" + " [Re-enter a Servant, with boxes, napkins, and fire]\n\n" + " Well said, well said; the fire and cloths.\n" + " The rough and woeful music that we have,\n" + " Cause it to sound, beseech you.\n" + " The viol once more: how thou stirr'st, thou block!\n" + " The music there!--I pray you, give her air.\n" + " Gentlemen.\n" + " This queen will live: nature awakes; a warmth\n" + " Breathes out of her: she hath not been entranced\n" + " Above five hours: see how she gins to blow\n" + " Into life's flower again!\n\n" + "First Gentleman The heavens,\n" + " Through you, increase our wonder and set up\n" + " Your fame forever.\n\n" + "CERIMON She is alive; behold,\n" + " Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels\n" + " Which Pericles hath lost,\n" + " Begin to part their fringes of bright gold;\n" + " The diamonds of a most praised water\n" + " Do appear, to make the world twice rich. Live,\n" + " And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature,\n" + " Rare as you seem to be.\n\n" + " [She moves]\n\n" + "THAISA O dear Diana,\n" + " Where am I? Where's my lord? What world is this?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Is not this strange?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Most rare.\n\n" + "CERIMON Hush, my gentle neighbours!\n" + " Lend me your hands; to the next chamber bear her.\n" + " Get linen: now this matter must be look'd to,\n" + " For her relapse is mortal. Come, come;\n" + " And AEsculapius guide us!\n\n" + " [Exeunt, carrying her away]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES, CLEON, DIONYZA, and LYCHORIDA with\n" + " MARINA in her arms]\n\n" + "PERICLES Most honour'd Cleon, I must needs be gone;\n" + " My twelve months are expired, and Tyrus stands\n" + " In a litigious peace. You, and your lady,\n" + " Take from my heart all thankfulness! The gods\n" + " Make up the rest upon you!\n\n" + "CLEON Your shafts of fortune, though they hurt you mortally,\n" + " Yet glance full wanderingly on us.\n\n" + "DIONYZA O your sweet queen!\n" + " That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither,\n" + " To have bless'd mine eyes with her!\n\n" + "PERICLES We cannot but obey\n" + " The powers above us. Could I rage and roar\n" + " As doth the sea she lies in, yet the end\n" + " Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe Marina, whom,\n" + " For she was born at sea, I have named so, here\n" + " I charge your charity withal, leaving her\n" + " The infant of your care; beseeching you\n" + " To give her princely training, that she may be\n" + " Manner'd as she is born.\n\n" + "CLEON Fear not, my lord, but think\n" + " Your grace, that fed my country with your corn,\n" + " For which the people's prayers still fall upon you,\n" + " Must in your child be thought on. If neglection\n" + " Should therein make me vile, the common body,\n" + " By you relieved, would force me to my duty:\n" + " But if to that my nature need a spur,\n" + " The gods revenge it upon me and mine,\n" + " To the end of generation!\n\n" + "PERICLES I believe you;\n" + " Your honour and your goodness teach me to't,\n" + " Without your vows. Till she be married, madam,\n" + " By bright Diana, whom we honour, all\n" + " Unscissor'd shall this hair of mine remain,\n" + " Though I show ill in't. So I take my leave.\n" + " Good madam, make me blessed in your care\n" + " In bringing up my child.\n\n" + "DIONYZA I have one myself,\n" + " Who shall not be more dear to my respect\n" + " Than yours, my lord.\n\n" + "PERICLES Madam, my thanks and prayers.\n\n" + "CLEON We'll bring your grace e'en to the edge o' the shore,\n" + " Then give you up to the mask'd Neptune and\n" + " The gentlest winds of heaven.\n\n" + "PERICLES I will embrace\n" + " Your offer. Come, dearest madam. O, no tears,\n" + " Lychorida, no tears:\n" + " Look to your little mistress, on whose grace\n" + " You may depend hereafter. Come, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Ephesus. A room in CERIMON's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CERIMON and THAISA]\n\n" + "CERIMON Madam, this letter, and some certain jewels,\n" + " Lay with you in your coffer: which are now\n" + " At your command. Know you the character?\n\n" + "THAISA It is my lord's.\n" + " That I was shipp'd at sea, I well remember,\n" + " Even on my eaning time; but whether there\n" + " Deliver'd, by the holy gods,\n" + " I cannot rightly say. But since King Pericles,\n" + " My wedded lord, I ne'er shall see again,\n" + " A vestal livery will I take me to,\n" + " And never more have joy.\n\n" + "CERIMON Madam, if this you purpose as ye speak,\n" + " Diana's temple is not distant far,\n" + " Where you may abide till your date expire.\n" + " Moreover, if you please, a niece of mine\n" + " Shall there attend you.\n\n" + "THAISA My recompense is thanks, that's all;\n" + " Yet my good will is great, though the gift small.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER]\n\n" + "GOWER Imagine Pericles arrived at Tyre,\n" + " Welcomed and settled to his own desire.\n" + " His woeful queen we leave at Ephesus,\n" + " Unto Diana there a votaress.\n" + " Now to Marina bend your mind,\n" + " Whom our fast-growing scene must find\n" + " At Tarsus, and by Cleon train'd\n" + " In music, letters; who hath gain'd\n" + " Of education all the grace,\n" + " Which makes her both the heart and place\n" + " Of general wonder. But, alack,\n" + " That monster envy, oft the wrack\n" + " Of earned praise, Marina's life\n" + " Seeks to take off by treason's knife.\n" + " And in this kind hath our Cleon\n" + " One daughter, and a wench full grown,\n" + " Even ripe for marriage-rite; this maid\n" + " Hight Philoten: and it is said\n" + " For certain in our story, she\n" + " Would ever with Marina be:\n" + " Be't when she weaved the sleided silk\n" + " With fingers long, small, white as milk;\n" + " Or when she would with sharp needle wound\n" + " The cambric, which she made more sound\n" + " By hurting it; or when to the lute\n" + " She sung, and made the night-bird mute,\n" + " That still records with moan; or when\n" + " She would with rich and constant pen\n" + " Vail to her mistress Dian; still\n" + " This Philoten contends in skill\n" + " With absolute Marina: so\n" + " With the dove of Paphos might the crow\n" + " Vie feathers white. Marina gets\n" + " All praises, which are paid as debts,\n" + " And not as given. This so darks\n" + " In Philoten all graceful marks,\n" + " That Cleon's wife, with envy rare,\n" + " A present murderer does prepare\n" + " For good Marina, that her daughter\n" + " Might stand peerless by this slaughter.\n" + " The sooner her vile thoughts to stead,\n" + " Lychorida, our nurse, is dead:\n" + " And cursed Dionyza hath\n" + " The pregnant instrument of wrath\n" + " Prest for this blow. The unborn event\n" + " I do commend to your content:\n" + " Only I carry winged time\n" + " Post on the lame feet of my rhyme;\n" + " Which never could I so convey,\n" + " Unless your thoughts went on my way.\n" + " Dionyza does appear,\n" + " With Leonine, a murderer.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Tarsus. An open place near the sea-shore.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE]\n\n" + "DIONYZA Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't:\n" + " 'Tis but a blow, which never shall be known.\n" + " Thou canst not do a thing in the world so soon,\n" + " To yield thee so much profit. Let not conscience,\n" + " Which is but cold, inflaming love i' thy bosom,\n" + " Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which\n" + " Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be\n" + " A soldier to thy purpose.\n\n" + "LEONINE I will do't; but yet she is a goodly creature.\n\n" + "DIONYZA The fitter, then, the gods should have her. Here\n" + " she comes weeping for her only mistress' death.\n" + " Thou art resolved?\n\n" + "LEONINE I am resolved.\n\n" + " [Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers]\n\n" + "MARINA No, I will rob Tellus of her weed,\n" + " To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues,\n" + " The purple violets, and marigolds,\n" + " Shall as a carpet hang upon thy grave,\n" + " While summer-days do last. Ay me! poor maid,\n" + " Born in a tempest, when my mother died,\n" + " This world to me is like a lasting storm,\n" + " Whirring me from my friends.\n\n" + "DIONYZA How now, Marina! why do you keep alone?\n" + " How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not\n" + " Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have\n" + " A nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's changed\n" + " With this unprofitable woe!\n" + " Come, give me your flowers, ere the sea mar it.\n" + " Walk with Leonine; the air is quick there,\n" + " And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. Come,\n" + " Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her.\n\n" + "MARINA No, I pray you;\n" + " I'll not bereave you of your servant.\n\n" + "DIONYZA Come, come;\n" + " I love the king your father, and yourself,\n" + " With more than foreign heart. We every day\n" + " Expect him here: when he shall come and find\n" + " Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,\n" + " He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;\n" + " Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken\n" + " No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,\n" + " Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve\n" + " That excellent complexion, which did steal\n" + " The eyes of young and old. Care not for me\n" + " I can go home alone.\n\n" + "MARINA Well, I will go;\n" + " But yet I have no desire to it.\n\n" + "DIONYZA Come, come, I know 'tis good for you.\n" + " Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least:\n" + " Remember what I have said.\n\n" + "LEONINE I warrant you, madam.\n\n" + "DIONYZA I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while:\n" + " Pray, walk softly, do not heat your blood:\n" + " What! I must have a care of you.\n\n" + "MARINA My thanks, sweet madam.\n\n" + " [Exit DIONYZA]\n\n" + " Is this wind westerly that blows?\n\n" + "LEONINE South-west.\n\n" + "MARINA When I was born, the wind was north.\n\n" + "LEONINE Was't so?\n\n" + "MARINA My father, as nurse said, did never fear,\n" + " But cried 'Good seaman!' to the sailors, galling\n" + " His kingly hands, haling ropes;\n" + " And, clasping to the mast, endured a sea\n" + " That almost burst the deck.\n\n" + "LEONINE When was this?\n\n" + "MARINA When I was born:\n" + " Never was waves nor wind more violent;\n" + " And from the ladder-tackle washes off\n" + " A canvas-climber. 'Ha!' says one, 'wilt out?'\n" + " And with a dropping industry they skip\n" + " From stem to stern: the boatswain whistles, and\n" + " The master calls, and trebles their confusion.\n\n" + "LEONINE Come, say your prayers.\n\n" + "MARINA What mean you?\n\n" + "LEONINE If you require a little space for prayer,\n" + " I grant it: pray; but be not tedious,\n" + " For the gods are quick of ear, and I am sworn\n" + " To do my work with haste.\n\n" + "MARINA Why will you kill me?\n\n" + "LEONINE To satisfy my lady.\n\n" + "MARINA Why would she have me kill'd?\n" + " Now, as I can remember, by my troth,\n" + " I never did her hurt in all my life:\n" + " I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn\n" + " To any living creature: believe me, la,\n" + " I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:\n" + " I trod upon a worm against my will,\n" + " But I wept for it. How have I offended,\n" + " Wherein my death might yield her any profit,\n" + " Or my life imply her any danger?\n\n" + "LEONINE My commission\n" + " Is not to reason of the deed, but do it.\n\n" + "MARINA You will not do't for all the world, I hope.\n" + " You are well favour'd, and your looks foreshow\n" + " You have a gentle heart. I saw you lately,\n" + " When you caught hurt in parting two that fought:\n" + " Good sooth, it show'd well in you: do so now:\n" + " Your lady seeks my life; come you between,\n" + " And save poor me, the weaker.\n\n" + "LEONINE I am sworn,\n" + " And will dispatch.\n\n" + " [He seizes her]\n\n" + " [Enter Pirates]\n\n" + "First Pirate Hold, villain!\n\n" + " [LEONINE runs away]\n\n" + "Second Pirate A prize! a prize!\n\n" + "Third Pirate Half-part, mates, half-part.\n" + " Come, let's have her aboard suddenly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Pirates with MARINA]\n\n" + " [Re-enter LEONINE]\n\n" + "LEONINE These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes;\n" + " And they have seized Marina. Let her go:\n" + " There's no hope she will return. I'll swear\n" + " she's dead,\n" + " And thrown into the sea. But I'll see further:\n" + " Perhaps they will but please themselves upon her,\n" + " Not carry her aboard. If she remain,\n" + " Whom they have ravish'd must by me be slain.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Mytilene. A room in a brothel.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT]\n\n" + "Pandar Boult!\n\n" + "BOULT Sir?\n\n" + "Pandar Search the market narrowly; Mytilene is full of\n" + " gallants. We lost too much money this mart by being\n" + " too wenchless.\n\n" + "Bawd We were never so much out of creatures. We have but\n" + " poor three, and they can do no more than they can\n" + " do; and they with continual action are even as good as rotten.\n\n" + "Pandar Therefore let's have fresh ones, whate'er we pay for\n" + " them. If there be not a conscience to be used in\n" + " every trade, we shall never prosper.\n\n" + "Bawd Thou sayest true: 'tis not our bringing up of poor\n" + " bastards,--as, I think, I have brought up some eleven--\n\n" + "BOULT Ay, to eleven; and brought them down again. But\n" + " shall I search the market?\n\n" + "Bawd What else, man? The stuff we have, a strong wind\n" + " will blow it to pieces, they are so pitifully sodden.\n\n" + "Pandar Thou sayest true; they're too unwholesome, o'\n" + " conscience. The poor Transylvanian is dead, that\n" + " lay with the little baggage.\n\n" + "BOULT Ay, she quickly pooped him; she made him roast-meat\n" + " for worms. But I'll go search the market.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Pandar Three or four thousand chequins were as pretty a\n" + " proportion to live quietly, and so give over.\n\n" + "Bawd Why to give over, I pray you? is it a shame to get\n" + " when we are old?\n\n" + "Pandar O, our credit comes not in like the commodity, nor\n" + " the commodity wages not with the danger: therefore,\n" + " if in our youths we could pick up some pretty\n" + " estate, 'twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.\n" + " Besides, the sore terms we stand upon with the gods\n" + " will be strong with us for giving over.\n\n" + "Bawd Come, other sorts offend as well as we.\n\n" + "Pandar As well as we! ay, and better too; we offend worse.\n" + " Neither is our profession any trade; it's no\n" + " calling. But here comes Boult.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BOULT, with the Pirates and MARINA]\n\n" + "BOULT [To MARINA] Come your ways. My masters, you say\n" + " she's a virgin?\n\n" + "First Pirate O, sir, we doubt it not.\n\n" + "BOULT Master, I have gone through for this piece, you see:\n" + " if you like her, so; if not, I have lost my earnest.\n\n" + "Bawd Boult, has she any qualities?\n\n" + "BOULT She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent\n" + " good clothes: there's no further necessity of\n" + " qualities can make her be refused.\n\n" + "Bawd What's her price, Boult?\n\n" + "BOULT I cannot be bated one doit of a thousand pieces.\n\n" + "Pandar Well, follow me, my masters, you shall have your\n" + " money presently. Wife, take her in; instruct her\n" + " what she has to do, that she may not be raw in her\n" + " entertainment.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Pandar and Pirates]\n\n" + "Bawd Boult, take you the marks of her, the colour of her\n" + " hair, complexion, height, age, with warrant of her\n" + " virginity; and cry 'He that will give most shall\n" + " have her first.' Such a maidenhead were no cheap\n" + " thing, if men were as they have been. Get this done\n" + " as I command you.\n\n" + "BOULT Performance shall follow.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARINA Alack that Leonine was so slack, so slow!\n" + " He should have struck, not spoke; or that these pirates,\n" + " Not enough barbarous, had not o'erboard thrown me\n" + " For to seek my mother!\n\n" + "Bawd Why lament you, pretty one?\n\n" + "MARINA That I am pretty.\n\n" + "Bawd Come, the gods have done their part in you.\n\n" + "MARINA I accuse them not.\n\n" + "Bawd You are light into my hands, where you are like to live.\n\n" + "MARINA The more my fault\n" + " To scape his hands where I was like to die.\n\n" + "Bawd Ay, and you shall live in pleasure.\n\n" + "MARINA No.\n\n" + "Bawd Yes, indeed shall you, and taste gentlemen of all\n" + " fashions: you shall fare well; you shall have the\n" + " difference of all complexions. What! do you stop your ears?\n\n" + "MARINA Are you a woman?\n\n" + "Bawd What would you have me be, an I be not a woman?\n\n" + "MARINA An honest woman, or not a woman.\n\n" + "Bawd Marry, whip thee, gosling: I think I shall have\n" + " something to do with you. Come, you're a young\n" + " foolish sapling, and must be bowed as I would have\n" + " you.\n\n" + "MARINA The gods defend me!\n\n" + "Bawd If it please the gods to defend you by men, then men\n" + " must comfort you, men must feed you, men must stir\n" + " you up. Boult's returned.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BOULT]\n\n" + " Now, sir, hast thou cried her through the market?\n\n" + "BOULT I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs;\n" + " I have drawn her picture with my voice.\n\n" + "Bawd And I prithee tell me, how dost thou find the\n" + " inclination of the people, especially of the younger sort?\n\n" + "BOULT 'Faith, they listened to me as they would have\n" + " hearkened to their father's testament. There was a\n" + " Spaniard's mouth so watered, that he went to bed to\n" + " her very description.\n\n" + "Bawd We shall have him here to-morrow with his best ruff on.\n\n" + "BOULT To-night, to-night. But, mistress, do you know the\n" + " French knight that cowers i' the hams?\n\n" + "Bawd Who, Monsieur Veroles?\n\n" + "BOULT Ay, he: he offered to cut a caper at the\n" + " proclamation; but he made a groan at it, and swore\n" + " he would see her to-morrow.\n\n" + "Bawd Well, well; as for him, he brought his disease\n" + " hither: here he does but repair it. I know he will\n" + " come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the\n" + " sun.\n\n" + "BOULT Well, if we had of every nation a traveller, we\n" + " should lodge them with this sign.\n\n" + "Bawd [To MARINA] Pray you, come hither awhile. You\n" + " have fortunes coming upon you. Mark me: you must\n" + " seem to do that fearfully which you commit\n" + " willingly, despise profit where you have most gain.\n" + " To weep that you live as ye do makes pity in your\n" + " lovers: seldom but that pity begets you a good\n" + " opinion, and that opinion a mere profit.\n\n" + "MARINA I understand you not.\n\n" + "BOULT O, take her home, mistress, take her home: these\n" + " blushes of hers must be quenched with some present practise.\n\n" + "Bawd Thou sayest true, i' faith, so they must; for your\n" + " bride goes to that with shame which is her way to go\n" + " with warrant.\n\n" + "BOULT 'Faith, some do, and some do not. But, mistress, if\n" + " I have bargained for the joint,--\n\n" + "Bawd Thou mayst cut a morsel off the spit.\n\n" + "BOULT I may so.\n\n" + "Bawd Who should deny it? Come, young one, I like the\n" + " manner of your garments well.\n\n" + "BOULT Ay, by my faith, they shall not be changed yet.\n\n" + "Bawd Boult, spend thou that in the town: report what a\n" + " sojourner we have; you'll lose nothing by custom.\n" + " When nature flamed this piece, she meant thee a good\n" + " turn; therefore say what a paragon she is, and thou\n" + " hast the harvest out of thine own report.\n\n" + "BOULT I warrant you, mistress, thunder shall not so awake\n" + " the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stir up\n" + " the lewdly-inclined. I'll bring home some to-night.\n\n" + "Bawd Come your ways; follow me.\n\n" + "MARINA If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep,\n" + " Untied I still my virgin knot will keep.\n" + " Diana, aid my purpose!\n\n" + "Bawd What have we to do with Diana? Pray you, will you go with us?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Tarsus. A room in CLEON's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEON and DIONYZA]\n\n" + "DIONYZA Why, are you foolish? Can it be undone?\n\n" + "CLEON O Dionyza, such a piece of slaughter\n" + " The sun and moon ne'er look'd upon!\n\n" + "DIONYZA I think\n" + " You'll turn a child again.\n\n" + "CLEON Were I chief lord of all this spacious world,\n" + " I'ld give it to undo the deed. O lady,\n" + " Much less in blood than virtue, yet a princess\n" + " To equal any single crown o' the earth\n" + " I' the justice of compare! O villain Leonine!\n" + " Whom thou hast poison'd too:\n" + " If thou hadst drunk to him, 't had been a kindness\n" + " Becoming well thy fact: what canst thou say\n" + " When noble Pericles shall demand his child?\n\n" + "DIONYZA That she is dead. Nurses are not the fates,\n" + " To foster it, nor ever to preserve.\n" + " She died at night; I'll say so. Who can cross it?\n" + " Unless you play the pious innocent,\n" + " And for an honest attribute cry out\n" + " 'She died by foul play.'\n\n" + "CLEON O, go to. Well, well,\n" + " Of all the faults beneath the heavens, the gods\n" + " Do like this worst.\n\n" + "DIONYZA Be one of those that think\n" + " The petty wrens of Tarsus will fly hence,\n" + " And open this to Pericles. I do shame\n" + " To think of what a noble strain you are,\n" + " And of how coward a spirit.\n\n" + "CLEON To such proceeding\n" + " Who ever but his approbation added,\n" + " Though not his prime consent, he did not flow\n" + " From honourable sources.\n\n" + "DIONYZA Be it so, then:\n" + " Yet none does know, but you, how she came dead,\n" + " Nor none can know, Leonine being gone.\n" + " She did disdain my child, and stood between\n" + " Her and her fortunes: none would look on her,\n" + " But cast their gazes on Marina's face;\n" + " Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin\n" + " Not worth the time of day. It pierced me through;\n" + " And though you call my course unnatural,\n" + " You not your child well loving, yet I find\n" + " It greets me as an enterprise of kindness\n" + " Perform'd to your sole daughter.\n\n" + "CLEON Heavens forgive it!\n\n" + "DIONYZA And as for Pericles,\n" + " What should he say? We wept after her hearse,\n" + " And yet we mourn: her monument\n" + " Is almost finish'd, and her epitaphs\n" + " In glittering golden characters express\n" + " A general praise to her, and care in us\n" + " At whose expense 'tis done.\n\n" + "CLEON Thou art like the harpy,\n" + " Which, to betray, dost, with thine angel's face,\n" + " Seize with thine eagle's talons.\n\n" + "DIONYZA You are like one that superstitiously\n" + " Doth swear to the gods that winter kills the flies:\n" + " But yet I know you'll do as I advise.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV:\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER, before the monument of MARINA at Tarsus]\n\n" + "GOWER Thus time we waste, and longest leagues make short;\n" + " Sail seas in cockles, have an wish but for't;\n" + " Making, to take your imagination,\n" + " From bourn to bourn, region to region.\n" + " By you being pardon'd, we commit no crime\n" + " To use one language in each several clime\n" + " Where our scenes seem to live. I do beseech you\n" + " To learn of me, who stand i' the gaps to teach you,\n" + " The stages of our story. Pericles\n" + " Is now again thwarting the wayward seas,\n" + " Attended on by many a lord and knight.\n" + " To see his daughter, all his life's delight.\n" + " Old Escanes, whom Helicanus late\n" + " Advanced in time to great and high estate,\n" + " Is left to govern. Bear you it in mind,\n" + " Old Helicanus goes along behind.\n" + " Well-sailing ships and bounteous winds have brought\n" + " This king to Tarsus,--think his pilot thought;\n" + " So with his steerage shall your thoughts grow on,--\n" + " To fetch his daughter home, who first is gone.\n" + " Like motes and shadows see them move awhile;\n" + " Your ears unto your eyes I'll reconcile.\n\n" + " DUMB SHOW.\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES, at one door, with all his train;\n" + " CLEON and DIONYZA, at the other. CLEON shows\n" + " PERICLES the tomb; whereat PERICLES makes\n" + " lamentation, puts on sackcloth, and in a mighty\n" + " passion departs. Then exeunt CLEON and DIONYZA]\n\n" + " See how belief may suffer by foul show!\n" + " This borrow'd passion stands for true old woe;\n" + " And Pericles, in sorrow all devour'd,\n" + " With sighs shot through, and biggest tears\n" + " o'ershower'd,\n" + " Leaves Tarsus and again embarks. He swears\n" + " Never to wash his face, nor cut his hairs:\n" + " He puts on sackcloth, and to sea. He bears\n" + " A tempest, which his mortal vessel tears,\n" + " And yet he rides it out. Now please you wit.\n" + " The epitaph is for Marina writ\n" + " By wicked Dionyza.\n\n" + " [Reads the inscription on MARINA's monument]\n\n" + " 'The fairest, sweet'st, and best lies here,\n" + " Who wither'd in her spring of year.\n" + " She was of Tyrus the king's daughter,\n" + " On whom foul death hath made this slaughter;\n" + " Marina was she call'd; and at her birth,\n" + " Thetis, being proud, swallow'd some part o' the earth:\n" + " Therefore the earth, fearing to be o'erflow'd,\n" + " Hath Thetis' birth-child on the heavens bestow'd:\n" + " Wherefore she does, and swears she'll never stint,\n" + " Make raging battery upon shores of flint.'\n\n" + " No visor does become black villany\n" + " So well as soft and tender flattery.\n" + " Let Pericles believe his daughter's dead,\n" + " And bear his courses to be ordered\n" + " By Lady Fortune; while our scene must play\n" + " His daughter's woe and heavy well-a-day\n" + " In her unholy service. Patience, then,\n" + " And think you now are all in Mytilene.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Mytilene. A street before the brothel.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from the brothel, two Gentlemen]\n\n" + "First Gentleman Did you ever hear the like?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman No, nor never shall do in such a place as this, she\n" + " being once gone.\n\n" + "First Gentleman But to have divinity preached there! did you ever\n" + " dream of such a thing?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman No, no. Come, I am for no more bawdy-houses:\n" + " shall's go hear the vestals sing?\n\n" + "First Gentleman I'll do any thing now that is virtuous; but I\n" + " am out of the road of rutting for ever.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The same. A room in the brothel.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Pandar, Bawd, and BOULT]\n\n" + "Pandar Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her she\n" + " had ne'er come here.\n\n" + "Bawd Fie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god\n" + " Priapus, and undo a whole generation. We must\n" + " either get her ravished, or be rid of her. When she\n" + " should do for clients her fitment, and do me the\n" + " kindness of our profession, she has me her quirks,\n" + " her reasons, her master reasons, her prayers, her\n" + " knees; that she would make a puritan of the devil,\n" + " if he should cheapen a kiss of her.\n\n" + "BOULT 'Faith, I must ravish her, or she'll disfurnish us\n" + " of all our cavaliers, and make our swearers priests.\n\n" + "Pandar Now, the pox upon her green-sickness for me!\n\n" + "Bawd 'Faith, there's no way to be rid on't but by the\n" + " way to the pox. Here comes the Lord Lysimachus disguised.\n\n" + "BOULT We should have both lord and lown, if the peevish\n" + " baggage would but give way to customers.\n\n" + " [Enter LYSIMACHUS]\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS How now! How a dozen of virginities?\n\n" + "Bawd Now, the gods to-bless your honour!\n\n" + "BOULT I am glad to see your honour in good health.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS You may so; 'tis the better for you that your\n" + " resorters stand upon sound legs. How now!\n" + " wholesome iniquity have you that a man may deal\n" + " withal, and defy the surgeon?\n\n" + "Bawd We have here one, sir, if she would--but there never\n" + " came her like in Mytilene.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS If she'ld do the deed of darkness, thou wouldst say.\n\n" + "Bawd Your honour knows what 'tis to say well enough.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Well, call forth, call forth.\n\n" + "BOULT For flesh and blood, sir, white and red, you shall\n" + " see a rose; and she were a rose indeed, if she had but--\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS What, prithee?\n\n" + "BOULT O, sir, I can be modest.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS That dignifies the renown of a bawd, no less than it\n" + " gives a good report to a number to be chaste.\n\n" + " [Exit BOULT]\n\n" + "Bawd Here comes that which grows to the stalk; never\n" + " plucked yet, I can assure you.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BOULT with MARINA]\n\n" + " Is she not a fair creature?\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS 'Faith, she would serve after a long voyage at sea.\n" + " Well, there's for you: leave us.\n\n" + "Bawd I beseech your honour, give me leave: a word, and\n" + " I'll have done presently.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS I beseech you, do.\n\n" + "Bawd [To MARINA] First, I would have you note, this is\n" + " an honourable man.\n\n" + "MARINA I desire to find him so, that I may worthily note him.\n\n" + "Bawd Next, he's the governor of this country, and a man\n" + " whom I am bound to.\n\n" + "MARINA If he govern the country, you are bound to him\n" + " indeed; but how honourable he is in that, I know not.\n\n" + "Bawd Pray you, without any more virginal fencing, will\n" + " you use him kindly? He will line your apron with gold.\n\n" + "MARINA What he will do graciously, I will thankfully receive.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Ha' you done?\n\n" + "Bawd My lord, she's not paced yet: you must take some\n" + " pains to work her to your manage. Come, we will\n" + " leave his honour and her together. Go thy ways.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Bawd, Pandar, and BOULT]\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?\n\n" + "MARINA What trade, sir?\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Why, I cannot name't but I shall offend.\n\n" + "MARINA I cannot be offended with my trade. Please you to name it.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS How long have you been of this profession?\n\n" + "MARINA E'er since I can remember.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Did you go to 't so young? Were you a gamester at\n" + " five or at seven?\n\n" + "MARINA Earlier too, sir, if now I be one.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Why, the house you dwell in proclaims you to be a\n" + " creature of sale.\n\n" + "MARINA Do you know this house to be a place of such resort,\n" + " and will come into 't? I hear say you are of\n" + " honourable parts, and are the governor of this place.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Why, hath your principal made known unto you who I am?\n\n" + "MARINA Who is my principal?\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Why, your herb-woman; she that sets seeds and roots\n" + " of shame and iniquity. O, you have heard something\n" + " of my power, and so stand aloof for more serious\n" + " wooing. But I protest to thee, pretty one, my\n" + " authority shall not see thee, or else look friendly\n" + " upon thee. Come, bring me to some private place:\n" + " come, come.\n\n" + "MARINA If you were born to honour, show it now;\n" + " If put upon you, make the judgment good\n" + " That thought you worthy of it.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS How's this? how's this? Some more; be sage.\n\n" + "MARINA For me,\n" + " That am a maid, though most ungentle fortune\n" + " Have placed me in this sty, where, since I came,\n" + " Diseases have been sold dearer than physic,\n" + " O, that the gods\n" + " Would set me free from this unhallow'd place,\n" + " Though they did change me to the meanest bird\n" + " That flies i' the purer air!\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS I did not think\n" + " Thou couldst have spoke so well; ne'er dream'd thou couldst.\n" + " Had I brought hither a corrupted mind,\n" + " Thy speech had alter'd it. Hold, here's gold for thee:\n" + " Persever in that clear way thou goest,\n" + " And the gods strengthen thee!\n\n" + "MARINA The good gods preserve you!\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS For me, be you thoughten\n" + " That I came with no ill intent; for to me\n" + " The very doors and windows savour vilely.\n" + " Fare thee well. Thou art a piece of virtue, and\n" + " I doubt not but thy training hath been noble.\n" + " Hold, here's more gold for thee.\n" + " A curse upon him, die he like a thief,\n" + " That robs thee of thy goodness! If thou dost\n" + " Hear from me, it shall be for thy good.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BOULT]\n\n" + "BOULT I beseech your honour, one piece for me.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Avaunt, thou damned door-keeper!\n" + " Your house, but for this virgin that doth prop it,\n" + " Would sink and overwhelm you. Away!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BOULT How's this? We must take another course with you.\n" + " If your peevish chastity, which is not worth a\n" + " breakfast in the cheapest country under the cope,\n" + " shall undo a whole household, let me be gelded like\n" + " a spaniel. Come your ways.\n\n" + "MARINA Whither would you have me?\n\n" + "BOULT I must have your maidenhead taken off, or the common\n" + " hangman shall execute it. Come your ways. We'll\n" + " have no more gentlemen driven away. Come your ways, I say.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Bawd]\n\n" + "Bawd How now! what's the matter?\n\n" + "BOULT Worse and worse, mistress; she has here spoken holy\n" + " words to the Lord Lysimachus.\n\n" + "Bawd O abominable!\n\n" + "BOULT She makes our profession as it were to stink afore\n" + " the face of the gods.\n\n" + "Bawd Marry, hang her up for ever!\n\n" + "BOULT The nobleman would have dealt with her like a\n" + " nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a\n" + " snowball; saying his prayers too.\n\n" + "Bawd Boult, take her away; use her at thy pleasure:\n" + " crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest malleable.\n\n" + "BOULT An if she were a thornier piece of ground than she\n" + " is, she shall be ploughed.\n\n" + "MARINA Hark, hark, you gods!\n\n" + "Bawd She conjures: away with her! Would she had never\n" + " come within my doors! Marry, hang you! She's born\n" + " to undo us. Will you not go the way of women-kind?\n" + " Marry, come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and bays!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BOULT Come, mistress; come your ways with me.\n\n" + "MARINA Whither wilt thou have me?\n\n" + "BOULT To take from you the jewel you hold so dear.\n\n" + "MARINA Prithee, tell me one thing first.\n\n" + "BOULT Come now, your one thing.\n\n" + "MARINA What canst thou wish thine enemy to be?\n\n" + "BOULT Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather, my mistress.\n\n" + "MARINA Neither of these are so bad as thou art,\n" + " Since they do better thee in their command.\n" + " Thou hold'st a place, for which the pained'st fiend\n" + " Of hell would not in reputation change:\n" + " Thou art the damned doorkeeper to every\n" + " Coistrel that comes inquiring for his Tib;\n" + " To the choleric fisting of every rogue\n" + " Thy ear is liable; thy food is such\n" + " As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.\n\n" + "BOULT What would you have me do? go to the wars, would\n" + " you? where a man may serve seven years for the loss\n" + " of a leg, and have not money enough in the end to\n" + " buy him a wooden one?\n\n" + "MARINA Do any thing but this thou doest. Empty\n" + " OLD receptacles, or common shores, of filth;\n" + " Serve by indenture to the common hangman:\n" + " Any of these ways are yet better than this;\n" + " For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak,\n" + " Would own a name too dear. O, that the gods\n" + " Would safely deliver me from this place!\n" + " Here, here's gold for thee.\n" + " If that thy master would gain by thee,\n" + " Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance,\n" + " With other virtues, which I'll keep from boast:\n" + " And I will undertake all these to teach.\n" + " I doubt not but this populous city will\n" + " Yield many scholars.\n\n" + "BOULT But can you teach all this you speak of?\n\n" + "MARINA Prove that I cannot, take me home again,\n" + " And prostitute me to the basest groom\n" + " That doth frequent your house.\n\n" + "BOULT Well, I will see what I can do for thee: if I can\n" + " place thee, I will.\n\n" + "MARINA But amongst honest women.\n\n" + "BOULT 'Faith, my acquaintance lies little amongst them.\n" + " But since my master and mistress have bought you,\n" + " there's no going but by their consent: therefore I\n" + " will make them acquainted with your purpose, and I\n" + " doubt not but I shall find them tractable enough.\n" + " Come, I'll do for thee what I can; come your ways.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER]\n\n" + "GOWER Marina thus the brothel 'scapes, and chances\n" + " Into an honest house, our story says.\n" + " She sings like one immortal, and she dances\n" + " As goddess-like to her admired lays;\n" + " Deep clerks she dumbs; and with her needle composes\n" + " Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry,\n" + " That even her art sisters the natural roses;\n" + " Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry:\n" + " That pupils lacks she none of noble race,\n" + " Who pour their bounty on her; and her gain\n" + " She gives the cursed bawd. Here we her place;\n" + " And to her father turn our thoughts again,\n" + " Where we left him, on the sea. We there him lost;\n" + " Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived\n" + " Here where his daughter dwells; and on this coast\n" + " Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived\n" + " God Neptune's annual feast to keep: from whence\n" + " Lysimachus our Tyrian ship espies,\n" + " His banners sable, trimm'd with rich expense;\n" + " And to him in his barge with fervor hies.\n" + " In your supposing once more put your sight\n" + " Of heavy Pericles; think this his bark:\n" + " Where what is done in action, more, if might,\n" + " Shall be discover'd; please you, sit and hark.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I On board PERICLES' ship, off Mytilene. A close\n" + " pavilion on deck, with a curtain before it; PERICLES\n" + " within it, reclined on a couch. A barge lying\n" + " beside the Tyrian vessel.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Sailors, one belonging to the Tyrian\n" + " vessel, the other to the barge; to them HELICANUS]\n\n" + "Tyrian Sailor [To the Sailor of Mytilene] Where is lord Helicanus?\n" + " he can resolve you.\n" + " O, here he is.\n" + " Sir, there's a barge put off from Mytilene,\n" + " And in it is Lysimachus the governor,\n" + " Who craves to come aboard. What is your will?\n\n" + "HELICANUS That he have his. Call up some gentlemen.\n\n" + "Tyrian Sailor Ho, gentlemen! my lord calls.\n\n" + " [Enter two or three Gentlemen]\n\n" + "First Gentleman Doth your lordship call?\n\n" + "HELICANUS Gentlemen, there's some of worth would come aboard;\n" + " I pray ye, greet them fairly.\n\n" + " [The Gentlemen and the two Sailors descend, and go\n" + " on board the barge]\n\n" + " [Enter, from thence, LYSIMACHUS and Lords; with the\n" + " Gentlemen and the two Sailors]\n\n" + "Tyrian Sailor Sir,\n" + " This is the man that can, in aught you would,\n" + " Resolve you.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Hail, reverend sir! the gods preserve you!\n\n" + "HELICANUS And you, sir, to outlive the age I am,\n" + " And die as I would do.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS You wish me well.\n" + " Being on shore, honouring of Neptune's triumphs,\n" + " Seeing this goodly vessel ride before us,\n" + " I made to it, to know of whence you are.\n\n" + "HELICANUS First, what is your place?\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS I am the governor of this place you lie before.\n\n" + "HELICANUS Sir,\n" + " Our vessel is of Tyre, in it the king;\n" + " A man who for this three months hath not spoken\n" + " To any one, nor taken sustenance\n" + " But to prorogue his grief.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Upon what ground is his distemperature?\n\n" + "HELICANUS 'Twould be too tedious to repeat;\n" + " But the main grief springs from the loss\n" + " Of a beloved daughter and a wife.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS May we not see him?\n\n" + "HELICANUS You may;\n" + " But bootless is your sight: he will not speak To any.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Yet let me obtain my wish.\n\n" + "HELICANUS Behold him.\n\n" + " [PERICLES discovered]\n\n" + " This was a goodly person,\n" + " Till the disaster that, one mortal night,\n" + " Drove him to this.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Sir king, all hail! the gods preserve you!\n" + " Hail, royal sir!\n\n" + "HELICANUS It is in vain; he will not speak to you.\n\n" + "First Lord Sir,\n" + " We have a maid in Mytilene, I durst wager,\n" + " Would win some words of him.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS 'Tis well bethought.\n" + " She questionless with her sweet harmony\n" + " And other chosen attractions, would allure,\n" + " And make a battery through his deafen'd parts,\n" + " Which now are midway stopp'd:\n" + " She is all happy as the fairest of all,\n" + " And, with her fellow maids is now upon\n" + " The leafy shelter that abuts against\n" + " The island's side.\n\n" + " [Whispers a Lord, who goes off in the barge of\n" + " LYSIMACHUS]\n\n" + "HELICANUS Sure, all's effectless; yet nothing we'll omit\n" + " That bears recovery's name. But, since your kindness\n" + " We have stretch'd thus far, let us beseech you\n" + " That for our gold we may provision have,\n" + " Wherein we are not destitute for want,\n" + " But weary for the staleness.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS O, sir, a courtesy\n" + " Which if we should deny, the most just gods\n" + " For every graff would send a caterpillar,\n" + " And so afflict our province. Yet once more\n" + " Let me entreat to know at large the cause\n" + " Of your king's sorrow.\n\n" + "HELICANUS Sit, sir, I will recount it to you:\n" + " But, see, I am prevented.\n\n" + " [Re-enter, from the barge, Lord, with MARINA, and a\n" + " young Lady]\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS O, here is\n" + " The lady that I sent for. Welcome, fair one!\n" + " Is't not a goodly presence?\n\n" + "HELICANUS She's a gallant lady.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS She's such a one, that, were I well assured\n" + " Came of a gentle kind and noble stock,\n" + " I'ld wish no better choice, and think me rarely wed.\n" + " Fair one, all goodness that consists in bounty\n" + " Expect even here, where is a kingly patient:\n" + " If that thy prosperous and artificial feat\n" + " Can draw him but to answer thee in aught,\n" + " Thy sacred physic shall receive such pay\n" + " As thy desires can wish.\n\n" + "MARINA Sir, I will use\n" + " My utmost skill in his recovery, Provided\n" + " That none but I and my companion maid\n" + " Be suffer'd to come near him.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Come, let us leave her;\n" + " And the gods make her prosperous!\n\n" + " [MARINA sings]\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Mark'd he your music?\n\n" + "MARINA No, nor look'd on us.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS See, she will speak to him.\n\n" + "MARINA Hail, sir! my lord, lend ear.\n\n" + "PERICLES Hum, ha!\n\n" + "MARINA I am a maid,\n" + " My lord, that ne'er before invited eyes,\n" + " But have been gazed on like a comet: she speaks,\n" + " My lord, that, may be, hath endured a grief\n" + " Might equal yours, if both were justly weigh'd.\n" + " Though wayward fortune did malign my state,\n" + " My derivation was from ancestors\n" + " Who stood equivalent with mighty kings:\n" + " But time hath rooted out my parentage,\n" + " And to the world and awkward casualties\n" + " Bound me in servitude.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I will desist;\n" + " But there is something glows upon my cheek,\n" + " And whispers in mine ear, 'Go not till he speak.'\n\n" + "PERICLES My fortunes--parentage--good parentage--\n" + " To equal mine!--was it not thus? what say you?\n\n" + "MARINA I said, my lord, if you did know my parentage,\n" + " You would not do me violence.\n\n" + "PERICLES I do think so. Pray you, turn your eyes upon me.\n" + " You are like something that--What country-woman?\n" + " Here of these shores?\n\n" + "MARINA No, nor of any shores:\n" + " Yet I was mortally brought forth, and am\n" + " No other than I appear.\n\n" + "PERICLES I am great with woe, and shall deliver weeping.\n" + " My dearest wife was like this maid, and such a one\n" + " My daughter might have been: my queen's square brows;\n" + " Her stature to an inch; as wand-like straight;\n" + " As silver-voiced; her eyes as jewel-like\n" + " And cased as richly; in pace another Juno;\n" + " Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry,\n" + " The more she gives them speech. Where do you live?\n\n" + "MARINA Where I am but a stranger: from the deck\n" + " You may discern the place.\n\n" + "PERICLES Where were you bred?\n" + " And how achieved you these endowments, which\n" + " You make more rich to owe?\n\n" + "MARINA If I should tell my history, it would seem\n" + " Like lies disdain'd in the reporting.\n\n" + "PERICLES Prithee, speak:\n" + " Falseness cannot come from thee; for thou look'st\n" + " Modest as Justice, and thou seem'st a palace\n" + " For the crown'd Truth to dwell in: I will\n" + " believe thee,\n" + " And make my senses credit thy relation\n" + " To points that seem impossible; for thou look'st\n" + " Like one I loved indeed. What were thy friends?\n" + " Didst thou not say, when I did push thee back--\n" + " Which was when I perceived thee--that thou camest\n" + " From good descending?\n\n" + "MARINA So indeed I did.\n\n" + "PERICLES Report thy parentage. I think thou said'st\n" + " Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to injury,\n" + " And that thou thought'st thy griefs might equal mine,\n" + " If both were open'd.\n\n" + "MARINA Some such thing\n" + " I said, and said no more but what my thoughts\n" + " Did warrant me was likely.\n\n" + "PERICLES Tell thy story;\n" + " If thine consider'd prove the thousandth part\n" + " Of my endurance, thou art a man, and I\n" + " Have suffer'd like a girl: yet thou dost look\n" + " Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling\n" + " Extremity out of act. What were thy friends?\n" + " How lost thou them? Thy name, my most kind virgin?\n" + " Recount, I do beseech thee: come, sit by me.\n\n" + "MARINA My name is Marina.\n\n" + "PERICLES O, I am mock'd,\n" + " And thou by some incensed god sent hither\n" + " To make the world to laugh at me.\n\n" + "MARINA Patience, good sir,\n" + " Or here I'll cease.\n\n" + "PERICLES Nay, I'll be patient.\n" + " Thou little know'st how thou dost startle me,\n" + " To call thyself Marina.\n\n" + "MARINA The name\n" + " Was given me by one that had some power,\n" + " My father, and a king.\n\n" + "PERICLES How! a king's daughter?\n" + " And call'd Marina?\n\n" + "MARINA You said you would believe me;\n" + " But, not to be a troubler of your peace,\n" + " I will end here.\n\n" + "PERICLES But are you flesh and blood?\n" + " Have you a working pulse? and are no fairy?\n" + " Motion! Well; speak on. Where were you born?\n" + " And wherefore call'd Marina?\n\n" + "MARINA Call'd Marina\n" + " For I was born at sea.\n\n" + "PERICLES At sea! what mother?\n\n" + "MARINA My mother was the daughter of a king;\n" + " Who died the minute I was born,\n" + " As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft\n" + " Deliver'd weeping.\n\n" + "PERICLES O, stop there a little!\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep\n" + " Did mock sad fools withal: this cannot be:\n" + " My daughter's buried. Well: where were you bred?\n" + " I'll hear you more, to the bottom of your story,\n" + " And never interrupt you.\n\n" + "MARINA You scorn: believe me, 'twere best I did give o'er.\n\n" + "PERICLES I will believe you by the syllable\n" + " Of what you shall deliver. Yet, give me leave:\n" + " How came you in these parts? where were you bred?\n\n" + "MARINA The king my father did in Tarsus leave me;\n" + " Till cruel Cleon, with his wicked wife,\n" + " Did seek to murder me: and having woo'd\n" + " A villain to attempt it, who having drawn to do't,\n" + " A crew of pirates came and rescued me;\n" + " Brought me to Mytilene. But, good sir,\n" + " Whither will you have me? Why do you weep?\n" + " It may be,\n" + " You think me an impostor: no, good faith;\n" + " I am the daughter to King Pericles,\n" + " If good King Pericles be.\n\n" + "PERICLES Ho, Helicanus!\n\n" + "HELICANUS Calls my lord?\n\n" + "PERICLES Thou art a grave and noble counsellor,\n" + " Most wise in general: tell me, if thou canst,\n" + " What this maid is, or what is like to be,\n" + " That thus hath made me weep?\n\n" + "HELICANUS I know not; but\n" + " Here is the regent, sir, of Mytilene\n" + " Speaks nobly of her.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS She would never tell\n" + " Her parentage; being demanded that,\n" + " She would sit still and weep.\n\n" + "PERICLES O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd sir;\n" + " Give me a gash, put me to present pain;\n" + " Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me\n" + " O'erbear the shores of my mortality,\n" + " And drown me with their sweetness. O, come hither,\n" + " Thou that beget'st him that did thee beget;\n" + " Thou that wast born at sea, buried at Tarsus,\n" + " And found at sea again! O Helicanus,\n" + " Down on thy knees, thank the holy gods as loud\n" + " As thunder threatens us: this is Marina.\n" + " What was thy mother's name? tell me but that,\n" + " For truth can never be confirm'd enough,\n" + " Though doubts did ever sleep.\n\n" + "MARINA First, sir, I pray,\n" + " What is your title?\n\n" + "PERICLES I am Pericles of Tyre: but tell me now\n" + " My drown'd queen's name, as in the rest you said\n" + " Thou hast been godlike perfect,\n" + " The heir of kingdoms and another like\n" + " To Pericles thy father.\n\n" + "MARINA Is it no more to be your daughter than\n" + " To say my mother's name was Thaisa?\n" + " Thaisa was my mother, who did end\n" + " The minute I began.\n\n" + "PERICLES Now, blessing on thee! rise; thou art my child.\n" + " Give me fresh garments. Mine own, Helicanus;\n" + " She is not dead at Tarsus, as she should have been,\n" + " By savage Cleon: she shall tell thee all;\n" + " When thou shalt kneel, and justify in knowledge\n" + " She is thy very princess. Who is this?\n\n" + "HELICANUS Sir, 'tis the governor of Mytilene,\n" + " Who, hearing of your melancholy state,\n" + " Did come to see you.\n\n" + "PERICLES I embrace you.\n" + " Give me my robes. I am wild in my beholding.\n" + " O heavens bless my girl! But, hark, what music?\n" + " Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him\n" + " O'er, point by point, for yet he seems to doubt,\n" + " How sure you are my daughter. But, what music?\n\n" + "HELICANUS My lord, I hear none.\n\n" + "PERICLES None!\n" + " The music of the spheres! List, my Marina.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS It is not good to cross him; give him way.\n\n" + "PERICLES Rarest sounds! Do ye not hear?\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS My lord, I hear.\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + "PERICLES Most heavenly music!\n" + " It nips me unto listening, and thick slumber\n" + " Hangs upon mine eyes: let me rest.\n\n" + " [Sleeps]\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS A pillow for his head:\n" + " So, leave him all. Well, my companion friends,\n" + " If this but answer to my just belief,\n" + " I'll well remember you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but PERICLES]\n\n" + " [DIANA appears to PERICLES as in a vision]\n\n" + "DIANA My temple stands in Ephesus: hie thee thither,\n" + " And do upon mine altar sacrifice.\n" + " There, when my maiden priests are met together,\n" + " Before the people all,\n" + " Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:\n" + " To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call\n" + " And give them repetition to the life.\n" + " Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe;\n" + " Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!\n" + " Awake, and tell thy dream.\n\n" + " [Disappears]\n\n" + "PERICLES Celestial Dian, goddess argentine,\n" + " I will obey thee. Helicanus!\n\n" + " [Re-enter HELICANUS, LYSIMACHUS, and MARINA]\n\n" + "HELICANUS Sir?\n\n" + "PERICLES My purpose was for Tarsus, there to strike\n" + " The inhospitable Cleon; but I am\n" + " For other service first: toward Ephesus\n" + " Turn our blown sails; eftsoons I'll tell thee why.\n\n" + " [To LYSIMACHUS]\n\n" + " Shall we refresh us, sir, upon your shore,\n" + " And give you gold for such provision\n" + " As our intents will need?\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Sir,\n" + " With all my heart; and, when you come ashore,\n" + " I have another suit.\n\n" + "PERICLES You shall prevail,\n" + " Were it to woo my daughter; for it seems\n" + " You have been noble towards her.\n\n" + "LYSIMACHUS Sir, lend me your arm.\n\n" + "PERICLES Come, my Marina.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II:\n\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER, before the temple of DIANA at Ephesus]\n\n" + "GOWER Now our sands are almost run;\n" + " More a little, and then dumb.\n" + " This, my last boon, give me,\n" + " For such kindness must relieve me,\n" + " That you aptly will suppose\n" + " What pageantry, what feats, what shows,\n" + " What minstrelsy, and pretty din,\n" + " The regent made in Mytilene\n" + " To greet the king. So he thrived,\n" + " That he is promised to be wived\n" + " To fair Marina; but in no wise\n" + " Till he had done his sacrifice,\n" + " As Dian bade: whereto being bound,\n" + " The interim, pray you, all confound.\n" + " In feather'd briefness sails are fill'd,\n" + " And wishes fall out as they're will'd.\n" + " At Ephesus, the temple see,\n" + " Our king and all his company.\n" + " That he can hither come so soon,\n" + " Is by your fancy's thankful doom.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The temple of Diana at Ephesus; THAISA standing\n" + " near the altar, as high priestess; a number of\n" + " Virgins on each side; CERIMON and other Inhabitants\n" + " of Ephesus attending.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PERICLES, with his train; LYSIMACHUS,\n" + " HELICANUS, MARINA, and a Lady]\n\n" + "PERICLES Hail, Dian! to perform thy just command,\n" + " I here confess myself the king of Tyre;\n" + " Who, frighted from my country, did wed\n" + " At Pentapolis the fair Thaisa.\n" + " At sea in childbed died she, but brought forth\n" + " A maid-child call'd Marina; who, O goddess,\n" + " Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus\n" + " Was nursed with Cleon; who at fourteen years\n" + " He sought to murder: but her better stars\n" + " Brought her to Mytilene; 'gainst whose shore\n" + " Riding, her fortunes brought the maid aboard us,\n" + " Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she\n" + " Made known herself my daughter.\n\n" + "THAISA Voice and favour!\n" + " You are, you are--O royal Pericles!\n\n" + " [Faints]\n\n" + "PERICLES What means the nun? she dies! help, gentlemen!\n\n" + "CERIMON Noble sir,\n" + " If you have told Diana's altar true,\n" + " This is your wife.\n\n" + "PERICLES Reverend appearer, no;\n" + " I threw her overboard with these very arms.\n\n" + "CERIMON Upon this coast, I warrant you.\n\n" + "PERICLES 'Tis most certain.\n\n" + "CERIMON Look to the lady; O, she's but o'erjoy'd.\n" + " Early in blustering morn this lady was\n" + " Thrown upon this shore. I oped the coffin,\n" + " Found there rich jewels; recover'd her, and placed her\n" + " Here in Diana's temple.\n\n" + "PERICLES May we see them?\n\n" + "CERIMON Great sir, they shall be brought you to my house,\n" + " Whither I invite you. Look, Thaisa is recovered.\n\n" + "THAISA O, let me look!\n" + " If he be none of mine, my sanctity\n" + " Will to my sense bend no licentious ear,\n" + " But curb it, spite of seeing. O, my lord,\n" + " Are you not Pericles? Like him you spake,\n" + " Like him you are: did you not name a tempest,\n" + " A birth, and death?\n\n" + "PERICLES The voice of dead Thaisa!\n\n" + "THAISA That Thaisa am I, supposed dead\n" + " And drown'd.\n\n" + "PERICLES Immortal Dian!\n\n" + "THAISA Now I know you better.\n" + " When we with tears parted Pentapolis,\n" + " The king my father gave you such a ring.\n\n" + " [Shows a ring]\n\n" + "PERICLES This, this: no more, you gods! your present kindness\n" + " Makes my past miseries sports: you shall do well,\n" + " That on the touching of her lips I may\n" + " Melt and no more be seen. O, come, be buried\n" + " A second time within these arms.\n\n" + "MARINA My heart\n" + " Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom.\n\n" + " [Kneels to THAISA]\n\n" + "PERICLES Look, who kneels here! Flesh of thy flesh, Thaisa;\n" + " Thy burden at the sea, and call'd Marina\n" + " For she was yielded there.\n\n" + "THAISA Blest, and mine own!\n\n" + "HELICANUS Hail, madam, and my queen!\n\n" + "THAISA I know you not.\n\n" + "PERICLES You have heard me say, when I did fly from Tyre,\n" + " I left behind an ancient substitute:\n" + " Can you remember what I call'd the man?\n" + " I have named him oft.\n\n" + "THAISA 'Twas Helicanus then.\n\n" + "PERICLES Still confirmation:\n" + " Embrace him, dear Thaisa; this is he.\n" + " Now do I long to hear how you were found;\n" + " How possibly preserved; and who to thank,\n" + " Besides the gods, for this great miracle.\n\n" + "THAISA Lord Cerimon, my lord; this man,\n" + " Through whom the gods have shown their power; that can\n" + " From first to last resolve you.\n\n" + "PERICLES Reverend sir,\n" + " The gods can have no mortal officer\n" + " More like a god than you. Will you deliver\n" + " How this dead queen re-lives?\n\n" + "CERIMON I will, my lord.\n" + " Beseech you, first go with me to my house,\n" + " Where shall be shown you all was found with her;\n" + " How she came placed here in the temple;\n" + " No needful thing omitted.\n\n" + "PERICLES Pure Dian, bless thee for thy vision! I\n" + " Will offer night-oblations to thee. Thaisa,\n" + " This prince, the fair-betrothed of your daughter,\n" + " Shall marry her at Pentapolis. And now,\n" + " This ornament\n" + " Makes me look dismal will I clip to form;\n" + " And what this fourteen years no razor touch'd,\n" + " To grace thy marriage-day, I'll beautify.\n\n" + "THAISA Lord Cerimon hath letters of good credit, sir,\n" + " My father's dead.\n\n" + "PERICLES Heavens make a star of him! Yet there, my queen,\n" + " We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves\n" + " Will in that kingdom spend our following days:\n" + " Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.\n" + " Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay\n" + " To hear the rest untold: sir, lead's the way.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter GOWER]\n\n" + "GOWER In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard\n" + " Of monstrous lust the due and just reward:\n" + " In Pericles, his queen and daughter, seen,\n" + " Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen,\n" + " Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast,\n" + " Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last:\n" + " In Helicanus may you well descry\n" + " A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty:\n" + " In reverend Cerimon there well appears\n" + " The worth that learned charity aye wears:\n" + " For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame\n" + " Had spread their cursed deed, and honour'd name\n" + " Of Pericles, to rage the city turn,\n" + " That him and his they in his palace burn;\n" + " The gods for murder seemed so content\n" + " To punish them; although not done, but meant.\n" + " So, on your patience evermore attending,\n" + " New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n" + " THE RAPE OF LUCRECE\n\n" + "TO THE\n" + "RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,\n" + "Earl of Southampton, and Baron of Tichfield.\n\n\n" + "The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof\n" + "this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety.\n" + "The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth\n" + "of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I\n" + "have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in\n" + "all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater, my duty would\n" + "show greater; meantime, as it is, it is bound to your lordship,\n" + "to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness.\n\n" + "Your lordship's in all duty,\n" + "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\n\n" + " THE RAPE OF LUCRECE\n\n\n" + " THE ARGUMENT\n\n\n" + "Lucius Tarquinius, for his excessive pride surnamed Superbus,\n" + "after he had caused his own father-in-law Servius Tullius to be\n" + "cruelly murdered, and, contrary to the Roman laws and customs,\n" + "not requiring or staying for the people's suffrages, had\n" + "possessed himself of the kingdom, went, accompanied with his sons\n" + "and other noblemen of Rome, to besiege Ardea. During which siege\n" + "the principal men of the army meeting one evening at the tent of\n" + "Sextus Tarquinius, the king's son, in their discourses after\n" + "supper every one commended the virtues of his own wife: among\n" + "whom Collatinus extolled the incomparable chastity of his wife\n" + "Lucretia. In that pleasant humour they posted to Rome; and\n" + "intending, by their secret and sudden arrival, to make trial of\n" + "that which every one had before avouched, only Collatinus finds\n" + "his wife, though it were late in the night, spinning amongst her\n" + "maids: the other ladies were all found dancing and revelling, or\n" + "in several disports. Whereupon the noblemen yielded Collatinus\n" + "the victory, and his wife the fame. At that time Sextus\n" + "Tarquinius being inflamed with Lucrece' beauty, yet smothering\n" + "his passions for the present, departed with the rest back to the\n" + "camp; from whence he shortly after privily withdrew himself, and\n" + "was, according to his estate, royally entertained and lodged by\n" + "Lucrece at Collatium. The same night he treacherously stealeth\n" + "into her chamber, violently ravished her, and early in the\n" + "morning speedeth away. Lucrece, in this lamentable plight,\n" + "hastily dispatcheth messengers, one to Rome for her father,\n" + "another to the camp for Collatine. They came, the one\n" + "accompanied with Junius Brutus, the other with Publius Valerius;\n" + "and finding Lucrece attired in mourning habit, demanded the cause\n" + "of her sorrow. She, first taking an oath of them for her\n" + "revenge, revealed the actor, and whole manner of his dealing, and\n" + "withal suddenly stabbed herself. Which done, with one consent\n" + "they all vowed to root out the whole hated family of the\n" + "Tarquins; and bearing the dead body to Rome, Brutus acquainted\n" + "the people with the doer and manner of the vile deed, with a\n" + "bitter invective against the tyranny of the king: wherewith the\n" + "people were so moved, that with one consent and a general\n" + "acclamation the Tarquins were all exiled, and the state\n" + "government changed from kings to consuls.\n\n\n\n" + " THE RAPE OF LUCRECE\n\n\n\n" + "FROM the besieged Ardea all in post,\n" + "Borne by the trustless wings of false desire,\n" + "Lust-breathed Tarquin leaves the Roman host,\n" + "And to Collatium bears the lightless fire\n" + "Which, in pale embers hid, lurks to aspire\n" + "And girdle with embracing flames the waist\n" + "Of Collatine's fair love, Lucrece the chaste.\n\n" + "Haply that name of 'chaste' unhappily set\n" + "This bateless edge on his keen appetite;\n" + "When Collatine unwisely did not let\n" + "To praise the clear unmatched red and white\n" + "Which triumph'd in that sky of his delight,\n" + "Where mortal stars, as bright as heaven's beauties,\n" + "With pure aspects did him peculiar duties.\n\n" + "For he the night before, in Tarquin's tent,\n" + "Unlock'd the treasure of his happy state;\n" + "What priceless wealth the heavens had him lent\n" + "In the possession of his beauteous mate;\n" + "Reckoning his fortune at such high-proud rate,\n" + "That kings might be espoused to more fame,\n" + "But king nor peer to such a peerless dame.\n\n" + "O happiness enjoy'd but of a few!\n" + "And, if possess'd, as soon decay'd and done\n" + "As is the morning's silver-melting dew\n" + "Against the golden splendor of the sun!\n" + "An expired date, cancell'd ere well begun:\n" + "Honour and beauty, in the owner's arms,\n" + "Are weakly fortress'd from a world of harms.\n\n" + "Beauty itself doth of itself persuade\n" + "The eyes of men without an orator;\n" + "What needeth then apologies be made,\n" + "To set forth that which is so singular?\n" + "Or why is Collatine the publisher\n" + "Of that rich jewel he should keep unknown\n" + "From thievish ears, because it is his own?\n\n" + "Perchance his boast of Lucrece' sovereignty\n" + "Suggested this proud issue of a king;\n" + "For by our ears our hearts oft tainted be:\n" + "Perchance that envy of so rich a thing,\n" + "Braving compare, disdainfully did sting\n" + "His high-pitch'd thoughts, that meaner men should vaunt\n" + "That golden hap which their superiors want.\n\n" + "But some untimely thought did instigate\n" + "His all-too-timeless speed, if none of those:\n" + "His honour, his affairs, his friends, his state,\n" + "Neglected all, with swift intent he goes\n" + "To quench the coal which in his liver glows.\n" + "O rash false heat, wrapp'd in repentant cold,\n" + "Thy hasty spring still blasts, and ne'er grows old!\n\n" + "When at Collatium this false lord arrived,\n" + "Well was he welcomed by the Roman dame,\n" + "Within whose face beauty and virtue strived\n" + "Which of them both should underprop her fame:\n" + "When virtue bragg'd, beauty would blush for shame;\n" + "When beauty boasted blushes, in despite\n" + "Virtue would stain that o'er with silver white.\n\n" + "But beauty, in that white intituled,\n" + "From Venus' doves doth challenge that fair field:\n" + "Then virtue claims from beauty beauty's red,\n" + "Which virtue gave the golden age to gild\n" + "Their silver cheeks, and call'd it then their shield;\n" + "Teaching them thus to use it in the fight,\n" + "When shame assail'd, the red should fence the white.\n\n" + "This heraldry in Lucrece' face was seen,\n" + "Argued by beauty's red and virtue's white\n" + "Of either's colour was the other queen,\n" + "Proving from world's minority their right:\n" + "Yet their ambition makes them still to fight;\n" + "The sovereignty of either being so great,\n" + "That oft they interchange each other's seat.\n\n" + "Their silent war of lilies and of roses,\n" + "Which Tarquin view'd in her fair face's field,\n" + "In their pure ranks his traitor eye encloses;\n" + "Where, lest between them both it should be kill'd,\n" + "The coward captive vanquished doth yield\n" + "To those two armies that would let him go,\n" + "Rather than triumph in so false a foe.\n\n" + "Now thinks he that her husband's shallow tongue,--\n" + "The niggard prodigal that praised her so,--\n" + "In that high task hath done her beauty wrong,\n" + "Which far exceeds his barren skill to show:\n" + "Therefore that praise which Collatine doth owe\n" + "Enchanted Tarquin answers with surmise,\n" + "In silent wonder of still-gazing eyes.\n\n" + "This earthly saint, adored by this devil,\n" + "Little suspecteth the false worshipper;\n" + "For unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on evil;\n" + "Birds never limed no secret bushes fear:\n" + "So guiltless she securely gives good cheer\n" + "And reverend welcome to her princely guest,\n" + "Whose inward ill no outward harm express'd:\n\n" + "For that he colour'd with his high estate,\n" + "Hiding base sin in plaits of majesty;\n" + "That nothing in him seem'd inordinate,\n" + "Save something too much wonder of his eye,\n" + "Which, having all, all could not satisfy;\n" + "But, poorly rich, so wanteth in his store,\n" + "That, cloy'd with much, he pineth still for more.\n\n" + "But she, that never coped with stranger eyes,\n" + "Could pick no meaning from their parling looks,\n" + "Nor read the subtle-shining secrecies\n" + "Writ in the glassy margents of such books:\n" + "She touch'd no unknown baits, nor fear'd no hooks;\n" + "Nor could she moralize his wanton sight,\n" + "More than his eyes were open'd to the light.\n\n" + "He stories to her ears her husband's fame,\n" + "Won in the fields of fruitful Italy;\n" + "And decks with praises Collatine's high name,\n" + "Made glorious by his manly chivalry\n" + "With bruised arms and wreaths of victory:\n" + "Her joy with heaved-up hand she doth express,\n" + "And, wordless, so greets heaven for his success.\n\n" + "Far from the purpose of his coming hither,\n" + "He makes excuses for his being there:\n" + "No cloudy show of stormy blustering weather\n" + "Doth yet in his fair welkin once appear;\n" + "Till sable Night, mother of Dread and Fear,\n" + "Upon the world dim darkness doth display,\n" + "And in her vaulty prison stows the Day.\n\n" + "For then is Tarquin brought unto his bed,\n" + "Intending weariness with heavy spright;\n" + "For, after supper, long he questioned\n" + "With modest Lucrece, and wore out the night:\n" + "Now leaden slumber with life's strength doth fight;\n" + "And every one to rest themselves betake,\n" + "Save thieves, and cares, and troubled minds, that wake.\n\n" + "As one of which doth Tarquin lie revolving\n" + "The sundry dangers of his will's obtaining;\n" + "Yet ever to obtain his will resolving,\n" + "Though weak-built hopes persuade him to abstaining:\n" + "Despair to gain doth traffic oft for gaining;\n" + "And when great treasure is the meed proposed,\n" + "Though death be adjunct, there's no death supposed.\n\n" + "Those that much covet are with gain so fond,\n" + "For what they have not, that which they possess\n" + "They scatter and unloose it from their bond,\n" + "And so, by hoping more, they have but less;\n" + "Or, gaining more, the profit of excess\n" + "Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,\n" + "That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.\n\n" + "The aim of all is but to nurse the life\n" + "With honour, wealth, and ease, in waning age;\n" + "And in this aim there is such thwarting strife,\n" + "That one for all, or all for one we gage;\n" + "As life for honour in fell battle's rage;\n" + "Honour for wealth; and oft that wealth doth cost\n" + "The death of all, and all together lost.\n\n" + "So that in venturing ill we leave to be\n" + "The things we are for that which we expect;\n" + "And this ambitious foul infirmity,\n" + "In having much, torments us with defect\n" + "Of that we have: so then we do neglect\n" + "The thing we have; and, all for want of wit,\n" + "Make something nothing by augmenting it.\n\n" + "Such hazard now must doting Tarquin make,\n" + "Pawning his honour to obtain his lust;\n" + "And for himself himself be must forsake:\n" + "Then where is truth, if there be no self-trust?\n" + "When shall he think to find a stranger just,\n" + "When he himself himself confounds, betrays\n" + "To slanderous tongues and wretched hateful days?\n\n" + "Now stole upon the time the dead of night,\n" + "When heavy sleep had closed up mortal eyes:\n" + "No comfortable star did lend his light,\n" + "No noise but owls' and wolves' death-boding cries;\n" + "Now serves the season that they may surprise\n" + "The silly lambs: pure thoughts are dead and still,\n" + "While lust and murder wake to stain and kill.\n\n" + "And now this lustful lord leap'd from his bed,\n" + "Throwing his mantle rudely o'er his arm;\n" + "Is madly toss'd between desire and dread;\n" + "Th' one sweetly flatters, th' other feareth harm;\n" + "But honest fear, bewitch'd with lust's foul charm,\n" + "Doth too too oft betake him to retire,\n" + "Beaten away by brain-sick rude desire.\n\n" + "His falchion on a flint he softly smiteth,\n" + "That from the cold stone sparks of fire do fly;\n" + "Whereat a waxen torch forthwith he lighteth,\n" + "Which must be lode-star to his lustful eye;\n" + "And to the flame thus speaks advisedly,\n" + "'As from this cold flint I enforced this fire,\n" + "So Lucrece must I force to my desire.'\n\n" + "Here pale with fear he doth premeditate\n" + "The dangers of his loathsome enterprise,\n" + "And in his inward mind he doth debate\n" + "What following sorrow may on this arise:\n" + "Then looking scornfully, he doth despise\n" + "His naked armour of still-slaughter'd lust,\n" + "And justly thus controls his thoughts unjust:\n\n" + "'Fair torch, burn out thy light, and lend it not\n" + "To darken her whose light excelleth thine:\n" + "And die, unhallow'd thoughts, before you blot\n" + "With your uncleanness that which is divine;\n" + "Offer pure incense to so pure a shrine:\n" + "Let fair humanity abhor the deed\n" + "That spots and stains love's modest snow-white weed.\n\n" + "'O shame to knighthood and to shining arms!\n" + "O foul dishonour to my household's grave!\n" + "O impious act, including all foul harms!\n" + "A martial man to be soft fancy's slave!\n" + "True valour still a true respect should have;\n" + "Then my digression is so vile, so base,\n" + "That it will live engraven in my face.\n\n" + "'Yea, though I die, the scandal will survive,\n" + "And be an eye-sore in my golden coat;\n" + "Some loathsome dash the herald will contrive,\n" + "To cipher me how fondly I did dote;\n" + "That my posterity, shamed with the note\n" + "Shall curse my bones, and hold it for no sin\n" + "To wish that I their father had not bin.\n\n" + "'What win I, if I gain the thing I seek?\n" + "A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.\n" + "Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?\n" + "Or sells eternity to get a toy?\n" + "For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy?\n" + "Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown,\n" + "Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?\n\n" + "'If Collatinus dream of my intent,\n" + "Will he not wake, and in a desperate rage\n" + "Post hither, this vile purpose to prevent?\n" + "This siege that hath engirt his marriage,\n" + "This blur to youth, this sorrow to the sage,\n" + "This dying virtue, this surviving shame,\n" + "Whose crime will bear an ever-during blame?\n\n" + "'O, what excuse can my invention make,\n" + "When thou shalt charge me with so black a deed?\n" + "Will not my tongue be mute, my frail joints shake,\n" + "Mine eyes forego their light, my false heart bleed?\n" + "The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed;\n" + "And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly,\n" + "But coward-like with trembling terror die.\n\n\n" + "'Had Collatinus kill'd my son or sire,\n" + "Or lain in ambush to betray my life,\n" + "Or were he not my dear friend, this desire\n" + "Might have excuse to work upon his wife,\n" + "As in revenge or quittal of such strife:\n" + "But as he is my kinsman, my dear friend,\n" + "The shame and fault finds no excuse nor end.\n\n" + "'Shameful it is; ay, if the fact be known:\n" + "Hateful it is; there is no hate in loving:\n" + "I'll beg her love; but she is own:\n" + "The worst is but denial and reproving:\n" + "My will is strong, past reason's weak removing.\n" + "Who fears a sentence or an old man's saw\n" + "Shall by a painted cloth be kept in awe.'\n\n" + "Thus, graceless, holds he disputation\n" + "'Tween frozen conscience and hot-burning will,\n" + "And with good thoughts make dispensation,\n" + "Urging the worser sense for vantage still;\n" + "Which in a moment doth confound and kill\n" + "All pure effects, and doth so far proceed,\n" + "That what is vile shows like a virtuous deed.\n\n" + "Quoth he, 'She took me kindly by the hand,\n" + "And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes,\n" + "Fearing some hard news from the warlike band,\n" + "Where her beloved Collatinus lies.\n" + "O, how her fear did make her colour rise!\n" + "First red as roses that on lawn we lay,\n" + "Then white as lawn, the roses took away.\n\n" + "'And how her hand, in my hand being lock'd\n" + "Forced it to tremble with her loyal fear!\n" + "Which struck her sad, and then it faster rock'd,\n" + "Until her husband's welfare she did hear;\n" + "Whereat she smiled with so sweet a cheer,\n" + "That had Narcissus seen her as she stood,\n" + "Self-love had never drown'd him in the flood.\n\n" + "'Why hunt I then for colour or excuses?\n" + "All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth;\n" + "Poor wretches have remorse in poor abuses;\n" + "Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth:\n" + "Affection is my captain, and he leadeth;\n" + "And when his gaudy banner is display'd,\n" + "The coward fights and will not be dismay'd.\n\n" + "'Then, childish fear, avaunt! debating, die!\n" + "Respect and reason, wait on wrinkled age!\n" + "My heart shall never countermand mine eye:\n" + "Sad pause and deep regard beseem the sage;\n" + "My part is youth, and beats these from the stage:\n" + "Desire my pilot is, beauty my prize;\n" + "Then who fears sinking where such treasure lies?'\n\n" + "As corn o'ergrown by weeds, so heedful fear\n" + "Is almost choked by unresisted lust.\n" + "Away he steals with open listening ear,\n" + "Full of foul hope and full of fond mistrust;\n" + "Both which, as servitors to the unjust,\n" + "So cross him with their opposite persuasion,\n" + "That now he vows a league, and now invasion.\n\n" + "Within his thought her heavenly image sits,\n" + "And in the self-same seat sits Collatine:\n" + "That eye which looks on her confounds his wits;\n" + "That eye which him beholds, as more divine,\n" + "Unto a view so false will not incline;\n" + "But with a pure appeal seeks to the heart,\n" + "Which once corrupted takes the worser part;\n\n" + "And therein heartens up his servile powers,\n" + "Who, flatter'd by their leader's jocund show,\n" + "Stuff up his lust, as minutes fill up hours;\n" + "And as their captain, so their pride doth grow,\n" + "Paying more slavish tribute than they owe.\n" + "By reprobate desire thus madly led,\n" + "The Roman lord marcheth to Lucrece' bed.\n\n" + "The locks between her chamber and his will,\n" + "Each one by him enforced, retires his ward;\n" + "But, as they open, they all rate his ill,\n" + "Which drives the creeping thief to some regard:\n" + "The threshold grates the door to have him heard;\n" + "Night-wandering weasels shriek to see him there;\n" + "They fright him, yet he still pursues his fear.\n\n" + "As each unwilling portal yields him way,\n" + "Through little vents and crannies of the place\n" + "The wind wars with his torch to make him stay,\n" + "And blows the smoke of it into his face,\n" + "Extinguishing his conduct in this case;\n" + "But his hot heart, which fond desire doth scorch,\n" + "Puffs forth another wind that fires the torch:\n\n" + "And being lighted, by the light he spies\n" + "Lucretia's glove, wherein her needle sticks:\n" + "He takes it from the rushes where it lies,\n" + "And griping it, the needle his finger pricks;\n" + "As who should say 'This glove to wanton tricks\n" + "Is not inured; return again in haste;\n" + "Thou see'st our mistress' ornaments are chaste.'\n\n" + "But all these poor forbiddings could not stay him;\n" + "He in the worst sense construes their denial:\n" + "The doors, the wind, the glove, that did delay him,\n" + "He takes for accidental things of trial;\n" + "Or as those bars which stop the hourly dial,\n" + "Who with a lingering slay his course doth let,\n" + "Till every minute pays the hour his debt.\n\n" + "'So, so,' quoth he, 'these lets attend the time,\n" + "Like little frosts that sometime threat the spring,\n" + "To add a more rejoicing to the prime,\n" + "And give the sneaped birds more cause to sing.\n" + "Pain pays the income of each precious thing;\n" + "Huge rocks, high winds, strong pirates, shelves and sands,\n" + "The merchant fears, ere rich at home he lands.'\n\n" + "Now is he come unto the chamber-door,\n" + "That shuts him from the heaven of his thought,\n" + "Which with a yielding latch, and with no more,\n" + "Hath barr'd him from the blessed thing be sought.\n" + "So from himself impiety hath wrought,\n" + "That for his prey to pray he doth begin,\n" + "As if the heavens should countenance his sin.\n\n" + "But in the midst of his unfruitful prayer,\n" + "Having solicited th' eternal power\n" + "That his foul thoughts might compass his fair fair,\n" + "And they would stand auspicious to the hour,\n" + "Even there he starts: quoth he, 'I must deflower:\n" + "The powers to whom I pray abhor this fact,\n" + "How can they then assist me in the act?\n\n" + "'Then Love and Fortune be my gods, my guide!\n" + "My will is back'd with resolution:\n" + "Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried;\n" + "The blackest sin is clear'd with absolution;\n" + "Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.\n" + "The eye of heaven is out, and misty night\n" + "Covers the shame that follows sweet delight.'\n\n" + "This said, his guilty hand pluck'd up the latch,\n" + "And with his knee the door he opens wide.\n" + "The dove sleeps fast that this night-owl will catch:\n" + "Thus treason works ere traitors be espied.\n" + "Who sees the lurking serpent steps aside;\n" + "But she, sound sleeping, fearing no such thing,\n" + "Lies at the mercy of his mortal sting.\n\n" + "Into the chamber wickedly he stalks,\n" + "And gazeth on her yet unstained bed.\n" + "The curtains being close, about he walks,\n" + "Rolling his greedy eyeballs in his head:\n" + "By their high treason is his heart misled;\n" + "Which gives the watch-word to his hand full soon\n" + "To draw the cloud that hides the silver moon.\n\n" + "Look, as the fair and fiery-pointed sun,\n" + "Rushing from forth a cloud, bereaves our sight;\n" + "Even so, the curtain drawn, his eyes begun\n" + "To wink, being blinded with a greater light:\n" + "Whether it is that she reflects so bright,\n" + "That dazzleth them, or else some shame supposed;\n" + "But blind they are, and keep themselves enclosed.\n\n" + "O, had they in that darksome prison died!\n" + "Then had they seen the period of their ill;\n" + "Then Collatine again, by Lucrece' side,\n" + "In his clear bed might have reposed still:\n" + "But they must ope, this blessed league to kill;\n" + "And holy-thoughted Lucrece to their sight\n" + "Must sell her joy, her life, her world's delight.\n\n" + "Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under,\n" + "Cozening the pillow of a lawful kiss;\n" + "Who, therefore angry, seems to part in sunder,\n" + "Swelling on either side to want his bliss;\n" + "Between whose hills her head entombed is:\n" + "Where, like a virtuous monument, she lies,\n" + "To be admired of lewd unhallow'd eyes.\n\n" + "Without the bed her other fair hand was,\n" + "On the green coverlet; whose perfect white\n" + "Show'd like an April daisy on the grass,\n" + "With pearly sweat, resembling dew of night.\n" + "Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light,\n" + "And canopied in darkness sweetly lay,\n" + "Till they might open to adorn the day.\n\n" + "Her hair, like golden threads, play'd with her breath;\n" + "O modest wantons! wanton modesty!\n" + "Showing life's triumph in the map of death,\n" + "And death's dim look in life's mortality:\n" + "Each in her sleep themselves so beautify,\n" + "As if between them twain there were no strife,\n" + "But that life lived in death, and death in life.\n\n" + "Her breasts, like ivory globes circled with blue,\n" + "A pair of maiden worlds unconquered,\n" + "Save of their lord no bearing yoke they knew,\n" + "And him by oath they truly honoured.\n" + "These worlds in Tarquin new ambition bred;\n" + "Who, like a foul ursurper, went about\n" + "From this fair throne to heave the owner out.\n\n" + "What could he see but mightily he noted?\n" + "What did he note but strongly he desired?\n" + "What he beheld, on that he firmly doted,\n" + "And in his will his wilful eye he tired.\n" + "With more than admiration he admired\n" + "Her azure veins, her alabaster skin,\n" + "Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.\n\n" + "As the grim lion fawneth o'er his prey,\n" + "Sharp hunger by the conquest satisfied,\n" + "So o'er this sleeping soul doth Tarquin stay,\n" + "His rage of lust by gazing qualified;\n" + "Slack'd, not suppress'd; for standing by her side,\n" + "His eye, which late this mutiny restrains,\n" + "Unto a greater uproar tempts his veins:\n\n" + "And they, like straggling slaves for pillage fighting,\n" + "Obdurate vassals fell exploits effecting,\n" + "In bloody death and ravishment delighting,\n" + "Nor children's tears nor mothers' groans respecting,\n" + "Swell in their pride, the onset still expecting:\n" + "Anon his beating heart, alarum striking,\n" + "Gives the hot charge and bids them do their liking.\n\n" + "His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye,\n" + "His eye commends the leading to his hand;\n" + "His hand, as proud of such a dignity,\n" + "Smoking with pride, march'd on to make his stand\n" + "On her bare breast, the heart of all her land;\n" + "Whose ranks of blue veins, as his hand did scale,\n" + "Left there round turrets destitute and pale.\n\n" + "They, mustering to the quiet cabinet\n" + "Where their dear governess and lady lies,\n" + "Do tell her she is dreadfully beset,\n" + "And fright her with confusion of their cries:\n" + "She, much amazed, breaks ope her lock'd-up eyes,\n" + "Who, peeping forth this tumult to behold,\n" + "Are by his flaming torch dimm'd and controll'd.\n\n" + "Imagine her as one in dead of night\n" + "From forth dull sleep by dreadful fancy waking,\n" + "That thinks she hath beheld some ghastly sprite,\n" + "Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking;\n" + "What terror or 'tis! but she, in worser taking,\n" + "From sleep disturbed, heedfully doth view\n" + "The sight which makes supposed terror true.\n\n" + "Wrapp'd and confounded in a thousand fears,\n" + "Like to a new-kill'd bird she trembling lies;\n" + "She dares not look; yet, winking, there appears\n" + "Quick-shifting antics, ugly in her eyes:\n" + "Such shadows are the weak brain's forgeries;\n" + "Who, angry that the eyes fly from their lights,\n" + "In darkness daunts them with more dreadful sights.\n\n" + "His hand, that yet remains upon her breast,--\n" + "Rude ram, to batter such an ivory wall!--\n" + "May feel her heart-poor citizen!--distress'd,\n" + "Wounding itself to death, rise up and fall,\n" + "Beating her bulk, that his hand shakes withal.\n" + "This moves in him more rage and lesser pity,\n" + "To make the breach and enter this sweet city.\n\n" + "First, like a trumpet, doth his tongue begin\n" + "To sound a parley to his heartless foe;\n" + "Who o'er the white sheet peers her whiter chin,\n" + "The reason of this rash alarm to know,\n" + "Which he by dumb demeanor seeks to show;\n" + "But she with vehement prayers urgeth still\n" + "Under what colour he commits this ill.\n\n" + "Thus he replies: 'The colour in thy face,\n" + "That even for anger makes the lily pale,\n" + "And the red rose blush at her own disgrace,\n" + "Shall plead for me and tell my loving tale:\n" + "Under that colour am I come to scale\n" + "Thy never-conquer'd fort: the fault is thine,\n" + "For those thine eyes betray thee unto mine.\n\n" + "'Thus I forestall thee, if thou mean to chide:\n" + "Thy beauty hath ensnared thee to this night,\n" + "Where thou with patience must my will abide;\n" + "My will that marks thee for my earth's delight,\n" + "Which I to conquer sought with all my might;\n" + "But as reproof and reason beat it dead,\n" + "By thy bright beauty was it newly bred.\n\n" + "'I see what crosses my attempt will bring;\n" + "I know what thorns the growing rose defends;\n" + "I think the honey guarded with a sting;\n" + "All this beforehand counsel comprehends:\n" + "But will is deaf and hears no heedful friends;\n" + "Only he hath an eye to gaze on beauty,\n" + "And dotes on what he looks, 'gainst law or duty.\n\n" + "'I have debated, even in my soul,\n" + "What wrong, what shame, what sorrow I shall breed;\n" + "But nothing can affection's course control,\n" + "Or stop the headlong fury of his speed.\n" + "I know repentant tears ensue the deed,\n" + "Reproach, disdain, and deadly enmity;\n" + "Yet strive I to embrace mine infamy.'\n\n" + "This said, he shakes aloft his Roman blade,\n" + "Which, like a falcon towering in the skies,\n" + "Coucheth the fowl below with his wings' shade,\n" + "Whose crooked beak threats if he mount he dies:\n" + "So under his insulting falchion lies\n" + "Harmless Lucretia, marking what he tells\n" + "With trembling fear, as fowl hear falcon's bells.\n\n" + "'Lucrece,' quoth he,'this night I must enjoy thee:\n" + "If thou deny, then force must work my way,\n" + "For in thy bed I purpose to destroy thee:\n" + "That done, some worthless slave of thine I'll slay,\n" + "To kill thine honour with thy life's decay;\n" + "And in thy dead arms do I mean to place him,\n" + "Swearing I slew him, seeing thee embrace him.\n\n" + "'So thy surviving husband shall remain\n" + "The scornful mark of every open eye;\n" + "Thy kinsmen hang their heads at this disdain,\n" + "Thy issue blurr'd with nameless bastardy:\n" + "And thou, the author of their obloquy,\n" + "Shalt have thy trespass cited up in rhymes,\n" + "And sung by children in succeeding times.\n\n" + "'But if thou yield, I rest thy secret friend:\n" + "The fault unknown is as a thought unacted;\n" + "A little harm done to a great good end\n" + "For lawful policy remains enacted.\n" + "The poisonous simple sometimes is compacted\n" + "In a pure compound; being so applied,\n" + "His venom in effect is purified.\n\n" + "'Then, for thy husband and thy children's sake,\n" + "Tender my suit: bequeath not to their lot\n" + "The shame that from them no device can take,\n" + "The blemish that will never be forgot;\n" + "Worse than a slavish wipe or birth-hour's blot:\n" + "For marks descried in men's nativity\n" + "Are nature's faults, not their own infamy.'\n\n" + "Here with a cockatrice' dead-killing eye\n" + "He rouseth up himself and makes a pause;\n" + "While she, the picture of pure piety,\n" + "Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws,\n" + "Pleads, in a wilderness where are no laws,\n" + "To the rough beast that knows no gentle right,\n" + "Nor aught obeys but his foul appetite.\n\n" + "But when a black-faced cloud the world doth threat,\n" + "In his dim mist the aspiring mountains hiding,\n" + "From earth's dark womb some gentle gust doth get,\n" + "Which blows these pitchy vapours from their bidding,\n" + "Hindering their present fall by this dividing;\n" + "So his unhallow'd haste her words delays,\n" + "And moody Pluto winks while Orpheus plays.\n\n" + "Yet, foul night-waking cat, he doth but dally,\n" + "While in his hold-fast foot the weak mouse panteth:\n" + "Her sad behavior feeds his vulture folly,\n" + "A swallowing gulf that even in plenty wanteth:\n" + "His ear her prayers admits, but his heart granteth\n" + "No penetrable entrance to her plaining:\n" + "Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.\n\n" + "Her pity-pleading eyes are sadly fix'd\n" + "In the remorseless wrinkles of his face;\n" + "Her modest eloquence with sighs is mix'd,\n" + "Which to her oratory adds more grace.\n" + "She puts the period often from his place;\n" + "And midst the sentence so her accent breaks,\n" + "That twice she doth begin ere once she speaks.\n\n" + "She conjures him by high almighty Jove,\n" + "By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath,\n" + "By her untimely tears, her husband's love,\n" + "By holy human law, and common troth,\n" + "By heaven and earth, and all the power of both,\n" + "That to his borrow'd bed he make retire,\n" + "And stoop to honour, not to foul desire.\n\n" + "Quoth she, 'Reward not hospitality\n" + "With such black payment as thou hast pretended;\n" + "Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee;\n" + "Mar not the thing that cannot be amended;\n" + "End thy ill aim before thy shoot be ended;\n" + "He is no woodman that doth bend his bow\n" + "To strike a poor unseasonable doe.\n\n" + "'My husband is thy friend; for his sake spare me:\n" + "Thyself art mighty; for thine own sake leave me:\n" + "Myself a weakling; do not then ensnare me:\n" + "Thou look'st not like deceit; do not deceive me.\n" + "My sighs, like whirlwinds, labour hence to heave thee:\n" + "If ever man were moved with woman moans,\n" + "Be moved with my tears, my sighs, my groans:\n\n" + "'All which together, like a troubled ocean,\n" + "Beat at thy rocky and wreck-threatening heart,\n" + "To soften it with their continual motion;\n" + "For stones dissolved to water do convert.\n" + "O, if no harder than a stone thou art,\n" + "Melt at my tears, and be compassionate!\n" + "Soft pity enters at an iron gate.\n\n" + "'In Tarquin's likeness I did entertain thee:\n" + "Hast thou put on his shape to do him shame?\n" + "To all the host of heaven I complain me,\n" + "Thou wrong'st his honour, wound'st his princely name.\n" + "Thou art not what thou seem'st; and if the same,\n" + "Thou seem'st not what thou art, a god, a king;\n" + "For kings like gods should govern everything.\n\n" + "'How will thy shame be seeded in thine age,\n" + "When thus thy vices bud before thy spring!\n" + "If in thy hope thou darest do such outrage,\n" + "What darest thou not when once thou art a king?\n" + "O, be remember'd, no outrageous thing\n" + "From vassal actors can be wiped away;\n" + "Then kings' misdeeds cannot be hid in clay.\n\n" + "'This deed will make thee only loved for fear;\n" + "But happy monarchs still are fear'd for love:\n" + "With foul offenders thou perforce must bear,\n" + "When they in thee the like offences prove:\n" + "If but for fear of this, thy will remove;\n" + "For princes are the glass, the school, the book,\n" + "Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look.\n\n" + "'And wilt thou be the school where Lust shall learn?\n" + "Must he in thee read lectures of such shame?\n" + "Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern\n" + "Authority for sin, warrant for blame,\n" + "To privilege dishonour in thy name?\n" + "Thou black'st reproach against long-living laud,\n" + "And makest fair reputation but a bawd.\n\n" + "'Hast thou command? by him that gave it thee,\n" + "From a pure heart command thy rebel will:\n" + "Draw not thy sword to guard iniquity,\n" + "For it was lent thee all that brood to kill.\n" + "Thy princely office how canst thou fulfil,\n" + "When, pattern'd by thy fault, foul sin may say,\n" + "He learn'd to sin, and thou didst teach the way?\n\n" + "'Think but how vile a spectacle it were,\n" + "To view thy present trespass in another.\n" + "Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear;\n" + "Their own transgressions partially they smother:\n" + "This guilt would seem death-worthy in thy brother.\n" + "O, how are they wrapp'd in with infamies\n" + "That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!\n\n" + "'To thee, to thee, my heaved-up hands appeal,\n" + "Not to seducing lust, thy rash relier:\n" + "I sue for exiled majesty's repeal;\n" + "Let him return, and flattering thoughts retire:\n" + "His true respect will prison false desire,\n" + "And wipe the dim mist from thy doting eyne,\n" + "That thou shalt see thy state and pity mine.'\n\n" + "'Have done,' quoth he: 'my uncontrolled tide\n" + "Turns not, but swells the higher by this let.\n" + "Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide,\n" + "And with the wind in greater fury fret:\n" + "The petty streams that pay a daily debt\n" + "To their salt sovereign, with their fresh falls' haste\n" + "Add to his flow, but alter not his taste.'\n\n" + "'Thou art,' quoth she, 'a sea, a sovereign king;\n" + "And, lo, there falls into thy boundless flood\n" + "Black lust, dishonour, shame, misgoverning,\n" + "Who seek to stain the ocean of thy blood.\n" + "If all these pretty ills shall change thy good,\n" + "Thy sea within a puddle's womb is hearsed,\n" + "And not the puddle in thy sea dispersed.\n\n" + "'So shall these slaves be king, and thou their slave;\n" + "Thou nobly base, they basely dignified;\n" + "Thou their fair life, and they thy fouler grave:\n" + "Thou loathed in their shame, they in thy pride:\n" + "The lesser thing should not the greater hide;\n" + "The cedar stoops not to the base shrub's foot,\n" + "But low shrubs wither at the cedar's root.\n\n" + "'So let thy thoughts, low vassals to thy state'--\n" + "No more,' quoth he; 'by heaven, I will not hear thee:\n" + "Yield to my love; if not, enforced hate,\n" + "Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee;\n" + "That done, despitefully I mean to bear thee\n" + "Unto the base bed of some rascal groom,\n" + "To be thy partner in this shameful doom.'\n\n" + "This said, he sets his foot upon the light,\n" + "For light and lust are deadly enemies:\n" + "Shame folded up in blind concealing night,\n" + "When most unseen, then most doth tyrannize.\n" + "The wolf hath seized his prey, the poor lamb cries;\n" + "Till with her own white fleece her voice controll'd\n" + "Entombs her outcry in her lips' sweet fold:\n\n" + "For with the nightly linen that she wears\n" + "He pens her piteous clamours in her head;\n" + "Cooling his hot face in the chastest tears\n" + "That ever modest eyes with sorrow shed.\n" + "O, that prone lust should stain so pure a bed!\n" + "The spots whereof could weeping purify,\n" + "Her tears should drop on them perpetually.\n\n" + "But she hath lost a dearer thing than life,\n" + "And he hath won what he would lose again:\n" + "This forced league doth force a further strife;\n" + "This momentary joy breeds months of pain;\n" + "This hot desire converts to cold disdain:\n" + "Pure Chastity is rifled of her store,\n" + "And Lust, the thief, far poorer than before.\n\n" + "Look, as the full-fed hound or gorged hawk,\n" + "Unapt for tender smell or speedy flight,\n" + "Make slow pursuit, or altogether balk\n" + "The prey wherein by nature they delight;\n" + "So surfeit-taking Tarquin fares this night:\n" + "His taste delicious, in digestion souring,\n" + "Devours his will, that lived by foul devouring.\n\n" + "O, deeper sin than bottomless conceit\n" + "Can comprehend in still imagination!\n" + "Drunken Desire must vomit his receipt,\n" + "Ere he can see his own abomination.\n" + "While Lust is in his pride, no exclamation\n" + "Can curb his heat or rein his rash desire,\n" + "Till like a jade Self-will himself doth tire.\n\n" + "And then with lank and lean discolour'd cheek,\n" + "With heavy eye, knit brow, and strengthless pace,\n" + "Feeble Desire, all recreant, poor, and meek,\n" + "Like to a bankrupt beggar wails his case:\n" + "The flesh being proud, Desire doth fight with Grace,\n" + "For there it revels; and when that decays,\n" + "The guilty rebel for remission prays.\n\n" + "So fares it with this faultful lord of Rome,\n" + "Who this accomplishment so hotly chased;\n" + "For now against himself he sounds this doom,\n" + "That through the length of times he stands disgraced:\n" + "Besides, his soul's fair temple is defaced;\n" + "To whose weak ruins muster troops of cares,\n" + "To ask the spotted princess how she fares.\n\n" + "She says, her subjects with foul insurrection\n" + "Have batter'd down her consecrated wall,\n" + "And by their mortal fault brought in subjection\n" + "Her immortality, and made her thrall\n" + "To living death and pain perpetual:\n" + "Which in her prescience she controlled still,\n" + "But her foresight could not forestall their will.\n\n" + "Even in this thought through the dark night he stealeth,\n" + "A captive victor that hath lost in gain;\n" + "Bearing away the wound that nothing healeth,\n" + "The scar that will, despite of cure, remain;\n" + "Leaving his spoil perplex'd in greater pain.\n" + "She bears the load of lust he left behind,\n" + "And he the burden of a guilty mind.\n\n" + "He like a thievish dog creeps sadly thence;\n" + "She like a wearied lamb lies panting there;\n" + "He scowls and hates himself for his offence;\n" + "She, desperate, with her nails her flesh doth tear;\n" + "He faintly flies, sneaking with guilty fear;\n" + "She stays, exclaiming on the direful night;\n" + "He runs, and chides his vanish'd, loathed delight.\n\n" + "He thence departs a heavy convertite;\n" + "She there remains a hopeless castaway;\n" + "He in his speed looks for the morning light;\n" + "She prays she never may behold the day,\n" + "'For day,' quoth she, 'nights scapes doth open lay,\n" + "And my true eyes have never practised how\n" + "To cloak offences with a cunning brow.\n\n" + "'They think not but that every eye can see\n" + "The same disgrace which they themselves behold;\n" + "And therefore would they still in darkness be,\n" + "To have their unseen sin remain untold;\n" + "For they their guilt with weeping will unfold,\n" + "And grave, like water that doth eat in steel,\n" + "Upon my cheeks what helpless shame I feel.'\n\n" + "Here she exclaims against repose and rest,\n" + "And bids her eyes hereafter still be blind.\n" + "She wakes her heart by beating on her breast,\n" + "And bids it leap from thence, where it may find\n" + "Some purer chest to close so pure a mind.\n" + "Frantic with grief thus breathes she forth her spite\n" + "Against the unseen secrecy of night:\n\n" + "'O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!\n" + "Dim register and notary of shame!\n" + "Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!\n" + "Vast sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!\n" + "Blind muffled bawd! dark harbour for defame!\n" + "Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator\n" + "With close-tongued treason and the ravisher!\n\n" + "'O hateful, vaporous, and foggy Night!\n" + "Since thou art guilty of my cureless crime,\n" + "Muster thy mists to meet the eastern light,\n" + "Make war against proportion'd course of time;\n" + "Or if thou wilt permit the sun to climb\n" + "His wonted height, yet ere he go to bed,\n" + "Knit poisonous clouds about his golden head.\n\n" + "'With rotten damps ravish the morning air;\n" + "Let their exhaled unwholesome breaths make sick\n" + "The life of purity, the supreme fair,\n" + "Ere he arrive his weary noon-tide prick;\n" + "And let thy misty vapours march so thick,\n" + "That in their smoky ranks his smother'd light\n" + "May set at noon and make perpetual night.\n\n" + "'Were Tarquin Night, as he is but Night's child,\n" + "The silver-shining queen he would distain;\n" + "Her twinkling handmaids too, by him defiled,\n" + "Through Night's black bosom should not peep again:\n" + "So should I have co-partners in my pain;\n" + "And fellowship in woe doth woe assuage,\n" + "As palmers' chat makes short their pilgrimage.\n\n" + "'Where now I have no one to blush with me,\n" + "To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine,\n" + "To mask their brows and hide their infamy;\n" + "But I alone alone must sit and pine,\n" + "Seasoning the earth with showers of silver brine,\n" + "Mingling my talk with tears, my grief with groans,\n" + "Poor wasting monuments of lasting moans.\n\n" + "'O Night, thou furnace of foul-reeking smoke,\n" + "Let not the jealous Day behold that face\n" + "Which underneath thy black all-hiding cloak\n" + "Immodestly lies martyr'd with disgrace!\n" + "Keep still possession of thy gloomy place,\n" + "That all the faults which in thy reign are made\n" + "May likewise be sepulchred in thy shade!\n\n" + "'Make me not object to the tell-tale Day!\n" + "The light will show, character'd in my brow,\n" + "The story of sweet chastity's decay,\n" + "The impious breach of holy wedlock vow:\n" + "Yea the illiterate, that know not how\n" + "To cipher what is writ in learned books,\n" + "Will quote my loathsome trespass in my looks.\n\n" + "'The nurse, to still her child, will tell my story,\n" + "And fright her crying babe with Tarquin's name;\n" + "The orator, to deck his oratory,\n" + "Will couple my reproach to Tarquin's shame;\n" + "Feast-finding minstrels, tuning my defame,\n" + "Will tie the hearers to attend each line,\n" + "How Tarquin wronged me, I Collatine.\n\n" + "'Let my good name, that senseless reputation,\n" + "For Collatine's dear love be kept unspotted:\n" + "If that be made a theme for disputation,\n" + "The branches of another root are rotted,\n" + "And undeserved reproach to him allotted\n" + "That is as clear from this attaint of mine\n" + "As I, ere this, was pure to Collatine.\n\n" + "'O unseen shame! invisible disgrace!\n" + "O unfelt sore! crest-wounding, private scar!\n" + "Reproach is stamp'd in Collatinus' face,\n" + "And Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar,\n" + "How he in peace is wounded, not in war.\n" + "Alas, how many bear such shameful blows,\n" + "Which not themselves, but he that gives them knows!\n\n" + "'If, Collatine, thine honour lay in me,\n" + "From me by strong assault it is bereft.\n" + "My honour lost, and I, a drone-like bee,\n" + "Have no perfection of my summer left,\n" + "But robb'd and ransack'd by injurious theft:\n" + "In thy weak hive a wandering wasp hath crept,\n" + "And suck'd the honey which thy chaste bee kept.\n\n" + "'Yet am I guilty of thy honour's wrack;\n" + "Yet for thy honour did I entertain him;\n" + "Coming from thee, I could not put him back,\n" + "For it had been dishonour to disdain him:\n" + "Besides, of weariness he did complain him,\n" + "And talk'd of virtue: O unlook'd-for evil,\n" + "When virtue is profaned in such a devil!\n\n" + "'Why should the worm intrude the maiden bud?\n" + "Or hateful cuckoos hatch in sparrows' nests?\n" + "Or toads infect fair founts with venom mud?\n" + "Or tyrant folly lurk in gentle breasts?\n" + "Or kings be breakers of their own behests?\n" + "But no perfection is so absolute,\n" + "That some impurity doth not pollute.\n\n" + "'The aged man that coffers-up his gold\n" + "Is plagued with cramps and gouts and painful fits;\n" + "And scarce hath eyes his treasure to behold,\n" + "But like still-pining Tantalus he sits,\n" + "And useless barns the harvest of his wits;\n" + "Having no other pleasure of his gain\n" + "But torment that it cannot cure his pain.\n\n" + "'So then he hath it when he cannot use it,\n" + "And leaves it to be master'd by his young;\n" + "Who in their pride do presently abuse it:\n" + "Their father was too weak, and they too strong,\n" + "To hold their cursed-blessed fortune long.\n" + "The sweets we wish for turn to loathed sours\n" + "Even in the moment that we call them ours.\n\n" + "'Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring;\n" + "Unwholesome weeds take root with precious flowers;\n" + "The adder hisses where the sweet birds sing;\n" + "What virtue breeds iniquity devours:\n" + "We have no good that we can say is ours,\n" + "But ill-annexed Opportunity\n" + "Or kills his life or else his quality.\n\n" + "'O Opportunity, thy guilt is great!\n" + "'Tis thou that executest the traitor's treason:\n" + "Thou set'st the wolf where he the lamb may get;\n" + "Whoever plots the sin, thou 'point'st the season;\n" + "'Tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason;\n" + "And in thy shady cell, where none may spy him,\n" + "Sits Sin, to seize the souls that wander by him.\n\n" + "'Thou makest the vestal violate her oath;\n" + "Thou blow'st the fire when temperance is thaw'd;\n" + "Thou smother'st honesty, thou murder'st troth;\n" + "Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!\n" + "Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:\n" + "Thou ravisher, thou traitor, thou false thief,\n" + "Thy honey turns to gall, thy joy to grief!\n\n" + "'Thy secret pleasure turns to open shame,\n" + "Thy private feasting to a public fast,\n" + "Thy smoothing titles to a ragged name,\n" + "Thy sugar'd tongue to bitter wormwood taste:\n" + "Thy violent vanities can never last.\n" + "How comes it then, vile Opportunity,\n" + "Being so bad, such numbers seek for thee?\n\n" + "'When wilt thou be the humble suppliant's friend,\n" + "And bring him where his suit may be obtain'd?\n" + "When wilt thou sort an hour great strifes to end?\n" + "Or free that soul which wretchedness hath chain'd?\n" + "Give physic to the sick, ease to the pain'd?\n" + "The poor, lame, blind, halt, creep, cry out for thee;\n" + "But they ne'er meet with Opportunity.\n\n" + "'The patient dies while the physician sleeps;\n" + "The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds;\n" + "Justice is feasting while the widow weeps;\n" + "Advice is sporting while infection breeds:\n" + "Thou grant'st no time for charitable deeds:\n" + "Wrath, envy, treason, rape, and murder's rages,\n" + "Thy heinous hours wait on them as their pages.\n\n" + "'When Truth and Virtue have to do with thee,\n" + "A thousand crosses keep them from thy aid:\n" + "They buy thy help; but Sin ne'er gives a fee,\n" + "He gratis comes; and thou art well appaid\n" + "As well to hear as grant what he hath said.\n" + "My Collatine would else have come to me\n" + "When Tarquin did, but he was stay'd by thee.\n\n" + "Guilty thou art of murder and of theft,\n" + "Guilty of perjury and subornation,\n" + "Guilty of treason, forgery, and shift,\n" + "Guilty of incest, that abomination;\n" + "An accessary by thine inclination\n" + "To all sins past, and all that are to come,\n" + "From the creation to the general doom.\n\n" + "'Mis-shapen Time, copesmate of ugly Night,\n" + "Swift subtle post, carrier of grisly care,\n" + "Eater of youth, false slave to false delight,\n" + "Base watch of woes, sin's pack-horse, virtue's snare;\n" + "Thou nursest all and murder'st all that are:\n" + "O, hear me then, injurious, shifting Time!\n" + "Be guilty of my death, since of my crime.\n\n" + "'Why hath thy servant, Opportunity,\n" + "Betray'd the hours thou gavest me to repose,\n" + "Cancell'd my fortunes, and enchained me\n" + "To endless date of never-ending woes?\n" + "Time's office is to fine the hate of foes;\n" + "To eat up errors by opinion bred,\n" + "Not spend the dowry of a lawful bed.\n\n" + "'Time's glory is to calm contending kings,\n" + "To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light,\n" + "To stamp the seal of time in aged things,\n" + "To wake the morn and sentinel the night,\n" + "To wrong the wronger till he render right,\n" + "To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours,\n" + "And smear with dust their glittering golden towers;\n\n" + "'To fill with worm-holes stately monuments,\n" + "To feed oblivion with decay of things,\n" + "To blot old books and alter their contents,\n" + "To pluck the quills from ancient ravens' wings,\n" + "To dry the old oak's sap and cherish springs,\n" + "To spoil antiquities of hammer'd steel,\n" + "And turn the giddy round of Fortune's wheel;\n\n" + "'To show the beldam daughters of her daughter,\n" + "To make the child a man, the man a child,\n" + "To slay the tiger that doth live by slaughter,\n" + "To tame the unicorn and lion wild,\n" + "To mock the subtle in themselves beguiled,\n" + "To cheer the ploughman with increaseful crops,\n" + "And waste huge stones with little water drops.\n\n" + "'Why work'st thou mischief in thy pilgrimage,\n" + "Unless thou couldst return to make amends?\n" + "One poor retiring minute in an age\n" + "Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends,\n" + "Lending him wit that to bad debtors lends:\n" + "O, this dread night, wouldst thou one hour come back,\n" + "I could prevent this storm and shun thy wrack!\n\n" + "'Thou ceaseless lackey to eternity,\n" + "With some mischance cross Tarquin in his flight:\n" + "Devise extremes beyond extremity,\n" + "To make him curse this cursed crimeful night:\n" + "Let ghastly shadows his lewd eyes affright;\n" + "And the dire thought of his committed evil\n" + "Shape every bush a hideous shapeless devil.\n\n" + "'Disturb his hours of rest with restless trances,\n" + "Afflict him in his bed with bedrid groans;\n" + "Let there bechance him pitiful mischances,\n" + "To make him moan; but pity not his moans:\n" + "Stone him with harden'd hearts harder than stones;\n" + "And let mild women to him lose their mildness,\n" + "Wilder to him than tigers in their wildness.\n\n" + "'Let him have time to tear his curled hair,\n" + "Let him have time against himself to rave,\n" + "Let him have time of Time's help to despair,\n" + "Let him have time to live a loathed slave,\n" + "Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave,\n" + "And time to see one that by alms doth live\n" + "Disdain to him disdained scraps to give.\n\n" + "'Let him have time to see his friends his foes,\n" + "And merry fools to mock at him resort;\n" + "Let him have time to mark how slow time goes\n" + "In time of sorrow, and how swift and short\n" + "His time of folly and his time of sport;\n" + "And ever let his unrecalling crime\n" + "Have time to wail th' abusing of his time.\n\n" + "'O Time, thou tutor both to good and bad,\n" + "Teach me to curse him that thou taught'st this ill!\n" + "At his own shadow let the thief run mad,\n" + "Himself himself seek every hour to kill!\n" + "Such wretched hands such wretched blood should spill;\n" + "For who so base would such an office have\n" + "As slanderous death's-man to so base a slave?\n\n" + "'The baser is he, coming from a king,\n" + "To shame his hope with deeds degenerate:\n" + "The mightier man, the mightier is the thing\n" + "That makes him honour'd, or begets him hate;\n" + "For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.\n" + "The moon being clouded presently is miss'd,\n" + "But little stars may hide them when they list.\n\n" + "'The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire,\n" + "And unperceived fly with the filth away;\n" + "But if the like the snow-white swan desire,\n" + "The stain upon his silver down will stay.\n" + "Poor grooms are sightless night, kings glorious day:\n" + "Gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly,\n" + "But eagles gazed upon with every eye.\n\n" + "'Out, idle words, servants to shallow fools!\n" + "Unprofitable sounds, weak arbitrators!\n" + "Busy yourselves in skill-contending schools;\n" + "Debate where leisure serves with dull debaters;\n" + "To trembling clients be you mediators:\n" + "For me, I force not argument a straw,\n" + "Since that my case is past the help of law.\n\n" + "'In vain I rail at Opportunity,\n" + "At Time, at Tarquin, and uncheerful Night;\n" + "In vain I cavil with mine infamy,\n" + "In vain I spurn at my confirm'd despite:\n" + "This helpless smoke of words doth me no right.\n" + "The remedy indeed to do me good\n" + "Is to let forth my foul-defiled blood.\n\n" + "'Poor hand, why quiver'st thou at this decree?\n" + "Honour thyself to rid me of this shame:\n" + "For if I die, my honour lives in thee;\n" + "But if I live, thou livest in my defame:\n" + "Since thou couldst not defend thy loyal dame,\n" + "And wast afeard to scratch her wicked foe,\n" + "Kill both thyself and her for yielding so.'\n\n" + "This said, from her be-tumbled couch she starteth,\n" + "To find some desperate instrument of death:\n" + "But this no slaughterhouse no tool imparteth\n" + "To make more vent for passage of her breath;\n" + "Which, thronging through her lips, so vanisheth\n" + "As smoke from AEtna, that in air consumes,\n" + "Or that which from discharged cannon fumes.\n\n" + "'In vain,' quoth she, 'I live, and seek in vain\n" + "Some happy mean to end a hapless life.\n" + "I fear'd by Tarquin's falchion to be slain,\n" + "Yet for the self-same purpose seek a knife:\n" + "But when I fear'd I was a loyal wife:\n" + "So am I now: O no, that cannot be;\n" + "Of that true type hath Tarquin rifled me.\n\n" + "'O, that is gone for which I sought to live,\n" + "And therefore now I need not fear to die.\n" + "To clear this spot by death, at least I give\n" + "A badge of fame to slander's livery;\n" + "A dying life to living infamy:\n" + "Poor helpless help, the treasure stol'n away,\n" + "To burn the guiltless casket where it lay!\n\n" + "'Well, well, dear Collatine, thou shalt not know\n" + "The stained taste of violated troth;\n" + "I will not wrong thy true affection so,\n" + "To flatter thee with an infringed oath;\n" + "This bastard graff shall never come to growth:\n" + "He shall not boast who did thy stock pollute\n" + "That thou art doting father of his fruit.\n\n" + "'Nor shall he smile at thee in secret thought,\n" + "Nor laugh with his companions at thy state:\n" + "But thou shalt know thy interest was not bought\n" + "Basely with gold, but stol'n from forth thy gate.\n" + "For me, I am the mistress of my fate,\n" + "And with my trespass never will dispense,\n" + "Till life to death acquit my forced offence.\n\n" + "'I will not poison thee with my attaint,\n" + "Nor fold my fault in cleanly-coin'd excuses;\n" + "My sable ground of sin I will not paint,\n" + "To hide the truth of this false night's abuses:\n" + "My tongue shall utter all; mine eyes, like sluices,\n" + "As from a mountain-spring that feeds a dale,\n" + "Shall gush pure streams to purge my impure tale.'\n\n" + "By this, lamenting Philomel had ended\n" + "The well-tuned warble of her nightly sorrow,\n" + "And solemn night with slow sad gait descended\n" + "To ugly hell; when, lo, the blushing morrow\n" + "Lends light to all fair eyes that light will borrow:\n" + "But cloudy Lucrece shames herself to see,\n" + "And therefore still in night would cloister'd be.\n\n" + "Revealing day through every cranny spies,\n" + "And seems to point her out where she sits weeping;\n" + "To whom she sobbing speaks: 'O eye of eyes,\n" + "Why pry'st thou through my window? leave thy peeping:\n" + "Mock with thy tickling beams eyes that are sleeping:\n" + "Brand not my forehead with thy piercing light,\n" + "For day hath nought to do what's done by night.'\n\n" + "Thus cavils she with every thing she sees:\n" + "True grief is fond and testy as a child,\n" + "Who wayward once, his mood with nought agrees:\n" + "Old woes, not infant sorrows, bear them mild;\n" + "Continuance tames the one; the other wild,\n" + "Like an unpractised swimmer plunging still,\n" + "With too much labour drowns for want of skill.\n\n" + "So she, deep-drenched in a sea of care,\n" + "Holds disputation with each thing she views,\n" + "And to herself all sorrow doth compare;\n" + "No object but her passion's strength renews;\n" + "And as one shifts, another straight ensues:\n" + "Sometime her grief is dumb and hath no words;\n" + "Sometime 'tis mad and too much talk affords.\n\n" + "The little birds that tune their morning's joy\n" + "Make her moans mad with their sweet melody:\n" + "For mirth doth search the bottom of annoy;\n" + "Sad souls are slain in merry company;\n" + "Grief best is pleased with grief's society:\n" + "True sorrow then is feelingly sufficed\n" + "When with like semblance it is sympathized.\n\n" + "'Tis double death to drown in ken of shore;\n" + "He ten times pines that pines beholding food;\n" + "To see the salve doth make the wound ache more;\n" + "Great grief grieves most at that would do it good;\n" + "Deep woes roll forward like a gentle flood,\n" + "Who being stopp'd, the bounding banks o'erflows;\n" + "Grief dallied with nor law nor limit knows.\n\n" + "'You mocking-birds,' quoth she, 'your tunes entomb\n" + "Within your hollow-swelling feather'd breasts,\n" + "And in my hearing be you mute and dumb:\n" + "My restless discord loves no stops nor rests;\n" + "A woeful hostess brooks not merry guests:\n" + "Relish your nimble notes to pleasing ears;\n" + "Distress likes dumps when time is kept with tears.\n\n" + "'Come, Philomel, that sing'st of ravishment,\n" + "Make thy sad grove in my dishevell'd hair:\n" + "As the dank earth weeps at thy languishment,\n" + "So I at each sad strain will strain a tear,\n" + "And with deep groans the diapason bear;\n" + "For burden-wise I'll hum on Tarquin still,\n" + "While thou on Tereus descant'st better skill.\n\n" + "'And whiles against a thorn thou bear'st thy part,\n" + "To keep thy sharp woes waking, wretched I,\n" + "To imitate thee well, against my heart\n" + "Will fix a sharp knife to affright mine eye;\n" + "Who, if it wink, shall thereon fall and die.\n" + "These means, as frets upon an instrument,\n" + "Shall tune our heart-strings to true languishment.\n\n" + "'And for, poor bird, thou sing'st not in the day,\n" + "As shaming any eye should thee behold,\n" + "Some dark deep desert, seated from the way,\n" + "That knows not parching heat nor freezing cold,\n" + "Will we find out; and there we will unfold\n" + "To creatures stern sad tunes, to change their kinds:\n" + "Since men prove beasts, let beasts bear gentle minds.'\n\n" + "As the poor frighted deer, that stands at gaze,\n" + "Wildly determining which way to fly,\n" + "Or one encompass'd with a winding maze,\n" + "That cannot tread the way out readily;\n" + "So with herself is she in mutiny,\n" + "To live or die which of the twain were better,\n" + "When life is shamed, and death reproach's debtor.\n\n" + "'To kill myself,' quoth she, 'alack, what were it,\n" + "But with my body my poor soul's pollution?\n" + "They that lose half with greater patience bear it\n" + "Than they whose whole is swallow'd in confusion.\n" + "That mother tries a merciless conclusion\n" + "Who, having two sweet babes, when death takes one,\n" + "Will slay the other and be nurse to none.\n\n" + "'My body or my soul, which was the dearer,\n" + "When the one pure, the other made divine?\n" + "Whose love of either to myself was nearer,\n" + "When both were kept for heaven and Collatine?\n" + "Ay me! the bark peel'd from the lofty pine,\n" + "His leaves will wither and his sap decay;\n" + "So must my soul, her bark being peel'd away.\n\n" + "'Her house is sack'd, her quiet interrupted,\n" + "Her mansion batter'd by the enemy;\n" + "Her sacred temple spotted, spoil'd, corrupted,\n" + "Grossly engirt with daring infamy:\n" + "Then let it not be call'd impiety,\n" + "If in this blemish'd fort I make some hole\n" + "Through which I may convey this troubled soul.\n\n" + "'Yet die I will not till my Collatine\n" + "Have heard the cause of my untimely death;\n" + "That he may vow, in that sad hour of mine,\n" + "Revenge on him that made me stop my breath.\n" + "My stained blood to Tarquin I'll bequeath,\n" + "Which by him tainted shall for him be spent,\n" + "And as his due writ in my testament.\n\n" + "'My honour I'll bequeath unto the knife\n" + "That wounds my body so dishonoured.\n" + "'Tis honour to deprive dishonour'd life;\n" + "The one will live, the other being dead:\n" + "So of shame's ashes shall my fame be bred;\n" + "For in my death I murder shameful scorn:\n" + "My shame so dead, mine honour is new-born.\n\n" + "'Dear lord of that dear jewel I have lost,\n" + "What legacy shall I bequeath to thee?\n" + "My resolution, love, shall be thy boast,\n" + "By whose example thou revenged mayest be.\n" + "How Tarquin must be used, read it in me:\n" + "Myself, thy friend, will kill myself, thy foe,\n" + "And for my sake serve thou false Tarquin so.\n\n" + "'This brief abridgement of my will I make:\n" + "My soul and body to the skies and ground;\n" + "My resolution, husband, do thou take;\n" + "Mine honour be the knife's that makes my wound;\n" + "My shame be his that did my fame confound;\n" + "And all my fame that lives disbursed be\n" + "To those that live, and think no shame of me.\n\n" + "'Thou, Collatine, shalt oversee this will;\n" + "How was I overseen that thou shalt see it!\n" + "My blood shall wash the slander of mine ill;\n" + "My life's foul deed, my life's fair end shall free it.\n" + "Faint not, faint heart, but stoutly say 'So be it:'\n" + "Yield to my hand; my hand shall conquer thee:\n" + "Thou dead, both die, and both shall victors be.'\n\n" + "This Plot of death when sadly she had laid,\n" + "And wiped the brinish pearl from her bright eyes,\n" + "With untuned tongue she hoarsely calls her maid,\n" + "Whose swift obedience to her mistress hies;\n" + "For fleet-wing'd duty with thought's feathers flies.\n" + "Poor Lucrece' cheeks unto her maid seem so\n" + "As winter meads when sun doth melt their snow.\n\n" + "Her mistress she doth give demure good-morrow,\n" + "With soft-slow tongue, true mark of modesty,\n" + "And sorts a sad look to her lady's sorrow,\n" + "For why her face wore sorrow's livery;\n" + "But durst not ask of her audaciously\n" + "Why her two suns were cloud-eclipsed so,\n" + "Nor why her fair cheeks over-wash'd with woe.\n\n" + "But as the earth doth weep, the sun being set,\n" + "Each flower moisten'd like a melting eye;\n" + "Even so the maid with swelling drops gan wet\n" + "Her circled eyne, enforced by sympathy\n" + "Of those fair suns set in her mistress' sky,\n" + "Who in a salt-waved ocean quench their light,\n" + "Which makes the maid weep like the dewy night.\n\n" + "A pretty while these pretty creatures stand,\n" + "Like ivory conduits coral cisterns filling:\n" + "One justly weeps; the other takes in hand\n" + "No cause, but company, of her drops spilling:\n" + "Their gentle sex to weep are often willing;\n" + "Grieving themselves to guess at others' smarts,\n" + "And then they drown their eyes or break their hearts.\n\n" + "For men have marble, women waxen, minds,\n" + "And therefore are they form'd as marble will;\n" + "The weak oppress'd, the impression of strange kinds\n" + "Is form'd in them by force, by fraud, or skill:\n" + "Then call them not the authors of their ill,\n" + "No more than wax shall be accounted evil\n" + "Wherein is stamp'd the semblance of a devil.\n\n" + "Their smoothness, like a goodly champaign plain,\n" + "Lays open all the little worms that creep;\n" + "In men, as in a rough-grown grove, remain\n" + "Cave-keeping evils that obscurely sleep:\n" + "Through crystal walls each little mote will peep:\n" + "Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks,\n" + "Poor women's faces are their own fault's books.\n\n" + "No man inveigh against the wither'd flower,\n" + "But chide rough winter that the flower hath kill'd:\n" + "Not that devour'd, but that which doth devour,\n" + "Is worthy blame. O, let it not be hild\n" + "Poor women's faults, that they are so fulfill'd\n" + "With men's abuses: those proud lords, to blame,\n" + "Make weak-made women tenants to their shame.\n\n" + "The precedent whereof in Lucrece view,\n" + "Assail'd by night with circumstances strong\n" + "Of present death, and shame that might ensue\n" + "By that her death, to do her husband wrong:\n" + "Such danger to resistance did belong,\n" + "That dying fear through all her body spread;\n" + "And who cannot abuse a body dead?\n\n" + "By this, mild patience bid fair Lucrece speak\n" + "To the poor counterfeit of her complaining:\n" + "'My girl,' quoth she, 'on what occasion break\n" + "Those tears from thee, that down thy cheeks are\n" + "raining?\n" + "If thou dost weep for grief of my sustaining,\n" + "Know, gentle wench, it small avails my mood:\n" + "If tears could help, mine own would do me good.\n\n" + "'But tell me, girl, when went'--and there she stay'd\n" + "Till after a deep groan--'Tarquin from hence?'\n" + "'Madam, ere I was up,' replied the maid,\n" + "'The more to blame my sluggard negligence:\n" + "Yet with the fault I thus far can dispense;\n" + "Myself was stirring ere the break of day,\n" + "And, ere I rose, was Tarquin gone away.\n\n" + "'But, lady, if your maid may be so bold,\n" + "She would request to know your heaviness.'\n" + "'O, peace!' quoth Lucrece: 'if it should be told,\n" + "The repetition cannot make it less;\n" + "For more it is than I can well express:\n" + "And that deep torture may be call'd a hell\n" + "When more is felt than one hath power to tell.\n\n" + "'Go, get me hither paper, ink, and pen:\n" + "Yet save that labour, for I have them here.\n" + "What should I say? One of my husband's men\n" + "Bid thou be ready, by and by, to bear\n" + "A letter to my lord, my love, my dear;\n" + "Bid him with speed prepare to carry it;\n" + "The cause craves haste, and it will soon be writ.'\n\n" + "Her maid is gone, and she prepares to write,\n" + "First hovering o'er the paper with her quill:\n" + "Conceit and grief an eager combat fight;\n" + "What wit sets down is blotted straight with will;\n" + "This is too curious-good, this blunt and ill:\n" + "Much like a press of people at a door,\n" + "Throng her inventions, which shall go before.\n\n" + "At last she thus begins: 'Thou worthy lord\n" + "Of that unworthy wife that greeteth thee,\n" + "Health to thy person! next vouchsafe t' afford--\n" + "If ever, love, thy Lucrece thou wilt see--\n" + "Some present speed to come and visit me.\n" + "So, I commend me from our house in grief:\n" + "My woes are tedious, though my words are brief.'\n\n" + "Here folds she up the tenor of her woe,\n" + "Her certain sorrow writ uncertainly.\n" + "By this short schedule Collatine may know\n" + "Her grief, but not her grief's true quality:\n" + "She dares not thereof make discovery,\n" + "Lest he should hold it her own gross abuse,\n" + "Ere she with blood had stain'd her stain'd excuse.\n\n" + "Besides, the life and feeling of her passion\n" + "She hoards, to spend when he is by to hear her:\n" + "When sighs and groans and tears may grace the fashion\n" + "Of her disgrace, the better so to clear her\n" + "From that suspicion which the world might bear her.\n" + "To shun this blot, she would not blot the letter\n" + "With words, till action might become them better.\n\n" + "To see sad sights moves more than hear them told;\n" + "For then eye interprets to the ear\n" + "The heavy motion that it doth behold,\n" + "When every part a part of woe doth bear.\n" + "'Tis but a part of sorrow that we hear:\n" + "Deep sounds make lesser noise than shallow fords,\n" + "And sorrow ebbs, being blown with wind of words.\n\n" + "Her letter now is seal'd, and on it writ\n" + "'At Ardea to my lord with more than haste.'\n" + "The post attends, and she delivers it,\n" + "Charging the sour-faced groom to hie as fast\n" + "As lagging fowls before the northern blast:\n" + "Speed more than speed but dull and slow she deems:\n" + "Extremity still urgeth such extremes.\n\n" + "The homely villain court'sies to her low;\n" + "And, blushing on her, with a steadfast eye\n" + "Receives the scroll without or yea or no,\n" + "And forth with bashful innocence doth hie.\n" + "But they whose guilt within their bosoms lie\n" + "Imagine every eye beholds their blame;\n" + "For Lucrece thought he blush'd to her see shame:\n\n" + "When, silly groom! God wot, it was defect\n" + "Of spirit, Life, and bold audacity.\n" + "Such harmless creatures have a true respect\n" + "To talk in deeds, while others saucily\n" + "Promise more speed, but do it leisurely:\n" + "Even so this pattern of the worn-out age\n" + "Pawn'd honest looks, but laid no words to gage.\n\n" + "His kindled duty kindled her mistrust,\n" + "That two red fires in both their faces blazed;\n" + "She thought he blush'd, as knowing Tarquin's lust,\n" + "And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;\n" + "Her earnest eye did make him more amazed:\n" + "The more she saw the blood his cheeks replenish,\n" + "The more she thought he spied in her some blemish.\n\n" + "But long she thinks till he return again,\n" + "And yet the duteous vassal scarce is gone.\n" + "The weary time she cannot entertain,\n" + "For now 'tis stale to sigh, to weep, and groan:\n" + "So woe hath wearied woe, moan tired moan,\n" + "That she her plaints a little while doth stay,\n" + "Pausing for means to mourn some newer way.\n\n" + "At last she calls to mind where hangs a piece\n" + "Of skilful painting, made for Priam's Troy:\n" + "Before the which is drawn the power of Greece.\n" + "For Helen's rape the city to destroy,\n" + "Threatening cloud-kissing Ilion with annoy;\n" + "Which the conceited painter drew so proud,\n" + "As heaven, it seem'd, to kiss the turrets bow'd.\n\n" + "A thousand lamentable objects there,\n" + "In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life:\n" + "Many a dry drop seem'd a weeping tear,\n" + "Shed for the slaughter'd husband by the wife:\n" + "The red blood reek'd, to show the painter's strife;\n" + "And dying eyes gleam'd forth their ashy lights,\n" + "Like dying coals burnt out in tedious nights.\n\n" + "There might you see the labouring pioner\n" + "Begrimed with sweat, and smeared all with dust;\n" + "And from the towers of Troy there would appear\n" + "The very eyes of men through loop-holes thrust,\n" + "Gazing upon the Greeks with little lust:\n" + "Such sweet observance in this work was had,\n" + "That one might see those far-off eyes look sad.\n\n" + "In great commanders grace and majesty\n" + "You might behold, triumphing in their faces;\n" + "In youth, quick bearing and dexterity;\n" + "Pale cowards, marching on with trembling paces;\n" + "Which heartless peasants did so well resemble,\n" + "That one would swear he saw them quake and tremble.\n\n" + "In Ajax and Ulysses, O, what art\n" + "Of physiognomy might one behold!\n" + "The face of either cipher'd either's heart;\n" + "Their face their manners most expressly told:\n" + "In Ajax' eyes blunt rage and rigor roll'd;\n" + "But the mild glance that sly Ulysses lent\n" + "Show'd deep regard and smiling government.\n\n" + "There pleading might you see grave Nestor stand,\n" + "As 'twere encouraging the Greeks to fight;\n" + "Making such sober action with his hand,\n" + "That it beguiled attention, charm'd the sight:\n" + "In speech, it seem'd, his beard, all silver white,\n" + "Wagg'd up and down, and from his lips did fly\n" + "Thin winding breath, which purl'd up to the sky.\n\n" + "About him were a press of gaping faces,\n" + "Which seem'd to swallow up his sound advice;\n" + "All jointly listening, but with several graces,\n" + "As if some mermaid did their ears entice,\n" + "Some high, some low, the painter was so nice;\n" + "The scalps of many, almost hid behind,\n" + "To jump up higher seem'd, to mock the mind.\n\n" + "Here one man's hand lean'd on another's head,\n" + "His nose being shadow'd by his neighbour's ear;\n" + "Here one being throng'd bears back, all boll'n and\n" + "red;\n" + "Another smother'd seems to pelt and swear;\n" + "And in their rage such signs of rage they bear,\n" + "As, but for loss of Nestor's golden words,\n" + "It seem'd they would debate with angry swords.\n\n" + "For much imaginary work was there;\n" + "Conceit deceitful, so compact, so kind,\n" + "That for Achilles' image stood his spear,\n" + "Griped in an armed hand; himself, behind,\n" + "Was left unseen, save to the eye of mind:\n" + "A hand, a foot, a face, a leg, a head,\n" + "Stood for the whole to be imagined.\n\n" + "And from the walls of strong-besieged Troy\n" + "When their brave hope, bold Hector, march'd to\n" + "field,\n" + "Stood many Trojan mothers, sharing joy\n" + "To see their youthful sons bright weapons wield;\n" + "And to their hope they such odd action yield,\n" + "That through their light joy seemed to appear,\n" + "Like bright things stain'd, a kind of heavy fear.\n\n" + "And from the strand of Dardan, where they fought,\n" + "To Simois' reedy banks the red blood ran,\n" + "Whose waves to imitate the battle sought\n" + "With swelling ridges; and their ranks began\n" + "To break upon the galled shore, and than\n" + "Retire again, till, meeting greater ranks,\n" + "They join and shoot their foam at Simois' banks.\n\n" + "To this well-painted piece is Lucrece come,\n" + "To find a face where all distress is stell'd.\n" + "Many she sees where cares have carved some,\n" + "But none where all distress and dolour dwell'd,\n" + "Till she despairing Hecuba beheld,\n" + "Staring on Priam's wounds with her old eyes,\n" + "Which bleeding under Pyrrhus' proud foot lies.\n\n" + "In her the painter had anatomized\n" + "Time's ruin, beauty's wreck, and grim care's reign:\n" + "Her cheeks with chaps and wrinkles were disguised;\n" + "Of what she was no semblance did remain:\n" + "Her blue blood changed to black in every vein,\n" + "Wanting the spring that those shrunk pipes had fed,\n" + "Show'd life imprison'd in a body dead.\n\n" + "On this sad shadow Lucrece spends her eyes,\n" + "And shapes her sorrow to the beldam's woes,\n" + "Who nothing wants to answer her but cries,\n" + "And bitter words to ban her cruel foes:\n" + "The painter was no god to lend her those;\n" + "And therefore Lucrece swears he did her wrong,\n" + "To give her so much grief and not a tongue.\n\n" + "'Poor instrument,' quoth she,'without a sound,\n" + "I'll tune thy woes with my lamenting tongue;\n" + "And drop sweet balm in Priam's painted wound,\n" + "And rail on Pyrrhus that hath done him wrong;\n" + "And with my tears quench Troy that burns so long;\n" + "And with my knife scratch out the angry eyes\n" + "Of all the Greeks that are thine enemies.\n\n" + "'Show me the strumpet that began this stir,\n" + "That with my nails her beauty I may tear.\n" + "Thy heat of lust, fond Paris, did incur\n" + "This load of wrath that burning Troy doth bear:\n" + "Thy eye kindled the fire that burneth here;\n" + "And here in Troy, for trespass of thine eye,\n" + "The sire, the son, the dame, and daughter die.\n\n" + "'Why should the private pleasure of some one\n" + "Become the public plague of many moe?\n" + "Let sin, alone committed, light alone\n" + "Upon his head that hath transgressed so;\n" + "Let guiltless souls be freed from guilty woe:\n" + "For one's offence why should so many fall,\n" + "To plague a private sin in general?\n\n" + "'Lo, here weeps Hecuba, here Priam dies,\n" + "Here manly Hector faints, here Troilus swounds,\n" + "Here friend by friend in bloody channel lies,\n" + "And friend to friend gives unadvised wounds,\n" + "And one man's lust these many lives confounds:\n" + "Had doting Priam cheque'd his son's desire,\n" + "Troy had been bright with fame and not with fire.'\n\n" + "Here feelingly she weeps Troy's painted woes:\n" + "For sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,\n" + "Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes;\n" + "Then little strength rings out the doleful knell:\n" + "So Lucrece, set a-work, sad tales doth tell\n" + "To pencill'd pensiveness and colour'd sorrow;\n" + "She lends them words, and she their looks doth borrow.\n\n" + "She throws her eyes about the painting round,\n" + "And whom she finds forlorn she doth lament.\n" + "At last she sees a wretched image bound,\n" + "That piteous looks to Phrygian shepherds lent:\n" + "His face, though full of cares, yet show'd content;\n" + "Onward to Troy with the blunt swains he goes,\n" + "So mild, that Patience seem'd to scorn his woes.\n\n" + "In him the painter labour'd with his skill\n" + "To hide deceit, and give the harmless show\n" + "An humble gait, calm looks, eyes wailing still,\n" + "A brow unbent, that seem'd to welcome woe;\n" + "Cheeks neither red nor pale, but mingled so\n" + "That blushing red no guilty instance gave,\n" + "Nor ashy pale the fear that false hearts have.\n\n" + "But, like a constant and confirmed devil,\n" + "He entertain'd a show so seeming just,\n" + "And therein so ensconced his secret evil,\n" + "That jealousy itself could not mistrust\n" + "False-creeping craft and perjury should thrust\n" + "Into so bright a day such black-faced storms,\n" + "Or blot with hell-born sin such saint-like forms.\n\n" + "The well-skill'd workman this mild image drew\n" + "For perjured Sinon, whose enchanting story\n" + "The credulous old Priam after slew;\n" + "Whose words like wildfire burnt the shining glory\n" + "Of rich-built Ilion, that the skies were sorry,\n" + "And little stars shot from their fixed places,\n" + "When their glass fell wherein they view'd their faces.\n\n" + "This picture she advisedly perused,\n" + "And chid the painter for his wondrous skill,\n" + "Saying, some shape in Sinon's was abused;\n" + "So fair a form lodged not a mind so ill:\n" + "And still on him she gazed; and gazing still,\n" + "Such signs of truth in his plain face she spied,\n" + "That she concludes the picture was belied.\n\n" + "'It cannot be,' quoth she,'that so much guile'--\n" + "She would have said 'can lurk in such a look;'\n" + "But Tarquin's shape came in her mind the while,\n" + "And from her tongue 'can lurk' from 'cannot' took:\n" + "'It cannot be' she in that sense forsook,\n" + "And turn'd it thus,' It cannot be, I find,\n" + "But such a face should bear a wicked mind.\n\n" + "'For even as subtle Sinon here is painted.\n" + "So sober-sad, so weary, and so mild,\n" + "As if with grief or travail he had fainted,\n" + "To me came Tarquin armed; so beguiled\n" + "With outward honesty, but yet defiled\n" + "With inward vice: as Priam him did cherish,\n" + "So did I Tarquin; so my Troy did perish.\n\n" + "'Look, look, how listening Priam wets his eyes,\n" + "To see those borrow'd tears that Sinon sheds!\n" + "Priam, why art thou old and yet not wise?\n" + "For every tear he falls a Trojan bleeds:\n" + "His eye drops fire, no water thence proceeds;\n" + "Those round clear pearls of his, that move thy pity,\n" + "Are balls of quenchless fire to burn thy city.\n\n" + "'Such devils steal effects from lightless hell;\n" + "For Sinon in his fire doth quake with cold,\n" + "And in that cold hot-burning fire doth dwell;\n" + "These contraries such unity do hold,\n" + "Only to flatter fools and make them bold:\n" + "So Priam's trust false Sinon's tears doth flatter,\n" + "That he finds means to burn his Troy with water.'\n\n" + "Here, all enraged, such passion her assails,\n" + "That patience is quite beaten from her breast.\n" + "She tears the senseless Sinon with her nails,\n" + "Comparing him to that unhappy guest\n" + "Whose deed hath made herself herself detest:\n" + "At last she smilingly with this gives o'er;\n" + "'Fool, fool!' quoth she, 'his wounds will not be sore.'\n\n" + "Thus ebbs and flows the current of her sorrow,\n" + "And time doth weary time with her complaining.\n" + "She looks for night, and then she longs for morrow,\n" + "And both she thinks too long with her remaining:\n" + "Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining:\n" + "Though woe be heavy, yet it seldom sleeps,\n" + "And they that watch see time how slow it creeps.\n\n" + "Which all this time hath overslipp'd her thought,\n" + "That she with painted images hath spent;\n" + "Being from the feeling of her own grief brought\n" + "By deep surmise of others' detriment;\n" + "Losing her woes in shows of discontent.\n" + "It easeth some, though none it ever cured,\n" + "To think their dolour others have endured.\n\n" + "But now the mindful messenger, come back,\n" + "Brings home his lord and other company;\n" + "Who finds his Lucrece clad in mourning black:\n" + "And round about her tear-stained eye\n" + "Blue circles stream'd; like rainbows in the sky:\n" + "These water-galls in her dim element\n" + "Foretell new storms to those already spent.\n\n" + "Which when her sad-beholding husband saw,\n" + "Amazedly in her sad face he stares:\n" + "Her eyes, though sod in tears, look'd red and raw,\n" + "Her lively colour kill'd with deadly cares.\n" + "He hath no power to ask her how she fares:\n" + "Both stood, like old acquaintance in a trance,\n" + "Met far from home, wondering each other's chance.\n\n" + "At last he takes her by the bloodless hand,\n" + "And thus begins: 'What uncouth ill event\n" + "Hath thee befall'n, that thou dost trembling stand?\n" + "Sweet love, what spite hath thy fair colour spent?\n" + "Why art thou thus attired in discontent?\n" + "Unmask, dear dear, this moody heaviness,\n" + "And tell thy grief, that we may give redress.'\n\n" + "Three times with sighs she gives her sorrow fire,\n" + "Ere once she can discharge one word of woe:\n" + "At length address'd to answer his desire,\n" + "She modestly prepares to let them know\n" + "Her honour is ta'en prisoner by the foe;\n" + "While Collatine and his consorted lords\n" + "With sad attention long to hear her words.\n\n" + "And now this pale swan in her watery nest\n" + "Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending;\n" + "'Few words,' quoth she, 'Shall fit the trespass best,\n" + "Where no excuse can give the fault amending:\n" + "In me moe woes than words are now depending;\n" + "And my laments would be drawn out too long,\n" + "To tell them all with one poor tired tongue.\n\n" + "'Then be this all the task it hath to say\n" + "Dear husband, in the interest of thy bed\n" + "A stranger came, and on that pillow lay\n" + "Where thou was wont to rest thy weary head;\n" + "And what wrong else may be imagined\n" + "By foul enforcement might be done to me,\n" + "From that, alas, thy Lucrece is not free.\n\n" + "'For in the dreadful dead of dark midnight,\n" + "With shining falchion in my chamber came\n" + "A creeping creature, with a flaming light,\n" + "And softly cried 'Awake, thou Roman dame,\n" + "And entertain my love; else lasting shame\n" + "On thee and thine this night I will inflict,\n" + "If thou my love's desire do contradict.\n\n" + "' 'For some hard-favour'd groom of thine,' quoth he,\n" + "'Unless thou yoke thy liking to my will,\n" + "I'll murder straight, and then I'll slaughter thee\n" + "And swear I found you where you did fulfil\n" + "The loathsome act of lust, and so did kill\n" + "The lechers in their deed: this act will be\n" + "My fame and thy perpetual infamy.'\n\n" + "'With this, I did begin to start and cry;\n" + "And then against my heart he sets his sword,\n" + "Swearing, unless I took all patiently,\n" + "I should not live to speak another word;\n" + "So should my shame still rest upon record,\n" + "And never be forgot in mighty Rome\n" + "Th' adulterate death of Lucrece and her groom.\n\n" + "'Mine enemy was strong, my poor self weak,\n" + "And far the weaker with so strong a fear:\n" + "My bloody judge forbade my tongue to speak;\n" + "No rightful plea might plead for justice there:\n" + "His scarlet lust came evidence to swear\n" + "That my poor beauty had purloin'd his eyes;\n" + "And when the judge is robb'd the prisoner dies.\n\n" + "'O, teach me how to make mine own excuse!\n" + "Or at the least this refuge let me find;\n" + "Though my gross blood be stain'd with this abuse,\n" + "Immaculate and spotless is my mind;\n" + "That was not forced; that never was inclined\n" + "To accessary yieldings, but still pure\n" + "Doth in her poison'd closet yet endure.'\n\n" + "Lo, here, the hopeless merchant of this loss,\n" + "With head declined, and voice damm'd up with woe,\n" + "With sad set eyes, and wretched arms across,\n" + "From lips new-waxen pale begins to blow\n" + "The grief away that stops his answer so:\n" + "But, wretched as he is, he strives in vain;\n" + "What he breathes out his breath drinks up again.\n\n" + "As through an arch the violent roaring tide\n" + "Outruns the eye that doth behold his haste,\n" + "Yet in the eddy boundeth in his pride\n" + "Back to the strait that forced him on so fast;\n" + "In rage sent out, recall'd in rage, being past:\n" + "Even so his sighs, his sorrows, make a saw,\n" + "To push grief on, and back the same grief draw.\n\n" + "Which speechless woe of his poor she attendeth,\n" + "And his untimely frenzy thus awaketh:\n" + "'Dear lord, thy sorrow to my sorrow lendeth\n" + "Another power; no flood by raining slaketh.\n" + "My woe too sensible thy passion maketh\n" + "More feeling-painful: let it then suffice\n" + "To drown one woe, one pair of weeping eyes.\n\n" + "'And for my sake, when I might charm thee so,\n" + "For she that was thy Lucrece, now attend me:\n" + "Be suddenly revenged on my foe,\n" + "Thine, mine, his own: suppose thou dost defend me\n" + "From what is past: the help that thou shalt lend me\n" + "Comes all too late, yet let the traitor die;\n" + "For sparing justice feeds iniquity.\n\n" + "'But ere I name him, you fair lords,' quoth she,\n" + "Speaking to those that came with Collatine,\n" + "'Shall plight your honourable faiths to me,\n" + "With swift pursuit to venge this wrong of mine;\n" + "For 'tis a meritorious fair design\n" + "To chase injustice with revengeful arms:\n" + "Knights, by their oaths, should right poor ladies' harms.'\n\n" + "At this request, with noble disposition\n" + "Each present lord began to promise aid,\n" + "As bound in knighthood to her imposition,\n" + "Longing to hear the hateful foe bewray'd.\n" + "But she, that yet her sad task hath not said,\n" + "The protestation stops. 'O, speak, ' quoth she,\n" + "'How may this forced stain be wiped from me?\n\n" + "'What is the quality of mine offence,\n" + "Being constrain'd with dreadful circumstance?\n" + "May my pure mind with the foul act dispense,\n" + "My low-declined honour to advance?\n" + "May any terms acquit me from this chance?\n" + "The poison'd fountain clears itself again;\n" + "And why not I from this compelled stain?'\n\n" + "With this, they all at once began to say,\n" + "Her body's stain her mind untainted clears;\n" + "While with a joyless smile she turns away\n" + "The face, that map which deep impression bears\n" + "Of hard misfortune, carved in it with tears.\n" + "'No, no,' quoth she, 'no dame, hereafter living,\n" + "By my excuse shall claim excuse's giving.'\n\n" + "Here with a sigh, as if her heart would break,\n" + "She throws forth Tarquin's name; 'He, he,' she says,\n" + "But more than 'he' her poor tongue could not speak;\n" + "Till after many accents and delays,\n" + "Untimely breathings, sick and short assays,\n" + "She utters this, 'He, he, fair lords, 'tis he,\n" + "That guides this hand to give this wound to me.'\n\n" + "Even here she sheathed in her harmless breast\n" + "A harmful knife, that thence her soul unsheathed:\n" + "That blow did that it from the deep unrest\n" + "Of that polluted prison where it breathed:\n" + "Her contrite sighs unto the clouds bequeath'd\n" + "Her winged sprite, and through her wounds doth fly\n" + "Life's lasting date from cancell'd destiny.\n\n" + "Stone-still, astonish'd with this deadly deed,\n" + "Stood Collatine and all his lordly crew;\n" + "Till Lucrece' father, that beholds her bleed,\n" + "Himself on her self-slaughter'd body threw;\n" + "And from the purple fountain Brutus drew\n" + "The murderous knife, and, as it left the place,\n" + "Her blood, in poor revenge, held it in chase;\n\n" + "And bubbling from her breast, it doth divide\n" + "In two slow rivers, that the crimson blood\n" + "Circles her body in on every side,\n" + "Who, like a late-sack'd island, vastly stood\n" + "Bare and unpeopled in this fearful flood.\n" + "Some of her blood still pure and red remain'd,\n" + "And some look'd black, and that false Tarquin stain'd.\n\n" + "About the mourning and congealed face\n" + "Of that black blood a watery rigol goes,\n" + "Which seems to weep upon the tainted place:\n" + "And ever since, as pitying Lucrece' woes,\n" + "Corrupted blood some watery token shows;\n" + "And blood untainted still doth red abide,\n" + "Blushing at that which is so putrified.\n\n" + "'Daughter, dear daughter,' old Lucretius cries,\n" + "'That life was mine which thou hast here deprived.\n" + "If in the child the father's image lies,\n" + "Where shall I live now Lucrece is unlived?\n" + "Thou wast not to this end from me derived.\n" + "If children predecease progenitors,\n" + "We are their offspring, and they none of ours.\n\n" + "'Poor broken glass, I often did behold\n" + "In thy sweet semblance my old age new born;\n" + "But now that fresh fair mirror, dim and old,\n" + "Shows me a bare-boned death by time out-worn:\n" + "O, from thy cheeks my image thou hast torn,\n" + "And shivered all the beauty of my glass,\n" + "That I no more can see what once I was!\n\n" + "'O time, cease thou thy course and last no longer,\n" + "If they surcease to be that should survive.\n" + "Shall rotten death make conquest of the stronger\n" + "And leave the faltering feeble souls alive?\n" + "The old bees die, the young possess their hive:\n" + "Then live, sweet Lucrece, live again and see\n" + "Thy father die, and not thy father thee!\n\n" + "By this, starts Collatine as from a dream,\n" + "And bids Lucretius give his sorrow place;\n" + "And then in key-cold Lucrece' bleeding stream\n" + "He falls, and bathes the pale fear in his face,\n" + "And counterfeits to die with her a space;\n" + "Till manly shame bids him possess his breath\n" + "And live to be revenged on her death.\n\n" + "The deep vexation of his inward soul\n" + "Hath served a dumb arrest upon his tongue;\n" + "Who, mad that sorrow should his use control,\n" + "Or keep him from heart-easing words so long,\n" + "Begins to talk; but through his lips do throng\n" + "Weak words, so thick come in his poor heart's aid,\n" + "That no man could distinguish what he said.\n\n" + "Yet sometime 'Tarquin' was pronounced plain,\n" + "But through his teeth, as if the name he tore.\n" + "This windy tempest, till it blow up rain,\n" + "Held back his sorrow's tide, to make it more;\n" + "At last it rains, and busy winds give o'er:\n" + "Then son and father weep with equal strife\n" + "Who should weep most, for daughter or for wife.\n\n" + "The one doth call her his, the other his,\n" + "Yet neither may possess the claim they lay.\n" + "The father says 'She's mine.' 'O, mine she is,'\n" + "Replies her husband: 'do not take away\n" + "My sorrow's interest; let no mourner say\n" + "He weeps for her, for she was only mine,\n" + "And only must be wail'd by Collatine.'\n\n" + "'O,' quoth Lucretius,' I did give that life\n" + "Which she too early and too late hath spill'd.'\n" + "'Woe, woe,' quoth Collatine, 'she was my wife,\n" + "I owed her, and 'tis mine that she hath kill'd.'\n" + "'My daughter' and 'my wife' with clamours fill'd\n" + "The dispersed air, who, holding Lucrece' life,\n" + "Answer'd their cries, 'my daughter' and 'my wife.'\n\n" + "Brutus, who pluck'd the knife from Lucrece' side,\n" + "Seeing such emulation in their woe,\n" + "Began to clothe his wit in state and pride,\n" + "Burying in Lucrece' wound his folly's show.\n" + "He with the Romans was esteemed so\n" + "As silly-jeering idiots are with kings,\n" + "For sportive words and uttering foolish things:\n\n" + "But now he throws that shallow habit by,\n" + "Wherein deep policy did him disguise;\n" + "And arm'd his long-hid wits advisedly,\n" + "To cheque the tears in Collatinus' eyes.\n" + "'Thou wronged lord of Rome,' quoth be, 'arise:\n" + "Let my unsounded self, supposed a fool,\n" + "Now set thy long-experienced wit to school.\n\n" + "'Why, Collatine, is woe the cure for woe?\n" + "Do wounds help wounds, or grief help grievous deeds?\n" + "Is it revenge to give thyself a blow\n" + "For his foul act by whom thy fair wife bleeds?\n" + "Such childish humour from weak minds proceeds:\n" + "Thy wretched wife mistook the matter so,\n" + "To slay herself, that should have slain her foe.\n\n" + "'Courageous Roman, do not steep thy heart\n" + "In such relenting dew of lamentations;\n" + "But kneel with me and help to bear thy part,\n" + "To rouse our Roman gods with invocations,\n" + "That they will suffer these abominations,\n" + "Since Rome herself in them doth stand disgraced,\n" + "By our strong arms from forth her fair streets chased.\n\n" + "'Now, by the Capitol that we adore,\n" + "And by this chaste blood so unjustly stain'd,\n" + "By heaven's fair sun that breeds the fat earth's\n" + "store,\n" + "By all our country rights in Rome maintain'd,\n" + "And by chaste Lucrece' soul that late complain'd\n" + "Her wrongs to us, and by this bloody knife,\n" + "We will revenge the death of this true wife.'\n\n" + "This said, he struck his hand upon his breast,\n" + "And kiss'd the fatal knife, to end his vow;\n" + "And to his protestation urged the rest,\n" + "Who, wondering at him, did his words allow:\n" + "Then jointly to the ground their knees they bow;\n" + "And that deep vow, which Brutus made before,\n" + "He doth again repeat, and that they swore.\n\n" + "When they had sworn to this advised doom,\n" + "They did conclude to bear dead Lucrece thence;\n" + "To show her bleeding body thorough Rome,\n" + "And so to publish Tarquin's foul offence:\n" + "Which being done with speedy diligence,\n" + "The Romans plausibly did give consent\n" + "To Tarquin's everlasting banishment.\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "ESCALUS prince of Verona. (PRINCE:)\n\n" + "PARIS a young nobleman, kinsman to the prince.\n\n\n" + "MONTAGUE |\n" + " | heads of two houses at variance with each other.\n" + "CAPULET |\n\n\n" + " An old man, cousin to Capulet. (Second Capulet:)\n\n" + "ROMEO son to Montague.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO kinsman to the prince, and friend to Romeo.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO nephew to Montague, and friend to Romeo.\n\n" + "TYBALT nephew to Lady Capulet.\n\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE |\n" + " | Franciscans.\n" + "FRIAR JOHN |\n\n\n" + "BALTHASAR servant to Romeo.\n\n\n" + "SAMPSON |\n" + " | servants to Capulet.\n" + "GREGORY |\n\n\n" + "PETER servant to Juliet's nurse.\n\n" + "ABRAHAM servant to Montague.\n\n" + " An Apothecary. (Apothecary:)\n\n" + " Three Musicians.\n" + " (First Musician:)\n" + " (Second Musician:)\n" + " (Third Musician:)\n\n" + " Page to Paris; (PAGE:) another Page; an officer.\n\n" + "LADY MONTAGUE wife to Montague.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET wife to Capulet.\n\n" + "JULIET daughter to Capulet.\n\n" + " Nurse to Juliet. (Nurse:)\n\n" + " Citizens of Verona; several Men and Women,\n" + " relations to both houses; Maskers,\n" + " Guards, Watchmen, and Attendants.\n" + " (First Citizen:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (First Servant:)\n" + " (Second Servant:)\n" + " (First Watchman:)\n" + " (Second Watchman:)\n" + " (Third Watchman:)\n" + " Chorus.\n\n\n" + "SCENE Verona: Mantua.\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n" + " PROLOGUE\n\n\n" + " Two households, both alike in dignity,\n" + " In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,\n" + " From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,\n" + " Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.\n" + " From forth the fatal loins of these two foes\n" + " A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;\n" + " Whole misadventured piteous overthrows\n" + " Do with their death bury their parents' strife.\n" + " The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,\n" + " And the continuance of their parents' rage,\n" + " Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,\n" + " Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;\n" + " The which if you with patient ears attend,\n" + " What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Verona. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, of the house of Capulet,\n" + " armed with swords and bucklers]\n\n" + "SAMPSON Gregory, o' my word, we'll not carry coals.\n\n" + "GREGORY No, for then we should be colliers.\n\n" + "SAMPSON I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.\n\n" + "GREGORY Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.\n\n" + "SAMPSON I strike quickly, being moved.\n\n" + "GREGORY But thou art not quickly moved to strike.\n\n" + "SAMPSON A dog of the house of Montague moves me.\n\n" + "GREGORY To move is to stir; and to be valiant is to stand:\n" + " therefore, if thou art moved, thou runn'st away.\n\n" + "SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will\n" + " take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.\n\n" + "GREGORY That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes\n" + " to the wall.\n\n" + "SAMPSON True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,\n" + " are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push\n" + " Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids\n" + " to the wall.\n\n" + "GREGORY The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.\n\n" + "SAMPSON 'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I\n" + " have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the\n" + " maids, and cut off their heads.\n\n" + "GREGORY The heads of the maids?\n\n" + "SAMPSON Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;\n" + " take it in what sense thou wilt.\n\n" + "GREGORY They must take it in sense that feel it.\n\n" + "SAMPSON Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and\n" + " 'tis known I am a pretty piece of flesh.\n\n" + "GREGORY 'Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou\n" + " hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool! here comes\n" + " two of the house of the Montagues.\n\n" + "SAMPSON My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee.\n\n" + "GREGORY How! turn thy back and run?\n\n" + "SAMPSON Fear me not.\n\n" + "GREGORY No, marry; I fear thee!\n\n" + "SAMPSON Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin.\n\n" + "GREGORY I will frown as I pass by, and let them take it as\n" + " they list.\n\n" + "SAMPSON Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them;\n" + " which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.\n\n" + " [Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR]\n\n" + "ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?\n\n" + "SAMPSON I do bite my thumb, sir.\n\n" + "ABRAHAM Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?\n\n" + "SAMPSON [Aside to GREGORY] Is the law of our side, if I say\n" + " ay?\n\n" + "GREGORY No.\n\n" + "SAMPSON No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I\n" + " bite my thumb, sir.\n\n" + "GREGORY Do you quarrel, sir?\n\n" + "ABRAHAM Quarrel sir! no, sir.\n\n" + "SAMPSON If you do, sir, I am for you: I serve as good a man as you.\n\n" + "ABRAHAM No better.\n\n" + "SAMPSON Well, sir.\n\n" + "GREGORY Say 'better:' here comes one of my master's kinsmen.\n\n" + "SAMPSON Yes, better, sir.\n\n" + "ABRAHAM You lie.\n\n" + "SAMPSON Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.\n\n" + " [They fight]\n\n" + " [Enter BENVOLIO]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Part, fools!\n" + " Put up your swords; you know not what you do.\n\n" + " [Beats down their swords]\n\n" + " [Enter TYBALT]\n\n" + "TYBALT What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?\n" + " Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,\n" + " Or manage it to part these men with me.\n\n" + "TYBALT What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,\n" + " As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:\n" + " Have at thee, coward!\n\n" + " [They fight]\n\n" + " [Enter, several of both houses, who join the fray;\n" + " then enter Citizens, with clubs]\n\n" + "First Citizen Clubs, bills, and partisans! strike! beat them down!\n" + " Down with the Capulets! down with the Montagues!\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET in his gown, and LADY CAPULET]\n\n" + "CAPULET What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET A crutch, a crutch! why call you for a sword?\n\n" + "CAPULET My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,\n" + " And flourishes his blade in spite of me.\n\n" + " [Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE]\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go.\n\n" + "LADY MONTAGUE Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.\n\n" + " [Enter PRINCE, with Attendants]\n\n" + "PRINCE Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,\n" + " Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,--\n" + " Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,\n" + " That quench the fire of your pernicious rage\n" + " With purple fountains issuing from your veins,\n" + " On pain of torture, from those bloody hands\n" + " Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,\n" + " And hear the sentence of your moved prince.\n" + " Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,\n" + " By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,\n" + " Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,\n" + " And made Verona's ancient citizens\n" + " Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments,\n" + " To wield old partisans, in hands as old,\n" + " Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:\n" + " If ever you disturb our streets again,\n" + " Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.\n" + " For this time, all the rest depart away:\n" + " You Capulet; shall go along with me:\n" + " And, Montague, come you this afternoon,\n" + " To know our further pleasure in this case,\n" + " To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.\n" + " Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but MONTAGUE, LADY MONTAGUE, and BENVOLIO]\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?\n" + " Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Here were the servants of your adversary,\n" + " And yours, close fighting ere I did approach:\n" + " I drew to part them: in the instant came\n" + " The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared,\n" + " Which, as he breathed defiance to my ears,\n" + " He swung about his head and cut the winds,\n" + " Who nothing hurt withal hiss'd him in scorn:\n" + " While we were interchanging thrusts and blows,\n" + " Came more and more and fought on part and part,\n" + " Till the prince came, who parted either part.\n\n" + "LADY MONTAGUE O, where is Romeo? saw you him to-day?\n" + " Right glad I am he was not at this fray.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Madam, an hour before the worshipp'd sun\n" + " Peer'd forth the golden window of the east,\n" + " A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad;\n" + " Where, underneath the grove of sycamore\n" + " That westward rooteth from the city's side,\n" + " So early walking did I see your son:\n" + " Towards him I made, but he was ware of me\n" + " And stole into the covert of the wood:\n" + " I, measuring his affections by my own,\n" + " That most are busied when they're most alone,\n" + " Pursued my humour not pursuing his,\n" + " And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Many a morning hath he there been seen,\n" + " With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.\n" + " Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;\n" + " But all so soon as the all-cheering sun\n" + " Should in the furthest east begin to draw\n" + " The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,\n" + " Away from the light steals home my heavy son,\n" + " And private in his chamber pens himself,\n" + " Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out\n" + " And makes himself an artificial night:\n" + " Black and portentous must this humour prove,\n" + " Unless good counsel may the cause remove.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO My noble uncle, do you know the cause?\n\n" + "MONTAGUE I neither know it nor can learn of him.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Have you importuned him by any means?\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Both by myself and many other friends:\n" + " But he, his own affections' counsellor,\n" + " Is to himself--I will not say how true--\n" + " But to himself so secret and so close,\n" + " So far from sounding and discovery,\n" + " As is the bud bit with an envious worm,\n" + " Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,\n" + " Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.\n" + " Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.\n" + " We would as willingly give cure as know.\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO See, where he comes: so please you, step aside;\n" + " I'll know his grievance, or be much denied.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,\n" + " To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Good-morrow, cousin.\n\n" + "ROMEO Is the day so young?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO But new struck nine.\n\n" + "ROMEO Ay me! sad hours seem long.\n" + " Was that my father that went hence so fast?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?\n\n" + "ROMEO Not having that, which, having, makes them short.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO In love?\n\n" + "ROMEO Out--\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Of love?\n\n" + "ROMEO Out of her favour, where I am in love.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,\n" + " Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!\n\n" + "ROMEO Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,\n" + " Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!\n" + " Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?\n" + " Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.\n" + " Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.\n" + " Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!\n" + " O any thing, of nothing first create!\n" + " O heavy lightness! serious vanity!\n" + " Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!\n" + " Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,\n" + " sick health!\n" + " Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!\n" + " This love feel I, that feel no love in this.\n" + " Dost thou not laugh?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO No, coz, I rather weep.\n\n" + "ROMEO Good heart, at what?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO At thy good heart's oppression.\n\n" + "ROMEO Why, such is love's transgression.\n" + " Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,\n" + " Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest\n" + " With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown\n" + " Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.\n" + " Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;\n" + " Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;\n" + " Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:\n" + " What is it else? a madness most discreet,\n" + " A choking gall and a preserving sweet.\n" + " Farewell, my coz.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Soft! I will go along;\n" + " An if you leave me so, you do me wrong.\n\n" + "ROMEO Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here;\n" + " This is not Romeo, he's some other where.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Tell me in sadness, who is that you love.\n\n" + "ROMEO What, shall I groan and tell thee?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Groan! why, no.\n" + " But sadly tell me who.\n\n" + "ROMEO Bid a sick man in sadness make his will:\n" + " Ah, word ill urged to one that is so ill!\n" + " In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO I aim'd so near, when I supposed you loved.\n\n" + "ROMEO A right good mark-man! And she's fair I love.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit.\n\n" + "ROMEO Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit\n" + " With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;\n" + " And, in strong proof of chastity well arm'd,\n" + " From love's weak childish bow she lives unharm'd.\n" + " She will not stay the siege of loving terms,\n" + " Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes,\n" + " Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold:\n" + " O, she is rich in beauty, only poor,\n" + " That when she dies with beauty dies her store.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?\n\n" + "ROMEO She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste,\n" + " For beauty starved with her severity\n" + " Cuts beauty off from all posterity.\n" + " She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,\n" + " To merit bliss by making me despair:\n" + " She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow\n" + " Do I live dead that live to tell it now.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.\n\n" + "ROMEO O, teach me how I should forget to think.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO By giving liberty unto thine eyes;\n" + " Examine other beauties.\n\n" + "ROMEO 'Tis the way\n" + " To call hers exquisite, in question more:\n" + " These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows\n" + " Being black put us in mind they hide the fair;\n" + " He that is strucken blind cannot forget\n" + " The precious treasure of his eyesight lost:\n" + " Show me a mistress that is passing fair,\n" + " What doth her beauty serve, but as a note\n" + " Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?\n" + " Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO I'll pay that doctrine, or else die in debt.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET, PARIS, and Servant]\n\n" + "CAPULET But Montague is bound as well as I,\n" + " In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think,\n" + " For men so old as we to keep the peace.\n\n" + "PARIS Of honourable reckoning are you both;\n" + " And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.\n" + " But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?\n\n" + "CAPULET But saying o'er what I have said before:\n" + " My child is yet a stranger in the world;\n" + " She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,\n" + " Let two more summers wither in their pride,\n" + " Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.\n\n" + "PARIS Younger than she are happy mothers made.\n\n" + "CAPULET And too soon marr'd are those so early made.\n" + " The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she,\n" + " She is the hopeful lady of my earth:\n" + " But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart,\n" + " My will to her consent is but a part;\n" + " An she agree, within her scope of choice\n" + " Lies my consent and fair according voice.\n" + " This night I hold an old accustom'd feast,\n" + " Whereto I have invited many a guest,\n" + " Such as I love; and you, among the store,\n" + " One more, most welcome, makes my number more.\n" + " At my poor house look to behold this night\n" + " Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light:\n" + " Such comfort as do lusty young men feel\n" + " When well-apparell'd April on the heel\n" + " Of limping winter treads, even such delight\n" + " Among fresh female buds shall you this night\n" + " Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,\n" + " And like her most whose merit most shall be:\n" + " Which on more view, of many mine being one\n" + " May stand in number, though in reckoning none,\n" + " Come, go with me.\n\n" + " [To Servant, giving a paper]\n\n" + " Go, sirrah, trudge about\n" + " Through fair Verona; find those persons out\n" + " Whose names are written there, and to them say,\n" + " My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CAPULET and PARIS]\n\n" + "Servant Find them out whose names are written here! It is\n" + " written, that the shoemaker should meddle with his\n" + " yard, and the tailor with his last, the fisher with\n" + " his pencil, and the painter with his nets; but I am\n" + " sent to find those persons whose names are here\n" + " writ, and can never find what names the writing\n" + " person hath here writ. I must to the learned.--In good time.\n\n" + " [Enter BENVOLIO and ROMEO]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning,\n" + " One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;\n" + " Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning;\n" + " One desperate grief cures with another's languish:\n" + " Take thou some new infection to thy eye,\n" + " And the rank poison of the old will die.\n\n" + "ROMEO Your plaintain-leaf is excellent for that.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO For what, I pray thee?\n\n" + "ROMEO For your broken shin.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Why, Romeo, art thou mad?\n\n" + "ROMEO Not mad, but bound more than a mad-man is;\n" + " Shut up in prison, kept without my food,\n" + " Whipp'd and tormented and--God-den, good fellow.\n\n" + "Servant God gi' god-den. I pray, sir, can you read?\n\n" + "ROMEO Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.\n\n" + "Servant Perhaps you have learned it without book: but, I\n" + " pray, can you read any thing you see?\n\n" + "ROMEO Ay, if I know the letters and the language.\n\n" + "Servant Ye say honestly: rest you merry!\n\n" + "ROMEO Stay, fellow; I can read.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Signior Martino and his wife and daughters;\n" + " County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady\n" + " widow of Vitravio; Signior Placentio and his lovely\n" + " nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine\n" + " uncle Capulet, his wife and daughters; my fair niece\n" + " Rosaline; Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin\n" + " Tybalt, Lucio and the lively Helena.' A fair\n" + " assembly: whither should they come?\n\n" + "Servant Up.\n\n" + "ROMEO Whither?\n\n" + "Servant To supper; to our house.\n\n" + "ROMEO Whose house?\n\n" + "Servant My master's.\n\n" + "ROMEO Indeed, I should have ask'd you that before.\n\n" + "Servant Now I'll tell you without asking: my master is the\n" + " great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house\n" + " of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine.\n" + " Rest you merry!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO At this same ancient feast of Capulet's\n" + " Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,\n" + " With all the admired beauties of Verona:\n" + " Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,\n" + " Compare her face with some that I shall show,\n" + " And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.\n\n" + "ROMEO When the devout religion of mine eye\n" + " Maintains such falsehood, then turn tears to fires;\n" + " And these, who often drown'd could never die,\n" + " Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars!\n" + " One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun\n" + " Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,\n" + " Herself poised with herself in either eye:\n" + " But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd\n" + " Your lady's love against some other maid\n" + " That I will show you shining at this feast,\n" + " And she shall scant show well that now shows best.\n\n" + "ROMEO I'll go along, no such sight to be shown,\n" + " But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in Capulet's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse]\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Nurse, where's my daughter? call her forth to me.\n\n" + "Nurse Now, by my maidenhead, at twelve year old,\n" + " I bade her come. What, lamb! what, ladybird!\n" + " God forbid! Where's this girl? What, Juliet!\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET]\n\n" + "JULIET How now! who calls?\n\n" + "Nurse Your mother.\n\n" + "JULIET Madam, I am here.\n" + " What is your will?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET This is the matter:--Nurse, give leave awhile,\n" + " We must talk in secret:--nurse, come back again;\n" + " I have remember'd me, thou's hear our counsel.\n" + " Thou know'st my daughter's of a pretty age.\n\n" + "Nurse Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET She's not fourteen.\n\n" + "Nurse I'll lay fourteen of my teeth,--\n" + " And yet, to my teeth be it spoken, I have but four--\n" + " She is not fourteen. How long is it now\n" + " To Lammas-tide?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET A fortnight and odd days.\n\n" + "Nurse Even or odd, of all days in the year,\n" + " Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.\n" + " Susan and she--God rest all Christian souls!--\n" + " Were of an age: well, Susan is with God;\n" + " She was too good for me: but, as I said,\n" + " On Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen;\n" + " That shall she, marry; I remember it well.\n" + " 'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years;\n" + " And she was wean'd,--I never shall forget it,--\n" + " Of all the days of the year, upon that day:\n" + " For I had then laid wormwood to my dug,\n" + " Sitting in the sun under the dove-house wall;\n" + " My lord and you were then at Mantua:--\n" + " Nay, I do bear a brain:--but, as I said,\n" + " When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple\n" + " Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool,\n" + " To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!\n" + " Shake quoth the dove-house: 'twas no need, I trow,\n" + " To bid me trudge:\n" + " And since that time it is eleven years;\n" + " For then she could stand alone; nay, by the rood,\n" + " She could have run and waddled all about;\n" + " For even the day before, she broke her brow:\n" + " And then my husband--God be with his soul!\n" + " A' was a merry man--took up the child:\n" + " 'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face?\n" + " Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit;\n" + " Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidame,\n" + " The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.'\n" + " To see, now, how a jest shall come about!\n" + " I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,\n" + " I never should forget it: 'Wilt thou not, Jule?' quoth he;\n" + " And, pretty fool, it stinted and said 'Ay.'\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.\n\n" + "Nurse Yes, madam: yet I cannot choose but laugh,\n" + " To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay.'\n" + " And yet, I warrant, it had upon its brow\n" + " A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone;\n" + " A parlous knock; and it cried bitterly:\n" + " 'Yea,' quoth my husband,'fall'st upon thy face?\n" + " Thou wilt fall backward when thou comest to age;\n" + " Wilt thou not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay.'\n\n" + "JULIET And stint thou too, I pray thee, nurse, say I.\n\n" + "Nurse Peace, I have done. God mark thee to his grace!\n" + " Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed:\n" + " An I might live to see thee married once,\n" + " I have my wish.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Marry, that 'marry' is the very theme\n" + " I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet,\n" + " How stands your disposition to be married?\n\n" + "JULIET It is an honour that I dream not of.\n\n" + "Nurse An honour! were not I thine only nurse,\n" + " I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Well, think of marriage now; younger than you,\n" + " Here in Verona, ladies of esteem,\n" + " Are made already mothers: by my count,\n" + " I was your mother much upon these years\n" + " That you are now a maid. Thus then in brief:\n" + " The valiant Paris seeks you for his love.\n\n" + "Nurse A man, young lady! lady, such a man\n" + " As all the world--why, he's a man of wax.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Verona's summer hath not such a flower.\n\n" + "Nurse Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET What say you? can you love the gentleman?\n" + " This night you shall behold him at our feast;\n" + " Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,\n" + " And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;\n" + " Examine every married lineament,\n" + " And see how one another lends content\n" + " And what obscured in this fair volume lies\n" + " Find written in the margent of his eyes.\n" + " This precious book of love, this unbound lover,\n" + " To beautify him, only lacks a cover:\n" + " The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride\n" + " For fair without the fair within to hide:\n" + " That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,\n" + " That in gold clasps locks in the golden story;\n" + " So shall you share all that he doth possess,\n" + " By having him, making yourself no less.\n\n" + "Nurse No less! nay, bigger; women grow by men.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Speak briefly, can you like of Paris' love?\n\n" + "JULIET I'll look to like, if looking liking move:\n" + " But no more deep will I endart mine eye\n" + " Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Madam, the guests are come, supper served up, you\n" + " called, my young lady asked for, the nurse cursed in\n" + " the pantry, and every thing in extremity. I must\n" + " hence to wait; I beseech you, follow straight.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET We follow thee.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " Juliet, the county stays.\n\n" + "Nurse Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO, MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, with five or six\n" + " Maskers, Torch-bearers, and others]\n\n" + "ROMEO What, shall this speech be spoke for our excuse?\n" + " Or shall we on without a apology?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO The date is out of such prolixity:\n" + " We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf,\n" + " Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,\n" + " Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper;\n" + " Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke\n" + " After the prompter, for our entrance:\n" + " But let them measure us by what they will;\n" + " We'll measure them a measure, and be gone.\n\n" + "ROMEO Give me a torch: I am not for this ambling;\n" + " Being but heavy, I will bear the light.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.\n\n" + "ROMEO Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes\n" + " With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead\n" + " So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,\n" + " And soar with them above a common bound.\n\n" + "ROMEO I am too sore enpierced with his shaft\n" + " To soar with his light feathers, and so bound,\n" + " I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe:\n" + " Under love's heavy burden do I sink.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO And, to sink in it, should you burden love;\n" + " Too great oppression for a tender thing.\n\n" + "ROMEO Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,\n" + " Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO If love be rough with you, be rough with love;\n" + " Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.\n" + " Give me a case to put my visage in:\n" + " A visor for a visor! what care I\n" + " What curious eye doth quote deformities?\n" + " Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Come, knock and enter; and no sooner in,\n" + " But every man betake him to his legs.\n\n" + "ROMEO A torch for me: let wantons light of heart\n" + " Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels,\n" + " For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase;\n" + " I'll be a candle-holder, and look on.\n" + " The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word:\n" + " If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire\n" + " Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st\n" + " Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho!\n\n" + "ROMEO Nay, that's not so.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO I mean, sir, in delay\n" + " We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.\n" + " Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits\n" + " Five times in that ere once in our five wits.\n\n" + "ROMEO And we mean well in going to this mask;\n" + " But 'tis no wit to go.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Why, may one ask?\n\n" + "ROMEO I dream'd a dream to-night.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO And so did I.\n\n" + "ROMEO Well, what was yours?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO That dreamers often lie.\n\n" + "ROMEO In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.\n" + " She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes\n" + " In shape no bigger than an agate-stone\n" + " On the fore-finger of an alderman,\n" + " Drawn with a team of little atomies\n" + " Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep;\n" + " Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,\n" + " The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,\n" + " The traces of the smallest spider's web,\n" + " The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,\n" + " Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,\n" + " Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,\n" + " Not so big as a round little worm\n" + " Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid;\n" + " Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut\n" + " Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,\n" + " Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.\n" + " And in this state she gallops night by night\n" + " Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;\n" + " O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight,\n" + " O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees,\n" + " O'er ladies ' lips, who straight on kisses dream,\n" + " Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,\n" + " Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are:\n" + " Sometime she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,\n" + " And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;\n" + " And sometime comes she with a tithe-pig's tail\n" + " Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep,\n" + " Then dreams, he of another benefice:\n" + " Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,\n" + " And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,\n" + " Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,\n" + " Of healths five-fathom deep; and then anon\n" + " Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,\n" + " And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two\n" + " And sleeps again. This is that very Mab\n" + " That plats the manes of horses in the night,\n" + " And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,\n" + " Which once untangled, much misfortune bodes:\n" + " This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,\n" + " That presses them and learns them first to bear,\n" + " Making them women of good carriage:\n" + " This is she--\n\n" + "ROMEO Peace, peace, Mercutio, peace!\n" + " Thou talk'st of nothing.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO True, I talk of dreams,\n" + " Which are the children of an idle brain,\n" + " Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,\n" + " Which is as thin of substance as the air\n" + " And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes\n" + " Even now the frozen bosom of the north,\n" + " And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,\n" + " Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO This wind, you talk of, blows us from ourselves;\n" + " Supper is done, and we shall come too late.\n\n" + "ROMEO I fear, too early: for my mind misgives\n" + " Some consequence yet hanging in the stars\n" + " Shall bitterly begin his fearful date\n" + " With this night's revels and expire the term\n" + " Of a despised life closed in my breast\n" + " By some vile forfeit of untimely death.\n" + " But He, that hath the steerage of my course,\n" + " Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Strike, drum.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A hall in Capulet's house.\n\n\n" + " [Musicians waiting. Enter Servingmen with napkins]\n\n" + "First Servant Where's Potpan, that he helps not to take away? He\n" + " shift a trencher? he scrape a trencher!\n\n" + "Second Servant When good manners shall lie all in one or two men's\n" + " hands and they unwashed too, 'tis a foul thing.\n\n" + "First Servant Away with the joint-stools, remove the\n" + " court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save\n" + " me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let\n" + " the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.\n" + " Antony, and Potpan!\n\n" + "Second Servant Ay, boy, ready.\n\n" + "First Servant You are looked for and called for, asked for and\n" + " sought for, in the great chamber.\n\n" + "Second Servant We cannot be here and there too. Cheerly, boys; be\n" + " brisk awhile, and the longer liver take all.\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET, with JULIET and others of his house,\n" + " meeting the Guests and Maskers]\n\n" + "CAPULET Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes\n" + " Unplagued with corns will have a bout with you.\n" + " Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all\n" + " Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,\n" + " She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?\n" + " Welcome, gentlemen! I have seen the day\n" + " That I have worn a visor and could tell\n" + " A whispering tale in a fair lady's ear,\n" + " Such as would please: 'tis gone, 'tis gone, 'tis gone:\n" + " You are welcome, gentlemen! come, musicians, play.\n" + " A hall, a hall! give room! and foot it, girls.\n\n" + " [Music plays, and they dance]\n\n" + " More light, you knaves; and turn the tables up,\n" + " And quench the fire, the room is grown too hot.\n" + " Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes well.\n" + " Nay, sit, nay, sit, good cousin Capulet;\n" + " For you and I are past our dancing days:\n" + " How long is't now since last yourself and I\n" + " Were in a mask?\n\n" + "Second Capulet By'r lady, thirty years.\n\n" + "CAPULET What, man! 'tis not so much, 'tis not so much:\n" + " 'Tis since the nuptials of Lucentio,\n" + " Come pentecost as quickly as it will,\n" + " Some five and twenty years; and then we mask'd.\n\n" + "Second Capulet 'Tis more, 'tis more, his son is elder, sir;\n" + " His son is thirty.\n\n" + "CAPULET Will you tell me that?\n" + " His son was but a ward two years ago.\n\n" + "ROMEO [To a Servingman] What lady is that, which doth\n" + " enrich the hand\n" + " Of yonder knight?\n\n" + "Servant I know not, sir.\n\n" + "ROMEO O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!\n" + " It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night\n" + " Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;\n" + " Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!\n" + " So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,\n" + " As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.\n" + " The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,\n" + " And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.\n" + " Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!\n" + " For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.\n\n" + "TYBALT This, by his voice, should be a Montague.\n" + " Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave\n" + " Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,\n" + " To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?\n" + " Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,\n" + " To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.\n\n" + "CAPULET Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?\n\n" + "TYBALT Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe,\n" + " A villain that is hither come in spite,\n" + " To scorn at our solemnity this night.\n\n" + "CAPULET Young Romeo is it?\n\n" + "TYBALT 'Tis he, that villain Romeo.\n\n" + "CAPULET Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;\n" + " He bears him like a portly gentleman;\n" + " And, to say truth, Verona brags of him\n" + " To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:\n" + " I would not for the wealth of all the town\n" + " Here in my house do him disparagement:\n" + " Therefore be patient, take no note of him:\n" + " It is my will, the which if thou respect,\n" + " Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,\n" + " And ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.\n\n" + "TYBALT It fits, when such a villain is a guest:\n" + " I'll not endure him.\n\n" + "CAPULET He shall be endured:\n" + " What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;\n" + " Am I the master here, or you? go to.\n" + " You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul!\n" + " You'll make a mutiny among my guests!\n" + " You will set cock-a-hoop! you'll be the man!\n\n" + "TYBALT Why, uncle, 'tis a shame.\n\n" + "CAPULET Go to, go to;\n" + " You are a saucy boy: is't so, indeed?\n" + " This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what:\n" + " You must contrary me! marry, 'tis time.\n" + " Well said, my hearts! You are a princox; go:\n" + " Be quiet, or--More light, more light! For shame!\n" + " I'll make you quiet. What, cheerly, my hearts!\n\n" + "TYBALT Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting\n" + " Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.\n" + " I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall\n" + " Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ROMEO [To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand\n" + " This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:\n" + " My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand\n" + " To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.\n\n" + "JULIET Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,\n" + " Which mannerly devotion shows in this;\n" + " For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,\n" + " And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.\n\n" + "ROMEO Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?\n\n" + "JULIET Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.\n\n" + "ROMEO O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;\n" + " They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.\n\n" + "JULIET Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.\n\n" + "ROMEO Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.\n" + " Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.\n\n" + "JULIET Then have my lips the sin that they have took.\n\n" + "ROMEO Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!\n" + " Give me my sin again.\n\n" + "JULIET You kiss by the book.\n\n" + "Nurse Madam, your mother craves a word with you.\n\n" + "ROMEO What is her mother?\n\n" + "Nurse Marry, bachelor,\n" + " Her mother is the lady of the house,\n" + " And a good lady, and a wise and virtuous\n" + " I nursed her daughter, that you talk'd withal;\n" + " I tell you, he that can lay hold of her\n" + " Shall have the chinks.\n\n" + "ROMEO Is she a Capulet?\n" + " O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Away, begone; the sport is at the best.\n\n" + "ROMEO Ay, so I fear; the more is my unrest.\n\n" + "CAPULET Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone;\n" + " We have a trifling foolish banquet towards.\n" + " Is it e'en so? why, then, I thank you all\n" + " I thank you, honest gentlemen; good night.\n" + " More torches here! Come on then, let's to bed.\n" + " Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late:\n" + " I'll to my rest.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but JULIET and Nurse]\n\n" + "JULIET Come hither, nurse. What is yond gentleman?\n\n" + "Nurse The son and heir of old Tiberio.\n\n" + "JULIET What's he that now is going out of door?\n\n" + "Nurse Marry, that, I think, be young Petrucio.\n\n" + "JULIET What's he that follows there, that would not dance?\n\n" + "Nurse I know not.\n\n" + "JULIET Go ask his name: if he be married.\n" + " My grave is like to be my wedding bed.\n\n" + "Nurse His name is Romeo, and a Montague;\n" + " The only son of your great enemy.\n\n" + "JULIET My only love sprung from my only hate!\n" + " Too early seen unknown, and known too late!\n" + " Prodigious birth of love it is to me,\n" + " That I must love a loathed enemy.\n\n" + "Nurse What's this? what's this?\n\n" + "JULIET A rhyme I learn'd even now\n" + " Of one I danced withal.\n\n" + " [One calls within 'Juliet.']\n\n" + "Nurse Anon, anon!\n" + " Come, let's away; the strangers all are gone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n" + " PROLOGUE\n\n\n" + " [Enter Chorus]\n\n" + "Chorus Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,\n" + " And young affection gapes to be his heir;\n" + " That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,\n" + " With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.\n" + " Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,\n" + " Alike betwitched by the charm of looks,\n" + " But to his foe supposed he must complain,\n" + " And she steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks:\n" + " Being held a foe, he may not have access\n" + " To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear;\n" + " And she as much in love, her means much less\n" + " To meet her new-beloved any where:\n" + " But passion lends them power, time means, to meet\n" + " Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A lane by the wall of Capulet's orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "ROMEO Can I go forward when my heart is here?\n" + " Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out.\n\n" + " [He climbs the wall, and leaps down within it]\n\n" + " [Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Romeo! my cousin Romeo!\n\n" + "MERCUTIO He is wise;\n" + " And, on my lie, hath stol'n him home to bed.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO He ran this way, and leap'd this orchard wall:\n" + " Call, good Mercutio.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Nay, I'll conjure too.\n" + " Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover!\n" + " Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh:\n" + " Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied;\n" + " Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;'\n" + " Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word,\n" + " One nick-name for her purblind son and heir,\n" + " Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim,\n" + " When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!\n" + " He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not;\n" + " The ape is dead, and I must conjure him.\n" + " I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,\n" + " By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,\n" + " By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh\n" + " And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,\n" + " That in thy likeness thou appear to us!\n\n" + "BENVOLIO And if he hear thee, thou wilt anger him.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO This cannot anger him: 'twould anger him\n" + " To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle\n" + " Of some strange nature, letting it there stand\n" + " Till she had laid it and conjured it down;\n" + " That were some spite: my invocation\n" + " Is fair and honest, and in his mistress' name\n" + " I conjure only but to raise up him.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,\n" + " To be consorted with the humorous night:\n" + " Blind is his love and best befits the dark.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.\n" + " Now will he sit under a medlar tree,\n" + " And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit\n" + " As maids call medlars, when they laugh alone.\n" + " Romeo, that she were, O, that she were\n" + " An open et caetera, thou a poperin pear!\n" + " Romeo, good night: I'll to my truckle-bed;\n" + " This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep:\n" + " Come, shall we go?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Go, then; for 'tis in vain\n" + " To seek him here that means not to be found.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Capulet's orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound.\n\n" + " [JULIET appears above at a window]\n\n" + " But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?\n" + " It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.\n" + " Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,\n" + " Who is already sick and pale with grief,\n" + " That thou her maid art far more fair than she:\n" + " Be not her maid, since she is envious;\n" + " Her vestal livery is but sick and green\n" + " And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.\n" + " It is my lady, O, it is my love!\n" + " O, that she knew she were!\n" + " She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?\n" + " Her eye discourses; I will answer it.\n" + " I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks:\n" + " Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,\n" + " Having some business, do entreat her eyes\n" + " To twinkle in their spheres till they return.\n" + " What if her eyes were there, they in her head?\n" + " The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,\n" + " As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven\n" + " Would through the airy region stream so bright\n" + " That birds would sing and think it were not night.\n" + " See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!\n" + " O, that I were a glove upon that hand,\n" + " That I might touch that cheek!\n\n" + "JULIET Ay me!\n\n" + "ROMEO She speaks:\n" + " O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art\n" + " As glorious to this night, being o'er my head\n" + " As is a winged messenger of heaven\n" + " Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes\n" + " Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him\n" + " When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds\n" + " And sails upon the bosom of the air.\n\n" + "JULIET O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?\n" + " Deny thy father and refuse thy name;\n" + " Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,\n" + " And I'll no longer be a Capulet.\n\n" + "ROMEO [Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?\n\n" + "JULIET 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;\n" + " Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.\n" + " What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,\n" + " Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part\n" + " Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!\n" + " What's in a name? that which we call a rose\n" + " By any other name would smell as sweet;\n" + " So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,\n" + " Retain that dear perfection which he owes\n" + " Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,\n" + " And for that name which is no part of thee\n" + " Take all myself.\n\n" + "ROMEO I take thee at thy word:\n" + " Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;\n" + " Henceforth I never will be Romeo.\n\n" + "JULIET What man art thou that thus bescreen'd in night\n" + " So stumblest on my counsel?\n\n" + "ROMEO By a name\n" + " I know not how to tell thee who I am:\n" + " My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,\n" + " Because it is an enemy to thee;\n" + " Had I it written, I would tear the word.\n\n" + "JULIET My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words\n" + " Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound:\n" + " Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?\n\n" + "ROMEO Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.\n\n" + "JULIET How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?\n" + " The orchard walls are high and hard to climb,\n" + " And the place death, considering who thou art,\n" + " If any of my kinsmen find thee here.\n\n" + "ROMEO With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls;\n" + " For stony limits cannot hold love out,\n" + " And what love can do that dares love attempt;\n" + " Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.\n\n" + "JULIET If they do see thee, they will murder thee.\n\n" + "ROMEO Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye\n" + " Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,\n" + " And I am proof against their enmity.\n\n" + "JULIET I would not for the world they saw thee here.\n\n" + "ROMEO I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;\n" + " And but thou love me, let them find me here:\n" + " My life were better ended by their hate,\n" + " Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.\n\n" + "JULIET By whose direction found'st thou out this place?\n\n" + "ROMEO By love, who first did prompt me to inquire;\n" + " He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes.\n" + " I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far\n" + " As that vast shore wash'd with the farthest sea,\n" + " I would adventure for such merchandise.\n\n" + "JULIET Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face,\n" + " Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek\n" + " For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night\n" + " Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny\n" + " What I have spoke: but farewell compliment!\n" + " Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,'\n" + " And I will take thy word: yet if thou swear'st,\n" + " Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries\n" + " Then say, Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo,\n" + " If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully:\n" + " Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won,\n" + " I'll frown and be perverse an say thee nay,\n" + " So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world.\n" + " In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond,\n" + " And therefore thou mayst think my 'havior light:\n" + " But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true\n" + " Than those that have more cunning to be strange.\n" + " I should have been more strange, I must confess,\n" + " But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware,\n" + " My true love's passion: therefore pardon me,\n" + " And not impute this yielding to light love,\n" + " Which the dark night hath so discovered.\n\n" + "ROMEO Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear\n" + " That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops--\n\n" + "JULIET O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon,\n" + " That monthly changes in her circled orb,\n" + " Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.\n\n" + "ROMEO What shall I swear by?\n\n" + "JULIET Do not swear at all;\n" + " Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,\n" + " Which is the god of my idolatry,\n" + " And I'll believe thee.\n\n" + "ROMEO If my heart's dear love--\n\n" + "JULIET Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,\n" + " I have no joy of this contract to-night:\n" + " It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;\n" + " Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be\n" + " Ere one can say 'It lightens.' Sweet, good night!\n" + " This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,\n" + " May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.\n" + " Good night, good night! as sweet repose and rest\n" + " Come to thy heart as that within my breast!\n\n" + "ROMEO O, wilt thou leave me so unsatisfied?\n\n" + "JULIET What satisfaction canst thou have to-night?\n\n" + "ROMEO The exchange of thy love's faithful vow for mine.\n\n" + "JULIET I gave thee mine before thou didst request it:\n" + " And yet I would it were to give again.\n\n" + "ROMEO Wouldst thou withdraw it? for what purpose, love?\n\n" + "JULIET But to be frank, and give it thee again.\n" + " And yet I wish but for the thing I have:\n" + " My bounty is as boundless as the sea,\n" + " My love as deep; the more I give to thee,\n" + " The more I have, for both are infinite.\n\n" + " [Nurse calls within]\n\n" + " I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!\n" + " Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true.\n" + " Stay but a little, I will come again.\n\n" + " [Exit, above]\n\n" + "ROMEO O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard.\n" + " Being in night, all this is but a dream,\n" + " Too flattering-sweet to be substantial.\n\n" + " [Re-enter JULIET, above]\n\n" + "JULIET Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed.\n" + " If that thy bent of love be honourable,\n" + " Thy purpose marriage, send me word to-morrow,\n" + " By one that I'll procure to come to thee,\n" + " Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite;\n" + " And all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay\n" + " And follow thee my lord throughout the world.\n\n" + "Nurse [Within] Madam!\n\n" + "JULIET I come, anon.--But if thou mean'st not well,\n" + " I do beseech thee--\n\n" + "Nurse [Within] Madam!\n\n" + "JULIET By and by, I come:--\n" + " To cease thy suit, and leave me to my grief:\n" + " To-morrow will I send.\n\n" + "ROMEO So thrive my soul--\n\n" + "JULIET A thousand times good night!\n\n" + " [Exit, above]\n\n" + "ROMEO A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.\n" + " Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from\n" + " their books,\n" + " But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.\n\n" + " [Retiring]\n\n" + " [Re-enter JULIET, above]\n\n" + "JULIET Hist! Romeo, hist! O, for a falconer's voice,\n" + " To lure this tassel-gentle back again!\n" + " Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud;\n" + " Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies,\n" + " And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine,\n" + " With repetition of my Romeo's name.\n\n" + "ROMEO It is my soul that calls upon my name:\n" + " How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night,\n" + " Like softest music to attending ears!\n\n" + "JULIET Romeo!\n\n" + "ROMEO My dear?\n\n" + "JULIET At what o'clock to-morrow\n" + " Shall I send to thee?\n\n" + "ROMEO At the hour of nine.\n\n" + "JULIET I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.\n" + " I have forgot why I did call thee back.\n\n" + "ROMEO Let me stand here till thou remember it.\n\n" + "JULIET I shall forget, to have thee still stand there,\n" + " Remembering how I love thy company.\n\n" + "ROMEO And I'll still stay, to have thee still forget,\n" + " Forgetting any other home but this.\n\n" + "JULIET 'Tis almost morning; I would have thee gone:\n" + " And yet no further than a wanton's bird;\n" + " Who lets it hop a little from her hand,\n" + " Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,\n" + " And with a silk thread plucks it back again,\n" + " So loving-jealous of his liberty.\n\n" + "ROMEO I would I were thy bird.\n\n" + "JULIET Sweet, so would I:\n" + " Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.\n" + " Good night, good night! parting is such\n" + " sweet sorrow,\n" + " That I shall say good night till it be morrow.\n\n" + " [Exit above]\n\n" + "ROMEO Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!\n" + " Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!\n" + " Hence will I to my ghostly father's cell,\n" + " His help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Friar Laurence's cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR LAURENCE, with a basket]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,\n" + " Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,\n" + " And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels\n" + " From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:\n" + " Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,\n" + " The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,\n" + " I must up-fill this osier cage of ours\n" + " With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.\n" + " The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;\n" + " What is her burying grave that is her womb,\n" + " And from her womb children of divers kind\n" + " We sucking on her natural bosom find,\n" + " Many for many virtues excellent,\n" + " None but for some and yet all different.\n" + " O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies\n" + " In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:\n" + " For nought so vile that on the earth doth live\n" + " But to the earth some special good doth give,\n" + " Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use\n" + " Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:\n" + " Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;\n" + " And vice sometimes by action dignified.\n" + " Within the infant rind of this small flower\n" + " Poison hath residence and medicine power:\n" + " For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;\n" + " Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.\n" + " Two such opposed kings encamp them still\n" + " In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;\n" + " And where the worser is predominant,\n" + " Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "ROMEO Good morrow, father.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Benedicite!\n" + " What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?\n" + " Young son, it argues a distemper'd head\n" + " So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed:\n" + " Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,\n" + " And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;\n" + " But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain\n" + " Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign:\n" + " Therefore thy earliness doth me assure\n" + " Thou art up-roused by some distemperature;\n" + " Or if not so, then here I hit it right,\n" + " Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night.\n\n" + "ROMEO That last is true; the sweeter rest was mine.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE God pardon sin! wast thou with Rosaline?\n\n" + "ROMEO With Rosaline, my ghostly father? no;\n" + " I have forgot that name, and that name's woe.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE That's my good son: but where hast thou been, then?\n\n" + "ROMEO I'll tell thee, ere thou ask it me again.\n" + " I have been feasting with mine enemy,\n" + " Where on a sudden one hath wounded me,\n" + " That's by me wounded: both our remedies\n" + " Within thy help and holy physic lies:\n" + " I bear no hatred, blessed man, for, lo,\n" + " My intercession likewise steads my foe.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift;\n" + " Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.\n\n" + "ROMEO Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set\n" + " On the fair daughter of rich Capulet:\n" + " As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine;\n" + " And all combined, save what thou must combine\n" + " By holy marriage: when and where and how\n" + " We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow,\n" + " I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,\n" + " That thou consent to marry us to-day.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!\n" + " Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,\n" + " So soon forsaken? young men's love then lies\n" + " Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.\n" + " Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine\n" + " Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!\n" + " How much salt water thrown away in waste,\n" + " To season love, that of it doth not taste!\n" + " The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,\n" + " Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears;\n" + " Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit\n" + " Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet:\n" + " If e'er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,\n" + " Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline:\n" + " And art thou changed? pronounce this sentence then,\n" + " Women may fall, when there's no strength in men.\n\n" + "ROMEO Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE For doting, not for loving, pupil mine.\n\n" + "ROMEO And bad'st me bury love.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Not in a grave,\n" + " To lay one in, another out to have.\n\n" + "ROMEO I pray thee, chide not; she whom I love now\n" + " Doth grace for grace and love for love allow;\n" + " The other did not so.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE O, she knew well\n" + " Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.\n" + " But come, young waverer, come, go with me,\n" + " In one respect I'll thy assistant be;\n" + " For this alliance may so happy prove,\n" + " To turn your households' rancour to pure love.\n\n" + "ROMEO O, let us hence; I stand on sudden haste.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BENVOLIO and MERCUTIO]\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Where the devil should this Romeo be?\n" + " Came he not home to-night?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Not to his father's; I spoke with his man.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline.\n" + " Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,\n" + " Hath sent a letter to his father's house.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO A challenge, on my life.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Romeo will answer it.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Any man that can write may answer a letter.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he\n" + " dares, being dared.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a\n" + " white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a\n" + " love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the\n" + " blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to\n" + " encounter Tybalt?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Why, what is Tybalt?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO More than prince of cats, I can tell you. O, he is\n" + " the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as\n" + " you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and\n" + " proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two, and\n" + " the third in your bosom: the very butcher of a silk\n" + " button, a duellist, a duellist; a gentleman of the\n" + " very first house, of the first and second cause:\n" + " ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverso! the\n" + " hai!\n\n" + "BENVOLIO The what?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO The pox of such antic, lisping, affecting\n" + " fantasticoes; these new tuners of accents! 'By Jesu,\n" + " a very good blade! a very tall man! a very good\n" + " whore!' Why, is not this a lamentable thing,\n" + " grandsire, that we should be thus afflicted with\n" + " these strange flies, these fashion-mongers, these\n" + " perdona-mi's, who stand so much on the new form,\n" + " that they cannot at ease on the old bench? O, their\n" + " bones, their bones!\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh,\n" + " how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers\n" + " that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a\n" + " kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to\n" + " be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;\n" + " Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey\n" + " eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior\n" + " Romeo, bon jour! there's a French salutation\n" + " to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit\n" + " fairly last night.\n\n" + "ROMEO Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO The ship, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?\n\n" + "ROMEO Pardon, good Mercutio, my business was great; and in\n" + " such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO That's as much as to say, such a case as yours\n" + " constrains a man to bow in the hams.\n\n" + "ROMEO Meaning, to court'sy.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Thou hast most kindly hit it.\n\n" + "ROMEO A most courteous exposition.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.\n\n" + "ROMEO Pink for flower.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Right.\n\n" + "ROMEO Why, then is my pump well flowered.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Well said: follow me this jest now till thou hast\n" + " worn out thy pump, that when the single sole of it\n" + " is worn, the jest may remain after the wearing sole singular.\n\n" + "ROMEO O single-soled jest, solely singular for the\n" + " singleness.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Come between us, good Benvolio; my wits faint.\n\n" + "ROMEO Switch and spurs, switch and spurs; or I'll cry a match.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have\n" + " done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of\n" + " thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five:\n" + " was I with you there for the goose?\n\n" + "ROMEO Thou wast never with me for any thing when thou wast\n" + " not there for the goose.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO I will bite thee by the ear for that jest.\n\n" + "ROMEO Nay, good goose, bite not.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most\n" + " sharp sauce.\n\n" + "ROMEO And is it not well served in to a sweet goose?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO O here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an\n" + " inch narrow to an ell broad!\n\n" + "ROMEO I stretch it out for that word 'broad;' which added\n" + " to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Why, is not this better now than groaning for love?\n" + " now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art\n" + " thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature:\n" + " for this drivelling love is like a great natural,\n" + " that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Stop there, stop there.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Thou wouldst else have made thy tale large.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO O, thou art deceived; I would have made it short:\n" + " for I was come to the whole depth of my tale; and\n" + " meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.\n\n" + "ROMEO Here's goodly gear!\n\n" + " [Enter Nurse and PETER]\n\n" + "MERCUTIO A sail, a sail!\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Two, two; a shirt and a smock.\n\n" + "Nurse Peter!\n\n" + "PETER Anon!\n\n" + "Nurse My fan, Peter.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the\n" + " fairer face.\n\n" + "Nurse God ye good morrow, gentlemen.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO God ye good den, fair gentlewoman.\n\n" + "Nurse Is it good den?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO 'Tis no less, I tell you, for the bawdy hand of the\n" + " dial is now upon the prick of noon.\n\n" + "Nurse Out upon you! what a man are you!\n\n" + "ROMEO One, gentlewoman, that God hath made for himself to\n" + " mar.\n\n" + "Nurse By my troth, it is well said; 'for himself to mar,'\n" + " quoth a'? Gentlemen, can any of you tell me where I\n" + " may find the young Romeo?\n\n" + "ROMEO I can tell you; but young Romeo will be older when\n" + " you have found him than he was when you sought him:\n" + " I am the youngest of that name, for fault of a worse.\n\n" + "Nurse You say well.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Yea, is the worst well? very well took, i' faith;\n" + " wisely, wisely.\n\n" + "Nurse if you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with\n" + " you.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO She will indite him to some supper.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! so ho!\n\n" + "ROMEO What hast thou found?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie,\n" + " that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " An old hare hoar,\n" + " And an old hare hoar,\n" + " Is very good meat in lent\n" + " But a hare that is hoar\n" + " Is too much for a score,\n" + " When it hoars ere it be spent.\n" + " Romeo, will you come to your father's? we'll\n" + " to dinner, thither.\n\n" + "ROMEO I will follow you.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Farewell, ancient lady; farewell,\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " 'lady, lady, lady.'\n\n" + " [Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO]\n\n" + "Nurse Marry, farewell! I pray you, sir, what saucy\n" + " merchant was this, that was so full of his ropery?\n\n" + "ROMEO A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk,\n" + " and will speak more in a minute than he will stand\n" + " to in a month.\n\n" + "Nurse An a' speak any thing against me, I'll take him\n" + " down, an a' were lustier than he is, and twenty such\n" + " Jacks; and if I cannot, I'll find those that shall.\n" + " Scurvy knave! I am none of his flirt-gills; I am\n" + " none of his skains-mates. And thou must stand by\n" + " too, and suffer every knave to use me at his pleasure?\n\n" + "PETER I saw no man use you a pleasure; if I had, my weapon\n" + " should quickly have been out, I warrant you: I dare\n" + " draw as soon as another man, if I see occasion in a\n" + " good quarrel, and the law on my side.\n\n" + "Nurse Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about\n" + " me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word:\n" + " and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you\n" + " out; what she bade me say, I will keep to myself:\n" + " but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into\n" + " a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross\n" + " kind of behavior, as they say: for the gentlewoman\n" + " is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double\n" + " with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered\n" + " to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.\n\n" + "ROMEO Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I\n" + " protest unto thee--\n\n" + "Nurse Good heart, and, i' faith, I will tell her as much:\n" + " Lord, Lord, she will be a joyful woman.\n\n" + "ROMEO What wilt thou tell her, nurse? thou dost not mark me.\n\n" + "Nurse I will tell her, sir, that you do protest; which, as\n" + " I take it, is a gentlemanlike offer.\n\n" + "ROMEO Bid her devise\n" + " Some means to come to shrift this afternoon;\n" + " And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell\n" + " Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pains.\n\n" + "Nurse No truly sir; not a penny.\n\n" + "ROMEO Go to; I say you shall.\n\n" + "Nurse This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there.\n\n" + "ROMEO And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall:\n" + " Within this hour my man shall be with thee\n" + " And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair;\n" + " Which to the high top-gallant of my joy\n" + " Must be my convoy in the secret night.\n" + " Farewell; be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains:\n" + " Farewell; commend me to thy mistress.\n\n" + "Nurse Now God in heaven bless thee! Hark you, sir.\n\n" + "ROMEO What say'st thou, my dear nurse?\n\n" + "Nurse Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say,\n" + " Two may keep counsel, putting one away?\n\n" + "ROMEO I warrant thee, my man's as true as steel.\n\n" + "NURSE Well, sir; my mistress is the sweetest lady--Lord,\n" + " Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing:--O, there\n" + " is a nobleman in town, one Paris, that would fain\n" + " lay knife aboard; but she, good soul, had as lief\n" + " see a toad, a very toad, as see him. I anger her\n" + " sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer\n" + " man; but, I'll warrant you, when I say so, she looks\n" + " as pale as any clout in the versal world. Doth not\n" + " rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter?\n\n" + "ROMEO Ay, nurse; what of that? both with an R.\n\n" + "Nurse Ah. mocker! that's the dog's name; R is for\n" + " the--No; I know it begins with some other\n" + " letter:--and she hath the prettiest sententious of\n" + " it, of you and rosemary, that it would do you good\n" + " to hear it.\n\n" + "ROMEO Commend me to thy lady.\n\n" + "Nurse Ay, a thousand times.\n\n" + " [Exit Romeo]\n" + " Peter!\n\n" + "PETER Anon!\n\n" + "Nurse Peter, take my fan, and go before and apace.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Capulet's orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET]\n\n" + "JULIET The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;\n" + " In half an hour she promised to return.\n" + " Perchance she cannot meet him: that's not so.\n" + " O, she is lame! love's heralds should be thoughts,\n" + " Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams,\n" + " Driving back shadows over louring hills:\n" + " Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw love,\n" + " And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.\n" + " Now is the sun upon the highmost hill\n" + " Of this day's journey, and from nine till twelve\n" + " Is three long hours, yet she is not come.\n" + " Had she affections and warm youthful blood,\n" + " She would be as swift in motion as a ball;\n" + " My words would bandy her to my sweet love,\n" + " And his to me:\n" + " But old folks, many feign as they were dead;\n" + " Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.\n" + " O God, she comes!\n\n" + " [Enter Nurse and PETER]\n\n" + " O honey nurse, what news?\n" + " Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.\n\n" + "Nurse Peter, stay at the gate.\n\n" + " [Exit PETER]\n\n" + "JULIET Now, good sweet nurse,--O Lord, why look'st thou sad?\n" + " Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily;\n" + " If good, thou shamest the music of sweet news\n" + " By playing it to me with so sour a face.\n\n" + "Nurse I am a-weary, give me leave awhile:\n" + " Fie, how my bones ache! what a jaunt have I had!\n\n" + "JULIET I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news:\n" + " Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; good, good nurse, speak.\n\n" + "Nurse Jesu, what haste? can you not stay awhile?\n" + " Do you not see that I am out of breath?\n\n" + "JULIET How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath\n" + " To say to me that thou art out of breath?\n" + " The excuse that thou dost make in this delay\n" + " Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse.\n" + " Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that;\n" + " Say either, and I'll stay the circumstance:\n" + " Let me be satisfied, is't good or bad?\n\n" + "Nurse Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not\n" + " how to choose a man: Romeo! no, not he; though his\n" + " face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels\n" + " all men's; and for a hand, and a foot, and a body,\n" + " though they be not to be talked on, yet they are\n" + " past compare: he is not the flower of courtesy,\n" + " but, I'll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb. Go thy\n" + " ways, wench; serve God. What, have you dined at home?\n\n" + "JULIET No, no: but all this did I know before.\n" + " What says he of our marriage? what of that?\n\n" + "Nurse Lord, how my head aches! what a head have I!\n" + " It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces.\n" + " My back o' t' other side,--O, my back, my back!\n" + " Beshrew your heart for sending me about,\n" + " To catch my death with jaunting up and down!\n\n" + "JULIET I' faith, I am sorry that thou art not well.\n" + " Sweet, sweet, sweet nurse, tell me, what says my love?\n\n" + "Nurse Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a\n" + " courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I\n" + " warrant, a virtuous,--Where is your mother?\n\n" + "JULIET Where is my mother! why, she is within;\n" + " Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest!\n" + " 'Your love says, like an honest gentleman,\n" + " Where is your mother?'\n\n" + "Nurse O God's lady dear!\n" + " Are you so hot? marry, come up, I trow;\n" + " Is this the poultice for my aching bones?\n" + " Henceforward do your messages yourself.\n\n" + "JULIET Here's such a coil! come, what says Romeo?\n\n" + "Nurse Have you got leave to go to shrift to-day?\n\n" + "JULIET I have.\n\n" + "Nurse Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell;\n" + " There stays a husband to make you a wife:\n" + " Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks,\n" + " They'll be in scarlet straight at any news.\n" + " Hie you to church; I must another way,\n" + " To fetch a ladder, by the which your love\n" + " Must climb a bird's nest soon when it is dark:\n" + " I am the drudge and toil in your delight,\n" + " But you shall bear the burden soon at night.\n" + " Go; I'll to dinner: hie you to the cell.\n\n" + "JULIET Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Friar Laurence's cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE So smile the heavens upon this holy act,\n" + " That after hours with sorrow chide us not!\n\n" + "ROMEO Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,\n" + " It cannot countervail the exchange of joy\n" + " That one short minute gives me in her sight:\n" + " Do thou but close our hands with holy words,\n" + " Then love-devouring death do what he dare;\n" + " It is enough I may but call her mine.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE These violent delights have violent ends\n" + " And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,\n" + " Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey\n" + " Is loathsome in his own deliciousness\n" + " And in the taste confounds the appetite:\n" + " Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;\n" + " Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET]\n\n" + " Here comes the lady: O, so light a foot\n" + " Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint:\n" + " A lover may bestride the gossamer\n" + " That idles in the wanton summer air,\n" + " And yet not fall; so light is vanity.\n\n" + "JULIET Good even to my ghostly confessor.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Romeo shall thank thee, daughter, for us both.\n\n" + "JULIET As much to him, else is his thanks too much.\n\n" + "ROMEO Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy\n" + " Be heap'd like mine and that thy skill be more\n" + " To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath\n" + " This neighbour air, and let rich music's tongue\n" + " Unfold the imagined happiness that both\n" + " Receive in either by this dear encounter.\n\n" + "JULIET Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,\n" + " Brags of his substance, not of ornament:\n" + " They are but beggars that can count their worth;\n" + " But my true love is grown to such excess\n" + " I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Come, come with me, and we will make short work;\n" + " For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone\n" + " Till holy church incorporate two in one.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MERCUTIO, BENVOLIO, Page, and Servants]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire:\n" + " The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,\n" + " And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl;\n" + " For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Thou art like one of those fellows that when he\n" + " enters the confines of a tavern claps me his sword\n" + " upon the table and says 'God send me no need of\n" + " thee!' and by the operation of the second cup draws\n" + " it on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Am I like such a fellow?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as\n" + " any in Italy, and as soon moved to be moody, and as\n" + " soon moody to be moved.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO And what to?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Nay, an there were two such, we should have none\n" + " shortly, for one would kill the other. Thou! why,\n" + " thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more,\n" + " or a hair less, in his beard, than thou hast: thou\n" + " wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no\n" + " other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes: what\n" + " eye but such an eye would spy out such a quarrel?\n" + " Thy head is as fun of quarrels as an egg is full of\n" + " meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as\n" + " an egg for quarrelling: thou hast quarrelled with a\n" + " man for coughing in the street, because he hath\n" + " wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun:\n" + " didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing\n" + " his new doublet before Easter? with another, for\n" + " tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou\n" + " wilt tutor me from quarrelling!\n\n" + "BENVOLIO An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man\n" + " should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO The fee-simple! O simple!\n\n" + "BENVOLIO By my head, here come the Capulets.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO By my heel, I care not.\n\n" + " [Enter TYBALT and others]\n\n" + "TYBALT Follow me close, for I will speak to them.\n" + " Gentlemen, good den: a word with one of you.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO And but one word with one of us? couple it with\n" + " something; make it a word and a blow.\n\n" + "TYBALT You shall find me apt enough to that, sir, an you\n" + " will give me occasion.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Could you not take some occasion without giving?\n\n" + "TYBALT Mercutio, thou consort'st with Romeo,--\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels? an\n" + " thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but\n" + " discords: here's my fiddlestick; here's that shall\n" + " make you dance. 'Zounds, consort!\n\n" + "BENVOLIO We talk here in the public haunt of men:\n" + " Either withdraw unto some private place,\n" + " And reason coldly of your grievances,\n" + " Or else depart; here all eyes gaze on us.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze;\n" + " I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I.\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "TYBALT Well, peace be with you, sir: here comes my man.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO But I'll be hanged, sir, if he wear your livery:\n" + " Marry, go before to field, he'll be your follower;\n" + " Your worship in that sense may call him 'man.'\n\n" + "TYBALT Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford\n" + " No better term than this,--thou art a villain.\n\n" + "ROMEO Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee\n" + " Doth much excuse the appertaining rage\n" + " To such a greeting: villain am I none;\n" + " Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.\n\n" + "TYBALT Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries\n" + " That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw.\n\n" + "ROMEO I do protest, I never injured thee,\n" + " But love thee better than thou canst devise,\n" + " Till thou shalt know the reason of my love:\n" + " And so, good Capulet,--which name I tender\n" + " As dearly as my own,--be satisfied.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!\n" + " Alla stoccata carries it away.\n\n" + " [Draws]\n\n" + " Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?\n\n" + "TYBALT What wouldst thou have with me?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine\n" + " lives; that I mean to make bold withal, and as you\n" + " shall use me hereafter, drybeat the rest of the\n" + " eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher\n" + " by the ears? make haste, lest mine be about your\n" + " ears ere it be out.\n\n" + "TYBALT I am for you.\n\n" + " [Drawing]\n\n" + "ROMEO Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Come, sir, your passado.\n\n" + " [They fight]\n\n" + "ROMEO Draw, Benvolio; beat down their weapons.\n" + " Gentlemen, for shame, forbear this outrage!\n" + " Tybalt, Mercutio, the prince expressly hath\n" + " Forbidden bandying in Verona streets:\n" + " Hold, Tybalt! good Mercutio!\n\n" + " [TYBALT under ROMEO's arm stabs MERCUTIO, and flies\n" + " with his followers]\n\n" + "MERCUTIO I am hurt.\n" + " A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.\n" + " Is he gone, and hath nothing?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO What, art thou hurt?\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.\n" + " Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.\n\n" + " [Exit Page]\n\n" + "ROMEO Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a\n" + " church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for\n" + " me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I\n" + " am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o'\n" + " both your houses! 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a\n" + " cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a\n" + " rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of\n" + " arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I\n" + " was hurt under your arm.\n\n" + "ROMEO I thought all for the best.\n\n" + "MERCUTIO Help me into some house, Benvolio,\n" + " Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!\n" + " They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,\n" + " And soundly too: your houses!\n\n" + " [Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO]\n\n" + "ROMEO This gentleman, the prince's near ally,\n" + " My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt\n" + " In my behalf; my reputation stain'd\n" + " With Tybalt's slander,--Tybalt, that an hour\n" + " Hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,\n" + " Thy beauty hath made me effeminate\n" + " And in my temper soften'd valour's steel!\n\n" + " [Re-enter BENVOLIO]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio's dead!\n" + " That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,\n" + " Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.\n\n" + "ROMEO This day's black fate on more days doth depend;\n" + " This but begins the woe, others must end.\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.\n\n" + "ROMEO Alive, in triumph! and Mercutio slain!\n" + " Away to heaven, respective lenity,\n" + " And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!\n\n" + " [Re-enter TYBALT]\n\n" + " Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,\n" + " That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul\n" + " Is but a little way above our heads,\n" + " Staying for thine to keep him company:\n" + " Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.\n\n" + "TYBALT Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,\n" + " Shalt with him hence.\n\n" + "ROMEO This shall determine that.\n\n" + " [They fight; TYBALT falls]\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Romeo, away, be gone!\n" + " The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.\n" + " Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death,\n" + " If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!\n\n" + "ROMEO O, I am fortune's fool!\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Why dost thou stay?\n\n" + " [Exit ROMEO]\n\n" + " [Enter Citizens, &c]\n\n" + "First Citizen Which way ran he that kill'd Mercutio?\n" + " Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO There lies that Tybalt.\n\n" + "First Citizen Up, sir, go with me;\n" + " I charge thee in the princes name, obey.\n\n" + " [Enter Prince, attended; MONTAGUE, CAPULET, their\n" + " Wives, and others]\n\n" + "PRINCE Where are the vile beginners of this fray?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO O noble prince, I can discover all\n" + " The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl:\n" + " There lies the man, slain by young Romeo,\n" + " That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother's child!\n" + " O prince! O cousin! husband! O, the blood is spilt\n" + " O my dear kinsman! Prince, as thou art true,\n" + " For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague.\n" + " O cousin, cousin!\n\n" + "PRINCE Benvolio, who began this bloody fray?\n\n" + "BENVOLIO Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay;\n" + " Romeo that spoke him fair, bade him bethink\n" + " How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal\n" + " Your high displeasure: all this uttered\n" + " With gentle breath, calm look, knees humbly bow'd,\n" + " Could not take truce with the unruly spleen\n" + " Of Tybalt deaf to peace, but that he tilts\n" + " With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast,\n" + " Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point,\n" + " And, with a martial scorn, with one hand beats\n" + " Cold death aside, and with the other sends\n" + " It back to Tybalt, whose dexterity,\n" + " Retorts it: Romeo he cries aloud,\n" + " 'Hold, friends! friends, part!' and, swifter than\n" + " his tongue,\n" + " His agile arm beats down their fatal points,\n" + " And 'twixt them rushes; underneath whose arm\n" + " An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life\n" + " Of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled;\n" + " But by and by comes back to Romeo,\n" + " Who had but newly entertain'd revenge,\n" + " And to 't they go like lightning, for, ere I\n" + " Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.\n" + " And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.\n" + " This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET He is a kinsman to the Montague;\n" + " Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:\n" + " Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,\n" + " And all those twenty could but kill one life.\n" + " I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;\n" + " Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.\n\n" + "PRINCE Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;\n" + " Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio's friend;\n" + " His fault concludes but what the law should end,\n" + " The life of Tybalt.\n\n" + "PRINCE And for that offence\n" + " Immediately we do exile him hence:\n" + " I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,\n" + " My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;\n" + " But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine\n" + " That you shall all repent the loss of mine:\n" + " I will be deaf to pleading and excuses;\n" + " Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses:\n" + " Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste,\n" + " Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.\n" + " Bear hence this body and attend our will:\n" + " Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Capulet's orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET]\n\n" + "JULIET Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,\n" + " Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner\n" + " As Phaethon would whip you to the west,\n" + " And bring in cloudy night immediately.\n" + " Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,\n" + " That runaway's eyes may wink and Romeo\n" + " Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.\n" + " Lovers can see to do their amorous rites\n" + " By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,\n" + " It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,\n" + " Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,\n" + " And learn me how to lose a winning match,\n" + " Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:\n" + " Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,\n" + " With thy black mantle; till strange love, grown bold,\n" + " Think true love acted simple modesty.\n" + " Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;\n" + " For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night\n" + " Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.\n" + " Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,\n" + " Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,\n" + " Take him and cut him out in little stars,\n" + " And he will make the face of heaven so fine\n" + " That all the world will be in love with night\n" + " And pay no worship to the garish sun.\n" + " O, I have bought the mansion of a love,\n" + " But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,\n" + " Not yet enjoy'd: so tedious is this day\n" + " As is the night before some festival\n" + " To an impatient child that hath new robes\n" + " And may not wear them. O, here comes my nurse,\n" + " And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks\n" + " But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.\n\n" + " [Enter Nurse, with cords]\n\n" + " Now, nurse, what news? What hast thou there? the cords\n" + " That Romeo bid thee fetch?\n\n" + "Nurse Ay, ay, the cords.\n\n" + " [Throws them down]\n\n" + "JULIET Ay me! what news? why dost thou wring thy hands?\n\n" + "Nurse Ah, well-a-day! he's dead, he's dead, he's dead!\n" + " We are undone, lady, we are undone!\n" + " Alack the day! he's gone, he's kill'd, he's dead!\n\n" + "JULIET Can heaven be so envious?\n\n" + "Nurse Romeo can,\n" + " Though heaven cannot: O Romeo, Romeo!\n" + " Who ever would have thought it? Romeo!\n\n" + "JULIET What devil art thou, that dost torment me thus?\n" + " This torture should be roar'd in dismal hell.\n" + " Hath Romeo slain himself? say thou but 'I,'\n" + " And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more\n" + " Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice:\n" + " I am not I, if there be such an I;\n" + " Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer 'I.'\n" + " If he be slain, say 'I'; or if not, no:\n" + " Brief sounds determine of my weal or woe.\n\n" + "Nurse I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes,--\n" + " God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:\n" + " A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;\n" + " Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,\n" + " All in gore-blood; I swounded at the sight.\n\n" + "JULIET O, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!\n" + " To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty!\n" + " Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;\n" + " And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier!\n\n" + "Nurse O Tybalt, Tybalt, the best friend I had!\n" + " O courteous Tybalt! honest gentleman!\n" + " That ever I should live to see thee dead!\n\n" + "JULIET What storm is this that blows so contrary?\n" + " Is Romeo slaughter'd, and is Tybalt dead?\n" + " My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?\n" + " Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!\n" + " For who is living, if those two are gone?\n\n" + "Nurse Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished;\n" + " Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished.\n\n" + "JULIET O God! did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?\n\n" + "Nurse It did, it did; alas the day, it did!\n\n" + "JULIET O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!\n" + " Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?\n" + " Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!\n" + " Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!\n" + " Despised substance of divinest show!\n" + " Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st,\n" + " A damned saint, an honourable villain!\n" + " O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell,\n" + " When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend\n" + " In moral paradise of such sweet flesh?\n" + " Was ever book containing such vile matter\n" + " So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell\n" + " In such a gorgeous palace!\n\n" + "Nurse There's no trust,\n" + " No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,\n" + " All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.\n" + " Ah, where's my man? give me some aqua vitae:\n" + " These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.\n" + " Shame come to Romeo!\n\n" + "JULIET Blister'd be thy tongue\n" + " For such a wish! he was not born to shame:\n" + " Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;\n" + " For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd\n" + " Sole monarch of the universal earth.\n" + " O, what a beast was I to chide at him!\n\n" + "Nurse Will you speak well of him that kill'd your cousin?\n\n" + "JULIET Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?\n" + " Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name,\n" + " When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?\n" + " But, wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?\n" + " That villain cousin would have kill'd my husband:\n" + " Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring;\n" + " Your tributary drops belong to woe,\n" + " Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.\n" + " My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;\n" + " And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband:\n" + " All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?\n" + " Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,\n" + " That murder'd me: I would forget it fain;\n" + " But, O, it presses to my memory,\n" + " Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds:\n" + " 'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banished;'\n" + " That 'banished,' that one word 'banished,'\n" + " Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death\n" + " Was woe enough, if it had ended there:\n" + " Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship\n" + " And needly will be rank'd with other griefs,\n" + " Why follow'd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'\n" + " Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,\n" + " Which modern lamentations might have moved?\n" + " But with a rear-ward following Tybalt's death,\n" + " 'Romeo is banished,' to speak that word,\n" + " Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,\n" + " All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banished!'\n" + " There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,\n" + " In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.\n" + " Where is my father, and my mother, nurse?\n\n" + "Nurse Weeping and wailing over Tybalt's corse:\n" + " Will you go to them? I will bring you thither.\n\n" + "JULIET Wash they his wounds with tears: mine shall be spent,\n" + " When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment.\n" + " Take up those cords: poor ropes, you are beguiled,\n" + " Both you and I; for Romeo is exiled:\n" + " He made you for a highway to my bed;\n" + " But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed.\n" + " Come, cords, come, nurse; I'll to my wedding-bed;\n" + " And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!\n\n" + "Nurse Hie to your chamber: I'll find Romeo\n" + " To comfort you: I wot well where he is.\n" + " Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night:\n" + " I'll to him; he is hid at Laurence' cell.\n\n" + "JULIET O, find him! give this ring to my true knight,\n" + " And bid him come to take his last farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Friar Laurence's cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR LAURENCE]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man:\n" + " Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts,\n" + " And thou art wedded to calamity.\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "ROMEO Father, what news? what is the prince's doom?\n" + " What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand,\n" + " That I yet know not?\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Too familiar\n" + " Is my dear son with such sour company:\n" + " I bring thee tidings of the prince's doom.\n\n" + "ROMEO What less than dooms-day is the prince's doom?\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE A gentler judgment vanish'd from his lips,\n" + " Not body's death, but body's banishment.\n\n" + "ROMEO Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;'\n" + " For exile hath more terror in his look,\n" + " Much more than death: do not say 'banishment.'\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Hence from Verona art thou banished:\n" + " Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.\n\n" + "ROMEO There is no world without Verona walls,\n" + " But purgatory, torture, hell itself.\n" + " Hence-banished is banish'd from the world,\n" + " And world's exile is death: then banished,\n" + " Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment,\n" + " Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,\n" + " And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE O deadly sin! O rude unthankfulness!\n" + " Thy fault our law calls death; but the kind prince,\n" + " Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law,\n" + " And turn'd that black word death to banishment:\n" + " This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.\n\n" + "ROMEO 'Tis torture, and not mercy: heaven is here,\n" + " Where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog\n" + " And little mouse, every unworthy thing,\n" + " Live here in heaven and may look on her;\n" + " But Romeo may not: more validity,\n" + " More honourable state, more courtship lives\n" + " In carrion-flies than Romeo: they my seize\n" + " On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand\n" + " And steal immortal blessing from her lips,\n" + " Who even in pure and vestal modesty,\n" + " Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin;\n" + " But Romeo may not; he is banished:\n" + " Flies may do this, but I from this must fly:\n" + " They are free men, but I am banished.\n" + " And say'st thou yet that exile is not death?\n" + " Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,\n" + " No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,\n" + " But 'banished' to kill me?--'banished'?\n" + " O friar, the damned use that word in hell;\n" + " Howlings attend it: how hast thou the heart,\n" + " Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,\n" + " A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd,\n" + " To mangle me with that word 'banished'?\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.\n\n" + "ROMEO O, thou wilt speak again of banishment.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE I'll give thee armour to keep off that word:\n" + " Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy,\n" + " To comfort thee, though thou art banished.\n\n" + "ROMEO Yet 'banished'? Hang up philosophy!\n" + " Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,\n" + " Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom,\n" + " It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE O, then I see that madmen have no ears.\n\n" + "ROMEO How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Let me dispute with thee of thy estate.\n\n" + "ROMEO Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel:\n" + " Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,\n" + " An hour but married, Tybalt murdered,\n" + " Doting like me and like me banished,\n" + " Then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair,\n" + " And fall upon the ground, as I do now,\n" + " Taking the measure of an unmade grave.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Arise; one knocks; good Romeo, hide thyself.\n\n" + "ROMEO Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans,\n" + " Mist-like, infold me from the search of eyes.\n\n" + " [Knocking]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Hark, how they knock! Who's there? Romeo, arise;\n" + " Thou wilt be taken. Stay awhile! Stand up;\n\n" + " [Knocking]\n\n" + " Run to my study. By and by! God's will,\n" + " What simpleness is this! I come, I come!\n\n" + " [Knocking]\n\n" + " Who knocks so hard? whence come you? what's your will?\n\n" + "Nurse [Within] Let me come in, and you shall know\n" + " my errand;\n" + " I come from Lady Juliet.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Welcome, then.\n\n" + " [Enter Nurse]\n\n" + "Nurse O holy friar, O, tell me, holy friar,\n" + " Where is my lady's lord, where's Romeo?\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE There on the ground, with his own tears made drunk.\n\n" + "Nurse O, he is even in my mistress' case,\n" + " Just in her case! O woful sympathy!\n" + " Piteous predicament! Even so lies she,\n" + " Blubbering and weeping, weeping and blubbering.\n" + " Stand up, stand up; stand, and you be a man:\n" + " For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand;\n" + " Why should you fall into so deep an O?\n\n" + "ROMEO Nurse!\n\n" + "Nurse Ah sir! ah sir! Well, death's the end of all.\n\n" + "ROMEO Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?\n" + " Doth she not think me an old murderer,\n" + " Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy\n" + " With blood removed but little from her own?\n" + " Where is she? and how doth she? and what says\n" + " My conceal'd lady to our cancell'd love?\n\n" + "Nurse O, she says nothing, sir, but weeps and weeps;\n" + " And now falls on her bed; and then starts up,\n" + " And Tybalt calls; and then on Romeo cries,\n" + " And then down falls again.\n\n" + "ROMEO As if that name,\n" + " Shot from the deadly level of a gun,\n" + " Did murder her; as that name's cursed hand\n" + " Murder'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me,\n" + " In what vile part of this anatomy\n" + " Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack\n" + " The hateful mansion.\n\n" + " [Drawing his sword]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Hold thy desperate hand:\n" + " Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:\n" + " Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote\n" + " The unreasonable fury of a beast:\n" + " Unseemly woman in a seeming man!\n" + " Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!\n" + " Thou hast amazed me: by my holy order,\n" + " I thought thy disposition better temper'd.\n" + " Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?\n" + " And stay thy lady too that lives in thee,\n" + " By doing damned hate upon thyself?\n" + " Why rail'st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?\n" + " Since birth, and heaven, and earth, all three do meet\n" + " In thee at once; which thou at once wouldst lose.\n" + " Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;\n" + " Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,\n" + " And usest none in that true use indeed\n" + " Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit:\n" + " Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,\n" + " Digressing from the valour of a man;\n" + " Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,\n" + " Killing that love which thou hast vow'd to cherish;\n" + " Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,\n" + " Misshapen in the conduct of them both,\n" + " Like powder in a skitless soldier's flask,\n" + " Is set afire by thine own ignorance,\n" + " And thou dismember'd with thine own defence.\n" + " What, rouse thee, man! thy Juliet is alive,\n" + " For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;\n" + " There art thou happy: Tybalt would kill thee,\n" + " But thou slew'st Tybalt; there are thou happy too:\n" + " The law that threaten'd death becomes thy friend\n" + " And turns it to exile; there art thou happy:\n" + " A pack of blessings lights up upon thy back;\n" + " Happiness courts thee in her best array;\n" + " But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,\n" + " Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love:\n" + " Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.\n" + " Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,\n" + " Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her:\n" + " But look thou stay not till the watch be set,\n" + " For then thou canst not pass to Mantua;\n" + " Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time\n" + " To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,\n" + " Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back\n" + " With twenty hundred thousand times more joy\n" + " Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.\n" + " Go before, nurse: commend me to thy lady;\n" + " And bid her hasten all the house to bed,\n" + " Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto:\n" + " Romeo is coming.\n\n" + "Nurse O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night\n" + " To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!\n" + " My lord, I'll tell my lady you will come.\n\n" + "ROMEO Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.\n\n" + "Nurse Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir:\n" + " Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ROMEO How well my comfort is revived by this!\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:\n" + " Either be gone before the watch be set,\n" + " Or by the break of day disguised from hence:\n" + " Sojourn in Mantua; I'll find out your man,\n" + " And he shall signify from time to time\n" + " Every good hap to you that chances here:\n" + " Give me thy hand; 'tis late: farewell; good night.\n\n" + "ROMEO But that a joy past joy calls out on me,\n" + " It were a grief, so brief to part with thee: Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV A room in Capulet's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and PARIS]\n\n" + "CAPULET Things have fall'n out, sir, so unluckily,\n" + " That we have had no time to move our daughter:\n" + " Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,\n" + " And so did I:--Well, we were born to die.\n" + " 'Tis very late, she'll not come down to-night:\n" + " I promise you, but for your company,\n" + " I would have been a-bed an hour ago.\n\n" + "PARIS These times of woe afford no time to woo.\n" + " Madam, good night: commend me to your daughter.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET I will, and know her mind early to-morrow;\n" + " To-night she is mew'd up to her heaviness.\n\n" + "CAPULET Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender\n" + " Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled\n" + " In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.\n" + " Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;\n" + " Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love;\n" + " And bid her, mark you me, on Wednesday next--\n" + " But, soft! what day is this?\n\n" + "PARIS Monday, my lord,\n\n" + "CAPULET Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon,\n" + " O' Thursday let it be: o' Thursday, tell her,\n" + " She shall be married to this noble earl.\n" + " Will you be ready? do you like this haste?\n" + " We'll keep no great ado,--a friend or two;\n" + " For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,\n" + " It may be thought we held him carelessly,\n" + " Being our kinsman, if we revel much:\n" + " Therefore we'll have some half a dozen friends,\n" + " And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?\n\n" + "PARIS My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.\n\n" + "CAPULET Well get you gone: o' Thursday be it, then.\n" + " Go you to Juliet ere you go to bed,\n" + " Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day.\n" + " Farewell, my lord. Light to my chamber, ho!\n" + " Afore me! it is so very very late,\n" + " That we may call it early by and by.\n" + " Good night.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Capulet's orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO and JULIET above, at the window]\n\n" + "JULIET Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day:\n" + " It was the nightingale, and not the lark,\n" + " That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;\n" + " Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree:\n" + " Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.\n\n" + "ROMEO It was the lark, the herald of the morn,\n" + " No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks\n" + " Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:\n" + " Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day\n" + " Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.\n" + " I must be gone and live, or stay and die.\n\n" + "JULIET Yon light is not day-light, I know it, I:\n" + " It is some meteor that the sun exhales,\n" + " To be to thee this night a torch-bearer,\n" + " And light thee on thy way to Mantua:\n" + " Therefore stay yet; thou need'st not to be gone.\n\n" + "ROMEO Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death;\n" + " I am content, so thou wilt have it so.\n" + " I'll say yon grey is not the morning's eye,\n" + " 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow;\n" + " Nor that is not the lark, whose notes do beat\n" + " The vaulty heaven so high above our heads:\n" + " I have more care to stay than will to go:\n" + " Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.\n" + " How is't, my soul? let's talk; it is not day.\n\n" + "JULIET It is, it is: hie hence, be gone, away!\n" + " It is the lark that sings so out of tune,\n" + " Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps.\n" + " Some say the lark makes sweet division;\n" + " This doth not so, for she divideth us:\n" + " Some say the lark and loathed toad change eyes,\n" + " O, now I would they had changed voices too!\n" + " Since arm from arm that voice doth us affray,\n" + " Hunting thee hence with hunt's-up to the day,\n" + " O, now be gone; more light and light it grows.\n\n" + "ROMEO More light and light; more dark and dark our woes!\n\n" + " [Enter Nurse, to the chamber]\n\n" + "Nurse Madam!\n\n" + "JULIET Nurse?\n\n" + "Nurse Your lady mother is coming to your chamber:\n" + " The day is broke; be wary, look about.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIET Then, window, let day in, and let life out.\n\n" + "ROMEO Farewell, farewell! one kiss, and I'll descend.\n\n" + " [He goeth down]\n\n" + "JULIET Art thou gone so? love, lord, ay, husband, friend!\n" + " I must hear from thee every day in the hour,\n" + " For in a minute there are many days:\n" + " O, by this count I shall be much in years\n" + " Ere I again behold my Romeo!\n\n" + "ROMEO Farewell!\n" + " I will omit no opportunity\n" + " That may convey my greetings, love, to thee.\n\n" + "JULIET O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?\n\n" + "ROMEO I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve\n" + " For sweet discourses in our time to come.\n\n" + "JULIET O God, I have an ill-divining soul!\n" + " Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,\n" + " As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:\n" + " Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.\n\n" + "ROMEO And trust me, love, in my eye so do you:\n" + " Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIET O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle:\n" + " If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him.\n" + " That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, fortune;\n" + " For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him long,\n" + " But send him back.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET [Within] Ho, daughter! are you up?\n\n" + "JULIET Who is't that calls? is it my lady mother?\n" + " Is she not down so late, or up so early?\n" + " What unaccustom'd cause procures her hither?\n\n" + " [Enter LADY CAPULET]\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Why, how now, Juliet!\n\n" + "JULIET Madam, I am not well.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?\n" + " What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?\n" + " An if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live;\n" + " Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love;\n" + " But much of grief shows still some want of wit.\n\n" + "JULIET Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend\n" + " Which you weep for.\n\n" + "JULIET Feeling so the loss,\n" + " Cannot choose but ever weep the friend.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,\n" + " As that the villain lives which slaughter'd him.\n\n" + "JULIET What villain madam?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET That same villain, Romeo.\n\n" + "JULIET [Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder.--\n" + " God Pardon him! I do, with all my heart;\n" + " And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET That is, because the traitor murderer lives.\n\n" + "JULIET Ay, madam, from the reach of these my hands:\n" + " Would none but I might venge my cousin's death!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not:\n" + " Then weep no more. I'll send to one in Mantua,\n" + " Where that same banish'd runagate doth live,\n" + " Shall give him such an unaccustom'd dram,\n" + " That he shall soon keep Tybalt company:\n" + " And then, I hope, thou wilt be satisfied.\n\n" + "JULIET Indeed, I never shall be satisfied\n" + " With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--\n" + " Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.\n" + " Madam, if you could find out but a man\n" + " To bear a poison, I would temper it;\n" + " That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,\n" + " Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors\n" + " To hear him named, and cannot come to him.\n" + " To wreak the love I bore my cousin\n" + " Upon his body that slaughter'd him!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Find thou the means, and I'll find such a man.\n" + " But now I'll tell thee joyful tidings, girl.\n\n" + "JULIET And joy comes well in such a needy time:\n" + " What are they, I beseech your ladyship?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Well, well, thou hast a careful father, child;\n" + " One who, to put thee from thy heaviness,\n" + " Hath sorted out a sudden day of joy,\n" + " That thou expect'st not nor I look'd not for.\n\n" + "JULIET Madam, in happy time, what day is that?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn,\n" + " The gallant, young and noble gentleman,\n" + " The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,\n" + " Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.\n\n" + "JULIET Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too,\n" + " He shall not make me there a joyful bride.\n" + " I wonder at this haste; that I must wed\n" + " Ere he, that should be husband, comes to woo.\n" + " I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,\n" + " I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,\n" + " It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,\n" + " Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Here comes your father; tell him so yourself,\n" + " And see how he will take it at your hands.\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET and Nurse]\n\n" + "CAPULET When the sun sets, the air doth drizzle dew;\n" + " But for the sunset of my brother's son\n" + " It rains downright.\n" + " How now! a conduit, girl? what, still in tears?\n" + " Evermore showering? In one little body\n" + " Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind;\n" + " For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,\n" + " Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,\n" + " Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;\n" + " Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,\n" + " Without a sudden calm, will overset\n" + " Thy tempest-tossed body. How now, wife!\n" + " Have you deliver'd to her our decree?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.\n" + " I would the fool were married to her grave!\n\n" + "CAPULET Soft! take me with you, take me with you, wife.\n" + " How! will she none? doth she not give us thanks?\n" + " Is she not proud? doth she not count her blest,\n" + " Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought\n" + " So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?\n\n" + "JULIET Not proud, you have; but thankful, that you have:\n" + " Proud can I never be of what I hate;\n" + " But thankful even for hate, that is meant love.\n\n" + "CAPULET How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?\n" + " 'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'\n" + " And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,\n" + " Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,\n" + " But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next,\n" + " To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church,\n" + " Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.\n" + " Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!\n" + " You tallow-face!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Fie, fie! what, are you mad?\n\n" + "JULIET Good father, I beseech you on my knees,\n" + " Hear me with patience but to speak a word.\n\n" + "CAPULET Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch!\n" + " I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,\n" + " Or never after look me in the face:\n" + " Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;\n" + " My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest\n" + " That God had lent us but this only child;\n" + " But now I see this one is one too much,\n" + " And that we have a curse in having her:\n" + " Out on her, hilding!\n\n" + "Nurse God in heaven bless her!\n" + " You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so.\n\n" + "CAPULET And why, my lady wisdom? hold your tongue,\n" + " Good prudence; smatter with your gossips, go.\n\n" + "Nurse I speak no treason.\n\n" + "CAPULET O, God ye god-den.\n\n" + "Nurse May not one speak?\n\n" + "CAPULET Peace, you mumbling fool!\n" + " Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;\n" + " For here we need it not.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET You are too hot.\n\n" + "CAPULET God's bread! it makes me mad:\n" + " Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play,\n" + " Alone, in company, still my care hath been\n" + " To have her match'd: and having now provided\n" + " A gentleman of noble parentage,\n" + " Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,\n" + " Stuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,\n" + " Proportion'd as one's thought would wish a man;\n" + " And then to have a wretched puling fool,\n" + " A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,\n" + " To answer 'I'll not wed; I cannot love,\n" + " I am too young; I pray you, pardon me.'\n" + " But, as you will not wed, I'll pardon you:\n" + " Graze where you will you shall not house with me:\n" + " Look to't, think on't, I do not use to jest.\n" + " Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise:\n" + " An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;\n" + " And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in\n" + " the streets,\n" + " For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee,\n" + " Nor what is mine shall never do thee good:\n" + " Trust to't, bethink you; I'll not be forsworn.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIET Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,\n" + " That sees into the bottom of my grief?\n" + " O, sweet my mother, cast me not away!\n" + " Delay this marriage for a month, a week;\n" + " Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed\n" + " In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word:\n" + " Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIET O God!--O nurse, how shall this be prevented?\n" + " My husband is on earth, my faith in heaven;\n" + " How shall that faith return again to earth,\n" + " Unless that husband send it me from heaven\n" + " By leaving earth? comfort me, counsel me.\n" + " Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems\n" + " Upon so soft a subject as myself!\n" + " What say'st thou? hast thou not a word of joy?\n" + " Some comfort, nurse.\n\n" + "Nurse Faith, here it is.\n" + " Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing,\n" + " That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you;\n" + " Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.\n" + " Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,\n" + " I think it best you married with the county.\n" + " O, he's a lovely gentleman!\n" + " Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam,\n" + " Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye\n" + " As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,\n" + " I think you are happy in this second match,\n" + " For it excels your first: or if it did not,\n" + " Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were,\n" + " As living here and you no use of him.\n\n" + "JULIET Speakest thou from thy heart?\n\n" + "Nurse And from my soul too;\n" + " Or else beshrew them both.\n\n" + "JULIET Amen!\n\n" + "Nurse What?\n\n" + "JULIET Well, thou hast comforted me marvellous much.\n" + " Go in: and tell my lady I am gone,\n" + " Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell,\n" + " To make confession and to be absolved.\n\n" + "Nurse Marry, I will; and this is wisely done.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIET Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!\n" + " Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn,\n" + " Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue\n" + " Which she hath praised him with above compare\n" + " So many thousand times? Go, counsellor;\n" + " Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.\n" + " I'll to the friar, to know his remedy:\n" + " If all else fail, myself have power to die.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Friar Laurence's cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.\n\n" + "PARIS My father Capulet will have it so;\n" + " And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE You say you do not know the lady's mind:\n" + " Uneven is the course, I like it not.\n\n" + "PARIS Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,\n" + " And therefore have I little talk'd of love;\n" + " For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.\n" + " Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous\n" + " That she doth give her sorrow so much sway,\n" + " And in his wisdom hastes our marriage,\n" + " To stop the inundation of her tears;\n" + " Which, too much minded by herself alone,\n" + " May be put from her by society:\n" + " Now do you know the reason of this haste.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE [Aside] I would I knew not why it should be slow'd.\n" + " Look, sir, here comes the lady towards my cell.\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET]\n\n" + "PARIS Happily met, my lady and my wife!\n\n" + "JULIET That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.\n\n" + "PARIS That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.\n\n" + "JULIET What must be shall be.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE That's a certain text.\n\n" + "PARIS Come you to make confession to this father?\n\n" + "JULIET To answer that, I should confess to you.\n\n" + "PARIS Do not deny to him that you love me.\n\n" + "JULIET I will confess to you that I love him.\n\n" + "PARIS So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.\n\n" + "JULIET If I do so, it will be of more price,\n" + " Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.\n\n" + "PARIS Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.\n\n" + "JULIET The tears have got small victory by that;\n" + " For it was bad enough before their spite.\n\n" + "PARIS Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.\n\n" + "JULIET That is no slander, sir, which is a truth;\n" + " And what I spake, I spake it to my face.\n\n" + "PARIS Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.\n\n" + "JULIET It may be so, for it is not mine own.\n" + " Are you at leisure, holy father, now;\n" + " Or shall I come to you at evening mass?\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.\n" + " My lord, we must entreat the time alone.\n\n" + "PARIS God shield I should disturb devotion!\n" + " Juliet, on Thursday early will I rouse ye:\n" + " Till then, adieu; and keep this holy kiss.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIET O shut the door! and when thou hast done so,\n" + " Come weep with me; past hope, past cure, past help!\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Ah, Juliet, I already know thy grief;\n" + " It strains me past the compass of my wits:\n" + " I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it,\n" + " On Thursday next be married to this county.\n\n" + "JULIET Tell me not, friar, that thou hear'st of this,\n" + " Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it:\n" + " If, in thy wisdom, thou canst give no help,\n" + " Do thou but call my resolution wise,\n" + " And with this knife I'll help it presently.\n" + " God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;\n" + " And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo seal'd,\n" + " Shall be the label to another deed,\n" + " Or my true heart with treacherous revolt\n" + " Turn to another, this shall slay them both:\n" + " Therefore, out of thy long-experienced time,\n" + " Give me some present counsel, or, behold,\n" + " 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife\n" + " Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that\n" + " Which the commission of thy years and art\n" + " Could to no issue of true honour bring.\n" + " Be not so long to speak; I long to die,\n" + " If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope,\n" + " Which craves as desperate an execution.\n" + " As that is desperate which we would prevent.\n" + " If, rather than to marry County Paris,\n" + " Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,\n" + " Then is it likely thou wilt undertake\n" + " A thing like death to chide away this shame,\n" + " That copest with death himself to scape from it:\n" + " And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.\n\n" + "JULIET O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,\n" + " From off the battlements of yonder tower;\n" + " Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk\n" + " Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;\n" + " Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,\n" + " O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,\n" + " With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;\n" + " Or bid me go into a new-made grave\n" + " And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;\n" + " Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;\n" + " And I will do it without fear or doubt,\n" + " To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent\n" + " To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:\n" + " To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;\n" + " Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:\n" + " Take thou this vial, being then in bed,\n" + " And this distilled liquor drink thou off;\n" + " When presently through all thy veins shall run\n" + " A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse\n" + " Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:\n" + " No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;\n" + " The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade\n" + " To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall,\n" + " Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;\n" + " Each part, deprived of supple government,\n" + " Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:\n" + " And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death\n" + " Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,\n" + " And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.\n" + " Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes\n" + " To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead:\n" + " Then, as the manner of our country is,\n" + " In thy best robes uncover'd on the bier\n" + " Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault\n" + " Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.\n" + " In the mean time, against thou shalt awake,\n" + " Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,\n" + " And hither shall he come: and he and I\n" + " Will watch thy waking, and that very night\n" + " Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.\n" + " And this shall free thee from this present shame;\n" + " If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,\n" + " Abate thy valour in the acting it.\n\n" + "JULIET Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Hold; get you gone, be strong and prosperous\n" + " In this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed\n" + " To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.\n\n" + "JULIET Love give me strength! and strength shall help afford.\n" + " Farewell, dear father!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Hall in Capulet's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, Nurse, and two\n" + " Servingmen]\n\n" + "CAPULET So many guests invite as here are writ.\n\n" + " [Exit First Servant]\n\n" + " Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.\n\n" + "Second Servant You shall have none ill, sir; for I'll try if they\n" + " can lick their fingers.\n\n" + "CAPULET How canst thou try them so?\n\n" + "Second Servant Marry, sir, 'tis an ill cook that cannot lick his\n" + " own fingers: therefore he that cannot lick his\n" + " fingers goes not with me.\n\n" + "CAPULET Go, be gone.\n\n" + " [Exit Second Servant]\n\n" + " We shall be much unfurnished for this time.\n" + " What, is my daughter gone to Friar Laurence?\n\n" + "Nurse Ay, forsooth.\n\n" + "CAPULET Well, he may chance to do some good on her:\n" + " A peevish self-will'd harlotry it is.\n\n" + "Nurse See where she comes from shrift with merry look.\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET]\n\n" + "CAPULET How now, my headstrong! where have you been gadding?\n\n" + "JULIET Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin\n" + " Of disobedient opposition\n" + " To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd\n" + " By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here,\n" + " And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you!\n" + " Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.\n\n" + "CAPULET Send for the county; go tell him of this:\n" + " I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.\n\n" + "JULIET I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell;\n" + " And gave him what becomed love I might,\n" + " Not step o'er the bounds of modesty.\n\n" + "CAPULET Why, I am glad on't; this is well: stand up:\n" + " This is as't should be. Let me see the county;\n" + " Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.\n" + " Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar,\n" + " Our whole city is much bound to him.\n\n" + "JULIET Nurse, will you go with me into my closet,\n" + " To help me sort such needful ornaments\n" + " As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET No, not till Thursday; there is time enough.\n\n" + "CAPULET Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.\n\n" + " [Exeunt JULIET and Nurse]\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET We shall be short in our provision:\n" + " 'Tis now near night.\n\n" + "CAPULET Tush, I will stir about,\n" + " And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife:\n" + " Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her;\n" + " I'll not to bed to-night; let me alone;\n" + " I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!\n" + " They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself\n" + " To County Paris, to prepare him up\n" + " Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light,\n" + " Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Juliet's chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JULIET and Nurse]\n\n" + "JULIET Ay, those attires are best: but, gentle nurse,\n" + " I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night,\n" + " For I have need of many orisons\n" + " To move the heavens to smile upon my state,\n" + " Which, well thou know'st, is cross, and full of sin.\n\n" + " [Enter LADY CAPULET]\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET What, are you busy, ho? need you my help?\n\n" + "JULIET No, madam; we have cull'd such necessaries\n" + " As are behoveful for our state to-morrow:\n" + " So please you, let me now be left alone,\n" + " And let the nurse this night sit up with you;\n" + " For, I am sure, you have your hands full all,\n" + " In this so sudden business.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Good night:\n" + " Get thee to bed, and rest; for thou hast need.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse]\n\n" + "JULIET Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.\n" + " I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,\n" + " That almost freezes up the heat of life:\n" + " I'll call them back again to comfort me:\n" + " Nurse! What should she do here?\n" + " My dismal scene I needs must act alone.\n" + " Come, vial.\n" + " What if this mixture do not work at all?\n" + " Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?\n" + " No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there.\n\n" + " [Laying down her dagger]\n\n" + " What if it be a poison, which the friar\n" + " Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead,\n" + " Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd,\n" + " Because he married me before to Romeo?\n" + " I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not,\n" + " For he hath still been tried a holy man.\n" + " How if, when I am laid into the tomb,\n" + " I wake before the time that Romeo\n" + " Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!\n" + " Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,\n" + " To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,\n" + " And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?\n" + " Or, if I live, is it not very like,\n" + " The horrible conceit of death and night,\n" + " Together with the terror of the place,--\n" + " As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,\n" + " Where, for these many hundred years, the bones\n" + " Of all my buried ancestors are packed:\n" + " Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,\n" + " Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,\n" + " At some hours in the night spirits resort;--\n" + " Alack, alack, is it not like that I,\n" + " So early waking, what with loathsome smells,\n" + " And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth,\n" + " That living mortals, hearing them, run mad:--\n" + " O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,\n" + " Environed with all these hideous fears?\n" + " And madly play with my forefather's joints?\n" + " And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud?\n" + " And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone,\n" + " As with a club, dash out my desperate brains?\n" + " O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost\n" + " Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body\n" + " Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!\n" + " Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.\n\n" + " [She falls upon her bed, within the curtains]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Hall in Capulet's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LADY CAPULET and Nurse]\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Hold, take these keys, and fetch more spices, nurse.\n\n" + "Nurse They call for dates and quinces in the pastry.\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET]\n\n" + "CAPULET Come, stir, stir, stir! the second cock hath crow'd,\n" + " The curfew-bell hath rung, 'tis three o'clock:\n" + " Look to the baked meats, good Angelica:\n" + " Spare not for the cost.\n\n" + "Nurse Go, you cot-quean, go,\n" + " Get you to bed; faith, You'll be sick to-morrow\n" + " For this night's watching.\n\n" + "CAPULET No, not a whit: what! I have watch'd ere now\n" + " All night for lesser cause, and ne'er been sick.\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time;\n" + " But I will watch you from such watching now.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LADY CAPULET and Nurse]\n\n" + "CAPULET A jealous hood, a jealous hood!\n\n" + " [Enter three or four Servingmen, with spits, logs,\n" + " and baskets]\n\n" + " Now, fellow,\n" + " What's there?\n\n" + "First Servant Things for the cook, sir; but I know not what.\n\n" + "CAPULET Make haste, make haste.\n\n" + " [Exit First Servant]\n\n" + " Sirrah, fetch drier logs:\n" + " Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.\n\n" + "Second Servant I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,\n" + " And never trouble Peter for the matter.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CAPULET Mass, and well said; a merry whoreson, ha!\n" + " Thou shalt be logger-head. Good faith, 'tis day:\n" + " The county will be here with music straight,\n" + " For so he said he would: I hear him near.\n\n" + " [Music within]\n\n" + " Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, nurse, I say!\n\n" + " [Re-enter Nurse]\n\n" + " Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;\n" + " I'll go and chat with Paris: hie, make haste,\n" + " Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:\n" + " Make haste, I say.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Juliet's chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Nurse]\n\n" + "Nurse Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she:\n" + " Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed!\n" + " Why, love, I say! madam! sweet-heart! why, bride!\n" + " What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now;\n" + " Sleep for a week; for the next night, I warrant,\n" + " The County Paris hath set up his rest,\n" + " That you shall rest but little. God forgive me,\n" + " Marry, and amen, how sound is she asleep!\n" + " I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam!\n" + " Ay, let the county take you in your bed;\n" + " He'll fright you up, i' faith. Will it not be?\n\n" + " [Undraws the curtains]\n\n" + " What, dress'd! and in your clothes! and down again!\n" + " I must needs wake you; Lady! lady! lady!\n" + " Alas, alas! Help, help! my lady's dead!\n" + " O, well-a-day, that ever I was born!\n" + " Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! my lady!\n\n" + " [Enter LADY CAPULET]\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET What noise is here?\n\n" + "Nurse O lamentable day!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET What is the matter?\n\n" + "Nurse Look, look! O heavy day!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET O me, O me! My child, my only life,\n" + " Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!\n" + " Help, help! Call help.\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET]\n\n" + "CAPULET For shame, bring Juliet forth; her lord is come.\n\n" + "Nurse She's dead, deceased, she's dead; alack the day!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Alack the day, she's dead, she's dead, she's dead!\n\n" + "CAPULET Ha! let me see her: out, alas! she's cold:\n" + " Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;\n" + " Life and these lips have long been separated:\n" + " Death lies on her like an untimely frost\n" + " Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.\n\n" + "Nurse O lamentable day!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET O woful time!\n\n" + "CAPULET Death, that hath ta'en her hence to make me wail,\n" + " Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak.\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and PARIS, with Musicians]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Come, is the bride ready to go to church?\n\n" + "CAPULET Ready to go, but never to return.\n" + " O son! the night before thy wedding-day\n" + " Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,\n" + " Flower as she was, deflowered by him.\n" + " Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;\n" + " My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,\n" + " And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.\n\n" + "PARIS Have I thought long to see this morning's face,\n" + " And doth it give me such a sight as this?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day!\n" + " Most miserable hour that e'er time saw\n" + " In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!\n" + " But one, poor one, one poor and loving child,\n" + " But one thing to rejoice and solace in,\n" + " And cruel death hath catch'd it from my sight!\n\n" + "Nurse O woe! O woful, woful, woful day!\n" + " Most lamentable day, most woful day,\n" + " That ever, ever, I did yet behold!\n" + " O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!\n" + " Never was seen so black a day as this:\n" + " O woful day, O woful day!\n\n" + "PARIS Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!\n" + " Most detestable death, by thee beguil'd,\n" + " By cruel cruel thee quite overthrown!\n" + " O love! O life! not life, but love in death!\n\n" + "CAPULET Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!\n" + " Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now\n" + " To murder, murder our solemnity?\n" + " O child! O child! my soul, and not my child!\n" + " Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead;\n" + " And with my child my joys are buried.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Peace, ho, for shame! confusion's cure lives not\n" + " In these confusions. Heaven and yourself\n" + " Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all,\n" + " And all the better is it for the maid:\n" + " Your part in her you could not keep from death,\n" + " But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.\n" + " The most you sought was her promotion;\n" + " For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced:\n" + " And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced\n" + " Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?\n" + " O, in this love, you love your child so ill,\n" + " That you run mad, seeing that she is well:\n" + " She's not well married that lives married long;\n" + " But she's best married that dies married young.\n" + " Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary\n" + " On this fair corse; and, as the custom is,\n" + " In all her best array bear her to church:\n" + " For though fond nature bids us an lament,\n" + " Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment.\n\n" + "CAPULET All things that we ordained festival,\n" + " Turn from their office to black funeral;\n" + " Our instruments to melancholy bells,\n" + " Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,\n" + " Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,\n" + " Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,\n" + " And all things change them to the contrary.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Sir, go you in; and, madam, go with him;\n" + " And go, Sir Paris; every one prepare\n" + " To follow this fair corse unto her grave:\n" + " The heavens do lour upon you for some ill;\n" + " Move them no more by crossing their high will.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, PARIS, and FRIAR LAURENCE]\n\n" + "First Musician Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.\n\n" + "Nurse Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up;\n" + " For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Musician Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.\n\n" + " [Enter PETER]\n\n" + "PETER Musicians, O, musicians, 'Heart's ease, Heart's\n" + " ease:' O, an you will have me live, play 'Heart's ease.'\n\n" + "First Musician Why 'Heart's ease?'\n\n" + "PETER O, musicians, because my heart itself plays 'My\n" + " heart is full of woe:' O, play me some merry dump,\n" + " to comfort me.\n\n" + "First Musician Not a dump we; 'tis no time to play now.\n\n" + "PETER You will not, then?\n\n" + "First Musician No.\n\n" + "PETER I will then give it you soundly.\n\n" + "First Musician What will you give us?\n\n" + "PETER No money, on my faith, but the gleek;\n" + " I will give you the minstrel.\n\n" + "First Musician Then I will give you the serving-creature.\n\n" + "PETER Then will I lay the serving-creature's dagger on\n" + " your pate. I will carry no crotchets: I'll re you,\n" + " I'll fa you; do you note me?\n\n" + "First Musician An you re us and fa us, you note us.\n\n" + "Second Musician Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.\n\n" + "PETER Then have at you with my wit! I will dry-beat you\n" + " with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger. Answer\n" + " me like men:\n" + " 'When griping grief the heart doth wound,\n" + " And doleful dumps the mind oppress,\n" + " Then music with her silver sound'--\n" + " why 'silver sound'? why 'music with her silver\n" + " sound'? What say you, Simon Catling?\n\n" + "Musician Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet sound.\n\n" + "PETER Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck?\n\n" + "Second Musician I say 'silver sound,' because musicians sound for silver.\n\n" + "PETER Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost?\n\n" + "Third Musician Faith, I know not what to say.\n\n" + "PETER O, I cry you mercy; you are the singer: I will say\n" + " for you. It is 'music with her silver sound,'\n" + " because musicians have no gold for sounding:\n" + " 'Then music with her silver sound\n" + " With speedy help doth lend redress.'\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Musician What a pestilent knave is this same!\n\n" + "Second Musician Hang him, Jack! Come, we'll in here; tarry for the\n" + " mourners, and stay dinner.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Mantua. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO]\n\n" + "ROMEO If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,\n" + " My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:\n" + " My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;\n" + " And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit\n" + " Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.\n" + " I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--\n" + " Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave\n" + " to think!--\n" + " And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,\n" + " That I revived, and was an emperor.\n" + " Ah me! how sweet is love itself possess'd,\n" + " When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!\n\n" + " [Enter BALTHASAR, booted]\n\n" + " News from Verona!--How now, Balthasar!\n" + " Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?\n" + " How doth my lady? Is my father well?\n" + " How fares my Juliet? that I ask again;\n" + " For nothing can be ill, if she be well.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:\n" + " Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,\n" + " And her immortal part with angels lives.\n" + " I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,\n" + " And presently took post to tell it you:\n" + " O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,\n" + " Since you did leave it for my office, sir.\n\n" + "ROMEO Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!\n" + " Thou know'st my lodging: get me ink and paper,\n" + " And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR I do beseech you, sir, have patience:\n" + " Your looks are pale and wild, and do import\n" + " Some misadventure.\n\n" + "ROMEO Tush, thou art deceived:\n" + " Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.\n" + " Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?\n\n" + "BALTHASAR No, my good lord.\n\n" + "ROMEO No matter: get thee gone,\n" + " And hire those horses; I'll be with thee straight.\n\n" + " [Exit BALTHASAR]\n\n" + " Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.\n" + " Let's see for means: O mischief, thou art swift\n" + " To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!\n" + " I do remember an apothecary,--\n" + " And hereabouts he dwells,--which late I noted\n" + " In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows,\n" + " Culling of simples; meagre were his looks,\n" + " Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:\n" + " And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,\n" + " An alligator stuff'd, and other skins\n" + " Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves\n" + " A beggarly account of empty boxes,\n" + " Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,\n" + " Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,\n" + " Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show.\n" + " Noting this penury, to myself I said\n" + " 'An if a man did need a poison now,\n" + " Whose sale is present death in Mantua,\n" + " Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.'\n" + " O, this same thought did but forerun my need;\n" + " And this same needy man must sell it me.\n" + " As I remember, this should be the house.\n" + " Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.\n" + " What, ho! apothecary!\n\n" + " [Enter Apothecary]\n\n" + "Apothecary Who calls so loud?\n\n" + "ROMEO Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:\n" + " Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have\n" + " A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear\n" + " As will disperse itself through all the veins\n" + " That the life-weary taker may fall dead\n" + " And that the trunk may be discharged of breath\n" + " As violently as hasty powder fired\n" + " Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.\n\n" + "Apothecary Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law\n" + " Is death to any he that utters them.\n\n" + "ROMEO Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,\n" + " And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,\n" + " Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,\n" + " Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;\n" + " The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;\n" + " The world affords no law to make thee rich;\n" + " Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.\n\n" + "Apothecary My poverty, but not my will, consents.\n\n" + "ROMEO I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.\n\n" + "Apothecary Put this in any liquid thing you will,\n" + " And drink it off; and, if you had the strength\n" + " Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.\n\n" + "ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,\n" + " Doing more murders in this loathsome world,\n" + " Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.\n" + " I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.\n" + " Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.\n" + " Come, cordial and not poison, go with me\n" + " To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Friar Laurence's cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR JOHN]\n\n" + "FRIAR JOHN Holy Franciscan friar! brother, ho!\n\n" + " [Enter FRIAR LAURENCE]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE This same should be the voice of Friar John.\n" + " Welcome from Mantua: what says Romeo?\n" + " Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.\n\n" + "FRIAR JOHN Going to find a bare-foot brother out\n" + " One of our order, to associate me,\n" + " Here in this city visiting the sick,\n" + " And finding him, the searchers of the town,\n" + " Suspecting that we both were in a house\n" + " Where the infectious pestilence did reign,\n" + " Seal'd up the doors, and would not let us forth;\n" + " So that my speed to Mantua there was stay'd.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?\n\n" + "FRIAR JOHN I could not send it,--here it is again,--\n" + " Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,\n" + " So fearful were they of infection.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,\n" + " The letter was not nice but full of charge\n" + " Of dear import, and the neglecting it\n" + " May do much danger. Friar John, go hence;\n" + " Get me an iron crow, and bring it straight\n" + " Unto my cell.\n\n" + "FRIAR JOHN Brother, I'll go and bring it thee.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Now must I to the monument alone;\n" + " Within three hours will fair Juliet wake:\n" + " She will beshrew me much that Romeo\n" + " Hath had no notice of these accidents;\n" + " But I will write again to Mantua,\n" + " And keep her at my cell till Romeo come;\n" + " Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " ROMEO AND JULIET\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A churchyard; in it a tomb belonging to the Capulets.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PARIS, and his Page bearing flowers and a torch]\n\n" + "PARIS Give me thy torch, boy: hence, and stand aloof:\n" + " Yet put it out, for I would not be seen.\n" + " Under yond yew-trees lay thee all along,\n" + " Holding thine ear close to the hollow ground;\n" + " So shall no foot upon the churchyard tread,\n" + " Being loose, unfirm, with digging up of graves,\n" + " But thou shalt hear it: whistle then to me,\n" + " As signal that thou hear'st something approach.\n" + " Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go.\n\n" + "PAGE [Aside] I am almost afraid to stand alone\n" + " Here in the churchyard; yet I will adventure.\n\n" + " [Retires]\n\n" + "PARIS Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--\n" + " O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--\n" + " Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,\n" + " Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:\n" + " The obsequies that I for thee will keep\n" + " Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.\n\n" + " [The Page whistles]\n\n" + " The boy gives warning something doth approach.\n" + " What cursed foot wanders this way to-night,\n" + " To cross my obsequies and true love's rite?\n" + " What with a torch! muffle me, night, awhile.\n\n" + " [Retires]\n\n" + " [Enter ROMEO and BALTHASAR, with a torch,\n" + " mattock, &c]\n\n" + "ROMEO Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.\n" + " Hold, take this letter; early in the morning\n" + " See thou deliver it to my lord and father.\n" + " Give me the light: upon thy life, I charge thee,\n" + " Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,\n" + " And do not interrupt me in my course.\n" + " Why I descend into this bed of death,\n" + " Is partly to behold my lady's face;\n" + " But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger\n" + " A precious ring, a ring that I must use\n" + " In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:\n" + " But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry\n" + " In what I further shall intend to do,\n" + " By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint\n" + " And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs:\n" + " The time and my intents are savage-wild,\n" + " More fierce and more inexorable far\n" + " Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR I will be gone, sir, and not trouble you.\n\n" + "ROMEO So shalt thou show me friendship. Take thou that:\n" + " Live, and be prosperous: and farewell, good fellow.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR [Aside] For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout:\n" + " His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt.\n\n" + " [Retires]\n\n" + "ROMEO Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,\n" + " Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,\n" + " Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,\n" + " And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!\n\n" + " [Opens the tomb]\n\n" + "PARIS This is that banish'd haughty Montague,\n" + " That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief,\n" + " It is supposed, the fair creature died;\n" + " And here is come to do some villanous shame\n" + " To the dead bodies: I will apprehend him.\n\n" + " [Comes forward]\n\n" + " Stop thy unhallow'd toil, vile Montague!\n" + " Can vengeance be pursued further than death?\n" + " Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee:\n" + " Obey, and go with me; for thou must die.\n\n" + "ROMEO I must indeed; and therefore came I hither.\n" + " Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man;\n" + " Fly hence, and leave me: think upon these gone;\n" + " Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,\n" + " Put not another sin upon my head,\n" + " By urging me to fury: O, be gone!\n" + " By heaven, I love thee better than myself;\n" + " For I come hither arm'd against myself:\n" + " Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say,\n" + " A madman's mercy bade thee run away.\n\n" + "PARIS I do defy thy conjurations,\n" + " And apprehend thee for a felon here.\n\n" + "ROMEO Wilt thou provoke me? then have at thee, boy!\n\n" + " [They fight]\n\n" + "PAGE O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PARIS O, I am slain!\n\n" + " [Falls]\n\n" + " If thou be merciful,\n" + " Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + "ROMEO In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.\n" + " Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!\n" + " What said my man, when my betossed soul\n" + " Did not attend him as we rode? I think\n" + " He told me Paris should have married Juliet:\n" + " Said he not so? or did I dream it so?\n" + " Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,\n" + " To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,\n" + " One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!\n" + " I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;\n" + " A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,\n" + " For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes\n" + " This vault a feasting presence full of light.\n" + " Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.\n\n" + " [Laying PARIS in the tomb]\n\n" + " How oft when men are at the point of death\n" + " Have they been merry! which their keepers call\n" + " A lightning before death: O, how may I\n" + " Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!\n" + " Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,\n" + " Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:\n" + " Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet\n" + " Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,\n" + " And death's pale flag is not advanced there.\n" + " Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?\n" + " O, what more favour can I do to thee,\n" + " Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain\n" + " To sunder his that was thine enemy?\n" + " Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,\n" + " Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe\n" + " That unsubstantial death is amorous,\n" + " And that the lean abhorred monster keeps\n" + " Thee here in dark to be his paramour?\n" + " For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;\n" + " And never from this palace of dim night\n" + " Depart again: here, here will I remain\n" + " With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here\n" + " Will I set up my everlasting rest,\n" + " And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars\n" + " From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!\n" + " Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you\n" + " The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss\n" + " A dateless bargain to engrossing death!\n" + " Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!\n" + " Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on\n" + " The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!\n" + " Here's to my love!\n\n" + " [Drinks]\n\n" + " O true apothecary!\n" + " Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + " [Enter, at the other end of the churchyard, FRIAR\n" + " LAURENCE, with a lantern, crow, and spade]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Saint Francis be my speed! how oft to-night\n" + " Have my old feet stumbled at graves! Who's there?\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Here's one, a friend, and one that knows you well.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Bliss be upon you! Tell me, good my friend,\n" + " What torch is yond, that vainly lends his light\n" + " To grubs and eyeless skulls? as I discern,\n" + " It burneth in the Capel's monument.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR It doth so, holy sir; and there's my master,\n" + " One that you love.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Who is it?\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Romeo.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE How long hath he been there?\n\n" + "BALTHASAR Full half an hour.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Go with me to the vault.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR I dare not, sir\n" + " My master knows not but I am gone hence;\n" + " And fearfully did menace me with death,\n" + " If I did stay to look on his intents.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Stay, then; I'll go alone. Fear comes upon me:\n" + " O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing.\n\n" + "BALTHASAR As I did sleep under this yew-tree here,\n" + " I dreamt my master and another fought,\n" + " And that my master slew him.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE Romeo!\n\n" + " [Advances]\n\n" + " Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains\n" + " The stony entrance of this sepulchre?\n" + " What mean these masterless and gory swords\n" + " To lie discolour'd by this place of peace?\n\n" + " [Enters the tomb]\n\n" + " Romeo! O, pale! Who else? what, Paris too?\n" + " And steep'd in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour\n" + " Is guilty of this lamentable chance!\n" + " The lady stirs.\n\n" + " [JULIET wakes]\n\n" + "JULIET O comfortable friar! where is my lord?\n" + " I do remember well where I should be,\n" + " And there I am. Where is my Romeo?\n\n" + " [Noise within]\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE I hear some noise. Lady, come from that nest\n" + " Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep:\n" + " A greater power than we can contradict\n" + " Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away.\n" + " Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead;\n" + " And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee\n" + " Among a sisterhood of holy nuns:\n" + " Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;\n" + " Come, go, good Juliet,\n\n" + " [Noise again]\n\n" + " I dare no longer stay.\n\n" + "JULIET Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.\n\n" + " [Exit FRIAR LAURENCE]\n\n" + " What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?\n" + " Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:\n" + " O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop\n" + " To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;\n" + " Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,\n" + " To make die with a restorative.\n\n" + " [Kisses him]\n\n" + " Thy lips are warm.\n\n" + "First Watchman [Within] Lead, boy: which way?\n\n" + "JULIET Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!\n\n" + " [Snatching ROMEO's dagger]\n\n" + " This is thy sheath;\n\n" + " [Stabs herself]\n\n" + " there rust, and let me die.\n\n" + " [Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies]\n\n" + " [Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS]\n\n" + "PAGE This is the place; there, where the torch doth burn.\n\n" + "First Watchman The ground is bloody; search about the churchyard:\n" + " Go, some of you, whoe'er you find attach.\n" + " Pitiful sight! here lies the county slain,\n" + " And Juliet bleeding, warm, and newly dead,\n" + " Who here hath lain these two days buried.\n" + " Go, tell the prince: run to the Capulets:\n" + " Raise up the Montagues: some others search:\n" + " We see the ground whereon these woes do lie;\n" + " But the true ground of all these piteous woes\n" + " We cannot without circumstance descry.\n\n" + " [Re-enter some of the Watch, with BALTHASAR]\n\n" + "Second Watchman Here's Romeo's man; we found him in the churchyard.\n\n" + "First Watchman Hold him in safety, till the prince come hither.\n\n" + " [Re-enter others of the Watch, with FRIAR LAURENCE]\n\n" + "Third Watchman Here is a friar, that trembles, sighs and weeps:\n" + " We took this mattock and this spade from him,\n" + " As he was coming from this churchyard side.\n\n" + "First Watchman A great suspicion: stay the friar too.\n\n" + " [Enter the PRINCE and Attendants]\n\n" + "PRINCE What misadventure is so early up,\n" + " That calls our person from our morning's rest?\n\n" + " [Enter CAPULET, LADY CAPULET, and others]\n\n" + "CAPULET What should it be, that they so shriek abroad?\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET The people in the street cry Romeo,\n" + " Some Juliet, and some Paris; and all run,\n" + " With open outcry toward our monument.\n\n" + "PRINCE What fear is this which startles in our ears?\n\n" + "First Watchman Sovereign, here lies the County Paris slain;\n" + " And Romeo dead; and Juliet, dead before,\n" + " Warm and new kill'd.\n\n" + "PRINCE Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.\n\n" + "First Watchman Here is a friar, and slaughter'd Romeo's man;\n" + " With instruments upon them, fit to open\n" + " These dead men's tombs.\n\n" + "CAPULET O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!\n" + " This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house\n" + " Is empty on the back of Montague,--\n" + " And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom!\n\n" + "LADY CAPULET O me! this sight of death is as a bell,\n" + " That warns my old age to a sepulchre.\n\n" + " [Enter MONTAGUE and others]\n\n" + "PRINCE Come, Montague; for thou art early up,\n" + " To see thy son and heir more early down.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night;\n" + " Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath:\n" + " What further woe conspires against mine age?\n\n" + "PRINCE Look, and thou shalt see.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE O thou untaught! what manners is in this?\n" + " To press before thy father to a grave?\n\n" + "PRINCE Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,\n" + " Till we can clear these ambiguities,\n" + " And know their spring, their head, their\n" + " true descent;\n" + " And then will I be general of your woes,\n" + " And lead you even to death: meantime forbear,\n" + " And let mischance be slave to patience.\n" + " Bring forth the parties of suspicion.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE I am the greatest, able to do least,\n" + " Yet most suspected, as the time and place\n" + " Doth make against me of this direful murder;\n" + " And here I stand, both to impeach and purge\n" + " Myself condemned and myself excused.\n\n" + "PRINCE Then say at once what thou dost know in this.\n\n" + "FRIAR LAURENCE I will be brief, for my short date of breath\n" + " Is not so long as is a tedious tale.\n" + " Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet;\n" + " And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife:\n" + " I married them; and their stol'n marriage-day\n" + " Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death\n" + " Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,\n" + " For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.\n" + " You, to remove that siege of grief from her,\n" + " Betroth'd and would have married her perforce\n" + " To County Paris: then comes she to me,\n" + " And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean\n" + " To rid her from this second marriage,\n" + " Or in my cell there would she kill herself.\n" + " Then gave I her, so tutor'd by my art,\n" + " A sleeping potion; which so took effect\n" + " As I intended, for it wrought on her\n" + " The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo,\n" + " That he should hither come as this dire night,\n" + " To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,\n" + " Being the time the potion's force should cease.\n" + " But he which bore my letter, Friar John,\n" + " Was stay'd by accident, and yesternight\n" + " Return'd my letter back. Then all alone\n" + " At the prefixed hour of her waking,\n" + " Came I to take her from her kindred's vault;\n" + " Meaning to keep her closely at my cell,\n" + " Till I conveniently could send to Romeo:\n" + " But when I came, some minute ere the time\n" + " Of her awaking, here untimely lay\n" + " The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.\n" + " She wakes; and I entreated her come forth,\n" + " And bear this work of heaven with patience:\n" + " But then a noise did scare me from the tomb;\n" + " And she, too desperate, would not go with me,\n" + " But, as it seems, did violence on herself.\n" + " All this I know; and to the marriage\n" + " Her nurse is privy: and, if aught in this\n" + " Miscarried by my fault, let my old life\n" + " Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,\n" + " Unto the rigour of severest law.\n\n" + "PRINCE We still have known thee for a holy man.\n" + " Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?\n\n" + "BALTHASAR I brought my master news of Juliet's death;\n" + " And then in post he came from Mantua\n" + " To this same place, to this same monument.\n" + " This letter he early bid me give his father,\n" + " And threatened me with death, going in the vault,\n" + " I departed not and left him there.\n\n" + "PRINCE Give me the letter; I will look on it.\n" + " Where is the county's page, that raised the watch?\n" + " Sirrah, what made your master in this place?\n\n" + "PAGE He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave;\n" + " And bid me stand aloof, and so I did:\n" + " Anon comes one with light to ope the tomb;\n" + " And by and by my master drew on him;\n" + " And then I ran away to call the watch.\n\n" + "PRINCE This letter doth make good the friar's words,\n" + " Their course of love, the tidings of her death:\n" + " And here he writes that he did buy a poison\n" + " Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal\n" + " Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.\n" + " Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!\n" + " See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,\n" + " That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.\n" + " And I for winking at your discords too\n" + " Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.\n\n" + "CAPULET O brother Montague, give me thy hand:\n" + " This is my daughter's jointure, for no more\n" + " Can I demand.\n\n" + "MONTAGUE But I can give thee more:\n" + " For I will raise her statue in pure gold;\n" + " That while Verona by that name is known,\n" + " There shall no figure at such rate be set\n" + " As that of true and faithful Juliet.\n\n" + "CAPULET As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;\n" + " Poor sacrifices of our enmity!\n\n" + "PRINCE A glooming peace this morning with it brings;\n" + " The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:\n" + " Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;\n" + " Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:\n" + " For never was a story of more woe\n" + " Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " SONNETS\n\n\n\n" + "TO THE ONLY BEGETTER OF\n" + "THESE INSUING SONNETS\n" + "MR. W. H. ALL HAPPINESS\n" + "AND THAT ETERNITY\n" + "PROMISED BY\n" + "OUR EVER-LIVING POET WISHETH\n" + "THE WELL-WISHING\n" + "ADVENTURER IN\n" + "SETTING FORTH\n" + "T. T.\n\n\n" + "I.\n\n" + "FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,\n" + "That thereby beauty's rose might never die,\n" + "But as the riper should by time decease,\n" + "His tender heir might bear his memory:\n" + "But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,\n" + "Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,\n" + "Making a famine where abundance lies,\n" + "Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.\n" + "Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament\n" + "And only herald to the gaudy spring,\n" + "Within thine own bud buriest thy content\n" + "And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.\n" + " Pity the world, or else this glutton be,\n" + " To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.\n\n" + "II.\n\n" + "When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,\n" + "And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,\n" + "Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,\n" + "Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:\n" + "Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,\n" + "Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,\n" + "To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,\n" + "Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.\n" + "How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,\n" + "If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine\n" + "Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'\n" + "Proving his beauty by succession thine!\n" + " This were to be new made when thou art old,\n" + " And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.\n\n" + "III.\n\n" + "Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest\n" + "Now is the time that face should form another;\n" + "Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,\n" + "Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.\n" + "For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb\n" + "Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?\n" + "Or who is he so fond will be the tomb\n" + "Of his self-love, to stop posterity?\n" + "Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee\n" + "Calls back the lovely April of her prime:\n" + "So thou through windows of thine age shall see\n" + "Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.\n" + " But if thou live, remember'd not to be,\n" + " Die single, and thine image dies with thee.\n\n" + "IV.\n\n" + "Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend\n" + "Upon thyself thy beauty's legacy?\n" + "Nature's bequest gives nothing but doth lend,\n" + "And being frank she lends to those are free.\n" + "Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse\n" + "The bounteous largess given thee to give?\n" + "Profitless usurer, why dost thou use\n" + "So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?\n" + "For having traffic with thyself alone,\n" + "Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.\n" + "Then how, when nature calls thee to be gone,\n" + "What acceptable audit canst thou leave?\n" + " Thy unused beauty must be tomb'd with thee,\n" + " Which, used, lives th' executor to be.\n\n" + "V.\n\n" + "Those hours, that with gentle work did frame\n" + "The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,\n" + "Will play the tyrants to the very same\n" + "And that unfair which fairly doth excel:\n" + "For never-resting time leads summer on\n" + "To hideous winter and confounds him there;\n" + "Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone,\n" + "Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where:\n" + "Then, were not summer's distillation left,\n" + "A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass,\n" + "Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,\n" + "Nor it nor no remembrance what it was:\n" + " But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet,\n" + " Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.\n\n" + "VI.\n\n" + "Then let not winter's ragged hand deface\n" + "In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:\n" + "Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place\n" + "With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.\n" + "That use is not forbidden usury,\n" + "Which happies those that pay the willing loan;\n" + "That's for thyself to breed another thee,\n" + "Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;\n" + "Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,\n" + "If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:\n" + "Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,\n" + "Leaving thee living in posterity?\n" + " Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair\n" + " To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.\n\n" + "VII.\n\n" + "Lo! in the orient when the gracious light\n" + "Lifts up his burning head, each under eye\n" + "Doth homage to his new-appearing sight,\n" + "Serving with looks his sacred majesty;\n" + "And having climb'd the steep-up heavenly hill,\n" + "Resembling strong youth in his middle age,\n" + "yet mortal looks adore his beauty still,\n" + "Attending on his golden pilgrimage;\n" + "But when from highmost pitch, with weary car,\n" + "Like feeble age, he reeleth from the day,\n" + "The eyes, 'fore duteous, now converted are\n" + "From his low tract and look another way:\n" + " So thou, thyself out-going in thy noon,\n" + " Unlook'd on diest, unless thou get a son.\n\n" + "VIII.\n\n" + "Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?\n" + "Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.\n" + "Why lovest thou that which thou receivest not gladly,\n" + "Or else receivest with pleasure thine annoy?\n" + "If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,\n" + "By unions married, do offend thine ear,\n" + "They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds\n" + "In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.\n" + "Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,\n" + "Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,\n" + "Resembling sire and child and happy mother\n" + "Who all in one, one pleasing note do sing:\n" + " Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one,\n" + " Sings this to thee: 'thou single wilt prove none.'\n\n" + "IX.\n\n" + "Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye\n" + "That thou consumest thyself in single life?\n" + "Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die.\n" + "The world will wail thee, like a makeless wife;\n" + "The world will be thy widow and still weep\n" + "That thou no form of thee hast left behind,\n" + "When every private widow well may keep\n" + "By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind.\n" + "Look, what an unthrift in the world doth spend\n" + "Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;\n" + "But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,\n" + "And kept unused, the user so destroys it.\n" + " No love toward others in that bosom sits\n" + " That on himself such murderous shame commits.\n\n" + "X.\n\n" + "For shame! deny that thou bear'st love to any,\n" + "Who for thyself art so unprovident.\n" + "Grant, if thou wilt, thou art beloved of many,\n" + "But that thou none lovest is most evident;\n" + "For thou art so possess'd with murderous hate\n" + "That 'gainst thyself thou stick'st not to conspire.\n" + "Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate\n" + "Which to repair should be thy chief desire.\n" + "O, change thy thought, that I may change my mind!\n" + "Shall hate be fairer lodged than gentle love?\n" + "Be, as thy presence is, gracious and kind,\n" + "Or to thyself at least kind-hearted prove:\n" + " Make thee another self, for love of me,\n" + " That beauty still may live in thine or thee.\n\n" + "XI.\n\n" + "As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou growest\n" + "In one of thine, from that which thou departest;\n" + "And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestowest\n" + "Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.\n" + "Herein lives wisdom, beauty and increase:\n" + "Without this, folly, age and cold decay:\n" + "If all were minded so, the times should cease\n" + "And threescore year would make the world away.\n" + "Let those whom Nature hath not made for store,\n" + "Harsh featureless and rude, barrenly perish:\n" + "Look, whom she best endow'd she gave the more;\n" + "Which bounteous gift thou shouldst in bounty cherish:\n" + " She carved thee for her seal, and meant thereby\n" + " Thou shouldst print more, not let that copy die.\n\n" + "XII.\n\n" + "When I do count the clock that tells the time,\n" + "And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;\n" + "When I behold the violet past prime,\n" + "And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white;\n" + "When lofty trees I see barren of leaves\n" + "Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,\n" + "And summer's green all girded up in sheaves\n" + "Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,\n" + "Then of thy beauty do I question make,\n" + "That thou among the wastes of time must go,\n" + "Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake\n" + "And die as fast as they see others grow;\n" + " And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence\n" + " Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.\n\n" + "XIII.\n\n" + "O, that you were yourself! but, love, you are\n" + "No longer yours than you yourself here live:\n" + "Against this coming end you should prepare,\n" + "And your sweet semblance to some other give.\n" + "So should that beauty which you hold in lease\n" + "Find no determination: then you were\n" + "Yourself again after yourself's decease,\n" + "When your sweet issue your sweet form should bear.\n" + "Who lets so fair a house fall to decay,\n" + "Which husbandry in honour might uphold\n" + "Against the stormy gusts of winter's day\n" + "And barren rage of death's eternal cold?\n" + " O, none but unthrifts! Dear my love, you know\n" + " You had a father: let your son say so.\n\n" + "XIV.\n\n" + "Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck;\n" + "And yet methinks I have astronomy,\n" + "But not to tell of good or evil luck,\n" + "Of plagues, of dearths, or seasons' quality;\n" + "Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell,\n" + "Pointing to each his thunder, rain and wind,\n" + "Or say with princes if it shall go well,\n" + "By oft predict that I in heaven find:\n" + "But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive,\n" + "And, constant stars, in them I read such art\n" + "As truth and beauty shall together thrive,\n" + "If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert;\n" + " Or else of thee this I prognosticate:\n" + " Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.\n\n" + "XV.\n\n" + "When I consider every thing that grows\n" + "Holds in perfection but a little moment,\n" + "That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows\n" + "Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;\n" + "When I perceive that men as plants increase,\n" + "Cheered and cheque'd even by the self-same sky,\n" + "Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,\n" + "And wear their brave state out of memory;\n" + "Then the conceit of this inconstant stay\n" + "Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,\n" + "Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,\n" + "To change your day of youth to sullied night;\n" + " And all in war with Time for love of you,\n" + " As he takes from you, I engraft you new.\n\n" + "XVI.\n\n" + "But wherefore do not you a mightier way\n" + "Make war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?\n" + "And fortify yourself in your decay\n" + "With means more blessed than my barren rhyme?\n" + "Now stand you on the top of happy hours,\n" + "And many maiden gardens yet unset\n" + "With virtuous wish would bear your living flowers,\n" + "Much liker than your painted counterfeit:\n" + "So should the lines of life that life repair,\n" + "Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen,\n" + "Neither in inward worth nor outward fair,\n" + "Can make you live yourself in eyes of men.\n" + " To give away yourself keeps yourself still,\n" + " And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.\n\n" + "XVII.\n\n" + "Who will believe my verse in time to come,\n" + "If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?\n" + "Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb\n" + "Which hides your life and shows not half your parts.\n" + "If I could write the beauty of your eyes\n" + "And in fresh numbers number all your graces,\n" + "The age to come would say 'This poet lies:\n" + "Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'\n" + "So should my papers yellow'd with their age\n" + "Be scorn'd like old men of less truth than tongue,\n" + "And your true rights be term'd a poet's rage\n" + "And stretched metre of an antique song:\n" + " But were some child of yours alive that time,\n" + " You should live twice; in it and in my rhyme.\n\n" + "XVIII.\n\n" + "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?\n" + "Thou art more lovely and more temperate:\n" + "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,\n" + "And summer's lease hath all too short a date:\n" + "Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,\n" + "And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;\n" + "And every fair from fair sometime declines,\n" + "By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;\n" + "But thy eternal summer shall not fade\n" + "Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;\n" + "Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,\n" + "When in eternal lines to time thou growest:\n" + " So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,\n" + " So long lives this and this gives life to thee.\n\n" + "XIX.\n\n" + "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,\n" + "And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;\n" + "Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,\n" + "And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood;\n" + "Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,\n" + "And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,\n" + "To the wide world and all her fading sweets;\n" + "But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:\n" + "O, carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow,\n" + "Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;\n" + "Him in thy course untainted do allow\n" + "For beauty's pattern to succeeding men.\n" + " Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,\n" + " My love shall in my verse ever live young.\n\n" + "XX.\n\n" + "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted\n" + "Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;\n" + "A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted\n" + "With shifting change, as is false women's fashion;\n" + "An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,\n" + "Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;\n" + "A man in hue, all 'hues' in his controlling,\n" + "Much steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.\n" + "And for a woman wert thou first created;\n" + "Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting,\n" + "And by addition me of thee defeated,\n" + "By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.\n" + " But since she prick'd thee out for women's pleasure,\n" + " Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure.\n\n" + "XXI.\n\n" + "So is it not with me as with that Muse\n" + "Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse,\n" + "Who heaven itself for ornament doth use\n" + "And every fair with his fair doth rehearse\n" + "Making a couplement of proud compare,\n" + "With sun and moon, with earth and sea's rich gems,\n" + "With April's first-born flowers, and all things rare\n" + "That heaven's air in this huge rondure hems.\n" + "O' let me, true in love, but truly write,\n" + "And then believe me, my love is as fair\n" + "As any mother's child, though not so bright\n" + "As those gold candles fix'd in heaven's air:\n" + " Let them say more than like of hearsay well;\n" + " I will not praise that purpose not to sell.\n\n" + "XXII.\n\n" + "My glass shall not persuade me I am old,\n" + "So long as youth and thou are of one date;\n" + "But when in thee time's furrows I behold,\n" + "Then look I death my days should expiate.\n" + "For all that beauty that doth cover thee\n" + "Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,\n" + "Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:\n" + "How can I then be elder than thou art?\n" + "O, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary\n" + "As I, not for myself, but for thee will;\n" + "Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so chary\n" + "As tender nurse her babe from faring ill.\n" + " Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain;\n" + " Thou gavest me thine, not to give back again.\n\n" + "XXIII.\n\n" + "As an unperfect actor on the stage\n" + "Who with his fear is put besides his part,\n" + "Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,\n" + "Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart.\n" + "So I, for fear of trust, forget to say\n" + "The perfect ceremony of love's rite,\n" + "And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,\n" + "O'ercharged with burden of mine own love's might.\n" + "O, let my books be then the eloquence\n" + "And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,\n" + "Who plead for love and look for recompense\n" + "More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.\n" + " O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:\n" + " To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit.\n\n" + "XXIV.\n\n" + "Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd\n" + "Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;\n" + "My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,\n" + "And perspective it is the painter's art.\n" + "For through the painter must you see his skill,\n" + "To find where your true image pictured lies;\n" + "Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,\n" + "That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.\n" + "Now see what good turns eyes for eyes have done:\n" + "Mine eyes have drawn thy shape, and thine for me\n" + "Are windows to my breast, where-through the sun\n" + "Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee;\n" + " Yet eyes this cunning want to grace their art;\n" + " They draw but what they see, know not the heart.\n\n" + "XXV.\n\n" + "Let those who are in favour with their stars\n" + "Of public honour and proud titles boast,\n" + "Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,\n" + "Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.\n" + "Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread\n" + "But as the marigold at the sun's eye,\n" + "And in themselves their pride lies buried,\n" + "For at a frown they in their glory die.\n" + "The painful warrior famoused for fight,\n" + "After a thousand victories once foil'd,\n" + "Is from the book of honour razed quite,\n" + "And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:\n" + " Then happy I, that love and am beloved\n" + " Where I may not remove nor be removed.\n\n" + "XXVI.\n\n" + "Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage\n" + "Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit,\n" + "To thee I send this written embassage,\n" + "To witness duty, not to show my wit:\n" + "Duty so great, which wit so poor as mine\n" + "May make seem bare, in wanting words to show it,\n" + "But that I hope some good conceit of thine\n" + "In thy soul's thought, all naked, will bestow it;\n" + "Till whatsoever star that guides my moving\n" + "Points on me graciously with fair aspect\n" + "And puts apparel on my tatter'd loving,\n" + "To show me worthy of thy sweet respect:\n" + " Then may I dare to boast how I do love thee;\n" + " Till then not show my head where thou mayst prove me.\n\n" + "XXVII.\n\n" + "Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,\n" + "The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;\n" + "But then begins a journey in my head,\n" + "To work my mind, when body's work's expired:\n" + "For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,\n" + "Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,\n" + "And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,\n" + "Looking on darkness which the blind do see\n" + "Save that my soul's imaginary sight\n" + "Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,\n" + "Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,\n" + "Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.\n" + " Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind,\n" + " For thee and for myself no quiet find.\n\n" + "XXVIII.\n\n" + "How can I then return in happy plight,\n" + "That am debarr'd the benefit of rest?\n" + "When day's oppression is not eased by night,\n" + "But day by night, and night by day, oppress'd?\n" + "And each, though enemies to either's reign,\n" + "Do in consent shake hands to torture me;\n" + "The one by toil, the other to complain\n" + "How far I toil, still farther off from thee.\n" + "I tell the day, to please them thou art bright\n" + "And dost him grace when clouds do blot the heaven:\n" + "So flatter I the swart-complexion'd night,\n" + "When sparkling stars twire not thou gild'st the even.\n" + "But day doth daily draw my sorrows longer\n" + " And night doth nightly make grief's strength\n" + " seem stronger.\n\n" + "XXIX.\n\n" + "When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,\n" + "I all alone beweep my outcast state\n" + "And trouble deal heaven with my bootless cries\n" + "And look upon myself and curse my fate,\n" + "Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,\n" + "Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,\n" + "Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,\n" + "With what I most enjoy contented least;\n" + "Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,\n" + "Haply I think on thee, and then my state,\n" + "Like to the lark at break of day arising\n" + "From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;\n" + " For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings\n" + " That then I scorn to change my state with kings.\n\n" + "XXX.\n\n" + "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought\n" + "I summon up remembrance of things past,\n" + "I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,\n" + "And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:\n" + "Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,\n" + "For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,\n" + "And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,\n" + "And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:\n" + "Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,\n" + "And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er\n" + "The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,\n" + "Which I new pay as if not paid before.\n" + " But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,\n" + " All losses are restored and sorrows end.\n\n" + "XXXI.\n\n" + "Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,\n" + "Which I by lacking have supposed dead,\n" + "And there reigns love and all love's loving parts,\n" + "And all those friends which I thought buried.\n" + "How many a holy and obsequious tear\n" + "Hath dear religious love stol'n from mine eye\n" + "As interest of the dead, which now appear\n" + "But things removed that hidden in thee lie!\n" + "Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,\n" + "Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,\n" + "Who all their parts of me to thee did give;\n" + "That due of many now is thine alone:\n" + " Their images I loved I view in thee,\n" + " And thou, all they, hast all the all of me.\n\n" + "XXXII.\n\n" + "If thou survive my well-contented day,\n" + "When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover,\n" + "And shalt by fortune once more re-survey\n" + "These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,\n" + "Compare them with the bettering of the time,\n" + "And though they be outstripp'd by every pen,\n" + "Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,\n" + "Exceeded by the height of happier men.\n" + "O, then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:\n" + "'Had my friend's Muse grown with this growing age,\n" + "A dearer birth than this his love had brought,\n" + "To march in ranks of better equipage:\n" + " But since he died and poets better prove,\n" + " Theirs for their style I'll read, his for his love.'\n\n" + "XXXIII.\n\n" + "Full many a glorious morning have I seen\n" + "Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,\n" + "Kissing with golden face the meadows green,\n" + "Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;\n" + "Anon permit the basest clouds to ride\n" + "With ugly rack on his celestial face,\n" + "And from the forlorn world his visage hide,\n" + "Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:\n" + "Even so my sun one early morn did shine\n" + "With all triumphant splendor on my brow;\n" + "But out, alack! he was but one hour mine;\n" + "The region cloud hath mask'd him from me now.\n" + " Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;\n" + " Suns of the world may stain when heaven's sun staineth.\n\n" + "XXXIV.\n\n" + "Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,\n" + "And make me travel forth without my cloak,\n" + "To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,\n" + "Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?\n" + "'Tis not enough that through the cloud thou break,\n" + "To dry the rain on my storm-beaten face,\n" + "For no man well of such a salve can speak\n" + "That heals the wound and cures not the disgrace:\n" + "Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief;\n" + "Though thou repent, yet I have still the loss:\n" + "The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief\n" + "To him that bears the strong offence's cross.\n" + " Ah! but those tears are pearl which thy love sheds,\n" + " And they are rich and ransom all ill deeds.\n\n" + "XXXV.\n\n" + "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:\n" + "Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;\n" + "Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,\n" + "And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.\n" + "All men make faults, and even I in this,\n" + "Authorizing thy trespass with compare,\n" + "Myself corrupting, salving thy amiss,\n" + "Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are;\n" + "For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense--\n" + "Thy adverse party is thy advocate--\n" + "And 'gainst myself a lawful plea commence:\n" + "Such civil war is in my love and hate\n" + " That I an accessary needs must be\n" + " To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me.\n\n" + "XXXVI.\n\n" + "Let me confess that we two must be twain,\n" + "Although our undivided loves are one:\n" + "So shall those blots that do with me remain\n" + "Without thy help by me be borne alone.\n" + "In our two loves there is but one respect,\n" + "Though in our lives a separable spite,\n" + "Which though it alter not love's sole effect,\n" + "Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.\n" + "I may not evermore acknowledge thee,\n" + "Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,\n" + "Nor thou with public kindness honour me,\n" + "Unless thou take that honour from thy name:\n" + " But do not so; I love thee in such sort\n" + " As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.\n\n" + "XXXVII.\n\n" + "As a decrepit father takes delight\n" + "To see his active child do deeds of youth,\n" + "So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,\n" + "Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.\n" + "For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,\n" + "Or any of these all, or all, or more,\n" + "Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,\n" + "I make my love engrafted to this store:\n" + "So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,\n" + "Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give\n" + "That I in thy abundance am sufficed\n" + "And by a part of all thy glory live.\n" + " Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:\n" + " This wish I have; then ten times happy me!\n\n" + "XXXVIII.\n\n" + "How can my Muse want subject to invent,\n" + "While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse\n" + "Thine own sweet argument, too excellent\n" + "For every vulgar paper to rehearse?\n" + "O, give thyself the thanks, if aught in me\n" + "Worthy perusal stand against thy sight;\n" + "For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,\n" + "When thou thyself dost give invention light?\n" + "Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth\n" + "Than those old nine which rhymers invocate;\n" + "And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth\n" + "Eternal numbers to outlive long date.\n" + " If my slight Muse do please these curious days,\n" + " The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.\n\n" + "XXXIX.\n\n" + "O, how thy worth with manners may I sing,\n" + "When thou art all the better part of me?\n" + "What can mine own praise to mine own self bring?\n" + "And what is 't but mine own when I praise thee?\n" + "Even for this let us divided live,\n" + "And our dear love lose name of single one,\n" + "That by this separation I may give\n" + "That due to thee which thou deservest alone.\n" + "O absence, what a torment wouldst thou prove,\n" + "Were it not thy sour leisure gave sweet leave\n" + "To entertain the time with thoughts of love,\n" + "Which time and thoughts so sweetly doth deceive,\n" + " And that thou teachest how to make one twain,\n" + " By praising him here who doth hence remain!\n\n" + "XL.\n\n" + "Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;\n" + "What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?\n" + "No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;\n" + "All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.\n" + "Then if for my love thou my love receivest,\n" + "I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;\n" + "But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest\n" + "By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.\n" + "I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,\n" + "Although thou steal thee all my poverty;\n" + "And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief\n" + "To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury.\n" + " Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,\n" + " Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.\n\n" + "XLI.\n\n" + "Those petty wrongs that liberty commits,\n" + "When I am sometime absent from thy heart,\n" + "Thy beauty and thy years full well befits,\n" + "For still temptation follows where thou art.\n" + "Gentle thou art and therefore to be won,\n" + "Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assailed;\n" + "And when a woman woos, what woman's son\n" + "Will sourly leave her till she have prevailed?\n" + "Ay me! but yet thou mightest my seat forbear,\n" + "And chide try beauty and thy straying youth,\n" + "Who lead thee in their riot even there\n" + "Where thou art forced to break a twofold truth,\n" + " Hers by thy beauty tempting her to thee,\n" + " Thine, by thy beauty being false to me.\n\n" + "XLII.\n\n" + "That thou hast her, it is not all my grief,\n" + "And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;\n" + "That she hath thee, is of my wailing chief,\n" + "A loss in love that touches me more nearly.\n" + "Loving offenders, thus I will excuse ye:\n" + "Thou dost love her, because thou knowst I love her;\n" + "And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,\n" + "Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.\n" + "If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,\n" + "And losing her, my friend hath found that loss;\n" + "Both find each other, and I lose both twain,\n" + "And both for my sake lay on me this cross:\n" + " But here's the joy; my friend and I are one;\n" + " Sweet flattery! then she loves but me alone.\n\n" + "XLIII.\n\n" + "When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,\n" + "For all the day they view things unrespected;\n" + "But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,\n" + "And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.\n" + "Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,\n" + "How would thy shadow's form form happy show\n" + "To the clear day with thy much clearer light,\n" + "When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!\n" + "How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made\n" + "By looking on thee in the living day,\n" + "When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade\n" + "Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!\n" + " All days are nights to see till I see thee,\n" + " And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.\n\n" + "XLIV.\n\n" + "If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,\n" + "Injurious distance should not stop my way;\n" + "For then despite of space I would be brought,\n" + "From limits far remote where thou dost stay.\n" + "No matter then although my foot did stand\n" + "Upon the farthest earth removed from thee;\n" + "For nimble thought can jump both sea and land\n" + "As soon as think the place where he would be.\n" + "But ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,\n" + "To leap large lengths of miles when thou art gone,\n" + "But that so much of earth and water wrought\n" + "I must attend time's leisure with my moan,\n" + " Receiving nought by elements so slow\n" + " But heavy tears, badges of either's woe.\n\n" + "XLV.\n\n" + "The other two, slight air and purging fire,\n" + "Are both with thee, wherever I abide;\n" + "The first my thought, the other my desire,\n" + "These present-absent with swift motion slide.\n" + "For when these quicker elements are gone\n" + "In tender embassy of love to thee,\n" + "My life, being made of four, with two alone\n" + "Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;\n" + "Until life's composition be recured\n" + "By those swift messengers return'd from thee,\n" + "Who even but now come back again, assured\n" + "Of thy fair health, recounting it to me:\n" + " This told, I joy; but then no longer glad,\n" + " I send them back again and straight grow sad.\n\n" + "XLVI.\n\n" + "Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war\n" + "How to divide the conquest of thy sight;\n" + "Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar,\n" + "My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.\n" + "My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie--\n" + "A closet never pierced with crystal eyes--\n" + "But the defendant doth that plea deny\n" + "And says in him thy fair appearance lies.\n" + "To 'cide this title is impanneled\n" + "A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,\n" + "And by their verdict is determined\n" + "The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part:\n" + " As thus; mine eye's due is thy outward part,\n" + " And my heart's right thy inward love of heart.\n\n" + "XLVII.\n\n" + "Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,\n" + "And each doth good turns now unto the other:\n" + "When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,\n" + "Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,\n" + "With my love's picture then my eye doth feast\n" + "And to the painted banquet bids my heart;\n" + "Another time mine eye is my heart's guest\n" + "And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:\n" + "So, either by thy picture or my love,\n" + "Thyself away art resent still with me;\n" + "For thou not farther than my thoughts canst move,\n" + "And I am still with them and they with thee;\n" + " Or, if they sleep, thy picture in my sight\n" + " Awakes my heart to heart's and eye's delight.\n\n" + "XLVIII.\n\n" + "How careful was I, when I took my way,\n" + "Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,\n" + "That to my use it might unused stay\n" + "From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!\n" + "But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,\n" + "Most worthy of comfort, now my greatest grief,\n" + "Thou, best of dearest and mine only care,\n" + "Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.\n" + "Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,\n" + "Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,\n" + "Within the gentle closure of my breast,\n" + "From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;\n" + " And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,\n" + " For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear.\n\n" + "XLIX.\n\n" + "Against that time, if ever that time come,\n" + "When I shall see thee frown on my defects,\n" + "When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,\n" + "Call'd to that audit by advised respects;\n" + "Against that time when thou shalt strangely pass\n" + "And scarcely greet me with that sun thine eye,\n" + "When love, converted from the thing it was,\n" + "Shall reasons find of settled gravity,--\n" + "Against that time do I ensconce me here\n" + "Within the knowledge of mine own desert,\n" + "And this my hand against myself uprear,\n" + "To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:\n" + " To leave poor me thou hast the strength of laws,\n" + " Since why to love I can allege no cause.\n\n" + "L.\n\n" + "How heavy do I journey on the way,\n" + "When what I seek, my weary travel's end,\n" + "Doth teach that ease and that repose to say\n" + "'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'\n" + "The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,\n" + "Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,\n" + "As if by some instinct the wretch did know\n" + "His rider loved not speed, being made from thee:\n" + "The bloody spur cannot provoke him on\n" + "That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;\n" + "Which heavily he answers with a groan,\n" + "More sharp to me than spurring to his side;\n" + " For that same groan doth put this in my mind;\n" + " My grief lies onward and my joy behind.\n\n" + "LI.\n\n" + "Thus can my love excuse the slow offence\n" + "Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed:\n" + "From where thou art why should I haste me thence?\n" + "Till I return, of posting is no need.\n" + "O, what excuse will my poor beast then find,\n" + "When swift extremity can seem but slow?\n" + "Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind;\n" + "In winged speed no motion shall I know:\n" + "Then can no horse with my desire keep pace;\n" + "Therefore desire of perfect'st love being made,\n" + "Shall neigh--no dull flesh--in his fiery race;\n" + "But love, for love, thus shall excuse my jade;\n" + " Since from thee going he went wilful-slow,\n" + " Towards thee I'll run, and give him leave to go.\n\n" + "LII.\n\n" + "So am I as the rich, whose blessed key\n" + "Can bring him to his sweet up-locked treasure,\n" + "The which he will not every hour survey,\n" + "For blunting the fine point of seldom pleasure.\n" + "Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare,\n" + "Since, seldom coming, in the long year set,\n" + "Like stones of worth they thinly placed are,\n" + "Or captain jewels in the carcanet.\n" + "So is the time that keeps you as my chest,\n" + "Or as the wardrobe which the robe doth hide,\n" + "To make some special instant special blest,\n" + "By new unfolding his imprison'd pride.\n" + " Blessed are you, whose worthiness gives scope,\n" + " Being had, to triumph, being lack'd, to hope.\n\n" + "LIII.\n\n" + "What is your substance, whereof are you made,\n" + "That millions of strange shadows on you tend?\n" + "Since every one hath, every one, one shade,\n" + "And you, but one, can every shadow lend.\n" + "Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit\n" + "Is poorly imitated after you;\n" + "On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,\n" + "And you in Grecian tires are painted new:\n" + "Speak of the spring and foison of the year;\n" + "The one doth shadow of your beauty show,\n" + "The other as your bounty doth appear;\n" + "And you in every blessed shape we know.\n" + " In all external grace you have some part,\n" + " But you like none, none you, for constant heart.\n\n" + "LIV.\n\n" + "O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem\n" + "By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!\n" + "The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem\n" + "For that sweet odour which doth in it live.\n" + "The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye\n" + "As the perfumed tincture of the roses,\n" + "Hang on such thorns and play as wantonly\n" + "When summer's breath their masked buds discloses:\n" + "But, for their virtue only is their show,\n" + "They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade,\n" + "Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so;\n" + "Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made:\n" + " And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth,\n" + " When that shall fade, my verse distills your truth.\n\n" + "LV.\n\n" + "Not marble, nor the gilded monuments\n" + "Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;\n" + "But you shall shine more bright in these contents\n" + "Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time.\n" + "When wasteful war shall statues overturn,\n" + "And broils root out the work of masonry,\n" + "Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn\n" + "The living record of your memory.\n" + "'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity\n" + "Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room\n" + "Even in the eyes of all posterity\n" + "That wear this world out to the ending doom.\n" + " So, till the judgment that yourself arise,\n" + " You live in this, and dwell in lover's eyes.\n\n" + "LVI.\n\n" + "Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said\n" + "Thy edge should blunter be than appetite,\n" + "Which but to-day by feeding is allay'd,\n" + "To-morrow sharpen'd in his former might:\n" + "So, love, be thou; although to-day thou fill\n" + "Thy hungry eyes even till they wink with fullness,\n" + "To-morrow see again, and do not kill\n" + "The spirit of love with a perpetual dullness.\n" + "Let this sad interim like the ocean be\n" + "Which parts the shore, where two contracted new\n" + "Come daily to the banks, that, when they see\n" + "Return of love, more blest may be the view;\n" + " Else call it winter, which being full of care\n" + " Makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.\n\n" + "LVII.\n\n" + "Being your slave, what should I do but tend\n" + "Upon the hours and times of your desire?\n" + "I have no precious time at all to spend,\n" + "Nor services to do, till you require.\n" + "Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour\n" + "Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,\n" + "Nor think the bitterness of absence sour\n" + "When you have bid your servant once adieu;\n" + "Nor dare I question with my jealous thought\n" + "Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,\n" + "But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought\n" + "Save, where you are how happy you make those.\n" + " So true a fool is love that in your will,\n" + " Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.\n\n" + "LVIII.\n\n" + "That god forbid that made me first your slave,\n" + "I should in thought control your times of pleasure,\n" + "Or at your hand the account of hours to crave,\n" + "Being your vassal, bound to stay your leisure!\n" + "O, let me suffer, being at your beck,\n" + "The imprison'd absence of your liberty;\n" + "And patience, tame to sufferance, bide each cheque,\n" + "Without accusing you of injury.\n" + "Be where you list, your charter is so strong\n" + "That you yourself may privilege your time\n" + "To what you will; to you it doth belong\n" + "Yourself to pardon of self-doing crime.\n" + " I am to wait, though waiting so be hell;\n" + " Not blame your pleasure, be it ill or well.\n\n" + "LIX.\n\n" + "If there be nothing new, but that which is\n" + "Hath been before, how are our brains beguiled,\n" + "Which, labouring for invention, bear amiss\n" + "The second burden of a former child!\n" + "O, that record could with a backward look,\n" + "Even of five hundred courses of the sun,\n" + "Show me your image in some antique book,\n" + "Since mind at first in character was done!\n" + "That I might see what the old world could say\n" + "To this composed wonder of your frame;\n" + "Whether we are mended, or whether better they,\n" + "Or whether revolution be the same.\n" + " O, sure I am, the wits of former days\n" + " To subjects worse have given admiring praise.\n\n" + "LX.\n\n" + "Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,\n" + "So do our minutes hasten to their end;\n" + "Each changing place with that which goes before,\n" + "In sequent toil all forwards do contend.\n" + "Nativity, once in the main of light,\n" + "Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown'd,\n" + "Crooked elipses 'gainst his glory fight,\n" + "And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.\n" + "Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth\n" + "And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,\n" + "Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,\n" + "And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:\n" + " And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,\n" + " Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.\n\n" + "LXI.\n\n" + "Is it thy will thy image should keep open\n" + "My heavy eyelids to the weary night?\n" + "Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken,\n" + "While shadows like to thee do mock my sight?\n" + "Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee\n" + "So far from home into my deeds to pry,\n" + "To find out shames and idle hours in me,\n" + "The scope and tenor of thy jealousy?\n" + "O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great:\n" + "It is my love that keeps mine eye awake;\n" + "Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,\n" + "To play the watchman ever for thy sake:\n" + " For thee watch I whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,\n" + " From me far off, with others all too near.\n\n" + "LXII.\n\n" + "Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye\n" + "And all my soul and all my every part;\n" + "And for this sin there is no remedy,\n" + "It is so grounded inward in my heart.\n" + "Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,\n" + "No shape so true, no truth of such account;\n" + "And for myself mine own worth do define,\n" + "As I all other in all worths surmount.\n" + "But when my glass shows me myself indeed,\n" + "Beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity,\n" + "Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;\n" + "Self so self-loving were iniquity.\n" + " 'Tis thee, myself, that for myself I praise,\n" + " Painting my age with beauty of thy days.\n\n" + "LXIII.\n\n" + "Against my love shall be, as I am now,\n" + "With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'er-worn;\n" + "When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow\n" + "With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn\n" + "Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night,\n" + "And all those beauties whereof now he's king\n" + "Are vanishing or vanish'd out of sight,\n" + "Stealing away the treasure of his spring;\n" + "For such a time do I now fortify\n" + "Against confounding age's cruel knife,\n" + "That he shall never cut from memory\n" + "My sweet love's beauty, though my lover's life:\n" + " His beauty shall in these black lines be seen,\n" + " And they shall live, and he in them still green.\n\n" + "LXIV.\n\n" + "When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced\n" + "The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;\n" + "When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed\n" + "And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;\n" + "When I have seen the hungry ocean gain\n" + "Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,\n" + "And the firm soil win of the watery main,\n" + "Increasing store with loss and loss with store;\n" + "When I have seen such interchange of state,\n" + "Or state itself confounded to decay;\n" + "Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,\n" + "That Time will come and take my love away.\n" + " This thought is as a death, which cannot choose\n" + " But weep to have that which it fears to lose.\n\n" + "LXV.\n\n" + "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,\n" + "But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,\n" + "How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,\n" + "Whose action is no stronger than a flower?\n" + "O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out\n" + "Against the wreckful siege of battering days,\n" + "When rocks impregnable are not so stout,\n" + "Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?\n" + "O fearful meditation! where, alack,\n" + "Shall Time's best jewel from Time's chest lie hid?\n" + "Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back?\n" + "Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid?\n" + " O, none, unless this miracle have might,\n" + " That in black ink my love may still shine bright.\n\n" + "LXVI.\n\n" + "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,\n" + "As, to behold desert a beggar born,\n" + "And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,\n" + "And purest faith unhappily forsworn,\n" + "And guilded honour shamefully misplaced,\n" + "And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,\n" + "And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,\n" + "And strength by limping sway disabled,\n" + "And art made tongue-tied by authority,\n" + "And folly doctor-like controlling skill,\n" + "And simple truth miscall'd simplicity,\n" + "And captive good attending captain ill:\n" + " Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,\n" + " Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.\n\n" + "LXVII.\n\n" + "Ah! wherefore with infection should he live,\n" + "And with his presence grace impiety,\n" + "That sin by him advantage should achieve\n" + "And lace itself with his society?\n" + "Why should false painting imitate his cheek\n" + "And steal dead seeing of his living hue?\n" + "Why should poor beauty indirectly seek\n" + "Roses of shadow, since his rose is true?\n" + "Why should he live, now Nature bankrupt is,\n" + "Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?\n" + "For she hath no exchequer now but his,\n" + "And, proud of many, lives upon his gains.\n" + " O, him she stores, to show what wealth she had\n" + " In days long since, before these last so bad.\n\n" + "LXVIII.\n\n" + "Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,\n" + "When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,\n" + "Before the bastard signs of fair were born,\n" + "Or durst inhabit on a living brow;\n" + "Before the golden tresses of the dead,\n" + "The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,\n" + "To live a second life on second head;\n" + "Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:\n" + "In him those holy antique hours are seen,\n" + "Without all ornament, itself and true,\n" + "Making no summer of another's green,\n" + "Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;\n" + " And him as for a map doth Nature store,\n" + " To show false Art what beauty was of yore.\n\n" + "LXIX.\n\n" + "Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view\n" + "Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;\n" + "All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,\n" + "Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.\n" + "Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;\n" + "But those same tongues that give thee so thine own\n" + "In other accents do this praise confound\n" + "By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.\n" + "They look into the beauty of thy mind,\n" + "And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds;\n" + "Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,\n" + "To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:\n" + " But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,\n" + " The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.\n\n" + "LXX.\n\n" + "That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,\n" + "For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;\n" + "The ornament of beauty is suspect,\n" + "A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.\n" + "So thou be good, slander doth but approve\n" + "Thy worth the greater, being woo'd of time;\n" + "For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,\n" + "And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.\n" + "Thou hast pass'd by the ambush of young days,\n" + "Either not assail'd or victor being charged;\n" + "Yet this thy praise cannot be so thy praise,\n" + "To tie up envy evermore enlarged:\n" + " If some suspect of ill mask'd not thy show,\n" + " Then thou alone kingdoms of hearts shouldst owe.\n\n" + "LXXI.\n\n" + "No longer mourn for me when I am dead\n" + "Then you shall hear the surly sullen bell\n" + "Give warning to the world that I am fled\n" + "From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:\n" + "Nay, if you read this line, remember not\n" + "The hand that writ it; for I love you so\n" + "That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot\n" + "If thinking on me then should make you woe.\n" + "O, if, I say, you look upon this verse\n" + "When I perhaps compounded am with clay,\n" + "Do not so much as my poor name rehearse.\n" + "But let your love even with my life decay,\n" + " Lest the wise world should look into your moan\n" + " And mock you with me after I am gone.\n\n" + "LXXII.\n\n" + "O, lest the world should task you to recite\n" + "What merit lived in me, that you should love\n" + "After my death, dear love, forget me quite,\n" + "For you in me can nothing worthy prove;\n" + "Unless you would devise some virtuous lie,\n" + "To do more for me than mine own desert,\n" + "And hang more praise upon deceased I\n" + "Than niggard truth would willingly impart:\n" + "O, lest your true love may seem false in this,\n" + "That you for love speak well of me untrue,\n" + "My name be buried where my body is,\n" + "And live no more to shame nor me nor you.\n" + " For I am shamed by that which I bring forth,\n" + " And so should you, to love things nothing worth.\n\n" + "LXXIII.\n\n" + "That time of year thou mayst in me behold\n" + "When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang\n" + "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,\n" + "Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.\n" + "In me thou seest the twilight of such day\n" + "As after sunset fadeth in the west,\n" + "Which by and by black night doth take away,\n" + "Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.\n" + "In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire\n" + "That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,\n" + "As the death-bed whereon it must expire\n" + "Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.\n" + " This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,\n" + " To love that well which thou must leave ere long.\n\n" + "LXXIV.\n\n" + "But be contented: when that fell arrest\n" + "Without all bail shall carry me away,\n" + "My life hath in this line some interest,\n" + "Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.\n" + "When thou reviewest this, thou dost review\n" + "The very part was consecrate to thee:\n" + "The earth can have but earth, which is his due;\n" + "My spirit is thine, the better part of me:\n" + "So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,\n" + "The prey of worms, my body being dead,\n" + "The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,\n" + "Too base of thee to be remembered.\n" + " The worth of that is that which it contains,\n" + " And that is this, and this with thee remains.\n\n" + "LXXV.\n\n" + "So are you to my thoughts as food to life,\n" + "Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;\n" + "And for the peace of you I hold such strife\n" + "As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;\n" + "Now proud as an enjoyer and anon\n" + "Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,\n" + "Now counting best to be with you alone,\n" + "Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;\n" + "Sometime all full with feasting on your sight\n" + "And by and by clean starved for a look;\n" + "Possessing or pursuing no delight,\n" + "Save what is had or must from you be took.\n" + " Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,\n" + " Or gluttoning on all, or all away.\n\n" + "LXXVI.\n\n" + "Why is my verse so barren of new pride,\n" + "So far from variation or quick change?\n" + "Why with the time do I not glance aside\n" + "To new-found methods and to compounds strange?\n" + "Why write I still all one, ever the same,\n" + "And keep invention in a noted weed,\n" + "That every word doth almost tell my name,\n" + "Showing their birth and where they did proceed?\n" + "O, know, sweet love, I always write of you,\n" + "And you and love are still my argument;\n" + "So all my best is dressing old words new,\n" + "Spending again what is already spent:\n" + " For as the sun is daily new and old,\n" + " So is my love still telling what is told.\n\n" + "LXXVII.\n\n" + "Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,\n" + "Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;\n" + "The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,\n" + "And of this book this learning mayst thou taste.\n" + "The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show\n" + "Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;\n" + "Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know\n" + "Time's thievish progress to eternity.\n" + "Look, what thy memory can not contain\n" + "Commit to these waste blanks, and thou shalt find\n" + "Those children nursed, deliver'd from thy brain,\n" + "To take a new acquaintance of thy mind.\n" + " These offices, so oft as thou wilt look,\n" + " Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.\n\n" + "LXXVIII.\n\n" + "So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse\n" + "And found such fair assistance in my verse\n" + "As every alien pen hath got my use\n" + "And under thee their poesy disperse.\n" + "Thine eyes that taught the dumb on high to sing\n" + "And heavy ignorance aloft to fly\n" + "Have added feathers to the learned's wing\n" + "And given grace a double majesty.\n" + "Yet be most proud of that which I compile,\n" + "Whose influence is thine and born of thee:\n" + "In others' works thou dost but mend the style,\n" + "And arts with thy sweet graces graced be;\n" + " But thou art all my art and dost advance\n" + " As high as learning my rude ignorance.\n\n" + "LXXIX.\n\n" + "Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,\n" + "My verse alone had all thy gentle grace,\n" + "But now my gracious numbers are decay'd\n" + "And my sick Muse doth give another place.\n" + "I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument\n" + "Deserves the travail of a worthier pen,\n" + "Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent\n" + "He robs thee of and pays it thee again.\n" + "He lends thee virtue and he stole that word\n" + "From thy behavior; beauty doth he give\n" + "And found it in thy cheek; he can afford\n" + "No praise to thee but what in thee doth live.\n" + " Then thank him not for that which he doth say,\n" + " Since what he owes thee thou thyself dost pay.\n\n" + "LXXX.\n\n" + "O, how I faint when I of you do write,\n" + "Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,\n" + "And in the praise thereof spends all his might,\n" + "To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!\n" + "But since your worth, wide as the ocean is,\n" + "The humble as the proudest sail doth bear,\n" + "My saucy bark inferior far to his\n" + "On your broad main doth wilfully appear.\n" + "Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,\n" + "Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;\n" + "Or being wreck'd, I am a worthless boat,\n" + "He of tall building and of goodly pride:\n" + " Then if he thrive and I be cast away,\n" + " The worst was this; my love was my decay.\n\n" + "LXXXI.\n\n" + "Or I shall live your epitaph to make,\n" + "Or you survive when I in earth am rotten;\n" + "From hence your memory death cannot take,\n" + "Although in me each part will be forgotten.\n" + "Your name from hence immortal life shall have,\n" + "Though I, once gone, to all the world must die:\n" + "The earth can yield me but a common grave,\n" + "When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie.\n" + "Your monument shall be my gentle verse,\n" + "Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read,\n" + "And tongues to be your being shall rehearse\n" + "When all the breathers of this world are dead;\n" + " You still shall live--such virtue hath my pen--\n" + " Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.\n\n" + "LXXXII.\n\n" + "I grant thou wert not married to my Muse\n" + "And therefore mayst without attaint o'erlook\n" + "The dedicated words which writers use\n" + "Of their fair subject, blessing every book\n" + "Thou art as fair in knowledge as in hue,\n" + "Finding thy worth a limit past my praise,\n" + "And therefore art enforced to seek anew\n" + "Some fresher stamp of the time-bettering days\n" + "And do so, love; yet when they have devised\n" + "What strained touches rhetoric can lend,\n" + "Thou truly fair wert truly sympathized\n" + "In true plain words by thy true-telling friend;\n" + " And their gross painting might be better used\n" + " Where cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused.\n\n" + "LXXXIII.\n\n" + "I never saw that you did painting need\n" + "And therefore to your fair no painting set;\n" + "I found, or thought I found, you did exceed\n" + "The barren tender of a poet's debt;\n" + "And therefore have I slept in your report,\n" + "That you yourself being extant well might show\n" + "How far a modern quill doth come too short,\n" + "Speaking of worth, what worth in you doth grow.\n" + "This silence for my sin you did impute,\n" + "Which shall be most my glory, being dumb;\n" + "For I impair not beauty being mute,\n" + "When others would give life and bring a tomb.\n" + " There lives more life in one of your fair eyes\n" + " Than both your poets can in praise devise.\n\n" + "LXXXIV.\n\n" + "Who is it that says most? which can say more\n" + "Than this rich praise, that you alone are you?\n" + "In whose confine immured is the store\n" + "Which should example where your equal grew.\n" + "Lean penury within that pen doth dwell\n" + "That to his subject lends not some small glory;\n" + "But he that writes of you, if he can tell\n" + "That you are you, so dignifies his story,\n" + "Let him but copy what in you is writ,\n" + "Not making worse what nature made so clear,\n" + "And such a counterpart shall fame his wit,\n" + "Making his style admired every where.\n" + " You to your beauteous blessings add a curse,\n" + " Being fond on praise, which makes your praises worse.\n\n" + "LXXXV.\n\n" + "My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still,\n" + "While comments of your praise, richly compiled,\n" + "Reserve their character with golden quill\n" + "And precious phrase by all the Muses filed.\n" + "I think good thoughts whilst other write good words,\n" + "And like unletter'd clerk still cry 'Amen'\n" + "To every hymn that able spirit affords\n" + "In polish'd form of well-refined pen.\n" + "Hearing you praised, I say ''Tis so, 'tis true,'\n" + "And to the most of praise add something more;\n" + "But that is in my thought, whose love to you,\n" + "Though words come hindmost, holds his rank before.\n" + " Then others for the breath of words respect,\n" + " Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.\n\n" + "LXXXVI.\n\n" + "Was it the proud full sail of his great verse,\n" + "Bound for the prize of all too precious you,\n" + "That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inhearse,\n" + "Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew?\n" + "Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write\n" + "Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?\n" + "No, neither he, nor his compeers by night\n" + "Giving him aid, my verse astonished.\n" + "He, nor that affable familiar ghost\n" + "Which nightly gulls him with intelligence\n" + "As victors of my silence cannot boast;\n" + "I was not sick of any fear from thence:\n" + " But when your countenance fill'd up his line,\n" + " Then lack'd I matter; that enfeebled mine.\n\n" + "LXXXVII.\n\n" + "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing,\n" + "And like enough thou know'st thy estimate:\n" + "The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing;\n" + "My bonds in thee are all determinate.\n" + "For how do I hold thee but by thy granting?\n" + "And for that riches where is my deserving?\n" + "The cause of this fair gift in me is wanting,\n" + "And so my patent back again is swerving.\n" + "Thyself thou gavest, thy own worth then not knowing,\n" + "Or me, to whom thou gavest it, else mistaking;\n" + "So thy great gift, upon misprision growing,\n" + "Comes home again, on better judgment making.\n" + " Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter,\n" + " In sleep a king, but waking no such matter.\n\n" + "LXXXVIII.\n\n" + "When thou shalt be disposed to set me light,\n" + "And place my merit in the eye of scorn,\n" + "Upon thy side against myself I'll fight,\n" + "And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.\n" + "With mine own weakness being best acquainted,\n" + "Upon thy part I can set down a story\n" + "Of faults conceal'd, wherein I am attainted,\n" + "That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:\n" + "And I by this will be a gainer too;\n" + "For bending all my loving thoughts on thee,\n" + "The injuries that to myself I do,\n" + "Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me.\n" + " Such is my love, to thee I so belong,\n" + " That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.\n\n" + "LXXXIX.\n\n" + "Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,\n" + "And I will comment upon that offence;\n" + "Speak of my lameness, and I straight will halt,\n" + "Against thy reasons making no defence.\n" + "Thou canst not, love, disgrace me half so ill,\n" + "To set a form upon desired change,\n" + "As I'll myself disgrace: knowing thy will,\n" + "I will acquaintance strangle and look strange,\n" + "Be absent from thy walks, and in my tongue\n" + "Thy sweet beloved name no more shall dwell,\n" + "Lest I, too much profane, should do it wrong\n" + "And haply of our old acquaintance tell.\n" + " For thee against myself I'll vow debate,\n" + " For I must ne'er love him whom thou dost hate.\n\n" + "XC.\n\n" + "Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now;\n" + "Now, while the world is bent my deeds to cross,\n" + "Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow,\n" + "And do not drop in for an after-loss:\n" + "Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped this sorrow,\n" + "Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;\n" + "Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,\n" + "To linger out a purposed overthrow.\n" + "If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,\n" + "When other petty griefs have done their spite\n" + "But in the onset come; so shall I taste\n" + "At first the very worst of fortune's might,\n" + " And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,\n" + " Compared with loss of thee will not seem so.\n\n" + "XCI.\n\n" + "Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,\n" + "Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force,\n" + "Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill,\n" + "Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;\n" + "And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,\n" + "Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:\n" + "But these particulars are not my measure;\n" + "All these I better in one general best.\n" + "Thy love is better than high birth to me,\n" + "Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost,\n" + "Of more delight than hawks or horses be;\n" + "And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:\n" + " Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take\n" + " All this away and me most wretched make.\n\n" + "XCII.\n\n" + "But do thy worst to steal thyself away,\n" + "For term of life thou art assured mine,\n" + "And life no longer than thy love will stay,\n" + "For it depends upon that love of thine.\n" + "Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,\n" + "When in the least of them my life hath end.\n" + "I see a better state to me belongs\n" + "Than that which on thy humour doth depend;\n" + "Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,\n" + "Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie.\n" + "O, what a happy title do I find,\n" + "Happy to have thy love, happy to die!\n" + " But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot?\n" + " Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not.\n\n" + "XCIII.\n\n" + "So shall I live, supposing thou art true,\n" + "Like a deceived husband; so love's face\n" + "May still seem love to me, though alter'd new;\n" + "Thy looks with me, thy heart in other place:\n" + "For there can live no hatred in thine eye,\n" + "Therefore in that I cannot know thy change.\n" + "In many's looks the false heart's history\n" + "Is writ in moods and frowns and wrinkles strange,\n" + "But heaven in thy creation did decree\n" + "That in thy face sweet love should ever dwell;\n" + "Whate'er thy thoughts or thy heart's workings be,\n" + "Thy looks should nothing thence but sweetness tell.\n" + " How like Eve's apple doth thy beauty grow,\n" + " if thy sweet virtue answer not thy show!\n\n" + "XCIV.\n\n" + "They that have power to hurt and will do none,\n" + "That do not do the thing they most do show,\n" + "Who, moving others, are themselves as stone,\n" + "Unmoved, cold, and to temptation slow,\n" + "They rightly do inherit heaven's graces\n" + "And husband nature's riches from expense;\n" + "They are the lords and owners of their faces,\n" + "Others but stewards of their excellence.\n" + "The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,\n" + "Though to itself it only live and die,\n" + "But if that flower with base infection meet,\n" + "The basest weed outbraves his dignity:\n" + " For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;\n" + " Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.\n\n" + "XCV.\n\n" + "How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame\n" + "Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,\n" + "Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!\n" + "O, in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose!\n" + "That tongue that tells the story of thy days,\n" + "Making lascivious comments on thy sport,\n" + "Cannot dispraise but in a kind of praise;\n" + "Naming thy name blesses an ill report.\n" + "O, what a mansion have those vices got\n" + "Which for their habitation chose out thee,\n" + "Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot,\n" + "And all things turn to fair that eyes can see!\n" + " Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege;\n" + " The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.\n\n" + "XCVI.\n\n" + "Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;\n" + "Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;\n" + "Both grace and faults are loved of more and less;\n" + "Thou makest faults graces that to thee resort.\n" + "As on the finger of a throned queen\n" + "The basest jewel will be well esteem'd,\n" + "So are those errors that in thee are seen\n" + "To truths translated and for true things deem'd.\n" + "How many lambs might the stem wolf betray,\n" + "If like a lamb he could his looks translate!\n" + "How many gazers mightst thou lead away,\n" + "If thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state!\n" + " But do not so; I love thee in such sort\n" + " As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.\n\n" + "XCVII.\n\n" + "How like a winter hath my absence been\n" + "From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!\n" + "What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!\n" + "What old December's bareness every where!\n" + "And yet this time removed was summer's time,\n" + "The teeming autumn, big with rich increase,\n" + "Bearing the wanton burden of the prime,\n" + "Like widow'd wombs after their lords' decease:\n" + "Yet this abundant issue seem'd to me\n" + "But hope of orphans and unfather'd fruit;\n" + "For summer and his pleasures wait on thee,\n" + "And, thou away, the very birds are mute;\n" + " Or, if they sing, 'tis with so dull a cheer\n" + " That leaves look pale, dreading the winter's near.\n\n" + "XCVIII.\n\n" + "From you have I been absent in the spring,\n" + "When proud-pied April dress'd in all his trim\n" + "Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing,\n" + "That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.\n" + "Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell\n" + "Of different flowers in odour and in hue\n" + "Could make me any summer's story tell,\n" + "Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew;\n" + "Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,\n" + "Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;\n" + "They were but sweet, but figures of delight,\n" + "Drawn after you, you pattern of all those.\n" + " Yet seem'd it winter still, and, you away,\n" + " As with your shadow I with these did play:\n\n" + "XCIX.\n\n" + "The forward violet thus did I chide:\n" + "Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells,\n" + "If not from my love's breath? The purple pride\n" + "Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells\n" + "In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.\n" + "The lily I condemned for thy hand,\n" + "And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair:\n" + "The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,\n" + "One blushing shame, another white despair;\n" + "A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both\n" + "And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath;\n" + "But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth\n" + "A vengeful canker eat him up to death.\n" + " More flowers I noted, yet I none could see\n" + " But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.\n\n" + "C.\n\n" + "Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long\n" + "To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?\n" + "Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,\n" + "Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?\n" + "Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem\n" + "In gentle numbers time so idly spent;\n" + "Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem\n" + "And gives thy pen both skill and argument.\n" + "Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,\n" + "If Time have any wrinkle graven there;\n" + "If any, be a satire to decay,\n" + "And make Time's spoils despised every where.\n" + " Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;\n" + " So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.\n\n" + "CI.\n\n" + "O truant Muse, what shall be thy amends\n" + "For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed?\n" + "Both truth and beauty on my love depends;\n" + "So dost thou too, and therein dignified.\n" + "Make answer, Muse: wilt thou not haply say\n" + "'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fix'd;\n" + "Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay;\n" + "But best is best, if never intermix'd?'\n" + "Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?\n" + "Excuse not silence so; for't lies in thee\n" + "To make him much outlive a gilded tomb,\n" + "And to be praised of ages yet to be.\n" + " Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how\n" + " To make him seem long hence as he shows now.\n\n" + "CII.\n\n" + "My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming;\n" + "I love not less, though less the show appear:\n" + "That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming\n" + "The owner's tongue doth publish every where.\n" + "Our love was new and then but in the spring\n" + "When I was wont to greet it with my lays,\n" + "As Philomel in summer's front doth sing\n" + "And stops her pipe in growth of riper days:\n" + "Not that the summer is less pleasant now\n" + "Than when her mournful hymns did hush the night,\n" + "But that wild music burthens every bough\n" + "And sweets grown common lose their dear delight.\n" + " Therefore like her I sometime hold my tongue,\n" + " Because I would not dull you with my song.\n\n" + "CIII.\n\n" + "Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth,\n" + "That having such a scope to show her pride,\n" + "The argument all bare is of more worth\n" + "Than when it hath my added praise beside!\n" + "O, blame me not, if I no more can write!\n" + "Look in your glass, and there appears a face\n" + "That over-goes my blunt invention quite,\n" + "Dulling my lines and doing me disgrace.\n" + "Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,\n" + "To mar the subject that before was well?\n" + "For to no other pass my verses tend\n" + "Than of your graces and your gifts to tell;\n" + " And more, much more, than in my verse can sit\n" + " Your own glass shows you when you look in it.\n\n" + "CIV.\n\n" + "To me, fair friend, you never can be old,\n" + "For as you were when first your eye I eyed,\n" + "Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold\n" + "Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,\n" + "Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd\n" + "In process of the seasons have I seen,\n" + "Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,\n" + "Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.\n" + "Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,\n" + "Steal from his figure and no pace perceived;\n" + "So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,\n" + "Hath motion and mine eye may be deceived:\n" + " For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred;\n" + " Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.\n\n" + "CV.\n\n" + "Let not my love be call'd idolatry,\n" + "Nor my beloved as an idol show,\n" + "Since all alike my songs and praises be\n" + "To one, of one, still such, and ever so.\n" + "Kind is my love to-day, to-morrow kind,\n" + "Still constant in a wondrous excellence;\n" + "Therefore my verse to constancy confined,\n" + "One thing expressing, leaves out difference.\n" + "'Fair, kind and true' is all my argument,\n" + "'Fair, kind, and true' varying to other words;\n" + "And in this change is my invention spent,\n" + "Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.\n" + " 'Fair, kind, and true,' have often lived alone,\n" + " Which three till now never kept seat in one.\n\n" + "CVI.\n\n" + "When in the chronicle of wasted time\n" + "I see descriptions of the fairest wights,\n" + "And beauty making beautiful old rhyme\n" + "In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,\n" + "Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,\n" + "Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,\n" + "I see their antique pen would have express'd\n" + "Even such a beauty as you master now.\n" + "So all their praises are but prophecies\n" + "Of this our time, all you prefiguring;\n" + "And, for they look'd but with divining eyes,\n" + "They had not skill enough your worth to sing:\n" + " For we, which now behold these present days,\n" + " Had eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.\n\n" + "CVII.\n\n" + "Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul\n" + "Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,\n" + "Can yet the lease of my true love control,\n" + "Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.\n" + "The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured\n" + "And the sad augurs mock their own presage;\n" + "Incertainties now crown themselves assured\n" + "And peace proclaims olives of endless age.\n" + "Now with the drops of this most balmy time\n" + "My love looks fresh, and death to me subscribes,\n" + "Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme,\n" + "While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes:\n" + " And thou in this shalt find thy monument,\n" + " When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.\n\n" + "CVIII.\n\n" + "What's in the brain that ink may character\n" + "Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?\n" + "What's new to speak, what new to register,\n" + "That may express my love or thy dear merit?\n" + "Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,\n" + "I must, each day say o'er the very same,\n" + "Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,\n" + "Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.\n" + "So that eternal love in love's fresh case\n" + "Weighs not the dust and injury of age,\n" + "Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,\n" + "But makes antiquity for aye his page,\n" + " Finding the first conceit of love there bred\n" + " Where time and outward form would show it dead.\n\n" + "CIX.\n\n" + "O, never say that I was false of heart,\n" + "Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify.\n" + "As easy might I from myself depart\n" + "As from my soul, which in thy breast doth lie:\n" + "That is my home of love: if I have ranged,\n" + "Like him that travels I return again,\n" + "Just to the time, not with the time exchanged,\n" + "So that myself bring water for my stain.\n" + "Never believe, though in my nature reign'd\n" + "All frailties that besiege all kinds of blood,\n" + "That it could so preposterously be stain'd,\n" + "To leave for nothing all thy sum of good;\n" + " For nothing this wide universe I call,\n" + " Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all.\n\n" + "CX.\n\n" + "Alas, 'tis true I have gone here and there\n" + "And made myself a motley to the view,\n" + "Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,\n" + "Made old offences of affections new;\n" + "Most true it is that I have look'd on truth\n" + "Askance and strangely: but, by all above,\n" + "These blenches gave my heart another youth,\n" + "And worse essays proved thee my best of love.\n" + "Now all is done, have what shall have no end:\n" + "Mine appetite I never more will grind\n" + "On newer proof, to try an older friend,\n" + "A god in love, to whom I am confined.\n" + " Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best,\n" + " Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.\n\n" + "CXI.\n\n" + "O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide,\n" + "The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,\n" + "That did not better for my life provide\n" + "Than public means which public manners breeds.\n" + "Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,\n" + "And almost thence my nature is subdued\n" + "To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:\n" + "Pity me then and wish I were renew'd;\n" + "Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink\n" + "Potions of eisel 'gainst my strong infection\n" + "No bitterness that I will bitter think,\n" + "Nor double penance, to correct correction.\n" + " Pity me then, dear friend, and I assure ye\n" + " Even that your pity is enough to cure me.\n\n" + "CXII.\n\n" + "Your love and pity doth the impression fill\n" + "Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow;\n" + "For what care I who calls me well or ill,\n" + "So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?\n" + "You are my all the world, and I must strive\n" + "To know my shames and praises from your tongue:\n" + "None else to me, nor I to none alive,\n" + "That my steel'd sense or changes right or wrong.\n" + "In so profound abysm I throw all care\n" + "Of others' voices, that my adder's sense\n" + "To critic and to flatterer stopped are.\n" + "Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:\n" + " You are so strongly in my purpose bred\n" + " That all the world besides methinks are dead.\n\n" + "CXIII.\n\n" + "Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;\n" + "And that which governs me to go about\n" + "Doth part his function and is partly blind,\n" + "Seems seeing, but effectually is out;\n" + "For it no form delivers to the heart\n" + "Of bird of flower, or shape, which it doth latch:\n" + "Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,\n" + "Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch:\n" + "For if it see the rudest or gentlest sight,\n" + "The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,\n" + "The mountain or the sea, the day or night,\n" + "The crow or dove, it shapes them to your feature:\n" + " Incapable of more, replete with you,\n" + " My most true mind thus makes mine eye untrue.\n\n" + "CXIV.\n\n" + "Or whether doth my mind, being crown'd with you,\n" + "Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?\n" + "Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,\n" + "And that your love taught it this alchemy,\n" + "To make of monsters and things indigest\n" + "Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,\n" + "Creating every bad a perfect best,\n" + "As fast as objects to his beams assemble?\n" + "O,'tis the first; 'tis flattery in my seeing,\n" + "And my great mind most kingly drinks it up:\n" + "Mine eye well knows what with his gust is 'greeing,\n" + "And to his palate doth prepare the cup:\n" + " If it be poison'd, 'tis the lesser sin\n" + " That mine eye loves it and doth first begin.\n\n" + "CXV.\n\n" + "Those lines that I before have writ do lie,\n" + "Even those that said I could not love you dearer:\n" + "Yet then my judgment knew no reason why\n" + "My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.\n" + "But reckoning time, whose million'd accidents\n" + "Creep in 'twixt vows and change decrees of kings,\n" + "Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,\n" + "Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;\n" + "Alas, why, fearing of time's tyranny,\n" + "Might I not then say 'Now I love you best,'\n" + "When I was certain o'er incertainty,\n" + "Crowning the present, doubting of the rest?\n" + " Love is a babe; then might I not say so,\n" + " To give full growth to that which still doth grow?\n\n" + "CXVI.\n\n" + "Let me not to the marriage of true minds\n" + "Admit impediments. Love is not love\n" + "Which alters when it alteration finds,\n" + "Or bends with the remover to remove:\n" + "O no! it is an ever-fixed mark\n" + "That looks on tempests and is never shaken;\n" + "It is the star to every wandering bark,\n" + "Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.\n" + "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks\n" + "Within his bending sickle's compass come:\n" + "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,\n" + "But bears it out even to the edge of doom.\n" + " If this be error and upon me proved,\n" + " I never writ, nor no man ever loved.\n\n" + "CXVII.\n\n" + "Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all\n" + "Wherein I should your great deserts repay,\n" + "Forgot upon your dearest love to call,\n" + "Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;\n" + "That I have frequent been with unknown minds\n" + "And given to time your own dear-purchased right\n" + "That I have hoisted sail to all the winds\n" + "Which should transport me farthest from your sight.\n" + "Book both my wilfulness and errors down\n" + "And on just proof surmise accumulate;\n" + "Bring me within the level of your frown,\n" + "But shoot not at me in your waken'd hate;\n" + " Since my appeal says I did strive to prove\n" + " The constancy and virtue of your love.\n\n" + "CXVIII.\n\n" + "Like as, to make our appetites more keen,\n" + "With eager compounds we our palate urge,\n" + "As, to prevent our maladies unseen,\n" + "We sicken to shun sickness when we purge,\n" + "Even so, being tuff of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,\n" + "To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding\n" + "And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness\n" + "To be diseased ere that there was true needing.\n" + "Thus policy in love, to anticipate\n" + "The ills that were not, grew to faults assured\n" + "And brought to medicine a healthful state\n" + "Which, rank of goodness, would by ill be cured:\n" + " But thence I learn, and find the lesson true,\n" + " Drugs poison him that so fell sick of you.\n\n" + "CXIX.\n\n" + "What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,\n" + "Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,\n" + "Applying fears to hopes and hopes to fears,\n" + "Still losing when I saw myself to win!\n" + "What wretched errors hath my heart committed,\n" + "Whilst it hath thought itself so blessed never!\n" + "How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted\n" + "In the distraction of this madding fever!\n" + "O benefit of ill! now I find true\n" + "That better is by evil still made better;\n" + "And ruin'd love, when it is built anew,\n" + "Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.\n" + " So I return rebuked to my content\n" + " And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.\n\n" + "CXX.\n\n" + "That you were once unkind befriends me now,\n" + "And for that sorrow which I then did feel\n" + "Needs must I under my transgression bow,\n" + "Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.\n" + "For if you were by my unkindness shaken\n" + "As I by yours, you've pass'd a hell of time,\n" + "And I, a tyrant, have no leisure taken\n" + "To weigh how once I suffered in your crime.\n" + "O, that our night of woe might have remember'd\n" + "My deepest sense, how hard true sorrow hits,\n" + "And soon to you, as you to me, then tender'd\n" + "The humble slave which wounded bosoms fits!\n" + " But that your trespass now becomes a fee;\n" + " Mine ransoms yours, and yours must ransom me.\n\n" + "CXXI.\n\n" + "'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,\n" + "When not to be receives reproach of being,\n" + "And the just pleasure lost which is so deem'd\n" + "Not by our feeling but by others' seeing:\n" + "For why should others false adulterate eyes\n" + "Give salutation to my sportive blood?\n" + "Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,\n" + "Which in their wills count bad what I think good?\n" + "No, I am that I am, and they that level\n" + "At my abuses reckon up their own:\n" + "I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel;\n" + "By their rank thoughts my deeds must not be shown;\n" + " Unless this general evil they maintain,\n" + " All men are bad, and in their badness reign.\n\n" + "CXXII.\n\n" + "Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain\n" + "Full character'd with lasting memory,\n" + "Which shall above that idle rank remain\n" + "Beyond all date, even to eternity;\n" + "Or at the least, so long as brain and heart\n" + "Have faculty by nature to subsist;\n" + "Till each to razed oblivion yield his part\n" + "Of thee, thy record never can be miss'd.\n" + "That poor retention could not so much hold,\n" + "Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;\n" + "Therefore to give them from me was I bold,\n" + "To trust those tables that receive thee more:\n" + " To keep an adjunct to remember thee\n" + " Were to import forgetfulness in me.\n\n" + "CXXIII.\n\n" + "No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:\n" + "Thy pyramids built up with newer might\n" + "To me are nothing novel, nothing strange;\n" + "They are but dressings of a former sight.\n" + "Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire\n" + "What thou dost foist upon us that is old,\n" + "And rather make them born to our desire\n" + "Than think that we before have heard them told.\n" + "Thy registers and thee I both defy,\n" + "Not wondering at the present nor the past,\n" + "For thy records and what we see doth lie,\n" + "Made more or less by thy continual haste.\n" + " This I do vow and this shall ever be;\n" + " I will be true, despite thy scythe and thee.\n\n" + "CXXIV.\n\n" + "If my dear love were but the child of state,\n" + "It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd'\n" + "As subject to Time's love or to Time's hate,\n" + "Weeds among weeds, or flowers with flowers gather'd.\n" + "No, it was builded far from accident;\n" + "It suffers not in smiling pomp, nor falls\n" + "Under the blow of thralled discontent,\n" + "Whereto the inviting time our fashion calls:\n" + "It fears not policy, that heretic,\n" + "Which works on leases of short-number'd hours,\n" + "But all alone stands hugely politic,\n" + "That it nor grows with heat nor drowns with showers.\n" + " To this I witness call the fools of time,\n" + " Which die for goodness, who have lived for crime.\n\n" + "CXXV.\n\n" + "Were 't aught to me I bore the canopy,\n" + "With my extern the outward honouring,\n" + "Or laid great bases for eternity,\n" + "Which prove more short than waste or ruining?\n" + "Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour\n" + "Lose all, and more, by paying too much rent,\n" + "For compound sweet forgoing simple savour,\n" + "Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?\n" + "No, let me be obsequious in thy heart,\n" + "And take thou my oblation, poor but free,\n" + "Which is not mix'd with seconds, knows no art,\n" + "But mutual render, only me for thee.\n" + " Hence, thou suborn'd informer! a true soul\n" + " When most impeach'd stands least in thy control.\n\n" + "CXXVI.\n\n" + "O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power\n" + "Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;\n" + "Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st\n" + "Thy lovers withering as thy sweet self grow'st;\n" + "If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,\n" + "As thou goest onwards, still will pluck thee back,\n" + "She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill\n" + "May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.\n" + "Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!\n" + "She may detain, but not still keep, her treasure:\n" + " Her audit, though delay'd, answer'd must be,\n" + " And her quietus is to render thee.\n\n" + "CXXVII.\n\n" + "In the old age black was not counted fair,\n" + "Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;\n" + "But now is black beauty's successive heir,\n" + "And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:\n" + "For since each hand hath put on nature's power,\n" + "Fairing the foul with art's false borrow'd face,\n" + "Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,\n" + "But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.\n" + "Therefore my mistress' brows are raven black,\n" + "Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem\n" + "At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,\n" + "Slandering creation with a false esteem:\n" + " Yet so they mourn, becoming of their woe,\n" + " That every tongue says beauty should look so.\n\n" + "CXXVIII.\n\n" + "How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st,\n" + "Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds\n" + "With thy sweet fingers, when thou gently sway'st\n" + "The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,\n" + "Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap\n" + "To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,\n" + "Whilst my poor lips, which should that harvest reap,\n" + "At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!\n" + "To be so tickled, they would change their state\n" + "And situation with those dancing chips,\n" + "O'er whom thy fingers walk with gentle gait,\n" + "Making dead wood more blest than living lips.\n" + " Since saucy jacks so happy are in this,\n" + " Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss.\n\n" + "CXXIX.\n\n" + "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame\n" + "Is lust in action; and till action, lust\n" + "Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,\n" + "Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,\n" + "Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,\n" + "Past reason hunted, and no sooner had\n" + "Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait\n" + "On purpose laid to make the taker mad;\n" + "Mad in pursuit and in possession so;\n" + "Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;\n" + "A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;\n" + "Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.\n" + " All this the world well knows; yet none knows well\n" + " To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.\n\n" + "CXXX.\n\n" + "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;\n" + "Coral is far more red than her lips' red;\n" + "If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;\n" + "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.\n" + "I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,\n" + "But no such roses see I in her cheeks;\n" + "And in some perfumes is there more delight\n" + "Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.\n" + "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know\n" + "That music hath a far more pleasing sound;\n" + "I grant I never saw a goddess go;\n" + "My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:\n" + " And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare\n" + " As any she belied with false compare.\n\n" + "CXXXI.\n\n" + "Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art,\n" + "As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel;\n" + "For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart\n" + "Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel.\n" + "Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold\n" + "Thy face hath not the power to make love groan:\n" + "To say they err I dare not be so bold,\n" + "Although I swear it to myself alone.\n" + "And, to be sure that is not false I swear,\n" + "A thousand groans, but thinking on thy face,\n" + "One on another's neck, do witness bear\n" + "Thy black is fairest in my judgment's place.\n" + " In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds,\n" + " And thence this slander, as I think, proceeds.\n\n" + "CXXXII.\n\n" + "Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,\n" + "Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,\n" + "Have put on black and loving mourners be,\n" + "Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.\n" + "And truly not the morning sun of heaven\n" + "Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,\n" + "Nor that full star that ushers in the even\n" + "Doth half that glory to the sober west,\n" + "As those two mourning eyes become thy face:\n" + "O, let it then as well beseem thy heart\n" + "To mourn for me, since mourning doth thee grace,\n" + "And suit thy pity like in every part.\n" + " Then will I swear beauty herself is black\n" + " And all they foul that thy complexion lack.\n\n" + "CXXXIII.\n\n" + "Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan\n" + "For that deep wound it gives my friend and me!\n" + "Is't not enough to torture me alone,\n" + "But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?\n" + "Me from myself thy cruel eye hath taken,\n" + "And my next self thou harder hast engross'd:\n" + "Of him, myself, and thee, I am forsaken;\n" + "A torment thrice threefold thus to be cross'd.\n" + "Prison my heart in thy steel bosom's ward,\n" + "But then my friend's heart let my poor heart bail;\n" + "Whoe'er keeps me, let my heart be his guard;\n" + "Thou canst not then use rigor in my gaol:\n" + " And yet thou wilt; for I, being pent in thee,\n" + " Perforce am thine, and all that is in me.\n\n" + "CXXXIV.\n\n" + "So, now I have confess'd that he is thine,\n" + "And I myself am mortgaged to thy will,\n" + "Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine\n" + "Thou wilt restore, to be my comfort still:\n" + "But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,\n" + "For thou art covetous and he is kind;\n" + "He learn'd but surety-like to write for me\n" + "Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.\n" + "The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,\n" + "Thou usurer, that put'st forth all to use,\n" + "And sue a friend came debtor for my sake;\n" + "So him I lose through my unkind abuse.\n" + " Him have I lost; thou hast both him and me:\n" + " He pays the whole, and yet am I not free.\n\n" + "CXXXV.\n\n" + "Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy 'Will,'\n" + "And 'Will' to boot, and 'Will' in overplus;\n" + "More than enough am I that vex thee still,\n" + "To thy sweet will making addition thus.\n" + "Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious,\n" + "Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?\n" + "Shall will in others seem right gracious,\n" + "And in my will no fair acceptance shine?\n" + "The sea all water, yet receives rain still\n" + "And in abundance addeth to his store;\n" + "So thou, being rich in 'Will,' add to thy 'Will'\n" + "One will of mine, to make thy large 'Will' more.\n" + " Let no unkind, no fair beseechers kill;\n" + " Think all but one, and me in that one 'Will.'\n\n" + "CXXXVI.\n\n" + "If thy soul cheque thee that I come so near,\n" + "Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy 'Will,'\n" + "And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;\n" + "Thus far for love my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.\n" + "'Will' will fulfil the treasure of thy love,\n" + "Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.\n" + "In things of great receipt with ease we prove\n" + "Among a number one is reckon'd none:\n" + "Then in the number let me pass untold,\n" + "Though in thy stores' account I one must be;\n" + "For nothing hold me, so it please thee hold\n" + "That nothing me, a something sweet to thee:\n" + " Make but my name thy love, and love that still,\n" + " And then thou lovest me, for my name is 'Will.'\n\n" + "CXXXVII.\n\n" + "Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,\n" + "That they behold, and see not what they see?\n" + "They know what beauty is, see where it lies,\n" + "Yet what the best is take the worst to be.\n" + "If eyes corrupt by over-partial looks\n" + "Be anchor'd in the bay where all men ride,\n" + "Why of eyes' falsehood hast thou forged hooks,\n" + "Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?\n" + "Why should my heart think that a several plot\n" + "Which my heart knows the wide world's common place?\n" + "Or mine eyes seeing this, say this is not,\n" + "To put fair truth upon so foul a face?\n" + " In things right true my heart and eyes have erred,\n" + " And to this false plague are they now transferr'd.\n\n" + "CXXXVIII.\n\n" + "When my love swears that she is made of truth\n" + "I do believe her, though I know she lies,\n" + "That she might think me some untutor'd youth,\n" + "Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.\n" + "Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,\n" + "Although she knows my days are past the best,\n" + "Simply I credit her false speaking tongue:\n" + "On both sides thus is simple truth suppress'd.\n" + "But wherefore says she not she is unjust?\n" + "And wherefore say not I that I am old?\n" + "O, love's best habit is in seeming trust,\n" + "And age in love loves not to have years told:\n" + " Therefore I lie with her and she with me,\n" + " And in our faults by lies we flatter'd be.\n\n" + "CXXXIX.\n\n" + "O, call not me to justify the wrong\n" + "That thy unkindness lays upon my heart;\n" + "Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue;\n" + "Use power with power and slay me not by art.\n" + "Tell me thou lovest elsewhere, but in my sight,\n" + "Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside:\n" + "What need'st thou wound with cunning when thy might\n" + "Is more than my o'er-press'd defense can bide?\n" + "Let me excuse thee: ah! my love well knows\n" + "Her pretty looks have been mine enemies,\n" + "And therefore from my face she turns my foes,\n" + "That they elsewhere might dart their injuries:\n" + " Yet do not so; but since I am near slain,\n" + " Kill me outright with looks and rid my pain.\n\n" + "CXL.\n\n" + "Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press\n" + "My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain;\n" + "Lest sorrow lend me words and words express\n" + "The manner of my pity-wanting pain.\n" + "If I might teach thee wit, better it were,\n" + "Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so;\n" + "As testy sick men, when their deaths be near,\n" + "No news but health from their physicians know;\n" + "For if I should despair, I should grow mad,\n" + "And in my madness might speak ill of thee:\n" + "Now this ill-wresting world is grown so bad,\n" + "Mad slanderers by mad ears believed be,\n" + " That I may not be so, nor thou belied,\n" + " Bear thine eyes straight, though thy proud heart go wide.\n\n" + "CXLI.\n\n" + "In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,\n" + "For they in thee a thousand errors note;\n" + "But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,\n" + "Who in despite of view is pleased to dote;\n" + "Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted,\n" + "Nor tender feeling, to base touches prone,\n" + "Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invited\n" + "To any sensual feast with thee alone:\n" + "But my five wits nor my five senses can\n" + "Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,\n" + "Who leaves unsway'd the likeness of a man,\n" + "Thy proud hearts slave and vassal wretch to be:\n" + " Only my plague thus far I count my gain,\n" + " That she that makes me sin awards me pain.\n\n" + "CXLII.\n\n" + "Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,\n" + "Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:\n" + "O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,\n" + "And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;\n" + "Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,\n" + "That have profaned their scarlet ornaments\n" + "And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,\n" + "Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.\n" + "Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those\n" + "Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:\n" + "Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows\n" + "Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.\n" + " If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,\n" + " By self-example mayst thou be denied!\n\n" + "CXLIII.\n\n" + "Lo! as a careful housewife runs to catch\n" + "One of her feather'd creatures broke away,\n" + "Sets down her babe and makes an swift dispatch\n" + "In pursuit of the thing she would have stay,\n" + "Whilst her neglected child holds her in chase,\n" + "Cries to catch her whose busy care is bent\n" + "To follow that which flies before her face,\n" + "Not prizing her poor infant's discontent;\n" + "So runn'st thou after that which flies from thee,\n" + "Whilst I thy babe chase thee afar behind;\n" + "But if thou catch thy hope, turn back to me,\n" + "And play the mother's part, kiss me, be kind:\n" + " So will I pray that thou mayst have thy 'Will,'\n" + " If thou turn back, and my loud crying still.\n\n" + "CXLIV.\n\n" + "Two loves I have of comfort and despair,\n" + "Which like two spirits do suggest me still:\n" + "The better angel is a man right fair,\n" + "The worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.\n" + "To win me soon to hell, my female evil\n" + "Tempteth my better angel from my side,\n" + "And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,\n" + "Wooing his purity with her foul pride.\n" + "And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend\n" + "Suspect I may, but not directly tell;\n" + "But being both from me, both to each friend,\n" + "I guess one angel in another's hell:\n" + " Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,\n" + " Till my bad angel fire my good one out.\n\n" + "CXLV.\n\n" + "Those lips that Love's own hand did make\n" + "Breathed forth the sound that said 'I hate'\n" + "To me that languish'd for her sake;\n" + "But when she saw my woeful state,\n" + "Straight in her heart did mercy come,\n" + "Chiding that tongue that ever sweet\n" + "Was used in giving gentle doom,\n" + "And taught it thus anew to greet:\n" + "'I hate' she alter'd with an end,\n" + "That follow'd it as gentle day\n" + "Doth follow night, who like a fiend\n" + "From heaven to hell is flown away;\n" + " 'I hate' from hate away she threw,\n" + " And saved my life, saying 'not you.'\n\n" + "CXLVI.\n\n" + "Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,\n" + "[ ] these rebel powers that thee array;\n" + "Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,\n" + "Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?\n" + "Why so large cost, having so short a lease,\n" + "Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?\n" + "Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,\n" + "Eat up thy charge? is this thy body's end?\n" + "Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,\n" + "And let that pine to aggravate thy store;\n" + "Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;\n" + "Within be fed, without be rich no more:\n" + " So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men,\n" + " And Death once dead, there's no more dying then.\n\n" + "CXLVII.\n\n" + "My love is as a fever, longing still\n" + "For that which longer nurseth the disease,\n" + "Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,\n" + "The uncertain sickly appetite to please.\n" + "My reason, the physician to my love,\n" + "Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,\n" + "Hath left me, and I desperate now approve\n" + "Desire is death, which physic did except.\n" + "Past cure I am, now reason is past care,\n" + "And frantic-mad with evermore unrest;\n" + "My thoughts and my discourse as madmen's are,\n" + "At random from the truth vainly express'd;\n" + " For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright,\n" + " Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.\n\n" + "CXLVIII.\n\n" + "O me, what eyes hath Love put in my head,\n" + "Which have no correspondence with true sight!\n" + "Or, if they have, where is my judgment fled,\n" + "That censures falsely what they see aright?\n" + "If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote,\n" + "What means the world to say it is not so?\n" + "If it be not, then love doth well denote\n" + "Love's eye is not so true as all men's 'No.'\n" + "How can it? O, how can Love's eye be true,\n" + "That is so vex'd with watching and with tears?\n" + "No marvel then, though I mistake my view;\n" + "The sun itself sees not till heaven clears.\n" + " O cunning Love! with tears thou keep'st me blind,\n" + " Lest eyes well-seeing thy foul faults should find.\n\n" + "CXLIX.\n\n" + "Canst thou, O cruel! say I love thee not,\n" + "When I against myself with thee partake?\n" + "Do I not think on thee, when I forgot\n" + "Am of myself, all tyrant, for thy sake?\n" + "Who hateth thee that I do call my friend?\n" + "On whom frown'st thou that I do fawn upon?\n" + "Nay, if thou lour'st on me, do I not spend\n" + "Revenge upon myself with present moan?\n" + "What merit do I in myself respect,\n" + "That is so proud thy service to despise,\n" + "When all my best doth worship thy defect,\n" + "Commanded by the motion of thine eyes?\n" + " But, love, hate on, for now I know thy mind;\n" + " Those that can see thou lovest, and I am blind.\n\n" + "CL.\n\n" + "O, from what power hast thou this powerful might\n" + "With insufficiency my heart to sway?\n" + "To make me give the lie to my true sight,\n" + "And swear that brightness doth not grace the day?\n" + "Whence hast thou this becoming of things ill,\n" + "That in the very refuse of thy deeds\n" + "There is such strength and warrantize of skill\n" + "That, in my mind, thy worst all best exceeds?\n" + "Who taught thee how to make me love thee more\n" + "The more I hear and see just cause of hate?\n" + "O, though I love what others do abhor,\n" + "With others thou shouldst not abhor my state:\n" + " If thy unworthiness raised love in me,\n" + " More worthy I to be beloved of thee.\n\n" + "CLI.\n\n" + "Love is too young to know what conscience is;\n" + "Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?\n" + "Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,\n" + "Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove:\n" + "For, thou betraying me, I do betray\n" + "My nobler part to my gross body's treason;\n" + "My soul doth tell my body that he may\n" + "Triumph in love; flesh stays no father reason;\n" + "But, rising at thy name, doth point out thee\n" + "As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,\n" + "He is contented thy poor drudge to be,\n" + "To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.\n" + " No want of conscience hold it that I call\n" + " Her 'love' for whose dear love I rise and fall.\n\n" + "CLII.\n\n" + "In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,\n" + "But thou art twice forsworn, to me love swearing,\n" + "In act thy bed-vow broke and new faith torn,\n" + "In vowing new hate after new love bearing.\n" + "But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee,\n" + "When I break twenty? I am perjured most;\n" + "For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee\n" + "And all my honest faith in thee is lost,\n" + "For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,\n" + "Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy,\n" + "And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,\n" + "Or made them swear against the thing they see;\n" + " For I have sworn thee fair; more perjured I,\n" + " To swear against the truth so foul a lie!\n\n" + "CLIII.\n\n" + "Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep:\n" + "A maid of Dian's this advantage found,\n" + "And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep\n" + "In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;\n" + "Which borrow'd from this holy fire of Love\n" + "A dateless lively heat, still to endure,\n" + "And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove\n" + "Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.\n" + "But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,\n" + "The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;\n" + "I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,\n" + "And thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest,\n" + " But found no cure: the bath for my help lies\n" + " Where Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes.\n\n" + "CLIV.\n\n" + "The little Love-god lying once asleep\n" + "Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,\n" + "Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep\n" + "Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand\n" + "The fairest votary took up that fire\n" + "Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;\n" + "And so the general of hot desire\n" + "Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.\n" + "This brand she quenched in a cool well by,\n" + "Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,\n" + "Growing a bath and healthful remedy\n" + "For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,\n" + " Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,\n" + " Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + " A Lord. |\n" + " |\n" + "CHRISTOPHER SLY a tinker. (SLY:) | Persons in\n" + " | the Induction.\n" + " Hostess, Page, Players, |\n" + " Huntsmen, and Servants. |\n" + " (Hostess:)\n" + " (Page:)\n" + " (A Player:)\n" + " (First Huntsman:)\n" + " (Second Huntsman:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (First Servant:)\n" + " (Second Servant:)\n" + " (Third Servant:)\n\n\n" + "BAPTISTA a rich gentleman of Padua.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO an old gentleman of Pisa.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO son to Vincentio, in love with Bianca.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO a gentleman of Verona, a suitor to\n" + " Katharina.\n\n\n" + "GREMIO |\n" + " | suitors to Bianca.\n" + "HORTENSIO |\n\n\n" + "TRANIO |\n" + " | servants to Lucentio.\n" + "BIONDELLO |\n\n\n" + "GRUMIO |\n" + " |\n" + "CURTIS |\n" + " |\n" + "NATHANIEL |\n" + " |\n" + "NICHOLAS | servants to Petruchio.\n" + " |\n" + "JOSEPH |\n" + " |\n" + "PHILIP |\n" + " |\n" + "PETER |\n\n" + " A Pedant.\n\n\n" + "KATHARINA the shrew, |\n" + " | daughters to Baptista.\n" + "BIANCA |\n\n" + " Widow.\n\n" + " Tailor, Haberdasher, and Servants attending\n" + " on Baptista and Petruchio.\n" + " (Tailor:)\n" + " (Haberdasher:)\n" + " (First Servant:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Padua, and Petruchio's country house.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n" + " INDUCTION\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before an alehouse on a heath.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Hostess and SLY]\n\n" + "SLY I'll pheeze you, in faith.\n\n" + "Hostess A pair of stocks, you rogue!\n\n" + "SLY Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no rogues; look in\n" + " the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror.\n" + " Therefore paucas pallabris; let the world slide: sessa!\n\n" + "Hostess You will not pay for the glasses you have burst?\n\n" + "SLY No, not a denier. Go by, Jeronimy: go to thy cold\n" + " bed, and warm thee.\n\n" + "Hostess I know my remedy; I must go fetch the\n" + " third--borough.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SLY Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I'll answer him\n" + " by law: I'll not budge an inch, boy: let him come,\n" + " and kindly.\n\n" + " [Falls asleep]\n\n" + " [Horns winded. Enter a Lord from hunting, with his train]\n\n" + "Lord Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds:\n" + " Brach Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd;\n" + " And couple Clowder with the deep--mouth'd brach.\n" + " Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good\n" + " At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?\n" + " I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.\n\n" + "First Huntsman Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord;\n" + " He cried upon it at the merest loss\n" + " And twice to-day pick'd out the dullest scent:\n" + " Trust me, I take him for the better dog.\n\n" + "Lord Thou art a fool: if Echo were as fleet,\n" + " I would esteem him worth a dozen such.\n" + " But sup them well and look unto them all:\n" + " To-morrow I intend to hunt again.\n\n" + "First Huntsman I will, my lord.\n\n" + "Lord What's here? one dead, or drunk? See, doth he breathe?\n\n" + "Second Huntsman He breathes, my lord. Were he not warm'd with ale,\n" + " This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.\n\n" + "Lord O monstrous beast! how like a swine he lies!\n" + " Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image!\n" + " Sirs, I will practise on this drunken man.\n" + " What think you, if he were convey'd to bed,\n" + " Wrapp'd in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers,\n" + " A most delicious banquet by his bed,\n" + " And brave attendants near him when he wakes,\n" + " Would not the beggar then forget himself?\n\n" + "First Huntsman Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.\n\n" + "Second Huntsman It would seem strange unto him when he waked.\n\n" + "Lord Even as a flattering dream or worthless fancy.\n" + " Then take him up and manage well the jest:\n" + " Carry him gently to my fairest chamber\n" + " And hang it round with all my wanton pictures:\n" + " Balm his foul head in warm distilled waters\n" + " And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet:\n" + " Procure me music ready when he wakes,\n" + " To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound;\n" + " And if he chance to speak, be ready straight\n" + " And with a low submissive reverence\n" + " Say 'What is it your honour will command?'\n" + " Let one attend him with a silver basin\n" + " Full of rose-water and bestrew'd with flowers,\n" + " Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper,\n" + " And say 'Will't please your lordship cool your hands?'\n" + " Some one be ready with a costly suit\n" + " And ask him what apparel he will wear;\n" + " Another tell him of his hounds and horse,\n" + " And that his lady mourns at his disease:\n" + " Persuade him that he hath been lunatic;\n" + " And when he says he is, say that he dreams,\n" + " For he is nothing but a mighty lord.\n" + " This do and do it kindly, gentle sirs:\n" + " It will be pastime passing excellent,\n" + " If it be husbanded with modesty.\n\n" + "First Huntsman My lord, I warrant you we will play our part,\n" + " As he shall think by our true diligence\n" + " He is no less than what we say he is.\n\n" + "Lord Take him up gently and to bed with him;\n" + " And each one to his office when he wakes.\n\n" + " [Some bear out SLY. A trumpet sounds]\n\n" + " Sirrah, go see what trumpet 'tis that sounds:\n\n" + " [Exit Servingman]\n\n" + " Belike, some noble gentleman that means,\n" + " Travelling some journey, to repose him here.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servingman]\n\n" + " How now! who is it?\n\n" + "Servant An't please your honour, players\n" + " That offer service to your lordship.\n\n" + "Lord Bid them come near.\n\n" + " [Enter Players]\n\n" + " Now, fellows, you are welcome.\n\n" + "Players We thank your honour.\n\n" + "Lord Do you intend to stay with me tonight?\n\n" + "A Player So please your lordship to accept our duty.\n\n" + "Lord With all my heart. This fellow I remember,\n" + " Since once he play'd a farmer's eldest son:\n" + " 'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well:\n" + " I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part\n" + " Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd.\n\n" + "A Player I think 'twas Soto that your honour means.\n\n" + "Lord 'Tis very true: thou didst it excellent.\n" + " Well, you are come to me in a happy time;\n" + " The rather for I have some sport in hand\n" + " Wherein your cunning can assist me much.\n" + " There is a lord will hear you play to-night:\n" + " But I am doubtful of your modesties;\n" + " Lest over-eyeing of his odd behavior,--\n" + " For yet his honour never heard a play--\n" + " You break into some merry passion\n" + " And so offend him; for I tell you, sirs,\n" + " If you should smile he grows impatient.\n\n" + "A Player Fear not, my lord: we can contain ourselves,\n" + " Were he the veriest antic in the world.\n\n" + "Lord Go, sirrah, take them to the buttery,\n" + " And give them friendly welcome every one:\n" + " Let them want nothing that my house affords.\n\n" + " [Exit one with the Players]\n\n" + " Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew my page,\n" + " And see him dress'd in all suits like a lady:\n" + " That done, conduct him to the drunkard's chamber;\n" + " And call him 'madam,' do him obeisance.\n" + " Tell him from me, as he will win my love,\n" + " He bear himself with honourable action,\n" + " Such as he hath observed in noble ladies\n" + " Unto their lords, by them accomplished:\n" + " Such duty to the drunkard let him do\n" + " With soft low tongue and lowly courtesy,\n" + " And say 'What is't your honour will command,\n" + " Wherein your lady and your humble wife\n" + " May show her duty and make known her love?'\n" + " And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,\n" + " And with declining head into his bosom,\n" + " Bid him shed tears, as being overjoy'd\n" + " To see her noble lord restored to health,\n" + " Who for this seven years hath esteem'd him\n" + " No better than a poor and loathsome beggar:\n" + " And if the boy have not a woman's gift\n" + " To rain a shower of commanded tears,\n" + " An onion will do well for such a shift,\n" + " Which in a napkin being close convey'd\n" + " Shall in despite enforce a watery eye.\n" + " See this dispatch'd with all the haste thou canst:\n" + " Anon I'll give thee more instructions.\n\n" + " [Exit a Servingman]\n\n" + " I know the boy will well usurp the grace,\n" + " Voice, gait and action of a gentlewoman:\n" + " I long to hear him call the drunkard husband,\n" + " And how my men will stay themselves from laughter\n" + " When they do homage to this simple peasant.\n" + " I'll in to counsel them; haply my presence\n" + " May well abate the over-merry spleen\n" + " Which otherwise would grow into extremes.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n" + " INDUCTION\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A bedchamber in the Lord's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter aloft SLY, with Attendants; some with apparel,\n" + " others with basin and ewer and appurtenances; and Lord]\n\n" + "SLY For God's sake, a pot of small ale.\n\n" + "First Servant Will't please your lordship drink a cup of sack?\n\n" + "Second Servant Will't please your honour taste of these conserves?\n\n" + "Third Servant What raiment will your honour wear to-day?\n\n" + "SLY I am Christophero Sly; call not me 'honour' nor\n" + " 'lordship:' I ne'er drank sack in my life; and if\n" + " you give me any conserves, give me conserves of\n" + " beef: ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear; for I\n" + " have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings\n" + " than legs, nor no more shoes than feet; nay,\n" + " sometimes more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my\n" + " toes look through the over-leather.\n\n" + "Lord Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour!\n" + " O, that a mighty man of such descent,\n" + " Of such possessions and so high esteem,\n" + " Should be infused with so foul a spirit!\n\n" + "SLY What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher\n" + " Sly, old Sly's son of Burtonheath, by birth a\n" + " pedlar, by education a cardmaker, by transmutation a\n" + " bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker?\n" + " Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if\n" + " she know me not: if she say I am not fourteen pence\n" + " on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the\n" + " lyingest knave in Christendom. What! I am not\n" + " bestraught: here's--\n\n" + "Third Servant O, this it is that makes your lady mourn!\n\n" + "Second Servant O, this is it that makes your servants droop!\n\n" + "Lord Hence comes it that your kindred shuns your house,\n" + " As beaten hence by your strange lunacy.\n" + " O noble lord, bethink thee of thy birth,\n" + " Call home thy ancient thoughts from banishment\n" + " And banish hence these abject lowly dreams.\n" + " Look how thy servants do attend on thee,\n" + " Each in his office ready at thy beck.\n" + " Wilt thou have music? hark! Apollo plays,\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + " And twenty caged nightingales do sing:\n" + " Or wilt thou sleep? we'll have thee to a couch\n" + " Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed\n" + " On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis.\n" + " Say thou wilt walk; we will bestrew the ground:\n" + " Or wilt thou ride? thy horses shall be trapp'd,\n" + " Their harness studded all with gold and pearl.\n" + " Dost thou love hawking? thou hast hawks will soar\n" + " Above the morning lark or wilt thou hunt?\n" + " Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them\n" + " And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth.\n\n" + "First Servant Say thou wilt course; thy greyhounds are as swift\n" + " As breathed stags, ay, fleeter than the roe.\n\n" + "Second Servant Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight\n" + " Adonis painted by a running brook,\n" + " And Cytherea all in sedges hid,\n" + " Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,\n" + " Even as the waving sedges play with wind.\n\n" + "Lord We'll show thee Io as she was a maid,\n" + " And how she was beguiled and surprised,\n" + " As lively painted as the deed was done.\n\n" + "Third Servant Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,\n" + " Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds,\n" + " And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep,\n" + " So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.\n\n" + "Lord Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord:\n" + " Thou hast a lady far more beautiful\n" + " Than any woman in this waning age.\n\n" + "First Servant And till the tears that she hath shed for thee\n" + " Like envious floods o'er-run her lovely face,\n" + " She was the fairest creature in the world;\n" + " And yet she is inferior to none.\n\n" + "SLY Am I a lord? and have I such a lady?\n" + " Or do I dream? or have I dream'd till now?\n" + " I do not sleep: I see, I hear, I speak;\n" + " I smell sweet savours and I feel soft things:\n" + " Upon my life, I am a lord indeed\n" + " And not a tinker nor Christophero Sly.\n" + " Well, bring our lady hither to our sight;\n" + " And once again, a pot o' the smallest ale.\n\n" + "Second Servant Will't please your mightiness to wash your hands?\n" + " O, how we joy to see your wit restored!\n" + " O, that once more you knew but what you are!\n" + " These fifteen years you have been in a dream;\n" + " Or when you waked, so waked as if you slept.\n\n" + "SLY These fifteen years! by my fay, a goodly nap.\n" + " But did I never speak of all that time?\n\n" + "First Servant O, yes, my lord, but very idle words:\n" + " For though you lay here in this goodly chamber,\n" + " Yet would you say ye were beaten out of door;\n" + " And rail upon the hostess of the house;\n" + " And say you would present her at the leet,\n" + " Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts:\n" + " Sometimes you would call out for Cicely Hacket.\n\n" + "SLY Ay, the woman's maid of the house.\n\n" + "Third Servant Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,\n" + " Nor no such men as you have reckon'd up,\n" + " As Stephen Sly and did John Naps of Greece\n" + " And Peter Turph and Henry Pimpernell\n" + " And twenty more such names and men as these\n" + " Which never were nor no man ever saw.\n\n" + "SLY Now Lord be thanked for my good amends!\n\n" + "ALL Amen.\n\n" + "SLY I thank thee: thou shalt not lose by it.\n\n" + " [Enter the Page as a lady, with attendants]\n\n" + "Page How fares my noble lord?\n\n" + "SLY Marry, I fare well for here is cheer enough.\n" + " Where is my wife?\n\n" + "Page Here, noble lord: what is thy will with her?\n\n" + "SLY Are you my wife and will not call me husband?\n" + " My men should call me 'lord:' I am your goodman.\n\n" + "Page My husband and my lord, my lord and husband;\n" + " I am your wife in all obedience.\n\n" + "SLY I know it well. What must I call her?\n\n" + "Lord Madam.\n\n" + "SLY Al'ce madam, or Joan madam?\n\n" + "Lord 'Madam,' and nothing else: so lords\n" + " call ladies.\n\n" + "SLY Madam wife, they say that I have dream'd\n" + " And slept above some fifteen year or more.\n\n" + "Page Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me,\n" + " Being all this time abandon'd from your bed.\n\n" + "SLY 'Tis much. Servants, leave me and her alone.\n" + " Madam, undress you and come now to bed.\n\n" + "Page Thrice noble lord, let me entreat of you\n" + " To pardon me yet for a night or two,\n" + " Or, if not so, until the sun be set:\n" + " For your physicians have expressly charged,\n" + " In peril to incur your former malady,\n" + " That I should yet absent me from your bed:\n" + " I hope this reason stands for my excuse.\n\n" + "SLY Ay, it stands so that I may hardly\n" + " tarry so long. But I would be loath to fall into\n" + " my dreams again: I will therefore tarry in\n" + " despite of the flesh and the blood.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "Messenger Your honour's players, heating your amendment,\n" + " Are come to play a pleasant comedy;\n" + " For so your doctors hold it very meet,\n" + " Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd your blood,\n" + " And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy:\n" + " Therefore they thought it good you hear a play\n" + " And frame your mind to mirth and merriment,\n" + " Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.\n\n" + "SLY Marry, I will, let them play it. Is not a\n" + " comondy a Christmas gambold or a tumbling-trick?\n\n" + "Page No, my good lord; it is more pleasing stuff.\n\n" + "SLY What, household stuff?\n\n" + "Page It is a kind of history.\n\n" + "SLY Well, well see't. Come, madam wife, sit by my side\n" + " and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.\n\n" + " [Flourish]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Padua. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Tranio, since for the great desire I had\n" + " To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,\n" + " I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,\n" + " The pleasant garden of great Italy;\n" + " And by my father's love and leave am arm'd\n" + " With his good will and thy good company,\n" + " My trusty servant, well approved in all,\n" + " Here let us breathe and haply institute\n" + " A course of learning and ingenious studies.\n" + " Pisa renown'd for grave citizens\n" + " Gave me my being and my father first,\n" + " A merchant of great traffic through the world,\n" + " Vincetino come of Bentivolii.\n" + " Vincetino's son brought up in Florence\n" + " It shall become to serve all hopes conceived,\n" + " To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds:\n" + " And therefore, Tranio, for the time I study,\n" + " Virtue and that part of philosophy\n" + " Will I apply that treats of happiness\n" + " By virtue specially to be achieved.\n" + " Tell me thy mind; for I have Pisa left\n" + " And am to Padua come, as he that leaves\n" + " A shallow plash to plunge him in the deep\n" + " And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst.\n\n" + "TRANIO Mi perdonato, gentle master mine,\n" + " I am in all affected as yourself;\n" + " Glad that you thus continue your resolve\n" + " To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy.\n" + " Only, good master, while we do admire\n" + " This virtue and this moral discipline,\n" + " Let's be no stoics nor no stocks, I pray;\n" + " Or so devote to Aristotle's cheques\n" + " As Ovid be an outcast quite abjured:\n" + " Balk logic with acquaintance that you have\n" + " And practise rhetoric in your common talk;\n" + " Music and poesy use to quicken you;\n" + " The mathematics and the metaphysics,\n" + " Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you;\n" + " No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en:\n" + " In brief, sir, study what you most affect.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Gramercies, Tranio, well dost thou advise.\n" + " If, Biondello, thou wert come ashore,\n" + " We could at once put us in readiness,\n" + " And take a lodging fit to entertain\n" + " Such friends as time in Padua shall beget.\n" + " But stay a while: what company is this?\n\n" + "TRANIO Master, some show to welcome us to town.\n\n" + " [Enter BAPTISTA, KATHARINA, BIANCA, GREMIO, and\n" + " HORTENSIO. LUCENTIO and TRANIO stand by]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Gentlemen, importune me no farther,\n" + " For how I firmly am resolved you know;\n" + " That is, not bestow my youngest daughter\n" + " Before I have a husband for the elder:\n" + " If either of you both love Katharina,\n" + " Because I know you well and love you well,\n" + " Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.\n\n" + "GREMIO [Aside] To cart her rather: she's too rough for me.\n" + " There, There, Hortensio, will you any wife?\n\n" + "KATHARINA I pray you, sir, is it your will\n" + " To make a stale of me amongst these mates?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Mates, maid! how mean you that? no mates for you,\n" + " Unless you were of gentler, milder mould.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear:\n" + " I wis it is not half way to her heart;\n" + " But if it were, doubt not her care should be\n" + " To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool\n" + " And paint your face and use you like a fool.\n\n" + "HORTENSIA From all such devils, good Lord deliver us!\n\n" + "GREMIO And me too, good Lord!\n\n" + "TRANIO Hush, master! here's some good pastime toward:\n" + " That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO But in the other's silence do I see\n" + " Maid's mild behavior and sobriety.\n" + " Peace, Tranio!\n\n" + "TRANIO Well said, master; mum! and gaze your fill.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Gentlemen, that I may soon make good\n" + " What I have said, Bianca, get you in:\n" + " And let it not displease thee, good Bianca,\n" + " For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl.\n\n" + "KATHARINA A pretty peat! it is best\n" + " Put finger in the eye, an she knew why.\n\n" + "BIANCA Sister, content you in my discontent.\n" + " Sir, to your pleasure humbly I subscribe:\n" + " My books and instruments shall be my company,\n" + " On them to took and practise by myself.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Hark, Tranio! thou may'st hear Minerva speak.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Signior Baptista, will you be so strange?\n" + " Sorry am I that our good will effects\n" + " Bianca's grief.\n\n" + "GREMIO Why will you mew her up,\n" + " Signior Baptista, for this fiend of hell,\n" + " And make her bear the penance of her tongue?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Gentlemen, content ye; I am resolved:\n" + " Go in, Bianca:\n\n" + " [Exit BIANCA]\n\n" + " And for I know she taketh most delight\n" + " In music, instruments and poetry,\n" + " Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,\n" + " Fit to instruct her youth. If you, Hortensio,\n" + " Or Signior Gremio, you, know any such,\n" + " Prefer them hither; for to cunning men\n" + " I will be very kind, and liberal\n" + " To mine own children in good bringing up:\n" + " And so farewell. Katharina, you may stay;\n" + " For I have more to commune with Bianca.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KATHARINA Why, and I trust I may go too, may I not? What,\n" + " shall I be appointed hours; as though, belike, I\n" + " knew not what to take and what to leave, ha?\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GREMIO You may go to the devil's dam: your gifts are so\n" + " good, here's none will hold you. Their love is not\n" + " so great, Hortensio, but we may blow our nails\n" + " together, and fast it fairly out: our cakes dough on\n" + " both sides. Farewell: yet for the love I bear my\n" + " sweet Bianca, if I can by any means light on a fit\n" + " man to teach her that wherein she delights, I will\n" + " wish him to her father.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO So will I, Signior Gremio: but a word, I pray.\n" + " Though the nature of our quarrel yet never brooked\n" + " parle, know now, upon advice, it toucheth us both,\n" + " that we may yet again have access to our fair\n" + " mistress and be happy rivals in Bianco's love, to\n" + " labour and effect one thing specially.\n\n" + "GREMIO What's that, I pray?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Marry, sir, to get a husband for her sister.\n\n" + "GREMIO A husband! a devil.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO I say, a husband.\n\n" + "GREMIO I say, a devil. Thinkest thou, Hortensio, though\n" + " her father be very rich, any man is so very a fool\n" + " to be married to hell?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Tush, Gremio, though it pass your patience and mine\n" + " to endure her loud alarums, why, man, there be good\n" + " fellows in the world, an a man could light on them,\n" + " would take her with all faults, and money enough.\n\n" + "GREMIO I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with\n" + " this condition, to be whipped at the high cross\n" + " every morning.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Faith, as you say, there's small choice in rotten\n" + " apples. But come; since this bar in law makes us\n" + " friends, it shall be so far forth friendly\n" + " maintained all by helping Baptista's eldest daughter\n" + " to a husband we set his youngest free for a husband,\n" + " and then have to't a fresh. Sweet Bianca! Happy man\n" + " be his dole! He that runs fastest gets the ring.\n" + " How say you, Signior Gremio?\n\n" + "GREMIO I am agreed; and would I had given him the best\n" + " horse in Padua to begin his wooing that would\n" + " thoroughly woo her, wed her and bed her and rid the\n" + " house of her! Come on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt GREMIO and HORTENSIO]\n\n" + "TRANIO I pray, sir, tell me, is it possible\n" + " That love should of a sudden take such hold?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO O Tranio, till I found it to be true,\n" + " I never thought it possible or likely;\n" + " But see, while idly I stood looking on,\n" + " I found the effect of love in idleness:\n" + " And now in plainness do confess to thee,\n" + " That art to me as secret and as dear\n" + " As Anna to the queen of Carthage was,\n" + " Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,\n" + " If I achieve not this young modest girl.\n" + " Counsel me, Tranio, for I know thou canst;\n" + " Assist me, Tranio, for I know thou wilt.\n\n" + "TRANIO Master, it is no time to chide you now;\n" + " Affection is not rated from the heart:\n" + " If love have touch'd you, nought remains but so,\n" + " 'Redime te captum quam queas minimo.'\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Gramercies, lad, go forward; this contents:\n" + " The rest will comfort, for thy counsel's sound.\n\n" + "TRANIO Master, you look'd so longly on the maid,\n" + " Perhaps you mark'd not what's the pith of all.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face,\n" + " Such as the daughter of Agenor had,\n" + " That made great Jove to humble him to her hand.\n" + " When with his knees he kiss'd the Cretan strand.\n\n" + "TRANIO Saw you no more? mark'd you not how her sister\n" + " Began to scold and raise up such a storm\n" + " That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move\n" + " And with her breath she did perfume the air:\n" + " Sacred and sweet was all I saw in her.\n\n" + "TRANIO Nay, then, 'tis time to stir him from his trance.\n" + " I pray, awake, sir: if you love the maid,\n" + " Bend thoughts and wits to achieve her. Thus it stands:\n" + " Her eldest sister is so curst and shrewd\n" + " That till the father rid his hands of her,\n" + " Master, your love must live a maid at home;\n" + " And therefore has he closely mew'd her up,\n" + " Because she will not be annoy'd with suitors.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Ah, Tranio, what a cruel father's he!\n" + " But art thou not advised, he took some care\n" + " To get her cunning schoolmasters to instruct her?\n\n" + "TRANIO Ay, marry, am I, sir; and now 'tis plotted.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I have it, Tranio.\n\n" + "TRANIO Master, for my hand,\n" + " Both our inventions meet and jump in one.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Tell me thine first.\n\n" + "TRANIO You will be schoolmaster\n" + " And undertake the teaching of the maid:\n" + " That's your device.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO It is: may it be done?\n\n" + "TRANIO Not possible; for who shall bear your part,\n" + " And be in Padua here Vincentio's son,\n" + " Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends,\n" + " Visit his countrymen and banquet them?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Basta; content thee, for I have it full.\n" + " We have not yet been seen in any house,\n" + " Nor can we lie distinguish'd by our faces\n" + " For man or master; then it follows thus;\n" + " Thou shalt be master, Tranio, in my stead,\n" + " Keep house and port and servants as I should:\n" + " I will some other be, some Florentine,\n" + " Some Neapolitan, or meaner man of Pisa.\n" + " 'Tis hatch'd and shall be so: Tranio, at once\n" + " Uncase thee; take my colour'd hat and cloak:\n" + " When Biondello comes, he waits on thee;\n" + " But I will charm him first to keep his tongue.\n\n" + "TRANIO So had you need.\n" + " In brief, sir, sith it your pleasure is,\n" + " And I am tied to be obedient;\n" + " For so your father charged me at our parting,\n" + " 'Be serviceable to my son,' quoth he,\n" + " Although I think 'twas in another sense;\n" + " I am content to be Lucentio,\n" + " Because so well I love Lucentio.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Tranio, be so, because Lucentio loves:\n" + " And let me be a slave, to achieve that maid\n" + " Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye.\n" + " Here comes the rogue.\n\n" + " [Enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + " Sirrah, where have you been?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Where have I been! Nay, how now! where are you?\n" + " Master, has my fellow Tranio stolen your clothes? Or\n" + " you stolen his? or both? pray, what's the news?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Sirrah, come hither: 'tis no time to jest,\n" + " And therefore frame your manners to the time.\n" + " Your fellow Tranio here, to save my life,\n" + " Puts my apparel and my countenance on,\n" + " And I for my escape have put on his;\n" + " For in a quarrel since I came ashore\n" + " I kill'd a man and fear I was descried:\n" + " Wait you on him, I charge you, as becomes,\n" + " While I make way from hence to save my life:\n" + " You understand me?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO I, sir! ne'er a whit.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO And not a jot of Tranio in your mouth:\n" + " Tranio is changed into Lucentio.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO The better for him: would I were so too!\n\n" + "TRANIO So could I, faith, boy, to have the next wish after,\n" + " That Lucentio indeed had Baptista's youngest daughter.\n" + " But, sirrah, not for my sake, but your master's, I advise\n" + " You use your manners discreetly in all kind of companies:\n" + " When I am alone, why, then I am Tranio;\n" + " But in all places else your master Lucentio.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Tranio, let's go: one thing more rests, that\n" + " thyself execute, to make one among these wooers: if\n" + " thou ask me why, sufficeth, my reasons are both good\n" + " and weighty.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [The presenters above speak]\n\n" + "First Servant My lord, you nod; you do not mind the play.\n\n" + "SLY Yes, by Saint Anne, do I. A good matter, surely:\n" + " comes there any more of it?\n\n" + "Page My lord, 'tis but begun.\n\n" + "SLY 'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady:\n" + " would 'twere done!\n\n" + " [They sit and mark]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Padua. Before HORTENSIO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PETRUCHIO and his man GRUMIO]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Verona, for a while I take my leave,\n" + " To see my friends in Padua, but of all\n" + " My best beloved and approved friend,\n" + " Hortensio; and I trow this is his house.\n" + " Here, sirrah Grumio; knock, I say.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Knock, sir! whom should I knock? is there man has\n" + " rebused your worship?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Villain, I say, knock me here soundly.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Knock you here, sir! why, sir, what am I, sir, that\n" + " I should knock you here, sir?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Villain, I say, knock me at this gate\n" + " And rap me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate.\n\n" + "GRUMIO My master is grown quarrelsome. I should knock\n" + " you first,\n" + " And then I know after who comes by the worst.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Will it not be?\n" + " Faith, sirrah, an you'll not knock, I'll ring it;\n" + " I'll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.\n\n" + " [He wrings him by the ears]\n\n" + "GRUMIO Help, masters, help! my master is mad.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Now, knock when I bid you, sirrah villain!\n\n" + " [Enter HORTENSIO]\n\n" + "HORTENSIO How now! what's the matter? My old friend Grumio!\n" + " and my good friend Petruchio! How do you all at Verona?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Signior Hortensio, come you to part the fray?\n" + " 'Con tutto il cuore, ben trovato,' may I say.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO 'Alla nostra casa ben venuto, molto honorato signor\n" + " mio Petruchio.' Rise, Grumio, rise: we will compound\n" + " this quarrel.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Nay, 'tis no matter, sir, what he 'leges in Latin.\n" + " if this be not a lawful case for me to leave his\n" + " service, look you, sir, he bid me knock him and rap\n" + " him soundly, sir: well, was it fit for a servant to\n" + " use his master so, being perhaps, for aught I see,\n" + " two and thirty, a pip out? Whom would to God I had\n" + " well knock'd at first, Then had not Grumio come by the worst.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A senseless villain! Good Hortensio,\n" + " I bade the rascal knock upon your gate\n" + " And could not get him for my heart to do it.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Knock at the gate! O heavens! Spake you not these\n" + " words plain, 'Sirrah, knock me here, rap me here,\n" + " knock me well, and knock me soundly'? And come you\n" + " now with, 'knocking at the gate'?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Sirrah, be gone, or talk not, I advise you.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Petruchio, patience; I am Grumio's pledge:\n" + " Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you,\n" + " Your ancient, trusty, pleasant servant Grumio.\n" + " And tell me now, sweet friend, what happy gale\n" + " Blows you to Padua here from old Verona?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Such wind as scatters young men through the world,\n" + " To seek their fortunes farther than at home\n" + " Where small experience grows. But in a few,\n" + " Signior Hortensio, thus it stands with me:\n" + " Antonio, my father, is deceased;\n" + " And I have thrust myself into this maze,\n" + " Haply to wive and thrive as best I may:\n" + " Crowns in my purse I have and goods at home,\n" + " And so am come abroad to see the world.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Petruchio, shall I then come roundly to thee\n" + " And wish thee to a shrewd ill-favour'd wife?\n" + " Thou'ldst thank me but a little for my counsel:\n" + " And yet I'll promise thee she shall be rich\n" + " And very rich: but thou'rt too much my friend,\n" + " And I'll not wish thee to her.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we\n" + " Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know\n" + " One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife,\n" + " As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,\n" + " Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,\n" + " As old as Sibyl and as curst and shrewd\n" + " As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse,\n" + " She moves me not, or not removes, at least,\n" + " Affection's edge in me, were she as rough\n" + " As are the swelling Adriatic seas:\n" + " I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;\n" + " If wealthily, then happily in Padua.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his\n" + " mind is: Why give him gold enough and marry him to\n" + " a puppet or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er\n" + " a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases\n" + " as two and fifty horses: why, nothing comes amiss,\n" + " so money comes withal.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in,\n" + " I will continue that I broach'd in jest.\n" + " I can, Petruchio, help thee to a wife\n" + " With wealth enough and young and beauteous,\n" + " Brought up as best becomes a gentlewoman:\n" + " Her only fault, and that is faults enough,\n" + " Is that she is intolerable curst\n" + " And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure\n" + " That, were my state far worser than it is,\n" + " I would not wed her for a mine of gold.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Hortensio, peace! thou know'st not gold's effect:\n" + " Tell me her father's name and 'tis enough;\n" + " For I will board her, though she chide as loud\n" + " As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Her father is Baptista Minola,\n" + " An affable and courteous gentleman:\n" + " Her name is Katharina Minola,\n" + " Renown'd in Padua for her scolding tongue.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I know her father, though I know not her;\n" + " And he knew my deceased father well.\n" + " I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her;\n" + " And therefore let me be thus bold with you\n" + " To give you over at this first encounter,\n" + " Unless you will accompany me thither.\n\n" + "GRUMIO I pray you, sir, let him go while the humour lasts.\n" + " O' my word, an she knew him as well as I do, she\n" + " would think scolding would do little good upon him:\n" + " she may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so:\n" + " why, that's nothing; an he begin once, he'll rail in\n" + " his rope-tricks. I'll tell you what sir, an she\n" + " stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in\n" + " her face and so disfigure her with it that she\n" + " shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat.\n" + " You know him not, sir.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Tarry, Petruchio, I must go with thee,\n" + " For in Baptista's keep my treasure is:\n" + " He hath the jewel of my life in hold,\n" + " His youngest daughter, beautiful Binaca,\n" + " And her withholds from me and other more,\n" + " Suitors to her and rivals in my love,\n" + " Supposing it a thing impossible,\n" + " For those defects I have before rehearsed,\n" + " That ever Katharina will be woo'd;\n" + " Therefore this order hath Baptista ta'en,\n" + " That none shall have access unto Bianca\n" + " Till Katharina the curst have got a husband.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Katharina the curst!\n" + " A title for a maid of all titles the worst.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Now shall my friend Petruchio do me grace,\n" + " And offer me disguised in sober robes\n" + " To old Baptista as a schoolmaster\n" + " Well seen in music, to instruct Bianca;\n" + " That so I may, by this device, at least\n" + " Have leave and leisure to make love to her\n" + " And unsuspected court her by herself.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Here's no knavery! See, to beguile the old folks,\n" + " how the young folks lay their heads together!\n\n" + " [Enter GREMIO, and LUCENTIO disguised]\n\n" + " Master, master, look about you: who goes there, ha?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Peace, Grumio! it is the rival of my love.\n" + " Petruchio, stand by a while.\n\n" + "GRUMIO A proper stripling and an amorous!\n\n" + "GREMIO O, very well; I have perused the note.\n" + " Hark you, sir: I'll have them very fairly bound:\n" + " All books of love, see that at any hand;\n" + " And see you read no other lectures to her:\n" + " You understand me: over and beside\n" + " Signior Baptista's liberality,\n" + " I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too,\n" + " And let me have them very well perfumed\n" + " For she is sweeter than perfume itself\n" + " To whom they go to. What will you read to her?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Whate'er I read to her, I'll plead for you\n" + " As for my patron, stand you so assured,\n" + " As firmly as yourself were still in place:\n" + " Yea, and perhaps with more successful words\n" + " Than you, unless you were a scholar, sir.\n\n" + "GREMIO O this learning, what a thing it is!\n\n" + "GRUMIO O this woodcock, what an ass it is!\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Peace, sirrah!\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Grumio, mum! God save you, Signior Gremio.\n\n" + "GREMIO And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.\n" + " Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola.\n" + " I promised to inquire carefully\n" + " About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca:\n" + " And by good fortune I have lighted well\n" + " On this young man, for learning and behavior\n" + " Fit for her turn, well read in poetry\n" + " And other books, good ones, I warrant ye.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO 'Tis well; and I have met a gentleman\n" + " Hath promised me to help me to another,\n" + " A fine musician to instruct our mistress;\n" + " So shall I no whit be behind in duty\n" + " To fair Bianca, so beloved of me.\n\n" + "GREMIO Beloved of me; and that my deeds shall prove.\n\n" + "GRUMIO And that his bags shall prove.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love:\n" + " Listen to me, and if you speak me fair,\n" + " I'll tell you news indifferent good for either.\n" + " Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met,\n" + " Upon agreement from us to his liking,\n" + " Will undertake to woo curst Katharina,\n" + " Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.\n\n" + "GREMIO So said, so done, is well.\n" + " Hortensio, have you told him all her faults?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I know she is an irksome brawling scold:\n" + " If that be all, masters, I hear no harm.\n\n" + "GREMIO No, say'st me so, friend? What countryman?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Born in Verona, old Antonio's son:\n" + " My father dead, my fortune lives for me;\n" + " And I do hope good days and long to see.\n\n" + "GREMIO O sir, such a life, with such a wife, were strange!\n" + " But if you have a stomach, to't i' God's name:\n" + " You shall have me assisting you in all.\n" + " But will you woo this wild-cat?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Will I live?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Will he woo her? ay, or I'll hang her.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why came I hither but to that intent?\n" + " Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?\n" + " Have I not in my time heard lions roar?\n" + " Have I not heard the sea puff'd up with winds\n" + " Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat?\n" + " Have I not heard great ordnance in the field,\n" + " And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies?\n" + " Have I not in a pitched battle heard\n" + " Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang?\n" + " And do you tell me of a woman's tongue,\n" + " That gives not half so great a blow to hear\n" + " As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire?\n" + " Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.\n\n" + "GRUMIO For he fears none.\n\n" + "GREMIO Hortensio, hark:\n" + " This gentleman is happily arrived,\n" + " My mind presumes, for his own good and ours.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO I promised we would be contributors\n" + " And bear his charging of wooing, whatsoe'er.\n\n" + "GREMIO And so we will, provided that he win her.\n\n" + "GRUMIO I would I were as sure of a good dinner.\n\n" + " [Enter TRANIO brave, and BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "TRANIO Gentlemen, God save you. If I may be bold,\n" + " Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way\n" + " To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO He that has the two fair daughters: is't he you mean?\n\n" + "TRANIO Even he, Biondello.\n\n" + "GREMIO Hark you, sir; you mean not her to--\n\n" + "TRANIO Perhaps, him and her, sir: what have you to do?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray.\n\n" + "TRANIO I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let's away.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Well begun, Tranio.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Sir, a word ere you go;\n" + " Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no?\n\n" + "TRANIO And if I be, sir, is it any offence?\n\n" + "GREMIO No; if without more words you will get you hence.\n\n" + "TRANIO Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free\n" + " For me as for you?\n\n" + "GREMIO But so is not she.\n\n" + "TRANIO For what reason, I beseech you?\n\n" + "GREMIO For this reason, if you'll know,\n" + " That she's the choice love of Signior Gremio.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio.\n\n" + "TRANIO Softly, my masters! if you be gentlemen,\n" + " Do me this right; hear me with patience.\n" + " Baptista is a noble gentleman,\n" + " To whom my father is not all unknown;\n" + " And were his daughter fairer than she is,\n" + " She may more suitors have and me for one.\n" + " Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers;\n" + " Then well one more may fair Bianca have:\n" + " And so she shall; Lucentio shall make one,\n" + " Though Paris came in hope to speed alone.\n\n" + "GREMIO What! this gentleman will out-talk us all.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Sir, give him head: I know he'll prove a jade.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Hortensio, to what end are all these words?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Sir, let me be so bold as ask you,\n" + " Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter?\n\n" + "TRANIO No, sir; but hear I do that he hath two,\n" + " The one as famous for a scolding tongue\n" + " As is the other for beauteous modesty.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Sir, sir, the first's for me; let her go by.\n\n" + "GREMIO Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules;\n" + " And let it be more than Alcides' twelve.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Sir, understand you this of me in sooth:\n" + " The youngest daughter whom you hearken for\n" + " Her father keeps from all access of suitors,\n" + " And will not promise her to any man\n" + " Until the elder sister first be wed:\n" + " The younger then is free and not before.\n\n" + "TRANIO If it be so, sir, that you are the man\n" + " Must stead us all and me amongst the rest,\n" + " And if you break the ice and do this feat,\n" + " Achieve the elder, set the younger free\n" + " For our access, whose hap shall be to have her\n" + " Will not so graceless be to be ingrate.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Sir, you say well and well you do conceive;\n" + " And since you do profess to be a suitor,\n" + " You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman,\n" + " To whom we all rest generally beholding.\n\n" + "TRANIO Sir, I shall not be slack: in sign whereof,\n" + " Please ye we may contrive this afternoon,\n" + " And quaff carouses to our mistress' health,\n" + " And do as adversaries do in law,\n" + " Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.\n\n\n" + "GRUMIO |\n" + " | O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone.\n" + "BIONDELLO |\n\n\n" + "HORTENSIO The motion's good indeed and be it so,\n" + " Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Padua. A room in BAPTISTA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KATHARINA and BIANCA]\n\n" + "BIANCA Good sister, wrong me not, nor wrong yourself,\n" + " To make a bondmaid and a slave of me;\n" + " That I disdain: but for these other gawds,\n" + " Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself,\n" + " Yea, all my raiment, to my petticoat;\n" + " Or what you will command me will I do,\n" + " So well I know my duty to my elders.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Of all thy suitors, here I charge thee, tell\n" + " Whom thou lovest best: see thou dissemble not.\n\n" + "BIANCA Believe me, sister, of all the men alive\n" + " I never yet beheld that special face\n" + " Which I could fancy more than any other.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Minion, thou liest. Is't not Hortensio?\n\n" + "BIANCA If you affect him, sister, here I swear\n" + " I'll plead for you myself, but you shall have\n" + " him.\n\n" + "KATHARINA O then, belike, you fancy riches more:\n" + " You will have Gremio to keep you fair.\n\n" + "BIANCA Is it for him you do envy me so?\n" + " Nay then you jest, and now I well perceive\n" + " You have but jested with me all this while:\n" + " I prithee, sister Kate, untie my hands.\n\n" + "KATHARINA If that be jest, then all the rest was so.\n\n" + " [Strikes her]\n\n" + " [Enter BAPTISTA]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Why, how now, dame! whence grows this insolence?\n" + " Bianca, stand aside. Poor girl! she weeps.\n" + " Go ply thy needle; meddle not with her.\n" + " For shame, thou helding of a devilish spirit,\n" + " Why dost thou wrong her that did ne'er wrong thee?\n" + " When did she cross thee with a bitter word?\n\n" + "KATHARINA Her silence flouts me, and I'll be revenged.\n\n" + " [Flies after BIANCA]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA What, in my sight? Bianca, get thee in.\n\n" + " [Exit BIANCA]\n\n" + "KATHARINA What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see\n" + " She is your treasure, she must have a husband;\n" + " I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day\n" + " And for your love to her lead apes in hell.\n" + " Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep\n" + " Till I can find occasion of revenge.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Was ever gentleman thus grieved as I?\n" + " But who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter GREMIO, LUCENTIO in the habit of a mean man;\n" + " PETRUCHIO, with HORTENSIO as a musician; and TRANIO,\n" + " with BIONDELLO bearing a lute and books]\n\n" + "GREMIO Good morrow, neighbour Baptista.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Good morrow, neighbour Gremio.\n" + " God save you, gentlemen!\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO And you, good sir! Pray, have you not a daughter\n" + " Call'd Katharina, fair and virtuous?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA I have a daughter, sir, called Katharina.\n\n" + "GREMIO You are too blunt: go to it orderly.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO You wrong me, Signior Gremio: give me leave.\n" + " I am a gentleman of Verona, sir,\n" + " That, hearing of her beauty and her wit,\n" + " Her affability and bashful modesty,\n" + " Her wondrous qualities and mild behavior,\n" + " Am bold to show myself a forward guest\n" + " Within your house, to make mine eye the witness\n" + " Of that report which I so oft have heard.\n" + " And, for an entrance to my entertainment,\n" + " I do present you with a man of mine,\n\n" + " [Presenting HORTENSIO]\n\n" + " Cunning in music and the mathematics,\n" + " To instruct her fully in those sciences,\n" + " Whereof I know she is not ignorant:\n" + " Accept of him, or else you do me wrong:\n" + " His name is Licio, born in Mantua.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA You're welcome, sir; and he, for your good sake.\n" + " But for my daughter Katharina, this I know,\n" + " She is not for your turn, the more my grief.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I see you do not mean to part with her,\n" + " Or else you like not of my company.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Mistake me not; I speak but as I find.\n" + " Whence are you, sir? what may I call your name?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Petruchio is my name; Antonio's son,\n" + " A man well known throughout all Italy.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA I know him well: you are welcome for his sake.\n\n" + "GREMIO Saving your tale, Petruchio, I pray,\n" + " Let us, that are poor petitioners, speak too:\n" + " Baccare! you are marvellous forward.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO O, pardon me, Signior Gremio; I would fain be doing.\n\n" + "GREMIO I doubt it not, sir; but you will curse your\n" + " wooing. Neighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am\n" + " sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself,\n" + " that have been more kindly beholding to you than\n" + " any, freely give unto you this young scholar,\n\n" + " [Presenting LUCENTIO]\n\n" + " that hath been long studying at Rheims; as cunning\n" + " in Greek, Latin, and other languages, as the other\n" + " in music and mathematics: his name is Cambio; pray,\n" + " accept his service.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA A thousand thanks, Signior Gremio.\n" + " Welcome, good Cambio.\n\n" + " [To TRANIO]\n\n" + " But, gentle sir, methinks you walk like a stranger:\n" + " may I be so bold to know the cause of your coming?\n\n" + "TRANIO Pardon me, sir, the boldness is mine own,\n" + " That, being a stranger in this city here,\n" + " Do make myself a suitor to your daughter,\n" + " Unto Bianca, fair and virtuous.\n" + " Nor is your firm resolve unknown to me,\n" + " In the preferment of the eldest sister.\n" + " This liberty is all that I request,\n" + " That, upon knowledge of my parentage,\n" + " I may have welcome 'mongst the rest that woo\n" + " And free access and favour as the rest:\n" + " And, toward the education of your daughters,\n" + " I here bestow a simple instrument,\n" + " And this small packet of Greek and Latin books:\n" + " If you accept them, then their worth is great.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Lucentio is your name; of whence, I pray?\n\n" + "TRANIO Of Pisa, sir; son to Vincentio.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA A mighty man of Pisa; by report\n" + " I know him well: you are very welcome, sir,\n" + " Take you the lute, and you the set of books;\n" + " You shall go see your pupils presently.\n" + " Holla, within!\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + " Sirrah, lead these gentlemen\n" + " To my daughters; and tell them both,\n" + " These are their tutors: bid them use them well.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant, with LUCENTIO and HORTENSIO,\n" + " BIONDELLO following]\n\n" + " We will go walk a little in the orchard,\n" + " And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,\n" + " And so I pray you all to think yourselves.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Signior Baptista, my business asketh haste,\n" + " And every day I cannot come to woo.\n" + " You knew my father well, and in him me,\n" + " Left solely heir to all his lands and goods,\n" + " Which I have better'd rather than decreased:\n" + " Then tell me, if I get your daughter's love,\n" + " What dowry shall I have with her to wife?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA After my death the one half of my lands,\n" + " And in possession twenty thousand crowns.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO And, for that dowry, I'll assure her of\n" + " Her widowhood, be it that she survive me,\n" + " In all my lands and leases whatsoever:\n" + " Let specialties be therefore drawn between us,\n" + " That covenants may be kept on either hand.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd,\n" + " That is, her love; for that is all in all.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father,\n" + " I am as peremptory as she proud-minded;\n" + " And where two raging fires meet together\n" + " They do consume the thing that feeds their fury:\n" + " Though little fire grows great with little wind,\n" + " Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all:\n" + " So I to her and so she yields to me;\n" + " For I am rough and woo not like a babe.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Well mayst thou woo, and happy be thy speed!\n" + " But be thou arm'd for some unhappy words.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Ay, to the proof; as mountains are for winds,\n" + " That shake not, though they blow perpetually.\n\n" + " [Re-enter HORTENSIO, with his head broke]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA How now, my friend! why dost thou look so pale?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO For fear, I promise you, if I look pale.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA What, will my daughter prove a good musician?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO I think she'll sooner prove a soldier\n" + " Iron may hold with her, but never lutes.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Why, then thou canst not break her to the lute?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Why, no; for she hath broke the lute to me.\n" + " I did but tell her she mistook her frets,\n" + " And bow'd her hand to teach her fingering;\n" + " When, with a most impatient devilish spirit,\n" + " 'Frets, call you these?' quoth she; 'I'll fume\n" + " with them:'\n" + " And, with that word, she struck me on the head,\n" + " And through the instrument my pate made way;\n" + " And there I stood amazed for a while,\n" + " As on a pillory, looking through the lute;\n" + " While she did call me rascal fiddler\n" + " And twangling Jack; with twenty such vile terms,\n" + " As had she studied to misuse me so.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench;\n" + " I love her ten times more than e'er I did:\n" + " O, how I long to have some chat with her!\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Well, go with me and be not so discomfited:\n" + " Proceed in practise with my younger daughter;\n" + " She's apt to learn and thankful for good turns.\n" + " Signior Petruchio, will you go with us,\n" + " Or shall I send my daughter Kate to you?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I pray you do.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but PETRUCHIO]\n\n" + " I will attend her here,\n" + " And woo her with some spirit when she comes.\n" + " Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her plain\n" + " She sings as sweetly as a nightingale:\n" + " Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear\n" + " As morning roses newly wash'd with dew:\n" + " Say she be mute and will not speak a word;\n" + " Then I'll commend her volubility,\n" + " And say she uttereth piercing eloquence:\n" + " If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks,\n" + " As though she bid me stay by her a week:\n" + " If she deny to wed, I'll crave the day\n" + " When I shall ask the banns and when be married.\n" + " But here she comes; and now, Petruchio, speak.\n\n" + " [Enter KATHARINA]\n\n" + " Good morrow, Kate; for that's your name, I hear.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:\n" + " They call me Katharina that do talk of me.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,\n" + " And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;\n" + " But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom\n" + " Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate,\n" + " For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate,\n" + " Take this of me, Kate of my consolation;\n" + " Hearing thy mildness praised in every town,\n" + " Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded,\n" + " Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs,\n" + " Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Moved! in good time: let him that moved you hither\n" + " Remove you hence: I knew you at the first\n" + " You were a moveable.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, what's a moveable?\n\n" + "KATHARINA A join'd-stool.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Thou hast hit it: come, sit on me.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Asses are made to bear, and so are you.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Women are made to bear, and so are you.\n\n" + "KATHARINA No such jade as you, if me you mean.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Alas! good Kate, I will not burden thee;\n" + " For, knowing thee to be but young and light--\n\n" + "KATHARINA Too light for such a swain as you to catch;\n" + " And yet as heavy as my weight should be.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Should be! should--buzz!\n\n" + "KATHARINA Well ta'en, and like a buzzard.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO O slow-wing'd turtle! shall a buzzard take thee?\n\n" + "KATHARINA Ay, for a turtle, as he takes a buzzard.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry.\n\n" + "KATHARINA If I be waspish, best beware my sting.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO My remedy is then, to pluck it out.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies,\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Who knows not where a wasp does\n" + " wear his sting? In his tail.\n\n" + "KATHARINA In his tongue.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Whose tongue?\n\n" + "KATHARINA Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again,\n" + " Good Kate; I am a gentleman.\n\n" + "KATHARINA That I'll try.\n\n" + " [She strikes him]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.\n\n" + "KATHARINA So may you lose your arms:\n" + " If you strike me, you are no gentleman;\n" + " And if no gentleman, why then no arms.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books!\n\n" + "KATHARINA What is your crest? a coxcomb?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A combless cock, so Kate will be my hen.\n\n" + "KATHARINA No cock of mine; you crow too like a craven.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Nay, come, Kate, come; you must not look so sour.\n\n" + "KATHARINA It is my fashion, when I see a crab.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, here's no crab; and therefore look not sour.\n\n" + "KATHARINA There is, there is.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Then show it me.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Had I a glass, I would.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO What, you mean my face?\n\n" + "KATHARINA Well aim'd of such a young one.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Now, by Saint George, I am too young for you.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Yet you are wither'd.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO 'Tis with cares.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I care not.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Nay, hear you, Kate: in sooth you scape not so.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I chafe you, if I tarry: let me go.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO No, not a whit: I find you passing gentle.\n" + " 'Twas told me you were rough and coy and sullen,\n" + " And now I find report a very liar;\n" + " For thou are pleasant, gamesome, passing courteous,\n" + " But slow in speech, yet sweet as spring-time flowers:\n" + " Thou canst not frown, thou canst not look askance,\n" + " Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will,\n" + " Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk,\n" + " But thou with mildness entertain'st thy wooers,\n" + " With gentle conference, soft and affable.\n" + " Why does the world report that Kate doth limp?\n" + " O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig\n" + " Is straight and slender and as brown in hue\n" + " As hazel nuts and sweeter than the kernels.\n" + " O, let me see thee walk: thou dost not halt.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Go, fool, and whom thou keep'st command.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Did ever Dian so become a grove\n" + " As Kate this chamber with her princely gait?\n" + " O, be thou Dian, and let her be Kate;\n" + " And then let Kate be chaste and Dian sportful!\n\n" + "KATHARINA Where did you study all this goodly speech?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO It is extempore, from my mother-wit.\n\n" + "KATHARINA A witty mother! witless else her son.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Am I not wise?\n\n" + "KATHARINA Yes; keep you warm.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Marry, so I mean, sweet Katharina, in thy bed:\n" + " And therefore, setting all this chat aside,\n" + " Thus in plain terms: your father hath consented\n" + " That you shall be my wife; your dowry 'greed on;\n" + " And, Will you, nill you, I will marry you.\n" + " Now, Kate, I am a husband for your turn;\n" + " For, by this light, whereby I see thy beauty,\n" + " Thy beauty, that doth make me like thee well,\n" + " Thou must be married to no man but me;\n" + " For I am he am born to tame you Kate,\n" + " And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate\n" + " Conformable as other household Kates.\n" + " Here comes your father: never make denial;\n" + " I must and will have Katharina to my wife.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and TRANIO]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Now, Signior Petruchio, how speed you with my daughter?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO How but well, sir? how but well?\n" + " It were impossible I should speed amiss.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Why, how now, daughter Katharina! in your dumps?\n\n" + "KATHARINA Call you me daughter? now, I promise you\n" + " You have show'd a tender fatherly regard,\n" + " To wish me wed to one half lunatic;\n" + " A mad-cup ruffian and a swearing Jack,\n" + " That thinks with oaths to face the matter out.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Father, 'tis thus: yourself and all the world,\n" + " That talk'd of her, have talk'd amiss of her:\n" + " If she be curst, it is for policy,\n" + " For she's not froward, but modest as the dove;\n" + " She is not hot, but temperate as the morn;\n" + " For patience she will prove a second Grissel,\n" + " And Roman Lucrece for her chastity:\n" + " And to conclude, we have 'greed so well together,\n" + " That upon Sunday is the wedding-day.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I'll see thee hang'd on Sunday first.\n\n" + "GREMIO Hark, Petruchio; she says she'll see thee\n" + " hang'd first.\n\n" + "TRANIO Is this your speeding? nay, then, good night our part!\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Be patient, gentlemen; I choose her for myself:\n" + " If she and I be pleased, what's that to you?\n" + " 'Tis bargain'd 'twixt us twain, being alone,\n" + " That she shall still be curst in company.\n" + " I tell you, 'tis incredible to believe\n" + " How much she loves me: O, the kindest Kate!\n" + " She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss\n" + " She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath,\n" + " That in a twink she won me to her love.\n" + " O, you are novices! 'tis a world to see,\n" + " How tame, when men and women are alone,\n" + " A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.\n" + " Give me thy hand, Kate: I will unto Venice,\n" + " To buy apparel 'gainst the wedding-day.\n" + " Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests;\n" + " I will be sure my Katharina shall be fine.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA I know not what to say: but give me your hands;\n" + " God send you joy, Petruchio! 'tis a match.\n\n\n" + "GREMIO |\n" + " | Amen, say we: we will be witnesses.\n" + "TRANIO |\n\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Father, and wife, and gentlemen, adieu;\n" + " I will to Venice; Sunday comes apace:\n" + " We will have rings and things and fine array;\n" + " And kiss me, Kate, we will be married o'Sunday.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA severally]\n\n" + "GREMIO Was ever match clapp'd up so suddenly?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Faith, gentlemen, now I play a merchant's part,\n" + " And venture madly on a desperate mart.\n\n" + "TRANIO 'Twas a commodity lay fretting by you:\n" + " 'Twill bring you gain, or perish on the seas.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA The gain I seek is, quiet in the match.\n\n" + "GREMIO No doubt but he hath got a quiet catch.\n" + " But now, Baptists, to your younger daughter:\n" + " Now is the day we long have looked for:\n" + " I am your neighbour, and was suitor first.\n\n" + "TRANIO And I am one that love Bianca more\n" + " Than words can witness, or your thoughts can guess.\n\n" + "GREMIO Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.\n\n" + "TRANIO Graybeard, thy love doth freeze.\n\n" + "GREMIO But thine doth fry.\n" + " Skipper, stand back: 'tis age that nourisheth.\n\n" + "TRANIO But youth in ladies' eyes that flourisheth.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Content you, gentlemen: I will compound this strife:\n" + " 'Tis deeds must win the prize; and he of both\n" + " That can assure my daughter greatest dower\n" + " Shall have my Bianca's love.\n" + " Say, Signior Gremio, What can you assure her?\n\n" + "GREMIO First, as you know, my house within the city\n" + " Is richly furnished with plate and gold;\n" + " Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands;\n" + " My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry;\n" + " In ivory coffers I have stuff'd my crowns;\n" + " In cypress chests my arras counterpoints,\n" + " Costly apparel, tents, and canopies,\n" + " Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with pearl,\n" + " Valance of Venice gold in needlework,\n" + " Pewter and brass and all things that belong\n" + " To house or housekeeping: then, at my farm\n" + " I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail,\n" + " Sixscore fat oxen standing in my stalls,\n" + " And all things answerable to this portion.\n" + " Myself am struck in years, I must confess;\n" + " And if I die to-morrow, this is hers,\n" + " If whilst I live she will be only mine.\n\n" + "TRANIO That 'only' came well in. Sir, list to me:\n" + " I am my father's heir and only son:\n" + " If I may have your daughter to my wife,\n" + " I'll leave her houses three or four as good,\n" + " Within rich Pisa walls, as any one\n" + " Old Signior Gremio has in Padua;\n" + " Besides two thousand ducats by the year\n" + " Of fruitful land, all which shall be her jointure.\n" + " What, have I pinch'd you, Signior Gremio?\n\n" + "GREMIO Two thousand ducats by the year of land!\n" + " My land amounts not to so much in all:\n" + " That she shall have; besides an argosy\n" + " That now is lying in Marseilles' road.\n" + " What, have I choked you with an argosy?\n\n" + "TRANIO Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less\n" + " Than three great argosies; besides two galliases,\n" + " And twelve tight galleys: these I will assure her,\n" + " And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next.\n\n" + "GREMIO Nay, I have offer'd all, I have no more;\n" + " And she can have no more than all I have:\n" + " If you like me, she shall have me and mine.\n\n" + "TRANIO Why, then the maid is mine from all the world,\n" + " By your firm promise: Gremio is out-vied.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA I must confess your offer is the best;\n" + " And, let your father make her the assurance,\n" + " She is your own; else, you must pardon me,\n" + " if you should die before him, where's her dower?\n\n" + "TRANIO That's but a cavil: he is old, I young.\n\n" + "GREMIO And may not young men die, as well as old?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Well, gentlemen,\n" + " I am thus resolved: on Sunday next you know\n" + " My daughter Katharina is to be married:\n" + " Now, on the Sunday following, shall Bianca\n" + " Be bride to you, if you this assurance;\n" + " If not, Signior Gremio:\n" + " And so, I take my leave, and thank you both.\n\n" + "GREMIO Adieu, good neighbour.\n\n" + " [Exit BAPTISTA]\n\n" + " Now I fear thee not:\n" + " Sirrah young gamester, your father were a fool\n" + " To give thee all, and in his waning age\n" + " Set foot under thy table: tut, a toy!\n" + " An old Italian fox is not so kind, my boy.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TRANIO A vengeance on your crafty wither'd hide!\n" + " Yet I have faced it with a card of ten.\n" + " 'Tis in my head to do my master good:\n" + " I see no reason but supposed Lucentio\n" + " Must get a father, call'd 'supposed Vincentio;'\n" + " And that's a wonder: fathers commonly\n" + " Do get their children; but in this case of wooing,\n" + " A child shall get a sire, if I fail not of my cunning.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Padua. BAPTISTA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LUCENTIO, HORTENSIO, and BIANCA]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Fiddler, forbear; you grow too forward, sir:\n" + " Have you so soon forgot the entertainment\n" + " Her sister Katharina welcomed you withal?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO But, wrangling pedant, this is\n" + " The patroness of heavenly harmony:\n" + " Then give me leave to have prerogative;\n" + " And when in music we have spent an hour,\n" + " Your lecture shall have leisure for as much.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Preposterous ass, that never read so far\n" + " To know the cause why music was ordain'd!\n" + " Was it not to refresh the mind of man\n" + " After his studies or his usual pain?\n" + " Then give me leave to read philosophy,\n" + " And while I pause, serve in your harmony.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Sirrah, I will not bear these braves of thine.\n\n" + "BIANCA Why, gentlemen, you do me double wrong,\n" + " To strive for that which resteth in my choice:\n" + " I am no breeching scholar in the schools;\n" + " I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times,\n" + " But learn my lessons as I please myself.\n" + " And, to cut off all strife, here sit we down:\n" + " Take you your instrument, play you the whiles;\n" + " His lecture will be done ere you have tuned.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO You'll leave his lecture when I am in tune?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO That will be never: tune your instrument.\n\n" + "BIANCA Where left we last?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Here, madam:\n" + " 'Hic ibat Simois; hic est Sigeia tellus;\n" + " Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis.'\n\n" + "BIANCA Construe them.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO 'Hic ibat,' as I told you before, 'Simois,' I am\n" + " Lucentio, 'hic est,' son unto Vincentio of Pisa,\n" + " 'Sigeia tellus,' disguised thus to get your love;\n" + " 'Hic steterat,' and that Lucentio that comes\n" + " a-wooing, 'Priami,' is my man Tranio, 'regia,'\n" + " bearing my port, 'celsa senis,' that we might\n" + " beguile the old pantaloon.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Madam, my instrument's in tune.\n\n" + "BIANCA Let's hear. O fie! the treble jars.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Spit in the hole, man, and tune again.\n\n" + "BIANCA Now let me see if I can construe it: 'Hic ibat\n" + " Simois,' I know you not, 'hic est Sigeia tellus,' I\n" + " trust you not; 'Hic steterat Priami,' take heed\n" + " he hear us not, 'regia,' presume not, 'celsa senis,'\n" + " despair not.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Madam, 'tis now in tune.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO All but the base.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO The base is right; 'tis the base knave that jars.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " How fiery and forward our pedant is!\n" + " Now, for my life, the knave doth court my love:\n" + " Pedascule, I'll watch you better yet.\n\n" + "BIANCA In time I may believe, yet I mistrust.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Mistrust it not: for, sure, AEacides\n" + " Was Ajax, call'd so from his grandfather.\n\n" + "BIANCA I must believe my master; else, I promise you,\n" + " I should be arguing still upon that doubt:\n" + " But let it rest. Now, Licio, to you:\n" + " Good masters, take it not unkindly, pray,\n" + " That I have been thus pleasant with you both.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO You may go walk, and give me leave a while:\n" + " My lessons make no music in three parts.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Are you so formal, sir? well, I must wait,\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " And watch withal; for, but I be deceived,\n" + " Our fine musician groweth amorous.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Madam, before you touch the instrument,\n" + " To learn the order of my fingering,\n" + " I must begin with rudiments of art;\n" + " To teach you gamut in a briefer sort,\n" + " More pleasant, pithy and effectual,\n" + " Than hath been taught by any of my trade:\n" + " And there it is in writing, fairly drawn.\n\n" + "BIANCA Why, I am past my gamut long ago.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Yet read the gamut of Hortensio.\n\n" + "BIANCA [Reads] ''Gamut' I am, the ground of all accord,\n" + " 'A re,' to Plead Hortensio's passion;\n" + " 'B mi,' Bianca, take him for thy lord,\n" + " 'C fa ut,' that loves with all affection:\n" + " 'D sol re,' one clef, two notes have I:\n" + " 'E la mi,' show pity, or I die.'\n" + " Call you this gamut? tut, I like it not:\n" + " Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice,\n" + " To change true rules for old inventions.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Mistress, your father prays you leave your books\n" + " And help to dress your sister's chamber up:\n" + " You know to-morrow is the wedding-day.\n\n" + "BIANCA Farewell, sweet masters both; I must be gone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BIANCA and Servant]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Faith, mistress, then I have no cause to stay.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HORTENSIO But I have cause to pry into this pedant:\n" + " Methinks he looks as though he were in love:\n" + " Yet if thy thoughts, Bianca, be so humble\n" + " To cast thy wandering eyes on every stale,\n" + " Seize thee that list: if once I find thee ranging,\n" + " Hortensio will be quit with thee by changing.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BAPTISTA, GREMIO, TRANIO, KATHARINA, BIANCA,\n" + " LUCENTIO, and others, attendants]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA [To TRANIO] Signior Lucentio, this is the\n" + " 'pointed day.\n" + " That Katharina and Petruchio should be married,\n" + " And yet we hear not of our son-in-law.\n" + " What will be said? what mockery will it be,\n" + " To want the bridegroom when the priest attends\n" + " To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage!\n" + " What says Lucentio to this shame of ours?\n\n" + "KATHARINA No shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forced\n" + " To give my hand opposed against my heart\n" + " Unto a mad-brain rudesby full of spleen;\n" + " Who woo'd in haste and means to wed at leisure.\n" + " I told you, I, he was a frantic fool,\n" + " Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior:\n" + " And, to be noted for a merry man,\n" + " He'll woo a thousand, 'point the day of marriage,\n" + " Make feasts, invite friends, and proclaim the banns;\n" + " Yet never means to wed where he hath woo'd.\n" + " Now must the world point at poor Katharina,\n" + " And say, 'Lo, there is mad Petruchio's wife,\n" + " If it would please him come and marry her!'\n\n" + "TRANIO Patience, good Katharina, and Baptista too.\n" + " Upon my life, Petruchio means but well,\n" + " Whatever fortune stays him from his word:\n" + " Though he be blunt, I know him passing wise;\n" + " Though he be merry, yet withal he's honest.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Would Katharina had never seen him though!\n\n" + " [Exit weeping, followed by BIANCA and others]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Go, girl; I cannot blame thee now to weep;\n" + " For such an injury would vex a very saint,\n" + " Much more a shrew of thy impatient humour.\n\n" + " [Enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Master, master! news, old news, and such news as\n" + " you never heard of!\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Is it new and old too? how may that be?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Why, is it not news, to hear of Petruchio's coming?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Is he come?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Why, no, sir.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA What then?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO He is coming.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA When will he be here?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO When he stands where I am and sees you there.\n\n" + "TRANIO But say, what to thine old news?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Why, Petruchio is coming in a new hat and an old\n" + " jerkin, a pair of old breeches thrice turned, a pair\n" + " of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled,\n" + " another laced, an old rusty sword ta'en out of the\n" + " town-armory, with a broken hilt, and chapeless;\n" + " with two broken points: his horse hipped with an\n" + " old mothy saddle and stirrups of no kindred;\n" + " besides, possessed with the glanders and like to mose\n" + " in the chine; troubled with the lampass, infected\n" + " with the fashions, full of wingdalls, sped with\n" + " spavins, rayed with yellows, past cure of the fives,\n" + " stark spoiled with the staggers, begnawn with the\n" + " bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten;\n" + " near-legged before and with, a half-chequed bit\n" + " and a head-stall of sheeps leather which, being\n" + " restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been\n" + " often burst and now repaired with knots; one girth\n" + " six time pieced and a woman's crupper of velure,\n" + " which hath two letters for her name fairly set down\n" + " in studs, and here and there pieced with packthread.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Who comes with him?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned\n" + " like the horse; with a linen stock on one leg and a\n" + " kersey boot-hose on the other, gartered with a red\n" + " and blue list; an old hat and 'the humour of forty\n" + " fancies' pricked in't for a feather: a monster, a\n" + " very monster in apparel, and not like a Christian\n" + " footboy or a gentleman's lackey.\n\n" + "TRANIO 'Tis some odd humour pricks him to this fashion;\n" + " Yet oftentimes he goes but mean-apparell'd.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA I am glad he's come, howsoe'er he comes.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Why, sir, he comes not.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Didst thou not say he comes?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Who? that Petruchio came?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Ay, that Petruchio came.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO No, sir, I say his horse comes, with him on his back.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Why, that's all one.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Nay, by Saint Jamy,\n" + " I hold you a penny,\n" + " A horse and a man\n" + " Is more than one,\n" + " And yet not many.\n\n" + " [Enter PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Come, where be these gallants? who's at home?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA You are welcome, sir.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO And yet I come not well.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA And yet you halt not.\n\n" + "TRANIO Not so well apparell'd\n" + " As I wish you were.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Were it better, I should rush in thus.\n" + " But where is Kate? where is my lovely bride?\n" + " How does my father? Gentles, methinks you frown:\n" + " And wherefore gaze this goodly company,\n" + " As if they saw some wondrous monument,\n" + " Some comet or unusual prodigy?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day:\n" + " First were we sad, fearing you would not come;\n" + " Now sadder, that you come so unprovided.\n" + " Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate,\n" + " An eye-sore to our solemn festival!\n\n" + "TRANIO And tells us, what occasion of import\n" + " Hath all so long detain'd you from your wife,\n" + " And sent you hither so unlike yourself?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear:\n" + " Sufficeth I am come to keep my word,\n" + " Though in some part enforced to digress;\n" + " Which, at more leisure, I will so excuse\n" + " As you shall well be satisfied withal.\n" + " But where is Kate? I stay too long from her:\n" + " The morning wears, 'tis time we were at church.\n\n" + "TRANIO See not your bride in these unreverent robes:\n" + " Go to my chamber; Put on clothes of mine.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Not I, believe me: thus I'll visit her.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA But thus, I trust, you will not marry her.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Good sooth, even thus; therefore ha' done with words:\n" + " To me she's married, not unto my clothes:\n" + " Could I repair what she will wear in me,\n" + " As I can change these poor accoutrements,\n" + " 'Twere well for Kate and better for myself.\n" + " But what a fool am I to chat with you,\n" + " When I should bid good morrow to my bride,\n" + " And seal the title with a lovely kiss!\n\n" + " [Exeunt PETRUCHIO and GRUMIO]\n\n" + "TRANIO He hath some meaning in his mad attire:\n" + " We will persuade him, be it possible,\n" + " To put on better ere he go to church.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA I'll after him, and see the event of this.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BAPTISTA, GREMIO, and attendants]\n\n" + "TRANIO But to her love concerneth us to add\n" + " Her father's liking: which to bring to pass,\n" + " As I before unparted to your worship,\n" + " I am to get a man,--whate'er he be,\n" + " It skills not much. we'll fit him to our turn,--\n" + " And he shall be Vincentio of Pisa;\n" + " And make assurance here in Padua\n" + " Of greater sums than I have promised.\n" + " So shall you quietly enjoy your hope,\n" + " And marry sweet Bianca with consent.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Were it not that my fellow-school-master\n" + " Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly,\n" + " 'Twere good, methinks, to steal our marriage;\n" + " Which once perform'd, let all the world say no,\n" + " I'll keep mine own, despite of all the world.\n\n" + "TRANIO That by degrees we mean to look into,\n" + " And watch our vantage in this business:\n" + " We'll over-reach the greybeard, Gremio,\n" + " The narrow-prying father, Minola,\n" + " The quaint musician, amorous Licio;\n" + " All for my master's sake, Lucentio.\n\n" + " [Re-enter GREMIO]\n\n" + " Signior Gremio, came you from the church?\n\n" + "GREMIO As willingly as e'er I came from school.\n\n" + "TRANIO And is the bride and bridegroom coming home?\n\n" + "GREMIO A bridegroom say you? 'tis a groom indeed,\n" + " A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall find.\n\n" + "TRANIO Curster than she? why, 'tis impossible.\n\n" + "GREMIO Why he's a devil, a devil, a very fiend.\n\n" + "TRANIO Why, she's a devil, a devil, the devil's dam.\n\n" + "GREMIO Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him!\n" + " I'll tell you, Sir Lucentio: when the priest\n" + " Should ask, if Katharina should be his wife,\n" + " 'Ay, by gogs-wouns,' quoth he; and swore so loud,\n" + " That, all-amazed, the priest let fall the book;\n" + " And, as he stoop'd again to take it up,\n" + " The mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such a cuff\n" + " That down fell priest and book and book and priest:\n" + " 'Now take them up,' quoth he, 'if any list.'\n\n" + "TRANIO What said the wench when he rose again?\n\n" + "GREMIO Trembled and shook; for why, he stamp'd and swore,\n" + " As if the vicar meant to cozen him.\n" + " But after many ceremonies done,\n" + " He calls for wine: 'A health!' quoth he, as if\n" + " He had been aboard, carousing to his mates\n" + " After a storm; quaff'd off the muscadel\n" + " And threw the sops all in the sexton's face;\n" + " Having no other reason\n" + " But that his beard grew thin and hungerly\n" + " And seem'd to ask him sops as he was drinking.\n" + " This done, he took the bride about the neck\n" + " And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous smack\n" + " That at the parting all the church did echo:\n" + " And I seeing this came thence for very shame;\n" + " And after me, I know, the rout is coming.\n" + " Such a mad marriage never was before:\n" + " Hark, hark! I hear the minstrels play.\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + " [Re-enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, BIANCA, BAPTISTA,\n" + " HORTENSIO, GRUMIO, and Train]\n\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains:\n" + " I know you think to dine with me to-day,\n" + " And have prepared great store of wedding cheer;\n" + " But so it is, my haste doth call me hence,\n" + " And therefore here I mean to take my leave.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Is't possible you will away to-night?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I must away to-day, before night come:\n" + " Make it no wonder; if you knew my business,\n" + " You would entreat me rather go than stay.\n" + " And, honest company, I thank you all,\n" + " That have beheld me give away myself\n" + " To this most patient, sweet and virtuous wife:\n" + " Dine with my father, drink a health to me;\n" + " For I must hence; and farewell to you all.\n\n" + "TRANIO Let us entreat you stay till after dinner.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO It may not be.\n\n" + "GREMIO Let me entreat you.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO It cannot be.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Let me entreat you.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I am content.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Are you content to stay?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I am content you shall entreat me stay;\n" + " But yet not stay, entreat me how you can.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Now, if you love me, stay.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Grumio, my horse.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Ay, sir, they be ready: the oats have eaten the horses.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Nay, then,\n" + " Do what thou canst, I will not go to-day;\n" + " No, nor to-morrow, not till I please myself.\n" + " The door is open, sir; there lies your way;\n" + " You may be jogging whiles your boots are green;\n" + " For me, I'll not be gone till I please myself:\n" + " 'Tis like you'll prove a jolly surly groom,\n" + " That take it on you at the first so roundly.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO O Kate, content thee; prithee, be not angry.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I will be angry: what hast thou to do?\n" + " Father, be quiet; he shall stay my leisure.\n\n" + "GREMIO Ay, marry, sir, now it begins to work.\n\n" + "KATARINA Gentlemen, forward to the bridal dinner:\n" + " I see a woman may be made a fool,\n" + " If she had not a spirit to resist.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO They shall go forward, Kate, at thy command.\n" + " Obey the bride, you that attend on her;\n" + " Go to the feast, revel and domineer,\n" + " Carouse full measure to her maidenhead,\n" + " Be mad and merry, or go hang yourselves:\n" + " But for my bonny Kate, she must with me.\n" + " Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret;\n" + " I will be master of what is mine own:\n" + " She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,\n" + " My household stuff, my field, my barn,\n" + " My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing;\n" + " And here she stands, touch her whoever dare;\n" + " I'll bring mine action on the proudest he\n" + " That stops my way in Padua. Grumio,\n" + " Draw forth thy weapon, we are beset with thieves;\n" + " Rescue thy mistress, if thou be a man.\n" + " Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch\n" + " thee, Kate:\n" + " I'll buckler thee against a million.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, and GRUMIO]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Nay, let them go, a couple of quiet ones.\n\n" + "GREMIO Went they not quickly, I should die with laughing.\n\n" + "TRANIO Of all mad matches never was the like.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Mistress, what's your opinion of your sister?\n\n" + "BIANCA That, being mad herself, she's madly mated.\n\n" + "GREMIO I warrant him, Petruchio is Kated.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Neighbours and friends, though bride and\n" + " bridegroom wants\n" + " For to supply the places at the table,\n" + " You know there wants no junkets at the feast.\n" + " Lucentio, you shall supply the bridegroom's place:\n" + " And let Bianca take her sister's room.\n\n" + "TRANIO Shall sweet Bianca practise how to bride it?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA She shall, Lucentio. Come, gentlemen, let's go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I PETRUCHIO'S country house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter GRUMIO]\n\n" + "GRUMIO Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and\n" + " all foul ways! Was ever man so beaten? was ever\n" + " man so rayed? was ever man so weary? I am sent\n" + " before to make a fire, and they are coming after to\n" + " warm them. Now, were not I a little pot and soon\n" + " hot, my very lips might freeze to my teeth, my\n" + " tongue to the roof of my mouth, my heart in my\n" + " belly, ere I should come by a fire to thaw me: but\n" + " I, with blowing the fire, shall warm myself; for,\n" + " considering the weather, a taller man than I will\n" + " take cold. Holla, ho! Curtis.\n\n" + " [Enter CURTIS]\n\n" + "CURTIS Who is that calls so coldly?\n\n" + "GRUMIO A piece of ice: if thou doubt it, thou mayst slide\n" + " from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run\n" + " but my head and my neck. A fire good Curtis.\n\n" + "CURTIS Is my master and his wife coming, Grumio?\n\n" + "GRUMIO O, ay, Curtis, ay: and therefore fire, fire; cast\n" + " on no water.\n\n" + "CURTIS Is she so hot a shrew as she's reported?\n\n" + "GRUMIO She was, good Curtis, before this frost: but, thou\n" + " knowest, winter tames man, woman and beast; for it\n" + " hath tamed my old master and my new mistress and\n" + " myself, fellow Curtis.\n\n" + "CURTIS Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Am I but three inches? why, thy horn is a foot; and\n" + " so long am I at the least. But wilt thou make a\n" + " fire, or shall I complain on thee to our mistress,\n" + " whose hand, she being now at hand, thou shalt soon\n" + " feel, to thy cold comfort, for being slow in thy hot office?\n\n" + "CURTIS I prithee, good Grumio, tell me, how goes the world?\n\n" + "GRUMIO A cold world, Curtis, in every office but thine; and\n" + " therefore fire: do thy duty, and have thy duty; for\n" + " my master and mistress are almost frozen to death.\n\n" + "CURTIS There's fire ready; and therefore, good Grumio, the news.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Why, 'Jack, boy! ho! boy!' and as much news as\n" + " will thaw.\n\n" + "CURTIS Come, you are so full of cony-catching!\n\n" + "GRUMIO Why, therefore fire; for I have caught extreme cold.\n" + " Where's the cook? is supper ready, the house\n" + " trimmed, rushes strewed, cobwebs swept; the\n" + " serving-men in their new fustian, their white\n" + " stockings, and every officer his wedding-garment on?\n" + " Be the jacks fair within, the jills fair without,\n" + " the carpets laid, and every thing in order?\n\n" + "CURTIS All ready; and therefore, I pray thee, news.\n\n" + "GRUMIO First, know, my horse is tired; my master and\n" + " mistress fallen out.\n\n" + "CURTIS How?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Out of their saddles into the dirt; and thereby\n" + " hangs a tale.\n\n" + "CURTIS Let's ha't, good Grumio.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Lend thine ear.\n\n" + "CURTIS Here.\n\n" + "GRUMIO There.\n\n" + " [Strikes him]\n\n" + "CURTIS This is to feel a tale, not to hear a tale.\n\n" + "GRUMIO And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale: and this\n" + " cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech\n" + " listening. Now I begin: Imprimis, we came down a\n" + " foul hill, my master riding behind my mistress,--\n\n" + "CURTIS Both of one horse?\n\n" + "GRUMIO What's that to thee?\n\n" + "CURTIS Why, a horse.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crossed me,\n" + " thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell and she\n" + " under her horse; thou shouldst have heard in how\n" + " miry a place, how she was bemoiled, how he left her\n" + " with the horse upon her, how he beat me because\n" + " her horse stumbled, how she waded through the dirt\n" + " to pluck him off me, how he swore, how she prayed,\n" + " that never prayed before, how I cried, how the\n" + " horses ran away, how her bridle was burst, how I\n" + " lost my crupper, with many things of worthy memory,\n" + " which now shall die in oblivion and thou return\n" + " unexperienced to thy grave.\n\n" + "CURTIS By this reckoning he is more shrew than she.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Ay; and that thou and the proudest of you all shall\n" + " find when he comes home. But what talk I of this?\n" + " Call forth Nathaniel, Joseph, Nicholas, Philip,\n" + " Walter, Sugarsop and the rest: let their heads be\n" + " sleekly combed their blue coats brushed and their\n" + " garters of an indifferent knit: let them curtsy\n" + " with their left legs and not presume to touch a hair\n" + " of my master's horse-tail till they kiss their\n" + " hands. Are they all ready?\n\n" + "CURTIS They are.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Call them forth.\n\n" + "CURTIS Do you hear, ho? you must meet my master to\n" + " countenance my mistress.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Why, she hath a face of her own.\n\n" + "CURTIS Who knows not that?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Thou, it seems, that calls for company to\n" + " countenance her.\n\n" + "CURTIS I call them forth to credit her.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Why, she comes to borrow nothing of them.\n\n" + " [Enter four or five Serving-men]\n\n" + "NATHANIEL Welcome home, Grumio!\n\n" + "PHILIP How now, Grumio!\n\n" + "JOSEPH What, Grumio!\n\n" + "NICHOLAS Fellow Grumio!\n\n" + "NATHANIEL How now, old lad?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Welcome, you;--how now, you;-- what, you;--fellow,\n" + " you;--and thus much for greeting. Now, my spruce\n" + " companions, is all ready, and all things neat?\n\n" + "NATHANIEL All things is ready. How near is our master?\n\n" + "GRUMIO E'en at hand, alighted by this; and therefore be\n" + " not--Cock's passion, silence! I hear my master.\n\n" + " [Enter PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Where be these knaves? What, no man at door\n" + " To hold my stirrup nor to take my horse!\n" + " Where is Nathaniel, Gregory, Philip?\n\n" + "ALL SERVING-MEN Here, here, sir; here, sir.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here, sir!\n" + " You logger-headed and unpolish'd grooms!\n" + " What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?\n" + " Where is the foolish knave I sent before?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Here, sir; as foolish as I was before.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO You peasant swain! you whoreson malt-horse drudge!\n" + " Did I not bid thee meet me in the park,\n" + " And bring along these rascal knaves with thee?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Nathaniel's coat, sir, was not fully made,\n" + " And Gabriel's pumps were all unpink'd i' the heel;\n" + " There was no link to colour Peter's hat,\n" + " And Walter's dagger was not come from sheathing:\n" + " There were none fine but Adam, Ralph, and Gregory;\n" + " The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly;\n" + " Yet, as they are, here are they come to meet you.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Go, rascals, go, and fetch my supper in.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Servants]\n\n" + " [Singing]\n\n" + " Where is the life that late I led--\n" + " Where are those--Sit down, Kate, and welcome.--\n" + " Sound, sound, sound, sound!\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servants with supper]\n\n" + " Why, when, I say? Nay, good sweet Kate, be merry.\n" + " Off with my boots, you rogues! you villains, when?\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " It was the friar of orders grey,\n" + " As he forth walked on his way:--\n" + " Out, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry:\n" + " Take that, and mend the plucking off the other.\n\n" + " [Strikes him]\n\n" + " Be merry, Kate. Some water, here; what, ho!\n" + " Where's my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence,\n" + " And bid my cousin Ferdinand come hither:\n" + " One, Kate, that you must kiss, and be acquainted with.\n" + " Where are my slippers? Shall I have some water?\n\n" + " [Enter one with water]\n\n" + " Come, Kate, and wash, and welcome heartily.\n" + " You whoreson villain! will you let it fall?\n\n" + " [Strikes him]\n\n" + "KATHARINA Patience, I pray you; 'twas a fault unwilling.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A whoreson beetle-headed, flap-ear'd knave!\n" + " Come, Kate, sit down; I know you have a stomach.\n" + " Will you give thanks, sweet Kate; or else shall I?\n" + " What's this? mutton?\n\n" + "First Servant Ay.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Who brought it?\n\n" + "PETER I.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO 'Tis burnt; and so is all the meat.\n" + " What dogs are these! Where is the rascal cook?\n" + " How durst you, villains, bring it from the dresser,\n" + " And serve it thus to me that love it not?\n" + " Theretake it to you, trenchers, cups, and all;\n\n" + " [Throws the meat, &c. about the stage]\n\n" + " You heedless joltheads and unmanner'd slaves!\n" + " What, do you grumble? I'll be with you straight.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I pray you, husband, be not so disquiet:\n" + " The meat was well, if you were so contented.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I tell thee, Kate, 'twas burnt and dried away;\n" + " And I expressly am forbid to touch it,\n" + " For it engenders choler, planteth anger;\n" + " And better 'twere that both of us did fast,\n" + " Since, of ourselves, ourselves are choleric,\n" + " Than feed it with such over-roasted flesh.\n" + " Be patient; to-morrow 't shall be mended,\n" + " And, for this night, we'll fast for company:\n" + " Come, I will bring thee to thy bridal chamber.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servants severally]\n\n" + "NATHANIEL Peter, didst ever see the like?\n\n" + "PETER He kills her in her own humour.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CURTIS]\n\n" + "GRUMIO Where is he?\n\n" + "CURTIS In her chamber, making a sermon of continency to her;\n" + " And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul,\n" + " Knows not which way to stand, to look, to speak,\n" + " And sits as one new-risen from a dream.\n" + " Away, away! for he is coming hither.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter PETRUCHIO]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Thus have I politicly begun my reign,\n" + " And 'tis my hope to end successfully.\n" + " My falcon now is sharp and passing empty;\n" + " And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,\n" + " For then she never looks upon her lure.\n" + " Another way I have to man my haggard,\n" + " To make her come and know her keeper's call,\n" + " That is, to watch her, as we watch these kites\n" + " That bate and beat and will not be obedient.\n" + " She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat;\n" + " Last night she slept not, nor to-night she shall not;\n" + " As with the meat, some undeserved fault\n" + " I'll find about the making of the bed;\n" + " And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster,\n" + " This way the coverlet, another way the sheets:\n" + " Ay, and amid this hurly I intend\n" + " That all is done in reverend care of her;\n" + " And in conclusion she shall watch all night:\n" + " And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl\n" + " And with the clamour keep her still awake.\n" + " This is a way to kill a wife with kindness;\n" + " And thus I'll curb her mad and headstrong humour.\n" + " He that knows better how to tame a shrew,\n" + " Now let him speak: 'tis charity to show.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TRANIO and HORTENSIO]\n\n" + "TRANIO Is't possible, friend Licio, that Mistress Bianca\n" + " Doth fancy any other but Lucentio?\n" + " I tell you, sir, she bears me fair in hand.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Sir, to satisfy you in what I have said,\n" + " Stand by and mark the manner of his teaching.\n\n" + " [Enter BIANCA and LUCENTIO]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Now, mistress, profit you in what you read?\n\n" + "BIANCA What, master, read you? first resolve me that.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I read that I profess, the Art to Love.\n\n" + "BIANCA And may you prove, sir, master of your art!\n\n" + "LUCENTIO While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Quick proceeders, marry! Now, tell me, I pray,\n" + " You that durst swear at your mistress Bianca\n" + " Loved none in the world so well as Lucentio.\n\n" + "TRANIO O despiteful love! unconstant womankind!\n" + " I tell thee, Licio, this is wonderful.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Mistake no more: I am not Licio,\n" + " Nor a musician, as I seem to be;\n" + " But one that scorn to live in this disguise,\n" + " For such a one as leaves a gentleman,\n" + " And makes a god of such a cullion:\n" + " Know, sir, that I am call'd Hortensio.\n\n" + "TRANIO Signior Hortensio, I have often heard\n" + " Of your entire affection to Bianca;\n" + " And since mine eyes are witness of her lightness,\n" + " I will with you, if you be so contented,\n" + " Forswear Bianca and her love for ever.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO See, how they kiss and court! Signior Lucentio,\n" + " Here is my hand, and here I firmly vow\n" + " Never to woo her no more, but do forswear her,\n" + " As one unworthy all the former favours\n" + " That I have fondly flatter'd her withal.\n\n" + "TRANIO And here I take the unfeigned oath,\n" + " Never to marry with her though she would entreat:\n" + " Fie on her! see, how beastly she doth court him!\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Would all the world but he had quite forsworn!\n" + " For me, that I may surely keep mine oath,\n" + " I will be married to a wealthy widow,\n" + " Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me\n" + " As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard.\n" + " And so farewell, Signior Lucentio.\n" + " Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,\n" + " Shall win my love: and so I take my leave,\n" + " In resolution as I swore before.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TRANIO Mistress Bianca, bless you with such grace\n" + " As 'longeth to a lover's blessed case!\n" + " Nay, I have ta'en you napping, gentle love,\n" + " And have forsworn you with Hortensio.\n\n" + "BIANCA Tranio, you jest: but have you both forsworn me?\n\n" + "TRANIO Mistress, we have.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Then we are rid of Licio.\n\n" + "TRANIO I' faith, he'll have a lusty widow now,\n" + " That shall be wood and wedded in a day.\n\n" + "BIANCA God give him joy!\n\n" + "TRANIO Ay, and he'll tame her.\n\n" + "BIANCA He says so, Tranio.\n\n" + "TRANIO Faith, he is gone unto the taming-school.\n\n" + "BIANCA The taming-school! what, is there such a place?\n\n" + "TRANIO Ay, mistress, and Petruchio is the master;\n" + " That teacheth tricks eleven and twenty long,\n" + " To tame a shrew and charm her chattering tongue.\n\n" + " [Enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "BIONDELLO O master, master, I have watch'd so long\n" + " That I am dog-weary: but at last I spied\n" + " An ancient angel coming down the hill,\n" + " Will serve the turn.\n\n" + "TRANIO What is he, Biondello?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Master, a mercatante, or a pedant,\n" + " I know not what; but format in apparel,\n" + " In gait and countenance surely like a father.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO And what of him, Tranio?\n\n" + "TRANIO If he be credulous and trust my tale,\n" + " I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio,\n" + " And give assurance to Baptista Minola,\n" + " As if he were the right Vincentio\n" + " Take in your love, and then let me alone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA]\n\n" + " [Enter a Pedant]\n\n" + "Pedant God save you, sir!\n\n" + "TRANIO And you, sir! you are welcome.\n" + " Travel you far on, or are you at the farthest?\n\n" + "Pedant Sir, at the farthest for a week or two:\n" + " But then up farther, and as for as Rome;\n" + " And so to Tripoli, if God lend me life.\n\n" + "TRANIO What countryman, I pray?\n\n" + "Pedant Of Mantua.\n\n" + "TRANIO Of Mantua, sir? marry, God forbid!\n" + " And come to Padua, careless of your life?\n\n" + "Pedant My life, sir! how, I pray? for that goes hard.\n\n" + "TRANIO 'Tis death for any one in Mantua\n" + " To come to Padua. Know you not the cause?\n" + " Your ships are stay'd at Venice, and the duke,\n" + " For private quarrel 'twixt your duke and him,\n" + " Hath publish'd and proclaim'd it openly:\n" + " 'Tis, marvel, but that you are but newly come,\n" + " You might have heard it else proclaim'd about.\n\n" + "Pedant Alas! sir, it is worse for me than so;\n" + " For I have bills for money by exchange\n" + " From Florence and must here deliver them.\n\n" + "TRANIO Well, sir, to do you courtesy,\n" + " This will I do, and this I will advise you:\n" + " First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?\n" + "Pedant Ay, sir, in Pisa have I often been,\n" + " Pisa renowned for grave citizens.\n\n" + "TRANIO Among them know you one Vincentio?\n\n" + "Pedant I know him not, but I have heard of him;\n" + " A merchant of incomparable wealth.\n\n" + "TRANIO He is my father, sir; and, sooth to say,\n" + " In countenance somewhat doth resemble you.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO [Aside] As much as an apple doth an oyster,\n" + " and all one.\n\n" + "TRANIO To save your life in this extremity,\n" + " This favour will I do you for his sake;\n" + " And think it not the worst of an your fortunes\n" + " That you are like to Sir Vincentio.\n" + " His name and credit shall you undertake,\n" + " And in my house you shall be friendly lodged:\n" + " Look that you take upon you as you should;\n" + " You understand me, sir: so shall you stay\n" + " Till you have done your business in the city:\n" + " If this be courtesy, sir, accept of it.\n\n" + "Pedant O sir, I do; and will repute you ever\n" + " The patron of my life and liberty.\n\n" + "TRANIO Then go with me to make the matter good.\n" + " This, by the way, I let you understand;\n" + " my father is here look'd for every day,\n" + " To pass assurance of a dower in marriage\n" + " 'Twixt me and one Baptista's daughter here:\n" + " In all these circumstances I'll instruct you:\n" + " Go with me to clothe you as becomes you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in PETRUCHIO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter KATHARINA and GRUMIO]\n\n" + "GRUMIO No, no, forsooth; I dare not for my life.\n\n" + "KATHARINA The more my wrong, the more his spite appears:\n" + " What, did he marry me to famish me?\n" + " Beggars, that come unto my father's door,\n" + " Upon entreaty have a present aims;\n" + " If not, elsewhere they meet with charity:\n" + " But I, who never knew how to entreat,\n" + " Nor never needed that I should entreat,\n" + " Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep,\n" + " With oath kept waking and with brawling fed:\n" + " And that which spites me more than all these wants,\n" + " He does it under name of perfect love;\n" + " As who should say, if I should sleep or eat,\n" + " 'Twere deadly sickness or else present death.\n" + " I prithee go and get me some repast;\n" + " I care not what, so it be wholesome food.\n\n" + "GRUMIO What say you to a neat's foot?\n\n" + "KATHARINA 'Tis passing good: I prithee let me have it.\n\n" + "GRUMIO I fear it is too choleric a meat.\n" + " How say you to a fat tripe finely broil'd?\n\n" + "KATHARINA I like it well: good Grumio, fetch it me.\n\n" + "GRUMIO I cannot tell; I fear 'tis choleric.\n" + " What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?\n\n" + "KATHARINA A dish that I do love to feed upon.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Ay, but the mustard is too hot a little.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Why then, the beef, and let the mustard rest.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Nay then, I will not: you shall have the mustard,\n" + " Or else you get no beef of Grumio.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Then both, or one, or any thing thou wilt.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Why then, the mustard without the beef.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Go, get thee gone, thou false deluding slave,\n\n" + " [Beats him]\n\n" + " That feed'st me with the very name of meat:\n" + " Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you,\n" + " That triumph thus upon my misery!\n" + " Go, get thee gone, I say.\n\n" + " [Enter PETRUCHIO and HORTENSIO with meat]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Mistress, what cheer?\n\n" + "KATHARINA Faith, as cold as can be.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Pluck up thy spirits; look cheerfully upon me.\n" + " Here love; thou see'st how diligent I am\n" + " To dress thy meat myself and bring it thee:\n" + " I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks.\n" + " What, not a word? Nay, then thou lovest it not;\n" + " And all my pains is sorted to no proof.\n" + " Here, take away this dish.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I pray you, let it stand.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO The poorest service is repaid with thanks;\n" + " And so shall mine, before you touch the meat.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I thank you, sir.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Signior Petruchio, fie! you are to blame.\n" + " Come, mistress Kate, I'll bear you company.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO [Aside] Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.\n" + " Much good do it unto thy gentle heart!\n" + " Kate, eat apace: and now, my honey love,\n" + " Will we return unto thy father's house\n" + " And revel it as bravely as the best,\n" + " With silken coats and caps and golden rings,\n" + " With ruffs and cuffs and fardingales and things;\n" + " With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,\n" + " With amber bracelets, beads and all this knavery.\n" + " What, hast thou dined? The tailor stays thy leisure,\n" + " To deck thy body with his ruffling treasure.\n\n" + " [Enter Tailor]\n\n" + " Come, tailor, let us see these ornaments;\n" + " Lay forth the gown.\n\n" + " [Enter Haberdasher]\n\n" + " What news with you, sir?\n\n" + "Haberdasher Here is the cap your worship did bespeak.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, this was moulded on a porringer;\n" + " A velvet dish: fie, fie! 'tis lewd and filthy:\n" + " Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut-shell,\n" + " A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap:\n" + " Away with it! come, let me have a bigger.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I'll have no bigger: this doth fit the time,\n" + " And gentlewomen wear such caps as these\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO When you are gentle, you shall have one too,\n" + " And not till then.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO [Aside] That will not be in haste.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Why, sir, I trust I may have leave to speak;\n" + " And speak I will; I am no child, no babe:\n" + " Your betters have endured me say my mind,\n" + " And if you cannot, best you stop your ears.\n" + " My tongue will tell the anger of my heart,\n" + " Or else my heart concealing it will break,\n" + " And rather than it shall, I will be free\n" + " Even to the uttermost, as I please, in words.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, thou say'st true; it is a paltry cap,\n" + " A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie:\n" + " I love thee well, in that thou likest it not.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Love me or love me not, I like the cap;\n" + " And it I will have, or I will have none.\n\n" + " [Exit Haberdasher]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Thy gown? why, ay: come, tailor, let us see't.\n" + " O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here?\n" + " What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon:\n" + " What, up and down, carved like an apple-tart?\n" + " Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash,\n" + " Like to a censer in a barber's shop:\n" + " Why, what, i' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO [Aside] I see she's like to have neither cap nor gown.\n\n" + "Tailor You bid me make it orderly and well,\n" + " According to the fashion and the time.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Marry, and did; but if you be remember'd,\n" + " I did not bid you mar it to the time.\n" + " Go, hop me over every kennel home,\n" + " For you shall hop without my custom, sir:\n" + " I'll none of it: hence! make your best of it.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I never saw a better-fashion'd gown,\n" + " More quaint, more pleasing, nor more commendable:\n" + " Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, true; he means to make a puppet of thee.\n\n" + "Tailor She says your worship means to make\n" + " a puppet of her.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO O monstrous arrogance! Thou liest, thou thread,\n" + " thou thimble,\n" + " Thou yard, three-quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail!\n" + " Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket thou!\n" + " Braved in mine own house with a skein of thread?\n" + " Away, thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant;\n" + " Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard\n" + " As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou livest!\n" + " I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown.\n\n" + "Tailor Your worship is deceived; the gown is made\n" + " Just as my master had direction:\n" + " Grumio gave order how it should be done.\n\n" + "GRUMIO I gave him no order; I gave him the stuff.\n\n" + "Tailor But how did you desire it should be made?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Marry, sir, with needle and thread.\n\n" + "Tailor But did you not request to have it cut?\n\n" + "GRUMIO Thou hast faced many things.\n\n" + "Tailor I have.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Face not me: thou hast braved many men; brave not\n" + " me; I will neither be faced nor braved. I say unto\n" + " thee, I bid thy master cut out the gown; but I did\n" + " not bid him cut it to pieces: ergo, thou liest.\n\n" + "Tailor Why, here is the note of the fashion to testify\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Read it.\n\n" + "GRUMIO The note lies in's throat, if he say I said so.\n\n" + "Tailor [Reads] 'Imprimis, a loose-bodied gown:'\n\n" + "GRUMIO Master, if ever I said loose-bodied gown, sew me in\n" + " the skirts of it, and beat me to death with a bottom\n" + " of brown thread: I said a gown.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Proceed.\n\n" + "Tailor [Reads] 'With a small compassed cape:'\n\n" + "GRUMIO I confess the cape.\n\n" + "Tailor [Reads] 'With a trunk sleeve:'\n\n" + "GRUMIO I confess two sleeves.\n\n" + "Tailor [Reads] 'The sleeves curiously cut.'\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Ay, there's the villany.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Error i' the bill, sir; error i' the bill.\n" + " I commanded the sleeves should be cut out and\n" + " sewed up again; and that I'll prove upon thee,\n" + " though thy little finger be armed in a thimble.\n\n" + "Tailor This is true that I say: an I had thee\n" + " in place where, thou shouldst know it.\n\n" + "GRUMIO I am for thee straight: take thou the\n" + " bill, give me thy mete-yard, and spare not me.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO God-a-mercy, Grumio! then he shall have no odds.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Well, sir, in brief, the gown is not for me.\n\n" + "GRUMIO You are i' the right, sir: 'tis for my mistress.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Go, take it up unto thy master's use.\n\n" + "GRUMIO Villain, not for thy life: take up my mistress'\n" + " gown for thy master's use!\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, sir, what's your conceit in that?\n\n" + "GRUMIO O, sir, the conceit is deeper than you think for:\n" + " Take up my mistress' gown to his master's use!\n" + " O, fie, fie, fie!\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO [Aside] Hortensio, say thou wilt see the tailor paid.\n" + " Go take it hence; be gone, and say no more.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Tailor, I'll pay thee for thy gown tomorrow:\n" + " Take no unkindness of his hasty words:\n" + " Away! I say; commend me to thy master.\n\n" + " [Exit Tailor]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Well, come, my Kate; we will unto your father's\n" + " Even in these honest mean habiliments:\n" + " Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor;\n" + " For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich;\n" + " And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,\n" + " So honour peereth in the meanest habit.\n" + " What is the jay more precious than the lark,\n" + " Because his fathers are more beautiful?\n" + " Or is the adder better than the eel,\n" + " Because his painted skin contents the eye?\n" + " O, no, good Kate; neither art thou the worse\n" + " For this poor furniture and mean array.\n" + " if thou account'st it shame. lay it on me;\n" + " And therefore frolic: we will hence forthwith,\n" + " To feast and sport us at thy father's house.\n" + " Go, call my men, and let us straight to him;\n" + " And bring our horses unto Long-lane end;\n" + " There will we mount, and thither walk on foot\n" + " Let's see; I think 'tis now some seven o'clock,\n" + " And well we may come there by dinner-time.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I dare assure you, sir, 'tis almost two;\n" + " And 'twill be supper-time ere you come there.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO It shall be seven ere I go to horse:\n" + " Look, what I speak, or do, or think to do,\n" + " You are still crossing it. Sirs, let't alone:\n" + " I will not go to-day; and ere I do,\n" + " It shall be what o'clock I say it is.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO [Aside] Why, so this gallant will command the sun.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Padua. Before BAPTISTA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TRANIO, and the Pedant dressed like VINCENTIO]\n\n" + "TRANIO Sir, this is the house: please it you that I call?\n\n" + "Pedant Ay, what else? and but I be deceived\n" + " Signior Baptista may remember me,\n" + " Near twenty years ago, in Genoa,\n" + " Where we were lodgers at the Pegasus.\n\n" + "TRANIO 'Tis well; and hold your own, in any case,\n" + " With such austerity as 'longeth to a father.\n\n" + "Pedant I warrant you.\n\n" + " [Enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + " But, sir, here comes your boy;\n" + " 'Twere good he were school'd.\n\n" + "TRANIO Fear you not him. Sirrah Biondello,\n" + " Now do your duty throughly, I advise you:\n" + " Imagine 'twere the right Vincentio.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Tut, fear not me.\n\n" + "TRANIO But hast thou done thy errand to Baptista?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO I told him that your father was at Venice,\n" + " And that you look'd for him this day in Padua.\n\n" + "TRANIO Thou'rt a tall fellow: hold thee that to drink.\n" + " Here comes Baptista: set your countenance, sir.\n\n" + " [Enter BAPTISTA and LUCENTIO]\n\n" + " Signior Baptista, you are happily met.\n\n" + " [To the Pedant]\n\n" + " Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of:\n" + " I pray you stand good father to me now,\n" + " Give me Bianca for my patrimony.\n\n" + "Pedant Soft son!\n" + " Sir, by your leave: having come to Padua\n" + " To gather in some debts, my son Lucentio\n" + " Made me acquainted with a weighty cause\n" + " Of love between your daughter and himself:\n" + " And, for the good report I hear of you\n" + " And for the love he beareth to your daughter\n" + " And she to him, to stay him not too long,\n" + " I am content, in a good father's care,\n" + " To have him match'd; and if you please to like\n" + " No worse than I, upon some agreement\n" + " Me shall you find ready and willing\n" + " With one consent to have her so bestow'd;\n" + " For curious I cannot be with you,\n" + " Signior Baptista, of whom I hear so well.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Sir, pardon me in what I have to say:\n" + " Your plainness and your shortness please me well.\n" + " Right true it is, your son Lucentio here\n" + " Doth love my daughter and she loveth him,\n" + " Or both dissemble deeply their affections:\n" + " And therefore, if you say no more than this,\n" + " That like a father you will deal with him\n" + " And pass my daughter a sufficient dower,\n" + " The match is made, and all is done:\n" + " Your son shall have my daughter with consent.\n\n" + "TRANIO I thank you, sir. Where then do you know best\n" + " We be affied and such assurance ta'en\n" + " As shall with either part's agreement stand?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Not in my house, Lucentio; for, you know,\n" + " Pitchers have ears, and I have many servants:\n" + " Besides, old Gremio is hearkening still;\n" + " And happily we might be interrupted.\n\n" + "TRANIO Then at my lodging, an it like you:\n" + " There doth my father lie; and there, this night,\n" + " We'll pass the business privately and well.\n" + " Send for your daughter by your servant here:\n" + " My boy shall fetch the scrivener presently.\n" + " The worst is this, that, at so slender warning,\n" + " You are like to have a thin and slender pittance.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA It likes me well. Biondello, hie you home,\n" + " And bid Bianca make her ready straight;\n" + " And, if you will, tell what hath happened,\n" + " Lucentio's father is arrived in Padua,\n" + " And how she's like to be Lucentio's wife.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO I pray the gods she may with all my heart!\n\n" + "TRANIO Dally not with the gods, but get thee gone.\n\n" + " [Exit BIONDELLO]\n\n" + " Signior Baptista, shall I lead the way?\n" + " Welcome! one mess is like to be your cheer:\n" + " Come, sir; we will better it in Pisa.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA I follow you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt TRANIO, Pedant, and BAPTISTA]\n\n" + " [Re-enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Cambio!\n\n" + "LUCENTIO What sayest thou, Biondello?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Biondello, what of that?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind, to\n" + " expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I pray thee, moralize them.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Then thus. Baptista is safe, talking with the\n" + " deceiving father of a deceitful son.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO And what of him?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO His daughter is to be brought by you to the supper.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO And then?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO The old priest of Saint Luke's church is at your\n" + " command at all hours.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO And what of all this?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO I cannot tell; expect they are busied about a\n" + " counterfeit assurance: take you assurance of her,\n" + " 'cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum:' to the\n" + " church; take the priest, clerk, and some sufficient\n" + " honest witnesses: If this be not that you look for,\n" + " I have no more to say, But bid Bianca farewell for\n" + " ever and a day.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Hearest thou, Biondello?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO I cannot tarry: I knew a wench married in an\n" + " afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to\n" + " stuff a rabbit; and so may you, sir: and so, adieu,\n" + " sir. My master hath appointed me to go to Saint\n" + " Luke's, to bid the priest be ready to come against\n" + " you come with your appendix.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I may, and will, if she be so contented:\n" + " She will be pleased; then wherefore should I doubt?\n" + " Hap what hap may, I'll roundly go about her:\n" + " It shall go hard if Cambio go without her.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V A public road.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO, and Servants]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Come on, i' God's name; once more toward our father's.\n" + " Good Lord, how bright and goodly shines the moon!\n\n" + "KATHARINA The moon! the sun: it is not moonlight now.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I say it is the moon that shines so bright.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I know it is the sun that shines so bright.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Now, by my mother's son, and that's myself,\n" + " It shall be moon, or star, or what I list,\n" + " Or ere I journey to your father's house.\n" + " Go on, and fetch our horses back again.\n" + " Evermore cross'd and cross'd; nothing but cross'd!\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Say as he says, or we shall never go.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,\n" + " And be it moon, or sun, or what you please:\n" + " An if you please to call it a rush-candle,\n" + " Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I say it is the moon.\n\n" + "KATHARINA I know it is the moon.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Nay, then you lie: it is the blessed sun.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Then, God be bless'd, it is the blessed sun:\n" + " But sun it is not, when you say it is not;\n" + " And the moon changes even as your mind.\n" + " What you will have it named, even that it is;\n" + " And so it shall be so for Katharina.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Petruchio, go thy ways; the field is won.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run,\n" + " And not unluckily against the bias.\n" + " But, soft! company is coming here.\n\n" + " [Enter VINCENTIO]\n\n" + " [To VINCENTIO]\n\n" + " Good morrow, gentle mistress: where away?\n" + " Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too,\n" + " Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?\n" + " Such war of white and red within her cheeks!\n" + " What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty,\n" + " As those two eyes become that heavenly face?\n" + " Fair lovely maid, once more good day to thee.\n" + " Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's sake.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO A' will make the man mad, to make a woman of him.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet,\n" + " Whither away, or where is thy abode?\n" + " Happy the parents of so fair a child;\n" + " Happier the man, whom favourable stars\n" + " Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow!\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, how now, Kate! I hope thou art not mad:\n" + " This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, wither'd,\n" + " And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Pardon, old father, my mistaking eyes,\n" + " That have been so bedazzled with the sun\n" + " That everything I look on seemeth green:\n" + " Now I perceive thou art a reverend father;\n" + " Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistaking.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Do, good old grandsire; and withal make known\n" + " Which way thou travellest: if along with us,\n" + " We shall be joyful of thy company.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Fair sir, and you my merry mistress,\n" + " That with your strange encounter much amazed me,\n" + " My name is call'd Vincentio; my dwelling Pisa;\n" + " And bound I am to Padua; there to visit\n" + " A son of mine, which long I have not seen.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO What is his name?\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Lucentio, gentle sir.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Happily we met; the happier for thy son.\n" + " And now by law, as well as reverend age,\n" + " I may entitle thee my loving father:\n" + " The sister to my wife, this gentlewoman,\n" + " Thy son by this hath married. Wonder not,\n" + " Nor be grieved: she is of good esteem,\n" + " Her dowery wealthy, and of worthy birth;\n" + " Beside, so qualified as may beseem\n" + " The spouse of any noble gentleman.\n" + " Let me embrace with old Vincentio,\n" + " And wander we to see thy honest son,\n" + " Who will of thy arrival be full joyous.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO But is it true? or else is it your pleasure,\n" + " Like pleasant travellers, to break a jest\n" + " Upon the company you overtake?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO I do assure thee, father, so it is.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Come, go along, and see the truth hereof;\n" + " For our first merriment hath made thee jealous.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but HORTENSIO]\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Well, Petruchio, this has put me in heart.\n" + " Have to my widow! and if she be froward,\n" + " Then hast thou taught Hortensio to be untoward.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Padua. Before LUCENTIO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [GREMIO discovered. Enter behind BIONDELLO,\n" + " LUCENTIO, and BIANCA]\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Softly and swiftly, sir; for the priest is ready.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I fly, Biondello: but they may chance to need thee\n" + " at home; therefore leave us.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Nay, faith, I'll see the church o' your back; and\n" + " then come back to my master's as soon as I can.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCENTIO, BIANCA, and BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "GREMIO I marvel Cambio comes not all this while.\n\n" + " [Enter PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, VINCENTIO, GRUMIO,\n" + " with Attendants]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Sir, here's the door, this is Lucentio's house:\n" + " My father's bears more toward the market-place;\n" + " Thither must I, and here I leave you, sir.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO You shall not choose but drink before you go:\n" + " I think I shall command your welcome here,\n" + " And, by all likelihood, some cheer is toward.\n\n" + " [Knocks]\n\n" + "GREMIO They're busy within; you were best knock louder.\n\n" + " [Pedant looks out of the window]\n\n" + "Pedant What's he that knocks as he would beat down the gate?\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Is Signior Lucentio within, sir?\n\n" + "Pedant He's within, sir, but not to be spoken withal.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO What if a man bring him a hundred pound or two, to\n" + " make merry withal?\n\n" + "Pedant Keep your hundred pounds to yourself: he shall\n" + " need none, so long as I live.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Nay, I told you your son was well beloved in Padua.\n" + " Do you hear, sir? To leave frivolous circumstances,\n" + " I pray you, tell Signior Lucentio that his father is\n" + " come from Pisa, and is here at the door to speak with him.\n\n" + "Pedant Thou liest: his father is come from Padua and here\n" + " looking out at the window.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Art thou his father?\n\n" + "Pedant Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO [To VINCENTIO] Why, how now, gentleman! why, this\n" + " is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name.\n\n" + "Pedant Lay hands on the villain: I believe a' means to\n" + " cozen somebody in this city under my countenance.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "BIONDELLO I have seen them in the church together: God send\n" + " 'em good shipping! But who is here? mine old\n" + " master Vincentio! now we are undone and brought to nothing.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO [Seeing BIONDELLO]\n\n" + " Come hither, crack-hemp.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Hope I may choose, sir.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Come hither, you rogue. What, have you forgot me?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Forgot you! no, sir: I could not forget you, for I\n" + " never saw you before in all my life.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO What, you notorious villain, didst thou never see\n" + " thy master's father, Vincentio?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO What, my old worshipful old master? yes, marry, sir:\n" + " see where he looks out of the window.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Is't so, indeed.\n\n" + " [Beats BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Help, help, help! here's a madman will murder me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Pedant Help, son! help, Signior Baptista!\n\n" + " [Exit from above]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Prithee, Kate, let's stand aside and see the end of\n" + " this controversy.\n\n" + " [They retire]\n\n" + " [Re-enter Pedant below; TRANIO, BAPTISTA, and Servants]\n\n" + "TRANIO Sir, what are you that offer to beat my servant?\n\n" + "VINCENTIO What am I, sir! nay, what are you, sir? O immortal\n" + " gods! O fine villain! A silken doublet! a velvet\n" + " hose! a scarlet cloak! and a copatain hat! O, I\n" + " am undone! I am undone! while I play the good\n" + " husband at home, my son and my servant spend all at\n" + " the university.\n\n" + "TRANIO How now! what's the matter?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA What, is the man lunatic?\n\n" + "TRANIO Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your\n" + " habit, but your words show you a madman. Why, sir,\n" + " what 'cerns it you if I wear pearl and gold? I\n" + " thank my good father, I am able to maintain it.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Thy father! O villain! he is a sailmaker in Bergamo.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA You mistake, sir, you mistake, sir. Pray, what do\n" + " you think is his name?\n\n" + "VINCENTIO His name! as if I knew not his name: I have brought\n" + " him up ever since he was three years old, and his\n" + " name is Tranio.\n\n" + "Pedant Away, away, mad ass! his name is Lucentio and he is\n" + " mine only son, and heir to the lands of me, Signior Vincentio.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Lucentio! O, he hath murdered his master! Lay hold\n" + " on him, I charge you, in the duke's name. O, my\n" + " son, my son! Tell me, thou villain, where is my son Lucentio?\n\n" + "TRANIO Call forth an officer.\n\n" + " [Enter one with an Officer]\n\n" + " Carry this mad knave to the gaol. Father Baptista,\n" + " I charge you see that he be forthcoming.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Carry me to the gaol!\n\n" + "GREMIO Stay, officer: he shall not go to prison.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Talk not, Signior Gremio: I say he shall go to prison.\n\n" + "GREMIO Take heed, Signior Baptista, lest you be\n" + " cony-catched in this business: I dare swear this\n" + " is the right Vincentio.\n\n" + "Pedant Swear, if thou darest.\n\n" + "GREMIO Nay, I dare not swear it.\n\n" + "TRANIO Then thou wert best say that I am not Lucentio.\n\n" + "GREMIO Yes, I know thee to be Signior Lucentio.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Away with the dotard! to the gaol with him!\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Thus strangers may be hailed and abused: O\n" + " monstrous villain!\n\n" + " [Re-enter BIONDELLO, with LUCENTIO and BIANCA]\n\n" + "BIONDELLO O! we are spoiled and--yonder he is: deny him,\n" + " forswear him, or else we are all undone.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO [Kneeling] Pardon, sweet father.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Lives my sweet son?\n\n" + " [Exeunt BIONDELLO, TRANIO, and Pedant, as fast\n" + " as may be]\n\n" + "BIANCA Pardon, dear father.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA How hast thou offended?\n" + " Where is Lucentio?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Here's Lucentio,\n" + " Right son to the right Vincentio;\n" + " That have by marriage made thy daughter mine,\n" + " While counterfeit supposes bleared thine eyne.\n\n" + "GREMIO Here's packing, with a witness to deceive us all!\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Where is that damned villain Tranio,\n" + " That faced and braved me in this matter so?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Why, tell me, is not this my Cambio?\n\n" + "BIANCA Cambio is changed into Lucentio.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Love wrought these miracles. Bianca's love\n" + " Made me exchange my state with Tranio,\n" + " While he did bear my countenance in the town;\n" + " And happily I have arrived at the last\n" + " Unto the wished haven of my bliss.\n" + " What Tranio did, myself enforced him to;\n" + " Then pardon him, sweet father, for my sake.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO I'll slit the villain's nose, that would have sent\n" + " me to the gaol.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA But do you hear, sir? have you married my daughter\n" + " without asking my good will?\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Fear not, Baptista; we will content you, go to: but\n" + " I will in, to be revenged for this villany.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA And I, to sound the depth of this knavery.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Look not pale, Bianca; thy father will not frown.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCENTIO and BIANCA]\n\n" + "GREMIO My cake is dough; but I'll in among the rest,\n" + " Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "KATHARINA Husband, let's follow, to see the end of this ado.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO First kiss me, Kate, and we will.\n\n" + "KATHARINA What, in the midst of the street?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO What, art thou ashamed of me?\n\n" + "KATHARINA No, sir, God forbid; but ashamed to kiss.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, then let's home again. Come, sirrah, let's away.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Nay, I will give thee a kiss: now pray thee, love, stay.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Is not this well? Come, my sweet Kate:\n" + " Better once than never, for never too late.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TAMING OF THE SHREW\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Padua. LUCENTIO'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter BAPTISTA, VINCENTIO, GREMIO, the Pedant,\n" + " LUCENTIO, BIANCA, PETRUCHIO, KATHARINA, HORTENSIO,\n" + " and Widow, TRANIO, BIONDELLO, and GRUMIO the\n" + " Serving-men with Tranio bringing in a banquet]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO At last, though long, our jarring notes agree:\n" + " And time it is, when raging war is done,\n" + " To smile at scapes and perils overblown.\n" + " My fair Bianca, bid my father welcome,\n" + " While I with self-same kindness welcome thine.\n" + " Brother Petruchio, sister Katharina,\n" + " And thou, Hortensio, with thy loving widow,\n" + " Feast with the best, and welcome to my house:\n" + " My banquet is to close our stomachs up,\n" + " After our great good cheer. Pray you, sit down;\n" + " For now we sit to chat as well as eat.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Nothing but sit and sit, and eat and eat!\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Padua affords this kindness, son Petruchio.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Padua affords nothing but what is kind.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO For both our sakes, I would that word were true.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Now, for my life, Hortensio fears his widow.\n\n" + "Widow Then never trust me, if I be afeard.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO You are very sensible, and yet you miss my sense:\n" + " I mean, Hortensio is afeard of you.\n\n" + "Widow He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Roundly replied.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Mistress, how mean you that?\n\n" + "Widow Thus I conceive by him.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Conceives by me! How likes Hortensio that?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO My widow says, thus she conceives her tale.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Very well mended. Kiss him for that, good widow.\n\n" + "KATHARINA 'He that is giddy thinks the world turns round:'\n" + " I pray you, tell me what you meant by that.\n\n" + "Widow Your husband, being troubled with a shrew,\n" + " Measures my husband's sorrow by his woe:\n" + " And now you know my meaning,\n\n" + "KATHARINA A very mean meaning.\n\n" + "Widow Right, I mean you.\n\n" + "KATHARINA And I am mean indeed, respecting you.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO To her, Kate!\n\n" + "HORTENSIO To her, widow!\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A hundred marks, my Kate does put her down.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO That's my office.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Spoke like an officer; ha' to thee, lad!\n\n" + " [Drinks to HORTENSIO]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA How likes Gremio these quick-witted folks?\n\n" + "GREMIO Believe me, sir, they butt together well.\n\n" + "BIANCA Head, and butt! an hasty-witted body\n" + " Would say your head and butt were head and horn.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO Ay, mistress bride, hath that awaken'd you?\n\n" + "BIANCA Ay, but not frighted me; therefore I'll sleep again.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Nay, that you shall not: since you have begun,\n" + " Have at you for a bitter jest or two!\n\n" + "BIANCA Am I your bird? I mean to shift my bush;\n" + " And then pursue me as you draw your bow.\n" + " You are welcome all.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BIANCA, KATHARINA, and Widow]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO She hath prevented me. Here, Signior Tranio.\n" + " This bird you aim'd at, though you hit her not;\n" + " Therefore a health to all that shot and miss'd.\n\n" + "TRANIO O, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his greyhound,\n" + " Which runs himself and catches for his master.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A good swift simile, but something currish.\n\n" + "TRANIO 'Tis well, sir, that you hunted for yourself:\n" + " 'Tis thought your deer does hold you at a bay.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA O ho, Petruchio! Tranio hits you now.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Confess, confess, hath he not hit you here?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A' has a little gall'd me, I confess;\n" + " And, as the jest did glance away from me,\n" + " 'Tis ten to one it maim'd you two outright.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Now, in good sadness, son Petruchio,\n" + " I think thou hast the veriest shrew of all.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Well, I say no: and therefore for assurance\n" + " Let's each one send unto his wife;\n" + " And he whose wife is most obedient\n" + " To come at first when he doth send for her,\n" + " Shall win the wager which we will propose.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Content. What is the wager?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Twenty crowns.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Twenty crowns!\n" + " I'll venture so much of my hawk or hound,\n" + " But twenty times so much upon my wife.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO A hundred then.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Content.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO A match! 'tis done.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Who shall begin?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO That will I.\n" + " Go, Biondello, bid your mistress come to me.\n\n" + "BIONDELLO I go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Son, I'll be your half, Bianca comes.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I'll have no halves; I'll bear it all myself.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + " How now! what news?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO Sir, my mistress sends you word\n" + " That she is busy and she cannot come.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO How! she is busy and she cannot come!\n" + " Is that an answer?\n\n" + "GREMIO Ay, and a kind one too:\n" + " Pray God, sir, your wife send you not a worse.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I hope better.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Sirrah Biondello, go and entreat my wife\n" + " To come to me forthwith.\n\n" + " [Exit BIONDELLO]\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO O, ho! entreat her!\n" + " Nay, then she must needs come.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO I am afraid, sir,\n" + " Do what you can, yours will not be entreated.\n\n" + " [Re-enter BIONDELLO]\n\n" + " Now, where's my wife?\n\n" + "BIONDELLO She says you have some goodly jest in hand:\n" + " She will not come: she bids you come to her.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Worse and worse; she will not come! O vile,\n" + " Intolerable, not to be endured!\n" + " Sirrah Grumio, go to your mistress;\n" + " Say, I command her to come to me.\n\n" + " [Exit GRUMIO]\n\n" + "HORTENSIO I know her answer.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO What?\n\n" + "HORTENSIO She will not.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO The fouler fortune mine, and there an end.\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Now, by my holidame, here comes Katharina!\n\n" + " [Re-enter KATARINA]\n\n" + "KATHARINA What is your will, sir, that you send for me?\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Where is your sister, and Hortensio's wife?\n\n" + "KATHARINA They sit conferring by the parlor fire.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Go fetch them hither: if they deny to come.\n" + " Swinge me them soundly forth unto their husbands:\n" + " Away, I say, and bring them hither straight.\n\n" + " [Exit KATHARINA]\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Here is a wonder, if you talk of a wonder.\n\n" + "HORTENSIO And so it is: I wonder what it bodes.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Marry, peace it bodes, and love and quiet life,\n" + " And awful rule and right supremacy;\n" + " And, to be short, what not, that's sweet and happy?\n\n" + "BAPTISTA Now, fair befal thee, good Petruchio!\n" + " The wager thou hast won; and I will add\n" + " Unto their losses twenty thousand crowns;\n" + " Another dowry to another daughter,\n" + " For she is changed, as she had never been.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Nay, I will win my wager better yet\n" + " And show more sign of her obedience,\n" + " Her new-built virtue and obedience.\n" + " See where she comes and brings your froward wives\n" + " As prisoners to her womanly persuasion.\n\n" + " [Re-enter KATHARINA, with BIANCA and Widow]\n\n" + " Katharina, that cap of yours becomes you not:\n" + " Off with that bauble, throw it under-foot.\n\n" + "Widow Lord, let me never have a cause to sigh,\n" + " Till I be brought to such a silly pass!\n\n" + "BIANCA Fie! what a foolish duty call you this?\n\n" + "LUCENTIO I would your duty were as foolish too:\n" + " The wisdom of your duty, fair Bianca,\n" + " Hath cost me an hundred crowns since supper-time.\n\n" + "BIANCA The more fool you, for laying on my duty.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Katharina, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women\n" + " What duty they do owe their lords and husbands.\n\n" + "Widow Come, come, you're mocking: we will have no telling.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Come on, I say; and first begin with her.\n\n" + "Widow She shall not.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO I say she shall: and first begin with her.\n\n" + "KATHARINA Fie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow,\n" + " And dart not scornful glances from those eyes,\n" + " To wound thy lord, thy king, thy governor:\n" + " It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads,\n" + " Confounds thy fame as whirlwinds shake fair buds,\n" + " And in no sense is meet or amiable.\n" + " A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,\n" + " Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty;\n" + " And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty\n" + " Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it.\n" + " Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,\n" + " Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,\n" + " And for thy maintenance commits his body\n" + " To painful labour both by sea and land,\n" + " To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,\n" + " Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;\n" + " And craves no other tribute at thy hands\n" + " But love, fair looks and true obedience;\n" + " Too little payment for so great a debt.\n" + " Such duty as the subject owes the prince\n" + " Even such a woman oweth to her husband;\n" + " And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour,\n" + " And not obedient to his honest will,\n" + " What is she but a foul contending rebel\n" + " And graceless traitor to her loving lord?\n" + " I am ashamed that women are so simple\n" + " To offer war where they should kneel for peace;\n" + " Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway,\n" + " When they are bound to serve, love and obey.\n" + " Why are our bodies soft and weak and smooth,\n" + " Unapt to toil and trouble in the world,\n" + " But that our soft conditions and our hearts\n" + " Should well agree with our external parts?\n" + " Come, come, you froward and unable worms!\n" + " My mind hath been as big as one of yours,\n" + " My heart as great, my reason haply more,\n" + " To bandy word for word and frown for frown;\n" + " But now I see our lances are but straws,\n" + " Our strength as weak, our weakness past compare,\n" + " That seeming to be most which we indeed least are.\n" + " Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,\n" + " And place your hands below your husband's foot:\n" + " In token of which duty, if he please,\n" + " My hand is ready; may it do him ease.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO Well, go thy ways, old lad; for thou shalt ha't.\n\n" + "VINCENTIO 'Tis a good hearing when children are toward.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO But a harsh hearing when women are froward.\n\n" + "PETRUCHIO Come, Kate, we'll to bed.\n" + " We three are married, but you two are sped.\n\n" + " [To LUCENTIO]\n\n" + " 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white;\n" + " And, being a winner, God give you good night!\n\n" + " [Exeunt PETRUCHIO and KATHARINA]\n\n" + "HORTENSIO Now, go thy ways; thou hast tamed a curst shrew.\n\n" + "LUCENTIO 'Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tamed so.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "ALONSO King of Naples.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN his brother.\n\n" + "PROSPERO the right Duke of Milan.\n\n" + "ANTONIO his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan.\n\n" + "FERDINAND son to the King of Naples.\n\n" + "GONZALO an honest old Counsellor.\n\n\n" + "ADRIAN |\n" + " | Lords.\n" + "FRANCISCO |\n\n\n" + "CALIBAN a savage and deformed Slave.\n\n" + "TRINCULO a Jester.\n\n" + "STEPHANO a drunken Butler.\n\n" + " Master of a Ship. (Master:)\n\n" + " Boatswain. (Boatswain:)\n\n" + " Mariners. (Mariners:)\n\n" + "MIRANDA daughter to Prospero.\n\n" + "ARIEL an airy Spirit.\n\n\n" + "IRIS |\n" + " |\n" + "CERES |\n" + " |\n" + "JUNO | presented by Spirits.\n" + " |\n" + "Nymphs |\n" + " |\n" + "Reapers |\n\n\n" + " Other Spirits attending on Prospero.\n\n\n" + "SCENE A ship at Sea: an island.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise\n" + " of thunder and lightning heard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Master and a Boatswain]\n\n" + "Master Boatswain!\n\n" + "Boatswain Here, master: what cheer?\n\n" + "Master Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,\n" + " or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter Mariners]\n\n" + "Boatswain Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!\n" + " yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the\n" + " master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,\n" + " if room enough!\n\n" + " [Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND,\n" + " GONZALO, and others]\n\n" + "ALONSO Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?\n" + " Play the men.\n\n" + "Boatswain I pray now, keep below.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Where is the master, boatswain?\n\n" + "Boatswain Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your\n" + " cabins: you do assist the storm.\n\n" + "GONZALO Nay, good, be patient.\n\n" + "Boatswain When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers\n" + " for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.\n\n" + "GONZALO Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.\n\n" + "Boatswain None that I more love than myself. You are a\n" + " counsellor; if you can command these elements to\n" + " silence, and work the peace of the present, we will\n" + " not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you\n" + " cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make\n" + " yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of\n" + " the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out\n" + " of our way, I say.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GONZALO I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he\n" + " hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is\n" + " perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his\n" + " hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,\n" + " for our own doth little advantage. If he be not\n" + " born to be hanged, our case is miserable.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter Boatswain]\n\n" + "Boatswain Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring\n" + " her to try with main-course.\n\n" + " [A cry within]\n\n" + " A plague upon this howling! they are louder than\n" + " the weather or our office.\n\n" + " [Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO]\n\n" + " Yet again! what do you here? Shall we give o'er\n" + " and drown? Have you a mind to sink?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous,\n" + " incharitable dog!\n\n" + "Boatswain Work you then.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Hang, cur! hang, you whoreson, insolent noisemaker!\n" + " We are less afraid to be drowned than thou art.\n\n" + "GONZALO I'll warrant him for drowning; though the ship were\n" + " no stronger than a nutshell and as leaky as an\n" + " unstanched wench.\n\n" + "Boatswain Lay her a-hold, a-hold! set her two courses off to\n" + " sea again; lay her off.\n\n" + " [Enter Mariners wet]\n\n" + "Mariners All lost! to prayers, to prayers! all lost!\n\n" + "Boatswain What, must our mouths be cold?\n\n" + "GONZALO The king and prince at prayers! let's assist them,\n" + " For our case is as theirs.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I'm out of patience.\n\n" + "ANTONIO We are merely cheated of our lives by drunkards:\n" + " This wide-chapp'd rascal--would thou mightst lie drowning\n" + " The washing of ten tides!\n\n" + "GONZALO He'll be hang'd yet,\n" + " Though every drop of water swear against it\n" + " And gape at widest to glut him.\n\n" + " [A confused noise within: 'Mercy on us!'--\n" + " 'We split, we split!'--'Farewell, my wife and\n" + " children!'--\n" + " 'Farewell, brother!'--'We split, we split, we split!']\n\n" + "ANTONIO Let's all sink with the king.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Let's take leave of him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN]\n\n" + "GONZALO Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an\n" + " acre of barren ground, long heath, brown furze, any\n" + " thing. The wills above be done! but I would fain\n" + " die a dry death.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The island. Before PROSPERO'S cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PROSPERO and MIRANDA]\n\n" + "MIRANDA If by your art, my dearest father, you have\n" + " Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.\n" + " The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,\n" + " But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,\n" + " Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffered\n" + " With those that I saw suffer: a brave vessel,\n" + " Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,\n" + " Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock\n" + " Against my very heart. Poor souls, they perish'd.\n" + " Had I been any god of power, I would\n" + " Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere\n" + " It should the good ship so have swallow'd and\n" + " The fraughting souls within her.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Be collected:\n" + " No more amazement: tell your piteous heart\n" + " There's no harm done.\n\n" + "MIRANDA O, woe the day!\n\n" + "PROSPERO No harm.\n" + " I have done nothing but in care of thee,\n" + " Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who\n" + " Art ignorant of what thou art, nought knowing\n" + " Of whence I am, nor that I am more better\n" + " Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,\n" + " And thy no greater father.\n\n" + "MIRANDA More to know\n" + " Did never meddle with my thoughts.\n\n" + "PROSPERO 'Tis time\n" + " I should inform thee farther. Lend thy hand,\n" + " And pluck my magic garment from me. So:\n\n" + " [Lays down his mantle]\n\n" + " Lie there, my art. Wipe thou thine eyes; have comfort.\n" + " The direful spectacle of the wreck, which touch'd\n" + " The very virtue of compassion in thee,\n" + " I have with such provision in mine art\n" + " So safely ordered that there is no soul--\n" + " No, not so much perdition as an hair\n" + " Betid to any creature in the vessel\n" + " Which thou heard'st cry, which thou saw'st sink. Sit down;\n" + " For thou must now know farther.\n\n" + "MIRANDA You have often\n" + " Begun to tell me what I am, but stopp'd\n" + " And left me to a bootless inquisition,\n" + " Concluding 'Stay: not yet.'\n\n" + "PROSPERO The hour's now come;\n" + " The very minute bids thee ope thine ear;\n" + " Obey and be attentive. Canst thou remember\n" + " A time before we came unto this cell?\n" + " I do not think thou canst, for then thou wast not\n" + " Out three years old.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Certainly, sir, I can.\n\n" + "PROSPERO By what? by any other house or person?\n" + " Of any thing the image tell me that\n" + " Hath kept with thy remembrance.\n\n" + "MIRANDA 'Tis far off\n" + " And rather like a dream than an assurance\n" + " That my remembrance warrants. Had I not\n" + " Four or five women once that tended me?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou hadst, and more, Miranda. But how is it\n" + " That this lives in thy mind? What seest thou else\n" + " In the dark backward and abysm of time?\n" + " If thou remember'st aught ere thou camest here,\n" + " How thou camest here thou mayst.\n\n" + "MIRANDA But that I do not.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,\n" + " Thy father was the Duke of Milan and\n" + " A prince of power.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Sir, are not you my father?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thy mother was a piece of virtue, and\n" + " She said thou wast my daughter; and thy father\n" + " Was Duke of Milan; and thou his only heir\n" + " And princess no worse issued.\n\n" + "MIRANDA O the heavens!\n" + " What foul play had we, that we came from thence?\n" + " Or blessed was't we did?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Both, both, my girl:\n" + " By foul play, as thou say'st, were we heaved thence,\n" + " But blessedly holp hither.\n\n" + "MIRANDA O, my heart bleeds\n" + " To think o' the teen that I have turn'd you to,\n" + " Which is from my remembrance! Please you, farther.\n\n" + "PROSPERO My brother and thy uncle, call'd Antonio--\n" + " I pray thee, mark me--that a brother should\n" + " Be so perfidious!--he whom next thyself\n" + " Of all the world I loved and to him put\n" + " The manage of my state; as at that time\n" + " Through all the signories it was the first\n" + " And Prospero the prime duke, being so reputed\n" + " In dignity, and for the liberal arts\n" + " Without a parallel; those being all my study,\n" + " The government I cast upon my brother\n" + " And to my state grew stranger, being transported\n" + " And rapt in secret studies. Thy false uncle--\n" + " Dost thou attend me?\n\n" + "MIRANDA Sir, most heedfully.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Being once perfected how to grant suits,\n" + " How to deny them, who to advance and who\n" + " To trash for over-topping, new created\n" + " The creatures that were mine, I say, or changed 'em,\n" + " Or else new form'd 'em; having both the key\n" + " Of officer and office, set all hearts i' the state\n" + " To what tune pleased his ear; that now he was\n" + " The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,\n" + " And suck'd my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not.\n\n" + "MIRANDA O, good sir, I do.\n\n" + "PROSPERO I pray thee, mark me.\n" + " I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated\n" + " To closeness and the bettering of my mind\n" + " With that which, but by being so retired,\n" + " O'er-prized all popular rate, in my false brother\n" + " Awaked an evil nature; and my trust,\n" + " Like a good parent, did beget of him\n" + " A falsehood in its contrary as great\n" + " As my trust was; which had indeed no limit,\n" + " A confidence sans bound. He being thus lorded,\n" + " Not only with what my revenue yielded,\n" + " But what my power might else exact, like one\n" + " Who having into truth, by telling of it,\n" + " Made such a sinner of his memory,\n" + " To credit his own lie, he did believe\n" + " He was indeed the duke; out o' the substitution\n" + " And executing the outward face of royalty,\n" + " With all prerogative: hence his ambition growing--\n" + " Dost thou hear?\n\n" + "MIRANDA Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.\n\n" + "PROSPERO To have no screen between this part he play'd\n" + " And him he play'd it for, he needs will be\n" + " Absolute Milan. Me, poor man, my library\n" + " Was dukedom large enough: of temporal royalties\n" + " He thinks me now incapable; confederates--\n" + " So dry he was for sway--wi' the King of Naples\n" + " To give him annual tribute, do him homage,\n" + " Subject his coronet to his crown and bend\n" + " The dukedom yet unbow'd--alas, poor Milan!--\n" + " To most ignoble stooping.\n\n" + "MIRANDA O the heavens!\n\n" + "PROSPERO Mark his condition and the event; then tell me\n" + " If this might be a brother.\n\n" + "MIRANDA I should sin\n" + " To think but nobly of my grandmother:\n" + " Good wombs have borne bad sons.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Now the condition.\n" + " The King of Naples, being an enemy\n" + " To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit;\n" + " Which was, that he, in lieu o' the premises\n" + " Of homage and I know not how much tribute,\n" + " Should presently extirpate me and mine\n" + " Out of the dukedom and confer fair Milan\n" + " With all the honours on my brother: whereon,\n" + " A treacherous army levied, one midnight\n" + " Fated to the purpose did Antonio open\n" + " The gates of Milan, and, i' the dead of darkness,\n" + " The ministers for the purpose hurried thence\n" + " Me and thy crying self.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Alack, for pity!\n" + " I, not remembering how I cried out then,\n" + " Will cry it o'er again: it is a hint\n" + " That wrings mine eyes to't.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Hear a little further\n" + " And then I'll bring thee to the present business\n" + " Which now's upon's; without the which this story\n" + " Were most impertinent.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Wherefore did they not\n" + " That hour destroy us?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Well demanded, wench:\n" + " My tale provokes that question. Dear, they durst not,\n" + " So dear the love my people bore me, nor set\n" + " A mark so bloody on the business, but\n" + " With colours fairer painted their foul ends.\n" + " In few, they hurried us aboard a bark,\n" + " Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared\n" + " A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigg'd,\n" + " Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats\n" + " Instinctively had quit it: there they hoist us,\n" + " To cry to the sea that roar'd to us, to sigh\n" + " To the winds whose pity, sighing back again,\n" + " Did us but loving wrong.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Alack, what trouble\n" + " Was I then to you!\n\n" + "PROSPERO O, a cherubim\n" + " Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile.\n" + " Infused with a fortitude from heaven,\n" + " When I have deck'd the sea with drops full salt,\n" + " Under my burthen groan'd; which raised in me\n" + " An undergoing stomach, to bear up\n" + " Against what should ensue.\n\n" + "MIRANDA How came we ashore?\n\n" + "PROSPERO By Providence divine.\n" + " Some food we had and some fresh water that\n" + " A noble Neapolitan, Gonzalo,\n" + " Out of his charity, being then appointed\n" + " Master of this design, did give us, with\n" + " Rich garments, linens, stuffs and necessaries,\n" + " Which since have steaded much; so, of his gentleness,\n" + " Knowing I loved my books, he furnish'd me\n" + " From mine own library with volumes that\n" + " I prize above my dukedom.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Would I might\n" + " But ever see that man!\n\n" + "PROSPERO Now I arise:\n\n" + " [Resumes his mantle]\n\n" + " Sit still, and hear the last of our sea-sorrow.\n" + " Here in this island we arrived; and here\n" + " Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more profit\n" + " Than other princesses can that have more time\n" + " For vainer hours and tutors not so careful.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Heavens thank you for't! And now, I pray you, sir,\n" + " For still 'tis beating in my mind, your reason\n" + " For raising this sea-storm?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Know thus far forth.\n" + " By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune,\n" + " Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies\n" + " Brought to this shore; and by my prescience\n" + " I find my zenith doth depend upon\n" + " A most auspicious star, whose influence\n" + " If now I court not but omit, my fortunes\n" + " Will ever after droop. Here cease more questions:\n" + " Thou art inclined to sleep; 'tis a good dulness,\n" + " And give it way: I know thou canst not choose.\n\n" + " [MIRANDA sleeps]\n\n" + " Come away, servant, come. I am ready now.\n" + " Approach, my Ariel, come.\n\n" + " [Enter ARIEL]\n\n" + "ARIEL All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come\n" + " To answer thy best pleasure; be't to fly,\n" + " To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride\n" + " On the curl'd clouds, to thy strong bidding task\n" + " Ariel and all his quality.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Hast thou, spirit,\n" + " Perform'd to point the tempest that I bade thee?\n\n" + "ARIEL To every article.\n" + " I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,\n" + " Now in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,\n" + " I flamed amazement: sometime I'ld divide,\n" + " And burn in many places; on the topmast,\n" + " The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,\n" + " Then meet and join. Jove's lightnings, the precursors\n" + " O' the dreadful thunder-claps, more momentary\n" + " And sight-outrunning were not; the fire and cracks\n" + " Of sulphurous roaring the most mighty Neptune\n" + " Seem to besiege and make his bold waves tremble,\n" + " Yea, his dread trident shake.\n\n" + "PROSPERO My brave spirit!\n" + " Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil\n" + " Would not infect his reason?\n\n" + "ARIEL Not a soul\n" + " But felt a fever of the mad and play'd\n" + " Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners\n" + " Plunged in the foaming brine and quit the vessel,\n" + " Then all afire with me: the king's son, Ferdinand,\n" + " With hair up-staring,--then like reeds, not hair,--\n" + " Was the first man that leap'd; cried, 'Hell is empty\n" + " And all the devils are here.'\n\n" + "PROSPERO Why that's my spirit!\n" + " But was not this nigh shore?\n\n" + "ARIEL Close by, my master.\n\n" + "PROSPERO But are they, Ariel, safe?\n\n" + "ARIEL Not a hair perish'd;\n" + " On their sustaining garments not a blemish,\n" + " But fresher than before: and, as thou badest me,\n" + " In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.\n" + " The king's son have I landed by himself;\n" + " Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs\n" + " In an odd angle of the isle and sitting,\n" + " His arms in this sad knot.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Of the king's ship\n" + " The mariners say how thou hast disposed\n" + " And all the rest o' the fleet.\n\n" + "ARIEL Safely in harbour\n" + " Is the king's ship; in the deep nook, where once\n" + " Thou call'dst me up at midnight to fetch dew\n" + " From the still-vex'd Bermoothes, there she's hid:\n" + " The mariners all under hatches stow'd;\n" + " Who, with a charm join'd to their suffer'd labour,\n" + " I have left asleep; and for the rest o' the fleet\n" + " Which I dispersed, they all have met again\n" + " And are upon the Mediterranean flote,\n" + " Bound sadly home for Naples,\n" + " Supposing that they saw the king's ship wreck'd\n" + " And his great person perish.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Ariel, thy charge\n" + " Exactly is perform'd: but there's more work.\n" + " What is the time o' the day?\n\n" + "ARIEL Past the mid season.\n\n" + "PROSPERO At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now\n" + " Must by us both be spent most preciously.\n\n" + "ARIEL Is there more toil? Since thou dost give me pains,\n" + " Let me remember thee what thou hast promised,\n" + " Which is not yet perform'd me.\n\n" + "PROSPERO How now? moody?\n" + " What is't thou canst demand?\n\n" + "ARIEL My liberty.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Before the time be out? no more!\n\n" + "ARIEL I prithee,\n" + " Remember I have done thee worthy service;\n" + " Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, served\n" + " Without or grudge or grumblings: thou didst promise\n" + " To bate me a full year.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Dost thou forget\n" + " From what a torment I did free thee?\n\n" + "ARIEL No.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou dost, and think'st it much to tread the ooze\n" + " Of the salt deep,\n" + " To run upon the sharp wind of the north,\n" + " To do me business in the veins o' the earth\n" + " When it is baked with frost.\n\n" + "ARIEL I do not, sir.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou liest, malignant thing! Hast thou forgot\n" + " The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy\n" + " Was grown into a hoop? hast thou forgot her?\n\n" + "ARIEL No, sir.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou hast. Where was she born? speak; tell me.\n\n" + "ARIEL Sir, in Argier.\n\n" + "PROSPERO O, was she so? I must\n" + " Once in a month recount what thou hast been,\n" + " Which thou forget'st. This damn'd witch Sycorax,\n" + " For mischiefs manifold and sorceries terrible\n" + " To enter human hearing, from Argier,\n" + " Thou know'st, was banish'd: for one thing she did\n" + " They would not take her life. Is not this true?\n\n" + "ARIEL Ay, sir.\n\n" + "PROSPERO This blue-eyed hag was hither brought with child\n" + " And here was left by the sailors. Thou, my slave,\n" + " As thou report'st thyself, wast then her servant;\n" + " And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate\n" + " To act her earthy and abhorr'd commands,\n" + " Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee,\n" + " By help of her more potent ministers\n" + " And in her most unmitigable rage,\n" + " Into a cloven pine; within which rift\n" + " Imprison'd thou didst painfully remain\n" + " A dozen years; within which space she died\n" + " And left thee there; where thou didst vent thy groans\n" + " As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was this island--\n" + " Save for the son that she did litter here,\n" + " A freckled whelp hag-born--not honour'd with\n" + " A human shape.\n\n" + "ARIEL Yes, Caliban her son.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Dull thing, I say so; he, that Caliban\n" + " Whom now I keep in service. Thou best know'st\n" + " What torment I did find thee in; thy groans\n" + " Did make wolves howl and penetrate the breasts\n" + " Of ever angry bears: it was a torment\n" + " To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax\n" + " Could not again undo: it was mine art,\n" + " When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape\n" + " The pine and let thee out.\n\n" + "ARIEL I thank thee, master.\n\n" + "PROSPERO If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak\n" + " And peg thee in his knotty entrails till\n" + " Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.\n\n" + "ARIEL Pardon, master;\n" + " I will be correspondent to command\n" + " And do my spiriting gently.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Do so, and after two days\n" + " I will discharge thee.\n\n" + "ARIEL That's my noble master!\n" + " What shall I do? say what; what shall I do?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Go make thyself like a nymph o' the sea: be subject\n" + " To no sight but thine and mine, invisible\n" + " To every eyeball else. Go take this shape\n" + " And hither come in't: go, hence with diligence!\n\n" + " [Exit ARIEL]\n\n" + " Awake, dear heart, awake! thou hast slept well; Awake!\n\n" + "MIRANDA The strangeness of your story put\n" + " Heaviness in me.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Shake it off. Come on;\n" + " We'll visit Caliban my slave, who never\n" + " Yields us kind answer.\n\n" + "MIRANDA 'Tis a villain, sir,\n" + " I do not love to look on.\n\n" + "PROSPERO But, as 'tis,\n" + " We cannot miss him: he does make our fire,\n" + " Fetch in our wood and serves in offices\n" + " That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban!\n" + " Thou earth, thou! speak.\n\n" + "CALIBAN [Within] There's wood enough within.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee:\n" + " Come, thou tortoise! when?\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARIEL like a water-nymph]\n\n" + " Fine apparition! My quaint Ariel,\n" + " Hark in thine ear.\n\n" + "ARIEL My lord it shall be done.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself\n" + " Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!\n\n" + " [Enter CALIBAN]\n\n" + "CALIBAN As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd\n" + " With raven's feather from unwholesome fen\n" + " Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye\n" + " And blister you all o'er!\n\n" + "PROSPERO For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps,\n" + " Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins\n" + " Shall, for that vast of night that they may work,\n" + " All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd\n" + " As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging\n" + " Than bees that made 'em.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I must eat my dinner.\n" + " This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother,\n" + " Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first,\n" + " Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me\n" + " Water with berries in't, and teach me how\n" + " To name the bigger light, and how the less,\n" + " That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee\n" + " And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle,\n" + " The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile:\n" + " Cursed be I that did so! All the charms\n" + " Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you!\n" + " For I am all the subjects that you have,\n" + " Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me\n" + " In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me\n" + " The rest o' the island.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou most lying slave,\n" + " Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee,\n" + " Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee\n" + " In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate\n" + " The honour of my child.\n\n" + "CALIBAN O ho, O ho! would't had been done!\n" + " Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else\n" + " This isle with Calibans.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Abhorred slave,\n" + " Which any print of goodness wilt not take,\n" + " Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,\n" + " Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour\n" + " One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,\n" + " Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like\n" + " A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes\n" + " With words that made them known. But thy vile race,\n" + " Though thou didst learn, had that in't which\n" + " good natures\n" + " Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou\n" + " Deservedly confined into this rock,\n" + " Who hadst deserved more than a prison.\n\n" + "CALIBAN You taught me language; and my profit on't\n" + " Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you\n" + " For learning me your language!\n\n" + "PROSPERO Hag-seed, hence!\n" + " Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best,\n" + " To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice?\n" + " If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly\n" + " What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps,\n" + " Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar\n" + " That beasts shall tremble at thy din.\n\n" + "CALIBAN No, pray thee.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I must obey: his art is of such power,\n" + " It would control my dam's god, Setebos,\n" + " and make a vassal of him.\n\n" + "PROSPERO So, slave; hence!\n\n" + " [Exit CALIBAN]\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARIEL, invisible, playing and singing;\n" + " FERDINAND following]\n\n" + " ARIEL'S song.\n\n" + " Come unto these yellow sands,\n" + " And then take hands:\n" + " Courtsied when you have and kiss'd\n" + " The wild waves whist,\n" + " Foot it featly here and there;\n" + " And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear.\n" + " Hark, hark!\n\n" + " [Burthen [dispersedly, within] Bow-wow]\n\n" + " The watch-dogs bark!\n\n" + " [Burthen Bow-wow]\n\n" + " Hark, hark! I hear\n" + " The strain of strutting chanticleer\n" + " Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Where should this music be? i' the air or the earth?\n" + " It sounds no more: and sure, it waits upon\n" + " Some god o' the island. Sitting on a bank,\n" + " Weeping again the king my father's wreck,\n" + " This music crept by me upon the waters,\n" + " Allaying both their fury and my passion\n" + " With its sweet air: thence I have follow'd it,\n" + " Or it hath drawn me rather. But 'tis gone.\n" + " No, it begins again.\n\n" + " [ARIEL sings]\n\n" + " Full fathom five thy father lies;\n" + " Of his bones are coral made;\n" + " Those are pearls that were his eyes:\n" + " Nothing of him that doth fade\n" + " But doth suffer a sea-change\n" + " Into something rich and strange.\n" + " Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell\n\n" + " [Burthen Ding-dong]\n\n" + " Hark! now I hear them,--Ding-dong, bell.\n\n" + "FERDINAND The ditty does remember my drown'd father.\n" + " This is no mortal business, nor no sound\n" + " That the earth owes. I hear it now above me.\n\n" + "PROSPERO The fringed curtains of thine eye advance\n" + " And say what thou seest yond.\n\n" + "MIRANDA What is't? a spirit?\n" + " Lord, how it looks about! Believe me, sir,\n" + " It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit.\n\n" + "PROSPERO No, wench; it eats and sleeps and hath such senses\n" + " As we have, such. This gallant which thou seest\n" + " Was in the wreck; and, but he's something stain'd\n" + " With grief that's beauty's canker, thou mightst call him\n" + " A goodly person: he hath lost his fellows\n" + " And strays about to find 'em.\n\n" + "MIRANDA I might call him\n" + " A thing divine, for nothing natural\n" + " I ever saw so noble.\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside] It goes on, I see,\n" + " As my soul prompts it. Spirit, fine spirit! I'll free thee\n" + " Within two days for this.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Most sure, the goddess\n" + " On whom these airs attend! Vouchsafe my prayer\n" + " May know if you remain upon this island;\n" + " And that you will some good instruction give\n" + " How I may bear me here: my prime request,\n" + " Which I do last pronounce, is, O you wonder!\n" + " If you be maid or no?\n\n" + "MIRANDA No wonder, sir;\n" + " But certainly a maid.\n\n" + "FERDINAND My language! heavens!\n" + " I am the best of them that speak this speech,\n" + " Were I but where 'tis spoken.\n\n" + "PROSPERO How? the best?\n" + " What wert thou, if the King of Naples heard thee?\n\n" + "FERDINAND A single thing, as I am now, that wonders\n" + " To hear thee speak of Naples. He does hear me;\n" + " And that he does I weep: myself am Naples,\n" + " Who with mine eyes, never since at ebb, beheld\n" + " The king my father wreck'd.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Alack, for mercy!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Yes, faith, and all his lords; the Duke of Milan\n" + " And his brave son being twain.\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside] The Duke of Milan\n" + " And his more braver daughter could control thee,\n" + " If now 'twere fit to do't. At the first sight\n" + " They have changed eyes. Delicate Ariel,\n" + " I'll set thee free for this.\n\n" + " [To FERDINAND]\n\n" + " A word, good sir;\n" + " I fear you have done yourself some wrong: a word.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Why speaks my father so ungently? This\n" + " Is the third man that e'er I saw, the first\n" + " That e'er I sigh'd for: pity move my father\n" + " To be inclined my way!\n\n" + "FERDINAND O, if a virgin,\n" + " And your affection not gone forth, I'll make you\n" + " The queen of Naples.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Soft, sir! one word more.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " They are both in either's powers; but this swift business\n" + " I must uneasy make, lest too light winning\n" + " Make the prize light.\n\n" + " [To FERDINAND]\n\n" + " One word more; I charge thee\n" + " That thou attend me: thou dost here usurp\n" + " The name thou owest not; and hast put thyself\n" + " Upon this island as a spy, to win it\n" + " From me, the lord on't.\n\n" + "FERDINAND No, as I am a man.\n\n" + "MIRANDA There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:\n" + " If the ill spirit have so fair a house,\n" + " Good things will strive to dwell with't.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Follow me.\n" + " Speak not you for him; he's a traitor. Come;\n" + " I'll manacle thy neck and feet together:\n" + " Sea-water shalt thou drink; thy food shall be\n" + " The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots and husks\n" + " Wherein the acorn cradled. Follow.\n\n" + "FERDINAND No;\n" + " I will resist such entertainment till\n" + " Mine enemy has more power.\n\n" + " [Draws, and is charmed from moving]\n\n" + "MIRANDA O dear father,\n" + " Make not too rash a trial of him, for\n" + " He's gentle and not fearful.\n\n" + "PROSPERO What? I say,\n" + " My foot my tutor? Put thy sword up, traitor;\n" + " Who makest a show but darest not strike, thy conscience\n" + " Is so possess'd with guilt: come from thy ward,\n" + " For I can here disarm thee with this stick\n" + " And make thy weapon drop.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Beseech you, father.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Hence! hang not on my garments.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Sir, have pity;\n" + " I'll be his surety.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Silence! one word more\n" + " Shall make me chide thee, if not hate thee. What!\n" + " An advocate for an imposter! hush!\n" + " Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he,\n" + " Having seen but him and Caliban: foolish wench!\n" + " To the most of men this is a Caliban\n" + " And they to him are angels.\n\n" + "MIRANDA My affections\n" + " Are then most humble; I have no ambition\n" + " To see a goodlier man.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Come on; obey:\n" + " Thy nerves are in their infancy again\n" + " And have no vigour in them.\n\n" + "FERDINAND So they are;\n" + " My spirits, as in a dream, are all bound up.\n" + " My father's loss, the weakness which I feel,\n" + " The wreck of all my friends, nor this man's threats,\n" + " To whom I am subdued, are but light to me,\n" + " Might I but through my prison once a day\n" + " Behold this maid: all corners else o' the earth\n" + " Let liberty make use of; space enough\n" + " Have I in such a prison.\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside] It works.\n\n" + " [To FERDINAND]\n\n" + " Come on.\n" + " Thou hast done well, fine Ariel!\n\n" + " [To FERDINAND]\n\n" + " Follow me.\n\n" + " [To ARIEL]\n\n" + " Hark what thou else shalt do me.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Be of comfort;\n" + " My father's of a better nature, sir,\n" + " Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted\n" + " Which now came from him.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou shalt be free\n" + " As mountain winds: but then exactly do\n" + " All points of my command.\n\n" + "ARIEL To the syllable.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Come, follow. Speak not for him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Another part of the island.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,\n" + " ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]\n\n" + "GONZALO Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,\n" + " So have we all, of joy; for our escape\n" + " Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe\n" + " Is common; every day some sailor's wife,\n" + " The masters of some merchant and the merchant\n" + " Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,\n" + " I mean our preservation, few in millions\n" + " Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh\n" + " Our sorrow with our comfort.\n\n" + "ALONSO Prithee, peace.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN He receives comfort like cold porridge.\n\n" + "ANTONIO The visitor will not give him o'er so.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Look he's winding up the watch of his wit;\n" + " by and by it will strike.\n\n" + "GONZALO Sir,--\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN One: tell.\n\n" + "GONZALO When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd,\n" + " Comes to the entertainer--\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN A dollar.\n\n" + "GONZALO Dolour comes to him, indeed: you\n" + " have spoken truer than you purposed.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.\n\n" + "GONZALO Therefore, my lord,--\n\n" + "ANTONIO Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!\n\n" + "ALONSO I prithee, spare.\n\n" + "GONZALO Well, I have done: but yet,--\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN He will be talking.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Which, of he or Adrian, for a good\n" + " wager, first begins to crow?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN The old cock.\n\n" + "ANTONIO The cockerel.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Done. The wager?\n\n" + "ANTONIO A laughter.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN A match!\n\n" + "ADRIAN Though this island seem to be desert,--\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Ha, ha, ha! So, you're paid.\n\n" + "ADRIAN Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,--\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Yet,--\n\n" + "ADRIAN Yet,--\n\n" + "ANTONIO He could not miss't.\n\n" + "ADRIAN It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate\n" + " temperance.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Temperance was a delicate wench.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.\n\n" + "ADRIAN The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN As if it had lungs and rotten ones.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen.\n\n" + "GONZALO Here is everything advantageous to life.\n\n" + "ANTONIO True; save means to live.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Of that there's none, or little.\n\n" + "GONZALO How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!\n\n" + "ANTONIO The ground indeed is tawny.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN With an eye of green in't.\n\n" + "ANTONIO He misses not much.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.\n\n" + "GONZALO But the rarity of it is,--which is indeed almost\n" + " beyond credit,--\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN As many vouched rarities are.\n\n" + "GONZALO That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in\n" + " the sea, hold notwithstanding their freshness and\n" + " glosses, being rather new-dyed than stained with\n" + " salt water.\n\n" + "ANTONIO If but one of his pockets could speak, would it not\n" + " say he lies?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Ay, or very falsely pocket up his report\n\n" + "GONZALO Methinks our garments are now as fresh as when we\n" + " put them on first in Afric, at the marriage of\n" + " the king's fair daughter Claribel to the King of Tunis.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN 'Twas a sweet marriage, and we prosper well in our return.\n\n" + "ADRIAN Tunis was never graced before with such a paragon to\n" + " their queen.\n\n" + "GONZALO Not since widow Dido's time.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Widow! a pox o' that! How came that widow in?\n" + " widow Dido!\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN What if he had said 'widower AEneas' too? Good Lord,\n" + " how you take it!\n\n" + "ADRIAN 'Widow Dido' said you? you make me study of that:\n" + " she was of Carthage, not of Tunis.\n\n" + "GONZALO This Tunis, sir, was Carthage.\n\n" + "ADRIAN Carthage?\n\n" + "GONZALO I assure you, Carthage.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN His word is more than the miraculous harp; he hath\n" + " raised the wall and houses too.\n\n" + "ANTONIO What impossible matter will he make easy next?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I think he will carry this island home in his pocket\n" + " and give it his son for an apple.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And, sowing the kernels of it in the sea, bring\n" + " forth more islands.\n\n" + "GONZALO Ay.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Why, in good time.\n\n" + "GONZALO Sir, we were talking that our garments seem now\n" + " as fresh as when we were at Tunis at the marriage\n" + " of your daughter, who is now queen.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And the rarest that e'er came there.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Bate, I beseech you, widow Dido.\n\n" + "ANTONIO O, widow Dido! ay, widow Dido.\n\n" + "GONZALO Is not, sir, my doublet as fresh as the first day I\n" + " wore it? I mean, in a sort.\n\n" + "ANTONIO That sort was well fished for.\n\n" + "GONZALO When I wore it at your daughter's marriage?\n\n" + "ALONSO You cram these words into mine ears against\n" + " The stomach of my sense. Would I had never\n" + " Married my daughter there! for, coming thence,\n" + " My son is lost and, in my rate, she too,\n" + " Who is so far from Italy removed\n" + " I ne'er again shall see her. O thou mine heir\n" + " Of Naples and of Milan, what strange fish\n" + " Hath made his meal on thee?\n\n" + "FRANCISCO Sir, he may live:\n" + " I saw him beat the surges under him,\n" + " And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,\n" + " Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted\n" + " The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head\n" + " 'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd\n" + " Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke\n" + " To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,\n" + " As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt\n" + " He came alive to land.\n\n" + "ALONSO No, no, he's gone.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Sir, you may thank yourself for this great loss,\n" + " That would not bless our Europe with your daughter,\n" + " But rather lose her to an African;\n" + " Where she at least is banish'd from your eye,\n" + " Who hath cause to wet the grief on't.\n\n" + "ALONSO Prithee, peace.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN You were kneel'd to and importuned otherwise\n" + " By all of us, and the fair soul herself\n" + " Weigh'd between loathness and obedience, at\n" + " Which end o' the beam should bow. We have lost your\n" + " son,\n" + " I fear, for ever: Milan and Naples have\n" + " More widows in them of this business' making\n" + " Than we bring men to comfort them:\n" + " The fault's your own.\n\n" + "ALONSO So is the dear'st o' the loss.\n\n" + "GONZALO My lord Sebastian,\n" + " The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness\n" + " And time to speak it in: you rub the sore,\n" + " When you should bring the plaster.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Very well.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And most chirurgeonly.\n\n" + "GONZALO It is foul weather in us all, good sir,\n" + " When you are cloudy.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Foul weather?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Very foul.\n\n" + "GONZALO Had I plantation of this isle, my lord,--\n\n" + "ANTONIO He'ld sow't with nettle-seed.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Or docks, or mallows.\n\n" + "GONZALO And were the king on't, what would I do?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN 'Scape being drunk for want of wine.\n\n" + "GONZALO I' the commonwealth I would by contraries\n" + " Execute all things; for no kind of traffic\n" + " Would I admit; no name of magistrate;\n" + " Letters should not be known; riches, poverty,\n" + " And use of service, none; contract, succession,\n" + " Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none;\n" + " No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil;\n" + " No occupation; all men idle, all;\n" + " And women too, but innocent and pure;\n" + " No sovereignty;--\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Yet he would be king on't.\n\n" + "ANTONIO The latter end of his commonwealth forgets the\n" + " beginning.\n\n" + "GONZALO All things in common nature should produce\n" + " Without sweat or endeavour: treason, felony,\n" + " Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine,\n" + " Would I not have; but nature should bring forth,\n" + " Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance,\n" + " To feed my innocent people.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN No marrying 'mong his subjects?\n\n" + "ANTONIO None, man; all idle: whores and knaves.\n\n" + "GONZALO I would with such perfection govern, sir,\n" + " To excel the golden age.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN God save his majesty!\n\n" + "ANTONIO Long live Gonzalo!\n\n" + "GONZALO And,--do you mark me, sir?\n\n" + "ALONSO Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.\n\n" + "GONZALO I do well believe your highness; and\n" + " did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,\n" + " who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that\n" + " they always use to laugh at nothing.\n\n" + "ANTONIO 'Twas you we laughed at.\n\n" + "GONZALO Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing\n" + " to you: so you may continue and laugh at\n" + " nothing still.\n\n" + "ANTONIO What a blow was there given!\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN An it had not fallen flat-long.\n\n" + "GONZALO You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift\n" + " the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue\n" + " in it five weeks without changing.\n\n" + " [Enter ARIEL, invisible, playing solemn music]\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN We would so, and then go a bat-fowling.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Nay, good my lord, be not angry.\n\n" + "GONZALO No, I warrant you; I will not adventure\n" + " my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh\n" + " me asleep, for I am very heavy?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Go sleep, and hear us.\n\n" + " [All sleep except ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]\n\n" + "ALONSO What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes\n" + " Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find\n" + " They are inclined to do so.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Please you, sir,\n" + " Do not omit the heavy offer of it:\n" + " It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,\n" + " It is a comforter.\n\n" + "ANTONIO We two, my lord,\n" + " Will guard your person while you take your rest,\n" + " And watch your safety.\n\n" + "ALONSO Thank you. Wondrous heavy.\n\n" + " [ALONSO sleeps. Exit ARIEL]\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN What a strange drowsiness possesses them!\n\n" + "ANTONIO It is the quality o' the climate.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Why\n" + " Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not\n" + " Myself disposed to sleep.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Nor I; my spirits are nimble.\n" + " They fell together all, as by consent;\n" + " They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,\n" + " Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?--No more:--\n" + " And yet me thinks I see it in thy face,\n" + " What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and\n" + " My strong imagination sees a crown\n" + " Dropping upon thy head.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN What, art thou waking?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Do you not hear me speak?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I do; and surely\n" + " It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st\n" + " Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?\n" + " This is a strange repose, to be asleep\n" + " With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,\n" + " And yet so fast asleep.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Noble Sebastian,\n" + " Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st\n" + " Whiles thou art waking.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Thou dost snore distinctly;\n" + " There's meaning in thy snores.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I am more serious than my custom: you\n" + " Must be so too, if heed me; which to do\n" + " Trebles thee o'er.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Well, I am standing water.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I'll teach you how to flow.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Do so: to ebb\n" + " Hereditary sloth instructs me.\n\n" + "ANTONIO O,\n" + " If you but knew how you the purpose cherish\n" + " Whiles thus you mock it! how, in stripping it,\n" + " You more invest it! Ebbing men, indeed,\n" + " Most often do so near the bottom run\n" + " By their own fear or sloth.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Prithee, say on:\n" + " The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim\n" + " A matter from thee, and a birth indeed\n" + " Which throes thee much to yield.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Thus, sir:\n" + " Although this lord of weak remembrance, this,\n" + " Who shall be of as little memory\n" + " When he is earth'd, hath here almost persuade,--\n" + " For he's a spirit of persuasion, only\n" + " Professes to persuade,--the king his son's alive,\n" + " 'Tis as impossible that he's undrown'd\n" + " And he that sleeps here swims.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I have no hope\n" + " That he's undrown'd.\n\n" + "ANTONIO O, out of that 'no hope'\n" + " What great hope have you! no hope that way is\n" + " Another way so high a hope that even\n" + " Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond,\n" + " But doubt discovery there. Will you grant with me\n" + " That Ferdinand is drown'd?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN He's gone.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Then, tell me,\n" + " Who's the next heir of Naples?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Claribel.\n\n" + "ANTONIO She that is queen of Tunis; she that dwells\n" + " Ten leagues beyond man's life; she that from Naples\n" + " Can have no note, unless the sun were post--\n" + " The man i' the moon's too slow--till new-born chins\n" + " Be rough and razorable; she that--from whom?\n" + " We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again,\n" + " And by that destiny to perform an act\n" + " Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come\n" + " In yours and my discharge.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN What stuff is this! how say you?\n" + " 'Tis true, my brother's daughter's queen of Tunis;\n" + " So is she heir of Naples; 'twixt which regions\n" + " There is some space.\n\n" + "ANTONIO A space whose every cubit\n" + " Seems to cry out, 'How shall that Claribel\n" + " Measure us back to Naples? Keep in Tunis,\n" + " And let Sebastian wake.' Say, this were death\n" + " That now hath seized them; why, they were no worse\n" + " Than now they are. There be that can rule Naples\n" + " As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate\n" + " As amply and unnecessarily\n" + " As this Gonzalo; I myself could make\n" + " A chough of as deep chat. O, that you bore\n" + " The mind that I do! what a sleep were this\n" + " For your advancement! Do you understand me?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Methinks I do.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And how does your content\n" + " Tender your own good fortune?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I remember\n" + " You did supplant your brother Prospero.\n\n" + "ANTONIO True:\n" + " And look how well my garments sit upon me;\n" + " Much feater than before: my brother's servants\n" + " Were then my fellows; now they are my men.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN But, for your conscience?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Ay, sir; where lies that? if 'twere a kibe,\n" + " 'Twould put me to my slipper: but I feel not\n" + " This deity in my bosom: twenty consciences,\n" + " That stand 'twixt me and Milan, candied be they\n" + " And melt ere they molest! Here lies your brother,\n" + " No better than the earth he lies upon,\n" + " If he were that which now he's like, that's dead;\n" + " Whom I, with this obedient steel, three inches of it,\n" + " Can lay to bed for ever; whiles you, doing thus,\n" + " To the perpetual wink for aye might put\n" + " This ancient morsel, this Sir Prudence, who\n" + " Should not upbraid our course. For all the rest,\n" + " They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;\n" + " They'll tell the clock to any business that\n" + " We say befits the hour.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Thy case, dear friend,\n" + " Shall be my precedent; as thou got'st Milan,\n" + " I'll come by Naples. Draw thy sword: one stroke\n" + " Shall free thee from the tribute which thou payest;\n" + " And I the king shall love thee.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Draw together;\n" + " And when I rear my hand, do you the like,\n" + " To fall it on Gonzalo.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN O, but one word.\n\n" + " [They talk apart]\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARIEL, invisible]\n\n" + "ARIEL My master through his art foresees the danger\n" + " That you, his friend, are in; and sends me forth--\n" + " For else his project dies--to keep them living.\n\n" + " [Sings in GONZALO's ear]\n\n" + " While you here do snoring lie,\n" + " Open-eyed conspiracy\n" + " His time doth take.\n" + " If of life you keep a care,\n" + " Shake off slumber, and beware:\n" + " Awake, awake!\n\n" + "ANTONIO Then let us both be sudden.\n\n" + "GONZALO Now, good angels\n" + " Preserve the king.\n\n" + " [They wake]\n\n" + "ALONSO Why, how now? ho, awake! Why are you drawn?\n" + " Wherefore this ghastly looking?\n\n" + "GONZALO What's the matter?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Whiles we stood here securing your repose,\n" + " Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing\n" + " Like bulls, or rather lions: did't not wake you?\n" + " It struck mine ear most terribly.\n\n" + "ALONSO I heard nothing.\n\n" + "ANTONIO O, 'twas a din to fright a monster's ear,\n" + " To make an earthquake! sure, it was the roar\n" + " Of a whole herd of lions.\n\n" + "ALONSO Heard you this, Gonzalo?\n\n" + "GONZALO Upon mine honour, sir, I heard a humming,\n" + " And that a strange one too, which did awake me:\n" + " I shaked you, sir, and cried: as mine eyes open'd,\n" + " I saw their weapons drawn: there was a noise,\n" + " That's verily. 'Tis best we stand upon our guard,\n" + " Or that we quit this place; let's draw our weapons.\n\n" + "ALONSO Lead off this ground; and let's make further search\n" + " For my poor son.\n\n" + "GONZALO Heavens keep him from these beasts!\n" + " For he is, sure, i' the island.\n\n" + "ALONSO Lead away.\n\n" + "ARIEL Prospero my lord shall know what I have done:\n" + " So, king, go safely on to seek thy son.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another part of the island.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CALIBAN with a burden of wood. A noise of\n" + " thunder heard]\n\n" + "CALIBAN All the infections that the sun sucks up\n" + " From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him\n" + " By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me\n" + " And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch,\n" + " Fright me with urchin--shows, pitch me i' the mire,\n" + " Nor lead me, like a firebrand, in the dark\n" + " Out of my way, unless he bid 'em; but\n" + " For every trifle are they set upon me;\n" + " Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me\n" + " And after bite me, then like hedgehogs which\n" + " Lie tumbling in my barefoot way and mount\n" + " Their pricks at my footfall; sometime am I\n" + " All wound with adders who with cloven tongues\n" + " Do hiss me into madness.\n\n" + " [Enter TRINCULO]\n\n" + " Lo, now, lo!\n\n" + " Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me\n" + " For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat;\n" + " Perchance he will not mind me.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off\n" + " any weather at all, and another storm brewing;\n" + " I hear it sing i' the wind: yond same black\n" + " cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul\n" + " bombard that would shed his liquor. If it\n" + " should thunder as it did before, I know not\n" + " where to hide my head: yond same cloud cannot\n" + " choose but fall by pailfuls. What have we\n" + " here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish:\n" + " he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-\n" + " like smell; a kind of not of the newest Poor-\n" + " John. A strange fish! Were I in England now,\n" + " as once I was, and had but this fish painted,\n" + " not a holiday fool there but would give a piece\n" + " of silver: there would this monster make a\n" + " man; any strange beast there makes a man:\n" + " when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame\n" + " beggar, they will lazy out ten to see a dead\n" + " Indian. Legged like a man and his fins like\n" + " arms! Warm o' my troth! I do now let loose\n" + " my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish,\n" + " but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a\n" + " thunderbolt.\n\n" + " [Thunder]\n\n" + " Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to\n" + " creep under his gaberdine; there is no other\n" + " shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with\n" + " strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the\n" + " dregs of the storm be past.\n\n" + " [Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand]\n\n" + "STEPHANO I shall no more to sea, to sea,\n" + " Here shall I die ashore--\n\n" + " This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's\n" + " funeral: well, here's my comfort. [Drinks]\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " The master, the swabber, the boatswain and I,\n" + " The gunner and his mate\n" + " Loved Mall, Meg and Marian and Margery,\n" + " But none of us cared for Kate;\n" + " For she had a tongue with a tang,\n" + " Would cry to a sailor, Go hang!\n" + " She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch,\n" + " Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch:\n" + " Then to sea, boys, and let her go hang!\n\n" + " This is a scurvy tune too: but here's my comfort.\n" + " [Drinks]\n\n" + "CALIBAN Do not torment me: Oh!\n\n" + "STEPHANO What's the matter? Have we devils here? Do you put\n" + " tricks upon's with savages and men of Ind, ha? I\n" + " have not scaped drowning to be afeard now of your\n" + " four legs; for it hath been said, As proper a man as\n" + " ever went on four legs cannot make him give ground;\n" + " and it shall be said so again while Stephano\n" + " breathes at's nostrils.\n\n" + "CALIBAN The spirit torments me; Oh!\n\n" + "STEPHANO This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who\n" + " hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil\n" + " should he learn our language? I will give him some\n" + " relief, if it be but for that. if I can recover him\n" + " and keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's a\n" + " present for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster.\n\n" + "STEPHANO He's in his fit now and does not talk after the\n" + " wisest. He shall taste of my bottle: if he have\n" + " never drunk wine afore will go near to remove his\n" + " fit. If I can recover him and keep him tame, I will\n" + " not take too much for him; he shall pay for him that\n" + " hath him, and that soundly.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I\n" + " know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Come on your ways; open your mouth; here is that\n" + " which will give language to you, cat: open your\n" + " mouth; this will shake your shaking, I can tell you,\n" + " and that soundly: you cannot tell who's your friend:\n" + " open your chaps again.\n\n" + "TRINCULO I should know that voice: it should be--but he is\n" + " drowned; and these are devils: O defend me!\n\n" + "STEPHANO Four legs and two voices: a most delicate monster!\n" + " His forward voice now is to speak well of his\n" + " friend; his backward voice is to utter foul speeches\n" + " and to detract. If all the wine in my bottle will\n" + " recover him, I will help his ague. Come. Amen! I\n" + " will pour some in thy other mouth.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Stephano!\n\n" + "STEPHANO Doth thy other mouth call me? Mercy, mercy! This is\n" + " a devil, and no monster: I will leave him; I have no\n" + " long spoon.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Stephano! If thou beest Stephano, touch me and\n" + " speak to me: for I am Trinculo--be not afeard--thy\n" + " good friend Trinculo.\n\n" + "STEPHANO If thou beest Trinculo, come forth: I'll pull thee\n" + " by the lesser legs: if any be Trinculo's legs,\n" + " these are they. Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How\n" + " camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? can\n" + " he vent Trinculos?\n\n" + "TRINCULO I took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. But\n" + " art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope now thou art\n" + " not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me\n" + " under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of\n" + " the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O\n" + " Stephano, two Neapolitans 'scaped!\n\n" + "STEPHANO Prithee, do not turn me about; my stomach is not constant.\n\n" + "CALIBAN [Aside] These be fine things, an if they be\n" + " not sprites.\n" + " That's a brave god and bears celestial liquor.\n" + " I will kneel to him.\n\n" + "STEPHANO How didst thou 'scape? How camest thou hither?\n" + " swear by this bottle how thou camest hither. I\n" + " escaped upon a butt of sack which the sailors\n" + " heaved o'erboard, by this bottle; which I made of\n" + " the bark of a tree with mine own hands since I was\n" + " cast ashore.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I'll swear upon that bottle to be thy true subject;\n" + " for the liquor is not earthly.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Here; swear then how thou escapedst.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Swum ashore. man, like a duck: I can swim like a\n" + " duck, I'll be sworn.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Here, kiss the book. Though thou canst swim like a\n" + " duck, thou art made like a goose.\n\n" + "TRINCULO O Stephano. hast any more of this?\n\n" + "STEPHANO The whole butt, man: my cellar is in a rock by the\n" + " sea-side where my wine is hid. How now, moon-calf!\n" + " how does thine ague?\n\n" + "CALIBAN Hast thou not dropp'd from heaven?\n\n" + "STEPHANO Out o' the moon, I do assure thee: I was the man i'\n" + " the moon when time was.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee:\n" + " My mistress show'd me thee and thy dog and thy bush.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Come, swear to that; kiss the book: I will furnish\n" + " it anon with new contents swear.\n\n" + "TRINCULO By this good light, this is a very shallow monster!\n" + " I afeard of him! A very weak monster! The man i'\n" + " the moon! A most poor credulous monster! Well\n" + " drawn, monster, in good sooth!\n\n" + "CALIBAN I'll show thee every fertile inch o' th' island;\n" + " And I will kiss thy foot: I prithee, be my god.\n\n" + "TRINCULO By this light, a most perfidious and drunken\n" + " monster! when 's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I'll kiss thy foot; I'll swear myself thy subject.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Come on then; down, and swear.\n\n" + "TRINCULO I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed\n" + " monster. A most scurvy monster! I could find in my\n" + " heart to beat him,--\n\n" + "STEPHANO Come, kiss.\n\n" + "TRINCULO But that the poor monster's in drink: an abominable monster!\n\n" + "CALIBAN I'll show thee the best springs; I'll pluck thee berries;\n" + " I'll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.\n" + " A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!\n" + " I'll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,\n" + " Thou wondrous man.\n\n" + "TRINCULO A most ridiculous monster, to make a wonder of a\n" + " Poor drunkard!\n\n" + "CALIBAN I prithee, let me bring thee where crabs grow;\n" + " And I with my long nails will dig thee pignuts;\n" + " Show thee a jay's nest and instruct thee how\n" + " To snare the nimble marmoset; I'll bring thee\n" + " To clustering filberts and sometimes I'll get thee\n" + " Young scamels from the rock. Wilt thou go with me?\n\n" + "STEPHANO I prithee now, lead the way without any more\n" + " talking. Trinculo, the king and all our company\n" + " else being drowned, we will inherit here: here;\n" + " bear my bottle: fellow Trinculo, we'll fill him by\n" + " and by again.\n\n" + "CALIBAN [Sings drunkenly]\n" + " Farewell master; farewell, farewell!\n\n" + "TRINCULO A howling monster: a drunken monster!\n\n" + "CALIBAN No more dams I'll make for fish\n" + " Nor fetch in firing\n" + " At requiring;\n" + " Nor scrape trencher, nor wash dish\n" + " 'Ban, 'Ban, Cacaliban\n" + " Has a new master: get a new man.\n\n" + " Freedom, hey-day! hey-day, freedom! freedom,\n" + " hey-day, freedom!\n\n" + "STEPHANO O brave monster! Lead the way.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before PROSPERO'S Cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FERDINAND, bearing a log]\n\n" + "FERDINAND There be some sports are painful, and their labour\n" + " Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness\n" + " Are nobly undergone and most poor matters\n" + " Point to rich ends. This my mean task\n" + " Would be as heavy to me as odious, but\n" + " The mistress which I serve quickens what's dead\n" + " And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is\n" + " Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,\n" + " And he's composed of harshness. I must remove\n" + " Some thousands of these logs and pile them up,\n" + " Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress\n" + " Weeps when she sees me work, and says, such baseness\n" + " Had never like executor. I forget:\n" + " But these sweet thoughts do even refresh my labours,\n" + " Most busy lest, when I do it.\n\n" + " [Enter MIRANDA; and PROSPERO at a distance, unseen]\n\n" + "MIRANDA Alas, now, pray you,\n" + " Work not so hard: I would the lightning had\n" + " Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd to pile!\n" + " Pray, set it down and rest you: when this burns,\n" + " 'Twill weep for having wearied you. My father\n" + " Is hard at study; pray now, rest yourself;\n" + " He's safe for these three hours.\n\n" + "FERDINAND O most dear mistress,\n" + " The sun will set before I shall discharge\n" + " What I must strive to do.\n\n" + "MIRANDA If you'll sit down,\n" + " I'll bear your logs the while: pray, give me that;\n" + " I'll carry it to the pile.\n\n" + "FERDINAND No, precious creature;\n" + " I had rather crack my sinews, break my back,\n" + " Than you should such dishonour undergo,\n" + " While I sit lazy by.\n\n" + "MIRANDA It would become me\n" + " As well as it does you: and I should do it\n" + " With much more ease; for my good will is to it,\n" + " And yours it is against.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Poor worm, thou art infected!\n" + " This visitation shows it.\n\n" + "MIRANDA You look wearily.\n\n" + "FERDINAND No, noble mistress;'tis fresh morning with me\n" + " When you are by at night. I do beseech you--\n" + " Chiefly that I might set it in my prayers--\n" + " What is your name?\n\n" + "MIRANDA Miranda.--O my father,\n" + " I have broke your hest to say so!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Admired Miranda!\n" + " Indeed the top of admiration! worth\n" + " What's dearest to the world! Full many a lady\n" + " I have eyed with best regard and many a time\n" + " The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage\n" + " Brought my too diligent ear: for several virtues\n" + " Have I liked several women; never any\n" + " With so fun soul, but some defect in her\n" + " Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed\n" + " And put it to the foil: but you, O you,\n" + " So perfect and so peerless, are created\n" + " Of every creature's best!\n\n" + "MIRANDA I do not know\n" + " One of my sex; no woman's face remember,\n" + " Save, from my glass, mine own; nor have I seen\n" + " More that I may call men than you, good friend,\n" + " And my dear father: how features are abroad,\n" + " I am skilless of; but, by my modesty,\n" + " The jewel in my dower, I would not wish\n" + " Any companion in the world but you,\n" + " Nor can imagination form a shape,\n" + " Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle\n" + " Something too wildly and my father's precepts\n" + " I therein do forget.\n\n" + "FERDINAND I am in my condition\n" + " A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king;\n" + " I would, not so!--and would no more endure\n" + " This wooden slavery than to suffer\n" + " The flesh-fly blow my mouth. Hear my soul speak:\n" + " The very instant that I saw you, did\n" + " My heart fly to your service; there resides,\n" + " To make me slave to it; and for your sake\n" + " Am I this patient log--man.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Do you love me?\n\n" + "FERDINAND O heaven, O earth, bear witness to this sound\n" + " And crown what I profess with kind event\n" + " If I speak true! if hollowly, invert\n" + " What best is boded me to mischief! I\n" + " Beyond all limit of what else i' the world\n" + " Do love, prize, honour you.\n\n" + "MIRANDA I am a fool\n" + " To weep at what I am glad of.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Fair encounter\n" + " Of two most rare affections! Heavens rain grace\n" + " On that which breeds between 'em!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Wherefore weep you?\n\n" + "MIRANDA At mine unworthiness that dare not offer\n" + " What I desire to give, and much less take\n" + " What I shall die to want. But this is trifling;\n" + " And all the more it seeks to hide itself,\n" + " The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning!\n" + " And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!\n" + " I am your wife, it you will marry me;\n" + " If not, I'll die your maid: to be your fellow\n" + " You may deny me; but I'll be your servant,\n" + " Whether you will or no.\n\n" + "FERDINAND My mistress, dearest;\n" + " And I thus humble ever.\n\n" + "MIRANDA My husband, then?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Ay, with a heart as willing\n" + " As bondage e'er of freedom: here's my hand.\n\n" + "MIRANDA And mine, with my heart in't; and now farewell\n" + " Till half an hour hence.\n\n" + "FERDINAND A thousand thousand!\n\n" + " [Exeunt FERDINAND and MIRANDA severally]\n\n" + "PROSPERO So glad of this as they I cannot be,\n" + " Who are surprised withal; but my rejoicing\n" + " At nothing can be more. I'll to my book,\n" + " For yet ere supper-time must I perform\n" + " Much business appertaining.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Another part of the island.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]\n\n" + "STEPHANO Tell not me; when the butt is out, we will drink\n" + " water; not a drop before: therefore bear up, and\n" + " board 'em. Servant-monster, drink to me.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Servant-monster! the folly of this island! They\n" + " say there's but five upon this isle: we are three\n" + " of them; if th' other two be brained like us, the\n" + " state totters.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee: thy eyes\n" + " are almost set in thy head.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Where should they be set else? he were a brave\n" + " monster indeed, if they were set in his tail.\n\n" + "STEPHANO My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue in sack:\n" + " for my part, the sea cannot drown me; I swam, ere I\n" + " could recover the shore, five and thirty leagues off\n" + " and on. By this light, thou shalt be my lieutenant,\n" + " monster, or my standard.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Your lieutenant, if you list; he's no standard.\n\n" + "STEPHANO We'll not run, Monsieur Monster.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Nor go neither; but you'll lie like dogs and yet say\n" + " nothing neither.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Moon-calf, speak once in thy life, if thou beest a\n" + " good moon-calf.\n\n" + "CALIBAN How does thy honour? Let me lick thy shoe.\n" + " I'll not serve him; he's not valiant.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Thou liest, most ignorant monster: I am in case to\n" + " justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish thou,\n" + " was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much\n" + " sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie,\n" + " being but half a fish and half a monster?\n\n" + "CALIBAN Lo, how he mocks me! wilt thou let him, my lord?\n\n" + "TRINCULO 'Lord' quoth he! That a monster should be such a natural!\n\n" + "CALIBAN Lo, lo, again! bite him to death, I prithee.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Trinculo, keep a good tongue in your head: if you\n" + " prove a mutineer,--the next tree! The poor monster's\n" + " my subject and he shall not suffer indignity.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I thank my noble lord. Wilt thou be pleased to\n" + " hearken once again to the suit I made to thee?\n\n" + "STEPHANO Marry, will I kneel and repeat it; I will stand,\n" + " and so shall Trinculo.\n\n" + " [Enter ARIEL, invisible]\n\n" + "CALIBAN As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a\n" + " sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.\n\n" + "ARIEL Thou liest.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou: I would my\n" + " valiant master would destroy thee! I do not lie.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, by\n" + " this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Why, I said nothing.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Mum, then, and no more. Proceed.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I say, by sorcery he got this isle;\n" + " From me he got it. if thy greatness will\n" + " Revenge it on him,--for I know thou darest,\n" + " But this thing dare not,--\n\n" + "STEPHANO That's most certain.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Thou shalt be lord of it and I'll serve thee.\n\n" + "STEPHANO How now shall this be compassed?\n" + " Canst thou bring me to the party?\n\n" + "CALIBAN Yea, yea, my lord: I'll yield him thee asleep,\n" + " Where thou mayst knock a nail into his bead.\n\n" + "ARIEL Thou liest; thou canst not.\n\n" + "CALIBAN What a pied ninny's this! Thou scurvy patch!\n" + " I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows\n" + " And take his bottle from him: when that's gone\n" + " He shall drink nought but brine; for I'll not show him\n" + " Where the quick freshes are.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Trinculo, run into no further danger:\n" + " interrupt the monster one word further, and,\n" + " by this hand, I'll turn my mercy out o' doors\n" + " and make a stock-fish of thee.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Why, what did I? I did nothing. I'll go farther\n" + " off.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Didst thou not say he lied?\n\n" + "ARIEL Thou liest.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Do I so? take thou that.\n\n" + " [Beats TRINCULO]\n\n" + " As you like this, give me the lie another time.\n\n" + "TRINCULO I did not give the lie. Out o' your\n" + " wits and bearing too? A pox o' your bottle!\n" + " this can sack and drinking do. A murrain on\n" + " your monster, and the devil take your fingers!\n\n" + "CALIBAN Ha, ha, ha!\n\n" + "STEPHANO Now, forward with your tale. Prithee, stand farther\n" + " off.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Beat him enough: after a little time\n" + " I'll beat him too.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Stand farther. Come, proceed.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him,\n" + " I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou mayst brain him,\n" + " Having first seized his books, or with a log\n" + " Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,\n" + " Or cut his wezand with thy knife. Remember\n" + " First to possess his books; for without them\n" + " He's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not\n" + " One spirit to command: they all do hate him\n" + " As rootedly as I. Burn but his books.\n" + " He has brave utensils,--for so he calls them--\n" + " Which when he has a house, he'll deck withal\n" + " And that most deeply to consider is\n" + " The beauty of his daughter; he himself\n" + " Calls her a nonpareil: I never saw a woman,\n" + " But only Sycorax my dam and she;\n" + " But she as far surpasseth Sycorax\n" + " As great'st does least.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Is it so brave a lass?\n\n" + "CALIBAN Ay, lord; she will become thy bed, I warrant.\n" + " And bring thee forth brave brood.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Monster, I will kill this man: his daughter and I\n" + " will be king and queen--save our graces!--and\n" + " Trinculo and thyself shall be viceroys. Dost thou\n" + " like the plot, Trinculo?\n\n" + "TRINCULO Excellent.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Give me thy hand: I am sorry I beat thee; but,\n" + " while thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Within this half hour will he be asleep:\n" + " Wilt thou destroy him then?\n\n" + "STEPHANO Ay, on mine honour.\n\n" + "ARIEL This will I tell my master.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Thou makest me merry; I am full of pleasure:\n" + " Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch\n" + " You taught me but while-ere?\n\n" + "STEPHANO At thy request, monster, I will do reason, any\n" + " reason. Come on, Trinculo, let us sing.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " Flout 'em and scout 'em\n" + " And scout 'em and flout 'em\n" + " Thought is free.\n\n" + "CALIBAN That's not the tune.\n\n" + " [Ariel plays the tune on a tabour and pipe]\n\n" + "STEPHANO What is this same?\n\n" + "TRINCULO This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture\n" + " of Nobody.\n\n" + "STEPHANO If thou beest a man, show thyself in thy likeness:\n" + " if thou beest a devil, take't as thou list.\n\n" + "TRINCULO O, forgive me my sins!\n\n" + "STEPHANO He that dies pays all debts: I defy thee. Mercy upon us!\n\n" + "CALIBAN Art thou afeard?\n\n" + "STEPHANO No, monster, not I.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,\n" + " Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.\n" + " Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments\n" + " Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices\n" + " That, if I then had waked after long sleep,\n" + " Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,\n" + " The clouds methought would open and show riches\n" + " Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,\n" + " I cried to dream again.\n\n" + "STEPHANO This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall\n" + " have my music for nothing.\n\n" + "CALIBAN When Prospero is destroyed.\n\n" + "STEPHANO That shall be by and by: I remember the story.\n\n" + "TRINCULO The sound is going away; let's follow it, and\n" + " after do our work.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Lead, monster; we'll follow. I would I could see\n" + " this tabourer; he lays it on.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Wilt come? I'll follow, Stephano.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Another part of the island.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, GONZALO,\n" + " ADRIAN, FRANCISCO, and others]\n\n" + "GONZALO By'r lakin, I can go no further, sir;\n" + " My old bones ache: here's a maze trod indeed\n" + " Through forth-rights and meanders! By your patience,\n" + " I needs must rest me.\n\n" + "ALONSO Old lord, I cannot blame thee,\n" + " Who am myself attach'd with weariness,\n" + " To the dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.\n" + " Even here I will put off my hope and keep it\n" + " No longer for my flatterer: he is drown'd\n" + " Whom thus we stray to find, and the sea mocks\n" + " Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go.\n\n" + "ANTONIO [Aside to SEBASTIAN] I am right glad that he's so\n" + " out of hope.\n" + " Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose\n" + " That you resolved to effect.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN [Aside to ANTONIO] The next advantage\n" + " Will we take throughly.\n\n" + "ANTONIO [Aside to SEBASTIAN] Let it be to-night;\n" + " For, now they are oppress'd with travel, they\n" + " Will not, nor cannot, use such vigilance\n" + " As when they are fresh.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN [Aside to ANTONIO] I say, to-night: no more.\n\n" + " [Solemn and strange music]\n\n" + "ALONSO What harmony is this? My good friends, hark!\n\n" + "GONZALO Marvellous sweet music!\n\n" + " [Enter PROSPERO above, invisible. Enter several\n" + " strange Shapes, bringing in a banquet;\n" + " they dance about it with gentle actions of\n" + " salutation; and, inviting the King, &c. to\n" + " eat, they depart]\n\n" + "ALONSO Give us kind keepers, heavens! What were these?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN A living drollery. Now I will believe\n" + " That there are unicorns, that in Arabia\n" + " There is one tree, the phoenix' throne, one phoenix\n" + " At this hour reigning there.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I'll believe both;\n" + " And what does else want credit, come to me,\n" + " And I'll be sworn 'tis true: travellers ne'er did\n" + " lie,\n" + " Though fools at home condemn 'em.\n\n" + "GONZALO If in Naples\n" + " I should report this now, would they believe me?\n" + " If I should say, I saw such islanders--\n" + " For, certes, these are people of the island--\n" + " Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet, note,\n" + " Their manners are more gentle-kind than of\n" + " Our human generation you shall find\n" + " Many, nay, almost any.\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside] Honest lord,\n" + " Thou hast said well; for some of you there present\n" + " Are worse than devils.\n\n" + "ALONSO I cannot too much muse\n" + " Such shapes, such gesture and such sound, expressing,\n" + " Although they want the use of tongue, a kind\n" + " Of excellent dumb discourse.\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside] Praise in departing.\n\n" + "FRANCISCO They vanish'd strangely.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN No matter, since\n" + " They have left their viands behind; for we have stomachs.\n" + " Will't please you taste of what is here?\n\n" + "ALONSO Not I.\n\n" + "GONZALO Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,\n" + " Who would believe that there were mountaineers\n" + " Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at 'em\n" + " Wallets of flesh? or that there were such men\n" + " Whose heads stood in their breasts? which now we find\n" + " Each putter-out of five for one will bring us\n" + " Good warrant of.\n\n" + "ALONSO I will stand to and feed,\n" + " Although my last: no matter, since I feel\n" + " The best is past. Brother, my lord the duke,\n" + " Stand to and do as we.\n\n" + " [Thunder and lightning. Enter ARIEL, like a\n" + " harpy; claps his wings upon the table; and,\n" + " with a quaint device, the banquet vanishes]\n\n" + "ARIEL You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,\n" + " That hath to instrument this lower world\n" + " And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea\n" + " Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island\n" + " Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men\n" + " Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;\n" + " And even with such-like valour men hang and drown\n" + " Their proper selves.\n\n" + " [ALONSO, SEBASTIAN &c. draw their swords]\n\n" + " You fools! I and my fellows\n" + " Are ministers of Fate: the elements,\n" + " Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well\n" + " Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs\n" + " Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish\n" + " One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers\n" + " Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,\n" + " Your swords are now too massy for your strengths\n" + " And will not be uplifted. But remember--\n" + " For that's my business to you--that you three\n" + " From Milan did supplant good Prospero;\n" + " Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,\n" + " Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed\n" + " The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have\n" + " Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,\n" + " Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,\n" + " They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:\n" + " Lingering perdition, worse than any death\n" + " Can be at once, shall step by step attend\n" + " You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from--\n" + " Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls\n" + " Upon your heads--is nothing but heart-sorrow\n" + " And a clear life ensuing.\n\n" + " [He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music\n" + " enter the Shapes again, and dance, with\n" + " mocks and mows, and carrying out the table]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou\n" + " Perform'd, my Ariel; a grace it had, devouring:\n" + " Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated\n" + " In what thou hadst to say: so, with good life\n" + " And observation strange, my meaner ministers\n" + " Their several kinds have done. My high charms work\n" + " And these mine enemies are all knit up\n" + " In their distractions; they now are in my power;\n" + " And in these fits I leave them, while I visit\n" + " Young Ferdinand, whom they suppose is drown'd,\n" + " And his and mine loved darling.\n\n" + " [Exit above]\n\n" + "GONZALO I' the name of something holy, sir, why stand you\n" + " In this strange stare?\n\n" + "ALONSO O, it is monstrous, monstrous:\n" + " Methought the billows spoke and told me of it;\n" + " The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,\n" + " That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced\n" + " The name of Prosper: it did bass my trespass.\n" + " Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded, and\n" + " I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded\n" + " And with him there lie mudded.\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN But one fiend at a time,\n" + " I'll fight their legions o'er.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I'll be thy second.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SEBASTIAN, and ANTONIO]\n\n" + "GONZALO All three of them are desperate: their great guilt,\n" + " Like poison given to work a great time after,\n" + " Now 'gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you\n" + " That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly\n" + " And hinder them from what this ecstasy\n" + " May now provoke them to.\n\n" + "ADRIAN Follow, I pray you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before PROSPERO'S cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PROSPERO, FERDINAND, and MIRANDA]\n\n" + "PROSPERO If I have too austerely punish'd you,\n" + " Your compensation makes amends, for I\n" + " Have given you here a third of mine own life,\n" + " Or that for which I live; who once again\n" + " I tender to thy hand: all thy vexations\n" + " Were but my trials of thy love and thou\n" + " Hast strangely stood the test here, afore Heaven,\n" + " I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand,\n" + " Do not smile at me that I boast her off,\n" + " For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise\n" + " And make it halt behind her.\n\n" + "FERDINAND I do believe it\n" + " Against an oracle.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Then, as my gift and thine own acquisition\n" + " Worthily purchased take my daughter: but\n" + " If thou dost break her virgin-knot before\n" + " All sanctimonious ceremonies may\n" + " With full and holy rite be minister'd,\n" + " No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall\n" + " To make this contract grow: but barren hate,\n" + " Sour-eyed disdain and discord shall bestrew\n" + " The union of your bed with weeds so loathly\n" + " That you shall hate it both: therefore take heed,\n" + " As Hymen's lamps shall light you.\n\n" + "FERDINAND As I hope\n" + " For quiet days, fair issue and long life,\n" + " With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,\n" + " The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion.\n" + " Our worser genius can, shall never melt\n" + " Mine honour into lust, to take away\n" + " The edge of that day's celebration\n" + " When I shall think: or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd,\n" + " Or Night kept chain'd below.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Fairly spoke.\n" + " Sit then and talk with her; she is thine own.\n" + " What, Ariel! my industrious servant, Ariel!\n\n" + " [Enter ARIEL]\n\n" + "ARIEL What would my potent master? here I am.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Thou and thy meaner fellows your last service\n" + " Did worthily perform; and I must use you\n" + " In such another trick. Go bring the rabble,\n" + " O'er whom I give thee power, here to this place:\n" + " Incite them to quick motion; for I must\n" + " Bestow upon the eyes of this young couple\n" + " Some vanity of mine art: it is my promise,\n" + " And they expect it from me.\n\n" + "ARIEL Presently?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Ay, with a twink.\n\n" + "ARIEL Before you can say 'come' and 'go,'\n" + " And breathe twice and cry 'so, so,'\n" + " Each one, tripping on his toe,\n" + " Will be here with mop and mow.\n" + " Do you love me, master? no?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Dearly my delicate Ariel. Do not approach\n" + " Till thou dost hear me call.\n\n" + "ARIEL Well, I conceive.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Look thou be true; do not give dalliance\n" + " Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw\n" + " To the fire i' the blood: be more abstemious,\n" + " Or else, good night your vow!\n\n" + "FERDINAND I warrant you sir;\n" + " The white cold virgin snow upon my heart\n" + " Abates the ardour of my liver.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Well.\n" + " Now come, my Ariel! bring a corollary,\n" + " Rather than want a spirit: appear and pertly!\n" + " No tongue! all eyes! be silent.\n\n" + " [Soft music]\n\n" + " [Enter IRIS]\n\n" + "IRIS Ceres, most bounteous lady, thy rich leas\n" + " Of wheat, rye, barley, vetches, oats and pease;\n" + " Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep,\n" + " And flat meads thatch'd with stover, them to keep;\n" + " Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,\n" + " Which spongy April at thy hest betrims,\n" + " To make cold nymphs chaste crowns; and thy broom -groves,\n" + " Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,\n" + " Being lass-lorn: thy pole-clipt vineyard;\n" + " And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,\n" + " Where thou thyself dost air;--the queen o' the sky,\n" + " Whose watery arch and messenger am I,\n" + " Bids thee leave these, and with her sovereign grace,\n" + " Here on this grass-plot, in this very place,\n" + " To come and sport: her peacocks fly amain:\n" + " Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertain.\n\n" + " [Enter CERES]\n\n" + "CERES Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er\n" + " Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter;\n" + " Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers\n" + " Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers,\n" + " And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown\n" + " My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down,\n" + " Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen\n" + " Summon'd me hither, to this short-grass'd green?\n\n" + "IRIS A contract of true love to celebrate;\n" + " And some donation freely to estate\n" + " On the blest lovers.\n\n" + "CERES Tell me, heavenly bow,\n" + " If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,\n" + " Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot\n" + " The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,\n" + " Her and her blind boy's scandal'd company\n" + " I have forsworn.\n\n" + "IRIS Of her society\n" + " Be not afraid: I met her deity\n" + " Cutting the clouds towards Paphos and her son\n" + " Dove-drawn with her. Here thought they to have done\n" + " Some wanton charm upon this man and maid,\n" + " Whose vows are, that no bed-right shall be paid\n" + " Till Hymen's torch be lighted: but vain;\n" + " Mars's hot minion is returned again;\n" + " Her waspish-headed son has broke his arrows,\n" + " Swears he will shoot no more but play with sparrows\n" + " And be a boy right out.\n\n" + "CERES High'st queen of state,\n" + " Great Juno, comes; I know her by her gait.\n\n" + " [Enter JUNO]\n\n" + "JUNO How does my bounteous sister? Go with me\n" + " To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be\n" + " And honour'd in their issue.\n\n" + " [They sing:]\n\n" + "JUNO Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,\n" + " Long continuance, and increasing,\n" + " Hourly joys be still upon you!\n" + " Juno sings her blessings upon you.\n\n" + "CERES Earth's increase, foison plenty,\n" + " Barns and garners never empty,\n" + " Vines and clustering bunches growing,\n" + " Plants with goodly burthen bowing;\n" + " Spring come to you at the farthest\n" + " In the very end of harvest!\n" + " Scarcity and want shall shun you;\n" + " Ceres' blessing so is on you.\n\n" + "FERDINAND This is a most majestic vision, and\n" + " Harmoniously charmingly. May I be bold\n" + " To think these spirits?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Spirits, which by mine art\n" + " I have from their confines call'd to enact\n" + " My present fancies.\n\n" + "FERDINAND Let me live here ever;\n" + " So rare a wonder'd father and a wife\n" + " Makes this place Paradise.\n\n" + " [Juno and Ceres whisper, and send Iris on\n" + " employment]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Sweet, now, silence!\n" + " Juno and Ceres whisper seriously;\n" + " There's something else to do: hush, and be mute,\n" + " Or else our spell is marr'd.\n\n" + "IRIS You nymphs, call'd Naiads, of the windring brooks,\n" + " With your sedged crowns and ever-harmless looks,\n" + " Leave your crisp channels and on this green land\n" + " Answer your summons; Juno does command:\n" + " Come, temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate\n" + " A contract of true love; be not too late.\n\n" + " [Enter certain Nymphs]\n\n" + " You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,\n" + " Come hither from the furrow and be merry:\n" + " Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on\n" + " And these fresh nymphs encounter every one\n" + " In country footing.\n\n" + " [Enter certain Reapers, properly habited: they\n" + " join with the Nymphs in a graceful dance;\n" + " towards the end whereof PROSPERO starts\n" + " suddenly, and speaks; after which, to a\n" + " strange, hollow, and confused noise, they\n" + " heavily vanish]\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside] I had forgot that foul conspiracy\n" + " Of the beast Caliban and his confederates\n" + " Against my life: the minute of their plot\n" + " Is almost come.\n\n" + " [To the Spirits]\n\n" + " Well done! avoid; no more!\n\n" + "FERDINAND This is strange: your father's in some passion\n" + " That works him strongly.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Never till this day\n" + " Saw I him touch'd with anger so distemper'd.\n\n" + "PROSPERO You do look, my son, in a moved sort,\n" + " As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.\n" + " Our revels now are ended. These our actors,\n" + " As I foretold you, were all spirits and\n" + " Are melted into air, into thin air:\n" + " And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,\n" + " The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,\n" + " The solemn temples, the great globe itself,\n" + " Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve\n" + " And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,\n" + " Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff\n" + " As dreams are made on, and our little life\n" + " Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex'd;\n" + " Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:\n" + " Be not disturb'd with my infirmity:\n" + " If you be pleased, retire into my cell\n" + " And there repose: a turn or two I'll walk,\n" + " To still my beating mind.\n\n\n" + "FERDINAND |\n" + " | We wish your peace.\n" + "MIRANDA |\n\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Come with a thought I thank thee, Ariel: come.\n\n" + " [Enter ARIEL]\n\n" + "ARIEL Thy thoughts I cleave to. What's thy pleasure?\n\n" + "PROSPERO Spirit,\n" + " We must prepare to meet with Caliban.\n\n" + "ARIEL Ay, my commander: when I presented Ceres,\n" + " I thought to have told thee of it, but I fear'd\n" + " Lest I might anger thee.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Say again, where didst thou leave these varlets?\n\n" + "ARIEL I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking;\n" + " So fun of valour that they smote the air\n" + " For breathing in their faces; beat the ground\n" + " For kissing of their feet; yet always bending\n" + " Towards their project. Then I beat my tabour;\n" + " At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd\n" + " their ears,\n" + " Advanced their eyelids, lifted up their noses\n" + " As they smelt music: so I charm'd their ears\n" + " That calf-like they my lowing follow'd through\n" + " Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss and thorns,\n" + " Which entered their frail shins: at last I left them\n" + " I' the filthy-mantled pool beyond your cell,\n" + " There dancing up to the chins, that the foul lake\n" + " O'erstunk their feet.\n\n" + "PROSPERO This was well done, my bird.\n" + " Thy shape invisible retain thou still:\n" + " The trumpery in my house, go bring it hither,\n" + " For stale to catch these thieves.\n\n" + "ARIEL I go, I go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PROSPERO A devil, a born devil, on whose nature\n" + " Nurture can never stick; on whom my pains,\n" + " Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost;\n" + " And as with age his body uglier grows,\n" + " So his mind cankers. I will plague them all,\n" + " Even to roaring.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARIEL, loaden with glistering apparel, &c]\n\n" + " Come, hang them on this line.\n\n" + " [PROSPERO and ARIEL remain invisible. Enter\n" + " CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, all wet]\n\n" + "CALIBAN Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not\n" + " Hear a foot fall: we now are near his cell.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Monster, your fairy, which you say is\n" + " a harmless fairy, has done little better than\n" + " played the Jack with us.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at\n" + " which my nose is in great indignation.\n\n" + "STEPHANO So is mine. Do you hear, monster? If I should take\n" + " a displeasure against you, look you,--\n\n" + "TRINCULO Thou wert but a lost monster.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Good my lord, give me thy favour still.\n" + " Be patient, for the prize I'll bring thee to\n" + " Shall hoodwink this mischance: therefore speak softly.\n" + " All's hush'd as midnight yet.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Ay, but to lose our bottles in the pool,--\n\n" + "STEPHANO There is not only disgrace and dishonour in that,\n" + " monster, but an infinite loss.\n\n" + "TRINCULO That's more to me than my wetting: yet this is your\n" + " harmless fairy, monster.\n\n" + "STEPHANO I will fetch off my bottle, though I be o'er ears\n" + " for my labour.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Prithee, my king, be quiet. Seest thou here,\n" + " This is the mouth o' the cell: no noise, and enter.\n" + " Do that good mischief which may make this island\n" + " Thine own for ever, and I, thy Caliban,\n" + " For aye thy foot-licker.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Give me thy hand. I do begin to have bloody thoughts.\n\n" + "TRINCULO O king Stephano! O peer! O worthy Stephano! look\n" + " what a wardrobe here is for thee!\n\n" + "CALIBAN Let it alone, thou fool; it is but trash.\n\n" + "TRINCULO O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.\n" + " O king Stephano!\n\n" + "STEPHANO Put off that gown, Trinculo; by this hand, I'll have\n" + " that gown.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Thy grace shall have it.\n\n" + "CALIBAN The dropsy drown this fool I what do you mean\n" + " To dote thus on such luggage? Let's alone\n" + " And do the murder first: if he awake,\n" + " From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches,\n" + " Make us strange stuff.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Be you quiet, monster. Mistress line,\n" + " is not this my jerkin? Now is the jerkin under\n" + " the line: now, jerkin, you are like to lose your\n" + " hair and prove a bald jerkin.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Do, do: we steal by line and level, an't like your grace.\n\n" + "STEPHANO I thank thee for that jest; here's a garment for't:\n" + " wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this\n" + " country. 'Steal by line and level' is an excellent\n" + " pass of pate; there's another garment for't.\n\n" + "TRINCULO Monster, come, put some lime upon your fingers, and\n" + " away with the rest.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I will have none on't: we shall lose our time,\n" + " And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes\n" + " With foreheads villanous low.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Monster, lay-to your fingers: help to bear this\n" + " away where my hogshead of wine is, or I'll turn you\n" + " out of my kingdom: go to, carry this.\n\n" + "TRINCULO And this.\n\n" + "STEPHANO Ay, and this.\n\n" + " [A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits,\n" + " in shape of dogs and hounds, and hunt them about,\n" + " PROSPERO and ARIEL setting them on]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Hey, Mountain, hey!\n\n" + "ARIEL Silver I there it goes, Silver!\n\n" + "PROSPERO Fury, Fury! there, Tyrant, there! hark! hark!\n\n" + " [CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO, are\n" + " driven out]\n\n" + " Go charge my goblins that they grind their joints\n" + " With dry convulsions, shorten up their sinews\n" + " With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them\n" + " Than pard or cat o' mountain.\n\n" + "ARIEL Hark, they roar!\n\n" + "PROSPERO Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour\n" + " Lie at my mercy all mine enemies:\n" + " Shortly shall all my labours end, and thou\n" + " Shalt have the air at freedom: for a little\n" + " Follow, and do me service.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before PROSPERO'S cell.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PROSPERO in his magic robes, and ARIEL]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Now does my project gather to a head:\n" + " My charms crack not; my spirits obey; and time\n" + " Goes upright with his carriage. How's the day?\n\n" + "ARIEL On the sixth hour; at which time, my lord,\n" + " You said our work should cease.\n\n" + "PROSPERO I did say so,\n" + " When first I raised the tempest. Say, my spirit,\n" + " How fares the king and's followers?\n\n" + "ARIEL Confined together\n" + " In the same fashion as you gave in charge,\n" + " Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,\n" + " In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell;\n" + " They cannot budge till your release. The king,\n" + " His brother and yours, abide all three distracted\n" + " And the remainder mourning over them,\n" + " Brimful of sorrow and dismay; but chiefly\n" + " Him that you term'd, sir, 'The good old lord Gonzalo;'\n" + " His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops\n" + " From eaves of reeds. Your charm so strongly works 'em\n" + " That if you now beheld them, your affections\n" + " Would become tender.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Dost thou think so, spirit?\n\n" + "ARIEL Mine would, sir, were I human.\n\n" + "PROSPERO And mine shall.\n" + " Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling\n" + " Of their afflictions, and shall not myself,\n" + " One of their kind, that relish all as sharply,\n" + " Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art?\n" + " Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick,\n" + " Yet with my nobler reason 'gaitist my fury\n" + " Do I take part: the rarer action is\n" + " In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,\n" + " The sole drift of my purpose doth extend\n" + " Not a frown further. Go release them, Ariel:\n" + " My charms I'll break, their senses I'll restore,\n" + " And they shall be themselves.\n\n" + "ARIEL I'll fetch them, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,\n" + " And ye that on the sands with printless foot\n" + " Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him\n" + " When he comes back; you demi-puppets that\n" + " By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,\n" + " Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime\n" + " Is to make midnight mushrooms, that rejoice\n" + " To hear the solemn curfew; by whose aid,\n" + " Weak masters though ye be, I have bedimm'd\n" + " The noontide sun, call'd forth the mutinous winds,\n" + " And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault\n" + " Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder\n" + " Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak\n" + " With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory\n" + " Have I made shake and by the spurs pluck'd up\n" + " The pine and cedar: graves at my command\n" + " Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth\n" + " By my so potent art. But this rough magic\n" + " I here abjure, and, when I have required\n" + " Some heavenly music, which even now I do,\n" + " To work mine end upon their senses that\n" + " This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,\n" + " Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,\n" + " And deeper than did ever plummet sound\n" + " I'll drown my book.\n\n" + " [Solemn music]\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARIEL before: then ALONSO, with a\n" + " frantic gesture, attended by GONZALO;\n" + " SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO in like manner,\n" + " attended by ADRIAN and FRANCISCO they all\n" + " enter the circle which PROSPERO had made,\n" + " and there stand charmed; which PROSPERO\n" + " observing, speaks:]\n\n" + " A solemn air and the best comforter\n" + " To an unsettled fancy cure thy brains,\n" + " Now useless, boil'd within thy skull! There stand,\n" + " For you are spell-stopp'd.\n" + " Holy Gonzalo, honourable man,\n" + " Mine eyes, even sociable to the show of thine,\n" + " Fall fellowly drops. The charm dissolves apace,\n" + " And as the morning steals upon the night,\n" + " Melting the darkness, so their rising senses\n" + " Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle\n" + " Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo,\n" + " My true preserver, and a loyal sir\n" + " To him you follow'st! I will pay thy graces\n" + " Home both in word and deed. Most cruelly\n" + " Didst thou, Alonso, use me and my daughter:\n" + " Thy brother was a furtherer in the act.\n" + " Thou art pinch'd fort now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood,\n" + " You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,\n" + " Expell'd remorse and nature; who, with Sebastian,\n" + " Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong,\n" + " Would here have kill'd your king; I do forgive thee,\n" + " Unnatural though thou art. Their understanding\n" + " Begins to swell, and the approaching tide\n" + " Will shortly fill the reasonable shore\n" + " That now lies foul and muddy. Not one of them\n" + " That yet looks on me, or would know me Ariel,\n" + " Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell:\n" + " I will discase me, and myself present\n" + " As I was sometime Milan: quickly, spirit;\n" + " Thou shalt ere long be free.\n\n" + " [ARIEL sings and helps to attire him]\n\n" + " Where the bee sucks. there suck I:\n" + " In a cowslip's bell I lie;\n" + " There I couch when owls do cry.\n" + " On the bat's back I do fly\n" + " After summer merrily.\n" + " Merrily, merrily shall I live now\n" + " Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Why, that's my dainty Ariel! I shall miss thee:\n" + " But yet thou shalt have freedom: so, so, so.\n" + " To the king's ship, invisible as thou art:\n" + " There shalt thou find the mariners asleep\n" + " Under the hatches; the master and the boatswain\n" + " Being awake, enforce them to this place,\n" + " And presently, I prithee.\n\n" + "ARIEL I drink the air before me, and return\n" + " Or ere your pulse twice beat.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "GONZALO All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement\n" + " Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us\n" + " Out of this fearful country!\n\n" + "PROSPERO Behold, sir king,\n" + " The wronged Duke of Milan, Prospero:\n" + " For more assurance that a living prince\n" + " Does now speak to thee, I embrace thy body;\n" + " And to thee and thy company I bid\n" + " A hearty welcome.\n\n" + "ALONSO Whether thou best he or no,\n" + " Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me,\n" + " As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse\n" + " Beats as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee,\n" + " The affliction of my mind amends, with which,\n" + " I fear, a madness held me: this must crave,\n" + " An if this be at all, a most strange story.\n" + " Thy dukedom I resign and do entreat\n" + " Thou pardon me my wrongs. But how should Prospero\n" + " Be living and be here?\n\n" + "PROSPERO First, noble friend,\n" + " Let me embrace thine age, whose honour cannot\n" + " Be measured or confined.\n\n" + "GONZALO Whether this be\n" + " Or be not, I'll not swear.\n\n" + "PROSPERO You do yet taste\n" + " Some subtilties o' the isle, that will not let you\n" + " Believe things certain. Welcome, my friends all!\n\n" + " [Aside to SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO]\n\n" + " But you, my brace of lords, were I so minded,\n" + " I here could pluck his highness' frown upon you\n" + " And justify you traitors: at this time\n" + " I will tell no tales.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN [Aside] The devil speaks in him.\n\n" + "PROSPERO No.\n" + " For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother\n" + " Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive\n" + " Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require\n" + " My dukedom of thee, which perforce, I know,\n" + " Thou must restore.\n\n" + "ALONSO If thou be'st Prospero,\n" + " Give us particulars of thy preservation;\n" + " How thou hast met us here, who three hours since\n" + " Were wreck'd upon this shore; where I have lost--\n" + " How sharp the point of this remembrance is!--\n" + " My dear son Ferdinand.\n\n" + "PROSPERO I am woe for't, sir.\n\n" + "ALONSO Irreparable is the loss, and patience\n" + " Says it is past her cure.\n\n" + "PROSPERO I rather think\n" + " You have not sought her help, of whose soft grace\n" + " For the like loss I have her sovereign aid\n" + " And rest myself content.\n\n" + "ALONSO You the like loss!\n\n" + "PROSPERO As great to me as late; and, supportable\n" + " To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker\n" + " Than you may call to comfort you, for I\n" + " Have lost my daughter.\n\n" + "ALONSO A daughter?\n" + " O heavens, that they were living both in Naples,\n" + " The king and queen there! that they were, I wish\n" + " Myself were mudded in that oozy bed\n" + " Where my son lies. When did you lose your daughter?\n\n" + "PROSPERO In this last tempest. I perceive these lords\n" + " At this encounter do so much admire\n" + " That they devour their reason and scarce think\n" + " Their eyes do offices of truth, their words\n" + " Are natural breath: but, howsoe'er you have\n" + " Been justled from your senses, know for certain\n" + " That I am Prospero and that very duke\n" + " Which was thrust forth of Milan, who most strangely\n" + " Upon this shore, where you were wreck'd, was landed,\n" + " To be the lord on't. No more yet of this;\n" + " For 'tis a chronicle of day by day,\n" + " Not a relation for a breakfast nor\n" + " Befitting this first meeting. Welcome, sir;\n" + " This cell's my court: here have I few attendants\n" + " And subjects none abroad: pray you, look in.\n" + " My dukedom since you have given me again,\n" + " I will requite you with as good a thing;\n" + " At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye\n" + " As much as me my dukedom.\n\n" + " [Here PROSPERO discovers FERDINAND and MIRANDA\n" + " playing at chess]\n\n" + "MIRANDA Sweet lord, you play me false.\n\n" + "FERDINAND No, my dear'st love,\n" + " I would not for the world.\n\n" + "MIRANDA Yes, for a score of kingdoms you should wrangle,\n" + " And I would call it, fair play.\n\n" + "ALONSO If this prove\n" + " A vision of the Island, one dear son\n" + " Shall I twice lose.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN A most high miracle!\n\n" + "FERDINAND Though the seas threaten, they are merciful;\n" + " I have cursed them without cause.\n\n" + " [Kneels]\n\n" + "ALONSO Now all the blessings\n" + " Of a glad father compass thee about!\n" + " Arise, and say how thou camest here.\n\n" + "MIRANDA O, wonder!\n" + " How many goodly creatures are there here!\n" + " How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,\n" + " That has such people in't!\n\n" + "PROSPERO 'Tis new to thee.\n\n" + "ALONSO What is this maid with whom thou wast at play?\n" + " Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours:\n" + " Is she the goddess that hath sever'd us,\n" + " And brought us thus together?\n\n" + "FERDINAND Sir, she is mortal;\n" + " But by immortal Providence she's mine:\n" + " I chose her when I could not ask my father\n" + " For his advice, nor thought I had one. She\n" + " Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan,\n" + " Of whom so often I have heard renown,\n" + " But never saw before; of whom I have\n" + " Received a second life; and second father\n" + " This lady makes him to me.\n\n" + "ALONSO I am hers:\n" + " But, O, how oddly will it sound that I\n" + " Must ask my child forgiveness!\n\n" + "PROSPERO There, sir, stop:\n" + " Let us not burthen our remembrance with\n" + " A heaviness that's gone.\n\n" + "GONZALO I have inly wept,\n" + " Or should have spoke ere this. Look down, you god,\n" + " And on this couple drop a blessed crown!\n" + " For it is you that have chalk'd forth the way\n" + " Which brought us hither.\n\n" + "ALONSO I say, Amen, Gonzalo!\n\n" + "GONZALO Was Milan thrust from Milan, that his issue\n" + " Should become kings of Naples? O, rejoice\n" + " Beyond a common joy, and set it down\n" + " With gold on lasting pillars: In one voyage\n" + " Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis,\n" + " And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife\n" + " Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom\n" + " In a poor isle and all of us ourselves\n" + " When no man was his own.\n\n" + "ALONSO [To FERDINAND and MIRANDA] Give me your hands:\n" + " Let grief and sorrow still embrace his heart\n" + " That doth not wish you joy!\n\n" + "GONZALO Be it so! Amen!\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARIEL, with the Master and Boatswain\n" + " amazedly following]\n\n" + " O, look, sir, look, sir! here is more of us:\n" + " I prophesied, if a gallows were on land,\n" + " This fellow could not drown. Now, blasphemy,\n" + " That swear'st grace o'erboard, not an oath on shore?\n" + " Hast thou no mouth by land? What is the news?\n\n" + "Boatswain The best news is, that we have safely found\n" + " Our king and company; the next, our ship--\n" + " Which, but three glasses since, we gave out split--\n" + " Is tight and yare and bravely rigg'd as when\n" + " We first put out to sea.\n\n" + "ARIEL [Aside to PROSPERO] Sir, all this service\n" + " Have I done since I went.\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside to ARIEL] My tricksy spirit!\n\n" + "ALONSO These are not natural events; they strengthen\n" + " From strange to stranger. Say, how came you hither?\n\n" + "Boatswain If I did think, sir, I were well awake,\n" + " I'ld strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep,\n" + " And--how we know not--all clapp'd under hatches;\n" + " Where but even now with strange and several noises\n" + " Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains,\n" + " And more diversity of sounds, all horrible,\n" + " We were awaked; straightway, at liberty;\n" + " Where we, in all her trim, freshly beheld\n" + " Our royal, good and gallant ship, our master\n" + " Capering to eye her: on a trice, so please you,\n" + " Even in a dream, were we divided from them\n" + " And were brought moping hither.\n\n" + "ARIEL [Aside to PROSPERO] Was't well done?\n\n" + "PROSPERO [Aside to ARIEL] Bravely, my diligence. Thou shalt be free.\n\n" + "ALONSO This is as strange a maze as e'er men trod\n" + " And there is in this business more than nature\n" + " Was ever conduct of: some oracle\n" + " Must rectify our knowledge.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Sir, my liege,\n" + " Do not infest your mind with beating on\n" + " The strangeness of this business; at pick'd leisure\n" + " Which shall be shortly, single I'll resolve you,\n" + " Which to you shall seem probable, of every\n" + " These happen'd accidents; till when, be cheerful\n" + " And think of each thing well.\n\n" + " [Aside to ARIEL]\n\n" + " Come hither, spirit:\n" + " Set Caliban and his companions free;\n" + " Untie the spell.\n\n" + " [Exit ARIEL]\n\n" + " How fares my gracious sir?\n" + " There are yet missing of your company\n" + " Some few odd lads that you remember not.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ARIEL, driving in CALIBAN, STEPHANO\n" + " and TRINCULO, in their stolen apparel]\n\n" + "STEPHANO Every man shift for all the rest, and\n" + " let no man take care for himself; for all is\n" + " but fortune. Coragio, bully-monster, coragio!\n\n" + "TRINCULO If these be true spies which I wear in my head,\n" + " here's a goodly sight.\n\n" + "CALIBAN O Setebos, these be brave spirits indeed!\n" + " How fine my master is! I am afraid\n" + " He will chastise me.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Ha, ha!\n" + " What things are these, my lord Antonio?\n" + " Will money buy 'em?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Very like; one of them\n" + " Is a plain fish, and, no doubt, marketable.\n\n" + "PROSPERO Mark but the badges of these men, my lords,\n" + " Then say if they be true. This mis-shapen knave,\n" + " His mother was a witch, and one so strong\n" + " That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs,\n" + " And deal in her command without her power.\n" + " These three have robb'd me; and this demi-devil--\n" + " For he's a bastard one--had plotted with them\n" + " To take my life. Two of these fellows you\n" + " Must know and own; this thing of darkness!\n" + " Acknowledge mine.\n\n" + "CALIBAN I shall be pinch'd to death.\n\n" + "ALONSO Is not this Stephano, my drunken butler?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN He is drunk now: where had he wine?\n\n" + "ALONSO And Trinculo is reeling ripe: where should they\n" + " Find this grand liquor that hath gilded 'em?\n" + " How camest thou in this pickle?\n\n" + "TRINCULO I have been in such a pickle since I\n" + " saw you last that, I fear me, will never out of\n" + " my bones: I shall not fear fly-blowing.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Why, how now, Stephano!\n\n" + "STEPHANO O, touch me not; I am not Stephano, but a cramp.\n\n" + "PROSPERO You'ld be king o' the isle, sirrah?\n\n" + "STEPHANO I should have been a sore one then.\n\n" + "ALONSO This is a strange thing as e'er I look'd on.\n\n" + " [Pointing to Caliban]\n\n" + "PROSPERO He is as disproportion'd in his manners\n" + " As in his shape. Go, sirrah, to my cell;\n" + " Take with you your companions; as you look\n" + " To have my pardon, trim it handsomely.\n\n" + "CALIBAN Ay, that I will; and I'll be wise hereafter\n" + " And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass\n" + " Was I, to take this drunkard for a god\n" + " And worship this dull fool!\n\n" + "PROSPERO Go to; away!\n\n" + "ALONSO Hence, and bestow your luggage where you found it.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Or stole it, rather.\n\n" + " [Exeunt CALIBAN, STEPHANO, and TRINCULO]\n\n" + "PROSPERO Sir, I invite your highness and your train\n" + " To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest\n" + " For this one night; which, part of it, I'll waste\n" + " With such discourse as, I not doubt, shall make it\n" + " Go quick away; the story of my life\n" + " And the particular accidents gone by\n" + " Since I came to this isle: and in the morn\n" + " I'll bring you to your ship and so to Naples,\n" + " Where I have hope to see the nuptial\n" + " Of these our dear-beloved solemnized;\n" + " And thence retire me to my Milan, where\n" + " Every third thought shall be my grave.\n\n" + "ALONSO I long\n" + " To hear the story of your life, which must\n" + " Take the ear strangely.\n\n" + "PROSPERO I'll deliver all;\n" + " And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales\n" + " And sail so expeditious that shall catch\n" + " Your royal fleet far off.\n\n" + " [Aside to ARIEL]\n\n" + " My Ariel, chick,\n" + " That is thy charge: then to the elements\n" + " Be free, and fare thou well! Please you, draw near.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TEMPEST\n\n" + " EPILOGUE\n\n\n" + " SPOKEN BY PROSPERO\n\n" + " Now my charms are all o'erthrown,\n" + " And what strength I have's mine own,\n" + " Which is most faint: now, 'tis true,\n" + " I must be here confined by you,\n" + " Or sent to Naples. Let me not,\n" + " Since I have my dukedom got\n" + " And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell\n" + " In this bare island by your spell;\n" + " But release me from my bands\n" + " With the help of your good hands:\n" + " Gentle breath of yours my sails\n" + " Must fill, or else my project fails,\n" + " Which was to please. Now I want\n" + " Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,\n" + " And my ending is despair,\n" + " Unless I be relieved by prayer,\n" + " Which pierces so that it assaults\n" + " Mercy itself and frees all faults.\n" + " As you from crimes would pardon'd be,\n" + " Let your indulgence set me free.\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "TIMON of Athens.\n\n\n" + "LUCIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "LUCULLUS | flattering lords.\n" + " |\n" + "SEMPRONIUS |\n\n\n" + "VENTIDIUS one of Timon's false friends.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES an Athenian captain.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS a churlish philosopher.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS steward to Timon.\n\n" + " Poet, Painter, Jeweller, and Merchant. (Poet:)\n" + " (Painter:)\n" + " (Jeweller:)\n" + " (Merchant:)\n\n" + " An old Athenian. (Old Athenian:)\n\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "LUCILIUS | servants to Timon.\n" + " |\n" + "SERVILIUS |\n\n\n" + "CAPHIS |\n" + " |\n" + "PHILOTUS |\n" + " |\n" + "TITUS |\n" + " | servants to Timon's creditors.\n" + "LUCIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "HORTENSIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "And others |\n\n\n" + " A Page. (Page:)\n\n" + " A Fool. (Fool:)\n\n" + " Three Strangers.\n" + " (First Stranger:)\n" + " (Second Stranger:)\n" + " (Third Stranger:)\n\n\n" + "PHRYNIA |\n" + " | mistresses to Alcibiades.\n" + "TIMANDRA |\n\n\n" + " Cupid and Amazons in the mask. (Cupid:)\n\n" + " Other Lords, Senators, Officers, Soldiers,\n" + " Banditti, and Attendants.\n" + " (First Lord:)\n" + " (Second Lord:)\n" + " (Third Lord:)\n" + " (Fourth Lord:)\n" + " (Senator:)\n" + " (First Senator:)\n" + " (Second Senator:)\n" + " (Third Senator:)\n" + " (Soldier:)\n" + " (First Bandit:)\n" + " (Second Bandit:)\n" + " (Third Bandit:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (First Servant:)\n" + " (Second Servant:)\n" + " (Third Servant:)\n" + " (Varro's First Servant:)\n" + " (Varro's Second Servant:)\n" + " (Lucilius' Servant:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE Athens, and the neighbouring woods.\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Athens. A hall in Timon's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and\n" + " others, at several doors]\n\n" + "Poet Good day, sir.\n\n" + "Painter I am glad you're well.\n\n" + "Poet I have not seen you long: how goes the world?\n\n" + "Painter It wears, sir, as it grows.\n\n" + "Poet Ay, that's well known:\n" + " But what particular rarity? what strange,\n" + " Which manifold record not matches? See,\n" + " Magic of bounty! all these spirits thy power\n" + " Hath conjured to attend. I know the merchant.\n\n" + "Painter I know them both; th' other's a jeweller.\n\n" + "Merchant O, 'tis a worthy lord.\n\n" + "Jeweller Nay, that's most fix'd.\n\n" + "Merchant A most incomparable man, breathed, as it were,\n" + " To an untirable and continuate goodness:\n" + " He passes.\n\n" + "Jeweller: I have a jewel here--\n\n" + "Merchant O, pray, let's see't: for the Lord Timon, sir?\n\n" + "Jeweller: If he will touch the estimate: but, for that--\n\n" + "Poet [Reciting to himself] 'When we for recompense have\n" + " praised the vile,\n" + " It stains the glory in that happy verse\n" + " Which aptly sings the good.'\n\n" + "Merchant 'Tis a good form.\n\n" + " [Looking at the jewel]\n\n" + "Jeweller And rich: here is a water, look ye.\n\n" + "Painter You are rapt, sir, in some work, some dedication\n" + " To the great lord.\n\n" + "Poet A thing slipp'd idly from me.\n" + " Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes\n" + " From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i' the flint\n" + " Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame\n" + " Provokes itself and like the current flies\n" + " Each bound it chafes. What have you there?\n\n" + "Painter A picture, sir. When comes your book forth?\n\n" + "Poet Upon the heels of my presentment, sir.\n" + " Let's see your piece.\n\n" + "Painter 'Tis a good piece.\n\n" + "Poet So 'tis: this comes off well and excellent.\n\n" + "Painter Indifferent.\n\n" + "Poet Admirable: how this grace\n" + " Speaks his own standing! what a mental power\n" + " This eye shoots forth! how big imagination\n" + " Moves in this lip! to the dumbness of the gesture\n" + " One might interpret.\n\n" + "Painter It is a pretty mocking of the life.\n" + " Here is a touch; is't good?\n\n" + "Poet I will say of it,\n" + " It tutors nature: artificial strife\n" + " Lives in these touches, livelier than life.\n\n" + " [Enter certain Senators, and pass over]\n\n" + "Painter How this lord is follow'd!\n\n" + "Poet The senators of Athens: happy man!\n\n" + "Painter Look, more!\n\n" + "Poet You see this confluence, this great flood\n" + " of visitors.\n" + " I have, in this rough work, shaped out a man,\n" + " Whom this beneath world doth embrace and hug\n" + " With amplest entertainment: my free drift\n" + " Halts not particularly, but moves itself\n" + " In a wide sea of wax: no levell'd malice\n" + " Infects one comma in the course I hold;\n" + " But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,\n" + " Leaving no tract behind.\n\n" + "Painter How shall I understand you?\n\n" + "Poet I will unbolt to you.\n" + " You see how all conditions, how all minds,\n" + " As well of glib and slippery creatures as\n" + " Of grave and austere quality, tender down\n" + " Their services to Lord Timon: his large fortune\n" + " Upon his good and gracious nature hanging\n" + " Subdues and properties to his love and tendance\n" + " All sorts of hearts; yea, from the glass-faced flatterer\n" + " To Apemantus, that few things loves better\n" + " Than to abhor himself: even he drops down\n" + " The knee before him, and returns in peace\n" + " Most rich in Timon's nod.\n\n" + "Painter I saw them speak together.\n\n" + "Poet Sir, I have upon a high and pleasant hill\n" + " Feign'd Fortune to be throned: the base o' the mount\n" + " Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures,\n" + " That labour on the bosom of this sphere\n" + " To propagate their states: amongst them all,\n" + " Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd,\n" + " One do I personate of Lord Timon's frame,\n" + " Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts to her;\n" + " Whose present grace to present slaves and servants\n" + " Translates his rivals.\n\n" + "Painter 'Tis conceived to scope.\n" + " This throne, this Fortune, and this hill, methinks,\n" + " With one man beckon'd from the rest below,\n" + " Bowing his head against the sleepy mount\n" + " To climb his happiness, would be well express'd\n" + " In our condition.\n\n" + "Poet Nay, sir, but hear me on.\n" + " All those which were his fellows but of late,\n" + " Some better than his value, on the moment\n" + " Follow his strides, his lobbies fill with tendance,\n" + " Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear,\n" + " Make sacred even his stirrup, and through him\n" + " Drink the free air.\n\n" + "Painter Ay, marry, what of these?\n\n" + "Poet When Fortune in her shift and change of mood\n" + " Spurns down her late beloved, all his dependants\n" + " Which labour'd after him to the mountain's top\n" + " Even on their knees and hands, let him slip down,\n" + " Not one accompanying his declining foot.\n\n" + "Painter 'Tis common:\n" + " A thousand moral paintings I can show\n" + " That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's\n" + " More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well\n" + " To show Lord Timon that mean eyes have seen\n" + " The foot above the head.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound. Enter TIMON, addressing himself\n" + " courteously to every suitor; a Messenger from\n" + " VENTIDIUS talking with him; LUCILIUS and other\n" + " servants following]\n\n" + "TIMON Imprison'd is he, say you?\n\n" + "Messenger Ay, my good lord: five talents is his debt,\n" + " His means most short, his creditors most strait:\n" + " Your honourable letter he desires\n" + " To those have shut him up; which failing,\n" + " Periods his comfort.\n\n" + "TIMON Noble Ventidius! Well;\n" + " I am not of that feather to shake off\n" + " My friend when he must need me. I do know him\n" + " A gentleman that well deserves a help:\n" + " Which he shall have: I'll pay the debt,\n" + " and free him.\n\n" + "Messenger Your lordship ever binds him.\n\n" + "TIMON Commend me to him: I will send his ransom;\n" + " And being enfranchised, bid him come to me.\n" + " 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up,\n" + " But to support him after. Fare you well.\n\n" + "Messenger All happiness to your honour!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter an old Athenian]\n\n" + "Old Athenian Lord Timon, hear me speak.\n\n" + "TIMON Freely, good father.\n\n" + "Old Athenian Thou hast a servant named Lucilius.\n\n" + "TIMON I have so: what of him?\n\n" + "Old Athenian Most noble Timon, call the man before thee.\n\n" + "TIMON Attends he here, or no? Lucilius!\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Here, at your lordship's service.\n\n" + "Old Athenian This fellow here, Lord Timon, this thy creature,\n" + " By night frequents my house. I am a man\n" + " That from my first have been inclined to thrift;\n" + " And my estate deserves an heir more raised\n" + " Than one which holds a trencher.\n\n" + "TIMON Well; what further?\n\n" + "Old Athenian One only daughter have I, no kin else,\n" + " On whom I may confer what I have got:\n" + " The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a bride,\n" + " And I have bred her at my dearest cost\n" + " In qualities of the best. This man of thine\n" + " Attempts her love: I prithee, noble lord,\n" + " Join with me to forbid him her resort;\n" + " Myself have spoke in vain.\n\n" + "TIMON The man is honest.\n\n" + "Old Athenian Therefore he will be, Timon:\n" + " His honesty rewards him in itself;\n" + " It must not bear my daughter.\n\n" + "TIMON Does she love him?\n\n" + "Old Athenian She is young and apt:\n" + " Our own precedent passions do instruct us\n" + " What levity's in youth.\n\n" + "TIMON [To LUCILIUS] Love you the maid?\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Ay, my good lord, and she accepts of it.\n\n" + "Old Athenian If in her marriage my consent be missing,\n" + " I call the gods to witness, I will choose\n" + " Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world,\n" + " And dispossess her all.\n\n" + "TIMON How shall she be endow'd,\n" + " if she be mated with an equal husband?\n\n" + "Old Athenian Three talents on the present; in future, all.\n\n" + "TIMON This gentleman of mine hath served me long:\n" + " To build his fortune I will strain a little,\n" + " For 'tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter:\n" + " What you bestow, in him I'll counterpoise,\n" + " And make him weigh with her.\n\n" + "Old Athenian Most noble lord,\n" + " Pawn me to this your honour, she is his.\n\n" + "TIMON My hand to thee; mine honour on my promise.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Humbly I thank your lordship: never may\n" + " The state or fortune fall into my keeping,\n" + " Which is not owed to you!\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCILIUS and Old Athenian]\n\n" + "Poet Vouchsafe my labour, and long live your lordship!\n\n" + "TIMON I thank you; you shall hear from me anon:\n" + " Go not away. What have you there, my friend?\n\n" + "Painter A piece of painting, which I do beseech\n" + " Your lordship to accept.\n\n" + "TIMON Painting is welcome.\n" + " The painting is almost the natural man;\n" + " or since dishonour traffics with man's nature,\n" + " He is but outside: these pencill'd figures are\n" + " Even such as they give out. I like your work;\n" + " And you shall find I like it: wait attendance\n" + " Till you hear further from me.\n\n" + "Painter The gods preserve ye!\n\n" + "TIMON Well fare you, gentleman: give me your hand;\n" + " We must needs dine together. Sir, your jewel\n" + " Hath suffer'd under praise.\n\n" + "Jeweller What, my lord! dispraise?\n\n" + "TIMON A more satiety of commendations.\n" + " If I should pay you for't as 'tis extoll'd,\n" + " It would unclew me quite.\n\n" + "Jeweller My lord, 'tis rated\n" + " As those which sell would give: but you well know,\n" + " Things of like value differing in the owners\n" + " Are prized by their masters: believe't, dear lord,\n" + " You mend the jewel by the wearing it.\n\n" + "TIMON Well mock'd.\n\n" + "Merchant No, my good lord; he speaks the common tongue,\n" + " Which all men speak with him.\n\n" + "TIMON Look, who comes here: will you be chid?\n\n" + " [Enter APEMANTUS]\n\n" + "Jeweller: We'll bear, with your lordship.\n\n" + "Merchant He'll spare none.\n\n" + "TIMON Good morrow to thee, gentle Apemantus!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Till I be gentle, stay thou for thy good morrow;\n" + " When thou art Timon's dog, and these knaves honest.\n\n" + "TIMON Why dost thou call them knaves? thou know'st them not.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Are they not Athenians?\n\n" + "TIMON Yes.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Then I repent not.\n\n" + "Jeweller: You know me, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Thou know'st I do: I call'd thee by thy name.\n\n" + "TIMON Thou art proud, Apemantus.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Of nothing so much as that I am not like Timon.\n\n" + "TIMON Whither art going?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS To knock out an honest Athenian's brains.\n\n" + "TIMON That's a deed thou'lt die for.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Right, if doing nothing be death by the law.\n\n" + "TIMON How likest thou this picture, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS The best, for the innocence.\n\n" + "TIMON Wrought he not well that painted it?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS He wrought better that made the painter; and yet\n" + " he's but a filthy piece of work.\n\n" + "Painter You're a dog.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Thy mother's of my generation: what's she, if I be a dog?\n\n" + "TIMON Wilt dine with me, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS No; I eat not lords.\n\n" + "TIMON An thou shouldst, thou 'ldst anger ladies.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS O, they eat lords; so they come by great bellies.\n\n" + "TIMON That's a lascivious apprehension.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS So thou apprehendest it: take it for thy labour.\n\n" + "TIMON How dost thou like this jewel, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Not so well as plain-dealing, which will not cost a\n" + " man a doit.\n\n" + "TIMON What dost thou think 'tis worth?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Not worth my thinking. How now, poet!\n\n" + "Poet How now, philosopher!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Thou liest.\n\n" + "Poet Art not one?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Yes.\n\n" + "Poet Then I lie not.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Art not a poet?\n\n" + "Poet Yes.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Then thou liest: look in thy last work, where thou\n" + " hast feigned him a worthy fellow.\n\n" + "Poet That's not feigned; he is so.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Yes, he is worthy of thee, and to pay thee for thy\n" + " labour: he that loves to be flattered is worthy o'\n" + " the flatterer. Heavens, that I were a lord!\n\n" + "TIMON What wouldst do then, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS E'en as Apemantus does now; hate a lord with my heart.\n\n" + "TIMON What, thyself?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Ay.\n\n" + "TIMON Wherefore?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS That I had no angry wit to be a lord.\n" + " Art not thou a merchant?\n\n" + "Merchant Ay, Apemantus.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Traffic confound thee, if the gods will not!\n\n" + "Merchant If traffic do it, the gods do it.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Traffic's thy god; and thy god confound thee!\n\n" + " [Trumpet sounds. Enter a Messenger]\n\n" + "TIMON What trumpet's that?\n\n" + "Messenger 'Tis Alcibiades, and some twenty horse,\n" + " All of companionship.\n\n" + "TIMON Pray, entertain them; give them guide to us.\n\n" + " [Exeunt some Attendants]\n\n" + " You must needs dine with me: go not you hence\n" + " Till I have thank'd you: when dinner's done,\n" + " Show me this piece. I am joyful of your sights.\n\n" + " [Enter ALCIBIADES, with the rest]\n\n" + " Most welcome, sir!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS So, so, there!\n" + " Aches contract and starve your supple joints!\n" + " That there should be small love 'mongst these\n" + " sweet knaves,\n" + " And all this courtesy! The strain of man's bred out\n" + " Into baboon and monkey.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed\n" + " Most hungerly on your sight.\n\n" + "TIMON Right welcome, sir!\n" + " Ere we depart, we'll share a bounteous time\n" + " In different pleasures. Pray you, let us in.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except APEMANTUS]\n\n" + " [Enter two Lords]\n\n" + "First Lord What time o' day is't, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Time to be honest.\n\n" + "First Lord That time serves still.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS The more accursed thou, that still omitt'st it.\n\n" + "Second Lord Thou art going to Lord Timon's feast?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Ay, to see meat fill knaves and wine heat fools.\n\n" + "Second Lord Fare thee well, fare thee well.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice.\n\n" + "Second Lord Why, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Shouldst have kept one to thyself, for I mean to\n" + " give thee none.\n\n" + "First Lord Hang thyself!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS No, I will do nothing at thy bidding: make thy\n" + " requests to thy friend.\n\n" + "Second Lord Away, unpeaceable dog, or I'll spurn thee hence!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS I will fly, like a dog, the heels o' the ass.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Lord He's opposite to humanity. Come, shall we in,\n" + " And taste Lord Timon's bounty? he outgoes\n" + " The very heart of kindness.\n\n" + "Second Lord He pours it out; Plutus, the god of gold,\n" + " Is but his steward: no meed, but he repays\n" + " Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him,\n" + " But breeds the giver a return exceeding\n" + " All use of quittance.\n\n" + "First Lord The noblest mind he carries\n" + " That ever govern'd man.\n\n" + "Second Lord Long may he live in fortunes! Shall we in?\n\n" + "First Lord I'll keep you company.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A banqueting-room in Timon's house.\n\n\n" + " [Hautboys playing loud music. A great banquet\n" + " served in; FLAVIUS and others attending; then enter\n" + " TIMON, ALCIBIADES, Lords, Senators, and VENTIDIUS.\n" + " Then comes, dropping, after all, APEMANTUS,\n" + " discontentedly, like himself]\n\n" + "VENTIDIUS Most honour'd Timon,\n" + " It hath pleased the gods to remember my father's age,\n" + " And call him to long peace.\n" + " He is gone happy, and has left me rich:\n" + " Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound\n" + " To your free heart, I do return those talents,\n" + " Doubled with thanks and service, from whose help\n" + " I derived liberty.\n\n" + "TIMON O, by no means,\n" + " Honest Ventidius; you mistake my love:\n" + " I gave it freely ever; and there's none\n" + " Can truly say he gives, if he receives:\n" + " If our betters play at that game, we must not dare\n" + " To imitate them; faults that are rich are fair.\n\n" + "VENTIDIUS A noble spirit!\n\n" + "TIMON Nay, my lords,\n\n" + " [They all stand ceremoniously looking on TIMON]\n\n" + " Ceremony was but devised at first\n" + " To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,\n" + " Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;\n" + " But where there is true friendship, there needs none.\n" + " Pray, sit; more welcome are ye to my fortunes\n" + " Than my fortunes to me.\n\n" + " [They sit]\n\n" + "First Lord My lord, we always have confess'd it.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Ho, ho, confess'd it! hang'd it, have you not?\n\n" + "TIMON O, Apemantus, you are welcome.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS No;\n" + " You shall not make me welcome:\n" + " I come to have thee thrust me out of doors.\n\n" + "TIMON Fie, thou'rt a churl; ye've got a humour there\n" + " Does not become a man: 'tis much to blame.\n" + " They say, my lords, 'ira furor brevis est;' but yond\n" + " man is ever angry. Go, let him have a table by\n" + " himself, for he does neither affect company, nor is\n" + " he fit for't, indeed.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Let me stay at thine apperil, Timon: I come to\n" + " observe; I give thee warning on't.\n\n" + "TIMON I take no heed of thee; thou'rt an Athenian,\n" + " therefore welcome: I myself would have no power;\n" + " prithee, let my meat make thee silent.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS I scorn thy meat; 'twould choke me, for I should\n" + " ne'er flatter thee. O you gods, what a number of\n" + " men eat Timon, and he sees 'em not! It grieves me\n" + " to see so many dip their meat in one man's blood;\n" + " and all the madness is, he cheers them up too.\n" + " I wonder men dare trust themselves with men:\n" + " Methinks they should invite them without knives;\n" + " Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.\n" + " There's much example for't; the fellow that sits\n" + " next him now, parts bread with him, pledges the\n" + " breath of him in a divided draught, is the readiest\n" + " man to kill him: 't has been proved. If I were a\n" + " huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;\n" + " Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes:\n" + " Great men should drink with harness on their throats.\n\n" + "TIMON My lord, in heart; and let the health go round.\n\n" + "Second Lord Let it flow this way, my good lord.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Flow this way! A brave fellow! he keeps his tides\n" + " well. Those healths will make thee and thy state\n" + " look ill, Timon. Here's that which is too weak to\n" + " be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire:\n" + " This and my food are equals; there's no odds:\n" + " Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods.\n\n" + " Apemantus' grace.\n\n" + " Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;\n" + " I pray for no man but myself:\n" + " Grant I may never prove so fond,\n" + " To trust man on his oath or bond;\n" + " Or a harlot, for her weeping;\n" + " Or a dog, that seems a-sleeping:\n" + " Or a keeper with my freedom;\n" + " Or my friends, if I should need 'em.\n" + " Amen. So fall to't:\n" + " Rich men sin, and I eat root.\n\n" + " [Eats and drinks]\n\n" + " Much good dich thy good heart, Apemantus!\n\n" + "TIMON Captain Alcibiades, your heart's in the field now.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES My heart is ever at your service, my lord.\n\n" + "TIMON You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than a\n" + " dinner of friends.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES So the were bleeding-new, my lord, there's no meat\n" + " like 'em: I could wish my best friend at such a feast.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Would all those fatterers were thine enemies then,\n" + " that then thou mightst kill 'em and bid me to 'em!\n\n" + "First Lord Might we but have that happiness, my lord, that you\n" + " would once use our hearts, whereby we might express\n" + " some part of our zeals, we should think ourselves\n" + " for ever perfect.\n\n" + "TIMON O, no doubt, my good friends, but the gods\n" + " themselves have provided that I shall have much help\n" + " from you: how had you been my friends else? why\n" + " have you that charitable title from thousands, did\n" + " not you chiefly belong to my heart? I have told\n" + " more of you to myself than you can with modesty\n" + " speak in your own behalf; and thus far I confirm\n" + " you. O you gods, think I, what need we have any\n" + " friends, if we should ne'er have need of 'em? they\n" + " were the most needless creatures living, should we\n" + " ne'er have use for 'em, and would most resemble\n" + " sweet instruments hung up in cases that keep their\n" + " sounds to themselves. Why, I have often wished\n" + " myself poorer, that I might come nearer to you. We\n" + " are born to do benefits: and what better or\n" + " properer can we can our own than the riches of our\n" + " friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis, to have\n" + " so many, like brothers, commanding one another's\n" + " fortunes! O joy, e'en made away ere 't can be born!\n" + " Mine eyes cannot hold out water, methinks: to\n" + " forget their faults, I drink to you.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Thou weepest to make them drink, Timon.\n\n" + "Second Lord Joy had the like conception in our eyes\n" + " And at that instant like a babe sprung up.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Ho, ho! I laugh to think that babe a bastard.\n\n" + "Third Lord I promise you, my lord, you moved me much.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Much!\n\n" + " [Tucket, within]\n\n" + "TIMON What means that trump?\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + " How now?\n\n" + "Servant Please you, my lord, there are certain\n" + " ladies most desirous of admittance.\n\n" + "TIMON Ladies! what are their wills?\n\n" + "Servant There comes with them a forerunner, my lord, which\n" + " bears that office, to signify their pleasures.\n\n" + "TIMON I pray, let them be admitted.\n\n" + " [Enter Cupid]\n\n" + "Cupid Hail to thee, worthy Timon, and to all\n" + " That of his bounties taste! The five best senses\n" + " Acknowledge thee their patron; and come freely\n" + " To gratulate thy plenteous bosom: th' ear,\n" + " Taste, touch and smell, pleased from thy tale rise;\n" + " They only now come but to feast thine eyes.\n\n" + "TIMON They're welcome all; let 'em have kind admittance:\n" + " Music, make their welcome!\n\n" + " [Exit Cupid]\n\n" + "First Lord You see, my lord, how ample you're beloved.\n\n" + " [Music. Re-enter Cupid with a mask of Ladies\n" + " as Amazons, with lutes in their hands,\n" + " dancing and playing]\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!\n" + " They dance! they are mad women.\n" + " Like madness is the glory of this life.\n" + " As this pomp shows to a little oil and root.\n" + " We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves;\n" + " And spend our flatteries, to drink those men\n" + " Upon whose age we void it up again,\n" + " With poisonous spite and envy.\n" + " Who lives that's not depraved or depraves?\n" + " Who dies, that bears not one spurn to their graves\n" + " Of their friends' gift?\n" + " I should fear those that dance before me now\n" + " Would one day stamp upon me: 't has been done;\n" + " Men shut their doors against a setting sun.\n\n" + " [The Lords rise from table, with much adoring of\n" + " TIMON; and to show their loves, each singles out an\n" + " Amazon, and all dance, men with women, a lofty\n" + " strain or two to the hautboys, and cease]\n\n" + "TIMON You have done our pleasures much grace, fair ladies,\n" + " Set a fair fashion on our entertainment,\n" + " Which was not half so beautiful and kind;\n" + " You have added worth unto 't and lustre,\n" + " And entertain'd me with mine own device;\n" + " I am to thank you for 't.\n\n" + "First Lady My lord, you take us even at the best.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS 'Faith, for the worst is filthy; and would not hold\n" + " taking, I doubt me.\n\n" + "TIMON Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you:\n" + " Please you to dispose yourselves.\n\n" + "All Ladies Most thankfully, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Cupid and Ladies]\n\n" + "TIMON Flavius.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS My lord?\n\n" + "TIMON The little casket bring me hither.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Yes, my lord. More jewels yet!\n" + " There is no crossing him in 's humour;\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Else I should tell him,--well, i' faith I should,\n" + " When all's spent, he 'ld be cross'd then, an he could.\n" + " 'Tis pity bounty had not eyes behind,\n" + " That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Lord Where be our men?\n\n" + "Servant Here, my lord, in readiness.\n\n" + "Second Lord Our horses!\n\n" + " [Re-enter FLAVIUS, with the casket]\n\n" + "TIMON O my friends,\n" + " I have one word to say to you: look you, my good lord,\n" + " I must entreat you, honour me so much\n" + " As to advance this jewel; accept it and wear it,\n" + " Kind my lord.\n\n" + "First Lord I am so far already in your gifts,--\n\n" + "All So are we all.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant My lord, there are certain nobles of the senate\n" + " Newly alighted, and come to visit you.\n\n" + "TIMON They are fairly welcome.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS I beseech your honour,\n" + " Vouchsafe me a word; it does concern you near.\n\n" + "TIMON Near! why then, another time I'll hear thee:\n" + " I prithee, let's be provided to show them\n" + " entertainment.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS [Aside] I scarce know how.\n\n" + " [Enter a Second Servant]\n\n" + "Second Servant May it please your honour, Lord Lucius,\n" + " Out of his free love, hath presented to you\n" + " Four milk-white horses, trapp'd in silver.\n\n" + "TIMON I shall accept them fairly; let the presents\n" + " Be worthily entertain'd.\n\n" + " [Enter a third Servant]\n\n" + " How now! what news?\n\n" + "Third Servant Please you, my lord, that honourable\n" + " gentleman, Lord Lucullus, entreats your company\n" + " to-morrow to hunt with him, and has sent your honour\n" + " two brace of greyhounds.\n\n" + "TIMON I'll hunt with him; and let them be received,\n" + " Not without fair reward.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS [Aside] What will this come to?\n" + " He commands us to provide, and give great gifts,\n" + " And all out of an empty coffer:\n" + " Nor will he know his purse, or yield me this,\n" + " To show him what a beggar his heart is,\n" + " Being of no power to make his wishes good:\n" + " His promises fly so beyond his state\n" + " That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes\n" + " For every word: he is so kind that he now\n" + " Pays interest for 't; his land's put to their books.\n" + " Well, would I were gently put out of office\n" + " Before I were forced out!\n" + " Happier is he that has no friend to feed\n" + " Than such that do e'en enemies exceed.\n" + " I bleed inwardly for my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TIMON You do yourselves\n" + " Much wrong, you bate too much of your own merits:\n" + " Here, my lord, a trifle of our love.\n\n" + "Second Lord With more than common thanks I will receive it.\n\n" + "Third Lord O, he's the very soul of bounty!\n\n" + "TIMON And now I remember, my lord, you gave\n" + " Good words the other day of a bay courser\n" + " I rode on: it is yours, because you liked it.\n\n" + "Second Lord O, I beseech you, pardon me, my lord, in that.\n\n" + "TIMON You may take my word, my lord; I know, no man\n" + " Can justly praise but what he does affect:\n" + " I weigh my friend's affection with mine own;\n" + " I'll tell you true. I'll call to you.\n\n" + "All Lords O, none so welcome.\n\n" + "TIMON I take all and your several visitations\n" + " So kind to heart, 'tis not enough to give;\n" + " Methinks, I could deal kingdoms to my friends,\n" + " And ne'er be weary. Alcibiades,\n" + " Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich;\n" + " It comes in charity to thee: for all thy living\n" + " Is 'mongst the dead, and all the lands thou hast\n" + " Lie in a pitch'd field.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Ay, defiled land, my lord.\n\n" + "First Lord We are so virtuously bound--\n\n" + "TIMON And so\n" + " Am I to you.\n\n" + "Second Lord So infinitely endear'd--\n\n" + "TIMON All to you. Lights, more lights!\n\n" + "First Lord The best of happiness,\n" + " Honour and fortunes, keep with you, Lord Timon!\n\n" + "TIMON Ready for his friends.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but APEMANTUS and TIMON]\n\n" + "APEMANTUS What a coil's here!\n" + " Serving of becks and jutting-out of bums!\n" + " I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums\n" + " That are given for 'em. Friendship's full of dregs:\n" + " Methinks, false hearts should never have sound legs,\n" + " Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on court'sies.\n\n" + "TIMON Now, Apemantus, if thou wert not sullen, I would be\n" + " good to thee.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS No, I'll nothing: for if I should be bribed too,\n" + " there would be none left to rail upon thee, and then\n" + " thou wouldst sin the faster. Thou givest so long,\n" + " Timon, I fear me thou wilt give away thyself in\n" + " paper shortly: what need these feasts, pomps and\n" + " vain-glories?\n\n" + "TIMON Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, I am\n" + " sworn not to give regard to you. Farewell; and come\n" + " with better music.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "APEMANTUS So:\n" + " Thou wilt not hear me now; thou shalt not then:\n" + " I'll lock thy heaven from thee.\n" + " O, that men's ears should be\n" + " To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A Senator's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Senator, with papers in his hand]\n\n" + "Senator And late, five thousand: to Varro and to Isidore\n" + " He owes nine thousand; besides my former sum,\n" + " Which makes it five and twenty. Still in motion\n" + " Of raging waste? It cannot hold; it will not.\n" + " If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog,\n" + " And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold.\n" + " If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty more\n" + " Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon,\n" + " Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me, straight,\n" + " And able horses. No porter at his gate,\n" + " But rather one that smiles and still invites\n" + " All that pass by. It cannot hold: no reason\n" + " Can found his state in safety. Caphis, ho!\n" + " Caphis, I say!\n\n" + " [Enter CAPHIS]\n\n" + "CAPHIS Here, sir; what is your pleasure?\n\n" + "Senator Get on your cloak, and haste you to Lord Timon;\n" + " Importune him for my moneys; be not ceased\n" + " With slight denial, nor then silenced when--\n" + " 'Commend me to your master'--and the cap\n" + " Plays in the right hand, thus: but tell him,\n" + " My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn\n" + " Out of mine own; his days and times are past\n" + " And my reliances on his fracted dates\n" + " Have smit my credit: I love and honour him,\n" + " But must not break my back to heal his finger;\n" + " Immediate are my needs, and my relief\n" + " Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in words,\n" + " But find supply immediate. Get you gone:\n" + " Put on a most importunate aspect,\n" + " A visage of demand; for, I do fear,\n" + " When every feather sticks in his own wing,\n" + " Lord Timon will be left a naked gull,\n" + " Which flashes now a phoenix. Get you gone.\n\n" + "CAPHIS I go, sir.\n\n" + "Senator 'I go, sir!'--Take the bonds along with you,\n" + " And have the dates in contempt.\n\n" + "CAPHIS I will, sir.\n\n" + "Senator Go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. A hall in Timon's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FLAVIUS, with many bills in his hand]\n\n" + "FLAVIUS No care, no stop! so senseless of expense,\n" + " That he will neither know how to maintain it,\n" + " Nor cease his flow of riot: takes no account\n" + " How things go from him, nor resumes no care\n" + " Of what is to continue: never mind\n" + " Was to be so unwise, to be so kind.\n" + " What shall be done? he will not hear, till feel:\n" + " I must be round with him, now he comes from hunting.\n" + " Fie, fie, fie, fie!\n\n" + " [Enter CAPHIS, and the Servants of Isidore and Varro]\n\n" + "CAPHIS Good even, Varro: what,\n" + " You come for money?\n\n" + "Varro's Servant Is't not your business too?\n\n" + "CAPHIS It is: and yours too, Isidore?\n\n" + "Isidore's Servant It is so.\n\n" + "CAPHIS Would we were all discharged!\n\n" + "Varro's Servant I fear it.\n\n" + "CAPHIS Here comes the lord.\n\n" + " [Enter TIMON, ALCIBIADES, and Lords, &c]\n\n" + "TIMON So soon as dinner's done, we'll forth again,\n" + " My Alcibiades. With me? what is your will?\n\n" + "CAPHIS My lord, here is a note of certain dues.\n\n" + "TIMON Dues! Whence are you?\n\n" + "CAPHIS Of Athens here, my lord.\n\n" + "TIMON Go to my steward.\n\n" + "CAPHIS Please it your lordship, he hath put me off\n" + " To the succession of new days this month:\n" + " My master is awaked by great occasion\n" + " To call upon his own, and humbly prays you\n" + " That with your other noble parts you'll suit\n" + " In giving him his right.\n\n" + "TIMON Mine honest friend,\n" + " I prithee, but repair to me next morning.\n\n" + "CAPHIS Nay, good my lord,--\n\n" + "TIMON Contain thyself, good friend.\n\n" + "Varro's Servant One Varro's servant, my good lord,--\n\n" + "Isidore's Servant From Isidore;\n" + " He humbly prays your speedy payment.\n\n" + "CAPHIS If you did know, my lord, my master's wants--\n\n" + "Varro's Servant 'Twas due on forfeiture, my lord, six weeks And past.\n\n" + "Isidore's Servant Your steward puts me off, my lord;\n" + " And I am sent expressly to your lordship.\n\n" + "TIMON Give me breath.\n" + " I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on;\n" + " I'll wait upon you instantly.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ALCIBIADES and Lords]\n\n" + " [To FLAVIUS]\n\n" + " Come hither: pray you,\n" + " How goes the world, that I am thus encounter'd\n" + " With clamourous demands of date-broke bonds,\n" + " And the detention of long-since-due debts,\n" + " Against my honour?\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Please you, gentlemen,\n" + " The time is unagreeable to this business:\n" + " Your importunacy cease till after dinner,\n" + " That I may make his lordship understand\n" + " Wherefore you are not paid.\n\n" + "TIMON Do so, my friends. See them well entertain'd.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Pray, draw near.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter APEMANTUS and Fool]\n\n" + "CAPHIS Stay, stay, here comes the fool with Apemantus:\n" + " let's ha' some sport with 'em.\n\n" + "Varro's Servant Hang him, he'll abuse us.\n\n" + "Isidore's Servant A plague upon him, dog!\n\n" + "Varro's Servant How dost, fool?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Dost dialogue with thy shadow?\n\n" + "Varro's Servant I speak not to thee.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS No,'tis to thyself.\n\n" + " [To the Fool]\n\n" + " Come away.\n\n" + "Isidore's Servant There's the fool hangs on your back already.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS No, thou stand'st single, thou'rt not on him yet.\n\n" + "CAPHIS Where's the fool now?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS He last asked the question. Poor rogues, and\n" + " usurers' men! bawds between gold and want!\n\n" + "All Servants What are we, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Asses.\n\n" + "All Servants Why?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS That you ask me what you are, and do not know\n" + " yourselves. Speak to 'em, fool.\n\n" + "Fool How do you, gentlemen?\n\n" + "All Servants Gramercies, good fool: how does your mistress?\n\n" + "Fool She's e'en setting on water to scald such chickens\n" + " as you are. Would we could see you at Corinth!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Good! gramercy.\n\n" + " [Enter Page]\n\n" + "Fool Look you, here comes my mistress' page.\n\n" + "Page [To the Fool] Why, how now, captain! what do you\n" + " in this wise company? How dost thou, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Would I had a rod in my mouth, that I might answer\n" + " thee profitably.\n\n" + "Page Prithee, Apemantus, read me the superscription of\n" + " these letters: I know not which is which.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Canst not read?\n\n" + "Page No.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS There will little learning die then, that day thou\n" + " art hanged. This is to Lord Timon; this to\n" + " Alcibiades. Go; thou wast born a bastard, and thou't\n" + " die a bawd.\n\n" + "Page Thou wast whelped a dog, and thou shalt famish a\n" + " dog's death. Answer not; I am gone.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "APEMANTUS E'en so thou outrunnest grace. Fool, I will go with\n" + " you to Lord Timon's.\n\n" + "Fool Will you leave me there?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS If Timon stay at home. You three serve three usurers?\n\n" + "All Servants Ay; would they served us!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS So would I,--as good a trick as ever hangman served thief.\n\n" + "Fool Are you three usurers' men?\n\n" + "All Servants Ay, fool.\n\n" + "Fool I think no usurer but has a fool to his servant: my\n" + " mistress is one, and I am her fool. When men come\n" + " to borrow of your masters, they approach sadly, and\n" + " go away merry; but they enter my mistress' house\n" + " merrily, and go away sadly: the reason of this?\n\n" + "Varro's Servant I could render one.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Do it then, that we may account thee a whoremaster\n" + " and a knave; which not-withstanding, thou shalt be\n" + " no less esteemed.\n\n" + "Varro's Servant What is a whoremaster, fool?\n\n" + "Fool A fool in good clothes, and something like thee.\n" + " 'Tis a spirit: sometime't appears like a lord;\n" + " sometime like a lawyer; sometime like a philosopher,\n" + " with two stones moe than's artificial one: he is\n" + " very often like a knight; and, generally, in all\n" + " shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore\n" + " to thirteen, this spirit walks in.\n\n" + "Varro's Servant Thou art not altogether a fool.\n\n" + "Fool Nor thou altogether a wise man: as much foolery as\n" + " I have, so much wit thou lackest.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS That answer might have become Apemantus.\n\n" + "All Servants Aside, aside; here comes Lord Timon.\n\n" + " [Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS]\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Come with me, fool, come.\n\n" + "Fool I do not always follow lover, elder brother and\n" + " woman; sometime the philosopher.\n\n" + " [Exeunt APEMANTUS and Fool]\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Pray you, walk near: I'll speak with you anon.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Servants]\n\n" + "TIMON You make me marvel: wherefore ere this time\n" + " Had you not fully laid my state before me,\n" + " That I might so have rated my expense,\n" + " As I had leave of means?\n\n" + "FLAVIUS You would not hear me,\n" + " At many leisures I proposed.\n\n" + "TIMON Go to:\n" + " Perchance some single vantages you took.\n" + " When my indisposition put you back:\n" + " And that unaptness made your minister,\n" + " Thus to excuse yourself.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS O my good lord,\n" + " At many times I brought in my accounts,\n" + " Laid them before you; you would throw them off,\n" + " And say, you found them in mine honesty.\n" + " When, for some trifling present, you have bid me\n" + " Return so much, I have shook my head and wept;\n" + " Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd you\n" + " To hold your hand more close: I did endure\n" + " Not seldom, nor no slight cheques, when I have\n" + " Prompted you in the ebb of your estate\n" + " And your great flow of debts. My loved lord,\n" + " Though you hear now, too late--yet now's a time--\n" + " The greatest of your having lacks a half\n" + " To pay your present debts.\n\n" + "TIMON Let all my land be sold.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS 'Tis all engaged, some forfeited and gone;\n" + " And what remains will hardly stop the mouth\n" + " Of present dues: the future comes apace:\n" + " What shall defend the interim? and at length\n" + " How goes our reckoning?\n\n" + "TIMON To Lacedaemon did my land extend.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS O my good lord, the world is but a word:\n" + " Were it all yours to give it in a breath,\n" + " How quickly were it gone!\n\n" + "TIMON You tell me true.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS If you suspect my husbandry or falsehood,\n" + " Call me before the exactest auditors\n" + " And set me on the proof. So the gods bless me,\n" + " When all our offices have been oppress'd\n" + " With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept\n" + " With drunken spilth of wine, when every room\n" + " Hath blazed with lights and bray'd with minstrelsy,\n" + " I have retired me to a wasteful cock,\n" + " And set mine eyes at flow.\n\n" + "TIMON Prithee, no more.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Heavens, have I said, the bounty of this lord!\n" + " How many prodigal bits have slaves and peasants\n" + " This night englutted! Who is not Timon's?\n" + " What heart, head, sword, force, means, but is\n" + " Lord Timon's?\n" + " Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!\n" + " Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,\n" + " The breath is gone whereof this praise is made:\n" + " Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,\n" + " These flies are couch'd.\n\n" + "TIMON Come, sermon me no further:\n" + " No villanous bounty yet hath pass'd my heart;\n" + " Unwisely, not ignobly, have I given.\n" + " Why dost thou weep? Canst thou the conscience lack,\n" + " To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy heart;\n" + " If I would broach the vessels of my love,\n" + " And try the argument of hearts by borrowing,\n" + " Men and men's fortunes could I frankly use\n" + " As I can bid thee speak.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Assurance bless your thoughts!\n\n" + "TIMON And, in some sort, these wants of mine are crown'd,\n" + " That I account them blessings; for by these\n" + " Shall I try friends: you shall perceive how you\n" + " Mistake my fortunes; I am wealthy in my friends.\n" + " Within there! Flaminius! Servilius!\n\n" + " [Enter FLAMINIUS, SERVILIUS, and other Servants]\n\n" + "Servants My lord? my lord?\n\n" + "TIMON I will dispatch you severally; you to Lord Lucius;\n" + " to Lord Lucullus you: I hunted with his honour\n" + " to-day: you, to Sempronius: commend me to their\n" + " loves, and, I am proud, say, that my occasions have\n" + " found time to use 'em toward a supply of money: let\n" + " the request be fifty talents.\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS As you have said, my lord.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS [Aside] Lord Lucius and Lucullus? hum!\n\n" + "TIMON Go you, sir, to the senators--\n" + " Of whom, even to the state's best health, I have\n" + " Deserved this hearing--bid 'em send o' the instant\n" + " A thousand talents to me.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS I have been bold--\n" + " For that I knew it the most general way--\n" + " To them to use your signet and your name;\n" + " But they do shake their heads, and I am here\n" + " No richer in return.\n\n" + "TIMON Is't true? can't be?\n\n" + "FLAVIUS They answer, in a joint and corporate voice,\n" + " That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot\n" + " Do what they would; are sorry--you are honourable,--\n" + " But yet they could have wish'd--they know not--\n" + " Something hath been amiss--a noble nature\n" + " May catch a wrench--would all were well--'tis pity;--\n" + " And so, intending other serious matters,\n" + " After distasteful looks and these hard fractions,\n" + " With certain half-caps and cold-moving nods\n" + " They froze me into silence.\n\n" + "TIMON You gods, reward them!\n" + " Prithee, man, look cheerly. These old fellows\n" + " Have their ingratitude in them hereditary:\n" + " Their blood is caked, 'tis cold, it seldom flows;\n" + " 'Tis lack of kindly warmth they are not kind;\n" + " And nature, as it grows again toward earth,\n" + " Is fashion'd for the journey, dull and heavy.\n\n" + " [To a Servant]\n\n" + " Go to Ventidius.\n\n" + " [To FLAVIUS]\n\n" + " Prithee, be not sad,\n" + " Thou art true and honest; ingeniously I speak.\n" + " No blame belongs to thee.\n\n" + " [To Servant]\n\n" + " Ventidius lately\n" + " Buried his father; by whose death he's stepp'd\n" + " Into a great estate: when he was poor,\n" + " Imprison'd and in scarcity of friends,\n" + " I clear'd him with five talents: greet him from me;\n" + " Bid him suppose some good necessity\n" + " Touches his friend, which craves to be remember'd\n" + " With those five talents.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " [To FLAVIUS]\n\n" + " That had, give't these fellows\n" + " To whom 'tis instant due. Ne'er speak, or think,\n" + " That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS I would I could not think it: that thought is\n" + " bounty's foe;\n" + " Being free itself, it thinks all others so.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in Lucullus' house.\n\n\n" + " [FLAMINIUS waiting. Enter a Servant to him]\n\n" + "Servant I have told my lord of you; he is coming down to you.\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS I thank you, sir.\n\n" + " [Enter LUCULLUS]\n\n" + "Servant Here's my lord.\n\n" + "LUCULLUS [Aside] One of Lord Timon's men? a gift, I\n" + " warrant. Why, this hits right; I dreamt of a silver\n" + " basin and ewer to-night. Flaminius, honest\n" + " Flaminius; you are very respectively welcome, sir.\n" + " Fill me some wine.\n\n" + " [Exit Servants]\n\n" + " And how does that honourable, complete, free-hearted\n" + " gentleman of Athens, thy very bountiful good lord\n" + " and master?\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS His health is well sir.\n\n" + "LUCULLUS I am right glad that his health is well, sir: and\n" + " what hast thou there under thy cloak, pretty Flaminius?\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS 'Faith, nothing but an empty box, sir; which, in my\n" + " lord's behalf, I come to entreat your honour to\n" + " supply; who, having great and instant occasion to\n" + " use fifty talents, hath sent to your lordship to\n" + " furnish him, nothing doubting your present\n" + " assistance therein.\n\n" + "LUCULLUS La, la, la, la! 'nothing doubting,' says he? Alas,\n" + " good lord! a noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not\n" + " keep so good a house. Many a time and often I ha'\n" + " dined with him, and told him on't, and come again to\n" + " supper to him, of purpose to have him spend less,\n" + " and yet he would embrace no counsel, take no warning\n" + " by my coming. Every man has his fault, and honesty\n" + " is his: I ha' told him on't, but I could ne'er get\n" + " him from't.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servant, with wine]\n\n" + "Servant Please your lordship, here is the wine.\n\n" + "LUCULLUS Flaminius, I have noted thee always wise. Here's to thee.\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS Your lordship speaks your pleasure.\n\n" + "LUCULLUS I have observed thee always for a towardly prompt\n" + " spirit--give thee thy due--and one that knows what\n" + " belongs to reason; and canst use the time well, if\n" + " the time use thee well: good parts in thee.\n\n" + " [To Servant]\n\n" + " Get you gone, sirrah.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " Draw nearer, honest Flaminius. Thy lord's a\n" + " bountiful gentleman: but thou art wise; and thou\n" + " knowest well enough, although thou comest to me,\n" + " that this is no time to lend money, especially upon\n" + " bare friendship, without security. Here's three\n" + " solidares for thee: good boy, wink at me, and say\n" + " thou sawest me not. Fare thee well.\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS Is't possible the world should so much differ,\n" + " And we alive that lived? Fly, damned baseness,\n" + " To him that worships thee!\n\n" + " [Throwing the money back]\n\n" + "LUCULLUS Ha! now I see thou art a fool, and fit for thy master.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS May these add to the number that may scald thee!\n" + " Let moulten coin be thy damnation,\n" + " Thou disease of a friend, and not himself!\n" + " Has friendship such a faint and milky heart,\n" + " It turns in less than two nights? O you gods,\n" + " I feel master's passion! this slave,\n" + " Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him:\n" + " Why should it thrive and turn to nutriment,\n" + " When he is turn'd to poison?\n" + " O, may diseases only work upon't!\n" + " And, when he's sick to death, let not that part of nature\n" + " Which my lord paid for, be of any power\n" + " To expel sickness, but prolong his hour!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LUCILIUS, with three Strangers]\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Who, the Lord Timon? he is my very good friend, and\n" + " an honourable gentleman.\n\n" + "First Stranger We know him for no less, though we are but strangers\n" + " to him. But I can tell you one thing, my lord, and\n" + " which I hear from common rumours: now Lord Timon's\n" + " happy hours are done and past, and his estate\n" + " shrinks from him.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Fie, no, do not believe it; he cannot want for money.\n\n" + "Second Stranger But believe you this, my lord, that, not long ago,\n" + " one of his men was with the Lord Lucullus to borrow\n" + " so many talents, nay, urged extremely for't and\n" + " showed what necessity belonged to't, and yet was denied.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS How!\n\n" + "Second Stranger I tell you, denied, my lord.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS What a strange case was that! now, before the gods,\n" + " I am ashamed on't. Denied that honourable man!\n" + " there was very little honour showed in't. For my own\n" + " part, I must needs confess, I have received some\n" + " small kindnesses from him, as money, plate, jewels\n" + " and such-like trifles, nothing comparing to his;\n" + " yet, had he mistook him and sent to me, I should\n" + " ne'er have denied his occasion so many talents.\n\n" + " [Enter SERVILIUS]\n\n" + "SERVILIUS See, by good hap, yonder's my lord;\n" + " I have sweat to see his honour. My honoured lord,--\n\n" + " [To LUCIUS]\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Servilius! you are kindly met, sir. Fare thee well:\n" + " commend me to thy honourable virtuous lord, my very\n" + " exquisite friend.\n\n" + "SERVILIUS May it please your honour, my lord hath sent--\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Ha! what has he sent? I am so much endeared to\n" + " that lord; he's ever sending: how shall I thank\n" + " him, thinkest thou? And what has he sent now?\n\n" + "SERVILIUS Has only sent his present occasion now, my lord;\n" + " requesting your lordship to supply his instant use\n" + " with so many talents.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS I know his lordship is but merry with me;\n" + " He cannot want fifty five hundred talents.\n\n" + "SERVILIUS But in the mean time he wants less, my lord.\n" + " If his occasion were not virtuous,\n" + " I should not urge it half so faithfully.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS Dost thou speak seriously, Servilius?\n\n" + "SERVILIUS Upon my soul,'tis true, sir.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself\n" + " against such a good time, when I might ha' shown\n" + " myself honourable! how unluckily it happened, that I\n" + " should purchase the day before for a little part,\n" + " and undo a great deal of honoured! Servilius, now,\n" + " before the gods, I am not able to do,--the more\n" + " beast, I say:--I was sending to use Lord Timon\n" + " myself, these gentlemen can witness! but I would\n" + " not, for the wealth of Athens, I had done't now.\n" + " Commend me bountifully to his good lordship; and I\n" + " hope his honour will conceive the fairest of me,\n" + " because I have no power to be kind: and tell him\n" + " this from me, I count it one of my greatest\n" + " afflictions, say, that I cannot pleasure such an\n" + " honourable gentleman. Good Servilius, will you\n" + " befriend me so far, as to use mine own words to him?\n\n" + "SERVILIUS Yes, sir, I shall.\n\n" + "LUCILIUS I'll look you out a good turn, Servilius.\n\n" + " [Exit SERVILIUS]\n\n" + " True as you said, Timon is shrunk indeed;\n" + " And he that's once denied will hardly speed.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "First Stranger Do you observe this, Hostilius?\n\n" + "Second Stranger Ay, too well.\n\n" + "First Stranger Why, this is the world's soul; and just of the\n" + " same piece\n" + " Is every flatterer's spirit. Who can call him\n" + " His friend that dips in the same dish? for, in\n" + " My knowing, Timon has been this lord's father,\n" + " And kept his credit with his purse,\n" + " Supported his estate; nay, Timon's money\n" + " Has paid his men their wages: he ne'er drinks,\n" + " But Timon's silver treads upon his lip;\n" + " And yet--O, see the monstrousness of man\n" + " When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!--\n" + " He does deny him, in respect of his,\n" + " What charitable men afford to beggars.\n\n" + "Third Stranger Religion groans at it.\n\n" + "First Stranger For mine own part,\n" + " I never tasted Timon in my life,\n" + " Nor came any of his bounties over me,\n" + " To mark me for his friend; yet, I protest,\n" + " For his right noble mind, illustrious virtue\n" + " And honourable carriage,\n" + " Had his necessity made use of me,\n" + " I would have put my wealth into donation,\n" + " And the best half should have return'd to him,\n" + " So much I love his heart: but, I perceive,\n" + " Men must learn now with pity to dispense;\n" + " For policy sits above conscience.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in Sempronius' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SEMPRONIUS, and a Servant of TIMON's]\n\n" + "SEMPRONIUS Must he needs trouble me in 't,--hum!--'bove\n" + " all others?\n" + " He might have tried Lord Lucius or Lucullus;\n" + " And now Ventidius is wealthy too,\n" + " Whom he redeem'd from prison: all these\n" + " Owe their estates unto him.\n\n" + "Servant My lord,\n" + " They have all been touch'd and found base metal, for\n" + " They have au denied him.\n\n" + "SEMPRONIUS How! have they denied him?\n" + " Has Ventidius and Lucullus denied him?\n" + " And does he send to me? Three? hum!\n" + " It shows but little love or judgment in him:\n" + " Must I be his last refuge! His friends, like\n" + " physicians,\n" + " Thrive, give him over: must I take the cure upon me?\n" + " Has much disgraced me in't; I'm angry at him,\n" + " That might have known my place: I see no sense for't,\n" + " But his occasion might have woo'd me first;\n" + " For, in my conscience, I was the first man\n" + " That e'er received gift from him:\n" + " And does he think so backwardly of me now,\n" + " That I'll requite its last? No:\n" + " So it may prove an argument of laughter\n" + " To the rest, and 'mongst lords I be thought a fool.\n" + " I'ld rather than the worth of thrice the sum,\n" + " Had sent to me first, but for my mind's sake;\n" + " I'd such a courage to do him good. But now return,\n" + " And with their faint reply this answer join;\n" + " Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Servant Excellent! Your lordship's a goodly villain. The\n" + " devil knew not what he did when he made man\n" + " politic; he crossed himself by 't: and I cannot\n" + " think but, in the end, the villainies of man will\n" + " set him clear. How fairly this lord strives to\n" + " appear foul! takes virtuous copies to be wicked,\n" + " like those that under hot ardent zeal would set\n" + " whole realms on fire: Of such a nature is his\n" + " politic love.\n" + " This was my lord's best hope; now all are fled,\n" + " Save only the gods: now his friends are dead,\n" + " Doors, that were ne'er acquainted with their wards\n" + " Many a bounteous year must be employ'd\n" + " Now to guard sure their master.\n" + " And this is all a liberal course allows;\n" + " Who cannot keep his wealth must keep his house.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. A hall in Timon's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Servants of Varro, and the Servant of\n" + " LUCIUS, meeting TITUS, HORTENSIUS, and other\n" + " Servants of TIMON's creditors, waiting his coming out]\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "First Servant Well met; good morrow, Titus and Hortensius.\n\n" + "TITUS The like to you kind Varro.\n\n" + "HORTENSIUS Lucius!\n" + " What, do we meet together?\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Ay, and I think\n" + " One business does command us all; for mine Is money.\n\n" + "TITUS So is theirs and ours.\n\n" + " [Enter PHILOTUS]\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant And Sir Philotus too!\n\n" + "PHILOTUS Good day at once.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Welcome, good brother.\n" + " What do you think the hour?\n\n" + "PHILOTUS Labouring for nine.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant So much?\n\n" + "PHILOTUS Is not my lord seen yet?\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Not yet.\n\n" + "PHILOTUS I wonder on't; he was wont to shine at seven.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Ay, but the days are wax'd shorter with him:\n" + " You must consider that a prodigal course\n" + " Is like the sun's; but not, like his, recoverable.\n" + " I fear 'tis deepest winter in Lord Timon's purse;\n" + " That is one may reach deep enough, and yet\n" + " Find little.\n\n" + "PHILOTUS I am of your fear for that.\n\n" + "TITUS I'll show you how to observe a strange event.\n" + " Your lord sends now for money.\n\n" + "HORTENSIUS Most true, he does.\n\n" + "TITUS And he wears jewels now of Timon's gift,\n" + " For which I wait for money.\n\n" + "HORTENSIUS It is against my heart.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Mark, how strange it shows,\n" + " Timon in this should pay more than he owes:\n" + " And e'en as if your lord should wear rich jewels,\n" + " And send for money for 'em.\n\n" + "HORTENSIUS I'm weary of this charge, the gods can witness:\n" + " I know my lord hath spent of Timon's wealth,\n" + " And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth.\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "First Servant Yes, mine's three thousand crowns: what's yours?\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Five thousand mine.\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "First Servant 'Tis much deep: and it should seem by the sun,\n" + " Your master's confidence was above mine;\n" + " Else, surely, his had equall'd.\n\n" + " Enter FLAMINIUS.\n\n" + "TITUS One of Lord Timon's men.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Flaminius! Sir, a word: pray, is my lord ready to\n" + " come forth?\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS No, indeed, he is not.\n\n" + "TITUS We attend his lordship; pray, signify so much.\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS I need not tell him that; he knows you are too diligent.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter FLAVIUS in a cloak, muffled]\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Ha! is not that his steward muffled so?\n" + " He goes away in a cloud: call him, call him.\n\n" + "TITUS Do you hear, sir?\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "Second Servant By your leave, sir,--\n\n" + "FLAVIUS What do ye ask of me, my friend?\n\n" + "TITUS We wait for certain money here, sir.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Ay,\n" + " If money were as certain as your waiting,\n" + " 'Twere sure enough.\n" + " Why then preferr'd you not your sums and bills,\n" + " When your false masters eat of my lord's meat?\n" + " Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts\n" + " And take down the interest into their\n" + " gluttonous maws.\n" + " You do yourselves but wrong to stir me up;\n" + " Let me pass quietly:\n" + " Believe 't, my lord and I have made an end;\n" + " I have no more to reckon, he to spend.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Ay, but this answer will not serve.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS If 'twill not serve,'tis not so base as you;\n" + " For you serve knaves.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "First Servant How! what does his cashiered worship mutter?\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "Second Servant No matter what; he's poor, and that's revenge\n" + " enough. Who can speak broader than he that has no\n" + " house to put his head in? such may rail against\n" + " great buildings.\n\n" + " [Enter SERVILIUS]\n\n" + "TITUS O, here's Servilius; now we shall know some answer.\n\n" + "SERVILIUS If I might beseech you, gentlemen, to repair some\n" + " other hour, I should derive much from't; for,\n" + " take't of my soul, my lord leans wondrously to\n" + " discontent: his comfortable temper has forsook him;\n" + " he's much out of health, and keeps his chamber.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant: Many do keep their chambers are not sick:\n" + " And, if it be so far beyond his health,\n" + " Methinks he should the sooner pay his debts,\n" + " And make a clear way to the gods.\n\n" + "SERVILIUS Good gods!\n\n" + "TITUS We cannot take this for answer, sir.\n\n" + "FLAMINIUS [Within] Servilius, help! My lord! my lord!\n\n" + " [Enter TIMON, in a rage, FLAMINIUS following]\n\n" + "TIMON What, are my doors opposed against my passage?\n" + " Have I been ever free, and must my house\n" + " Be my retentive enemy, my gaol?\n" + " The place which I have feasted, does it now,\n" + " Like all mankind, show me an iron heart?\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Put in now, Titus.\n\n" + "TITUS My lord, here is my bill.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Here's mine.\n\n" + "HORTENSIUS And mine, my lord.\n\n" + "Both\n" + "Varro's Servants And ours, my lord.\n\n" + "PHILOTUS All our bills.\n\n" + "TIMON Knock me down with 'em: cleave me to the girdle.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Alas, my lord,-\n\n" + "TIMON Cut my heart in sums.\n\n" + "TITUS Mine, fifty talents.\n\n" + "TIMON Tell out my blood.\n\n" + "Lucilius' Servant Five thousand crowns, my lord.\n\n" + "TIMON Five thousand drops pays that.\n" + " What yours?--and yours?\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "First Servant My lord,--\n\n" + "Varro's\n" + "Second Servant My lord,--\n\n" + "TIMON Tear me, take me, and the gods fall upon you!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HORTENSIUS 'Faith, I perceive our masters may throw their caps\n" + " at their money: these debts may well be called\n" + " desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter TIMON and FLAVIUS]\n\n" + "TIMON They have e'en put my breath from me, the slaves.\n" + " Creditors? devils!\n\n" + "FLAVIUS My dear lord,--\n\n" + "TIMON What if it should be so?\n\n" + "FLAVIUS My lord,--\n\n" + "TIMON I'll have it so. My steward!\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Here, my lord.\n\n" + "TIMON So fitly? Go, bid all my friends again,\n" + " Lucius, Lucullus, and Sempronius:\n" + " All, sirrah, all:\n" + " I'll once more feast the rascals.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS O my lord,\n" + " You only speak from your distracted soul;\n" + " There is not so much left, to furnish out\n" + " A moderate table.\n\n" + "TIMON Be't not in thy care; go,\n" + " I charge thee, invite them all: let in the tide\n" + " Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same. The senate-house. The Senate sitting.\n\n\n" + "First Senator My lord, you have my voice to it; the fault's\n" + " Bloody; 'tis necessary he should die:\n" + " Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.\n\n" + "Second Senator Most true; the law shall bruise him.\n\n" + " [Enter ALCIBIADES, with Attendants]\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Honour, health, and compassion to the senate!\n\n" + "First Senator Now, captain?\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I am an humble suitor to your virtues;\n" + " For pity is the virtue of the law,\n" + " And none but tyrants use it cruelly.\n" + " It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy\n" + " Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood,\n" + " Hath stepp'd into the law, which is past depth\n" + " To those that, without heed, do plunge into 't.\n" + " He is a man, setting his fate aside,\n" + " Of comely virtues:\n" + " Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice--\n" + " An honour in him which buys out his fault--\n" + " But with a noble fury and fair spirit,\n" + " Seeing his reputation touch'd to death,\n" + " He did oppose his foe:\n" + " And with such sober and unnoted passion\n" + " He did behave his anger, ere 'twas spent,\n" + " As if he had but proved an argument.\n\n" + "First Senator You undergo too strict a paradox,\n" + " Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:\n" + " Your words have took such pains as if they labour'd\n" + " To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling\n" + " Upon the head of valour; which indeed\n" + " Is valour misbegot and came into the world\n" + " When sects and factions were newly born:\n" + " He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer\n" + " The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs\n" + " His outsides, to wear them like his raiment,\n" + " carelessly,\n" + " And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,\n" + " To bring it into danger.\n" + " If wrongs be evils and enforce us kill,\n" + " What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill!\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES My lord,--\n\n" + "First Senator You cannot make gross sins look clear:\n" + " To revenge is no valour, but to bear.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES My lords, then, under favour, pardon me,\n" + " If I speak like a captain.\n" + " Why do fond men expose themselves to battle,\n" + " And not endure all threats? sleep upon't,\n" + " And let the foes quietly cut their throats,\n" + " Without repugnancy? If there be\n" + " Such valour in the bearing, what make we\n" + " Abroad? why then, women are more valiant\n" + " That stay at home, if bearing carry it,\n" + " And the ass more captain than the lion, the felon\n" + " Loaden with irons wiser than the judge,\n" + " If wisdom be in suffering. O my lords,\n" + " As you are great, be pitifully good:\n" + " Who cannot condemn rashness in cold blood?\n" + " To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;\n" + " But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just.\n" + " To be in anger is impiety;\n" + " But who is man that is not angry?\n" + " Weigh but the crime with this.\n\n" + "Second Senator You breathe in vain.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES In vain! his service done\n" + " At Lacedaemon and Byzantium\n" + " Were a sufficient briber for his life.\n\n" + "First Senator What's that?\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I say, my lords, he has done fair service,\n" + " And slain in fight many of your enemies:\n" + " How full of valour did he bear himself\n" + " In the last conflict, and made plenteous wounds!\n\n" + "Second Senator He has made too much plenty with 'em;\n" + " He's a sworn rioter: he has a sin that often\n" + " Drowns him, and takes his valour prisoner:\n" + " If there were no foes, that were enough\n" + " To overcome him: in that beastly fury\n" + " He has been known to commit outrages,\n" + " And cherish factions: 'tis inferr'd to us,\n" + " His days are foul and his drink dangerous.\n\n" + "First Senator He dies.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Hard fate! he might have died in war.\n" + " My lords, if not for any parts in him--\n" + " Though his right arm might purchase his own time\n" + " And be in debt to none--yet, more to move you,\n" + " Take my deserts to his, and join 'em both:\n" + " And, for I know your reverend ages love\n" + " Security, I'll pawn my victories, all\n" + " My honours to you, upon his good returns.\n" + " If by this crime he owes the law his life,\n" + " Why, let the war receive 't in valiant gore\n" + " For law is strict, and war is nothing more.\n\n" + "First Senator We are for law: he dies; urge it no more,\n" + " On height of our displeasure: friend or brother,\n" + " He forfeits his own blood that spills another.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Must it be so? it must not be. My lords,\n" + " I do beseech you, know me.\n\n" + "Second Senator How!\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Call me to your remembrances.\n\n" + "Third Senator What!\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I cannot think but your age has forgot me;\n" + " It could not else be, I should prove so base,\n" + " To sue, and be denied such common grace:\n" + " My wounds ache at you.\n\n" + "First Senator Do you dare our anger?\n" + " 'Tis in few words, but spacious in effect;\n" + " We banish thee for ever.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Banish me!\n" + " Banish your dotage; banish usury,\n" + " That makes the senate ugly.\n\n" + "First Senator If, after two days' shine, Athens contain thee,\n" + " Attend our weightier judgment. And, not to swell\n" + " our spirit,\n" + " He shall be executed presently.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Senators]\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Now the gods keep you old enough; that you may live\n" + " Only in bone, that none may look on you!\n" + " I'm worse than mad: I have kept back their foes,\n" + " While they have told their money and let out\n" + " Their coin upon large interest, I myself\n" + " Rich only in large hurts. All those for this?\n" + " Is this the balsam that the usuring senate\n" + " Pours into captains' wounds? Banishment!\n" + " It comes not ill; I hate not to be banish'd;\n" + " It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury,\n" + " That I may strike at Athens. I'll cheer up\n" + " My discontented troops, and lay for hearts.\n" + " 'Tis honour with most lands to be at odds;\n" + " Soldiers should brook as little wrongs as gods.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The same. A banqueting-room in Timon's house.\n\n\n" + " [Music. Tables set out: Servants attending.\n" + " Enter divers Lords, Senators and others, at\n" + " several doors]\n\n" + "First Lord The good time of day to you, sir.\n\n" + "Second Lord I also wish it to you. I think this honourable lord\n" + " did but try us this other day.\n\n" + "First Lord Upon that were my thoughts tiring, when we\n" + " encountered: I hope it is not so low with him as\n" + " he made it seem in the trial of his several friends.\n\n" + "Second Lord It should not be, by the persuasion of his new feasting.\n\n" + "First Lord I should think so: he hath sent me an earnest\n" + " inviting, which many my near occasions did urge me\n" + " to put off; but he hath conjured me beyond them, and\n" + " I must needs appear.\n\n" + "Second Lord In like manner was I in debt to my importunate\n" + " business, but he would not hear my excuse. I am\n" + " sorry, when he sent to borrow of me, that my\n" + " provision was out.\n\n" + "First Lord I am sick of that grief too, as I understand how all\n" + " things go.\n\n" + "Second Lord Every man here's so. What would he have borrowed of\n" + " you?\n\n" + "First Lord A thousand pieces.\n\n" + "Second Lord A thousand pieces!\n\n" + "First Lord What of you?\n\n" + "Second Lord He sent to me, sir,--Here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter TIMON and Attendants]\n\n" + "TIMON With all my heart, gentlemen both; and how fare you?\n\n" + "First Lord Ever at the best, hearing well of your lordship.\n\n" + "Second Lord The swallow follows not summer more willing than we\n" + " your lordship.\n\n" + "TIMON [Aside] Nor more willingly leaves winter; such\n" + " summer-birds are men. Gentlemen, our dinner will not\n" + " recompense this long stay: feast your ears with the\n" + " music awhile, if they will fare so harshly o' the\n" + " trumpet's sound; we shall to 't presently.\n\n" + "First Lord I hope it remains not unkindly with your lordship\n" + " that I returned you an empty messenger.\n\n" + "TIMON O, sir, let it not trouble you.\n\n" + "Second Lord My noble lord,--\n\n" + "TIMON Ah, my good friend, what cheer?\n\n" + "Second Lord My most honourable lord, I am e'en sick of shame,\n" + " that, when your lordship this other day sent to me,\n" + " I was so unfortunate a beggar.\n\n" + "TIMON Think not on 't, sir.\n\n" + "Second Lord If you had sent but two hours before,--\n\n" + "TIMON Let it not cumber your better remembrance.\n\n" + " [The banquet brought in]\n\n" + " Come, bring in all together.\n\n" + "Second Lord All covered dishes!\n\n" + "First Lord Royal cheer, I warrant you.\n\n" + "Third Lord Doubt not that, if money and the season can yield\n" + " it.\n\n" + "First Lord How do you? What's the news?\n\n" + "Third Lord Alcibiades is banished: hear you of it?\n\n\n" + "First Lord |\n" + " | Alcibiades banished!\n" + "Second Lord |\n\n\n" + "Third Lord 'Tis so, be sure of it.\n\n" + "First Lord How! how!\n\n" + "Second Lord I pray you, upon what?\n\n" + "TIMON My worthy friends, will you draw near?\n\n" + "Third Lord I'll tell you more anon. Here's a noble feast toward.\n\n" + "Second Lord This is the old man still.\n\n" + "Third Lord Will 't hold? will 't hold?\n\n" + "Second Lord It does: but time will--and so--\n\n" + "Third Lord I do conceive.\n\n" + "TIMON Each man to his stool, with that spur as he would to\n" + " the lip of his mistress: your diet shall be in all\n" + " places alike. Make not a city feast of it, to let\n" + " the meat cool ere we can agree upon the first place:\n" + " sit, sit. The gods require our thanks.\n\n" + " You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with\n" + " thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves\n" + " praised: but reserve still to give, lest your\n" + " deities be despised. Lend to each man enough, that\n" + " one need not lend to another; for, were your\n" + " godheads to borrow of men, men would forsake the\n" + " gods. Make the meat be beloved more than the man\n" + " that gives it. Let no assembly of twenty be without\n" + " a score of villains: if there sit twelve women at\n" + " the table, let a dozen of them be--as they are. The\n" + " rest of your fees, O gods--the senators of Athens,\n" + " together with the common lag of people--what is\n" + " amiss in them, you gods, make suitable for\n" + " destruction. For these my present friends, as they\n" + " are to me nothing, so in nothing bless them, and to\n" + " nothing are they welcome.\n\n" + " Uncover, dogs, and lap.\n\n" + " [The dishes are uncovered and seen to be full of\n" + " warm water]\n\n" + "Some Speak What does his lordship mean?\n\n" + "Some Others I know not.\n\n" + "TIMON May you a better feast never behold,\n" + " You knot of mouth-friends I smoke and lukewarm water\n" + " Is your perfection. This is Timon's last;\n" + " Who, stuck and spangled with your flatteries,\n" + " Washes it off, and sprinkles in your faces\n" + " Your reeking villany.\n\n" + " [Throwing the water in their faces]\n\n" + " Live loathed and long,\n" + " Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,\n" + " Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,\n" + " You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies,\n" + " Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks!\n" + " Of man and beast the infinite malady\n" + " Crust you quite o'er! What, dost thou go?\n" + " Soft! take thy physic first--thou too--and thou;--\n" + " Stay, I will lend thee money, borrow none.\n\n" + " [Throws the dishes at them, and drives them out]\n\n" + " What, all in motion? Henceforth be no feast,\n" + " Whereat a villain's not a welcome guest.\n" + " Burn, house! sink, Athens! henceforth hated be\n" + " Of Timon man and all humanity!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter the Lords, Senators, &c]\n\n" + "First Lord How now, my lords!\n\n" + "Second Lord Know you the quality of Lord Timon's fury?\n\n" + "Third Lord Push! did you see my cap?\n\n" + "Fourth Lord I have lost my gown.\n\n" + "First Lord He's but a mad lord, and nought but humour sways him.\n" + " He gave me a jewel th' other day, and now he has\n" + " beat it out of my hat: did you see my jewel?\n\n" + "Third Lord Did you see my cap?\n\n" + "Second Lord Here 'tis.\n\n" + "Fourth Lord Here lies my gown.\n\n" + "First Lord Let's make no stay.\n\n" + "Second Lord Lord Timon's mad.\n\n" + "Third Lord I feel 't upon my bones.\n\n" + "Fourth Lord One day he gives us diamonds, next day stones.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Without the walls of Athens.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TIMON]\n\n" + "TIMON Let me look back upon thee. O thou wall,\n" + " That girdlest in those wolves, dive in the earth,\n" + " And fence not Athens! Matrons, turn incontinent!\n" + " Obedience fail in children! slaves and fools,\n" + " Pluck the grave wrinkled senate from the bench,\n" + " And minister in their steads! to general filths\n" + " Convert o' the instant, green virginity,\n" + " Do 't in your parents' eyes! bankrupts, hold fast;\n" + " Rather than render back, out with your knives,\n" + " And cut your trusters' throats! bound servants, steal!\n" + " Large-handed robbers your grave masters are,\n" + " And pill by law. Maid, to thy master's bed;\n" + " Thy mistress is o' the brothel! Son of sixteen,\n" + " pluck the lined crutch from thy old limping sire,\n" + " With it beat out his brains! Piety, and fear,\n" + " Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth,\n" + " Domestic awe, night-rest, and neighbourhood,\n" + " Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,\n" + " Degrees, observances, customs, and laws,\n" + " Decline to your confounding contraries,\n" + " And let confusion live! Plagues, incident to men,\n" + " Your potent and infectious fevers heap\n" + " On Athens, ripe for stroke! Thou cold sciatica,\n" + " Cripple our senators, that their limbs may halt\n" + " As lamely as their manners. Lust and liberty\n" + " Creep in the minds and marrows of our youth,\n" + " That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive,\n" + " And drown themselves in riot! Itches, blains,\n" + " Sow all the Athenian bosoms; and their crop\n" + " Be general leprosy! Breath infect breath,\n" + " at their society, as their friendship, may\n" + " merely poison! Nothing I'll bear from thee,\n" + " But nakedness, thou detestable town!\n" + " Take thou that too, with multiplying bans!\n" + " Timon will to the woods; where he shall find\n" + " The unkindest beast more kinder than mankind.\n" + " The gods confound--hear me, you good gods all--\n" + " The Athenians both within and out that wall!\n" + " And grant, as Timon grows, his hate may grow\n" + " To the whole race of mankind, high and low! Amen.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Athens. A room in Timon's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FLAVIUS, with two or three Servants]\n\n" + "First Servant Hear you, master steward, where's our master?\n" + " Are we undone? cast off? nothing remaining?\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Alack, my fellows, what should I say to you?\n" + " Let me be recorded by the righteous gods,\n" + " I am as poor as you.\n\n" + "First Servant Such a house broke!\n" + " So noble a master fall'n! All gone! and not\n" + " One friend to take his fortune by the arm,\n" + " And go along with him!\n\n" + "Second Servant As we do turn our backs\n" + " From our companion thrown into his grave,\n" + " So his familiars to his buried fortunes\n" + " Slink all away, leave their false vows with him,\n" + " Like empty purses pick'd; and his poor self,\n" + " A dedicated beggar to the air,\n" + " With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty,\n" + " Walks, like contempt, alone. More of our fellows.\n\n" + " [Enter other Servants]\n\n" + "FLAVIUS All broken implements of a ruin'd house.\n\n" + "Third Servant Yet do our hearts wear Timon's livery;\n" + " That see I by our faces; we are fellows still,\n" + " Serving alike in sorrow: leak'd is our bark,\n" + " And we, poor mates, stand on the dying deck,\n" + " Hearing the surges threat: we must all part\n" + " Into this sea of air.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Good fellows all,\n" + " The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you.\n" + " Wherever we shall meet, for Timon's sake,\n" + " Let's yet be fellows; let's shake our heads, and say,\n" + " As 'twere a knell unto our master's fortunes,\n" + " 'We have seen better days.' Let each take some;\n" + " Nay, put out all your hands. Not one word more:\n" + " Thus part we rich in sorrow, parting poor.\n\n" + " [Servants embrace, and part several ways]\n\n" + " O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!\n" + " Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,\n" + " Since riches point to misery and contempt?\n" + " Who would be so mock'd with glory? or to live\n" + " But in a dream of friendship?\n" + " To have his pomp and all what state compounds\n" + " But only painted, like his varnish'd friends?\n" + " Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart,\n" + " Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood,\n" + " When man's worst sin is, he does too much good!\n" + " Who, then, dares to be half so kind again?\n" + " For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.\n" + " My dearest lord, bless'd, to be most accursed,\n" + " Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunes\n" + " Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord!\n" + " He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat\n" + " Of monstrous friends, nor has he with him to\n" + " Supply his life, or that which can command it.\n" + " I'll follow and inquire him out:\n" + " I'll ever serve his mind with my best will;\n" + " Whilst I have gold, I'll be his steward still.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Woods and cave, near the seashore.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TIMON, from the cave]\n\n" + " O blessed breeding sun, draw from the earth\n" + " Rotten humidity; below thy sister's orb\n" + " Infect the air! Twinn'd brothers of one womb,\n" + " Whose procreation, residence, and birth,\n" + " Scarce is dividant, touch them with several fortunes;\n" + " The greater scorns the lesser: not nature,\n" + " To whom all sores lay siege, can bear great fortune,\n" + " But by contempt of nature.\n" + " Raise me this beggar, and deny 't that lord;\n" + " The senator shall bear contempt hereditary,\n" + " The beggar native honour.\n" + " It is the pasture lards the rother's sides,\n" + " The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares,\n" + " In purity of manhood stand upright,\n" + " And say 'This man's a flatterer?' if one be,\n" + " So are they all; for every grise of fortune\n" + " Is smooth'd by that below: the learned pate\n" + " Ducks to the golden fool: all is oblique;\n" + " There's nothing level in our cursed natures,\n" + " But direct villany. Therefore, be abhorr'd\n" + " All feasts, societies, and throngs of men!\n" + " His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains:\n" + " Destruction fang mankind! Earth, yield me roots!\n\n" + " [Digging]\n\n" + " Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate\n" + " With thy most operant poison! What is here?\n" + " Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? No, gods,\n" + " I am no idle votarist: roots, you clear heavens!\n" + " Thus much of this will make black white, foul fair,\n" + " Wrong right, base noble, old young, coward valiant.\n" + " Ha, you gods! why this? what this, you gods? Why, this\n" + " Will lug your priests and servants from your sides,\n" + " Pluck stout men's pillows from below their heads:\n" + " This yellow slave\n" + " Will knit and break religions, bless the accursed,\n" + " Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves\n" + " And give them title, knee and approbation\n" + " With senators on the bench: this is it\n" + " That makes the wappen'd widow wed again;\n" + " She, whom the spital-house and ulcerous sores\n" + " Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and spices\n" + " To the April day again. Come, damned earth,\n" + " Thou common whore of mankind, that put'st odds\n" + " Among the route of nations, I will make thee\n" + " Do thy right nature.\n\n" + " [March afar off]\n\n" + " Ha! a drum? Thou'rt quick,\n" + " But yet I'll bury thee: thou'lt go, strong thief,\n" + " When gouty keepers of thee cannot stand.\n" + " Nay, stay thou out for earnest.\n\n" + " [Keeping some gold]\n\n" + " [Enter ALCIBIADES, with drum and fife, in\n" + " warlike manner; PHRYNIA and TIMANDRA]\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES What art thou there? speak.\n\n" + "TIMON A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart,\n" + " For showing me again the eyes of man!\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES What is thy name? Is man so hateful to thee,\n" + " That art thyself a man?\n\n" + "TIMON I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.\n" + " For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog,\n" + " That I might love thee something.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I know thee well;\n" + " But in thy fortunes am unlearn'd and strange.\n\n" + "TIMON I know thee too; and more than that I know thee,\n" + " I not desire to know. Follow thy drum;\n" + " With man's blood paint the ground, gules, gules:\n" + " Religious canons, civil laws are cruel;\n" + " Then what should war be? This fell whore of thine\n" + " Hath in her more destruction than thy sword,\n" + " For all her cherubim look.\n\n" + "PHRYNIA Thy lips rot off!\n\n" + "TIMON I will not kiss thee; then the rot returns\n" + " To thine own lips again.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES How came the noble Timon to this change?\n\n" + "TIMON As the moon does, by wanting light to give:\n" + " But then renew I could not, like the moon;\n" + " There were no suns to borrow of.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Noble Timon,\n" + " What friendship may I do thee?\n\n" + "TIMON None, but to\n" + " Maintain my opinion.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES What is it, Timon?\n\n" + "TIMON Promise me friendship, but perform none: if thou\n" + " wilt not promise, the gods plague thee, for thou art\n" + " a man! if thou dost perform, confound thee, for\n" + " thou art a man!\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I have heard in some sort of thy miseries.\n\n" + "TIMON Thou saw'st them, when I had prosperity.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I see them now; then was a blessed time.\n\n" + "TIMON As thine is now, held with a brace of harlots.\n\n" + "TIMANDRA Is this the Athenian minion, whom the world\n" + " Voiced so regardfully?\n\n" + "TIMON Art thou Timandra?\n\n" + "TIMANDRA Yes.\n\n" + "TIMON Be a whore still: they love thee not that use thee;\n" + " Give them diseases, leaving with thee their lust.\n" + " Make use of thy salt hours: season the slaves\n" + " For tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth\n" + " To the tub-fast and the diet.\n\n" + "TIMANDRA Hang thee, monster!\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Pardon him, sweet Timandra; for his wits\n" + " Are drown'd and lost in his calamities.\n" + " I have but little gold of late, brave Timon,\n" + " The want whereof doth daily make revolt\n" + " In my penurious band: I have heard, and grieved,\n" + " How cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth,\n" + " Forgetting thy great deeds, when neighbour states,\n" + " But for thy sword and fortune, trod upon them,--\n\n" + "TIMON I prithee, beat thy drum, and get thee gone.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I am thy friend, and pity thee, dear Timon.\n\n" + "TIMON How dost thou pity him whom thou dost trouble?\n" + " I had rather be alone.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Why, fare thee well:\n" + " Here is some gold for thee.\n\n" + "TIMON Keep it, I cannot eat it.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES When I have laid proud Athens on a heap,--\n\n" + "TIMON Warr'st thou 'gainst Athens?\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Ay, Timon, and have cause.\n\n" + "TIMON The gods confound them all in thy conquest;\n" + " And thee after, when thou hast conquer'd!\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Why me, Timon?\n\n" + "TIMON That, by killing of villains,\n" + " Thou wast born to conquer my country.\n" + " Put up thy gold: go on,--here's gold,--go on;\n" + " Be as a planetary plague, when Jove\n" + " Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison\n" + " In the sick air: let not thy sword skip one:\n" + " Pity not honour'd age for his white beard;\n" + " He is an usurer: strike me the counterfeit matron;\n" + " It is her habit only that is honest,\n" + " Herself's a bawd: let not the virgin's cheek\n" + " Make soft thy trenchant sword; for those milk-paps,\n" + " That through the window-bars bore at men's eyes,\n" + " Are not within the leaf of pity writ,\n" + " But set them down horrible traitors: spare not the babe,\n" + " Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy;\n" + " Think it a bastard, whom the oracle\n" + " Hath doubtfully pronounced thy throat shall cut,\n" + " And mince it sans remorse: swear against objects;\n" + " Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes;\n" + " Whose proof, nor yells of mothers, maids, nor babes,\n" + " Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleeding,\n" + " Shall pierce a jot. There's gold to pay soldiers:\n" + " Make large confusion; and, thy fury spent,\n" + " Confounded be thyself! Speak not, be gone.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Hast thou gold yet? I'll take the gold thou\n" + " givest me,\n" + " Not all thy counsel.\n\n" + "TIMON Dost thou, or dost thou not, heaven's curse\n" + " upon thee!\n\n\n" + "PHRYNIA |\n" + " | Give us some gold, good Timon: hast thou more?\n" + "TIMANDRA |\n\n\n" + "TIMON Enough to make a whore forswear her trade,\n" + " And to make whores, a bawd. Hold up, you sluts,\n" + " Your aprons mountant: you are not oathable,\n" + " Although, I know, you 'll swear, terribly swear\n" + " Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues\n" + " The immortal gods that hear you,--spare your oaths,\n" + " I'll trust to your conditions: be whores still;\n" + " And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you,\n" + " Be strong in whore, allure him, burn him up;\n" + " Let your close fire predominate his smoke,\n" + " And be no turncoats: yet may your pains, six months,\n" + " Be quite contrary: and thatch your poor thin roofs\n" + " With burthens of the dead;--some that were hang'd,\n" + " No matter:--wear them, betray with them: whore still;\n" + " Paint till a horse may mire upon your face,\n" + " A pox of wrinkles!\n\n\n" + "PHRYNIA |\n" + " | Well, more gold: what then?\n" + "TIMANDRA | Believe't, that we'll do any thing for gold.\n\n\n" + "TIMON Consumptions sow\n" + " In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins,\n" + " And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice,\n" + " That he may never more false title plead,\n" + " Nor sound his quillets shrilly: hoar the flamen,\n" + " That scolds against the quality of flesh,\n" + " And not believes himself: down with the nose,\n" + " Down with it flat; take the bridge quite away\n" + " Of him that, his particular to foresee,\n" + " Smells from the general weal: make curl'd-pate\n" + " ruffians bald;\n" + " And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war\n" + " Derive some pain from you: plague all;\n" + " That your activity may defeat and quell\n" + " The source of all erection. There's more gold:\n" + " Do you damn others, and let this damn you,\n" + " And ditches grave you all!\n\n\n" + "PHRYNIA |\n" + " | More counsel with more money, bounteous Timon.\n" + "TIMANDRA |\n\n\n" + "TIMON More whore, more mischief first; I have given you earnest.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Strike up the drum towards Athens! Farewell, Timon:\n" + " If I thrive well, I'll visit thee again.\n\n" + "TIMON If I hope well, I'll never see thee more.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES I never did thee harm.\n\n" + "TIMON Yes, thou spokest well of me.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Call'st thou that harm?\n\n" + "TIMON Men daily find it. Get thee away, and take\n" + " Thy beagles with thee.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES We but offend him. Strike!\n\n" + " [Drum beats. Exeunt ALCIBIADES, PHRYNIA,\n" + " and TIMANDRA]\n\n" + "TIMON That nature, being sick of man's unkindness,\n" + " Should yet be hungry! Common mother, thou,\n\n" + " [Digging]\n\n" + " Whose womb unmeasurable, and infinite breast,\n" + " Teems, and feeds all; whose self-same mettle,\n" + " Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is puff'd,\n" + " Engenders the black toad and adder blue,\n" + " The gilded newt and eyeless venom'd worm,\n" + " With all the abhorred births below crisp heaven\n" + " Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine;\n" + " Yield him, who all thy human sons doth hate,\n" + " From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root!\n" + " Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb,\n" + " Let it no more bring out ingrateful man!\n" + " Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and bears;\n" + " Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward face\n" + " Hath to the marbled mansion all above\n" + " Never presented!--O, a root,--dear thanks!--\n" + " Dry up thy marrows, vines, and plough-torn leas;\n" + " Whereof ungrateful man, with liquorish draughts\n" + " And morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind,\n" + " That from it all consideration slips!\n\n" + " [Enter APEMANTUS]\n\n" + " More man? plague, plague!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS I was directed hither: men report\n" + " Thou dost affect my manners, and dost use them.\n\n" + "TIMON 'Tis, then, because thou dost not keep a dog,\n" + " Whom I would imitate: consumption catch thee!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS This is in thee a nature but infected;\n" + " A poor unmanly melancholy sprung\n" + " From change of fortune. Why this spade? this place?\n" + " This slave-like habit? and these looks of care?\n" + " Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie soft;\n" + " Hug their diseased perfumes, and have forgot\n" + " That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods,\n" + " By putting on the cunning of a carper.\n" + " Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive\n" + " By that which has undone thee: hinge thy knee,\n" + " And let his very breath, whom thou'lt observe,\n" + " Blow off thy cap; praise his most vicious strain,\n" + " And call it excellent: thou wast told thus;\n" + " Thou gavest thine ears like tapsters that bid welcome\n" + " To knaves and all approachers: 'tis most just\n" + " That thou turn rascal; hadst thou wealth again,\n" + " Rascals should have 't. Do not assume my likeness.\n\n" + "TIMON Were I like thee, I'ld throw away myself.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Thou hast cast away thyself, being like thyself;\n" + " A madman so long, now a fool. What, think'st\n" + " That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamberlain,\n" + " Will put thy shirt on warm? will these moss'd trees,\n" + " That have outlived the eagle, page thy heels,\n" + " And skip where thou point'st out? will the\n" + " cold brook,\n" + " Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste,\n" + " To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the creatures\n" + " Whose naked natures live in an the spite\n" + " Of wreakful heaven, whose bare unhoused trunks,\n" + " To the conflicting elements exposed,\n" + " Answer mere nature; bid them flatter thee;\n" + " O, thou shalt find--\n\n" + "TIMON A fool of thee: depart.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS I love thee better now than e'er I did.\n\n" + "TIMON I hate thee worse.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Why?\n\n" + "TIMON Thou flatter'st misery.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS I flatter not; but say thou art a caitiff.\n\n" + "TIMON Why dost thou seek me out?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS To vex thee.\n\n" + "TIMON Always a villain's office or a fool's.\n" + " Dost please thyself in't?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Ay.\n\n" + "TIMON What! a knave too?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS If thou didst put this sour-cold habit on\n" + " To castigate thy pride, 'twere well: but thou\n" + " Dost it enforcedly; thou'ldst courtier be again,\n" + " Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery\n" + " Outlives encertain pomp, is crown'd before:\n" + " The one is filling still, never complete;\n" + " The other, at high wish: best state, contentless,\n" + " Hath a distracted and most wretched being,\n" + " Worse than the worst, content.\n" + " Thou shouldst desire to die, being miserable.\n\n" + "TIMON Not by his breath that is more miserable.\n" + " Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm\n" + " With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.\n" + " Hadst thou, like us from our first swath, proceeded\n" + " The sweet degrees that this brief world affords\n" + " To such as may the passive drugs of it\n" + " Freely command, thou wouldst have plunged thyself\n" + " In general riot; melted down thy youth\n" + " In different beds of lust; and never learn'd\n" + " The icy precepts of respect, but follow'd\n" + " The sugar'd game before thee. But myself,\n" + " Who had the world as my confectionary,\n" + " The mouths, the tongues, the eyes and hearts of men\n" + " At duty, more than I could frame employment,\n" + " That numberless upon me stuck as leaves\n" + " Do on the oak, hive with one winter's brush\n" + " Fell from their boughs and left me open, bare\n" + " For every storm that blows: I, to bear this,\n" + " That never knew but better, is some burden:\n" + " Thy nature did commence in sufferance, time\n" + " Hath made thee hard in't. Why shouldst thou hate men?\n" + " They never flatter'd thee: what hast thou given?\n" + " If thou wilt curse, thy father, that poor rag,\n" + " Must be thy subject, who in spite put stuff\n" + " To some she beggar and compounded thee\n" + " Poor rogue hereditary. Hence, be gone!\n" + " If thou hadst not been born the worst of men,\n" + " Thou hadst been a knave and flatterer.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Art thou proud yet?\n\n" + "TIMON Ay, that I am not thee.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS I, that I was\n" + " No prodigal.\n\n" + "TIMON I, that I am one now:\n" + " Were all the wealth I have shut up in thee,\n" + " I'ld give thee leave to hang it. Get thee gone.\n" + " That the whole life of Athens were in this!\n" + " Thus would I eat it.\n\n" + " [Eating a root]\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Here; I will mend thy feast.\n\n" + " [Offering him a root]\n\n" + "TIMON First mend my company, take away thyself.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS So I shall mend mine own, by the lack of thine.\n\n" + "TIMON 'Tis not well mended so, it is but botch'd;\n" + " if not, I would it were.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS What wouldst thou have to Athens?\n\n" + "TIMON Thee thither in a whirlwind. If thou wilt,\n" + " Tell them there I have gold; look, so I have.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Here is no use for gold.\n\n" + "TIMON The best and truest;\n" + " For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Where liest o' nights, Timon?\n\n" + "TIMON Under that's above me.\n" + " Where feed'st thou o' days, Apemantus?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Where my stomach finds meat; or, rather, where I eat\n" + " it.\n\n" + "TIMON Would poison were obedient and knew my mind!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Where wouldst thou send it?\n\n" + "TIMON To sauce thy dishes.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS The middle of humanity thou never knewest, but the\n" + " extremity of both ends: when thou wast in thy gilt\n" + " and thy perfume, they mocked thee for too much\n" + " curiosity; in thy rags thou knowest none, but art\n" + " despised for the contrary. There's a medlar for\n" + " thee, eat it.\n\n" + "TIMON On what I hate I feed not.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Dost hate a medlar?\n\n" + "TIMON Ay, though it look like thee.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS An thou hadst hated meddlers sooner, thou shouldst\n" + " have loved thyself better now. What man didst thou\n" + " ever know unthrift that was beloved after his means?\n\n" + "TIMON Who, without those means thou talkest of, didst thou\n" + " ever know beloved?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Myself.\n\n" + "TIMON I understand thee; thou hadst some means to keep a\n" + " dog.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS What things in the world canst thou nearest compare\n" + " to thy flatterers?\n\n" + "TIMON Women nearest; but men, men are the things\n" + " themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world,\n" + " Apemantus, if it lay in thy power?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men.\n\n" + "TIMON Wouldst thou have thyself fall in the confusion of\n" + " men, and remain a beast with the beasts?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Ay, Timon.\n\n" + "TIMON A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t'\n" + " attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would\n" + " beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would\n" + " eat three: if thou wert the fox, the lion would\n" + " suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by\n" + " the ass: if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would\n" + " torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a\n" + " breakfast to the wolf: if thou wert the wolf, thy\n" + " greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst\n" + " hazard thy life for thy dinner: wert thou the\n" + " unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and\n" + " make thine own self the conquest of thy fury: wert\n" + " thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by the horse:\n" + " wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by the\n" + " leopard: wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to\n" + " the lion and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on\n" + " thy life: all thy safety were remotion and thy\n" + " defence absence. What beast couldst thou be, that\n" + " were not subject to a beast? and what a beast art\n" + " thou already, that seest not thy loss in\n" + " transformation!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou\n" + " mightst have hit upon it here: the commonwealth of\n" + " Athens is become a forest of beasts.\n\n" + "TIMON How has the ass broke the wall, that thou art out of the city?\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Yonder comes a poet and a painter: the plague of\n" + " company light upon thee! I will fear to catch it\n" + " and give way: when I know not what else to do, I'll\n" + " see thee again.\n\n" + "TIMON When there is nothing living but thee, thou shalt be\n" + " welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than Apemantus.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Thou art the cap of all the fools alive.\n\n" + "TIMON Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS A plague on thee! thou art too bad to curse.\n\n" + "TIMON All villains that do stand by thee are pure.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS There is no leprosy but what thou speak'st.\n\n" + "TIMON If I name thee.\n" + " I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS I would my tongue could rot them off!\n\n" + "TIMON Away, thou issue of a mangy dog!\n" + " Choler does kill me that thou art alive;\n" + " I swound to see thee.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Would thou wouldst burst!\n\n" + "TIMON Away,\n" + " Thou tedious rogue! I am sorry I shall lose\n" + " A stone by thee.\n\n" + " [Throws a stone at him]\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Beast!\n\n" + "TIMON Slave!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Toad!\n\n" + "TIMON Rogue, rogue, rogue!\n" + " I am sick of this false world, and will love nought\n" + " But even the mere necessities upon 't.\n" + " Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave;\n" + " Lie where the light foam the sea may beat\n" + " Thy grave-stone daily: make thine epitaph,\n" + " That death in me at others' lives may laugh.\n\n" + " [To the gold]\n\n" + " O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce\n" + " 'Twixt natural son and sire! thou bright defiler\n" + " Of Hymen's purest bed! thou valiant Mars!\n" + " Thou ever young, fresh, loved and delicate wooer,\n" + " Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow\n" + " That lies on Dian's lap! thou visible god,\n" + " That solder'st close impossibilities,\n" + " And makest them kiss! that speak'st with\n" + " every tongue,\n" + " To every purpose! O thou touch of hearts!\n" + " Think, thy slave man rebels, and by thy virtue\n" + " Set them into confounding odds, that beasts\n" + " May have the world in empire!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Would 'twere so!\n" + " But not till I am dead. I'll say thou'st gold:\n" + " Thou wilt be throng'd to shortly.\n\n" + "TIMON Throng'd to!\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Ay.\n\n" + "TIMON Thy back, I prithee.\n\n" + "APEMANTUS Live, and love thy misery.\n\n" + "TIMON Long live so, and so die.\n\n" + " [Exit APEMANTUS]\n\n" + " I am quit.\n" + " Moe things like men! Eat, Timon, and abhor them.\n\n" + " [Enter Banditti]\n\n" + "First Bandit Where should he have this gold? It is some poor\n" + " fragment, some slender sort of his remainder: the\n" + " mere want of gold, and the falling-from of his\n" + " friends, drove him into this melancholy.\n\n" + "Second Bandit It is noised he hath a mass of treasure.\n\n" + "Third Bandit Let us make the assay upon him: if he care not\n" + " for't, he will supply us easily; if he covetously\n" + " reserve it, how shall's get it?\n\n" + "Second Bandit True; for he bears it not about him, 'tis hid.\n\n" + "First Bandit Is not this he?\n\n" + "Banditti Where?\n\n" + "Second Bandit 'Tis his description.\n\n" + "Third Bandit He; I know him.\n\n" + "Banditti Save thee, Timon.\n\n" + "TIMON Now, thieves?\n\n" + "Banditti Soldiers, not thieves.\n\n" + "TIMON Both too; and women's sons.\n\n" + "Banditti We are not thieves, but men that much do want.\n\n" + "TIMON Your greatest want is, you want much of meat.\n" + " Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots;\n" + " Within this mile break forth a hundred springs;\n" + " The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet hips;\n" + " The bounteous housewife, nature, on each bush\n" + " Lays her full mess before you. Want! why want?\n\n" + "First Bandit We cannot live on grass, on berries, water,\n" + " As beasts and birds and fishes.\n\n" + "TIMON Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds, and fishes;\n" + " You must eat men. Yet thanks I must you con\n" + " That you are thieves profess'd, that you work not\n" + " In holier shapes: for there is boundless theft\n" + " In limited professions. Rascal thieves,\n" + " Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o' the grape,\n" + " Till the high fever seethe your blood to froth,\n" + " And so 'scape hanging: trust not the physician;\n" + " His antidotes are poison, and he slays\n" + " Moe than you rob: take wealth and lives together;\n" + " Do villany, do, since you protest to do't,\n" + " Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery.\n" + " The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction\n" + " Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief,\n" + " And her pale fire she snatches from the sun:\n" + " The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves\n" + " The moon into salt tears: the earth's a thief,\n" + " That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen\n" + " From general excrement: each thing's a thief:\n" + " The laws, your curb and whip, in their rough power\n" + " Have uncheque'd theft. Love not yourselves: away,\n" + " Rob one another. There's more gold. Cut throats:\n" + " All that you meet are thieves: to Athens go,\n" + " Break open shops; nothing can you steal,\n" + " But thieves do lose it: steal no less for this\n" + " I give you; and gold confound you howsoe'er! Amen.\n\n" + "Third Bandit Has almost charmed me from my profession, by\n" + " persuading me to it.\n\n" + "First Bandit 'Tis in the malice of mankind that he thus advises\n" + " us; not to have us thrive in our mystery.\n\n" + "Second Bandit I'll believe him as an enemy, and give over my trade.\n\n" + "First Bandit Let us first see peace in Athens: there is no time\n" + " so miserable but a man may be true.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Banditti]\n\n" + " [Enter FLAVIUS]\n\n" + "FLAVIUS O you gods!\n" + " Is yond despised and ruinous man my lord?\n" + " Full of decay and failing? O monument\n" + " And wonder of good deeds evilly bestow'd!\n" + " What an alteration of honour\n" + " Has desperate want made!\n" + " What viler thing upon the earth than friends\n" + " Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends!\n" + " How rarely does it meet with this time's guise,\n" + " When man was wish'd to love his enemies!\n" + " Grant I may ever love, and rather woo\n" + " Those that would mischief me than those that do!\n" + " Has caught me in his eye: I will present\n" + " My honest grief unto him; and, as my lord,\n" + " Still serve him with my life. My dearest master!\n\n" + "TIMON Away! what art thou?\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Have you forgot me, sir?\n\n" + "TIMON Why dost ask that? I have forgot all men;\n" + " Then, if thou grant'st thou'rt a man, I have forgot thee.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS An honest poor servant of yours.\n\n" + "TIMON Then I know thee not:\n" + " I never had honest man about me, I; all\n" + " I kept were knaves, to serve in meat to villains.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS The gods are witness,\n" + " Ne'er did poor steward wear a truer grief\n" + " For his undone lord than mine eyes for you.\n\n" + "TIMON What, dost thou weep? Come nearer. Then I\n" + " love thee,\n" + " Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st\n" + " Flinty mankind; whose eyes do never give\n" + " But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping:\n" + " Strange times, that weep with laughing, not with weeping!\n\n" + "FLAVIUS I beg of you to know me, good my lord,\n" + " To accept my grief and whilst this poor wealth lasts\n" + " To entertain me as your steward still.\n\n" + "TIMON Had I a steward\n" + " So true, so just, and now so comfortable?\n" + " It almost turns my dangerous nature mild.\n" + " Let me behold thy face. Surely, this man\n" + " Was born of woman.\n" + " Forgive my general and exceptless rashness,\n" + " You perpetual-sober gods! I do proclaim\n" + " One honest man--mistake me not--but one;\n" + " No more, I pray,--and he's a steward.\n" + " How fain would I have hated all mankind!\n" + " And thou redeem'st thyself: but all, save thee,\n" + " I fell with curses.\n" + " Methinks thou art more honest now than wise;\n" + " For, by oppressing and betraying me,\n" + " Thou mightst have sooner got another service:\n" + " For many so arrive at second masters,\n" + " Upon their first lord's neck. But tell me true--\n" + " For I must ever doubt, though ne'er so sure--\n" + " Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous,\n" + " If not a usuring kindness, and, as rich men deal gifts,\n" + " Expecting in return twenty for one?\n\n" + "FLAVIUS No, my most worthy master; in whose breast\n" + " Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too late:\n" + " You should have fear'd false times when you did feast:\n" + " Suspect still comes where an estate is least.\n" + " That which I show, heaven knows, is merely love,\n" + " Duty and zeal to your unmatched mind,\n" + " Care of your food and living; and, believe it,\n" + " My most honour'd lord,\n" + " For any benefit that points to me,\n" + " Either in hope or present, I'ld exchange\n" + " For this one wish, that you had power and wealth\n" + " To requite me, by making rich yourself.\n\n" + "TIMON Look thee, 'tis so! Thou singly honest man,\n" + " Here, take: the gods out of my misery\n" + " Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich and happy;\n" + " But thus condition'd: thou shalt build from men;\n" + " Hate all, curse all, show charity to none,\n" + " But let the famish'd flesh slide from the bone,\n" + " Ere thou relieve the beggar; give to dogs\n" + " What thou deny'st to men; let prisons swallow 'em,\n" + " Debts wither 'em to nothing; be men like\n" + " blasted woods,\n" + " And may diseases lick up their false bloods!\n" + " And so farewell and thrive.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS O, let me stay,\n" + " And comfort you, my master.\n\n" + "TIMON If thou hatest curses,\n" + " Stay not; fly, whilst thou art blest and free:\n" + " Ne'er see thou man, and let me ne'er see thee.\n\n" + " [Exit FLAVIUS. TIMON retires to his cave]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The woods. Before Timon's cave.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Poet and Painter; TIMON watching\n" + " them from his cave]\n\n" + "Painter As I took note of the place, it cannot be far where\n" + " he abides.\n\n" + "Poet What's to be thought of him? does the rumour hold\n" + " for true, that he's so full of gold?\n\n" + "Painter Certain: Alcibiades reports it; Phrynia and\n" + " Timandra had gold of him: he likewise enriched poor\n" + " straggling soldiers with great quantity: 'tis said\n" + " he gave unto his steward a mighty sum.\n\n" + "Poet Then this breaking of his has been but a try for his friends.\n\n" + "Painter Nothing else: you shall see him a palm in Athens\n" + " again, and flourish with the highest. Therefore\n" + " 'tis not amiss we tender our loves to him, in this\n" + " supposed distress of his: it will show honestly in\n" + " us; and is very likely to load our purposes with\n" + " what they travail for, if it be a just true report\n" + " that goes of his having.\n\n" + "Poet What have you now to present unto him?\n\n" + "Painter Nothing at this time but my visitation: only I will\n" + " promise him an excellent piece.\n\n" + "Poet I must serve him so too, tell him of an intent\n" + " that's coming toward him.\n\n" + "Painter Good as the best. Promising is the very air o' the\n" + " time: it opens the eyes of expectation:\n" + " performance is ever the duller for his act; and,\n" + " but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the\n" + " deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is\n" + " most courtly and fashionable: performance is a kind\n" + " of will or testament which argues a great sickness\n" + " in his judgment that makes it.\n\n" + " [TIMON comes from his cave, behind]\n\n" + "TIMON [Aside] Excellent workman! thou canst not paint a\n" + " man so bad as is thyself.\n\n" + "Poet I am thinking what I shall say I have provided for\n" + " him: it must be a personating of himself; a satire\n" + " against the softness of prosperity, with a discovery\n" + " of the infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency.\n\n" + "TIMON [Aside] Must thou needs stand for a villain in\n" + " thine own work? wilt thou whip thine own faults in\n" + " other men? Do so, I have gold for thee.\n\n" + "Poet Nay, let's seek him:\n" + " Then do we sin against our own estate,\n" + " When we may profit meet, and come too late.\n\n" + "Painter True;\n" + " When the day serves, before black-corner'd night,\n" + " Find what thou want'st by free and offer'd light. Come.\n\n" + "TIMON [Aside] I'll meet you at the turn. What a\n" + " god's gold,\n" + " That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple\n" + " Than where swine feed!\n" + " 'Tis thou that rigg'st the bark and plough'st the foam,\n" + " Settlest admired reverence in a slave:\n" + " To thee be worship! and thy saints for aye\n" + " Be crown'd with plagues that thee alone obey!\n" + " Fit I meet them.\n\n" + " [Coming forward]\n\n" + "Poet Hail, worthy Timon!\n\n" + "Painter Our late noble master!\n\n" + "TIMON Have I once lived to see two honest men?\n\n" + "Poet Sir,\n" + " Having often of your open bounty tasted,\n" + " Hearing you were retired, your friends fall'n off,\n" + " Whose thankless natures--O abhorred spirits!--\n" + " Not all the whips of heaven are large enough:\n" + " What! to you,\n" + " Whose star-like nobleness gave life and influence\n" + " To their whole being! I am rapt and cannot cover\n" + " The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude\n" + " With any size of words.\n\n" + "TIMON Let it go naked, men may see't the better:\n" + " You that are honest, by being what you are,\n" + " Make them best seen and known.\n\n" + "Painter He and myself\n" + " Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts,\n" + " And sweetly felt it.\n\n" + "TIMON Ay, you are honest men.\n\n" + "Painter We are hither come to offer you our service.\n\n" + "TIMON Most honest men! Why, how shall I requite you?\n" + " Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? no.\n\n" + "Both What we can do, we'll do, to do you service.\n\n" + "TIMON Ye're honest men: ye've heard that I have gold;\n" + " I am sure you have: speak truth; ye're honest men.\n\n" + "Painter So it is said, my noble lord; but therefore\n" + " Came not my friend nor I.\n\n" + "TIMON Good honest men! Thou draw'st a counterfeit\n" + " Best in all Athens: thou'rt, indeed, the best;\n" + " Thou counterfeit'st most lively.\n\n" + "Painter So, so, my lord.\n\n" + "TIMON E'en so, sir, as I say. And, for thy fiction,\n" + " Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth\n" + " That thou art even natural in thine art.\n" + " But, for all this, my honest-natured friends,\n" + " I must needs say you have a little fault:\n" + " Marry, 'tis not monstrous in you, neither wish I\n" + " You take much pains to mend.\n\n" + "Both Beseech your honour\n" + " To make it known to us.\n\n" + "TIMON You'll take it ill.\n\n" + "Both Most thankfully, my lord.\n\n" + "TIMON Will you, indeed?\n\n" + "Both Doubt it not, worthy lord.\n\n" + "TIMON There's never a one of you but trusts a knave,\n" + " That mightily deceives you.\n\n" + "Both Do we, my lord?\n\n" + "TIMON Ay, and you hear him cog, see him dissemble,\n" + " Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him,\n" + " Keep in your bosom: yet remain assured\n" + " That he's a made-up villain.\n\n" + "Painter I know none such, my lord.\n\n" + "Poet Nor I.\n\n" + "TIMON Look you, I love you well; I'll give you gold,\n" + " Rid me these villains from your companies:\n" + " Hang them or stab them, drown them in a draught,\n" + " Confound them by some course, and come to me,\n" + " I'll give you gold enough.\n\n" + "Both Name them, my lord, let's know them.\n\n" + "TIMON You that way and you this, but two in company;\n" + " Each man apart, all single and alone,\n" + " Yet an arch-villain keeps him company.\n" + " If where thou art two villains shall not be,\n" + " Come not near him. If thou wouldst not reside\n" + " But where one villain is, then him abandon.\n" + " Hence, pack! there's gold; you came for gold, ye slaves:\n\n" + " [To Painter]\n\n" + " You have work'd for me; there's payment for you: hence!\n\n" + " [To Poet]\n\n" + " You are an alchemist; make gold of that.\n" + " Out, rascal dogs!\n\n" + " [Beats them out, and then retires to his cave]\n\n" + " [Enter FLAVIUS and two Senators]\n\n" + "FLAVIUS It is in vain that you would speak with Timon;\n" + " For he is set so only to himself\n" + " That nothing but himself which looks like man\n" + " Is friendly with him.\n\n" + "First Senator Bring us to his cave:\n" + " It is our part and promise to the Athenians\n" + " To speak with Timon.\n\n" + "Second Senator At all times alike\n" + " Men are not still the same: 'twas time and griefs\n" + " That framed him thus: time, with his fairer hand,\n" + " Offering the fortunes of his former days,\n" + " The former man may make him. Bring us to him,\n" + " And chance it as it may.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Here is his cave.\n" + " Peace and content be here! Lord Timon! Timon!\n" + " Look out, and speak to friends: the Athenians,\n" + " By two of their most reverend senate, greet thee:\n" + " Speak to them, noble Timon.\n\n" + " [TIMON comes from his cave]\n\n" + "TIMON Thou sun, that comfort'st, burn! Speak, and\n" + " be hang'd:\n" + " For each true word, a blister! and each false\n" + " Be as cauterizing to the root o' the tongue,\n" + " Consuming it with speaking!\n\n" + "First Senator Worthy Timon,--\n\n" + "TIMON Of none but such as you, and you of Timon.\n\n" + "First Senator The senators of Athens greet thee, Timon.\n\n" + "TIMON I thank them; and would send them back the plague,\n" + " Could I but catch it for them.\n\n" + "First Senator O, forget\n" + " What we are sorry for ourselves in thee.\n" + " The senators with one consent of love\n" + " Entreat thee back to Athens; who have thought\n" + " On special dignities, which vacant lie\n" + " For thy best use and wearing.\n\n" + "Second Senator They confess\n" + " Toward thee forgetfulness too general, gross:\n" + " Which now the public body, which doth seldom\n" + " Play the recanter, feeling in itself\n" + " A lack of Timon's aid, hath sense withal\n" + " Of its own fail, restraining aid to Timon;\n" + " And send forth us, to make their sorrow'd render,\n" + " Together with a recompense more fruitful\n" + " Than their offence can weigh down by the dram;\n" + " Ay, even such heaps and sums of love and wealth\n" + " As shall to thee blot out what wrongs were theirs\n" + " And write in thee the figures of their love,\n" + " Ever to read them thine.\n\n" + "TIMON You witch me in it;\n" + " Surprise me to the very brink of tears:\n" + " Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes,\n" + " And I'll beweep these comforts, worthy senators.\n\n" + "First Senator Therefore, so please thee to return with us\n" + " And of our Athens, thine and ours, to take\n" + " The captainship, thou shalt be met with thanks,\n" + " Allow'd with absolute power and thy good name\n" + " Live with authority: so soon we shall drive back\n" + " Of Alcibiades the approaches wild,\n" + " Who, like a boar too savage, doth root up\n" + " His country's peace.\n\n" + "Second Senator And shakes his threatening sword\n" + " Against the walls of Athens.\n\n" + "First Senator Therefore, Timon,--\n\n" + "TIMON Well, sir, I will; therefore, I will, sir; thus:\n" + " If Alcibiades kill my countrymen,\n" + " Let Alcibiades know this of Timon,\n" + " That Timon cares not. But if be sack fair Athens,\n" + " And take our goodly aged men by the beards,\n" + " Giving our holy virgins to the stain\n" + " Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war,\n" + " Then let him know, and tell him Timon speaks it,\n" + " In pity of our aged and our youth,\n" + " I cannot choose but tell him, that I care not,\n" + " And let him take't at worst; for their knives care not,\n" + " While you have throats to answer: for myself,\n" + " There's not a whittle in the unruly camp\n" + " But I do prize it at my love before\n" + " The reverend'st throat in Athens. So I leave you\n" + " To the protection of the prosperous gods,\n" + " As thieves to keepers.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Stay not, all's in vain.\n\n" + "TIMON Why, I was writing of my epitaph;\n" + " it will be seen to-morrow: my long sickness\n" + " Of health and living now begins to mend,\n" + " And nothing brings me all things. Go, live still;\n" + " Be Alcibiades your plague, you his,\n" + " And last so long enough!\n\n" + "First Senator We speak in vain.\n\n" + "TIMON But yet I love my country, and am not\n" + " One that rejoices in the common wreck,\n" + " As common bruit doth put it.\n\n" + "First Senator That's well spoke.\n\n" + "TIMON Commend me to my loving countrymen,--\n\n" + "First Senator These words become your lips as they pass\n" + " thorough them.\n\n" + "Second Senator And enter in our ears like great triumphers\n" + " In their applauding gates.\n\n" + "TIMON Commend me to them,\n" + " And tell them that, to ease them of their griefs,\n" + " Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, losses,\n" + " Their pangs of love, with other incident throes\n" + " That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain\n" + " In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them:\n" + " I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath.\n\n" + "First Senator I like this well; he will return again.\n\n" + "TIMON I have a tree, which grows here in my close,\n" + " That mine own use invites me to cut down,\n" + " And shortly must I fell it: tell my friends,\n" + " Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree\n" + " From high to low throughout, that whoso please\n" + " To stop affliction, let him take his haste,\n" + " Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,\n" + " And hang himself. I pray you, do my greeting.\n\n" + "FLAVIUS Trouble him no further; thus you still shall find him.\n\n" + "TIMON Come not to me again: but say to Athens,\n" + " Timon hath made his everlasting mansion\n" + " Upon the beached verge of the salt flood;\n" + " Who once a day with his embossed froth\n" + " The turbulent surge shall cover: thither come,\n" + " And let my grave-stone be your oracle.\n" + " Lips, let sour words go by and language end:\n" + " What is amiss plague and infection mend!\n" + " Graves only be men's works and death their gain!\n" + " Sun, hide thy beams! Timon hath done his reign.\n\n" + " [Retires to his cave]\n\n" + "First Senator His discontents are unremoveably\n" + " Coupled to nature.\n\n" + "Second Senator Our hope in him is dead: let us return,\n" + " And strain what other means is left unto us\n" + " In our dear peril.\n\n" + "First Senator It requires swift foot.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before the walls of Athens.\n\n\n" + " [Enter two Senators and a Messenger]\n\n" + "First Senator Thou hast painfully discover'd: are his files\n" + " As full as thy report?\n\n" + "Messenger have spoke the least:\n" + " Besides, his expedition promises\n" + " Present approach.\n\n" + "Second Senator We stand much hazard, if they bring not Timon.\n\n" + "Messenger I met a courier, one mine ancient friend;\n" + " Whom, though in general part we were opposed,\n" + " Yet our old love made a particular force,\n" + " And made us speak like friends: this man was riding\n" + " From Alcibiades to Timon's cave,\n" + " With letters of entreaty, which imported\n" + " His fellowship i' the cause against your city,\n" + " In part for his sake moved.\n\n" + "First Senator Here come our brothers.\n\n" + " [Enter the Senators from TIMON]\n\n" + "Third Senator No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect.\n" + " The enemies' drum is heard, and fearful scouring\n" + " Doth choke the air with dust: in, and prepare:\n" + " Ours is the fall, I fear; our foes the snare.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The woods. Timon's cave, and a rude tomb seen.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Soldier, seeking TIMON]\n\n" + "Soldier By all description this should be the place.\n" + " Who's here? speak, ho! No answer! What is this?\n" + " Timon is dead, who hath outstretch'd his span:\n" + " Some beast rear'd this; there does not live a man.\n" + " Dead, sure; and this his grave. What's on this tomb\n" + " I cannot read; the character I'll take with wax:\n" + " Our captain hath in every figure skill,\n" + " An aged interpreter, though young in days:\n" + " Before proud Athens he's set down by this,\n" + " Whose fall the mark of his ambition is.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TIMON OF ATHENS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Before the walls of Athens.\n\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound. Enter ALCIBIADES with his powers]\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Sound to this coward and lascivious town\n" + " Our terrible approach.\n\n" + " [A parley sounded]\n\n" + " [Enter Senators on the walls]\n\n" + " Till now you have gone on and fill'd the time\n" + " With all licentious measure, making your wills\n" + " The scope of justice; till now myself and such\n" + " As slept within the shadow of your power\n" + " Have wander'd with our traversed arms and breathed\n" + " Our sufferance vainly: now the time is flush,\n" + " When crouching marrow in the bearer strong\n" + " Cries of itself 'No more:' now breathless wrong\n" + " Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease,\n" + " And pursy insolence shall break his wind\n" + " With fear and horrid flight.\n\n" + "First Senator Noble and young,\n" + " When thy first griefs were but a mere conceit,\n" + " Ere thou hadst power or we had cause of fear,\n" + " We sent to thee, to give thy rages balm,\n" + " To wipe out our ingratitude with loves\n" + " Above their quantity.\n\n" + "Second Senator So did we woo\n" + " Transformed Timon to our city's love\n" + " By humble message and by promised means:\n" + " We were not all unkind, nor all deserve\n" + " The common stroke of war.\n\n" + "First Senator These walls of ours\n" + " Were not erected by their hands from whom\n" + " You have received your griefs; nor are they such\n" + " That these great towers, trophies and schools\n" + " should fall\n" + " For private faults in them.\n\n" + "Second Senator Nor are they living\n" + " Who were the motives that you first went out;\n" + " Shame that they wanted cunning, in excess\n" + " Hath broke their hearts. March, noble lord,\n" + " Into our city with thy banners spread:\n" + " By decimation, and a tithed death--\n" + " If thy revenges hunger for that food\n" + " Which nature loathes--take thou the destined tenth,\n" + " And by the hazard of the spotted die\n" + " Let die the spotted.\n\n" + "First Senator All have not offended;\n" + " For those that were, it is not square to take\n" + " On those that are, revenges: crimes, like lands,\n" + " Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman,\n" + " Bring in thy ranks, but leave without thy rage:\n" + " Spare thy Athenian cradle and those kin\n" + " Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall\n" + " With those that have offended: like a shepherd,\n" + " Approach the fold and cull the infected forth,\n" + " But kill not all together.\n\n" + "Second Senator What thou wilt,\n" + " Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile\n" + " Than hew to't with thy sword.\n\n" + "First Senator Set but thy foot\n" + " Against our rampired gates, and they shall ope;\n" + " So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before,\n" + " To say thou'lt enter friendly.\n\n" + "Second Senator Throw thy glove,\n" + " Or any token of thine honour else,\n" + " That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress\n" + " And not as our confusion, all thy powers\n" + " Shall make their harbour in our town, till we\n" + " Have seal'd thy full desire.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Then there's my glove;\n" + " Descend, and open your uncharged ports:\n" + " Those enemies of Timon's and mine own\n" + " Whom you yourselves shall set out for reproof\n" + " Fall and no more: and, to atone your fears\n" + " With my more noble meaning, not a man\n" + " Shall pass his quarter, or offend the stream\n" + " Of regular justice in your city's bounds,\n" + " But shall be render'd to your public laws\n" + " At heaviest answer.\n\n" + "Both 'Tis most nobly spoken.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES Descend, and keep your words.\n\n" + " [The Senators descend, and open the gates]\n\n" + " [Enter Soldier]\n\n" + "Soldier My noble general, Timon is dead;\n" + " Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea;\n" + " And on his grave-stone this insculpture, which\n" + " With wax I brought away, whose soft impression\n" + " Interprets for my poor ignorance.\n\n" + "ALCIBIADES [Reads the epitaph] 'Here lies a\n" + " wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:\n" + " Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked\n" + " caitiffs left!\n" + " Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:\n" + " Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay\n" + " not here thy gait.'\n" + " These well express in thee thy latter spirits:\n" + " Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human griefs,\n" + " Scorn'dst our brain's flow and those our\n" + " droplets which\n" + " From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit\n" + " Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for aye\n" + " On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. Dead\n" + " Is noble Timon: of whose memory\n" + " Hereafter more. Bring me into your city,\n" + " And I will use the olive with my sword,\n" + " Make war breed peace, make peace stint war, make each\n" + " Prescribe to other as each other's leech.\n" + " Let our drums strike.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "SATURNINUS son to the late Emperor of Rome, and afterwards\n" + " declared Emperor.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS brother to Saturninus; in love with Lavinia.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS a noble Roman, general against the Goths.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS tribune of the people, and brother to Titus.\n\n\n" + "LUCIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "QUINTUS |\n" + " | sons to Titus Andronicus.\n" + "MARTIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "MUTIUS |\n\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS a boy, son to Lucius.\n\n" + "PUBLIUS son to Marcus the Tribune.\n\n\n" + "SEMPRONIUS |\n" + " |\n" + "CAIUS | kinsmen to Titus.\n" + " |\n" + "VALENTINE |\n\n\n" + "AEMILIUS a noble Roman.\n\n\n" + "ALARBUS |\n" + " |\n" + "DEMETRIUS | sons to Tamora.\n" + " |\n" + "CHIRON |\n\n\n" + "AARON a Moor, beloved by Tamora.\n\n" + " A Captain, Tribune, Messenger, and Clown; Romans.\n" + " (Captain:)\n" + " (Messenger:)\n" + " (Clown:)\n\n" + " Goths and Romans.\n" + " (First Goth:)\n" + " (Second Goth:)\n" + " (Third Goth:)\n\n" + "TAMORA Queen of the Goths.\n\n" + "LAVINIA daughter of Titus Andronicus.\n\n" + " A Nurse. (Nurse:)\n\n" + " Senators, Tribunes, Officers, Soldiers, and\n" + " Attendants.\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE Rome, and the country near it.\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. Before the Capitol.\n\n\n" + " [The Tomb of the ANDRONICI appearing; the Tribunes\n" + " and Senators aloft. Enter, below, from one side,\n" + " SATURNINUS and his Followers; and, from the other\n" + " side, BASSIANUS and his Followers; with drum and colours]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Noble patricians, patrons of my right,\n" + " Defend the justice of my cause with arms,\n" + " And, countrymen, my loving followers,\n" + " Plead my successive title with your swords:\n" + " I am his first-born son, that was the last\n" + " That wore the imperial diadem of Rome;\n" + " Then let my father's honours live in me,\n" + " Nor wrong mine age with this indignity.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right,\n" + " If ever Bassianus, Caesar's son,\n" + " Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,\n" + " Keep then this passage to the Capitol\n" + " And suffer not dishonour to approach\n" + " The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate,\n" + " To justice, continence and nobility;\n" + " But let desert in pure election shine,\n" + " And, Romans, fight for freedom in your choice.\n\n" + " [Enter MARCUS ANDRONICUS, aloft, with the crown]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Princes, that strive by factions and by friends\n" + " Ambitiously for rule and empery,\n" + " Know that the people of Rome, for whom we stand\n" + " A special party, have, by common voice,\n" + " In election for the Roman empery,\n" + " Chosen Andronicus, surnamed Pius\n" + " For many good and great deserts to Rome:\n" + " A nobler man, a braver warrior,\n" + " Lives not this day within the city walls:\n" + " He by the senate is accit'd home\n" + " From weary wars against the barbarous Goths;\n" + " That, with his sons, a terror to our foes,\n" + " Hath yoked a nation strong, train'd up in arms.\n" + " Ten years are spent since first he undertook\n" + " This cause of Rome and chastised with arms\n" + " Our enemies' pride: five times he hath return'd\n" + " Bleeding to Rome, bearing his valiant sons\n" + " In coffins from the field;\n" + " And now at last, laden with horror's spoils,\n" + " Returns the good Andronicus to Rome,\n" + " Renowned Titus, flourishing in arms.\n" + " Let us entreat, by honour of his name,\n" + " Whom worthily you would have now succeed.\n" + " And in the Capitol and senate's right,\n" + " Whom you pretend to honour and adore,\n" + " That you withdraw you and abate your strength;\n" + " Dismiss your followers and, as suitors should,\n" + " Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS How fair the tribune speaks to calm my thoughts!\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Marcus Andronicus, so I do ally\n" + " In thy uprightness and integrity,\n" + " And so I love and honour thee and thine,\n" + " Thy noble brother Titus and his sons,\n" + " And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all,\n" + " Gracious Lavinia, Rome's rich ornament,\n" + " That I will here dismiss my loving friends,\n" + " And to my fortunes and the people's favor\n" + " Commit my cause in balance to be weigh'd.\n\n" + " [Exeunt the followers of BASSIANUS]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Friends, that have been thus forward in my right,\n" + " I thank you all and here dismiss you all,\n" + " And to the love and favor of my country\n" + " Commit myself, my person and the cause.\n\n" + " [Exeunt the followers of SATURNINUS]\n\n" + " Rome, be as just and gracious unto me\n" + " As I am confident and kind to thee.\n" + " Open the gates, and let me in.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Tribunes, and me, a poor competitor.\n\n" + " [Flourish. SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS go up into the Capitol]\n\n" + " [Enter a Captain]\n\n" + "Captain Romans, make way: the good Andronicus.\n" + " Patron of virtue, Rome's best champion,\n" + " Successful in the battles that he fights,\n" + " With honour and with fortune is return'd\n" + " From where he circumscribed with his sword,\n" + " And brought to yoke, the enemies of Rome.\n\n" + " [Drums and trumpets sounded. Enter MARTIUS and\n" + " MUTIUS; After them, two Men bearing a coffin\n" + " covered with black; then LUCIUS and QUINTUS. After\n" + " them, TITUS ANDRONICUS; and then TAMORA, with\n" + " ALARBUS, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON, AARON, and other Goths,\n" + " prisoners; Soldiers and people following. The\n" + " Bearers set down the coffin, and TITUS speaks]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds!\n" + " Lo, as the bark, that hath discharged her fraught,\n" + " Returns with precious jading to the bay\n" + " From whence at first she weigh'd her anchorage,\n" + " Cometh Andronicus, bound with laurel boughs,\n" + " To re-salute his country with his tears,\n" + " Tears of true joy for his return to Rome.\n" + " Thou great defender of this Capitol,\n" + " Stand gracious to the rites that we intend!\n" + " Romans, of five and twenty valiant sons,\n" + " Half of the number that King Priam had,\n" + " Behold the poor remains, alive and dead!\n" + " These that survive let Rome reward with love;\n" + " These that I bring unto their latest home,\n" + " With burial amongst their ancestors:\n" + " Here Goths have given me leave to sheathe my sword.\n" + " Titus, unkind and careless of thine own,\n" + " Why suffer'st thou thy sons, unburied yet,\n" + " To hover on the dreadful shore of Styx?\n" + " Make way to lay them by their brethren.\n\n" + " [The tomb is opened]\n\n" + " There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,\n" + " And sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars!\n" + " O sacred receptacle of my joys,\n" + " Sweet cell of virtue and nobility,\n" + " How many sons of mine hast thou in store,\n" + " That thou wilt never render to me more!\n\n" + "LUCIUS Give us the proudest prisoner of the Goths,\n" + " That we may hew his limbs, and on a pile\n" + " Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh,\n" + " Before this earthy prison of their bones;\n" + " That so the shadows be not unappeased,\n" + " Nor we disturb'd with prodigies on earth.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS I give him you, the noblest that survives,\n" + " The eldest son of this distressed queen.\n\n" + "TAMORA Stay, Roman brethren! Gracious conqueror,\n" + " Victorious Titus, rue the tears I shed,\n" + " A mother's tears in passion for her son:\n" + " And if thy sons were ever dear to thee,\n" + " O, think my son to be as dear to me!\n" + " Sufficeth not that we are brought to Rome,\n" + " To beautify thy triumphs and return,\n" + " Captive to thee and to thy Roman yoke,\n" + " But must my sons be slaughter'd in the streets,\n" + " For valiant doings in their country's cause?\n" + " O, if to fight for king and commonweal\n" + " Were piety in thine, it is in these.\n" + " Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood:\n" + " Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?\n" + " Draw near them then in being merciful:\n" + " Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge:\n" + " Thrice noble Titus, spare my first-born son.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Patient yourself, madam, and pardon me.\n" + " These are their brethren, whom you Goths beheld\n" + " Alive and dead, and for their brethren slain\n" + " Religiously they ask a sacrifice:\n" + " To this your son is mark'd, and die he must,\n" + " To appease their groaning shadows that are gone.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Away with him! and make a fire straight;\n" + " And with our swords, upon a pile of wood,\n" + " Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS, and MUTIUS, with ALARBUS]\n\n" + "TAMORA O cruel, irreligious piety!\n\n" + "CHIRON Was ever Scythia half so barbarous?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Oppose not Scythia to ambitious Rome.\n" + " Alarbus goes to rest; and we survive\n" + " To tremble under Titus' threatening looks.\n" + " Then, madam, stand resolved, but hope withal\n" + " The self-same gods that arm'd the Queen of Troy\n" + " With opportunity of sharp revenge\n" + " Upon the Thracian tyrant in his tent,\n" + " May favor Tamora, the Queen of Goths--\n" + " When Goths were Goths and Tamora was queen--\n" + " To quit the bloody wrongs upon her foes.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS, QUINTUS, MARTIUS and MUTIUS, with\n" + " their swords bloody]\n\n" + "LUCIUS See, lord and father, how we have perform'd\n" + " Our Roman rites: Alarbus' limbs are lopp'd,\n" + " And entrails feed the sacrificing fire,\n" + " Whose smoke, like incense, doth perfume the sky.\n" + " Remaineth nought, but to inter our brethren,\n" + " And with loud 'larums welcome them to Rome.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Let it be so; and let Andronicus\n" + " Make this his latest farewell to their souls.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sounded, and the coffin laid in the tomb]\n\n" + " In peace and honour rest you here, my sons;\n" + " Rome's readiest champions, repose you here in rest,\n" + " Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!\n" + " Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells,\n" + " Here grow no damned grudges; here are no storms,\n" + " No noise, but silence and eternal sleep:\n" + " In peace and honour rest you here, my sons!\n\n" + " [Enter LAVINIA]\n\n" + "LAVINIA In peace and honour live Lord Titus long;\n" + " My noble lord and father, live in fame!\n" + " Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears\n" + " I render, for my brethren's obsequies;\n" + " And at thy feet I kneel, with tears of joy,\n" + " Shed on the earth, for thy return to Rome:\n" + " O, bless me here with thy victorious hand,\n" + " Whose fortunes Rome's best citizens applaud!\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Kind Rome, that hast thus lovingly reserved\n" + " The cordial of mine age to glad my heart!\n" + " Lavinia, live; outlive thy father's days,\n" + " And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise!\n\n" + " [Enter, below, MARCUS ANDRONICUS and Tribunes;\n" + " re-enter SATURNINUS and BASSIANUS, attended]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Long live Lord Titus, my beloved brother,\n" + " Gracious triumpher in the eyes of Rome!\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Thanks, gentle tribune, noble brother Marcus.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS And welcome, nephews, from successful wars,\n" + " You that survive, and you that sleep in fame!\n" + " Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all,\n" + " That in your country's service drew your swords:\n" + " But safer triumph is this funeral pomp,\n" + " That hath aspired to Solon's happiness\n" + " And triumphs over chance in honour's bed.\n" + " Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome,\n" + " Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been,\n" + " Send thee by me, their tribune and their trust,\n" + " This palliament of white and spotless hue;\n" + " And name thee in election for the empire,\n" + " With these our late-deceased emperor's sons:\n" + " Be candidatus then, and put it on,\n" + " And help to set a head on headless Rome.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS A better head her glorious body fits\n" + " Than his that shakes for age and feebleness:\n" + " What should I don this robe, and trouble you?\n" + " Be chosen with proclamations to-day,\n" + " To-morrow yield up rule, resign my life,\n" + " And set abroad new business for you all?\n" + " Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years,\n" + " And led my country's strength successfully,\n" + " And buried one and twenty valiant sons,\n" + " Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms,\n" + " In right and service of their noble country\n" + " Give me a staff of honour for mine age,\n" + " But not a sceptre to control the world:\n" + " Upright he held it, lords, that held it last.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Titus, thou shalt obtain and ask the empery.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Proud and ambitious tribune, canst thou tell?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Patience, Prince Saturninus.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Romans, do me right:\n" + " Patricians, draw your swords: and sheathe them not\n" + " Till Saturninus be Rome's emperor.\n" + " Andronicus, would thou wert shipp'd to hell,\n" + " Rather than rob me of the people's hearts!\n\n" + "LUCIUS Proud Saturnine, interrupter of the good\n" + " That noble-minded Titus means to thee!\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Content thee, prince; I will restore to thee\n" + " The people's hearts, and wean them from themselves.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Andronicus, I do not flatter thee,\n" + " But honour thee, and will do till I die:\n" + " My faction if thou strengthen with thy friends,\n" + " I will most thankful be; and thanks to men\n" + " Of noble minds is honourable meed.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS People of Rome, and people's tribunes here,\n" + " I ask your voices and your suffrages:\n" + " Will you bestow them friendly on Andronicus?\n\n" + "Tribunes To gratify the good Andronicus,\n" + " And gratulate his safe return to Rome,\n" + " The people will accept whom he admits.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Tribunes, I thank you: and this suit I make,\n" + " That you create your emperor's eldest son,\n" + " Lord Saturnine; whose virtues will, I hope,\n" + " Reflect on Rome as Titan's rays on earth,\n" + " And ripen justice in this commonweal:\n" + " Then, if you will elect by my advice,\n" + " Crown him and say 'Long live our emperor!'\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS With voices and applause of every sort,\n" + " Patricians and plebeians, we create\n" + " Lord Saturninus Rome's great emperor,\n" + " And say 'Long live our Emperor Saturnine!'\n\n" + " [A long flourish till they come down]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Titus Andronicus, for thy favors done\n" + " To us in our election this day,\n" + " I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts,\n" + " And will with deeds requite thy gentleness:\n" + " And, for an onset, Titus, to advance\n" + " Thy name and honourable family,\n" + " Lavinia will I make my empress,\n" + " Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my heart,\n" + " And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse:\n" + " Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please thee?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS It doth, my worthy lord; and in this match\n" + " I hold me highly honour'd of your grace:\n" + " And here in sight of Rome to Saturnine,\n" + " King and commander of our commonweal,\n" + " The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate\n" + " My sword, my chariot and my prisoners;\n" + " Presents well worthy Rome's imperial lord:\n" + " Receive them then, the tribute that I owe,\n" + " Mine honour's ensigns humbled at thy feet.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Thanks, noble Titus, father of my life!\n" + " How proud I am of thee and of thy gifts\n" + " Rome shall record, and when I do forget\n" + " The least of these unspeakable deserts,\n" + " Romans, forget your fealty to me.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS [To TAMORA] Now, madam, are you prisoner to\n" + " an emperor;\n" + " To him that, for your honour and your state,\n" + " Will use you nobly and your followers.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS A goodly lady, trust me; of the hue\n" + " That I would choose, were I to choose anew.\n" + " Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance:\n" + " Though chance of war hath wrought this change of cheer,\n" + " Thou comest not to be made a scorn in Rome:\n" + " Princely shall be thy usage every way.\n" + " Rest on my word, and let not discontent\n" + " Daunt all your hopes: madam, he comforts you\n" + " Can make you greater than the Queen of Goths.\n" + " Lavinia, you are not displeased with this?\n\n" + "LAVINIA Not I, my lord; sith true nobility\n" + " Warrants these words in princely courtesy.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go;\n" + " Ransomless here we set our prisoners free:\n" + " Proclaim our honours, lords, with trump and drum.\n\n" + " [Flourish. SATURNINUS courts TAMORA in dumb show]\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Lord Titus, by your leave, this maid is mine.\n\n" + " [Seizing LAVINIA]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS How, sir! are you in earnest then, my lord?\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Ay, noble Titus; and resolved withal\n" + " To do myself this reason and this right.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS 'Suum cuique' is our Roman justice:\n" + " This prince in justice seizeth but his own.\n\n" + "LUCIUS And that he will, and shall, if Lucius live.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Traitors, avaunt! Where is the emperor's guard?\n" + " Treason, my lord! Lavinia is surprised!\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Surprised! by whom?\n\n" + "BASSIANUS By him that justly may\n" + " Bear his betroth'd from all the world away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt BASSIANUS and MARCUS with LAVINIA]\n\n" + "MUTIUS Brothers, help to convey her hence away,\n" + " And with my sword I'll keep this door safe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Follow, my lord, and I'll soon bring her back.\n\n" + "MUTIUS My lord, you pass not here.\n\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS What, villain boy!\n" + " Barr'st me my way in Rome?\n\n" + " [Stabbing MUTIUS]\n\n" + "MUTIUS Help, Lucius, help!\n\n" + " [Dies]\n\n" + " [During the fray, SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS,\n" + " CHIRON and AARON go out and re-enter, above]\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS]\n\n" + "LUCIUS My lord, you are unjust, and, more than so,\n" + " In wrongful quarrel you have slain your son.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Nor thou, nor he, are any sons of mine;\n" + " My sons would never so dishonour me:\n" + " Traitor, restore Lavinia to the emperor.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Dead, if you will; but not to be his wife,\n" + " That is another's lawful promised love.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS No, Titus, no; the emperor needs her not,\n" + " Nor her, nor thee, nor any of thy stock:\n" + " I'll trust, by leisure, him that mocks me once;\n" + " Thee never, nor thy traitorous haughty sons,\n" + " Confederates all thus to dishonour me.\n" + " Was there none else in Rome to make a stale,\n" + " But Saturnine? Full well, Andronicus,\n" + " Agree these deeds with that proud brag of thine,\n" + " That said'st I begg'd the empire at thy hands.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS O monstrous! what reproachful words are these?\n\n" + "SATURNINUS But go thy ways; go, give that changing piece\n" + " To him that flourish'd for her with his sword\n" + " A valiant son-in-law thou shalt enjoy;\n" + " One fit to bandy with thy lawless sons,\n" + " To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS These words are razors to my wounded heart.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS And therefore, lovely Tamora, queen of Goths,\n" + " That like the stately Phoebe 'mongst her nymphs\n" + " Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome,\n" + " If thou be pleased with this my sudden choice,\n" + " Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride,\n" + " And will create thee empress of Rome,\n" + " Speak, Queen of Goths, dost thou applaud my choice?\n" + " And here I swear by all the Roman gods,\n" + " Sith priest and holy water are so near\n" + " And tapers burn so bright and every thing\n" + " In readiness for Hymenaeus stand,\n" + " I will not re-salute the streets of Rome,\n" + " Or climb my palace, till from forth this place\n" + " I lead espoused my bride along with me.\n\n" + "TAMORA And here, in sight of heaven, to Rome I swear,\n" + " If Saturnine advance the Queen of Goths,\n" + " She will a handmaid be to his desires,\n" + " A loving nurse, a mother to his youth.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Ascend, fair queen, Pantheon. Lords, accompany\n" + " Your noble emperor and his lovely bride,\n" + " Sent by the heavens for Prince Saturnine,\n" + " Whose wisdom hath her fortune conquered:\n" + " There shall we consummate our spousal rites.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but TITUS]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS I am not bid to wait upon this bride.\n" + " Titus, when wert thou wont to walk alone,\n" + " Dishonour'd thus, and challenged of wrongs?\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARCUS, LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O Titus, see, O, see what thou hast done!\n" + " In a bad quarrel slain a virtuous son.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS No, foolish tribune, no; no son of mine,\n" + " Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the deed\n" + " That hath dishonour'd all our family;\n" + " Unworthy brother, and unworthy sons!\n\n" + "LUCIUS But let us give him burial, as becomes;\n" + " Give Mutius burial with our brethren.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Traitors, away! he rests not in this tomb:\n" + " This monument five hundred years hath stood,\n" + " Which I have sumptuously re-edified:\n" + " Here none but soldiers and Rome's servitors\n" + " Repose in fame; none basely slain in brawls:\n" + " Bury him where you can; he comes not here.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS My lord, this is impiety in you:\n" + " My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him\n" + " He must be buried with his brethren.\n\n" + "QUINTUS |\n" + " | And shall, or him we will accompany.\n" + "MARTIUS |\n\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS 'And shall!' what villain was it that spake\n" + " that word?\n\n" + "QUINTUS He that would vouch it in any place but here.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS What, would you bury him in my despite?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS No, noble Titus, but entreat of thee\n" + " To pardon Mutius and to bury him.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Marcus, even thou hast struck upon my crest,\n" + " And, with these boys, mine honour thou hast wounded:\n" + " My foes I do repute you every one;\n" + " So, trouble me no more, but get you gone.\n\n" + "MARTIUS He is not with himself; let us withdraw.\n\n" + "QUINTUS Not I, till Mutius' bones be buried.\n\n" + " [MARCUS and the Sons of TITUS kneel]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Brother, for in that name doth nature plead,--\n\n" + "QUINTUS Father, and in that name doth nature speak,--\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Speak thou no more, if all the rest will speed.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Renowned Titus, more than half my soul,--\n\n" + "LUCIUS Dear father, soul and substance of us all,--\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter\n" + " His noble nephew here in virtue's nest,\n" + " That died in honour and Lavinia's cause.\n" + " Thou art a Roman; be not barbarous:\n" + " The Greeks upon advice did bury Ajax\n" + " That slew himself; and wise Laertes' son\n" + " Did graciously plead for his funerals:\n" + " Let not young Mutius, then, that was thy joy\n" + " Be barr'd his entrance here.\n\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Rise, Marcus, rise.\n" + " The dismall'st day is this that e'er I saw,\n" + " To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome!\n" + " Well, bury him, and bury me the next.\n\n" + " [MUTIUS is put into the tomb]\n\n" + "LUCIUS There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy friends,\n" + " Till we with trophies do adorn thy tomb.\n\n" + "All [Kneeling] No man shed tears for noble Mutius;\n" + " He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS My lord, to step out of these dreary dumps,\n" + " How comes it that the subtle Queen of Goths\n" + " Is of a sudden thus advanced in Rome?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS I know not, Marcus; but I know it is,\n" + " Whether by device or no, the heavens can tell:\n" + " Is she not then beholding to the man\n" + " That brought her for this high good turn so far?\n" + " Yes, and will nobly him remunerate.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Re-enter, from one side, SATURNINUS\n" + " attended, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON and AARON; from\n" + " the other, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, and others]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS So, Bassianus, you have play'd your prize:\n" + " God give you joy, sir, of your gallant bride!\n\n" + "BASSIANUS And you of yours, my lord! I say no more,\n" + " Nor wish no less; and so, I take my leave.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Traitor, if Rome have law or we have power,\n" + " Thou and thy faction shall repent this rape.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Rape, call you it, my lord, to seize my own,\n" + " My truth-betrothed love and now my wife?\n" + " But let the laws of Rome determine all;\n" + " Meanwhile I am possess'd of that is mine.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS 'Tis good, sir: you are very short with us;\n" + " But, if we live, we'll be as sharp with you.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS My lord, what I have done, as best I may,\n" + " Answer I must and shall do with my life.\n" + " Only thus much I give your grace to know:\n" + " By all the duties that I owe to Rome,\n" + " This noble gentleman, Lord Titus here,\n" + " Is in opinion and in honour wrong'd;\n" + " That in the rescue of Lavinia\n" + " With his own hand did slay his youngest son,\n" + " In zeal to you and highly moved to wrath\n" + " To be controll'd in that he frankly gave:\n" + " Receive him, then, to favor, Saturnine,\n" + " That hath express'd himself in all his deeds\n" + " A father and a friend to thee and Rome.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Prince Bassianus, leave to plead my deeds:\n" + " 'Tis thou and those that have dishonour'd me.\n" + " Rome and the righteous heavens be my judge,\n" + " How I have loved and honour'd Saturnine!\n\n" + "TAMORA My worthy lord, if ever Tamora\n" + " Were gracious in those princely eyes of thine,\n" + " Then hear me speak in indifferently for all;\n" + " And at my suit, sweet, pardon what is past.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS What, madam! be dishonour'd openly,\n" + " And basely put it up without revenge?\n\n" + "TAMORA Not so, my lord; the gods of Rome forfend\n" + " I should be author to dishonour you!\n" + " But on mine honour dare I undertake\n" + " For good Lord Titus' innocence in all;\n" + " Whose fury not dissembled speaks his griefs:\n" + " Then, at my suit, look graciously on him;\n" + " Lose not so noble a friend on vain suppose,\n" + " Nor with sour looks afflict his gentle heart.\n" + " [Aside to SATURNINUS] My lord, be ruled by me,\n" + " be won at last;\n" + " Dissemble all your griefs and discontents:\n" + " You are but newly planted in your throne;\n" + " Lest, then, the people, and patricians too,\n" + " Upon a just survey, take Titus' part,\n" + " And so supplant you for ingratitude,\n" + " Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,\n" + " Yield at entreats; and then let me alone:\n" + " I'll find a day to massacre them all\n" + " And raze their faction and their family,\n" + " The cruel father and his traitorous sons,\n" + " To whom I sued for my dear son's life,\n" + " And make them know what 'tis to let a queen\n" + " Kneel in the streets and beg for grace in vain.\n\n" + " [Aloud]\n\n" + " Come, come, sweet emperor; come, Andronicus;\n" + " Take up this good old man, and cheer the heart\n" + " That dies in tempest of thy angry frown.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Rise, Titus, rise; my empress hath prevail'd.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS I thank your majesty, and her, my lord:\n" + " These words, these looks, infuse new life in me.\n\n" + "TAMORA Titus, I am incorporate in Rome,\n" + " A Roman now adopted happily,\n" + " And must advise the emperor for his good.\n" + " This day all quarrels die, Andronicus;\n" + " And let it be mine honour, good my lord,\n" + " That I have reconciled your friends and you.\n" + " For you, Prince Bassianus, I have pass'd\n" + " My word and promise to the emperor,\n" + " That you will be more mild and tractable.\n" + " And fear not lords, and you, Lavinia;\n" + " By my advice, all humbled on your knees,\n" + " You shall ask pardon of his majesty.\n\n" + "LUCIUS We do, and vow to heaven and to his highness,\n" + " That what we did was mildly as we might,\n" + " Tendering our sister's honour and our own.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS That, on mine honour, here I do protest.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Away, and talk not; trouble us no more.\n\n" + "TAMORA Nay, nay, sweet emperor, we must all be friends:\n" + " The tribune and his nephews kneel for grace;\n" + " I will not be denied: sweet heart, look back.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Marcus, for thy sake and thy brother's here,\n" + " And at my lovely Tamora's entreats,\n" + " I do remit these young men's heinous faults: Stand up.\n" + " Lavinia, though you left me like a churl,\n" + " I found a friend, and sure as death I swore\n" + " I would not part a bachelor from the priest.\n" + " Come, if the emperor's court can feast two brides,\n" + " You are my guest, Lavinia, and your friends.\n" + " This day shall be a love-day, Tamora.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS To-morrow, an it please your majesty\n" + " To hunt the panther and the hart with me,\n" + " With horn and hound we'll give your grace bonjour.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Be it so, Titus, and gramercy too.\n\n" + " [Flourish. Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. Before the Palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AARON]\n\n" + "AARON Now climbeth Tamora Olympus' top,\n" + " Safe out of fortune's shot; and sits aloft,\n" + " Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash;\n" + " Advanced above pale envy's threatening reach.\n" + " As when the golden sun salutes the morn,\n" + " And, having gilt the ocean with his beams,\n" + " Gallops the zodiac in his glistering coach,\n" + " And overlooks the highest-peering hills;\n" + " So Tamora:\n" + " Upon her wit doth earthly honour wait,\n" + " And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown.\n" + " Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts,\n" + " To mount aloft with thy imperial mistress,\n" + " And mount her pitch, whom thou in triumph long\n" + " Hast prisoner held, fetter'd in amorous chains\n" + " And faster bound to Aaron's charming eyes\n" + " Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus.\n" + " Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts!\n" + " I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold,\n" + " To wait upon this new-made empress.\n" + " To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen,\n" + " This goddess, this Semiramis, this nymph,\n" + " This siren, that will charm Rome's Saturnine,\n" + " And see his shipwreck and his commonweal's.\n" + " Holloa! what storm is this?\n\n" + " [Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, braving]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge,\n" + " And manners, to intrude where I am graced;\n" + " And may, for aught thou know'st, affected be.\n\n" + "CHIRON Demetrius, thou dost over-ween in all;\n" + " And so in this, to bear me down with braves.\n" + " 'Tis not the difference of a year or two\n" + " Makes me less gracious or thee more fortunate:\n" + " I am as able and as fit as thou\n" + " To serve, and to deserve my mistress' grace;\n" + " And that my sword upon thee shall approve,\n" + " And plead my passions for Lavinia's love.\n\n" + "AARON [Aside] Clubs, clubs! these lovers will not keep\n" + " the peace.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Why, boy, although our mother, unadvised,\n" + " Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side,\n" + " Are you so desperate grown, to threat your friends?\n" + " Go to; have your lath glued within your sheath\n" + " Till you know better how to handle it.\n\n" + "CHIRON Meanwhile, sir, with the little skill I have,\n" + " Full well shalt thou perceive how much I dare.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Ay, boy, grow ye so brave?\n\n" + " [They draw]\n\n" + "AARON [Coming forward] Why, how now, lords!\n" + " So near the emperor's palace dare you draw,\n" + " And maintain such a quarrel openly?\n" + " Full well I wot the ground of all this grudge:\n" + " I would not for a million of gold\n" + " The cause were known to them it most concerns;\n" + " Nor would your noble mother for much more\n" + " Be so dishonour'd in the court of Rome.\n" + " For shame, put up.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Not I, till I have sheathed\n" + " My rapier in his bosom and withal\n" + " Thrust these reproachful speeches down his throat\n" + " That he hath breathed in my dishonour here.\n\n" + "CHIRON For that I am prepared and full resolved.\n" + " Foul-spoken coward, that thunder'st with thy tongue,\n" + " And with thy weapon nothing darest perform!\n\n" + "AARON Away, I say!\n" + " Now, by the gods that warlike Goths adore,\n" + " This petty brabble will undo us all.\n" + " Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous\n" + " It is to jet upon a prince's right?\n" + " What, is Lavinia then become so loose,\n" + " Or Bassianus so degenerate,\n" + " That for her love such quarrels may be broach'd\n" + " Without controlment, justice, or revenge?\n" + " Young lords, beware! and should the empress know\n" + " This discord's ground, the music would not please.\n\n" + "CHIRON I care not, I, knew she and all the world:\n" + " I love Lavinia more than all the world.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Youngling, learn thou to make some meaner choice:\n" + " Lavinia is thine elder brother's hope.\n\n" + "AARON Why, are ye mad? or know ye not, in Rome\n" + " How furious and impatient they be,\n" + " And cannot brook competitors in love?\n" + " I tell you, lords, you do but plot your deaths\n" + " By this device.\n\n" + "CHIRON Aaron, a thousand deaths\n" + " Would I propose to achieve her whom I love.\n\n" + "AARON To achieve her! how?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Why makest thou it so strange?\n" + " She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd;\n" + " She is a woman, therefore may be won;\n" + " She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved.\n" + " What, man! more water glideth by the mill\n" + " Than wots the miller of; and easy it is\n" + " Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know:\n" + " Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother.\n" + " Better than he have worn Vulcan's badge.\n\n" + "AARON [Aside] Ay, and as good as Saturninus may.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Then why should he despair that knows to court it\n" + " With words, fair looks and liberality?\n" + " What, hast not thou full often struck a doe,\n" + " And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose?\n\n" + "AARON Why, then, it seems, some certain snatch or so\n" + " Would serve your turns.\n\n" + "CHIRON Ay, so the turn were served.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Aaron, thou hast hit it.\n\n" + "AARON Would you had hit it too!\n" + " Then should not we be tired with this ado.\n" + " Why, hark ye, hark ye! and are you such fools\n" + " To square for this? would it offend you, then\n" + " That both should speed?\n\n" + "CHIRON Faith, not me.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Nor me, so I were one.\n\n" + "AARON For shame, be friends, and join for that you jar:\n" + " 'Tis policy and stratagem must do\n" + " That you affect; and so must you resolve,\n" + " That what you cannot as you would achieve,\n" + " You must perforce accomplish as you may.\n" + " Take this of me: Lucrece was not more chaste\n" + " Than this Lavinia, Bassianus' love.\n" + " A speedier course than lingering languishment\n" + " Must we pursue, and I have found the path.\n" + " My lords, a solemn hunting is in hand;\n" + " There will the lovely Roman ladies troop:\n" + " The forest walks are wide and spacious;\n" + " And many unfrequented plots there are\n" + " Fitted by kind for rape and villany:\n" + " Single you thither then this dainty doe,\n" + " And strike her home by force, if not by words:\n" + " This way, or not at all, stand you in hope.\n" + " Come, come, our empress, with her sacred wit\n" + " To villany and vengeance consecrate,\n" + " Will we acquaint with all that we intend;\n" + " And she shall file our engines with advice,\n" + " That will not suffer you to square yourselves,\n" + " But to your wishes' height advance you both.\n" + " The emperor's court is like the house of Fame,\n" + " The palace full of tongues, of eyes, and ears:\n" + " The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull;\n" + " There speak, and strike, brave boys, and take\n" + " your turns;\n" + " There serve your lusts, shadow'd from heaven's eye,\n" + " And revel in Lavinia's treasury.\n\n" + "CHIRON Thy counsel, lad, smells of no cowardice,\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the stream\n" + " To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits.\n" + " Per Styga, per manes vehor.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A forest near Rome. Horns and cry of hounds heard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TITUS ANDRONICUS, with Hunters, &c., MARCUS,\n" + " LUCIUS, QUINTUS, and MARTIUS]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS The hunt is up, the morn is bright and grey,\n" + " The fields are fragrant and the woods are green:\n" + " Uncouple here and let us make a bay\n" + " And wake the emperor and his lovely bride\n" + " And rouse the prince and ring a hunter's peal,\n" + " That all the court may echo with the noise.\n" + " Sons, let it be your charge, as it is ours,\n" + " To attend the emperor's person carefully:\n" + " I have been troubled in my sleep this night,\n" + " But dawning day new comfort hath inspired.\n\n" + " [A cry of hounds and horns, winded in a peal. Enter\n" + " SATURNINUS, TAMORA, BASSIANUS, LAVINIA, DEMETRIUS,\n" + " CHIRON, and Attendants]\n\n" + " Many good morrows to your majesty;\n" + " Madam, to you as many and as good:\n" + " I promised your grace a hunter's peal.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS And you have rung it lustily, my lord;\n" + " Somewhat too early for new-married ladies.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Lavinia, how say you?\n\n" + "LAVINIA I say, no;\n" + " I have been broad awake two hours and more.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Come on, then; horse and chariots let us have,\n" + " And to our sport.\n\n" + " [To TAMORA]\n\n" + " Madam, now shall ye see\n" + " Our Roman hunting.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS I have dogs, my lord,\n" + " Will rouse the proudest panther in the chase,\n" + " And climb the highest promontory top.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS And I have horse will follow where the game\n" + " Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the plain.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Chiron, we hunt not, we, with horse nor hound,\n" + " But hope to pluck a dainty doe to ground.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A lonely part of the forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AARON, with a bag of gold]\n\n" + "AARON He that had wit would think that I had none,\n" + " To bury so much gold under a tree,\n" + " And never after to inherit it.\n" + " Let him that thinks of me so abjectly\n" + " Know that this gold must coin a stratagem,\n" + " Which, cunningly effected, will beget\n" + " A very excellent piece of villany:\n" + " And so repose, sweet gold, for their unrest\n\n" + " [Hides the gold]\n\n" + " That have their alms out of the empress' chest.\n\n" + " [Enter TAMORA]\n\n" + "TAMORA My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st thou sad,\n" + " When every thing doth make a gleeful boast?\n" + " The birds chant melody on every bush,\n" + " The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun,\n" + " The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind\n" + " And make a chequer'd shadow on the ground:\n" + " Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit,\n" + " And, whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds,\n" + " Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns,\n" + " As if a double hunt were heard at once,\n" + " Let us sit down and mark their yelping noise;\n" + " And, after conflict such as was supposed\n" + " The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd,\n" + " When with a happy storm they were surprised\n" + " And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave,\n" + " We may, each wreathed in the other's arms,\n" + " Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;\n" + " Whiles hounds and horns and sweet melodious birds\n" + " Be unto us as is a nurse's song\n" + " Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep.\n\n" + "AARON Madam, though Venus govern your desires,\n" + " Saturn is dominator over mine:\n" + " What signifies my deadly-standing eye,\n" + " My silence and my cloudy melancholy,\n" + " My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls\n" + " Even as an adder when she doth unroll\n" + " To do some fatal execution?\n" + " No, madam, these are no venereal signs:\n" + " Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,\n" + " Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.\n" + " Hark Tamora, the empress of my soul,\n" + " Which never hopes more heaven than rests in thee,\n" + " This is the day of doom for Bassianus:\n" + " His Philomel must lose her tongue to-day,\n" + " Thy sons make pillage of her chastity\n" + " And wash their hands in Bassianus' blood.\n" + " Seest thou this letter? take it up, I pray thee,\n" + " And give the king this fatal plotted scroll.\n" + " Now question me no more; we are espied;\n" + " Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty,\n" + " Which dreads not yet their lives' destruction.\n\n" + "TAMORA Ah, my sweet Moor, sweeter to me than life!\n\n" + "AARON No more, great empress; Bassianus comes:\n" + " Be cross with him; and I'll go fetch thy sons\n" + " To back thy quarrels, whatsoe'er they be.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter BASSIANUS and LAVINIA]\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Who have we here? Rome's royal empress,\n" + " Unfurnish'd of her well-beseeming troop?\n" + " Or is it Dian, habited like her,\n" + " Who hath abandoned her holy groves\n" + " To see the general hunting in this forest?\n\n" + "TAMORA Saucy controller of our private steps!\n" + " Had I the power that some say Dian had,\n" + " Thy temples should be planted presently\n" + " With horns, as was Actaeon's; and the hounds\n" + " Should drive upon thy new-transformed limbs,\n" + " Unmannerly intruder as thou art!\n\n" + "LAVINIA Under your patience, gentle empress,\n" + " 'Tis thought you have a goodly gift in horning;\n" + " And to be doubted that your Moor and you\n" + " Are singled forth to try experiments:\n" + " Jove shield your husband from his hounds to-day!\n" + " 'Tis pity they should take him for a stag.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS Believe me, queen, your swarth Cimmerian\n" + " Doth make your honour of his body's hue,\n" + " Spotted, detested, and abominable.\n" + " Why are you sequester'd from all your train,\n" + " Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed.\n" + " And wander'd hither to an obscure plot,\n" + " Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor,\n" + " If foul desire had not conducted you?\n\n" + "LAVINIA And, being intercepted in your sport,\n" + " Great reason that my noble lord be rated\n" + " For sauciness. I pray you, let us hence,\n" + " And let her joy her raven-colour'd love;\n" + " This valley fits the purpose passing well.\n\n" + "BASSIANUS The king my brother shall have note of this.\n\n" + "LAVINIA Ay, for these slips have made him noted long:\n" + " Good king, to be so mightily abused!\n\n" + "TAMORA Why have I patience to endure all this?\n\n" + " [Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS How now, dear sovereign, and our gracious mother!\n" + " Why doth your highness look so pale and wan?\n\n" + "TAMORA Have I not reason, think you, to look pale?\n" + " These two have 'ticed me hither to this place:\n" + " A barren detested vale, you see it is;\n" + " The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean,\n" + " O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe:\n" + " Here never shines the sun; here nothing breeds,\n" + " Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven:\n" + " And when they show'd me this abhorred pit,\n" + " They told me, here, at dead time of the night,\n" + " A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes,\n" + " Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins,\n" + " Would make such fearful and confused cries\n" + " As any mortal body hearing it\n" + " Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly.\n" + " No sooner had they told this hellish tale,\n" + " But straight they told me they would bind me here\n" + " Unto the body of a dismal yew,\n" + " And leave me to this miserable death:\n" + " And then they call'd me foul adulteress,\n" + " Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms\n" + " That ever ear did hear to such effect:\n" + " And, had you not by wondrous fortune come,\n" + " This vengeance on me had they executed.\n" + " Revenge it, as you love your mother's life,\n" + " Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS This is a witness that I am thy son.\n\n" + " [Stabs BASSIANUS]\n\n" + "CHIRON And this for me, struck home to show my strength.\n\n" + " [Also stabs BASSIANUS, who dies]\n\n" + "LAVINIA Ay, come, Semiramis, nay, barbarous Tamora,\n" + " For no name fits thy nature but thy own!\n\n" + "TAMORA Give me thy poniard; you shall know, my boys\n" + " Your mother's hand shall right your mother's wrong.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Stay, madam; here is more belongs to her;\n" + " First thrash the corn, then after burn the straw:\n" + " This minion stood upon her chastity,\n" + " Upon her nuptial vow, her loyalty,\n" + " And with that painted hope braves your mightiness:\n" + " And shall she carry this unto her grave?\n\n" + "CHIRON An if she do, I would I were an eunuch.\n" + " Drag hence her husband to some secret hole,\n" + " And make his dead trunk pillow to our lust.\n\n" + "TAMORA But when ye have the honey ye desire,\n" + " Let not this wasp outlive, us both to sting.\n\n" + "CHIRON I warrant you, madam, we will make that sure.\n" + " Come, mistress, now perforce we will enjoy\n" + " That nice-preserved honesty of yours.\n\n" + "LAVINIA O Tamora! thou bear'st a woman's face,--\n\n" + "TAMORA I will not hear her speak; away with her!\n\n" + "LAVINIA Sweet lords, entreat her hear me but a word.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Listen, fair madam: let it be your glory\n" + " To see her tears; but be your heart to them\n" + " As unrelenting flint to drops of rain.\n\n" + "LAVINIA When did the tiger's young ones teach the dam?\n" + " O, do not learn her wrath; she taught it thee;\n" + " The milk thou suck'dst from her did turn to marble;\n" + " Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny.\n" + " Yet every mother breeds not sons alike:\n\n" + " [To CHIRON]\n\n" + " Do thou entreat her show a woman pity.\n\n" + "CHIRON What, wouldst thou have me prove myself a bastard?\n\n" + "LAVINIA 'Tis true; the raven doth not hatch a lark:\n" + " Yet have I heard,--O, could I find it now!--\n" + " The lion moved with pity did endure\n" + " To have his princely paws pared all away:\n" + " Some say that ravens foster forlorn children,\n" + " The whilst their own birds famish in their nests:\n" + " O, be to me, though thy hard heart say no,\n" + " Nothing so kind, but something pitiful!\n\n" + "TAMORA I know not what it means; away with her!\n\n" + "LAVINIA O, let me teach thee! for my father's sake,\n" + " That gave thee life, when well he might have\n" + " slain thee,\n" + " Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears.\n\n" + "TAMORA Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me,\n" + " Even for his sake am I pitiless.\n" + " Remember, boys, I pour'd forth tears in vain,\n" + " To save your brother from the sacrifice;\n" + " But fierce Andronicus would not relent;\n" + " Therefore, away with her, and use her as you will,\n" + " The worse to her, the better loved of me.\n\n" + "LAVINIA O Tamora, be call'd a gentle queen,\n" + " And with thine own hands kill me in this place!\n" + " For 'tis not life that I have begg'd so long;\n" + " Poor I was slain when Bassianus died.\n\n" + "TAMORA What begg'st thou, then? fond woman, let me go.\n\n" + "LAVINIA 'Tis present death I beg; and one thing more\n" + " That womanhood denies my tongue to tell:\n" + " O, keep me from their worse than killing lust,\n" + " And tumble me into some loathsome pit,\n" + " Where never man's eye may behold my body:\n" + " Do this, and be a charitable murderer.\n\n" + "TAMORA So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee:\n" + " No, let them satisfy their lust on thee.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Away! for thou hast stay'd us here too long.\n\n" + "LAVINIA No grace? no womanhood? Ah, beastly creature!\n" + " The blot and enemy to our general name!\n" + " Confusion fall--\n\n" + "CHIRON Nay, then I'll stop your mouth. Bring thou her husband:\n" + " This is the hole where Aaron bid us hide him.\n\n" + " [DEMETRIUS throws the body of BASSIANUS into the\n" + " pit; then exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON, dragging\n" + " off LAVINIA]\n\n" + "TAMORA Farewell, my sons: see that you make her sure.\n" + " Ne'er let my heart know merry cheer indeed,\n" + " Till all the Andronici be made away.\n" + " Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor,\n" + " And let my spleenful sons this trull deflow'r.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter AARON, with QUINTUS and MARTIUS]\n\n" + "AARON Come on, my lords, the better foot before:\n" + " Straight will I bring you to the loathsome pit\n" + " Where I espied the panther fast asleep.\n\n" + "QUINTUS My sight is very dull, whate'er it bodes.\n\n" + "MARTIUS And mine, I promise you; were't not for shame,\n" + " Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile.\n\n" + " [Falls into the pit]\n\n" + "QUINTUS What art thou fall'n? What subtle hole is this,\n" + " Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing briers,\n" + " Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed blood\n" + " As fresh as morning dew distill'd on flowers?\n" + " A very fatal place it seems to me.\n\n" + " Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with the fall?\n\n" + "MARTIUS O brother, with the dismall'st object hurt\n" + " That ever eye with sight made heart lament!\n\n" + "AARON [Aside] Now will I fetch the king to find them here,\n" + " That he thereby may give a likely guess\n" + " How these were they that made away his brother.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARTIUS Why dost not comfort me, and help me out\n" + " From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole?\n\n" + "QUINTUS I am surprised with an uncouth fear;\n" + " A chilling sweat o'er-runs my trembling joints:\n" + " My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.\n\n" + "MARTIUS To prove thou hast a true-divining heart,\n" + " Aaron and thou look down into this den,\n" + " And see a fearful sight of blood and death.\n\n" + "QUINTUS Aaron is gone; and my compassionate heart\n" + " Will not permit mine eyes once to behold\n" + " The thing whereat it trembles by surmise;\n" + " O, tell me how it is; for ne'er till now\n" + " Was I a child to fear I know not what.\n\n" + "MARTIUS Lord Bassianus lies embrewed here,\n" + " All on a heap, like to a slaughter'd lamb,\n" + " In this detested, dark, blood-drinking pit.\n\n" + "QUINTUS If it be dark, how dost thou know 'tis he?\n\n" + "MARTIUS Upon his bloody finger he doth wear\n" + " A precious ring, that lightens all the hole,\n" + " Which, like a taper in some monument,\n" + " Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy cheeks,\n" + " And shows the ragged entrails of the pit:\n" + " So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus\n" + " When he by night lay bathed in maiden blood.\n" + " O brother, help me with thy fainting hand--\n" + " If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath--\n" + " Out of this fell devouring receptacle,\n" + " As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth.\n\n" + "QUINTUS Reach me thy hand, that I may help thee out;\n" + " Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good,\n" + " I may be pluck'd into the swallowing womb\n" + " Of this deep pit, poor Bassianus' grave.\n" + " I have no strength to pluck thee to the brink.\n\n" + "MARTIUS Nor I no strength to climb without thy help.\n\n" + "QUINTUS Thy hand once more; I will not loose again,\n" + " Till thou art here aloft, or I below:\n" + " Thou canst not come to me: I come to thee.\n\n" + " [Falls in]\n\n" + " [Enter SATURNINUS with AARON]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Along with me: I'll see what hole is here,\n" + " And what he is that now is leap'd into it.\n" + " Say who art thou that lately didst descend\n" + " Into this gaping hollow of the earth?\n\n" + "MARTIUS The unhappy son of old Andronicus:\n" + " Brought hither in a most unlucky hour,\n" + " To find thy brother Bassianus dead.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS My brother dead! I know thou dost but jest:\n" + " He and his lady both are at the lodge\n" + " Upon the north side of this pleasant chase;\n" + " 'Tis not an hour since I left him there.\n\n" + "MARTIUS We know not where you left him all alive;\n" + " But, out, alas! here have we found him dead.\n\n" + " [Re-enter TAMORA, with Attendants; TITUS\n" + " ANDRONICUS, and Lucius]\n\n" + "TAMORA Where is my lord the king?\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Here, Tamora, though grieved with killing grief.\n\n" + "TAMORA Where is thy brother Bassianus?\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Now to the bottom dost thou search my wound:\n" + " Poor Bassianus here lies murdered.\n\n" + "TAMORA Then all too late I bring this fatal writ,\n" + " The complot of this timeless tragedy;\n" + " And wonder greatly that man's face can fold\n" + " In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny.\n\n" + " [She giveth SATURNINUS a letter]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS [Reads] 'An if we miss to meet him handsomely--\n" + " Sweet huntsman, Bassianus 'tis we mean--\n" + " Do thou so much as dig the grave for him:\n" + " Thou know'st our meaning. Look for thy reward\n" + " Among the nettles at the elder-tree\n" + " Which overshades the mouth of that same pit\n" + " Where we decreed to bury Bassianus.\n" + " Do this, and purchase us thy lasting friends.'\n" + " O Tamora! was ever heard the like?\n" + " This is the pit, and this the elder-tree.\n" + " Look, sirs, if you can find the huntsman out\n" + " That should have murdered Bassianus here.\n\n" + "AARON My gracious lord, here is the bag of gold.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS [To TITUS] Two of thy whelps, fell curs of\n" + " bloody kind,\n" + " Have here bereft my brother of his life.\n" + " Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison:\n" + " There let them bide until we have devised\n" + " Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them.\n\n" + "TAMORA What, are they in this pit? O wondrous thing!\n" + " How easily murder is discovered!\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS High emperor, upon my feeble knee\n" + " I beg this boon, with tears not lightly shed,\n" + " That this fell fault of my accursed sons,\n" + " Accursed if the fault be proved in them,--\n\n" + "SATURNINUS If it be proved! you see it is apparent.\n" + " Who found this letter? Tamora, was it you?\n\n" + "TAMORA Andronicus himself did take it up.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS I did, my lord: yet let me be their bail;\n" + " For, by my father's reverend tomb, I vow\n" + " They shall be ready at your highness' will\n" + " To answer their suspicion with their lives.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Thou shalt not bail them: see thou follow me.\n" + " Some bring the murder'd body, some the murderers:\n" + " Let them not speak a word; the guilt is plain;\n" + " For, by my soul, were there worse end than death,\n" + " That end upon them should be executed.\n\n" + "TAMORA Andronicus, I will entreat the king;\n" + " Fear not thy sons; they shall do well enough.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Come, Lucius, come; stay not to talk with them.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished;\n" + " her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS So, now go tell, an if thy tongue can speak,\n" + " Who 'twas that cut thy tongue and ravish'd thee.\n\n" + "CHIRON Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so,\n" + " An if thy stumps will let thee play the scribe.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS See, how with signs and tokens she can scrowl.\n\n" + "CHIRON Go home, call for sweet water, wash thy hands.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS She hath no tongue to call, nor hands to wash;\n" + " And so let's leave her to her silent walks.\n\n" + "CHIRON An 'twere my case, I should go hang myself.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS If thou hadst hands to help thee knit the cord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON]\n\n" + " [Enter MARCUS]\n\n" + "MARCUS Who is this? my niece, that flies away so fast!\n" + " Cousin, a word; where is your husband?\n" + " If I do dream, would all my wealth would wake me!\n" + " If I do wake, some planet strike me down,\n" + " That I may slumber in eternal sleep!\n" + " Speak, gentle niece, what stern ungentle hands\n" + " Have lopp'd and hew'd and made thy body bare\n" + " Of her two branches, those sweet ornaments,\n" + " Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in,\n" + " And might not gain so great a happiness\n" + " As have thy love? Why dost not speak to me?\n" + " Alas, a crimson river of warm blood,\n" + " Like to a bubbling fountain stirr'd with wind,\n" + " Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips,\n" + " Coming and going with thy honey breath.\n" + " But, sure, some Tereus hath deflowered thee,\n" + " And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue.\n" + " Ah, now thou turn'st away thy face for shame!\n" + " And, notwithstanding all this loss of blood,\n" + " As from a conduit with three issuing spouts,\n" + " Yet do thy cheeks look red as Titan's face\n" + " Blushing to be encountered with a cloud.\n" + " Shall I speak for thee? shall I say 'tis so?\n" + " O, that I knew thy heart; and knew the beast,\n" + " That I might rail at him, to ease my mind!\n" + " Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd,\n" + " Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.\n" + " Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue,\n" + " And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind:\n" + " But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee;\n" + " A craftier Tereus, cousin, hast thou met,\n" + " And he hath cut those pretty fingers off,\n" + " That could have better sew'd than Philomel.\n" + " O, had the monster seen those lily hands\n" + " Tremble, like aspen-leaves, upon a lute,\n" + " And make the silken strings delight to kiss them,\n" + " He would not then have touch'd them for his life!\n" + " Or, had he heard the heavenly harmony\n" + " Which that sweet tongue hath made,\n" + " He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell asleep\n" + " As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet.\n" + " Come, let us go, and make thy father blind;\n" + " For such a sight will blind a father's eye:\n" + " One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads;\n" + " What will whole months of tears thy father's eyes?\n" + " Do not draw back, for we will mourn with thee\n" + " O, could our mourning ease thy misery!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Judges, Senators and Tribunes, with MARTIUS\n" + " and QUINTUS, bound, passing on to the place of\n" + " execution; TITUS going before, pleading]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Hear me, grave fathers! noble tribunes, stay!\n" + " For pity of mine age, whose youth was spent\n" + " In dangerous wars, whilst you securely slept;\n" + " For all my blood in Rome's great quarrel shed;\n" + " For all the frosty nights that I have watch'd;\n" + " And for these bitter tears, which now you see\n" + " Filling the aged wrinkles in my cheeks;\n" + " Be pitiful to my condemned sons,\n" + " Whose souls are not corrupted as 'tis thought.\n" + " For two and twenty sons I never wept,\n" + " Because they died in honour's lofty bed.\n\n" + " [Lieth down; the Judges, &c., pass by him, and Exeunt]\n\n" + " For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I write\n" + " My heart's deep languor and my soul's sad tears:\n" + " Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite;\n" + " My sons' sweet blood will make it shame and blush.\n" + " O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain,\n" + " That shall distil from these two ancient urns,\n" + " Than youthful April shall with all his showers:\n" + " In summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still;\n" + " In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow\n" + " And keep eternal spring-time on thy face,\n" + " So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood.\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIUS, with his sword drawn]\n\n" + " O reverend tribunes! O gentle, aged men!\n" + " Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death;\n" + " And let me say, that never wept before,\n" + " My tears are now prevailing orators.\n\n" + "LUCIUS O noble father, you lament in vain:\n" + " The tribunes hear you not; no man is by;\n" + " And you recount your sorrows to a stone.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Ah, Lucius, for thy brothers let me plead.\n" + " Grave tribunes, once more I entreat of you,--\n\n" + "LUCIUS My gracious lord, no tribune hears you speak.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Why, tis no matter, man; if they did hear,\n" + " They would not mark me, or if they did mark,\n" + " They would not pity me, yet plead I must;\n" + " And bootless unto them [ ]\n" + " Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones;\n" + " Who, though they cannot answer my distress,\n" + " Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes,\n" + " For that they will not intercept my tale:\n" + " When I do weep, they humbly at my feet\n" + " Receive my tears and seem to weep with me;\n" + " And, were they but attired in grave weeds,\n" + " Rome could afford no tribune like to these.\n" + " A stone is soft as wax,--tribunes more hard than stones;\n" + " A stone is silent, and offendeth not,\n" + " And tribunes with their tongues doom men to death.\n\n" + " [Rises]\n\n" + " But wherefore stand'st thou with thy weapon drawn?\n\n" + "LUCIUS To rescue my two brothers from their death:\n" + " For which attempt the judges have pronounced\n" + " My everlasting doom of banishment.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS O happy man! they have befriended thee.\n" + " Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not perceive\n" + " That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers?\n" + " Tigers must prey, and Rome affords no prey\n" + " But me and mine: how happy art thou, then,\n" + " From these devourers to be banished!\n" + " But who comes with our brother Marcus here?\n\n" + " [Enter MARCUS and LAVINIA]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep;\n" + " Or, if not so, thy noble heart to break:\n" + " I bring consuming sorrow to thine age.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Will it consume me? let me see it, then.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS This was thy daughter.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Why, Marcus, so she is.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Ay me, this object kills me!\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Faint-hearted boy, arise, and look upon her.\n" + " Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand\n" + " Hath made thee handless in thy father's sight?\n" + " What fool hath added water to the sea,\n" + " Or brought a faggot to bright-burning Troy?\n" + " My grief was at the height before thou camest,\n" + " And now like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds.\n" + " Give me a sword, I'll chop off my hands too;\n" + " For they have fought for Rome, and all in vain;\n" + " And they have nursed this woe, in feeding life;\n" + " In bootless prayer have they been held up,\n" + " And they have served me to effectless use:\n" + " Now all the service I require of them\n" + " Is that the one will help to cut the other.\n" + " 'Tis well, Lavinia, that thou hast no hands;\n" + " For hands, to do Rome service, are but vain.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Speak, gentle sister, who hath martyr'd thee?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O, that delightful engine of her thoughts\n" + " That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence,\n" + " Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage,\n" + " Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung\n" + " Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear!\n\n" + "LUCIUS O, say thou for her, who hath done this deed?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O, thus I found her, straying in the park,\n" + " Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer\n" + " That hath received some unrecuring wound.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS It was my deer; and he that wounded her\n" + " Hath hurt me more than had he killed me dead:\n" + " For now I stand as one upon a rock\n" + " Environed with a wilderness of sea,\n" + " Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave,\n" + " Expecting ever when some envious surge\n" + " Will in his brinish bowels swallow him.\n" + " This way to death my wretched sons are gone;\n" + " Here stands my other son, a banished man,\n" + " And here my brother, weeping at my woes.\n" + " But that which gives my soul the greatest spurn,\n" + " Is dear Lavinia, dearer than my soul.\n" + " Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,\n" + " It would have madded me: what shall I do\n" + " Now I behold thy lively body so?\n" + " Thou hast no hands, to wipe away thy tears:\n" + " Nor tongue, to tell me who hath martyr'd thee:\n" + " Thy husband he is dead: and for his death\n" + " Thy brothers are condemn'd, and dead by this.\n" + " Look, Marcus! ah, son Lucius, look on her!\n" + " When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears\n" + " Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew\n" + " Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Perchance she weeps because they kill'd her husband;\n" + " Perchance because she knows them innocent.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful\n" + " Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them.\n" + " No, no, they would not do so foul a deed;\n" + " Witness the sorrow that their sister makes.\n" + " Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips.\n" + " Or make some sign how I may do thee ease:\n" + " Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother Lucius,\n" + " And thou, and I, sit round about some fountain,\n" + " Looking all downwards to behold our cheeks\n" + " How they are stain'd, as meadows, yet not dry,\n" + " With miry slime left on them by a flood?\n" + " And in the fountain shall we gaze so long\n" + " Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness,\n" + " And made a brine-pit with our bitter tears?\n" + " Or shall we cut away our hands, like thine?\n" + " Or shall we bite our tongues, and in dumb shows\n" + " Pass the remainder of our hateful days?\n" + " What shall we do? let us, that have our tongues,\n" + " Plot some deuce of further misery,\n" + " To make us wonder'd at in time to come.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Sweet father, cease your tears; for, at your grief,\n" + " See how my wretched sister sobs and weeps.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Patience, dear niece. Good Titus, dry thine eyes.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Ah, Marcus, Marcus! brother, well I wot\n" + " Thy napkin cannot drink a tear of mine,\n" + " For thou, poor man, hast drown'd it with thine own.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Ah, my Lavinia, I will wipe thy cheeks.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Mark, Marcus, mark! I understand her signs:\n" + " Had she a tongue to speak, now would she say\n" + " That to her brother which I said to thee:\n" + " His napkin, with his true tears all bewet,\n" + " Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks.\n" + " O, what a sympathy of woe is this,\n" + " As far from help as Limbo is from bliss!\n\n" + " [Enter AARON]\n\n" + "AARON Titus Andronicus, my lord the emperor\n" + " Sends thee this word,--that, if thou love thy sons,\n" + " Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,\n" + " Or any one of you, chop off your hand,\n" + " And send it to the king: he for the same\n" + " Will send thee hither both thy sons alive;\n" + " And that shall be the ransom for their fault.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS O gracious emperor! O gentle Aaron!\n" + " Did ever raven sing so like a lark,\n" + " That gives sweet tidings of the sun's uprise?\n" + " With all my heart, I'll send the emperor My hand:\n" + " Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?\n\n" + "LUCIUS Stay, father! for that noble hand of thine,\n" + " That hath thrown down so many enemies,\n" + " Shall not be sent: my hand will serve the turn:\n" + " My youth can better spare my blood than you;\n" + " And therefore mine shall save my brothers' lives.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Which of your hands hath not defended Rome,\n" + " And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe,\n" + " Writing destruction on the enemy's castle?\n" + " O, none of both but are of high desert:\n" + " My hand hath been but idle; let it serve\n" + " To ransom my two nephews from their death;\n" + " Then have I kept it to a worthy end.\n\n" + "AARON Nay, come, agree whose hand shall go along,\n" + " For fear they die before their pardon come.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS My hand shall go.\n\n" + "LUCIUS By heaven, it shall not go!\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Sirs, strive no more: such wither'd herbs as these\n" + " Are meet for plucking up, and therefore mine.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Sweet father, if I shall be thought thy son,\n" + " Let me redeem my brothers both from death.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS And, for our father's sake and mother's care,\n" + " Now let me show a brother's love to thee.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Agree between you; I will spare my hand.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Then I'll go fetch an axe.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS But I will use the axe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt LUCIUS and MARCUS]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Come hither, Aaron; I'll deceive them both:\n" + " Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee mine.\n\n" + "AARON [Aside] If that be call'd deceit, I will be honest,\n" + " And never, whilst I live, deceive men so:\n" + " But I'll deceive you in another sort,\n" + " And that you'll say, ere half an hour pass.\n\n" + " [Cuts off TITUS's hand]\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCIUS and MARCUS]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Now stay your strife: what shall be is dispatch'd.\n" + " Good Aaron, give his majesty my hand:\n" + " Tell him it was a hand that warded him\n" + " From thousand dangers; bid him bury it\n" + " More hath it merited; that let it have.\n" + " As for my sons, say I account of them\n" + " As jewels purchased at an easy price;\n" + " And yet dear too, because I bought mine own.\n\n" + "AARON I go, Andronicus: and for thy hand\n" + " Look by and by to have thy sons with thee.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Their heads, I mean. O, how this villany\n" + " Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it!\n" + " Let fools do good, and fair men call for grace.\n" + " Aaron will have his soul black like his face.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS O, here I lift this one hand up to heaven,\n" + " And bow this feeble ruin to the earth:\n" + " If any power pities wretched tears,\n" + " To that I call!\n\n" + " [To LAVINIA]\n" + " What, wilt thou kneel with me?\n" + " Do, then, dear heart; for heaven shall hear our prayers;\n" + " Or with our sighs we'll breathe the welkin dim,\n" + " And stain the sun with fog, as sometime clouds\n" + " When they do hug him in their melting bosoms.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O brother, speak with possibilities,\n" + " And do not break into these deep extremes.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Is not my sorrow deep, having no bottom?\n" + " Then be my passions bottomless with them.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS But yet let reason govern thy lament.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS If there were reason for these miseries,\n" + " Then into limits could I bind my woes:\n" + " When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?\n" + " If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,\n" + " Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face?\n" + " And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?\n" + " I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow!\n" + " She is the weeping welkin, I the earth:\n" + " Then must my sea be moved with her sighs;\n" + " Then must my earth with her continual tears\n" + " Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd;\n" + " For why my bowels cannot hide her woes,\n" + " But like a drunkard must I vomit them.\n" + " Then give me leave, for losers will have leave\n" + " To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues.\n\n" + " [Enter a Messenger, with two heads and a hand]\n\n" + "Messenger Worthy Andronicus, ill art thou repaid\n" + " For that good hand thou sent'st the emperor.\n" + " Here are the heads of thy two noble sons;\n" + " And here's thy hand, in scorn to thee sent back;\n" + " Thy griefs their sports, thy resolution mock'd;\n" + " That woe is me to think upon thy woes\n" + " More than remembrance of my father's death.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Now let hot AEtna cool in Sicily,\n" + " And be my heart an ever-burning hell!\n" + " These miseries are more than may be borne.\n" + " To weep with them that weep doth ease some deal;\n" + " But sorrow flouted at is double death.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Ah, that this sight should make so deep a wound,\n" + " And yet detested life not shrink thereat!\n" + " That ever death should let life bear his name,\n" + " Where life hath no more interest but to breathe!\n\n" + " [LAVINIA kisses TITUS]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Alas, poor heart, that kiss is comfortless\n" + " As frozen water to a starved snake.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS When will this fearful slumber have an end?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Now, farewell, flattery: die, Andronicus;\n" + " Thou dost not slumber: see, thy two sons' heads,\n" + " Thy warlike hand, thy mangled daughter here:\n" + " Thy other banish'd son, with this dear sight\n" + " Struck pale and bloodless; and thy brother, I,\n" + " Even like a stony image, cold and numb.\n" + " Ah, now no more will I control thy griefs:\n" + " Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand\n" + " Gnawing with thy teeth; and be this dismal sight\n" + " The closing up of our most wretched eyes;\n" + " Now is a time to storm; why art thou still?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Ha, ha, ha!\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Why, I have not another tear to shed:\n" + " Besides, this sorrow is an enemy,\n" + " And would usurp upon my watery eyes\n" + " And make them blind with tributary tears:\n" + " Then which way shall I find Revenge's cave?\n" + " For these two heads do seem to speak to me,\n" + " And threat me I shall never come to bliss\n" + " Till all these mischiefs be return'd again\n" + " Even in their throats that have committed them.\n" + " Come, let me see what task I have to do.\n" + " You heavy people, circle me about,\n" + " That I may turn me to each one of you,\n" + " And swear unto my soul to right your wrongs.\n" + " The vow is made. Come, brother, take a head;\n" + " And in this hand the other I will bear.\n" + " Lavinia, thou shalt be employ'd: these arms!\n" + " Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth.\n" + " As for thee, boy, go get thee from my sight;\n" + " Thou art an exile, and thou must not stay:\n" + " Hie to the Goths, and raise an army there:\n" + " And, if you love me, as I think you do,\n" + " Let's kiss and part, for we have much to do.\n\n" + " [Exeunt TITUS, MARCUS, and LAVINIA]\n\n" + "LUCIUS Farewell Andronicus, my noble father,\n" + " The wofull'st man that ever lived in Rome:\n" + " Farewell, proud Rome; till Lucius come again,\n" + " He leaves his pledges dearer than his life:\n" + " Farewell, Lavinia, my noble sister;\n" + " O, would thou wert as thou tofore hast been!\n" + " But now nor Lucius nor Lavinia lives\n" + " But in oblivion and hateful griefs.\n" + " If Lucius live, he will requite your wrongs;\n" + " And make proud Saturnine and his empress\n" + " Beg at the gates, like Tarquin and his queen.\n" + " Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power,\n" + " To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room in Titus's house. A banquet set out.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TITUS, MARCUS, LAVINIA and Young LUCIUS, a boy]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS So, so; now sit: and look you eat no more\n" + " Than will preserve just so much strength in us\n" + " As will revenge these bitter woes of ours.\n" + " Marcus, unknit that sorrow-wreathen knot:\n" + " Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands,\n" + " And cannot passionate our tenfold grief\n" + " With folded arms. This poor right hand of mine\n" + " Is left to tyrannize upon my breast;\n" + " Who, when my heart, all mad with misery,\n" + " Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh,\n" + " Then thus I thump it down.\n\n" + " [To LAVINIA]\n\n" + " Thou map of woe, that thus dost talk in signs!\n" + " When thy poor heart beats with outrageous beating,\n" + " Thou canst not strike it thus to make it still.\n" + " Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans;\n" + " Or get some little knife between thy teeth,\n" + " And just against thy heart make thou a hole;\n" + " That all the tears that thy poor eyes let fall\n" + " May run into that sink, and soaking in\n" + " Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Fie, brother, fie! teach her not thus to lay\n" + " Such violent hands upon her tender life.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS How now! has sorrow made thee dote already?\n" + " Why, Marcus, no man should be mad but I.\n" + " What violent hands can she lay on her life?\n" + " Ah, wherefore dost thou urge the name of hands;\n" + " To bid AEneas tell the tale twice o'er,\n" + " How Troy was burnt and he made miserable?\n" + " O, handle not the theme, to talk of hands,\n" + " Lest we remember still that we have none.\n" + " Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk,\n" + " As if we should forget we had no hands,\n" + " If Marcus did not name the word of hands!\n" + " Come, let's fall to; and, gentle girl, eat this:\n" + " Here is no drink! Hark, Marcus, what she says;\n" + " I can interpret all her martyr'd signs;\n" + " She says she drinks no other drink but tears,\n" + " Brew'd with her sorrow, mesh'd upon her cheeks:\n" + " Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought;\n" + " In thy dumb action will I be as perfect\n" + " As begging hermits in their holy prayers:\n" + " Thou shalt not sigh, nor hold thy stumps to heaven,\n" + " Nor wink, nor nod, nor kneel, nor make a sign,\n" + " But I of these will wrest an alphabet\n" + " And by still practise learn to know thy meaning.\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS Good grandsire, leave these bitter deep laments:\n" + " Make my aunt merry with some pleasing tale.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Alas, the tender boy, in passion moved,\n" + " Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Peace, tender sapling; thou art made of tears,\n" + " And tears will quickly melt thy life away.\n\n" + " [MARCUS strikes the dish with a knife]\n\n" + " What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy knife?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS At that that I have kill'd, my lord; a fly.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Out on thee, murderer! thou kill'st my heart;\n" + " Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny:\n" + " A deed of death done on the innocent\n" + " Becomes not Titus' brother: get thee gone:\n" + " I see thou art not for my company.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a fly.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS But how, if that fly had a father and mother?\n" + " How would he hang his slender gilded wings,\n" + " And buzz lamenting doings in the air!\n" + " Poor harmless fly,\n" + " That, with his pretty buzzing melody,\n" + " Came here to make us merry! and thou hast\n" + " kill'd him.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Pardon me, sir; it was a black ill-favor'd fly,\n" + " Like to the empress' Moor; therefore I kill'd him.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS O, O, O,\n" + " Then pardon me for reprehending thee,\n" + " For thou hast done a charitable deed.\n" + " Give me thy knife, I will insult on him;\n" + " Flattering myself, as if it were the Moor\n" + " Come hither purposely to poison me.--\n" + " There's for thyself, and that's for Tamora.\n" + " Ah, sirrah!\n" + " Yet, I think, we are not brought so low,\n" + " But that between us we can kill a fly\n" + " That comes in likeness of a coal-black Moor.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,\n" + " He takes false shadows for true substances.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Come, take away. Lavinia, go with me:\n" + " I'll to thy closet; and go read with thee\n" + " Sad stories chanced in the times of old.\n" + " Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,\n" + " And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Rome. Titus's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter young LUCIUS, and LAVINIA running after him,\n" + " and the boy flies from her, with books under his\n" + " arm. Then enter TITUS and MARCUS]\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS Help, grandsire, help! my aunt Lavinia\n" + " Follows me every where, I know not why:\n" + " Good uncle Marcus, see how swift she comes.\n" + " Alas, sweet aunt, I know not what you mean.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Stand by me, Lucius; do not fear thine aunt.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS She loves thee, boy, too well to do thee harm.\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS Ay, when my father was in Rome she did.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS What means my niece Lavinia by these signs?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Fear her not, Lucius: somewhat doth she mean:\n" + " See, Lucius, see how much she makes of thee:\n" + " Somewhither would she have thee go with her.\n" + " Ah, boy, Cornelia never with more care\n" + " Read to her sons than she hath read to thee\n" + " Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Canst thou not guess wherefore she plies thee thus?\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS My lord, I know not, I, nor can I guess,\n" + " Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her:\n" + " For I have heard my grandsire say full oft,\n" + " Extremity of griefs would make men mad;\n" + " And I have read that Hecuba of Troy\n" + " Ran mad through sorrow: that made me to fear;\n" + " Although, my lord, I know my noble aunt\n" + " Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did,\n" + " And would not, but in fury, fright my youth:\n" + " Which made me down to throw my books, and fly--\n" + " Causeless, perhaps. But pardon me, sweet aunt:\n" + " And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go,\n" + " I will most willingly attend your ladyship.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Lucius, I will.\n\n" + " [LAVINIA turns over with her stumps the books which\n" + " LUCIUS has let fall]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS How now, Lavinia! Marcus, what means this?\n" + " Some book there is that she desires to see.\n" + " Which is it, girl, of these? Open them, boy.\n" + " But thou art deeper read, and better skill'd\n" + " Come, and take choice of all my library,\n" + " And so beguile thy sorrow, till the heavens\n" + " Reveal the damn'd contriver of this deed.\n" + " Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS I think she means that there was more than one\n" + " Confederate in the fact: ay, more there was;\n" + " Or else to heaven she heaves them for revenge.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so?\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS Grandsire, 'tis Ovid's Metamorphoses;\n" + " My mother gave it me.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS For love of her that's gone,\n" + " Perhaps she cull'd it from among the rest.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Soft! see how busily she turns the leaves!\n\n" + " [Helping her]\n\n" + " What would she find? Lavinia, shall I read?\n" + " This is the tragic tale of Philomel,\n" + " And treats of Tereus' treason and his rape:\n" + " And rape, I fear, was root of thine annoy.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS See, brother, see; note how she quotes the leaves.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Lavinia, wert thou thus surprised, sweet girl,\n" + " Ravish'd and wrong'd, as Philomela was,\n" + " Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? See, see!\n" + " Ay, such a place there is, where we did hunt--\n" + " O, had we never, never hunted there!--\n" + " Pattern'd by that the poet here describes,\n" + " By nature made for murders and for rapes.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O, why should nature build so foul a den,\n" + " Unless the gods delight in tragedies?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Give signs, sweet girl, for here are none\n" + " but friends,\n" + " What Roman lord it was durst do the deed:\n" + " Or slunk not Saturnine, as Tarquin erst,\n" + " That left the camp to sin in Lucrece' bed?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Sit down, sweet niece: brother, sit down by me.\n" + " Apollo, Pallas, Jove, or Mercury,\n" + " Inspire me, that I may this treason find!\n" + " My lord, look here: look here, Lavinia:\n" + " This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst\n" + " This after me, when I have writ my name\n" + " Without the help of any hand at all.\n\n" + " [He writes his name with his staff, and guides it\n" + " with feet and mouth]\n\n" + " Cursed be that heart that forced us to this shift!\n" + " Write thou good niece; and here display, at last,\n" + " What God will have discover'd for revenge;\n" + " Heaven guide thy pen to print thy sorrows plain,\n" + " That we may know the traitors and the truth!\n\n" + " [She takes the staff in her mouth, and guides it\n" + " with her stumps, and writes]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS O, do ye read, my lord, what she hath writ?\n" + " 'Stuprum. Chiron. Demetrius.'\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS What, what! the lustful sons of Tamora\n" + " Performers of this heinous, bloody deed?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Magni Dominator poli,\n" + " Tam lentus audis scelera? tam lentus vides?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O, calm thee, gentle lord; although I know\n" + " There is enough written upon this earth\n" + " To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts\n" + " And arm the minds of infants to exclaims.\n" + " My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel;\n" + " And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's hope;\n" + " And swear with me, as, with the woful fere\n" + " And father of that chaste dishonour'd dame,\n" + " Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece' rape,\n" + " That we will prosecute by good advice\n" + " Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths,\n" + " And see their blood, or die with this reproach.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS 'Tis sure enough, an you knew how.\n" + " But if you hunt these bear-whelps, then beware:\n" + " The dam will wake; and, if she wind you once,\n" + " She's with the lion deeply still in league,\n" + " And lulls him whilst she playeth on her back,\n" + " And when he sleeps will she do what she list.\n" + " You are a young huntsman, Marcus; let it alone;\n" + " And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass,\n" + " And with a gad of steel will write these words,\n" + " And lay it by: the angry northern wind\n" + " Will blow these sands, like Sibyl's leaves, abroad,\n" + " And where's your lesson, then? Boy, what say you?\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS I say, my lord, that if I were a man,\n" + " Their mother's bed-chamber should not be safe\n" + " For these bad bondmen to the yoke of Rome.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Ay, that's my boy! thy father hath full oft\n" + " For his ungrateful country done the like.\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS And, uncle, so will I, an if I live.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Come, go with me into mine armoury;\n" + " Lucius, I'll fit thee; and withal, my boy,\n" + " Shalt carry from me to the empress' sons\n" + " Presents that I intend to send them both:\n" + " Come, come; thou'lt do thy message, wilt thou not?\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS No, boy, not so; I'll teach thee another course.\n" + " Lavinia, come. Marcus, look to my house:\n" + " Lucius and I'll go brave it at the court:\n" + " Ay, marry, will we, sir; and we'll be waited on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt TITUS, LAVINIA, and Young LUCIUS]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O heavens, can you hear a good man groan,\n" + " And not relent, or not compassion him?\n" + " Marcus, attend him in his ecstasy,\n" + " That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart\n" + " Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd shield;\n" + " But yet so just that he will not revenge.\n" + " Revenge, ye heavens, for old Andronicus!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. A room in the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from one side, AARON, DEMETRIUS, and\n" + " CHIRON; from the other side, Young LUCIUS, and an\n" + " Attendant, with a bundle of weapons, and verses\n" + " writ upon them]\n\n" + "CHIRON Demetrius, here's the son of Lucius;\n" + " He hath some message to deliver us.\n\n" + "AARON Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather.\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS My lords, with all the humbleness I may,\n" + " I greet your honours from Andronicus.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " And pray the Roman gods confound you both!\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Gramercy, lovely Lucius: what's the news?\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS [Aside] That you are both decipher'd, that's the news,\n" + " For villains mark'd with rape.--May it please you,\n" + " My grandsire, well advised, hath sent by me\n" + " The goodliest weapons of his armoury\n" + " To gratify your honourable youth,\n" + " The hope of Rome; for so he bade me say;\n" + " And so I do, and with his gifts present\n" + " Your lordships, that, whenever you have need,\n" + " You may be armed and appointed well:\n" + " And so I leave you both:\n\n" + " [Aside]\n" + " like bloody villains.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Young LUCIUS, and Attendant]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS What's here? A scroll; and written round about?\n" + " Let's see;\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Integer vitae, scelerisque purus,\n" + " Non eget Mauri jaculis, nec arcu.'\n\n" + "CHIRON O, 'tis a verse in Horace; I know it well:\n" + " I read it in the grammar long ago.\n\n" + "AARON Ay, just; a verse in Horace; right, you have it.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Now, what a thing it is to be an ass!\n" + " Here's no sound jest! the old man hath found their guilt;\n" + " And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines,\n" + " That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick.\n" + " But were our witty empress well afoot,\n" + " She would applaud Andronicus' conceit:\n" + " But let her rest in her unrest awhile.\n\n" + " And now, young lords, was't not a happy star\n" + " Led us to Rome, strangers, and more than so,\n" + " Captives, to be advanced to this height?\n" + " It did me good, before the palace gate\n" + " To brave the tribune in his brother's hearing.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS But me more good, to see so great a lord\n" + " Basely insinuate and send us gifts.\n\n" + "AARON Had he not reason, Lord Demetrius?\n" + " Did you not use his daughter very friendly?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I would we had a thousand Roman dames\n" + " At such a bay, by turn to serve our lust.\n\n" + "CHIRON A charitable wish and full of love.\n\n" + "AARON Here lacks but your mother for to say amen.\n\n" + "CHIRON And that would she for twenty thousand more.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Come, let us go; and pray to all the gods\n" + " For our beloved mother in her pains.\n\n" + "AARON [Aside] Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.\n\n" + " [Trumpets sound within]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus?\n\n" + "CHIRON Belike, for joy the emperor hath a son.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Soft! who comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter a Nurse, with a blackamoor Child in her arms]\n\n" + "Nurse Good morrow, lords:\n" + " O, tell me, did you see Aaron the Moor?\n\n" + "AARON Well, more or less, or ne'er a whit at all,\n" + " Here Aaron is; and what with Aaron now?\n\n" + "Nurse O gentle Aaron, we are all undone!\n" + " Now help, or woe betide thee evermore!\n\n" + "AARON Why, what a caterwauling dost thou keep!\n" + " What dost thou wrap and fumble in thine arms?\n\n" + "Nurse O, that which I would hide from heaven's eye,\n" + " Our empress' shame, and stately Rome's disgrace!\n" + " She is deliver'd, lords; she is deliver'd.\n\n" + "AARON To whom?\n\n" + "Nurse I mean, she is brought a-bed.\n\n" + "AARON Well, God give her good rest! What hath he sent her?\n\n" + "Nurse A devil.\n\n" + "AARON Why, then she is the devil's dam; a joyful issue.\n\n" + "Nurse A joyless, dismal, black, and sorrowful issue:\n" + " Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad\n" + " Amongst the fairest breeders of our clime:\n" + " The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy seal,\n" + " And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's point.\n\n" + "AARON 'Zounds, ye whore! is black so base a hue?\n" + " Sweet blowse, you are a beauteous blossom, sure.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Villain, what hast thou done?\n\n" + "AARON That which thou canst not undo.\n\n" + "CHIRON Thou hast undone our mother.\n\n" + "AARON Villain, I have done thy mother.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS And therein, hellish dog, thou hast undone.\n" + " Woe to her chance, and damn'd her loathed choice!\n" + " Accursed the offspring of so foul a fiend!\n\n" + "CHIRON It shall not live.\n\n" + "AARON It shall not die.\n\n" + "Nurse Aaron, it must; the mother wills it so.\n\n" + "AARON What, must it, nurse? then let no man but I\n" + " Do execution on my flesh and blood.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point:\n" + " Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it.\n\n" + "AARON Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up.\n\n" + " [Takes the Child from the Nurse, and draws]\n\n" + " Stay, murderous villains! will you kill your brother?\n" + " Now, by the burning tapers of the sky,\n" + " That shone so brightly when this boy was got,\n" + " He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point\n" + " That touches this my first-born son and heir!\n" + " I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus,\n" + " With all his threatening band of Typhon's brood,\n" + " Nor great Alcides, nor the god of war,\n" + " Shall seize this prey out of his father's hands.\n" + " What, what, ye sanguine, shallow-hearted boys!\n" + " Ye white-limed walls! ye alehouse painted signs!\n" + " Coal-black is better than another hue,\n" + " In that it scorns to bear another hue;\n" + " For all the water in the ocean\n" + " Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,\n" + " Although she lave them hourly in the flood.\n" + " Tell the empress from me, I am of age\n" + " To keep mine own, excuse it how she can.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Wilt thou betray thy noble mistress thus?\n\n" + "AARON My mistress is my mistress; this myself,\n" + " The vigour and the picture of my youth:\n" + " This before all the world do I prefer;\n" + " This maugre all the world will I keep safe,\n" + " Or some of you shall smoke for it in Rome.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS By this our mother is forever shamed.\n\n" + "CHIRON Rome will despise her for this foul escape.\n\n" + "Nurse The emperor, in his rage, will doom her death.\n\n" + "CHIRON I blush to think upon this ignomy.\n\n" + "AARON Why, there's the privilege your beauty bears:\n" + " Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing\n" + " The close enacts and counsels of the heart!\n" + " Here's a young lad framed of another leer:\n" + " Look, how the black slave smiles upon the father,\n" + " As who should say 'Old lad, I am thine own.'\n" + " He is your brother, lords, sensibly fed\n" + " Of that self-blood that first gave life to you,\n" + " And from that womb where you imprison'd were\n" + " He is enfranchised and come to light:\n" + " Nay, he is your brother by the surer side,\n" + " Although my seal be stamped in his face.\n\n" + "Nurse Aaron, what shall I say unto the empress?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Advise thee, Aaron, what is to be done,\n" + " And we will all subscribe to thy advice:\n" + " Save thou the child, so we may all be safe.\n\n" + "AARON Then sit we down, and let us all consult.\n" + " My son and I will have the wind of you:\n" + " Keep there: now talk at pleasure of your safety.\n\n" + " [They sit]\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS How many women saw this child of his?\n\n" + "AARON Why, so, brave lords! when we join in league,\n" + " I am a lamb: but if you brave the Moor,\n" + " The chafed boar, the mountain lioness,\n" + " The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms.\n" + " But say, again; how many saw the child?\n\n" + "Nurse Cornelia the midwife and myself;\n" + " And no one else but the deliver'd empress.\n\n" + "AARON The empress, the midwife, and yourself:\n" + " Two may keep counsel when the third's away:\n" + " Go to the empress, tell her this I said.\n\n" + " [He kills the nurse]\n\n" + " Weke, weke! so cries a pig prepared to the spit.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS What mean'st thou, Aaron? wherefore didst thou this?\n\n" + "AARON O Lord, sir, 'tis a deed of policy:\n" + " Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours,\n" + " A long-tongued babbling gossip? no, lords, no:\n" + " And now be it known to you my full intent.\n" + " Not far, one Muli lives, my countryman;\n" + " His wife but yesternight was brought to bed;\n" + " His child is like to her, fair as you are:\n" + " Go pack with him, and give the mother gold,\n" + " And tell them both the circumstance of all;\n" + " And how by this their child shall be advanced,\n" + " And be received for the emperor's heir,\n" + " And substituted in the place of mine,\n" + " To calm this tempest whirling in the court;\n" + " And let the emperor dandle him for his own.\n" + " Hark ye, lords; ye see I have given her physic,\n\n" + " [Pointing to the nurse]\n\n" + " And you must needs bestow her funeral;\n" + " The fields are near, and you are gallant grooms:\n" + " This done, see that you take no longer days,\n" + " But send the midwife presently to me.\n" + " The midwife and the nurse well made away,\n" + " Then let the ladies tattle what they please.\n\n" + "CHIRON Aaron, I see thou wilt not trust the air\n" + " With secrets.\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS For this care of Tamora,\n" + " Herself and hers are highly bound to thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DEMETRIUS and CHIRON bearing off the\n" + " Nurse's body]\n\n" + "AARON Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies;\n" + " There to dispose this treasure in mine arms,\n" + " And secretly to greet the empress' friends.\n" + " Come on, you thick lipp'd slave, I'll bear you hence;\n" + " For it is you that puts us to our shifts:\n" + " I'll make you feed on berries and on roots,\n" + " And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat,\n" + " And cabin in a cave, and bring you up\n" + " To be a warrior, and command a camp.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. A public place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TITUS, bearing arrows with letters at the\n" + " ends of them; with him, MARCUS, Young LUCIUS,\n" + " PUBLIUS, SEMPRONIUS, CAIUS, and other Gentlemen,\n" + " with bows]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Come, Marcus; come, kinsmen; this is the way.\n" + " Sir boy, now let me see your archery;\n" + " Look ye draw home enough, and 'tis there straight.\n" + " Terras Astraea reliquit:\n" + " Be you remember'd, Marcus, she's gone, she's fled.\n" + " Sirs, take you to your tools. You, cousins, shall\n" + " Go sound the ocean, and cast your nets;\n" + " Happily you may catch her in the sea;\n" + " Yet there's as little justice as at land:\n" + " No; Publius and Sempronius, you must do it;\n" + " 'Tis you must dig with mattock and with spade,\n" + " And pierce the inmost centre of the earth:\n" + " Then, when you come to Pluto's region,\n" + " I pray you, deliver him this petition;\n" + " Tell him, it is for justice and for aid,\n" + " And that it comes from old Andronicus,\n" + " Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome.\n" + " Ah, Rome! Well, well; I made thee miserable\n" + " What time I threw the people's suffrages\n" + " On him that thus doth tyrannize o'er me.\n" + " Go, get you gone; and pray be careful all,\n" + " And leave you not a man-of-war unsearch'd:\n" + " This wicked emperor may have shipp'd her hence;\n" + " And, kinsmen, then we may go pipe for justice.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS O Publius, is not this a heavy case,\n" + " To see thy noble uncle thus distract?\n\n" + "PUBLIUS Therefore, my lord, it highly us concerns\n" + " By day and night to attend him carefully,\n" + " And feed his humour kindly as we may,\n" + " Till time beget some careful remedy.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Kinsmen, his sorrows are past remedy.\n" + " Join with the Goths; and with revengeful war\n" + " Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude,\n" + " And vengeance on the traitor Saturnine.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Publius, how now! how now, my masters!\n" + " What, have you met with her?\n\n" + "PUBLIUS No, my good lord; but Pluto sends you word,\n" + " If you will have Revenge from hell, you shall:\n" + " Marry, for Justice, she is so employ'd,\n" + " He thinks, with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else,\n" + " So that perforce you must needs stay a time.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS He doth me wrong to feed me with delays.\n" + " I'll dive into the burning lake below,\n" + " And pull her out of Acheron by the heels.\n" + " Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we\n" + " No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size;\n" + " But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back,\n" + " Yet wrung with wrongs more than our backs can bear:\n" + " And, sith there's no justice in earth nor hell,\n" + " We will solicit heaven and move the gods\n" + " To send down Justice for to wreak our wrongs.\n" + " Come, to this gear. You are a good archer, Marcus;\n\n" + " [He gives them the arrows]\n\n" + " 'Ad Jovem,' that's for you: here, 'Ad Apollinem:'\n" + " 'Ad Martem,' that's for myself:\n" + " Here, boy, to Pallas: here, to Mercury:\n" + " To Saturn, Caius, not to Saturnine;\n" + " You were as good to shoot against the wind.\n" + " To it, boy! Marcus, loose when I bid.\n" + " Of my word, I have written to effect;\n" + " There's not a god left unsolicited.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court:\n" + " We will afflict the emperor in his pride.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Now, masters, draw.\n\n" + " [They shoot]\n" + " O, well said, Lucius!\n" + " Good boy, in Virgo's lap; give it Pallas.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS My lord, I aim a mile beyond the moon;\n" + " Your letter is with Jupiter by this.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Ha, ha!\n" + " Publius, Publius, what hast thou done?\n" + " See, see, thou hast shot off one of Taurus' horns.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS This was the sport, my lord: when Publius shot,\n" + " The Bull, being gall'd, gave Aries such a knock\n" + " That down fell both the Ram's horns in the court;\n" + " And who should find them but the empress' villain?\n" + " She laugh'd, and told the Moor he should not choose\n" + " But give them to his master for a present.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Why, there it goes: God give his lordship joy!\n\n" + " [Enter a Clown, with a basket, and two pigeons in\n" + " it]\n\n" + " News, news from heaven! Marcus, the post is come.\n" + " Sirrah, what tidings? have you any letters?\n" + " Shall I have justice? what says Jupiter?\n\n" + "Clown O, the gibbet-maker! he says that he hath taken\n" + " them down again, for the man must not be hanged till\n" + " the next week.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS But what says Jupiter, I ask thee?\n\n" + "Clown Alas, sir, I know not Jupiter; I never drank with him\n" + " in all my life.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Why, villain, art not thou the carrier?\n\n" + "Clown Ay, of my pigeons, sir; nothing else.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Why, didst thou not come from heaven?\n\n" + "Clown From heaven! alas, sir, I never came there God\n" + " forbid I should be so bold to press to heaven in my\n" + " young days. Why, I am going with my pigeons to the\n" + " tribunal plebs, to take up a matter of brawl\n" + " betwixt my uncle and one of the emperial's men.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Why, sir, that is as fit as can be to serve for\n" + " your oration; and let him deliver the pigeons to\n" + " the emperor from you.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Tell me, can you deliver an oration to the emperor\n" + " with a grace?\n\n" + "Clown Nay, truly, sir, I could never say grace in all my life.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Sirrah, come hither: make no more ado,\n" + " But give your pigeons to the emperor:\n" + " By me thou shalt have justice at his hands.\n" + " Hold, hold; meanwhile here's money for thy charges.\n" + " Give me pen and ink. Sirrah, can you with a grace\n" + " deliver a supplication?\n\n" + "Clown Ay, sir.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Then here is a supplication for you. And when you\n" + " come to him, at the first approach you must kneel,\n" + " then kiss his foot, then deliver up your pigeons, and\n" + " then look for your reward. I'll be at hand, sir; see\n" + " you do it bravely.\n\n" + "Clown I warrant you, sir, let me alone.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Sirrah, hast thou a knife? come, let me see it.\n" + " Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration;\n" + " For thou hast made it like an humble suppliant.\n" + " And when thou hast given it the emperor,\n" + " Knock at my door, and tell me what he says.\n\n" + "Clown God be with you, sir; I will.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Come, Marcus, let us go. Publius, follow me.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. Before the palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SATURNINUS, TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, CHIRON,\n" + " Lords, and others; SATURNINUS with the arrows in\n" + " his hand that TITUS shot]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Why, lords, what wrongs are these! was ever seen\n" + " An emperor in Rome thus overborne,\n" + " Troubled, confronted thus; and, for the extent\n" + " Of egal justice, used in such contempt?\n" + " My lords, you know, as know the mightful gods,\n" + " However these disturbers of our peace\n" + " Buz in the people's ears, there nought hath pass'd,\n" + " But even with law, against the willful sons\n" + " Of old Andronicus. And what an if\n" + " His sorrows have so overwhelm'd his wits,\n" + " Shall we be thus afflicted in his wreaks,\n" + " His fits, his frenzy, and his bitterness?\n" + " And now he writes to heaven for his redress:\n" + " See, here's to Jove, and this to Mercury;\n" + " This to Apollo; this to the god of war;\n" + " Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of Rome!\n" + " What's this but libelling against the senate,\n" + " And blazoning our injustice every where?\n" + " A goodly humour, is it not, my lords?\n" + " As who would say, in Rome no justice were.\n" + " But if I live, his feigned ecstasies\n" + " Shall be no shelter to these outrages:\n" + " But he and his shall know that justice lives\n" + " In Saturninus' health, whom, if she sleep,\n" + " He'll so awake as she in fury shall\n" + " Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives.\n\n" + "TAMORA My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine,\n" + " Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts,\n" + " Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus' age,\n" + " The effects of sorrow for his valiant sons,\n" + " Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart;\n" + " And rather comfort his distressed plight\n" + " Than prosecute the meanest or the best\n" + " For these contempts.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Why, thus it shall become\n" + " High-witted Tamora to gloze with all:\n" + " But, Titus, I have touched thee to the quick,\n" + " Thy life-blood out: if Aaron now be wise,\n" + " Then is all safe, the anchor's in the port.\n\n" + " [Enter Clown]\n\n" + " How now, good fellow! wouldst thou speak with us?\n\n" + "Clown Yea, forsooth, an your mistership be emperial.\n\n" + "TAMORA Empress I am, but yonder sits the emperor.\n\n" + "Clown 'Tis he. God and Saint Stephen give you good den:\n" + " I have brought you a letter and a couple of pigeons here.\n\n" + " [SATURNINUS reads the letter]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Go, take him away, and hang him presently.\n\n" + "Clown How much money must I have?\n\n" + "TAMORA Come, sirrah, you must be hanged.\n\n" + "Clown Hanged! by'r lady, then I have brought up a neck to\n" + " a fair end.\n\n" + " [Exit, guarded]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Despiteful and intolerable wrongs!\n" + " Shall I endure this monstrous villany?\n" + " I know from whence this same device proceeds:\n" + " May this be borne?--as if his traitorous sons,\n" + " That died by law for murder of our brother,\n" + " Have by my means been butcher'd wrongfully!\n" + " Go, drag the villain hither by the hair;\n" + " Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege:\n" + " For this proud mock I'll be thy slaughterman;\n" + " Sly frantic wretch, that holp'st to make me great,\n" + " In hope thyself should govern Rome and me.\n\n" + " [Enter AEMILIUS]\n\n" + " What news with thee, AEmilius?\n\n" + "AEMILIUS Arm, arm, my lord;--Rome never had more cause.\n" + " The Goths have gather'd head; and with a power\n" + " high-resolved men, bent to the spoil,\n" + " They hither march amain, under conduct\n" + " Of Lucius, son to old Andronicus;\n" + " Who threats, in course of this revenge, to do\n" + " As much as ever Coriolanus did.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Is warlike Lucius general of the Goths?\n" + " These tidings nip me, and I hang the head\n" + " As flowers with frost or grass beat down with storms:\n" + " Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach:\n" + " 'Tis he the common people love so much;\n" + " Myself hath often over-heard them say,\n" + " When I have walked like a private man,\n" + " That Lucius' banishment was wrongfully,\n" + " And they have wish'd that Lucius were their emperor.\n\n" + "TAMORA Why should you fear? is not your city strong?\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Ay, but the citizens favor Lucius,\n" + " And will revolt from me to succor him.\n\n" + "TAMORA King, be thy thoughts imperious, like thy name.\n" + " Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it?\n" + " The eagle suffers little birds to sing,\n" + " And is not careful what they mean thereby,\n" + " Knowing that with the shadow of his wings\n" + " He can at pleasure stint their melody:\n" + " Even so mayst thou the giddy men of Rome.\n" + " Then cheer thy spirit : for know, thou emperor,\n" + " I will enchant the old Andronicus\n" + " With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous,\n" + " Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep,\n" + " When as the one is wounded with the bait,\n" + " The other rotted with delicious feed.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS But he will not entreat his son for us.\n\n" + "TAMORA If Tamora entreat him, then he will:\n" + " For I can smooth and fill his aged ear\n" + " With golden promises; that, were his heart\n" + " Almost impregnable, his old ears deaf,\n" + " Yet should both ear and heart obey my tongue.\n\n" + " [To AEmilius]\n\n" + " Go thou before, be our ambassador:\n" + " Say that the emperor requests a parley\n" + " Of warlike Lucius, and appoint the meeting\n" + " Even at his father's house, the old Andronicus.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS AEmilius, do this message honourably:\n" + " And if he stand on hostage for his safety,\n" + " Bid him demand what pledge will please him best.\n\n" + "AEMILIUS Your bidding shall I do effectually.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TAMORA Now will I to that old Andronicus;\n" + " And temper him with all the art I have,\n" + " To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths.\n" + " And now, sweet emperor, be blithe again,\n" + " And bury all thy fear in my devices.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Then go successantly, and plead to him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Plains near Rome.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIUS with an army of Goths, with drum and colours]\n\n" + "LUCIUS Approved warriors, and my faithful friends,\n" + " I have received letters from great Rome,\n" + " Which signify what hate they bear their emperor\n" + " And how desirous of our sight they are.\n" + " Therefore, great lords, be, as your titles witness,\n" + " Imperious and impatient of your wrongs,\n" + " And wherein Rome hath done you any scath,\n" + " Let him make treble satisfaction.\n\n" + "First Goth Brave slip, sprung from the great Andronicus,\n" + " Whose name was once our terror, now our comfort;\n" + " Whose high exploits and honourable deeds\n" + " Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt,\n" + " Be bold in us: we'll follow where thou lead'st,\n" + " Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day\n" + " Led by their master to the flowered fields,\n" + " And be avenged on cursed Tamora.\n\n" + "All the Goths And as he saith, so say we all with him.\n\n" + "LUCIUS I humbly thank him, and I thank you all.\n" + " But who comes here, led by a lusty Goth?\n\n" + " [Enter a Goth, leading AARON with his Child in his arms]\n\n" + "Second Goth Renowned Lucius, from our troops I stray'd\n" + " To gaze upon a ruinous monastery;\n" + " And, as I earnestly did fix mine eye\n" + " Upon the wasted building, suddenly\n" + " I heard a child cry underneath a wall.\n" + " I made unto the noise; when soon I heard\n" + " The crying babe controll'd with this discourse:\n" + " 'Peace, tawny slave, half me and half thy dam!\n" + " Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art,\n" + " Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look,\n" + " Villain, thou mightst have been an emperor:\n" + " But where the bull and cow are both milk-white,\n" + " They never do beget a coal-black calf.\n" + " Peace, villain, peace!'--even thus he rates\n" + " the babe,--\n" + " 'For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth;\n" + " Who, when he knows thou art the empress' babe,\n" + " Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake.'\n" + " With this, my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon him,\n" + " Surprised him suddenly, and brought him hither,\n" + " To use as you think needful of the man.\n\n" + "LUCIUS O worthy Goth, this is the incarnate devil\n" + " That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand;\n" + " This is the pearl that pleased your empress' eye,\n" + " And here's the base fruit of his burning lust.\n" + " Say, wall-eyed slave, whither wouldst thou convey\n" + " This growing image of thy fiend-like face?\n" + " Why dost not speak? what, deaf? not a word?\n" + " A halter, soldiers! hang him on this tree.\n" + " And by his side his fruit of bastardy.\n\n" + "AARON Touch not the boy; he is of royal blood.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Too like the sire for ever being good.\n" + " First hang the child, that he may see it sprawl;\n" + " A sight to vex the father's soul withal.\n" + " Get me a ladder.\n\n" + " [A ladder brought, which AARON is made to ascend]\n\n" + "AARON Lucius, save the child,\n" + " And bear it from me to the empress.\n" + " If thou do this, I'll show thee wondrous things,\n" + " That highly may advantage thee to hear:\n" + " If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,\n" + " I'll speak no more but 'Vengeance rot you all!'\n\n" + "LUCIUS Say on: an if it please me which thou speak'st\n" + " Thy child shall live, and I will see it nourish'd.\n\n" + "AARON An if it please thee! why, assure thee, Lucius,\n" + " 'Twill vex thy soul to hear what I shall speak;\n" + " For I must talk of murders, rapes and massacres,\n" + " Acts of black night, abominable deeds,\n" + " Complots of mischief, treason, villanies\n" + " Ruthful to hear, yet piteously perform'd:\n" + " And this shall all be buried by my death,\n" + " Unless thou swear to me my child shall live.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Tell on thy mind; I say thy child shall live.\n\n" + "AARON Swear that he shall, and then I will begin.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Who should I swear by? thou believest no god:\n" + " That granted, how canst thou believe an oath?\n\n" + "AARON What if I do not? as, indeed, I do not;\n" + " Yet, for I know thou art religious\n" + " And hast a thing within thee called conscience,\n" + " With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies,\n" + " Which I have seen thee careful to observe,\n" + " Therefore I urge thy oath; for that I know\n" + " An idiot holds his bauble for a god\n" + " And keeps the oath which by that god he swears,\n" + " To that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow\n" + " By that same god, what god soe'er it be,\n" + " That thou adorest and hast in reverence,\n" + " To save my boy, to nourish and bring him up;\n" + " Or else I will discover nought to thee.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Even by my god I swear to thee I will.\n\n" + "AARON First know thou, I begot him on the empress.\n\n" + "LUCIUS O most insatiate and luxurious woman!\n\n" + "AARON Tut, Lucius, this was but a deed of charity\n" + " To that which thou shalt hear of me anon.\n" + " 'Twas her two sons that murder'd Bassianus;\n" + " They cut thy sister's tongue and ravish'd her\n" + " And cut her hands and trimm'd her as thou saw'st.\n\n" + "LUCIUS O detestable villain! call'st thou that trimming?\n\n" + "AARON Why, she was wash'd and cut and trimm'd, and 'twas\n" + " Trim sport for them that had the doing of it.\n\n" + "LUCIUS O barbarous, beastly villains, like thyself!\n\n" + "AARON Indeed, I was their tutor to instruct them:\n" + " That codding spirit had they from their mother,\n" + " As sure a card as ever won the set;\n" + " That bloody mind, I think, they learn'd of me,\n" + " As true a dog as ever fought at head.\n" + " Well, let my deeds be witness of my worth.\n" + " I train'd thy brethren to that guileful hole\n" + " Where the dead corpse of Bassianus lay:\n" + " I wrote the letter that thy father found\n" + " And hid the gold within the letter mention'd,\n" + " Confederate with the queen and her two sons:\n" + " And what not done, that thou hast cause to rue,\n" + " Wherein I had no stroke of mischief in it?\n" + " I play'd the cheater for thy father's hand,\n" + " And, when I had it, drew myself apart\n" + " And almost broke my heart with extreme laughter:\n" + " I pry'd me through the crevice of a wall\n" + " When, for his hand, he had his two sons' heads;\n" + " Beheld his tears, and laugh'd so heartily,\n" + " That both mine eyes were rainy like to his :\n" + " And when I told the empress of this sport,\n" + " She swooned almost at my pleasing tale,\n" + " And for my tidings gave me twenty kisses.\n\n" + "First Goth What, canst thou say all this, and never blush?\n\n" + "AARON Ay, like a black dog, as the saying is.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?\n\n" + "AARON Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.\n" + " Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,\n" + " Few come within the compass of my curse,--\n" + " Wherein I did not some notorious ill,\n" + " As kill a man, or else devise his death,\n" + " Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,\n" + " Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,\n" + " Set deadly enmity between two friends,\n" + " Make poor men's cattle break their necks;\n" + " Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,\n" + " And bid the owners quench them with their tears.\n" + " Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,\n" + " And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,\n" + " Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;\n" + " And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,\n" + " Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,\n" + " 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'\n" + " Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things\n" + " As willingly as one would kill a fly,\n" + " And nothing grieves me heartily indeed\n" + " But that I cannot do ten thousand more.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Bring down the devil; for he must not die\n" + " So sweet a death as hanging presently.\n\n" + "AARON If there be devils, would I were a devil,\n" + " To live and burn in everlasting fire,\n" + " So I might have your company in hell,\n" + " But to torment you with my bitter tongue!\n\n" + "LUCIUS Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more.\n\n" + " [Enter a Goth]\n\n" + "Third Goth My lord, there is a messenger from Rome\n" + " Desires to be admitted to your presence.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Let him come near.\n\n" + " [Enter AEMILIUS]\n\n" + " Welcome, AEmilius what's the news from Rome?\n\n" + "AEMILIUS Lord Lucius, and you princes of the Goths,\n" + " The Roman emperor greets you all by me;\n" + " And, for he understands you are in arms,\n" + " He craves a parley at your father's house,\n" + " Willing you to demand your hostages,\n" + " And they shall be immediately deliver'd.\n\n" + "First Goth What says our general?\n\n" + "LUCIUS AEmilius, let the emperor give his pledges\n" + " Unto my father and my uncle Marcus,\n" + " And we will come. March away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Rome. Before TITUS's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TAMORA, DEMETRIUS, and CHIRON, disguised]\n\n" + "TAMORA Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment,\n" + " I will encounter with Andronicus,\n" + " And say I am Revenge, sent from below\n" + " To join with him and right his heinous wrongs.\n" + " Knock at his study, where, they say, he keeps,\n" + " To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge;\n" + " Tell him Revenge is come to join with him,\n" + " And work confusion on his enemies.\n\n" + " [They knock]\n\n" + " [Enter TITUS, above]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Who doth molest my contemplation?\n" + " Is it your trick to make me ope the door,\n" + " That so my sad decrees may fly away,\n" + " And all my study be to no effect?\n" + " You are deceived: for what I mean to do\n" + " See here in bloody lines I have set down;\n" + " And what is written shall be executed.\n\n" + "TAMORA Titus, I am come to talk with thee.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS No, not a word; how can I grace my talk,\n" + " Wanting a hand to give it action?\n" + " Thou hast the odds of me; therefore no more.\n\n" + "TAMORA If thou didst know me, thou wouldest talk with me.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS I am not mad; I know thee well enough:\n" + " Witness this wretched stump, witness these crimson lines;\n" + " Witness these trenches made by grief and care,\n" + " Witness the tiring day and heavy night;\n" + " Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well\n" + " For our proud empress, mighty Tamora:\n" + " Is not thy coming for my other hand?\n\n" + "TAMORA Know, thou sad man, I am not Tamora;\n" + " She is thy enemy, and I thy friend:\n" + " I am Revenge: sent from the infernal kingdom,\n" + " To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind,\n" + " By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes.\n" + " Come down, and welcome me to this world's light;\n" + " Confer with me of murder and of death:\n" + " There's not a hollow cave or lurking-place,\n" + " No vast obscurity or misty vale,\n" + " Where bloody murder or detested rape\n" + " Can couch for fear, but I will find them out;\n" + " And in their ears tell them my dreadful name,\n" + " Revenge, which makes the foul offender quake.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Art thou Revenge? and art thou sent to me,\n" + " To be a torment to mine enemies?\n\n" + "TAMORA I am; therefore come down, and welcome me.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Do me some service, ere I come to thee.\n" + " Lo, by thy side where Rape and Murder stands;\n" + " Now give me some surance that thou art Revenge,\n" + " Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot-wheels;\n" + " And then I'll come and be thy waggoner,\n" + " And whirl along with thee about the globe.\n" + " Provide thee two proper palfreys, black as jet,\n" + " To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away,\n" + " And find out murderers in their guilty caves:\n" + " And when thy car is loaden with their heads,\n" + " I will dismount, and by the waggon-wheel\n" + " Trot, like a servile footman, all day long,\n" + " Even from Hyperion's rising in the east\n" + " Until his very downfall in the sea:\n" + " And day by day I'll do this heavy task,\n" + " So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there.\n\n" + "TAMORA These are my ministers, and come with me.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Are these thy ministers? what are they call'd?\n\n" + "TAMORA Rapine and Murder; therefore called so,\n" + " Cause they take vengeance of such kind of men.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Good Lord, how like the empress' sons they are!\n" + " And you, the empress! but we worldly men\n" + " Have miserable, mad, mistaking eyes.\n" + " O sweet Revenge, now do I come to thee;\n" + " And, if one arm's embracement will content thee,\n" + " I will embrace thee in it by and by.\n\n" + " [Exit above]\n\n" + "TAMORA This closing with him fits his lunacy\n" + " Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick fits,\n" + " Do you uphold and maintain in your speeches,\n" + " For now he firmly takes me for Revenge;\n" + " And, being credulous in this mad thought,\n" + " I'll make him send for Lucius his son;\n" + " And, whilst I at a banquet hold him sure,\n" + " I'll find some cunning practise out of hand,\n" + " To scatter and disperse the giddy Goths,\n" + " Or, at the least, make them his enemies.\n" + " See, here he comes, and I must ply my theme.\n\n" + " [Enter TITUS below]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Long have I been forlorn, and all for thee:\n" + " Welcome, dread Fury, to my woful house:\n" + " Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too.\n" + " How like the empress and her sons you are!\n" + " Well are you fitted, had you but a Moor:\n" + " Could not all hell afford you such a devil?\n" + " For well I wot the empress never wags\n" + " But in her company there is a Moor;\n" + " And, would you represent our queen aright,\n" + " It were convenient you had such a devil:\n" + " But welcome, as you are. What shall we do?\n\n" + "TAMORA What wouldst thou have us do, Andronicus?\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him.\n\n" + "CHIRON Show me a villain that hath done a rape,\n" + " And I am sent to be revenged on him.\n\n" + "TAMORA Show me a thousand that have done thee wrong,\n" + " And I will be revenged on them all.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Look round about the wicked streets of Rome;\n" + " And when thou find'st a man that's like thyself.\n" + " Good Murder, stab him; he's a murderer.\n" + " Go thou with him; and when it is thy hap\n" + " To find another that is like to thee,\n" + " Good Rapine, stab him; he's a ravisher.\n" + " Go thou with them; and in the emperor's court\n" + " There is a queen, attended by a Moor;\n" + " Well mayst thou know her by thy own proportion,\n" + " for up and down she doth resemble thee:\n" + " I pray thee, do on them some violent death;\n" + " They have been violent to me and mine.\n\n" + "TAMORA Well hast thou lesson'd us; this shall we do.\n" + " But would it please thee, good Andronicus,\n" + " To send for Lucius, thy thrice-valiant son,\n" + " Who leads towards Rome a band of warlike Goths,\n" + " And bid him come and banquet at thy house;\n" + " When he is here, even at thy solemn feast,\n" + " I will bring in the empress and her sons,\n" + " The emperor himself and all thy foes;\n" + " And at thy mercy shalt they stoop and kneel,\n" + " And on them shalt thou ease thy angry heart.\n" + " What says Andronicus to this device?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Marcus, my brother! 'tis sad Titus calls.\n\n" + " [Enter MARCUS]\n\n" + " Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius;\n" + " Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths:\n" + " Bid him repair to me, and bring with him\n" + " Some of the chiefest princes of the Goths;\n" + " Bid him encamp his soldiers where they are:\n" + " Tell him the emperor and the empress too\n" + " Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them.\n" + " This do thou for my love; and so let him,\n" + " As he regards his aged father's life.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS This will I do, and soon return again.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TAMORA Now will I hence about thy business,\n" + " And take my ministers along with me.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Nay, nay, let Rape and Murder stay with me;\n" + " Or else I'll call my brother back again,\n" + " And cleave to no revenge but Lucius.\n\n" + "TAMORA [Aside to her sons] What say you, boys? will you\n" + " bide with him,\n" + " Whiles I go tell my lord the emperor\n" + " How I have govern'd our determined jest?\n" + " Yield to his humour, smooth and speak him fair,\n" + " And tarry with him till I turn again.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS [Aside] I know them all, though they suppose me mad,\n" + " And will o'erreach them in their own devices:\n" + " A pair of cursed hell-hounds and their dam!\n\n" + "DEMETRIUS Madam, depart at pleasure; leave us here.\n\n" + "TAMORA Farewell, Andronicus: Revenge now goes\n" + " To lay a complot to betray thy foes.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS I know thou dost; and, sweet Revenge, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit TAMORA]\n\n" + "CHIRON Tell us, old man, how shall we be employ'd?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Tut, I have work enough for you to do.\n" + " Publius, come hither, Caius, and Valentine!\n\n" + " [Enter PUBLIUS and others]\n\n" + "PUBLIUS What is your will?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Know you these two?\n\n" + "PUBLIUS The empress' sons, I take them, Chiron and Demetrius.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Fie, Publius, fie! thou art too much deceived;\n" + " The one is Murder, Rape is the other's name;\n" + " And therefore bind them, gentle Publius.\n" + " Caius and Valentine, lay hands on them.\n" + " Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour,\n" + " And now I find it; therefore bind them sure,\n" + " And stop their mouths, if they begin to cry.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [PUBLIUS, &c. lay hold on CHIRON and DEMETRIUS]\n\n" + "CHIRON Villains, forbear! we are the empress' sons.\n\n" + "PUBLIUS And therefore do we what we are commanded.\n" + " Stop close their mouths, let them not speak a word.\n" + " Is he sure bound? look that you bind them fast.\n\n" + " [Re-enter TITUS, with LAVINIA; he bearing a knife,\n" + " and she a basin]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy foes are bound.\n" + " Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me;\n" + " But let them hear what fearful words I utter.\n" + " O villains, Chiron and Demetrius!\n" + " Here stands the spring whom you have stain'd with mud,\n" + " This goodly summer with your winter mix'd.\n" + " You kill'd her husband, and for that vile fault\n" + " Two of her brothers were condemn'd to death,\n" + " My hand cut off and made a merry jest;\n" + " Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that more dear\n" + " Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity,\n" + " Inhuman traitors, you constrain'd and forced.\n" + " What would you say, if I should let you speak?\n" + " Villains, for shame you could not beg for grace.\n" + " Hark, wretches! how I mean to martyr you.\n" + " This one hand yet is left to cut your throats,\n" + " Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth hold\n" + " The basin that receives your guilty blood.\n" + " You know your mother means to feast with me,\n" + " And calls herself Revenge, and thinks me mad:\n" + " Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust\n" + " And with your blood and it I'll make a paste,\n" + " And of the paste a coffin I will rear\n" + " And make two pasties of your shameful heads,\n" + " And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam,\n" + " Like to the earth swallow her own increase.\n" + " This is the feast that I have bid her to,\n" + " And this the banquet she shall surfeit on;\n" + " For worse than Philomel you used my daughter,\n" + " And worse than Progne I will be revenged:\n" + " And now prepare your throats. Lavinia, come,\n\n" + " [He cuts their throats]\n\n" + " Receive the blood: and when that they are dead,\n" + " Let me go grind their bones to powder small\n" + " And with this hateful liquor temper it;\n" + " And in that paste let their vile heads be baked.\n" + " Come, come, be every one officious\n" + " To make this banquet; which I wish may prove\n" + " More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.\n" + " So, now bring them in, for I'll play the cook,\n" + " And see them ready 'gainst their mother comes.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, bearing the dead bodies]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TITUS ANDRONICUS\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Court of TITUS's house. A banquet set out.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LUCIUS, MARCUS, and Goths, with AARON prisoner]\n\n" + "LUCIUS Uncle Marcus, since it is my father's mind\n" + " That I repair to Rome, I am content.\n\n" + "First Goth And ours with thine, befall what fortune will.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Good uncle, take you in this barbarous Moor,\n" + " This ravenous tiger, this accursed devil;\n" + " Let him receive no sustenance, fetter him\n" + " Till he be brought unto the empress' face,\n" + " For testimony of her foul proceedings:\n" + " And see the ambush of our friends be strong;\n" + " I fear the emperor means no good to us.\n\n" + "AARON Some devil whisper curses in mine ear,\n" + " And prompt me, that my tongue may utter forth\n" + " The venomous malice of my swelling heart!\n\n" + "LUCIUS Away, inhuman dog! unhallow'd slave!\n" + " Sirs, help our uncle to convey him in.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Goths, with AARON. Flourish within]\n\n" + " The trumpets show the emperor is at hand.\n\n" + " [Enter SATURNINUS and TAMORA, with AEMILIUS,\n" + " Tribunes, Senators, and others]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS What, hath the firmament more suns than one?\n\n" + "LUCIUS What boots it thee to call thyself a sun?\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Rome's emperor, and nephew, break the parle;\n" + " These quarrels must be quietly debated.\n" + " The feast is ready, which the careful Titus\n" + " Hath ordain'd to an honourable end,\n" + " For peace, for love, for league, and good to Rome:\n" + " Please you, therefore, draw nigh, and take your places.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Marcus, we will.\n\n" + " [Hautboys sound. The Company sit down at table]\n\n" + " [Enter TITUS dressed like a Cook, LAVINIA veiled,\n" + " Young LUCIUS, and others. TITUS places the dishes\n" + " on the table]\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Welcome, my gracious lord; welcome, dread queen;\n" + " Welcome, ye warlike Goths; welcome, Lucius;\n" + " And welcome, all: although the cheer be poor,\n" + " 'Twill fill your stomachs; please you eat of it.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Why art thou thus attired, Andronicus?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Because I would be sure to have all well,\n" + " To entertain your highness and your empress.\n\n" + "TAMORA We are beholding to you, good Andronicus.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS An if your highness knew my heart, you were.\n" + " My lord the emperor, resolve me this:\n" + " Was it well done of rash Virginius\n" + " To slay his daughter with his own right hand,\n" + " Because she was enforced, stain'd, and deflower'd?\n\n" + "SATURNINUS It was, Andronicus.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Your reason, mighty lord?\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Because the girl should not survive her shame,\n" + " And by her presence still renew his sorrows.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS A reason mighty, strong, and effectual;\n" + " A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant,\n" + " For me, most wretched, to perform the like.\n" + " Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee;\n\n" + " [Kills LAVINIA]\n\n" + " And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow die!\n\n" + "SATURNINUS What hast thou done, unnatural and unkind?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Kill'd her, for whom my tears have made me blind.\n" + " I am as woful as Virginius was,\n" + " And have a thousand times more cause than he\n" + " To do this outrage: and it now is done.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS What, was she ravish'd? tell who did the deed.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Will't please you eat? will't please your\n" + " highness feed?\n\n" + "TAMORA Why hast thou slain thine only daughter thus?\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Not I; 'twas Chiron and Demetrius:\n" + " They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue;\n" + " And they, 'twas they, that did her all this wrong.\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Go fetch them hither to us presently.\n\n" + "TITUS ANDRONICUS Why, there they are both, baked in that pie;\n" + " Whereof their mother daintily hath fed,\n" + " Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred.\n" + " 'Tis true, 'tis true; witness my knife's sharp point.\n\n" + " [Kills TAMORA]\n\n" + "SATURNINUS Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed!\n\n" + " [Kills TITUS]\n\n" + "LUCIUS Can the son's eye behold his father bleed?\n" + " There's meed for meed, death for a deadly deed!\n\n" + " [Kills SATURNINUS. A great tumult. LUCIUS, MARCUS,\n" + " and others go up into the balcony]\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS You sad-faced men, people and sons of Rome,\n" + " By uproar sever'd, like a flight of fowl\n" + " Scatter'd by winds and high tempestuous gusts,\n" + " O, let me teach you how to knit again\n" + " This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf,\n" + " These broken limbs again into one body;\n" + " Lest Rome herself be bane unto herself,\n" + " And she whom mighty kingdoms court'sy to,\n" + " Like a forlorn and desperate castaway,\n" + " Do shameful execution on herself.\n" + " But if my frosty signs and chaps of age,\n" + " Grave witnesses of true experience,\n" + " Cannot induce you to attend my words,\n\n" + " [To LUCIUS]\n\n" + " Speak, Rome's dear friend, as erst our ancestor,\n" + " When with his solemn tongue he did discourse\n" + " To love-sick Dido's sad attending ear\n" + " The story of that baleful burning night\n" + " When subtle Greeks surprised King Priam's Troy,\n" + " Tell us what Sinon hath bewitch'd our ears,\n" + " Or who hath brought the fatal engine in\n" + " That gives our Troy, our Rome, the civil wound.\n" + " My heart is not compact of flint nor steel;\n" + " Nor can I utter all our bitter grief,\n" + " But floods of tears will drown my oratory,\n" + " And break my utterance, even in the time\n" + " When it should move you to attend me most,\n" + " Lending your kind commiseration.\n" + " Here is a captain, let him tell the tale;\n" + " Your hearts will throb and weep to hear him speak.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Then, noble auditory, be it known to you,\n" + " That cursed Chiron and Demetrius\n" + " Were they that murdered our emperor's brother;\n" + " And they it were that ravished our sister:\n" + " For their fell faults our brothers were beheaded;\n" + " Our father's tears despised, and basely cozen'd\n" + " Of that true hand that fought Rome's quarrel out,\n" + " And sent her enemies unto the grave.\n" + " Lastly, myself unkindly banished,\n" + " The gates shut on me, and turn'd weeping out,\n" + " To beg relief among Rome's enemies:\n" + " Who drown'd their enmity in my true tears.\n" + " And oped their arms to embrace me as a friend.\n" + " I am the turned forth, be it known to you,\n" + " That have preserved her welfare in my blood;\n" + " And from her bosom took the enemy's point,\n" + " Sheathing the steel in my adventurous body.\n" + " Alas, you know I am no vaunter, I;\n" + " My scars can witness, dumb although they are,\n" + " That my report is just and full of truth.\n" + " But, soft! methinks I do digress too much,\n" + " Citing my worthless praise: O, pardon me;\n" + " For when no friends are by, men praise themselves.\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Now is my turn to speak. Behold this child:\n\n" + " [Pointing to the Child in the arms of an Attendant]\n\n" + " Of this was Tamora delivered;\n" + " The issue of an irreligious Moor,\n" + " Chief architect and plotter of these woes:\n" + " The villain is alive in Titus' house,\n" + " And as he is, to witness this is true.\n" + " Now judge what cause had Titus to revenge\n" + " These wrongs, unspeakable, past patience,\n" + " Or more than any living man could bear.\n" + " Now you have heard the truth, what say you, Romans?\n" + " Have we done aught amiss,--show us wherein,\n" + " And, from the place where you behold us now,\n" + " The poor remainder of Andronici\n" + " Will, hand in hand, all headlong cast us down.\n" + " And on the ragged stones beat forth our brains,\n" + " And make a mutual closure of our house.\n" + " Speak, Romans, speak; and if you say we shall,\n" + " Lo, hand in hand, Lucius and I will fall.\n\n" + "AEMILIUS Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome,\n" + " And bring our emperor gently in thy hand,\n" + " Lucius our emperor; for well I know\n" + " The common voice do cry it shall be so.\n\n" + "All Lucius, all hail, Rome's royal emperor!\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Go, go into old Titus' sorrowful house,\n\n" + " [To Attendants]\n\n" + " And hither hale that misbelieving Moor,\n" + " To be adjudged some direful slaughtering death,\n" + " As punishment for his most wicked life.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Attendants]\n\n" + " [LUCIUS, MARCUS, and the others descend]\n\n" + "All Lucius, all hail, Rome's gracious governor!\n\n" + "LUCIUS Thanks, gentle Romans: may I govern so,\n" + " To heal Rome's harms, and wipe away her woe!\n" + " But, gentle people, give me aim awhile,\n" + " For nature puts me to a heavy task:\n" + " Stand all aloof: but, uncle, draw you near,\n" + " To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk.\n" + " O, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips,\n\n" + " [Kissing TITUS]\n\n" + " These sorrowful drops upon thy blood-stain'd face,\n" + " The last true duties of thy noble son!\n\n" + "MARCUS ANDRONICUS Tear for tear, and loving kiss for kiss,\n" + " Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips:\n" + " O were the sum of these that I should pay\n" + " Countless and infinite, yet would I pay them!\n\n" + "LUCIUS Come hither, boy; come, come, and learn of us\n" + " To melt in showers: thy grandsire loved thee well:\n" + " Many a time he danced thee on his knee,\n" + " Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow:\n" + " Many a matter hath he told to thee,\n" + " Meet and agreeing with thine infancy;\n" + " In that respect, then, like a loving child,\n" + " Shed yet some small drops from thy tender spring,\n" + " Because kind nature doth require it so:\n" + " Friends should associate friends in grief and woe:\n" + " Bid him farewell; commit him to the grave;\n" + " Do him that kindness, and take leave of him.\n\n" + "Young LUCIUS O grandsire, grandsire! even with all my heart\n" + " Would I were dead, so you did live again!\n" + " O Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping;\n" + " My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Attendants with AARON]\n\n" + "AEMILIUS You sad Andronici, have done with woes:\n" + " Give sentence on this execrable wretch,\n" + " That hath been breeder of these dire events.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him;\n" + " There let him stand, and rave, and cry for food;\n" + " If any one relieves or pities him,\n" + " For the offence he dies. This is our doom:\n" + " Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth.\n\n" + "AARON O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?\n" + " I am no baby, I, that with base prayers\n" + " I should repent the evils I have done:\n" + " Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did\n" + " Would I perform, if I might have my will;\n" + " If one good deed in all my life I did,\n" + " I do repent it from my very soul.\n\n" + "LUCIUS Some loving friends convey the emperor hence,\n" + " And give him burial in his father's grave:\n" + " My father and Lavinia shall forthwith\n" + " Be closed in our household's monument.\n" + " As for that heinous tiger, Tamora,\n" + " No funeral rite, nor man m mourning weeds,\n" + " No mournful bell shall ring her burial;\n" + " But throw her forth to beasts and birds of prey:\n" + " Her life was beast-like, and devoid of pity;\n" + " And, being so, shall have like want of pity.\n" + " See justice done on Aaron, that damn'd Moor,\n" + " By whom our heavy haps had their beginning:\n" + " Then, afterwards, to order well the state,\n" + " That like events may ne'er it ruinate.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "PRIAM king of Troy.\n\n\n" + "HECTOR |\n" + " |\n" + "TROILUS |\n" + " |\n" + "PARIS | his sons.\n" + " |\n" + "DEIPHOBUS |\n" + " |\n" + "HELENUS |\n\n\n" + "MARGARELON a bastard son of Priam.\n\n\n" + "AENEAS |\n" + " | Trojan commanders.\n" + "ANTENOR |\n\n\n" + "CALCHAS a Trojan priest, taking part with the Greeks.\n\n" + "PANDARUS uncle to Cressida.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON the Grecian general.\n\n" + "MENELAUS his brother.\n\n\n" + "ACHILLES |\n" + " |\n" + "AJAX |\n" + " |\n" + "ULYSSES |\n" + " | Grecian princes.\n" + "NESTOR |\n" + " |\n" + "DIOMEDES |\n" + " |\n" + "PATROCLUS |\n\n\n" + "THERSITES a deformed and scurrilous Grecian.\n\n" + "ALEXANDER servant to Cressida.\n\n" + " Servant to Troilus. (Boy:)\n\n" + " Servant to Paris.\n\n" + " Servant to Diomedes. (Servant:)\n\n" + "HELEN wife to Menelaus.\n\n" + "ANDROMACHE wife to Hector.\n\n" + "CASSANDRA daughter to Priam, a prophetess.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA daughter to Calchas.\n\n" + " Trojan and Greek Soldiers, and Attendants.\n\n\n" + "SCENE Troy, and the Grecian camp before it.\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n" + " PROLOGUE\n\n\n" + " In Troy, there lies the scene. From isles of Greece\n" + " The princes orgulous, their high blood chafed,\n" + " Have to the port of Athens sent their ships,\n" + " Fraught with the ministers and instruments\n" + " Of cruel war: sixty and nine, that wore\n" + " Their crownets regal, from the Athenian bay\n" + " Put forth toward Phrygia; and their vow is made\n" + " To ransack Troy, within whose strong immures\n" + " The ravish'd Helen, Menelaus' queen,\n" + " With wanton Paris sleeps; and that's the quarrel.\n" + " To Tenedos they come;\n" + " And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge\n" + " Their warlike fraughtage: now on Dardan plains\n" + " The fresh and yet unbruised Greeks do pitch\n" + " Their brave pavilions: Priam's six-gated city,\n" + " Dardan, and Tymbria, Helias, Chetas, Troien,\n" + " And Antenorides, with massy staples\n" + " And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts,\n" + " Sperr up the sons of Troy.\n" + " Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits,\n" + " On one and other side, Trojan and Greek,\n" + " Sets all on hazard: and hither am I come\n" + " A prologue arm'd, but not in confidence\n" + " Of author's pen or actor's voice, but suited\n" + " In like conditions as our argument,\n" + " To tell you, fair beholders, that our play\n" + " Leaps o'er the vaunt and firstlings of those broils,\n" + " Beginning in the middle, starting thence away\n" + " To what may be digested in a play.\n" + " Like or find fault; do as your pleasures are:\n" + " Now good or bad, 'tis but the chance of war.\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Troy. Before Priam's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS armed, and PANDARUS]\n\n" + "TROILUS Call here my varlet; I'll unarm again:\n" + " Why should I war without the walls of Troy,\n" + " That find such cruel battle here within?\n" + " Each Trojan that is master of his heart,\n" + " Let him to field; Troilus, alas! hath none.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Will this gear ne'er be mended?\n\n" + "TROILUS The Greeks are strong and skilful to their strength,\n" + " Fierce to their skill and to their fierceness valiant;\n" + " But I am weaker than a woman's tear,\n" + " Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance,\n" + " Less valiant than the virgin in the night\n" + " And skilless as unpractised infancy.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part,\n" + " I'll not meddle nor make no further. He that will\n" + " have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.\n\n" + "TROILUS Have I not tarried?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry\n" + " the bolting.\n\n" + "TROILUS Have I not tarried?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ay, the bolting, but you must tarry the leavening.\n\n" + "TROILUS Still have I tarried.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word\n" + " 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the\n" + " heating of the oven and the baking; nay, you must\n" + " stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.\n\n" + "TROILUS Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be,\n" + " Doth lesser blench at sufferance than I do.\n" + " At Priam's royal table do I sit;\n" + " And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts,--\n" + " So, traitor! 'When she comes!' When is she thence?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Well, she looked yesternight fairer than ever I saw\n" + " her look, or any woman else.\n\n" + "TROILUS I was about to tell thee:--when my heart,\n" + " As wedged with a sigh, would rive in twain,\n" + " Lest Hector or my father should perceive me,\n" + " I have, as when the sun doth light a storm,\n" + " Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile:\n" + " But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness,\n" + " Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.\n\n" + "PANDARUS An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's--\n" + " well, go to--there were no more comparison between\n" + " the women: but, for my part, she is my kinswoman; I\n" + " would not, as they term it, praise her: but I would\n" + " somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I\n" + " will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit, but--\n\n" + "TROILUS O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus,--\n" + " When I do tell thee, there my hopes lie drown'd,\n" + " Reply not in how many fathoms deep\n" + " They lie indrench'd. I tell thee I am mad\n" + " In Cressid's love: thou answer'st 'she is fair;'\n" + " Pour'st in the open ulcer of my heart\n" + " Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice,\n" + " Handlest in thy discourse, O, that her hand,\n" + " In whose comparison all whites are ink,\n" + " Writing their own reproach, to whose soft seizure\n" + " The cygnet's down is harsh and spirit of sense\n" + " Hard as the palm of ploughman: this thou tell'st me,\n" + " As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her;\n" + " But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm,\n" + " Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given me\n" + " The knife that made it.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I speak no more than truth.\n\n" + "TROILUS Thou dost not speak so much.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Faith, I'll not meddle in't. Let her be as she is:\n" + " if she be fair, 'tis the better for her; an she be\n" + " not, she has the mends in her own hands.\n\n" + "TROILUS Good Pandarus, how now, Pandarus!\n\n" + "PANDARUS I have had my labour for my travail; ill-thought on of\n" + " her and ill-thought on of you; gone between and\n" + " between, but small thanks for my labour.\n\n" + "TROILUS What, art thou angry, Pandarus? what, with me?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Because she's kin to me, therefore she's not so fair\n" + " as Helen: an she were not kin to me, she would be as\n" + " fair on Friday as Helen is on Sunday. But what care\n" + " I? I care not an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me.\n\n" + "TROILUS Say I she is not fair?\n\n" + "PANDARUS I do not care whether you do or no. She's a fool to\n" + " stay behind her father; let her to the Greeks; and so\n" + " I'll tell her the next time I see her: for my part,\n" + " I'll meddle nor make no more i' the matter.\n\n" + "TROILUS Pandarus,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS Not I.\n\n" + "TROILUS Sweet Pandarus,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS Pray you, speak no more to me: I will leave all as I\n" + " found it, and there an end.\n\n" + " [Exit PANDARUS. An alarum]\n\n" + "TROILUS Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!\n" + " Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,\n" + " When with your blood you daily paint her thus.\n" + " I cannot fight upon this argument;\n" + " It is too starved a subject for my sword.\n" + " But Pandarus,--O gods, how do you plague me!\n" + " I cannot come to Cressid but by Pandar;\n" + " And he's as tetchy to be woo'd to woo.\n" + " As she is stubborn-chaste against all suit.\n" + " Tell me, Apollo, for thy Daphne's love,\n" + " What Cressid is, what Pandar, and what we?\n" + " Her bed is India; there she lies, a pearl:\n" + " Between our Ilium and where she resides,\n" + " Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood,\n" + " Ourself the merchant, and this sailing Pandar\n" + " Our doubtful hope, our convoy and our bark.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Enter AENEAS]\n\n" + "AENEAS How now, Prince Troilus! wherefore not afield?\n\n" + "TROILUS Because not there: this woman's answer sorts,\n" + " For womanish it is to be from thence.\n" + " What news, AEneas, from the field to-day?\n\n" + "AENEAS That Paris is returned home and hurt.\n\n" + "TROILUS By whom, AEneas?\n\n" + "AENEAS Troilus, by Menelaus.\n\n" + "TROILUS Let Paris bleed; 'tis but a scar to scorn;\n" + " Paris is gored with Menelaus' horn.\n\n" + " [Alarum]\n\n" + "AENEAS Hark, what good sport is out of town to-day!\n\n" + "TROILUS Better at home, if 'would I might' were 'may.'\n" + " But to the sport abroad: are you bound thither?\n\n" + "AENEAS In all swift haste.\n\n" + "TROILUS Come, go we then together.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The Same. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter CRESSIDA and ALEXANDER]\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Who were those went by?\n\n" + "ALEXANDER Queen Hecuba and Helen.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA And whither go they?\n\n" + "ALEXANDER Up to the eastern tower,\n" + " Whose height commands as subject all the vale,\n" + " To see the battle. Hector, whose patience\n" + " Is, as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was moved:\n" + " He chid Andromache and struck his armourer,\n" + " And, like as there were husbandry in war,\n" + " Before the sun rose he was harness'd light,\n" + " And to the field goes he; where every flower\n" + " Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw\n" + " In Hector's wrath.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA What was his cause of anger?\n\n" + "ALEXANDER The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks\n" + " A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector;\n" + " They call him Ajax.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Good; and what of him?\n\n" + "ALEXANDER They say he is a very man per se,\n" + " And stands alone.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA So do all men, unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs.\n\n" + "ALEXANDER This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their\n" + " particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion,\n" + " churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man\n" + " into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his\n" + " valour is crushed into folly, his folly sauced with\n" + " discretion: there is no man hath a virtue that he\n" + " hath not a glimpse of, nor any man an attaint but he\n" + " carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without\n" + " cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the\n" + " joints of every thing, but everything so out of joint\n" + " that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use,\n" + " or purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA But how should this man, that makes\n" + " me smile, make Hector angry?\n\n" + "ALEXANDER They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle and\n" + " struck him down, the disdain and shame whereof hath\n" + " ever since kept Hector fasting and waking.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Who comes here?\n\n" + "ALEXANDER Madam, your uncle Pandarus.\n\n" + " [Enter PANDARUS]\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Hector's a gallant man.\n\n" + "ALEXANDER As may be in the world, lady.\n\n" + "PANDARUS What's that? what's that?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Good morrow, uncle Pandarus.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Good morrow, cousin Cressid: what do you talk of?\n" + " Good morrow, Alexander. How do you, cousin? When\n" + " were you at Ilium?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA This morning, uncle.\n\n" + "PANDARUS What were you talking of when I came? Was Hector\n" + " armed and gone ere ye came to Ilium? Helen was not\n" + " up, was she?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Hector was gone, but Helen was not up.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Even so: Hector was stirring early.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA That were we talking of, and of his anger.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Was he angry?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA So he says here.\n\n" + "PANDARUS True, he was so: I know the cause too: he'll lay\n" + " about him to-day, I can tell them that: and there's\n" + " Troilus will not come far behind him: let them take\n" + " heed of Troilus, I can tell them that too.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA What, is he angry too?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man of the two.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O Jupiter! there's no comparison.\n\n" + "PANDARUS What, not between Troilus and Hector? Do you know a\n" + " man if you see him?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Ay, if I ever saw him before and knew him.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Well, I say Troilus is Troilus.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Then you say as I say; for, I am sure, he is not Hector.\n\n" + "PANDARUS No, nor Hector is not Troilus in some degrees.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA 'Tis just to each of them; he is himself.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Himself! Alas, poor Troilus! I would he were.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA So he is.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Condition, I had gone barefoot to India.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA He is not Hector.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Himself! no, he's not himself: would a' were\n" + " himself! Well, the gods are above; time must friend\n" + " or end: well, Troilus, well: I would my heart were\n" + " in her body. No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Excuse me.\n\n" + "PANDARUS He is elder.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Pardon me, pardon me.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Th' other's not come to't; you shall tell me another\n" + " tale, when th' other's come to't. Hector shall not\n" + " have his wit this year.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA He shall not need it, if he have his own.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Nor his qualities.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA No matter.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Nor his beauty.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA 'Twould not become him; his own's better.\n\n" + "PANDARUS You have no judgment, niece: Helen\n" + " herself swore th' other day, that Troilus, for\n" + " a brown favour--for so 'tis, I must confess,--\n" + " not brown neither,--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA No, but brown.\n\n" + "PANDARUS 'Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA To say the truth, true and not true.\n\n" + "PANDARUS She praised his complexion above Paris.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Why, Paris hath colour enough.\n\n" + "PANDARUS So he has.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Then Troilus should have too much: if she praised\n" + " him above, his complexion is higher than his; he\n" + " having colour enough, and the other higher, is too\n" + " flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as\n" + " lief Helen's golden tongue had commended Troilus for\n" + " a copper nose.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I swear to you. I think Helen loves him better than Paris.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Then she's a merry Greek indeed.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him th' other\n" + " day into the compassed window,--and, you know, he\n" + " has not past three or four hairs on his chin,--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his\n" + " particulars therein to a total.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Why, he is very young: and yet will he, within\n" + " three pound, lift as much as his brother Hector.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Is he so young a man and so old a lifter?\n\n" + "PANDARUS But to prove to you that Helen loves him: she came\n" + " and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Juno have mercy! how came it cloven?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Why, you know 'tis dimpled: I think his smiling\n" + " becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O, he smiles valiantly.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Does he not?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Why, go to, then: but to prove to you that Helen\n" + " loves Troilus,--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Troilus will stand to the proof, if you'll\n" + " prove it so.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Troilus! why, he esteems her no more than I esteem\n" + " an addle egg.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle\n" + " head, you would eat chickens i' the shell.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I cannot choose but laugh, to think how she tickled\n" + " his chin: indeed, she has a marvellous white hand, I\n" + " must needs confess,--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Without the rack.\n\n" + "PANDARUS And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Alas, poor chin! many a wart is richer.\n\n" + "PANDARUS But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laughed\n" + " that her eyes ran o'er.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA With mill-stones.\n\n" + "PANDARUS And Cassandra laughed.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA But there was more temperate fire under the pot of\n" + " her eyes: did her eyes run o'er too?\n\n" + "PANDARUS And Hector laughed.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA At what was all this laughing?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus' chin.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA An't had been a green hair, I should have laughed\n" + " too.\n\n" + "PANDARUS They laughed not so much at the hair as at his pretty answer.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA What was his answer?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Quoth she, 'Here's but two and fifty hairs on your\n" + " chin, and one of them is white.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA This is her question.\n\n" + "PANDARUS That's true; make no question of that. 'Two and\n" + " fifty hairs' quoth he, 'and one white: that white\n" + " hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons.'\n" + " 'Jupiter!' quoth she, 'which of these hairs is Paris,\n" + " my husband? 'The forked one,' quoth he, 'pluck't\n" + " out, and give it him.' But there was such laughing!\n" + " and Helen so blushed, an Paris so chafed, and all the\n" + " rest so laughed, that it passed.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA So let it now; for it has been while going by.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Well, cousin. I told you a thing yesterday; think on't.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA So I do.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I'll be sworn 'tis true; he will weep you, an 'twere\n" + " a man born in April.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle\n" + " against May.\n\n" + " [A retreat sounded]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Hark! they are coming from the field: shall we\n" + " stand up here, and see them as they pass toward\n" + " Ilium? good niece, do, sweet niece Cressida.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA At your pleasure.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Here, here, here's an excellent place; here we may\n" + " see most bravely: I'll tell you them all by their\n" + " names as they pass by; but mark Troilus above the rest.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Speak not so loud.\n\n" + " [AENEAS passes]\n\n" + "PANDARUS That's AEneas: is not that a brave man? he's one of\n" + " the flowers of Troy, I can tell you: but mark\n" + " Troilus; you shall see anon.\n\n" + " [ANTENOR passes]\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Who's that?\n\n" + "PANDARUS That's Antenor: he has a shrewd wit, I can tell you;\n" + " and he's a man good enough, he's one o' the soundest\n" + " judgments in whosoever, and a proper man of person.\n" + " When comes Troilus? I'll show you Troilus anon: if\n" + " he see me, you shall see him nod at me.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Will he give you the nod?\n\n" + "PANDARUS You shall see.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA If he do, the rich shall have more.\n\n" + " [HECTOR passes]\n\n" + "PANDARUS That's Hector, that, that, look you, that; there's a\n" + " fellow! Go thy way, Hector! There's a brave man,\n" + " niece. O brave Hector! Look how he looks! there's\n" + " a countenance! is't not a brave man?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O, a brave man!\n\n" + "PANDARUS Is a' not? it does a man's heart good. Look you\n" + " what hacks are on his helmet! look you yonder, do\n" + " you see? look you there: there's no jesting;\n" + " there's laying on, take't off who will, as they say:\n" + " there be hacks!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Be those with swords?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Swords! any thing, he cares not; an the devil come\n" + " to him, it's all one: by God's lid, it does one's\n" + " heart good. Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris.\n\n" + " [PARIS passes]\n\n" + " Look ye yonder, niece; is't not a gallant man too,\n" + " is't not? Why, this is brave now. Who said he came\n" + " hurt home to-day? he's not hurt: why, this will do\n" + " Helen's heart good now, ha! Would I could see\n" + " Troilus now! You shall see Troilus anon.\n\n" + " [HELENUS passes]\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Who's that?\n\n" + "PANDARUS That's Helenus. I marvel where Troilus is. That's\n" + " Helenus. I think he went not forth to-day. That's Helenus.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Can Helenus fight, uncle?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Helenus? no. Yes, he'll fight indifferent well. I\n" + " marvel where Troilus is. Hark! do you not hear the\n" + " people cry 'Troilus'? Helenus is a priest.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA What sneaking fellow comes yonder?\n\n" + " [TROILUS passes]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus!\n" + " there's a man, niece! Hem! Brave Troilus! the\n" + " prince of chivalry!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Peace, for shame, peace!\n\n" + "PANDARUS Mark him; note him. O brave Troilus! Look well upon\n" + " him, niece: look you how his sword is bloodied, and\n" + " his helm more hacked than Hector's, and how he looks,\n" + " and how he goes! O admirable youth! he ne'er saw\n" + " three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way!\n" + " Had I a sister were a grace, or a daughter a goddess,\n" + " he should take his choice. O admirable man! Paris?\n" + " Paris is dirt to him; and, I warrant, Helen, to\n" + " change, would give an eye to boot.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Here come more.\n\n" + " [Forces pass]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran!\n" + " porridge after meat! I could live and die i' the\n" + " eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look: the eagles\n" + " are gone: crows and daws, crows and daws! I had\n" + " rather be such a man as Troilus than Agamemnon and\n" + " all Greece.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better man than Troilus.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Well, well.\n\n" + "PANDARUS 'Well, well!' why, have you any discretion? have\n" + " you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not\n" + " birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood,\n" + " learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality,\n" + " and such like, the spice and salt that season a man?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date\n" + " in the pie, for then the man's date's out.\n\n" + "PANDARUS You are such a woman! one knows not at what ward you\n" + " lie.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to\n" + " defend my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine\n" + " honesty; my mask, to defend my beauty; and you, to\n" + " defend all these: and at all these wards I lie, at a\n" + " thousand watches.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Say one of your watches.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Nay, I'll watch you for that; and that's one of the\n" + " chiefest of them too: if I cannot ward what I would\n" + " not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took\n" + " the blow; unless it swell past hiding, and then it's\n" + " past watching.\n\n" + "PANDARUS You are such another!\n\n" + " [Enter Troilus's Boy]\n\n" + "Boy Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Where?\n\n" + "Boy At your own house; there he unarms him.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Good boy, tell him I come.\n\n" + " [Exit boy]\n\n" + " I doubt he be hurt. Fare ye well, good niece.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Adieu, uncle.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I'll be with you, niece, by and by.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA To bring, uncle?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ay, a token from Troilus.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA By the same token, you are a bawd.\n\n" + " [Exit PANDARUS]\n\n" + " Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,\n" + " He offers in another's enterprise;\n" + " But more in Troilus thousand fold I see\n" + " Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be;\n" + " Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:\n" + " Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.\n" + " That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:\n" + " Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:\n" + " That she was never yet that ever knew\n" + " Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.\n" + " Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:\n" + " Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech:\n" + " Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,\n" + " Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon's tent.\n\n\n" + " [Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES,\n" + " MENELAUS, and others]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Princes,\n" + " What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?\n" + " The ample proposition that hope makes\n" + " In all designs begun on earth below\n" + " Fails in the promised largeness: cheques and disasters\n" + " Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd,\n" + " As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,\n" + " Infect the sound pine and divert his grain\n" + " Tortive and errant from his course of growth.\n" + " Nor, princes, is it matter new to us\n" + " That we come short of our suppose so far\n" + " That after seven years' siege yet Troy walls stand;\n" + " Sith every action that hath gone before,\n" + " Whereof we have record, trial did draw\n" + " Bias and thwart, not answering the aim,\n" + " And that unbodied figure of the thought\n" + " That gave't surmised shape. Why then, you princes,\n" + " Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works,\n" + " And call them shames? which are indeed nought else\n" + " But the protractive trials of great Jove\n" + " To find persistive constancy in men:\n" + " The fineness of which metal is not found\n" + " In fortune's love; for then the bold and coward,\n" + " The wise and fool, the artist and unread,\n" + " The hard and soft seem all affined and kin:\n" + " But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,\n" + " Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,\n" + " Puffing at all, winnows the light away;\n" + " And what hath mass or matter, by itself\n" + " Lies rich in virtue and unmingled.\n\n" + "NESTOR With due observance of thy godlike seat,\n" + " Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply\n" + " Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance\n" + " Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth,\n" + " How many shallow bauble boats dare sail\n" + " Upon her patient breast, making their way\n" + " With those of nobler bulk!\n" + " But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage\n" + " The gentle Thetis, and anon behold\n" + " The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,\n" + " Bounding between the two moist elements,\n" + " Like Perseus' horse: where's then the saucy boat\n" + " Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now\n" + " Co-rivall'd greatness? Either to harbour fled,\n" + " Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so\n" + " Doth valour's show and valour's worth divide\n" + " In storms of fortune; for in her ray and brightness\n" + " The herd hath more annoyance by the breeze\n" + " Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind\n" + " Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,\n" + " And flies fled under shade, why, then the thing of courage\n" + " As roused with rage with rage doth sympathize,\n" + " And with an accent tuned in selfsame key\n" + " Retorts to chiding fortune.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Agamemnon,\n" + " Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,\n" + " Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit.\n" + " In whom the tempers and the minds of all\n" + " Should be shut up, hear what Ulysses speaks.\n" + " Besides the applause and approbation To which,\n\n" + " [To AGAMEMNON]\n\n" + " most mighty for thy place and sway,\n\n" + " [To NESTOR]\n\n" + " And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life\n" + " I give to both your speeches, which were such\n" + " As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece\n" + " Should hold up high in brass, and such again\n" + " As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver,\n" + " Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree\n" + " On which heaven rides, knit all the Greekish ears\n" + " To his experienced tongue, yet let it please both,\n" + " Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be't of less expect\n" + " That matter needless, of importless burden,\n" + " Divide thy lips, than we are confident,\n" + " When rank Thersites opes his mastic jaws,\n" + " We shall hear music, wit and oracle.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down,\n" + " And the great Hector's sword had lack'd a master,\n" + " But for these instances.\n" + " The specialty of rule hath been neglected:\n" + " And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand\n" + " Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.\n" + " When that the general is not like the hive\n" + " To whom the foragers shall all repair,\n" + " What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded,\n" + " The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.\n" + " The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre\n" + " Observe degree, priority and place,\n" + " Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,\n" + " Office and custom, in all line of order;\n" + " And therefore is the glorious planet Sol\n" + " In noble eminence enthroned and sphered\n" + " Amidst the other; whose medicinable eye\n" + " Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil,\n" + " And posts, like the commandment of a king,\n" + " Sans cheque to good and bad: but when the planets\n" + " In evil mixture to disorder wander,\n" + " What plagues and what portents! what mutiny!\n" + " What raging of the sea! shaking of earth!\n" + " Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,\n" + " Divert and crack, rend and deracinate\n" + " The unity and married calm of states\n" + " Quite from their fixure! O, when degree is shaked,\n" + " Which is the ladder to all high designs,\n" + " Then enterprise is sick! How could communities,\n" + " Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities,\n" + " Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,\n" + " The primogenitive and due of birth,\n" + " Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,\n" + " But by degree, stand in authentic place?\n" + " Take but degree away, untune that string,\n" + " And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets\n" + " In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters\n" + " Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores\n" + " And make a sop of all this solid globe:\n" + " Strength should be lord of imbecility,\n" + " And the rude son should strike his father dead:\n" + " Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,\n" + " Between whose endless jar justice resides,\n" + " Should lose their names, and so should justice too.\n" + " Then every thing includes itself in power,\n" + " Power into will, will into appetite;\n" + " And appetite, an universal wolf,\n" + " So doubly seconded with will and power,\n" + " Must make perforce an universal prey,\n" + " And last eat up himself. Great Agamemnon,\n" + " This chaos, when degree is suffocate,\n" + " Follows the choking.\n" + " And this neglection of degree it is\n" + " That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose\n" + " It hath to climb. The general's disdain'd\n" + " By him one step below, he by the next,\n" + " That next by him beneath; so every step,\n" + " Exampled by the first pace that is sick\n" + " Of his superior, grows to an envious fever\n" + " Of pale and bloodless emulation:\n" + " And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot,\n" + " Not her own sinews. To end a tale of length,\n" + " Troy in our weakness stands, not in her strength.\n\n" + "NESTOR Most wisely hath Ulysses here discover'd\n" + " The fever whereof all our power is sick.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses,\n" + " What is the remedy?\n\n" + "ULYSSES The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns\n" + " The sinew and the forehand of our host,\n" + " Having his ear full of his airy fame,\n" + " Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent\n" + " Lies mocking our designs: with him Patroclus\n" + " Upon a lazy bed the livelong day\n" + " Breaks scurril jests;\n" + " And with ridiculous and awkward action,\n" + " Which, slanderer, he imitation calls,\n" + " He pageants us. Sometime, great Agamemnon,\n" + " Thy topless deputation he puts on,\n" + " And, like a strutting player, whose conceit\n" + " Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich\n" + " To hear the wooden dialogue and sound\n" + " 'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage,--\n" + " Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming\n" + " He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks,\n" + " 'Tis like a chime a-mending; with terms unsquared,\n" + " Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd\n" + " Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff\n" + " The large Achilles, on his press'd bed lolling,\n" + " From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause;\n" + " Cries 'Excellent! 'tis Agamemnon just.\n" + " Now play me Nestor; hem, and stroke thy beard,\n" + " As he being drest to some oration.'\n" + " That's done, as near as the extremest ends\n" + " Of parallels, as like as Vulcan and his wife:\n" + " Yet god Achilles still cries 'Excellent!\n" + " 'Tis Nestor right. Now play him me, Patroclus,\n" + " Arming to answer in a night alarm.'\n" + " And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age\n" + " Must be the scene of mirth; to cough and spit,\n" + " And, with a palsy-fumbling on his gorget,\n" + " Shake in and out the rivet: and at this sport\n" + " Sir Valour dies; cries 'O, enough, Patroclus;\n" + " Or give me ribs of steel! I shall split all\n" + " In pleasure of my spleen.' And in this fashion,\n" + " All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes,\n" + " Severals and generals of grace exact,\n" + " Achievements, plots, orders, preventions,\n" + " Excitements to the field, or speech for truce,\n" + " Success or loss, what is or is not, serves\n" + " As stuff for these two to make paradoxes.\n\n" + "NESTOR And in the imitation of these twain--\n" + " Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns\n" + " With an imperial voice--many are infect.\n" + " Ajax is grown self-will'd, and bears his head\n" + " In such a rein, in full as proud a place\n" + " As broad Achilles; keeps his tent like him;\n" + " Makes factious feasts; rails on our state of war,\n" + " Bold as an oracle, and sets Thersites,\n" + " A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint,\n" + " To match us in comparisons with dirt,\n" + " To weaken and discredit our exposure,\n" + " How rank soever rounded in with danger.\n\n" + "ULYSSES They tax our policy, and call it cowardice,\n" + " Count wisdom as no member of the war,\n" + " Forestall prescience, and esteem no act\n" + " But that of hand: the still and mental parts,\n" + " That do contrive how many hands shall strike,\n" + " When fitness calls them on, and know by measure\n" + " Of their observant toil the enemies' weight,--\n" + " Why, this hath not a finger's dignity:\n" + " They call this bed-work, mappery, closet-war;\n" + " So that the ram that batters down the wall,\n" + " For the great swing and rudeness of his poise,\n" + " They place before his hand that made the engine,\n" + " Or those that with the fineness of their souls\n" + " By reason guide his execution.\n\n" + "NESTOR Let this be granted, and Achilles' horse\n" + " Makes many Thetis' sons.\n\n" + " [A tucket]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON What trumpet? look, Menelaus.\n\n" + "MENELAUS From Troy.\n\n" + " [Enter AENEAS]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON What would you 'fore our tent?\n\n" + "AENEAS Is this great Agamemnon's tent, I pray you?\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Even this.\n\n" + "AENEAS May one, that is a herald and a prince,\n" + " Do a fair message to his kingly ears?\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON With surety stronger than Achilles' arm\n" + " 'Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice\n" + " Call Agamemnon head and general.\n\n" + "AENEAS Fair leave and large security. How may\n" + " A stranger to those most imperial looks\n" + " Know them from eyes of other mortals?\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON How!\n\n" + "AENEAS Ay;\n" + " I ask, that I might waken reverence,\n" + " And bid the cheek be ready with a blush\n" + " Modest as morning when she coldly eyes\n" + " The youthful Phoebus:\n" + " Which is that god in office, guiding men?\n" + " Which is the high and mighty Agamemnon?\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON This Trojan scorns us; or the men of Troy\n" + " Are ceremonious courtiers.\n\n" + "AENEAS Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm'd,\n" + " As bending angels; that's their fame in peace:\n" + " But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls,\n" + " Good arms, strong joints, true swords; and,\n" + " Jove's accord,\n" + " Nothing so full of heart. But peace, AEneas,\n" + " Peace, Trojan; lay thy finger on thy lips!\n" + " The worthiness of praise distains his worth,\n" + " If that the praised himself bring the praise forth:\n" + " But what the repining enemy commends,\n" + " That breath fame blows; that praise, sole sure,\n" + " transcends.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself AEneas?\n\n" + "AENEAS Ay, Greek, that is my name.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON What's your affair I pray you?\n\n" + "AENEAS Sir, pardon; 'tis for Agamemnon's ears.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON He hears naught privately that comes from Troy.\n\n" + "AENEAS Nor I from Troy come not to whisper him:\n" + " I bring a trumpet to awake his ear,\n" + " To set his sense on the attentive bent,\n" + " And then to speak.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Speak frankly as the wind;\n" + " It is not Agamemnon's sleeping hour:\n" + " That thou shalt know. Trojan, he is awake,\n" + " He tells thee so himself.\n\n" + "AENEAS Trumpet, blow loud,\n" + " Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents;\n" + " And every Greek of mettle, let him know,\n" + " What Troy means fairly shall be spoke aloud.\n\n" + " [Trumpet sounds]\n\n" + " We have, great Agamemnon, here in Troy\n" + " A prince call'd Hector,--Priam is his father,--\n" + " Who in this dull and long-continued truce\n" + " Is rusty grown: he bade me take a trumpet,\n" + " And to this purpose speak. Kings, princes, lords!\n" + " If there be one among the fair'st of Greece\n" + " That holds his honour higher than his ease,\n" + " That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril,\n" + " That knows his valour, and knows not his fear,\n" + " That loves his mistress more than in confession,\n" + " With truant vows to her own lips he loves,\n" + " And dare avow her beauty and her worth\n" + " In other arms than hers,--to him this challenge.\n" + " Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,\n" + " Shall make it good, or do his best to do it,\n" + " He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer,\n" + " Than ever Greek did compass in his arms,\n" + " And will to-morrow with his trumpet call\n" + " Midway between your tents and walls of Troy,\n" + " To rouse a Grecian that is true in love:\n" + " If any come, Hector shall honour him;\n" + " If none, he'll say in Troy when he retires,\n" + " The Grecian dames are sunburnt and not worth\n" + " The splinter of a lance. Even so much.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON This shall be told our lovers, Lord AEneas;\n" + " If none of them have soul in such a kind,\n" + " We left them all at home: but we are soldiers;\n" + " And may that soldier a mere recreant prove,\n" + " That means not, hath not, or is not in love!\n" + " If then one is, or hath, or means to be,\n" + " That one meets Hector; if none else, I am he.\n\n" + "NESTOR Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man\n" + " When Hector's grandsire suck'd: he is old now;\n" + " But if there be not in our Grecian host\n" + " One noble man that hath one spark of fire,\n" + " To answer for his love, tell him from me\n" + " I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver\n" + " And in my vantbrace put this wither'd brawn,\n" + " And meeting him will tell him that my lady\n" + " Was fairer than his grandam and as chaste\n" + " As may be in the world: his youth in flood,\n" + " I'll prove this truth with my three drops of blood.\n\n" + "AENEAS Now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth!\n\n" + "ULYSSES Amen.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Fair Lord AEneas, let me touch your hand;\n" + " To our pavilion shall I lead you, sir.\n" + " Achilles shall have word of this intent;\n" + " So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to tent:\n" + " Yourself shall feast with us before you go\n" + " And find the welcome of a noble foe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all but ULYSSES and NESTOR]\n\n" + "ULYSSES Nestor!\n\n" + "NESTOR What says Ulysses?\n\n" + "ULYSSES I have a young conception in my brain;\n" + " Be you my time to bring it to some shape.\n\n" + "NESTOR What is't?\n\n" + "ULYSSES This 'tis:\n" + " Blunt wedges rive hard knots: the seeded pride\n" + " That hath to this maturity blown up\n" + " In rank Achilles must or now be cropp'd,\n" + " Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil,\n" + " To overbulk us all.\n\n" + "NESTOR Well, and how?\n\n" + "ULYSSES This challenge that the gallant Hector sends,\n" + " However it is spread in general name,\n" + " Relates in purpose only to Achilles.\n\n" + "NESTOR The purpose is perspicuous even as substance,\n" + " Whose grossness little characters sum up:\n" + " And, in the publication, make no strain,\n" + " But that Achilles, were his brain as barren\n" + " As banks of Libya,--though, Apollo knows,\n" + " 'Tis dry enough,--will, with great speed of judgment,\n" + " Ay, with celerity, find Hector's purpose\n" + " Pointing on him.\n\n" + "ULYSSES And wake him to the answer, think you?\n\n" + "NESTOR Yes, 'tis most meet: whom may you else oppose,\n" + " That can from Hector bring his honour off,\n" + " If not Achilles? Though't be a sportful combat,\n" + " Yet in the trial much opinion dwells;\n" + " For here the Trojans taste our dear'st repute\n" + " With their finest palate: and trust to me, Ulysses,\n" + " Our imputation shall be oddly poised\n" + " In this wild action; for the success,\n" + " Although particular, shall give a scantling\n" + " Of good or bad unto the general;\n" + " And in such indexes, although small pricks\n" + " To their subsequent volumes, there is seen\n" + " The baby figure of the giant mass\n" + " Of things to come at large. It is supposed\n" + " He that meets Hector issues from our choice\n" + " And choice, being mutual act of all our souls,\n" + " Makes merit her election, and doth boil,\n" + " As 'twere from us all, a man distill'd\n" + " Out of our virtues; who miscarrying,\n" + " What heart receives from hence the conquering part,\n" + " To steel a strong opinion to themselves?\n" + " Which entertain'd, limbs are his instruments,\n" + " In no less working than are swords and bows\n" + " Directive by the limbs.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Give pardon to my speech:\n" + " Therefore 'tis meet Achilles meet not Hector.\n" + " Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,\n" + " And think, perchance, they'll sell; if not,\n" + " The lustre of the better yet to show,\n" + " Shall show the better. Do not consent\n" + " That ever Hector and Achilles meet;\n" + " For both our honour and our shame in this\n" + " Are dogg'd with two strange followers.\n\n" + "NESTOR I see them not with my old eyes: what are they?\n\n" + "ULYSSES What glory our Achilles shares from Hector,\n" + " Were he not proud, we all should share with him:\n" + " But he already is too insolent;\n" + " And we were better parch in Afric sun\n" + " Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes,\n" + " Should he 'scape Hector fair: if he were foil'd,\n" + " Why then, we did our main opinion crush\n" + " In taint of our best man. No, make a lottery;\n" + " And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw\n" + " The sort to fight with Hector: among ourselves\n" + " Give him allowance for the better man;\n" + " For that will physic the great Myrmidon\n" + " Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall\n" + " His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends.\n" + " If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off,\n" + " We'll dress him up in voices: if he fail,\n" + " Yet go we under our opinion still\n" + " That we have better men. But, hit or miss,\n" + " Our project's life this shape of sense assumes:\n" + " Ajax employ'd plucks down Achilles' plumes.\n\n" + "NESTOR Ulysses,\n" + " Now I begin to relish thy advice;\n" + " And I will give a taste of it forthwith\n" + " To Agamemnon: go we to him straight.\n" + " Two curs shall tame each other: pride alone\n" + " Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A part of the Grecian camp.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AJAX and THERSITES]\n\n" + "AJAX Thersites!\n\n" + "THERSITES Agamemnon, how if he had boils? full, all over,\n" + " generally?\n\n" + "AJAX Thersites!\n\n" + "THERSITES And those boils did run? say so: did not the\n" + " general run then? were not that a botchy core?\n\n" + "AJAX Dog!\n\n" + "THERSITES Then would come some matter from him; I see none now.\n\n" + "AJAX Thou bitch-wolf's son, canst thou not hear?\n\n" + " [Beating him]\n\n" + " Feel, then.\n\n" + "THERSITES The plague of Greece upon thee, thou mongrel\n" + " beef-witted lord!\n\n" + "AJAX Speak then, thou vinewedst leaven, speak: I will\n" + " beat thee into handsomeness.\n\n" + "THERSITES I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness: but,\n" + " I think, thy horse will sooner con an oration than\n" + " thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike,\n" + " canst thou? a red murrain o' thy jade's tricks!\n\n" + "AJAX Toadstool, learn me the proclamation.\n\n" + "THERSITES Dost thou think I have no sense, thou strikest me thus?\n\n" + "AJAX The proclamation!\n\n" + "THERSITES Thou art proclaimed a fool, I think.\n\n" + "AJAX Do not, porpentine, do not: my fingers itch.\n\n" + "THERSITES I would thou didst itch from head to foot and I had\n" + " the scratching of thee; I would make thee the\n" + " loathsomest scab in Greece. When thou art forth in\n" + " the incursions, thou strikest as slow as another.\n\n" + "AJAX I say, the proclamation!\n\n" + "THERSITES Thou grumblest and railest every hour on Achilles,\n" + " and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as\n" + " Cerberus is at Proserpine's beauty, ay, that thou\n" + " barkest at him.\n\n" + "AJAX Mistress Thersites!\n\n" + "THERSITES Thou shouldest strike him.\n\n" + "AJAX Cobloaf!\n\n" + "THERSITES He would pun thee into shivers with his fist, as a\n" + " sailor breaks a biscuit.\n\n" + "AJAX [Beating him] You whoreson cur!\n\n" + "THERSITES Do, do.\n\n" + "AJAX Thou stool for a witch!\n\n" + "THERSITES Ay, do, do; thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no\n" + " more brain than I have in mine elbows; an assinego\n" + " may tutor thee: thou scurvy-valiant ass! thou art\n" + " here but to thrash Trojans; and thou art bought and\n" + " sold among those of any wit, like a barbarian slave.\n" + " If thou use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and\n" + " tell what thou art by inches, thou thing of no\n" + " bowels, thou!\n\n" + "AJAX You dog!\n\n" + "THERSITES You scurvy lord!\n\n" + "AJAX [Beating him] You cur!\n\n" + "THERSITES Mars his idiot! do, rudeness; do, camel; do, do.\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Why, how now, Ajax! wherefore do you thus? How now,\n" + " Thersites! what's the matter, man?\n\n" + "THERSITES You see him there, do you?\n\n" + "ACHILLES Ay; what's the matter?\n\n" + "THERSITES Nay, look upon him.\n\n" + "ACHILLES So I do: what's the matter?\n\n" + "THERSITES Nay, but regard him well.\n\n" + "ACHILLES 'Well!' why, I do so.\n\n" + "THERSITES But yet you look not well upon him; for whosoever you\n" + " take him to be, he is Ajax.\n\n" + "ACHILLES I know that, fool.\n\n" + "THERSITES Ay, but that fool knows not himself.\n\n" + "AJAX Therefore I beat thee.\n\n" + "THERSITES Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he utters! his\n" + " evasions have ears thus long. I have bobbed his\n" + " brain more than he has beat my bones: I will buy\n" + " nine sparrows for a penny, and his pia mater is not\n" + " worth the nineth part of a sparrow. This lord,\n" + " Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and\n" + " his guts in his head, I'll tell you what I say of\n" + " him.\n\n" + "ACHILLES What?\n\n" + "THERSITES I say, this Ajax--\n\n" + " [Ajax offers to beat him]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Nay, good Ajax.\n\n" + "THERSITES Has not so much wit--\n\n" + "ACHILLES Nay, I must hold you.\n\n" + "THERSITES As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for whom he\n" + " comes to fight.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Peace, fool!\n\n" + "THERSITES I would have peace and quietness, but the fool will\n" + " not: he there: that he: look you there.\n\n" + "AJAX O thou damned cur! I shall--\n\n" + "ACHILLES Will you set your wit to a fool's?\n\n" + "THERSITES No, I warrant you; for a fools will shame it.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Good words, Thersites.\n\n" + "ACHILLES What's the quarrel?\n\n" + "AJAX I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the\n" + " proclamation, and he rails upon me.\n\n" + "THERSITES I serve thee not.\n\n" + "AJAX Well, go to, go to.\n\n" + "THERSITES I serve here voluntarily.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Your last service was sufferance, 'twas not\n" + " voluntary: no man is beaten voluntary: Ajax was\n" + " here the voluntary, and you as under an impress.\n\n" + "THERSITES E'en so; a great deal of your wit, too, lies in your\n" + " sinews, or else there be liars. Hector have a great\n" + " catch, if he knock out either of your brains: a'\n" + " were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.\n\n" + "ACHILLES What, with me too, Thersites?\n\n" + "THERSITES There's Ulysses and old Nestor, whose wit was mouldy\n" + " ere your grandsires had nails on their toes, yoke you\n" + " like draught-oxen and make you plough up the wars.\n\n" + "ACHILLES What, what?\n\n" + "THERSITES Yes, good sooth: to, Achilles! to, Ajax! to!\n\n" + "AJAX I shall cut out your tongue.\n\n" + "THERSITES 'Tis no matter! I shall speak as much as thou\n" + " afterwards.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS No more words, Thersites; peace!\n\n" + "THERSITES I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?\n\n" + "ACHILLES There's for you, Patroclus.\n\n" + "THERSITES I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come\n" + " any more to your tents: I will keep where there is\n" + " wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PATROCLUS A good riddance.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Marry, this, sir, is proclaim'd through all our host:\n" + " That Hector, by the fifth hour of the sun,\n" + " Will with a trumpet 'twixt our tents and Troy\n" + " To-morrow morning call some knight to arms\n" + " That hath a stomach; and such a one that dare\n" + " Maintain--I know not what: 'tis trash. Farewell.\n\n" + "AJAX Farewell. Who shall answer him?\n\n" + "ACHILLES I know not: 'tis put to lottery; otherwise\n" + " He knew his man.\n\n" + "AJAX O, meaning you. I will go learn more of it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Troy. A room in Priam's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS]\n\n" + "PRIAM After so many hours, lives, speeches spent,\n" + " Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks:\n" + " 'Deliver Helen, and all damage else--\n" + " As honour, loss of time, travail, expense,\n" + " Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consumed\n" + " In hot digestion of this cormorant war--\n" + " Shall be struck off.' Hector, what say you to't?\n\n" + "HECTOR Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I\n" + " As far as toucheth my particular,\n" + " Yet, dread Priam,\n" + " There is no lady of more softer bowels,\n" + " More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,\n" + " More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?'\n" + " Than Hector is: the wound of peace is surety,\n" + " Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd\n" + " The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches\n" + " To the bottom of the worst. Let Helen go:\n" + " Since the first sword was drawn about this question,\n" + " Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismes,\n" + " Hath been as dear as Helen; I mean, of ours:\n" + " If we have lost so many tenths of ours,\n" + " To guard a thing not ours nor worth to us,\n" + " Had it our name, the value of one ten,\n" + " What merit's in that reason which denies\n" + " The yielding of her up?\n\n" + "TROILUS Fie, fie, my brother!\n" + " Weigh you the worth and honour of a king\n" + " So great as our dread father in a scale\n" + " Of common ounces? will you with counters sum\n" + " The past proportion of his infinite?\n" + " And buckle in a waist most fathomless\n" + " With spans and inches so diminutive\n" + " As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame!\n\n" + "HELENUS No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons,\n" + " You are so empty of them. Should not our father\n" + " Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons,\n" + " Because your speech hath none that tells him so?\n\n" + "TROILUS You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest;\n" + " You fur your gloves with reason. Here are\n" + " your reasons:\n" + " You know an enemy intends you harm;\n" + " You know a sword employ'd is perilous,\n" + " And reason flies the object of all harm:\n" + " Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds\n" + " A Grecian and his sword, if he do set\n" + " The very wings of reason to his heels\n" + " And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove,\n" + " Or like a star disorb'd? Nay, if we talk of reason,\n" + " Let's shut our gates and sleep: manhood and honour\n" + " Should have hare-hearts, would they but fat\n" + " their thoughts\n" + " With this cramm'd reason: reason and respect\n" + " Make livers pale and lustihood deject.\n\n" + "HECTOR Brother, she is not worth what she doth cost\n" + " The holding.\n\n" + "TROILUS What is aught, but as 'tis valued?\n\n" + "HECTOR But value dwells not in particular will;\n" + " It holds his estimate and dignity\n" + " As well wherein 'tis precious of itself\n" + " As in the prizer: 'tis mad idolatry\n" + " To make the service greater than the god\n" + " And the will dotes that is attributive\n" + " To what infectiously itself affects,\n" + " Without some image of the affected merit.\n\n" + "TROILUS I take to-day a wife, and my election\n" + " Is led on in the conduct of my will;\n" + " My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,\n" + " Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores\n" + " Of will and judgment: how may I avoid,\n" + " Although my will distaste what it elected,\n" + " The wife I chose? there can be no evasion\n" + " To blench from this and to stand firm by honour:\n" + " We turn not back the silks upon the merchant,\n" + " When we have soil'd them, nor the remainder viands\n" + " We do not throw in unrespective sieve,\n" + " Because we now are full. It was thought meet\n" + " Paris should do some vengeance on the Greeks:\n" + " Your breath of full consent bellied his sails;\n" + " The seas and winds, old wranglers, took a truce\n" + " And did him service: he touch'd the ports desired,\n" + " And for an old aunt whom the Greeks held captive,\n" + " He brought a Grecian queen, whose youth and freshness\n" + " Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning.\n" + " Why keep we her? the Grecians keep our aunt:\n" + " Is she worth keeping? why, she is a pearl,\n" + " Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships,\n" + " And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants.\n" + " If you'll avouch 'twas wisdom Paris went--\n" + " As you must needs, for you all cried 'Go, go,'--\n" + " If you'll confess he brought home noble prize--\n" + " As you must needs, for you all clapp'd your hands\n" + " And cried 'Inestimable!'--why do you now\n" + " The issue of your proper wisdoms rate,\n" + " And do a deed that fortune never did,\n" + " Beggar the estimation which you prized\n" + " Richer than sea and land? O, theft most base,\n" + " That we have stol'n what we do fear to keep!\n" + " But, thieves, unworthy of a thing so stol'n,\n" + " That in their country did them that disgrace,\n" + " We fear to warrant in our native place!\n\n" + "CASSANDRA [Within] Cry, Trojans, cry!\n\n" + "PRIAM What noise? what shriek is this?\n\n" + "TROILUS 'Tis our mad sister, I do know her voice.\n\n" + "CASSANDRA [Within] Cry, Trojans!\n\n" + "HECTOR It is Cassandra.\n\n" + " [Enter CASSANDRA, raving]\n\n" + "CASSANDRA Cry, Trojans, cry! lend me ten thousand eyes,\n" + " And I will fill them with prophetic tears.\n\n" + "HECTOR Peace, sister, peace!\n\n" + "CASSANDRA Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled eld,\n" + " Soft infancy, that nothing canst but cry,\n" + " Add to my clamours! let us pay betimes\n" + " A moiety of that mass of moan to come.\n" + " Cry, Trojans, cry! practise your eyes with tears!\n" + " Troy must not be, nor goodly Ilion stand;\n" + " Our firebrand brother, Paris, burns us all.\n" + " Cry, Trojans, cry! a Helen and a woe:\n" + " Cry, cry! Troy burns, or else let Helen go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HECTOR Now, youthful Troilus, do not these high strains\n" + " Of divination in our sister work\n" + " Some touches of remorse? or is your blood\n" + " So madly hot that no discourse of reason,\n" + " Nor fear of bad success in a bad cause,\n" + " Can qualify the same?\n\n" + "TROILUS Why, brother Hector,\n" + " We may not think the justness of each act\n" + " Such and no other than event doth form it,\n" + " Nor once deject the courage of our minds,\n" + " Because Cassandra's mad: her brain-sick raptures\n" + " Cannot distaste the goodness of a quarrel\n" + " Which hath our several honours all engaged\n" + " To make it gracious. For my private part,\n" + " I am no more touch'd than all Priam's sons:\n" + " And Jove forbid there should be done amongst us\n" + " Such things as might offend the weakest spleen\n" + " To fight for and maintain!\n\n" + "PARIS Else might the world convince of levity\n" + " As well my undertakings as your counsels:\n" + " But I attest the gods, your full consent\n" + " Gave wings to my propension and cut off\n" + " All fears attending on so dire a project.\n" + " For what, alas, can these my single arms?\n" + " What Propugnation is in one man's valour,\n" + " To stand the push and enmity of those\n" + " This quarrel would excite? Yet, I protest,\n" + " Were I alone to pass the difficulties\n" + " And had as ample power as I have will,\n" + " Paris should ne'er retract what he hath done,\n" + " Nor faint in the pursuit.\n\n" + "PRIAM Paris, you speak\n" + " Like one besotted on your sweet delights:\n" + " You have the honey still, but these the gall;\n" + " So to be valiant is no praise at all.\n\n" + "PARIS Sir, I propose not merely to myself\n" + " The pleasures such a beauty brings with it;\n" + " But I would have the soil of her fair rape\n" + " Wiped off, in honourable keeping her.\n" + " What treason were it to the ransack'd queen,\n" + " Disgrace to your great worths and shame to me,\n" + " Now to deliver her possession up\n" + " On terms of base compulsion! Can it be\n" + " That so degenerate a strain as this\n" + " Should once set footing in your generous bosoms?\n" + " There's not the meanest spirit on our party\n" + " Without a heart to dare or sword to draw\n" + " When Helen is defended, nor none so noble\n" + " Whose life were ill bestow'd or death unfamed\n" + " Where Helen is the subject; then, I say,\n" + " Well may we fight for her whom, we know well,\n" + " The world's large spaces cannot parallel.\n\n" + "HECTOR Paris and Troilus, you have both said well,\n" + " And on the cause and question now in hand\n" + " Have glozed, but superficially: not much\n" + " Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought\n" + " Unfit to hear moral philosophy:\n" + " The reasons you allege do more conduce\n" + " To the hot passion of distemper'd blood\n" + " Than to make up a free determination\n" + " 'Twixt right and wrong, for pleasure and revenge\n" + " Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice\n" + " Of any true decision. Nature craves\n" + " All dues be render'd to their owners: now,\n" + " What nearer debt in all humanity\n" + " Than wife is to the husband? If this law\n" + " Of nature be corrupted through affection,\n" + " And that great minds, of partial indulgence\n" + " To their benumbed wills, resist the same,\n" + " There is a law in each well-order'd nation\n" + " To curb those raging appetites that are\n" + " Most disobedient and refractory.\n" + " If Helen then be wife to Sparta's king,\n" + " As it is known she is, these moral laws\n" + " Of nature and of nations speak aloud\n" + " To have her back return'd: thus to persist\n" + " In doing wrong extenuates not wrong,\n" + " But makes it much more heavy. Hector's opinion\n" + " Is this in way of truth; yet ne'ertheless,\n" + " My spritely brethren, I propend to you\n" + " In resolution to keep Helen still,\n" + " For 'tis a cause that hath no mean dependance\n" + " Upon our joint and several dignities.\n\n" + "TROILUS Why, there you touch'd the life of our design:\n" + " Were it not glory that we more affected\n" + " Than the performance of our heaving spleens,\n" + " I would not wish a drop of Trojan blood\n" + " Spent more in her defence. But, worthy Hector,\n" + " She is a theme of honour and renown,\n" + " A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds,\n" + " Whose present courage may beat down our foes,\n" + " And fame in time to come canonize us;\n" + " For, I presume, brave Hector would not lose\n" + " So rich advantage of a promised glory\n" + " As smiles upon the forehead of this action\n" + " For the wide world's revenue.\n\n" + "HECTOR I am yours,\n" + " You valiant offspring of great Priamus.\n" + " I have a roisting challenge sent amongst\n" + " The dun and factious nobles of the Greeks\n" + " Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits:\n" + " I was advertised their great general slept,\n" + " Whilst emulation in the army crept:\n" + " This, I presume, will wake him.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter THERSITES, solus]\n\n" + "THERSITES How now, Thersites! what lost in the labyrinth of\n" + " thy fury! Shall the elephant Ajax carry it thus? He\n" + " beats me, and I rail at him: O, worthy satisfaction!\n" + " would it were otherwise; that I could beat him,\n" + " whilst he railed at me. 'Sfoot, I'll learn to\n" + " conjure and raise devils, but I'll see some issue of\n" + " my spiteful execrations. Then there's Achilles, a\n" + " rare enginer! If Troy be not taken till these two\n" + " undermine it, the walls will stand till they fall of\n" + " themselves. O thou great thunder-darter of Olympus,\n" + " forget that thou art Jove, the king of gods and,\n" + " Mercury, lose all the serpentine craft of thy\n" + " caduceus, if ye take not that little, little less\n" + " than little wit from them that they have! which\n" + " short-armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant\n" + " scarce, it will not in circumvention deliver a fly\n" + " from a spider, without drawing their massy irons and\n" + " cutting the web. After this, the vengeance on the\n" + " whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that,\n" + " methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war\n" + " for a placket. I have said my prayers and devil Envy\n" + " say Amen. What ho! my Lord Achilles!\n\n" + " [Enter PATROCLUS]\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Who's there? Thersites! Good Thersites, come in and rail.\n\n" + "THERSITES If I could have remembered a gilt counterfeit, thou\n" + " wouldst not have slipped out of my contemplation: but\n" + " it is no matter; thyself upon thyself! The common\n" + " curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in\n" + " great revenue! heaven bless thee from a tutor, and\n" + " discipline come not near thee! Let thy blood be thy\n" + " direction till thy death! then if she that lays thee\n" + " out says thou art a fair corse, I'll be sworn and\n" + " sworn upon't she never shrouded any but lazars.\n" + " Amen. Where's Achilles?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS What, art thou devout? wast thou in prayer?\n\n" + "THERSITES Ay: the heavens hear me!\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Who's there?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Thersites, my lord.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Where, where? Art thou come? why, my cheese, my\n" + " digestion, why hast thou not served thyself in to\n" + " my table so many meals? Come, what's Agamemnon?\n\n" + "THERSITES Thy commander, Achilles. Then tell me, Patroclus,\n" + " what's Achilles?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Thy lord, Thersites: then tell me, I pray thee,\n" + " what's thyself?\n\n" + "THERSITES Thy knower, Patroclus: then tell me, Patroclus,\n" + " what art thou?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Thou mayst tell that knowest.\n\n" + "ACHILLES O, tell, tell.\n\n" + "THERSITES I'll decline the whole question. Agamemnon commands\n" + " Achilles; Achilles is my lord; I am Patroclus'\n" + " knower, and Patroclus is a fool.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS You rascal!\n\n" + "THERSITES Peace, fool! I have not done.\n\n" + "ACHILLES He is a privileged man. Proceed, Thersites.\n\n" + "THERSITES Agamemnon is a fool; Achilles is a fool; Thersites\n" + " is a fool, and, as aforesaid, Patroclus is a fool.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Derive this; come.\n\n" + "THERSITES Agamemnon is a fool to offer to command Achilles;\n" + " Achilles is a fool to be commanded of Agamemnon;\n" + " Thersites is a fool to serve such a fool, and\n" + " Patroclus is a fool positive.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Why am I a fool?\n\n" + "THERSITES Make that demand of the prover. It suffices me thou\n" + " art. Look you, who comes here?\n\n" + "ACHILLES Patroclus, I'll speak with nobody.\n" + " Come in with me, Thersites.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "THERSITES Here is such patchery, such juggling and such\n" + " knavery! all the argument is a cuckold and a\n" + " whore; a good quarrel to draw emulous factions\n" + " and bleed to death upon. Now, the dry serpigo on\n" + " the subject! and war and lechery confound all!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and AJAX]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Where is Achilles?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Within his tent; but ill disposed, my lord.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Let it be known to him that we are here.\n" + " He shent our messengers; and we lay by\n" + " Our appertainments, visiting of him:\n" + " Let him be told so; lest perchance he think\n" + " We dare not move the question of our place,\n" + " Or know not what we are.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS I shall say so to him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ULYSSES We saw him at the opening of his tent:\n" + " He is not sick.\n\n" + "AJAX Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud heart: you may call it\n" + " melancholy, if you will favour the man; but, by my\n" + " head, 'tis pride: but why, why? let him show us the\n" + " cause. A word, my lord.\n\n" + " [Takes AGAMEMNON aside]\n\n" + "NESTOR What moves Ajax thus to bay at him?\n\n" + "ULYSSES Achilles hath inveigled his fool from him.\n\n" + "NESTOR Who, Thersites?\n\n" + "ULYSSES He.\n\n" + "NESTOR Then will Ajax lack matter, if he have lost his argument.\n\n" + "ULYSSES No, you see, he is his argument that has his\n" + " argument, Achilles.\n\n" + "NESTOR All the better; their fraction is more our wish than\n" + " their faction: but it was a strong composure a fool\n" + " could disunite.\n\n" + "ULYSSES The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily\n" + " untie. Here comes Patroclus.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PATROCLUS]\n\n" + "NESTOR No Achilles with him.\n\n" + "ULYSSES The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy:\n" + " his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Achilles bids me say, he is much sorry,\n" + " If any thing more than your sport and pleasure\n" + " Did move your greatness and this noble state\n" + " To call upon him; he hopes it is no other\n" + " But for your health and your digestion sake,\n" + " And after-dinner's breath.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Hear you, Patroclus:\n" + " We are too well acquainted with these answers:\n" + " But his evasion, wing'd thus swift with scorn,\n" + " Cannot outfly our apprehensions.\n" + " Much attribute he hath, and much the reason\n" + " Why we ascribe it to him; yet all his virtues,\n" + " Not virtuously on his own part beheld,\n" + " Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss,\n" + " Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish,\n" + " Are like to rot untasted. Go and tell him,\n" + " We come to speak with him; and you shall not sin,\n" + " If you do say we think him over-proud\n" + " And under-honest, in self-assumption greater\n" + " Than in the note of judgment; and worthier\n" + " than himself\n" + " Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on,\n" + " Disguise the holy strength of their command,\n" + " And underwrite in an observing kind\n" + " His humorous predominance; yea, watch\n" + " His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if\n" + " The passage and whole carriage of this action\n" + " Rode on his tide. Go tell him this, and add,\n" + " That if he overhold his price so much,\n" + " We'll none of him; but let him, like an engine\n" + " Not portable, lie under this report:\n" + " 'Bring action hither, this cannot go to war:\n" + " A stirring dwarf we do allowance give\n" + " Before a sleeping giant.' Tell him so.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS I shall; and bring his answer presently.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON In second voice we'll not be satisfied;\n" + " We come to speak with him. Ulysses, enter you.\n\n" + " [Exit ULYSSES]\n\n" + "AJAX What is he more than another?\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON No more than what he thinks he is.\n\n" + "AJAX Is he so much? Do you not think he thinks himself a\n" + " better man than I am?\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON No question.\n\n" + "AJAX Will you subscribe his thought, and say he is?\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON No, noble Ajax; you are as strong, as valiant, as\n" + " wise, no less noble, much more gentle, and altogether\n" + " more tractable.\n\n" + "AJAX Why should a man be proud? How doth pride grow? I\n" + " know not what pride is.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues the\n" + " fairer. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is\n" + " his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;\n" + " and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours\n" + " the deed in the praise.\n\n" + "AJAX I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.\n\n" + "NESTOR Yet he loves himself: is't not strange?\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " [Re-enter ULYSSES]\n\n" + "ULYSSES Achilles will not to the field to-morrow.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON What's his excuse?\n\n" + "ULYSSES He doth rely on none,\n" + " But carries on the stream of his dispose\n" + " Without observance or respect of any,\n" + " In will peculiar and in self-admission.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Why will he not upon our fair request\n" + " Untent his person and share the air with us?\n\n" + "ULYSSES Things small as nothing, for request's sake only,\n" + " He makes important: possess'd he is with greatness,\n" + " And speaks not to himself but with a pride\n" + " That quarrels at self-breath: imagined worth\n" + " Holds in his blood such swoln and hot discourse\n" + " That 'twixt his mental and his active parts\n" + " Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages\n" + " And batters down himself: what should I say?\n" + " He is so plaguy proud that the death-tokens of it\n" + " Cry 'No recovery.'\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Let Ajax go to him.\n" + " Dear lord, go you and greet him in his tent:\n" + " 'Tis said he holds you well, and will be led\n" + " At your request a little from himself.\n\n" + "ULYSSES O Agamemnon, let it not be so!\n" + " We'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes\n" + " When they go from Achilles: shall the proud lord\n" + " That bastes his arrogance with his own seam\n" + " And never suffers matter of the world\n" + " Enter his thoughts, save such as do revolve\n" + " And ruminate himself, shall he be worshipp'd\n" + " Of that we hold an idol more than he?\n" + " No, this thrice worthy and right valiant lord\n" + " Must not so stale his palm, nobly acquired;\n" + " Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit,\n" + " As amply titled as Achilles is,\n" + " By going to Achilles:\n" + " That were to enlard his fat already pride\n" + " And add more coals to Cancer when he burns\n" + " With entertaining great Hyperion.\n" + " This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid,\n" + " And say in thunder 'Achilles go to him.'\n\n" + "NESTOR [Aside to DIOMEDES] O, this is well; he rubs the\n" + " vein of him.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES [Aside to NESTOR] And how his silence drinks up\n" + " this applause!\n\n" + "AJAX If I go to him, with my armed fist I'll pash him o'er the face.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON O, no, you shall not go.\n\n" + "AJAX An a' be proud with me, I'll pheeze his pride:\n" + " Let me go to him.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel.\n\n" + "AJAX A paltry, insolent fellow!\n\n" + "NESTOR How he describes himself!\n\n" + "AJAX Can he not be sociable?\n\n" + "ULYSSES The raven chides blackness.\n\n" + "AJAX I'll let his humours blood.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON He will be the physician that should be the patient.\n\n" + "AJAX An all men were o' my mind,--\n\n" + "ULYSSES Wit would be out of fashion.\n\n" + "AJAX A' should not bear it so, a' should eat swords first:\n" + " shall pride carry it?\n\n" + "NESTOR An 'twould, you'ld carry half.\n\n" + "ULYSSES A' would have ten shares.\n\n" + "AJAX I will knead him; I'll make him supple.\n\n" + "NESTOR He's not yet through warm: force him with praises:\n" + " pour in, pour in; his ambition is dry.\n\n" + "ULYSSES [To AGAMEMNON] My lord, you feed too much on this dislike.\n\n" + "NESTOR Our noble general, do not do so.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES You must prepare to fight without Achilles.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Why, 'tis this naming of him does him harm.\n" + " Here is a man--but 'tis before his face;\n" + " I will be silent.\n\n" + "NESTOR Wherefore should you so?\n" + " He is not emulous, as Achilles is.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Know the whole world, he is as valiant.\n\n" + "AJAX A whoreson dog, that shall pelter thus with us!\n" + " Would he were a Trojan!\n\n" + "NESTOR What a vice were it in Ajax now,--\n\n" + "ULYSSES If he were proud,--\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Or covetous of praise,--\n\n" + "ULYSSES Ay, or surly borne,--\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Or strange, or self-affected!\n\n" + "ULYSSES Thank the heavens, lord, thou art of sweet composure;\n" + " Praise him that got thee, she that gave thee suck:\n" + " Famed be thy tutor, and thy parts of nature\n" + " Thrice famed, beyond all erudition:\n" + " But he that disciplined thy arms to fight,\n" + " Let Mars divide eternity in twain,\n" + " And give him half: and, for thy vigour,\n" + " Bull-bearing Milo his addition yield\n" + " To sinewy Ajax. I will not praise thy wisdom,\n" + " Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, confines\n" + " Thy spacious and dilated parts: here's Nestor;\n" + " Instructed by the antiquary times,\n" + " He must, he is, he cannot but be wise:\n" + " Put pardon, father Nestor, were your days\n" + " As green as Ajax' and your brain so temper'd,\n" + " You should not have the eminence of him,\n" + " But be as Ajax.\n\n" + "AJAX Shall I call you father?\n\n" + "NESTOR Ay, my good son.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Be ruled by him, Lord Ajax.\n\n" + "ULYSSES There is no tarrying here; the hart Achilles\n" + " Keeps thicket. Please it our great general\n" + " To call together all his state of war;\n" + " Fresh kings are come to Troy: to-morrow\n" + " We must with all our main of power stand fast:\n" + " And here's a lord,--come knights from east to west,\n" + " And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Go we to council. Let Achilles sleep:\n" + " Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Troy. Priam's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant and PANDARUS]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Friend, you! pray you, a word: do not you follow\n" + " the young Lord Paris?\n\n" + "Servant Ay, sir, when he goes before me.\n\n" + "PANDARUS You depend upon him, I mean?\n\n" + "Servant Sir, I do depend upon the lord.\n\n" + "PANDARUS You depend upon a noble gentleman; I must needs\n" + " praise him.\n\n" + "Servant The lord be praised!\n\n" + "PANDARUS You know me, do you not?\n\n" + "Servant Faith, sir, superficially.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Friend, know me better; I am the Lord Pandarus.\n\n" + "Servant I hope I shall know your honour better.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I do desire it.\n\n" + "Servant You are in the state of grace.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Grace! not so, friend: honour and lordship are my titles.\n\n" + " [Music within]\n\n" + " What music is this?\n\n" + "Servant I do but partly know, sir: it is music in parts.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Know you the musicians?\n\n" + "Servant Wholly, sir.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Who play they to?\n\n" + "Servant To the hearers, sir.\n\n" + "PANDARUS At whose pleasure, friend\n\n" + "Servant At mine, sir, and theirs that love music.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Command, I mean, friend.\n\n" + "Servant Who shall I command, sir?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Friend, we understand not one another: I am too\n" + " courtly and thou art too cunning. At whose request\n" + " do these men play?\n\n" + "Servant That's to 't indeed, sir: marry, sir, at the request\n" + " of Paris my lord, who's there in person; with him,\n" + " the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's\n" + " invisible soul,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS Who, my cousin Cressida?\n\n" + "Servant No, sir, Helen: could you not find out that by her\n" + " attributes?\n\n" + "PANDARUS It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen the\n" + " Lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris from the\n" + " Prince Troilus: I will make a complimental assault\n" + " upon him, for my business seethes.\n\n" + "Servant Sodden business! there's a stewed phrase indeed!\n\n" + " [Enter PARIS and HELEN, attended]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair\n" + " company! fair desires, in all fair measure,\n" + " fairly guide them! especially to you, fair queen!\n" + " fair thoughts be your fair pillow!\n\n" + "HELEN Dear lord, you are full of fair words.\n\n" + "PANDARUS You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. Fair\n" + " prince, here is good broken music.\n\n" + "PARIS You have broke it, cousin: and, by my life, you\n" + " shall make it whole again; you shall piece it out\n" + " with a piece of your performance. Nell, he is full\n" + " of harmony.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Truly, lady, no.\n\n" + "HELEN O, sir,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS Rude, in sooth; in good sooth, very rude.\n\n" + "PARIS Well said, my lord! well, you say so in fits.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I have business to my lord, dear queen. My lord,\n" + " will you vouchsafe me a word?\n\n" + "HELEN Nay, this shall not hedge us out: we'll hear you\n" + " sing, certainly.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Well, sweet queen. you are pleasant with me. But,\n" + " marry, thus, my lord: my dear lord and most esteemed\n" + " friend, your brother Troilus,--\n\n" + "HELEN My Lord Pandarus; honey-sweet lord,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS Go to, sweet queen, to go:--commends himself most\n" + " affectionately to you,--\n\n" + "HELEN You shall not bob us out of our melody: if you do,\n" + " our melancholy upon your head!\n\n" + "PANDARUS Sweet queen, sweet queen! that's a sweet queen, i' faith.\n\n" + "HELEN And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Nay, that shall not serve your turn; that shall not,\n" + " in truth, la. Nay, I care not for such words; no,\n" + " no. And, my lord, he desires you, that if the king\n" + " call for him at supper, you will make his excuse.\n\n" + "HELEN My Lord Pandarus,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS What says my sweet queen, my very very sweet queen?\n\n" + "PARIS What exploit's in hand? where sups he to-night?\n\n" + "HELEN Nay, but, my lord,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS What says my sweet queen? My cousin will fall out\n" + " with you. You must not know where he sups.\n\n" + "PARIS I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida.\n\n" + "PANDARUS No, no, no such matter; you are wide: come, your\n" + " disposer is sick.\n\n" + "PARIS Well, I'll make excuse.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? no,\n" + " your poor disposer's sick.\n\n" + "PARIS I spy.\n\n" + "PANDARUS You spy! what do you spy? Come, give me an\n" + " instrument. Now, sweet queen.\n\n" + "HELEN Why, this is kindly done.\n\n" + "PANDARUS My niece is horribly in love with a thing you have,\n" + " sweet queen.\n\n" + "HELEN She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord Paris.\n\n" + "PANDARUS He! no, she'll none of him; they two are twain.\n\n" + "HELEN Falling in, after falling out, may make them three.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Come, come, I'll hear no more of this; I'll sing\n" + " you a song now.\n\n" + "HELEN Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord, thou\n" + " hast a fine forehead.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ay, you may, you may.\n\n" + "HELEN Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all.\n" + " O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid!\n\n" + "PANDARUS Love! ay, that it shall, i' faith.\n\n" + "PARIS Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love.\n\n" + "PANDARUS In good troth, it begins so.\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " Love, love, nothing but love, still more!\n" + " For, O, love's bow\n" + " Shoots buck and doe:\n" + " The shaft confounds,\n" + " Not that it wounds,\n" + " But tickles still the sore.\n" + " These lovers cry Oh! oh! they die!\n" + " Yet that which seems the wound to kill,\n" + " Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he!\n" + " So dying love lives still:\n" + " Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha!\n" + " Oh! oh! groans out for ha! ha! ha!\n" + " Heigh-ho!\n\n" + "HELEN In love, i' faith, to the very tip of the nose.\n\n" + "PARIS He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds hot\n" + " blood, and hot blood begets hot thoughts, and hot\n" + " thoughts beget hot deeds, and hot deeds is love.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot\n" + " thoughts, and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers:\n" + " is love a generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who's\n" + " a-field to-day?\n\n" + "PARIS Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the\n" + " gallantry of Troy: I would fain have armed to-day,\n" + " but my Nell would not have it so. How chance my\n" + " brother Troilus went not?\n\n" + "HELEN He hangs the lip at something: you know all, Lord Pandarus.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Not I, honey-sweet queen. I long to hear how they\n" + " sped to-day. You'll remember your brother's excuse?\n\n" + "PARIS To a hair.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Farewell, sweet queen.\n\n" + "HELEN Commend me to your niece.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I will, sweet queen.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [A retreat sounded]\n\n" + "PARIS They're come from field: let us to Priam's hall,\n" + " To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo you\n" + " To help unarm our Hector: his stubborn buckles,\n" + " With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd,\n" + " Shall more obey than to the edge of steel\n" + " Or force of Greekish sinews; you shall do more\n" + " Than all the island kings,--disarm great Hector.\n\n" + "HELEN 'Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris;\n" + " Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty\n" + " Gives us more palm in beauty than we have,\n" + " Yea, overshines ourself.\n\n" + "PARIS Sweet, above thought I love thee.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. Pandarus' orchard.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PANDARUS and Troilus's Boy, meeting]\n\n" + "PANDARUS How now! where's thy master? at my cousin\n" + " Cressida's?\n\n" + "Boy No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither.\n\n" + "PANDARUS O, here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS]\n\n" + " How now, how now!\n\n" + "TROILUS Sirrah, walk off.\n\n" + " [Exit Boy]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Have you seen my cousin?\n\n" + "TROILUS No, Pandarus: I stalk about her door,\n" + " Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks\n" + " Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon,\n" + " And give me swift transportance to those fields\n" + " Where I may wallow in the lily-beds\n" + " Proposed for the deserver! O gentle Pandarus,\n" + " From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings\n" + " And fly with me to Cressid!\n\n" + "PANDARUS Walk here i' the orchard, I'll bring her straight.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TROILUS I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.\n" + " The imaginary relish is so sweet\n" + " That it enchants my sense: what will it be,\n" + " When that the watery palate tastes indeed\n" + " Love's thrice repured nectar? death, I fear me,\n" + " Swooning destruction, or some joy too fine,\n" + " Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness,\n" + " For the capacity of my ruder powers:\n" + " I fear it much; and I do fear besides,\n" + " That I shall lose distinction in my joys;\n" + " As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps\n" + " The enemy flying.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PANDARUS]\n\n" + "PANDARUS She's making her ready, she'll come straight: you\n" + " must be witty now. She does so blush, and fetches\n" + " her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a\n" + " sprite: I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest\n" + " villain: she fetches her breath as short as a\n" + " new-ta'en sparrow.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "TROILUS Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom:\n" + " My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse;\n" + " And all my powers do their bestowing lose,\n" + " Like vassalage at unawares encountering\n" + " The eye of majesty.\n\n" + " [Re-enter PANDARUS with CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Come, come, what need you blush? shame's a baby.\n" + " Here she is now: swear the oaths now to her that\n" + " you have sworn to me. What, are you gone again?\n" + " you must be watched ere you be made tame, must you?\n" + " Come your ways, come your ways; an you draw backward,\n" + " we'll put you i' the fills. Why do you not speak to\n" + " her? Come, draw this curtain, and let's see your\n" + " picture. Alas the day, how loath you are to offend\n" + " daylight! an 'twere dark, you'ld close sooner.\n" + " So, so; rub on, and kiss the mistress. How now!\n" + " a kiss in fee-farm! build there, carpenter; the air\n" + " is sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere\n" + " I part you. The falcon as the tercel, for all the\n" + " ducks i' the river: go to, go to.\n\n" + "TROILUS You have bereft me of all words, lady.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll\n" + " bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your\n" + " activity in question. What, billing again? Here's\n" + " 'In witness whereof the parties interchangeably'--\n" + " Come in, come in: I'll go get a fire.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Will you walk in, my lord?\n\n" + "TROILUS O Cressida, how often have I wished me thus!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Wished, my lord! The gods grant,--O my lord!\n\n" + "TROILUS What should they grant? what makes this pretty\n" + " abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet\n" + " lady in the fountain of our love?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes.\n\n" + "TROILUS Fears make devils of cherubims; they never see truly.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer\n" + " footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to\n" + " fear the worst oft cures the worse.\n\n" + "TROILUS O, let my lady apprehend no fear: in all Cupid's\n" + " pageant there is presented no monster.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Nor nothing monstrous neither?\n\n" + "TROILUS Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to weep\n" + " seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking\n" + " it harder for our mistress to devise imposition\n" + " enough than for us to undergo any difficulty imposed.\n" + " This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will\n" + " is infinite and the execution confined, that the\n" + " desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA They say all lovers swear more performance than they\n" + " are able and yet reserve an ability that they never\n" + " perform, vowing more than the perfection of ten and\n" + " discharging less than the tenth part of one. They\n" + " that have the voice of lions and the act of hares,\n" + " are they not monsters?\n\n" + "TROILUS Are there such? such are not we: praise us as we\n" + " are tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go\n" + " bare till merit crown it: no perfection in reversion\n" + " shall have a praise in present: we will not name\n" + " desert before his birth, and, being born, his addition\n" + " shall be humble. Few words to fair faith: Troilus\n" + " shall be such to Cressid as what envy can say worst\n" + " shall be a mock for his truth, and what truth can\n" + " speak truest not truer than Troilus.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Will you walk in, my lord?\n\n" + " [Re-enter PANDARUS]\n\n" + "PANDARUS What, blushing still? have you not done talking yet?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to you.\n\n" + "PANDARUS I thank you for that: if my lord get a boy of you,\n" + " you'll give him me. Be true to my lord: if he\n" + " flinch, chide me for it.\n\n" + "TROILUS You know now your hostages; your uncle's word and my\n" + " firm faith.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Nay, I'll give my word for her too: our kindred,\n" + " though they be long ere they are wooed, they are\n" + " constant being won: they are burs, I can tell you;\n" + " they'll stick where they are thrown.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart.\n" + " Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day\n" + " For many weary months.\n\n" + "TROILUS Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord,\n" + " With the first glance that ever--pardon me--\n" + " If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.\n" + " I love you now; but not, till now, so much\n" + " But I might master it: in faith, I lie;\n" + " My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown\n" + " Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!\n" + " Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us,\n" + " When we are so unsecret to ourselves?\n" + " But, though I loved you well, I woo'd you not;\n" + " And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man,\n" + " Or that we women had men's privilege\n" + " Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue,\n" + " For in this rapture I shall surely speak\n" + " The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,\n" + " Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws\n" + " My very soul of counsel! stop my mouth.\n\n" + "TROILUS And shall, albeit sweet music issues thence.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Pretty, i' faith.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me;\n" + " 'Twas not my purpose, thus to beg a kiss:\n" + " I am ashamed. O heavens! what have I done?\n" + " For this time will I take my leave, my lord.\n\n" + "TROILUS Your leave, sweet Cressid!\n\n" + "PANDARUS Leave! an you take leave till to-morrow morning,--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Pray you, content you.\n\n" + "TROILUS What offends you, lady?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Sir, mine own company.\n\n" + "TROILUS You cannot shun Yourself.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Let me go and try:\n" + " I have a kind of self resides with you;\n" + " But an unkind self, that itself will leave,\n" + " To be another's fool. I would be gone:\n" + " Where is my wit? I know not what I speak.\n\n" + "TROILUS Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love;\n" + " And fell so roundly to a large confession,\n" + " To angle for your thoughts: but you are wise,\n" + " Or else you love not, for to be wise and love\n" + " Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.\n\n" + "TROILUS O that I thought it could be in a woman--\n" + " As, if it can, I will presume in you--\n" + " To feed for aye her ramp and flames of love;\n" + " To keep her constancy in plight and youth,\n" + " Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind\n" + " That doth renew swifter than blood decays!\n" + " Or that persuasion could but thus convince me,\n" + " That my integrity and truth to you\n" + " Might be affronted with the match and weight\n" + " Of such a winnow'd purity in love;\n" + " How were I then uplifted! but, alas!\n" + " I am as true as truth's simplicity\n" + " And simpler than the infancy of truth.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA In that I'll war with you.\n\n" + "TROILUS O virtuous fight,\n" + " When right with right wars who shall be most right!\n" + " True swains in love shall in the world to come\n" + " Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes,\n" + " Full of protest, of oath and big compare,\n" + " Want similes, truth tired with iteration,\n" + " As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,\n" + " As sun to day, as turtle to her mate,\n" + " As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,\n" + " Yet, after all comparisons of truth,\n" + " As truth's authentic author to be cited,\n" + " 'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse,\n" + " And sanctify the numbers.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Prophet may you be!\n" + " If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,\n" + " When time is old and hath forgot itself,\n" + " When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,\n" + " And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up,\n" + " And mighty states characterless are grated\n" + " To dusty nothing, yet let memory,\n" + " From false to false, among false maids in love,\n" + " Upbraid my falsehood! when they've said 'as false\n" + " As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth,\n" + " As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf,\n" + " Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son,'\n" + " 'Yea,' let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,\n" + " 'As false as Cressid.'\n\n" + "PANDARUS Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it; I'll be the\n" + " witness. Here I hold your hand, here my cousin's.\n" + " If ever you prove false one to another, since I have\n" + " taken such pains to bring you together, let all\n" + " pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end\n" + " after my name; call them all Pandars; let all\n" + " constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids,\n" + " and all brokers-between Pandars! say, amen.\n\n" + "TROILUS Amen.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Amen.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber with a\n" + " bed; which bed, because it shall not speak of your\n" + " pretty encounters, press it to death: away!\n" + " And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here\n" + " Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,\n" + " MENELAUS, and CALCHAS]\n\n" + "CALCHAS Now, princes, for the service I have done you,\n" + " The advantage of the time prompts me aloud\n" + " To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind\n" + " That, through the sight I bear in things to love,\n" + " I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession,\n" + " Incurr'd a traitor's name; exposed myself,\n" + " From certain and possess'd conveniences,\n" + " To doubtful fortunes; sequestering from me all\n" + " That time, acquaintance, custom and condition\n" + " Made tame and most familiar to my nature,\n" + " And here, to do you service, am become\n" + " As new into the world, strange, unacquainted:\n" + " I do beseech you, as in way of taste,\n" + " To give me now a little benefit,\n" + " Out of those many register'd in promise,\n" + " Which, you say, live to come in my behalf.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make demand.\n\n" + "CALCHAS You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,\n" + " Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear.\n" + " Oft have you--often have you thanks therefore--\n" + " Desired my Cressid in right great exchange,\n" + " Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor,\n" + " I know, is such a wrest in their affairs\n" + " That their negotiations all must slack,\n" + " Wanting his manage; and they will almost\n" + " Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,\n" + " In change of him: let him be sent, great princes,\n" + " And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence\n" + " Shall quite strike off all service I have done,\n" + " In most accepted pain.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Let Diomedes bear him,\n" + " And bring us Cressid hither: Calchas shall have\n" + " What he requests of us. Good Diomed,\n" + " Furnish you fairly for this interchange:\n" + " Withal bring word if Hector will to-morrow\n" + " Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES This shall I undertake; and 'tis a burden\n" + " Which I am proud to bear.\n\n" + " [Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS]\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS, before their tent]\n\n" + "ULYSSES Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent:\n" + " Please it our general to pass strangely by him,\n" + " As if he were forgot; and, princes all,\n" + " Lay negligent and loose regard upon him:\n" + " I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me\n" + " Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him:\n" + " If so, I have derision medicinable,\n" + " To use between your strangeness and his pride,\n" + " Which his own will shall have desire to drink:\n" + " It may be good: pride hath no other glass\n" + " To show itself but pride, for supple knees\n" + " Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON We'll execute your purpose, and put on\n" + " A form of strangeness as we pass along:\n" + " So do each lord, and either greet him not,\n" + " Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more\n" + " Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way.\n\n" + "ACHILLES What, comes the general to speak with me?\n" + " You know my mind, I'll fight no more 'gainst Troy.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON What says Achilles? would he aught with us?\n\n" + "NESTOR Would you, my lord, aught with the general?\n\n" + "ACHILLES No.\n\n" + "NESTOR Nothing, my lord.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON The better.\n\n" + " [Exeunt AGAMEMNON and NESTOR]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Good day, good day.\n\n" + "MENELAUS How do you? how do you?\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ACHILLES What, does the cuckold scorn me?\n\n" + "AJAX How now, Patroclus!\n\n" + "ACHILLES Good morrow, Ajax.\n\n" + "AJAX Ha?\n\n" + "ACHILLES Good morrow.\n\n" + "AJAX Ay, and good next day too.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ACHILLES What mean these fellows? Know they not Achilles?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS They pass by strangely: they were used to bend\n" + " To send their smiles before them to Achilles;\n" + " To come as humbly as they used to creep\n" + " To holy altars.\n\n" + "ACHILLES What, am I poor of late?\n" + " 'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortune,\n" + " Must fall out with men too: what the declined is\n" + " He shall as soon read in the eyes of others\n" + " As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies,\n" + " Show not their mealy wings but to the summer,\n" + " And not a man, for being simply man,\n" + " Hath any honour, but honour for those honours\n" + " That are without him, as place, riches, favour,\n" + " Prizes of accident as oft as merit:\n" + " Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,\n" + " The love that lean'd on them as slippery too,\n" + " Do one pluck down another and together\n" + " Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me:\n" + " Fortune and I are friends: I do enjoy\n" + " At ample point all that I did possess,\n" + " Save these men's looks; who do, methinks, find out\n" + " Something not worth in me such rich beholding\n" + " As they have often given. Here is Ulysses;\n" + " I'll interrupt his reading.\n" + " How now Ulysses!\n\n" + "ULYSSES Now, great Thetis' son!\n\n" + "ACHILLES What are you reading?\n\n" + "ULYSSES A strange fellow here\n" + " Writes me: 'That man, how dearly ever parted,\n" + " How much in having, or without or in,\n" + " Cannot make boast to have that which he hath,\n" + " Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflection;\n" + " As when his virtues shining upon others\n" + " Heat them and they retort that heat again\n" + " To the first giver.'\n\n" + "ACHILLES This is not strange, Ulysses.\n" + " The beauty that is borne here in the face\n" + " The bearer knows not, but commends itself\n" + " To others' eyes; nor doth the eye itself,\n" + " That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself,\n" + " Not going from itself; but eye to eye opposed\n" + " Salutes each other with each other's form;\n" + " For speculation turns not to itself,\n" + " Till it hath travell'd and is mirror'd there\n" + " Where it may see itself. This is not strange at all.\n\n" + "ULYSSES I do not strain at the position,--\n" + " It is familiar,--but at the author's drift;\n" + " Who, in his circumstance, expressly proves\n" + " That no man is the lord of any thing,\n" + " Though in and of him there be much consisting,\n" + " Till he communicate his parts to others:\n" + " Nor doth he of himself know them for aught\n" + " Till he behold them form'd in the applause\n" + " Where they're extended; who, like an arch,\n" + " reverberates\n" + " The voice again, or, like a gate of steel\n" + " Fronting the sun, receives and renders back\n" + " His figure and his heat. I was much wrapt in this;\n" + " And apprehended here immediately\n" + " The unknown Ajax.\n" + " Heavens, what a man is there! a very horse,\n" + " That has he knows not what. Nature, what things there are\n" + " Most abject in regard and dear in use!\n" + " What things again most dear in the esteem\n" + " And poor in worth! Now shall we see to-morrow--\n" + " An act that very chance doth throw upon him--\n" + " Ajax renown'd. O heavens, what some men do,\n" + " While some men leave to do!\n" + " How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall,\n" + " Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes!\n" + " How one man eats into another's pride,\n" + " While pride is fasting in his wantonness!\n" + " To see these Grecian lords!--why, even already\n" + " They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder,\n" + " As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast\n" + " And great Troy shrieking.\n\n" + "ACHILLES I do believe it; for they pass'd by me\n" + " As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me\n" + " Good word nor look: what, are my deeds forgot?\n\n" + "ULYSSES Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,\n" + " Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,\n" + " A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:\n" + " Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd\n" + " As fast as they are made, forgot as soon\n" + " As done: perseverance, dear my lord,\n" + " Keeps honour bright: to have done is to hang\n" + " Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail\n" + " In monumental mockery. Take the instant way;\n" + " For honour travels in a strait so narrow,\n" + " Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path;\n" + " For emulation hath a thousand sons\n" + " That one by one pursue: if you give way,\n" + " Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,\n" + " Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by\n" + " And leave you hindmost;\n" + " Or like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank,\n" + " Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,\n" + " O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present,\n" + " Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours;\n" + " For time is like a fashionable host\n" + " That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,\n" + " And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly,\n" + " Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,\n" + " And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not\n" + " virtue seek\n" + " Remuneration for the thing it was;\n" + " For beauty, wit,\n" + " High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,\n" + " Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all\n" + " To envious and calumniating time.\n" + " One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,\n" + " That all with one consent praise new-born gawds,\n" + " Though they are made and moulded of things past,\n" + " And give to dust that is a little gilt\n" + " More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.\n" + " The present eye praises the present object.\n" + " Then marvel not, thou great and complete man,\n" + " That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax;\n" + " Since things in motion sooner catch the eye\n" + " Than what not stirs. The cry went once on thee,\n" + " And still it might, and yet it may again,\n" + " If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive\n" + " And case thy reputation in thy tent;\n" + " Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,\n" + " Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves\n" + " And drave great Mars to faction.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Of this my privacy\n" + " I have strong reasons.\n\n" + "ULYSSES But 'gainst your privacy\n" + " The reasons are more potent and heroical:\n" + " 'Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love\n" + " With one of Priam's daughters.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Ha! known!\n\n" + "ULYSSES Is that a wonder?\n" + " The providence that's in a watchful state\n" + " Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold,\n" + " Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps,\n" + " Keeps place with thought and almost, like the gods,\n" + " Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.\n" + " There is a mystery--with whom relation\n" + " Durst never meddle--in the soul of state;\n" + " Which hath an operation more divine\n" + " Than breath or pen can give expressure to:\n" + " All the commerce that you have had with Troy\n" + " As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord;\n" + " And better would it fit Achilles much\n" + " To throw down Hector than Polyxena:\n" + " But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,\n" + " When fame shall in our islands sound her trump,\n" + " And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing,\n" + " 'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win,\n" + " But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.'\n" + " Farewell, my lord: I as your lover speak;\n" + " The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PATROCLUS To this effect, Achilles, have I moved you:\n" + " A woman impudent and mannish grown\n" + " Is not more loathed than an effeminate man\n" + " In time of action. I stand condemn'd for this;\n" + " They think my little stomach to the war\n" + " And your great love to me restrains you thus:\n" + " Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wanton Cupid\n" + " Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold,\n" + " And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,\n" + " Be shook to air.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Shall Ajax fight with Hector?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.\n\n" + "ACHILLES I see my reputation is at stake\n" + " My fame is shrewdly gored.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS O, then, beware;\n" + " Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves:\n" + " Omission to do what is necessary\n" + " Seals a commission to a blank of danger;\n" + " And danger, like an ague, subtly taints\n" + " Even then when we sit idly in the sun.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Go call Thersites hither, sweet Patroclus:\n" + " I'll send the fool to Ajax and desire him\n" + " To invite the Trojan lords after the combat\n" + " To see us here unarm'd: I have a woman's longing,\n" + " An appetite that I am sick withal,\n" + " To see great Hector in his weeds of peace,\n" + " To talk with him and to behold his visage,\n" + " Even to my full of view.\n\n" + " [Enter THERSITES]\n\n" + " A labour saved!\n\n" + "THERSITES A wonder!\n\n" + "ACHILLES What?\n\n" + "THERSITES Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.\n\n" + "ACHILLES How so?\n\n" + "THERSITES He must fight singly to-morrow with Hector, and is so\n" + " prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling that he\n" + " raves in saying nothing.\n\n" + "ACHILLES How can that be?\n\n" + "THERSITES Why, he stalks up and down like a peacock,--a stride\n" + " and a stand: ruminates like an hostess that hath no\n" + " arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning:\n" + " bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should\n" + " say 'There were wit in this head, an 'twould out;'\n" + " and so there is, but it lies as coldly in him as fire\n" + " in a flint, which will not show without knocking.\n" + " The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his\n" + " neck i' the combat, he'll break 't himself in\n" + " vain-glory. He knows not me: I said 'Good morrow,\n" + " Ajax;' and he replies 'Thanks, Agamemnon.' What think\n" + " you of this man that takes me for the general? He's\n" + " grown a very land-fish, language-less, a monster.\n" + " A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both\n" + " sides, like a leather jerkin.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Thou must be my ambassador to him, Thersites.\n\n" + "THERSITES Who, I? why, he'll answer nobody; he professes not\n" + " answering: speaking is for beggars; he wears his\n" + " tongue in's arms. I will put on his presence: let\n" + " Patroclus make demands to me, you shall see the\n" + " pageant of Ajax.\n\n" + "ACHILLES To him, Patroclus; tell him I humbly desire the\n" + " valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous Hector\n" + " to come unarmed to my tent, and to procure\n" + " safe-conduct for his person of the magnanimous\n" + " and most illustrious six-or-seven-times-honoured\n" + " captain-general of the Grecian army, Agamemnon,\n" + " et cetera. Do this.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Jove bless great Ajax!\n\n" + "THERSITES Hum!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS I come from the worthy Achilles,--\n\n" + "THERSITES Ha!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector to his tent,--\n\n" + "THERSITES Hum!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS And to procure safe-conduct from Agamemnon.\n\n" + "THERSITES Agamemnon!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Ay, my lord.\n\n" + "THERSITES Ha!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS What say you to't?\n\n" + "THERSITES God b' wi' you, with all my heart.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Your answer, sir.\n\n" + "THERSITES If to-morrow be a fair day, by eleven o'clock it will\n" + " go one way or other: howsoever, he shall pay for me\n" + " ere he has me.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Your answer, sir.\n\n" + "THERSITES Fare you well, with all my heart.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?\n\n" + "THERSITES No, but he's out o' tune thus. What music will be in\n" + " him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know\n" + " not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo\n" + " get his sinews to make catlings on.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight.\n\n" + "THERSITES Let me bear another to his horse; for that's the more\n" + " capable creature.\n\n" + "ACHILLES My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirr'd;\n" + " And I myself see not the bottom of it.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]\n\n" + "THERSITES Would the fountain of your mind were clear again,\n" + " that I might water an ass at it! I had rather be a\n" + " tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Troy. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter, from one side, AENEAS, and Servant with a\n" + " torch; from the other, PARIS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,\n" + " DIOMEDES, and others, with torches]\n\n" + "PARIS See, ho! who is that there?\n\n" + "DEIPHOBUS It is the Lord AEneas.\n\n" + "AENEAS Is the prince there in person?\n" + " Had I so good occasion to lie long\n" + " As you, prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business\n" + " Should rob my bed-mate of my company.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES That's my mind too. Good morrow, Lord AEneas.\n\n" + "PARIS A valiant Greek, AEneas,--take his hand,--\n" + " Witness the process of your speech, wherein\n" + " You told how Diomed, a whole week by days,\n" + " Did haunt you in the field.\n\n" + "AENEAS Health to you, valiant sir,\n" + " During all question of the gentle truce;\n" + " But when I meet you arm'd, as black defiance\n" + " As heart can think or courage execute.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES The one and other Diomed embraces.\n" + " Our bloods are now in calm; and, so long, health!\n" + " But when contention and occasion meet,\n" + " By Jove, I'll play the hunter for thy life\n" + " With all my force, pursuit and policy.\n\n" + "AENEAS And thou shalt hunt a lion, that will fly\n" + " With his face backward. In humane gentleness,\n" + " Welcome to Troy! now, by Anchises' life,\n" + " Welcome, indeed! By Venus' hand I swear,\n" + " No man alive can love in such a sort\n" + " The thing he means to kill more excellently.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES We sympathize: Jove, let AEneas live,\n" + " If to my sword his fate be not the glory,\n" + " A thousand complete courses of the sun!\n" + " But, in mine emulous honour, let him die,\n" + " With every joint a wound, and that to-morrow!\n\n" + "AENEAS We know each other well.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES We do; and long to know each other worse.\n\n" + "PARIS This is the most despiteful gentle greeting,\n" + " The noblest hateful love, that e'er I heard of.\n" + " What business, lord, so early?\n\n" + "AENEAS I was sent for to the king; but why, I know not.\n\n" + "PARIS His purpose meets you: 'twas to bring this Greek\n" + " To Calchas' house, and there to render him,\n" + " For the enfreed Antenor, the fair Cressid:\n" + " Let's have your company, or, if you please,\n" + " Haste there before us: I constantly do think--\n" + " Or rather, call my thought a certain knowledge--\n" + " My brother Troilus lodges there to-night:\n" + " Rouse him and give him note of our approach.\n" + " With the whole quality wherefore: I fear\n" + " We shall be much unwelcome.\n\n" + "AENEAS That I assure you:\n" + " Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece\n" + " Than Cressid borne from Troy.\n\n" + "PARIS There is no help;\n" + " The bitter disposition of the time\n" + " Will have it so. On, lord; we'll follow you.\n\n" + "AENEAS Good morrow, all.\n\n" + " [Exit with Servant]\n\n" + "PARIS And tell me, noble Diomed, faith, tell me true,\n" + " Even in the soul of sound good-fellowship,\n" + " Who, in your thoughts, merits fair Helen best,\n" + " Myself or Menelaus?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Both alike:\n" + " He merits well to have her, that doth seek her,\n" + " Not making any scruple of her soilure,\n" + " With such a hell of pain and world of charge,\n" + " And you as well to keep her, that defend her,\n" + " Not palating the taste of her dishonour,\n" + " With such a costly loss of wealth and friends:\n" + " He, like a puling cuckold, would drink up\n" + " The lees and dregs of a flat tamed piece;\n" + " You, like a lecher, out of whorish loins\n" + " Are pleased to breed out your inheritors:\n" + " Both merits poised, each weighs nor less nor more;\n" + " But he as he, the heavier for a whore.\n\n" + "PARIS You are too bitter to your countrywoman.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES She's bitter to her country: hear me, Paris:\n" + " For every false drop in her bawdy veins\n" + " A Grecian's life hath sunk; for every scruple\n" + " Of her contaminated carrion weight,\n" + " A Trojan hath been slain: since she could speak,\n" + " She hath not given so many good words breath\n" + " As for her Greeks and Trojans suffer'd death.\n\n" + "PARIS Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,\n" + " Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy:\n" + " But we in silence hold this virtue well,\n" + " We'll but commend what we intend to sell.\n" + " Here lies our way.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. Court of Pandarus' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS and CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "TROILUS Dear, trouble not yourself: the morn is cold.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Then, sweet my lord, I'll call mine uncle down;\n" + " He shall unbolt the gates.\n\n" + "TROILUS Trouble him not;\n" + " To bed, to bed: sleep kill those pretty eyes,\n" + " And give as soft attachment to thy senses\n" + " As infants' empty of all thought!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Good morrow, then.\n\n" + "TROILUS I prithee now, to bed.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Are you a-weary of me?\n\n" + "TROILUS O Cressida! but that the busy day,\n" + " Waked by the lark, hath roused the ribald crows,\n" + " And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer,\n" + " I would not from thee.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Night hath been too brief.\n\n" + "TROILUS Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights she stays\n" + " As tediously as hell, but flies the grasps of love\n" + " With wings more momentary-swift than thought.\n" + " You will catch cold, and curse me.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Prithee, tarry:\n" + " You men will never tarry.\n" + " O foolish Cressid! I might have still held off,\n" + " And then you would have tarried. Hark!\n" + " there's one up.\n\n" + "PANDARUS [Within] What, 's all the doors open here?\n\n" + "TROILUS It is your uncle.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA A pestilence on him! now will he be mocking:\n" + " I shall have such a life!\n\n" + " [Enter PANDARUS]\n\n" + "PANDARUS How now, how now! how go maidenheads? Here, you\n" + " maid! where's my cousin Cressid?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!\n" + " You bring me to do, and then you flout me too.\n\n" + "PANDARUS To do what? to do what? let her say\n" + " what: what have I brought you to do?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Come, come, beshrew your heart! you'll ne'er be good,\n" + " Nor suffer others.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ha! ha! Alas, poor wretch! ah, poor capocchia!\n" + " hast not slept to-night? would he not, a naughty\n" + " man, let it sleep? a bugbear take him!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Did not I tell you? Would he were knock'd i' the head!\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " Who's that at door? good uncle, go and see.\n" + " My lord, come you again into my chamber:\n" + " You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily.\n\n" + "TROILUS Ha, ha!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Come, you are deceived, I think of no such thing.\n\n" + " [Knocking within]\n\n" + " How earnestly they knock! Pray you, come in:\n" + " I would not for half Troy have you seen here.\n\n" + " [Exeunt TROILUS and CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Who's there? what's the matter? will you beat\n" + " down the door? How now! what's the matter?\n\n" + " [Enter AENEAS]\n\n" + "AENEAS Good morrow, lord, good morrow.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Who's there? my Lord AEneas! By my troth,\n" + " I knew you not: what news with you so early?\n\n" + "AENEAS Is not Prince Troilus here?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Here! what should he do here?\n\n" + "AENEAS Come, he is here, my lord; do not deny him:\n" + " It doth import him much to speak with me.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Is he here, say you? 'tis more than I know, I'll\n" + " be sworn: for my own part, I came in late. What\n" + " should he do here?\n\n" + "AENEAS Who!--nay, then: come, come, you'll do him wrong\n" + " ere you're ware: you'll be so true to him, to be\n" + " false to him: do not you know of him, but yet go\n" + " fetch him hither; go.\n\n" + " [Re-enter TROILUS]\n\n" + "TROILUS How now! what's the matter?\n\n" + "AENEAS My lord, I scarce have leisure to salute you,\n" + " My matter is so rash: there is at hand\n" + " Paris your brother, and Deiphobus,\n" + " The Grecian Diomed, and our Antenor\n" + " Deliver'd to us; and for him forthwith,\n" + " Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour,\n" + " We must give up to Diomedes' hand\n" + " The Lady Cressida.\n\n" + "TROILUS Is it so concluded?\n\n" + "AENEAS By Priam and the general state of Troy:\n" + " They are at hand and ready to effect it.\n\n" + "TROILUS How my achievements mock me!\n" + " I will go meet them: and, my Lord AEneas,\n" + " We met by chance; you did not find me here.\n\n" + "AENEAS Good, good, my lord; the secrets of nature\n" + " Have not more gift in taciturnity.\n\n" + " [Exeunt TROILUS and AENEAS]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Is't possible? no sooner got but lost? The devil\n" + " take Antenor! the young prince will go mad: a\n" + " plague upon Antenor! I would they had broke 's neck!\n\n" + " [Re-enter CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "CRESSIDA How now! what's the matter? who was here?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ah, ah!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Why sigh you so profoundly? where's my lord? gone!\n" + " Tell me, sweet uncle, what's the matter?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Would I were as deep under the earth as I am above!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O the gods! what's the matter?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Prithee, get thee in: would thou hadst ne'er been\n" + " born! I knew thou wouldst be his death. O, poor\n" + " gentleman! A plague upon Antenor!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Good uncle, I beseech you, on my knees! beseech you,\n" + " what's the matter?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Thou must be gone, wench, thou must be gone; thou\n" + " art changed for Antenor: thou must to thy father,\n" + " and be gone from Troilus: 'twill be his death;\n" + " 'twill be his bane; he cannot bear it.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O you immortal gods! I will not go.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Thou must.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I will not, uncle: I have forgot my father;\n" + " I know no touch of consanguinity;\n" + " No kin no love, no blood, no soul so near me\n" + " As the sweet Troilus. O you gods divine!\n" + " Make Cressid's name the very crown of falsehood,\n" + " If ever she leave Troilus! Time, force, and death,\n" + " Do to this body what extremes you can;\n" + " But the strong base and building of my love\n" + " Is as the very centre of the earth,\n" + " Drawing all things to it. I'll go in and weep,--\n\n" + "PANDARUS Do, do.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Tear my bright hair and scratch my praised cheeks,\n" + " Crack my clear voice with sobs and break my heart\n" + " With sounding Troilus. I will not go from Troy.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. Street before Pandarus' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PARIS, TROILUS, AENEAS, DEIPHOBUS, ANTENOR,\n" + " and DIOMEDES]\n\n" + "PARIS It is great morning, and the hour prefix'd\n" + " Of her delivery to this valiant Greek\n" + " Comes fast upon. Good my brother Troilus,\n" + " Tell you the lady what she is to do,\n" + " And haste her to the purpose.\n\n" + "TROILUS Walk into her house;\n" + " I'll bring her to the Grecian presently:\n" + " And to his hand when I deliver her,\n" + " Think it an altar, and thy brother Troilus\n" + " A priest there offering to it his own heart.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PARIS I know what 'tis to love;\n" + " And would, as I shall pity, I could help!\n" + " Please you walk in, my lords.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same. Pandarus' house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PANDARUS and CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Be moderate, be moderate.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Why tell you me of moderation?\n" + " The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste,\n" + " And violenteth in a sense as strong\n" + " As that which causeth it: how can I moderate it?\n" + " If I could temporize with my affection,\n" + " Or brew it to a weak and colder palate,\n" + " The like allayment could I give my grief.\n" + " My love admits no qualifying dross;\n" + " No more my grief, in such a precious loss.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Here, here, here he comes.\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS]\n\n" + " Ah, sweet ducks!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O Troilus! Troilus!\n\n" + " [Embracing him]\n\n" + "PANDARUS What a pair of spectacles is here!\n" + " Let me embrace too. 'O heart,' as the goodly saying is,\n" + " '--O heart, heavy heart,\n" + " Why sigh'st thou without breaking?\n" + " where he answers again,\n" + " 'Because thou canst not ease thy smart\n" + " By friendship nor by speaking.'\n" + " There was never a truer rhyme. Let us cast away\n" + " nothing, for we may live to have need of such a\n" + " verse: we see it, we see it. How now, lambs?\n\n" + "TROILUS Cressid, I love thee in so strain'd a purity,\n" + " That the bless'd gods, as angry with my fancy,\n" + " More bright in zeal than the devotion which\n" + " Cold lips blow to their deities, take thee from me.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Have the gods envy?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Ay, ay, ay, ay; 'tis too plain a case.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA And is it true that I must go from Troy?\n\n" + "TROILUS A hateful truth.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA What, and from Troilus too?\n\n" + "TROILUS From Troy and Troilus.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Is it possible?\n\n" + "TROILUS And suddenly; where injury of chance\n" + " Puts back leave-taking, justles roughly by\n" + " All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips\n" + " Of all rejoindure, forcibly prevents\n" + " Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear vows\n" + " Even in the birth of our own labouring breath:\n" + " We two, that with so many thousand sighs\n" + " Did buy each other, must poorly sell ourselves\n" + " With the rude brevity and discharge of one.\n" + " Injurious time now with a robber's haste\n" + " Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not how:\n" + " As many farewells as be stars in heaven,\n" + " With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to them,\n" + " He fumbles up into a lose adieu,\n" + " And scants us with a single famish'd kiss,\n" + " Distasted with the salt of broken tears.\n\n" + "AENEAS [Within] My lord, is the lady ready?\n\n" + "TROILUS Hark! you are call'd: some say the Genius so\n" + " Cries 'come' to him that instantly must die.\n" + " Bid them have patience; she shall come anon.\n\n" + "PANDARUS Where are my tears? rain, to lay this wind, or\n" + " my heart will be blown up by the root.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I must then to the Grecians?\n\n" + "TROILUS No remedy.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA A woful Cressid 'mongst the merry Greeks!\n" + " When shall we see again?\n\n" + "TROILUS Hear me, my love: be thou but true of heart,--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I true! how now! what wicked deem is this?\n\n" + "TROILUS Nay, we must use expostulation kindly,\n" + " For it is parting from us:\n" + " I speak not 'be thou true,' as fearing thee,\n" + " For I will throw my glove to Death himself,\n" + " That there's no maculation in thy heart:\n" + " But 'be thou true,' say I, to fashion in\n" + " My sequent protestation; be thou true,\n" + " And I will see thee.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O, you shall be exposed, my lord, to dangers\n" + " As infinite as imminent! but I'll be true.\n\n" + "TROILUS And I'll grow friend with danger. Wear this sleeve.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA And you this glove. When shall I see you?\n\n" + "TROILUS I will corrupt the Grecian sentinels,\n" + " To give thee nightly visitation.\n" + " But yet be true.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O heavens! 'be true' again!\n\n" + "TROILUS Hear while I speak it, love:\n" + " The Grecian youths are full of quality;\n" + " They're loving, well composed with gifts of nature,\n" + " Flowing and swelling o'er with arts and exercise:\n" + " How novelty may move, and parts with person,\n" + " Alas, a kind of godly jealousy--\n" + " Which, I beseech you, call a virtuous sin--\n" + " Makes me afeard.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O heavens! you love me not.\n\n" + "TROILUS Die I a villain, then!\n" + " In this I do not call your faith in question\n" + " So mainly as my merit: I cannot sing,\n" + " Nor heel the high lavolt, nor sweeten talk,\n" + " Nor play at subtle games; fair virtues all,\n" + " To which the Grecians are most prompt and pregnant:\n" + " But I can tell that in each grace of these\n" + " There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive devil\n" + " That tempts most cunningly: but be not tempted.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Do you think I will?\n\n" + "TROILUS No.\n" + " But something may be done that we will not:\n" + " And sometimes we are devils to ourselves,\n" + " When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,\n" + " Presuming on their changeful potency.\n\n" + "AENEAS [Within] Nay, good my lord,--\n\n" + "TROILUS Come, kiss; and let us part.\n\n" + "PARIS [Within] Brother Troilus!\n\n" + "TROILUS Good brother, come you hither;\n" + " And bring AEneas and the Grecian with you.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA My lord, will you be true?\n\n" + "TROILUS Who, I? alas, it is my vice, my fault:\n" + " Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion,\n" + " I with great truth catch mere simplicity;\n" + " Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns,\n" + " With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.\n" + " Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit\n" + " Is 'plain and true;' there's all the reach of it.\n\n" + " [Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, DEIPHOBUS,\n" + " and DIOMEDES]\n\n" + " Welcome, Sir Diomed! here is the lady\n" + " Which for Antenor we deliver you:\n" + " At the port, lord, I'll give her to thy hand,\n" + " And by the way possess thee what she is.\n" + " Entreat her fair; and, by my soul, fair Greek,\n" + " If e'er thou stand at mercy of my sword,\n" + " Name Cressida and thy life shall be as safe\n" + " As Priam is in Ilion.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Fair Lady Cressid,\n" + " So please you, save the thanks this prince expects:\n" + " The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek,\n" + " Pleads your fair usage; and to Diomed\n" + " You shall be mistress, and command him wholly.\n\n" + "TROILUS Grecian, thou dost not use me courteously,\n" + " To shame the zeal of my petition to thee\n" + " In praising her: I tell thee, lord of Greece,\n" + " She is as far high-soaring o'er thy praises\n" + " As thou unworthy to be call'd her servant.\n" + " I charge thee use her well, even for my charge;\n" + " For, by the dreadful Pluto, if thou dost not,\n" + " Though the great bulk Achilles be thy guard,\n" + " I'll cut thy throat.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES O, be not moved, Prince Troilus:\n" + " Let me be privileged by my place and message,\n" + " To be a speaker free; when I am hence\n" + " I'll answer to my lust: and know you, lord,\n" + " I'll nothing do on charge: to her own worth\n" + " She shall be prized; but that you say 'be't so,'\n" + " I'll speak it in my spirit and honour, 'no.'\n\n" + "TROILUS Come, to the port. I'll tell thee, Diomed,\n" + " This brave shall oft make thee to hide thy head.\n" + " Lady, give me your hand, and, as we walk,\n" + " To our own selves bend we our needful talk.\n\n" + " [Exeunt TROILUS, CRESSIDA, and DIOMEDES]\n\n" + " [Trumpet within]\n\n" + "PARIS Hark! Hector's trumpet.\n\n" + "AENEAS How have we spent this morning!\n" + " The prince must think me tardy and remiss,\n" + " That sore to ride before him to the field.\n\n" + "PARIS 'Tis Troilus' fault: come, come, to field with him.\n\n" + "DEIPHOBUS Let us make ready straight.\n\n" + "AENEAS Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity,\n" + " Let us address to tend on Hector's heels:\n" + " The glory of our Troy doth this day lie\n" + " On his fair worth and single chivalry.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The Grecian camp. Lists set out.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AJAX, armed; AGAMEMNON, ACHILLES, PATROCLUS,\n" + " MENELAUS, ULYSSES, NESTOR, and others]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,\n" + " Anticipating time with starting courage.\n" + " Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,\n" + " Thou dreadful Ajax; that the appalled air\n" + " May pierce the head of the great combatant\n" + " And hale him hither.\n\n" + "AJAX Thou, trumpet, there's my purse.\n" + " Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:\n" + " Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek\n" + " Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon:\n" + " Come, stretch thy chest and let thy eyes spout blood;\n" + " Thou blow'st for Hector.\n\n" + " [Trumpet sounds]\n\n" + "ULYSSES No trumpet answers.\n\n" + "ACHILLES 'Tis but early days.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Is not yond Diomed, with Calchas' daughter?\n\n" + "ULYSSES 'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;\n" + " He rises on the toe: that spirit of his\n" + " In aspiration lifts him from the earth.\n\n" + " [Enter DIOMEDES, with CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Is this the Lady Cressid?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Even she.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Most dearly welcome to the Greeks, sweet lady.\n\n" + "NESTOR Our general doth salute you with a kiss.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Yet is the kindness but particular;\n" + " 'Twere better she were kiss'd in general.\n\n" + "NESTOR And very courtly counsel: I'll begin.\n" + " So much for Nestor.\n\n" + "ACHILLES I'll take what winter from your lips, fair lady:\n" + " Achilles bids you welcome.\n\n" + "MENELAUS I had good argument for kissing once.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS But that's no argument for kissing now;\n" + " For this popp'd Paris in his hardiment,\n" + " And parted thus you and your argument.\n\n" + "ULYSSES O deadly gall, and theme of all our scorns!\n" + " For which we lose our heads to gild his horns.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS The first was Menelaus' kiss; this, mine:\n" + " Patroclus kisses you.\n\n" + "MENELAUS O, this is trim!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Paris and I kiss evermore for him.\n\n" + "MENELAUS I'll have my kiss, sir. Lady, by your leave.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA In kissing, do you render or receive?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Both take and give.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I'll make my match to live,\n" + " The kiss you take is better than you give;\n" + " Therefore no kiss.\n\n" + "MENELAUS I'll give you boot, I'll give you three for one.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA You're an odd man; give even or give none.\n\n" + "MENELAUS An odd man, lady! every man is odd.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA No, Paris is not; for you know 'tis true,\n" + " That you are odd, and he is even with you.\n\n" + "MENELAUS You fillip me o' the head.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA No, I'll be sworn.\n\n" + "ULYSSES It were no match, your nail against his horn.\n" + " May I, sweet lady, beg a kiss of you?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA You may.\n\n" + "ULYSSES I do desire it.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Why, beg, then.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Why then for Venus' sake, give me a kiss,\n" + " When Helen is a maid again, and his.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I am your debtor, claim it when 'tis due.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Never's my day, and then a kiss of you.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Lady, a word: I'll bring you to your father.\n\n" + " [Exit with CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "NESTOR A woman of quick sense.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Fie, fie upon her!\n" + " There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,\n" + " Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out\n" + " At every joint and motive of her body.\n" + " O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue,\n" + " That give accosting welcome ere it comes,\n" + " And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts\n" + " To every ticklish reader! set them down\n" + " For sluttish spoils of opportunity\n" + " And daughters of the game.\n\n" + " [Trumpet within]\n\n" + "ALL The Trojans' trumpet.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Yonder comes the troop.\n\n" + " [Enter HECTOR, armed; AENEAS, TROILUS, and other\n" + " Trojans, with Attendants]\n\n" + "AENEAS Hail, all you state of Greece! what shall be done\n" + " To him that victory commands? or do you purpose\n" + " A victor shall be known? will you the knights\n" + " Shall to the edge of all extremity\n" + " Pursue each other, or shall be divided\n" + " By any voice or order of the field?\n" + " Hector bade ask.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Which way would Hector have it?\n\n" + "AENEAS He cares not; he'll obey conditions.\n\n" + "ACHILLES 'Tis done like Hector; but securely done,\n" + " A little proudly, and great deal misprizing\n" + " The knight opposed.\n\n" + "AENEAS If not Achilles, sir,\n" + " What is your name?\n\n" + "ACHILLES If not Achilles, nothing.\n\n" + "AENEAS Therefore Achilles: but, whate'er, know this:\n" + " In the extremity of great and little,\n" + " Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector;\n" + " The one almost as infinite as all,\n" + " The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well,\n" + " And that which looks like pride is courtesy.\n" + " This Ajax is half made of Hector's blood:\n" + " In love whereof, half Hector stays at home;\n" + " Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to seek\n" + " This blended knight, half Trojan and half Greek.\n\n" + "ACHILLES A maiden battle, then? O, I perceive you.\n\n" + " [Re-enter DIOMEDES]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Here is Sir Diomed. Go, gentle knight,\n" + " Stand by our Ajax: as you and Lord AEneas\n" + " Consent upon the order of their fight,\n" + " So be it; either to the uttermost,\n" + " Or else a breath: the combatants being kin\n" + " Half stints their strife before their strokes begin.\n\n" + " [AJAX and HECTOR enter the lists]\n\n" + "ULYSSES They are opposed already.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON What Trojan is that same that looks so heavy?\n\n" + "ULYSSES The youngest son of Priam, a true knight,\n" + " Not yet mature, yet matchless, firm of word,\n" + " Speaking in deeds and deedless in his tongue;\n" + " Not soon provoked nor being provoked soon calm'd:\n" + " His heart and hand both open and both free;\n" + " For what he has he gives, what thinks he shows;\n" + " Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty,\n" + " Nor dignifies an impure thought with breath;\n" + " Manly as Hector, but more dangerous;\n" + " For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes\n" + " To tender objects, but he in heat of action\n" + " Is more vindicative than jealous love:\n" + " They call him Troilus, and on him erect\n" + " A second hope, as fairly built as Hector.\n" + " Thus says AEneas; one that knows the youth\n" + " Even to his inches, and with private soul\n" + " Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me.\n\n" + " [Alarum. Hector and Ajax fight]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON They are in action.\n\n" + "NESTOR Now, Ajax, hold thine own!\n\n" + "TROILUS Hector, thou sleep'st;\n" + " Awake thee!\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON His blows are well disposed: there, Ajax!\n\n" + "DIOMEDES You must no more.\n\n" + " [Trumpets cease]\n\n" + "AENEAS Princes, enough, so please you.\n\n" + "AJAX I am not warm yet; let us fight again.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES As Hector pleases.\n\n" + "HECTOR Why, then will I no more:\n" + " Thou art, great lord, my father's sister's son,\n" + " A cousin-german to great Priam's seed;\n" + " The obligation of our blood forbids\n" + " A gory emulation 'twixt us twain:\n" + " Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan so\n" + " That thou couldst say 'This hand is Grecian all,\n" + " And this is Trojan; the sinews of this leg\n" + " All Greek, and this all Troy; my mother's blood\n" + " Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinister\n" + " Bounds in my father's;' by Jove multipotent,\n" + " Thou shouldst not bear from me a Greekish member\n" + " Wherein my sword had not impressure made\n" + " Of our rank feud: but the just gods gainsay\n" + " That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother,\n" + " My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword\n" + " Be drain'd! Let me embrace thee, Ajax:\n" + " By him that thunders, thou hast lusty arms;\n" + " Hector would have them fall upon him thus:\n" + " Cousin, all honour to thee!\n\n" + "AJAX I thank thee, Hector\n" + " Thou art too gentle and too free a man:\n" + " I came to kill thee, cousin, and bear hence\n" + " A great addition earned in thy death.\n\n" + "HECTOR Not Neoptolemus so mirable,\n" + " On whose bright crest Fame with her loud'st Oyes\n" + " Cries 'This is he,' could promise to himself\n" + " A thought of added honour torn from Hector.\n\n" + "AENEAS There is expectance here from both the sides,\n" + " What further you will do.\n\n" + "HECTOR We'll answer it;\n" + " The issue is embracement: Ajax, farewell.\n\n" + "AJAX If I might in entreaties find success--\n" + " As seld I have the chance--I would desire\n" + " My famous cousin to our Grecian tents.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES 'Tis Agamemnon's wish, and great Achilles\n" + " Doth long to see unarm'd the valiant Hector.\n\n" + "HECTOR AEneas, call my brother Troilus to me,\n" + " And signify this loving interview\n" + " To the expecters of our Trojan part;\n" + " Desire them home. Give me thy hand, my cousin;\n" + " I will go eat with thee and see your knights.\n\n" + "AJAX Great Agamemnon comes to meet us here.\n\n" + "HECTOR The worthiest of them tell me name by name;\n" + " But for Achilles, mine own searching eyes\n" + " Shall find him by his large and portly size.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Worthy of arms! as welcome as to one\n" + " That would be rid of such an enemy;\n" + " But that's no welcome: understand more clear,\n" + " What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks\n" + " And formless ruin of oblivion;\n" + " But in this extant moment, faith and troth,\n" + " Strain'd purely from all hollow bias-drawing,\n" + " Bids thee, with most divine integrity,\n" + " From heart of very heart, great Hector, welcome.\n\n" + "HECTOR I thank thee, most imperious Agamemnon.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON [To TROILUS] My well-famed lord of Troy, no\n" + " less to you.\n\n" + "MENELAUS Let me confirm my princely brother's greeting:\n" + " You brace of warlike brothers, welcome hither.\n\n" + "HECTOR Who must we answer?\n\n" + "AENEAS The noble Menelaus.\n\n" + "HECTOR O, you, my lord? by Mars his gauntlet, thanks!\n" + " Mock not, that I affect the untraded oath;\n" + " Your quondam wife swears still by Venus' glove:\n" + " She's well, but bade me not commend her to you.\n\n" + "MENELAUS Name her not now, sir; she's a deadly theme.\n\n" + "HECTOR O, pardon; I offend.\n\n" + "NESTOR I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft\n" + " Labouring for destiny make cruel way\n" + " Through ranks of Greekish youth, and I have seen thee,\n" + " As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed,\n" + " Despising many forfeits and subduements,\n" + " When thou hast hung thy advanced sword i' the air,\n" + " Not letting it decline on the declined,\n" + " That I have said to some my standers by\n" + " 'Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life!'\n" + " And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath,\n" + " When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'd thee in,\n" + " Like an Olympian wrestling: this have I seen;\n" + " But this thy countenance, still lock'd in steel,\n" + " I never saw till now. I knew thy grandsire,\n" + " And once fought with him: he was a soldier good;\n" + " But, by great Mars, the captain of us all,\n" + " Never saw like thee. Let an old man embrace thee;\n" + " And, worthy warrior, welcome to our tents.\n\n" + "AENEAS 'Tis the old Nestor.\n\n" + "HECTOR Let me embrace thee, good old chronicle,\n" + " That hast so long walk'd hand in hand with time:\n" + " Most reverend Nestor, I am glad to clasp thee.\n\n" + "NESTOR I would my arms could match thee in contention,\n" + " As they contend with thee in courtesy.\n\n" + "HECTOR I would they could.\n\n" + "NESTOR Ha!\n" + " By this white beard, I'ld fight with thee to-morrow.\n" + " Well, welcome, welcome! I have seen the time.\n\n" + "ULYSSES I wonder now how yonder city stands\n" + " When we have here her base and pillar by us.\n\n" + "HECTOR I know your favour, Lord Ulysses, well.\n" + " Ah, sir, there's many a Greek and Trojan dead,\n" + " Since first I saw yourself and Diomed\n" + " In Ilion, on your Greekish embassy.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Sir, I foretold you then what would ensue:\n" + " My prophecy is but half his journey yet;\n" + " For yonder walls, that pertly front your town,\n" + " Yond towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,\n" + " Must kiss their own feet.\n\n" + "HECTOR I must not believe you:\n" + " There they stand yet, and modestly I think,\n" + " The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost\n" + " A drop of Grecian blood: the end crowns all,\n" + " And that old common arbitrator, Time,\n" + " Will one day end it.\n\n" + "ULYSSES So to him we leave it.\n" + " Most gentle and most valiant Hector, welcome:\n" + " After the general, I beseech you next\n" + " To feast with me and see me at my tent.\n\n" + "ACHILLES I shall forestall thee, Lord Ulysses, thou!\n" + " Now, Hector, I have fed mine eyes on thee;\n" + " I have with exact view perused thee, Hector,\n" + " And quoted joint by joint.\n\n" + "HECTOR Is this Achilles?\n\n" + "ACHILLES I am Achilles.\n\n" + "HECTOR Stand fair, I pray thee: let me look on thee.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Behold thy fill.\n\n" + "HECTOR Nay, I have done already.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Thou art too brief: I will the second time,\n" + " As I would buy thee, view thee limb by limb.\n\n" + "HECTOR O, like a book of sport thou'lt read me o'er;\n" + " But there's more in me than thou understand'st.\n" + " Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye?\n\n" + "ACHILLES Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body\n" + " Shall I destroy him? whether there, or there, or there?\n" + " That I may give the local wound a name\n" + " And make distinct the very breach whereout\n" + " Hector's great spirit flew: answer me, heavens!\n\n" + "HECTOR It would discredit the blest gods, proud man,\n" + " To answer such a question: stand again:\n" + " Think'st thou to catch my life so pleasantly\n" + " As to prenominate in nice conjecture\n" + " Where thou wilt hit me dead?\n\n" + "ACHILLES I tell thee, yea.\n\n" + "HECTOR Wert thou an oracle to tell me so,\n" + " I'd not believe thee. Henceforth guard thee well;\n" + " For I'll not kill thee there, nor there, nor there;\n" + " But, by the forge that stithied Mars his helm,\n" + " I'll kill thee every where, yea, o'er and o'er.\n" + " You wisest Grecians, pardon me this brag;\n" + " His insolence draws folly from my lips;\n" + " But I'll endeavour deeds to match these words,\n" + " Or may I never--\n\n" + "AJAX Do not chafe thee, cousin:\n" + " And you, Achilles, let these threats alone,\n" + " Till accident or purpose bring you to't:\n" + " You may have every day enough of Hector\n" + " If you have stomach; the general state, I fear,\n" + " Can scarce entreat you to be odd with him.\n\n" + "HECTOR I pray you, let us see you in the field:\n" + " We have had pelting wars, since you refused\n" + " The Grecians' cause.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Dost thou entreat me, Hector?\n" + " To-morrow do I meet thee, fell as death;\n" + " To-night all friends.\n\n" + "HECTOR Thy hand upon that match.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON First, all you peers of Greece, go to my tent;\n" + " There in the full convive we: afterwards,\n" + " As Hector's leisure and your bounties shall\n" + " Concur together, severally entreat him.\n" + " Beat loud the tabourines, let the trumpets blow,\n" + " That this great soldier may his welcome know.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all except TROILUS and ULYSSES]\n\n" + "TROILUS My Lord Ulysses, tell me, I beseech you,\n" + " In what place of the field doth Calchas keep?\n\n" + "ULYSSES At Menelaus' tent, most princely Troilus:\n" + " There Diomed doth feast with him to-night;\n" + " Who neither looks upon the heaven nor earth,\n" + " But gives all gaze and bent of amorous view\n" + " On the fair Cressid.\n\n" + "TROILUS Shall sweet lord, be bound to you so much,\n" + " After we part from Agamemnon's tent,\n" + " To bring me thither?\n\n" + "ULYSSES You shall command me, sir.\n" + " As gentle tell me, of what honour was\n" + " This Cressida in Troy? Had she no lover there\n" + " That wails her absence?\n\n\n" + "TROILUS O, sir, to such as boasting show their scars\n" + " A mock is due. Will you walk on, my lord?\n" + " She was beloved, she loved; she is, and doth:\n" + " But still sweet love is food for fortune's tooth.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The Grecian camp. Before Achilles' tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]\n\n" + "ACHILLES I'll heat his blood with Greekish wine to-night,\n" + " Which with my scimitar I'll cool to-morrow.\n" + " Patroclus, let us feast him to the height.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Here comes Thersites.\n\n" + " [Enter THERSITES]\n\n" + "ACHILLES How now, thou core of envy!\n" + " Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news?\n\n" + "THERSITES Why, thou picture of what thou seemest, and idol\n" + " of idiot worshippers, here's a letter for thee.\n\n" + "ACHILLES From whence, fragment?\n\n" + "THERSITES Why, thou full dish of fool, from Troy.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Who keeps the tent now?\n\n" + "THERSITES The surgeon's box, or the patient's wound.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Well said, adversity! and what need these tricks?\n\n" + "THERSITES Prithee, be silent, boy; I profit not by thy talk:\n" + " thou art thought to be Achilles' male varlet.\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Male varlet, you rogue! what's that?\n\n" + "THERSITES Why, his masculine whore. Now, the rotten diseases\n" + " of the south, the guts-griping, ruptures, catarrhs,\n" + " loads o' gravel i' the back, lethargies, cold\n" + " palsies, raw eyes, dirt-rotten livers, wheezing\n" + " lungs, bladders full of imposthume, sciaticas,\n" + " limekilns i' the palm, incurable bone-ache, and the\n" + " rivelled fee-simple of the tetter, take and take\n" + " again such preposterous discoveries!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Why thou damnable box of envy, thou, what meanest\n" + " thou to curse thus?\n\n" + "THERSITES Do I curse thee?\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson\n" + " indistinguishable cur, no.\n\n" + "THERSITES No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle\n" + " immaterial skein of sleave-silk, thou green sarcenet\n" + " flap for a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's\n" + " purse, thou? Ah, how the poor world is pestered\n" + " with such waterflies, diminutives of nature!\n\n" + "PATROCLUS Out, gall!\n\n" + "THERSITES Finch-egg!\n\n" + "ACHILLES My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite\n" + " From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle.\n" + " Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba,\n" + " A token from her daughter, my fair love,\n" + " Both taxing me and gaging me to keep\n" + " An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it:\n" + " Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;\n" + " My major vow lies here, this I'll obey.\n" + " Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent:\n" + " This night in banqueting must all be spent.\n" + " Away, Patroclus!\n\n" + " [Exeunt ACHILLES and PATROCLUS]\n\n" + "THERSITES With too much blood and too little brain, these two\n" + " may run mad; but, if with too much brain and too\n" + " little blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen.\n" + " Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough and one\n" + " that loves quails; but he has not so much brain as\n" + " earwax: and the goodly transformation of Jupiter\n" + " there, his brother, the bull,--the primitive statue,\n" + " and oblique memorial of cuckolds; a thrifty\n" + " shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's\n" + " leg,--to what form but that he is, should wit larded\n" + " with malice and malice forced with wit turn him to?\n" + " To an ass, were nothing; he is both ass and ox: to\n" + " an ox, were nothing; he is both ox and ass. To be a\n" + " dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a lizard, an\n" + " owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would\n" + " not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire\n" + " against destiny. Ask me not, what I would be, if I\n" + " were not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse\n" + " of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus! Hey-day!\n" + " spirits and fires!\n\n" + " [Enter HECTOR, TROILUS, AJAX, AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES,\n" + " NESTOR, MENELAUS, and DIOMEDES, with lights]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON We go wrong, we go wrong.\n\n" + "AJAX No, yonder 'tis;\n" + " There, where we see the lights.\n\n" + "HECTOR I trouble you.\n\n" + "AJAX No, not a whit.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Here comes himself to guide you.\n\n" + " [Re-enter ACHILLES]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, princes all.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON So now, fair prince of Troy, I bid good night.\n" + " Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.\n\n" + "HECTOR Thanks and good night to the Greeks' general.\n\n" + "MENELAUS Good night, my lord.\n\n" + "HECTOR Good night, sweet lord Menelaus.\n\n" + "THERSITES Sweet draught: 'sweet' quoth 'a! sweet sink,\n" + " sweet sewer.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Good night and welcome, both at once, to those\n" + " That go or tarry.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Good night.\n\n" + " [Exeunt AGAMEMNON and MENELAUS]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Old Nestor tarries; and you too, Diomed,\n" + " Keep Hector company an hour or two.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES I cannot, lord; I have important business,\n" + " The tide whereof is now. Good night, great Hector.\n\n" + "HECTOR Give me your hand.\n\n" + "ULYSSES [Aside to TROILUS] Follow his torch; he goes to\n" + " Calchas' tent:\n" + " I'll keep you company.\n\n" + "TROILUS Sweet sir, you honour me.\n\n" + "HECTOR And so, good night.\n\n" + " [Exit DIOMEDES; ULYSSES and TROILUS following]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Come, come, enter my tent.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ACHILLES, HECTOR, AJAX, and NESTOR]\n\n" + "THERSITES That same Diomed's a false-hearted rogue, a most\n" + " unjust knave; I will no more trust him when he leers\n" + " than I will a serpent when he hisses: he will spend\n" + " his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound:\n" + " but when he performs, astronomers foretell it; it\n" + " is prodigious, there will come some change; the sun\n" + " borrows of the moon, when Diomed keeps his\n" + " word. I will rather leave to see Hector, than\n" + " not to dog him: they say he keeps a Trojan\n" + " drab, and uses the traitor Calchas' tent: I'll\n" + " after. Nothing but lechery! all incontinent varlets!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. Before Calchas' tent.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DIOMEDES]\n\n" + "DIOMEDES What, are you up here, ho? speak.\n\n" + "CALCHAS [Within] Who calls?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Calchas, I think. Where's your daughter?\n\n" + "CALCHAS [Within] She comes to you.\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS and ULYSSES, at a distance;\n" + " after them, THERSITES]\n\n" + "ULYSSES Stand where the torch may not discover us.\n\n" + " [Enter CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "TROILUS Cressid comes forth to him.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES How now, my charge!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Now, my sweet guardian! Hark, a word with you.\n\n" + " [Whispers]\n\n" + "TROILUS Yea, so familiar!\n\n" + "ULYSSES She will sing any man at first sight.\n\n" + "THERSITES And any man may sing her, if he can take her cliff;\n" + " she's noted.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Will you remember?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Remember! yes.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Nay, but do, then;\n" + " And let your mind be coupled with your words.\n\n" + "TROILUS What should she remember?\n\n" + "ULYSSES List.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Sweet honey Greek, tempt me no more to folly.\n\n" + "THERSITES Roguery!\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Nay, then,--\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I'll tell you what,--\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Foh, foh! come, tell a pin: you are forsworn.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA In faith, I cannot: what would you have me do?\n\n" + "THERSITES A juggling trick,--to be secretly open.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES What did you swear you would bestow on me?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I prithee, do not hold me to mine oath;\n" + " Bid me do any thing but that, sweet Greek.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Good night.\n\n" + "TROILUS Hold, patience!\n\n" + "ULYSSES How now, Trojan!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Diomed,--\n\n" + "DIOMEDES No, no, good night: I'll be your fool no more.\n\n" + "TROILUS Thy better must.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Hark, one word in your ear.\n\n" + "TROILUS O plague and madness!\n\n" + "ULYSSES You are moved, prince; let us depart, I pray you,\n" + " Lest your displeasure should enlarge itself\n" + " To wrathful terms: this place is dangerous;\n" + " The time right deadly; I beseech you, go.\n\n" + "TROILUS Behold, I pray you!\n\n" + "ULYSSES Nay, good my lord, go off:\n" + " You flow to great distraction; come, my lord.\n\n" + "TROILUS I pray thee, stay.\n\n" + "ULYSSES You have not patience; come.\n\n" + "TROILUS I pray you, stay; by hell and all hell's torments\n" + " I will not speak a word!\n\n" + "DIOMEDES And so, good night.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Nay, but you part in anger.\n\n" + "TROILUS Doth that grieve thee?\n" + " O wither'd truth!\n\n" + "ULYSSES Why, how now, lord!\n\n" + "TROILUS By Jove,\n" + " I will be patient.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Guardian!--why, Greek!\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Foh, foh! adieu; you palter.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA In faith, I do not: come hither once again.\n\n" + "ULYSSES You shake, my lord, at something: will you go?\n" + " You will break out.\n\n" + "TROILUS She strokes his cheek!\n\n" + "ULYSSES Come, come.\n\n" + "TROILUS Nay, stay; by Jove, I will not speak a word:\n" + " There is between my will and all offences\n" + " A guard of patience: stay a little while.\n\n" + "THERSITES How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and\n" + " potato-finger, tickles these together! Fry, lechery, fry!\n\n" + "DIOMEDES But will you, then?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA In faith, I will, la; never trust me else.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Give me some token for the surety of it.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA I'll fetch you one.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ULYSSES You have sworn patience.\n\n" + "TROILUS Fear me not, sweet lord;\n" + " I will not be myself, nor have cognition\n" + " Of what I feel: I am all patience.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CRESSIDA]\n\n" + "THERSITES Now the pledge; now, now, now!\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Here, Diomed, keep this sleeve.\n\n" + "TROILUS O beauty! where is thy faith?\n\n" + "ULYSSES My lord,--\n\n" + "TROILUS I will be patient; outwardly I will.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA You look upon that sleeve; behold it well.\n" + " He loved me--O false wench!--Give't me again.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Whose was't?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA It is no matter, now I have't again.\n" + " I will not meet with you to-morrow night:\n" + " I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more.\n\n" + "THERSITES Now she sharpens: well said, whetstone!\n\n" + "DIOMEDES I shall have it.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA What, this?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Ay, that.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA O, all you gods! O pretty, pretty pledge!\n" + " Thy master now lies thinking in his bed\n" + " Of thee and me, and sighs, and takes my glove,\n" + " And gives memorial dainty kisses to it,\n" + " As I kiss thee. Nay, do not snatch it from me;\n" + " He that takes that doth take my heart withal.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES I had your heart before, this follows it.\n\n" + "TROILUS I did swear patience.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA You shall not have it, Diomed; faith, you shall not;\n" + " I'll give you something else.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES I will have this: whose was it?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA It is no matter.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Come, tell me whose it was.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA 'Twas one's that loved me better than you will.\n" + " But, now you have it, take it.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Whose was it?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA By all Diana's waiting-women yond,\n" + " And by herself, I will not tell you whose.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES To-morrow will I wear it on my helm,\n" + " And grieve his spirit that dares not challenge it.\n\n" + "TROILUS Wert thou the devil, and worest it on thy horn,\n" + " It should be challenged.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Well, well, 'tis done, 'tis past: and yet it is not;\n" + " I will not keep my word.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Why, then, farewell;\n" + " Thou never shalt mock Diomed again.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA You shall not go: one cannot speak a word,\n" + " But it straight starts you.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES I do not like this fooling.\n\n" + "THERSITES Nor I, by Pluto: but that that likes not you pleases me best.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES What, shall I come? the hour?\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Ay, come:--O Jove!--do come:--I shall be plagued.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Farewell till then.\n\n" + "CRESSIDA Good night: I prithee, come.\n\n" + " [Exit DIOMEDES]\n\n" + " Troilus, farewell! one eye yet looks on thee\n" + " But with my heart the other eye doth see.\n" + " Ah, poor our sex! this fault in us I find,\n" + " The error of our eye directs our mind:\n" + " What error leads must err; O, then conclude\n" + " Minds sway'd by eyes are full of turpitude.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "THERSITES A proof of strength she could not publish more,\n" + " Unless she said ' My mind is now turn'd whore.'\n\n" + "ULYSSES All's done, my lord.\n\n" + "TROILUS It is.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Why stay we, then?\n\n" + "TROILUS To make a recordation to my soul\n" + " Of every syllable that here was spoke.\n" + " But if I tell how these two did co-act,\n" + " Shall I not lie in publishing a truth?\n" + " Sith yet there is a credence in my heart,\n" + " An esperance so obstinately strong,\n" + " That doth invert the attest of eyes and ears,\n" + " As if those organs had deceptious functions,\n" + " Created only to calumniate.\n" + " Was Cressid here?\n\n" + "ULYSSES I cannot conjure, Trojan.\n\n" + "TROILUS She was not, sure.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Most sure she was.\n\n" + "TROILUS Why, my negation hath no taste of madness.\n\n" + "ULYSSES Nor mine, my lord: Cressid was here but now.\n\n" + "TROILUS Let it not be believed for womanhood!\n" + " Think, we had mothers; do not give advantage\n" + " To stubborn critics, apt, without a theme,\n" + " For depravation, to square the general sex\n" + " By Cressid's rule: rather think this not Cressid.\n\n" + "ULYSSES What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers?\n\n" + "TROILUS Nothing at all, unless that this were she.\n\n" + "THERSITES Will he swagger himself out on's own eyes?\n\n" + "TROILUS This she? no, this is Diomed's Cressida:\n" + " If beauty have a soul, this is not she;\n" + " If souls guide vows, if vows be sanctimonies,\n" + " If sanctimony be the gods' delight,\n" + " If there be rule in unity itself,\n" + " This is not she. O madness of discourse,\n" + " That cause sets up with and against itself!\n" + " Bi-fold authority! where reason can revolt\n" + " Without perdition, and loss assume all reason\n" + " Without revolt: this is, and is not, Cressid.\n" + " Within my soul there doth conduce a fight\n" + " Of this strange nature that a thing inseparate\n" + " Divides more wider than the sky and earth,\n" + " And yet the spacious breadth of this division\n" + " Admits no orifex for a point as subtle\n" + " As Ariachne's broken woof to enter.\n" + " Instance, O instance! strong as Pluto's gates;\n" + " Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven:\n" + " Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself;\n" + " The bonds of heaven are slipp'd, dissolved, and loosed;\n" + " And with another knot, five-finger-tied,\n" + " The fractions of her faith, orts of her love,\n" + " The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy relics\n" + " Of her o'er-eaten faith, are bound to Diomed.\n\n" + "ULYSSES May worthy Troilus be half attach'd\n" + " With that which here his passion doth express?\n\n" + "TROILUS Ay, Greek; and that shall be divulged well\n" + " In characters as red as Mars his heart\n" + " Inflamed with Venus: never did young man fancy\n" + " With so eternal and so fix'd a soul.\n" + " Hark, Greek: as much as I do Cressid love,\n" + " So much by weight hate I her Diomed:\n" + " That sleeve is mine that he'll bear on his helm;\n" + " Were it a casque composed by Vulcan's skill,\n" + " My sword should bite it: not the dreadful spout\n" + " Which shipmen do the hurricano call,\n" + " Constringed in mass by the almighty sun,\n" + " Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear\n" + " In his descent than shall my prompted sword\n" + " Falling on Diomed.\n\n" + "THERSITES He'll tickle it for his concupy.\n\n" + "TROILUS O Cressid! O false Cressid! false, false, false!\n" + " Let all untruths stand by thy stained name,\n" + " And they'll seem glorious.\n\n" + "ULYSSES O, contain yourself\n" + " Your passion draws ears hither.\n\n" + " [Enter AENEAS]\n\n" + "AENEAS I have been seeking you this hour, my lord:\n" + " Hector, by this, is arming him in Troy;\n" + " Ajax, your guard, stays to conduct you home.\n\n\n" + "TROILUS Have with you, prince. My courteous lord, adieu.\n" + " Farewell, revolted fair! and, Diomed,\n" + " Stand fast, and wear a castle on thy head!\n\n" + "ULYSSES I'll bring you to the gates.\n\n" + "TROILUS Accept distracted thanks.\n\n" + " [Exeunt TROILUS, AENEAS, and ULYSSES]\n\n" + "THERSITES Would I could meet that rogue Diomed! I would\n" + " croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode.\n" + " Patroclus will give me any thing for the\n" + " intelligence of this whore: the parrot will not\n" + " do more for an almond than he for a commodious drab.\n" + " Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery; nothing\n" + " else holds fashion: a burning devil take them!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Troy. Before Priam's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HECTOR and ANDROMACHE]\n\n" + "ANDROMACHE When was my lord so much ungently temper'd,\n" + " To stop his ears against admonishment?\n" + " Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day.\n\n" + "HECTOR You train me to offend you; get you in:\n" + " By all the everlasting gods, I'll go!\n\n" + "ANDROMACHE My dreams will, sure, prove ominous to the day.\n\n" + "HECTOR No more, I say.\n\n" + " [Enter CASSANDRA]\n\n" + "CASSANDRA Where is my brother Hector?\n\n" + "ANDROMACHE Here, sister; arm'd, and bloody in intent.\n" + " Consort with me in loud and dear petition,\n" + " Pursue we him on knees; for I have dream'd\n" + " Of bloody turbulence, and this whole night\n" + " Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter.\n\n" + "CASSANDRA O, 'tis true.\n\n" + "HECTOR Ho! bid my trumpet sound!\n\n" + "CASSANDRA No notes of sally, for the heavens, sweet brother.\n\n" + "HECTOR Be gone, I say: the gods have heard me swear.\n\n" + "CASSANDRA The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows:\n" + " They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd\n" + " Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.\n\n" + "ANDROMACHE O, be persuaded! do not count it holy\n" + " To hurt by being just: it is as lawful,\n" + " For we would give much, to use violent thefts,\n" + " And rob in the behalf of charity.\n\n" + "CASSANDRA It is the purpose that makes strong the vow;\n" + " But vows to every purpose must not hold:\n" + " Unarm, sweet Hector.\n\n" + "HECTOR Hold you still, I say;\n" + " Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate:\n" + " Lie every man holds dear; but the brave man\n" + " Holds honour far more precious-dear than life.\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS]\n\n" + " How now, young man! mean'st thou to fight to-day?\n\n" + "ANDROMACHE Cassandra, call my father to persuade.\n\n" + " [Exit CASSANDRA]\n\n" + "HECTOR No, faith, young Troilus; doff thy harness, youth;\n" + " I am to-day i' the vein of chivalry:\n" + " Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong,\n" + " And tempt not yet the brushes of the war.\n" + " Unarm thee, go, and doubt thou not, brave boy,\n" + " I'll stand to-day for thee and me and Troy.\n\n" + "TROILUS Brother, you have a vice of mercy in you,\n" + " Which better fits a lion than a man.\n\n" + "HECTOR What vice is that, good Troilus? chide me for it.\n\n" + "TROILUS When many times the captive Grecian falls,\n" + " Even in the fan and wind of your fair sword,\n" + " You bid them rise, and live.\n\n" + "HECTOR O,'tis fair play.\n\n" + "TROILUS Fool's play, by heaven, Hector.\n\n" + "HECTOR How now! how now!\n\n" + "TROILUS For the love of all the gods,\n" + " Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers,\n" + " And when we have our armours buckled on,\n" + " The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords,\n" + " Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth.\n\n" + "HECTOR Fie, savage, fie!\n\n" + "TROILUS Hector, then 'tis wars.\n\n" + "HECTOR Troilus, I would not have you fight to-day.\n\n" + "TROILUS Who should withhold me?\n" + " Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars\n" + " Beckoning with fiery truncheon my retire;\n" + " Not Priamus and Hecuba on knees,\n" + " Their eyes o'ergalled with recourse of tears;\n" + " Not you, my brother, with your true sword drawn,\n" + " Opposed to hinder me, should stop my way,\n" + " But by my ruin.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CASSANDRA, with PRIAM]\n\n" + "CASSANDRA Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast:\n" + " He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay,\n" + " Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee,\n" + " Fall all together.\n\n" + "PRIAM Come, Hector, come, go back:\n" + " Thy wife hath dream'd; thy mother hath had visions;\n" + " Cassandra doth foresee; and I myself\n" + " Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt\n" + " To tell thee that this day is ominous:\n" + " Therefore, come back.\n\n" + "HECTOR AEneas is a-field;\n" + " And I do stand engaged to many Greeks,\n" + " Even in the faith of valour, to appear\n" + " This morning to them.\n\n" + "PRIAM Ay, but thou shalt not go.\n\n" + "HECTOR I must not break my faith.\n" + " You know me dutiful; therefore, dear sir,\n" + " Let me not shame respect; but give me leave\n" + " To take that course by your consent and voice,\n" + " Which you do here forbid me, royal Priam.\n\n" + "CASSANDRA O Priam, yield not to him!\n\n" + "ANDROMACHE Do not, dear father.\n\n" + "HECTOR Andromache, I am offended with you:\n" + " Upon the love you bear me, get you in.\n\n" + " [Exit ANDROMACHE]\n\n" + "TROILUS This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl\n" + " Makes all these bodements.\n\n" + "CASSANDRA O, farewell, dear Hector!\n" + " Look, how thou diest! look, how thy eye turns pale!\n" + " Look, how thy wounds do bleed at many vents!\n" + " Hark, how Troy roars! how Hecuba cries out!\n" + " How poor Andromache shrills her dolours forth!\n" + " Behold, distraction, frenzy and amazement,\n" + " Like witless antics, one another meet,\n" + " And all cry, Hector! Hector's dead! O Hector!\n\n" + "TROILUS Away! away!\n\n" + "CASSANDRA Farewell: yet, soft! Hector! take my leave:\n" + " Thou dost thyself and all our Troy deceive.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HECTOR You are amazed, my liege, at her exclaim:\n" + " Go in and cheer the town: we'll forth and fight,\n" + " Do deeds worth praise and tell you them at night.\n\n" + "PRIAM Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee!\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally PRIAM and HECTOR. Alarums]\n\n" + "TROILUS They are at it, hark! Proud Diomed, believe,\n" + " I come to lose my arm, or win my sleeve.\n\n" + " [Enter PANDARUS]\n\n" + "PANDARUS Do you hear, my lord? do you hear?\n\n" + "TROILUS What now?\n\n" + "PANDARUS Here's a letter come from yond poor girl.\n\n" + "TROILUS Let me read.\n\n" + "PANDARUS A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick so\n" + " troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl;\n" + " and what one thing, what another, that I shall\n" + " leave you one o' these days: and I have a rheum\n" + " in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones\n" + " that, unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what\n" + " to think on't. What says she there?\n\n" + "TROILUS Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart:\n" + " The effect doth operate another way.\n\n" + " [Tearing the letter]\n\n" + " Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change together.\n" + " My love with words and errors still she feeds;\n" + " But edifies another with her deeds.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Plains between Troy and the Grecian camp.\n\n\n" + " [Alarums: excursions. Enter THERSITES]\n\n" + "THERSITES Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go\n" + " look on. That dissembling abominable varlets Diomed,\n" + " has got that same scurvy doting foolish young knave's\n" + " sleeve of Troy there in his helm: I would fain see\n" + " them meet; that that same young Trojan ass, that\n" + " loves the whore there, might send that Greekish\n" + " whore-masterly villain, with the sleeve, back to the\n" + " dissembling luxurious drab, of a sleeveless errand.\n" + " O' the t'other side, the policy of those crafty\n" + " swearing rascals, that stale old mouse-eaten dry\n" + " cheese, Nestor, and that same dog-fox, Ulysses, is\n" + " not proved worthy a blackberry: they set me up, in\n" + " policy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog of\n" + " as bad a kind, Achilles: and now is the cur Ajax\n" + " prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm\n" + " to-day; whereupon the Grecians begin to proclaim\n" + " barbarism, and policy grows into an ill opinion.\n" + " Soft! here comes sleeve, and t'other.\n\n" + " [Enter DIOMEDES, TROILUS following]\n\n" + "TROILUS Fly not; for shouldst thou take the river Styx,\n" + " I would swim after.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Thou dost miscall retire:\n" + " I do not fly, but advantageous care\n" + " Withdrew me from the odds of multitude:\n" + " Have at thee!\n\n" + "THERSITES Hold thy whore, Grecian!--now for thy whore,\n" + " Trojan!--now the sleeve, now the sleeve!\n\n" + " [Exeunt TROILUS and DIOMEDES, fighting]\n\n" + " [Enter HECTOR]\n\n" + "HECTOR What art thou, Greek? art thou for Hector's match?\n" + " Art thou of blood and honour?\n\n" + "THERSITES No, no, I am a rascal; a scurvy railing knave:\n" + " a very filthy rogue.\n\n" + "HECTOR I do believe thee: live.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "THERSITES God-a-mercy, that thou wilt believe me; but a\n" + " plague break thy neck for frightening me! What's\n" + " become of the wenching rogues? I think they have\n" + " swallowed one another: I would laugh at that\n" + " miracle: yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself.\n" + " I'll seek them.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V Another part of the plains.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant]\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;\n" + " Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:\n" + " Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;\n" + " Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,\n" + " And am her knight by proof.\n\n" + "Servant I go, my lord.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter AGAMEMNON]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas\n" + " Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon\n" + " Hath Doreus prisoner,\n" + " And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,\n" + " Upon the pashed corses of the kings\n" + " Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain,\n" + " Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt,\n" + " Patroclus ta'en or slain, and Palamedes\n" + " Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful Sagittary\n" + " Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed,\n" + " To reinforcement, or we perish all.\n\n" + " [Enter NESTOR]\n\n" + "NESTOR Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles;\n" + " And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.\n" + " There is a thousand Hectors in the field:\n" + " Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,\n" + " And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,\n" + " And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls\n" + " Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,\n" + " And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,\n" + " Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:\n" + " Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes,\n" + " Dexterity so obeying appetite\n" + " That what he will he does, and does so much\n" + " That proof is call'd impossibility.\n\n" + " [Enter ULYSSES]\n\n" + "ULYSSES O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles\n" + " Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:\n" + " Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,\n" + " Together with his mangled Myrmidons,\n" + " That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,\n" + " Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend\n" + " And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd and at it,\n" + " Roaring for Troilus, who hath done to-day\n" + " Mad and fantastic execution,\n" + " Engaging and redeeming of himself\n" + " With such a careless force and forceless care\n" + " As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,\n" + " Bade him win all.\n\n" + " [Enter AJAX]\n\n" + "AJAX Troilus! thou coward Troilus!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Ay, there, there.\n\n" + "NESTOR So, so, we draw together.\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Where is this Hector?\n" + " Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;\n" + " Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:\n" + " Hector? where's Hector? I will none but Hector.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI Another part of the plains.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AJAX]\n\n" + "AJAX Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head!\n\n" + " [Enter DIOMEDES]\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Troilus, I say! where's Troilus?\n\n" + "AJAX What wouldst thou?\n\n" + "DIOMEDES I would correct him.\n\n" + "AJAX Were I the general, thou shouldst have my office\n" + " Ere that correction. Troilus, I say! what, Troilus!\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS]\n\n" + "TROILUS O traitor Diomed! turn thy false face, thou traitor,\n" + " And pay thy life thou owest me for my horse!\n\n" + "DIOMEDES Ha, art thou there?\n\n" + "AJAX I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES He is my prize; I will not look upon.\n\n" + "TROILUS Come, both you cogging Greeks; have at you both!\n\n" + " [Exeunt, fighting]\n\n" + " [Enter HECTOR]\n\n" + "HECTOR Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother!\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Now do I see thee, ha! have at thee, Hector!\n\n" + "HECTOR Pause, if thou wilt.\n\n" + "ACHILLES I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan:\n" + " Be happy that my arms are out of use:\n" + " My rest and negligence befriends thee now,\n" + " But thou anon shalt hear of me again;\n" + " Till when, go seek thy fortune.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "HECTOR Fare thee well:\n" + " I would have been much more a fresher man,\n" + " Had I expected thee. How now, my brother!\n\n" + " [Re-enter TROILUS]\n\n" + "TROILUS Ajax hath ta'en AEneas: shall it be?\n" + " No, by the flame of yonder glorious heaven,\n" + " He shall not carry him: I'll be ta'en too,\n" + " Or bring him off: fate, hear me what I say!\n" + " I reck not though I end my life to-day.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter one in sumptuous armour]\n\n" + "HECTOR Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark:\n" + " No? wilt thou not? I like thy armour well;\n" + " I'll frush it and unlock the rivets all,\n" + " But I'll be master of it: wilt thou not,\n" + " beast, abide?\n" + " Why, then fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Another part of the plains.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;\n" + " Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel:\n" + " Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath:\n" + " And when I have the bloody Hector found,\n" + " Empale him with your weapons round about;\n" + " In fellest manner execute your aims.\n" + " Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:\n" + " It is decreed Hector the great must die.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting:\n" + " then THERSITES]\n\n" + "THERSITES The cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now,\n" + " bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double-\n" + " henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the\n" + " game: ware horns, ho!\n\n" + " [Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS]\n\n" + " [Enter MARGARELON]\n\n" + "MARGARELON Turn, slave, and fight.\n\n" + "THERSITES What art thou?\n\n" + "MARGARELON A bastard son of Priam's.\n\n" + "THERSITES I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard\n" + " begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard\n" + " in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will\n" + " not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?\n" + " Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the\n" + " son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment:\n" + " farewell, bastard.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARGARELON The devil take thee, coward!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VIII Another part of the plains.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HECTOR]\n\n" + "HECTOR Most putrefied core, so fair without,\n" + " Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life.\n" + " Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath:\n" + " Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death.\n\n" + " [Puts off his helmet and hangs his shield\n" + " behind him]\n\n" + " [Enter ACHILLES and Myrmidons]\n\n" + "ACHILLES Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set;\n" + " How ugly night comes breathing at his heels:\n" + " Even with the vail and darking of the sun,\n" + " To close the day up, Hector's life is done.\n\n" + "HECTOR I am unarm'd; forego this vantage, Greek.\n\n" + "ACHILLES Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek.\n\n" + " [HECTOR falls]\n\n" + " So, Ilion, fall thou next! now, Troy, sink down!\n" + " Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.\n" + " On, Myrmidons, and cry you all amain,\n" + " 'Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain.'\n\n" + " [A retreat sounded]\n\n" + " Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part.\n\n" + "MYRMIDONS The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord.\n\n" + "ACHILLES The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth,\n" + " And, stickler-like, the armies separates.\n" + " My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed,\n" + " Pleased with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed.\n\n" + " [Sheathes his sword]\n\n" + " Come, tie his body to my horse's tail;\n" + " Along the field I will the Trojan trail.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IX Another part of the plains.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES,\n" + " and others, marching. Shouts within]\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON Hark! hark! what shout is that?\n\n" + "NESTOR Peace, drums!\n\n" + " [Within]\n\n" + " Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles.\n\n" + "DIOMEDES The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles.\n\n" + "AJAX If it be so, yet bragless let it be;\n" + " Great Hector was a man as good as he.\n\n" + "AGAMEMNON March patiently along: let one be sent\n" + " To pray Achilles see us at our tent.\n" + " If in his death the gods have us befriended,\n" + " Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.\n\n" + " [Exeunt, marching]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TROILUS AND CRESSIDA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE X Another part of the plains.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AENEAS and Trojans]\n\n" + "AENEAS Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field:\n" + " Never go home; here starve we out the night.\n\n" + " [Enter TROILUS]\n\n" + "TROILUS Hector is slain.\n\n" + "ALL Hector! the gods forbid!\n\n" + "TROILUS He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail,\n" + " In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field.\n" + " Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed!\n" + " Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy!\n" + " I say, at once let your brief plagues be mercy,\n" + " And linger not our sure destructions on!\n\n" + "AENEAS My lord, you do discomfort all the host!\n\n" + "TROILUS You understand me not that tell me so:\n" + " I do not speak of flight, of fear, of death,\n" + " But dare all imminence that gods and men\n" + " Address their dangers in. Hector is gone:\n" + " Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba?\n" + " Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd,\n" + " Go in to Troy, and say there, Hector's dead:\n" + " There is a word will Priam turn to stone;\n" + " Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives,\n" + " Cold statues of the youth, and, in a word,\n" + " Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away:\n" + " Hector is dead; there is no more to say.\n" + " Stay yet. You vile abominable tents,\n" + " Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains,\n" + " Let Titan rise as early as he dare,\n" + " I'll through and through you! and, thou great-sized coward,\n" + " No space of earth shall sunder our two hates:\n" + " I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,\n" + " That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts.\n" + " Strike a free march to Troy! with comfort go:\n" + " Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.\n\n" + " [Exeunt AENEAS and Trojans]\n\n" + " [As TROILUS is going out, enter, from the other\n" + " side, PANDARUS]\n\n" + "PANDARUS But hear you, hear you!\n\n" + "TROILUS Hence, broker-lackey! ignomy and shame\n" + " Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PANDARUS A goodly medicine for my aching bones! O world!\n" + " world! world! thus is the poor agent despised!\n" + " O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set\n" + " a-work, and how ill requited! why should our\n" + " endeavour be so loved and the performance so loathed?\n" + " what verse for it? what instance for it? Let me see:\n" + " Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing,\n" + " Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;\n" + " And being once subdued in armed tail,\n" + " Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.\n" + " Good traders in the flesh, set this in your\n" + " painted cloths.\n" + " As many as be here of pander's hall,\n" + " Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall;\n" + " Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,\n" + " Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.\n" + " Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,\n" + " Some two months hence my will shall here be made:\n" + " It should be now, but that my fear is this,\n" + " Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss:\n" + " Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,\n" + " And at that time bequeathe you my diseases.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "ORSINO Duke of Illyria. (DUKE ORSINO:)\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN brother to Viola.\n\n" + "ANTONIO a sea captain, friend to Sebastian.\n\n" + " A Sea Captain, friend to Viola. (Captain:)\n\n\n" + "VALENTINE |\n" + " | gentlemen attending on the Duke.\n" + "CURIO |\n\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH uncle to Olivia.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW\n" + "AGUECHEEK (SIR ANDREW:)\n\n" + "MALVOLIO steward to Olivia.\n\n\n" + "FABIAN |\n" + " | servants to Olivia.\n" + "FESTE a Clown (Clown:) |\n\n\n" + "OLIVIA:\n\n" + "VIOLA:\n\n" + "MARIA Olivia's woman.\n\n" + " Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians,\n" + " and other Attendants.\n" + " (Priest:)\n" + " (First Officer:)\n" + " (Second Officer:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n\n\n" + "SCENE A city in Illyria, and the sea-coast near it.\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I DUKE ORSINO's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords;\n" + " Musicians attending]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO If music be the food of love, play on;\n" + " Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,\n" + " The appetite may sicken, and so die.\n" + " That strain again! it had a dying fall:\n" + " O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,\n" + " That breathes upon a bank of violets,\n" + " Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:\n" + " 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.\n" + " O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,\n" + " That, notwithstanding thy capacity\n" + " Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,\n" + " Of what validity and pitch soe'er,\n" + " But falls into abatement and low price,\n" + " Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy\n" + " That it alone is high fantastical.\n\n" + "CURIO Will you go hunt, my lord?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO What, Curio?\n\n" + "CURIO The hart.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:\n" + " O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,\n" + " Methought she purged the air of pestilence!\n" + " That instant was I turn'd into a hart;\n" + " And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,\n" + " E'er since pursue me.\n\n" + " [Enter VALENTINE]\n\n" + " How now! what news from her?\n\n" + "VALENTINE So please my lord, I might not be admitted;\n" + " But from her handmaid do return this answer:\n" + " The element itself, till seven years' heat,\n" + " Shall not behold her face at ample view;\n" + " But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk\n" + " And water once a day her chamber round\n" + " With eye-offending brine: all this to season\n" + " A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh\n" + " And lasting in her sad remembrance.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame\n" + " To pay this debt of love but to a brother,\n" + " How will she love, when the rich golden shaft\n" + " Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else\n" + " That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,\n" + " These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd\n" + " Her sweet perfections with one self king!\n" + " Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:\n" + " Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The sea-coast.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors]\n\n" + "VIOLA What country, friends, is this?\n\n" + "Captain This is Illyria, lady.\n\n" + "VIOLA And what should I do in Illyria?\n" + " My brother he is in Elysium.\n" + " Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?\n\n" + "Captain It is perchance that you yourself were saved.\n\n" + "VIOLA O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.\n\n" + "Captain True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,\n" + " Assure yourself, after our ship did split,\n" + " When you and those poor number saved with you\n" + " Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,\n" + " Most provident in peril, bind himself,\n" + " Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,\n" + " To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;\n" + " Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,\n" + " I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves\n" + " So long as I could see.\n\n" + "VIOLA For saying so, there's gold:\n" + " Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,\n" + " Whereto thy speech serves for authority,\n" + " The like of him. Know'st thou this country?\n\n" + "Captain Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born\n" + " Not three hours' travel from this very place.\n\n" + "VIOLA Who governs here?\n\n" + "Captain A noble duke, in nature as in name.\n\n" + "VIOLA What is the name?\n\n" + "Captain Orsino.\n\n" + "VIOLA Orsino! I have heard my father name him:\n" + " He was a bachelor then.\n\n" + "Captain And so is now, or was so very late;\n" + " For but a month ago I went from hence,\n" + " And then 'twas fresh in murmur,--as, you know,\n" + " What great ones do the less will prattle of,--\n" + " That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.\n\n" + "VIOLA What's she?\n\n" + "Captain A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count\n" + " That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her\n" + " In the protection of his son, her brother,\n" + " Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,\n" + " They say, she hath abjured the company\n" + " And sight of men.\n\n" + "VIOLA O that I served that lady\n" + " And might not be delivered to the world,\n" + " Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,\n" + " What my estate is!\n\n" + "Captain That were hard to compass;\n" + " Because she will admit no kind of suit,\n" + " No, not the duke's.\n\n" + "VIOLA There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;\n" + " And though that nature with a beauteous wall\n" + " Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee\n" + " I will believe thou hast a mind that suits\n" + " With this thy fair and outward character.\n" + " I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,\n" + " Conceal me what I am, and be my aid\n" + " For such disguise as haply shall become\n" + " The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:\n" + " Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:\n" + " It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing\n" + " And speak to him in many sorts of music\n" + " That will allow me very worth his service.\n" + " What else may hap to time I will commit;\n" + " Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.\n\n" + "Captain Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:\n" + " When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.\n\n" + "VIOLA I thank thee: lead me on.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III OLIVIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH What a plague means my niece, to take the death of\n" + " her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy to life.\n\n" + "MARIA By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o'\n" + " nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great\n" + " exceptions to your ill hours.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Why, let her except, before excepted.\n\n" + "MARIA Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest\n" + " limits of order.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:\n" + " these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be\n" + " these boots too: an they be not, let them hang\n" + " themselves in their own straps.\n\n" + "MARIA That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard\n" + " my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish\n" + " knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?\n\n" + "MARIA Ay, he.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.\n\n" + "MARIA What's that to the purpose?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.\n\n" + "MARIA Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:\n" + " he's a very fool and a prodigal.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the\n" + " viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages\n" + " word for word without book, and hath all the good\n" + " gifts of nature.\n\n" + "MARIA He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that\n" + " he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that\n" + " he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he\n" + " hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent\n" + " he would quickly have the gift of a grave.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors\n" + " that say so of him. Who are they?\n\n" + "MARIA They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to\n" + " her as long as there is a passage in my throat and\n" + " drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill\n" + " that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn\n" + " o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!\n" + " Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Sir Toby Belch! how now, Sir Toby Belch!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Sweet Sir Andrew!\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Bless you, fair shrew.\n\n" + "MARIA And you too, sir.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW What's that?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH My niece's chambermaid.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.\n\n" + "MARIA My name is Mary, sir.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Good Mistress Mary Accost,--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board\n" + " her, woo her, assail her.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW By my troth, I would not undertake her in this\n" + " company. Is that the meaning of 'accost'?\n\n" + "MARIA Fare you well, gentlemen.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst\n" + " never draw sword again.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW An you part so, mistress, I would I might never\n" + " draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have\n" + " fools in hand?\n\n" + "MARIA Sir, I have not you by the hand.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Marry, but you shall have; and here's my hand.\n\n" + "MARIA Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring\n" + " your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your metaphor?\n\n" + "MARIA It's dry, sir.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can\n" + " keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?\n\n" + "MARIA A dry jest, sir.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Are you full of them?\n\n" + "MARIA Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry,\n" + " now I let go your hand, I am barren.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I\n" + " see thee so put down?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary\n" + " put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more wit\n" + " than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a\n" + " great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH No question.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home\n" + " to-morrow, Sir Toby.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Pourquoi, my dear knight?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had\n" + " bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in\n" + " fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but\n" + " followed the arts!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Why, would that have mended my hair?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW But it becomes me well enough, does't not?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I\n" + " hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs\n" + " and spin it off.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece\n" + " will not be seen; or if she be, it's four to one\n" + " she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above\n" + " her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I\n" + " have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't,\n" + " man.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the\n" + " strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques\n" + " and revels sometimes altogether.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the\n" + " degree of my betters; and yet I will not compare\n" + " with an old man.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Faith, I can cut a caper.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH And I can cut the mutton to't.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong\n" + " as any man in Illyria.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have\n" + " these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to\n" + " take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost\n" + " thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in\n" + " a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not\n" + " so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What\n" + " dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?\n" + " I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy\n" + " leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a\n" + " flame-coloured stock. Shall we set about some revels?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Taurus! That's sides and heart.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH No, sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see the\n" + " caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV DUKE ORSINO's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man's attire]\n\n" + "VALENTINE If the duke continue these favours towards you,\n" + " Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath\n" + " known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.\n\n" + "VIOLA You either fear his humour or my negligence, that\n" + " you call in question the continuance of his love:\n" + " is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?\n\n" + "VALENTINE No, believe me.\n\n" + "VIOLA I thank you. Here comes the count.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and Attendants]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Who saw Cesario, ho?\n\n" + "VIOLA On your attendance, my lord; here.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Stand you a while aloof, Cesario,\n" + " Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd\n" + " To thee the book even of my secret soul:\n" + " Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;\n" + " Be not denied access, stand at her doors,\n" + " And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow\n" + " Till thou have audience.\n\n" + "VIOLA Sure, my noble lord,\n" + " If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow\n" + " As it is spoke, she never will admit me.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds\n" + " Rather than make unprofited return.\n\n" + "VIOLA Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO O, then unfold the passion of my love,\n" + " Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:\n" + " It shall become thee well to act my woes;\n" + " She will attend it better in thy youth\n" + " Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect.\n\n" + "VIOLA I think not so, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Dear lad, believe it;\n" + " For they shall yet belie thy happy years,\n" + " That say thou art a man: Diana's lip\n" + " Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe\n" + " Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,\n" + " And all is semblative a woman's part.\n" + " I know thy constellation is right apt\n" + " For this affair. Some four or five attend him;\n" + " All, if you will; for I myself am best\n" + " When least in company. Prosper well in this,\n" + " And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,\n" + " To call his fortunes thine.\n\n" + "VIOLA I'll do my best\n" + " To woo your lady:\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " yet, a barful strife!\n" + " Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V OLIVIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARIA and Clown]\n\n" + "MARIA Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will\n" + " not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in\n" + " way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy absence.\n\n" + "Clown Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this\n" + " world needs to fear no colours.\n\n" + "MARIA Make that good.\n\n" + "Clown He shall see none to fear.\n\n" + "MARIA A good lenten answer: I can tell thee where that\n" + " saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.'\n\n" + "Clown Where, good Mistress Mary?\n\n" + "MARIA In the wars; and that may you be bold to say in your foolery.\n\n" + "Clown Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those\n" + " that are fools, let them use their talents.\n\n" + "MARIA Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or,\n" + " to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?\n\n" + "Clown Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and,\n" + " for turning away, let summer bear it out.\n\n" + "MARIA You are resolute, then?\n\n" + "Clown Not so, neither; but I am resolved on two points.\n\n" + "MARIA That if one break, the other will hold; or, if both\n" + " break, your gaskins fall.\n\n" + "Clown Apt, in good faith; very apt. Well, go thy way; if\n" + " Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a\n" + " piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.\n\n" + "MARIA Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my\n" + " lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Clown Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!\n" + " Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft\n" + " prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may\n" + " pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?\n" + " 'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO]\n\n" + " God bless thee, lady!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Take the fool away.\n\n" + "Clown Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you:\n" + " besides, you grow dishonest.\n\n" + "Clown Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel\n" + " will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is\n" + " the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend\n" + " himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if\n" + " he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing\n" + " that's mended is but patched: virtue that\n" + " transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that\n" + " amends is but patched with virtue. If that this\n" + " simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,\n" + " what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but\n" + " calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take\n" + " away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Sir, I bade them take away you.\n\n" + "Clown Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non\n" + " facit monachum; that's as much to say as I wear not\n" + " motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to\n" + " prove you a fool.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Can you do it?\n\n" + "Clown Dexterously, good madonna.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Make your proof.\n\n" + "Clown I must catechise you for it, madonna: good my mouse\n" + " of virtue, answer me.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof.\n\n" + "Clown Good madonna, why mournest thou?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Good fool, for my brother's death.\n\n" + "Clown I think his soul is in hell, madonna.\n\n" + "OLIVIA I know his soul is in heaven, fool.\n\n" + "Clown The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's\n" + " soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.\n\n" + "OLIVIA What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:\n" + " infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the\n" + " better fool.\n\n" + "Clown God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the\n" + " better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be\n" + " sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his\n" + " word for two pence that you are no fool.\n\n" + "OLIVIA How say you to that, Malvolio?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a\n" + " barren rascal: I saw him put down the other day\n" + " with an ordinary fool that has no more brain\n" + " than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard\n" + " already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to\n" + " him, he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise men,\n" + " that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better\n" + " than the fools' zanies.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste\n" + " with a distempered appetite. To be generous,\n" + " guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those\n" + " things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:\n" + " there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do\n" + " nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet\n" + " man, though he do nothing but reprove.\n\n" + "Clown Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou\n" + " speakest well of fools!\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARIA]\n\n" + "MARIA Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much\n" + " desires to speak with you.\n\n" + "OLIVIA From the Count Orsino, is it?\n\n" + "MARIA I know not, madam: 'tis a fair young man, and well attended.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Who of my people hold him in delay?\n\n" + "MARIA Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but\n" + " madman: fie on him!\n\n" + " [Exit MARIA]\n\n" + " Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I\n" + " am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it.\n\n" + " [Exit MALVOLIO]\n\n" + " Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and\n" + " people dislike it.\n\n" + "Clown Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest\n" + " son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with\n" + " brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy kin has a\n" + " most weak pia mater.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH]\n\n" + "OLIVIA By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH A gentleman.\n\n" + "OLIVIA A gentleman! what gentleman?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH 'Tis a gentle man here--a plague o' these\n" + " pickle-herring! How now, sot!\n\n" + "Clown Good Sir Toby!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Ay, marry, what is he?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Let him be the devil, an he will, I care not: give\n" + " me faith, say I. Well, it's all one.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OLIVIA What's a drunken man like, fool?\n\n" + "Clown Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man: one\n" + " draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads\n" + " him; and a third drowns him.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' my\n" + " coz; for he's in the third degree of drink, he's\n" + " drowned: go, look after him.\n\n" + "Clown He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look\n" + " to the madman.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter MALVOLIO]\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with\n" + " you. I told him you were sick; he takes on him to\n" + " understand so much, and therefore comes to speak\n" + " with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to\n" + " have a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore\n" + " comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him,\n" + " lady? he's fortified against any denial.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Tell him he shall not speak with me.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Has been told so; and he says, he'll stand at your\n" + " door like a sheriff's post, and be the supporter to\n" + " a bench, but he'll speak with you.\n\n" + "OLIVIA What kind o' man is he?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Why, of mankind.\n\n" + "OLIVIA What manner of man?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Of what personage and years is he?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for\n" + " a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a\n" + " cooling when 'tis almost an apple: 'tis with him\n" + " in standing water, between boy and man. He is very\n" + " well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one\n" + " would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Let him approach: call in my gentlewoman.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Gentlewoman, my lady calls.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARIA]\n\n" + "OLIVIA Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.\n" + " We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.\n\n" + " [Enter VIOLA, and Attendants]\n\n" + "VIOLA The honourable lady of the house, which is she?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Speak to me; I shall answer for her.\n" + " Your will?\n\n" + "VIOLA Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,--I\n" + " pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house,\n" + " for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away\n" + " my speech, for besides that it is excellently well\n" + " penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good\n" + " beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very\n" + " comptible, even to the least sinister usage.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Whence came you, sir?\n\n" + "VIOLA I can say little more than I have studied, and that\n" + " question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give me\n" + " modest assurance if you be the lady of the house,\n" + " that I may proceed in my speech.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Are you a comedian?\n\n" + "VIOLA No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs\n" + " of malice I swear, I am not that I play. Are you\n" + " the lady of the house?\n\n" + "OLIVIA If I do not usurp myself, I am.\n\n" + "VIOLA Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp\n" + " yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours\n" + " to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will\n" + " on with my speech in your praise, and then show you\n" + " the heart of my message.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise.\n\n" + "VIOLA Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical.\n\n" + "OLIVIA It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you,\n" + " keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates,\n" + " and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you\n" + " than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if\n" + " you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of\n" + " moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.\n\n" + "MARIA Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way.\n\n" + "VIOLA No, good swabber; I am to hull here a little\n" + " longer. Some mollification for your giant, sweet\n" + " lady. Tell me your mind: I am a messenger.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when\n" + " the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office.\n\n" + "VIOLA It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of\n" + " war, no taxation of homage: I hold the olive in my\n" + " hand; my words are as fun of peace as matter.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Yet you began rudely. What are you? what would you?\n\n" + "VIOLA The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I\n" + " learned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I\n" + " would, are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears,\n" + " divinity, to any other's, profanation.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity.\n\n" + " [Exeunt MARIA and Attendants]\n\n" + " Now, sir, what is your text?\n\n" + "VIOLA Most sweet lady,--\n\n" + "OLIVIA A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it.\n" + " Where lies your text?\n\n" + "VIOLA In Orsino's bosom.\n\n" + "OLIVIA In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?\n\n" + "VIOLA To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.\n\n" + "OLIVIA O, I have read it: it is heresy. Have you no more to say?\n\n" + "VIOLA Good madam, let me see your face.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate\n" + " with my face? You are now out of your text: but\n" + " we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.\n" + " Look you, sir, such a one I was this present: is't\n" + " not well done?\n\n" + " [Unveiling]\n\n" + "VIOLA Excellently done, if God did all.\n\n" + "OLIVIA 'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.\n\n" + "VIOLA 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white\n" + " Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:\n" + " Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive,\n" + " If you will lead these graces to the grave\n" + " And leave the world no copy.\n\n" + "OLIVIA O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give\n" + " out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be\n" + " inventoried, and every particle and utensil\n" + " labelled to my will: as, item, two lips,\n" + " indifferent red; item, two grey eyes, with lids to\n" + " them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were\n" + " you sent hither to praise me?\n\n" + "VIOLA I see you what you are, you are too proud;\n" + " But, if you were the devil, you are fair.\n" + " My lord and master loves you: O, such love\n" + " Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd\n" + " The nonpareil of beauty!\n\n" + "OLIVIA How does he love me?\n\n" + "VIOLA With adorations, fertile tears,\n" + " With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him:\n" + " Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,\n" + " Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;\n" + " In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant;\n" + " And in dimension and the shape of nature\n" + " A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;\n" + " He might have took his answer long ago.\n\n" + "VIOLA If I did love you in my master's flame,\n" + " With such a suffering, such a deadly life,\n" + " In your denial I would find no sense;\n" + " I would not understand it.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Why, what would you?\n\n" + "VIOLA Make me a willow cabin at your gate,\n" + " And call upon my soul within the house;\n" + " Write loyal cantons of contemned love\n" + " And sing them loud even in the dead of night;\n" + " Halloo your name to the reverberate hills\n" + " And make the babbling gossip of the air\n" + " Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest\n" + " Between the elements of air and earth,\n" + " But you should pity me!\n\n" + "OLIVIA You might do much.\n" + " What is your parentage?\n\n" + "VIOLA Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:\n" + " I am a gentleman.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Get you to your lord;\n" + " I cannot love him: let him send no more;\n" + " Unless, perchance, you come to me again,\n" + " To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:\n" + " I thank you for your pains: spend this for me.\n\n" + "VIOLA I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse:\n" + " My master, not myself, lacks recompense.\n" + " Love make his heart of flint that you shall love;\n" + " And let your fervor, like my master's, be\n" + " Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OLIVIA 'What is your parentage?'\n" + " 'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:\n" + " I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;\n" + " Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit,\n" + " Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast:\n" + " soft, soft!\n" + " Unless the master were the man. How now!\n" + " Even so quickly may one catch the plague?\n" + " Methinks I feel this youth's perfections\n" + " With an invisible and subtle stealth\n" + " To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.\n" + " What ho, Malvolio!\n\n" + " [Re-enter MALVOLIO]\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Here, madam, at your service.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Run after that same peevish messenger,\n" + " The county's man: he left this ring behind him,\n" + " Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it.\n" + " Desire him not to flatter with his lord,\n" + " Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him:\n" + " If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,\n" + " I'll give him reasons for't: hie thee, Malvolio.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Madam, I will.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OLIVIA I do I know not what, and fear to find\n" + " Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.\n" + " Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe;\n" + " What is decreed must be, and be this so.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The sea-coast.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN]\n\n" + "ANTONIO Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over\n" + " me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps\n" + " distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your\n" + " leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad\n" + " recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.\n\n" + "ANTONIO: Let me yet know of you whither you are bound.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere\n" + " extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a\n" + " touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me\n" + " what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges\n" + " me in manners the rather to express myself. You\n" + " must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,\n" + " which I called Roderigo. My father was that\n" + " Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard\n" + " of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both\n" + " born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,\n" + " would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that;\n" + " for some hour before you took me from the breach of\n" + " the sea was my sister drowned.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Alas the day!\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled\n" + " me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but,\n" + " though I could not with such estimable wonder\n" + " overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly\n" + " publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but\n" + " call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt\n" + " water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.\n\n" + "ANTONIO If you will not murder me for my love, let me be\n" + " your servant.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN If you will not undo what you have done, that is,\n" + " kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not.\n" + " Fare ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness,\n" + " and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that\n" + " upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell\n" + " tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTONIO The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!\n" + " I have many enemies in Orsino's court,\n" + " Else would I very shortly see thee there.\n" + " But, come what may, I do adore thee so,\n" + " That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VIOLA, MALVOLIO following]\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia?\n\n" + "VIOLA Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since\n" + " arrived but hither.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO She returns this ring to you, sir: you might have\n" + " saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.\n" + " She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord\n" + " into a desperate assurance she will none of him:\n" + " and one thing more, that you be never so hardy to\n" + " come again in his affairs, unless it be to report\n" + " your lord's taking of this. Receive it so.\n\n" + "VIOLA She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her\n" + " will is, it should be so returned: if it be worth\n" + " stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be\n" + " it his that finds it.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "VIOLA I left no ring with her: what means this lady?\n" + " Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!\n" + " She made good view of me; indeed, so much,\n" + " That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,\n" + " For she did speak in starts distractedly.\n" + " She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion\n" + " Invites me in this churlish messenger.\n" + " None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.\n" + " I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,\n" + " Poor lady, she were better love a dream.\n" + " Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,\n" + " Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.\n" + " How easy is it for the proper-false\n" + " In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!\n" + " Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!\n" + " For such as we are made of, such we be.\n" + " How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;\n" + " And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;\n" + " And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.\n" + " What will become of this? As I am man,\n" + " My state is desperate for my master's love;\n" + " As I am woman,--now alas the day!--\n" + " What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!\n" + " O time! thou must untangle this, not I;\n" + " It is too hard a knot for me to untie!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III OLIVIA's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after\n" + " midnight is to be up betimes; and 'diluculo\n" + " surgere,' thou know'st,--\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up\n" + " late is to be up late.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can.\n" + " To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is\n" + " early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go\n" + " to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the\n" + " four elements?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists\n" + " of eating and drinking.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.\n" + " Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!\n\n" + " [Enter Clown]\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Here comes the fool, i' faith.\n\n" + "Clown How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture\n" + " of 'we three'?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I\n" + " had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg,\n" + " and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In\n" + " sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last\n" + " night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the\n" + " Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: 'twas\n" + " very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy\n" + " leman: hadst it?\n\n" + "Clown I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose\n" + " is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the\n" + " Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Excellent! why, this is the best fooling, when all\n" + " is done. Now, a song.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a--\n\n" + "Clown Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH A love-song, a love-song.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Ay, ay: I care not for good life.\n\n" + "Clown [Sings]\n\n" + " O mistress mine, where are you roaming?\n" + " O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,\n" + " That can sing both high and low:\n" + " Trip no further, pretty sweeting;\n" + " Journeys end in lovers meeting,\n" + " Every wise man's son doth know.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Excellent good, i' faith.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Good, good.\n\n" + "Clown [Sings]\n\n" + " What is love? 'tis not hereafter;\n" + " Present mirth hath present laughter;\n" + " What's to come is still unsure:\n" + " In delay there lies no plenty;\n" + " Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,\n" + " Youth's a stuff will not endure.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH A contagious breath.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion.\n" + " But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? shall we\n" + " rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three\n" + " souls out of one weaver? shall we do that?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW An you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch.\n\n" + "Clown By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Most certain. Let our catch be, 'Thou knave.'\n\n" + "Clown 'Hold thy peace, thou knave,' knight? I shall be\n" + " constrained in't to call thee knave, knight.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW 'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to\n" + " call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins 'Hold thy peace.'\n\n" + "Clown I shall never begin if I hold my peace.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Good, i' faith. Come, begin.\n\n" + " [Catch sung]\n\n" + " [Enter MARIA]\n\n" + "MARIA What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady\n" + " have not called up her steward Malvolio and bid him\n" + " turn you out of doors, never trust me.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's\n" + " a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not\n" + " I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?\n" + " Tillyvally. Lady!\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " 'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady!'\n\n" + "Clown Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do\n" + " I too: he does it with a better grace, but I do it\n" + " more natural.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH [Sings] 'O, the twelfth day of December,'--\n\n" + "MARIA For the love o' God, peace!\n\n" + " [Enter MALVOLIO]\n\n" + "MALVOLIO My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye\n" + " no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like\n" + " tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an\n" + " alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your\n" + " coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse\n" + " of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor\n" + " time in you?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me\n" + " tell you, that, though she harbours you as her\n" + " kinsman, she's nothing allied to your disorders. If\n" + " you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors, you\n" + " are welcome to the house; if not, an it would please\n" + " you to take leave of her, she is very willing to bid\n" + " you farewell.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH 'Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.'\n\n" + "MARIA Nay, good Sir Toby.\n\n" + "Clown 'His eyes do show his days are almost done.'\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Is't even so?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH 'But I will never die.'\n\n" + "Clown Sir Toby, there you lie.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO This is much credit to you.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH 'Shall I bid him go?'\n\n" + "Clown 'What an if you do?'\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH 'Shall I bid him go, and spare not?'\n\n" + "Clown 'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Out o' tune, sir: ye lie. Art any more than a\n" + " steward? Dost thou think, because thou art\n" + " virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?\n\n" + "Clown Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the\n" + " mouth too.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Thou'rt i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with\n" + " crumbs. A stoup of wine, Maria!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at any\n" + " thing more than contempt, you would not give means\n" + " for this uncivil rule: she shall know of it, by this hand.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "MARIA Go shake your ears.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW 'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's\n" + " a-hungry, to challenge him the field, and then to\n" + " break promise with him and make a fool of him.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Do't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge: or I'll\n" + " deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth.\n\n" + "MARIA Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight: since the\n" + " youth of the count's was today with thy lady, she is\n" + " much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let me\n" + " alone with him: if I do not gull him into a\n" + " nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not\n" + " think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:\n" + " I know I can do it.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Possess us, possess us; tell us something of him.\n\n" + "MARIA Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason,\n" + " dear knight?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason\n" + " good enough.\n\n" + "MARIA The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing\n" + " constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass,\n" + " that cons state without book and utters it by great\n" + " swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so\n" + " crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is\n" + " his grounds of faith that all that look on him love\n" + " him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find\n" + " notable cause to work.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH What wilt thou do?\n\n" + "MARIA I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of\n" + " love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape\n" + " of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure\n" + " of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find\n" + " himself most feelingly personated. I can write very\n" + " like my lady your niece: on a forgotten matter we\n" + " can hardly make distinction of our hands.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Excellent! I smell a device.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I have't in my nose too.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,\n" + " that they come from my niece, and that she's in\n" + " love with him.\n\n" + "MARIA My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW And your horse now would make him an ass.\n\n" + "MARIA Ass, I doubt not.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW O, 'twill be admirable!\n\n" + "MARIA Sport royal, I warrant you: I know my physic will\n" + " work with him. I will plant you two, and let the\n" + " fool make a third, where he shall find the letter:\n" + " observe his construction of it. For this night, to\n" + " bed, and dream on the event. Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Good night, Penthesilea.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Before me, she's a good wench.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me:\n" + " what o' that?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I was adored once too.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for\n" + " more money.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Send for money, knight: if thou hast her not i'\n" + " the end, call me cut.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come, come, I'll go burn some sack; 'tis too late\n" + " to go to bed now: come, knight; come, knight.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV DUKE ORSINO's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and others]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.\n" + " Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,\n" + " That old and antique song we heard last night:\n" + " Methought it did relieve my passion much,\n" + " More than light airs and recollected terms\n" + " Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:\n" + " Come, but one verse.\n\n" + "CURIO He is not here, so please your lordship that should sing it.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Who was it?\n\n" + "CURIO Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady\n" + " Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Seek him out, and play the tune the while.\n\n" + " [Exit CURIO. Music plays]\n\n" + " Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love,\n" + " In the sweet pangs of it remember me;\n" + " For such as I am all true lovers are,\n" + " Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,\n" + " Save in the constant image of the creature\n" + " That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?\n\n" + "VIOLA It gives a very echo to the seat\n" + " Where Love is throned.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Thou dost speak masterly:\n" + " My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye\n" + " Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:\n" + " Hath it not, boy?\n\n" + "VIOLA A little, by your favour.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO What kind of woman is't?\n\n" + "VIOLA Of your complexion.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?\n\n" + "VIOLA About your years, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Too old by heaven: let still the woman take\n" + " An elder than herself: so wears she to him,\n" + " So sways she level in her husband's heart:\n" + " For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,\n" + " Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,\n" + " More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,\n" + " Than women's are.\n\n" + "VIOLA I think it well, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Then let thy love be younger than thyself,\n" + " Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;\n" + " For women are as roses, whose fair flower\n" + " Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.\n\n" + "VIOLA And so they are: alas, that they are so;\n" + " To die, even when they to perfection grow!\n\n" + " [Re-enter CURIO and Clown]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.\n" + " Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;\n" + " The spinsters and the knitters in the sun\n" + " And the free maids that weave their thread with bones\n" + " Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,\n" + " And dallies with the innocence of love,\n" + " Like the old age.\n\n" + "Clown Are you ready, sir?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Ay; prithee, sing.\n\n" + " [Music]\n" + " \n" + " SONG.\n" + "Clown Come away, come away, death,\n" + " And in sad cypress let me be laid;\n" + " Fly away, fly away breath;\n" + " I am slain by a fair cruel maid.\n" + " My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,\n" + " O, prepare it!\n" + " My part of death, no one so true\n" + " Did share it.\n" + " Not a flower, not a flower sweet\n" + " On my black coffin let there be strown;\n" + " Not a friend, not a friend greet\n" + " My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:\n" + " A thousand thousand sighs to save,\n" + " Lay me, O, where\n" + " Sad true lover never find my grave,\n" + " To weep there!\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO There's for thy pains.\n\n" + "Clown No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO I'll pay thy pleasure then.\n\n" + "Clown Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Give me now leave to leave thee.\n\n" + "Clown Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the\n" + " tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for\n" + " thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such\n" + " constancy put to sea, that their business might be\n" + " every thing and their intent every where; for that's\n" + " it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Let all the rest give place.\n\n" + " [CURIO and Attendants retire]\n\n" + " Once more, Cesario,\n" + " Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty:\n" + " Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,\n" + " Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;\n" + " The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,\n" + " Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;\n" + " But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems\n" + " That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.\n\n" + "VIOLA But if she cannot love you, sir?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO I cannot be so answer'd.\n\n" + "VIOLA Sooth, but you must.\n" + " Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,\n" + " Hath for your love a great a pang of heart\n" + " As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;\n" + " You tell her so; must she not then be answer'd?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO There is no woman's sides\n" + " Can bide the beating of so strong a passion\n" + " As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart\n" + " So big, to hold so much; they lack retention\n" + " Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,\n" + " No motion of the liver, but the palate,\n" + " That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;\n" + " But mine is all as hungry as the sea,\n" + " And can digest as much: make no compare\n" + " Between that love a woman can bear me\n" + " And that I owe Olivia.\n\n" + "VIOLA Ay, but I know--\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO What dost thou know?\n\n" + "VIOLA Too well what love women to men may owe:\n" + " In faith, they are as true of heart as we.\n" + " My father had a daughter loved a man,\n" + " As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,\n" + " I should your lordship.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO And what's her history?\n\n" + "VIOLA A blank, my lord. She never told her love,\n" + " But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,\n" + " Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,\n" + " And with a green and yellow melancholy\n" + " She sat like patience on a monument,\n" + " Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?\n" + " We men may say more, swear more: but indeed\n" + " Our shows are more than will; for still we prove\n" + " Much in our vows, but little in our love.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO But died thy sister of her love, my boy?\n\n" + "VIOLA I am all the daughters of my father's house,\n" + " And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.\n" + " Sir, shall I to this lady?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Ay, that's the theme.\n" + " To her in haste; give her this jewel; say,\n" + " My love can give no place, bide no denay.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V OLIVIA's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come thy ways, Signior Fabian.\n\n" + "FABIAN Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport,\n" + " let me be boiled to death with melancholy.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly\n" + " rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame?\n\n" + "FABIAN I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out o'\n" + " favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH To anger him we'll have the bear again; and we will\n" + " fool him black and blue: shall we not, Sir Andrew?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW An we do not, it is pity of our lives.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Here comes the little villain.\n\n" + " [Enter MARIA]\n\n" + " How now, my metal of India!\n\n" + "MARIA Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's\n" + " coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the\n" + " sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half\n" + " hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I\n" + " know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of\n" + " him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there,\n\n" + " [Throws down a letter]\n\n" + " for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter MALVOLIO]\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once told\n" + " me she did affect me: and I have heard herself come\n" + " thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one\n" + " of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more\n" + " exalted respect than any one else that follows her.\n" + " What should I think on't?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Here's an overweening rogue!\n\n" + "FABIAN O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock\n" + " of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Peace, I say.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO To be Count Malvolio!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Ah, rogue!\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Pistol him, pistol him.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Peace, peace!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO There is example for't; the lady of the Strachy\n" + " married the yeoman of the wardrobe.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Fie on him, Jezebel!\n\n" + "FABIAN O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how\n" + " imagination blows him.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Having been three months married to her, sitting in\n" + " my state,--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet\n" + " gown; having come from a day-bed, where I have left\n" + " Olivia sleeping,--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Fire and brimstone!\n\n" + "FABIAN O, peace, peace!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO And then to have the humour of state; and after a\n" + " demure travel of regard, telling them I know my\n" + " place as I would they should do theirs, to for my\n" + " kinsman Toby,--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Bolts and shackles!\n\n" + "FABIAN O peace, peace, peace! now, now.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make\n" + " out for him: I frown the while; and perchance wind\n" + " up watch, or play with my--some rich jewel. Toby\n" + " approaches; courtesies there to me,--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Shall this fellow live?\n\n" + "FABIAN Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar\n" + " smile with an austere regard of control,--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on\n" + " your niece give me this prerogative of speech,'--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH What, what?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'You must amend your drunkenness.'\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Out, scab!\n\n" + "FABIAN Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with\n" + " a foolish knight,'--\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW That's me, I warrant you.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'One Sir Andrew,'--\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I knew 'twas I; for many do call me fool.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO What employment have we here?\n\n" + " [Taking up the letter]\n\n" + "FABIAN Now is the woodcock near the gin.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH O, peace! and the spirit of humour intimate reading\n" + " aloud to him!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her\n" + " very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her\n" + " great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Her C's, her U's and her T's: why that?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO [Reads] 'To the unknown beloved, this, and my good\n" + " wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax.\n" + " Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she\n" + " uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be?\n\n" + "FABIAN This wins him, liver and all.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO [Reads]\n\n" + " Jove knows I love: But who?\n" + " Lips, do not move;\n" + " No man must know.\n" + " 'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers\n" + " altered! 'No man must know:' if this should be\n" + " thee, Malvolio?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Marry, hang thee, brock!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO [Reads]\n" + " I may command where I adore;\n" + " But silence, like a Lucrece knife,\n" + " With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:\n" + " M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.\n\n" + "FABIAN A fustian riddle!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Excellent wench, say I.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let\n" + " me see, let me see, let me see.\n\n" + "FABIAN What dish o' poison has she dressed him!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command\n" + " me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is\n" + " evident to any formal capacity; there is no\n" + " obstruction in this: and the end,--what should\n" + " that alphabetical position portend? If I could make\n" + " that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A,\n" + " I,--\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH O, ay, make up that: he is now at a cold scent.\n\n" + "FABIAN Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as\n" + " rank as a fox.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO M,--Malvolio; M,--why, that begins my name.\n\n" + "FABIAN Did not I say he would work it out? the cur is\n" + " excellent at faults.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO M,--but then there is no consonancy in the sequel;\n" + " that suffers under probation A should follow but O does.\n\n" + "FABIAN And O shall end, I hope.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry O!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO And then I comes behind.\n\n" + "FABIAN Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see\n" + " more detraction at your heels than fortunes before\n" + " you.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former: and\n" + " yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for\n" + " every one of these letters are in my name. Soft!\n" + " here follows prose.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I\n" + " am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some\n" + " are born great, some achieve greatness, and some\n" + " have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates open\n" + " their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;\n" + " and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,\n" + " cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be\n" + " opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let\n" + " thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into\n" + " the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee\n" + " that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy\n" + " yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever\n" + " cross-gartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art\n" + " made, if thou desirest to be so; if not, let me see\n" + " thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and\n" + " not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell.\n" + " She that would alter services with thee,\n" + " THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY.'\n" + " Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is\n" + " open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors,\n" + " I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross\n" + " acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man.\n" + " I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade\n" + " me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady\n" + " loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of\n" + " late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered;\n" + " and in this she manifests herself to my love, and\n" + " with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits\n" + " of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will\n" + " be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and\n" + " cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting\n" + " on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a\n" + " postscript.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou\n" + " entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling;\n" + " thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my\n" + " presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.'\n" + " Jove, I thank thee: I will smile; I will do\n" + " everything that thou wilt have me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FABIAN I will not give my part of this sport for a pension\n" + " of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I could marry this wench for this device.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW So could I too.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Nor I neither.\n\n" + "FABIAN Here comes my noble gull-catcher.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARIA]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Or o' mine either?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Shall I play my freedom at traytrip, and become thy\n" + " bond-slave?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I' faith, or I either?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when\n" + " the image of it leaves him he must run mad.\n\n" + "MARIA Nay, but say true; does it work upon him?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.\n\n" + "MARIA If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark\n" + " his first approach before my lady: he will come to\n" + " her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she\n" + " abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;\n" + " and he will smile upon her, which will now be so\n" + " unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a\n" + " melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him\n" + " into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow\n" + " me.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I'll make one too.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I OLIVIA's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VIOLA, and Clown with a tabour]\n\n" + "VIOLA Save thee, friend, and thy music: dost thou live by\n" + " thy tabour?\n\n" + "Clown No, sir, I live by the church.\n\n" + "VIOLA Art thou a churchman?\n\n" + "Clown No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for\n" + " I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by\n" + " the church.\n\n" + "VIOLA So thou mayst say, the king lies by a beggar, if a\n" + " beggar dwell near him; or, the church stands by thy\n" + " tabour, if thy tabour stand by the church.\n\n" + "Clown You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is\n" + " but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the\n" + " wrong side may be turned outward!\n\n" + "VIOLA Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with\n" + " words may quickly make them wanton.\n\n" + "Clown I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir.\n\n" + "VIOLA Why, man?\n\n" + "Clown Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that\n" + " word might make my sister wanton. But indeed words\n" + " are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.\n\n" + "VIOLA Thy reason, man?\n\n" + "Clown Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and\n" + " words are grown so false, I am loath to prove\n" + " reason with them.\n\n" + "VIOLA I warrant thou art a merry fellow and carest for nothing.\n\n" + "Clown Not so, sir, I do care for something; but in my\n" + " conscience, sir, I do not care for you: if that be\n" + " to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.\n\n" + "VIOLA Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool?\n\n" + "Clown No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly: she\n" + " will keep no fool, sir, till she be married; and\n" + " fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to\n" + " herrings; the husband's the bigger: I am indeed not\n" + " her fool, but her corrupter of words.\n\n" + "VIOLA I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's.\n\n" + "Clown Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun,\n" + " it shines every where. I would be sorry, sir, but\n" + " the fool should be as oft with your master as with\n" + " my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there.\n\n" + "VIOLA Nay, an thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee.\n" + " Hold, there's expenses for thee.\n\n" + "Clown Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!\n\n" + "VIOLA By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for\n" + " one;\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy\n" + " lady within?\n\n" + "Clown Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?\n\n" + "VIOLA Yes, being kept together and put to use.\n\n" + "Clown I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring\n" + " a Cressida to this Troilus.\n\n" + "VIOLA I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged.\n\n" + "Clown The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but\n" + " a beggar: Cressida was a beggar. My lady is\n" + " within, sir. I will construe to them whence you\n" + " come; who you are and what you would are out of my\n" + " welkin, I might say 'element,' but the word is over-worn.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "VIOLA This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;\n" + " And to do that well craves a kind of wit:\n" + " He must observe their mood on whom he jests,\n" + " The quality of persons, and the time,\n" + " And, like the haggard, cheque at every feather\n" + " That comes before his eye. This is a practise\n" + " As full of labour as a wise man's art\n" + " For folly that he wisely shows is fit;\n" + " But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Save you, gentleman.\n\n" + "VIOLA And you, sir.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Dieu vous garde, monsieur.\n\n" + "VIOLA Et vous aussi; votre serviteur.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I hope, sir, you are; and I am yours.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Will you encounter the house? my niece is desirous\n" + " you should enter, if your trade be to her.\n\n" + "VIOLA I am bound to your niece, sir; I mean, she is the\n" + " list of my voyage.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion.\n\n" + "VIOLA My legs do better understand me, sir, than I\n" + " understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I mean, to go, sir, to enter.\n\n" + "VIOLA I will answer you with gait and entrance. But we\n" + " are prevented.\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVIA and MARIA]\n\n" + " Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain\n" + " odours on you!\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW That youth's a rare courtier: 'Rain odours;' well.\n\n" + "VIOLA My matter hath no voice, to your own most pregnant\n" + " and vouchsafed ear.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW 'Odours,' 'pregnant' and 'vouchsafed:' I'll get 'em\n" + " all three all ready.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and MARIA]\n\n" + " Give me your hand, sir.\n\n" + "VIOLA My duty, madam, and most humble service.\n\n" + "OLIVIA What is your name?\n\n" + "VIOLA Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess.\n\n" + "OLIVIA My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world\n" + " Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:\n" + " You're servant to the Count Orsino, youth.\n\n" + "VIOLA And he is yours, and his must needs be yours:\n" + " Your servant's servant is your servant, madam.\n\n" + "OLIVIA For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,\n" + " Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me!\n\n" + "VIOLA Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts\n" + " On his behalf.\n\n" + "OLIVIA O, by your leave, I pray you,\n" + " I bade you never speak again of him:\n" + " But, would you undertake another suit,\n" + " I had rather hear you to solicit that\n" + " Than music from the spheres.\n\n" + "VIOLA Dear lady,--\n\n" + "OLIVIA Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,\n" + " After the last enchantment you did here,\n" + " A ring in chase of you: so did I abuse\n" + " Myself, my servant and, I fear me, you:\n" + " Under your hard construction must I sit,\n" + " To force that on you, in a shameful cunning,\n" + " Which you knew none of yours: what might you think?\n" + " Have you not set mine honour at the stake\n" + " And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts\n" + " That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving\n" + " Enough is shown: a cypress, not a bosom,\n" + " Hideth my heart. So, let me hear you speak.\n\n" + "VIOLA I pity you.\n\n" + "OLIVIA That's a degree to love.\n\n" + "VIOLA No, not a grize; for 'tis a vulgar proof,\n" + " That very oft we pity enemies.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Why, then, methinks 'tis time to smile again.\n" + " O, world, how apt the poor are to be proud!\n" + " If one should be a prey, how much the better\n" + " To fall before the lion than the wolf!\n\n" + " [Clock strikes]\n\n" + " The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.\n" + " Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you:\n" + " And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,\n" + " Your were is alike to reap a proper man:\n" + " There lies your way, due west.\n\n" + "VIOLA Then westward-ho! Grace and good disposition\n" + " Attend your ladyship!\n" + " You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Stay:\n" + " I prithee, tell me what thou thinkest of me.\n\n" + "VIOLA That you do think you are not what you are.\n\n" + "OLIVIA If I think so, I think the same of you.\n\n" + "VIOLA Then think you right: I am not what I am.\n\n" + "OLIVIA I would you were as I would have you be!\n\n" + "VIOLA Would it be better, madam, than I am?\n" + " I wish it might, for now I am your fool.\n\n" + "OLIVIA O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful\n" + " In the contempt and anger of his lip!\n" + " A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon\n" + " Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon.\n" + " Cesario, by the roses of the spring,\n" + " By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing,\n" + " I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,\n" + " Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.\n" + " Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,\n" + " For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,\n" + " But rather reason thus with reason fetter,\n" + " Love sought is good, but given unsought better.\n\n" + "VIOLA By innocence I swear, and by my youth\n" + " I have one heart, one bosom and one truth,\n" + " And that no woman has; nor never none\n" + " Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.\n" + " And so adieu, good madam: never more\n" + " Will I my master's tears to you deplore.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Yet come again; for thou perhaps mayst move\n" + " That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II OLIVIA's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason.\n\n" + "FABIAN You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the\n" + " count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me;\n" + " I saw't i' the orchard.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Did she see thee the while, old boy? tell me that.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW As plain as I see you now.\n\n" + "FABIAN This was a great argument of love in her toward you.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW 'Slight, will you make an ass o' me?\n\n" + "FABIAN I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of\n" + " judgment and reason.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH And they have been grand-jury-men since before Noah\n" + " was a sailor.\n\n" + "FABIAN She did show favour to the youth in your sight only\n" + " to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to\n" + " put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver.\n" + " You should then have accosted her; and with some\n" + " excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should\n" + " have banged the youth into dumbness. This was\n" + " looked for at your hand, and this was balked: the\n" + " double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash\n" + " off, and you are now sailed into the north of my\n" + " lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle\n" + " on a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by\n" + " some laudable attempt either of valour or policy.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW An't be any way, it must be with valour; for policy\n" + " I hate: I had as lief be a Brownist as a\n" + " politician.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of\n" + " valour. Challenge me the count's youth to fight\n" + " with him; hurt him in eleven places: my niece shall\n" + " take note of it; and assure thyself, there is no\n" + " love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's\n" + " commendation with woman than report of valour.\n\n" + "FABIAN There is no way but this, Sir Andrew.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief;\n" + " it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun\n" + " of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink:\n" + " if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be\n" + " amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of\n" + " paper, although the sheet were big enough for the\n" + " bed of Ware in England, set 'em down: go, about it.\n" + " Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou\n" + " write with a goose-pen, no matter: about it.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Where shall I find you?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH We'll call thee at the cubiculo: go.\n\n" + " [Exit SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + "FABIAN This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand\n" + " strong, or so.\n\n" + "FABIAN We shall have a rare letter from him: but you'll\n" + " not deliver't?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Never trust me, then; and by all means stir on the\n" + " youth to an answer. I think oxen and wainropes\n" + " cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were\n" + " opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as\n" + " will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of\n" + " the anatomy.\n\n" + "FABIAN And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no\n" + " great presage of cruelty.\n\n" + " [Enter MARIA]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Look, where the youngest wren of nine comes.\n\n" + "MARIA If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself\n" + " into stitches, follow me. Yond gull Malvolio is\n" + " turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no\n" + " Christian, that means to be saved by believing\n" + " rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages\n" + " of grossness. He's in yellow stockings.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH And cross-gartered?\n\n" + "MARIA Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a school\n" + " i' the church. I have dogged him, like his\n" + " murderer. He does obey every point of the letter\n" + " that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his\n" + " face into more lines than is in the new map with the\n" + " augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such\n" + " a thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things\n" + " at him. I know my lady will strike him: if she do,\n" + " he'll smile and take't for a great favour.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come, bring us, bring us where he is.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO]\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I would not by my will have troubled you;\n" + " But, since you make your pleasure of your pains,\n" + " I will no further chide you.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I could not stay behind you: my desire,\n" + " More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;\n" + " And not all love to see you, though so much\n" + " As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,\n" + " But jealousy what might befall your travel,\n" + " Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,\n" + " Unguided and unfriended, often prove\n" + " Rough and unhospitable: my willing love,\n" + " The rather by these arguments of fear,\n" + " Set forth in your pursuit.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN My kind Antonio,\n" + " I can no other answer make but thanks,\n" + " And thanks; and ever [ ] oft good turns\n" + " Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay:\n" + " But, were my worth as is my conscience firm,\n" + " You should find better dealing. What's to do?\n" + " Shall we go see the reliques of this town?\n\n" + "ANTONIO To-morrow, sir: best first go see your lodging.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I am not weary, and 'tis long to night:\n" + " I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes\n" + " With the memorials and the things of fame\n" + " That do renown this city.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Would you'ld pardon me;\n" + " I do not without danger walk these streets:\n" + " Once, in a sea-fight, 'gainst the count his galleys\n" + " I did some service; of such note indeed,\n" + " That were I ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Belike you slew great number of his people.\n\n" + "ANTONIO The offence is not of such a bloody nature;\n" + " Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel\n" + " Might well have given us bloody argument.\n" + " It might have since been answer'd in repaying\n" + " What we took from them; which, for traffic's sake,\n" + " Most of our city did: only myself stood out;\n" + " For which, if I be lapsed in this place,\n" + " I shall pay dear.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Do not then walk too open.\n\n" + "ANTONIO It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse.\n" + " In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,\n" + " Is best to lodge: I will bespeak our diet,\n" + " Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge\n" + " With viewing of the town: there shall you have me.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Why I your purse?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Haply your eye shall light upon some toy\n" + " You have desire to purchase; and your store,\n" + " I think, is not for idle markets, sir.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I'll be your purse-bearer and leave you\n" + " For an hour.\n\n" + "ANTONIO To the Elephant.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I do remember.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV OLIVIA's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVIA and MARIA]\n\n" + "OLIVIA I have sent after him: he says he'll come;\n" + " How shall I feast him? what bestow of him?\n" + " For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd.\n" + " I speak too loud.\n" + " Where is Malvolio? he is sad and civil,\n" + " And suits well for a servant with my fortunes:\n" + " Where is Malvolio?\n\n" + "MARIA He's coming, madam; but in very strange manner. He\n" + " is, sure, possessed, madam.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Why, what's the matter? does he rave?\n\n" + "MARIA No. madam, he does nothing but smile: your\n" + " ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if\n" + " he come; for, sure, the man is tainted in's wits.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Go call him hither.\n\n" + " [Exit MARIA]\n\n" + " I am as mad as he,\n" + " If sad and merry madness equal be.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARIA, with MALVOLIO]\n\n" + " How now, Malvolio!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sweet lady, ho, ho.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Smilest thou?\n" + " I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sad, lady! I could be sad: this does make some\n" + " obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but\n" + " what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is\n" + " with me as the very true sonnet is, 'Please one, and\n" + " please all.'\n\n" + "OLIVIA Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It\n" + " did come to his hands, and commands shall be\n" + " executed: I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO To bed! ay, sweet-heart, and I'll come to thee.\n\n" + "OLIVIA God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so and kiss\n" + " thy hand so oft?\n\n" + "MARIA How do you, Malvolio?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO At your request! yes; nightingales answer daws.\n\n" + "MARIA Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'Be not afraid of greatness:' 'twas well writ.\n\n" + "OLIVIA What meanest thou by that, Malvolio?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'Some are born great,'--\n\n" + "OLIVIA Ha!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'Some achieve greatness,'--\n\n" + "OLIVIA What sayest thou?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'And some have greatness thrust upon them.'\n\n" + "OLIVIA Heaven restore thee!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings,'--\n\n" + "OLIVIA Thy yellow stockings!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.'\n\n" + "OLIVIA Cross-gartered!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'Go to thou art made, if thou desirest to be so;'--\n\n" + "OLIVIA Am I made?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO 'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'\n\n" + "OLIVIA Why, this is very midsummer madness.\n\n" + " [Enter Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is\n" + " returned: I could hardly entreat him back: he\n" + " attends your ladyship's pleasure.\n\n" + "OLIVIA I'll come to him.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's\n" + " my cousin Toby? Let some of my people have a special\n" + " care of him: I would not have him miscarry for the\n" + " half of my dowry.\n\n" + " [Exeunt OLIVIA and MARIA]\n\n" + "MALVOLIO O, ho! do you come near me now? no worse man than\n" + " Sir Toby to look to me! This concurs directly with\n" + " the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may\n" + " appear stubborn to him; for she incites me to that\n" + " in the letter. 'Cast thy humble slough,' says she;\n" + " 'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants;\n" + " let thy tongue tang with arguments of state; put\n" + " thyself into the trick of singularity;' and\n" + " consequently sets down the manner how; as, a sad\n" + " face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the\n" + " habit of some sir of note, and so forth. I have\n" + " limed her; but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me\n" + " thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this\n" + " fellow be looked to:' fellow! not Malvolio, nor\n" + " after my degree, but fellow. Why, every thing\n" + " adheres together, that no dram of a scruple, no\n" + " scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous\n" + " or unsafe circumstance--What can be said? Nothing\n" + " that can be can come between me and the full\n" + " prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the\n" + " doer of this, and he is to be thanked.\n\n" + " [Re-enter MARIA, with SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all\n" + " the devils of hell be drawn in little, and Legion\n" + " himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him.\n\n" + "FABIAN Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir?\n" + " how is't with you, man?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Go off; I discard you: let me enjoy my private: go\n" + " off.\n\n" + "MARIA Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! did not\n" + " I tell you? Sir Toby, my lady prays you to have a\n" + " care of him.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Ah, ha! does she so?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Go to, go to; peace, peace; we must deal gently\n" + " with him: let me alone. How do you, Malvolio? how\n" + " is't with you? What, man! defy the devil:\n" + " consider, he's an enemy to mankind.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Do you know what you say?\n\n" + "MARIA La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes\n" + " it at heart! Pray God, he be not bewitched!\n\n" + "FABIAN Carry his water to the wise woman.\n\n" + "MARIA Marry, and it shall be done to-morrow morning, if I\n" + " live. My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO How now, mistress!\n\n" + "MARIA O Lord!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Prithee, hold thy peace; this is not the way: do\n" + " you not see you move him? let me alone with him.\n\n" + "FABIAN No way but gentleness; gently, gently: the fiend is\n" + " rough, and will not be roughly used.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sir!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Ay, Biddy, come with me. What, man! 'tis not for\n" + " gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang\n" + " him, foul collier!\n\n" + "MARIA Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO My prayers, minx!\n\n" + "MARIA No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow\n" + " things: I am not of your element: you shall know\n" + " more hereafter.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Is't possible?\n\n" + "FABIAN If this were played upon a stage now, I could\n" + " condemn it as an improbable fiction.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man.\n\n" + "MARIA Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint.\n\n" + "FABIAN Why, we shall make him mad indeed.\n\n" + "MARIA The house will be the quieter.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My\n" + " niece is already in the belief that he's mad: we\n" + " may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance,\n" + " till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt\n" + " us to have mercy on him: at which time we will\n" + " bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a\n" + " finder of madmen. But see, but see.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + "FABIAN More matter for a May morning.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Here's the challenge, read it: warrant there's\n" + " vinegar and pepper in't.\n\n" + "FABIAN Is't so saucy?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Ay, is't, I warrant him: do but read.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Give me.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.'\n\n" + "FABIAN Good, and valiant.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH [Reads] 'Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind,\n" + " why I do call thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't.'\n\n" + "FABIAN A good note; that keeps you from the blow of the law.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH [Reads] 'Thou comest to the lady Olivia, and in my\n" + " sight she uses thee kindly: but thou liest in thy\n" + " throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.'\n\n" + "FABIAN Very brief, and to exceeding good sense--less.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH [Reads] 'I will waylay thee going home; where if it\n" + " be thy chance to kill me,'--\n\n" + "FABIAN Good.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH [Reads] 'Thou killest me like a rogue and a villain.'\n\n" + "FABIAN Still you keep o' the windy side of the law: good.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH [Reads] 'Fare thee well; and God have mercy upon\n" + " one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but\n" + " my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy\n" + " friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy,\n" + " ANDREW AGUECHEEK.\n" + " If this letter move him not, his legs cannot:\n" + " I'll give't him.\n\n" + "MARIA You may have very fit occasion for't: he is now in\n" + " some commerce with my lady, and will by and by depart.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the\n" + " orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest\n" + " him, draw; and, as thou drawest swear horrible; for\n" + " it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a\n" + " swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood\n" + " more approbation than ever proof itself would have\n" + " earned him. Away!\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Nay, let me alone for swearing.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior\n" + " of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good\n" + " capacity and breeding; his employment between his\n" + " lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this\n" + " letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no\n" + " terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a\n" + " clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by\n" + " word of mouth; set upon Aguecheek a notable report\n" + " of valour; and drive the gentleman, as I know his\n" + " youth will aptly receive it, into a most hideous\n" + " opinion of his rage, skill, fury and impetuosity.\n" + " This will so fright them both that they will kill\n" + " one another by the look, like cockatrices.\n\n" + " [Re-enter OLIVIA, with VIOLA]\n\n" + "FABIAN Here he comes with your niece: give them way till\n" + " he take leave, and presently after him.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I will meditate the while upon some horrid message\n" + " for a challenge.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, FABIAN, and MARIA]\n\n" + "OLIVIA I have said too much unto a heart of stone\n" + " And laid mine honour too unchary out:\n" + " There's something in me that reproves my fault;\n" + " But such a headstrong potent fault it is,\n" + " That it but mocks reproof.\n\n" + "VIOLA With the same 'havior that your passion bears\n" + " Goes on my master's grief.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture;\n" + " Refuse it not; it hath no tongue to vex you;\n" + " And I beseech you come again to-morrow.\n" + " What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,\n" + " That honour saved may upon asking give?\n\n" + "VIOLA Nothing but this; your true love for my master.\n\n" + "OLIVIA How with mine honour may I give him that\n" + " Which I have given to you?\n\n" + "VIOLA I will acquit you.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Well, come again to-morrow: fare thee well:\n" + " A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Gentleman, God save thee.\n\n" + "VIOLA And you, sir.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH That defence thou hast, betake thee to't: of what\n" + " nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know\n" + " not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as\n" + " the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end:\n" + " dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for\n" + " thy assailant is quick, skilful and deadly.\n\n" + "VIOLA You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel\n" + " to me: my remembrance is very free and clear from\n" + " any image of offence done to any man.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH You'll find it otherwise, I assure you: therefore,\n" + " if you hold your life at any price, betake you to\n" + " your guard; for your opposite hath in him what\n" + " youth, strength, skill and wrath can furnish man withal.\n\n" + "VIOLA I pray you, sir, what is he?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and on\n" + " carpet consideration; but he is a devil in private\n" + " brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three; and\n" + " his incensement at this moment is so implacable,\n" + " that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death\n" + " and sepulchre. Hob, nob, is his word; give't or take't.\n\n" + "VIOLA I will return again into the house and desire some\n" + " conduct of the lady. I am no fighter. I have heard\n" + " of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on\n" + " others, to taste their valour: belike this is a man\n" + " of that quirk.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Sir, no; his indignation derives itself out of a\n" + " very competent injury: therefore, get you on and\n" + " give him his desire. Back you shall not to the\n" + " house, unless you undertake that with me which with\n" + " as much safety you might answer him: therefore, on,\n" + " or strip your sword stark naked; for meddle you\n" + " must, that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you.\n\n" + "VIOLA This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me\n" + " this courteous office, as to know of the knight what\n" + " my offence to him is: it is something of my\n" + " negligence, nothing of my purpose.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this\n" + " gentleman till my return.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "VIOLA Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?\n\n" + "FABIAN I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a\n" + " mortal arbitrement; but nothing of the circumstance more.\n\n" + "VIOLA I beseech you, what manner of man is he?\n\n" + "FABIAN Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by\n" + " his form, as you are like to find him in the proof\n" + " of his valour. He is, indeed, sir, the most skilful,\n" + " bloody and fatal opposite that you could possibly\n" + " have found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk\n" + " towards him? I will make your peace with him if I\n" + " can.\n\n" + "VIOLA I shall be much bound to you for't: I am one that\n" + " had rather go with sir priest than sir knight: I\n" + " care not who knows so much of my mettle.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n" + " [Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH, with SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such a\n" + " firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and\n" + " all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal\n" + " motion, that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he\n" + " pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they\n" + " step on. They say he has been fencer to the Sophy.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can\n" + " scarce hold him yonder.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant and so\n" + " cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld\n" + " have challenged him. Let him let the matter slip,\n" + " and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I'll make the motion: stand here, make a good show\n" + " on't: this shall end without the perdition of souls.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " Marry, I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you.\n\n" + " [Re-enter FABIAN and VIOLA]\n\n" + " [To FABIAN]\n\n" + " I have his horse to take up the quarrel:\n" + " I have persuaded him the youth's a devil.\n\n" + "FABIAN He is as horribly conceited of him; and pants and\n" + " looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH [To VIOLA] There's no remedy, sir; he will fight\n" + " with you for's oath sake: marry, he hath better\n" + " bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now\n" + " scarce to be worth talking of: therefore draw, for\n" + " the supportance of his vow; he protests he will not hurt you.\n\n" + "VIOLA [Aside] Pray God defend me! A little thing would\n" + " make me tell them how much I lack of a man.\n\n" + "FABIAN Give ground, if you see him furious.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy; the gentleman\n" + " will, for his honour's sake, have one bout with you;\n" + " he cannot by the duello avoid it: but he has\n" + " promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he\n" + " will not hurt you. Come on; to't.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Pray God, he keep his oath!\n\n" + "VIOLA I do assure you, 'tis against my will.\n\n" + " [They draw]\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONIO]\n\n" + "ANTONIO Put up your sword. If this young gentleman\n" + " Have done offence, I take the fault on me:\n" + " If you offend him, I for him defy you.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH You, sir! why, what are you?\n\n" + "ANTONIO One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more\n" + " Than you have heard him brag to you he will.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.\n\n" + " [They draw]\n\n" + " [Enter Officers]\n\n" + "FABIAN O good Sir Toby, hold! here come the officers.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I'll be with you anon.\n\n" + "VIOLA Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Marry, will I, sir; and, for that I promised you,\n" + " I'll be as good as my word: he will bear you easily\n" + " and reins well.\n\n" + "First Officer This is the man; do thy office.\n\n" + "Second Officer Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.\n\n" + "ANTONIO You do mistake me, sir.\n\n" + "First Officer No, sir, no jot; I know your favour well,\n" + " Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.\n" + " Take him away: he knows I know him well.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I must obey.\n\n" + " [To VIOLA]\n\n" + " This comes with seeking you:\n" + " But there's no remedy; I shall answer it.\n" + " What will you do, now my necessity\n" + " Makes me to ask you for my purse? It grieves me\n" + " Much more for what I cannot do for you\n" + " Than what befalls myself. You stand amazed;\n" + " But be of comfort.\n\n" + "Second Officer Come, sir, away.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I must entreat of you some of that money.\n\n" + "VIOLA What money, sir?\n" + " For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,\n" + " And, part, being prompted by your present trouble,\n" + " Out of my lean and low ability\n" + " I'll lend you something: my having is not much;\n" + " I'll make division of my present with you:\n" + " Hold, there's half my coffer.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Will you deny me now?\n" + " Is't possible that my deserts to you\n" + " Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,\n" + " Lest that it make me so unsound a man\n" + " As to upbraid you with those kindnesses\n" + " That I have done for you.\n\n" + "VIOLA I know of none;\n" + " Nor know I you by voice or any feature:\n" + " I hate ingratitude more in a man\n" + " Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,\n" + " Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption\n" + " Inhabits our frail blood.\n\n" + "ANTONIO O heavens themselves!\n\n" + "Second Officer Come, sir, I pray you, go.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here\n" + " I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,\n" + " Relieved him with such sanctity of love,\n" + " And to his image, which methought did promise\n" + " Most venerable worth, did I devotion.\n\n" + "First Officer What's that to us? The time goes by: away!\n\n" + "ANTONIO But O how vile an idol proves this god\n" + " Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.\n" + " In nature there's no blemish but the mind;\n" + " None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind:\n" + " Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil\n" + " Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil.\n\n" + "First Officer The man grows mad: away with him! Come, come, sir.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Lead me on.\n\n" + " [Exit with Officers]\n\n" + "VIOLA Methinks his words do from such passion fly,\n" + " That he believes himself: so do not I.\n" + " Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,\n" + " That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian: we'll\n" + " whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws.\n\n" + "VIOLA He named Sebastian: I my brother know\n" + " Yet living in my glass; even such and so\n" + " In favour was my brother, and he went\n" + " Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,\n" + " For him I imitate: O, if it prove,\n" + " Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than\n" + " a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his\n" + " friend here in necessity and denying him; and for\n" + " his cowardship, ask Fabian.\n\n" + "FABIAN A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW 'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Do; cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW An I do not,--\n\n" + "FABIAN Come, let's see the event.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before OLIVIA's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown]\n\n" + "Clown Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:\n" + " Let me be clear of thee.\n\n" + "Clown Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor\n" + " I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come\n" + " speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario;\n" + " nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou\n" + " know'st not me.\n\n" + "Clown Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some\n" + " great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my\n" + " folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world,\n" + " will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy\n" + " strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my\n" + " lady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There's\n" + " money for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall give\n" + " worse payment.\n\n" + "Clown By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men\n" + " that give fools money get themselves a good\n" + " report--after fourteen years' purchase.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY BELCH, and FABIAN]\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. Are all\n" + " the people mad?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.\n\n" + "Clown This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be\n" + " in some of your coats for two pence.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come on, sir; hold.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to work\n" + " with him; I'll have an action of battery against\n" + " him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I\n" + " struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Let go thy hand.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young\n" + " soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? If\n" + " thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two\n" + " of this malapert blood from you.\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVIA]\n\n" + "OLIVIA Hold, Toby; on thy life I charge thee, hold!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Madam!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,\n" + " Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,\n" + " Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!\n" + " Be not offended, dear Cesario.\n" + " Rudesby, be gone!\n\n" + " [Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]\n\n" + " I prithee, gentle friend,\n" + " Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway\n" + " In this uncivil and thou unjust extent\n" + " Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,\n" + " And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks\n" + " This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby\n" + " Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go:\n" + " Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,\n" + " He started one poor heart of mine in thee.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN What relish is in this? how runs the stream?\n" + " Or I am mad, or else this is a dream:\n" + " Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;\n" + " If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Nay, come, I prithee; would thou'ldst be ruled by me!\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Madam, I will.\n\n" + "OLIVIA O, say so, and so be!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II OLIVIA's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter MARIA and Clown]\n\n" + "MARIA Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard;\n" + " make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate: do\n" + " it quickly; I'll call Sir Toby the whilst.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "Clown Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself\n" + " in't; and I would I were the first that ever\n" + " dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to\n" + " become the function well, nor lean enough to be\n" + " thought a good student; but to be said an honest man\n" + " and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a\n" + " careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA]\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Jove bless thee, master Parson.\n\n" + "Clown Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of\n" + " Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily\n" + " said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'\n" + " so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for,\n" + " what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH To him, Sir Topas.\n\n" + "Clown What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO [Within] Who calls there?\n\n" + "Clown Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio\n" + " the lunatic.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.\n\n" + "Clown Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man!\n" + " talkest thou nothing but of ladies?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Well said, Master Parson.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir\n" + " Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me\n" + " here in hideous darkness.\n\n" + "Clown Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most\n" + " modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones\n" + " that will use the devil himself with courtesy:\n" + " sayest thou that house is dark?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO As hell, Sir Topas.\n\n" + "Clown Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes,\n" + " and the clearstores toward the south north are as\n" + " lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of\n" + " obstruction?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark.\n\n" + "Clown Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness\n" + " but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than\n" + " the Egyptians in their fog.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though\n" + " ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there\n" + " was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you\n" + " are: make the trial of it in any constant question.\n\n" + "Clown What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.\n\n" + "Clown What thinkest thou of his opinion?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.\n\n" + "Clown Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness:\n" + " thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will\n" + " allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest\n" + " thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sir Topas, Sir Topas!\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH My most exquisite Sir Topas!\n\n" + "Clown Nay, I am for all waters.\n\n" + "MARIA Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and\n" + " gown: he sees thee not.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how\n" + " thou findest him: I would we were well rid of this\n" + " knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I\n" + " would he were, for I am now so far in offence with\n" + " my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this\n" + " sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA]\n\n" + "Clown [Singing]\n\n" + " 'Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,\n" + " Tell me how thy lady does.'\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Fool!\n\n" + "Clown 'My lady is unkind, perdy.'\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Fool!\n\n" + "Clown 'Alas, why is she so?'\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Fool, I say!\n\n" + "Clown 'She loves another'--Who calls, ha?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my\n" + " hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper:\n" + " as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to\n" + " thee for't.\n\n" + "Clown Master Malvolio?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Ay, good fool.\n\n" + "Clown Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I\n" + " am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.\n\n" + "Clown But as well? then you are mad indeed, if you be no\n" + " better in your wits than a fool.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness,\n" + " send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to\n" + " face me out of my wits.\n\n" + "Clown Advise you what you say; the minister is here.\n" + " Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore!\n" + " endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain\n" + " bibble babble.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Sir Topas!\n\n" + "Clown Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I,\n" + " sir? not I, sir. God be wi' you, good Sir Topas.\n" + " Merry, amen. I will, sir, I will.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Fool, fool, fool, I say!\n\n" + "Clown Alas, sir, be patient. What say you sir? I am\n" + " shent for speaking to you.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Good fool, help me to some light and some paper: I\n" + " tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.\n\n" + "Clown Well-a-day that you were, sir\n\n" + "MALVOLIO By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper and\n" + " light; and convey what I will set down to my lady:\n" + " it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing\n" + " of letter did.\n\n" + "Clown I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you\n" + " not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true.\n\n" + "Clown Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his\n" + " brains. I will fetch you light and paper and ink.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I\n" + " prithee, be gone.\n\n" + "Clown [Singing]\n\n" + " I am gone, sir,\n" + " And anon, sir,\n" + " I'll be with you again,\n" + " In a trice,\n" + " Like to the old Vice,\n" + " Your need to sustain;\n" + " Who, with dagger of lath,\n" + " In his rage and his wrath,\n" + " Cries, ah, ha! to the devil:\n" + " Like a mad lad,\n" + " Pare thy nails, dad;\n" + " Adieu, good man devil.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III OLIVIA's garden.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SEBASTIAN]\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN This is the air; that is the glorious sun;\n" + " This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't;\n" + " And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,\n" + " Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?\n" + " I could not find him at the Elephant:\n" + " Yet there he was; and there I found this credit,\n" + " That he did range the town to seek me out.\n" + " His counsel now might do me golden service;\n" + " For though my soul disputes well with my sense,\n" + " That this may be some error, but no madness,\n" + " Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune\n" + " So far exceed all instance, all discourse,\n" + " That I am ready to distrust mine eyes\n" + " And wrangle with my reason that persuades me\n" + " To any other trust but that I am mad\n" + " Or else the lady's mad; yet, if 'twere so,\n" + " She could not sway her house, command her followers,\n" + " Take and give back affairs and their dispatch\n" + " With such a smooth, discreet and stable bearing\n" + " As I perceive she does: there's something in't\n" + " That is deceiveable. But here the lady comes.\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVIA and Priest]\n\n" + "OLIVIA Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,\n" + " Now go with me and with this holy man\n" + " Into the chantry by: there, before him,\n" + " And underneath that consecrated roof,\n" + " Plight me the full assurance of your faith;\n" + " That my most jealous and too doubtful soul\n" + " May live at peace. He shall conceal it\n" + " Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,\n" + " What time we will our celebration keep\n" + " According to my birth. What do you say?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I'll follow this good man, and go with you;\n" + " And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Then lead the way, good father; and heavens so shine,\n" + " That they may fairly note this act of mine!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " TWELFTH NIGHT\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Before OLIVIA's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Clown and FABIAN]\n\n" + "FABIAN Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter.\n\n" + "Clown Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.\n\n" + "FABIAN Any thing.\n\n" + "Clown Do not desire to see this letter.\n\n" + "FABIAN This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire my\n" + " dog again.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and Lords]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?\n\n" + "Clown Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO I know thee well; how dost thou, my good fellow?\n\n" + "Clown Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse\n" + " for my friends.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.\n\n" + "Clown No, sir, the worse.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO How can that be?\n\n" + "Clown Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me;\n" + " now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by\n" + " my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself,\n" + " and by my friends, I am abused: so that,\n" + " conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives\n" + " make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for\n" + " my friends and the better for my foes.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Why, this is excellent.\n\n" + "Clown By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be\n" + " one of my friends.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold.\n\n" + "Clown But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would\n" + " you could make it another.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO O, you give me ill counsel.\n\n" + "Clown Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once,\n" + " and let your flesh and blood obey it.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a\n" + " double-dealer: there's another.\n\n" + "Clown Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old\n" + " saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex,\n" + " sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of\n" + " Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, two, three.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO You can fool no more money out of me at this throw:\n" + " if you will let your lady know I am here to speak\n" + " with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake\n" + " my bounty further.\n\n" + "Clown Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come\n" + " again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think\n" + " that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness:\n" + " but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I\n" + " will awake it anon.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "VIOLA Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONIO and Officers]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO That face of his I do remember well;\n" + " Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd\n" + " As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war:\n" + " A bawbling vessel was he captain of,\n" + " For shallow draught and bulk unprizable;\n" + " With which such scathful grapple did he make\n" + " With the most noble bottom of our fleet,\n" + " That very envy and the tongue of loss\n" + " Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?\n\n" + "First Officer Orsino, this is that Antonio\n" + " That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;\n" + " And this is he that did the Tiger board,\n" + " When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:\n" + " Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,\n" + " In private brabble did we apprehend him.\n\n" + "VIOLA He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side;\n" + " But in conclusion put strange speech upon me:\n" + " I know not what 'twas but distraction.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!\n" + " What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,\n" + " Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,\n" + " Hast made thine enemies?\n\n" + "ANTONIO Orsino, noble sir,\n" + " Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:\n" + " Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,\n" + " Though I confess, on base and ground enough,\n" + " Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:\n" + " That most ingrateful boy there by your side,\n" + " From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth\n" + " Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was:\n" + " His life I gave him and did thereto add\n" + " My love, without retention or restraint,\n" + " All his in dedication; for his sake\n" + " Did I expose myself, pure for his love,\n" + " Into the danger of this adverse town;\n" + " Drew to defend him when he was beset:\n" + " Where being apprehended, his false cunning,\n" + " Not meaning to partake with me in danger,\n" + " Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,\n" + " And grew a twenty years removed thing\n" + " While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,\n" + " Which I had recommended to his use\n" + " Not half an hour before.\n\n" + "VIOLA How can this be?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO When came he to this town?\n\n" + "ANTONIO To-day, my lord; and for three months before,\n" + " No interim, not a minute's vacancy,\n" + " Both day and night did we keep company.\n\n" + " [Enter OLIVIA and Attendants]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth.\n" + " But for thee, fellow; fellow, thy words are madness:\n" + " Three months this youth hath tended upon me;\n" + " But more of that anon. Take him aside.\n\n" + "OLIVIA What would my lord, but that he may not have,\n" + " Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?\n" + " Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.\n\n" + "VIOLA Madam!\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Gracious Olivia,--\n\n" + "OLIVIA What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord,--\n\n" + "VIOLA My lord would speak; my duty hushes me.\n\n" + "OLIVIA If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,\n" + " It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear\n" + " As howling after music.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Still so cruel?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Still so constant, lord.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady,\n" + " To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars\n" + " My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out\n" + " That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,\n" + " Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,\n" + " Kill what I love?--a savage jealousy\n" + " That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this:\n" + " Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,\n" + " And that I partly know the instrument\n" + " That screws me from my true place in your favour,\n" + " Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still;\n" + " But this your minion, whom I know you love,\n" + " And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,\n" + " Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,\n" + " Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.\n" + " Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:\n" + " I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,\n" + " To spite a raven's heart within a dove.\n\n" + "VIOLA And I, most jocund, apt and willingly,\n" + " To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Where goes Cesario?\n\n" + "VIOLA After him I love\n" + " More than I love these eyes, more than my life,\n" + " More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.\n" + " If I do feign, you witnesses above\n" + " Punish my life for tainting of my love!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!\n\n" + "VIOLA Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long?\n" + " Call forth the holy father.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Come, away!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Husband!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Ay, husband: can he that deny?\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Her husband, sirrah!\n\n" + "VIOLA No, my lord, not I.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear\n" + " That makes thee strangle thy propriety:\n" + " Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up;\n" + " Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art\n" + " As great as that thou fear'st.\n\n" + " [Enter Priest]\n\n" + " O, welcome, father!\n" + " Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,\n" + " Here to unfold, though lately we intended\n" + " To keep in darkness what occasion now\n" + " Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know\n" + " Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me.\n\n" + "Priest A contract of eternal bond of love,\n" + " Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,\n" + " Attested by the holy close of lips,\n" + " Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;\n" + " And all the ceremony of this compact\n" + " Seal'd in my function, by my testimony:\n" + " Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave\n" + " I have travell'd but two hours.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be\n" + " When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?\n" + " Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,\n" + " That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?\n" + " Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet\n" + " Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.\n\n" + "VIOLA My lord, I do protest--\n\n" + "OLIVIA O, do not swear!\n" + " Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently\n" + " to Sir Toby.\n\n" + "OLIVIA What's the matter?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby\n" + " a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your\n" + " help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Who has done this, Sir Andrew?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for\n" + " a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO My gentleman, Cesario?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW 'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for\n" + " nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't\n" + " by Sir Toby.\n\n" + "VIOLA Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:\n" + " You drew your sword upon me without cause;\n" + " But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me: I\n" + " think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb.\n\n" + " [Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown]\n\n" + " Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more:\n" + " but if he had not been in drink, he would have\n" + " tickled you othergates than he did.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO How now, gentleman! how is't with you?\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the end\n" + " on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?\n\n" + "Clown O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes\n" + " were set at eight i' the morning.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures panyn: I\n" + " hate a drunken rogue.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with them?\n\n" + "SIR ANDREW I'll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together.\n\n" + "SIR TOBY BELCH Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a\n" + " knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!\n\n" + "OLIVIA Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Clown, FABIAN, SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW]\n\n" + " [Enter SEBASTIAN]\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman:\n" + " But, had it been the brother of my blood,\n" + " I must have done no less with wit and safety.\n" + " You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that\n" + " I do perceive it hath offended you:\n" + " Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows\n" + " We made each other but so late ago.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,\n" + " A natural perspective, that is and is not!\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Antonio, O my dear Antonio!\n" + " How have the hours rack'd and tortured me,\n" + " Since I have lost thee!\n\n" + "ANTONIO Sebastian are you?\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Fear'st thou that, Antonio?\n\n" + "ANTONIO How have you made division of yourself?\n" + " An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin\n" + " Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Most wonderful!\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN Do I stand there? I never had a brother;\n" + " Nor can there be that deity in my nature,\n" + " Of here and every where. I had a sister,\n" + " Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.\n" + " Of charity, what kin are you to me?\n" + " What countryman? what name? what parentage?\n\n" + "VIOLA Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;\n" + " Such a Sebastian was my brother too,\n" + " So went he suited to his watery tomb:\n" + " If spirits can assume both form and suit\n" + " You come to fright us.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN A spirit I am indeed;\n" + " But am in that dimension grossly clad\n" + " Which from the womb I did participate.\n" + " Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,\n" + " I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,\n" + " And say 'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'\n\n" + "VIOLA My father had a mole upon his brow.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN And so had mine.\n\n" + "VIOLA And died that day when Viola from her birth\n" + " Had number'd thirteen years.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN O, that record is lively in my soul!\n" + " He finished indeed his mortal act\n" + " That day that made my sister thirteen years.\n\n" + "VIOLA If nothing lets to make us happy both\n" + " But this my masculine usurp'd attire,\n" + " Do not embrace me till each circumstance\n" + " Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump\n" + " That I am Viola: which to confirm,\n" + " I'll bring you to a captain in this town,\n" + " Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help\n" + " I was preserved to serve this noble count.\n" + " All the occurrence of my fortune since\n" + " Hath been between this lady and this lord.\n\n" + "SEBASTIAN [To OLIVIA] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook:\n" + " But nature to her bias drew in that.\n" + " You would have been contracted to a maid;\n" + " Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,\n" + " You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.\n" + " If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,\n" + " I shall have share in this most happy wreck.\n\n" + " [To VIOLA]\n\n" + " Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times\n" + " Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.\n\n" + "VIOLA And all those sayings will I overswear;\n" + " And those swearings keep as true in soul\n" + " As doth that orbed continent the fire\n" + " That severs day from night.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Give me thy hand;\n" + " And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.\n\n" + "VIOLA The captain that did bring me first on shore\n" + " Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action\n" + " Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,\n" + " A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.\n\n" + "OLIVIA He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither:\n" + " And yet, alas, now I remember me,\n" + " They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Clown with a letter, and FABIAN]\n\n" + " A most extracting frenzy of mine own\n" + " From my remembrance clearly banish'd his.\n" + " How does he, sirrah?\n\n" + "Clown Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the staves's end as\n" + " well as a man in his case may do: has here writ a\n" + " letter to you; I should have given't you to-day\n" + " morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels,\n" + " so it skills not much when they are delivered.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Open't, and read it.\n\n" + "Clown Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers\n" + " the madman.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'By the Lord, madam,'--\n\n" + "OLIVIA How now! art thou mad?\n\n" + "Clown No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship\n" + " will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Prithee, read i' thy right wits.\n\n" + "Clown So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to\n" + " read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Read it you, sirrah.\n\n" + " [To FABIAN]\n\n" + "FABIAN [Reads] 'By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the\n" + " world shall know it: though you have put me into\n" + " darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over\n" + " me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as\n" + " your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced\n" + " me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt\n" + " not but to do myself much right, or you much shame.\n" + " Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little\n" + " unthought of and speak out of my injury.\n" + " THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'\n\n" + "OLIVIA Did he write this?\n\n" + "Clown Ay, madam.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO This savours not much of distraction.\n\n" + "OLIVIA See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither.\n\n" + " [Exit FABIAN]\n\n" + " My lord so please you, these things further\n" + " thought on,\n" + " To think me as well a sister as a wife,\n" + " One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you,\n" + " Here at my house and at my proper cost.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer.\n\n" + " [To VIOLA]\n\n" + " Your master quits you; and for your service done him,\n" + " So much against the mettle of your sex,\n" + " So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,\n" + " And since you call'd me master for so long,\n" + " Here is my hand: you shall from this time be\n" + " Your master's mistress.\n\n" + "OLIVIA A sister! you are she.\n\n" + " [Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO]\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Is this the madman?\n\n" + "OLIVIA Ay, my lord, this same.\n" + " How now, Malvolio!\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Madam, you have done me wrong,\n" + " Notorious wrong.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Have I, Malvolio? no.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter.\n" + " You must not now deny it is your hand:\n" + " Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase;\n" + " Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention:\n" + " You can say none of this: well, grant it then\n" + " And tell me, in the modesty of honour,\n" + " Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,\n" + " Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,\n" + " To put on yellow stockings and to frown\n" + " Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people;\n" + " And, acting this in an obedient hope,\n" + " Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,\n" + " Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,\n" + " And made the most notorious geck and gull\n" + " That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,\n" + " Though, I confess, much like the character\n" + " But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.\n" + " And now I do bethink me, it was she\n" + " First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling,\n" + " And in such forms which here were presupposed\n" + " Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:\n" + " This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;\n" + " But when we know the grounds and authors of it,\n" + " Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge\n" + " Of thine own cause.\n\n" + "FABIAN Good madam, hear me speak,\n" + " And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come\n" + " Taint the condition of this present hour,\n" + " Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,\n" + " Most freely I confess, myself and Toby\n" + " Set this device against Malvolio here,\n" + " Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts\n" + " We had conceived against him: Maria writ\n" + " The letter at Sir Toby's great importance;\n" + " In recompense whereof he hath married her.\n" + " How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,\n" + " May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;\n" + " If that the injuries be justly weigh'd\n" + " That have on both sides pass'd.\n\n" + "OLIVIA Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!\n\n" + "Clown Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness,\n" + " and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was\n" + " one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but\n" + " that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.'\n" + " But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such\n" + " a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:'\n" + " and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.\n\n" + "MALVOLIO I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "OLIVIA He hath been most notoriously abused.\n\n" + "DUKE ORSINO Pursue him and entreat him to a peace:\n" + " He hath not told us of the captain yet:\n" + " When that is known and golden time convents,\n" + " A solemn combination shall be made\n" + " Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,\n" + " We will not part from hence. Cesario, come;\n" + " For so you shall be, while you are a man;\n" + " But when in other habits you are seen,\n" + " Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen.\n\n" + " [Exeunt all, except Clown]\n\n" + "Clown [Sings]\n\n" + " When that I was and a little tiny boy,\n" + " With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,\n" + " A foolish thing was but a toy,\n" + " For the rain it raineth every day.\n\n" + " But when I came to man's estate,\n" + " With hey, ho, &c.\n" + " 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,\n" + " For the rain, &c.\n\n" + " But when I came, alas! to wive,\n" + " With hey, ho, &c.\n" + " By swaggering could I never thrive,\n" + " For the rain, &c.\n\n" + " But when I came unto my beds,\n" + " With hey, ho, &c.\n" + " With toss-pots still had drunken heads,\n" + " For the rain, &c.\n\n" + " A great while ago the world begun,\n" + " With hey, ho, &c.\n" + " But that's all one, our play is done,\n" + " And we'll strive to please you every day.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "DUKE OF MILAN Father to Silvia. (DUKE:)\n\n\n" + "VALENTINE |\n" + " | the two Gentlemen.\n" + "PROTEUS |\n\n\n" + "ANTONIO Father to Proteus.\n\n" + "THURIO a foolish rival to Valentine.\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR Agent for Silvia in her escape.\n\n" + "HOST where Julia lodges. (Host:)\n\n" + "OUTLAWS with Valentine.\n" + " (First Outlaw:)\n" + " (Second Outlaw:)\n" + " (Third Outlaw:)\n\n" + "SPEED a clownish servant to Valentine.\n\n" + "LAUNCE the like to Proteus.\n\n" + "PANTHINO Servant to Antonio.\n\n" + "JULIA beloved of Proteus.\n\n" + "SILVIA beloved of Valentine.\n\n" + "LUCETTA waiting-woman to Julia.\n\n" + " Servants, Musicians.\n\n\n" + "SCENE Verona; Milan; the frontiers of Mantua.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Verona. An open place.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS]\n\n" + "VALENTINE Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus:\n" + " Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.\n" + " Were't not affection chains thy tender days\n" + " To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love,\n" + " I rather would entreat thy company\n" + " To see the wonders of the world abroad,\n" + " Than, living dully sluggardized at home,\n" + " Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.\n" + " But since thou lovest, love still and thrive therein,\n" + " Even as I would when I to love begin.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valentine, adieu!\n" + " Think on thy Proteus, when thou haply seest\n" + " Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel:\n" + " Wish me partaker in thy happiness\n" + " When thou dost meet good hap; and in thy danger,\n" + " If ever danger do environ thee,\n" + " Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers,\n" + " For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine.\n\n" + "VALENTINE And on a love-book pray for my success?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee.\n\n" + "VALENTINE That's on some shallow story of deep love:\n" + " How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont.\n\n" + "PROTEUS That's a deep story of a deeper love:\n" + " For he was more than over shoes in love.\n\n" + "VALENTINE 'Tis true; for you are over boots in love,\n" + " And yet you never swum the Hellespont.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Over the boots? nay, give me not the boots.\n\n" + "VALENTINE No, I will not, for it boots thee not.\n\n" + "PROTEUS What?\n\n" + "VALENTINE To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans;\n" + " Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth\n" + " With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights:\n" + " If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;\n" + " If lost, why then a grievous labour won;\n" + " However, but a folly bought with wit,\n" + " Or else a wit by folly vanquished.\n\n" + "PROTEUS So, by your circumstance, you call me fool.\n\n" + "VALENTINE So, by your circumstance, I fear you'll prove.\n\n" + "PROTEUS 'Tis love you cavil at: I am not Love.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Love is your master, for he masters you:\n" + " And he that is so yoked by a fool,\n" + " Methinks, should not be chronicled for wise.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud\n" + " The eating canker dwells, so eating love\n" + " Inhabits in the finest wits of all.\n\n" + "VALENTINE And writers say, as the most forward bud\n" + " Is eaten by the canker ere it blow,\n" + " Even so by love the young and tender wit\n" + " Is turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,\n" + " Losing his verdure even in the prime\n" + " And all the fair effects of future hopes.\n" + " But wherefore waste I time to counsel thee,\n" + " That art a votary to fond desire?\n" + " Once more adieu! my father at the road\n" + " Expects my coming, there to see me shipp'd.\n\n" + "PROTEUS And thither will I bring thee, Valentine.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Sweet Proteus, no; now let us take our leave.\n" + " To Milan let me hear from thee by letters\n" + " Of thy success in love, and what news else\n" + " Betideth here in absence of thy friend;\n" + " And likewise will visit thee with mine.\n\n" + "PROTEUS All happiness bechance to thee in Milan!\n\n" + "VALENTINE As much to you at home! and so, farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PROTEUS He after honour hunts, I after love:\n" + " He leaves his friends to dignify them more,\n" + " I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.\n" + " Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphosed me,\n" + " Made me neglect my studies, lose my time,\n" + " War with good counsel, set the world at nought;\n" + " Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with thought.\n\n" + " [Enter SPEED]\n\n" + "SPEED Sir Proteus, save you! Saw you my master?\n\n" + "PROTEUS But now he parted hence, to embark for Milan.\n\n" + "SPEED Twenty to one then he is shipp'd already,\n" + " And I have play'd the sheep in losing him.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Indeed, a sheep doth very often stray,\n" + " An if the shepherd be a while away.\n\n" + "SPEED You conclude that my master is a shepherd, then,\n" + " and I a sheep?\n\n" + "PROTEUS I do.\n\n" + "SPEED Why then, my horns are his horns, whether I wake or sleep.\n\n" + "PROTEUS A silly answer and fitting well a sheep.\n\n" + "SPEED This proves me still a sheep.\n\n" + "PROTEUS True; and thy master a shepherd.\n\n" + "SPEED Nay, that I can deny by a circumstance.\n\n" + "PROTEUS It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another.\n\n" + "SPEED The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the\n" + " shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks\n" + " not me: therefore I am no sheep.\n\n" + "PROTEUS The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the\n" + " shepherd for food follows not the sheep: thou for\n" + " wages followest thy master; thy master for wages\n" + " follows not thee: therefore thou art a sheep.\n\n" + "SPEED Such another proof will make me cry 'baa.'\n\n" + "PROTEUS But, dost thou hear? gavest thou my letter to Julia?\n\n" + "SPEED Ay sir: I, a lost mutton, gave your letter to her,\n" + " a laced mutton, and she, a laced mutton, gave me, a\n" + " lost mutton, nothing for my labour.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Here's too small a pasture for such store of muttons.\n\n" + "SPEED If the ground be overcharged, you were best stick her.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Nay: in that you are astray, 'twere best pound you.\n\n" + "SPEED Nay, sir, less than a pound shall serve me for\n" + " carrying your letter.\n\n" + "PROTEUS You mistake; I mean the pound,--a pinfold.\n\n" + "SPEED From a pound to a pin? fold it over and over,\n" + " 'Tis threefold too little for carrying a letter to\n" + " your lover.\n\n" + "PROTEUS But what said she?\n\n" + "SPEED [First nodding] Ay.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Nod--Ay--why, that's noddy.\n\n" + "SPEED You mistook, sir; I say, she did nod: and you ask\n" + " me if she did nod; and I say, 'Ay.'\n\n" + "PROTEUS And that set together is noddy.\n\n" + "SPEED Now you have taken the pains to set it together,\n" + " take it for your pains.\n\n" + "PROTEUS No, no; you shall have it for bearing the letter.\n\n" + "SPEED Well, I perceive I must be fain to bear with you.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Why sir, how do you bear with me?\n\n" + "SPEED Marry, sir, the letter, very orderly; having nothing\n" + " but the word 'noddy' for my pains.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.\n\n" + "SPEED And yet it cannot overtake your slow purse.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Come come, open the matter in brief: what said she?\n\n" + "SPEED Open your purse, that the money and the matter may\n" + " be both at once delivered.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Well, sir, here is for your pains. What said she?\n\n" + "SPEED Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Why, couldst thou perceive so much from her?\n\n" + "SPEED Sir, I could perceive nothing at all from her; no,\n" + " not so much as a ducat for delivering your letter:\n" + " and being so hard to me that brought your mind, I\n" + " fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling your\n" + " mind. Give her no token but stones; for she's as\n" + " hard as steel.\n\n" + "PROTEUS What said she? nothing?\n\n" + "SPEED No, not so much as 'Take this for thy pains.' To\n" + " testify your bounty, I thank you, you have testerned\n" + " me; in requital whereof, henceforth carry your\n" + " letters yourself: and so, sir, I'll commend you to my master.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wreck,\n" + " Which cannot perish having thee aboard,\n" + " Being destined to a drier death on shore.\n\n" + " [Exit SPEED]\n\n" + " I must go send some better messenger:\n" + " I fear my Julia would not deign my lines,\n" + " Receiving them from such a worthless post.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. Garden of JULIA's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JULlA and LUCETTA]\n\n" + "JULIA But say, Lucetta, now we are alone,\n" + " Wouldst thou then counsel me to fall in love?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Ay, madam, so you stumble not unheedfully.\n\n" + "JULIA Of all the fair resort of gentlemen\n" + " That every day with parle encounter me,\n" + " In thy opinion which is worthiest love?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Please you repeat their names, I'll show my mind\n" + " According to my shallow simple skill.\n\n" + "JULIA What think'st thou of the fair Sir Eglamour?\n\n" + "LUCETTA As of a knight well-spoken, neat and fine;\n" + " But, were I you, he never should be mine.\n\n" + "JULIA What think'st thou of the rich Mercatio?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Well of his wealth; but of himself, so so.\n\n" + "JULIA What think'st thou of the gentle Proteus?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Lord, Lord! to see what folly reigns in us!\n\n" + "JULIA How now! what means this passion at his name?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Pardon, dear madam: 'tis a passing shame\n" + " That I, unworthy body as I am,\n" + " Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen.\n\n" + "JULIA Why not on Proteus, as of all the rest?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Then thus: of many good I think him best.\n\n" + "JULIA Your reason?\n\n" + "LUCETTA I have no other, but a woman's reason;\n" + " I think him so because I think him so.\n\n" + "JULIA And wouldst thou have me cast my love on him?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Ay, if you thought your love not cast away.\n\n" + "JULIA Why he, of all the rest, hath never moved me.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Yet he, of all the rest, I think, best loves ye.\n\n" + "JULIA His little speaking shows his love but small.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.\n\n" + "JULIA They do not love that do not show their love.\n\n" + "LUCETTA O, they love least that let men know their love.\n\n" + "JULIA I would I knew his mind.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Peruse this paper, madam.\n\n" + "JULIA 'To Julia.' Say, from whom?\n\n" + "LUCETTA That the contents will show.\n\n" + "JULIA Say, say, who gave it thee?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Valentine's page; and sent, I think, from Proteus.\n" + " He would have given it you; but I, being in the way,\n" + " Did in your name receive it: pardon the\n" + " fault I pray.\n\n" + "JULIA Now, by my modesty, a goodly broker!\n" + " Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines?\n" + " To whisper and conspire against my youth?\n" + " Now, trust me, 'tis an office of great worth\n" + " And you an officer fit for the place.\n" + " Or else return no more into my sight.\n\n" + "LUCETTA To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.\n\n" + "JULIA Will ye be gone?\n\n" + "LUCETTA That you may ruminate.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIA And yet I would I had o'erlooked the letter:\n" + " It were a shame to call her back again\n" + " And pray her to a fault for which I chid her.\n" + " What a fool is she, that knows I am a maid,\n" + " And would not force the letter to my view!\n" + " Since maids, in modesty, say 'no' to that\n" + " Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.'\n" + " Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love\n" + " That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse\n" + " And presently all humbled kiss the rod!\n" + " How churlishly I chid Lucetta hence,\n" + " When willingly I would have had her here!\n" + " How angerly I taught my brow to frown,\n" + " When inward joy enforced my heart to smile!\n" + " My penance is to call Lucetta back\n" + " And ask remission for my folly past.\n" + " What ho! Lucetta!\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCETTA]\n\n" + "LUCETTA What would your ladyship?\n\n" + "JULIA Is't near dinner-time?\n\n" + "LUCETTA I would it were,\n" + " That you might kill your stomach on your meat\n" + " And not upon your maid.\n\n" + "JULIA What is't that you took up so gingerly?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Nothing.\n\n" + "JULIA Why didst thou stoop, then?\n\n" + "LUCETTA To take a paper up that I let fall.\n\n" + "JULIA And is that paper nothing?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Nothing concerning me.\n\n" + "JULIA Then let it lie for those that it concerns.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Madam, it will not lie where it concerns\n" + " Unless it have a false interpeter.\n\n" + "JULIA Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme.\n\n" + "LUCETTA That I might sing it, madam, to a tune.\n" + " Give me a note: your ladyship can set.\n\n" + "JULIA As little by such toys as may be possible.\n" + " Best sing it to the tune of 'Light o' love.'\n\n" + "LUCETTA It is too heavy for so light a tune.\n\n" + "JULIA Heavy! belike it hath some burden then?\n\n" + "LUCETTA Ay, and melodious were it, would you sing it.\n\n" + "JULIA And why not you?\n\n" + "LUCETTA I cannot reach so high.\n\n" + "JULIA Let's see your song. How now, minion!\n\n" + "LUCETTA Keep tune there still, so you will sing it out:\n" + " And yet methinks I do not like this tune.\n\n" + "JULIA You do not?\n\n" + "LUCETTA No, madam; it is too sharp.\n\n" + "JULIA You, minion, are too saucy.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Nay, now you are too flat\n" + " And mar the concord with too harsh a descant:\n" + " There wanteth but a mean to fill your song.\n\n" + "JULIA The mean is drown'd with your unruly bass.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus.\n\n" + "JULIA This babble shall not henceforth trouble me.\n" + " Here is a coil with protestation!\n\n" + " [Tears the letter]\n\n" + " Go get you gone, and let the papers lie:\n" + " You would be fingering them, to anger me.\n\n" + "LUCETTA She makes it strange; but she would be best pleased\n" + " To be so anger'd with another letter.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIA Nay, would I were so anger'd with the same!\n" + " O hateful hands, to tear such loving words!\n" + " Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey\n" + " And kill the bees that yield it with your stings!\n" + " I'll kiss each several paper for amends.\n" + " Look, here is writ 'kind Julia.' Unkind Julia!\n" + " As in revenge of thy ingratitude,\n" + " I throw thy name against the bruising stones,\n" + " Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain.\n" + " And here is writ 'love-wounded Proteus.'\n" + " Poor wounded name! my bosom as a bed\n" + " Shall lodge thee till thy wound be thoroughly heal'd;\n" + " And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss.\n" + " But twice or thrice was 'Proteus' written down.\n" + " Be calm, good wind, blow not a word away\n" + " Till I have found each letter in the letter,\n" + " Except mine own name: that some whirlwind bear\n" + " Unto a ragged fearful-hanging rock\n" + " And throw it thence into the raging sea!\n" + " Lo, here in one line is his name twice writ,\n" + " 'Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,\n" + " To the sweet Julia:' that I'll tear away.\n" + " And yet I will not, sith so prettily\n" + " He couples it to his complaining names.\n" + " Thus will I fold them one on another:\n" + " Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you will.\n\n" + " [Re-enter LUCETTA]\n\n" + "LUCETTA Madam,\n" + " Dinner is ready, and your father stays.\n\n" + "JULIA Well, let us go.\n\n" + "LUCETTA What, shall these papers lie like tell-tales here?\n\n" + "JULIA If you respect them, best to take them up.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Nay, I was taken up for laying them down:\n" + " Yet here they shall not lie, for catching cold.\n\n" + "JULIA I see you have a month's mind to them.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Ay, madam, you may say what sights you see;\n" + " I see things too, although you judge I wink.\n\n" + "JULIA Come, come; will't please you go?\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. ANTONIO's house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTONIO and PANTHINO]\n\n" + "ANTONIO Tell me, Panthino, what sad talk was that\n" + " Wherewith my brother held you in the cloister?\n\n" + "PANTHINO 'Twas of his nephew Proteus, your son.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Why, what of him?\n\n" + "PANTHINO He wonder'd that your lordship\n" + " Would suffer him to spend his youth at home,\n" + " While other men, of slender reputation,\n" + " Put forth their sons to seek preferment out:\n" + " Some to the wars, to try their fortune there;\n" + " Some to discover islands far away;\n" + " Some to the studious universities.\n" + " For any or for all these exercises,\n" + " He said that Proteus your son was meet,\n" + " And did request me to importune you\n" + " To let him spend his time no more at home,\n" + " Which would be great impeachment to his age,\n" + " In having known no travel in his youth.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Nor need'st thou much importune me to that\n" + " Whereon this month I have been hammering.\n" + " I have consider'd well his loss of time\n" + " And how he cannot be a perfect man,\n" + " Not being tried and tutor'd in the world:\n" + " Experience is by industry achieved\n" + " And perfected by the swift course of time.\n" + " Then tell me, whither were I best to send him?\n\n" + "PANTHINO I think your lordship is not ignorant\n" + " How his companion, youthful Valentine,\n" + " Attends the emperor in his royal court.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I know it well.\n\n" + "PANTHINO 'Twere good, I think, your lordship sent him thither:\n" + " There shall he practise tilts and tournaments,\n" + " Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen.\n" + " And be in eye of every exercise\n" + " Worthy his youth and nobleness of birth.\n\n" + "ANTONIO I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised:\n" + " And that thou mayst perceive how well I like it,\n" + " The execution of it shall make known.\n" + " Even with the speediest expedition\n" + " I will dispatch him to the emperor's court.\n\n" + "PANTHINO To-morrow, may it please you, Don Alphonso,\n" + " With other gentlemen of good esteem,\n" + " Are journeying to salute the emperor\n" + " And to commend their service to his will.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Good company; with them shall Proteus go:\n" + " And, in good time! now will we break with him.\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Sweet love! sweet lines! sweet life!\n" + " Here is her hand, the agent of her heart;\n" + " Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn.\n" + " O, that our fathers would applaud our loves,\n" + " To seal our happiness with their consents!\n" + " O heavenly Julia!\n\n" + "ANTONIO How now! what letter are you reading there?\n\n" + "PROTEUS May't please your lordship, 'tis a word or two\n" + " Of commendations sent from Valentine,\n" + " Deliver'd by a friend that came from him.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Lend me the letter; let me see what news.\n\n" + "PROTEUS There is no news, my lord, but that he writes\n" + " How happily he lives, how well beloved\n" + " And daily graced by the emperor;\n" + " Wishing me with him, partner of his fortune.\n\n" + "ANTONIO And how stand you affected to his wish?\n\n" + "PROTEUS As one relying on your lordship's will\n" + " And not depending on his friendly wish.\n\n" + "ANTONIO My will is something sorted with his wish.\n" + " Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;\n" + " For what I will, I will, and there an end.\n" + " I am resolved that thou shalt spend some time\n" + " With Valentinus in the emperor's court:\n" + " What maintenance he from his friends receives,\n" + " Like exhibition thou shalt have from me.\n" + " To-morrow be in readiness to go:\n" + " Excuse it not, for I am peremptory.\n\n" + "PROTEUS My lord, I cannot be so soon provided:\n" + " Please you, deliberate a day or two.\n\n" + "ANTONIO Look, what thou want'st shall be sent after thee:\n" + " No more of stay! to-morrow thou must go.\n" + " Come on, Panthino: you shall be employ'd\n" + " To hasten on his expedition.\n\n" + " [Exeunt ANTONIO and PANTHINO]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Thus have I shunn'd the fire for fear of burning,\n" + " And drench'd me in the sea, where I am drown'd.\n" + " I fear'd to show my father Julia's letter,\n" + " Lest he should take exceptions to my love;\n" + " And with the vantage of mine own excuse\n" + " Hath he excepted most against my love.\n" + " O, how this spring of love resembleth\n" + " The uncertain glory of an April day,\n" + " Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,\n" + " And by and by a cloud takes all away!\n\n" + " [Re-enter PANTHINO]\n\n" + "PANTHINO Sir Proteus, your father calls for you:\n" + " He is in haste; therefore, I pray you to go.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Why, this it is: my heart accords thereto,\n" + " And yet a thousand times it answers 'no.'\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Milan. The DUKE's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VALENTINE and SPEED]\n\n" + "SPEED Sir, your glove.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Not mine; my gloves are on.\n\n" + "SPEED Why, then, this may be yours, for this is but one.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ha! let me see: ay, give it me, it's mine:\n" + " Sweet ornament that decks a thing divine!\n" + " Ah, Silvia, Silvia!\n\n" + "SPEED Madam Silvia! Madam Silvia!\n\n" + "VALENTINE How now, sirrah?\n\n" + "SPEED She is not within hearing, sir.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why, sir, who bade you call her?\n\n" + "SPEED Your worship, sir; or else I mistook.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Well, you'll still be too forward.\n\n" + "SPEED And yet I was last chidden for being too slow.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Go to, sir: tell me, do you know Madam Silvia?\n\n" + "SPEED She that your worship loves?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why, how know you that I am in love?\n\n" + "SPEED Marry, by these special marks: first, you have\n" + " learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms,\n" + " like a malecontent; to relish a love-song, like a\n" + " robin-redbreast; to walk alone, like one that had\n" + " the pestilence; to sigh, like a school-boy that had\n" + " lost his A B C; to weep, like a young wench that had\n" + " buried her grandam; to fast, like one that takes\n" + " diet; to watch like one that fears robbing; to\n" + " speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were\n" + " wont, when you laughed, to crow like a cock; when you\n" + " walked, to walk like one of the lions; when you\n" + " fasted, it was presently after dinner; when you\n" + " looked sadly, it was for want of money: and now you\n" + " are metamorphosed with a mistress, that, when I look\n" + " on you, I can hardly think you my master.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Are all these things perceived in me?\n\n" + "SPEED They are all perceived without ye.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Without me? they cannot.\n\n" + "SPEED Without you? nay, that's certain, for, without you\n" + " were so simple, none else would: but you are so\n" + " without these follies, that these follies are within\n" + " you and shine through you like the water in an\n" + " urinal, that not an eye that sees you but is a\n" + " physician to comment on your malady.\n\n" + "VALENTINE But tell me, dost thou know my lady Silvia?\n\n" + "SPEED She that you gaze on so as she sits at supper?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Hast thou observed that? even she, I mean.\n\n" + "SPEED Why, sir, I know her not.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Dost thou know her by my gazing on her, and yet\n" + " knowest her not?\n\n" + "SPEED Is she not hard-favoured, sir?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Not so fair, boy, as well-favoured.\n\n" + "SPEED Sir, I know that well enough.\n\n" + "VALENTINE What dost thou know?\n\n" + "SPEED That she is not so fair as, of you, well-favoured.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her favour infinite.\n\n" + "SPEED That's because the one is painted and the other out\n" + " of all count.\n\n" + "VALENTINE How painted? and how out of count?\n\n" + "SPEED Marry, sir, so painted, to make her fair, that no\n" + " man counts of her beauty.\n\n" + "VALENTINE How esteemest thou me? I account of her beauty.\n\n" + "SPEED You never saw her since she was deformed.\n\n" + "VALENTINE How long hath she been deformed?\n\n" + "SPEED Ever since you loved her.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I have loved her ever since I saw her; and still I\n" + " see her beautiful.\n\n" + "SPEED If you love her, you cannot see her.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why?\n\n" + "SPEED Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes;\n" + " or your own eyes had the lights they were wont to\n" + " have when you chid at Sir Proteus for going\n" + " ungartered!\n\n" + "VALENTINE What should I see then?\n\n" + "SPEED Your own present folly and her passing deformity:\n" + " for he, being in love, could not see to garter his\n" + " hose, and you, being in love, cannot see to put on your hose.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Belike, boy, then, you are in love; for last\n" + " morning you could not see to wipe my shoes.\n\n" + "SPEED True, sir; I was in love with my bed: I thank you,\n" + " you swinged me for my love, which makes me the\n" + " bolder to chide you for yours.\n\n" + "VALENTINE In conclusion, I stand affected to her.\n\n" + "SPEED I would you were set, so your affection would cease.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to\n" + " one she loves.\n\n" + "SPEED And have you?\n\n" + "VALENTINE I have.\n\n" + "SPEED Are they not lamely writ?\n\n" + "VALENTINE No, boy, but as well as I can do them. Peace!\n" + " here she comes.\n\n" + "SPEED [Aside] O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet!\n" + " Now will he interpret to her.\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIA]\n\n" + "VALENTINE Madam and mistress, a thousand good-morrows.\n\n" + "SPEED [Aside] O, give ye good even! here's a million of manners.\n\n" + "SILVIA Sir Valentine and servant, to you two thousand.\n\n" + "SPEED [Aside] He should give her interest and she gives it him.\n\n" + "VALENTINE As you enjoin'd me, I have writ your letter\n" + " Unto the secret nameless friend of yours;\n" + " Which I was much unwilling to proceed in\n" + " But for my duty to your ladyship.\n\n" + "SILVIA I thank you gentle servant: 'tis very clerkly done.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off;\n" + " For being ignorant to whom it goes\n" + " I writ at random, very doubtfully.\n\n" + "SILVIA Perchance you think too much of so much pains?\n\n" + "VALENTINE No, madam; so it stead you, I will write\n" + " Please you command, a thousand times as much; And yet--\n\n" + "SILVIA A pretty period! Well, I guess the sequel;\n" + " And yet I will not name it; and yet I care not;\n" + " And yet take this again; and yet I thank you,\n" + " Meaning henceforth to trouble you no more.\n\n" + "SPEED [Aside] And yet you will; and yet another 'yet.'\n\n" + "VALENTINE What means your ladyship? do you not like it?\n\n" + "SILVIA Yes, yes; the lines are very quaintly writ;\n" + " But since unwillingly, take them again.\n" + " Nay, take them.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Madam, they are for you.\n\n" + "SILVIA Ay, ay: you writ them, sir, at my request;\n" + " But I will none of them; they are for you;\n" + " I would have had them writ more movingly.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Please you, I'll write your ladyship another.\n\n" + "SILVIA And when it's writ, for my sake read it over,\n" + " And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.\n\n" + "VALENTINE If it please me, madam, what then?\n\n" + "SILVIA Why, if it please you, take it for your labour:\n" + " And so, good morrow, servant.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SPEED O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,\n" + " As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple!\n" + " My master sues to her, and she hath\n" + " taught her suitor,\n" + " He being her pupil, to become her tutor.\n" + " O excellent device! was there ever heard a better,\n" + " That my master, being scribe, to himself should write\n" + " the letter?\n\n" + "VALENTINE How now, sir? what are you reasoning with yourself?\n\n" + "SPEED Nay, I was rhyming: 'tis you that have the reason.\n\n" + "VALENTINE To do what?\n\n" + "SPEED To be a spokesman for Madam Silvia.\n\n" + "VALENTINE To whom?\n\n" + "SPEED To yourself: why, she wooes you by a figure.\n\n" + "VALENTINE What figure?\n\n" + "SPEED By a letter, I should say.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why, she hath not writ to me?\n\n" + "SPEED What need she, when she hath made you write to\n" + " yourself? Why, do you not perceive the jest?\n\n" + "VALENTINE No, believe me.\n\n" + "SPEED No believing you, indeed, sir. But did you perceive\n" + " her earnest?\n\n" + "VALENTINE She gave me none, except an angry word.\n\n" + "SPEED Why, she hath given you a letter.\n\n" + "VALENTINE That's the letter I writ to her friend.\n\n" + "SPEED And that letter hath she delivered, and there an end.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I would it were no worse.\n\n" + "SPEED I'll warrant you, 'tis as well:\n" + " For often have you writ to her, and she, in modesty,\n" + " Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply;\n" + " Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover,\n" + " Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.\n" + " All this I speak in print, for in print I found it.\n" + " Why muse you, sir? 'tis dinner-time.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I have dined.\n\n" + "SPEED Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can\n" + " feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my\n" + " victuals, and would fain have meat. O, be not like\n" + " your mistress; be moved, be moved.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Verona. JULIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Have patience, gentle Julia.\n\n" + "JULIA I must, where is no remedy.\n\n" + "PROTEUS When possibly I can, I will return.\n\n" + "JULIA If you turn not, you will return the sooner.\n" + " Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake.\n\n" + " [Giving a ring]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Why then, we'll make exchange; here, take you this.\n\n" + "JULIA And seal the bargain with a holy kiss.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Here is my hand for my true constancy;\n" + " And when that hour o'erslips me in the day\n" + " Wherein I sigh not, Julia, for thy sake,\n" + " The next ensuing hour some foul mischance\n" + " Torment me for my love's forgetfulness!\n" + " My father stays my coming; answer not;\n" + " The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears;\n" + " That tide will stay me longer than I should.\n" + " Julia, farewell!\n\n" + " [Exit JULIA]\n\n" + " What, gone without a word?\n" + " Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;\n" + " For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.\n\n" + " [Enter PANTHINO]\n\n" + "PANTHINO Sir Proteus, you are stay'd for.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Go; I come, I come.\n" + " Alas! this parting strikes poor lovers dumb.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LAUNCE, leading a dog]\n\n" + "LAUNCE Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping;\n" + " all the kind of the Launces have this very fault. I\n" + " have received my proportion, like the prodigious\n" + " son, and am going with Sir Proteus to the Imperial's\n" + " court. I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured\n" + " dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father\n" + " wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat\n" + " wringing her hands, and all our house in a great\n" + " perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed\n" + " one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and\n" + " has no more pity in him than a dog: a Jew would have\n" + " wept to have seen our parting; why, my grandam,\n" + " having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind at my\n" + " parting. Nay, I'll show you the manner of it. This\n" + " shoe is my father: no, this left shoe is my father:\n" + " no, no, this left shoe is my mother: nay, that\n" + " cannot be so neither: yes, it is so, it is so, it\n" + " hath the worser sole. This shoe, with the hole in\n" + " it, is my mother, and this my father; a vengeance\n" + " on't! there 'tis: now, sit, this staff is my\n" + " sister, for, look you, she is as white as a lily and\n" + " as small as a wand: this hat is Nan, our maid: I\n" + " am the dog: no, the dog is himself, and I am the\n" + " dog--Oh! the dog is me, and I am myself; ay, so,\n" + " so. Now come I to my father; Father, your blessing:\n" + " now should not the shoe speak a word for weeping:\n" + " now should I kiss my father; well, he weeps on. Now\n" + " come I to my mother: O, that she could speak now\n" + " like a wood woman! Well, I kiss her; why, there\n" + " 'tis; here's my mother's breath up and down. Now\n" + " come I to my sister; mark the moan she makes. Now\n" + " the dog all this while sheds not a tear nor speaks a\n" + " word; but see how I lay the dust with my tears.\n\n" + " [Enter PANTHINO]\n\n" + "PANTHINO Launce, away, away, aboard! thy master is shipped\n" + " and thou art to post after with oars. What's the\n" + " matter? why weepest thou, man? Away, ass! You'll\n" + " lose the tide, if you tarry any longer.\n\n" + "LAUNCE It is no matter if the tied were lost; for it is the\n" + " unkindest tied that ever any man tied.\n\n" + "PANTHINO What's the unkindest tide?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, he that's tied here, Crab, my dog.\n\n" + "PANTHINO Tut, man, I mean thou'lt lose the flood, and, in\n" + " losing the flood, lose thy voyage, and, in losing\n" + " thy voyage, lose thy master, and, in losing thy\n" + " master, lose thy service, and, in losing thy\n" + " service,--Why dost thou stop my mouth?\n\n" + "LAUNCE For fear thou shouldst lose thy tongue.\n\n" + "PANTHINO Where should I lose my tongue?\n\n" + "LAUNCE In thy tale.\n\n" + "PANTHINO In thy tail!\n\n" + "LAUNCE Lose the tide, and the voyage, and the master, and\n" + " the service, and the tied! Why, man, if the river\n" + " were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears; if the\n" + " wind were down, I could drive the boat with my sighs.\n\n" + "PANTHINO Come, come away, man; I was sent to call thee.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Sir, call me what thou darest.\n\n" + "PANTHINO Wilt thou go?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Well, I will go.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Milan. The DUKE's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIA, VALENTINE, THURIO, and SPEED]\n\n" + "SILVIA Servant!\n\n" + "VALENTINE Mistress?\n\n" + "SPEED Master, Sir Thurio frowns on you.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ay, boy, it's for love.\n\n" + "SPEED Not of you.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Of my mistress, then.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Twere good you knocked him.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "SILVIA Servant, you are sad.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Indeed, madam, I seem so.\n\n" + "THURIO Seem you that you are not?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Haply I do.\n\n" + "THURIO So do counterfeits.\n\n" + "VALENTINE So do you.\n\n" + "THURIO What seem I that I am not?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Wise.\n\n" + "THURIO What instance of the contrary?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Your folly.\n\n" + "THURIO And how quote you my folly?\n\n" + "VALENTINE I quote it in your jerkin.\n\n" + "THURIO My jerkin is a doublet.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Well, then, I'll double your folly.\n\n" + "THURIO How?\n\n" + "SILVIA What, angry, Sir Thurio! do you change colour?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Give him leave, madam; he is a kind of chameleon.\n\n" + "THURIO That hath more mind to feed on your blood than live\n" + " in your air.\n\n" + "VALENTINE You have said, sir.\n\n" + "THURIO Ay, sir, and done too, for this time.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin.\n\n" + "SILVIA A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off.\n\n" + "VALENTINE 'Tis indeed, madam; we thank the giver.\n\n" + "SILVIA Who is that, servant?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Yourself, sweet lady; for you gave the fire. Sir\n" + " Thurio borrows his wit from your ladyship's looks,\n" + " and spends what he borrows kindly in your company.\n\n" + "THURIO Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall\n" + " make your wit bankrupt.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words,\n" + " and, I think, no other treasure to give your\n" + " followers, for it appears by their bare liveries,\n" + " that they live by your bare words.\n\n" + "SILVIA No more, gentlemen, no more:--here comes my father.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE]\n\n" + "DUKE Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.\n" + " Sir Valentine, your father's in good health:\n" + " What say you to a letter from your friends\n" + " Of much good news?\n\n" + "VALENTINE My lord, I will be thankful.\n" + " To any happy messenger from thence.\n\n" + "DUKE Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman\n" + " To be of worth and worthy estimation\n" + " And not without desert so well reputed.\n\n" + "DUKE Hath he not a son?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ay, my good lord; a son that well deserves\n" + " The honour and regard of such a father.\n\n" + "DUKE You know him well?\n\n" + "VALENTINE I know him as myself; for from our infancy\n" + " We have conversed and spent our hours together:\n" + " And though myself have been an idle truant,\n" + " Omitting the sweet benefit of time\n" + " To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection,\n" + " Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that's his name,\n" + " Made use and fair advantage of his days;\n" + " His years but young, but his experience old;\n" + " His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe;\n" + " And, in a word, for far behind his worth\n" + " Comes all the praises that I now bestow,\n" + " He is complete in feature and in mind\n" + " With all good grace to grace a gentleman.\n\n" + "DUKE Beshrew me, sir, but if he make this good,\n" + " He is as worthy for an empress' love\n" + " As meet to be an emperor's counsellor.\n" + " Well, sir, this gentleman is come to me,\n" + " With commendation from great potentates;\n" + " And here he means to spend his time awhile:\n" + " I think 'tis no unwelcome news to you.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Should I have wish'd a thing, it had been he.\n\n" + "DUKE Welcome him then according to his worth.\n" + " Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio;\n" + " For Valentine, I need not cite him to it:\n" + " I will send him hither to you presently.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "VALENTINE This is the gentleman I told your ladyship\n" + " Had come along with me, but that his mistress\n" + " Did hold his eyes lock'd in her crystal looks.\n\n" + "SILVIA Belike that now she hath enfranchised them\n" + " Upon some other pawn for fealty.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Nay, sure, I think she holds them prisoners still.\n\n" + "SILVIA Nay, then he should be blind; and, being blind\n" + " How could he see his way to seek out you?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes.\n\n" + "THURIO They say that Love hath not an eye at all.\n\n" + "VALENTINE To see such lovers, Thurio, as yourself:\n" + " Upon a homely object Love can wink.\n\n" + "SILVIA Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman.\n\n" + " [Exit THURIO]\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS]\n\n" + "VALENTINE Welcome, dear Proteus! Mistress, I beseech you,\n" + " Confirm his welcome with some special favour.\n\n" + "SILVIA His worth is warrant for his welcome hither,\n" + " If this be he you oft have wish'd to hear from.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him\n" + " To be my fellow-servant to your ladyship.\n\n" + "SILVIA Too low a mistress for so high a servant.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Not so, sweet lady: but too mean a servant\n" + " To have a look of such a worthy mistress.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Leave off discourse of disability:\n" + " Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.\n\n" + "PROTEUS My duty will I boast of; nothing else.\n\n" + "SILVIA And duty never yet did want his meed:\n" + " Servant, you are welcome to a worthless mistress.\n\n" + "PROTEUS I'll die on him that says so but yourself.\n\n" + "SILVIA That you are welcome?\n\n" + "PROTEUS That you are worthless.\n\n" + " [Re-enter THURIO]\n\n" + "THURIO Madam, my lord your father would speak with you.\n\n" + "SILVIA I wait upon his pleasure. Come, Sir Thurio,\n" + " Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome:\n" + " I'll leave you to confer of home affairs;\n" + " When you have done, we look to hear from you.\n\n" + "PROTEUS We'll both attend upon your ladyship.\n\n" + " [Exeunt SILVIA and THURIO]\n\n" + "VALENTINE Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Your friends are well and have them much commended.\n\n" + "VALENTINE And how do yours?\n\n" + "PROTEUS I left them all in health.\n\n" + "VALENTINE How does your lady? and how thrives your love?\n\n" + "PROTEUS My tales of love were wont to weary you;\n" + " I know you joy not in a love discourse.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ay, Proteus, but that life is alter'd now:\n" + " I have done penance for contemning Love,\n" + " Whose high imperious thoughts have punish'd me\n" + " With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,\n" + " With nightly tears and daily heart-sore sighs;\n" + " For in revenge of my contempt of love,\n" + " Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes\n" + " And made them watchers of mine own heart's sorrow.\n" + " O gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord,\n" + " And hath so humbled me, as, I confess,\n" + " There is no woe to his correction,\n" + " Nor to his service no such joy on earth.\n" + " Now no discourse, except it be of love;\n" + " Now can I break my fast, dine, sup and sleep,\n" + " Upon the very naked name of love.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Enough; I read your fortune in your eye.\n" + " Was this the idol that you worship so?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Even she; and is she not a heavenly saint?\n\n" + "PROTEUS No; but she is an earthly paragon.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Call her divine.\n\n" + "PROTEUS I will not flatter her.\n\n" + "VALENTINE O, flatter me; for love delights in praises.\n\n" + "PROTEUS When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,\n" + " And I must minister the like to you.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Then speak the truth by her; if not divine,\n" + " Yet let her be a principality,\n" + " Sovereign to all the creatures on the earth.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Except my mistress.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Sweet, except not any;\n" + " Except thou wilt except against my love.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Have I not reason to prefer mine own?\n\n" + "VALENTINE And I will help thee to prefer her too:\n" + " She shall be dignified with this high honour--\n" + " To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth\n" + " Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss\n" + " And, of so great a favour growing proud,\n" + " Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower\n" + " And make rough winter everlastingly.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Why, Valentine, what braggardism is this?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Pardon me, Proteus: all I can is nothing\n" + " To her whose worth makes other worthies nothing;\n" + " She is alone.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Then let her alone.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Not for the world: why, man, she is mine own,\n" + " And I as rich in having such a jewel\n" + " As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,\n" + " The water nectar and the rocks pure gold.\n" + " Forgive me that I do not dream on thee,\n" + " Because thou see'st me dote upon my love.\n" + " My foolish rival, that her father likes\n" + " Only for his possessions are so huge,\n" + " Is gone with her along, and I must after,\n" + " For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy.\n\n" + "PROTEUS But she loves you?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ay, and we are betroth'd: nay, more, our,\n" + " marriage-hour,\n" + " With all the cunning manner of our flight,\n" + " Determined of; how I must climb her window,\n" + " The ladder made of cords, and all the means\n" + " Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness.\n" + " Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,\n" + " In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Go on before; I shall inquire you forth:\n" + " I must unto the road, to disembark\n" + " Some necessaries that I needs must use,\n" + " And then I'll presently attend you.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Will you make haste?\n\n" + "PROTEUS I will.\n\n" + " [Exit VALENTINE]\n\n" + " Even as one heat another heat expels,\n" + " Or as one nail by strength drives out another,\n" + " So the remembrance of my former love\n" + " Is by a newer object quite forgotten.\n" + " Is it mine, or Valentine's praise,\n" + " Her true perfection, or my false transgression,\n" + " That makes me reasonless to reason thus?\n" + " She is fair; and so is Julia that I love--\n" + " That I did love, for now my love is thaw'd;\n" + " Which, like a waxen image, 'gainst a fire,\n" + " Bears no impression of the thing it was.\n" + " Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold,\n" + " And that I love him not as I was wont.\n" + " O, but I love his lady too too much,\n" + " And that's the reason I love him so little.\n" + " How shall I dote on her with more advice,\n" + " That thus without advice begin to love her!\n" + " 'Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,\n" + " And that hath dazzled my reason's light;\n" + " But when I look on her perfections,\n" + " There is no reason but I shall be blind.\n" + " If I can cheque my erring love, I will;\n" + " If not, to compass her I'll use my skill.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE V The same. A street.\n\n\n" + " [Enter SPEED and LAUNCE severally]\n\n" + "SPEED Launce! by mine honesty, welcome to Milan!\n\n" + "LAUNCE Forswear not thyself, sweet youth, for I am not\n" + " welcome. I reckon this always, that a man is never\n" + " undone till he be hanged, nor never welcome to a\n" + " place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess\n" + " say 'Welcome!'\n\n" + "SPEED Come on, you madcap, I'll to the alehouse with you\n" + " presently; where, for one shot of five pence, thou\n" + " shalt have five thousand welcomes. But, sirrah, how\n" + " did thy master part with Madam Julia?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Marry, after they closed in earnest, they parted very\n" + " fairly in jest.\n\n" + "SPEED But shall she marry him?\n\n" + "LAUNCE No.\n\n" + "SPEED How then? shall he marry her?\n\n" + "LAUNCE No, neither.\n\n" + "SPEED What, are they broken?\n\n" + "LAUNCE No, they are both as whole as a fish.\n\n" + "SPEED Why, then, how stands the matter with them?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Marry, thus: when it stands well with him, it\n" + " stands well with her.\n\n" + "SPEED What an ass art thou! I understand thee not.\n\n" + "LAUNCE What a block art thou, that thou canst not! My\n" + " staff understands me.\n\n" + "SPEED What thou sayest?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Ay, and what I do too: look thee, I'll but lean,\n" + " and my staff understands me.\n\n" + "SPEED It stands under thee, indeed.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.\n\n" + "SPEED But tell me true, will't be a match?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Ask my dog: if he say ay, it will! if he say no,\n" + " it will; if he shake his tail and say nothing, it will.\n\n" + "SPEED The conclusion is then that it will.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Thou shalt never get such a secret from me but by a parable.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Tis well that I get it so. But, Launce, how sayest\n" + " thou, that my master is become a notable lover?\n\n" + "LAUNCE I never knew him otherwise.\n\n" + "SPEED Than how?\n\n" + "LAUNCE A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.\n\n" + "SPEED Why, thou whoreson ass, thou mistakest me.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, fool, I meant not thee; I meant thy master.\n\n" + "SPEED I tell thee, my master is become a hot lover.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, I tell thee, I care not though he burn himself\n" + " in love. If thou wilt, go with me to the alehouse;\n" + " if not, thou art an Hebrew, a Jew, and not worth the\n" + " name of a Christian.\n\n" + "SPEED Why?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Because thou hast not so much charity in thee as to\n" + " go to the ale with a Christian. Wilt thou go?\n\n" + "SPEED At thy service.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VI The same. The DUKE'S palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS]\n\n" + "PROTEUS To leave my Julia, shall I be forsworn;\n" + " To love fair Silvia, shall I be forsworn;\n" + " To wrong my friend, I shall be much forsworn;\n" + " And even that power which gave me first my oath\n" + " Provokes me to this threefold perjury;\n" + " Love bade me swear and Love bids me forswear.\n" + " O sweet-suggesting Love, if thou hast sinned,\n" + " Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it!\n" + " At first I did adore a twinkling star,\n" + " But now I worship a celestial sun.\n" + " Unheedful vows may heedfully be broken,\n" + " And he wants wit that wants resolved will\n" + " To learn his wit to exchange the bad for better.\n" + " Fie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad,\n" + " Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd\n" + " With twenty thousand soul-confirming oaths.\n" + " I cannot leave to love, and yet I do;\n" + " But there I leave to love where I should love.\n" + " Julia I lose and Valentine I lose:\n" + " If I keep them, I needs must lose myself;\n" + " If I lose them, thus find I by their loss\n" + " For Valentine myself, for Julia Silvia.\n" + " I to myself am dearer than a friend,\n" + " For love is still most precious in itself;\n" + " And Silvia--witness Heaven, that made her fair!--\n" + " Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope.\n" + " I will forget that Julia is alive,\n" + " Remembering that my love to her is dead;\n" + " And Valentine I'll hold an enemy,\n" + " Aiming at Silvia as a sweeter friend.\n" + " I cannot now prove constant to myself,\n" + " Without some treachery used to Valentine.\n" + " This night he meaneth with a corded ladder\n" + " To climb celestial Silvia's chamber-window,\n" + " Myself in counsel, his competitor.\n" + " Now presently I'll give her father notice\n" + " Of their disguising and pretended flight;\n" + " Who, all enraged, will banish Valentine;\n" + " For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter;\n" + " But, Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross\n" + " By some sly trick blunt Thurio's dull proceeding.\n" + " Love, lend me wings to make my purpose swift,\n" + " As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE VII Verona. JULIA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter JULIA and LUCETTA]\n\n" + "JULIA Counsel, Lucetta; gentle girl, assist me;\n" + " And even in kind love I do conjure thee,\n" + " Who art the table wherein all my thoughts\n" + " Are visibly character'd and engraved,\n" + " To lesson me and tell me some good mean\n" + " How, with my honour, I may undertake\n" + " A journey to my loving Proteus.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Alas, the way is wearisome and long!\n\n" + "JULIA A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary\n" + " To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps;\n" + " Much less shall she that hath Love's wings to fly,\n" + " And when the flight is made to one so dear,\n" + " Of such divine perfection, as Sir Proteus.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Better forbear till Proteus make return.\n\n" + "JULIA O, know'st thou not his looks are my soul's food?\n" + " Pity the dearth that I have pined in,\n" + " By longing for that food so long a time.\n" + " Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,\n" + " Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow\n" + " As seek to quench the fire of love with words.\n\n" + "LUCETTA I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,\n" + " But qualify the fire's extreme rage,\n" + " Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.\n\n" + "JULIA The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns.\n" + " The current that with gentle murmur glides,\n" + " Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage;\n" + " But when his fair course is not hindered,\n" + " He makes sweet music with the enamell'ed stones,\n" + " Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge\n" + " He overtaketh in his pilgrimage,\n" + " And so by many winding nooks he strays\n" + " With willing sport to the wild ocean.\n" + " Then let me go and hinder not my course\n" + " I'll be as patient as a gentle stream\n" + " And make a pastime of each weary step,\n" + " Till the last step have brought me to my love;\n" + " And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil\n" + " A blessed soul doth in Elysium.\n\n" + "LUCETTA But in what habit will you go along?\n\n" + "JULIA Not like a woman; for I would prevent\n" + " The loose encounters of lascivious men:\n" + " Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds\n" + " As may beseem some well-reputed page.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Why, then, your ladyship must cut your hair.\n\n" + "JULIA No, girl, I'll knit it up in silken strings\n" + " With twenty odd-conceited true-love knots.\n" + " To be fantastic may become a youth\n" + " Of greater time than I shall show to be.\n\n" + "LUCETTA What fashion, madam shall I make your breeches?\n\n" + "JULIA That fits as well as 'Tell me, good my lord,\n" + " What compass will you wear your farthingale?'\n" + " Why even what fashion thou best likest, Lucetta.\n\n" + "LUCETTA You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam.\n\n" + "JULIA Out, out, Lucetta! that would be ill-favour'd.\n\n" + "LUCETTA A round hose, madam, now's not worth a pin,\n" + " Unless you have a codpiece to stick pins on.\n\n" + "JULIA Lucetta, as thou lovest me, let me have\n" + " What thou thinkest meet and is most mannerly.\n" + " But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me\n" + " For undertaking so unstaid a journey?\n" + " I fear me, it will make me scandalized.\n\n" + "LUCETTA If you think so, then stay at home and go not.\n\n" + "JULIA Nay, that I will not.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Then never dream on infamy, but go.\n" + " If Proteus like your journey when you come,\n" + " No matter who's displeased when you are gone:\n" + " I fear me, he will scarce be pleased withal.\n\n" + "JULIA That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear:\n" + " A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears\n" + " And instances of infinite of love\n" + " Warrant me welcome to my Proteus.\n\n" + "LUCETTA All these are servants to deceitful men.\n\n" + "JULIA Base men, that use them to so base effect!\n" + " But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth\n" + " His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles,\n" + " His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate,\n" + " His tears pure messengers sent from his heart,\n" + " His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.\n\n" + "LUCETTA Pray heaven he prove so, when you come to him!\n\n" + "JULIA Now, as thou lovest me, do him not that wrong\n" + " To bear a hard opinion of his truth:\n" + " Only deserve my love by loving him;\n" + " And presently go with me to my chamber,\n" + " To take a note of what I stand in need of,\n" + " To furnish me upon my longing journey.\n" + " All that is mine I leave at thy dispose,\n" + " My goods, my lands, my reputation;\n" + " Only, in lieu thereof, dispatch me hence.\n" + " Come, answer not, but to it presently!\n" + " I am impatient of my tarriance.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Milan. The DUKE's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE, THURIO, and PROTEUS]\n\n" + "DUKE Sir Thurio, give us leave, I pray, awhile;\n" + " We have some secrets to confer about.\n\n" + " [Exit THURIO]\n\n" + " Now, tell me, Proteus, what's your will with me?\n\n" + "PROTEUS My gracious lord, that which I would discover\n" + " The law of friendship bids me to conceal;\n" + " But when I call to mind your gracious favours\n" + " Done to me, undeserving as I am,\n" + " My duty pricks me on to utter that\n" + " Which else no worldly good should draw from me.\n" + " Know, worthy prince, Sir Valentine, my friend,\n" + " This night intends to steal away your daughter:\n" + " Myself am one made privy to the plot.\n" + " I know you have determined to bestow her\n" + " On Thurio, whom your gentle daughter hates;\n" + " And should she thus be stol'n away from you,\n" + " It would be much vexation to your age.\n" + " Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose\n" + " To cross my friend in his intended drift\n" + " Than, by concealing it, heap on your head\n" + " A pack of sorrows which would press you down,\n" + " Being unprevented, to your timeless grave.\n\n" + "DUKE Proteus, I thank thee for thine honest care;\n" + " Which to requite, command me while I live.\n" + " This love of theirs myself have often seen,\n" + " Haply when they have judged me fast asleep,\n" + " And oftentimes have purposed to forbid\n" + " Sir Valentine her company and my court:\n" + " But fearing lest my jealous aim might err\n" + " And so unworthily disgrace the man,\n" + " A rashness that I ever yet have shunn'd,\n" + " I gave him gentle looks, thereby to find\n" + " That which thyself hast now disclosed to me.\n" + " And, that thou mayst perceive my fear of this,\n" + " Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested,\n" + " I nightly lodge her in an upper tower,\n" + " The key whereof myself have ever kept;\n" + " And thence she cannot be convey'd away.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Know, noble lord, they have devised a mean\n" + " How he her chamber-window will ascend\n" + " And with a corded ladder fetch her down;\n" + " For which the youthful lover now is gone\n" + " And this way comes he with it presently;\n" + " Where, if it please you, you may intercept him.\n" + " But, good my Lord, do it so cunningly\n" + " That my discovery be not aimed at;\n" + " For love of you, not hate unto my friend,\n" + " Hath made me publisher of this pretence.\n\n" + "DUKE Upon mine honour, he shall never know\n" + " That I had any light from thee of this.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Adieu, my Lord; Sir Valentine is coming.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Enter VALENTINE]\n\n" + "DUKE Sir Valentine, whither away so fast?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Please it your grace, there is a messenger\n" + " That stays to bear my letters to my friends,\n" + " And I am going to deliver them.\n\n" + "DUKE Be they of much import?\n\n" + "VALENTINE The tenor of them doth but signify\n" + " My health and happy being at your court.\n\n" + "DUKE Nay then, no matter; stay with me awhile;\n" + " I am to break with thee of some affairs\n" + " That touch me near, wherein thou must be secret.\n" + " 'Tis not unknown to thee that I have sought\n" + " To match my friend Sir Thurio to my daughter.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I know it well, my Lord; and, sure, the match\n" + " Were rich and honourable; besides, the gentleman\n" + " Is full of virtue, bounty, worth and qualities\n" + " Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter:\n" + " Cannot your Grace win her to fancy him?\n\n" + "DUKE No, trust me; she is peevish, sullen, froward,\n" + " Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty,\n" + " Neither regarding that she is my child\n" + " Nor fearing me as if I were her father;\n" + " And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers,\n" + " Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her;\n" + " And, where I thought the remnant of mine age\n" + " Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty,\n" + " I now am full resolved to take a wife\n" + " And turn her out to who will take her in:\n" + " Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower;\n" + " For me and my possessions she esteems not.\n\n" + "VALENTINE What would your Grace have me to do in this?\n\n" + "DUKE There is a lady in Verona here\n" + " Whom I affect; but she is nice and coy\n" + " And nought esteems my aged eloquence:\n" + " Now therefore would I have thee to my tutor--\n" + " For long agone I have forgot to court;\n" + " Besides, the fashion of the time is changed--\n" + " How and which way I may bestow myself\n" + " To be regarded in her sun-bright eye.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Win her with gifts, if she respect not words:\n" + " Dumb jewels often in their silent kind\n" + " More than quick words do move a woman's mind.\n\n" + "DUKE But she did scorn a present that I sent her.\n\n" + "VALENTINE A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.\n" + " Send her another; never give her o'er;\n" + " For scorn at first makes after-love the more.\n" + " If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you,\n" + " But rather to beget more love in you:\n" + " If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone;\n" + " For why, the fools are mad, if left alone.\n" + " Take no repulse, whatever she doth say;\n" + " For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away!'\n" + " Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces;\n" + " Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces.\n" + " That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,\n" + " If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.\n\n" + "DUKE But she I mean is promised by her friends\n" + " Unto a youthful gentleman of worth,\n" + " And kept severely from resort of men,\n" + " That no man hath access by day to her.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why, then, I would resort to her by night.\n\n" + "DUKE Ay, but the doors be lock'd and keys kept safe,\n" + " That no man hath recourse to her by night.\n\n" + "VALENTINE What lets but one may enter at her window?\n\n" + "DUKE Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground,\n" + " And built so shelving that one cannot climb it\n" + " Without apparent hazard of his life.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why then, a ladder quaintly made of cords,\n" + " To cast up, with a pair of anchoring hooks,\n" + " Would serve to scale another Hero's tower,\n" + " So bold Leander would adventure it.\n\n" + "DUKE Now, as thou art a gentleman of blood,\n" + " Advise me where I may have such a ladder.\n\n" + "VALENTINE When would you use it? pray, sir, tell me that.\n\n" + "DUKE This very night; for Love is like a child,\n" + " That longs for every thing that he can come by.\n\n" + "VALENTINE By seven o'clock I'll get you such a ladder.\n\n" + "DUKE But, hark thee; I will go to her alone:\n" + " How shall I best convey the ladder thither?\n\n" + "VALENTINE It will be light, my lord, that you may bear it\n" + " Under a cloak that is of any length.\n\n" + "DUKE A cloak as long as thine will serve the turn?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "DUKE Then let me see thy cloak:\n" + " I'll get me one of such another length.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why, any cloak will serve the turn, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE How shall I fashion me to wear a cloak?\n" + " I pray thee, let me feel thy cloak upon me.\n" + " What letter is this same? What's here? 'To Silvia'!\n" + " And here an engine fit for my proceeding.\n" + " I'll be so bold to break the seal for once.\n\n" + " [Reads]\n\n" + " 'My thoughts do harbour with my Silvia nightly,\n" + " And slaves they are to me that send them flying:\n" + " O, could their master come and go as lightly,\n" + " Himself would lodge where senseless they are lying!\n" + " My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them:\n" + " While I, their king, that hither them importune,\n" + " Do curse the grace that with such grace hath bless'd them,\n" + " Because myself do want my servants' fortune:\n" + " I curse myself, for they are sent by me,\n" + " That they should harbour where their lord would be.'\n" + " What's here?\n" + " 'Silvia, this night I will enfranchise thee.'\n" + " 'Tis so; and here's the ladder for the purpose.\n" + " Why, Phaeton,--for thou art Merops' son,--\n" + " Wilt thou aspire to guide the heavenly car\n" + " And with thy daring folly burn the world?\n" + " Wilt thou reach stars, because they shine on thee?\n" + " Go, base intruder! overweening slave!\n" + " Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates,\n" + " And think my patience, more than thy desert,\n" + " Is privilege for thy departure hence:\n" + " Thank me for this more than for all the favours\n" + " Which all too much I have bestow'd on thee.\n" + " But if thou linger in my territories\n" + " Longer than swiftest expedition\n" + " Will give thee time to leave our royal court,\n" + " By heaven! my wrath shall far exceed the love\n" + " I ever bore my daughter or thyself.\n" + " Be gone! I will not hear thy vain excuse;\n" + " But, as thou lovest thy life, make speed from hence.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "VALENTINE And why not death rather than living torment?\n" + " To die is to be banish'd from myself;\n" + " And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her\n" + " Is self from self: a deadly banishment!\n" + " What light is light, if Silvia be not seen?\n" + " What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by?\n" + " Unless it be to think that she is by\n" + " And feed upon the shadow of perfection\n" + " Except I be by Silvia in the night,\n" + " There is no music in the nightingale;\n" + " Unless I look on Silvia in the day,\n" + " There is no day for me to look upon;\n" + " She is my essence, and I leave to be,\n" + " If I be not by her fair influence\n" + " Foster'd, illumined, cherish'd, kept alive.\n" + " I fly not death, to fly his deadly doom:\n" + " Tarry I here, I but attend on death:\n" + " But, fly I hence, I fly away from life.\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS and LAUNCE]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Soho, soho!\n\n" + "PROTEUS What seest thou?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Him we go to find: there's not a hair on's head\n" + " but 'tis a Valentine.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Valentine?\n\n" + "VALENTINE No.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Who then? his spirit?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Neither.\n\n" + "PROTEUS What then?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Nothing.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Can nothing speak? Master, shall I strike?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Who wouldst thou strike?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Nothing.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Villain, forbear.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, sir, I'll strike nothing: I pray you,--\n\n" + "PROTEUS Sirrah, I say, forbear. Friend Valentine, a word.\n\n" + "VALENTINE My ears are stopt and cannot hear good news,\n" + " So much of bad already hath possess'd them.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Then in dumb silence will I bury mine,\n" + " For they are harsh, untuneable and bad.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Is Silvia dead?\n\n" + "PROTEUS No, Valentine.\n\n" + "VALENTINE No Valentine, indeed, for sacred Silvia.\n" + " Hath she forsworn me?\n\n" + "PROTEUS No, Valentine.\n\n" + "VALENTINE No Valentine, if Silvia have forsworn me.\n" + " What is your news?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Sir, there is a proclamation that you are vanished.\n\n" + "PROTEUS That thou art banished--O, that's the news!--\n" + " From hence, from Silvia and from me thy friend.\n\n" + "VALENTINE O, I have fed upon this woe already,\n" + " And now excess of it will make me surfeit.\n" + " Doth Silvia know that I am banished?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Ay, ay; and she hath offer'd to the doom--\n" + " Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force--\n" + " A sea of melting pearl, which some call tears:\n" + " Those at her father's churlish feet she tender'd;\n" + " With them, upon her knees, her humble self;\n" + " Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so became them\n" + " As if but now they waxed pale for woe:\n" + " But neither bended knees, pure hands held up,\n" + " Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears,\n" + " Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire;\n" + " But Valentine, if he be ta'en, must die.\n" + " Besides, her intercession chafed him so,\n" + " When she for thy repeal was suppliant,\n" + " That to close prison he commanded her,\n" + " With many bitter threats of biding there.\n\n" + "VALENTINE No more; unless the next word that thou speak'st\n" + " Have some malignant power upon my life:\n" + " If so, I pray thee, breathe it in mine ear,\n" + " As ending anthem of my endless dolour.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Cease to lament for that thou canst not help,\n" + " And study help for that which thou lament'st.\n" + " Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.\n" + " Here if thou stay, thou canst not see thy love;\n" + " Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life.\n" + " Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that\n" + " And manage it against despairing thoughts.\n" + " Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence;\n" + " Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd\n" + " Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love.\n" + " The time now serves not to expostulate:\n" + " Come, I'll convey thee through the city-gate;\n" + " And, ere I part with thee, confer at large\n" + " Of all that may concern thy love-affairs.\n" + " As thou lovest Silvia, though not for thyself,\n" + " Regard thy danger, and along with me!\n\n" + "VALENTINE I pray thee, Launce, an if thou seest my boy,\n" + " Bid him make haste and meet me at the North-gate.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Go, sirrah, find him out. Come, Valentine.\n\n" + "VALENTINE O my dear Silvia! Hapless Valentine!\n\n" + " [Exeunt VALENTINE and PROTEUS]\n\n" + "LAUNCE I am but a fool, look you; and yet I have the wit to\n" + " think my master is a kind of a knave: but that's\n" + " all one, if he be but one knave. He lives not now\n" + " that knows me to be in love; yet I am in love; but a\n" + " team of horse shall not pluck that from me; nor who\n" + " 'tis I love; and yet 'tis a woman; but what woman, I\n" + " will not tell myself; and yet 'tis a milkmaid; yet\n" + " 'tis not a maid, for she hath had gossips; yet 'tis\n" + " a maid, for she is her master's maid, and serves for\n" + " wages. She hath more qualities than a water-spaniel;\n" + " which is much in a bare Christian.\n\n" + " [Pulling out a paper]\n\n" + " Here is the cate-log of her condition.\n" + " 'Imprimis: She can fetch and carry.' Why, a horse\n" + " can do no more: nay, a horse cannot fetch, but only\n" + " carry; therefore is she better than a jade. 'Item:\n" + " She can milk;' look you, a sweet virtue in a maid\n" + " with clean hands.\n\n" + " [Enter SPEED]\n\n" + "SPEED How now, Signior Launce! what news with your\n" + " mastership?\n\n" + "LAUNCE With my master's ship? why, it is at sea.\n\n" + "SPEED Well, your old vice still; mistake the word. What\n" + " news, then, in your paper?\n\n" + "LAUNCE The blackest news that ever thou heardest.\n\n" + "SPEED Why, man, how black?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, as black as ink.\n\n" + "SPEED Let me read them.\n\n" + "LAUNCE Fie on thee, jolt-head! thou canst not read.\n\n" + "SPEED Thou liest; I can.\n\n" + "LAUNCE I will try thee. Tell me this: who begot thee?\n\n" + "SPEED Marry, the son of my grandfather.\n\n" + "LAUNCE O illiterate loiterer! it was the son of thy\n" + " grandmother: this proves that thou canst not read.\n\n" + "SPEED Come, fool, come; try me in thy paper.\n\n" + "LAUNCE There; and St. Nicholas be thy speed!\n\n" + "SPEED [Reads] 'Imprimis: She can milk.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Ay, that she can.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She brews good ale.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE And thereof comes the proverb: 'Blessing of your\n" + " heart, you brew good ale.'\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She can sew.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE That's as much as to say, Can she so?\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She can knit.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE What need a man care for a stock with a wench, when\n" + " she can knit him a stock?\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She can wash and scour.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE A special virtue: for then she need not be washed\n" + " and scoured.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She can spin.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Then may I set the world on wheels, when she can\n" + " spin for her living.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She hath many nameless virtues.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE That's as much as to say, bastard virtues; that,\n" + " indeed, know not their fathers and therefore have no names.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Here follow her vices.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Close at the heels of her virtues.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She is not to be kissed fasting in respect\n" + " of her breath.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Well, that fault may be mended with a breakfast. Read on.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She hath a sweet mouth.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE That makes amends for her sour breath.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She doth talk in her sleep.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE It's no matter for that, so she sleep not in her talk.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She is slow in words.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE O villain, that set this down among her vices! To\n" + " be slow in words is a woman's only virtue: I pray\n" + " thee, out with't, and place it for her chief virtue.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She is proud.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Out with that too; it was Eve's legacy, and cannot\n" + " be ta'en from her.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She hath no teeth.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE I care not for that neither, because I love crusts.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She is curst.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Well, the best is, she hath no teeth to bite.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She will often praise her liquor.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE If her liquor be good, she shall: if she will not, I\n" + " will; for good things should be praised.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She is too liberal.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Of her tongue she cannot, for that's writ down she\n" + " is slow of; of her purse she shall not, for that\n" + " I'll keep shut: now, of another thing she may, and\n" + " that cannot I help. Well, proceed.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She hath more hair than wit, and more faults\n" + " than hairs, and more wealth than faults.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Stop there; I'll have her: she was mine, and not\n" + " mine, twice or thrice in that last article.\n" + " Rehearse that once more.\n\n" + "SPEED 'Item: She hath more hair than wit,'--\n\n" + "LAUNCE More hair than wit? It may be; I'll prove it. The\n" + " cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it\n" + " is more than the salt; the hair that covers the wit\n" + " is more than the wit, for the greater hides the\n" + " less. What's next?\n\n" + "SPEED 'And more faults than hairs,'--\n\n" + "LAUNCE That's monstrous: O, that that were out!\n\n" + "SPEED 'And more wealth than faults.'\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, that word makes the faults gracious. Well,\n" + " I'll have her; and if it be a match, as nothing is\n" + " impossible,--\n\n" + "SPEED What then?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Why, then will I tell thee--that thy master stays\n" + " for thee at the North-gate.\n\n" + "SPEED For me?\n\n" + "LAUNCE For thee! ay, who art thou? he hath stayed for a\n" + " better man than thee.\n\n" + "SPEED And must I go to him?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Thou must run to him, for thou hast stayed so long\n" + " that going will scarce serve the turn.\n\n" + "SPEED Why didst not tell me sooner? pox of your love letters!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LAUNCE Now will he be swinged for reading my letter; an\n" + " unmannerly slave, that will thrust himself into\n" + " secrets! I'll after, to rejoice in the boy's correction.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. The DUKE's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE and THURIO]\n\n" + "DUKE Sir Thurio, fear not but that she will love you,\n" + " Now Valentine is banish'd from her sight.\n\n" + "THURIO Since his exile she hath despised me most,\n" + " Forsworn my company and rail'd at me,\n" + " That I am desperate of obtaining her.\n\n" + "DUKE This weak impress of love is as a figure\n" + " Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat\n" + " Dissolves to water and doth lose his form.\n" + " A little time will melt her frozen thoughts\n" + " And worthless Valentine shall be forgot.\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS]\n\n" + " How now, Sir Proteus! Is your countryman\n" + " According to our proclamation gone?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Gone, my good lord.\n\n" + "DUKE My daughter takes his going grievously.\n\n" + "PROTEUS A little time, my lord, will kill that grief.\n\n" + "DUKE So I believe; but Thurio thinks not so.\n" + " Proteus, the good conceit I hold of thee--\n" + " For thou hast shown some sign of good desert--\n" + " Makes me the better to confer with thee.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Longer than I prove loyal to your grace\n" + " Let me not live to look upon your grace.\n\n" + "DUKE Thou know'st how willingly I would effect\n" + " The match between Sir Thurio and my daughter.\n\n" + "PROTEUS I do, my lord.\n\n" + "DUKE And also, I think, thou art not ignorant\n" + " How she opposes her against my will\n\n" + "PROTEUS She did, my lord, when Valentine was here.\n\n" + "DUKE Ay, and perversely she persevers so.\n" + " What might we do to make the girl forget\n" + " The love of Valentine and love Sir Thurio?\n\n" + "PROTEUS The best way is to slander Valentine\n" + " With falsehood, cowardice and poor descent,\n" + " Three things that women highly hold in hate.\n\n" + "DUKE Ay, but she'll think that it is spoke in hate.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Ay, if his enemy deliver it:\n" + " Therefore it must with circumstance be spoken\n" + " By one whom she esteemeth as his friend.\n\n" + "DUKE Then you must undertake to slander him.\n\n" + "PROTEUS And that, my lord, I shall be loath to do:\n" + " 'Tis an ill office for a gentleman,\n" + " Especially against his very friend.\n\n" + "DUKE Where your good word cannot advantage him,\n" + " Your slander never can endamage him;\n" + " Therefore the office is indifferent,\n" + " Being entreated to it by your friend.\n\n" + "PROTEUS You have prevail'd, my lord; if I can do it\n" + " By ought that I can speak in his dispraise,\n" + " She shall not long continue love to him.\n" + " But say this weed her love from Valentine,\n" + " It follows not that she will love Sir Thurio.\n\n" + "THURIO Therefore, as you unwind her love from him,\n" + " Lest it should ravel and be good to none,\n" + " You must provide to bottom it on me;\n" + " Which must be done by praising me as much\n" + " As you in worth dispraise Sir Valentine.\n\n" + "DUKE And, Proteus, we dare trust you in this kind,\n" + " Because we know, on Valentine's report,\n" + " You are already Love's firm votary\n" + " And cannot soon revolt and change your mind.\n" + " Upon this warrant shall you have access\n" + " Where you with Silvia may confer at large;\n" + " For she is lumpish, heavy, melancholy,\n" + " And, for your friend's sake, will be glad of you;\n" + " Where you may temper her by your persuasion\n" + " To hate young Valentine and love my friend.\n\n" + "PROTEUS As much as I can do, I will effect:\n" + " But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough;\n" + " You must lay lime to tangle her desires\n" + " By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes\n" + " Should be full-fraught with serviceable vows.\n\n" + "DUKE Ay,\n" + " Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Say that upon the altar of her beauty\n" + " You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart:\n" + " Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears\n" + " Moist it again, and frame some feeling line\n" + " That may discover such integrity:\n" + " For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews,\n" + " Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones,\n" + " Make tigers tame and huge leviathans\n" + " Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands.\n" + " After your dire-lamenting elegies,\n" + " Visit by night your lady's chamber-window\n" + " With some sweet concert; to their instruments\n" + " Tune a deploring dump: the night's dead silence\n" + " Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance.\n" + " This, or else nothing, will inherit her.\n\n" + "DUKE This discipline shows thou hast been in love.\n\n" + "THURIO And thy advice this night I'll put in practise.\n" + " Therefore, sweet Proteus, my direction-giver,\n" + " Let us into the city presently\n" + " To sort some gentlemen well skill'd in music.\n" + " I have a sonnet that will serve the turn\n" + " To give the onset to thy good advice.\n\n" + "DUKE About it, gentlemen!\n\n" + "PROTEUS We'll wait upon your grace till after supper,\n" + " And afterward determine our proceedings.\n\n" + "DUKE Even now about it! I will pardon you.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I The frontiers of Mantua. A forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter certain Outlaws]\n\n" + "First Outlaw Fellows, stand fast; I see a passenger.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw If there be ten, shrink not, but down with 'em.\n\n" + " [Enter VALENTINE and SPEED]\n\n" + "Third Outlaw Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye:\n" + " If not: we'll make you sit and rifle you.\n\n" + "SPEED Sir, we are undone; these are the villains\n" + " That all the travellers do fear so much.\n\n" + "VALENTINE My friends,--\n\n" + "First Outlaw That's not so, sir: we are your enemies.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw Peace! we'll hear him.\n\n" + "Third Outlaw Ay, by my beard, will we, for he's a proper man.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Then know that I have little wealth to lose:\n" + " A man I am cross'd with adversity;\n" + " My riches are these poor habiliments,\n" + " Of which if you should here disfurnish me,\n" + " You take the sum and substance that I have.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw Whither travel you?\n\n" + "VALENTINE To Verona.\n\n" + "First Outlaw Whence came you?\n\n" + "VALENTINE From Milan.\n\n" + "Third Outlaw Have you long sojourned there?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Some sixteen months, and longer might have stay'd,\n" + " If crooked fortune had not thwarted me.\n\n" + "First Outlaw What, were you banish'd thence?\n\n" + "VALENTINE I was.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw For what offence?\n\n" + "VALENTINE For that which now torments me to rehearse:\n" + " I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent;\n" + " But yet I slew him manfully in fight,\n" + " Without false vantage or base treachery.\n\n" + "First Outlaw Why, ne'er repent it, if it were done so.\n" + " But were you banish'd for so small a fault?\n\n" + "VALENTINE I was, and held me glad of such a doom.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw Have you the tongues?\n\n" + "VALENTINE My youthful travel therein made me happy,\n" + " Or else I often had been miserable.\n\n" + "Third Outlaw By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar,\n" + " This fellow were a king for our wild faction!\n\n" + "First Outlaw We'll have him. Sirs, a word.\n\n" + "SPEED Master, be one of them; it's an honourable kind of thievery.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Peace, villain!\n\n" + "Second Outlaw Tell us this: have you any thing to take to?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Nothing but my fortune.\n\n" + "Third Outlaw Know, then, that some of us are gentlemen,\n" + " Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth\n" + " Thrust from the company of awful men:\n" + " Myself was from Verona banished\n" + " For practising to steal away a lady,\n" + " An heir, and near allied unto the duke.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw And I from Mantua, for a gentleman,\n" + " Who, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart.\n\n" + "First Outlaw And I for such like petty crimes as these,\n" + " But to the purpose--for we cite our faults,\n" + " That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives;\n" + " And partly, seeing you are beautified\n" + " With goodly shape and by your own report\n" + " A linguist and a man of such perfection\n" + " As we do in our quality much want--\n\n" + "Second Outlaw Indeed, because you are a banish'd man,\n" + " Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you:\n" + " Are you content to be our general?\n" + " To make a virtue of necessity\n" + " And live, as we do, in this wilderness?\n\n" + "Third Outlaw What say'st thou? wilt thou be of our consort?\n" + " Say ay, and be the captain of us all:\n" + " We'll do thee homage and be ruled by thee,\n" + " Love thee as our commander and our king.\n\n" + "First Outlaw But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer'd.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I take your offer and will live with you,\n" + " Provided that you do no outrages\n" + " On silly women or poor passengers.\n\n" + "Third Outlaw No, we detest such vile base practises.\n" + " Come, go with us, we'll bring thee to our crews,\n" + " And show thee all the treasure we have got,\n" + " Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dispose.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Milan. Outside the DUKE's palace, under SILVIA's chamber.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Already have I been false to Valentine\n" + " And now I must be as unjust to Thurio.\n" + " Under the colour of commending him,\n" + " I have access my own love to prefer:\n" + " But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy,\n" + " To be corrupted with my worthless gifts.\n" + " When I protest true loyalty to her,\n" + " She twits me with my falsehood to my friend;\n" + " When to her beauty I commend my vows,\n" + " She bids me think how I have been forsworn\n" + " In breaking faith with Julia whom I loved:\n" + " And notwithstanding all her sudden quips,\n" + " The least whereof would quell a lover's hope,\n" + " Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,\n" + " The more it grows and fawneth on her still.\n" + " But here comes Thurio: now must we to her window,\n" + " And give some evening music to her ear.\n\n" + " [Enter THURIO and Musicians]\n\n" + "THURIO How now, Sir Proteus, are you crept before us?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Ay, gentle Thurio: for you know that love\n" + " Will creep in service where it cannot go.\n\n" + "THURIO Ay, but I hope, sir, that you love not here.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Sir, but I do; or else I would be hence.\n\n" + "THURIO Who? Silvia?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Ay, Silvia; for your sake.\n\n" + "THURIO I thank you for your own. Now, gentlemen,\n" + " Let's tune, and to it lustily awhile.\n\n" + " [Enter, at a distance, Host, and JULIA in boy's clothes]\n\n" + "Host Now, my young guest, methinks you're allycholly: I\n" + " pray you, why is it?\n\n" + "JULIA Marry, mine host, because I cannot be merry.\n\n" + "Host Come, we'll have you merry: I'll bring you where\n" + " you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you asked for.\n\n" + "JULIA But shall I hear him speak?\n\n" + "Host Ay, that you shall.\n\n" + "JULIA That will be music.\n\n" + " [Music plays]\n\n" + "Host Hark, hark!\n\n" + "JULIA Is he among these?\n\n" + "Host Ay: but, peace! let's hear 'em.\n\n" + " SONG.\n" + " Who is Silvia? what is she,\n" + " That all our swains commend her?\n" + " Holy, fair and wise is she;\n" + " The heaven such grace did lend her,\n" + " That she might admired be.\n\n" + " Is she kind as she is fair?\n" + " For beauty lives with kindness.\n" + " Love doth to her eyes repair,\n" + " To help him of his blindness,\n" + " And, being help'd, inhabits there.\n\n" + " Then to Silvia let us sing,\n" + " That Silvia is excelling;\n" + " She excels each mortal thing\n" + " Upon the dull earth dwelling:\n" + " To her let us garlands bring.\n\n" + "Host How now! are you sadder than you were before? How\n" + " do you, man? the music likes you not.\n\n" + "JULIA You mistake; the musician likes me not.\n\n" + "Host Why, my pretty youth?\n\n" + "JULIA He plays false, father.\n\n" + "Host How? out of tune on the strings?\n\n" + "JULIA Not so; but yet so false that he grieves my very\n" + " heart-strings.\n\n" + "Host You have a quick ear.\n\n" + "JULIA Ay, I would I were deaf; it makes me have a slow heart.\n\n" + "Host I perceive you delight not in music.\n\n" + "JULIA Not a whit, when it jars so.\n\n" + "Host Hark, what fine change is in the music!\n\n" + "JULIA Ay, that change is the spite.\n\n" + "Host You would have them always play but one thing?\n\n" + "JULIA I would always have one play but one thing.\n" + " But, host, doth this Sir Proteus that we talk on\n" + " Often resort unto this gentlewoman?\n\n" + "Host I tell you what Launce, his man, told me: he loved\n" + " her out of all nick.\n\n" + "JULIA Where is Launce?\n\n" + "Host Gone to seek his dog; which tomorrow, by his\n" + " master's command, he must carry for a present to his lady.\n\n" + "JULIA Peace! stand aside: the company parts.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Sir Thurio, fear not you: I will so plead\n" + " That you shall say my cunning drift excels.\n\n" + "THURIO Where meet we?\n\n" + "PROTEUS At Saint Gregory's well.\n\n" + "THURIO Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exeunt THURIO and Musicians]\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIA above]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Madam, good even to your ladyship.\n\n" + "SILVIA I thank you for your music, gentlemen.\n" + " Who is that that spake?\n\n" + "PROTEUS One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth,\n" + " You would quickly learn to know him by his voice.\n\n" + "SILVIA Sir Proteus, as I take it.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Sir Proteus, gentle lady, and your servant.\n\n" + "SILVIA What's your will?\n\n" + "PROTEUS That I may compass yours.\n\n" + "SILVIA You have your wish; my will is even this:\n" + " That presently you hie you home to bed.\n" + " Thou subtle, perjured, false, disloyal man!\n" + " Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,\n" + " To be seduced by thy flattery,\n" + " That hast deceived so many with thy vows?\n" + " Return, return, and make thy love amends.\n" + " For me, by this pale queen of night I swear,\n" + " I am so far from granting thy request\n" + " That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit,\n" + " And by and by intend to chide myself\n" + " Even for this time I spend in talking to thee.\n\n" + "PROTEUS I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady;\n" + " But she is dead.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] 'Twere false, if I should speak it;\n" + " For I am sure she is not buried.\n\n" + "SILVIA Say that she be; yet Valentine thy friend\n" + " Survives; to whom, thyself art witness,\n" + " I am betroth'd: and art thou not ashamed\n" + " To wrong him with thy importunacy?\n\n" + "PROTEUS I likewise hear that Valentine is dead.\n\n" + "SILVIA And so suppose am I; for in his grave\n" + " Assure thyself my love is buried.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Sweet lady, let me rake it from the earth.\n\n" + "SILVIA Go to thy lady's grave and call hers thence,\n" + " Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] He heard not that.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Madam, if your heart be so obdurate,\n" + " Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love,\n" + " The picture that is hanging in your chamber;\n" + " To that I'll speak, to that I'll sigh and weep:\n" + " For since the substance of your perfect self\n" + " Is else devoted, I am but a shadow;\n" + " And to your shadow will I make true love.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] If 'twere a substance, you would, sure,\n" + " deceive it,\n" + " And make it but a shadow, as I am.\n\n" + "SILVIA I am very loath to be your idol, sir;\n" + " But since your falsehood shall become you well\n" + " To worship shadows and adore false shapes,\n" + " Send to me in the morning and I'll send it:\n" + " And so, good rest.\n\n" + "PROTEUS As wretches have o'ernight\n" + " That wait for execution in the morn.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PROTEUS and SILVIA severally]\n\n" + "JULIA Host, will you go?\n\n" + "Host By my halidom, I was fast asleep.\n\n" + "JULIA Pray you, where lies Sir Proteus?\n\n" + "Host Marry, at my house. Trust me, I think 'tis almost\n" + " day.\n\n" + "JULIA Not so; but it hath been the longest night\n" + " That e'er I watch'd and the most heaviest.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EGLAMOUR]\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR This is the hour that Madam Silvia\n" + " Entreated me to call and know her mind:\n" + " There's some great matter she'ld employ me in.\n" + " Madam, madam!\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIA above]\n\n" + "SILVIA Who calls?\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR Your servant and your friend;\n" + " One that attends your ladyship's command.\n\n" + "SILVIA Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR As many, worthy lady, to yourself:\n" + " According to your ladyship's impose,\n" + " I am thus early come to know what service\n" + " It is your pleasure to command me in.\n\n" + "SILVIA O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman--\n" + " Think not I flatter, for I swear I do not--\n" + " Valiant, wise, remorseful, well accomplish'd:\n" + " Thou art not ignorant what dear good will\n" + " I bear unto the banish'd Valentine,\n" + " Nor how my father would enforce me marry\n" + " Vain Thurio, whom my very soul abhors.\n" + " Thyself hast loved; and I have heard thee say\n" + " No grief did ever come so near thy heart\n" + " As when thy lady and thy true love died,\n" + " Upon whose grave thou vow'dst pure chastity.\n" + " Sir Eglamour, I would to Valentine,\n" + " To Mantua, where I hear he makes abode;\n" + " And, for the ways are dangerous to pass,\n" + " I do desire thy worthy company,\n" + " Upon whose faith and honour I repose.\n" + " Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour,\n" + " But think upon my grief, a lady's grief,\n" + " And on the justice of my flying hence,\n" + " To keep me from a most unholy match,\n" + " Which heaven and fortune still rewards with plagues.\n" + " I do desire thee, even from a heart\n" + " As full of sorrows as the sea of sands,\n" + " To bear me company and go with me:\n" + " If not, to hide what I have said to thee,\n" + " That I may venture to depart alone.\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR Madam, I pity much your grievances;\n" + " Which since I know they virtuously are placed,\n" + " I give consent to go along with you,\n" + " Recking as little what betideth me\n" + " As much I wish all good befortune you.\n" + " When will you go?\n\n" + "SILVIA This evening coming.\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR Where shall I meet you?\n\n" + "SILVIA At Friar Patrick's cell,\n" + " Where I intend holy confession.\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR I will not fail your ladyship. Good morrow, gentle lady.\n\n" + "SILVIA Good morrow, kind Sir Eglamour.\n\n" + " [Exeunt severally]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The same.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LAUNCE, with his his Dog]\n\n" + "LAUNCE When a man's servant shall play the cur with him,\n" + " look you, it goes hard: one that I brought up of a\n" + " puppy; one that I saved from drowning, when three or\n" + " four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it.\n" + " I have taught him, even as one would say precisely,\n" + " 'thus I would teach a dog.' I was sent to deliver\n" + " him as a present to Mistress Silvia from my master;\n" + " and I came no sooner into the dining-chamber but he\n" + " steps me to her trencher and steals her capon's leg:\n" + " O, 'tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself\n" + " in all companies! I would have, as one should say,\n" + " one that takes upon him to be a dog indeed, to be,\n" + " as it were, a dog at all things. If I had not had\n" + " more wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he did,\n" + " I think verily he had been hanged for't; sure as I\n" + " live, he had suffered for't; you shall judge. He\n" + " thrusts me himself into the company of three or four\n" + " gentlemanlike dogs under the duke's table: he had\n" + " not been there--bless the mark!--a pissing while, but\n" + " all the chamber smelt him. 'Out with the dog!' says\n" + " one: 'What cur is that?' says another: 'Whip him\n" + " out' says the third: 'Hang him up' says the duke.\n" + " I, having been acquainted with the smell before,\n" + " knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that\n" + " whips the dogs: 'Friend,' quoth I, 'you mean to whip\n" + " the dog?' 'Ay, marry, do I,' quoth he. 'You do him\n" + " the more wrong,' quoth I; ''twas I did the thing you\n" + " wot of.' He makes me no more ado, but whips me out\n" + " of the chamber. How many masters would do this for\n" + " his servant? Nay, I'll be sworn, I have sat in the\n" + " stocks for puddings he hath stolen, otherwise he had\n" + " been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geese\n" + " he hath killed, otherwise he had suffered for't.\n" + " Thou thinkest not of this now. Nay, I remember the\n" + " trick you served me when I took my leave of Madam\n" + " Silvia: did not I bid thee still mark me and do as I\n" + " do? when didst thou see me heave up my leg and make\n" + " water against a gentlewoman's farthingale? didst\n" + " thou ever see me do such a trick?\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS and JULIA]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Sebastian is thy name? I like thee well\n" + " And will employ thee in some service presently.\n\n" + "JULIA In what you please: I'll do what I can.\n\n" + "PROTEUS I hope thou wilt.\n\n" + " [To LAUNCE]\n\n" + " How now, you whoreson peasant!\n" + " Where have you been these two days loitering?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Marry, sir, I carried Mistress Silvia the dog you bade me.\n\n" + "PROTEUS And what says she to my little jewel?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Marry, she says your dog was a cur, and tells you\n" + " currish thanks is good enough for such a present.\n\n" + "PROTEUS But she received my dog?\n\n" + "LAUNCE No, indeed, did she not: here have I brought him\n" + " back again.\n\n" + "PROTEUS What, didst thou offer her this from me?\n\n" + "LAUNCE Ay, sir: the other squirrel was stolen from me by\n" + " the hangman boys in the market-place: and then I\n" + " offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of\n" + " yours, and therefore the gift the greater.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Go get thee hence, and find my dog again,\n" + " Or ne'er return again into my sight.\n" + " Away, I say! stay'st thou to vex me here?\n\n" + " [Exit LAUNCE]\n\n" + " A slave, that still an end turns me to shame!\n" + " Sebastian, I have entertained thee,\n" + " Partly that I have need of such a youth\n" + " That can with some discretion do my business,\n" + " For 'tis no trusting to yond foolish lout,\n" + " But chiefly for thy face and thy behavior,\n" + " Which, if my augury deceive me not,\n" + " Witness good bringing up, fortune and truth:\n" + " Therefore know thou, for this I entertain thee.\n" + " Go presently and take this ring with thee,\n" + " Deliver it to Madam Silvia:\n" + " She loved me well deliver'd it to me.\n\n" + "JULIA It seems you loved not her, to leave her token.\n" + " She is dead, belike?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Not so; I think she lives.\n\n" + "JULIA Alas!\n\n" + "PROTEUS Why dost thou cry 'alas'?\n\n" + "JULIA I cannot choose\n" + " But pity her.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Wherefore shouldst thou pity her?\n\n" + "JULIA Because methinks that she loved you as well\n" + " As you do love your lady Silvia:\n" + " She dreams of him that has forgot her love;\n" + " You dote on her that cares not for your love.\n" + " 'Tis pity love should be so contrary;\n" + " And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!'\n\n" + "PROTEUS Well, give her that ring and therewithal\n" + " This letter. That's her chamber. Tell my lady\n" + " I claim the promise for her heavenly picture.\n" + " Your message done, hie home unto my chamber,\n" + " Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIA How many women would do such a message?\n" + " Alas, poor Proteus! thou hast entertain'd\n" + " A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs.\n" + " Alas, poor fool! why do I pity him\n" + " That with his very heart despiseth me?\n" + " Because he loves her, he despiseth me;\n" + " Because I love him I must pity him.\n" + " This ring I gave him when he parted from me,\n" + " To bind him to remember my good will;\n" + " And now am I, unhappy messenger,\n" + " To plead for that which I would not obtain,\n" + " To carry that which I would have refused,\n" + " To praise his faith which I would have dispraised.\n" + " I am my master's true-confirmed love;\n" + " But cannot be true servant to my master,\n" + " Unless I prove false traitor to myself.\n" + " Yet will I woo for him, but yet so coldly\n" + " As, heaven it knows, I would not have him speed.\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIA, attended]\n\n" + " Gentlewoman, good day! I pray you, be my mean\n" + " To bring me where to speak with Madam Silvia.\n\n" + "SILVIA What would you with her, if that I be she?\n\n" + "JULIA If you be she, I do entreat your patience\n" + " To hear me speak the message I am sent on.\n\n" + "SILVIA From whom?\n\n" + "JULIA From my master, Sir Proteus, madam.\n\n" + "SILVIA O, he sends you for a picture.\n\n" + "JULIA Ay, madam.\n\n" + "SILVIA Ursula, bring my picture here.\n" + " Go give your master this: tell him from me,\n" + " One Julia, that his changing thoughts forget,\n" + " Would better fit his chamber than this shadow.\n\n" + "JULIA Madam, please you peruse this letter.--\n" + " Pardon me, madam; I have unadvised\n" + " Deliver'd you a paper that I should not:\n" + " This is the letter to your ladyship.\n\n" + "SILVIA I pray thee, let me look on that again.\n\n" + "JULIA It may not be; good madam, pardon me.\n\n" + "SILVIA There, hold!\n" + " I will not look upon your master's lines:\n" + " I know they are stuff'd with protestations\n" + " And full of new-found oaths; which he will break\n" + " As easily as I do tear his paper.\n\n" + "JULIA Madam, he sends your ladyship this ring.\n\n" + "SILVIA The more shame for him that he sends it me;\n" + " For I have heard him say a thousand times\n" + " His Julia gave it him at his departure.\n" + " Though his false finger have profaned the ring,\n" + " Mine shall not do his Julia so much wrong.\n\n" + "JULIA She thanks you.\n\n" + "SILVIA What say'st thou?\n\n" + "JULIA I thank you, madam, that you tender her.\n" + " Poor gentlewoman! my master wrongs her much.\n\n" + "SILVIA Dost thou know her?\n\n" + "JULIA Almost as well as I do know myself:\n" + " To think upon her woes I do protest\n" + " That I have wept a hundred several times.\n\n" + "SILVIA Belike she thinks that Proteus hath forsook her.\n\n" + "JULIA I think she doth; and that's her cause of sorrow.\n\n" + "SILVIA Is she not passing fair?\n\n" + "JULIA She hath been fairer, madam, than she is:\n" + " When she did think my master loved her well,\n" + " She, in my judgment, was as fair as you:\n" + " But since she did neglect her looking-glass\n" + " And threw her sun-expelling mask away,\n" + " The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks\n" + " And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face,\n" + " That now she is become as black as I.\n\n" + "SILVIA How tall was she?\n\n" + "JULIA About my stature; for at Pentecost,\n" + " When all our pageants of delight were play'd,\n" + " Our youth got me to play the woman's part,\n" + " And I was trimm'd in Madam Julia's gown,\n" + " Which served me as fit, by all men's judgments,\n" + " As if the garment had been made for me:\n" + " Therefore I know she is about my height.\n" + " And at that time I made her weep agood,\n" + " For I did play a lamentable part:\n" + " Madam, 'twas Ariadne passioning\n" + " For Theseus' perjury and unjust flight;\n" + " Which I so lively acted with my tears\n" + " That my poor mistress, moved therewithal,\n" + " Wept bitterly; and would I might be dead\n" + " If I in thought felt not her very sorrow!\n\n" + "SILVIA She is beholding to thee, gentle youth.\n" + " Alas, poor lady, desolate and left!\n" + " I weep myself to think upon thy words.\n" + " Here, youth, there is my purse; I give thee this\n" + " For thy sweet mistress' sake, because thou lovest her.\n" + " Farewell.\n\n" + " [Exit SILVIA, with attendants]\n\n" + "JULIA And she shall thank you for't, if e'er you know her.\n" + " A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful\n" + " I hope my master's suit will be but cold,\n" + " Since she respects my mistress' love so much.\n" + " Alas, how love can trifle with itself!\n" + " Here is her picture: let me see; I think,\n" + " If I had such a tire, this face of mine\n" + " Were full as lovely as is this of hers:\n" + " And yet the painter flatter'd her a little,\n" + " Unless I flatter with myself too much.\n" + " Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow:\n" + " If that be all the difference in his love,\n" + " I'll get me such a colour'd periwig.\n" + " Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine:\n" + " Ay, but her forehead's low, and mine's as high.\n" + " What should it be that he respects in her\n" + " But I can make respective in myself,\n" + " If this fond Love were not a blinded god?\n" + " Come, shadow, come and take this shadow up,\n" + " For 'tis thy rival. O thou senseless form,\n" + " Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, loved and adored!\n" + " And, were there sense in his idolatry,\n" + " My substance should be statue in thy stead.\n" + " I'll use thee kindly for thy mistress' sake,\n" + " That used me so; or else, by Jove I vow,\n" + " I should have scratch'd out your unseeing eyes\n" + " To make my master out of love with thee!\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Milan. An abbey.\n\n\n" + " [Enter EGLAMOUR]\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR The sun begins to gild the western sky;\n" + " And now it is about the very hour\n" + " That Silvia, at Friar Patrick's cell, should meet me.\n" + " She will not fail, for lovers break not hours,\n" + " Unless it be to come before their time;\n" + " So much they spur their expedition.\n" + " See where she comes.\n\n" + " [Enter SILVIA]\n\n" + " Lady, a happy evening!\n\n" + "SILVIA Amen, amen! Go on, good Eglamour,\n" + " Out at the postern by the abbey-wall:\n" + " I fear I am attended by some spies.\n\n" + "EGLAMOUR Fear not: the forest is not three leagues off;\n" + " If we recover that, we are sure enough.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II The same. The DUKE's palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter THURIO, PROTEUS, and JULIA]\n\n" + "THURIO Sir Proteus, what says Silvia to my suit?\n\n" + "PROTEUS O, sir, I find her milder than she was;\n" + " And yet she takes exceptions at your person.\n\n" + "THURIO What, that my leg is too long?\n\n" + "PROTEUS No; that it is too little.\n\n" + "THURIO I'll wear a boot, to make it somewhat rounder.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] But love will not be spurr'd to what\n" + " it loathes.\n\n" + "THURIO What says she to my face?\n\n" + "PROTEUS She says it is a fair one.\n\n" + "THURIO Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black.\n\n" + "PROTEUS But pearls are fair; and the old saying is,\n" + " Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] 'Tis true; such pearls as put out\n" + " ladies' eyes;\n" + " For I had rather wink than look on them.\n\n" + "THURIO How likes she my discourse?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Ill, when you talk of war.\n\n" + "THURIO But well, when I discourse of love and peace?\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.\n\n" + "THURIO What says she to my valour?\n\n" + "PROTEUS O, sir, she makes no doubt of that.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] She needs not, when she knows it cowardice.\n\n" + "THURIO What says she to my birth?\n\n" + "PROTEUS That you are well derived.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] True; from a gentleman to a fool.\n\n" + "THURIO Considers she my possessions?\n\n" + "PROTEUS O, ay; and pities them.\n\n" + "THURIO Wherefore?\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] That such an ass should owe them.\n\n" + "PROTEUS That they are out by lease.\n\n" + "JULIA Here comes the duke.\n\n" + " [Enter DUKE]\n\n" + "DUKE How now, Sir Proteus! how now, Thurio!\n" + " Which of you saw Sir Eglamour of late?\n\n" + "THURIO Not I.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Nor I.\n\n" + "DUKE Saw you my daughter?\n\n" + "PROTEUS Neither.\n\n" + "DUKE Why then,\n" + " She's fled unto that peasant Valentine;\n" + " And Eglamour is in her company.\n" + " 'Tis true; for Friar Laurence met them both,\n" + " As he in penance wander'd through the forest;\n" + " Him he knew well, and guess'd that it was she,\n" + " But, being mask'd, he was not sure of it;\n" + " Besides, she did intend confession\n" + " At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not;\n" + " These likelihoods confirm her flight from hence.\n" + " Therefore, I pray you, stand not to discourse,\n" + " But mount you presently and meet with me\n" + " Upon the rising of the mountain-foot\n" + " That leads towards Mantua, whither they are fled:\n" + " Dispatch, sweet gentlemen, and follow me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "THURIO Why, this it is to be a peevish girl,\n" + " That flies her fortune when it follows her.\n" + " I'll after, more to be revenged on Eglamour\n" + " Than for the love of reckless Silvia.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PROTEUS And I will follow, more for Silvia's love\n" + " Than hate of Eglamour that goes with her.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "JULIA And I will follow, more to cross that love\n" + " Than hate for Silvia that is gone for love.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III The frontiers of Mantua. The forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter Outlaws with SILVIA]\n\n" + "First Outlaw Come, come,\n" + " Be patient; we must bring you to our captain.\n\n" + "SILVIA A thousand more mischances than this one\n" + " Have learn'd me how to brook this patiently.\n\n" + "Second Outlaw Come, bring her away.\n\n" + "First Outlaw Where is the gentleman that was with her?\n\n" + "Third Outlaw Being nimble-footed, he hath outrun us,\n" + " But Moyses and Valerius follow him.\n" + " Go thou with her to the west end of the wood;\n" + " There is our captain: we'll follow him that's fled;\n" + " The thicket is beset; he cannot 'scape.\n\n" + "First Outlaw Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave:\n" + " Fear not; he bears an honourable mind,\n" + " And will not use a woman lawlessly.\n\n" + "SILVIA O Valentine, this I endure for thee!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV Another part of the forest.\n\n\n" + " [Enter VALENTINE]\n\n" + "VALENTINE How use doth breed a habit in a man!\n" + " This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,\n" + " I better brook than flourishing peopled towns:\n" + " Here can I sit alone, unseen of any,\n" + " And to the nightingale's complaining notes\n" + " Tune my distresses and record my woes.\n" + " O thou that dost inhabit in my breast,\n" + " Leave not the mansion so long tenantless,\n" + " Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall\n" + " And leave no memory of what it was!\n" + " Repair me with thy presence, Silvia;\n" + " Thou gentle nymph, cherish thy forlorn swain!\n" + " What halloing and what stir is this to-day?\n" + " These are my mates, that make their wills their law,\n" + " Have some unhappy passenger in chase.\n" + " They love me well; yet I have much to do\n" + " To keep them from uncivil outrages.\n" + " Withdraw thee, Valentine: who's this comes here?\n\n" + " [Enter PROTEUS, SILVIA, and JULIA]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Madam, this service I have done for you,\n" + " Though you respect not aught your servant doth,\n" + " To hazard life and rescue you from him\n" + " That would have forced your honour and your love;\n" + " Vouchsafe me, for my meed, but one fair look;\n" + " A smaller boon than this I cannot beg\n" + " And less than this, I am sure, you cannot give.\n\n" + "VALENTINE [Aside] How like a dream is this I see and hear!\n" + " Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile.\n\n" + "SILVIA O miserable, unhappy that I am!\n\n" + "PROTEUS Unhappy were you, madam, ere I came;\n" + " But by my coming I have made you happy.\n\n" + "SILVIA By thy approach thou makest me most unhappy.\n\n" + "JULIA [Aside] And me, when he approacheth to your presence.\n\n" + "SILVIA Had I been seized by a hungry lion,\n" + " I would have been a breakfast to the beast,\n" + " Rather than have false Proteus rescue me.\n" + " O, Heaven be judge how I love Valentine,\n" + " Whose life's as tender to me as my soul!\n" + " And full as much, for more there cannot be,\n" + " I do detest false perjured Proteus.\n" + " Therefore be gone; solicit me no more.\n\n" + "PROTEUS What dangerous action, stood it next to death,\n" + " Would I not undergo for one calm look!\n" + " O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approved,\n" + " When women cannot love where they're beloved!\n\n" + "SILVIA When Proteus cannot love where he's beloved.\n" + " Read over Julia's heart, thy first best love,\n" + " For whose dear sake thou didst then rend thy faith\n" + " Into a thousand oaths; and all those oaths\n" + " Descended into perjury, to love me.\n" + " Thou hast no faith left now, unless thou'dst two;\n" + " And that's far worse than none; better have none\n" + " Than plural faith which is too much by one:\n" + " Thou counterfeit to thy true friend!\n\n" + "PROTEUS In love\n" + " Who respects friend?\n\n" + "SILVIA All men but Proteus.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Nay, if the gentle spirit of moving words\n" + " Can no way change you to a milder form,\n" + " I'll woo you like a soldier, at arms' end,\n" + " And love you 'gainst the nature of love,--force ye.\n\n" + "SILVIA O heaven!\n\n" + "PROTEUS I'll force thee yield to my desire.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil touch,\n" + " Thou friend of an ill fashion!\n\n" + "PROTEUS Valentine!\n\n" + "VALENTINE Thou common friend, that's without faith or love,\n" + " For such is a friend now; treacherous man!\n" + " Thou hast beguiled my hopes; nought but mine eye\n" + " Could have persuaded me: now I dare not say\n" + " I have one friend alive; thou wouldst disprove me.\n" + " Who should be trusted, when one's own right hand\n" + " Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus,\n" + " I am sorry I must never trust thee more,\n" + " But count the world a stranger for thy sake.\n" + " The private wound is deepest: O time most accurst,\n" + " 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!\n\n" + "PROTEUS My shame and guilt confounds me.\n" + " Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow\n" + " Be a sufficient ransom for offence,\n" + " I tender 't here; I do as truly suffer\n" + " As e'er I did commit.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Then I am paid;\n" + " And once again I do receive thee honest.\n" + " Who by repentance is not satisfied\n" + " Is nor of heaven nor earth, for these are pleased.\n" + " By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased:\n" + " And, that my love may appear plain and free,\n" + " All that was mine in Silvia I give thee.\n\n" + "JULIA O me unhappy!\n\n" + " [Swoons]\n\n" + "PROTEUS Look to the boy.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Why, boy! why, wag! how now! what's the matter?\n" + " Look up; speak.\n\n" + "JULIA O good sir, my master charged me to deliver a ring\n" + " to Madam Silvia, which, out of my neglect, was never done.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Where is that ring, boy?\n\n" + "JULIA Here 'tis; this is it.\n\n" + "PROTEUS How! let me see:\n" + " Why, this is the ring I gave to Julia.\n\n" + "JULIA O, cry you mercy, sir, I have mistook:\n" + " This is the ring you sent to Silvia.\n\n" + "PROTEUS But how camest thou by this ring? At my depart\n" + " I gave this unto Julia.\n\n" + "JULIA And Julia herself did give it me;\n" + " And Julia herself hath brought it hither.\n\n" + "PROTEUS How! Julia!\n\n" + "JULIA Behold her that gave aim to all thy oaths,\n" + " And entertain'd 'em deeply in her heart.\n" + " How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root!\n" + " O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush!\n" + " Be thou ashamed that I have took upon me\n" + " Such an immodest raiment, if shame live\n" + " In a disguise of love:\n" + " It is the lesser blot, modesty finds,\n" + " Women to change their shapes than men their minds.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Than men their minds! 'tis true.\n" + " O heaven! were man\n" + " But constant, he were perfect. That one error\n" + " Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins:\n" + " Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.\n" + " What is in Silvia's face, but I may spy\n" + " More fresh in Julia's with a constant eye?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Come, come, a hand from either:\n" + " Let me be blest to make this happy close;\n" + " 'Twere pity two such friends should be long foes.\n\n" + "PROTEUS Bear witness, Heaven, I have my wish for ever.\n\n" + "JULIA And I mine.\n\n" + " [Enter Outlaws, with DUKE and THURIO]\n\n" + "Outlaws A prize, a prize, a prize!\n\n" + "VALENTINE Forbear, forbear, I say! it is my lord the duke.\n" + " Your grace is welcome to a man disgraced,\n" + " Banished Valentine.\n\n" + "DUKE Sir Valentine!\n\n" + "THURIO Yonder is Silvia; and Silvia's mine.\n\n" + "VALENTINE Thurio, give back, or else embrace thy death;\n" + " Come not within the measure of my wrath;\n" + " Do not name Silvia thine; if once again,\n" + " Verona shall not hold thee. Here she stands;\n" + " Take but possession of her with a touch:\n" + " I dare thee but to breathe upon my love.\n\n" + "THURIO Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I;\n" + " I hold him but a fool that will endanger\n" + " His body for a girl that loves him not:\n" + " I claim her not, and therefore she is thine.\n\n" + "DUKE The more degenerate and base art thou,\n" + " To make such means for her as thou hast done\n" + " And leave her on such slight conditions.\n" + " Now, by the honour of my ancestry,\n" + " I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,\n" + " And think thee worthy of an empress' love:\n" + " Know then, I here forget all former griefs,\n" + " Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again,\n" + " Plead a new state in thy unrivall'd merit,\n" + " To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine,\n" + " Thou art a gentleman and well derived;\n" + " Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserved her.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I thank your grace; the gift hath made me happy.\n" + " I now beseech you, for your daughter's sake,\n" + " To grant one boom that I shall ask of you.\n\n" + "DUKE I grant it, for thine own, whate'er it be.\n\n" + "VALENTINE These banish'd men that I have kept withal\n" + " Are men endued with worthy qualities:\n" + " Forgive them what they have committed here\n" + " And let them be recall'd from their exile:\n" + " They are reformed, civil, full of good\n" + " And fit for great employment, worthy lord.\n\n" + "DUKE Thou hast prevail'd; I pardon them and thee:\n" + " Dispose of them as thou know'st their deserts.\n" + " Come, let us go: we will include all jars\n" + " With triumphs, mirth and rare solemnity.\n\n" + "VALENTINE And, as we walk along, I dare be bold\n" + " With our discourse to make your grace to smile.\n" + " What think you of this page, my lord?\n\n" + "DUKE I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes.\n\n" + "VALENTINE I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.\n\n" + "DUKE What mean you by that saying?\n\n" + "VALENTINE Please you, I'll tell you as we pass along,\n" + " That you will wonder what hath fortuned.\n" + " Come, Proteus; 'tis your penance but to hear\n" + " The story of your loves discovered:\n" + " That done, our day of marriage shall be yours;\n" + " One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n" + " THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM\n\n\n\n" + "I.\n\n" + "WHEN my love swears that she is made of truth,\n" + "I do believe her, though I know she lies,\n" + "That she might think me some untutor'd youth,\n" + "Unskilful in the world's false forgeries.\n" + "Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,\n" + "Although I know my years be past the best,\n" + "I smiling credit her false-speaking tongue,\n" + "Outfacing faults in love with love's ill rest.\n" + "But wherefore says my love that she is young?\n" + "And wherefore say not I that I am old?\n" + "O, love's best habit is a soothing tongue,\n" + "And age, in love, loves not to have years told.\n" + "Therefore I'll lie with love, and love with me,\n" + "Since that our faults in love thus smother'd be.\n\n\n" + "II.\n\n" + "Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,\n" + "That like two spirits do suggest me still;\n" + "My better angel is a man right fair,\n" + "My worser spirit a woman colour'd ill.\n" + "To win me soon to hell, my female evil\n" + "Tempteth my better angel from my side,\n" + "And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,\n" + "Wooing his purity with her fair pride.\n" + "And whether that my angel be turn'd fiend,\n" + "Suspect I may, yet not directly tell:\n" + "For being both to me, both to each friend,\n" + "I guess one angel in another's hell;\n" + "The truth I shall not know, but live in doubt,\n" + "Till my bad angel fire my good one out.\n\n\n" + "III.\n\n" + "Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye,\n" + "'Gainst whom the world could not hold argument,\n" + "Persuade my heart to this false perjury?\n" + "Vows for thee broke deserve not punishment.\n" + "A woman I forswore; but I will prove,\n" + "Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee:\n" + "My vow was earthly, thou a heavenly love;\n" + "Thy grace being gain'd cures all disgrace in me.\n" + "My vow was breath, and breath a vapour is;\n" + "Then, thou fair sun, that on this earth doth shine,\n" + "Exhale this vapour vow; in thee it is:\n" + "If broken, then it is no fault of mine.\n" + "If by me broke, what fool is not so wise\n" + "To break an oath, to win a paradise?\n\n\n" + "IV.\n\n" + "Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook\n" + "With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green,\n" + "Did court the lad with many a lovely look,\n" + "Such looks as none could look but beauty's queen.\n" + "She told him stories to delight his ear;\n" + "She showed him favors to allure his eye;\n" + "To win his heart, she touch'd him here and there,--\n" + "Touches so soft still conquer chastity.\n" + "But whether unripe years did want conceit,\n" + "Or he refused to take her figured proffer,\n" + "The tender nibbler would not touch the bait,\n" + "But smile and jest at every gentle offer:\n" + "Then fell she on her back, fair queen, and toward:\n" + "He rose and ran away; ah, fool too froward!\n\n\n" + "V.\n\n" + "If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love?\n" + "O never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd:\n" + "Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll constant prove;\n" + "Those thoughts, to me like oaks, to thee like osiers bow'd.\n" + "Study his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes,\n" + "Where all those pleasures live that art can comprehend.\n" + "If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice;\n" + "Well learned is that tongue that well can thee commend;\n" + "All ignorant that soul that sees thee without wonder;\n" + "Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire:\n" + "Thine eye Jove's lightning seems, thy voice his dreadful\n" + "thunder,\n" + "Which, not to anger bent, is music and sweet fire.\n" + "Celestial as thou art, O do not love that wrong,\n" + "To sing heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue.\n\n\n" + "VI.\n\n" + "Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn,\n" + "And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade,\n" + "When Cytherea, all in love forlorn,\n" + "A longing tarriance for Adonis made\n" + "Under an osier growing by a brook,\n" + "A brook where Adon used to cool his spleen:\n" + "Hot was the day; she hotter that did look\n" + "For his approach, that often there had been.\n" + "Anon he comes, and throws his mantle by,\n" + "And stood stark naked on the brook's green brim:\n" + "The sun look'd on the world with glorious eye,\n" + "Yet not so wistly as this queen on him.\n" + "He, spying her, bounced in, whereas he stood:\n" + "'O Jove,' quoth she, 'why was not I a flood!'\n\n\n" + "VII.\n\n" + "Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle;\n" + "Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty;\n" + "Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle;\n" + "Softer than wax, and yet, as iron, rusty:\n" + "A lily pale, with damask dye to grace her,\n" + "None fairer, nor none falser to deface her.\n\n" + "Her lips to mine how often hath she joined,\n" + "Between each kiss her oaths of true love swearing!\n" + "How many tales to please me hath she coined,\n" + "Dreading my love, the loss thereof still fearing!\n" + "Yet in the midst of all her pure protestings,\n" + "Her faith, her oaths, her tears, and all were jestings.\n\n" + "She burn'd with love, as straw with fire flameth;\n" + "She burn'd out love, as soon as straw outburneth;\n" + "She framed the love, and yet she foil'd the framing;\n" + "She bade love last, and yet she fell a-turning.\n" + "Was this a lover, or a lecher whether?\n" + "Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.\n\n\n" + "VIII.\n\n" + "If music and sweet poetry agree,\n" + "As they must needs, the sister and the brother,\n" + "Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me,\n" + "Because thou lovest the one, and I the other.\n" + "Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch\n" + "Upon the lute doth ravish human sense;\n" + "Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such\n" + "As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.\n" + "Thou lovest to hear the sweet melodious sound\n" + "That Phoebus' lute, the queen of music, makes;\n" + "And I in deep delight am chiefly drown'd\n" + "When as himself to singing he betakes.\n" + "One god is god of both, as poets feign;\n" + "One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.\n\n\n" + "IX.\n\n" + "Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love,\n" + "[ ]\n" + "Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove,\n" + "For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and wild;\n" + "Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill:\n" + "Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds;\n" + "She, silly queen, with more than love's good will,\n" + "Forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds:\n" + "'Once,' quoth she, 'did I see a fair sweet youth\n" + "Here in these brakes deep-wounded with a boar,\n" + "Deep in the thigh, a spectacle of ruth!\n" + "See, in my thigh,' quoth she, 'here was the sore.'\n" + "She showed hers: he saw more wounds than one,\n" + "And blushing fled, and left her all alone.\n\n\n" + "X.\n\n" + "Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded,\n" + "Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring!\n" + "Bright orient pearl, alack, too timely shaded!\n" + "Fair creature, kill'd too soon by death's sharp sting!\n" + "Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree,\n" + "And falls, through wind, before the fall should be.\n\n" + "I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have;\n" + "For why thou left'st me nothing in thy will:\n" + "And yet thou left'st me more than I did crave;\n" + "For why I craved nothing of thee still:\n" + "O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee,\n" + "Thy discontent thou didst bequeath to me.\n\n\n" + "XI.\n\n" + "Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her\n" + "Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him:\n" + "She told the youngling how god Mars did try her,\n" + "And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.\n" + "'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embraced me,'\n" + "And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms;\n" + "'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlaced me,'\n" + "As if the boy should use like loving charms;\n" + "'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips,'\n" + "And with her lips on his did act the seizure:\n" + "And as she fetched breath, away he skips,\n" + "And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.\n" + "Ah, that I had my lady at this bay,\n" + "To kiss and clip me till I run away!\n\n\n" + "XII.\n\n" + "Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:\n" + "Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;\n" + "Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;\n" + "Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.\n" + "Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short;\n" + "Youth is nimble, age is lame;\n" + "Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;\n" + "Youth is wild, and age is tame.\n" + "Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee;\n" + "O, my love, my love is young!\n" + "Age, I do defy thee: O, sweet shepherd, hie thee,\n" + "For methinks thou stay'st too long,\n\n\n" + "XIII.\n\n" + "Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;\n" + "A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;\n" + "A flower that dies when first it gins to bud;\n" + "A brittle glass that's broken presently:\n" + "A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,\n" + "Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour.\n\n" + "And as goods lost are seld or never found,\n" + "As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh,\n" + "As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,\n" + "As broken glass no cement can redress,\n" + "So beauty blemish'd once's for ever lost,\n" + "In spite of physic, painting, pain and cost.\n\n\n" + "XIV.\n\n" + "Good night, good rest. Ah, neither be my share:\n" + "She bade good night that kept my rest away;\n" + "And daff'd me to a cabin hang'd with care,\n" + "To descant on the doubts of my decay.\n" + "'Farewell,' quoth she, 'and come again tomorrow:'\n" + "Fare well I could not, for I supp'd with sorrow.\n\n" + "Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile,\n" + "In scorn or friendship, nill I construe whether:\n" + "'T may be, she joy'd to jest at my exile,\n" + "'T may be, again to make me wander thither:\n" + "'Wander,' a word for shadows like myself,\n" + "As take the pain, but cannot pluck the pelf.\n\n\n" + "XV.\n\n" + "Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east!\n" + "My heart doth charge the watch; the morning rise\n" + "Doth cite each moving sense from idle rest.\n" + "Not daring trust the office of mine eyes,\n" + "While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark,\n" + "And wish her lays were tuned like the lark;\n\n" + "For she doth welcome daylight with her ditty,\n" + "And drives away dark dismal-dreaming night:\n" + "The night so pack'd, I post unto my pretty;\n" + "Heart hath his hope, and eyes their wished sight;\n" + "Sorrow changed to solace, solace mix'd with sorrow;\n" + "For why, she sigh'd and bade me come tomorrow.\n\n" + "Were I with her, the night would post too soon;\n" + "But now are minutes added to the hours;\n" + "To spite me now, each minute seems a moon;\n" + "Yet not for me, shine sun to succor flowers!\n" + "Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow:\n" + "Short, night, to-night, and length thyself tomorrow.\n\n\n\n" + " SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC\n\n\n" + "XVI.\n\n" + "IT was a lording's daughter, the fairest one of three,\n" + "That liked of her master as well as well might be,\n" + "Till looking on an Englishman, the fair'st that eye could see,\n" + "Her fancy fell a-turning.\n\n" + "Long was the combat doubtful that love with love did fight,\n" + "To leave the master loveless, or kill the gallant knight:\n" + "To put in practise either, alas, it was a spite\n" + "Unto the silly damsel!\n\n" + "But one must be refused; more mickle was the pain\n" + "That nothing could be used to turn them both to gain,\n" + "For of the two the trusty knight was wounded with disdain:\n" + "Alas, she could not help it!\n\n" + "Thus art with arms contending was victor of the day,\n" + "Which by a gift of learning did bear the maid away:\n" + "Then, lullaby, the learned man hath got the lady gay;\n" + "For now my song is ended.\n\n\n" + "XVII.\n\n" + "On a day, alack the day!\n" + "Love, whose month was ever May,\n" + "Spied a blossom passing fair,\n" + "Playing in the wanton air:\n" + "Through the velvet leaves the wind\n" + "All unseen, gan passage find;\n" + "That the lover, sick to death,\n" + "Wish'd himself the heaven's breath,\n" + "'Air,' quoth he, 'thy cheeks may blow;\n" + "Air, would I might triumph so!\n" + "But, alas! my hand hath sworn\n" + "Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn:\n" + "Vow, alack! for youth unmeet:\n" + "Youth, so apt to pluck a sweet.\n" + "Thou for whom Jove would swear\n" + "Juno but an Ethiope were;\n" + "And deny himself for Jove,\n" + "Turning mortal for thy love.'\n\n\n" + "XVIII.\n\n" + "My flocks feed not,\n" + "My ewes breed not,\n" + "My rams speed not,\n" + "All is amiss:\n" + "Love's denying,\n" + "Faith's defying,\n" + "Heart's renying,\n" + "Causer of this.\n" + "All my merry jigs are quite forgot,\n" + "All my lady's love is lost, God wot:\n" + "Where her faith was firmly fix'd in love,\n" + "There a nay is placed without remove.\n" + "One silly cross\n" + "Wrought all my loss;\n" + "O frowning Fortune, cursed, fickle dame!\n" + "For now I see\n" + "Inconstancy\n" + "More in women than in men remain.\n" + "In black mourn I,\n" + "All fears scorn I,\n" + "Love hath forlorn me,\n" + "Living in thrall:\n" + "Heart is bleeding,\n" + "All help needing,\n" + "O cruel speeding,\n" + "Fraughted with gall.\n" + "My shepherd's pipe can sound no deal;\n" + "My wether's bell rings doleful knell;\n" + "My curtail dog, that wont to have play'd\n" + "Plays not at all, but seems afraid;\n" + "My sighs so deep\n" + "Procure to weep,\n" + "In howling wise, to see my doleful plight.\n" + "How sighs resound\n" + "Through heartless ground,\n" + "Like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight!\n" + "Clear wells spring not,\n" + "Sweet birds sing not,\n" + "Green plants bring not\n" + "Forth their dye;\n" + "Herds stand weeping,\n" + "Flocks all sleeping,\n" + "Nymphs back peeping\n" + "Fearfully:\n" + "All our pleasure known to us poor swains,\n" + "All our merry meetings on the plains,\n" + "All our evening sport from us is fled,\n" + "All our love is lost, for Love is dead\n" + "Farewell, sweet lass,\n" + "Thy like ne'er was\n" + "For a sweet content, the cause of all my moan:\n" + "Poor Corydon\n" + "Must live alone;\n" + "Other help for him I see that there is none.\n\n\n" + "XIX.\n\n" + "When as thine eye hath chose the dame,\n" + "And stall'd the deer that thou shouldst strike,\n" + "Let reason rule things worthy blame,\n" + "As well as fancy partial might:\n" + "Take counsel of some wiser head,\n" + "Neither too young nor yet unwed.\n\n" + "And when thou comest thy tale to tell,\n" + "Smooth not thy tongue with filed talk,\n" + "Lest she some subtle practise smell,--\n" + "A cripple soon can find a halt;--\n" + "But plainly say thou lovest her well,\n\n" + "And set thy person forth to sell.\n" + "What though her frowning brows be bent,\n" + "Her cloudy looks will calm ere night:\n" + "And then too late she will repent\n" + "That thus dissembled her delight;\n" + "And twice desire, ere it be day,\n" + "That which with scorn she put away.\n\n" + "What though she strive to try her strength,\n" + "And ban and brawl, and say thee nay,\n" + "Her feeble force will yield at length,\n" + "When craft hath taught her thus to say,\n" + "'Had women been so strong as men,\n" + "In faith, you had not had it then.'\n\n" + "And to her will frame all thy ways;\n" + "Spare not to spend, and chiefly there\n" + "Where thy desert may merit praise,\n" + "By ringing in thy lady's ear:\n" + "The strongest castle, tower, and town,\n" + "The golden bullet beats it down.\n\n" + "Serve always with assured trust,\n" + "And in thy suit be humble true;\n" + "Unless thy lady prove unjust,\n" + "Press never thou to choose anew:\n" + "When time shall serve, be thou not slack\n" + "To proffer, though she put thee back.\n\n" + "The wiles and guiles that women work,\n" + "Dissembled with an outward show,\n" + "The tricks and toys that in them lurk,\n" + "The cock that treads them shall not know.\n" + "Have you not heard it said full oft,\n" + "A woman's nay doth stand for nought?\n\n" + "Think women still to strive with men,\n" + "To sin and never for to saint:\n" + "There is no heaven, by holy then,\n" + "When time with age doth them attaint.\n" + "Were kisses all the joys in bed,\n" + "One woman would another wed.\n\n" + "But, soft! enough, too much, I fear\n" + "Lest that my mistress hear my song,\n" + "She will not stick to round me i' the ear,\n" + "To teach my tongue to be so long:\n" + "Yet will she blush, here be it said,\n" + "To hear her secrets so bewray'd.\n\n\n" + "XX.\n\n" + "Live with me, and be my love,\n" + "And we will all the pleasures prove\n" + "That hills and valleys, dales and fields,\n" + "And all the craggy mountains yields.\n\n" + "There will we sit upon the rocks,\n" + "And see the shepherds feed their flocks,\n" + "By shallow rivers, by whose falls\n" + "Melodious birds sing madrigals.\n\n" + "There will I make thee a bed of roses,\n" + "With a thousand fragrant posies,\n" + "A cap of flowers, and a kirtle\n" + "Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.\n\n" + "A belt of straw and ivy buds,\n" + "With coral clasps and amber studs;\n" + "And if these pleasures may thee move,\n" + "Then live with me and be my love.\n\n\n" + "LOVE'S ANSWER.\n\n" + "If that the world and love were young,\n" + "And truth in every shepherd's tongue,\n" + "These pretty pleasures might me move\n" + "To live with thee and be thy love.\n\n\n" + "XXI.\n\n" + "As it fell upon a day\n" + "In the merry month of May,\n" + "Sitting in a pleasant shade\n" + "Which a grove of myrtles made,\n" + "Beasts did leap, and birds did sing,\n" + "Trees did grow, and plants did spring;\n" + "Every thing did banish moan,\n" + "Save the nightingale alone:\n" + "She, poor bird, as all forlorn,\n" + "Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn\n" + "And there sung the dolefull'st ditty,\n" + "That to hear it was great pity:\n" + "'Fie, fie, fie,' now would she cry;\n" + "'Tereu, tereu!' by and by;\n" + "That to hear her so complain,\n" + "Scarce I could from tears refrain;\n" + "For her griefs, so lively shown,\n" + "Made me think upon mine own.\n" + "Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain!\n" + "None takes pity on thy pain:\n" + "Senseless trees they cannot hear thee;\n" + "Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee:\n" + "King Pandion he is dead;\n" + "All thy friends are lapp'd in lead;\n" + "All thy fellow birds do sing,\n" + "Careless of thy sorrowing.\n" + "Even so, poor bird, like thee,\n" + "None alive will pity me.\n" + "Whilst as fickle Fortune smiled,\n" + "Thou and I were both beguiled.\n" + "Every one that flatters thee\n" + "Is no friend in misery.\n" + "Words are easy, like the wind;\n" + "Faithful friends are hard to find:\n" + "Every man will be thy friend\n" + "Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;\n" + "But if store of crowns be scant,\n" + "No man will supply thy want.\n" + "If that one be prodigal,\n" + "Bountiful they will him call,\n" + "And with such-like flattering,\n" + "'Pity but he were a king;'\n" + "If he be addict to vice,\n" + "Quickly him they will entice;\n" + "If to women he be bent,\n" + "They have at commandement:\n" + "But if Fortune once do frown,\n" + "Then farewell his great renown\n" + "They that fawn'd on him before\n" + "Use his company no more.\n" + "He that is thy friend indeed,\n" + "He will help thee in thy need:\n" + "If thou sorrow, he will weep;\n" + "If thou wake, he cannot sleep;\n" + "Thus of every grief in heart\n" + "He with thee doth bear a part.\n" + "These are certain signs to know\n" + "Faithful friend from flattering foe.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE\n\n\n\n" + " LET the bird of loudest lay,\n" + " On the sole Arabian tree,\n" + " Herald sad and trumpet be,\n" + " To whose sound chaste wings obey.\n\n" + " But thou shrieking harbinger,\n" + " Foul precurrer of the fiend,\n" + " Augur of the fever's end,\n" + " To this troop come thou not near!\n\n" + " From this session interdict\n" + " Every fowl of tyrant wing,\n" + " Save the eagle, feather'd king:\n" + " Keep the obsequy so strict.\n\n" + " Let the priest in surplice white,\n" + " That defunctive music can,\n" + " Be the death-divining swan,\n" + " Lest the requiem lack his right.\n\n" + " And thou treble-dated crow,\n" + " That thy sable gender makest\n" + " With the breath thou givest and takest,\n" + " 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.\n\n" + " Here the anthem doth commence:\n" + " Love and constancy is dead;\n" + " Phoenix and the turtle fled\n" + " In a mutual flame from hence.\n\n" + " So they loved, as love in twain\n" + " Had the essence but in one;\n" + " Two distincts, division none:\n" + " Number there in love was slain.\n\n" + " Hearts remote, yet not asunder;\n" + " Distance, and no space was seen\n" + " 'Twixt the turtle and his queen:\n" + " But in them it were a wonder.\n\n" + " So between them love did shine,\n" + " That the turtle saw his right\n" + " Flaming in the phoenix' sight;\n" + " Either was the other's mine.\n\n" + " Property was thus appalled,\n" + " That the self was not the same;\n" + " Single nature's double name\n" + " Neither two nor one was called.\n\n" + " Reason, in itself confounded,\n" + " Saw division grow together,\n" + " To themselves yet either neither,\n" + " Simple were so well compounded,\n\n" + " That it cried, How true a twain\n" + " Seemeth this concordant one!\n" + " Love hath reason, reason none,\n" + " If what parts can so remain.\n\n" + " Whereupon it made this threne\n" + " To the phoenix and the dove,\n" + " Co-supremes and stars of love,\n" + " As chorus to their tragic scene.\n\n" + " THRENOS.\n\n" + " Beauty, truth, and rarity,\n" + " Grace in all simplicity,\n" + " Here enclosed in cinders lie.\n\n" + " Death is now the phoenix' nest\n" + " And the turtle's loyal breast\n" + " To eternity doth rest,\n\n" + " Leaving no posterity:\n" + " 'Twas not their infirmity,\n" + " It was married chastity.\n\n" + " Truth may seem, but cannot be:\n" + " Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;\n" + " Truth and beauty buried be.\n\n" + " To this urn let those repair\n" + " That are either true or fair\n" + " For these dead birds sigh a prayer.\n" + " VENUS AND ADONIS\n\n\n\n" + "'Vilia miretur vulgus; mihi flavus Apollo\n" + "Pocula Castalia plena ministret aqua.'\n\n" + "TO THE\n" + "RIGHT HONORABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,\n" + "EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, AND BARON OF TICHFIELD.\n" + "RIGHT HONORABLE,\n\n" + "I KNOW not how I shall offend in dedicating my\n" + "unpolished lines to your lordship, nor how the world will\n" + "censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a\n" + "burden only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account\n" + "myself highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle\n" + "hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if\n" + "the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be\n" + "sorry it had so noble a god-father, and never after ear so\n" + "barren a land, for fear it yield me still so bad a harvest.\n" + "I leave it to your honourable survey, and your honour to your\n" + "heart's content; which I wish may always answer your own wish\n" + "and the world's hopeful expectation.\n\n" + "Your honour's in all duty,\n" + "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.\n\n\n\n" + "EVEN as the sun with purple-colour'd face\n" + "Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn,\n" + "Rose-cheek'd Adonis hied him to the chase;\n" + "Hunting he loved, but love he laugh'd to scorn;\n" + "Sick-thoughted Venus makes amain unto him,\n" + "And like a bold-faced suitor 'gins to woo him.\n\n" + "'Thrice-fairer than myself,' thus she began,\n" + "'The field's chief flower, sweet above compare,\n" + "Stain to all nymphs, more lovely than a man,\n" + "More white and red than doves or roses are;\n" + "Nature that made thee, with herself at strife,\n" + "Saith that the world hath ending with thy life.\n\n" + "'Vouchsafe, thou wonder, to alight thy steed,\n" + "And rein his proud head to the saddle-bow;\n" + "If thou wilt deign this favour, for thy meed\n" + "A thousand honey secrets shalt thou know:\n" + "Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses,\n" + "And being set, I'll smother thee with kisses;\n\n" + "'And yet not cloy thy lips with loathed satiety,\n" + "But rather famish them amid their plenty,\n" + "Making them red and pale with fresh variety,\n" + "Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty:\n" + "A summer's day will seem an hour but short,\n" + "Being wasted in such time-beguiling sport.'\n\n" + "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,\n" + "The precedent of pith and livelihood,\n" + "And trembling in her passion, calls it balm,\n" + "Earth's sovereign salve to do a goddess good:\n" + "Being so enraged, desire doth lend her force\n" + "Courageously to pluck him from his horse.\n\n" + "Over one arm the lusty courser's rein,\n" + "Under her other was the tender boy,\n" + "Who blush'd and pouted in a dull disdain,\n" + "With leaden appetite, unapt to toy;\n" + "She red and hot as coals of glowing fire,\n" + "He red for shame, but frosty in desire.\n\n" + "The studded bridle on a ragged bough\n" + "Nimbly she fastens:--O, how quick is love!--\n" + "The steed is stalled up, and even now\n" + "To tie the rider she begins to prove:\n" + "Backward she push'd him, as she would be thrust,\n" + "And govern'd him in strength, though not in lust.\n\n" + "So soon was she along as he was down,\n" + "Each leaning on their elbows and their hips:\n" + "Now doth she stroke his cheek, now doth he frown,\n" + "And 'gins to chide, but soon she stops his lips;\n" + "And kissing speaks, with lustful language broken,\n" + "'If thou wilt chide, thy lips shall never open.'\n\n" + "He burns with bashful shame: she with her tears\n" + "Doth quench the maiden burning of his cheeks;\n" + "Then with her windy sighs and golden hairs\n" + "To fan and blow them dry again she seeks:\n" + "He saith she is immodest, blames her 'miss;\n" + "What follows more she murders with a kiss.\n\n" + "Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast,\n" + "Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and bone,\n" + "Shaking her wings, devouring all in haste,\n" + "Till either gorge be stuff'd or prey be gone;\n" + "Even so she kissed his brow, his cheek, his chin,\n" + "And where she ends she doth anew begin.\n\n" + "Forced to content, but never to obey,\n" + "Panting he lies and breatheth in her face;\n" + "She feedeth on the steam as on a prey,\n" + "And calls it heavenly moisture, air of grace;\n" + "Wishing her cheeks were gardens full of flowers,\n" + "So they were dew'd with such distilling showers.\n\n" + "Look, how a bird lies tangled in a net,\n" + "So fasten'd in her arms Adonis lies;\n" + "Pure shame and awed resistance made him fret,\n" + "Which bred more beauty in his angry eyes:\n" + "Rain added to a river that is rank\n" + "Perforce will force it overflow the bank.\n\n" + "Still she entreats, and prettily entreats,\n" + "For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale;\n" + "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets,\n" + "'Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale:\n" + "Being red, she loves him best; and being white,\n" + "Her best is better'd with a more delight.\n\n" + "Look how he can, she cannot choose but love;\n" + "And by her fair immortal hand she swears,\n" + "From his soft bosom never to remove,\n" + "Till he take truce with her contending tears,\n" + "Which long have rain'd, making her cheeks all wet;\n" + "And one sweet kiss shall pay this countless debt.\n\n" + "Upon this promise did he raise his chin,\n" + "Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave,\n" + "Who, being look'd on, ducks as quickly in;\n" + "So offers he to give what she did crave;\n" + "But when her lips were ready for his pay,\n" + "He winks, and turns his lips another way.\n\n" + "Never did passenger in summer's heat\n" + "More thirst for drink than she for this good turn.\n" + "Her help she sees, but help she cannot get;\n" + "She bathes in water, yet her fire must burn:\n" + "'O, pity,' 'gan she cry, 'flint-hearted boy!\n" + "'Tis but a kiss I beg; why art thou coy?\n\n" + "'I have been woo'd, as I entreat thee now,\n" + "Even by the stern and direful god of war,\n" + "Whose sinewy neck in battle ne'er did bow,\n" + "Who conquers where he comes in every jar;\n" + "Yet hath he been my captive and my slave,\n" + "And begg'd for that which thou unask'd shalt have.\n\n" + "'Over my altars hath he hung his lance,\n" + "His batter'd shield, his uncontrolled crest,\n" + "And for my sake hath learn'd to sport and dance,\n" + "To toy, to wanton, dally, smile and jest,\n" + "Scorning his churlish drum and ensign red,\n" + "Making my arms his field, his tent my bed.\n\n" + "'Thus he that overruled I oversway'd,\n" + "Leading him prisoner in a red-rose chain:\n" + "Strong-tempered steel his stronger strength obey'd,\n" + "Yet was he servile to my coy disdain.\n" + "O, be not proud, nor brag not of thy might,\n" + "For mastering her that foil'd the god of fight!\n\n" + "'Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine,--\n" + "Though mine be not so fair, yet are they red--\n" + "The kiss shall be thine own as well as mine.\n" + "What seest thou in the ground? hold up thy head:\n" + "Look in mine eye-balls, there thy beauty lies;\n" + "Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes?\n" + "'Art thou ashamed to kiss? then wink again,\n" + "And I will wink; so shall the day seem night;\n" + "Love keeps his revels where they are but twain;\n" + "Be bold to play, our sport is not in sight:\n" + "These blue-vein'd violets whereon we lean\n" + "Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.\n\n" + "'The tender spring upon thy tempting lip\n" + "Shows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:\n" + "Make use of time, let not advantage slip;\n" + "Beauty within itself should not be wasted:\n" + "Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime\n" + "Rot and consume themselves in little time.\n\n" + "'Were I hard-favour'd, foul, or wrinkled-old,\n" + "Ill-nurtured, crooked, churlish, harsh in voice,\n" + "O'erworn, despised, rheumatic and cold,\n" + "Thick-sighted, barren, lean and lacking juice,\n" + "Then mightst thou pause, for then I were not for thee\n" + "But having no defects, why dost abhor me?\n\n" + "'Thou canst not see one wrinkle in my brow;\n" + "Mine eyes are gray and bright and quick in turning:\n" + "My beauty as the spring doth yearly grow,\n" + "My flesh is soft and plump, my marrow burning;\n" + "My smooth moist hand, were it with thy hand felt,\n" + "Would in thy palm dissolve, or seem to melt.\n\n" + "'Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,\n" + "Or, like a fairy, trip upon the green,\n" + "Or, like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair,\n" + "Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen:\n" + "Love is a spirit all compact of fire,\n" + "Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire.\n\n" + "'Witness this primrose bank whereon I lie;\n" + "These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me;\n" + "Two strengthless doves will draw me through the sky,\n" + "From morn till night, even where I list to sport me:\n" + "Is love so light, sweet boy, and may it be\n" + "That thou shouldst think it heavy unto thee?\n\n" + "'Is thine own heart to thine own face affected?\n" + "Can thy right hand seize love upon thy left?\n" + "Then woo thyself, be of thyself rejected,\n" + "Steal thine own freedom and complain on theft.\n" + "Narcissus so himself himself forsook,\n" + "And died to kiss his shadow in the brook.\n\n" + "'Torches are made to light, jewels to wear,\n" + "Dainties to taste, fresh beauty for the use,\n" + "Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear:\n" + "Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse:\n" + "Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty;\n" + "Thou wast begot; to get it is thy duty.\n\n" + "'Upon the earth's increase why shouldst thou feed,\n" + "Unless the earth with thy increase be fed?\n" + "By law of nature thou art bound to breed,\n" + "That thine may live when thou thyself art dead;\n" + "And so, in spite of death, thou dost survive,\n" + "In that thy likeness still is left alive.'\n\n" + "By this the love-sick queen began to sweat,\n" + "For where they lay the shadow had forsook them,\n" + "And Titan, tired in the mid-day heat,\n" + "With burning eye did hotly overlook them;\n" + "Wishing Adonis had his team to guide,\n" + "So he were like him and by Venus' side.\n\n" + "And now Adonis, with a lazy spright,\n" + "And with a heavy, dark, disliking eye,\n" + "His louring brows o'erwhelming his fair sight,\n" + "Like misty vapours when they blot the sky,\n" + "Souring his cheeks cries 'Fie, no more of love!\n" + "The sun doth burn my face: I must remove.'\n\n" + "'Ay me,' quoth Venus, 'young, and so unkind?\n" + "What bare excuses makest thou to be gone!\n" + "I'll sigh celestial breath, whose gentle wind\n" + "Shall cool the heat of this descending sun:\n" + "I'll make a shadow for thee of my hairs;\n" + "If they burn too, I'll quench them with my tears.\n\n" + "'The sun that shines from heaven shines but warm,\n" + "And, lo, I lie between that sun and thee:\n" + "The heat I have from thence doth little harm,\n" + "Thine eye darts forth the fire that burneth me;\n" + "And were I not immortal, life were done\n" + "Between this heavenly and earthly sun.\n\n" + "'Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,\n" + "Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?\n" + "Art thou a woman's son, and canst not feel\n" + "What 'tis to love? how want of love tormenteth?\n" + "O, had thy mother borne so hard a mind,\n" + "She had not brought forth thee, but died unkind.\n\n" + "'What am I, that thou shouldst contemn me this?\n" + "Or what great danger dwells upon my suit?\n" + "What were thy lips the worse for one poor kiss?\n" + "Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:\n" + "Give me one kiss, I'll give it thee again,\n" + "And one for interest, if thou wilt have twain.\n\n" + "'Fie, lifeless picture, cold and senseless stone,\n" + "Well-painted idol, image dun and dead,\n" + "Statue contenting but the eye alone,\n" + "Thing like a man, but of no woman bred!\n" + "Thou art no man, though of a man's complexion,\n" + "For men will kiss even by their own direction.'\n\n" + "This said, impatience chokes her pleading tongue,\n" + "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause;\n" + "Red cheeks and fiery eyes blaze forth he wrong;\n" + "Being judge in love, she cannot right her cause:\n" + "And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak,\n" + "And now her sobs do her intendments break.\n\n" + "Sometimes she shakes her head and then his hand,\n" + "Now gazeth she on him, now on the ground;\n" + "Sometimes her arms infold him like a band:\n" + "She would, he will not in her arms be bound;\n" + "And when from thence he struggles to be gone,\n" + "She locks her lily fingers one in one.\n\n" + "'Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here\n" + "Within the circuit of this ivory pale,\n" + "I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer;\n" + "Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale:\n" + "Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry,\n" + "Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.\n\n" + "Within this limit is relief enough,\n" + "Sweet bottom-grass and high delightful plain,\n" + "Round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough,\n" + "To shelter thee from tempest and from rain\n" + "Then be my deer, since I am such a park;\n" + "No dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark.'\n\n" + "At this Adonis smiles as in disdain,\n" + "That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple:\n" + "Love made those hollows, if himself were slain,\n" + "He might be buried in a tomb so simple;\n" + "Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie,\n" + "Why, there Love lived and there he could not die.\n\n" + "These lovely caves, these round enchanting pits,\n" + "Open'd their mouths to swallow Venus' liking.\n" + "Being mad before, how doth she now for wits?\n" + "Struck dead at first, what needs a second striking?\n" + "Poor queen of love, in thine own law forlorn,\n" + "To love a cheek that smiles at thee in scorn!\n\n" + "Now which way shall she turn? what shall she say?\n" + "Her words are done, her woes are more increasing;\n" + "The time is spent, her object will away,\n" + "And from her twining arms doth urge releasing.\n" + "'Pity,' she cries, 'some favour, some remorse!'\n" + "Away he springs and hasteth to his horse.\n\n" + "But, lo, from forth a copse that neighbors by,\n" + "A breeding jennet, lusty, young and proud,\n" + "Adonis' trampling courser doth espy,\n" + "And forth she rushes, snorts and neighs aloud:\n" + "The strong-neck'd steed, being tied unto a tree,\n" + "Breaketh his rein, and to her straight goes he.\n\n" + "Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds,\n" + "And now his woven girths he breaks asunder;\n" + "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds,\n" + "Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven's thunder;\n" + "The iron bit he crusheth 'tween his teeth,\n" + "Controlling what he was controlled with.\n\n" + "His ears up-prick'd; his braided hanging mane\n" + "Upon his compass'd crest now stand on end;\n" + "His nostrils drink the air, and forth again,\n" + "As from a furnace, vapours doth he send:\n" + "His eye, which scornfully glisters like fire,\n" + "Shows his hot courage and his high desire.\n\n" + "Sometime he trots, as if he told the steps,\n" + "With gentle majesty and modest pride;\n" + "Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps,\n" + "As who should say 'Lo, thus my strength is tried,\n" + "And this I do to captivate the eye\n" + "Of the fair breeder that is standing by.'\n\n" + "What recketh he his rider's angry stir,\n" + "His flattering 'Holla,' or his 'Stand, I say'?\n" + "What cares he now for curb or pricking spur?\n" + "For rich caparisons or trapping gay?\n" + "He sees his love, and nothing else he sees,\n" + "For nothing else with his proud sight agrees.\n\n" + "Look, when a painter would surpass the life,\n" + "In limning out a well-proportion'd steed,\n" + "His art with nature's workmanship at strife,\n" + "As if the dead the living should exceed;\n" + "So did this horse excel a common one\n" + "In shape, in courage, colour, pace and bone.\n\n" + "Round-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long,\n" + "Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostril wide,\n" + "High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong,\n" + "Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide:\n" + "Look, what a horse should have he did not lack,\n" + "Save a proud rider on so proud a back.\n\n" + "Sometime he scuds far off and there he stares;\n" + "Anon he starts at stirring of a feather;\n" + "To bid the wind a base he now prepares,\n" + "And whether he run or fly they know not whether;\n" + "For through his mane and tail the high wind sings,\n" + "Fanning the hairs, who wave like feather'd wings.\n\n" + "He looks upon his love and neighs unto her;\n" + "She answers him as if she knew his mind:\n" + "Being proud, as females are, to see him woo her,\n" + "She puts on outward strangeness, seems unkind,\n" + "Spurns at his love and scorns the heat he feels,\n" + "Beating his kind embracements with her heels.\n\n" + "Then, like a melancholy malcontent,\n" + "He veils his tail that, like a falling plume,\n" + "Cool shadow to his melting buttock lent:\n" + "He stamps and bites the poor flies in his fume.\n" + "His love, perceiving how he is enraged,\n" + "Grew kinder, and his fury was assuaged.\n\n" + "His testy master goeth about to take him;\n" + "When, lo, the unback'd breeder, full of fear,\n" + "Jealous of catching, swiftly doth forsake him,\n" + "With her the horse, and left Adonis there:\n" + "As they were mad, unto the wood they hie them,\n" + "Out-stripping crows that strive to over-fly them.\n\n" + "All swoln with chafing, down Adonis sits,\n" + "Banning his boisterous and unruly beast:\n" + "And now the happy season once more fits,\n" + "That love-sick Love by pleading may be blest;\n" + "For lovers say, the heart hath treble wrong\n" + "When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue.\n\n" + "An oven that is stopp'd, or river stay'd,\n" + "Burneth more hotly, swelleth with more rage:\n" + "So of concealed sorrow may be said;\n" + "Free vent of words love's fire doth assuage;\n" + "But when the heart's attorney once is mute,\n" + "The client breaks, as desperate in his suit.\n\n" + "He sees her coming, and begins to glow,\n" + "Even as a dying coal revives with wind,\n" + "And with his bonnet hides his angry brow;\n" + "Looks on the dull earth with disturbed mind,\n" + "Taking no notice that she is so nigh,\n" + "For all askance he holds her in his eye.\n\n" + "O, what a sight it was, wistly to view\n" + "How she came stealing to the wayward boy!\n" + "To note the fighting conflict of her hue,\n" + "How white and red each other did destroy!\n" + "But now her cheek was pale, and by and by\n" + "It flash'd forth fire, as lightning from the sky.\n\n" + "Now was she just before him as he sat,\n" + "And like a lowly lover down she kneels;\n" + "With one fair hand she heaveth up his hat,\n" + "Her other tender hand his fair cheek feels:\n" + "His tenderer cheek receives her soft hand's print,\n" + "As apt as new-fall'n snow takes any dint.\n\n" + "O, what a war of looks was then between them!\n" + "Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing;\n" + "His eyes saw her eyes as they had not seen them;\n" + "Her eyes woo'd still, his eyes disdain'd the wooing:\n" + "And all this dumb play had his acts made plain\n" + "With tears, which, chorus-like, her eyes did rain.\n\n" + "Full gently now she takes him by the hand,\n" + "A lily prison'd in a gaol of snow,\n" + "Or ivory in an alabaster band;\n" + "So white a friend engirts so white a foe:\n" + "This beauteous combat, wilful and unwilling,\n" + "Show'd like two silver doves that sit a-billing.\n\n" + "Once more the engine of her thoughts began:\n" + "'O fairest mover on this mortal round,\n" + "Would thou wert as I am, and I a man,\n" + "My heart all whole as thine, thy heart my wound;\n" + "For one sweet look thy help I would assure thee,\n" + "Though nothing but my body's bane would cure thee!\n\n" + "'Give me my hand,' saith he, 'why dost thou feel it?'\n" + "'Give me my heart,' saith she, 'and thou shalt have it:\n" + "O, give it me, lest thy hard heart do steel it,\n" + "And being steel'd, soft sighs can never grave it:\n" + "Then love's deep groans I never shall regard,\n" + "Because Adonis' heart hath made mine hard.'\n\n" + "'For shame,' he cries, 'let go, and let me go;\n" + "My day's delight is past, my horse is gone,\n" + "And 'tis your fault I am bereft him so:\n" + "I pray you hence, and leave me here alone;\n" + "For all my mind, my thought, my busy care,\n" + "Is how to get my palfrey from the mare.'\n\n" + "Thus she replies: 'Thy palfrey, as he should,\n" + "Welcomes the warm approach of sweet desire:\n" + "Affection is a coal that must be cool'd;\n" + "Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire:\n" + "The sea hath bounds, but deep desire hath none;\n" + "Therefore no marvel though thy horse be gone.\n\n" + "'How like a jade he stood, tied to the tree,\n" + "Servilely master'd with a leathern rein!\n" + "But when he saw his love, his youth's fair fee,\n" + "He held such petty bondage in disdain;\n" + "Throwing the base thong from his bending crest,\n" + "Enfranchising his mouth, his back, his breast.\n\n" + "'Who sees his true-love in her naked bed,\n" + "Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white,\n" + "But, when his glutton eye so full hath fed,\n" + "His other agents aim at like delight?\n" + "Who is so faint, that dare not be so bold\n" + "To touch the fire, the weather being cold?\n\n" + "'Let me excuse thy courser, gentle boy;\n" + "And learn of him, I heartily beseech thee,\n" + "To take advantage on presented joy;\n" + "Though I were dumb, yet his proceedings teach thee;\n" + "O, learn to love; the lesson is but plain,\n" + "And once made perfect, never lost again.'\n\n" + "I know not love,' quoth he, 'nor will not know it,\n" + "Unless it be a boar, and then I chase it;\n" + "'Tis much to borrow, and I will not owe it;\n" + "My love to love is love but to disgrace it;\n" + "For I have heard it is a life in death,\n" + "That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.\n\n" + "'Who wears a garment shapeless and unfinish'd?\n" + "Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth?\n" + "If springing things be any jot diminish'd,\n" + "They wither in their prime, prove nothing worth:\n" + "The colt that's back'd and burden'd being young\n" + "Loseth his pride and never waxeth strong.\n\n" + "'You hurt my hand with wringing; let us part,\n" + "And leave this idle theme, this bootless chat:\n" + "Remove your siege from my unyielding heart;\n" + "To love's alarms it will not ope the gate:\n" + "Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery;\n" + "For where a heart is hard they make no battery.'\n\n" + "'What! canst thou talk?' quoth she, 'hast thou a tongue?\n" + "O, would thou hadst not, or I had no hearing!\n" + "Thy mermaid's voice hath done me double wrong;\n" + "I had my load before, now press'd with bearing:\n" + "Melodious discord, heavenly tune harshsounding,\n" + "Ear's deep-sweet music, and heart's deep-sore wounding.\n\n" + "'Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love\n" + "That inward beauty and invisible;\n" + "Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move\n" + "Each part in me that were but sensible:\n" + "Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see,\n" + "Yet should I be in love by touching thee.\n\n" + "'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me,\n" + "And that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch,\n" + "And nothing but the very smell were left me,\n" + "Yet would my love to thee be still as much;\n" + "For from the stillitory of thy face excelling\n" + "Comes breath perfumed that breedeth love by\n" + "smelling.\n\n" + "'But, O, what banquet wert thou to the taste,\n" + "Being nurse and feeder of the other four!\n" + "Would they not wish the feast might ever last,\n" + "And bid Suspicion double-lock the door,\n" + "Lest Jealousy, that sour unwelcome guest,\n" + "Should, by his stealing in, disturb the feast?'\n\n" + "Once more the ruby-colour'd portal open'd,\n" + "Which to his speech did honey passage yield;\n" + "Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'd\n" + "Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field,\n" + "Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds,\n" + "Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds.\n\n" + "This ill presage advisedly she marketh:\n" + "Even as the wind is hush'd before it raineth,\n" + "Or as the wolf doth grin before he barketh,\n" + "Or as the berry breaks before it staineth,\n" + "Or like the deadly bullet of a gun,\n" + "His meaning struck her ere his words begun.\n\n" + "And at his look she flatly falleth down,\n" + "For looks kill love and love by looks reviveth;\n" + "A smile recures the wounding of a frown;\n" + "But blessed bankrupt, that by love so thriveth!\n" + "The silly boy, believing she is dead,\n" + "Claps her pale cheek, till clapping makes it red;\n\n" + "And all amazed brake off his late intent,\n" + "For sharply he did think to reprehend her,\n" + "Which cunning love did wittily prevent:\n" + "Fair fall the wit that can so well defend her!\n" + "For on the grass she lies as she were slain,\n" + "Till his breath breatheth life in her again.\n\n" + "He wrings her nose, he strikes her on the cheeks,\n" + "He bends her fingers, holds her pulses hard,\n" + "He chafes her lips; a thousand ways he seeks\n" + "To mend the hurt that his unkindness marr'd:\n" + "He kisses her; and she, by her good will,\n" + "Will never rise, so he will kiss her still.\n\n" + "The night of sorrow now is turn'd to day:\n" + "Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth,\n" + "Like the fair sun, when in his fresh array\n" + "He cheers the morn and all the earth relieveth;\n" + "And as the bright sun glorifies the sky,\n" + "So is her face illumined with her eye;\n\n" + "Whose beams upon his hairless face are fix'd,\n" + "As if from thence they borrow'd all their shine.\n" + "Were never four such lamps together mix'd,\n" + "Had not his clouded with his brow's repine;\n" + "But hers, which through the crystal tears gave light,\n" + "Shone like the moon in water seen by night.\n\n" + "'O, where am I?' quoth she, 'in earth or heaven,\n" + "Or in the ocean drench'd, or in the fire?\n" + "What hour is this? or morn or weary even?\n" + "Do I delight to die, or life desire?\n" + "But now I lived, and life was death's annoy;\n" + "But now I died, and death was lively joy.\n\n" + "'O, thou didst kill me: kill me once again:\n" + "Thy eyes' shrewd tutor, that hard heart of thine,\n" + "Hath taught them scornful tricks and such disdain\n" + "That they have murder'd this poor heart of mine;\n" + "And these mine eyes, true leaders to their queen,\n" + "But for thy piteous lips no more had seen.\n\n" + "'Long may they kiss each other, for this cure!\n" + "O, never let their crimson liveries wear!\n" + "And as they last, their verdure still endure,\n" + "To drive infection from the dangerous year!\n" + "That the star-gazers, having writ on death,\n" + "May say, the plague is banish'd by thy breath.\n\n" + "'Pure lips, sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted,\n" + "What bargains may I make, still to be sealing?\n" + "To sell myself I can be well contented,\n" + "So thou wilt buy and pay and use good dealing;\n" + "Which purchase if thou make, for fear of slips\n" + "Set thy seal-manual on my wax-red lips.\n\n" + "'A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;\n" + "And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.\n" + "What is ten hundred touches unto thee?\n" + "Are they not quickly told and quickly gone?\n" + "Say, for non-payment that the debt should double,\n" + "Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?\n\n" + "'Fair queen,' quoth he, 'if any love you owe me,\n" + "Measure my strangeness with my unripe years:\n" + "Before I know myself, seek not to know me;\n" + "No fisher but the ungrown fry forbears:\n" + "The mellow plum doth fall, the green sticks fast,\n" + "Or being early pluck'd is sour to taste.\n\n" + "'Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,\n" + "His day's hot task hath ended in the west;\n" + "The owl, night's herald, shrieks, ''Tis very late;'\n" + "The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest,\n" + "And coal-black clouds that shadow heaven's light\n" + "Do summon us to part and bid good night.\n\n" + "'Now let me say 'Good night,' and so say you;\n" + "If you will say so, you shall have a kiss.'\n" + "'Good night,' quoth she, and, ere he says 'Adieu,'\n" + "The honey fee of parting tender'd is:\n" + "Her arms do lend his neck a sweet embrace;\n" + "Incorporate then they seem; face grows to face.\n\n" + "Till, breathless, he disjoin'd, and backward drew\n" + "The heavenly moisture, that sweet coral mouth,\n" + "Whose precious taste her thirsty lips well knew,\n" + "Whereon they surfeit, yet complain on drouth:\n" + "He with her plenty press'd, she faint with dearth\n" + "Their lips together glued, fall to the earth.\n\n" + "Now quick desire hath caught the yielding prey,\n" + "And glutton-like she feeds, yet never filleth;\n" + "Her lips are conquerors, his lips obey,\n" + "Paying what ransom the insulter willeth;\n" + "Whose vulture thought doth pitch the price so high,\n" + "That she will draw his lips' rich treasure dry:\n\n" + "And having felt the sweetness of the spoil,\n" + "With blindfold fury she begins to forage;\n" + "Her face doth reek and smoke, her blood doth boil,\n" + "And careless lust stirs up a desperate courage,\n" + "Planting oblivion, beating reason back,\n" + "Forgetting shame's pure blush and honour's wrack.\n\n" + "Hot, faint, and weary, with her hard embracing,\n" + "Like a wild bird being tamed with too much handling,\n" + "Or as the fleet-foot roe that's tired with chasing,\n" + "Or like the froward infant still'd with dandling,\n" + "He now obeys, and now no more resisteth,\n" + "While she takes all she can, not all she listeth.\n\n" + "What wax so frozen but dissolves with tempering,\n" + "And yields at last to every light impression?\n" + "Things out of hope are compass'd oft with venturing,\n" + "Chiefly in love, whose leave exceeds commission:\n" + "Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward,\n" + "But then woos best when most his choice is froward.\n\n" + "When he did frown, O, had she then gave over,\n" + "Such nectar from his lips she had not suck'd.\n" + "Foul words and frowns must not repel a lover;\n" + "What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd:\n" + "Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,\n" + "Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.\n\n" + "For pity now she can no more detain him;\n" + "The poor fool prays her that he may depart:\n" + "She is resolved no longer to restrain him;\n" + "Bids him farewell, and look well to her heart,\n" + "The which, by Cupid's bow she doth protest,\n" + "He carries thence incaged in his breast.\n\n" + "'Sweet boy,' she says, 'this night I'll waste in sorrow,\n" + "For my sick heart commands mine eyes to watch.\n" + "Tell me, Love's master, shall we meet to-morrow?\n" + "Say, shall we? shall we? wilt thou make the match?'\n" + "He tells her, no; to-morrow he intends\n" + "To hunt the boar with certain of his friends.\n\n" + "'The boar!' quoth she; whereat a sudden pale,\n" + "Like lawn being spread upon the blushing rose,\n" + "Usurps her cheek; she trembles at his tale,\n" + "And on his neck her yoking arms she throws:\n" + "She sinketh down, still hanging by his neck,\n" + "He on her belly falls, she on her back.\n\n" + "Now is she in the very lists of love,\n" + "Her champion mounted for the hot encounter:\n" + "All is imaginary she doth prove,\n" + "He will not manage her, although he mount her;\n" + "That worse than Tantalus' is her annoy,\n" + "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy.\n\n" + "Even as poor birds, deceived with painted grapes,\n" + "Do surfeit by the eye and pine the maw,\n" + "Even so she languisheth in her mishaps,\n" + "As those poor birds that helpless berries saw.\n" + "The warm effects which she in him finds missing\n" + "She seeks to kindle with continual kissing.\n\n" + "But all in vain; good queen, it will not be:\n" + "She hath assay'd as much as may be proved;\n" + "Her pleading hath deserved a greater fee;\n" + "She's Love, she loves, and yet she is not loved.\n" + "'Fie, fie,' he says, 'you crush me; let me go;\n" + "You have no reason to withhold me so.'\n\n" + "'Thou hadst been gone,' quoth she, 'sweet boy, ere this,\n" + "But that thou told'st me thou wouldst hunt the boar.\n" + "O, be advised! thou know'st not what it is\n" + "With javelin's point a churlish swine to gore,\n" + "Whose tushes never sheathed he whetteth still,\n" + "Like to a mortal butcher bent to kill.\n\n" + "'On his bow-back he hath a battle set\n" + "Of bristly pikes, that ever threat his foes;\n" + "His eyes, like glow-worms, shine when he doth fret;\n" + "His snout digs sepulchres where'er he goes;\n" + "Being moved, he strikes whate'er is in his way,\n" + "And whom he strikes his cruel tushes slay.\n\n" + "'His brawny sides, with hairy bristles arm'd,\n" + "Are better proof than thy spear's point can enter;\n" + "His short thick neck cannot be easily harm'd;\n" + "Being ireful, on the lion he will venture:\n" + "The thorny brambles and embracing bushes,\n" + "As fearful of him, part, through whom he rushes.\n\n" + "'Alas, he nought esteems that face of thine,\n" + "To which Love's eyes pay tributary gazes;\n" + "Nor thy soft hands, sweet lips and crystal eyne,\n" + "Whose full perfection all the world amazes;\n" + "But having thee at vantage,--wondrous dread!--\n" + "Would root these beauties as he roots the mead.\n\n" + "'O, let him keep his loathsome cabin still;\n" + "Beauty hath nought to do with such foul fiends:\n" + "Come not within his danger by thy will;\n" + "They that thrive well take counsel of their friends.\n" + "When thou didst name the boar, not to dissemble,\n" + "I fear'd thy fortune, and my joints did tremble.\n\n" + "'Didst thou not mark my face? was it not white?\n" + "Saw'st thou not signs of fear lurk in mine eye?\n" + "Grew I not faint? and fell I not downright?\n" + "Within my bosom, whereon thou dost lie,\n" + "My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,\n" + "But, like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast.\n\n" + "'For where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy\n" + "Doth call himself Affection's sentinel;\n" + "Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,\n" + "And in a peaceful hour doth cry 'Kill, kill!'\n" + "Distempering gentle Love in his desire,\n" + "As air and water do abate the fire.\n\n" + "'This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy,\n" + "This canker that eats up Love's tender spring,\n" + "This carry-tale, dissentious Jealousy,\n" + "That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring,\n" + "Knocks at my heat and whispers in mine ear\n" + "That if I love thee, I thy death should fear:\n\n" + "'And more than so, presenteth to mine eye\n" + "The picture of an angry-chafing boar,\n" + "Under whose sharp fangs on his back doth lie\n" + "An image like thyself, all stain'd with gore;\n" + "Whose blood upon the fresh flowers being shed\n" + "Doth make them droop with grief and hang the head.\n\n" + "'What should I do, seeing thee so indeed,\n" + "That tremble at the imagination?\n" + "The thought of it doth make my faint heart bleed,\n" + "And fear doth teach it divination:\n" + "I prophesy thy death, my living sorrow,\n" + "If thou encounter with the boar to-morrow.\n\n" + "'But if thou needs wilt hunt, be ruled by me;\n" + "Uncouple at the timorous flying hare,\n" + "Or at the fox which lives by subtlety,\n" + "Or at the roe which no encounter dare:\n" + "Pursue these fearful creatures o'er the downs,\n" + "And on thy well-breath'd horse keep with thy\n" + "hounds.\n\n" + "'And when thou hast on foot the purblind hare,\n" + "Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles\n" + "How he outruns the wind and with what care\n" + "He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:\n" + "The many musets through the which he goes\n" + "Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.\n\n" + "'Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep,\n" + "To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell,\n" + "And sometime where earth-delving conies keep,\n" + "To stop the loud pursuers in their yell,\n" + "And sometime sorteth with a herd of deer:\n" + "Danger deviseth shifts; wit waits on fear:\n\n" + "'For there his smell with others being mingled,\n" + "The hot scent-snuffing hounds are driven to doubt,\n" + "Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled\n" + "With much ado the cold fault cleanly out;\n" + "Then do they spend their mouths: Echo replies,\n" + "As if another chase were in the skies.\n\n" + "'By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill,\n" + "Stands on his hinder legs with listening ear,\n" + "To harken if his foes pursue him still:\n" + "Anon their loud alarums he doth hear;\n" + "And now his grief may be compared well\n" + "To one sore sick that hears the passing-bell.\n\n" + "'Then shalt thou see the dew-bedabbled wretch\n" + "Turn, and return, indenting with the way;\n" + "Each envious brier his weary legs doth scratch,\n" + "Each shadow makes him stop, each murmur stay:\n" + "For misery is trodden on by many,\n" + "And being low never relieved by any.\n\n" + "'Lie quietly, and hear a little more;\n" + "Nay, do not struggle, for thou shalt not rise:\n" + "To make thee hate the hunting of the boar,\n" + "Unlike myself thou hear'st me moralize,\n" + "Applying this to that, and so to so;\n" + "For love can comment upon every woe.\n\n" + "'Where did I leave?' 'No matter where,' quoth he,\n" + "'Leave me, and then the story aptly ends:\n" + "The night is spent.' 'Why, what of that?' quoth she.\n" + "'I am,' quoth he, 'expected of my friends;\n" + "And now 'tis dark, and going I shall fall.'\n" + "'In night,' quoth she, 'desire sees best of all\n\n" + "'But if thou fall, O, then imagine this,\n" + "The earth, in love with thee, thy footing trips,\n" + "And all is but to rob thee of a kiss.\n" + "Rich preys make true men thieves; so do thy lips\n" + "Make modest Dian cloudy and forlorn,\n" + "Lest she should steal a kiss and die forsworn.\n\n" + "'Now of this dark night I perceive the reason:\n" + "Cynthia for shame obscures her silver shine,\n" + "Till forging Nature be condemn'd of treason,\n" + "For stealing moulds from heaven that were divine;\n" + "Wherein she framed thee in high heaven's despite,\n" + "To shame the sun by day and her by night.\n\n" + "'And therefore hath she bribed the Destinies\n" + "To cross the curious workmanship of nature,\n" + "To mingle beauty with infirmities,\n" + "And pure perfection with impure defeature,\n" + "Making it subject to the tyranny\n" + "Of mad mischances and much misery;\n\n" + "'As burning fevers, agues pale and faint,\n" + "Life-poisoning pestilence and frenzies wood,\n" + "The marrow-eating sickness, whose attaint\n" + "Disorder breeds by heating of the blood:\n" + "Surfeits, imposthumes, grief, and damn'd despair,\n" + "Swear nature's death for framing thee so fair.\n\n" + "'And not the least of all these maladies\n" + "But in one minute's fight brings beauty under:\n" + "Both favour, savour, hue and qualities,\n" + "Whereat the impartial gazer late did wonder,\n" + "Are on the sudden wasted, thaw'd and done,\n" + "As mountain-snow melts with the midday sun.\n\n" + "'Therefore, despite of fruitless chastity,\n" + "Love-lacking vestals and self-loving nuns,\n" + "That on the earth would breed a scarcity\n" + "And barren dearth of daughters and of sons,\n" + "Be prodigal: the lamp that burns by night\n" + "Dries up his oil to lend the world his light.\n\n" + "'What is thy body but a swallowing grave,\n" + "Seeming to bury that posterity\n" + "Which by the rights of time thou needs must have,\n" + "If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?\n" + "If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,\n" + "Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.\n\n" + "'So in thyself thyself art made away;\n" + "A mischief worse than civil home-bred strife,\n" + "Or theirs whose desperate hands themselves do slay,\n" + "Or butcher-sire that reaves his son of life.\n" + "Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets,\n" + "But gold that's put to use more gold begets.'\n\n" + "'Nay, then,' quoth Adon, 'you will fall again\n" + "Into your idle over-handled theme:\n" + "The kiss I gave you is bestow'd in vain,\n" + "And all in vain you strive against the stream;\n" + "For, by this black-faced night, desire's foul nurse,\n" + "Your treatise makes me like you worse and worse.\n\n" + "'If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues,\n" + "And every tongue more moving than your own,\n" + "Bewitching like the wanton mermaid's songs,\n" + "Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown\n" + "For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,\n" + "And will not let a false sound enter there;\n\n" + "'Lest the deceiving harmony should run\n" + "Into the quiet closure of my breast;\n" + "And then my little heart were quite undone,\n" + "In his bedchamber to be barr'd of rest.\n" + "No, lady, no; my heart longs not to groan,\n" + "But soundly sleeps, while now it sleeps alone.\n\n" + "'What have you urged that I cannot reprove?\n" + "The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger:\n" + "I hate not love, but your device in love,\n" + "That lends embracements unto every stranger.\n" + "You do it for increase: O strange excuse,\n" + "When reason is the bawd to lust's abuse!\n\n" + "'Call it not love, for Love to heaven is fled,\n" + "Since sweating Lust on earth usurp'd his name;\n" + "Under whose simple semblance he hath fed\n" + "Upon fresh beauty, blotting it with blame;\n" + "Which the hot tyrant stains and soon bereaves,\n" + "As caterpillars do the tender leaves.\n\n" + "'Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,\n" + "But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;\n" + "Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,\n" + "Lust's winter comes ere summer half be done;\n" + "Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;\n" + "Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies.\n\n" + "'More I could tell, but more I dare not say;\n" + "The text is old, the orator too green.\n" + "Therefore, in sadness, now I will away;\n" + "My face is full of shame, my heart of teen:\n" + "Mine ears, that to your wanton talk attended,\n" + "Do burn themselves for having so offended.'\n\n" + "With this, he breaketh from the sweet embrace,\n" + "Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast,\n" + "And homeward through the dark laund runs apace;\n" + "Leaves Love upon her back deeply distress'd.\n" + "Look, how a bright star shooteth from the sky,\n" + "So glides he in the night from Venus' eye.\n\n" + "Which after him she darts, as one on shore\n" + "Gazing upon a late-embarked friend,\n" + "Till the wild waves will have him seen no more,\n" + "Whose ridges with the meeting clouds contend:\n" + "So did the merciless and pitchy night\n" + "Fold in the object that did feed her sight.\n\n" + "Whereat amazed, as one that unaware\n" + "Hath dropp'd a precious jewel in the flood,\n" + "Or stonish'd as night-wanderers often are,\n" + "Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood,\n" + "Even so confounded in the dark she lay,\n" + "Having lost the fair discovery of her way.\n\n" + "And now she beats her heart, whereat it groans,\n" + "That all the neighbour caves, as seeming troubled,\n" + "Make verbal repetition of her moans;\n" + "Passion on passion deeply is redoubled:\n" + "'Ay me!' she cries, and twenty times 'Woe, woe!'\n" + "And twenty echoes twenty times cry so.\n\n" + "She marking them begins a wailing note\n" + "And sings extemporally a woeful ditty;\n" + "How love makes young men thrall and old men dote;\n" + "How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty:\n" + "Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe,\n" + "And still the choir of echoes answer so.\n\n" + "Her song was tedious and outwore the night,\n" + "For lovers' hours are long, though seeming short:\n" + "If pleased themselves, others, they think, delight\n" + "In such-like circumstance, with suchlike sport:\n" + "Their copious stories oftentimes begun\n" + "End without audience and are never done.\n\n" + "For who hath she to spend the night withal\n" + "But idle sounds resembling parasites,\n" + "Like shrill-tongued tapsters answering every call,\n" + "Soothing the humour of fantastic wits?\n" + "She says ''Tis so:' they answer all ''Tis so;'\n" + "And would say after her, if she said 'No.'\n\n" + "Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest,\n" + "From his moist cabinet mounts up on high,\n" + "And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast\n" + "The sun ariseth in his majesty;\n" + "Who doth the world so gloriously behold\n" + "That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.\n\n" + "Venus salutes him with this fair good-morrow:\n" + "'O thou clear god, and patron of all light,\n" + "From whom each lamp and shining star doth borrow\n" + "The beauteous influence that makes him bright,\n" + "There lives a son that suck'd an earthly mother,\n" + "May lend thee light, as thou dost lend to other.'\n\n" + "This said, she hasteth to a myrtle grove,\n" + "Musing the morning is so much o'erworn,\n" + "And yet she hears no tidings of her love:\n" + "She hearkens for his hounds and for his horn:\n" + "Anon she hears them chant it lustily,\n" + "And all in haste she coasteth to the cry.\n\n" + "And as she runs, the bushes in the way\n" + "Some catch her by the neck, some kiss her face,\n" + "Some twine about her thigh to make her stay:\n" + "She wildly breaketh from their strict embrace,\n" + "Like a milch doe, whose swelling dugs do ache,\n" + "Hasting to feed her fawn hid in some brake.\n\n" + "By this, she hears the hounds are at a bay;\n" + "Whereat she starts, like one that spies an adder\n" + "Wreathed up in fatal folds just in his way,\n" + "The fear whereof doth make him shake and shudder;\n" + "Even so the timorous yelping of the hounds\n" + "Appals her senses and her spirit confounds.\n\n" + "For now she knows it is no gentle chase,\n" + "But the blunt boar, rough bear, or lion proud,\n" + "Because the cry remaineth in one place,\n" + "Where fearfully the dogs exclaim aloud:\n" + "Finding their enemy to be so curst,\n" + "They all strain courtesy who shall cope him first.\n\n" + "This dismal cry rings sadly in her ear,\n" + "Through which it enters to surprise her heart;\n" + "Who, overcome by doubt and bloodless fear,\n" + "With cold-pale weakness numbs each feeling part:\n" + "Like soldiers, when their captain once doth yield,\n" + "They basely fly and dare not stay the field.\n\n" + "Thus stands she in a trembling ecstasy;\n" + "Till, cheering up her senses all dismay'd,\n" + "She tells them 'tis a causeless fantasy,\n" + "And childish error, that they are afraid;\n" + "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more:--\n" + "And with that word she spied the hunted boar,\n\n" + "Whose frothy mouth, bepainted all with red,\n" + "Like milk and blood being mingled both together,\n" + "A second fear through all her sinews spread,\n" + "Which madly hurries her she knows not whither:\n" + "This way runs, and now she will no further,\n" + "But back retires to rate the boar for murther.\n\n" + "A thousand spleens bear her a thousand ways;\n" + "She treads the path that she untreads again;\n" + "Her more than haste is mated with delays,\n" + "Like the proceedings of a drunken brain,\n" + "Full of respects, yet nought at all respecting;\n" + "In hand with all things, nought at all effecting.\n\n" + "Here kennell'd in a brake she finds a hound,\n" + "And asks the weary caitiff for his master,\n" + "And there another licking of his wound,\n" + "'Gainst venom'd sores the only sovereign plaster;\n" + "And here she meets another sadly scowling,\n" + "To whom she speaks, and he replies with howling.\n\n" + "When he hath ceased his ill-resounding noise,\n" + "Another flap-mouth'd mourner, black and grim,\n" + "Against the welkin volleys out his voice;\n" + "Another and another answer him,\n" + "Clapping their proud tails to the ground below,\n" + "Shaking their scratch'd ears, bleeding as they go.\n\n" + "Look, how the world's poor people are amazed\n" + "At apparitions, signs and prodigies,\n" + "Whereon with fearful eyes they long have gazed,\n" + "Infusing them with dreadful prophecies;\n" + "So she at these sad signs draws up her breath\n" + "And sighing it again, exclaims on Death.\n\n" + "'Hard-favour'd tyrant, ugly, meagre, lean,\n" + "Hateful divorce of love,'--thus chides she Death,--\n" + "'Grim-grinning ghost, earth's worm, what dost thou mean\n" + "To stifle beauty and to steal his breath,\n" + "Who when he lived, his breath and beauty set\n" + "Gloss on the rose, smell to the violet?\n\n" + "'If he be dead,--O no, it cannot be,\n" + "Seeing his beauty, thou shouldst strike at it:--\n" + "O yes, it may; thou hast no eyes to see,\n" + "But hatefully at random dost thou hit.\n" + "Thy mark is feeble age, but thy false dart\n" + "Mistakes that aim and cleaves an infant's heart.\n\n" + "'Hadst thou but bid beware, then he had spoke,\n" + "And, hearing him, thy power had lost his power.\n" + "The Destinies will curse thee for this stroke;\n" + "They bid thee crop a weed, thou pluck'st a flower:\n" + "Love's golden arrow at him should have fled,\n" + "And not Death's ebon dart, to strike dead.\n\n" + "'Dost thou drink tears, that thou provokest such weeping?\n" + "What may a heavy groan advantage thee?\n" + "Why hast thou cast into eternal sleeping\n" + "Those eyes that taught all other eyes to see?\n" + "Now Nature cares not for thy mortal vigour,\n" + "Since her best work is ruin'd with thy rigour.'\n\n" + "Here overcome, as one full of despair,\n" + "She vail'd her eyelids, who, like sluices, stopt\n" + "The crystal tide that from her two cheeks fair\n" + "In the sweet channel of her bosom dropt;\n" + "But through the flood-gates breaks the silver rain,\n" + "And with his strong course opens them again.\n\n" + "O, how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow!\n" + "Her eyes seen in the tears, tears in her eye;\n" + "Both crystals, where they view'd each other's sorrow,\n" + "Sorrow that friendly sighs sought still to dry;\n" + "But like a stormy day, now wind, now rain,\n" + "Sighs dry her cheeks, tears make them wet again.\n\n" + "Variable passions throng her constant woe,\n" + "As striving who should best become her grief;\n" + "All entertain'd, each passion labours so,\n" + "That every present sorrow seemeth chief,\n" + "But none is best: then join they all together,\n" + "Like many clouds consulting for foul weather.\n\n" + "By this, far off she hears some huntsman hollo;\n" + "A nurse's song ne'er pleased her babe so well:\n" + "The dire imagination she did follow\n" + "This sound of hope doth labour to expel;\n" + "For now reviving joy bids her rejoice,\n" + "And flatters her it is Adonis' voice.\n\n" + "Whereat her tears began to turn their tide,\n" + "Being prison'd in her eye like pearls in glass;\n" + "Yet sometimes falls an orient drop beside,\n" + "Which her cheek melts, as scorning it should pass,\n" + "To wash the foul face of the sluttish ground,\n" + "Who is but drunken when she seemeth drown'd.\n\n" + "O hard-believing love, how strange it seems\n" + "Not to believe, and yet too credulous!\n" + "Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes;\n" + "Despair and hope makes thee ridiculous:\n" + "The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely,\n" + "In likely thoughts the other kills thee quickly.\n\n" + "Now she unweaves the web that she hath wrought;\n" + "Adonis lives, and Death is not to blame;\n" + "It was not she that call'd him, all-to naught:\n" + "Now she adds honours to his hateful name;\n" + "She clepes him king of graves and grave for kings,\n" + "Imperious supreme of all mortal things.\n\n" + "'No, no,' quoth she, 'sweet Death, I did but jest;\n" + "Yet pardon me I felt a kind of fear\n" + "When as I met the boar, that bloody beast,\n" + "Which knows no pity, but is still severe;\n" + "Then, gentle shadow,--truth I must confess,--\n" + "I rail'd on thee, fearing my love's decease.\n\n" + "''Tis not my fault: the boar provoked my tongue;\n" + "Be wreak'd on him, invisible commander;\n" + "'Tis he, foul creature, that hath done thee wrong;\n" + "I did but act, he's author of thy slander:\n" + "Grief hath two tongues, and never woman yet\n" + "Could rule them both without ten women's wit.'\n\n" + "Thus hoping that Adonis is alive,\n" + "Her rash suspect she doth extenuate;\n" + "And that his beauty may the better thrive,\n" + "With Death she humbly doth insinuate;\n" + "Tells him of trophies, statues, tombs, and stories\n" + "His victories, his triumphs and his glories.\n\n" + "'O Jove,' quoth she, 'how much a fool was I\n" + "To be of such a weak and silly mind\n" + "To wail his death who lives and must not die\n" + "Till mutual overthrow of mortal kind!\n" + "For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,\n" + "And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.\n\n" + "'Fie, fie, fond love, thou art so full of fear\n" + "As one with treasure laden, hemm'd thieves;\n" + "Trifles, unwitnessed with eye or ear,\n" + "Thy coward heart with false bethinking grieves.'\n" + "Even at this word she hears a merry horn,\n" + "Whereat she leaps that was but late forlorn.\n\n" + "As falcon to the lure, away she flies;\n" + "The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light;\n" + "And in her haste unfortunately spies\n" + "The foul boar's conquest on her fair delight;\n" + "Which seen, her eyes, as murder'd with the view,\n" + "Like stars ashamed of day, themselves withdrew;\n\n" + "Or, as the snail, whose tender horns being hit,\n" + "Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain,\n" + "And there, all smother'd up, in shade doth sit,\n" + "Long after fearing to creep forth again;\n" + "So, at his bloody view, her eyes are fled\n" + "Into the deep dark cabins of her head:\n\n" + "Where they resign their office and their light\n" + "To the disposing of her troubled brain;\n" + "Who bids them still consort with ugly night,\n" + "And never wound the heart with looks again;\n" + "Who like a king perplexed in his throne,\n" + "By their suggestion gives a deadly groan,\n\n" + "Whereat each tributary subject quakes;\n" + "As when the wind, imprison'd in the ground,\n" + "Struggling for passage, earth's foundation shakes,\n" + "Which with cold terror doth men's minds confound.\n" + "This mutiny each part doth so surprise\n" + "That from their dark beds once more leap her eyes;\n\n" + "And, being open'd, threw unwilling light\n" + "Upon the wide wound that the boar had trench'd\n" + "In his soft flank; whose wonted lily white\n" + "With purple tears, that his wound wept, was drench'd:\n" + "No flower was nigh, no grass, herb, leaf, or weed,\n" + "But stole his blood and seem'd with him to bleed.\n\n" + "This solemn sympathy poor Venus noteth;\n" + "Over one shoulder doth she hang her head;\n" + "Dumbly she passions, franticly she doteth;\n" + "She thinks he could not die, he is not dead:\n" + "Her voice is stopt, her joints forget to bow;\n" + "Her eyes are mad that they have wept til now.\n\n" + "Upon his hurt she looks so steadfastly,\n" + "That her sight dazzling makes the wound seem three;\n" + "And then she reprehends her mangling eye,\n" + "That makes more gashes where no breach should be:\n" + "His face seems twain, each several limb is doubled;\n" + "For oft the eye mistakes, the brain being troubled.\n\n" + "'My tongue cannot express my grief for one,\n" + "And yet,' quoth she, 'behold two Adons dead!\n" + "My sighs are blown away, my salt tears gone,\n" + "Mine eyes are turn'd to fire, my heart to lead:\n" + "Heavy heart's lead, melt at mine eyes' red fire!\n" + "So shall I die by drops of hot desire.\n\n" + "'Alas, poor world, what treasure hast thou lost!\n" + "What face remains alive that's worth the viewing?\n" + "Whose tongue is music now? what canst thou boast\n" + "Of things long since, or any thing ensuing?\n" + "The flowers are sweet, their colours fresh and trim;\n" + "But true-sweet beauty lived and died with him.\n\n" + "'Bonnet nor veil henceforth no creature wear!\n" + "Nor sun nor wind will ever strive to kiss you:\n" + "Having no fair to lose, you need not fear;\n" + "The sun doth scorn you and the wind doth hiss you:\n" + "But when Adonis lived, sun and sharp air\n" + "Lurk'd like two thieves, to rob him of his fair:\n\n" + "'And therefore would he put his bonnet on,\n" + "Under whose brim the gaudy sun would peep;\n" + "The wind would blow it off and, being gone,\n" + "Play with his locks: then would Adonis weep;\n" + "And straight, in pity of his tender years,\n" + "They both would strive who first should dry his tears.\n\n" + "'To see his face the lion walk'd along\n" + "Behind some hedge, because he would not fear him;\n" + "To recreate himself when he hath sung,\n" + "The tiger would be tame and gently hear him;\n" + "If he had spoke, the wolf would leave his prey\n" + "And never fright the silly lamb that day.\n\n" + "'When he beheld his shadow in the brook,\n" + "The fishes spread on it their golden gills;\n" + "When he was by, the birds such pleasure took,\n" + "That some would sing, some other in their bills\n" + "Would bring him mulberries and ripe-red cherries;\n" + "He fed them with his sight, they him with berries.\n\n" + "'But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar,\n" + "Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,\n" + "Ne'er saw the beauteous livery that he wore;\n" + "Witness the entertainment that he gave:\n" + "If he did see his face, why then I know\n" + "He thought to kiss him, and hath kill'd him so.\n\n" + "''Tis true, 'tis true; thus was Adonis slain:\n" + "He ran upon the boar with his sharp spear,\n" + "Who did not whet his teeth at him again,\n" + "But by a kiss thought to persuade him there;\n" + "And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine\n" + "Sheathed unaware the tusk in his soft groin.\n\n" + "'Had I been tooth'd like him, I must confess,\n" + "With kissing him I should have kill'd him first;\n" + "But he is dead, and never did he bless\n" + "My youth with his; the more am I accurst.'\n" + "With this, she falleth in the place she stood,\n" + "And stains her face with his congealed blood.\n\n" + "She looks upon his lips, and they are pale;\n" + "She takes him by the hand, and that is cold;\n" + "She whispers in his ears a heavy tale,\n" + "As if they heard the woeful words she told;\n" + "She lifts the coffer-lids that close his eyes,\n" + "Where, lo, two lamps, burnt out, in darkness lies;\n\n" + "Two glasses, where herself herself beheld\n" + "A thousand times, and now no more reflect;\n" + "Their virtue lost, wherein they late excell'd,\n" + "And every beauty robb'd of his effect:\n" + "'Wonder of time,' quoth she, 'this is my spite,\n" + "That, thou being dead, the day should yet be light.\n\n" + "'Since thou art dead, lo, here I prophesy:\n" + "Sorrow on love hereafter shall attend:\n" + "It shall be waited on with jealousy,\n" + "Find sweet beginning, but unsavoury end,\n" + "Ne'er settled equally, but high or low,\n" + "That all love's pleasure shall not match his woe.\n\n" + "'It shall be fickle, false and full of fraud,\n" + "Bud and be blasted in a breathing-while;\n" + "The bottom poison, and the top o'erstraw'd\n" + "With sweets that shall the truest sight beguile:\n" + "The strongest body shall it make most weak,\n" + "Strike the wise dumb and teach the fool to speak.\n\n" + "'It shall be sparing and too full of riot,\n" + "Teaching decrepit age to tread the measures;\n" + "The staring ruffian shall it keep in quiet,\n" + "Pluck down the rich, enrich the poor with treasures;\n" + "It shall be raging-mad and silly-mild,\n" + "Make the young old, the old become a child.\n\n" + "'It shall suspect where is no cause of fear;\n" + "It shall not fear where it should most mistrust;\n" + "It shall be merciful and too severe,\n" + "And most deceiving when it seems most just;\n" + "Perverse it shall be where it shows most toward,\n" + "Put fear to valour, courage to the coward.\n\n" + "'It shall be cause of war and dire events,\n" + "And set dissension 'twixt the son and sire;\n" + "Subject and servile to all discontents,\n" + "As dry combustious matter is to fire:\n" + "Sith in his prime Death doth my love destroy,\n" + "They that love best their loves shall not enjoy.'\n\n" + "By this, the boy that by her side lay kill'd\n" + "Was melted like a vapour from her sight,\n" + "And in his blood that on the ground lay spill'd,\n" + "A purple flower sprung up, chequer'd with white,\n" + "Resembling well his pale cheeks and the blood\n" + "Which in round drops upon their whiteness stood.\n\n" + "She bows her head, the new-sprung flower to smell,\n" + "Comparing it to her Adonis' breath,\n" + "And says, within her bosom it shall dwell,\n" + "Since he himself is reft from her by death:\n" + "She crops the stalk, and in the breach appears\n" + "Green dropping sap, which she compares to tears.\n\n" + "'Poor flower,' quoth she, 'this was thy fathers guise--\n" + "Sweet issue of a more sweet-smelling sire--\n" + "For every little grief to wet his eyes:\n" + "To grow unto himself was his desire,\n" + "And so 'tis thine; but know, it is as good\n" + "To wither in my breast as in his blood.\n\n" + "'Here was thy father's bed, here in my breast;\n" + "Thou art the next of blood, and 'tis thy right:\n" + "Lo, in this hollow cradle take thy rest,\n" + "My throbbing heart shall rock thee day and night:\n" + "There shall not be one minute in an hour\n" + "Wherein I will not kiss my sweet love's flower.'\n\n" + "Thus weary of the world, away she hies,\n" + "And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid\n" + "Their mistress mounted through the empty skies\n" + "In her light chariot quickly is convey'd;\n" + "Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen\n" + "Means to immure herself and not be seen.\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + " DRAMATIS PERSONAE\n\n\n" + "LEONTES king of Sicilia.\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS young prince of Sicilia.\n\n\n" + "CAMILLO |\n" + " |\n" + "ANTIGONUS |\n" + " | Four Lords of Sicilia.\n" + "CLEOMENES |\n" + " |\n" + "DION |\n\n\n" + "POLIXENES King of Bohemia.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Prince of Bohemia.\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS a Lord of Bohemia.\n\n" + "Old Shepherd reputed father of Perdita. (Shepherd:)\n\n" + "Clown his son.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS a rogue.\n\n" + " A Mariner. (Mariner:)\n\n" + " A Gaoler. (Gaoler:)\n\n" + "HERMIONE queen to Leontes.\n\n" + "PERDITA daughter to Leontes and Hermione.\n\n" + "PAULINA wife to Antigonus.\n\n" + "EMILIA a lady attending on Hermione,\n\n\n" + "MOPSA |\n" + " | Shepherdesses.\n" + "DORCAS |\n\n\n" + " Other Lords and Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers,\n" + " and Servants, Shepherds, and Shepherdesses.\n" + " (First Lord:)\n" + " (Gentleman:)\n" + " (First Gentleman:)\n" + " (Second Gentleman:)\n" + " (Third Gentleman:)\n" + " (First Lady:)\n" + " (Second Lady:)\n" + " (Officer:)\n" + " (Servant:)\n" + " (First Servant:)\n" + " (Second Servant:)\n\n" + "Time as Chorus.\n\n\n" + "SCENE Sicilia, and Bohemia.\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I Antechamber in LEONTES' palace.\n\n\n\n" + " [Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS]\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on\n" + " the like occasion whereon my services are now on\n" + " foot, you shall see, as I have said, great\n" + " difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia\n" + " means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be\n" + " justified in our loves; for indeed--\n\n" + "CAMILLO Beseech you,--\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge:\n" + " we cannot with such magnificence--in so rare--I know\n" + " not what to say. We will give you sleepy drinks,\n" + " that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience,\n" + " may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse\n" + " us.\n\n" + "CAMILLO You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me\n" + " and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Sicilia cannot show himself over-kind to Bohemia.\n" + " They were trained together in their childhoods; and\n" + " there rooted betwixt them then such an affection,\n" + " which cannot choose but branch now. Since their\n" + " more mature dignities and royal necessities made\n" + " separation of their society, their encounters,\n" + " though not personal, have been royally attorneyed\n" + " with interchange of gifts, letters, loving\n" + " embassies; that they have seemed to be together,\n" + " though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and\n" + " embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed\n" + " winds. The heavens continue their loves!\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS I think there is not in the world either malice or\n" + " matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable\n" + " comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a\n" + " gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came\n" + " into my note.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I very well agree with you in the hopes of him: it\n" + " is a gallant child; one that indeed physics the\n" + " subject, makes old hearts fresh: they that went on\n" + " crutches ere he was born desire yet their life to\n" + " see him a man.\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS Would they else be content to die?\n\n" + "CAMILLO Yes; if there were no other excuse why they should\n" + " desire to live.\n\n" + "ARCHIDAMUS If the king had no son, they would desire to live\n" + " on crutches till he had one.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT I\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A room of state in the same.\n\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONTES, HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS,\n" + " POLIXENES, CAMILLO, and Attendants]\n\n" + "POLIXENES Nine changes of the watery star hath been\n" + " The shepherd's note since we have left our throne\n" + " Without a burthen: time as long again\n" + " Would be find up, my brother, with our thanks;\n" + " And yet we should, for perpetuity,\n" + " Go hence in debt: and therefore, like a cipher,\n" + " Yet standing in rich place, I multiply\n" + " With one 'We thank you' many thousands moe\n" + " That go before it.\n\n" + "LEONTES Stay your thanks a while;\n" + " And pay them when you part.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Sir, that's to-morrow.\n" + " I am question'd by my fears, of what may chance\n" + " Or breed upon our absence; that may blow\n" + " No sneaping winds at home, to make us say\n" + " 'This is put forth too truly:' besides, I have stay'd\n" + " To tire your royalty.\n\n" + "LEONTES We are tougher, brother,\n" + " Than you can put us to't.\n\n" + "POLIXENES No longer stay.\n\n" + "LEONTES One seven-night longer.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Very sooth, to-morrow.\n\n" + "LEONTES We'll part the time between's then; and in that\n" + " I'll no gainsaying.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Press me not, beseech you, so.\n" + " There is no tongue that moves, none, none i' the world,\n" + " So soon as yours could win me: so it should now,\n" + " Were there necessity in your request, although\n" + " 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs\n" + " Do even drag me homeward: which to hinder\n" + " Were in your love a whip to me; my stay\n" + " To you a charge and trouble: to save both,\n" + " Farewell, our brother.\n\n" + "LEONTES Tongue-tied, our queen?\n" + " speak you.\n\n" + "HERMIONE I had thought, sir, to have held my peace until\n" + " You have drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir,\n" + " Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure\n" + " All in Bohemia's well; this satisfaction\n" + " The by-gone day proclaim'd: say this to him,\n" + " He's beat from his best ward.\n\n" + "LEONTES Well said, Hermione.\n\n" + "HERMIONE To tell, he longs to see his son, were strong:\n" + " But let him say so then, and let him go;\n" + " But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,\n" + " We'll thwack him hence with distaffs.\n" + " Yet of your royal presence I'll adventure\n" + " The borrow of a week. When at Bohemia\n" + " You take my lord, I'll give him my commission\n" + " To let him there a month behind the gest\n" + " Prefix'd for's parting: yet, good deed, Leontes,\n" + " I love thee not a jar o' the clock behind\n" + " What lady-she her lord. You'll stay?\n\n" + "POLIXENES No, madam.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Nay, but you will?\n\n" + "POLIXENES I may not, verily.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Verily!\n" + " You put me off with limber vows; but I,\n" + " Though you would seek to unsphere the\n" + " stars with oaths,\n" + " Should yet say 'Sir, no going.' Verily,\n" + " You shall not go: a lady's 'Verily' 's\n" + " As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet?\n" + " Force me to keep you as a prisoner,\n" + " Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees\n" + " When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you?\n" + " My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread 'Verily,'\n" + " One of them you shall be.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Your guest, then, madam:\n" + " To be your prisoner should import offending;\n" + " Which is for me less easy to commit\n" + " Than you to punish.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Not your gaoler, then,\n" + " But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you\n" + " Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys:\n" + " You were pretty lordings then?\n\n" + "POLIXENES We were, fair queen,\n" + " Two lads that thought there was no more behind\n" + " But such a day to-morrow as to-day,\n" + " And to be boy eternal.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Was not my lord\n" + " The verier wag o' the two?\n\n" + "POLIXENES We were as twinn'd lambs that did frisk i' the sun,\n" + " And bleat the one at the other: what we changed\n" + " Was innocence for innocence; we knew not\n" + " The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd\n" + " That any did. Had we pursued that life,\n" + " And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd\n" + " With stronger blood, we should have answer'd heaven\n" + " Boldly 'not guilty;' the imposition clear'd\n" + " Hereditary ours.\n\n" + "HERMIONE By this we gather\n" + " You have tripp'd since.\n\n" + "POLIXENES O my most sacred lady!\n" + " Temptations have since then been born to's; for\n" + " In those unfledged days was my wife a girl;\n" + " Your precious self had then not cross'd the eyes\n" + " Of my young play-fellow.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Grace to boot!\n" + " Of this make no conclusion, lest you say\n" + " Your queen and I are devils: yet go on;\n" + " The offences we have made you do we'll answer,\n" + " If you first sinn'd with us and that with us\n" + " You did continue fault and that you slipp'd not\n" + " With any but with us.\n\n" + "LEONTES Is he won yet?\n\n" + "HERMIONE He'll stay my lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES At my request he would not.\n" + " Hermione, my dearest, thou never spokest\n" + " To better purpose.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Never?\n\n" + "LEONTES Never, but once.\n\n" + "HERMIONE What! have I twice said well? when was't before?\n" + " I prithee tell me; cram's with praise, and make's\n" + " As fat as tame things: one good deed dying tongueless\n" + " Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.\n" + " Our praises are our wages: you may ride's\n" + " With one soft kiss a thousand furlongs ere\n" + " With spur we beat an acre. But to the goal:\n" + " My last good deed was to entreat his stay:\n" + " What was my first? it has an elder sister,\n" + " Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace!\n" + " But once before I spoke to the purpose: when?\n" + " Nay, let me have't; I long.\n\n" + "LEONTES Why, that was when\n" + " Three crabbed months had sour'd themselves to death,\n" + " Ere I could make thee open thy white hand\n" + " And clap thyself my love: then didst thou utter\n" + " 'I am yours for ever.'\n\n" + "HERMIONE 'Tis grace indeed.\n" + " Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice:\n" + " The one for ever earn'd a royal husband;\n" + " The other for some while a friend.\n\n" + "LEONTES [Aside] Too hot, too hot!\n" + " To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.\n" + " I have tremor cordis on me: my heart dances;\n" + " But not for joy; not joy. This entertainment\n" + " May a free face put on, derive a liberty\n" + " From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom,\n" + " And well become the agent; 't may, I grant;\n" + " But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers,\n" + " As now they are, and making practised smiles,\n" + " As in a looking-glass, and then to sigh, as 'twere\n" + " The mort o' the deer; O, that is entertainment\n" + " My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius,\n" + " Art thou my boy?\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES I' fecks!\n" + " Why, that's my bawcock. What, hast\n" + " smutch'd thy nose?\n" + " They say it is a copy out of mine. Come, captain,\n" + " We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, captain:\n" + " And yet the steer, the heifer and the calf\n" + " Are all call'd neat.--Still virginalling\n" + " Upon his palm!--How now, you wanton calf!\n" + " Art thou my calf?\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS Yes, if you will, my lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have,\n" + " To be full like me: yet they say we are\n" + " Almost as like as eggs; women say so,\n" + " That will say anything but were they false\n" + " As o'er-dyed blacks, as wind, as waters, false\n" + " As dice are to be wish'd by one that fixes\n" + " No bourn 'twixt his and mine, yet were it true\n" + " To say this boy were like me. Come, sir page,\n" + " Look on me with your welkin eye: sweet villain!\n" + " Most dear'st! my collop! Can thy dam?--may't be?--\n" + " Affection! thy intention stabs the centre:\n" + " Thou dost make possible things not so held,\n" + " Communicatest with dreams;--how can this be?--\n" + " With what's unreal thou coactive art,\n" + " And fellow'st nothing: then 'tis very credent\n" + " Thou mayst co-join with something; and thou dost,\n" + " And that beyond commission, and I find it,\n" + " And that to the infection of my brains\n" + " And hardening of my brows.\n\n" + "POLIXENES What means Sicilia?\n\n" + "HERMIONE He something seems unsettled.\n\n" + "POLIXENES How, my lord!\n" + " What cheer? how is't with you, best brother?\n\n" + "HERMIONE You look as if you held a brow of much distraction\n" + " Are you moved, my lord?\n\n" + "LEONTES No, in good earnest.\n" + " How sometimes nature will betray its folly,\n" + " Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime\n" + " To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines\n" + " Of my boy's face, methoughts I did recoil\n" + " Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreech'd,\n" + " In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled,\n" + " Lest it should bite its master, and so prove,\n" + " As ornaments oft do, too dangerous:\n" + " How like, methought, I then was to this kernel,\n" + " This squash, this gentleman. Mine honest friend,\n" + " Will you take eggs for money?\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS No, my lord, I'll fight.\n\n" + "LEONTES You will! why, happy man be's dole! My brother,\n" + " Are you so fond of your young prince as we\n" + " Do seem to be of ours?\n\n" + "POLIXENES If at home, sir,\n" + " He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter,\n" + " Now my sworn friend and then mine enemy,\n" + " My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all:\n" + " He makes a July's day short as December,\n" + " And with his varying childness cures in me\n" + " Thoughts that would thick my blood.\n\n" + "LEONTES So stands this squire\n" + " Officed with me: we two will walk, my lord,\n" + " And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione,\n" + " How thou lovest us, show in our brother's welcome;\n" + " Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap:\n" + " Next to thyself and my young rover, he's\n" + " Apparent to my heart.\n\n" + "HERMIONE If you would seek us,\n" + " We are yours i' the garden: shall's attend you there?\n\n" + "LEONTES To your own bents dispose you: you'll be found,\n" + " Be you beneath the sky.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I am angling now,\n" + " Though you perceive me not how I give line.\n" + " Go to, go to!\n" + " How she holds up the neb, the bill to him!\n" + " And arms her with the boldness of a wife\n" + " To her allowing husband!\n\n" + " [Exeunt POLIXENES, HERMIONE, and Attendants]\n\n" + " Gone already!\n" + " Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and\n" + " ears a fork'd one!\n" + " Go, play, boy, play: thy mother plays, and I\n" + " Play too, but so disgraced a part, whose issue\n" + " Will hiss me to my grave: contempt and clamour\n" + " Will be my knell. Go, play, boy, play.\n" + " There have been,\n" + " Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now;\n" + " And many a man there is, even at this present,\n" + " Now while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm,\n" + " That little thinks she has been sluiced in's absence\n" + " And his pond fish'd by his next neighbour, by\n" + " Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't\n" + " Whiles other men have gates and those gates open'd,\n" + " As mine, against their will. Should all despair\n" + " That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind\n" + " Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none;\n" + " It is a bawdy planet, that will strike\n" + " Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powerful, think it,\n" + " From east, west, north and south: be it concluded,\n" + " No barricado for a belly; know't;\n" + " It will let in and out the enemy\n" + " With bag and baggage: many thousand on's\n" + " Have the disease, and feel't not. How now, boy!\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS I am like you, they say.\n\n" + "LEONTES Why that's some comfort. What, Camillo there?\n\n" + "CAMILLO Ay, my good lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES Go play, Mamillius; thou'rt an honest man.\n\n" + " [Exit MAMILLIUS]\n\n" + " Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer.\n\n" + "CAMILLO You had much ado to make his anchor hold:\n" + " When you cast out, it still came home.\n\n" + "LEONTES Didst note it?\n\n" + "CAMILLO He would not stay at your petitions: made\n" + " His business more material.\n\n" + "LEONTES Didst perceive it?\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " They're here with me already, whispering, rounding\n" + " 'Sicilia is a so-forth:' 'tis far gone,\n" + " When I shall gust it last. How came't, Camillo,\n" + " That he did stay?\n\n" + "CAMILLO At the good queen's entreaty.\n\n" + "LEONTES At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent\n" + " But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken\n" + " By any understanding pate but thine?\n" + " For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in\n" + " More than the common blocks: not noted, is't,\n" + " But of the finer natures? by some severals\n" + " Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes\n" + " Perchance are to this business purblind? say.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Business, my lord! I think most understand\n" + " Bohemia stays here longer.\n\n" + "LEONTES Ha!\n\n" + "CAMILLO Stays here longer.\n\n" + "LEONTES Ay, but why?\n\n" + "CAMILLO To satisfy your highness and the entreaties\n" + " Of our most gracious mistress.\n\n" + "LEONTES Satisfy!\n" + " The entreaties of your mistress! satisfy!\n" + " Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo,\n" + " With all the nearest things to my heart, as well\n" + " My chamber-councils, wherein, priest-like, thou\n" + " Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed\n" + " Thy penitent reform'd: but we have been\n" + " Deceived in thy integrity, deceived\n" + " In that which seems so.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Be it forbid, my lord!\n\n" + "LEONTES To bide upon't, thou art not honest, or,\n" + " If thou inclinest that way, thou art a coward,\n" + " Which hoxes honesty behind, restraining\n" + " From course required; or else thou must be counted\n" + " A servant grafted in my serious trust\n" + " And therein negligent; or else a fool\n" + " That seest a game play'd home, the rich stake drawn,\n" + " And takest it all for jest.\n\n" + "CAMILLO My gracious lord,\n" + " I may be negligent, foolish and fearful;\n" + " In every one of these no man is free,\n" + " But that his negligence, his folly, fear,\n" + " Among the infinite doings of the world,\n" + " Sometime puts forth. In your affairs, my lord,\n" + " If ever I were wilful-negligent,\n" + " It was my folly; if industriously\n" + " I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,\n" + " Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful\n" + " To do a thing, where I the issue doubted,\n" + " Where of the execution did cry out\n" + " Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear\n" + " Which oft infects the wisest: these, my lord,\n" + " Are such allow'd infirmities that honesty\n" + " Is never free of. But, beseech your grace,\n" + " Be plainer with me; let me know my trespass\n" + " By its own visage: if I then deny it,\n" + " 'Tis none of mine.\n\n" + "LEONTES Ha' not you seen, Camillo,--\n" + " But that's past doubt, you have, or your eye-glass\n" + " Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,--or heard,--\n" + " For to a vision so apparent rumour\n" + " Cannot be mute,--or thought,--for cogitation\n" + " Resides not in that man that does not think,--\n" + " My wife is slippery? If thou wilt confess,\n" + " Or else be impudently negative,\n" + " To have nor eyes nor ears nor thought, then say\n" + " My wife's a hobby-horse, deserves a name\n" + " As rank as any flax-wench that puts to\n" + " Before her troth-plight: say't and justify't.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I would not be a stander-by to hear\n" + " My sovereign mistress clouded so, without\n" + " My present vengeance taken: 'shrew my heart,\n" + " You never spoke what did become you less\n" + " Than this; which to reiterate were sin\n" + " As deep as that, though true.\n\n" + "LEONTES Is whispering nothing?\n" + " Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?\n" + " Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career\n" + " Of laughing with a sigh?--a note infallible\n" + " Of breaking honesty--horsing foot on foot?\n" + " Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more swift?\n" + " Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all eyes\n" + " Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only,\n" + " That would unseen be wicked? is this nothing?\n" + " Why, then the world and all that's in't is nothing;\n" + " The covering sky is nothing; Bohemia nothing;\n" + " My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings,\n" + " If this be nothing.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Good my lord, be cured\n" + " Of this diseased opinion, and betimes;\n" + " For 'tis most dangerous.\n\n" + "LEONTES Say it be, 'tis true.\n\n" + "CAMILLO No, no, my lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES It is; you lie, you lie:\n" + " I say thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee,\n" + " Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave,\n" + " Or else a hovering temporizer, that\n" + " Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil,\n" + " Inclining to them both: were my wife's liver\n" + " Infected as her life, she would not live\n" + " The running of one glass.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Who does infect her?\n\n" + "LEONTES Why, he that wears her like a medal, hanging\n" + " About his neck, Bohemia: who, if I\n" + " Had servants true about me, that bare eyes\n" + " To see alike mine honour as their profits,\n" + " Their own particular thrifts, they would do that\n" + " Which should undo more doing: ay, and thou,\n" + " His cupbearer,--whom I from meaner form\n" + " Have benched and reared to worship, who mayst see\n" + " Plainly as heaven sees earth and earth sees heaven,\n" + " How I am galled,--mightst bespice a cup,\n" + " To give mine enemy a lasting wink;\n" + " Which draught to me were cordial.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Sir, my lord,\n" + " I could do this, and that with no rash potion,\n" + " But with a lingering dram that should not work\n" + " Maliciously like poison: but I cannot\n" + " Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress,\n" + " So sovereignly being honourable.\n" + " I have loved thee,--\n\n" + "LEONTES Make that thy question, and go rot!\n" + " Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled,\n" + " To appoint myself in this vexation, sully\n" + " The purity and whiteness of my sheets,\n" + " Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted\n" + " Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps,\n" + " Give scandal to the blood o' the prince my son,\n" + " Who I do think is mine and love as mine,\n" + " Without ripe moving to't? Would I do this?\n" + " Could man so blench?\n\n" + "CAMILLO I must believe you, sir:\n" + " I do; and will fetch off Bohemia for't;\n" + " Provided that, when he's removed, your highness\n" + " Will take again your queen as yours at first,\n" + " Even for your son's sake; and thereby for sealing\n" + " The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms\n" + " Known and allied to yours.\n\n" + "LEONTES Thou dost advise me\n" + " Even so as I mine own course have set down:\n" + " I'll give no blemish to her honour, none.\n\n" + "CAMILLO My lord,\n" + " Go then; and with a countenance as clear\n" + " As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia\n" + " And with your queen. I am his cupbearer:\n" + " If from me he have wholesome beverage,\n" + " Account me not your servant.\n\n" + "LEONTES This is all:\n" + " Do't and thou hast the one half of my heart;\n" + " Do't not, thou split'st thine own.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I'll do't, my lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "CAMILLO O miserable lady! But, for me,\n" + " What case stand I in? I must be the poisoner\n" + " Of good Polixenes; and my ground to do't\n" + " Is the obedience to a master, one\n" + " Who in rebellion with himself will have\n" + " All that are his so too. To do this deed,\n" + " Promotion follows. If I could find example\n" + " Of thousands that had struck anointed kings\n" + " And flourish'd after, I'ld not do't; but since\n" + " Nor brass nor stone nor parchment bears not one,\n" + " Let villany itself forswear't. I must\n" + " Forsake the court: to do't, or no, is certain\n" + " To me a break-neck. Happy star, reign now!\n" + " Here comes Bohemia.\n\n" + " [Re-enter POLIXENES]\n\n" + "POLIXENES This is strange: methinks\n" + " My favour here begins to warp. Not speak?\n" + " Good day, Camillo.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Hail, most royal sir!\n\n" + "POLIXENES What is the news i' the court?\n\n" + "CAMILLO None rare, my lord.\n\n" + "POLIXENES The king hath on him such a countenance\n" + " As he had lost some province and a region\n" + " Loved as he loves himself: even now I met him\n" + " With customary compliment; when he,\n" + " Wafting his eyes to the contrary and falling\n" + " A lip of much contempt, speeds from me and\n" + " So leaves me to consider what is breeding\n" + " That changeth thus his manners.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I dare not know, my lord.\n\n" + "POLIXENES How! dare not! do not. Do you know, and dare not?\n" + " Be intelligent to me: 'tis thereabouts;\n" + " For, to yourself, what you do know, you must.\n" + " And cannot say, you dare not. Good Camillo,\n" + " Your changed complexions are to me a mirror\n" + " Which shows me mine changed too; for I must be\n" + " A party in this alteration, finding\n" + " Myself thus alter'd with 't.\n\n" + "CAMILLO There is a sickness\n" + " Which puts some of us in distemper, but\n" + " I cannot name the disease; and it is caught\n" + " Of you that yet are well.\n\n" + "POLIXENES How! caught of me!\n" + " Make me not sighted like the basilisk:\n" + " I have look'd on thousands, who have sped the better\n" + " By my regard, but kill'd none so. Camillo,--\n" + " As you are certainly a gentleman, thereto\n" + " Clerk-like experienced, which no less adorns\n" + " Our gentry than our parents' noble names,\n" + " In whose success we are gentle,--I beseech you,\n" + " If you know aught which does behove my knowledge\n" + " Thereof to be inform'd, imprison't not\n" + " In ignorant concealment.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I may not answer.\n\n" + "POLIXENES A sickness caught of me, and yet I well!\n" + " I must be answer'd. Dost thou hear, Camillo,\n" + " I conjure thee, by all the parts of man\n" + " Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least\n" + " Is not this suit of mine, that thou declare\n" + " What incidency thou dost guess of harm\n" + " Is creeping toward me; how far off, how near;\n" + " Which way to be prevented, if to be;\n" + " If not, how best to bear it.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Sir, I will tell you;\n" + " Since I am charged in honour and by him\n" + " That I think honourable: therefore mark my counsel,\n" + " Which must be even as swiftly follow'd as\n" + " I mean to utter it, or both yourself and me\n" + " Cry lost, and so good night!\n\n" + "POLIXENES On, good Camillo.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I am appointed him to murder you.\n\n" + "POLIXENES By whom, Camillo?\n\n" + "CAMILLO By the king.\n\n" + "POLIXENES For what?\n\n" + "CAMILLO He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears,\n" + " As he had seen't or been an instrument\n" + " To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen\n" + " Forbiddenly.\n\n" + "POLIXENES O, then my best blood turn\n" + " To an infected jelly and my name\n" + " Be yoked with his that did betray the Best!\n" + " Turn then my freshest reputation to\n" + " A savour that may strike the dullest nostril\n" + " Where I arrive, and my approach be shunn'd,\n" + " Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st infection\n" + " That e'er was heard or read!\n\n" + "CAMILLO Swear his thought over\n" + " By each particular star in heaven and\n" + " By all their influences, you may as well\n" + " Forbid the sea for to obey the moon\n" + " As or by oath remove or counsel shake\n" + " The fabric of his folly, whose foundation\n" + " Is piled upon his faith and will continue\n" + " The standing of his body.\n\n" + "POLIXENES How should this grow?\n\n" + "CAMILLO I know not: but I am sure 'tis safer to\n" + " Avoid what's grown than question how 'tis born.\n" + " If therefore you dare trust my honesty,\n" + " That lies enclosed in this trunk which you\n" + " Shall bear along impawn'd, away to-night!\n" + " Your followers I will whisper to the business,\n" + " And will by twos and threes at several posterns\n" + " Clear them o' the city. For myself, I'll put\n" + " My fortunes to your service, which are here\n" + " By this discovery lost. Be not uncertain;\n" + " For, by the honour of my parents, I\n" + " Have utter'd truth: which if you seek to prove,\n" + " I dare not stand by; nor shall you be safer\n" + " Than one condemn'd by the king's own mouth, thereon\n" + " His execution sworn.\n\n" + "POLIXENES I do believe thee:\n" + " I saw his heart in 's face. Give me thy hand:\n" + " Be pilot to me and thy places shall\n" + " Still neighbour mine. My ships are ready and\n" + " My people did expect my hence departure\n" + " Two days ago. This jealousy\n" + " Is for a precious creature: as she's rare,\n" + " Must it be great, and as his person's mighty,\n" + " Must it be violent, and as he does conceive\n" + " He is dishonour'd by a man which ever\n" + " Profess'd to him, why, his revenges must\n" + " In that be made more bitter. Fear o'ershades me:\n" + " Good expedition be my friend, and comfort\n" + " The gracious queen, part of his theme, but nothing\n" + " Of his ill-ta'en suspicion! Come, Camillo;\n" + " I will respect thee as a father if\n" + " Thou bear'st my life off hence: let us avoid.\n\n" + "CAMILLO It is in mine authority to command\n" + " The keys of all the posterns: please your highness\n" + " To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in LEONTES' palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter HERMIONE, MAMILLIUS, and Ladies]\n\n" + "HERMIONE Take the boy to you: he so troubles me,\n" + " 'Tis past enduring.\n\n" + "First Lady Come, my gracious lord,\n" + " Shall I be your playfellow?\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS No, I'll none of you.\n\n" + "First Lady Why, my sweet lord?\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS You'll kiss me hard and speak to me as if\n" + " I were a baby still. I love you better.\n\n" + "Second Lady And why so, my lord?\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS Not for because\n" + " Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say,\n" + " Become some women best, so that there be not\n" + " Too much hair there, but in a semicircle\n" + " Or a half-moon made with a pen.\n\n" + "Second Lady Who taught you this?\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS I learnt it out of women's faces. Pray now\n" + " What colour are your eyebrows?\n\n" + "First Lady Blue, my lord.\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS Nay, that's a mock: I have seen a lady's nose\n" + " That has been blue, but not her eyebrows.\n\n" + "First Lady Hark ye;\n" + " The queen your mother rounds apace: we shall\n" + " Present our services to a fine new prince\n" + " One of these days; and then you'ld wanton with us,\n" + " If we would have you.\n\n" + "Second Lady She is spread of late\n" + " Into a goodly bulk: good time encounter her!\n\n" + "HERMIONE What wisdom stirs amongst you? Come, sir, now\n" + " I am for you again: pray you, sit by us,\n" + " And tell 's a tale.\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS Merry or sad shall't be?\n\n" + "HERMIONE As merry as you will.\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS A sad tale's best for winter: I have one\n" + " Of sprites and goblins.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Let's have that, good sir.\n" + " Come on, sit down: come on, and do your best\n" + " To fright me with your sprites; you're powerful at it.\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS There was a man--\n\n" + "HERMIONE Nay, come, sit down; then on.\n\n" + "MAMILLIUS Dwelt by a churchyard: I will tell it softly;\n" + " Yond crickets shall not hear it.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Come on, then,\n" + " And give't me in mine ear.\n\n" + " [Enter LEONTES, with ANTIGONUS, Lords and others]\n\n" + "LEONTES Was he met there? his train? Camillo with him?\n\n" + "First Lord Behind the tuft of pines I met them; never\n" + " Saw I men scour so on their way: I eyed them\n" + " Even to their ships.\n\n" + "LEONTES How blest am I\n" + " In my just censure, in my true opinion!\n" + " Alack, for lesser knowledge! how accursed\n" + " In being so blest! There may be in the cup\n" + " A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,\n" + " And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge\n" + " Is not infected: but if one present\n" + " The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known\n" + " How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides,\n" + " With violent hefts. I have drunk,\n" + " and seen the spider.\n" + " Camillo was his help in this, his pander:\n" + " There is a plot against my life, my crown;\n" + " All's true that is mistrusted: that false villain\n" + " Whom I employ'd was pre-employ'd by him:\n" + " He has discover'd my design, and I\n" + " Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick\n" + " For them to play at will. How came the posterns\n" + " So easily open?\n\n" + "First Lord By his great authority;\n" + " Which often hath no less prevail'd than so\n" + " On your command.\n\n" + "LEONTES I know't too well.\n" + " Give me the boy: I am glad you did not nurse him:\n" + " Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you\n" + " Have too much blood in him.\n\n" + "HERMIONE What is this? sport?\n\n" + "LEONTES Bear the boy hence; he shall not come about her;\n" + " Away with him! and let her sport herself\n" + " With that she's big with; for 'tis Polixenes\n" + " Has made thee swell thus.\n\n" + "HERMIONE But I'ld say he had not,\n" + " And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying,\n" + " Howe'er you lean to the nayward.\n\n" + "LEONTES You, my lords,\n" + " Look on her, mark her well; be but about\n" + " To say 'she is a goodly lady,' and\n" + " The justice of your bearts will thereto add\n" + " 'Tis pity she's not honest, honourable:'\n" + " Praise her but for this her without-door form,\n" + " Which on my faith deserves high speech, and straight\n" + " The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands\n" + " That calumny doth use--O, I am out--\n" + " That mercy does, for calumny will sear\n" + " Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's,\n" + " When you have said 'she's goodly,' come between\n" + " Ere you can say 'she's honest:' but be 't known,\n" + " From him that has most cause to grieve it should be,\n" + " She's an adulteress.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Should a villain say so,\n" + " The most replenish'd villain in the world,\n" + " He were as much more villain: you, my lord,\n" + " Do but mistake.\n\n" + "LEONTES You have mistook, my lady,\n" + " Polixenes for Leontes: O thou thing!\n" + " Which I'll not call a creature of thy place,\n" + " Lest barbarism, making me the precedent,\n" + " Should a like language use to all degrees\n" + " And mannerly distinguishment leave out\n" + " Betwixt the prince and beggar: I have said\n" + " She's an adulteress; I have said with whom:\n" + " More, she's a traitor and Camillo is\n" + " A federary with her, and one that knows\n" + " What she should shame to know herself\n" + " But with her most vile principal, that she's\n" + " A bed-swerver, even as bad as those\n" + " That vulgars give bold'st titles, ay, and privy\n" + " To this their late escape.\n\n" + "HERMIONE No, by my life.\n" + " Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you,\n" + " When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that\n" + " You thus have publish'd me! Gentle my lord,\n" + " You scarce can right me throughly then to say\n" + " You did mistake.\n\n" + "LEONTES No; if I mistake\n" + " In those foundations which I build upon,\n" + " The centre is not big enough to bear\n" + " A school-boy's top. Away with her! to prison!\n" + " He who shall speak for her is afar off guilty\n" + " But that he speaks.\n\n" + "HERMIONE There's some ill planet reigns:\n" + " I must be patient till the heavens look\n" + " With an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,\n" + " I am not prone to weeping, as our sex\n" + " Commonly are; the want of which vain dew\n" + " Perchance shall dry your pities: but I have\n" + " That honourable grief lodged here which burns\n" + " Worse than tears drown: beseech you all, my lords,\n" + " With thoughts so qualified as your charities\n" + " Shall best instruct you, measure me; and so\n" + " The king's will be perform'd!\n\n" + "LEONTES Shall I be heard?\n\n" + "HERMIONE Who is't that goes with me? Beseech your highness,\n" + " My women may be with me; for you see\n" + " My plight requires it. Do not weep, good fools;\n" + " There is no cause: when you shall know your mistress\n" + " Has deserved prison, then abound in tears\n" + " As I come out: this action I now go on\n" + " Is for my better grace. Adieu, my lord:\n" + " I never wish'd to see you sorry; now\n" + " I trust I shall. My women, come; you have leave.\n\n" + "LEONTES Go, do our bidding; hence!\n\n" + " [Exit HERMIONE, guarded; with Ladies]\n\n" + "First Lord Beseech your highness, call the queen again.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice\n" + " Prove violence; in the which three great ones suffer,\n" + " Yourself, your queen, your son.\n\n" + "First Lord For her, my lord,\n" + " I dare my life lay down and will do't, sir,\n" + " Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless\n" + " I' the eyes of heaven and to you; I mean,\n" + " In this which you accuse her.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS If it prove\n" + " She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where\n" + " I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her;\n" + " Than when I feel and see her no farther trust her;\n" + " For every inch of woman in the world,\n" + " Ay, every dram of woman's flesh is false, If she be.\n\n" + "LEONTES Hold your peaces.\n\n" + "First Lord Good my lord,--\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS It is for you we speak, not for ourselves:\n" + " You are abused and by some putter-on\n" + " That will be damn'd for't; would I knew the villain,\n" + " I would land-damn him. Be she honour-flaw'd,\n" + " I have three daughters; the eldest is eleven\n" + " The second and the third, nine, and some five;\n" + " If this prove true, they'll pay for't:\n" + " by mine honour,\n" + " I'll geld 'em all; fourteen they shall not see,\n" + " To bring false generations: they are co-heirs;\n" + " And I had rather glib myself than they\n" + " Should not produce fair issue.\n\n" + "LEONTES Cease; no more.\n" + " You smell this business with a sense as cold\n" + " As is a dead man's nose: but I do see't and feel't\n" + " As you feel doing thus; and see withal\n" + " The instruments that feel.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS If it be so,\n" + " We need no grave to bury honesty:\n" + " There's not a grain of it the face to sweeten\n" + " Of the whole dungy earth.\n\n" + "LEONTES What! lack I credit?\n\n" + "First Lord I had rather you did lack than I, my lord,\n" + " Upon this ground; and more it would content me\n" + " To have her honour true than your suspicion,\n" + " Be blamed for't how you might.\n\n" + "LEONTES Why, what need we\n" + " Commune with you of this, but rather follow\n" + " Our forceful instigation? Our prerogative\n" + " Calls not your counsels, but our natural goodness\n" + " Imparts this; which if you, or stupefied\n" + " Or seeming so in skill, cannot or will not\n" + " Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves\n" + " We need no more of your advice: the matter,\n" + " The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all\n" + " Properly ours.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS And I wish, my liege,\n" + " You had only in your silent judgment tried it,\n" + " Without more overture.\n\n" + "LEONTES How could that be?\n" + " Either thou art most ignorant by age,\n" + " Or thou wert born a fool. Camillo's flight,\n" + " Added to their familiarity,\n" + " Which was as gross as ever touch'd conjecture,\n" + " That lack'd sight only, nought for approbation\n" + " But only seeing, all other circumstances\n" + " Made up to the deed, doth push on this proceeding:\n" + " Yet, for a greater confirmation,\n" + " For in an act of this importance 'twere\n" + " Most piteous to be wild, I have dispatch'd in post\n" + " To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple,\n" + " Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know\n" + " Of stuff'd sufficiency: now from the oracle\n" + " They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had,\n" + " Shall stop or spur me. Have I done well?\n\n" + "First Lord Well done, my lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES Though I am satisfied and need no more\n" + " Than what I know, yet shall the oracle\n" + " Give rest to the minds of others, such as he\n" + " Whose ignorant credulity will not\n" + " Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good\n" + " From our free person she should be confined,\n" + " Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence\n" + " Be left her to perform. Come, follow us;\n" + " We are to speak in public; for this business\n" + " Will raise us all.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS [Aside]\n\n" + " To laughter, as I take it,\n" + " If the good truth were known.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A prison.\n\n\n" + " [Enter PAULINA, a Gentleman, and Attendants]\n\n" + "PAULINA The keeper of the prison, call to him;\n" + " let him have knowledge who I am.\n\n" + " [Exit Gentleman]\n\n" + " Good lady,\n" + " No court in Europe is too good for thee;\n" + " What dost thou then in prison?\n\n" + " [Re-enter Gentleman, with the Gaoler]\n\n" + " Now, good sir,\n" + " You know me, do you not?\n\n" + "Gaoler For a worthy lady\n" + " And one whom much I honour.\n\n" + "PAULINA Pray you then,\n" + " Conduct me to the queen.\n\n" + "Gaoler I may not, madam:\n" + " To the contrary I have express commandment.\n\n" + "PAULINA Here's ado,\n" + " To lock up honesty and honour from\n" + " The access of gentle visitors!\n" + " Is't lawful, pray you,\n" + " To see her women? any of them? Emilia?\n\n" + "Gaoler So please you, madam,\n" + " To put apart these your attendants, I\n" + " Shall bring Emilia forth.\n\n" + "PAULINA I pray now, call her.\n" + " Withdraw yourselves.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Gentleman and Attendants]\n\n" + "Gaoler And, madam,\n" + " I must be present at your conference.\n\n" + "PAULINA Well, be't so, prithee.\n\n" + " [Exit Gaoler]\n\n" + " Here's such ado to make no stain a stain\n" + " As passes colouring.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Gaoler, with EMILIA]\n\n" + " Dear gentlewoman,\n" + " How fares our gracious lady?\n\n" + "EMILIA As well as one so great and so forlorn\n" + " May hold together: on her frights and griefs,\n" + " Which never tender lady hath born greater,\n" + " She is something before her time deliver'd.\n\n" + "PAULINA A boy?\n\n" + "EMILIA A daughter, and a goodly babe,\n" + " Lusty and like to live: the queen receives\n" + " Much comfort in't; says 'My poor prisoner,\n" + " I am innocent as you.'\n\n" + "PAULINA I dare be sworn\n" + " These dangerous unsafe lunes i' the king,\n" + " beshrew them!\n" + " He must be told on't, and he shall: the office\n" + " Becomes a woman best; I'll take't upon me:\n" + " If I prove honey-mouth'd let my tongue blister\n" + " And never to my red-look'd anger be\n" + " The trumpet any more. Pray you, Emilia,\n" + " Commend my best obedience to the queen:\n" + " If she dares trust me with her little babe,\n" + " I'll show't the king and undertake to be\n" + " Her advocate to the loud'st. We do not know\n" + " How he may soften at the sight o' the child:\n" + " The silence often of pure innocence\n" + " Persuades when speaking fails.\n\n" + "EMILIA Most worthy madam,\n" + " Your honour and your goodness is so evident\n" + " That your free undertaking cannot miss\n" + " A thriving issue: there is no lady living\n" + " So meet for this great errand. Please your ladyship\n" + " To visit the next room, I'll presently\n" + " Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer;\n" + " Who but to-day hammer'd of this design,\n" + " But durst not tempt a minister of honour,\n" + " Lest she should be denied.\n\n" + "PAULINA Tell her, Emilia.\n" + " I'll use that tongue I have: if wit flow from't\n" + " As boldness from my bosom, let 't not be doubted\n" + " I shall do good.\n\n" + "EMILIA Now be you blest for it!\n" + " I'll to the queen: please you,\n" + " come something nearer.\n\n" + "Gaoler Madam, if't please the queen to send the babe,\n" + " I know not what I shall incur to pass it,\n" + " Having no warrant.\n\n" + "PAULINA You need not fear it, sir:\n" + " This child was prisoner to the womb and is\n" + " By law and process of great nature thence\n" + " Freed and enfranchised, not a party to\n" + " The anger of the king nor guilty of,\n" + " If any be, the trespass of the queen.\n\n" + "Gaoler I do believe it.\n\n" + "PAULINA Do not you fear: upon mine honour,\n" + " I will stand betwixt you and danger.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT II\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A room in LEONTES' palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONTES, ANTIGONUS, Lords, and Servants]\n\n" + "LEONTES Nor night nor day no rest: it is but weakness\n" + " To bear the matter thus; mere weakness. If\n" + " The cause were not in being,--part o' the cause,\n" + " She the adulteress; for the harlot king\n" + " Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank\n" + " And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she\n" + " I can hook to me: say that she were gone,\n" + " Given to the fire, a moiety of my rest\n" + " Might come to me again. Who's there?\n\n" + "First Servant My lord?\n\n" + "LEONTES How does the boy?\n\n" + "First Servant He took good rest to-night;\n" + " 'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged.\n\n" + "LEONTES To see his nobleness!\n" + " Conceiving the dishonour of his mother,\n" + " He straight declined, droop'd, took it deeply,\n" + " Fasten'd and fix'd the shame on't in himself,\n" + " Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep,\n" + " And downright languish'd. Leave me solely: go,\n" + " See how he fares.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + " Fie, fie! no thought of him:\n" + " The thought of my revenges that way\n" + " Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty,\n" + " And in his parties, his alliance; let him be\n" + " Until a time may serve: for present vengeance,\n" + " Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes\n" + " Laugh at me, make their pastime at my sorrow:\n" + " They should not laugh if I could reach them, nor\n" + " Shall she within my power.\n\n" + " [Enter PAULINA, with a child]\n\n" + "First Lord You must not enter.\n\n" + "PAULINA Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me:\n" + " Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas,\n" + " Than the queen's life? a gracious innocent soul,\n" + " More free than he is jealous.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS That's enough.\n\n" + "Second Servant Madam, he hath not slept tonight; commanded\n" + " None should come at him.\n\n" + "PAULINA Not so hot, good sir:\n" + " I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you,\n" + " That creep like shadows by him and do sigh\n" + " At each his needless heavings, such as you\n" + " Nourish the cause of his awaking: I\n" + " Do come with words as medicinal as true,\n" + " Honest as either, to purge him of that humour\n" + " That presses him from sleep.\n\n" + "LEONTES What noise there, ho?\n\n" + "PAULINA No noise, my lord; but needful conference\n" + " About some gossips for your highness.\n\n" + "LEONTES How!\n" + " Away with that audacious lady! Antigonus,\n" + " I charged thee that she should not come about me:\n" + " I knew she would.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS I told her so, my lord,\n" + " On your displeasure's peril and on mine,\n" + " She should not visit you.\n\n" + "LEONTES What, canst not rule her?\n\n" + "PAULINA From all dishonesty he can: in this,\n" + " Unless he take the course that you have done,\n" + " Commit me for committing honour, trust it,\n" + " He shall not rule me.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS La you now, you hear:\n" + " When she will take the rein I let her run;\n" + " But she'll not stumble.\n\n" + "PAULINA Good my liege, I come;\n" + " And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess\n" + " Myself your loyal servant, your physician,\n" + " Your most obedient counsellor, yet that dare\n" + " Less appear so in comforting your evils,\n" + " Than such as most seem yours: I say, I come\n" + " From your good queen.\n\n" + "LEONTES Good queen!\n\n" + "PAULINA Good queen, my lord,\n" + " Good queen; I say good queen;\n" + " And would by combat make her good, so were I\n" + " A man, the worst about you.\n\n" + "LEONTES Force her hence.\n\n" + "PAULINA Let him that makes but trifles of his eyes\n" + " First hand me: on mine own accord I'll off;\n" + " But first I'll do my errand. The good queen,\n" + " For she is good, hath brought you forth a daughter;\n" + " Here 'tis; commends it to your blessing.\n\n" + " [Laying down the child]\n\n" + "LEONTES Out!\n" + " A mankind witch! Hence with her, out o' door:\n" + " A most intelligencing bawd!\n\n" + "PAULINA Not so:\n" + " I am as ignorant in that as you\n" + " In so entitling me, and no less honest\n" + " Than you are mad; which is enough, I'll warrant,\n" + " As this world goes, to pass for honest.\n\n" + "LEONTES Traitors!\n" + " Will you not push her out? Give her the bastard.\n" + " Thou dotard! thou art woman-tired, unroosted\n" + " By thy dame Partlet here. Take up the bastard;\n" + " Take't up, I say; give't to thy crone.\n\n" + "PAULINA For ever\n" + " Unvenerable be thy hands, if thou\n" + " Takest up the princess by that forced baseness\n" + " Which he has put upon't!\n\n" + "LEONTES He dreads his wife.\n\n" + "PAULINA So I would you did; then 'twere past all doubt\n" + " You'ld call your children yours.\n\n" + "LEONTES A nest of traitors!\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS I am none, by this good light.\n\n" + "PAULINA Nor I, nor any\n" + " But one that's here, and that's himself, for he\n" + " The sacred honour of himself, his queen's,\n" + " His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander,\n" + " Whose sting is sharper than the sword's;\n" + " and will not--\n" + " For, as the case now stands, it is a curse\n" + " He cannot be compell'd to't--once remove\n" + " The root of his opinion, which is rotten\n" + " As ever oak or stone was sound.\n\n" + "LEONTES A callat\n" + " Of boundless tongue, who late hath beat her husband\n" + " And now baits me! This brat is none of mine;\n" + " It is the issue of Polixenes:\n" + " Hence with it, and together with the dam\n" + " Commit them to the fire!\n\n" + "PAULINA It is yours;\n" + " And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge,\n" + " So like you, 'tis the worse. Behold, my lords,\n" + " Although the print be little, the whole matter\n" + " And copy of the father, eye, nose, lip,\n" + " The trick of's frown, his forehead, nay, the valley,\n" + " The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek,\n" + " His smiles,\n" + " The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger:\n" + " And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it\n" + " So like to him that got it, if thou hast\n" + " The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colours\n" + " No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does,\n" + " Her children not her husband's!\n\n" + "LEONTES A gross hag\n" + " And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd,\n" + " That wilt not stay her tongue.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS Hang all the husbands\n" + " That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself\n" + " Hardly one subject.\n\n" + "LEONTES Once more, take her hence.\n\n" + "PAULINA A most unworthy and unnatural lord\n" + " Can do no more.\n\n" + "LEONTES I'll ha' thee burnt.\n\n" + "PAULINA I care not:\n" + " It is an heretic that makes the fire,\n" + " Not she which burns in't. I'll not call you tyrant;\n" + " But this most cruel usage of your queen,\n" + " Not able to produce more accusation\n" + " Than your own weak-hinged fancy, something savours\n" + " Of tyranny and will ignoble make you,\n" + " Yea, scandalous to the world.\n\n" + "LEONTES On your allegiance,\n" + " Out of the chamber with her! Were I a tyrant,\n" + " Where were her life? she durst not call me so,\n" + " If she did know me one. Away with her!\n\n" + "PAULINA I pray you, do not push me; I'll be gone.\n" + " Look to your babe, my lord; 'tis yours:\n" + " Jove send her\n" + " A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands?\n" + " You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies,\n" + " Will never do him good, not one of you.\n" + " So, so: farewell; we are gone.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "LEONTES Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this.\n" + " My child? away with't! Even thou, that hast\n" + " A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence\n" + " And see it instantly consumed with fire;\n" + " Even thou and none but thou. Take it up straight:\n" + " Within this hour bring me word 'tis done,\n" + " And by good testimony, or I'll seize thy life,\n" + " With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse\n" + " And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so;\n" + " The bastard brains with these my proper hands\n" + " Shall I dash out. Go, take it to the fire;\n" + " For thou set'st on thy wife.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS I did not, sir:\n" + " These lords, my noble fellows, if they please,\n" + " Can clear me in't.\n\n" + "Lords We can: my royal liege,\n" + " He is not guilty of her coming hither.\n\n" + "LEONTES You're liars all.\n\n" + "First Lord Beseech your highness, give us better credit:\n" + " We have always truly served you, and beseech you\n" + " So to esteem of us, and on our knees we beg,\n" + " As recompense of our dear services\n" + " Past and to come, that you do change this purpose,\n" + " Which being so horrible, so bloody, must\n" + " Lead on to some foul issue: we all kneel.\n\n" + "LEONTES I am a feather for each wind that blows:\n" + " Shall I live on to see this bastard kneel\n" + " And call me father? better burn it now\n" + " Than curse it then. But be it; let it live.\n" + " It shall not neither. You, sir, come you hither;\n" + " You that have been so tenderly officious\n" + " With Lady Margery, your midwife there,\n" + " To save this bastard's life,--for 'tis a bastard,\n" + " So sure as this beard's grey,\n" + " --what will you adventure\n" + " To save this brat's life?\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS Any thing, my lord,\n" + " That my ability may undergo\n" + " And nobleness impose: at least thus much:\n" + " I'll pawn the little blood which I have left\n" + " To save the innocent: any thing possible.\n\n" + "LEONTES It shall be possible. Swear by this sword\n" + " Thou wilt perform my bidding.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS I will, my lord.\n\n" + "LEONTES Mark and perform it, see'st thou! for the fail\n" + " Of any point in't shall not only be\n" + " Death to thyself but to thy lewd-tongued wife,\n" + " Whom for this time we pardon. We enjoin thee,\n" + " As thou art liege-man to us, that thou carry\n" + " This female bastard hence and that thou bear it\n" + " To some remote and desert place quite out\n" + " Of our dominions, and that there thou leave it,\n" + " Without more mercy, to its own protection\n" + " And favour of the climate. As by strange fortune\n" + " It came to us, I do in justice charge thee,\n" + " On thy soul's peril and thy body's torture,\n" + " That thou commend it strangely to some place\n" + " Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS I swear to do this, though a present death\n" + " Had been more merciful. Come on, poor babe:\n" + " Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens\n" + " To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say\n" + " Casting their savageness aside have done\n" + " Like offices of pity. Sir, be prosperous\n" + " In more than this deed does require! And blessing\n" + " Against this cruelty fight on thy side,\n" + " Poor thing, condemn'd to loss!\n\n" + " [Exit with the child]\n\n" + "LEONTES No, I'll not rear\n" + " Another's issue.\n\n" + " [Enter a Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Please your highness, posts\n" + " From those you sent to the oracle are come\n" + " An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion,\n" + " Being well arrived from Delphos, are both landed,\n" + " Hasting to the court.\n\n" + "First Lord So please you, sir, their speed\n" + " Hath been beyond account.\n\n" + "LEONTES Twenty-three days\n" + " They have been absent: 'tis good speed; foretells\n" + " The great Apollo suddenly will have\n" + " The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords;\n" + " Summon a session, that we may arraign\n" + " Our most disloyal lady, for, as she hath\n" + " Been publicly accused, so shall she have\n" + " A just and open trial. While she lives\n" + " My heart will be a burthen to me. Leave me,\n" + " And think upon my bidding.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A sea-port in Sicilia.\n\n\n\n" + " [Enter CLEOMENES and DION]\n\n" + "CLEOMENES The climate's delicate, the air most sweet,\n" + " Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing\n" + " The common praise it bears.\n\n" + "DION I shall report,\n" + " For most it caught me, the celestial habits,\n" + " Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence\n" + " Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice!\n" + " How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly\n" + " It was i' the offering!\n\n" + "CLEOMENES But of all, the burst\n" + " And the ear-deafening voice o' the oracle,\n" + " Kin to Jove's thunder, so surprised my sense.\n" + " That I was nothing.\n\n" + "DION If the event o' the journey\n" + " Prove as successful to the queen,--O be't so!--\n" + " As it hath been to us rare, pleasant, speedy,\n" + " The time is worth the use on't.\n\n" + "CLEOMENES Great Apollo\n" + " Turn all to the best! These proclamations,\n" + " So forcing faults upon Hermione,\n" + " I little like.\n\n" + "DION The violent carriage of it\n" + " Will clear or end the business: when the oracle,\n" + " Thus by Apollo's great divine seal'd up,\n" + " Shall the contents discover, something rare\n" + " Even then will rush to knowledge. Go: fresh horses!\n" + " And gracious be the issue!\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II A court of Justice.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONTES, Lords, and Officers]\n\n" + "LEONTES This sessions, to our great grief we pronounce,\n" + " Even pushes 'gainst our heart: the party tried\n" + " The daughter of a king, our wife, and one\n" + " Of us too much beloved. Let us be clear'd\n" + " Of being tyrannous, since we so openly\n" + " Proceed in justice, which shall have due course,\n" + " Even to the guilt or the purgation.\n" + " Produce the prisoner.\n\n" + "Officer It is his highness' pleasure that the queen\n" + " Appear in person here in court. Silence!\n\n" + " [Enter HERMIONE guarded;\n" + " PAULINA and Ladies attending]\n\n" + "LEONTES Read the indictment.\n\n" + "Officer [Reads] Hermione, queen to the worthy\n" + " Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here accused and\n" + " arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery\n" + " with Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring\n" + " with Camillo to take away the life of our sovereign\n" + " lord the king, thy royal husband: the pretence\n" + " whereof being by circumstances partly laid open,\n" + " thou, Hermione, contrary to the faith and allegiance\n" + " of a true subject, didst counsel and aid them, for\n" + " their better safety, to fly away by night.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Since what I am to say must be but that\n" + " Which contradicts my accusation and\n" + " The testimony on my part no other\n" + " But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me\n" + " To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity\n" + " Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,\n" + " Be so received. But thus: if powers divine\n" + " Behold our human actions, as they do,\n" + " I doubt not then but innocence shall make\n" + " False accusation blush and tyranny\n" + " Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know,\n" + " Who least will seem to do so, my past life\n" + " Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true,\n" + " As I am now unhappy; which is more\n" + " Than history can pattern, though devised\n" + " And play'd to take spectators. For behold me\n" + " A fellow of the royal bed, which owe\n" + " A moiety of the throne a great king's daughter,\n" + " The mother to a hopeful prince, here standing\n" + " To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore\n" + " Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it\n" + " As I weigh grief, which I would spare: for honour,\n" + " 'Tis a derivative from me to mine,\n" + " And only that I stand for. I appeal\n" + " To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes\n" + " Came to your court, how I was in your grace,\n" + " How merited to be so; since he came,\n" + " With what encounter so uncurrent I\n" + " Have strain'd to appear thus: if one jot beyond\n" + " The bound of honour, or in act or will\n" + " That way inclining, harden'd be the hearts\n" + " Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin\n" + " Cry fie upon my grave!\n\n" + "LEONTES I ne'er heard yet\n" + " That any of these bolder vices wanted\n" + " Less impudence to gainsay what they did\n" + " Than to perform it first.\n\n" + "HERMIONE That's true enough;\n" + " Through 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me.\n\n" + "LEONTES You will not own it.\n\n" + "HERMIONE More than mistress of\n" + " Which comes to me in name of fault, I must not\n" + " At all acknowledge. For Polixenes,\n" + " With whom I am accused, I do confess\n" + " I loved him as in honour he required,\n" + " With such a kind of love as might become\n" + " A lady like me, with a love even such,\n" + " So and no other, as yourself commanded:\n" + " Which not to have done I think had been in me\n" + " Both disobedience and ingratitude\n" + " To you and toward your friend, whose love had spoke,\n" + " Even since it could speak, from an infant, freely\n" + " That it was yours. Now, for conspiracy,\n" + " I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd\n" + " For me to try how: all I know of it\n" + " Is that Camillo was an honest man;\n" + " And why he left your court, the gods themselves,\n" + " Wotting no more than I, are ignorant.\n\n" + "LEONTES You knew of his departure, as you know\n" + " What you have underta'en to do in's absence.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Sir,\n" + " You speak a language that I understand not:\n" + " My life stands in the level of your dreams,\n" + " Which I'll lay down.\n\n" + "LEONTES Your actions are my dreams;\n" + " You had a bastard by Polixenes,\n" + " And I but dream'd it. As you were past all shame,--\n" + " Those of your fact are so--so past all truth:\n" + " Which to deny concerns more than avails; for as\n" + " Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself,\n" + " No father owning it,--which is, indeed,\n" + " More criminal in thee than it,--so thou\n" + " Shalt feel our justice, in whose easiest passage\n" + " Look for no less than death.\n\n" + "HERMIONE Sir, spare your threats:\n" + " The bug which you would fright me with I seek.\n" + " To me can life be no commodity:\n" + " The crown and comfort of my life, your favour,\n" + " I do give lost; for I do feel it gone,\n" + " But know not how it went. My second joy\n" + " And first-fruits of my body, from his presence\n" + " I am barr'd, like one infectious. My third comfort\n" + " Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast,\n" + " The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth,\n" + " Haled out to murder: myself on every post\n" + " Proclaimed a strumpet: with immodest hatred\n" + " The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs\n" + " To women of all fashion; lastly, hurried\n" + " Here to this place, i' the open air, before\n" + " I have got strength of limit. Now, my liege,\n" + " Tell me what blessings I have here alive,\n" + " That I should fear to die? Therefore proceed.\n" + " But yet hear this: mistake me not; no life,\n" + " I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour,\n" + " Which I would free, if I shall be condemn'd\n" + " Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else\n" + " But what your jealousies awake, I tell you\n" + " 'Tis rigor and not law. Your honours all,\n" + " I do refer me to the oracle:\n" + " Apollo be my judge!\n\n" + "First Lord This your request\n" + " Is altogether just: therefore bring forth,\n" + " And in Apollos name, his oracle.\n\n" + " [Exeunt certain Officers]\n\n" + "HERMIONE The Emperor of Russia was my father:\n" + " O that he were alive, and here beholding\n" + " His daughter's trial! that he did but see\n" + " The flatness of my misery, yet with eyes\n" + " Of pity, not revenge!\n\n" + " [Re-enter Officers, with CLEOMENES and DION]\n\n" + "Officer You here shall swear upon this sword of justice,\n" + " That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have\n" + " Been both at Delphos, and from thence have brought\n" + " The seal'd-up oracle, by the hand deliver'd\n" + " Of great Apollo's priest; and that, since then,\n" + " You have not dared to break the holy seal\n" + " Nor read the secrets in't.\n\n\n" + "CLEOMENES |\n" + " | All this we swear.\n" + "DION |\n\n\n" + "LEONTES Break up the seals and read.\n\n" + "Officer [Reads] Hermione is chaste;\n" + " Polixenes blameless; Camillo a true subject; Leontes\n" + " a jealous tyrant; his innocent babe truly begotten;\n" + " and the king shall live without an heir, if that\n" + " which is lost be not found.\n\n" + "Lords Now blessed be the great Apollo!\n\n" + "HERMIONE Praised!\n\n" + "LEONTES Hast thou read truth?\n\n" + "Officer Ay, my lord; even so\n" + " As it is here set down.\n\n" + "LEONTES There is no truth at all i' the oracle:\n" + " The sessions shall proceed: this is mere falsehood.\n\n" + " [Enter Servant]\n\n" + "Servant My lord the king, the king!\n\n" + "LEONTES What is the business?\n\n" + "Servant O sir, I shall be hated to report it!\n" + " The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear\n" + " Of the queen's speed, is gone.\n\n" + "LEONTES How! gone!\n\n" + "Servant Is dead.\n\n" + "LEONTES Apollo's angry; and the heavens themselves\n" + " Do strike at my injustice.\n\n" + " [HERMIONE swoons]\n\n" + " How now there!\n\n" + "PAULINA This news is mortal to the queen: look down\n" + " And see what death is doing.\n\n" + "LEONTES Take her hence:\n" + " Her heart is but o'ercharged; she will recover:\n" + " I have too much believed mine own suspicion:\n" + " Beseech you, tenderly apply to her\n" + " Some remedies for life.\n\n" + " [Exeunt PAULINA and Ladies, with HERMIONE]\n\n" + " Apollo, pardon\n" + " My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle!\n" + " I'll reconcile me to Polixenes,\n" + " New woo my queen, recall the good Camillo,\n" + " Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy;\n" + " For, being transported by my jealousies\n" + " To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose\n" + " Camillo for the minister to poison\n" + " My friend Polixenes: which had been done,\n" + " But that the good mind of Camillo tardied\n" + " My swift command, though I with death and with\n" + " Reward did threaten and encourage him,\n" + " Not doing 't and being done: he, most humane\n" + " And fill'd with honour, to my kingly guest\n" + " Unclasp'd my practise, quit his fortunes here,\n" + " Which you knew great, and to the hazard\n" + " Of all encertainties himself commended,\n" + " No richer than his honour: how he glisters\n" + " Thorough my rust! and how his pity\n" + " Does my deeds make the blacker!\n\n" + " [Re-enter PAULINA]\n\n" + "PAULINA Woe the while!\n" + " O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it,\n" + " Break too.\n\n" + "First Lord What fit is this, good lady?\n\n" + "PAULINA What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?\n" + " What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?\n" + " In leads or oils? what old or newer torture\n" + " Must I receive, whose every word deserves\n" + " To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny\n" + " Together working with thy jealousies,\n" + " Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle\n" + " For girls of nine, O, think what they have done\n" + " And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all\n" + " Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.\n" + " That thou betray'dst Polixenes,'twas nothing;\n" + " That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant\n" + " And damnable ingrateful: nor was't much,\n" + " Thou wouldst have poison'd good Camillo's honour,\n" + " To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,\n" + " More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon\n" + " The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter\n" + " To be or none or little; though a devil\n" + " Would have shed water out of fire ere done't:\n" + " Nor is't directly laid to thee, the death\n" + " Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,\n" + " Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart\n" + " That could conceive a gross and foolish sire\n" + " Blemish'd his gracious dam: this is not, no,\n" + " Laid to thy answer: but the last,--O lords,\n" + " When I have said, cry 'woe!' the queen, the queen,\n" + " The sweet'st, dear'st creature's dead,\n" + " and vengeance for't\n" + " Not dropp'd down yet.\n\n" + "First Lord The higher powers forbid!\n\n" + "PAULINA I say she's dead; I'll swear't. If word nor oath\n" + " Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring\n" + " Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,\n" + " Heat outwardly or breath within, I'll serve you\n" + " As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!\n" + " Do not repent these things, for they are heavier\n" + " Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee\n" + " To nothing but despair. A thousand knees\n" + " Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,\n" + " Upon a barren mountain and still winter\n" + " In storm perpetual, could not move the gods\n" + " To look that way thou wert.\n\n" + "LEONTES Go on, go on\n" + " Thou canst not speak too much; I have deserved\n" + " All tongues to talk their bitterest.\n\n" + "First Lord Say no more:\n" + " Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault\n" + " I' the boldness of your speech.\n\n" + "PAULINA I am sorry for't:\n" + " All faults I make, when I shall come to know them,\n" + " I do repent. Alas! I have show'd too much\n" + " The rashness of a woman: he is touch'd\n" + " To the noble heart. What's gone and what's past help\n" + " Should be past grief: do not receive affliction\n" + " At my petition; I beseech you, rather\n" + " Let me be punish'd, that have minded you\n" + " Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege\n" + " Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman:\n" + " The love I bore your queen--lo, fool again!--\n" + " I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children;\n" + " I'll not remember you of my own lord,\n" + " Who is lost too: take your patience to you,\n" + " And I'll say nothing.\n\n" + "LEONTES Thou didst speak but well\n" + " When most the truth; which I receive much better\n" + " Than to be pitied of thee. Prithee, bring me\n" + " To the dead bodies of my queen and son:\n" + " One grave shall be for both: upon them shall\n" + " The causes of their death appear, unto\n" + " Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit\n" + " The chapel where they lie, and tears shed there\n" + " Shall be my recreation: so long as nature\n" + " Will bear up with this exercise, so long\n" + " I daily vow to use it. Come and lead me\n" + " Unto these sorrows.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT III\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III Bohemia. A desert country near the sea.\n\n\n" + " [Enter ANTIGONUS with a Child, and a Mariner]\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS Thou art perfect then, our ship hath touch'd upon\n" + " The deserts of Bohemia?\n\n" + "Mariner Ay, my lord: and fear\n" + " We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly\n" + " And threaten present blusters. In my conscience,\n" + " The heavens with that we have in hand are angry\n" + " And frown upon 's.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS Their sacred wills be done! Go, get aboard;\n" + " Look to thy bark: I'll not be long before\n" + " I call upon thee.\n\n" + "Mariner Make your best haste, and go not\n" + " Too far i' the land: 'tis like to be loud weather;\n" + " Besides, this place is famous for the creatures\n" + " Of prey that keep upon't.\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS Go thou away:\n" + " I'll follow instantly.\n\n" + "Mariner I am glad at heart\n" + " To be so rid o' the business.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "ANTIGONUS Come, poor babe:\n" + " I have heard, but not believed,\n" + " the spirits o' the dead\n" + " May walk again: if such thing be, thy mother\n" + " Appear'd to me last night, for ne'er was dream\n" + " So like a waking. To me comes a creature,\n" + " Sometimes her head on one side, some another;\n" + " I never saw a vessel of like sorrow,\n" + " So fill'd and so becoming: in pure white robes,\n" + " Like very sanctity, she did approach\n" + " My cabin where I lay; thrice bow'd before me,\n" + " And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes\n" + " Became two spouts: the fury spent, anon\n" + " Did this break-from her: 'Good Antigonus,\n" + " Since fate, against thy better disposition,\n" + " Hath made thy person for the thrower-out\n" + " Of my poor babe, according to thine oath,\n" + " Places remote enough are in Bohemia,\n" + " There weep and leave it crying; and, for the babe\n" + " Is counted lost for ever, Perdita,\n" + " I prithee, call't. For this ungentle business\n" + " Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see\n" + " Thy wife Paulina more.' And so, with shrieks\n" + " She melted into air. Affrighted much,\n" + " I did in time collect myself and thought\n" + " This was so and no slumber. Dreams are toys:\n" + " Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously,\n" + " I will be squared by this. I do believe\n" + " Hermione hath suffer'd death, and that\n" + " Apollo would, this being indeed the issue\n" + " Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid,\n" + " Either for life or death, upon the earth\n" + " Of its right father. Blossom, speed thee well!\n" + " There lie, and there thy character: there these;\n" + " Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty,\n" + " And still rest thine. The storm begins; poor wretch,\n" + " That for thy mother's fault art thus exposed\n" + " To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot,\n" + " But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am I\n" + " To be by oath enjoin'd to this. Farewell!\n" + " The day frowns more and more: thou'rt like to have\n" + " A lullaby too rough: I never saw\n" + " The heavens so dim by day. A savage clamour!\n" + " Well may I get aboard! This is the chase:\n" + " I am gone for ever.\n\n" + " [Exit, pursued by a bear]\n\n" + " [Enter a Shepherd]\n\n" + "Shepherd I would there were no age between sixteen and\n" + " three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the\n" + " rest; for there is nothing in the between but\n" + " getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry,\n" + " stealing, fighting--Hark you now! Would any but\n" + " these boiled brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty\n" + " hunt this weather? They have scared away two of my\n" + " best sheep, which I fear the wolf will sooner find\n" + " than the master: if any where I have them, 'tis by\n" + " the seaside, browsing of ivy. Good luck, an't be thy\n" + " will what have we here! Mercy on 's, a barne a very\n" + " pretty barne! A boy or a child, I wonder? A\n" + " pretty one; a very pretty one: sure, some 'scape:\n" + " though I am not bookish, yet I can read\n" + " waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape. This has been\n" + " some stair-work, some trunk-work, some\n" + " behind-door-work: they were warmer that got this\n" + " than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for\n" + " pity: yet I'll tarry till my son come; he hallooed\n" + " but even now. Whoa, ho, hoa!\n\n" + " [Enter Clown]\n\n" + "Clown Hilloa, loa!\n\n" + "Shepherd What, art so near? If thou'lt see a thing to talk\n" + " on when thou art dead and rotten, come hither. What\n" + " ailest thou, man?\n\n" + "Clown I have seen two such sights, by sea and by land!\n" + " but I am not to say it is a sea, for it is now the\n" + " sky: betwixt the firmament and it you cannot thrust\n" + " a bodkin's point.\n\n" + "Shepherd Why, boy, how is it?\n\n" + "Clown I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages,\n" + " how it takes up the shore! but that's not the\n" + " point. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls!\n" + " sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 'em; now the\n" + " ship boring the moon with her main-mast, and anon\n" + " swallowed with yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a\n" + " cork into a hogshead. And then for the\n" + " land-service, to see how the bear tore out his\n" + " shoulder-bone; how he cried to me for help and said\n" + " his name was Antigonus, a nobleman. But to make an\n" + " end of the ship, to see how the sea flap-dragoned\n" + " it: but, first, how the poor souls roared, and the\n" + " sea mocked them; and how the poor gentleman roared\n" + " and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than\n" + " the sea or weather.\n\n" + "Shepherd Name of mercy, when was this, boy?\n\n" + "Clown Now, now: I have not winked since I saw these\n" + " sights: the men are not yet cold under water, nor\n" + " the bear half dined on the gentleman: he's at it\n" + " now.\n\n" + "Shepherd Would I had been by, to have helped the old man!\n\n" + "Clown I would you had been by the ship side, to have\n" + " helped her: there your charity would have lacked footing.\n\n" + "Shepherd Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here,\n" + " boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things\n" + " dying, I with things newborn. Here's a sight for\n" + " thee; look thee, a bearing-cloth for a squire's\n" + " child! look thee here; take up, take up, boy;\n" + " open't. So, let's see: it was told me I should be\n" + " rich by the fairies. This is some changeling:\n" + " open't. What's within, boy?\n\n" + "Clown You're a made old man: if the sins of your youth\n" + " are forgiven you, you're well to live. Gold! all gold!\n\n" + "Shepherd This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so: up\n" + " with't, keep it close: home, home, the next way.\n" + " We are lucky, boy; and to be so still requires\n" + " nothing but secrecy. Let my sheep go: come, good\n" + " boy, the next way home.\n\n" + "Clown Go you the next way with your findings. I'll go see\n" + " if the bear be gone from the gentleman and how much\n" + " he hath eaten: they are never curst but when they\n" + " are hungry: if there be any of him left, I'll bury\n" + " it.\n\n" + "Shepherd That's a good deed. If thou mayest discern by that\n" + " which is left of him what he is, fetch me to the\n" + " sight of him.\n\n" + "Clown Marry, will I; and you shall help to put him i' the ground.\n\n" + "Shepherd 'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I:\n\n\n" + " [Enter Time, the Chorus]\n\n" + "Time I, that please some, try all, both joy and terror\n" + " Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error,\n" + " Now take upon me, in the name of Time,\n" + " To use my wings. Impute it not a crime\n" + " To me or my swift passage, that I slide\n" + " O'er sixteen years and leave the growth untried\n" + " Of that wide gap, since it is in my power\n" + " To o'erthrow law and in one self-born hour\n" + " To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass\n" + " The same I am, ere ancient'st order was\n" + " Or what is now received: I witness to\n" + " The times that brought them in; so shall I do\n" + " To the freshest things now reigning and make stale\n" + " The glistering of this present, as my tale\n" + " Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing,\n" + " I turn my glass and give my scene such growing\n" + " As you had slept between: Leontes leaving,\n" + " The effects of his fond jealousies so grieving\n" + " That he shuts up himself, imagine me,\n" + " Gentle spectators, that I now may be\n" + " In fair Bohemia, and remember well,\n" + " I mentioned a son o' the king's, which Florizel\n" + " I now name to you; and with speed so pace\n" + " To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace\n" + " Equal with wondering: what of her ensues\n" + " I list not prophecy; but let Time's news\n" + " Be known when 'tis brought forth.\n" + " A shepherd's daughter,\n" + " And what to her adheres, which follows after,\n" + " Is the argument of Time. Of this allow,\n" + " If ever you have spent time worse ere now;\n" + " If never, yet that Time himself doth say\n" + " He wishes earnestly you never may.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Bohemia. The palace of POLIXENES.\n\n\n" + " [Enter POLIXENES and CAMILLO]\n\n" + "POLIXENES I pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate:\n" + " 'tis a sickness denying thee any thing; a death to\n" + " grant this.\n\n" + "CAMILLO It is fifteen years since I saw my country: though\n" + " I have for the most part been aired abroad, I\n" + " desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent\n" + " king, my master, hath sent for me; to whose feeling\n" + " sorrows I might be some allay, or I o'erween to\n" + " think so, which is another spur to my departure.\n\n" + "POLIXENES As thou lovest me, Camillo, wipe not out the rest of\n" + " thy services by leaving me now: the need I have of\n" + " thee thine own goodness hath made; better not to\n" + " have had thee than thus to want thee: thou, having\n" + " made me businesses which none without thee can\n" + " sufficiently manage, must either stay to execute\n" + " them thyself or take away with thee the very\n" + " services thou hast done; which if I have not enough\n" + " considered, as too much I cannot, to be more\n" + " thankful to thee shall be my study, and my profit\n" + " therein the heaping friendships. Of that fatal\n" + " country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more; whose very\n" + " naming punishes me with the remembrance of that\n" + " penitent, as thou callest him, and reconciled king,\n" + " my brother; whose loss of his most precious queen\n" + " and children are even now to be afresh lamented.\n" + " Say to me, when sawest thou the Prince Florizel, my\n" + " son? Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not\n" + " being gracious, than they are in losing them when\n" + " they have approved their virtues.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Sir, it is three days since I saw the prince. What\n" + " his happier affairs may be, are to me unknown: but I\n" + " have missingly noted, he is of late much retired\n" + " from court and is less frequent to his princely\n" + " exercises than formerly he hath appeared.\n\n" + "POLIXENES I have considered so much, Camillo, and with some\n" + " care; so far that I have eyes under my service which\n" + " look upon his removedness; from whom I have this\n" + " intelligence, that he is seldom from the house of a\n" + " most homely shepherd; a man, they say, that from\n" + " very nothing, and beyond the imagination of his\n" + " neighbours, is grown into an unspeakable estate.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a\n" + " daughter of most rare note: the report of her is\n" + " extended more than can be thought to begin from such a cottage.\n\n" + "POLIXENES That's likewise part of my intelligence; but, I\n" + " fear, the angle that plucks our son thither. Thou\n" + " shalt accompany us to the place; where we will, not\n" + " appearing what we are, have some question with the\n" + " shepherd; from whose simplicity I think it not\n" + " uneasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither.\n" + " Prithee, be my present partner in this business, and\n" + " lay aside the thoughts of Sicilia.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I willingly obey your command.\n\n" + "POLIXENES My best Camillo! We must disguise ourselves.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A road near the Shepherd's cottage.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS When daffodils begin to peer,\n" + " With heigh! the doxy over the dale,\n" + " Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year;\n" + " For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale.\n\n" + " The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,\n" + " With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!\n" + " Doth set my pugging tooth on edge;\n" + " For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.\n\n" + " The lark, that tirra-lyra chants,\n" + " With heigh! with heigh! the thrush and the jay,\n" + " Are summer songs for me and my aunts,\n" + " While we lie tumbling in the hay.\n\n" + " I have served Prince Florizel and in my time\n" + " wore three-pile; but now I am out of service:\n\n" + " But shall I go mourn for that, my dear?\n" + " The pale moon shines by night:\n" + " And when I wander here and there,\n" + " I then do most go right.\n\n" + " If tinkers may have leave to live,\n" + " And bear the sow-skin budget,\n" + " Then my account I well may, give,\n" + " And in the stocks avouch it.\n\n" + " My traffic is sheets; when the kite builds, look to\n" + " lesser linen. My father named me Autolycus; who\n" + " being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise\n" + " a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With die and\n" + " drab I purchased this caparison, and my revenue is\n" + " the silly cheat. Gallows and knock are too powerful\n" + " on the highway: beating and hanging are terrors to\n" + " me: for the life to come, I sleep out the thought\n" + " of it. A prize! a prize!\n\n" + " [Enter Clown]\n\n" + "Clown Let me see: every 'leven wether tods; every tod\n" + " yields pound and odd shilling; fifteen hundred\n" + " shorn. what comes the wool to?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS [Aside]\n\n" + " If the springe hold, the cock's mine.\n\n" + "Clown I cannot do't without counters. Let me see; what am\n" + " I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound\n" + " of sugar, five pound of currants, rice,--what will\n" + " this sister of mine do with rice? But my father\n" + " hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it\n" + " on. She hath made me four and twenty nose-gays for\n" + " the shearers, three-man-song-men all, and very good\n" + " ones; but they are most of them means and bases; but\n" + " one puritan amongst them, and he sings psalms to\n" + " horn-pipes. I must have saffron to colour the warden\n" + " pies; mace; dates?--none, that's out of my note;\n" + " nutmegs, seven; a race or two of ginger, but that I\n" + " may beg; four pound of prunes, and as many of\n" + " raisins o' the sun.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS O that ever I was born!\n\n" + " [Grovelling on the ground]\n\n" + "Clown I' the name of me--\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS O, help me, help me! pluck but off these rags; and\n" + " then, death, death!\n\n" + "Clown Alack, poor soul! thou hast need of more rags to lay\n" + " on thee, rather than have these off.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS O sir, the loathsomeness of them offends me more\n" + " than the stripes I have received, which are mighty\n" + " ones and millions.\n\n" + "Clown Alas, poor man! a million of beating may come to a\n" + " great matter.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I am robbed, sir, and beaten; my money and apparel\n" + " ta'en from me, and these detestable things put upon\n" + " me.\n\n" + "Clown What, by a horseman, or a footman?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS A footman, sweet sir, a footman.\n\n" + "Clown Indeed, he should be a footman by the garments he\n" + " has left with thee: if this be a horseman's coat,\n" + " it hath seen very hot service. Lend me thy hand,\n" + " I'll help thee: come, lend me thy hand.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS O, good sir, tenderly, O!\n\n" + "Clown Alas, poor soul!\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS O, good sir, softly, good sir! I fear, sir, my\n" + " shoulder-blade is out.\n\n" + "Clown How now! canst stand?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS [Picking his pocket]\n\n" + " Softly, dear sir; good sir, softly. You ha' done me\n" + " a charitable office.\n\n" + "Clown Dost lack any money? I have a little money for thee.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS No, good sweet sir; no, I beseech you, sir: I have\n" + " a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence,\n" + " unto whom I was going; I shall there have money, or\n" + " any thing I want: offer me no money, I pray you;\n" + " that kills my heart.\n\n" + "Clown What manner of fellow was he that robbed you?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with\n" + " troll-my-dames; I knew him once a servant of the\n" + " prince: I cannot tell, good sir, for which of his\n" + " virtues it was, but he was certainly whipped out of the court.\n\n" + "Clown His vices, you would say; there's no virtue whipped\n" + " out of the court: they cherish it to make it stay\n" + " there; and yet it will no more but abide.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Vices, I would say, sir. I know this man well: he\n" + " hath been since an ape-bearer; then a\n" + " process-server, a bailiff; then he compassed a\n" + " motion of the Prodigal Son, and married a tinker's\n" + " wife within a mile where my land and living lies;\n" + " and, having flown over many knavish professions, he\n" + " settled only in rogue: some call him Autolycus.\n\n" + "Clown Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts\n" + " wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Very true, sir; he, sir, he; that's the rogue that\n" + " put me into this apparel.\n\n" + "Clown Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia: if you had\n" + " but looked big and spit at him, he'ld have run.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter: I am\n" + " false of heart that way; and that he knew, I warrant\n" + " him.\n\n" + "Clown How do you now?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Sweet sir, much better than I was; I can stand and\n" + " walk: I will even take my leave of you, and pace\n" + " softly towards my kinsman's.\n\n" + "Clown Shall I bring thee on the way?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS No, good-faced sir; no, sweet sir.\n\n" + "Clown Then fare thee well: I must go buy spices for our\n" + " sheep-shearing.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Prosper you, sweet sir!\n\n" + " [Exit Clown]\n\n" + " Your purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice.\n" + " I'll be with you at your sheep-shearing too: if I\n" + " make not this cheat bring out another and the\n" + " shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled and my name\n" + " put in the book of virtue!\n\n" + " [Sings]\n\n" + " Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way,\n" + " And merrily hent the stile-a:\n" + " A merry heart goes all the day,\n" + " Your sad tires in a mile-a.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT IV\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE IV The Shepherd's cottage.\n\n\n" + " [Enter FLORIZEL and PERDITA]\n\n" + "FLORIZEL These your unusual weeds to each part of you\n" + " Do give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora\n" + " Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing\n" + " Is as a meeting of the petty gods,\n" + " And you the queen on't.\n\n" + "PERDITA Sir, my gracious lord,\n" + " To chide at your extremes it not becomes me:\n" + " O, pardon, that I name them! Your high self,\n" + " The gracious mark o' the land, you have obscured\n" + " With a swain's wearing, and me, poor lowly maid,\n" + " Most goddess-like prank'd up: but that our feasts\n" + " In every mess have folly and the feeders\n" + " Digest it with a custom, I should blush\n" + " To see you so attired, sworn, I think,\n" + " To show myself a glass.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL I bless the time\n" + " When my good falcon made her flight across\n" + " Thy father's ground.\n\n" + "PERDITA Now Jove afford you cause!\n" + " To me the difference forges dread; your greatness\n" + " Hath not been used to fear. Even now I tremble\n" + " To think your father, by some accident,\n" + " Should pass this way as you did: O, the Fates!\n" + " How would he look, to see his work so noble\n" + " Vilely bound up? What would he say? Or how\n" + " Should I, in these my borrow'd flaunts, behold\n" + " The sternness of his presence?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Apprehend\n" + " Nothing but jollity. The gods themselves,\n" + " Humbling their deities to love, have taken\n" + " The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter\n" + " Became a bull, and bellow'd; the green Neptune\n" + " A ram, and bleated; and the fire-robed god,\n" + " Golden Apollo, a poor humble swain,\n" + " As I seem now. Their transformations\n" + " Were never for a piece of beauty rarer,\n" + " Nor in a way so chaste, since my desires\n" + " Run not before mine honour, nor my lusts\n" + " Burn hotter than my faith.\n\n" + "PERDITA O, but, sir,\n" + " Your resolution cannot hold, when 'tis\n" + " Opposed, as it must be, by the power of the king:\n" + " One of these two must be necessities,\n" + " Which then will speak, that you must\n" + " change this purpose,\n" + " Or I my life.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Thou dearest Perdita,\n" + " With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not\n" + " The mirth o' the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair,\n" + " Or not my father's. For I cannot be\n" + " Mine own, nor any thing to any, if\n" + " I be not thine. To this I am most constant,\n" + " Though destiny say no. Be merry, gentle;\n" + " Strangle such thoughts as these with any thing\n" + " That you behold the while. Your guests are coming:\n" + " Lift up your countenance, as it were the day\n" + " Of celebration of that nuptial which\n" + " We two have sworn shall come.\n\n" + "PERDITA O lady Fortune,\n" + " Stand you auspicious!\n\n" + "FLORIZEL See, your guests approach:\n" + " Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,\n" + " And let's be red with mirth.\n\n" + " [Enter Shepherd, Clown, MOPSA, DORCAS, and\n" + " others, with POLIXENES and CAMILLO disguised]\n\n" + "Shepherd Fie, daughter! when my old wife lived, upon\n" + " This day she was both pantler, butler, cook,\n" + " Both dame and servant; welcomed all, served all;\n" + " Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here,\n" + " At upper end o' the table, now i' the middle;\n" + " On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire\n" + " With labour and the thing she took to quench it,\n" + " She would to each one sip. You are retired,\n" + " As if you were a feasted one and not\n" + " The hostess of the meeting: pray you, bid\n" + " These unknown friends to's welcome; for it is\n" + " A way to make us better friends, more known.\n" + " Come, quench your blushes and present yourself\n" + " That which you are, mistress o' the feast: come on,\n" + " And bid us welcome to your sheep-shearing,\n" + " As your good flock shall prosper.\n\n" + "PERDITA [To POLIXENES] Sir, welcome:\n" + " It is my father's will I should take on me\n" + " The hostess-ship o' the day.\n\n" + " [To CAMILLO]\n\n" + " You're welcome, sir.\n" + " Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs,\n" + " For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep\n" + " Seeming and savour all the winter long:\n" + " Grace and remembrance be to you both,\n" + " And welcome to our shearing!\n\n" + "POLIXENES Shepherdess,\n" + " A fair one are you--well you fit our ages\n" + " With flowers of winter.\n\n" + "PERDITA Sir, the year growing ancient,\n" + " Not yet on summer's death, nor on the birth\n" + " Of trembling winter, the fairest\n" + " flowers o' the season\n" + " Are our carnations and streak'd gillyvors,\n" + " Which some call nature's bastards: of that kind\n" + " Our rustic garden's barren; and I care not\n" + " To get slips of them.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Wherefore, gentle maiden,\n" + " Do you neglect them?\n\n" + "PERDITA For I have heard it said\n" + " There is an art which in their piedness shares\n" + " With great creating nature.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Say there be;\n" + " Yet nature is made better by no mean\n" + " But nature makes that mean: so, over that art\n" + " Which you say adds to nature, is an art\n" + " That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry\n" + " A gentler scion to the wildest stock,\n" + " And make conceive a bark of baser kind\n" + " By bud of nobler race: this is an art\n" + " Which does mend nature, change it rather, but\n" + " The art itself is nature.\n\n" + "PERDITA So it is.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Then make your garden rich in gillyvors,\n" + " And do not call them bastards.\n\n" + "PERDITA I'll not put\n" + " The dibble in earth to set one slip of them;\n" + " No more than were I painted I would wish\n" + " This youth should say 'twere well and only therefore\n" + " Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you;\n" + " Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram;\n" + " The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun\n" + " And with him rises weeping: these are flowers\n" + " Of middle summer, and I think they are given\n" + " To men of middle age. You're very welcome.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I should leave grazing, were I of your flock,\n" + " And only live by gazing.\n\n" + "PERDITA Out, alas!\n" + " You'd be so lean, that blasts of January\n" + " Would blow you through and through.\n" + " Now, my fair'st friend,\n" + " I would I had some flowers o' the spring that might\n" + " Become your time of day; and yours, and yours,\n" + " That wear upon your virgin branches yet\n" + " Your maidenheads growing: O Proserpina,\n" + " For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall\n" + " From Dis's waggon! daffodils,\n" + " That come before the swallow dares, and take\n" + " The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,\n" + " But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes\n" + " Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses\n" + " That die unmarried, ere they can behold\n" + " Bight Phoebus in his strength--a malady\n" + " Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and\n" + " The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,\n" + " The flower-de-luce being one! O, these I lack,\n" + " To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,\n" + " To strew him o'er and o'er!\n\n" + "FLORIZEL What, like a corse?\n\n" + "PERDITA No, like a bank for love to lie and play on;\n" + " Not like a corse; or if, not to be buried,\n" + " But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers:\n" + " Methinks I play as I have seen them do\n" + " In Whitsun pastorals: sure this robe of mine\n" + " Does change my disposition.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL What you do\n" + " Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.\n" + " I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,\n" + " I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,\n" + " Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,\n" + " To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish you\n" + " A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do\n" + " Nothing but that; move still, still so,\n" + " And own no other function: each your doing,\n" + " So singular in each particular,\n" + " Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,\n" + " That all your acts are queens.\n\n" + "PERDITA O Doricles,\n" + " Your praises are too large: but that your youth,\n" + " And the true blood which peepeth fairly through't,\n" + " Do plainly give you out an unstain'd shepherd,\n" + " With wisdom I might fear, my Doricles,\n" + " You woo'd me the false way.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL I think you have\n" + " As little skill to fear as I have purpose\n" + " To put you to't. But come; our dance, I pray:\n" + " Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair,\n" + " That never mean to part.\n\n" + "PERDITA I'll swear for 'em.\n\n" + "POLIXENES This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever\n" + " Ran on the green-sward: nothing she does or seems\n" + " But smacks of something greater than herself,\n" + " Too noble for this place.\n\n" + "CAMILLO He tells her something\n" + " That makes her blood look out: good sooth, she is\n" + " The queen of curds and cream.\n\n" + "Clown Come on, strike up!\n\n" + "DORCAS Mopsa must be your mistress: marry, garlic,\n" + " To mend her kissing with!\n\n" + "MOPSA Now, in good time!\n\n" + "Clown Not a word, a word; we stand upon our manners.\n" + " Come, strike up!\n\n" + " [Music. Here a dance of Shepherds and\n" + " Shepherdesses]\n\n" + "POLIXENES Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this\n" + " Which dances with your daughter?\n\n" + "Shepherd They call him Doricles; and boasts himself\n" + " To have a worthy feeding: but I have it\n" + " Upon his own report and I believe it;\n" + " He looks like sooth. He says he loves my daughter:\n" + " I think so too; for never gazed the moon\n" + " Upon the water as he'll stand and read\n" + " As 'twere my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain.\n" + " I think there is not half a kiss to choose\n" + " Who loves another best.\n\n" + "POLIXENES She dances featly.\n\n" + "Shepherd So she does any thing; though I report it,\n" + " That should be silent: if young Doricles\n" + " Do light upon her, she shall bring him that\n" + " Which he not dreams of.\n\n" + " [Enter Servant]\n\n" + "Servant O master, if you did but hear the pedlar at the\n" + " door, you would never dance again after a tabour and\n" + " pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you: he sings\n" + " several tunes faster than you'll tell money; he\n" + " utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men's\n" + " ears grew to his tunes.\n\n" + "Clown He could never come better; he shall come in. I\n" + " love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful\n" + " matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing\n" + " indeed and sung lamentably.\n\n" + "Servant He hath songs for man or woman, of all sizes; no\n" + " milliner can so fit his customers with gloves: he\n" + " has the prettiest love-songs for maids; so without\n" + " bawdry, which is strange; with such delicate\n" + " burthens of dildos and fadings, 'jump her and thump\n" + " her;' and where some stretch-mouthed rascal would,\n" + " as it were, mean mischief and break a foul gap into\n" + " the matter, he makes the maid to answer 'Whoop, do me\n" + " no harm, good man;' puts him off, slights him, with\n" + " 'Whoop, do me no harm, good man.'\n\n" + "POLIXENES This is a brave fellow.\n\n" + "Clown Believe me, thou talkest of an admirable conceited\n" + " fellow. Has he any unbraided wares?\n\n" + "Servant He hath ribbons of an the colours i' the rainbow;\n" + " points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can\n" + " learnedly handle, though they come to him by the\n" + " gross: inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns: why, he\n" + " sings 'em over as they were gods or goddesses; you\n" + " would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants\n" + " to the sleeve-hand and the work about the square on't.\n\n" + "Clown Prithee bring him in; and let him approach singing.\n\n" + "PERDITA Forewarn him that he use no scurrilous words in 's tunes.\n\n" + " [Exit Servant]\n\n" + "Clown You have of these pedlars, that have more in them\n" + " than you'ld think, sister.\n\n" + "PERDITA Ay, good brother, or go about to think.\n\n" + " [Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Lawn as white as driven snow;\n" + " Cyprus black as e'er was crow;\n" + " Gloves as sweet as damask roses;\n" + " Masks for faces and for noses;\n" + " Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,\n" + " Perfume for a lady's chamber;\n" + " Golden quoifs and stomachers,\n" + " For my lads to give their dears:\n" + " Pins and poking-sticks of steel,\n" + " What maids lack from head to heel:\n" + " Come buy of me, come; come buy, come buy;\n" + " Buy lads, or else your lasses cry: Come buy.\n\n" + "Clown If I were not in love with Mopsa, thou shouldst take\n" + " no money of me; but being enthralled as I am, it\n" + " will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves.\n\n" + "MOPSA I was promised them against the feast; but they come\n" + " not too late now.\n\n" + "DORCAS He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars.\n\n" + "MOPSA He hath paid you all he promised you; may be, he has\n" + " paid you more, which will shame you to give him again.\n\n" + "Clown Is there no manners left among maids? will they\n" + " wear their plackets where they should bear their\n" + " faces? Is there not milking-time, when you are\n" + " going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these\n" + " secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all\n" + " our guests? 'tis well they are whispering: clamour\n" + " your tongues, and not a word more.\n\n" + "MOPSA I have done. Come, you promised me a tawdry-lace\n" + " and a pair of sweet gloves.\n\n" + "Clown Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way\n" + " and lost all my money?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS And indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad;\n" + " therefore it behoves men to be wary.\n\n" + "Clown Fear not thou, man, thou shalt lose nothing here.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I hope so, sir; for I have about me many parcels of charge.\n\n" + "Clown What hast here? ballads?\n\n" + "MOPSA Pray now, buy some: I love a ballad in print o'\n" + " life, for then we are sure they are true.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's\n" + " wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a\n" + " burthen and how she longed to eat adders' heads and\n" + " toads carbonadoed.\n\n" + "MOPSA Is it true, think you?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Very true, and but a month old.\n\n" + "DORCAS Bless me from marrying a usurer!\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Here's the midwife's name to't, one Mistress\n" + " Tale-porter, and five or six honest wives that were\n" + " present. Why should I carry lies abroad?\n\n" + "MOPSA Pray you now, buy it.\n\n" + "Clown Come on, lay it by: and let's first see moe\n" + " ballads; we'll buy the other things anon.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Here's another ballad of a fish, that appeared upon\n" + " the coast on Wednesday the four-score of April,\n" + " forty thousand fathom above water, and sung this\n" + " ballad against the hard hearts of maids: it was\n" + " thought she was a woman and was turned into a cold\n" + " fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that\n" + " loved her: the ballad is very pitiful and as true.\n\n" + "DORCAS Is it true too, think you?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more than\n" + " my pack will hold.\n\n" + "Clown Lay it by too: another.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS This is a merry ballad, but a very pretty one.\n\n" + "MOPSA Let's have some merry ones.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to\n" + " the tune of 'Two maids wooing a man:' there's\n" + " scarce a maid westward but she sings it; 'tis in\n" + " request, I can tell you.\n\n" + "MOPSA We can both sing it: if thou'lt bear a part, thou\n" + " shalt hear; 'tis in three parts.\n\n" + "DORCAS We had the tune on't a month ago.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I can bear my part; you must know 'tis my\n" + " occupation; have at it with you.\n" + " [SONG]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Get you hence, for I must go\n" + " Where it fits not you to know.\n\n" + "DORCAS Whither?\n\n" + "MOPSA O, whither?\n\n" + "DORCAS Whither?\n\n" + "MOPSA It becomes thy oath full well,\n" + " Thou to me thy secrets tell.\n\n" + "DORCAS Me too, let me go thither.\n\n" + "MOPSA Or thou goest to the orange or mill.\n\n" + "DORCAS If to either, thou dost ill.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Neither.\n\n" + "DORCAS What, neither?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Neither.\n\n" + "DORCAS Thou hast sworn my love to be.\n\n" + "MOPSA Thou hast sworn it more to me:\n" + " Then whither goest? say, whither?\n\n" + "Clown We'll have this song out anon by ourselves: my\n" + " father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we'll\n" + " not trouble them. Come, bring away thy pack after\n" + " me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Pedlar, let's\n" + " have the first choice. Follow me, girls.\n\n" + " [Exit with DORCAS and MOPSA]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS And you shall pay well for 'em.\n\n" + " [Follows singing]\n\n" + " Will you buy any tape,\n" + " Or lace for your cape,\n" + " My dainty duck, my dear-a?\n" + " Any silk, any thread,\n" + " Any toys for your head,\n" + " Of the new'st and finest, finest wear-a?\n" + " Come to the pedlar;\n" + " Money's a medler.\n" + " That doth utter all men's ware-a.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Re-enter Servant]\n\n" + "Servant Master, there is three carters, three shepherds,\n" + " three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made\n" + " themselves all men of hair, they call themselves\n" + " Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches\n" + " say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are\n" + " not in't; but they themselves are o' the mind, if it\n" + " be not too rough for some that know little but\n" + " bowling, it will please plentifully.\n\n" + "Shepherd Away! we'll none on 't: here has been too much\n" + " homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you.\n\n" + "POLIXENES You weary those that refresh us: pray, let's see\n" + " these four threes of herdsmen.\n\n" + "Servant One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath\n" + " danced before the king; and not the worst of the\n" + " three but jumps twelve foot and a half by the squier.\n\n" + "Shepherd Leave your prating: since these good men are\n" + " pleased, let them come in; but quickly now.\n\n" + "Servant Why, they stay at door, sir.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + " [Here a dance of twelve Satyrs]\n\n" + "POLIXENES O, father, you'll know more of that hereafter.\n\n" + " [To CAMILLO]\n\n" + " Is it not too far gone? 'Tis time to part them.\n" + " He's simple and tells much.\n\n" + " [To FLORIZEL]\n\n" + " How now, fair shepherd!\n" + " Your heart is full of something that does take\n" + " Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young\n" + " And handed love as you do, I was wont\n" + " To load my she with knacks: I would have ransack'd\n" + " The pedlar's silken treasury and have pour'd it\n" + " To her acceptance; you have let him go\n" + " And nothing marted with him. If your lass\n" + " Interpretation should abuse and call this\n" + " Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited\n" + " For a reply, at least if you make a care\n" + " Of happy holding her.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Old sir, I know\n" + " She prizes not such trifles as these are:\n" + " The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd\n" + " Up in my heart; which I have given already,\n" + " But not deliver'd. O, hear me breathe my life\n" + " Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem,\n" + " Hath sometime loved! I take thy hand, this hand,\n" + " As soft as dove's down and as white as it,\n" + " Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd\n" + " snow that's bolted\n" + " By the northern blasts twice o'er.\n\n" + "POLIXENES What follows this?\n" + " How prettily the young swain seems to wash\n" + " The hand was fair before! I have put you out:\n" + " But to your protestation; let me hear\n" + " What you profess.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Do, and be witness to 't.\n\n" + "POLIXENES And this my neighbour too?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL And he, and more\n" + " Than he, and men, the earth, the heavens, and all:\n" + " That, were I crown'd the most imperial monarch,\n" + " Thereof most worthy, were I the fairest youth\n" + " That ever made eye swerve, had force and knowledge\n" + " More than was ever man's, I would not prize them\n" + " Without her love; for her employ them all;\n" + " Commend them and condemn them to her service\n" + " Or to their own perdition.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Fairly offer'd.\n\n" + "CAMILLO This shows a sound affection.\n\n" + "Shepherd But, my daughter,\n" + " Say you the like to him?\n\n" + "PERDITA I cannot speak\n" + " So well, nothing so well; no, nor mean better:\n" + " By the pattern of mine own thoughts I cut out\n" + " The purity of his.\n\n" + "Shepherd Take hands, a bargain!\n" + " And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to 't:\n" + " I give my daughter to him, and will make\n" + " Her portion equal his.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL O, that must be\n" + " I' the virtue of your daughter: one being dead,\n" + " I shall have more than you can dream of yet;\n" + " Enough then for your wonder. But, come on,\n" + " Contract us 'fore these witnesses.\n\n" + "Shepherd Come, your hand;\n" + " And, daughter, yours.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Soft, swain, awhile, beseech you;\n" + " Have you a father?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL I have: but what of him?\n\n" + "POLIXENES Knows he of this?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL He neither does nor shall.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Methinks a father\n" + " Is at the nuptial of his son a guest\n" + " That best becomes the table. Pray you once more,\n" + " Is not your father grown incapable\n" + " Of reasonable affairs? is he not stupid\n" + " With age and altering rheums? can he speak? hear?\n" + " Know man from man? dispute his own estate?\n" + " Lies he not bed-rid? and again does nothing\n" + " But what he did being childish?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL No, good sir;\n" + " He has his health and ampler strength indeed\n" + " Than most have of his age.\n\n" + "POLIXENES By my white beard,\n" + " You offer him, if this be so, a wrong\n" + " Something unfilial: reason my son\n" + " Should choose himself a wife, but as good reason\n" + " The father, all whose joy is nothing else\n" + " But fair posterity, should hold some counsel\n" + " In such a business.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL I yield all this;\n" + " But for some other reasons, my grave sir,\n" + " Which 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint\n" + " My father of this business.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Let him know't.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL He shall not.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Prithee, let him.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL No, he must not.\n\n" + "Shepherd Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve\n" + " At knowing of thy choice.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Come, come, he must not.\n" + " Mark our contract.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Mark your divorce, young sir,\n\n" + " [Discovering himself]\n\n" + " Whom son I dare not call; thou art too base\n" + " To be acknowledged: thou a sceptre's heir,\n" + " That thus affect'st a sheep-hook! Thou old traitor,\n" + " I am sorry that by hanging thee I can\n" + " But shorten thy life one week. And thou, fresh piece\n" + " Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know\n" + " The royal fool thou copest with,--\n\n" + "Shepherd O, my heart!\n\n" + "POLIXENES I'll have thy beauty scratch'd with briers, and made\n" + " More homely than thy state. For thee, fond boy,\n" + " If I may ever know thou dost but sigh\n" + " That thou no more shalt see this knack, as never\n" + " I mean thou shalt, we'll bar thee from succession;\n" + " Not hold thee of our blood, no, not our kin,\n" + " Far than Deucalion off: mark thou my words:\n" + " Follow us to the court. Thou churl, for this time,\n" + " Though full of our displeasure, yet we free thee\n" + " From the dead blow of it. And you, enchantment.--\n" + " Worthy enough a herdsman: yea, him too,\n" + " That makes himself, but for our honour therein,\n" + " Unworthy thee,--if ever henceforth thou\n" + " These rural latches to his entrance open,\n" + " Or hoop his body more with thy embraces,\n" + " I will devise a death as cruel for thee\n" + " As thou art tender to't.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "PERDITA Even here undone!\n" + " I was not much afeard; for once or twice\n" + " I was about to speak and tell him plainly,\n" + " The selfsame sun that shines upon his court\n" + " Hides not his visage from our cottage but\n" + " Looks on alike. Will't please you, sir, be gone?\n" + " I told you what would come of this: beseech you,\n" + " Of your own state take care: this dream of mine,--\n" + " Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther,\n" + " But milk my ewes and weep.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Why, how now, father!\n" + " Speak ere thou diest.\n\n" + "Shepherd I cannot speak, nor think\n" + " Nor dare to know that which I know. O sir!\n" + " You have undone a man of fourscore three,\n" + " That thought to fill his grave in quiet, yea,\n" + " To die upon the bed my father died,\n" + " To lie close by his honest bones: but now\n" + " Some hangman must put on my shroud and lay me\n" + " Where no priest shovels in dust. O cursed wretch,\n" + " That knew'st this was the prince,\n" + " and wouldst adventure\n" + " To mingle faith with him! Undone! undone!\n" + " If I might die within this hour, I have lived\n" + " To die when I desire.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Why look you so upon me?\n" + " I am but sorry, not afeard; delay'd,\n" + " But nothing alter'd: what I was, I am;\n" + " More straining on for plucking back, not following\n" + " My leash unwillingly.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Gracious my lord,\n" + " You know your father's temper: at this time\n" + " He will allow no speech, which I do guess\n" + " You do not purpose to him; and as hardly\n" + " Will he endure your sight as yet, I fear:\n" + " Then, till the fury of his highness settle,\n" + " Come not before him.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL I not purpose it.\n" + " I think, Camillo?\n\n" + "CAMILLO Even he, my lord.\n\n" + "PERDITA How often have I told you 'twould be thus!\n" + " How often said, my dignity would last\n" + " But till 'twere known!\n\n" + "FLORIZEL It cannot fail but by\n" + " The violation of my faith; and then\n" + " Let nature crush the sides o' the earth together\n" + " And mar the seeds within! Lift up thy looks:\n" + " From my succession wipe me, father; I\n" + " Am heir to my affection.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Be advised.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL I am, and by my fancy: if my reason\n" + " Will thereto be obedient, I have reason;\n" + " If not, my senses, better pleased with madness,\n" + " Do bid it welcome.\n\n" + "CAMILLO This is desperate, sir.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL So call it: but it does fulfil my vow;\n" + " I needs must think it honesty. Camillo,\n" + " Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may\n" + " Be thereat glean'd, for all the sun sees or\n" + " The close earth wombs or the profound sea hides\n" + " In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath\n" + " To this my fair beloved: therefore, I pray you,\n" + " As you have ever been my father's honour'd friend,\n" + " When he shall miss me,--as, in faith, I mean not\n" + " To see him any more,--cast your good counsels\n" + " Upon his passion; let myself and fortune\n" + " Tug for the time to come. This you may know\n" + " And so deliver, I am put to sea\n" + " With her whom here I cannot hold on shore;\n" + " And most opportune to our need I have\n" + " A vessel rides fast by, but not prepared\n" + " For this design. What course I mean to hold\n" + " Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor\n" + " Concern me the reporting.\n\n" + "CAMILLO O my lord!\n" + " I would your spirit were easier for advice,\n" + " Or stronger for your need.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Hark, Perdita\n\n" + " [Drawing her aside]\n\n" + " I'll hear you by and by.\n\n" + "CAMILLO He's irremoveable,\n" + " Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if\n" + " His going I could frame to serve my turn,\n" + " Save him from danger, do him love and honour,\n" + " Purchase the sight again of dear Sicilia\n" + " And that unhappy king, my master, whom\n" + " I so much thirst to see.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Now, good Camillo;\n" + " I am so fraught with curious business that\n" + " I leave out ceremony.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Sir, I think\n" + " You have heard of my poor services, i' the love\n" + " That I have borne your father?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Very nobly\n" + " Have you deserved: it is my father's music\n" + " To speak your deeds, not little of his care\n" + " To have them recompensed as thought on.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Well, my lord,\n" + " If you may please to think I love the king\n" + " And through him what is nearest to him, which is\n" + " Your gracious self, embrace but my direction:\n" + " If your more ponderous and settled project\n" + " May suffer alteration, on mine honour,\n" + " I'll point you where you shall have such receiving\n" + " As shall become your highness; where you may\n" + " Enjoy your mistress, from the whom, I see,\n" + " There's no disjunction to be made, but by--\n" + " As heavens forefend!--your ruin; marry her,\n" + " And, with my best endeavours in your absence,\n" + " Your discontenting father strive to qualify\n" + " And bring him up to liking.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL How, Camillo,\n" + " May this, almost a miracle, be done?\n" + " That I may call thee something more than man\n" + " And after that trust to thee.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Have you thought on\n" + " A place whereto you'll go?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Not any yet:\n" + " But as the unthought-on accident is guilty\n" + " To what we wildly do, so we profess\n" + " Ourselves to be the slaves of chance and flies\n" + " Of every wind that blows.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Then list to me:\n" + " This follows, if you will not change your purpose\n" + " But undergo this flight, make for Sicilia,\n" + " And there present yourself and your fair princess,\n" + " For so I see she must be, 'fore Leontes:\n" + " She shall be habited as it becomes\n" + " The partner of your bed. Methinks I see\n" + " Leontes opening his free arms and weeping\n" + " His welcomes forth; asks thee the son forgiveness,\n" + " As 'twere i' the father's person; kisses the hands\n" + " Of your fresh princess; o'er and o'er divides him\n" + " 'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness; the one\n" + " He chides to hell and bids the other grow\n" + " Faster than thought or time.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Worthy Camillo,\n" + " What colour for my visitation shall I\n" + " Hold up before him?\n\n" + "CAMILLO Sent by the king your father\n" + " To greet him and to give him comforts. Sir,\n" + " The manner of your bearing towards him, with\n" + " What you as from your father shall deliver,\n" + " Things known betwixt us three, I'll write you down:\n" + " The which shall point you forth at every sitting\n" + " What you must say; that he shall not perceive\n" + " But that you have your father's bosom there\n" + " And speak his very heart.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL I am bound to you:\n" + " There is some sap in this.\n\n" + "CAMILLO A cause more promising\n" + " Than a wild dedication of yourselves\n" + " To unpath'd waters, undream'd shores, most certain\n" + " To miseries enough; no hope to help you,\n" + " But as you shake off one to take another;\n" + " Nothing so certain as your anchors, who\n" + " Do their best office, if they can but stay you\n" + " Where you'll be loath to be: besides you know\n" + " Prosperity's the very bond of love,\n" + " Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together\n" + " Affliction alters.\n\n" + "PERDITA One of these is true:\n" + " I think affliction may subdue the cheek,\n" + " But not take in the mind.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Yea, say you so?\n" + " There shall not at your father's house these\n" + " seven years\n" + " Be born another such.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL My good Camillo,\n" + " She is as forward of her breeding as\n" + " She is i' the rear our birth.\n\n" + "CAMILLO I cannot say 'tis pity\n" + " She lacks instructions, for she seems a mistress\n" + " To most that teach.\n\n" + "PERDITA Your pardon, sir; for this\n" + " I'll blush you thanks.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL My prettiest Perdita!\n" + " But O, the thorns we stand upon! Camillo,\n" + " Preserver of my father, now of me,\n" + " The medicine of our house, how shall we do?\n" + " We are not furnish'd like Bohemia's son,\n" + " Nor shall appear in Sicilia.\n\n" + "CAMILLO My lord,\n" + " Fear none of this: I think you know my fortunes\n" + " Do all lie there: it shall be so my care\n" + " To have you royally appointed as if\n" + " The scene you play were mine. For instance, sir,\n" + " That you may know you shall not want, one word.\n\n" + " [They talk aside]\n\n" + " [Re-enter AUTOLYCUS]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his\n" + " sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold\n" + " all my trumpery; not a counterfeit stone, not a\n" + " ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad,\n" + " knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring,\n" + " to keep my pack from fasting: they throng who\n" + " should buy first, as if my trinkets had been\n" + " hallowed and brought a benediction to the buyer:\n" + " by which means I saw whose purse was best in\n" + " picture; and what I saw, to my good use I\n" + " remembered. My clown, who wants but something to\n" + " be a reasonable man, grew so in love with the\n" + " wenches' song, that he would not stir his pettitoes\n" + " till he had both tune and words; which so drew the\n" + " rest of the herd to me that all their other senses\n" + " stuck in ears: you might have pinched a placket, it\n" + " was senseless; 'twas nothing to geld a codpiece of a\n" + " purse; I could have filed keys off that hung in\n" + " chains: no hearing, no feeling, but my sir's song,\n" + " and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this\n" + " time of lethargy I picked and cut most of their\n" + " festival purses; and had not the old man come in\n" + " with a whoo-bub against his daughter and the king's\n" + " son and scared my choughs from the chaff, I had not\n" + " left a purse alive in the whole army.\n\n" + " [CAMILLO, FLORIZEL, and PERDITA come forward]\n\n" + "CAMILLO Nay, but my letters, by this means being there\n" + " So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL And those that you'll procure from King Leontes--\n\n" + "CAMILLO Shall satisfy your father.\n\n" + "PERDITA Happy be you!\n" + " All that you speak shows fair.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Who have we here?\n\n" + " [Seeing AUTOLYCUS]\n\n" + " We'll make an instrument of this, omit\n" + " Nothing may give us aid.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS If they have overheard me now, why, hanging.\n\n" + "CAMILLO How now, good fellow! why shakest thou so? Fear\n" + " not, man; here's no harm intended to thee.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I am a poor fellow, sir.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Why, be so still; here's nobody will steal that from\n" + " thee: yet for the outside of thy poverty we must\n" + " make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly,\n" + " --thou must think there's a necessity in't,--and\n" + " change garments with this gentleman: though the\n" + " pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee,\n" + " there's some boot.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I am a poor fellow, sir.\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I know ye well enough.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Nay, prithee, dispatch: the gentleman is half\n" + " flayed already.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Are you in earnest, sir?\n\n" + " [Aside]\n\n" + " I smell the trick on't.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Dispatch, I prithee.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with\n" + " conscience take it.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Unbuckle, unbuckle.\n\n" + " [FLORIZEL and AUTOLYCUS exchange garments]\n\n" + " Fortunate mistress,--let my prophecy\n" + " Come home to ye!--you must retire yourself\n" + " Into some covert: take your sweetheart's hat\n" + " And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face,\n" + " Dismantle you, and, as you can, disliken\n" + " The truth of your own seeming; that you may--\n" + " For I do fear eyes over--to shipboard\n" + " Get undescried.\n\n" + "PERDITA I see the play so lies\n" + " That I must bear a part.\n\n" + "CAMILLO No remedy.\n" + " Have you done there?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Should I now meet my father,\n" + " He would not call me son.\n\n" + "CAMILLO Nay, you shall have no hat.\n\n" + " [Giving it to PERDITA]\n\n" + " Come, lady, come. Farewell, my friend.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Adieu, sir.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL O Perdita, what have we twain forgot!\n" + " Pray you, a word.\n\n" + "CAMILLO [Aside] What I do next, shall be to tell the king\n" + " Of this escape and whither they are bound;\n" + " Wherein my hope is I shall so prevail\n" + " To force him after: in whose company\n" + " I shall review Sicilia, for whose sight\n" + " I have a woman's longing.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Fortune speed us!\n" + " Thus we set on, Camillo, to the sea-side.\n\n" + "CAMILLO The swifter speed the better.\n\n" + " [Exeunt FLORIZEL, PERDITA, and CAMILLO]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I understand the business, I hear it: to have an\n" + " open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is\n" + " necessary for a cut-purse; a good nose is requisite\n" + " also, to smell out work for the other senses. I see\n" + " this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive.\n" + " What an exchange had this been without boot! What\n" + " a boot is here with this exchange! Sure the gods do\n" + " this year connive at us, and we may do any thing\n" + " extempore. The prince himself is about a piece of\n" + " iniquity, stealing away from his father with his\n" + " clog at his heels: if I thought it were a piece of\n" + " honesty to acquaint the king withal, I would not\n" + " do't: I hold it the more knavery to conceal it;\n" + " and therein am I constant to my profession.\n\n" + " [Re-enter Clown and Shepherd]\n\n" + " Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot brain:\n" + " every lane's end, every shop, church, session,\n" + " hanging, yields a careful man work.\n\n" + "Clown See, see; what a man you are now!\n" + " There is no other way but to tell the king\n" + " she's a changeling and none of your flesh and blood.\n\n" + "Shepherd Nay, but hear me.\n\n" + "Clown Nay, but hear me.\n\n" + "Shepherd Go to, then.\n\n" + "Clown She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh\n" + " and blood has not offended the king; and so your\n" + " flesh and blood is not to be punished by him. Show\n" + " those things you found about her, those secret\n" + " things, all but what she has with her: this being\n" + " done, let the law go whistle: I warrant you.\n\n" + "Shepherd I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his\n" + " son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man,\n" + " neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make\n" + " me the king's brother-in-law.\n\n" + "Clown Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you\n" + " could have been to him and then your blood had been\n" + " the dearer by I know how much an ounce.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS [Aside] Very wisely, puppies!\n\n" + "Shepherd Well, let us to the king: there is that in this\n" + " fardel will make him scratch his beard.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS [Aside] I know not what impediment this complaint\n" + " may be to the flight of my master.\n\n" + "Clown Pray heartily he be at palace.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS [Aside] Though I am not naturally honest, I am so\n" + " sometimes by chance: let me pocket up my pedlar's excrement.\n\n" + " [Takes off his false beard]\n\n" + " How now, rustics! whither are you bound?\n\n" + "Shepherd To the palace, an it like your worship.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Your affairs there, what, with whom, the condition\n" + " of that fardel, the place of your dwelling, your\n" + " names, your ages, of what having, breeding, and any\n" + " thing that is fitting to be known, discover.\n\n" + "Clown We are but plain fellows, sir.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS A lie; you are rough and hairy. Let me have no\n" + " lying: it becomes none but tradesmen, and they\n" + " often give us soldiers the lie: but we pay them for\n" + " it with stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore\n" + " they do not give us the lie.\n\n" + "Clown Your worship had like to have given us one, if you\n" + " had not taken yourself with the manner.\n\n" + "Shepherd Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest\n" + " thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings?\n" + " hath not my gait in it the measure of the court?\n" + " receives not thy nose court-odor from me? reflect I\n" + " not on thy baseness court-contempt? Thinkest thou,\n" + " for that I insinuate, or toaze from thee thy\n" + " business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier\n" + " cap-a-pe; and one that will either push on or pluck\n" + " back thy business there: whereupon I command thee to\n" + " open thy affair.\n\n" + "Shepherd My business, sir, is to the king.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS What advocate hast thou to him?\n\n" + "Shepherd I know not, an't like you.\n\n" + "Clown Advocate's the court-word for a pheasant: say you\n" + " have none.\n\n" + "Shepherd None, sir; I have no pheasant, cock nor hen.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS How blessed are we that are not simple men!\n" + " Yet nature might have made me as these are,\n" + " Therefore I will not disdain.\n\n" + "Clown This cannot be but a great courtier.\n\n" + "Shepherd His garments are rich, but he wears\n" + " them not handsomely.\n\n" + "Clown He seems to be the more noble in being fantastical:\n" + " a great man, I'll warrant; I know by the picking\n" + " on's teeth.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS The fardel there? what's i' the fardel?\n" + " Wherefore that box?\n\n" + "Shepherd Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box,\n" + " which none must know but the king; and which he\n" + " shall know within this hour, if I may come to the\n" + " speech of him.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Age, thou hast lost thy labour.\n\n" + "Shepherd Why, sir?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS The king is not at the palace; he is gone aboard a\n" + " new ship to purge melancholy and air himself: for,\n" + " if thou beest capable of things serious, thou must\n" + " know the king is full of grief.\n\n" + "Shepard So 'tis said, sir; about his son, that should have\n" + " married a shepherd's daughter.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly:\n" + " the curses he shall have, the tortures he shall\n" + " feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.\n\n" + "Clown Think you so, sir?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy\n" + " and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to\n" + " him, though removed fifty times, shall all come\n" + " under the hangman: which though it be great pity,\n" + " yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue a\n" + " ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into\n" + " grace! Some say he shall be stoned; but that death\n" + " is too soft for him, say I draw our throne into a\n" + " sheep-cote! all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.\n\n" + "Clown Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear. an't\n" + " like you, sir?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS He has a son, who shall be flayed alive; then\n" + " 'nointed over with honey, set on the head of a\n" + " wasp's nest; then stand till he be three quarters\n" + " and a dram dead; then recovered again with\n" + " aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as\n" + " he is, and in the hottest day prognostication\n" + " proclaims, shall be be set against a brick-wall, the\n" + " sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he\n" + " is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what\n" + " talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries\n" + " are to be smiled at, their offences being so\n" + " capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest plain\n" + " men, what you have to the king: being something\n" + " gently considered, I'll bring you where he is\n" + " aboard, tender your persons to his presence,\n" + " whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man\n" + " besides the king to effect your suits, here is man\n" + " shall do it.\n\n" + "Clown He seems to be of great authority: close with him,\n" + " give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn\n" + " bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold: show\n" + " the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand,\n" + " and no more ado. Remember 'stoned,' and 'flayed alive.'\n\n" + "Shepherd An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for\n" + " us, here is that gold I have: I'll make it as much\n" + " more and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS After I have done what I promised?\n\n" + "Shepherd Ay, sir.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Well, give me the moiety. Are you a party in this business?\n\n" + "Clown In some sort, sir: but though my case be a pitiful\n" + " one, I hope I shall not be flayed out of it.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS O, that's the case of the shepherd's son: hang him,\n" + " he'll be made an example.\n\n" + "Clown Comfort, good comfort! We must to the king and show\n" + " our strange sights: he must know 'tis none of your\n" + " daughter nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I\n" + " will give you as much as this old man does when the\n" + " business is performed, and remain, as he says, your\n" + " pawn till it be brought you.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I will trust you. Walk before toward the sea-side;\n" + " go on the right hand: I will but look upon the\n" + " hedge and follow you.\n\n" + "Clown We are blest in this man, as I may say, even blest.\n\n" + "Shepherd Let's before as he bids us: he was provided to do us good.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Shepherd and Clown]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would\n" + " not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am\n" + " courted now with a double occasion, gold and a means\n" + " to do the prince my master good; which who knows how\n" + " that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring\n" + " these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him: if he\n" + " think it fit to shore them again and that the\n" + " complaint they have to the king concerns him\n" + " nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far\n" + " officious; for I am proof against that title and\n" + " what shame else belongs to't. To him will I present\n" + " them: there may be matter in it.\n\n" + " [Exit]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE I A room in LEONTES' palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONTES, CLEOMENES, DION, PAULINA, and Servants]\n\n" + "CLEOMENES Sir, you have done enough, and have perform'd\n" + " A saint-like sorrow: no fault could you make,\n" + " Which you have not redeem'd; indeed, paid down\n" + " More penitence than done trespass: at the last,\n" + " Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil;\n" + " With them forgive yourself.\n\n" + "LEONTES Whilst I remember\n" + " Her and her virtues, I cannot forget\n" + " My blemishes in them, and so still think of\n" + " The wrong I did myself; which was so much,\n" + " That heirless it hath made my kingdom and\n" + " Destroy'd the sweet'st companion that e'er man\n" + " Bred his hopes out of.\n\n" + "PAULINA True, too true, my lord:\n" + " If, one by one, you wedded all the world,\n" + " Or from the all that are took something good,\n" + " To make a perfect woman, she you kill'd\n" + " Would be unparallel'd.\n\n" + "LEONTES I think so. Kill'd!\n" + " She I kill'd! I did so: but thou strikest me\n" + " Sorely, to say I did; it is as bitter\n" + " Upon thy tongue as in my thought: now, good now,\n" + " Say so but seldom.\n\n" + "CLEOMENES Not at all, good lady:\n" + " You might have spoken a thousand things that would\n" + " Have done the time more benefit and graced\n" + " Your kindness better.\n\n" + "PAULINA You are one of those\n" + " Would have him wed again.\n\n" + "DION If you would not so,\n" + " You pity not the state, nor the remembrance\n" + " Of his most sovereign name; consider little\n" + " What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue,\n" + " May drop upon his kingdom and devour\n" + " Incertain lookers on. What were more holy\n" + " Than to rejoice the former queen is well?\n" + " What holier than, for royalty's repair,\n" + " For present comfort and for future good,\n" + " To bless the bed of majesty again\n" + " With a sweet fellow to't?\n\n" + "PAULINA There is none worthy,\n" + " Respecting her that's gone. Besides, the gods\n" + " Will have fulfill'd their secret purposes;\n" + " For has not the divine Apollo said,\n" + " Is't not the tenor of his oracle,\n" + " That King Leontes shall not have an heir\n" + " Till his lost child be found? which that it shall,\n" + " Is all as monstrous to our human reason\n" + " As my Antigonus to break his grave\n" + " And come again to me; who, on my life,\n" + " Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel\n" + " My lord should to the heavens be contrary,\n" + " Oppose against their wills.\n\n" + " [To LEONTES]\n\n" + " Care not for issue;\n" + " The crown will find an heir: great Alexander\n" + " Left his to the worthiest; so his successor\n" + " Was like to be the best.\n\n" + "LEONTES Good Paulina,\n" + " Who hast the memory of Hermione,\n" + " I know, in honour, O, that ever I\n" + " Had squared me to thy counsel! then, even now,\n" + " I might have look'd upon my queen's full eyes,\n" + " Have taken treasure from her lips--\n\n" + "PAULINA And left them\n" + " More rich for what they yielded.\n\n" + "LEONTES Thou speak'st truth.\n" + " No more such wives; therefore, no wife: one worse,\n" + " And better used, would make her sainted spirit\n" + " Again possess her corpse, and on this stage,\n" + " Where we're offenders now, appear soul-vex'd,\n" + " And begin, 'Why to me?'\n\n" + "PAULINA Had she such power,\n" + " She had just cause.\n\n" + "LEONTES She had; and would incense me\n" + " To murder her I married.\n\n" + "PAULINA I should so.\n" + " Were I the ghost that walk'd, I'ld bid you mark\n" + " Her eye, and tell me for what dull part in't\n" + " You chose her; then I'ld shriek, that even your ears\n" + " Should rift to hear me; and the words that follow'd\n" + " Should be 'Remember mine.'\n\n" + "LEONTES Stars, stars,\n" + " And all eyes else dead coals! Fear thou no wife;\n" + " I'll have no wife, Paulina.\n\n" + "PAULINA Will you swear\n" + " Never to marry but by my free leave?\n\n" + "LEONTES Never, Paulina; so be blest my spirit!\n\n" + "PAULINA Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath.\n\n" + "CLEOMENES You tempt him over-much.\n\n" + "PAULINA Unless another,\n" + " As like Hermione as is her picture,\n" + " Affront his eye.\n\n" + "CLEOMENES Good madam,--\n\n" + "PAULINA I have done.\n" + " Yet, if my lord will marry,--if you will, sir,\n" + " No remedy, but you will,--give me the office\n" + " To choose you a queen: she shall not be so young\n" + " As was your former; but she shall be such\n" + " As, walk'd your first queen's ghost,\n" + " it should take joy\n" + " To see her in your arms.\n\n" + "LEONTES My true Paulina,\n" + " We shall not marry till thou bid'st us.\n\n" + "PAULINA That\n" + " Shall be when your first queen's again in breath;\n" + " Never till then.\n\n" + " [Enter a Gentleman]\n\n" + "Gentleman One that gives out himself Prince Florizel,\n" + " Son of Polixenes, with his princess, she\n" + " The fairest I have yet beheld, desires access\n" + " To your high presence.\n\n" + "LEONTES What with him? he comes not\n" + " Like to his father's greatness: his approach,\n" + " So out of circumstance and sudden, tells us\n" + " 'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced\n" + " By need and accident. What train?\n\n" + "Gentleman But few,\n" + " And those but mean.\n\n" + "LEONTES His princess, say you, with him?\n\n" + "Gentleman Ay, the most peerless piece of earth, I think,\n" + " That e'er the sun shone bright on.\n\n" + "PAULINA O Hermione,\n" + " As every present time doth boast itself\n" + " Above a better gone, so must thy grave\n" + " Give way to what's seen now! Sir, you yourself\n" + " Have said and writ so, but your writing now\n" + " Is colder than that theme, 'She had not been,\n" + " Nor was not to be equall'd;'--thus your verse\n" + " Flow'd with her beauty once: 'tis shrewdly ebb'd,\n" + " To say you have seen a better.\n\n" + "Gentleman Pardon, madam:\n" + " The one I have almost forgot,--your pardon,--\n" + " The other, when she has obtain'd your eye,\n" + " Will have your tongue too. This is a creature,\n" + " Would she begin a sect, might quench the zeal\n" + " Of all professors else, make proselytes\n" + " Of who she but bid follow.\n\n" + "PAULINA How! not women?\n\n" + "Gentleman Women will love her, that she is a woman\n" + " More worth than any man; men, that she is\n" + " The rarest of all women.\n\n" + "LEONTES Go, Cleomenes;\n" + " Yourself, assisted with your honour'd friends,\n" + " Bring them to our embracement. Still, 'tis strange\n\n" + " [Exeunt CLEOMENES and others]\n\n" + " He thus should steal upon us.\n\n" + "PAULINA Had our prince,\n" + " Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had pair'd\n" + " Well with this lord: there was not full a month\n" + " Between their births.\n\n" + "LEONTES Prithee, no more; cease; thou know'st\n" + " He dies to me again when talk'd of: sure,\n" + " When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches\n" + " Will bring me to consider that which may\n" + " Unfurnish me of reason. They are come.\n\n" + " [Re-enter CLEOMENES and others, with FLORIZEL and PERDITA]\n\n" + " Your mother was most true to wedlock, prince;\n" + " For she did print your royal father off,\n" + " Conceiving you: were I but twenty-one,\n" + " Your father's image is so hit in you,\n" + " His very air, that I should call you brother,\n" + " As I did him, and speak of something wildly\n" + " By us perform'd before. Most dearly welcome!\n" + " And your fair princess,--goddess!--O, alas!\n" + " I lost a couple, that 'twixt heaven and earth\n" + " Might thus have stood begetting wonder as\n" + " You, gracious couple, do: and then I lost--\n" + " All mine own folly--the society,\n" + " Amity too, of your brave father, whom,\n" + " Though bearing misery, I desire my life\n" + " Once more to look on him.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL By his command\n" + " Have I here touch'd Sicilia and from him\n" + " Give you all greetings that a king, at friend,\n" + " Can send his brother: and, but infirmity\n" + " Which waits upon worn times hath something seized\n" + " His wish'd ability, he had himself\n" + " The lands and waters 'twixt your throne and his\n" + " Measured to look upon you; whom he loves--\n" + " He bade me say so--more than all the sceptres\n" + " And those that bear them living.\n\n" + "LEONTES O my brother,\n" + " Good gentleman! the wrongs I have done thee stir\n" + " Afresh within me, and these thy offices,\n" + " So rarely kind, are as interpreters\n" + " Of my behind-hand slackness. Welcome hither,\n" + " As is the spring to the earth. And hath he too\n" + " Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage,\n" + " At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune,\n" + " To greet a man not worth her pains, much less\n" + " The adventure of her person?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Good my lord,\n" + " She came from Libya.\n\n" + "LEONTES Where the warlike Smalus,\n" + " That noble honour'd lord, is fear'd and loved?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Most royal sir, from thence; from him, whose daughter\n" + " His tears proclaim'd his, parting with her: thence,\n" + " A prosperous south-wind friendly, we have cross'd,\n" + " To execute the charge my father gave me\n" + " For visiting your highness: my best train\n" + " I have from your Sicilian shores dismiss'd;\n" + " Who for Bohemia bend, to signify\n" + " Not only my success in Libya, sir,\n" + " But my arrival and my wife's in safety\n" + " Here where we are.\n\n" + "LEONTES The blessed gods\n" + " Purge all infection from our air whilst you\n" + " Do climate here! You have a holy father,\n" + " A graceful gentleman; against whose person,\n" + " So sacred as it is, I have done sin:\n" + " For which the heavens, taking angry note,\n" + " Have left me issueless; and your father's blest,\n" + " As he from heaven merits it, with you\n" + " Worthy his goodness. What might I have been,\n" + " Might I a son and daughter now have look'd on,\n" + " Such goodly things as you!\n\n" + " [Enter a Lord]\n\n" + "Lord Most noble sir,\n" + " That which I shall report will bear no credit,\n" + " Were not the proof so nigh. Please you, great sir,\n" + " Bohemia greets you from himself by me;\n" + " Desires you to attach his son, who has--\n" + " His dignity and duty both cast off--\n" + " Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with\n" + " A shepherd's daughter.\n\n" + "LEONTES Where's Bohemia? speak.\n\n" + "Lord Here in your city; I now came from him:\n" + " I speak amazedly; and it becomes\n" + " My marvel and my message. To your court\n" + " Whiles he was hastening, in the chase, it seems,\n" + " Of this fair couple, meets he on the way\n" + " The father of this seeming lady and\n" + " Her brother, having both their country quitted\n" + " With this young prince.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Camillo has betray'd me;\n" + " Whose honour and whose honesty till now\n" + " Endured all weathers.\n\n" + "Lord Lay't so to his charge:\n" + " He's with the king your father.\n\n" + "LEONTES Who? Camillo?\n\n" + "Lord Camillo, sir; I spake with him; who now\n" + " Has these poor men in question. Never saw I\n" + " Wretches so quake: they kneel, they kiss the earth;\n" + " Forswear themselves as often as they speak:\n" + " Bohemia stops his ears, and threatens them\n" + " With divers deaths in death.\n\n" + "PERDITA O my poor father!\n" + " The heaven sets spies upon us, will not have\n" + " Our contract celebrated.\n\n" + "LEONTES You are married?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL We are not, sir, nor are we like to be;\n" + " The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first:\n" + " The odds for high and low's alike.\n\n" + "LEONTES My lord,\n" + " Is this the daughter of a king?\n\n" + "FLORIZEL She is,\n" + " When once she is my wife.\n\n" + "LEONTES That 'once' I see by your good father's speed\n" + " Will come on very slowly. I am sorry,\n" + " Most sorry, you have broken from his liking\n" + " Where you were tied in duty, and as sorry\n" + " Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty,\n" + " That you might well enjoy her.\n\n" + "FLORIZEL Dear, look up:\n" + " Though Fortune, visible an enemy,\n" + " Should chase us with my father, power no jot\n" + " Hath she to change our loves. Beseech you, sir,\n" + " Remember since you owed no more to time\n" + " Than I do now: with thought of such affections,\n" + " Step forth mine advocate; at your request\n" + " My father will grant precious things as trifles.\n\n" + "LEONTES Would he do so, I'ld beg your precious mistress,\n" + " Which he counts but a trifle.\n\n" + "PAULINA Sir, my liege,\n" + " Your eye hath too much youth in't: not a month\n" + " 'Fore your queen died, she was more worth such gazes\n" + " Than what you look on now.\n\n" + "LEONTES I thought of her,\n" + " Even in these looks I made.\n\n" + " [To FLORIZEL]\n\n" + " But your petition\n" + " Is yet unanswer'd. I will to your father:\n" + " Your honour not o'erthrown by your desires,\n" + " I am friend to them and you: upon which errand\n" + " I now go toward him; therefore follow me\n" + " And mark what way I make: come, good my lord.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE II Before LEONTES' palace.\n\n\n" + " [Enter AUTOLYCUS and a Gentleman]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Beseech you, sir, were you present at this relation?\n\n" + "First Gentleman I was by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old\n" + " shepherd deliver the manner how he found it:\n" + " whereupon, after a little amazedness, we were all\n" + " commanded out of the chamber; only this methought I\n" + " heard the shepherd say, he found the child.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I would most gladly know the issue of it.\n\n" + "First Gentleman I make a broken delivery of the business; but the\n" + " changes I perceived in the king and Camillo were\n" + " very notes of admiration: they seemed almost, with\n" + " staring on one another, to tear the cases of their\n" + " eyes; there was speech in their dumbness, language\n" + " in their very gesture; they looked as they had heard\n" + " of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: a notable\n" + " passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest\n" + " beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not\n" + " say if the importance were joy or sorrow; but in the\n" + " extremity of the one, it must needs be.\n\n" + " [Enter another Gentleman]\n\n" + " Here comes a gentleman that haply knows more.\n" + " The news, Rogero?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled; the\n" + " king's daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is\n" + " broken out within this hour that ballad-makers\n" + " cannot be able to express it.\n\n" + " [Enter a third Gentleman]\n\n" + " Here comes the Lady Paulina's steward: he can\n" + " deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? this news\n" + " which is called true is so like an old tale, that\n" + " the verity of it is in strong suspicion: has the king\n" + " found his heir?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Most true, if ever truth were pregnant by\n" + " circumstance: that which you hear you'll swear you\n" + " see, there is such unity in the proofs. The mantle\n" + " of Queen Hermione's, her jewel about the neck of it,\n" + " the letters of Antigonus found with it which they\n" + " know to be his character, the majesty of the\n" + " creature in resemblance of the mother, the affection\n" + " of nobleness which nature shows above her breeding,\n" + " and many other evidences proclaim her with all\n" + " certainty to be the king's daughter. Did you see\n" + " the meeting of the two kings?\n\n" + "Second Gentleman No.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen,\n" + " cannot be spoken of. There might you have beheld one\n" + " joy crown another, so and in such manner that it\n" + " seemed sorrow wept to take leave of them, for their\n" + " joy waded in tears. There was casting up of eyes,\n" + " holding up of hands, with countenances of such\n" + " distraction that they were to be known by garment,\n" + " not by favour. Our king, being ready to leap out of\n" + " himself for joy of his found daughter, as if that\n" + " joy were now become a loss, cries 'O, thy mother,\n" + " thy mother!' then asks Bohemia forgiveness; then\n" + " embraces his son-in-law; then again worries he his\n" + " daughter with clipping her; now he thanks the old\n" + " shepherd, which stands by like a weather-bitten\n" + " conduit of many kings' reigns. I never heard of such\n" + " another encounter, which lames report to follow it\n" + " and undoes description to do it.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried\n" + " hence the child?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Like an old tale still, which will have matter to\n" + " rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear\n" + " open. He was torn to pieces with a bear: this\n" + " avouches the shepherd's son; who has not only his\n" + " innocence, which seems much, to justify him, but a\n" + " handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows.\n\n" + "First Gentleman What became of his bark and his followers?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman Wrecked the same instant of their master's death and\n" + " in the view of the shepherd: so that all the\n" + " instruments which aided to expose the child were\n" + " even then lost when it was found. But O, the noble\n" + " combat that 'twixt joy and sorrow was fought in\n" + " Paulina! She had one eye declined for the loss of\n" + " her husband, another elevated that the oracle was\n" + " fulfilled: she lifted the princess from the earth,\n" + " and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin\n" + " her to her heart that she might no more be in danger\n" + " of losing.\n\n" + "First Gentleman The dignity of this act was worth the audience of\n" + " kings and princes; for by such was it acted.\n\n" + "Third Gentleman One of the prettiest touches of all and that which\n" + " angled for mine eyes, caught the water though not\n" + " the fish, was when, at the relation of the queen's\n" + " death, with the manner how she came to't bravely\n" + " confessed and lamented by the king, how\n" + " attentiveness wounded his daughter; till, from one\n" + " sign of dolour to another, she did, with an 'Alas,'\n" + " I would fain say, bleed tears, for I am sure my\n" + " heart wept blood. Who was most marble there changed\n" + " colour; some swooned, all sorrowed: if all the world\n" + " could have seen 't, the woe had been universal.\n\n" + "First Gentleman Are they returned to the court?\n\n" + "Third Gentleman No: the princess hearing of her mother's statue,\n" + " which is in the keeping of Paulina,--a piece many\n" + " years in doing and now newly performed by that rare\n" + " Italian master, Julio Romano, who, had he himself\n" + " eternity and could put breath into his work, would\n" + " beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is her\n" + " ape: he so near to Hermione hath done Hermione that\n" + " they say one would speak to her and stand in hope of\n" + " answer: thither with all greediness of affection\n" + " are they gone, and there they intend to sup.\n\n" + "Second Gentleman I thought she had some great matter there in hand;\n" + " for she hath privately twice or thrice a day, ever\n" + " since the death of Hermione, visited that removed\n" + " house. Shall we thither and with our company piece\n" + " the rejoicing?\n\n" + "First Gentleman Who would be thence that has the benefit of access?\n" + " every wink of an eye some new grace will be born:\n" + " our absence makes us unthrifty to our knowledge.\n" + " Let's along.\n\n" + " [Exeunt Gentlemen]\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me,\n" + " would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old\n" + " man and his son aboard the prince: told him I heard\n" + " them talk of a fardel and I know not what: but he\n" + " at that time, overfond of the shepherd's daughter,\n" + " so he then took her to be, who began to be much\n" + " sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of\n" + " weather continuing, this mystery remained\n" + " undiscovered. But 'tis all one to me; for had I\n" + " been the finder out of this secret, it would not\n" + " have relished among my other discredits.\n\n" + " [Enter Shepherd and Clown]\n\n" + " Here come those I have done good to against my will,\n" + " and already appearing in the blossoms of their fortune.\n\n" + "Shepherd Come, boy; I am past moe children, but thy sons and\n" + " daughters will be all gentlemen born.\n\n" + "Clown You are well met, sir. You denied to fight with me\n" + " this other day, because I was no gentleman born.\n" + " See you these clothes? say you see them not and\n" + " think me still no gentleman born: you were best say\n" + " these robes are not gentlemen born: give me the\n" + " lie, do, and try whether I am not now a gentleman born.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I know you are now, sir, a gentleman born.\n\n" + "Clown Ay, and have been so any time these four hours.\n\n" + "Shepherd And so have I, boy.\n\n" + "Clown So you have: but I was a gentleman born before my\n" + " father; for the king's son took me by the hand, and\n" + " called me brother; and then the two kings called my\n" + " father brother; and then the prince my brother and\n" + " the princess my sister called my father father; and\n" + " so we wept, and there was the first gentleman-like\n" + " tears that ever we shed.\n\n" + "Shepherd We may live, son, to shed many more.\n\n" + "Clown Ay; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so\n" + " preposterous estate as we are.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the\n" + " faults I have committed to your worship and to give\n" + " me your good report to the prince my master.\n\n" + "Shepherd Prithee, son, do; for we must be gentle, now we are\n" + " gentlemen.\n\n" + "Clown Thou wilt amend thy life?\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS Ay, an it like your good worship.\n\n" + "Clown Give me thy hand: I will swear to the prince thou\n" + " art as honest a true fellow as any is in Bohemia.\n\n" + "Shepherd You may say it, but not swear it.\n\n" + "Clown Not swear it, now I am a gentleman? Let boors and\n" + " franklins say it, I'll swear it.\n\n" + "Shepherd How if it be false, son?\n\n" + "Clown If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear\n" + " it in the behalf of his friend: and I'll swear to\n" + " the prince thou art a tall fellow of thy hands and\n" + " that thou wilt not be drunk; but I know thou art no\n" + " tall fellow of thy hands and that thou wilt be\n" + " drunk: but I'll swear it, and I would thou wouldst\n" + " be a tall fellow of thy hands.\n\n" + "AUTOLYCUS I will prove so, sir, to my power.\n\n" + "Clown Ay, by any means prove a tall fellow: if I do not\n" + " wonder how thou darest venture to be drunk, not\n" + " being a tall fellow, trust me not. Hark! the kings\n" + " and the princes, our kindred, are going to see the\n" + " queen's picture. Come, follow us: we'll be thy\n" + " good masters.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n\n\n\n\n" + " THE WINTER'S TALE\n\n\n" + "ACT V\n\n\n\n" + "SCENE III A chapel in PAULINA'S house.\n\n\n" + " [Enter LEONTES, POLIXENES, FLORIZEL, PERDITA,\n" + " CAMILLO, PAULINA, Lords, and Attendants]\n\n" + "LEONTES O grave and good Paulina, the great comfort\n" + " That I have had of thee!\n\n" + "PAULINA What, sovereign sir,\n" + " I did not well I meant well. All my services\n" + " You have paid home: but that you have vouchsafed,\n" + " With your crown'd brother and these your contracted\n" + " Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit,\n" + " It is a surplus of your grace, which never\n" + " My life may last to answer.\n\n" + "LEONTES O Paulina,\n" + " We honour you with trouble: but we came\n" + " To see the statue of our queen: your gallery\n" + " Have we pass'd through, not without much content\n" + " In many singularities; but we saw not\n" + " That which my daughter came to look upon,\n" + " The statue of her mother.\n\n" + "PAULINA As she lived peerless,\n" + " So her dead likeness, I do well believe,\n" + " Excels whatever yet you look'd upon\n" + " Or hand of man hath done; therefore I keep it\n" + " Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare\n" + " To see the life as lively mock'd as ever\n" + " Still sleep mock'd death: behold, and say 'tis well.\n\n" + " [PAULINA draws a curtain, and discovers HERMIONE\n" + " standing like a statue]\n\n" + " I like your silence, it the more shows off\n" + " Your wonder: but yet speak; first, you, my liege,\n" + " Comes it not something near?\n\n" + "LEONTES Her natural posture!\n" + " Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed\n" + " Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she\n" + " In thy not chiding, for she was as tender\n" + " As infancy and grace. But yet, Paulina,\n" + " Hermione was not so much wrinkled, nothing\n" + " So aged as this seems.\n\n" + "POLIXENES O, not by much.\n\n" + "PAULINA So much the more our carver's excellence;\n" + " Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her\n" + " As she lived now.\n\n" + "LEONTES As now she might have done,\n" + " So much to my good comfort, as it is\n" + " Now piercing to my soul. O, thus she stood,\n" + " Even with such life of majesty, warm life,\n" + " As now it coldly stands, when first I woo'd her!\n" + " I am ashamed: does not the stone rebuke me\n" + " For being more stone than it? O royal piece,\n" + " There's magic in thy majesty, which has\n" + " My evils conjured to remembrance and\n" + " From thy admiring daughter took the spirits,\n" + " Standing like stone with thee.\n\n" + "PERDITA And give me leave,\n" + " And do not say 'tis superstition, that\n" + " I kneel and then implore her blessing. Lady,\n" + " Dear queen, that ended when I but began,\n" + " Give me that hand of yours to kiss.\n\n" + "PAULINA O, patience!\n" + " The statue is but newly fix'd, the colour's Not dry.\n\n" + "CAMILLO My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on,\n" + " Which sixteen winters cannot blow away,\n" + " So many summers dry; scarce any joy\n" + " Did ever so long live; no sorrow\n" + " But kill'd itself much sooner.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Dear my brother,\n" + " Let him that was the cause of this have power\n" + " To take off so much grief from you as he\n" + " Will piece up in himself.\n\n" + "PAULINA Indeed, my lord,\n" + " If I had thought the sight of my poor image\n" + " Would thus have wrought you,--for the stone is mine--\n" + " I'ld not have show'd it.\n\n" + "LEONTES Do not draw the curtain.\n\n" + "PAULINA No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy\n" + " May think anon it moves.\n\n" + "LEONTES Let be, let be.\n" + " Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already--\n" + " What was he that did make it? See, my lord,\n" + " Would you not deem it breathed? and that those veins\n" + " Did verily bear blood?\n\n" + "POLIXENES Masterly done:\n" + " The very life seems warm upon her lip.\n\n" + "LEONTES The fixture of her eye has motion in't,\n" + " As we are mock'd with art.\n\n" + "PAULINA I'll draw the curtain:\n" + " My lord's almost so far transported that\n" + " He'll think anon it lives.\n\n" + "LEONTES O sweet Paulina,\n" + " Make me to think so twenty years together!\n" + " No settled senses of the world can match\n" + " The pleasure of that madness. Let 't alone.\n\n" + "PAULINA I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirr'd you: but\n" + " I could afflict you farther.\n\n" + "LEONTES Do, Paulina;\n" + " For this affliction has a taste as sweet\n" + " As any cordial comfort. Still, methinks,\n" + " There is an air comes from her: what fine chisel\n" + " Could ever yet cut breath? Let no man mock me,\n" + " For I will kiss her.\n\n" + "PAULINA Good my lord, forbear:\n" + " The ruddiness upon her lip is wet;\n" + " You'll mar it if you kiss it, stain your own\n" + " With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain?\n\n" + "LEONTES No, not these twenty years.\n\n" + "PERDITA So long could I\n" + " Stand by, a looker on.\n\n" + "PAULINA Either forbear,\n" + " Quit presently the chapel, or resolve you\n" + " For more amazement. If you can behold it,\n" + " I'll make the statue move indeed, descend\n" + " And take you by the hand; but then you'll think--\n" + " Which I protest against--I am assisted\n" + " By wicked powers.\n\n" + "LEONTES What you can make her do,\n" + " I am content to look on: what to speak,\n" + " I am content to hear; for 'tis as easy\n" + " To make her speak as move.\n\n" + "PAULINA It is required\n" + " You do awake your faith. Then all stand still;\n" + " On: those that think it is unlawful business\n" + " I am about, let them depart.\n\n" + "LEONTES Proceed:\n" + " No foot shall stir.\n\n" + "PAULINA Music, awake her; strike!\n\n" + " [Music]\n\n" + " 'Tis time; descend; be stone no more; approach;\n" + " Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come,\n" + " I'll fill your grave up: stir, nay, come away,\n" + " Bequeath to death your numbness, for from him\n" + " Dear life redeems you. You perceive she stirs:\n\n" + " [HERMIONE comes down]\n\n" + " Start not; her actions shall be holy as\n" + " You hear my spell is lawful: do not shun her\n" + " Until you see her die again; for then\n" + " You kill her double. Nay, present your hand:\n" + " When she was young you woo'd her; now in age\n" + " Is she become the suitor?\n\n" + "LEONTES O, she's warm!\n" + " If this be magic, let it be an art\n" + " Lawful as eating.\n\n" + "POLIXENES She embraces him.\n\n" + "CAMILLO She hangs about his neck:\n" + " If she pertain to life let her speak too.\n\n" + "POLIXENES Ay, and make't manifest where she has lived,\n" + " Or how stolen from the dead.\n\n" + "PAULINA That she is living,\n" + " Were it but told you, should be hooted at\n" + " Like an old tale: but it appears she lives,\n" + " Though yet she speak not. Mark a little while.\n" + " Please you to interpose, fair madam: kneel\n" + " And pray your mother's blessing. Turn, good lady;\n" + " Our Perdita is found.\n\n" + "HERMIONE You gods, look down\n" + " And from your sacred vials pour your graces\n" + " Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own.\n" + " Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found\n" + " Thy father's court? for thou shalt hear that I,\n" + " Knowing by Paulina that the oracle\n" + " Gave hope thou wast in being, have preserved\n" + " Myself to see the issue.\n\n" + "PAULINA There's time enough for that;\n" + " Lest they desire upon this push to trouble\n" + " Your joys with like relation. Go together,\n" + " You precious winners all; your exultation\n" + " Partake to every one. I, an old turtle,\n" + " Will wing me to some wither'd bough and there\n" + " My mate, that's never to be found again,\n" + " Lament till I am lost.\n\n" + "LEONTES O, peace, Paulina!\n" + " Thou shouldst a husband take by my consent,\n" + " As I by thine a wife: this is a match,\n" + " And made between's by vows. Thou hast found mine;\n" + " But how, is to be question'd; for I saw her,\n" + " As I thought, dead, and have in vain said many\n" + " A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far--\n" + " For him, I partly know his mind--to find thee\n" + " An honourable husband. Come, Camillo,\n" + " And take her by the hand, whose worth and honesty\n" + " Is richly noted and here justified\n" + " By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place.\n" + " What! look upon my brother: both your pardons,\n" + " That e'er I put between your holy looks\n" + " My ill suspicion. This is your son-in-law,\n" + " And son unto the king, who, heavens directing,\n" + " Is troth-plight to your daughter. Good Paulina,\n" + " Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely\n" + " Each one demand an answer to his part\n" + " Perform'd in this wide gap of time since first\n" + " We were dissever'd: hastily lead away.\n\n" + " [Exeunt]\n"; final Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(regex, Pattern.MULTILINE); final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(string); while (matcher.find()) { System.out.println("Full match: " + matcher.group(0)); for (int i = 1; i <= matcher.groupCount(); i++) { System.out.println("Group " + i + ": " + matcher.group(i)); } } } }

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